Title: subtle differences
Author: seetoo

Claim: Riku/Roxas
Pairings: Riku/Roxas, mention of sided Riku/Sora
Theme Set: Light
Theme: v. heroism
Disclaimer: not mine

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Watching him is like listening to a symphony played ever-so-slightly out of key, with those blue eyes that look so right and the way he moves and something about the set of his mouth as Riku's keyblade rests on the knoll of his throat. And then he rises to his feet as the battle continues, just like Sora. And suddenly the chord shifts, wavering, hangs on a flat it shouldn't, and he isn't Sora. He never was and Riku is just fooling himself.

Rage and a fierce, angry strength that has Roxas on his back before he knows what's coming and maybe he should respect this blind stranger with a weapon that should be his. Riku's knees are on either side of his hips, but Roxas doesn't try to throw him off. Something is subtly wrong; the killing drive, the bloodlust that runs rampant in the veins of any and all who dare to breath in a world that isn't, is missing. Instead, pale lips hover inches from his, breath warm and hot, and the words come, slow and measured, a sweet poison neither can resist.

"You think you're the keyblade master, don't you." Roxas tenses beneath him and Oathkeeper lunges towards Riku only to be blocked. "You think you're a hero, but you're not. You'll never be." Their lips are touching; Riku, the blond boy notes, tastes like sea-salt. Roxas doesn't taste like anything. "I thought I was a hero, once upon a time. But I'm not, either." Riku kisses him, softly, and it strikes Roxas as more of an apology than anything.

Then he leaps backwards with a tenseness on his face and Roxas rises to his feet unsteadily and tries to piece everything together in the rain. He's fighting a blind pretty-boy who found kissing him an excellent tactic and he really doesn't think he can sink much lower so he snarls and turns sharply on his heel. One last taunt thrown over his shoulder, twangs sharply in the air and Riku winces at the voice that isn't right.

"Then who is the hero of this story?"

Riku's breath catches on the name, but Roxas doesn't stay to listen.