Boundless | By : Nyarlathotep23 Category: Kingdom Hearts > Slash/Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1186 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story. |
Title: Boundless/
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts II/
Pairing: Sora/Riku/
Raiting: M/
Warnings: fluff, introspection, guilt, mild swearing, boys kissing and touching each other, cumshot/
Written in Third Person Limited, in the present and past tenses. Riku's POV/
3,200 words/
The landscape remains bathed in perpetual night, here at the end of the road… black waves licking at their shoes, the strange empty wind ruffling their hair, neither warm nor cold. The moon never moves from its low slung position, just above the horizon and no tidal forces pull at the dark ocean.
All’s end…
Riku listens intently to the quiet breathing of the boy to his left, his steady heartbeat attempting to assert the existence of time, even here… They had fallen into silent introspection and remained that way for… how long?
‘How long have we been here?’
Riku can’t tell… He’s lost count of Sora’s breaths… the beats of that noble heart… the one he’d always envied the strength of… He can admit that now…
Back at the beginning he had wanted to call it righteous anger, needed so much to brand Sora the betrayer… but in the end he had finally acknowledged that it had always been jealousy… that his heart was the traitorous one.
The brunette looks resolute, seated in the dark shifting granules, skinny legs bent and even skinnier arms curled about them, his chin resting on one upraised knee. His eyes glisten softly in the unnatural moonlight and Riku wonders if he’s thinking about the past… If he is, he’s probably only recalling the happy times… so like him.
The silver haired boy almost chuckles.
Sora’s eyes, blue on warmth, and always watching him… They had filled an already bold child with the urge to be better … be noticed… be important… be someone to him… and a young Riku had reasoned that beating Sora at everything was certainly one way to make sure he never looked away for long… The challenge between them was always so much more about fun and friendship to the younger boy. In their battles and contests, Sora lost in good nature and his warm gaze was always so alight with humor even as his ears were filled with the older boy’s gloating. Even as Sora sputtered in indignation at being ridiculed, Riku knew he needn’t worry of pushing too far... perhaps he should have…
They are alone now, in all the worlds… the doors have all closed and all chances have been expended. All the farewells they never said would have to remain unspoken. Riku sighs and hears the rasp of cloth to his left. Shifting in the black sand, Sora moves closer, silently working his hand into the older boy’s… folding their fingers together without making eye contact. He falls back into the sand then and Riku follows him down, settling next to him, their hands still clasped together. They allow their eyes to drift closed, their thoughts to travel back… to the island.
Their island…
The scene of so many battles… echoing with so many shouts and taunts and laughs, and the clacking of wooden blade against wooden blade, the crunch of sand under small bare feet.
Even when Sora won, it was with self deprecating claims of “luck”. If it had been anyone but Sora it would have sounded smarmy… annoying… It was still annoying… but only because he was so very sincere. In a way, Sora’s modest ways had only fed Riku’s desire to dominate the boy, to swell within his azure gaze until he eclipsed all else to Sora.
But Riku could not blame his friend anymore… he had no one to blame but himself…
The hand in his is squeezing now, and a soft sound from the boy next to him pulls aqua eyes open, a pitiless blank sky replacing the warm tropical blue of his memories, the scent of ozone stinging his nostrils and burying the sense memory of flowers and salt… of life. It cannot hide the scent of tears though and Riku rolls his head to the side, observing a glistening droplet descend over the gentle curve of Sora’s cheek, leaving a slick trail.
‘I looked everywhere for you…’
But Riku had hidden from him… in so many dark places… Hidden from himself in darker ones still.
When he shifts to his side, and up onto one elbow, their fingers slide apart and Sora’s eyes flutter open, spilling another salty drop and before Riku can even think, his lips are pressed to the boy’s warm cheek, trapping the moisture, tasting sea and skin and following the saline trail with his mouth to the melody of Sora’s quickened heartbeat and low, nonverbal intonation… pulling back slowly to see what those eyes held for him now... more than fearing to know…
It had been easier to name it ‘disapproval’… for to call it ‘hurt’ was dangerous… but seeing him with new friends… looking to them for support… listening to their advice… fighting alongside them… Them… and not him… It had hurt… Only much later on was be able to honestly admit why.
It had been so much easier to make it about her….
