Okay well…what can I say besides, this is a rewrite of one of my longest fanfics…I can't really stress that…since if I had the time to constantly update as much as I wanted to (and the will power.) most of them would be this long or longer…but it's getting annoying that I haven't been able to work on the sequel…which only has two chapters posted, but none of it seemed to work right without this being rewritten first…how sad.

Warnings: Shonen ai. It's going to eventually be Riku/Sora Sora/Riku

Disclaimers: I don't own kingdom hearts, final fantasy anything or well anything. I DO own however Setsuna, Miyuki and the other original characters that may enter this fanfic. Do NOT steal.

Chapter,1: Truth be Found

'Ah! If Kairi tries to get me to go on one more date I'm going to scream!' Sora thought to himself as he stormed down the path that'd lead him to the main island. He was sick of everything that was going on. Kairi always having Riku and him fight over her. Riku's sudden disappearances so he was forced to endure Kairi's presence alone, the fact that none of them spent any time together unless it was to build the raft, it was enough to drive anyone mad. They were supposed to be friends so why did it seem like everyone was avoiding each other all the time?

Even worse was that Sora didn't want Kairi as anything more than a friend and even right now she was pushing her limits with that whenever they were alone, which was quite often now. Honestly he wanted Riku, but it seemed as if that was never going to happen.

'We'd just end up fighting again, because of that stupid girl. Kairi I hate you right now!' He mentally screamed knowing after he'd managed to get a good night sleep he'd completely forget these thoughts. Sighing the brunette attempted to get control of himself, even stopping for a moment to take a deep and shaky breath before continuing down the path. He needed something to take his mind off all this drama, anything, and quickly wondered if he could locate Tidus and play a game of Blitzball.

"Sora! Wait up!"

Sora stopped dead in his tracks and turned around to face Riku. This was the first time they'd talked since the fight they'd had that morning. Sora had wanted to make up with him so badly, but hadn't been able to find his friend anywhere on the island until now to do so. Now that Riku was standing right in front of him though all he could think about was his friend and everything he'd been so determined to say to fix their friendship completely vanished from his brain.

Riku ran over to Sora and grabbed his shoulder as he leaned over and caught his breath.

"Look, about this morning, I'm sorry. I got out of hand," he managed. He looked up at Sora then and grinned at him.

Sora's face lit up instantly and he couldn't help the smile that crossed his lips. Riku was actually apologizing to him for once!

'Wow! Rare moment! Riku actually apologized to me!' Sora thought happily. This was not something that happened a lot, even if they did end up becoming friends again every few hours after a fight, it rarely involved an apology on Riku's part. It was usually Sora apologizing or them just talking the next time they happened upon each other.

"No, it's alright Riku! I mean, like I said. It was just a race," Sora said trying to assure his friend. He didn't want Riku holding any long term grudges against him, they had enough issues with each other. This didn't seem to please Riku though, because he was frowning.

"Yeah and you winning got to me. I'm really sorry…So…you wanna go do something?" Riku asked his frown vanishing.

"Sure!" Sora nearly screamed as he nodded happily.

Laughing the both of them walked together to their boats. There wasn't much to talk about, it turned out that Riku had been searching for Sora the entire day too, which made Sora nearly jumped for joy, which, had Riku not been there, he would have.

They were almost at the pier when Sora could no longer hold in his excitement, let out a loud scream and rushed towards the water. He managed to get his shoes off before jumping in and waved at Riku once submerged.

"The water's really warm Riku!" He shouted to his friend who was currently laughing at him. "Come on, we spent the whole day fighting, let's swim for awhile."

Grinning Riku walked towards the edge of the water, removed his shoes and shirt, which nearly caused Sora to get a nose bleed. Riku may be young, but his body was already well sculpted. The older boy jumped into the water then splashing Sora as he did so. When he came up he was smiling brightly, which did nothing to ease Sora's fast beating heart.

