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Bound with Violet Ribbon (Kingdom Hearts II, Aeris/Kairi/Sephiroth)
Title: Bound with Violet Ribbon
Author/Artist: raisedbymoogles
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: sex
Word count: 1356
Prompt: Kingdom Hearts, Aeris/Kairi/Sephiroth: ribbons - the only chain that can bind this wolf
Summary: There's more than one way to be a hero.
Kairi couldn't catch so much as a feather of Sephiroth's, though it wasn't for lack of trying. While her boys (if them chasing her halfway across the sky and staging an epic battle between the forces of light and darkness for her sake didn't make them hers, nothing would) were off saving some world or other, Sora with Donald and Goofy and Riku usually on his own, Kairi had to do something, and Sephiroth seemed a logical introductory project. She had a Keyblade, she had magic, and with Cloud as backup...
...well, that hadn't panned out, and Kairi was left chasing after Sephiroth on her own. Truthfully, she thought the effort was good for her even if she never got close.
Except she did get close, once. It was one of Kairi's brilliant ideas, climbing up to the battlements and waiting for Sephiroth to pass on those days when Cloud got restless and wouldn't talk to her in much more than grunts. A restless Cloud meant Sephiroth was restless too, and while the winged man wasn't easy to predict, if he took to divebombing the town the battlements would be a good place for him to stage his attacks from. So Kairi ran up the stairs, across the walkway, paused a moment to catch her breath, and jumped up the wall and pulled herself up to the top with one hand (she'd just learned how to do that, wouldn't her boys be proud?).
And Sephiroth was already there.
She shouldn't have been able to surprise him, even accounting for all the broken things in his head, but when Kairi's feet landed on the stone he startled and whipped around, sword slashing a warning crescent around him. Kairi had her Keyblade in her hand already, unbidden, but she didn't lift it to her defense, because their gazes had locked and Kairi couldn't breathe.
If she had known Cloud better, she might have seen Cloud in his eyes. Instead she saw Riku, dogged by the choices he wouldn't have changed even if he could; and Sora, relentlessly driving forward no matter what it cost him; and herself, waiting all alone. Always alone.
She brought her Keyblade up just in time to save her life, but Sephiroth's blow knocked her clean off the battlement and sent her tumbling down to the pavement far below. She escaped death a second time due to a spout of wind that cradled her body until she was safe on the ground and in Aeris's arms.
Kairi didn't know how Aeris came to be here, or how the older girl knew she needed help, but she didn't stop to question it. "I didn't know," she babbled, clinging to Aeris's dress. "I thought he was just another Heartless, I didn't think, I'm sorry, I swear I didn't know."
"Shh," Aeris murmured, stroking her hair, not looking up at the black shadow overhead. "I know. It's all right." She hid the Princess's face in her dress, letting it soak up the few tears Kairi let escape. "You weren't completely wrong, you know. Just going about it the wrong way."
Kairi sniffled and looked up - and the shadow had moved on, so Aeris let her. "What's the right way?"
Aeris smiled her kind, mysterious Ancient smile. Then she took Kairi home and told her all she knew about Sephiroth, and taught her a magic that would finally let her catch the General.
***
"I'm glad you're here," Kairi said, and Sephiroth turned his head to stare at her in honest confusion.
Kairi bit her lip and fiddled with the ribbon in her hands - silky-violet as dusk, a sweet counterpoint to the golden flush of dawn on Radiant Garden's heights. Beside her, Aeris put a hand on her shoulder in silent encouragement. Kairi nodded gratefully and went on.
"I wanted to apologize for - for the other day. I'd heard all the stories about - about you, you know, from Cloud and all." Kairi scuffed the toe of her shoe against the rough stone. "I thought going after you would make me a hero, but it wasn't really very heroic of me, was it?" She tried a smile then, and was gratified at how easily it came to her. "So, I'd like to start over. My name's Kairi, and I brought you a present." She took a step forward and held out the violet ribbon in both hands.
Sephiroth stared at her a moment. His gaze flickered to the ribbon, then up to Aeris, who smiled knowingly and nodded to him. "Most people don't come after me with an enchanted chain," he commented offhandedly, and Kairi startled.
"I just thought it would look pretty with your eyes," she protested.
"My eyes?" Sephiroth repeated, and "Pretty?" and began to laugh. He was still laughing as he came forward, stretched out his hand and placed it over the ribbon.
Even forewarned, Kairi couldn't hold back a gasp as the ribbon leapt in her hands. It grew longer and longer, spinning itself into the air, then arced like a fountain to wind around them both and tie them close together. Kairi found herself laced in against warm leather and cool skin, feathers fluttering at her hips and thighs. She looked up as the ribbon wound itself across Sephiroth's chest, stopping just shy of his throat.
"Pretty," she confirmed with a smile.
The ribbon allowed her to raise her arms, stroking across Sephiroth's chest. Different textures met her fingers, skin-silk-skin-leather. Though restrained so well he could hardly move (couldn't or wouldn't - Aeris hadn't been clear on that part), Sephiroth undulated gently under Kairi's hands, pressing against her in clear invitation. Kairi was not a virgin, but the hard pressure against her hip made her flush and hide her face against Sephiroth's coat.
Aeris was there, stroking the back of her neck, calming her with crooned nothings and her earth-and-greenness smell. Kairi peeked up just enough to smile at the older girl, unwilling to lift her head and lose the smell of leather and darkness and Sephiroth's clean skin just beginning to dew with sweat.
"I'm right here," she assured them both, loosening zips and buckles as the ribbon twined playfully around her wrists. "I'll always be right here with you." She was so gentle that Kairi didn't even gasp again when her skin met Sephiroth's lower down. The General was fully hard for her and his size was intimidating, but Kairi bravely slung her arms over Sephiroth's neck and hitched her body up, and with Aeris's hand on her back keeping her steady, accepted him into her.
It ached to hold him that way, so much that Kairi would have withdrawn if the ribbons would let her, but Sephiroth visibly relaxed and smiled a real smile, one that crinkled the corners of his eyes. Kairi took a deep breath and began to move.
***
Aeris reclined back against the stone and smiled over them both, toying with Sephiroth's hair as he licked at her inner thigh with the self-satisfied laziness of a cat. Kairi rested against him, eyes half-closed, fingers curled around a remaining bit of ribbon.
"She's interesting, for a Keybearer," Sephiroth murmured against Aeris's skin, the vibration of his voice making her squirm just a little.
"I thought you'd like her," she managed, fingers tightening in his hair as his mouth started making its inorexable way upward. "She's - ah - a Princess of Heart too, you know."
Sephiroth halted, one silver brow arching skyward like a wing. "I hope," he said slowly, just a hint of a feral growl in his voice, "you don't think she's going to cure me."
"No," Aeris said, and flashed a sad smile. "She's just going to care about you. What you do with that is up to you."
Perhaps he saw her meaning, and chose not to pursue it; either way, Sephiroth allowed himself to be mollified with a pleading tug on his hair and bent his head to Aeris's folds again. Beside him, Kairi sighed and shifted, bearing the dull ache inside her with the beginnings of a smile.