YouRiko One-Shots

Fairy

"One jump, two jumps, three jumps."

Riko counted each step she took as she pounced on the small rocks surrounded by water. With each landing, a small ripple surrounded her platform, breaking the balance of the calming nature around her.

She had a lot of freedom while prancing around the garden pond. She could let her fairy dust float all around while not caring whether or not her hair was a mess or dress was intact. There weren't many fairies who ventured this far, as many of them were afraid of the wild unknown forest. That is, all except a certain grey-haired fairy who watched her from above.

"Careful not to slip!"

You called out as she laid atop of the trees, looking down at the majestic fairy. Riko momentarily lost her balance with the sudden shout. She waved her arms around to bring herself on both of her feet before looking up to see who distracted her. Of course, it was just her favorite fairy who was still for some reason in her work attire. Her light green uniform, designed entirely from hand by the great tree's leaves, usually helped her stay hidden amongst the trees, yet her voice never allowed that for long.

"You, what are you doing out here? I thought you were on guard duty?"

You sat up from her previous position, letting her feet hang over the branches,

"I asked for the outer region duty today since I knew you'd be out here."

Riko rolled her eyes. It was just like You to not actually work, but rather head anywhere her friends were.

"I'm not that predictable and shouldn't you be doing actual guarding and not playing around?"

You laughed, even going backwards a bit, at the idea of actually working,

"Ah, that was a good one, Riko. But you know, I know a lot about you so you're kind of predictable to me."

Riko put her hands on her hips as she called back,

"Okay then, how so?"

"Well, I know that you only like to come out to the pond when things are bothering you."

Riko opened her mouth but shortly closed it. You was right, she couldn't really argue with those facts.

"Alrighty then, how do you know something is bothering me?"

"A little birdy told me"

Riko threw her hands down in frustration, nothing could ever be kept a secret in their kingdom.

"How does Kotori know literally everything? She's just the queen's clothing designer, she really shouldn't hold so much power over everyone."

You laughed as Riko was definitely right, Kotori was quite the enigma. It was any wonder how she had dirt on literally everyone yet no one even knew anything about her.

"I really don't know. She's kind of scary, it's any wonder how Umi survives her."

Both girls shared their fits of giggles as it was the kingdom joke to feel bad for that blue-haired girl. Everyone knew how flustered Umi got with Kotori's name even brought up in a conversation. Kotori could play Umi like a fiddle to do her bidding. While she only saw it as being a good friend, everyone knew it was because of her huge crush.

As their laughter subsided, You jumped from the tree, letting her wings softly bring her to the stone in front of Riko as her fairy dust trailed behind her.

"So, wanna tell me what's wrong?"

Putting her arms behind her back, Riko smiled as she swayed from side to side on her feet,