'Riku I wish you were my boyfriend...you'd just laugh if I told you though,' he thought. It seemed almost unfair that Riku was so perfect and he was nothing near it, but at least he was friends with him. "Your mom's going to get mad again," Riku scolded him taking a firm grip on the bottom of Sora's shirt and ripping it off. Sora's face instantly went bright red, here Riku was, undressing him.

"What's the difference now that it's already wet?!" Sora demanded completely self conscious of the whole situation.

"It'll dry faster if it can start now," Riku said rolling his eyes. "Besides, it's not fun swimming with a shirt on, we're guys, we should enjoy it."

Guys or not Sora just wanted to jump Riku now or stare at him the rest of the time, who cared about swimming?

"So...have you seen the new school yet?" Sora asked uneasily. Riku and Kairi would be heading to new schools this year leaving Sora behind.

"Yeah," Riku said sounding bored. "It's bigger, you're going to get lost a lot when you get there."

"Hey!" Sora pouted glaring at his friend. "I will not."

"Of course not," Riku grinned swimming over to his friend and pinning him down onto the sand. "I'll make sure I learn every possible path way so you won't."

"Stop it!" Sora said trying to push Riku off of him. His friend had no idea how badly this was screwing with his head. What he wanted right now, more than anything, was for Riku to keep going, perhaps move closer so he could steal a kiss? Surely Riku would let go then. 'Not that I want him to go,' Sora thought closing his eyes.

"Are you okay?" Riku asked. Sora opened his eyes then to see the weird look Riku was giving him.

"Yeah, just thinking about how boring it's going to be at school this year. One whole year without my best friends. I won't get to see you or Kairi at all."

"That's not true," Riku said taking a seat beside him. "We always hang out on Destiny Island after school. Things won't change, just because our schools are different."

"You say that now, but with a new school you'll be making new friends. You and Kairi will even be graduating before me, I won't stand a chance then!"

"Do you have that little faith in us? I thought we were friends," Riku said looking a bit angry. That was of course the last thing Sora wanted.

"No! It's a lack of faith in myself," he muttered. That was partly true, he really didn't have faith that his friends would stay his friends, but it wasn't because he didn't think they would purposely ditch him, just that they'd find better people to hang out with. "We've been friends forever and I just want it to stay that way."

"Well then stop worrying about it. If you're that paranoid we could always share a papou fruit together," Riku suggested.

"You're nuts Riku," Sora said standing up to wipe some of the sand off his knees. Sharing a paopu fruit with Riku would be a dream come true, the question was, could he really get the boy to do it? "I dare you to go get one," he said grinning at his friend.

"Really?" Riku asked a smile on his lips. "I couldn't possibly turn down a dare." He stood to go get the paopu fruit and Sora inched off towards the pier to his boat. While he really wanted to share the fruit with his friend, he knew it was pointless. Magical legend or not, there was no chance at them ever having a romantic relationship so why bother?

Sighing Sora dragged the boat closer and started working the knot to his rope. Riku would be back any moment and then he'd be stuck eating the nasty fruit alone as he had the last time.

'That's probably why the legend stuck. If two people shared a fruit that nasty they'd definitely never forget who they shared it with,' he thought glaring down at the knot. It was putting up a good fight.

"Scared?" Riku asked coming up behind Sora.

"No, I just think it's time to head back." He turned around so he could look at his friend who was holding the fruit and his shirt out to him. "You do know those things are disgusting, right?" Sora asked wrinkling his nose at the fruit.

"I've never had one," Riku admitted. "It seems kind of wrong to let it die in vain though..."

"What are you talking about?"

"I mean it should be shared with someone, don't you think?" Riku asked. "If not it's just going to sit on the ground and rot."

"I had one before and I never want one near my mouth again," Sora said firmly. He wasn't trying to be a jerk about it, but the last one had made him sick for hours afterwards.

"Well maybe they taste better if you share it? That's the way they're supposed to be eaten after all. If you eat it alone that means you're alone and unhappy, so it'd have a bitter taste right? Together with someone you can be happy and so the fruit should reflect that."

