A/N: First Soriku story :D The idea just came to me. Riku's POV. Maybe I'll change it for a few chapters later.

Rating: M for now.

Pairing: Sora/Riku obviously. Maybe some Akuroku (even if I'm not too into this pairing). Um...yeah. Haha.

Summary: Riku decides to write a book on how to get Sora Haruki to be his in just ten easy steps. Flexible on the easy part.

Ten Easy(?) Steps to Get The Girl (Guy) of Your Dreams

Introduction

So, hey. Um, never really wrote a book before so this will probably need a lot of editing. My name is Riku Masaru. Well this here is supposed to be my book on how to get your dream girl—or guy in my case—to notice you as more than just a friend or maybe just notice you. Well actually it's more of my quest on how to get this (amazing, beautiful, justgoddamnwonderful) boy to notice me as more than a friend. If you hadn't noticed, yes I'm gay. And in love. So terribly in love that I had to actually write this book. To maybe help someone other than me. And also to organize my plans. Pathetic, I know.

It's unusual for me to be pathetic. I am, after all, pretty popular in school. Girls practically swarm me in the hallways, guys want to be me, heck even the teachers loved me. Well most of the teachers anyway. The only person who I actually did want to love me, doesn't. At least not in the romantic sense.

Now let me explain to you guys the love of my life. I swear we're destined to be together forever…he just doesn't know it yet.

His name is Sora Haruki. He has spiky brown hair that despite its appearance is quiet soft. He has this beautiful smile that lights up the whole room when he walks in. He has these entrancing blue eyes that just show what emotions hide underneath. Other than his obvious good looks, he is just...I don't know how to describe it. He never judges anyone and even if someone treats him horribly, fortunately no one does, he would still show kindness to them. Even if I'm having the most absolute shittiest day ever, he manages to make me a glowing, happy person with an idiot smile on my face. He never hesitates to help a friend in need, no matter what the favor is. He's an overall...great guy.

Of course, he's not completely perfect. He's not exactly the greatest singer but I find that cute. He sucks at trigonometry and chemistry but, hey, so do I. He has a pretty short temper and a tad sensitive. I'll try not to tease him too much. No one's perfect but I love him just the way he is.

I don't know how I managed to be lucky enough to meet a person like him.

You see, I knew there was some kind of connection when we first met each other's eyes.

How about I go back to when I had first met Sora. It was somewhere in the middle of sophomore year. I think I remembered it exactly.

It was another boring first day at school. Not that school was ever interesting. I usually skip first period because math was definitely not my thing. Which really sucks since it's my first period. So I'm practically dead. I could've slept in or something. I don't know why I bothered coming in. Mondays reek. Maybe I just wanted to learn. Pretty sure that wasn't it but I came anyway for God knows what reason.

Which leads me to sitting there at my desk, bored out of my mind. People had attempted to talk to me but I simply wasn't in the mood and just brushed them off. Call me cold, but hey I'd like some alone time. The bell rings and I was just waiting for the teacher to start the lesson (not that I was going to pay attention anyway) and for this day to be over, when suddenly this adorable kid comes running into the classroom, panting with his cheeks all flushed. This definitely perked me up.

"Sorry, I'm late!" he says. Even his voice fascinated me. Mrs. Lockhart glanced up with a warm smile. She looks down the attendance list and then glances back at the ruffled brunet. Our school uniforms are pretty boring but on him, wow. He didn't have his white collared shirt buttoned up all the way and it wasn't tucked into his black pants. His tie wasn't tied properly and was flung over one shoulder. He had a black messenger back slung over the other shoulder. All in all, it made him look all that more attractive. His blue eyes under those brunet bangs suddenly made eye contact with mine. I suddenly realized I had been staring. Did he see me checking him out? As soon as the contact was there, he looked away and back at Mrs. Lockhart who stood up.

"Ah, you must be the new student, Sora," she goes. Sora, Sora, Sora. It fit him. Perfectly. "You mind telling us about yourself, Sora?"

Yes, please do. I was practically on the edge of my seat to know this Sora.

"Well...uh I'm Sora Haruki. Um, I moved here from Twilight Town with my twin, Roxas. I used to live here in Destiny Islands when I was like, seven, but moved because my dad had gotten a job in Twilight. It kinda sucked because I liked the beaches here and—oh I'm rambling…sorry."

Wait, no, talk more! Damn it. Mrs. Lockhart had shook her head with a smile, saying she didn't mind at all. She then asked the class if anybody had any questions.

"You have a twin?" someone had yelled from the back. I was pretty sure it was Selphie. Sora smiles at the person's excited tone and nods. I noticed he had an amazing smile. I would have probably melted if he smiled at me like that.

