Sora had his back slightly turned to Roxas as he approached the Maw, but, even after all of this time, there was still a connection of their hearts that Sora would always sense when his "brother" was around. It hadn't grown any weaker since the end of the War of Hearts a year and a half ago. He tilted his head back slightly, meeting Roxas's eyes for a moment. He knew they needed to talk, about a lot of stuff actually, but...
He wanted to be happy, he really did. If his friends were happy then he should be happy, and maybe, under any other circumstance, it would have felt right. But this was Kairi, someone he had known for over ten years, someone he had grown up with, someone who he had teased and who had teased him back, someone who had gotten into trouble with him and Riku when they tried to sneak cookies out of his mom's cookie jar, someone he had "rescued" when she got lost on their island that first year, someone who he cared about so much that the mere idea of her being in danger made his heart hurt.
He sat down on the ground next to Riku, sitting back just slightly and looking up at the sky. He wasn't the fourteen-year-old who had unknowingly gone traipsing about the universe to save it anymore - at seventeen, he knew more, had experienced more, had become more than even he had realized.
...and all this thinking was giving him a headache.
He gave Roxas a small wave, unsure of where to begin with either of them. So he just quietly answered Riku's question. "Yeah, I guess." He pulled out the keychain that he had magically received so many months ago from an unknown source, the silver and gold sparkling in the morning sunlight. He had never even used it - there had never seemed a reason to (besides, he sort of preferred the pizza roll keychain King Mickey had given him on Christmas).
"I don't know where to start. I think the universe got bigger without me knowing it." There was a decided pout in his voice.
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He wanted to be happy, he really did. If his friends were happy then he should be happy, and maybe, under any other circumstance, it would have felt right. But this was Kairi, someone he had known for over ten years, someone he had grown up with, someone who he had teased and who had teased him back, someone who had gotten into trouble with him and Riku when they tried to sneak cookies out of his mom's cookie jar, someone he had "rescued" when she got lost on their island that first year, someone who he cared about so much that the mere idea of her being in danger made his heart hurt.
He sat down on the ground next to Riku, sitting back just slightly and looking up at the sky. He wasn't the fourteen-year-old who had unknowingly gone traipsing about the universe to save it anymore - at seventeen, he knew more, had experienced more, had become more than even he had realized.
...and all this thinking was giving him a headache.
He gave Roxas a small wave, unsure of where to begin with either of them. So he just quietly answered Riku's question. "Yeah, I guess." He pulled out the keychain that he had magically received so many months ago from an unknown source, the silver and gold sparkling in the morning sunlight. He had never even used it - there had never seemed a reason to (besides, he sort of preferred the pizza roll keychain King Mickey had given him on Christmas).
"I don't know where to start. I think the universe got bigger without me knowing it." There was a decided pout in his voice.