"I doubt that," Sora said frowning slightly. It would be weird if the fruit could tell the difference between being eaten alone or by a couple. "If you want to try it so badly go ahead, or share one with Kairi. I didn't warn her about the taste," he said snatching his shirt from the older boy and going back to his knot.

"Why would I share one with Kairi?" Riku snorted. Sora was about to say something, but he found himself suddenly on his back with Riku holding the paopu fruit to his mouth. He made the mistake of trying to protest, Riku taking advantage of that and shoving the fruit into his mouth and biting down on the other end of it.

Sora went from complete shock to utter amazement as Riku seemed to be right, the fruit did taste a lot better with two people eating from it. It was almost like a strawberry, banana, and cantaloup mix with some hidden smooth flavor just beneath it. When the fruit was removed from his mouth finally Sora sat up shoving Riku off of him who was laughing.

"Did it taste better this time?"

"Yes," Sora screamed his face red. "How could you do that?! Now our destinies are going to end up intertwined, you're supposed to do that with your lover," Sora whined. He'd given anything to be Riku's lover, that was for sure, but what Riku had just done wasn't fair. A fate intertwined with his friend's just so he could watch his friend grow up and marry someone that wasn't him made him want to puke. 'Maybe I can puke it out and stop the effects?' Sora wondered worriedly. It wouldn't have made him so jumpy, but the sudden drastic change in the fruit's taste really had him thinking that the legend might be true.

"It's just a legend Sora. You probably ate one that wasn't all the way ripe or was rotting," Riku said rolling his eyes at him. "I don't see how a single piece of fruit can make sure you're never separated from someone."

"You better hope so," Sora sniffed. "I don't think I could handle having you around me all the time," he lied. No sense in letting Riku know how he felt, that sharing that fruit had made his heart flutter at first until reality had set in. The two sat there in silence on the pier, Riku still on top of Sora's lap, his eyes on the horizon.

"Is something wrong, Riku?" Sora asked tilting his head to the side.

"We were supposed to go meet Kairi today at the usual spot to watch the sunset, remember?"

Sora could feel his face and mood starting to drop, but forced a fake smile up as quickly as possible. His good mood had been shot upon hearing those words, but Riku didn't need to know that, not when they were finally on good terms again.

"Eh, but I have to get home…mom wants me home before sunset," Sora said lying through his teeth. "I'll see you and Kairi tomorrow morning okay?"

Riku turned to look at him before nodding slightly and climbed off the boy.

"Alright, you do that."

They went their separate ways, Sora heading home and Riku to wherever Kairi was waiting. When Riku was finally out of hearing distance Sora let out a small groan and kicked the side of the pier. He couldn't believe he'd been ditched for Kairi again by Riku. Didn't he deserve to have some alone time with his supposed best friend? When would he get a chance to talk to Riku in private and play video games with him and force him to stay the night acting like a friend, but really wanting more? And how could Riku screw with him and make him share a paopu fruit?

Growling he managed to get the rest of his rope untied and jumped into the boat shoving off. He was getting a headache with all these thoughts.

(X)

Riku made his way to the spot on the Paopu Island where they always sat to watch the sunset, quite proud of himself. His plan to get Sora to share a paopu fruit with him had succeeded, now all he had to do was get Kairi out of the way and Sora was sure to be his.

Kairi was already there sitting on top of the bent branch that partly jutted out over a small part of the island. He walked over to her and leaned up against the more straighter half of the branch.

"Hey Kairi."

She giggled and looked down at Riku smiling. The action made him feel a bit uneasy and he wished again that Sora had come with him, but if he had to go home, then there was nothing Riku could have done to stop him. He didn't want Sora to get in trouble with his mother after all.

"Where's Sora?"

Riku knew the question had been coming and it was actually quite a normal question, but to him something just felt off. Sora had agreed for the two of them to do something, but had never once mentioned that his mother had wanted him home early.

