Kingdom Hearts

Euthanasia

Disclaimer : I don't own Kingdom Hearts, Riku, Sora, Kairi, etc. Blah Blah Blah. Stop rubbing it in. Note : This is not shounen ai or anything... but you can take it that way. PS. This is for L337 Apprentice. I heart you.

Before Kairi ever came, Sora was just another small being under the thumb of the uber-supreme Riku.

Everyone on Destiny Islands knew that wherever Riku went, little Sora would follow him. Most mothers thought this was cute along with the cute little collar strapped on the boy's small neck, at least, until they witness his daily struggles with his 'master'.

This particular scenario had began at Riku's 6th birthday. Sora, being quite forgetful, spent the past 364 days worrying about what to get his (quite spoiled) best friend without really getting him anything. The day before Riku's birthday, Sora forgot all about it being entranced by the sport of blitz ball (introduced by Wakka).

Which led him to this predicament.

Riku looked down at him condescendingly, basically his normal glare, and a familiar sneer sketched his face.

"I know exactly what you can do for me, Sora." Riku emphasized Sora's name in a long drawl like he'd heard his dad do.

Sora flinched. Riku always had that look on his face when he was scheming… and Riku scheming always had something bad in store for Sora.

(For example, the last time Riku had this look was exactly 1 year, 2 months, 3 weeks, and 5 days ago. Exactly 1 year, 2 months, 3 weeks, and 5 days ago, Sora was admitted into the Islands' only hospital for head trauma. Just because Riku wanted to play "bungee jump" with Sora but did not know a thing about "safety.")

Sora did not want to go through that again. Ever.

Sora blinked when a circular frame object was shoved in his face and then looked up into the aqua eyes of Riku. And blinked.

"What the heck is this?" Sora gestured to the dog collar. Riku smirked.

"It's your collar." Sora blinked for the second time in 5 seconds.

"For what?"

Riku sighed before undoing the belt of the collar. He gazed at Sora again before the look adorned his face.

Sora gulped and edged away.

Riku pounced.

"Riku, get off!" Sora kicked and punched and scratched at the silver haired boy.

Of course, that didn't stop Riku from strapping the rubber dog collar on Sora's neck. A little Mickey Mouse clip dangled from it. In the glare of the afternoon's sun, Riku's address shined proudly on the tag. He didn't want his little 'pet' to get lost, right?

With a final scream, Sora kicked Riku off of him. ('Bad dog,' Riku thought, gritting his teeth at the impact of his backside against a few sharp rocks.) Sora began scratching at the collar but to no avail, it didn't come off.

After several minutes of scratching, Sora gave up. Instead, he settled for kicking Riku in the stomach before dashing off into the warm, comforting arms of his mother and candy.

Riku clutched his stomach. He'll get Sora back for this. Oh he'll make sure of that. Riku winced as his got up. Sora had done a good job on smearing Riku's perfect complexion, and his aim was getting better. Riku winced when he touched the purple bruise forming around his eye.

A pained Riku was an angry Riku, an upset Riku was the devil. Everyone knew that, even his mother.

'Not everyone,' Riku smirked, 'Sora needs to learn this important life lesson.' With an evil cackle (as evil sounding as it can get when made from an adorable six year old), Riku crawled off searching for his missing tooth in the sand.