[Fic] KH2 drabbleset, Pas de Trois

[fuyu]

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Title: Pas de Trois
Words: ~500 altogether
Pairing: Sora/Kairi, SoRiKai implied
Rating: PG-ish I guess
Notes: These could be a prequel to that other SoRiKai I'm plotting. They're what inspired it, anyway.
Summary: Sometimes, it's a tricky dance to learn.


Riku - Outskirts

It is one of Riku's embarrassments that he knows how to waltz.

He learned at age eight, in a living room cleared of furniture, his mother giving her rare sweet laugh as she guided her son through the steps, keeping the rhythm, one-two-three, one-two-three-- it is a memory he hoards to himself, too precious and too close to share. But it comes out nonetheless that he can waltz, and he always feels, with heat in his face, as if he should be explaining why.

But Kairi comes to him one day and she doesn't ask why, when she asks him for lessons. And he still remembers, well enough that he can only say yes. And so they step and they spin on his patio, one-two-three, one-two-three, and she laughs as it comes together and he lets show a smile that hides the sting of sadness; he knows she wants to learn this for Sora.

It seems to him then that they are a waltz - three hearts keep time, but only two can dance.


Kairi - Heartland

Kairi is many things unbecoming of a princess.

Though born in a castle, she has no royal bearing. She wears short skirts and passes her time with boys, tarries at the beach and comes home damp and trailing sand. She has been uncharitable before, known fear and skirted the edge of hate. She takes to battle with a most unladylike fervor, and would follow her friends to the ends of the worlds, had she only a weapon of her own. And perhaps even these do not disqualify her, but then there is the way she loves: steady, unwavering, ardent and faithful and wrong.

Light following twilight, it's backwards, she feels so backwards as they sway and rise. She holds him tight and basks in his strength, and as she learns the steps, she laughs, to hide the thing that feels like guilt.

What kind of princess, when she has the sky, longs for the horizon too?


Sora - Kingdom

A paopu fruit has two leaves.

That's the only thing holding Sora back, sometimes - the legend doesn't really say if you can share it with more than one person, and more than once that thought has stopped him short, his glove inches away from the star-shaped fruits. Maybe it's not even true and it's just a ceremony, but he hasn't been the Keyblade Master this long without understanding the power of belief. And if one of them doesn't believe the fruit can work three ways... He doesn't want to leave anyone behind.

It frustrates him, builds up in his chest until he has to scream, because he's seen their dance, and he understands. And they don't get it yet, that good things come in threes, waltz steps and hearts and the points on a crown.

So he waits. And until he's sure they both understand, he won't pick their paopu. He's holding out for one with three leaves, anyway.



crossposted to destiny_trio

Comments

[raisedbymoogles.livejournal.com]

...*puddle!* X)

That is too sweet for mortal eyes to behold.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I love it.

*needs and OT3 icon ;_;*

[therealkaichan]

Oh, so sweet ;___;
I really love this, and with the OT3 on top of all.
*happy fangirl goo*

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

♥ ;_;

Oh, all three of them...
I really love that, for once, Sora is not the clueless one. And he is SUCH a little wooblet.
Lovely, lovely ~

[sister-coyote.livejournal.com]

Awww. This is sweet, and the notes of sadness give it a really beautiful tone. *wibble* I adore this OT3, and I like the view of it pre-getting-together.

I also really like (as another commenter has said) that Sora is the one here who's not clueless. It's really apt. In the games, he's a goofy kid, sure, but he's also the one who's most capable of accepting his feelings and following his heart. 'Cause he's a sap, Riku would say. :D

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

Those are all adorable. I really need to play that game.

[kiwi-socks.livejournal.com]

I was wibbling throughout this, but that last line turned me into a pile of goo. (What angst? )

And I love dancing, but have never thought about the application of the waltz's rythm to 'fic. Very nice :D

[megami-no-yume.livejournal.com]

You touched on so many interesting things in these short drabbles that some whole fics don't have. Symbolism, while showing their seperate feelings... and a lot don't look at the probably guilt and awkwardness of realizing you have feelings for more than one of your friends... what with all that pre-established SoKai stuff in the main story... but I still believe there were already 'feelings' on Riku's part mixed into that. (I felt that his feelings were toward Kairi at the time, but it can be interpretted so many ways.)

We're not taught that it's 'okay' to be in love with two people, afterall. It'd be really nice to see these aspects incorporated into their getting passed all this. <3 Really great writing! OT3 is the best. <3

[nekokoban]

♥♥♥ I recognize the first one of these! ... it's still as cute as it was the first time. :3

But what I really like is Kairi's -- I have this weird fondness for what personal connections might have formed/exist between the Princesses of Heart, and it seems to make sense that Kairi would worry about not being "up to scruff," so to speak, compared to her peers.

And oh, Sora. Doofy lovable Sora, you're occasionally so smart♥

[reversedhymnal.livejournal.com]

*revels*

because yes and yes and yes.

[marysuexgarystu.livejournal.com]

I love how softly sad this is. Riku's bit makes me want to wail out "AWWWW" and hug him, Kairi's makes me respect her on a whole new level, and Sora's makes me smile. He's much more... in tune with himself, maybe? than at least Riku - possibly Kairi as well. Sora understands these things, and just because of his big 'd'awwww' grin, people tend to assume it translates to 'duuuuuh' D:.

Also, I should probably stop reading your fics/doujin(s) until I know I can sit down and draw things, because damn am I seeing a lot of fanart material in my head. (And not just the harmless 'ooh that's pretty' flash of images - things where I'm deciding what medium would look best and how I'd lay out the composition D:.) Oh well. :3

[proanon.livejournal.com]

These are beautiful. You manage to call up pieces of each character that so often get either missed, or blown completely out of proportion. I do admit that part of it feels a little empty - places where I keep looking for something that is neither there nor not there. But then again, that's the point of a drabble, isn't it? The unwritten is as important (if not more so) than the written.

And you handle both quite well. ^_~