'Why agree to watch a sunset with your friends if you have to be home before the sunsets?' He thought to himself blinking. Sora must have forgotten, that was all, nothing unusual about that. 'Unless...Maybe he wanted to watch it with Kairi alone?' Riku wondered. He was forced to bite his tongue in order to hold back his anger.

"He had to go home, his mom wanted him back before sunset today," Riku explained. He let out a controlled breath and looked out over the large ocean that surrounded destiny island. How he wished it was Sora sitting beside him on the tree branch instead of Kairi, watching the breathtaking view.

The feeling grew as he watched the sun dip closer out of sight and he suddenly felt that Sora would be avoiding more sunsets as well. Why he wasn't sure of, but his friend had been acting so weird the past few weeks, he couldn't help worrying anymore. He knew he should have gone back with Sora, but it didn't seem fair to just ditch Kairi all together either.

'Maybe I should just leave him be…this could all be, because he wants to be with Kairi,' Riku thought closing his eyes tightly. The thought made his heart go tight and his breath hard to catch. He wanted Sora in his arms, but lately all his plans to do that had been backfiring, instead the two of them often fighting in the end. 'I need a different plan…something that works before I screw up and lose him for good…'

"Hey Riku?"

Riku opened his eyes first allowing them to adjust to the light before answering. The sun was almost completely gone below the horizon and when he looked at Kairi she was bathed in almost unearthly glow. He couldn't deny her beauty, but Sora was just so much better….

"Yeah?" He asked forcing himself to look back over the water. It should be Sora here, asking him if he wanted to hang out a few more days before school break ended. Once school started again he wouldn't see Sora that much, they'd be going to different schools until next year after all. "Damn age," he muttered under his breath.

"Will you be my boyfriend?" She asked sounding giddy.

Riku nearly fell over in shock, his eyes widened before he managed to finally look over at her again.

'Doesn't she like Sora,' he thought quickly going over a thousand different ways at once as to how to make this new turn of events work. If he could just get Kairi out of the picture, get Sora to understand that he had no chance with her; maybe Sora would finally look his way.

"What?" He asked again just to make sure. He needed to be careful after all, she could be planning some way to use this against himself so Sora would end up hating him, like the race had turned out that morning, but even so. Riku was sure he could keep a relationship under control so he could make Sora's his. "Sure Kairi. I'll be your boyfriend," he said in such a fake happy tone he was amazed that she actually believed it. He decided this was due to the fact of how small her brain was and left it at that. 'If I go out with Kairi, then Sora can't. All I have to do then is think of some way to get Sora to like me and then I can dump this bitch so Sora and I can be together forever,' he thought happily. A smirk appeared on his face at the thought and he almost started laughing aloud, but caught himself at the last moment.

Kairi seemed to be excited at the news as she threw her arms around Riku's neck to hug him tightly, while she remained on the branch.

"Thank you Riku! Oh this is going to be so wonderful!" She shouted excitedly. "Everyone at school will be so jealous."

All Riku did was smirk in reply, his thoughts really on having Sora all to himself one day forever going through his mind.

(X)

Sora sighed looking outside his window into the dark from his bed. He'd fallen asleep an hour after he'd returned home, only managing a shower before collapsing onto his bed while waiting for dinner.

'Which mom let me sleep through and now I'm not tired at all! It's only one a.m.!" Sora mentally screamed. How his mother could let him go to sleep, let alone sleep through dinner was beyond him. His mother always woke him up for dinner, but not today. 'Which is just my luck,' he thought with a sigh. His luck had just been horrible all day. First the fighting, then the fruit sharing and his mom hadn't been too happy about his shirt being soaked...or the sand he'd dragged in with him.

He jumped when he heard his stomach start growling and muttered a curse. He decided if he couldn't sleep he might as well get himself something to eat. Giving into the hunger he stood up and walked out of his room as quickly as he could. After managing to get down the steps and into the kitchen without waking his mother up, he crept over to the fridge and started looking for something to eat.

