Can You Help Me?
Description: Sora has always been a kind person; Giving help to anyone that needed it. Riku has had a troubled life, and in turn, shuts anyone out that tries to help him. Can Sora be the one to help Riku not be so cold and distant? [RikuxSora]
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts. Never have, never will...*sigh* Anyways! This, my lovely readers, is MY story. Everything in it was MY idea. Take anything from it, and you will regret it. So ok, lets get to the ages of the characters. Riku is 23, Sora is 21, Axel is 24, Roxas is 21, Cloud is 25, Leon is 26, Namine is 20, Kari is 20, Selphie is 21, Demyx is 22 and um...any other characters that pop up in the story...I'll mention their age :]
Rating/Warning: Mature - Language, Violence, Yaoi later on ;], all that jazz
A/N: Alrighty then folks :] This story you see before you, is my first one, so don't be cruel! It probably starts out slow, but it'll get better throughout so bear with me! Reviews would be much appreciated :p So I know if I'm doing a good job or not. Enjoy! Read till our hearts content!!
.::Chapter One::.
I laid motionless in my bed, not having any motivation to actually get up and start my day. The pitter-patter of rain drops hitting the windows can be heard all throughout the small house. Another flash of lighting,then the boom of thunder was heard, making the house shake a little. I flinched slightly from the thunder. I never really liked thunderstorms, they always scared me when I was younger; They still do now, just not as much. Thought I'd never admit that to anyone. I sighed, and ran my hand through my silver hair. Opening my sea-foam colored eyes, I turn towards my clock to see what time it was.
It read, 6:23, in big bright green letters. I groaned out loud. This has been going on for months. Every time I try to go to bed, I can't; So I toss and turn, getting about 2 hours of sleep,then waking up before my alarm even goes off. I wish I had some damn sleeping pills. It all because of the dreams I've been having. They were all about my life. It's not like they just randomly stated, oh no, I've had them before, it's just been a while since I started to dream about it again. I twitched slightly, having thought of the dream I just had, more of a flash back really. Such bad memories, even from when I was seven. I can remember them perfectly,like it just happened...
***
"Bye guys!" I yelled, waving my arm around enthusiastically and having a big smile on my face. My friends waved back, and then went on their way home. I turned around and started to walk towards my front door."Mommy, Daddy! I'm home!" I yelled, closing the door behind me. First taking off my shoes, I then went to the living room.
"Mommy?" I asked, peeking my head in the room, but no one was there. 'Hmm...I wonder where they could be.' I asked myself. I tried the dining room, but they weren't there either. Then that is when I heard my mom's voice come from the kitchen. I spun around and quickly walked towards the kitchen.
"Mommy! You'll never guess what I did today! Tidus showed me how to swim,and I think I finally got...the..." My words died in my throat. I saw my mom laying on the kitchen floor, not moving. I ran over to her, and knelled down next to her. "Mommy? Are you ok?" I asked, shaking her slightly. Then she moved. She was looking up at me. I could tell she had been crying because her eyes were all red and puffy. There was also something else. It was red, and it was everywhere. I think it was blood? "Are you hurt mommy?" I asked her.
"Riku, honey, I need.." She coughed, then breathed in deeply before speaking again. "I need to you go to Mrs. Tanaka's house, and tell her to call the police." She suddenly stopped and started to cough up blood.
"Mommy! What's wrong!"I yelled, touching her arm.
"Everything is going to be fine sweetie, just go and do what I told you." She said sternly.
I paused before asking. "What about daddy?" She then looked panicked. "Whatever you do, don't let him see you. He hurt mommy and I don't know if he'll hurt you." She said, chocking back a sob. My eye's widened. He hurt her? But why...why would he do something like this?
"Riku, go! Do what mommy said! And stay over there until I come and get you!" She said, using all the strength she had left to push me towards the door. "Riku, I want you to know that I'll always love you." She said, now fully crying.
"I love you too mommy.." I said, feeling my eyes water.
"What's going on here?"
I looked up to see my Dad, standing in the other room staring at me and my Mom. I looked and he had something in his hand. I didn't know what it was until he moved slightly, letting the light hit the object. I gasped. It was a gun. "Leave Riku out of this! It's between you and me!" My mother yelled at him. She looked back to me then whispered, "Go." I stood up, and ran. I ran as fast as I could to the door. My dad tried to grab me, but missed.