‘Kairi…’
He should have apologized to them…for having used her like that. It hadn’t been fair to either of them. At the time though, it had seemed so clear… And he again damned Maleficent to nothingness for her trickery… and thrice damned himself for being so easily fooled. He had been so stupid… so arrogant… he had all but invited the darkness in …and that Bastard along with it… Ansem… Xehanort… whoever he had been…
And he had been so wrong about Sora… about his strength… his determination… and for all that Riku had sacrificed to see his friend again, he had to admit that he’d learned about self sacrifice from the small brunette’s example.
Sora doesn’t bully or guilt, he doesn’t cajole or manipulate. Sora simply lives and fights and believes and makes mistakes and draws all who have eyes for the truth along with him towards the light, shining like the Dawn that Riku was always striving towards...
Sora…Kairi… and King Mickey… They had only ever seen the light in him…
“Riku?”
The boy is so close suddenly, sapphire eyes blooming with unshed tears like dew on Forget me Nots… It makes Riku’s chest ache to look at them, makes his stomach hurt to think about those eyes darkened with confusion and pain... He’d hurt Sora… belittled him and disregarded his strength but those eyes had always forgiven him… always greeted him with warmth even as Riku flung his barbs.
Those eyes are looking at Riku now with concern after a choked noise of pain escapes his trembling lips. His side is panging again and his leg’s gone numb, never a good sign. Sora is rummaging in one of his pouch pockets, coming up with a cracked and leaky potion bottle, still about two thirds full and offering its contents.
‘Takes the edge off, Gods yes…’ Riku can’t help but groan in relief as the pain abates and a pleasant tingle suffuses through his tired body.
“Better?”
“Nngh… Yeah… Thanks Sora… I owe you…”
Sora’s eyes are literally shining with happiness as he just shakes his spiky head, grinning widely.
Oh Hearts, those eyes… How many times had they been his beacon in the Dark after he and Sora had closed the door against the encroaching darkness, trapping King Mickey and Riku along with it? He’d shouted at Sora to take care of Kairi, still unable to simply say “I’ll miss you…. …I love you…” …but alone in the endless- timeless- featureless- blackness he had spent a lot of ‘time’ thinking about Sora… thinking about what had changed… and what hadn’t.. Time didn’t pass… he didn’t get tired, or hungry… sleep was a non-issue. Standing felt the same as sitting, as lying down and thus, walking was an exercise of will against futility. And in the firm grip of sensory deprivation like nothing else, Riku had found himself immersed in some very revelatory fantasies…
‘Something so natural…’
It still colors his cheeks to recall the vivid images his imagination had conjured in that desolate place, especially with Sora inches from him. It just isn’t fair… that he’s still afraid… even after all this time and everything that had happened…
Even though Riku knows that Sora dearly loves him… the only thing he’s ever feared is still there in his heart…
“I’m sorry… Sora…”
For what…? The kiss? …The years of repressed longing? …For letting the darkness take him? …For everything…? Is it yet time to forgive himself? He’d also learned about forgiveness from Sora after all…
After his defeat at the hands of Roxas, Riku had seen no other choice but to embrace a darkness beyond anything his blindfold could offer him… Oh it had hurt… but his will was strong and his darkness had bent to it. He had returned and he had won… he had completed his mission so that DiZ could start lining the pieces up… for Namine… and he had accepted the price, willingly…
Namine had twice offered to take the memories away… of the Dark… of the torture and violation Xehanort’s Heartless had inflicted on his mind while possessing his body… how he’d watched from behind burning orange eyes, helpless as Sora had willingly sacrificed his own heart for Kairi, never even giving himself a second thought… Memories of how he’d been manipulated by the Organization to nearly betray Sora all over again in the stark halls and rooms of Castle Oblivion... She had wanted to take it all back... to make it all better. It was all she had ever wanted… a Nobody from a Heart devoid of Darkness? How could she be anything but a creature of pure empathy? No anger or hate or jealousy to draw strength from even the memory of… more a figment than any of them… Even Sora’s heart had possessed darkness enough to make Roxas… whose anger and fury had scarred Riku like nothing before or since… and he was thankful..
Riku had both times declined her offer.. He didn’t want to forget… it was crucial that he remember what had gone before… besides… the second time.. his body… no… he couldn’t have accepted it…
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