go and play with the thunder [ closed ]
Who: Riku (firststeptodawn) and Roxas (dualstance)
What: Talking and maybe hopefully settling differences after training.
Where: Land of Departure
When: 09 November, afternoon
Warnings: well...
( no sleep until I'm done finding the answer. )
What: Talking and maybe hopefully settling differences after training.
Where: Land of Departure
When: 09 November, afternoon
Warnings: well...
( no sleep until I'm done finding the answer. )
It is the perfect place for training though, wide grounds and halls and mountains and sometimes a tiny part of him wonders how different things would have been, had they been trained here back home, just like Aqua and Terra and Ven. How different he would have been.
Of course, there is no good in considering these things too much, he thinks as he walks along path towards the trainings grounds - focusing too much on what could have been instead of what is never does.
When he sees Roxas, both Keyblades out and cutting through the air as the other steps through the motions, he halts... just watching; wondering.
While he's never questioned Aqua's decision to train him aloud, Riku still feels uncertain about it; because while Sora had told him that Roxas could be trusted, that he was Sora's Nobody, Castle Oblivion and the members of the Organization he had encountered there are still too fresh of a memory for him to be comfortable, to just put his trust into someone that smells just as vaguely of nothingness as Vexen, Lexaeus and Zexion had (Namine being an exeption to that).
Still from what little encounters they had, he can't help but feel that this distrust, this wariness... wasn't exactly just one-sided from his part.
So there he stands now, watching and wondering if he shouldn't just turn on his heels and leave to avoid another confrontation.]
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However, after a moment, there's a niggling feeling at the back of his head. As if someone were watching. And turning around, he finds that his instincts aren't so far off.
At first he just stands there, looking at Riku, debating if he should just open a corridor and leave. Their previous encounters haven't been the best after all and the mixed feelings he has about Riku continue to war on, even if half of those feelings aren't his. But, he knows he can't avoid the other forever no matter how much he wants to. They're both students under the same teacher, may even have to spar together if Aqua wants them to. If it ever comes to that, he's not sure he'd be able to restrain himself if he still has the same feelings as he does now.
Somehow they'd have to get along, how is the question right now. ]
Need something?
[ Civility, that's a start, right? ]
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Riku hesitates before replying, arms crossing over his chest in reflex sort of - for all that he is wary, he doesn't want to fight. Finally he settles for a simple shake of his head, expression somewhere between neutral and a little uncertain.]
I was just watching... unless you mind?
[Yeah... civility. It is start.]
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But something stops him from saying it right away, making him take a few seconds to really think about it when before he would just say what's on his mind. Maybe it's those memories and the feelings that come with them again that's stopping him like the first time he met with Riku face to face, Sora's fond memories with the other boy. Or maybe it's something else.
Maybe he just doesn't feel like fighting the other himself, now. ]
... I don't.
[ Roxas adjusts his hold on both Keyblades. Before he might have hidden his ability to wield two of them but ever since the monster attack, he doesn't see a point to doing that anymore. He needs learn anyway. ]
Just not used to someone watching, I guess.
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