"You bitch! What did you tell him to do?!" He screamed, pointing the gun at my mom. "Tell me what you said!" She stayed silent. He growled in frustration, and walked over to her. "Fine, you asked for this." He said, clicking the gun and aiming at my mom. She started to panic, and try to move. She couldn't. She lost so much blood, that she was too weak to move.
I was outside by then, running to Mrs. Tanaka's house. Then I heard it. The gun went off, and my mom scream. I tripped and fell onto the sidewalk, but then hurriedly got backup and kept on running to Mrs. Tanaka's house. I was crying now. I don't know what would happen to my mom, or my dad, but it was just too much for me to handle. I ran up to the house and started pounding on the door. I was scared that he could come after me, I just wanted to be safe inside.
"Mrs. Tanaka,open up please!" I yelled, hitting the door harder. "Please let me in!" The door then opened, reveling Mrs. Tanaka standing there.
"Riku honey what's - oh!" I cut her off by running up and hugging her.
"M-my mom is hurt! My Dad hurt mom! S-she said that I-I needed to come here and you need to call the p-police!" I sobbed into her shirt, clinging onto it like it was life. I felt so helpless.
She pulled her arms around me, and hugged me. "Riku, your mom is going to be fine. Taro! Get the phone and call the police!" She yelled over to her husband, who simply nodded and rushed to get the phone. Faintly in the background I could hear him explaining what was going on to the police and that they needed to get here soon. All I could do was cry. I didn't know what else to do...
Mrs. Tanaka carried me over to the couch, and sat me on her lap, rocking me back and forth. I still just cried, but then my crying had seemed to die down. All that could be heard was me sniffling into her shirt, and her whispering that everything will be fine. Somehow, I drifted off to sleep..
***
I felt a tear come down my face, but I quickly wiped it away. Some how he manged to slip away unnoticed. It took the police an entire year to find the bastard. They finally found him living in a place called Traverse Town, where he apparently had some kind of business or something along the lines of that. He went on with his life like nothing happened. Bastard. He's serving life sentence in jail. Serves him right for what he did. As for me, oh where do I begin. After he killed my mom, I went to go live with my grandmother. She was the only family I had left. She was like a second mom to me. I lived with her for almost two years, but...then she died of lung cancer. I always knew she had it. I over heard my mother talking to her about it when I was younger. But I never really knew what it was until I asked my grandmother.
I was all alone after that. No family, no place to go. I had to be placed in foster care. I spent nine years going from foster home to foster home. It's not that I was a bad kid or anything. Well not at the beginning anyways. I remember the first family I had. The mother was probably the nicest person in the world. Her name was Miyuki Ikeda. I always called her Mi-yu, never feeling comfortable calling her 'mom'. She had another kid besides me, but he was her actual son. His name was Kenji, he was a year younger than me. I was about ten when they first took me in. Everything was great. I had made a lot of new friends, and finally felt like I had a home. But nothing can be perfect for too long now can it?
Mi-y's husband was the only problem. His name was Ren Ikeda. Two words described him. Abusive, and an alcoholic. It didn't happen when I first was taken in by them, no. Well...at least I don't think. It started to happen a few months later. I would always hear him yelling at her whenever he came home drunk. You see, he lost his job,and everything just went downhill after that. He started drinking to 'get rid of the pain' as he would say. But, he never knew when to stop.
At nights, when ever I was trying to fall asleep, I would hear him. Yelling, screaming at Mi-yu like she was some sort of worthless person. I tried to shut it out, but I never could. Hearing him yell at her always made me think of what my father did to my mom. One night, when they were arguing over something meaningless, I heard him slap her.
***
I was laying in my bed, trying to fall asleep. All I could hear was them fighting. It seemed to be happening a lot lately. I pushed the pillow harder against my ear, hoping it would drown out the noise. It didn't. I could hear everything from my room that I shared with Kenji. He was already fast asleep. Lucky. If only I could be fast asleep right now. I heard a crash from the other room, making me flinch. Then I heard someone fall on the floor.
"Your lying to me! I just know you are you whore. I know you went out and were sleeping with some other guy!" He yelled, throwing another dish onto the floor. "Am I not good enough? Hmm? Is that it!"
"Honey, I didn't go anywhere tonight. I never go out, your just over reacting." Mi-yu said calmly. She was use to him getting angry all the time, that it doesn't even phase her anymore.
