Title: Could Taste Heaven.
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts 2.
Warnings: Spoilers for the end of the game.
Characters/couples: Sora/Riku/Kairi.
Summary: Riku is the only one of them that actually believes in fairytales.
Rating: PG.
Could Taste Heaven.
way up north i took my day
all in all was a pretty nice
day and i put the hood
right back where
you could taste heaven
perfectly
feel out the summer breeze
"A Sorta Fairytale" Tori Amos
Riku is the only one of them that actually believes in fairytales, weird as it sounds.
Sora shrugs at the thought, throws another stone against the gentle lap of the waves, ankles-deep in the water, skin past bronze and starting to go red. "'Happily ever after' means things are done, right? And I don't like that."
If Kairi and Riku notice the sudden shadow of blond hair mixing with Sora as Sora throws another stone, neither of them say a thing.
Kairi might be a princess but she shares Sora's opinion, the tip of her rough fingertips rubbing above Riku's knees where she lies against his chest, her back warm and solid, her hair smelling of salt and sunblock lotion and her.
"I'm glad that Aurora, Belle and the others can have their fairytale," she adds. Riku wraps his arms around her waist and he feels Kairi moving to trace nothing over the skin of his wrist and he thinks he can almost feel somehow softer touch before hers. "But for me? I want more than that."
It's amazing how she can make the 'me' sound like an 'us'. Riku kisses her shoulder, then licks his lips to get rid of the sand.
When they sleep, however, Riku looks at the two hands that aren't his own resting over his stomach and chest, feels Sora's gentle snorting and the way Kairi's hair tickles his skin and he can't help but hope - as hard as he knows how - for the three of them to perhaps, perhaps deserve an 'ever after' just like this, even if in no fairytale they've seen there has ever been a princess that has two knights.