Riku - All Grown Up

Title: All Grown Up
Game: Kingdom Hearts
Theme + Number: [23] key(blade), [45] games, [76] growing up
Claim: Riku
Characters/Pairings included: Sora
Rating: K
Warnings: None
Summary: They're all grown up now.
Spoilers: No




It takes him several minutes of standing there, looking him up and down, watching his every move, to realize what’s different. He knows that he’s changed, darkness in his senses and voice in his head and power under his fingertips, dark and deadly and sleek, black keyblade in his grasp, but he realizes that he’s not the only one who’s changed since they left the island, since he plunged into the darkness.

Sora’s changed, too. He realizes it when he blocks his attack and spits out cold, cold words, lets him know he’s the one who’s messed up, charges at him and they fight, not a play fight, not a game, like last time, but a real fight, and he realizes that the keyblades in their hands and the power between them isn’t the only way they’ve changed.

He realizes they’ve grown up. A little too fast, and a little awkward, and they aren’t really ready for it, but they’ve grown up now. They had to. He thinks it’s a little sad that they’ve grown up this way, him dark, Sora light, thinks it’s a little sad that they’re still only children, and they’ve grown up into men, into warriors, but he doesn’t have time to think on it for too long. They fight like rivals and warriors and knights, battling over the princess.

They’ve grown up, and he realizes he wishes they didn’t have to, but knows there’s no other choice.