AN: This is going to be done in semi drabble chapters, which I
have decided is totally my favorite format for involved/complicated
fics.
Disclaimer: I don't own it.
Knowing Pain
"Don't ask, don't tell," -Slang for Public Law 103-160
Kairi had grown used to the new Riku, quiet and sullen, and was surprised to see the change the trip wrought on his personality. He is so much more alive here, among all the worlds that weren't his, all the things that could lay no claim to him, than he had ever been back home.
Sometimes he even smiles.
Sora is a different matter. He's become slow, sluggish really, with red-rimmed eyes and chapped lips. Kairi, who still hasn't learned the "don't ask" part of the adventure's code, caught him gazing at the bright moon Twilight Town made against the sky one night, and asked if he missed home.
"No," he said, gaze fixed past the blue planet, "Not really."
