Author's note: Hello to everyone once again. It's been a while since I took down all my stories. Sorry to previous fans. I just didn't think it right to have them up when there was no hope for me to update them any time soon. Things have, hopefully, changed. I'm forcing myself to turn out one new chapter every weekend, so hopefully these stories will actually come along faster. That does mean that some of the chapters probably won't be very long or amazing (what can you do when you're pressed or time or have writer's block and have to write?) but I'm going to cross my fingers and hope these still turn out decent. So without further ado, here's my recent story idea – a Sora/Riku fanfiction with a heap-load of other fun hooks and not so favored hooks (but deal with it or stop reading).

Warnings: if you read my author's note then you're already informed that this is YAOI! As in BOY-SMOOCHING-BOY (and maybe other stuff) ACTION! If you still don't understand I really suggest you leave this story – I'm not going to be called out by your parents because you don't have half a brain. Other warnings include hooks that may or may not be favored of both the homosexual and heterosexual variety (sorry, I just don't do yuri, not opposed to lesbians, but for me it's kind of like walking in on my parents – I may know they have sex but I really don't want to see it). Also language will probably be an issue too – for those of you who prefer your yaoi romances to be less graphic or filled with "naughty words"…well pick another story, there's literally millions.

Disclaimer: I'm not connected to Disney, or Playstation, or those Final Fantasy creators or whoever else went into the making of this game so I have no rights to the characters or the original story. My only claim is to this particular story idea. Thank you.

Now that all the crap's outta the way, here's the first chapter of "Broken and Healed".

Chapter One – The Setting for the Story

"Geez, Sora! What took you so long" came the questioning voice of one of his best friends.

"Hey, Kairi. Waiting long? Sorry, but Riku called me just before I left and we chatted for a bit" he said, blushing slightly.

"What'd you do Sora, faint at the mere sound of his voice?"

"Very funny, Kairi", Sora exclaimed, giving Kairi a slight shove. Kairi just laughed and hugged him in apology. It was times like this he loved his friend…

"So what did Riku want? Did he confess his undying love for you or did you beat him to it?"

…And times like this that made him hate her.

Ever since Sora had confessed to Kairi why he couldn't go out with her she hadn't left him alone about it. Kairi, Sora, and Riku had been the best of friends since they were little and Sora had been surprised when Kairi had told him she liked him more than just as a friend.

/-\FLASH BACK \-/



"Quit it, Sora! This is serious! I have something important to tell you" Kairi nearly screamed at him and a few frustrated tears gathered in her eyes. If Sora didn't stop teasing her ( it turned out she'd looked like she was injured when she'd tried to wiggle her body in an imitation of what she thought would look sexy) then she'd never be able to tell him that…

"Oh man, I'm sorry Kairi. I didn't mean to make you cry! Come on – you can tell me. What is it?" Sora got closer to place a comforting hand on her shoulder as the water sloshed around them, stirring the refractions of light that played over her white swim suit and his bare chest.

Kairi blushed nervously at the contact and decided that it was now or never. She was pretty sure Sora liked her and she knew, beyond any doubt, that she loved Sora more than anything. 'What if he doesn't…. NO! Don't think like that! Just do it now or you'll never know!' With that in mind, Kairi pushed forward and quickly placed a light kiss on Sora's cheek, as close to his lips as she could get without actually touching them. She wanted to kiss him, but couldn't bring herself to do that until she knew he and her were for sure.

As she pulled back, Kairi didn't dare even look at Sora. Her blush had deepened and she thanked God that the secluded waterfall area was darkened by shadow in the early afternoon, due to the fact that the sun hadn't yet reached high enough in the sky that it topped the giant cliff the waterfall flowed from.

"S-sora…I," she took a deep breath, her eyes roaming everywhere but up to his face, "I l-like you. I mean REALLY like you. Do you think, you maybe, kind of, like me too," she asked as she backed away ever so slightly and began to fidget with her fingers.

"…Kairi…" Sora said in a gentle, hesitant voice, that left no doubt as to what he was about to say.

One word; that was all he'd had to say. Kairi could hear it plain as day: he didn't like her like that. He wasn't going to want to kiss her. They weren't going to go out. They would never get married. He…he would never love her like… like she loved him…. One word took the place of so many others.

Tears gathered in her eyes rapidly without her noticing, until she heard Sora begging her not to cry and holding her tightly - in some attempt to will away the pain, she suspected.

"I'm SO sorry, Kairi. I…I can't. I just can't. Please, PLEASE don't hate me…I'm so sorry…"

For a while they stood in the warm water under the waterfall, Sora holding her even after her tears had finally faded. Kairi was the first to move, and she gently pushed Sora away – far enough so she could look him square in the face. She just stared into his eyes, trying to see something that might answer the questions now plaguing her mind and soul. But he just stared back, confused and concerned, but willing to wait for her to move first.

