Trinity of Time

Chapter 13: Of Riku

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Kairi was tired. Right now, she was sprawled out on the beach with the sun's heat radiating down upon her. All day, there was another major water gun fight, but this time, the boys also had water balloons leaving the girls out of chance. The boys of course had won the fight, but Kairi kept giggling on how she ran behind Sora and dumped a bucket of water on him.

After their enormous water balloon fight, they all had swimming contests. First one to a certain point of the water and back. At this relay, the girls oddly won. While in the water, they also played chicken where you got on each other's shoulders and attacked each other. Sora and Kairi were together, Tidus and Wakka, and Trinity and Selphie. Sora and Kairi had won.

Then all of them pigged out at eating a large buffet. Each one of them brought a whole lot of food from their house and brought it to Selphie's house where they had a eating contest among the boys. Wakka won out of him, Tidus, and Sora.

Now Kairi just relaxed at the islands shore, for once happy in her life. Sora was here! She had waited him for so long.

But what about Riku? Sora promised that he would find him, and Kairi knew that Sora would. When Sora promised he would come back, he did. So basically this is the same thing, right?

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Sora sat in the Secret Cave. He went up to the drawing he and Kairi had made years before and sat in front of it, looking at it. He loved it and everything about it. Especially where it shows him and Kairi showing a paupou fruit.

Did she draw another one? Sora pondered. Before, it only had the picture of Sora giving a paupou fruit to Kairi on the wall, but now the picture Kairi was giving one back.

Sora smiled. Kairi must've drawn it.

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"Hey Kai," Trinity said, plopping down on the ground next to Kairi.

"Hey," Kairi said, "Have fun today?"

Trinity smiled, "Oh yeah, especially when we actually won the swimming race."

Kairi laughed. "Well we did get a head start..."

"So? It was worth it. I mean, if we lost even with the start, we'd never hear the end of it from the guys," Trinity grinned.

Kairi nodded, looking out to the sea, letting the sound and smell of the waves relax her. She leaned back on her elbows.

"Kairi?"

"Hm?"

"Did you... did you say that... you knew a guy named Riku?" Trinity asked, wanting to get this thing off her chest.

"Yes... he was mine and Sora's best friend. Why do you ask?"

"What did he look like?"

"Uh, well, he was tall, had silver hair that was pretty long, uh... blue-gray eyes...wait, why do you want to know?"

Trinity didn't answer. Instead, she sat rigid and her heart thumped against her chest, ready to explode. The 'Riku' she knew had the same name, and had the same looks. Kairi had also mentioned to her that Riku had disappeared.

Are they the same person?

"Trinity, are you okay?" Kairi asked seeing Trinity's expression.

"Kairi, I need to tell you something."

Kairi nodded her head and listened.

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Sora sat there for who knows how long, just looking at the picture. When he looked to the left of that, he noticed the door gone.

"Seemed so long ago," Sora whispered to himself.

Sora leaned his back against the wall, and gazed all around the cave, getting memories from long ago. But as he did so, his eyes slowly closed, and he fell into a deep sleep.

Sora found himself in darkness. Nothing at all was around him, just the color black.

"Sora," somebody said behind him. Sora jumped and turned around, only to be met with Riku.

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AN: I'm tired right now, so I'm going to get to that next chapter soon... don't worry.

Next Chapter: Continues right form there.... And I'm going to add confession time and fluff in the next chapter too, so stay tuned.

I'll admit it, that chapter was my shortest one ever... wowzer.

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