Drabble post
Jan. 21st, 2007 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rahmiFandom: Kingdom Hearts
Characters: Riku
Pairings: OT3 'Verse (Riku/Sora)
Drabble 3: Afraid
As much as Riku hates the Heartless, it's the Nobodies he's afraid of.
The Hearltess at least have a reason for killing a person; they eat their heart and then there's one more little shadow to touch antennae to and chitter at in their dry, wordless whispers. Riku can't stand the way the Heartless make him shiver, deep down, where his heart quails and cries and tries to climb out of his chest at the merest brush of their claws, tries to flutter somewhere safewarmsorakairi everytime he senses their rot in a world.
He doesn't like the Heartless, but he understands them the same way they understand him.
The Nobodies though, the Nobodies... the Nobodies leave bodies in their wake, little boys and girls and men and women with horror on their faces, when they still have them. They leave trails of intestines where they've danced off with them, shit and urine making the ground slippery and full of nightmares, and they leave hollowed out cavities where eyes and guts and bone should have been.
Riku's long past the point of vomiting when he finds a Nobody kill, but that doesn't mean his stomach doesn't try to climb up into his throat and release what little he's eaten that day all over the bloody ground.
He can't fathom the way the things kill, the way they almost cheerfully (almost, because of course they aren't actually cheerful) drag parts and pieces off the bodies in search of hearts that had fled as soon as the body died. Riku maybe thinks that they're just mindless, but he doesn't know and he doesn't understand, and they scare the fuck out of him when he sees them, because all he can see is blood and bone and organs strewn around a sun-drenched clearing.
It's one of the many reasons he's started wearing a blindfold; he can smell the blood and the waste, but he can't see it anymore, even if his mind supplies a clear, clear image of it anyway. He can't see the death and he can't see to be terrified of Namine's soft alieness, and it's the kind of blessing he needs in order to be anywhere near her.
The Nobodies scare him.
They scare him even more when there's cold intelligence behind their dead eyes, and he wants to scream when he pulls the blindfold off and recognizes Sora in that gaze, in the way the boy's (not a boy, not even human) head tilts and his mouth draws up in an almost pout. He knows that Sora's safe and sound, sleeping still sleeping, but this thing isn't and all his cocky assurances to DiZ hadn't prepared him for facing something that felt like an empty, damned version of his best friend.
He supposes it was inevitable then, that he'd lose. He can't stop seeing Sora in the way the Nobody moved, in the way he hefted the keyblade for bone-jarring strikes that left Riku sprawling on the ground.
Riku hopes, vaguely because his head is about to explode, that the smarter Nobodies didn't eviscerate their prey quite as painfully as their dumber counterparts. Then he closes his eyes, apologizes to Sora, and falls.
Characters: Riku
Pairings: OT3 'Verse (Riku/Sora)
Drabble 3: Afraid
As much as Riku hates the Heartless, it's the Nobodies he's afraid of.
The Hearltess at least have a reason for killing a person; they eat their heart and then there's one more little shadow to touch antennae to and chitter at in their dry, wordless whispers. Riku can't stand the way the Heartless make him shiver, deep down, where his heart quails and cries and tries to climb out of his chest at the merest brush of their claws, tries to flutter somewhere safewarmsorakairi everytime he senses their rot in a world.
He doesn't like the Heartless, but he understands them the same way they understand him.
The Nobodies though, the Nobodies... the Nobodies leave bodies in their wake, little boys and girls and men and women with horror on their faces, when they still have them. They leave trails of intestines where they've danced off with them, shit and urine making the ground slippery and full of nightmares, and they leave hollowed out cavities where eyes and guts and bone should have been.
Riku's long past the point of vomiting when he finds a Nobody kill, but that doesn't mean his stomach doesn't try to climb up into his throat and release what little he's eaten that day all over the bloody ground.
He can't fathom the way the things kill, the way they almost cheerfully (almost, because of course they aren't actually cheerful) drag parts and pieces off the bodies in search of hearts that had fled as soon as the body died. Riku maybe thinks that they're just mindless, but he doesn't know and he doesn't understand, and they scare the fuck out of him when he sees them, because all he can see is blood and bone and organs strewn around a sun-drenched clearing.
It's one of the many reasons he's started wearing a blindfold; he can smell the blood and the waste, but he can't see it anymore, even if his mind supplies a clear, clear image of it anyway. He can't see the death and he can't see to be terrified of Namine's soft alieness, and it's the kind of blessing he needs in order to be anywhere near her.
The Nobodies scare him.
They scare him even more when there's cold intelligence behind their dead eyes, and he wants to scream when he pulls the blindfold off and recognizes Sora in that gaze, in the way the boy's (not a boy, not even human) head tilts and his mouth draws up in an almost pout. He knows that Sora's safe and sound, sleeping still sleeping, but this thing isn't and all his cocky assurances to DiZ hadn't prepared him for facing something that felt like an empty, damned version of his best friend.
He supposes it was inevitable then, that he'd lose. He can't stop seeing Sora in the way the Nobody moved, in the way he hefted the keyblade for bone-jarring strikes that left Riku sprawling on the ground.
Riku hopes, vaguely because his head is about to explode, that the smarter Nobodies didn't eviscerate their prey quite as painfully as their dumber counterparts. Then he closes his eyes, apologizes to Sora, and falls.
