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[aishiteru.livejournal.com]

Challenge: [o59] Laughter
Title: Ringing
Word Count: 145
Spoilers: None, I'm pretty sure. Post CoM, pre-KHII Kairi-ness.

Notes: This is a bit experimental. I've been toying with formatting and grammar usage in my writing, lately. Don't worry, nothing too egregious. All bits of fudged grammar here are, I assure you, stylistic choices.



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It's missing.

It's like a buzzing in her ears, a ring she can't get rid of. She shakes her head, brushes her hair behind her ears, and cocks her head, listening.

But always there's nothing. There's never anything except the ringing.

When she stops, Selphie asks her what's wrong, in that bubbly, sunny Selphie way. Kairi just grins and trots on down the path to school, pretending like nothing's wrong. Nothing is wrong, after all. She's only imagining it.

But somehow, it's always with her. Ringing in her mind and in her heart, and no matter what she does, she can't get rid of it.

For how can you get rid of something you no longer have?

That sound. That bright, cheerful sound, that resonates forth like life from the darkest parts of her memory. That soft sound of laughter; a boy's laughter.

Sora's laughter.
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Comments

[vollykins.livejournal.com]

oh, it's lovely. :D i love kairi-missing-sora fics, they're just so nostalgic and wistful and...

lovely, good job. ♥

[aishiteru.livejournal.com]

Why thank you! During the first KH, I didn't like Kairi at all, but my opinion has since completely changed, and there is a special place for her (and her breed of stubborn hope) in my heart.

So I'm just upping the Kairi love.