Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts.
I turn and looked over at the clock radio on my nightstand. Three seventeen in the morning. Why am I awake at this time in the morning you ask?
The answer is I have no fucking clue. I just can't to sleep. I'm wondering what Sora is doing right now.
My thoughts have been drifting to him more and more these days. He's my best friend so it's normal for me to think of him all the time. At least that's what I tell myself.
"Fuck sleep," I said to the darkness as I got out of my bed and grabbed an outfit for the day. I wandered through the darkness of the early morning to the bathroom were I showered and got dressed.
I wandered down to the small island were the paopu fruits grew and sat on the tree. I sat just day dreaming until I eventually drifted off to sleep for a short amount of time until the sun came up and cast it rays of light on my face, wakening me from my few hours of sleep.
I wandered around town and found a small cafe that was open twenty four hours. I went inside and ordered French toast and coffee. As I waited for my meal I noticed that there was only one other customer in the restaurant.
It was man who looked around sixty and he was looking at me with a look of confusion. I looked at him and gave a small nod. No clue what the nod was for but he took it as an invitation to explain himself.
"I don't see a lot of you youngsters out around sunrise. Most of you kids are inside sleeping away the morning," the old man said.
"I just have a lot on my mind," I said.
The old man gave a nod and said "Well I hope that you figure it out," as he got up and left a tip for the waitress and went to go pay for his meal.
My food came shortly after and I ate it as quickly as I could because I hated eating alone but I sat and slowly drank two cups of the strong, rich coffee that the restaurant was serving before I left a tip, paid for my meal, and left.
I went back to the island and saw Sora sitting there. Perhaps it was the caffeine but I felt uncharacteristically playful. I swam underwater so not to make a sound and slowly climbed the ladder. I waited until Sora was standing right by the edge and grabbed his leg and let go of the ladder causing the both of us to fall in to the water. I came up first and was laughing. Sora looked at me and smiled.
He had a cute smile. What the hell? No. He has a nice smile but not a cute one.
"What's gotten in to you Riku?" Sora asked me.
"I got two hours of sleep this morning on the paopu tree and then had a few cups of coffee at a cafe around here," I said.
I climbed up the ladder with Sora behind me. When we got to the island I sat on the tree and Sora sat next to me. He was about a foot away which the usual distance is but something unusual was going on in my mind.
Part of me was telling me to scoot closer and another part of me was telling me to scoot closer. I told both parts to shut up and just listened to Sora talking about how much better he got at sword fighting since the last time we fought.
"Are you trying to say you think you can beat me?" I asked him.
"I'm saying I know I can," he said with a smile.
I grabbed up a sword and handed one to him. We had long since stopped using wooden swords for each other because of two reasons. The first being that they always broke with the our strength and the second being we were both skilled enough to use the unsharpened metal katanas I kept stashed in a small box I brought to the island and kept under the tree for sparing without hurting each other.
We unsheathed our swords and fought for several minutes before I saw an opening in his defense. I went in to touch my sword to his stomach and win but he sidestepped and when I turned around the tip of his sword was an inch away from my neck.
"Looks like you win," I said to him, panting for breathe.
He laughed and said "I guess so."
I looked at him and he locked his eyes on mine. I stared in to them for what felt like forever before I suddenly had to turn my head away.
"Are you all right Riku?" Sora asked me with worry.
"Why wouldn't I be?" I asked him.
"You seem like you've been afraid of me for the past few days and then you were up all night last night," he said.
"I'm fine. I just have a lot on my mind right now is all," I said which a lie wasn't.
"I'm just worried about you is all," Sora said as he hugged me.
"I know," I said returning the hug that, for some reason, made me feel uneasy in place of the usual comfort from one of Sora's hugs.