Nothing actually looking that appetizing so he settled for a sandwich. Finished creating his midnight snack he took one look at the dining room table, decided it was too isolated for his liking and went out the front door and sat down on the top of the steps of his front porch. Sighing he took a bite of his sandwich.

"Wow, what a wonderful day," Sora said sarcastically.

"What's wrong with today? It just started, Sora."

Sora jumped nearly choking on the food he'd just put into his mouth. When he finally managed to get it swallowed, Riku now laughing at him, walked over. Sora turned to his friend glaring and set the napkin he'd brought with him down and dropped the sandwich on top of it.

"Riku, don't do that," he scolded playfully. "What are you doing out here this late?" Despite the fact Riku had nearly just killed him; he couldn't deny the feelings of happiness shooting through his body at seeing his friend at this hour, not to mention alone.

"Don't you mean this early?" Sora shook his head and moved over when Riku came and took a seat beside him. Riku took a look at what him while he was eating and broke a small bit of the sandwich off swallowing it. "Tofu and eggs?" Riku asked trying hard not to gag.

"Shut up. Fine, what are you doing out here this early?" Sora asked stressing the word early.

"I could ask you the same thing…not to mention what happened to your taste buds," Riku said looking around for something, no doubt a drink to wash down the sandwich.

Sora pouted at him, but gave up and took another bite of the sandwich just to taunt his friend. When he saw Riku give him a pleading look he got up laughing and went into the house bringing him back out a cup of water.

"Here," he laughed. "Now you know what that paopu fruit I had the first time tasted like."

Riku took it quickly nodding a thanks and drank it. After that the two sat there in silence staring up at the stars in the night sky. It was almost as if Sora's dream had come true, or perhaps he really was dreaming. Who ever heard of things like this happening in real life?

"Hey….about today-"

"I know, I know," Sora said now knowing for sure that it wasn't a dream. Riku wouldn't have brought up Destiny Island or the raft at all if it was really a dream. "Meet at Destiny Island at eight a.m. to work on the raft," he said unenthusiastically. Despite having been the first one to mention the paopu fruit, he didn't want to talk about it.

"Actually…Kairi and I are going to see a movie…We're umm…a couple now."

Sora felt as if he'd been slapped. Kairi and Riku were dating? Anyone could have Kairi, but he wanted Riku for himself. There was no way this could be a dream, perhaps a nightmare, but he doubted that too and after Riku had forced a piece of destiny intertwining fruit down his throat?! Sora forced a smile on his face as he had hours before so he could grin at Riku.

"Really? That's great! I'm glad to see you two together," he said laughing. "I could never have pleased her." 'Oh my god! What did I do? I went home because I didn't want Kairi near me so she couldn't ask me out like Selphie had warned me and so she asked Riku out instead and he accepted!? Riku you're a jerk!' he mentally screamed. He stopped when he noticed his body was shaking.

"Are you sure?" Riku asked nervously. "I was scared you were going to get mad and refuse to speak to me ever again."

'It's a thought,' Sora said to himself nearly killing what was left of his sandwich with his hand as he clenched it into a tight fist. Somehow he managed to keep his fake smile up while doing this.

"No way Riku. I'm happy for you guys!"

A smile crossed Riku's lips and Sora felt his heart skip. He couldn't keep his anger going any longer and let out a small sigh of defeat. He couldn't compete with Kairi, he was male, he was ugly, and he was just plain old Sora, Riku always one step ahead of him. These thoughts going through his mind he was slightly shocked when Riku suddenly hugged him.

"Thanks, I'm glad you're not mad."

Sora forced out a laugh and returned the hug after wiping his dirty hand on the napkin.

"Hey, what are friends for right?" Sora asked.

"I'm glad you're such a good friend then. I don't think anyone else would have understood."

'I don't want to, but I don't really have a choice right now do I?!,' Sora thought holding back a scream. It wasn't Riku's fault after all. He hadn't had the guts to tell him how he felt, but then he had already known he'd never had a chance. Just being male had already shoved him out of Riku's thoughts ages ago.

