Chapter 1: Best Friends

Drowsy eyes burned loathing holes into the moonlit ceiling. Sighing, Sora tossed over and beating his pillow again. Runing his fingers through his messy brown hair, he glanced at the clock. The angry red light that said 5 a.m. abused his eyes. Great another sleepless night. Why did this always happen to him? He had thought that everything was going so well. No one would've guessed how wrong one boy could be.

I can't do this anymore. I can't pretend to be something Im not. In love with someone Im not. Your one of my best friends, you know that. But Im not In love with you that way, the way a girlfriend should be. I love Namine, and though its taken us a while to actually get our feelings straight, we want to be together now. Im sorry, Sora.- Kairi

Yeah, that was his wretched life for you. His girlfriend had turned lesbian on him. Giving up on the whole sleep thing, he shuffled his way downstairs for breakfast. Sticking a warm, gooey, syrup covered waffle in his mouth he poured himself some milk and he glided listlessly over to the table and found a note from his mom.

Honey,

Went out shopping, won't be back for a while. Riku called and said to meet him at the island. Be back before dark and have fun.

Love Mom.

He sighed. Kari had probably already told Riku what had happened which meant he would be waiting for Sora to come crying to him. Well that wasn't going to happen. No sir, he was going to suck it up and get over it. No more running to Riku every time something stupid happened. Squaring his shoulders, Sora promised himself he would stop being so whiney and childish. With his new resolution firmly in mind, he started off for the Island.

"So she dumped me." He said calmly, looking out over the waves. Riku hopped up on the tree next to him and said nothing. Just munched his popsicle and listened to his friend complain, like usual. But there wasn't much complaining this time. Sora was oddly calm about it. After spending the whole night thinking about it and the whole relationship, he realized he knew that this was going to happen but had just turned a blind eye.

"I should have know this was going to happen. Remember that time I thought I saw them kissing? Guess it was real." He laughed bitterly taking a big bite out of his slightly melted popsicle. The fact that he knew this might happen made it a little easier to deal with, but not by much. It was never easy when you had to break up with someone. He knew that even though this was the first time it had happened to him. He would probably never get used to the feeling. Maybe he should just stop dating. He tilted his head in thought. Nah.

Riku's hand reached up to wipe away the melted popsicle that was dripping down the side of Sora's face. He then sucked his coated finger into his mouth, licking off all the melted liquid. He had done it since they were kids, but something about it today made Sora want to scream that he wasn't a child and that he didn't need him to take care of him. But he did need him, so he didn't say anything. If Sora didn't have Riku he didn't know what he would do. He was always there for him, comforting him when he was hurt or upset or just being with him. Sora just wished he could be a little more independent. It probably drove Riku nuts that Sora clung to him all the time. And the last thing he ever wanted to do was make Riku mad or lose him. He was the one person he couldn't live without.

"So what are you going to do now?" Riku didn't look at Sora but out at the waves while he said this. He did that when he was thinking, but what was he thinking about now? How pathetic this whole thing was? He shrugged and turned back to looking at the ocean himself.

"Probably just try to still act like friends and forget we ever went out…" He sighed. That would be hard. It was always hard to forget a first love. It was going to be even harder since she was one of his best friends. He would have loved to have told himself that everything would have all worked out if Namine hadn't moved here over the summer, but he had known something was off before that. It didn't feel right. He could never figure out what was wrong but there was always something nagging at the back of his mind, screaming for him to let her go her own way. He had just always ignored it.

He shook his head and cleared his thoughts. Enough thinking about this stuff. It would only upset and depress him. "Lets spar a little." He hopped down from the tree not waiting for Riku to answer. He would never say no to sparing, and sparing would definitely cheer Sora up right now.

"Sure." He hopped down and followed Sora to where their swords were without another word.

Both picked them up and went to opposite sides. Crouching Sora was ready to start when Riku stopped him.

"Lets try something a little new." He said, a grin on his face. "How bout we mix all different styles of fighting with our sword play?" He smile went from ear to ear which meant he knew what he was doing and Sora was screwed.

"What do you mean?" He asked so he could try to get the upper hand. If he knew exactly what Riku was going to do them maybe he could finally beat him.

"Well, like say for instance you come in really close for a drive, I can dodge and instead of just using my sword I can hit or kick out or pull some type of wrestling move to beat you." Oh he did not like where this was going at all. Riku had always been bigger than him and if they started wrestling he was sure to lose. Not meaning that he was very skinny or not masculine in anyway, it just meant that Riku was a beast compared to him.

"That sounds like a dirty way of fighting." Trying to get out of this would be hard. He normally gave into whatever Riku wanted. Would his resolve hold out this time?

"Come on. Its not that bad and Im sure that even you could do it." There it was. The taunting that sent him over the edge. Riku loved to pick on him when it came to fighting, saying that he should just give up and play the princess and let Riku be the knight in shining armor. Well not this time. This time he would get stuck in the tower while Sora road in on the white horse to save him.

"Fine." He said crouching and getting ready for a lunge. It would be better to rush him and hit him while he was off guard. He sprang and did a side sweep to the left which Riku blocked and brought his sword around to try to hit Sora on the shoulder.

Oh no you don't, He thought as he dodged and try to come up with and upper cut to his chin. Stupid. Why did I do that. Just as he thought it Riku swung his sword around while leaning back to dodge the hit. The sword made contact with Sora's and sent it flying. He didn't have time to see where it landed as Riku pinned him to the ground.

"I win again." He smirk and peered down at Sora through is curtain of silver hair.

"Yeah yeah yeah. Let me up. That was totally unfair that you brought that fighting style up, cause you knew exactly how I would use it." Of course he did. Riku had taught him every move he knew.

"Yes but that's also how you defeat your opponent. Know exactly what move they are going to make." He chuckled like it was so easy to know what Sora was going to do. That just made him even more mad.

"Whatever. Just let me up and we can do another round." He struggled to sit up but Riku kept him pinned. There was no way he was getting up if Riku wasn't letting him.

"You know, maybe this is just a faze Kari is going through. She may decide that its not for her and come running back to you." He brow creased as he said that.

"What does this have to do with anything? Let me up. And even if she did why does it matter?" He wondered why he had brought it up now of all times. Why would it make him make that kind of face?

"It matters because Im not letting her have you anymore." Before he could puzzle what he had meant by that, his lips were being crushed by his friends in a furious frenzy. With ravenous hunger Riku tried to consume Soras lips.