"Don't tell me how I should react! I know your lying, and now your blaming it on me!" He yelled.
"I never blamed it on you, now just leave me alone." She whispered, obviously too tired to deal with his insanity.
"Don't tell me what to do!" He yelled again. "What are you- stop! Ren stop it! I'm telling you you to-". A slap was heard, and nothing more. She stopped talking. This was the first time he actually hit her. I held my breath for a second, thinking the worst. Then I heard him speak again.
"That will teach you to stay in your place." He said with anger dripping from every word. He walked away to his room, slamming the door shut. Nothing can be heard for a while, but then I heard her crying. That just broke my heart. Why do people have to hurt other people. It's just not right,and they don't even see that it's wrong! I sat up in my bed, pulled off the covers and made my way down from the top bed bunk. I made my way to the door, and slowly opened it. Mi-yu was sitting on the floor,leaning against the wall, crying quietly. I walked over to her, and gave her a hug.
She gasped and flinched in surprise. "Riku." She sniffled,wiping away some tears from her face. "What are you doing still awake?" She asked.
"I'm sorry Mi-yu." I said, hugging her tighter.
She looked confused for a second. "Sorry for what?"
"For Ren hitting you." I mumbled quietly into her shoulder. She sat there in silence for a minute, then she finally hugged me back. "It's not your fault sweetie. He's just...confused that's all." She said, trying to even convince her self that it wasn't really his fault.
"No it's not. He's not suppose to do that to you!" I said, raising my voice a little. She shushed me my placing a finger on my lips. She looked at me with a forced smile on her face.
"Everything's going to be fine don't you worry about it." She said."Now run off and go to bed,or else you'll be too tired to play with your friends tomorrow." I nodded, giving her one last hug, then going back to my room. I crawled back into my top bunk bed, and closed my eyes.
'You lied' I thought, 'Everything isn't going to be fine. I just know it's not.'
***
I don't even want to think about what else happened. I turned and looked at the clock again. It read 6:48.I still could stay in my bed, but I figured if I do, I'd either never want to get up, or just keep on thinking of all the crap that's happened to me. I slowly rolled sat up, stretching a bit, then got up. I walked over to the bathroom, to brush my teeth. I looked in the mirror.
'Ew." I thought. I looked horrible. Dark circles under my bloodshot red eyes. My hair was all messed up and tangled. I look like death. Ugh. I quickly combed my long hair, hoping to make it look, a little decent. It's gotten really long. I've just been too lazy to actually get it cut really. I walked slowly out of my room, towards the kitchen. My roommate Axel Takahashi was already up,watching TV and eating breakfast. Axel was my best friend. He was one of the very few people I actually trust. And he's also the only one that knows everything that happened to me.
I met him when I was nine, in the foster care program. He was my first friend there. We kept in touch all the time, even if a family came to take us away from each other. I've known him for fourteen years. Long time, I know. He's been there for me whenever I needed it, and didn't screw me over like half the people I knew.
Axel went into foster care when he was six or seven. He said that his parents apparently didn't want him anymore, so they just gave him away. Not a lot of families took him. Probably because of the way he looked. He was tall, skinny, with ridiculously bright red spiky hair. How his hair stays like that, I'll never know. It seriously defies gravity. He has bright green eyes, kinda like mine. And these little triangle tattoos under his eyes. He didn't always have those tattoos. He got them when he was sixteen. I was there with him when he got them.
When we both turned eighteen, we were out of the foster care. We decided to get a place together, and just lived with each other even since. To think that was only a few years ago. The house we got wasn't exactly fancy and big, but wasn't like crap either. It was big enough for us to live in. It's very...nice.
I opened the cabinet to get a cup for the coffee I was making. Axel heard, and spun his head around to look at me. "Morning sunshine!" He said, with a mouth full of food.
"Hm." I mumbled, answering him.
"I made some waffles,do you want some?" He asked.
I shook my head. "Nope. I have my coffee. That's good enough for me." I said. Axel then had a look of disappointment on his face.
"You really don't want some? I made them from scratch!They're really good!" He said cheerfully. I looked around the kitchen. There was flour, everywhere. The waffle mix was splattered on some parts of the kitchen, and so...many..dishes.
"I can tell." I said looking around. "This place is a mess. You better clean it up because I sure as hell won't." I took a sip of coffee from my cup and walked over to where Axel was sitting.