"Sora", she started and looked down water as she said her piece, "I don't understand. I…I really thought you did like me like that. I-" she cut off as her voice threatened to close on the lump forming there, but she shoved Sora away this time when he moved to hold her again. "No! I HAVE to say this! …I don't know what to think right now, but I can tell that you're not telling me something. Its okay" she said hurriedly as Sora made to speak. "You don't have to explain anything to me, and to be honest, right 

now I don't want to hear it. I need some time to get heal before I start wanting to know your deep dark secrets, okay?" She finally looked up to give him a watery smile. "I don't hate you Sora. I'm just…lost, right now, and need some time. Give me some time Sora. I don't want to speak to you when I'm all…like this" she said, gesturing vaguely to herself, "so just…give me some time", and with that she'd left. She'd been able to restrain her tears all through the time it took her to row the boat from the island back to the main land. Once there she'd ran all the way to her house, locked herself in her room and cried all over again.

/-\END FLASHBACK \-/

It had taken Kairi a full week before she'd stand to be near him again, let alone speak to him. Once Kairi had been able to pull herself together somewhat, it hadn't taken her long to wheedle out of him the reason he wouldn't date her. It had been simple really.

Sora was in love with Riku. Had always been, probably always would be.

Kairi hadn't been able to take this quite as well. It was one thing thinking another girl had stolen Sora's heart, or that he just wasn't ready for a relationship yet, or she'd have even accepted that he just didn't see her in that way. It was another thing entirely to have to face the idea that she would have never been an option for him because she wasn't the 'right' sex. Three weeks of silence may have been a little harsh, she later admitted, but she had honestly needed that long to get out that self pitying state where she hated herself for being stupid and hated the world for still spinning while her entire world seemed to have been flipped on its axis. But, by the end of this time she had come around enough to talk with him almost like old times. When he'd asked her about it she'd shrugged and, refusing to meet his eye, had replied "who wouldn't fall in love with their "white night"?

This had been what Kairi had insisted on calling Riku ever since the horrible incident when they'd been ten and Riku had been twelve. There had been a really bad storm one night. It had come upon the island on a day that had previously been very nice with not a cloud in the sky, so Sora's family had decided to go out and enjoy a day on the boat. Sora, who was still afraid of drowning after the last time his older brother, Cloud, had pushed him off the boat, had pleaded off going so they left him at home to be babysat by Leon, Cloud's best friend. While Leon had fallen asleep in front of the TV, Sora had been watching it still when the weather warning had popped up on the screen. He'd immediately become afraid for his family and rushed outside and down to the beach, staring out through the storm from the sandy shore. He'd been looking for his parents' boat, anxiously searching the coast for any sign of it floating off shore.

He hadn't spotted them, but Riku, who had been anxious when he'd seen some of the houses loosing power, had thought to run over to check on Sora. He'd known the younger boy was alone except for Leon and that Sora, who hated thunder storms, hated the dark even more. On his way there Riku had spotted the boy lying on the sand, bleeding slighting from a cut on his forehead where some loose branch, caught by the strong winds, had struck Sora, knocking him unconscious.

Riku had dragged Sora under the bridge that led out to the Poupi Island and there they'd waited out the storm with Riku tending to Sora's wound as best as a twelve year old without proper instruction could have. When they'd been found the next morning 

and moved to the local hospital, Sora had been told the horrible truth – the storm had scuttled his parents' ship and the only survivor had been his fifteen year old brother.

Riku had stayed with Sora the entire time and the doctors had said that it was a good thing that Riku had come along when he had. With the way the tide had been moving so terribly, the likelihood that Sora, in his unconscious state, could have been swept out to sea and drowned had been high. So Kairi had said that he was Sora's White Knight, come to save the damsel in so much distress – had saved his life and there for him when he'd lost most of his family.

Kairi didn't really know if that was what had sparked Sora's love for the silver haired boy, and Sora wasn't saying anything in the affirmative or negative. Oh, of course he wasn't going to tell her that what had really done it for him had been the day Riku had stood up to Cloud on his behalf. Cloud always picked on him and Sora knew that Riku respected his older brother, so he'd been completely astounded when Riku had suddenly interrupted one of Cloud's verbal bullyings of Sora and had told the blonde to shove off, in no uncertain terms. This had been before the accident, and so while the fact that Riku saved his life hadn't started his feelings for Riku, it certainly had helped them grow quickly.

"Heellooo! Earth to Sora, come in Sora".

"Wha-? Oops, sorry Kairi", Sora blushed as he realized he'd been caught spacing out.

"Well the next time you decide you're going to go off to your own little world at least answer my question first" she said with a light giggle. "Now come on! You can fill me in on Riku and your's conversation on our way to the beach. The others are probably already there and about ready to kill us for being so late!" With that she grabbed his hand and they ran laughing to meet up with their friends.