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kh_drabbleChallenge: [100] One Hundred
Title: Hindsight
Word Count: 500
Spoilers: if you haven't played the games.
Notes: set post KHII. so I haven't written any thing in a while. since December actually. (a combination of having no internet and then schoolwork.) Thank you to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
i_got_spunk and crimsoncookie for the betas! <3
Sora stared at the paper in front of him with disgust—he hadn’t written an essay in ages and couldn’t find it in him to focus on this one. His eyes cast about the room welcoming a distraction before landing on a pile of old school papers neatly stacked in the corner of his desk. Shuffling through his old work, he stumbled upon something written in a sloppy childish scrawl. According to the date, it was from third grade.
Curious now, he pulled out the paper setting it atop the rest. It was old and wrinkled. There were spots where the dark pencil lines had smudged and faded and other spots where the paper had gotten wet.
A smile came to his face as he read the title line: “100 Things I Want To Do With My Life, by Sora.” He had written it on the one hundredth day of the school that year—the teachers always made a big deal out of the day.
As he glanced over the old paper, a strange nostalgia settled over him. A brief chuckled escaped him when he got to “97. Beat Riku in a duel” and “83. Go on an adventure!” For a moment he stopped reading, looked up at the abandoned work on his desk, and then grabbed the pencil. He crossed off numbers 97 and 83.
He crossed off “79. Learn to drive.” At the time he’d meant a car, but he figured the gummi ship counted. “72. Slay a dragon,” crossed off.
Number 64 was written in a different handwriting, “Share a paopu with Kairi.” He remembered blushing furiously as he scribbled it out telling Riku not to be gross.
“55. Learn magic.” And Riku had insisted that magic wasn’t real. Well, he also insisted that there was no such thing as Santa. Sora grinned as he realized that “Actually catch Santa,” was number 43.
At nine, he really had thought everything on this list possible—by fourteen he would have scoffed at the idea. Now, as he crossed off “32. fly” he snickered— he’d done far too much to believe in “impossible.”
Number 26, “Visit another country.” Next to it he scribbled, “Try other worlds!” before crossing the line out.
“Find Kairi’s home town.” His eyes lingered on number 11 a moment before moving on.
He skimmed over the list crossing off more items like “meet a pirate” and “see snow.” By the time he finished, most of the list was crossed off. His life had taken an adventurous rout that his nine-year-old self had only dreamed of.
There were still a few things on his list he had to do, and a few more he could think to add thanks to his odder adventures. He found himself wondering what things he would put on such a list now. Glancing over the items he had yet to cross off, he knew his list would always end the same way:
“1. Be friends with Riku and Kairi forever.”
Title: Hindsight
Word Count: 500
Spoilers: if you haven't played the games.
Notes: set post KHII. so I haven't written any thing in a while. since December actually. (a combination of having no internet and then schoolwork.) Thank you to
i_got_spunk and crimsoncookie for the betas! <3 Sora stared at the paper in front of him with disgust—he hadn’t written an essay in ages and couldn’t find it in him to focus on this one. His eyes cast about the room welcoming a distraction before landing on a pile of old school papers neatly stacked in the corner of his desk. Shuffling through his old work, he stumbled upon something written in a sloppy childish scrawl. According to the date, it was from third grade.
Curious now, he pulled out the paper setting it atop the rest. It was old and wrinkled. There were spots where the dark pencil lines had smudged and faded and other spots where the paper had gotten wet.
A smile came to his face as he read the title line: “100 Things I Want To Do With My Life, by Sora.” He had written it on the one hundredth day of the school that year—the teachers always made a big deal out of the day.
As he glanced over the old paper, a strange nostalgia settled over him. A brief chuckled escaped him when he got to “97. Beat Riku in a duel” and “83. Go on an adventure!” For a moment he stopped reading, looked up at the abandoned work on his desk, and then grabbed the pencil. He crossed off numbers 97 and 83.
He crossed off “79. Learn to drive.” At the time he’d meant a car, but he figured the gummi ship counted. “72. Slay a dragon,” crossed off.
Number 64 was written in a different handwriting, “Share a paopu with Kairi.” He remembered blushing furiously as he scribbled it out telling Riku not to be gross.
“55. Learn magic.” And Riku had insisted that magic wasn’t real. Well, he also insisted that there was no such thing as Santa. Sora grinned as he realized that “Actually catch Santa,” was number 43.
At nine, he really had thought everything on this list possible—by fourteen he would have scoffed at the idea. Now, as he crossed off “32. fly” he snickered— he’d done far too much to believe in “impossible.”
Number 26, “Visit another country.” Next to it he scribbled, “Try other worlds!” before crossing the line out.
“Find Kairi’s home town.” His eyes lingered on number 11 a moment before moving on.
He skimmed over the list crossing off more items like “meet a pirate” and “see snow.” By the time he finished, most of the list was crossed off. His life had taken an adventurous rout that his nine-year-old self had only dreamed of.
There were still a few things on his list he had to do, and a few more he could think to add thanks to his odder adventures. He found himself wondering what things he would put on such a list now. Glancing over the items he had yet to cross off, he knew his list would always end the same way:
“1. Be friends with Riku and Kairi forever.”
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Date: 2007-04-01 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-02 07:57 pm (UTC)thanks! it was a lot of fun XD
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Date: 2007-04-01 05:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-02 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-01 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-02 08:01 pm (UTC)glad you enjoyed it! :)
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Date: 2007-04-01 06:11 pm (UTC)This is SO GOOD! It's cute and sweet and so well written -- each item on the list is dropped in such a perfect spot. My favorites are 'actually catch Santa' (XDXDXDXD), 'fly', 'find Kairi's hometown', 'meet a pirate [and] see snow', and of course the last one because it made me SQUISSHHHH.
I heart this big ones. Great job ♥
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Date: 2007-04-02 08:04 pm (UTC)yay! glad you enjoyed! (and those were harder to think of than I imagined they'd be when I began this. XD )
♥
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Date: 2007-04-01 07:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-02 08:05 pm (UTC)thanks!
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Date: 2007-04-01 11:17 pm (UTC)Oh....I remember writing little essays like that...and, oh, that is so unbelievably cute. I swear it made me squee.
Ten thumbs up for that one.
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Date: 2007-04-02 08:06 pm (UTC)those essays used to drive me nuts! who knew I use the idea for sweetness later. 8)
glad you enjoyed it!
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Date: 2007-04-02 04:03 am (UTC)Oh wow, you got me in the heart. <3 I did things like that in grade school...man, those were the days. *nostalgic*
AWWWWR. Look what you did. x3
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Date: 2007-04-02 08:07 pm (UTC):D
thank you! I'm glad you liked it! XD
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Date: 2007-04-02 11:24 am (UTC)This is so good. ^o^
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Date: 2007-04-02 08:09 pm (UTC)♥
also, I love your icon, :)