He laughed a little bringing that oh so familiar grin to his face. "Why are you so grumpy this morning." He asked, then took another bite from his waffles.
"Axel, you of all people should know I'm not a morning person." How can people wake up and be so full of energy? Its disgusting! Me, I'd rather sleep in till noon and then get started with my day. Axel on the other hand. God. He's the worst morning person in the world. He get's up at 5:30 every morning. Every morning! Even on the weekends. I don't know how he does it. He use to wake me up all the time, until I finally threatened him. I wasn't serious, but he thought I was. Worked out for me.
Axel looked up from his plate of waffles to me. "Then why are you up so early anyways." He asked me, spraying waffle bits everywhere. Ew.
I had a half-scowl on my face. "I have to work today, or else my ass would be back in bed sleeping, and can you learn not to spray food everywhere; It's disgusting." I said, shoving a napkin towards his face. He looked at me, and then took the napkin, wiping the syrup off his face.
"I thought you weren't suppose to work on...what's today..oh yeah! Friday!" He said. "So why the sudden change."
I shrugged. The never did tell me why, and I never bothered to ask."They just changed it so I have to work Friday's instead of Saturdays." I replied, looking out the kitchen window. "Personally, I like it better. Then I won't have to waste my Saturday mornings at that place."
I work as a mechanic for the Twilight Town Auto Center. It's a hard job, but it brings in a lot of money. Axel works at some Cafe downtown. It's actually a really nice place. I always go there since I'm a coffee fiend as Axel would say. I shivered slightly. Axel must have noticed that.
"You know" He started, looking at me. "You probably wouldn't be so cold if you had some clothes on." He said. I looked down at myself. I was only wearing my boxers. Huh, I didn't even notice that.
"I'm gonna go get dressed." I said, getting up. "But first-" I snatched a waffle away from his plate, and walked away towards my room. "Hey fatty that was mine!" He shouted. I took a bite of the waffle. Hmm. They are really good. I wonder if I can get him to make them all the time. Eh. No...the kitchen would constantly look like a tornado went through it.
My thoughts were interrupted by him. "Oh, by the way, dress warm! It's suppose to snow today!" I heard Axel shout from the kitchen. Ugh. Snow. I hate the snow. It was always so...cold. I made it to my room,scanning it for clothes. What to wear. I went my dresser and picked out a black shirt with a light blue and silver design on it. I sniffed it. Yes! It smelled clean. I slipped it on, and then looked around the room for pants.
...Where the hell are all my pants.
I sighed in frustration. "Hey Axel!" I shouted, peeking my head from my room.
"Yeah?" He answered from the living room.
"Have you seen any of my pants?"
There was a few seconds of silence.
"Well wouldn't they be in the laundry?"
I blinked. Then hit my head with my hand. I never did the laundry. Now I don't have any pants...Ugh.
"Axel!" I called out again.
"What!"
"I'm gonna raid your closet for some pants." I started walking over to his room.
"Have fun with that Riku." He remarked. I opened the door to his room. My eyes scanned his place. Dear...god. How could he live like this? There were clothes thrown all over the floor and on the dresser. The closest was wide open reveling un-used hangers. Of course. The bed wasn't made. Some how the pillows made on into the floor and..one was even under the mattress? Basically, it was just an absolute mess. I cautiously stepped inside,not wanting to trip over anything. But, my attempt at that was very unsuccessful. I did in fact, trip and fell, hard.
My face made contact with the floor. "Ahh, fuck." I groaned out in pain, grabbing my head. What the hell did I trip on anyways? I looked down near my foot. Pants...I tripped on some damn pants. I don't even know how I managed to do that. I scowled as I sat up,closing my eyes in pain.
"Hey man," I looked up to see Axel leaning on the door frame, a slight smirk on his face. "you alright?"
I glared at him. "Your room is possessed. I kid you not. Every time I walk in here, something comes out and attacks me! Like these pants"I said, thrashing the pants around in the air. "They're out to get me!" I pushed myself off the floor, and straightened my shirt.
He chuckled in response. "Maybe your just a klutz, ever think of that?"
I scowled a little. He was right. I always did manage to hurt myself. Somehow. Someway. "Yeah yeah, whatever. Now help me find some pants. I'm gonna be late for work." I said,glancing at his clock.
