Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts.

Rating: K

Warnings: None really

Spoilers: Yep, sorta

Type: One-shot (long too!)

Oh yes, I have news at the end, make sure to read it!


Gravity

She screamed in horror as she plummeted, spiraling wildly as gravity pulled her down at speeds unknown to humans. It would surely be a messy and agonizing death for this poor female teenager.

"Kairi, you fell two feet." Sora informed her bluntly, holding onto her tightly so she wouldn't 'fall' any farther. "And here I thought it would take Riku forever to learn since he's the pessimist. I mean come on! Riku and happy thoughts in the same sentence? Unthinkable!"

"I'm right here you know!" The silver-haired teenager growled and then grumbled, "…m'not a pessimist…"

"Let's be one with the darkness! The Darkness is the only way! Darkness this, Darkness that." Sora teased with a wide grin.

"Shut up!" Riku snapped, kicking Sora in the leg.

"…Emo boy."

"Can I go back to the floor now?" Kairi butt-in, still very aware of her impending peril.

Sora sighed but obediently floated the two feet back up to the alcove that was part of the clock tower Big Ben. He gingerly set her down on her feet. "Come on Riku, at least give her a hint of what to think about!"

Riku rolled his eyes crossing his arms. "You just want me to tell her so you can make fun of me!"

"Well… yeah but that's not the point!"

"Exactly." Riku nodded. "That is why I'm not going to say a word. Kairi will just have to figure it out on her own."

"That's okay, I'd much rather just… stay here." The red-head said meekly, her arms wrapped around a pillar to assure Sora's lack of patience wouldn't have him kicking her off the tower. "We should just give up guys, it's hopeless for me. I'm perfectly fine with walking, really!"

Kairi's never going to learn how to fly. Sora thought miserably. His friends from this world had already taken off – Peter Pan most likely was already part of a huge adventure fighting pirates or playing some strange game with the other Lost Boys; Tinkerbell was off with him no doubt. Even Wendy had given up and gone home!

And even now, hours later, Kairi was still too scared to walk off.

"You know Sora, using a clock tower one hundred stories up the air is not a way to encourage people to fly." Riku mockingly intoned.

"Well you got it didn't you?" Sora argued.

"That's because I'm insane enough to trust a dolt like you! If you ask me, Kairi's a damn genius."

"Hey I – wait, trust… trust… that's it!" The brunette gleefully yelled, which in turn made Kairi jump in fright and Riku float a few inches away, looking uneasy.

However, Sora did not in fact suddenly fly back towards her and yank her away from her lifeline and throw her off the tower like Kairi was expecting. Instead she was stuck watching Sora as he glided over to Riku, grab his arm and lean close to whisper his ingenious plot. Oh yes, Kairi thought as her stomach filled with dread, and what an evil plot it seemed to be. She recognized that gleam in his deceitful blue eyes. Oh no, and now Riku was smirking! She was doomed!

And now they were coming for her! She had nowhere to go. Nothing could save her now! "No, stay away!" Kairi cried as she backed away frantically, her back hitting the stone wall. She held up her fingers in a cross-like fashion, as if that was enough to keep these demons at bay. But it didn't. They landed on the alcove as well, walking the last two steps they needed to take to get to her.

"Oh come now Kairi, whatever could we do?" Riku asked as innocent as could be, complete with a false (evil!) smile.

"Be the homicidalists to my death!"

Sora mock gasped. "We'd never!"

"Oh yes you would!" They were on either side of her now. Here is comes. This was the part where they grabbed her and pushed her off, playing the Learn-How-To-Fly-Fast-Or-Die game.

"Do you trust us?" Sora said softly, his voice just barely audible over the metallic clangs of the mechanics of the tower.

Now, to say 'No' would insult them, but to say 'Yes' would seal her fate. Oh, decisions, decisions. "Do I really have to answer?"

The brunette chuckled, taking one of her hands in both of his own. She felt Riku imitate him on the other side. "Shut your eyes."

"You really are going to throw me over aren't you?"

Riku laughed suddenly, turning her gaze towards him. "Tempting but no. Just trust us Kairi."

She sighed and between the two, did she really have a chance of fighting? She let her eyelids fall, blocking out the beautiful sight of London spread out before her, lit up majestically at this time of night.

"Do you remember the first time we met?" She heard Sora's voice ask close to her left ear.

Kairi was confused. What did that have to do with anything? Seeing no ulterior motive behind the question, she decided to just answer. "Yes. Riku and you met me on the dock while I was looking at the ocean. You two came running across the sand yelling weird taunts at each other. I always thought you guys looked a little silly, but later I figured out you guys were racing. Riku won and was the first to reach me. When he started to introduce himself though you start whining 'That's not fair, you cheated!' Riku got annoyed and pushed you off the dock."

