"Please!" Sora cried, gripping the rope with all his might " Don't let go!". Riku had no intention of doing so, he was holding the other end of the rope that held the burnet who was dangling above the dark abyss that screamed the words death and trying to pull himself away, trying not to fall himself. The rope was connected to riku's waist to sora's, and the friction of the rope against riku's wrist from holding onto the rope is starting to cut in. The silver haired boy was at the edge of the cliff, and sora…well he fell right in to begin with.
"S-sora!" riku stuttered. " I won't let go, just hold on!" He forced his legs to move backwards in order to pull up sora. No success, all it did was pull both of them closer to the long drop that awaits. Silent tears trickled down his cheeks, as sora thought what he could do to help. Riku tried over and over again, but he was to weak to support them both up, and sora was holding both bags and water jugs on him.
"Drop the items!" Riku grunted. Without hesitation, Sora pulled off his belt that held his bag and watched in horror as the items fell and disappeared into the darkness. Their was no sound of landing, and his heart doubled from the fear that he might be the next to be let go.
"Riku?" Sora looked up towards the boy and his eyes widened with surprise. "Riku!" the silver haired boy slipped, and was now gripping the edge of the cliff. Sweat was dripping down the boys face and onto the burnet, panic shot through sora as he knew he would be responsible for the boys death. More tears formed in his blue depths as he knew what must be done.
"Damn it!" Riku cried. "I-I won't be able to hold on much longer!" slowly his fingers trembled around the dirt of the cliff, as his other hand still held onto the rope sora was gripping.
"Riku…" the tone sora used startled riku. He turned to see the determination shown on sora's face as the burnet stared up to riku's eyes with sorrow. "I want to know something before I die…"
"Don't say that!" Riku said desperately, " Someone help!" he yelled. " Were gonna fall, please help us!!" His grip was loosing, as the rope started to burn his bare skin, blood started to dampen the rope making it more harder to hold onto.
"…do you-" Sora continued with sadness leaking out of his voice. " D-do you love me?" his voice cracked at the end, as he heard a breath hitch above him.
"What…" Riku's eye's grew wide from shock, he almost slipped from the sudden question. "Sora…now's not the time-"
"Do you love me?!" sora cried out, and his eyes narrowing into slit's trying to hide the fear he had and the panic that might show any time soon. " Answer me!!" he yelled, as riku looked away from the burnet.
"I-I don't know…" He finally admitted.
"Please…riku, don't do this to me…tell me, yes or no!" Still getting no answer, sora whimpered as he pulled out a pocket knife that was stashed away safely in his pockets. Riku heard the action as looked down to sora wondering what he was up to, then it hit him.
"Sora!" he yelled " Don't you dare!" He was going hysterical, sora pulled the knife up to the rope as the metal shimmered in the sun. with one more look at riku, sora started to cut furiously at the thick string.
"sora, I said-"
The rope suddenly got lighter. Riku stared in horror as he saw the blue depths that was full of sorrow and fear as it disappeared into the darkness, the scream that escaped sora's lips echoed through-out the abyss filled the air… he was gone. Riku tighten the grip at the rope, as tears filled his vision from the lack of weight. Where the burnet fell into, their was now nothing but the shallow depths of where he hanged.
"Sora!!" he screamed with all his might. Pain, sorrow, shock, all the emotions ran in one. He couldn't bare the pain, and wanted to let go of the handful of ground, and join the same fate he gave sora.
'it's my fault' he thought. Hearing someone's footsteps, he didn't bother to call help, he was to shock, to weak to notice the people pulling him up to land. To weak to notice the soft comforting words they gave him. But all the words he heard over and over again was the name that dragged him more and more into darkness. The shadows around him grew darker and he fell deeper into his mind as they kept on asking him the same question over and over again.
"Where's is he?" Falling harder.
"Where is he, Riku?!" Falling deeper.
"Where is Sora?" Falling faster.
All riku had to do to answer everyone's question was to move his head to the side where the edge of the cliff shown. With all blood drain from his face, and a blank expression, his fist still clench to the rope with the blood still dripping down, everyone around him stopped their talking to stare at the direction he was staring.
"Get the chopper!" a man with an orange vest screamed. " We have to find him, their might be still hope!!"
Everyone suddenly was animated, as riku clenched his teeth from crying out. An ambulance zoomed in, and pulled riku up to a stretcher. He was closing up into himself as the words of what sora cried out to him echoed in his mind.
'do you love me?'
Should have riku said what he really felt at that time? He should of said what he wanted to say, but now it was to late. Tears where finally streaming down his cheek, as he fell into a deep sleep. " sora" he mumbled over and over again. " Sora, I'm sorry…"
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Three months have passed, and their was still no sign of the burnet. Riku was out of the hospitals on the second week, as the reporter's scrambled to get the juicy information they begged for. But it was all avail, as the silver haired boy stayed quiet through-out the time.
Under his parents watch, riku avoided everything that reminded him of sora. The park they used to go walking, the baker shop that yuffie's family owned where they ate and laughed together. But the one thing that he couldn't get rid of, was the smell of cinnamon that always arose from sora, the goofy smile he gave when someone teases him or when he was caught doing something., and the look of betrayal he gave riku before the fall.
He shut himself in his room the curtains blocking the rays of the sun to enter, he knew already their was no hope. He knew for sure, the one thing in his life was forever gone, and he will never see him again. Closing his eyes once more, Riku laid himself back on his bed and forced himself to sleep.
Tomorrow's the last day of the burnets favorite summer, and a begging of a school day. He knew that his friends didn't want to see him until things were cleared up and forgiven for. The real hell for him, will have to start the next day, so he will have to get all the sleep he could. Even though the same nightmare repeats, the same scenes play over and over again, he will have to keep fighting until he can't fight no more.
"Riku?" a voice whispered.
Startled, riku stood up and looked frantically around his room to see where the voice had came from. All he found was nothing. Was he going crazy? The voice sounded so familiar, it was almost comforting to hear.
Sighing, he threw his head down into his arm when something caught his eye. A white paper stood by his closed window, fluttering gracefully in the wind. Confused, riku got up and opened his window to see what the piece of paper was…their was a closed letter attached to it.
Riku flipped the paper around to see who it was from, and gasped. ' it's couldn't be…' riku thought. ' this has to be someone else's letter..' he flipped it once more, and it was addressed to, none other than, Riku. The letter, had the words to and from, the date was present, and the scribbled name by 'from' written on it was a four lettered word and it stated:
To: Riku
From: Sora
Please open with care.
P.S. Couldn't put in the mailbox… Kairi's next to it.
Riku looked out to the window to see a red haired girl babbling away on her cell phone, and leaning against his mailbox. He chuckled at the memory when sora tried to duck and cover from kairir's on coming rampage. Then riku paused to think… 'wait, does this mean…' his heart doubled as something in him arose that was gone for three months.
Under the words held a folded peace of paper stapled onto it. Riku slid his shaky fingers under it carefully, as the letter stated, and read what had printed on. For the first time in what seemed like a century, He smiled with pure happiness.
A/N
Hello, posting a new story again, and wanted to say to everyone to have a happy new year! XD 2010 is going to be killer, whoo! Any-who, i'm done talking to you all so you can go blow stuff up now...seriously i don't even know why i write these author notes, i don't think anyone reads theses anyway... Ka-chow!