"What bout the ones that 'attacked' you?" He said putting air quotes around the word attacked. I glanced down at my hand. Eh. Dark blue skinny jeans. I never was a big fan skinny jeans. Even though Axel said I looked good in them.
"You won't mind if I get them dirty?" I asked, looking at him.
He walked over to his bed and laid down. "Nah," He put his hands behind his head,closing his eyes. "they're pretty old anyways."
I looked over at him. "Thanks." I said, putting the pants on. I heard him mutter something along the lines of 'no problem'.
Um; Wow. The pants were...we're very...tight. I'm not surprised though. It was Axel's pants. The man is a stick, I swear. Yet he eats like he's some sort of bottomless pit.
I huffed. "My god Axel, do you have to be so damn skinny?" I said, trying to fix the pants. He opened one eye and looked at me.
"Why yes,yes I do." He stated. "Maybe you should lose some weight, then you'll fit into them no problem." I glared in his direction. He put his hands up, looking like he's defending himself.
"I'm kidding!" He said "Besides, your perfect. With that muscular god-like body of yours." He winked at me.
I laughed "Damn right I am." He laughed to. "So I'll see you whenever you get back from work." He said, drifting his eyes back closed.
"Yeah, see you then." I muttered before walking out of his room. I made it near the front door,put on my shoes and grabbed my black jacket. Reaching for my keys, I stopped.I forgot that my car was in the shop. Looks like I was walking to work today. It wasn't that far,really. Maybe a mile. I'll live. I opened the door,letting the cold winter air hit me. I pulled the jacket closer to my body, and shoved my hands into my pockets.
Looking around I let my mind wander. Twilight Town was a nice place to live in. It wasn't like those big noisy cities, but it wasn't a small little hick town either. It was just right. A loud noise caught my attention. I looked straight ahead of me.
There was a moving truck. I blinked. Someone was moving in here? No one new has moved here in years. I looked to see two guys bringing boxes out from the moving truck. One had blond spiky hair, with bright blue eyes. He was, kinda short. He wore a white winter jacket, with black shirt underneath, and navy blue skinny jeans. There was also someone else with him. He looked a lot like the first guy, except he had brown hair that seemed to defy gravity, just like Axel's. He was short too, just like the guy next to him. He wore a light blue jacket with a white shirt underneath and black baggy pants.
My attention came back to what was in front of me. They seemed ok, from what I can see anyways. But, never judge a person before you actually get to know them. You'd be surprised really...
"Hey there!"
That loud voice snapped me out from my thoughts, and made me freeze in mid-step. I look over to see the brunette smiling and waving towards...me? I look around myself. No one else was here. Hmm; He really was waving to me.
"Are you one of our new neighbors?" He asked. I raised one eyebrow. Did he really just stop a random stranger to ask that?
The blond guy came over and walked in front of him. "Stop it, your probably scaring him." He scolded, then looked to me. "I'm sorry about my brother. He's just very; Friendly." Blond boy said, smiling sheepishly.
I just gave them one more weird look, before started walking away. I was already late for work and couldn't afford stopping and 'talking' with the new neighbors. God...my boss was gonna kill me.
***
I finally made it to work, twenty minutes late. Thankfully my boss, Leon, didn't know. And I hope it stays that way. I got right to working on this car I have been slaving over the past two days. I swear,the owner found every little damn thing to break in his car. Of course, I got stuck fixing it. I just love the luck I have. As of right now, I'm under the car doing an oil change. God it was so messy. Oh so messy. Somehow I managed to get it all over me even though I tried not to. I probably looked like I got into a fight with some sort of oil monster -- and lost; Badly.
"Riku!" The voice boomed through out the shop. It scared me! I was so focused on that damn oil change that I had a little spazz attack, and hit my head on some pipe.
I came out from under the car and grabbed my head. "God damn.." I groaned out in pain. Why does everything have to hurt me today?
I heard to clicking of heals coming closer to me.
"Shit..." I whispered. Not her. The sound of her walking stopped. I opened my eyes to see my boss standing over me, with a not-so-happy expression on her face.
"Riku, you were late for work, again! It's the fifth time this month!" Kairi said, anger clearly written all over her face. "What am I going to do with you?!" She threw her hands in the air.
Even though she didn't look intimidating, she was. Kairi Yamada is the definition of it! Just, the looks she gives people can kill. I admit, she is a pain in the ass, and a spazz at times, but she really is a good manager. No one else I know could her job. better. And to think she's younger than half the people that work for her.
