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kh_drabbleChallenge: [175] Hope
Title: Hoping For You
Word Count: 532
A/N: Set in the one year where Sora is put to sleep, and Kairi's back on the Islands. There's no pairing but the trio-friendship. I kinda stretched the limit, it are nearly 600 words but in the rules it's written that everything up to 600 words is fine, so I assume it's all right *g*
I hope you like it - it's my first take on Kairi and I tried to do it properly. And there are a lot of things packed in a few words so I hope I did it well, and that it doesn't feel too crammed.
When Kairi wakes, she is fifteen and has a normal life. She has friends and goes to school. No one questions her sudden appearance, and Kairi herself also doesn't.
She can't remember the last year, but that's probably what it's like, being a teenager; doing so much and nothing at all, time passes so quickly, one day melting into the next without any remarkable memories.
But there is one strange thing. Kairi laughs out loud in the middle of things, at nothing at all. She does it when she's lacing up her shoes or when she's eating noodles.
It doesn't bother her that no one ever laughs back.
At least not until that one summer day. The sand under her feet is warm and the sun on her skin too, and she sits down. She stares at the blue sky and the ocean's almost-cyan and at where they meet at the horizon, and she thinks, suddenly, there should be two people beside me.
Then she thinks, I want to build a raft and go away from here.
“I want to build a raft and go away from here,” she says out loud, just to hear the words. Some seconds later she's angered when no reply comes. She turns around, ready to lecture the two lazy boys beside her for not reacting, but when she opens her mouth and sees –
no one
– the noise dies in her throat, and she's crying for a loss she can't remember.
- - -
After that day, there are shadows. They wait for her at corners to pull her into playful tussles. They come to sit beside her when she's at the beach, staring at nothing. When she cries at night, they come to stand at her bedside to just be with her.
After that day, Kairi doesn't laugh alone anymore. The shadows are everywhere she goes. People keep looking at Kairi when she does it, but she only sees the shadows and nothing else matters.
She invites the shadows to sit beside her on another warm summer day. The shadows hesitate, then shake their heads. Before Kairi can show her dismay, they tell her this:
“These seats are meant for two other people. You will meet them soon. All you have to do,” here she imagines two mouths curling into gentle smiles, “is to hope for them, because they can't do it anymore. Okay?”
Kairi agrees. She's endlessly sad when the shadows leave, but she knows that she's not alone anymore now. Laughing from this moment on, she feels the sound being carried away by the wind, into the skies, into the universe and beyond, maybe to other worlds. She senses her laughter strong and bright in the darkness, and she knows it will eventually reach those it is meant for.
Kairi is made of a lot of things, but desperation is not one of them.
So she smiles as she sits down at the shore with the sky above and the ocean before her. Here she finds hope, and here she prays for the two lost boys to also find hope again.
She knows they will.
It's one sky and one destiny, after all.
Title: Hoping For You
Word Count: 532
A/N: Set in the one year where Sora is put to sleep, and Kairi's back on the Islands. There's no pairing but the trio-friendship. I kinda stretched the limit, it are nearly 600 words but in the rules it's written that everything up to 600 words is fine, so I assume it's all right *g*
I hope you like it - it's my first take on Kairi and I tried to do it properly. And there are a lot of things packed in a few words so I hope I did it well, and that it doesn't feel too crammed.
When Kairi wakes, she is fifteen and has a normal life. She has friends and goes to school. No one questions her sudden appearance, and Kairi herself also doesn't.
She can't remember the last year, but that's probably what it's like, being a teenager; doing so much and nothing at all, time passes so quickly, one day melting into the next without any remarkable memories.
But there is one strange thing. Kairi laughs out loud in the middle of things, at nothing at all. She does it when she's lacing up her shoes or when she's eating noodles.
It doesn't bother her that no one ever laughs back.
At least not until that one summer day. The sand under her feet is warm and the sun on her skin too, and she sits down. She stares at the blue sky and the ocean's almost-cyan and at where they meet at the horizon, and she thinks, suddenly, there should be two people beside me.
Then she thinks, I want to build a raft and go away from here.
“I want to build a raft and go away from here,” she says out loud, just to hear the words. Some seconds later she's angered when no reply comes. She turns around, ready to lecture the two lazy boys beside her for not reacting, but when she opens her mouth and sees –
no one
– the noise dies in her throat, and she's crying for a loss she can't remember.
- - -
After that day, there are shadows. They wait for her at corners to pull her into playful tussles. They come to sit beside her when she's at the beach, staring at nothing. When she cries at night, they come to stand at her bedside to just be with her.
After that day, Kairi doesn't laugh alone anymore. The shadows are everywhere she goes. People keep looking at Kairi when she does it, but she only sees the shadows and nothing else matters.
She invites the shadows to sit beside her on another warm summer day. The shadows hesitate, then shake their heads. Before Kairi can show her dismay, they tell her this:
“These seats are meant for two other people. You will meet them soon. All you have to do,” here she imagines two mouths curling into gentle smiles, “is to hope for them, because they can't do it anymore. Okay?”
Kairi agrees. She's endlessly sad when the shadows leave, but she knows that she's not alone anymore now. Laughing from this moment on, she feels the sound being carried away by the wind, into the skies, into the universe and beyond, maybe to other worlds. She senses her laughter strong and bright in the darkness, and she knows it will eventually reach those it is meant for.
Kairi is made of a lot of things, but desperation is not one of them.
So she smiles as she sits down at the shore with the sky above and the ocean before her. Here she finds hope, and here she prays for the two lost boys to also find hope again.
She knows they will.
It's one sky and one destiny, after all.
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Date: 2009-01-29 11:42 am (UTC)"...doing so much and nothing at all, time passes so quickly, one day melting into the next without any remarkable memories."
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