Disclaimer: If I owned Kingdom Hearts, more than Reverse/Rebirth would be in Riku's POV.
Warnings: Hinted Soriku, hinted Kairiku, implied Sokai.
Other: Because Riku is the God of Angst, I had to write this.
Home
Back when we were young, when the world was huge and utterly unexplored and Destiny Islands- home- never changed, Sora always ran to me with splinters in his fingers and Kairi always begged me for help with her homework. I knew Everything ™ and could do Anything ™ and that was the way things were. Of course, if I occasionally went to Sora with splinters or Kairi for homework, then that was okay too.
But then things changed. Sora's splinters became claw-marks and he didn't come to me with them. Kairi's homework became the Ansem Reports and her earnest, pleading words became the cold, domineering orders of Maleficent.
When we finally returned home, I knew that things would be different. How could they not be? But I came anyway, thinking that it wouldn't be too bad. Most things, surprisingly, remained the same.
Only now Sora goes to Kairi with his splinters and she begs him for help with her homework, leaving me to pull out my own splinters and do my homework on my own.
Destiny Islands hadn't changed, but my home had.