She crossed her arms over her chest and leaned over me a bit. "Well?"
I bit my bottom lip,trying to come up with something. "I--Um, Well you see, I.." She raised an eyebrow. "I'm waiting." She said.
"Ok well you see, since my car was in the shop,I had to walk to work," I said, pointing to my car across from us. "Go on." She said in a monotone voice.
Come on, think of something. Lie! Lie like your life depends on it- wait - it does depend on it! LIE! "And then there was this little kid. He said he was lost, so I had to help him find his way back. I finally did, his parents were so happy that they wanted me to stay a while so they can thank me, or something. I wanted to leave, I really did!" I paused, taking in a breath. "But they insisted I stay for a while. I didn't want to be rude..so I did."
She looked, unphased by my story. Then what seemed like for ever she finally spoke up. "Oh Riku.." She started, with a - smile? Did she buy it!? "That was the biggest load of bull shit I've ever heard." Well, the tiny amount of hope I had just died. "Now tell me what really happened."
I sighed,moving my bangs out of my eyes. "I forgot that my car was here,so I had to walk. I guess I lost track of time. Sorry.." I mumbled the last part. She looked pleased with my answer,even though she was still upset.
She finally stopped leaning over me. "Well...just, don't let it happen again," She said. "or else your fired." With that, Kairi turned and walked away. I let a sigh of relief out. "Thank god." I said quietly to myself.
"Man, I really thought she was gonna kill you Riku." I looked over to see Cloud standing next to me smirking. Cloud works here with me in the auto shop, but he work up at the front. All he has to do is sit on his ass all day and fill out some paper work. Something along the lines of that. Lucky bum.
"I know." I said "I don't think she'll fire me. I'm one of the hardest workers here. So I'm safe." I said looking into Cloud's bright blue eyes.
He laughed a little. "Everyone here knows that's true." He said looking around the shop. After a few moments of silence, he spoke up again. "So how's the car you've been working on?"
I groaned. "Horrible. This guy managed to break everything in it!" I yelled. "I don't even know how it managed to survive this long."
I wasn't exaggerating. This car was a piece of shit. A gross rusty, old, pick up truck.
Cloud ran his hand through his bright blond spiky hair. "Well are you almost done with it?" He asked, sounding interested.
"Just, a few more seconds of tweaking this and - Ha! There!" I yelled. "I'm Finally done with it" I dropped the tool from my hand to the ground, utterly exhausted. I sighed, proud that I actually fixed it. It took me almost three days, but I finally got it done.
I heard Cloud laugh. "Well congratulations," He started, slight sarcasm in his voice. "Well since we're almost done here how about we-" He was cut off by a little 'ding' of the bell in the front desk. Someone was probably here to pick up their car. No bid deal. "I'd better go get that." With that, he walked off,leaving me sitting against the car. I glanced over at who he was talking to, but couldn't see.
Cloud started to walk over to me with someone following him close behind. "Hey Riku!" I looked at him. "You finally get to see who's caused you so much time and pain with that car!" He shouted.
I look to see him move out of the way, reveling the boy that has been following him.
What a small world.
It was that brunette kid I saw earlier today with the moving truck.
He looked over at me and put a smile on his face, showing off his perfect white teeth. I got a closer look at him. He had perfectly sun kissed skin, looking like he just came from the islands. His light chocolate brown hair sticking out in spikes. And his eyes. They were the deepest color blue I've ever seen. It was like staring into an ocean. He wasn't that bad looking - pretty cute actually. Oh, if you didn't already know, I'm bi. Yeah, I decided that a few years ago, so did Axel.
He stuck out his hand "I'm Sora" He said grinning. "I'm guessing your the poor guy that was stuck working on my piece of junk, right?"
I looked at his hand for a second, before hesitantly reaching mine out to grab his and shake it. "Yeah, I was." I let go of his hand, warmth suddenly leaving mine.
"I didn't quite catch your name." He said, looking into my eyes.
I paused a second. "Riku."
"Riku, nice to meet you." A smile was on his face again. Was this kid always this happy?
"Yeah," I mumbled "nice to meet you to."
A/N: Ahhh! The first chapter is finally finished! MY hand is cramping from writing so much XD So yeah, there will be more to come in the future chapters, along with more stories of RIku's childhood and such. I'll try to update soon :] So what do you guys think of it so far?