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Title: Girl
Rating: G
Word count: 444
Pairing: Gen
Summary: Kairi didn't feel like a girl.
Notes / warnings: I wrote this for a friend who used to talk to me about the games for hours on end, and when she challenged me to write something with the prompt 'sledding', I figured I might as well give it a try. I know next to nothing about Kingdom Hearts -- I've never played the games, and I've spent maybe three hours total watching others play them -- but my friend really liked this, so I thought I'd post it here. I apologise for butchering the characters and / or canon.
Kairi always knew she was different from Sora. She knew that Sora was a Boy, and that Boys were supposed to be loud and careless and break things in their spare time, and that Girls didn't do those things. Girls were quiet and boring and liked cleaning and washing dishes and clothes.
Kairi didn't feel like a Girl.
In fact, sometimes she used to think she was really a boy and Sora was really a girl, and somehow they'd gotten their bodies flipped around by an evil wizard when they were younger. Sora was a lot quieter than she was, and he didn't break things. He didn't like cleaning or washing things, but he also didn't like being loud or misbehaving, so Kairi figured he was really more of a girl than she was.
Somehow, though, she didn't really care too much. Sora was fun. Sora was cute. She liked dragging Sora out to play with her every other day, and forcing him to practice kendo with her until he got angry and threw the practice sword down and refused to talk to her for days. She liked fighting with him, and playing games and racing with him. She liked beating him most of all, and she always won every game they played. It never occurred to her that Sora might really hate being made to do these things; he might get angry sometimes, but he always came back. So everything was fine.
But one day she realised everything wasn't fine. She was tired of forcing and taunting him into playing with her; she wanted him to seek her out sometimes. She was bored on days she didn't see him, but she knew he had other friends and that he wanted to play with them too. She felt lonely on days she wasn't with him.
It wasn't until Sora brought Riku along sledding that she realised what the problem really was.
Until now she'd always thought Sora was just a sore loser, or one of those quiet boys who didn't quite fit in with the others -- one of the ones who didn't care for fighting or racing or playing games. She'd been proud of herself for helping to draw him out of his shell, make him learn to like those things. But seeing him laughing and shoving Riku, she realised Sora wasn't really the person she'd thought he was at all.
Kairi thought: I'm a Girl.
And she thought: Sora doesn't like Girls. He doesn't want to play with them.
She cried herself to sleep that night for the first time in her life, wishing desperately that she could wake up a boy.
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Rating: G
Word count: 444
Pairing: Gen
Summary: Kairi didn't feel like a girl.
Notes / warnings: I wrote this for a friend who used to talk to me about the games for hours on end, and when she challenged me to write something with the prompt 'sledding', I figured I might as well give it a try. I know next to nothing about Kingdom Hearts -- I've never played the games, and I've spent maybe three hours total watching others play them -- but my friend really liked this, so I thought I'd post it here. I apologise for butchering the characters and / or canon.
Kairi always knew she was different from Sora. She knew that Sora was a Boy, and that Boys were supposed to be loud and careless and break things in their spare time, and that Girls didn't do those things. Girls were quiet and boring and liked cleaning and washing dishes and clothes.
Kairi didn't feel like a Girl.
In fact, sometimes she used to think she was really a boy and Sora was really a girl, and somehow they'd gotten their bodies flipped around by an evil wizard when they were younger. Sora was a lot quieter than she was, and he didn't break things. He didn't like cleaning or washing things, but he also didn't like being loud or misbehaving, so Kairi figured he was really more of a girl than she was.
Somehow, though, she didn't really care too much. Sora was fun. Sora was cute. She liked dragging Sora out to play with her every other day, and forcing him to practice kendo with her until he got angry and threw the practice sword down and refused to talk to her for days. She liked fighting with him, and playing games and racing with him. She liked beating him most of all, and she always won every game they played. It never occurred to her that Sora might really hate being made to do these things; he might get angry sometimes, but he always came back. So everything was fine.
But one day she realised everything wasn't fine. She was tired of forcing and taunting him into playing with her; she wanted him to seek her out sometimes. She was bored on days she didn't see him, but she knew he had other friends and that he wanted to play with them too. She felt lonely on days she wasn't with him.
It wasn't until Sora brought Riku along sledding that she realised what the problem really was.
Until now she'd always thought Sora was just a sore loser, or one of those quiet boys who didn't quite fit in with the others -- one of the ones who didn't care for fighting or racing or playing games. She'd been proud of herself for helping to draw him out of his shell, make him learn to like those things. But seeing him laughing and shoving Riku, she realised Sora wasn't really the person she'd thought he was at all.
Kairi thought: I'm a Girl.
And she thought: Sora doesn't like Girls. He doesn't want to play with them.
She cried herself to sleep that night for the first time in her life, wishing desperately that she could wake up a boy.
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