100 Themes KH - Happy as a Clam
I really like writing aurikku from other people's points of view - it's really refreshing, for any pairing.
Title: Happy as a Clam
Game: KHII
Theme + Number: Inside - #41
Claim: auron/rikku
Characters Included: yuna
Rating: K+
Warnings: -
Summary: She likes watching them - she's not spying - but there's something there that makes her feel light and makes her smile.
Happy as a Clam
Yuna feels content as she sits up on her secret little place on the highest part of the bookshelf - just underneath a thin, dusty blue book leaning against a thick volume, with just enough room for her to burrow in between the two comfortably with the window just next to her to look out at.
She doesn’t know a terrible lot of people anymore, and if she’s honest it’s a little lonely without her best friend and lover, though the word makes her squirm a little because it doesn’t fit him right, but she’s also content in an odd, roundabout way. She’s happy as a clam where she is, even if she is alone right now, and knows well enough that instincts always rule over logic anyway. She looks out the window that reflects herself back like a candle and can’t help but smile.
Radiant Gardens is nice; she could get used to it and probably will, the flowers always so fresh and bright, and the sunflowers so large that she once spied Rikku curling up and taking a nap right on one somewhere in the market.
Rikku is outside in the pink-purple twilight right now, with blue overhead and red next to her; they’re sitting outside on the ruined bailey and not saying anything, and Yuna’s smile grows like a light inside of her.
She isn’t spying or anything; she just happens to be looking where Rikku and Auron are sitting.
It’s really sweet, she can’t help but think, in a sort of off-romantic way. She still doesn’t know if they were friends at all when they all met, a long long time ago, but it’s calming, watching the two sitting, just sitting and enjoying the company.
She had always sort of looked up to him, and when she needed to push herself after he left even imagined that commanding voice taking charge in her head, among others but still there. She remembers how sad she was when Tidus left, too, she remembers that Rikku was a little more than an upset for just friends when they both were gone and how the Al Bhed struck out on her own for a while. She remembers getting one back and remembers Rikku cheering for her and not even caring about her own little predicament. She remembers when the heartless came, waking up and being so thankful that she still had two of her friends. She remembers meeting Maleficient. And she remembers when Sora took them to the Underdrome, their magic all saved up to keep them in more humanoid forms and Rikku shrieking and dropping her Samurai Dress Sphere that almost broke while Sora blinked and asked if they knew Auron?
And Yuna most of all remembers when Auron let out an actual, good-natured smile with one side of his mouth riding up a little higher than the other, his good eye dark wood as always and Rikku almost tackling him in a hug - she had thought, at first, that the blonde’s nature would have made her do it to anyone. And it would, but this was different.
Rikku is in her fairy form currently, sitting perched on the man’s shoulder, leaning against the broken stone wall that’s in the process of being rebuilt. Nobody goes out there, which is probably why they do; Yuna enjoys watching them because of a sort of feeling she gets. Her chest doesn’t hurt so much when she’s watching them.
She likes watching them because something in the sight makes her want to smile, just makes her feel light. Hopeful.
And that’s all it needs, Yuna thinks.