"What are your favorite hobbies?" the blonde, Demyx, asked. Sora seemed to think for a while I had, guiltily, enjoyed seeing the brunet bite his lip while doing so.

"Um, well back in Twilight, me and Rox would skateboard around the sandlot. I like swimming too. Err...we used to have Struggle tournaments and I guess I enjoyed those even if I did get my ahh...butt kicked a couple of times." My thought process during that: Hm, a skateboarder. A shirtless Sora huh? No, bad Riku! So cute. Mrs. Lockhart nodded in approval at his change of words. I found it cute how he blushes so easily.

"What's Struggle?" another blonde, Tidus, asked.

"How to explain...uh it's this tournamnet where we use these Struggle bats to fight each other and whoever goes down first loses. It sounds a lot better than how I explained it," Sora said, a bit embarrassed at his wording. "I could show you sometime if you'd like."

Tidus seemed like he was really interested in the sport and he nodded excitedly. "I'd totally love that!" Sora gave him a smile and I couldn't help but frown. He was getting so popular at such a fast pace. Dang. At this rate, by the end of the day, I would have been lucky to even get in a sentence. This should be the best time to talk to him now. As I was about to raise my hand to ask a question, Mrs. Lockhart cleared her throat.

"I think that's enough questions for now. You all are poor Sora with them," Mrs. Lockhart said, looking at Sora apologetically. "I'm sure you all can talk to him after class to make him feel more welcome." Man, I was shooting daggers at her for that whole period just for that.

"Nice to meet you all," he concludes with a dazzling smile. The class seemed to like him as they all chanted "Nice to meet you, Sora!" before the brunet turned back to the teacher.

"Um, let's see…where to put you…" she says as her eyes glance around the classroom. I mentally cheered in my head. YES! I LOVE THIS DAY! THE SEAT NEXT TO ME IS EMPTY. The annoying girl next to me had probably transferred classes. I love my life. Now we'll get to know each other, and then I can ask him out, we'll fall in love, and then we'll live happily...

"Sit next to…Axel over there. Axel, raise your hand please," she gestured to the annoying redhead in the back.

"Yo, over here, cutie!" Axel says, waving his hand enthusiastically. My thoughts? NO, WHAT THE HELL MRS. LOCKHART? I HATE YOU, I HATE THIS DAY. Fuck my life. Why would she seat this cute, innocent brunet next to the crazy, pestering, perverted pyromaniac? I'm way easier to talk to than that egghead and I would be more than happy to show him around the school. Axel is the WORST person to meet on your first day of school. I couldn't help glancing back every few seconds to see how Sora was doing. He didn't seem to be bothered by Axel…yet. The stupid redhead seemed to be flirting with him but Sora just laughed at whatever stupid pick-up lines he was feeding him.

During one of these glances, Sora seemed to have caught me. I froze not knowing how he would react but he just smiled and gave a slight wave. I waved back stupidly until Mrs. Lockhart appeared in front of my desk.

"Riku, pay attention. I'm sure you can ogle Sora later and not in my class, hm?" she said, teasingly. I couldn't even think of a comeback because technically, it was true. Majority of the class had laughed, not used to me being stumped and not having a comeback. I turned bright red. Me…blushing. This is definitely not my day. Then I heard an amused laugh. I glanced back one more time. Sora threw another smile my way. Sora had laughed. And not because of Axel. Sure, it could've been that he was laughing at me but he had still laughed because of me. Score 1 for me. Going to class was totally worth it.

I think at that moment, I knew. I knew he got me.

And so, it started my quest. My quest to get the guy, the guy that doesn't hesitate to make my heart beat faster, the guy who brightens up my life, the guy who is my best friend. Thus this book formed.

I mean I don't think it was merely coincidence that I met him. What if I hadn't decided to go to math class? I wouldn't have had a chance to meet Sora. And then I wouldn't have had all the moments I shared with him later on.

My journey to make the (straight?) Sora Haruki realize that:

1). He's gay.

2). He's head over heels in love with me.

Surely with my looks and experience...not too hard.

Right?

A/N: This was actually superhard to write for me. And then next chapters are the steps, obviously. I think this'll be fun to write. Pretty exciting stuff. Haha. Gah, I suck at the whole past tense/ present tense stuff so I apologize if there were any errors. You might all be going 'Riku's memory ain't thaat good.' JUST PRETEND THAT IT IS. Like that camera girl Cam Jansen or whatever her name was.

I didn't add the orbs part in the Struggle part because I feel it would be weird. "We hit each other with these bats and everytime you get hit, orbs fall out of you, and whoever collects the most orbs wins." Actually it wouldn't have been too weird. Eh.

Sora's last name Haruki means "clear up or sun, sunlight, combined with radiance, shine, or life."

Riku's last name means "victory."

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