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KH2: Understanding
Title: Understanding
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts / KH2
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Subject: Riku & Sora
Theme(s): #15 ~ Comfortable Silence
Disclaimer: Don't own anything; spoilers for end of KH2
Understanding
Theme #15 ~ Comfortable Silence
Riku and Sora don’t talk about what happened while they were apart. Sora never asks where Riku spent all of that time, where his best friend was while he searched the worlds for him. Riku, in turn, never asks about the sadness in Sora’s eyes, the faded, empty look that occasionally clouds over those blue irises.
Instead, Sora and Riku do the things they always used to do. Riku will arrive early at Sora’s house in the morning, and will drag him out of bed by whatever creative means necessary. Often, Kairi will meet them at the docks, and row to the island with them. Tidus, Wakka, and Selphie sometimes meet them on the beach. On their warm, peaceful island, Riku and Sora can get back to their childhood, and just forget the universe that put weapons in the hands of innocents and asked them to save it.
Except, now and again, Riku and Sora’s oldest friends will ask them to fight mock duels with them, just as they always did when they were young. Wooden swords, sticks, and jump ropes appear in their hands, coming to hand as quickly as they always have. Neither boy has ever managed to tell the others that they have been gone for a long time. King Mickey’s magic ensures that no one remembers their absence, and their parents’ lack of anxiety is too important to risk toying with the spell. In some ways, Sora envies Riku’s earlier indifference to fighting those weaker then him. Without a reason to refuse, Sora has no choice but to fight.
Riku never stays to watch those battles.
Riku always waits for Sora, afterwards. Sora doesn’t remember the first time he fought with them again beyond a vague happiness when his stick was still a stick after the battle. He suspects that Riku knows, but Sora has never felt compelled to ask him. He remembers only wandering down to the island that Riku had always staked an almost exclusive claim to, and sitting beside Riku on the bench-like tree there until the sun flowed downward in the sky and the light had returned to his eyes. Riku doesn’t speak, doesn’t ask about it or offer platitudes. He simply remains, silent and understanding and more than glad that his battles are done forever.
Riku and Sora don’t talk about what happened while they are apart. They simply understand one another, without ever saying a word.
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts / KH2
For:
30_friendsSubject: Riku & Sora
Theme(s): #15 ~ Comfortable Silence
Disclaimer: Don't own anything; spoilers for end of KH2
Theme #15 ~ Comfortable Silence
Riku and Sora don’t talk about what happened while they were apart. Sora never asks where Riku spent all of that time, where his best friend was while he searched the worlds for him. Riku, in turn, never asks about the sadness in Sora’s eyes, the faded, empty look that occasionally clouds over those blue irises.
Instead, Sora and Riku do the things they always used to do. Riku will arrive early at Sora’s house in the morning, and will drag him out of bed by whatever creative means necessary. Often, Kairi will meet them at the docks, and row to the island with them. Tidus, Wakka, and Selphie sometimes meet them on the beach. On their warm, peaceful island, Riku and Sora can get back to their childhood, and just forget the universe that put weapons in the hands of innocents and asked them to save it.
Except, now and again, Riku and Sora’s oldest friends will ask them to fight mock duels with them, just as they always did when they were young. Wooden swords, sticks, and jump ropes appear in their hands, coming to hand as quickly as they always have. Neither boy has ever managed to tell the others that they have been gone for a long time. King Mickey’s magic ensures that no one remembers their absence, and their parents’ lack of anxiety is too important to risk toying with the spell. In some ways, Sora envies Riku’s earlier indifference to fighting those weaker then him. Without a reason to refuse, Sora has no choice but to fight.
Riku never stays to watch those battles.
Riku always waits for Sora, afterwards. Sora doesn’t remember the first time he fought with them again beyond a vague happiness when his stick was still a stick after the battle. He suspects that Riku knows, but Sora has never felt compelled to ask him. He remembers only wandering down to the island that Riku had always staked an almost exclusive claim to, and sitting beside Riku on the bench-like tree there until the sun flowed downward in the sky and the light had returned to his eyes. Riku doesn’t speak, doesn’t ask about it or offer platitudes. He simply remains, silent and understanding and more than glad that his battles are done forever.
Riku and Sora don’t talk about what happened while they are apart. They simply understand one another, without ever saying a word.