Author's Note: Here's a little series I'm doing to get myself back into writing. It's consists of 0short SoraRiku/RikuSora stories because I love these two together and don't seem to write enough of them. The genres vary, story to story. And they're all written for fun! Uhm...I'll be updating a few times every week or so. Or I'll try to anyway! Welp, I hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: Don't own Kingdom Hearts.

The Nightmare

A loud crash of thunder shook the house of the client Riku was stuck babysitting. The silver-haired 17 year old had nodded off a few minutes before the storm had begun on the couch in the living room. But the thunder wasn't what ended up waking him up. It was the muffled screaming that was still audible, even over the noise, coming from the room of his client, a 9 year old boy by the name of Sora.

The silver-haired teen shot up from the couch and rushed to the room of the young boy. He threw open the bedroom door and walked in. In the bed, the 9 year old was thrashing about, still screeching every so often.

Riku hurried over to the bed and grabbed the boy, gently, to stop his thrashing.

"Sora, Sora, Sora." Riku called softly to the boy, hoping his voice would break up his nightmare and wake him up. After the silver-haired teen called to him a few more times, the brunet stopped moving and his eyes shot open. Riku and Sora stared at each other before the brunet's eyes welled with tears and he started whimpering.

"Sora, it's all okay." The teen tried soothingly.

"R-Ri…" Was all he could get it out before he pulled Riku to him and cried into his chest. Riku patted the burnet's spikes with one hand as his other hand reached for the bedside light and turned it on, a comforting glow lighting up the room.

"It's alright, Sor. You were just having a nightmare." The boy shook in his arms, but began to calm down. Finally, when his sobs became mere whimpers, Sora looked up at Riku.

"It was awful," he told the teen softly.

"Was it the one about zombies again?" Riku asked.

Sora shook his head vigorously. "Worse."

"What could be worse than zombies?"

"Giant carrots with sharp claws and teeth screeching at you to eat them!" Sora replied with wide-eyes. Riku fought back a smile as he nodded.

"Giant carrots, huh?" Riku repeated.

"Yeah."

"Sor, did you by any chance not eat you carrots at dinner?" The silver-haired teen asked. Sora studied him, his blue eyes growing larger.

"H-How'd you know?!"

"Same thing used to happen to me. If I didn't do something I was supposed to, like eat all my vegetables at supper, I would unknowingly feel guilty about it and it could come back and haunt me, usually in nightmares that night." Riku informed the child.

"Oh…"

"Yeah. So did you feel guilty, or bad, about not eating your carrots?"

"Yes." Sora nodded, sounding small.

"Then there you go! That's the source of your nightmare!" Riku announced.

"Oh! Well then next time I'm going to eat all my carrots so I won't feel guilty and pay for it later." Sora exclaimed.

"Good for you Sor." Riku smiled. "Now do you think you're good enough to go back to sleep?"

Sora thought for a minute and then smiled. "Yupp, I think so!"

"Good." Riku untangled himself from Sora before ruffling the chocolate brown spikes. "Now get some sleep."

Sora nodded before getting under the covers and pulling them up to his chin. Riku turned off the light and walked out of the room.

Riku barely made it back to the living room he had once occupied when he heard Sora call out his name again. Riku sighed and turned around, walking back to the bedroom.

Standing at the door, Riku asked, "What's wrong Sora?"

"I may not be a hundred percent good…Could you maybe stay with me? At least until I fall back to sleep?" The brunet asked, his tone innocent and soft. Riku couldn't help but chuckled before complying with the boy's request. The silver-haired teen walked over to Sora's bed and climbed in. Sora immediately gravitated to him, snuggling into his arms with a soft sigh.

"Thanks Riku." Sora yawned appreciatively. He already felt safer in the teen's arms and allowed himself to close his eyes. Within minutes the brunet was snoring quietly.

Riku smiled down at him.

"No problem, Sor." Riku finally replied before closing his eyes and letting himself nod off.

Author's Note: First one is done! Hope you liked it! I am accepting requests so please, if you have one, feel free to tell me! :D I will try my best to write them for you!