"And what did you do?" Riku inquired from someone near her right.

"I laughed." She said with a grin, beginning to chuckle, Riku joining her.

"Jerks." Sora grumbled.

"How about the first game we played?" Riku continued this strange interrogation.

"It was… freeze tag. I remember because all the kids made me be It, coming up with some lame excuse about how the new kid was always It first. I couldn't catch anyone though, they were all too fast, especially you guys. The other kids started to call me names. I don't remember what they were but they were mean and I remember that I started to cry and sat down and said I didn't want to play anymore."

"And what did we do?" Sora murmured.

"You guys ran over to me and helped me stand up. Then Riku said 'We're all It' and you two started to chase the others down. We won… after Riku beat up a few of them."

"I remember that! Riku that was mean."

"They deserved it!" The eldest protested angrily. "The bastards."

"Yeah, yeah sure. Hey Kairi, you remember the first time we went into the Secret Place with you?"

"Yeah. The way you guys talked about it I was so sure it was magical, filled with things like unicorns and candy. Really though all it is a smelly, cold cave with poorly drawn pictures on the wall."

"Hey!" Sora protested.

"You're one to talk." Riku teased.

"But," Kairi added with a fond smile, "It's still our place."

"Yeah…" The other two boys whispered.

There was a lull in the conversation and Kairi couldn't stop the smile that was on her face. She liked these memories and there were so many to go along with them. She remembered the sparring matches that she watched, building the raft, her first days at school and getting her first scrapes. They weren't all pleasant but she still cherished them.

"What was the first thing you did when we got back home?" Riku whispered in her ear, so close it made a shiver run up her spine.

"Heh, I cried and hugged you both."

"More like crushed." Sora interjected. "Oh, by the way you can open your eyes now."

Her eyelids lifted and before her still spread London in all its magnificent glory. However, she was no longer on the clock tower, or even anywhere near it. The fact made her gasp a little. The city was thousands of feet below her and beyond on the horizon was the bay gleaming from the full moon's light. Falling around her, Sora and Riku like miniature shooting stars were the sparkles of fairy dust that came with flight magic. It was beautiful.

And then they let her go and Kairi screamed, drawing her arms to her chest and waited for her stomach to jump into her throat as she fell to her death.

It never came.

"Kairi you did it!" Sora applauded.

She wasn't falling?

"You're beautiful." Riku murmured in her ear, making her shudder again.

"I'm… flying?"

"You are."

"…Flying."

"Go Kairi!" Their excitable brunette cheered.

"I'm…" She grinned, filled with sudden exaltation that comes with accomplishing something great. She waved her hands out and yelled it proudly. "I'm flying!" She did a flip then shot forward, laughing with joy.

Riku and Sora shared a grin and flew after her. After about six turns around Big Ben, doing several tricks along the way, the trio found themselves floating in front of one of the faces of the clock, contently staring out at the sight before them.

Sora floated between the two, excited that he had finally been able to show this world to his friends. It was one of the few worlds that made him feel like a child who had just found his fairytale planet.

Kairi swayed slightly, still a bit dizzy from the whole adventure. When Sora said he could teach them how to fly she felt slightly unsure, but now here she was in midair with her two best friends.

Meanwhile, Riku was watching his two lovers, a small smile on his face. He'd never tell them what that his 'flight' thought was of the day he returned to the light with his friends. That was too sappy.

"This is wonderful." Kairi alleged.

"It is, isn't it?" Sora agreed with a big grin.

"So now what?"

"We could… um…"

Riku smirked and smacked Sora over the head.

"Ow! What was that for?!"

"You're It!" Riku enlightened him even as he quickly flew away. He heard Kairi squeal, no doubt fleeing from their brunette lover in the opposite direction.

"O-Oi, that's cheating!" Sora whined.

Riku threw a taunt over his shoulder, "Come on Sora, or are you just too slow?"

"No! But-"

Kairi was giggling. "Sora can't catch us!"

"You guys! …Argh! Just you wait I'll get you both! You're fighting a pro!" Sora gloated, soaring after them quickly, the trio's fear of gravity existing no longer.


A/N: Hehe, I always loved this one. Riku was fun to write . Inspired by Neverland's world! Oh yes, and the memory of how they met – I'm not sure it's completely out of context – you see in the manga Sora finds her on the beach, but in the game little Riku and Sora agree to go and see 'the new girl on the island' – so I took it from that.

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