"Riku, I don't like Kairi that way, she's all yours," Sora said honestly.

Riku's eyes widen and the look made Sora start laughing for real this time. Riku looked like he had accidentally swallowed a cup of poison.

"You don't like Kairi more than a friend?"

Sora shook his head yawning.

"No way, she's a good friend…eh when she's not making us fight over her, but I don't want to be her boyfriend. I mean she's just not for me…you know?" He let out another yawn as he was beginning to feel very tired. Why was Riku trying to push the matter anyway? If Kairi was trying to make him jealous by using Riku, it wasn't going to work, at least he wasn't going to end up jealous of Riku, rather her. In the end he still lost though. Kairi had stepped in and taken the spot he'd so desperately wanted for himself and there was nothing he could to do fix that.

(X)

Riku cursed under his breath and nearly fell over in shock when Sora's weight suddenly shifted completely onto him.

"Sora?" Riku looked over to his friend quickly and took notice of the fact that he was sleeping. Laughing he wrapped his arms around Sora and leaned back against part of the house. "God Sora, you're worse now than you were before." He started to stroke Sora's hair gently and in a much lower tone said, "and even more beautiful…"

The door to Sora's house was thrown open and Riku once again almost fell over. He thanked himself that he'd been smart enough to lean more against the wall instead of the door and shifted Sora so he could see who had opened the door. It was of course Sora's mother and he let himself start laughing.

"Hi."

"Oh thank the goddesses and gods above. I thought Sora had run away or something," she said sighing in relief and looked down at the two boys.

Riku jerked his hand away hoping she hadn't noticed he'd been stroking her son's hair and smiled gently at her.

"Umm…no. Sora just came out here…and kind of fell asleep and I was just-" he was cut off by Sora's mother's laughter.

"Don't be so shy Riku. Sora's fallen asleep on you hundreds of times. He must think you're a great pillow." She started laughing again at her words, Riku just smiled nervously.

'I hope this is because she just woke up and she's not drunk,' Riku sighed. He'd never known Sora's mother to drink, but with the way she was acting at the moment he couldn't help, but wonder.

"Yeah…didn't mean to make it awkward," he said.

"Well anyway, you got two choices my boy. You can either spend the night here or I can take Sora inside so you can get home."

Riku thought about it for a minute before pulling Sora a bit closer. So what if Sora's mother saw the movement? The worse she could do was make him go home.

"I'll stay here…." He said after a quick thought. He hadn't spent the night at Sora's in awhile so he might as well now. After all, now that he knew Sora had no interest in Kairi this may be the perfect opportunity for him to make a move and get rid of Kairi all together and make Sora his.

Smiling Sora's mom nodded and opened the door.

"You can carry him in then," she said with a wink, no doubt that'd been her plan from the start. Riku merely laughed at that and was thankful for all the sword training he usually did. Sora was not what you'd call heavy, but managing to stand up without dropping him and carrying him up the stairs wasn't exactly easy either. He hadn't noticed that Sora had grown a few inches over the summer, but he did now, as he had almost slammed the boy's head into the wall.

"Night," Sora's mom said after opening Sora's bedroom door and walked off. Riku didn't even have time to reply, just heard her thanking the gods and goddesses above again before he dropped Sora onto his bed.

Looking around he walked back over to the door and shut it gently so he wouldn't wake his friend up and came back over to the bed silently. The moonlight was shining down on Sora's figure now, giving him the same unearthly glow that Kairi had, had just the night before. He brought his hand down running it through some of Sora's hair and closed his eyes.

"Now I have to figure out a way to ditch Kairi and get this straightened out. If only I'd known you didn't like her that way to begin with," he whispered. He watched Sora for a while, sometimes stroking his hair, other times just gazing. He was completely content with this, but eventually decided he needed to look around for some clues about Sora's emotions. Just because his friend didn't like Kairi didn't mean he didn't like one of the other girls that made up their school.

Scowling at the thought he walked over to Sora's dresser and started going through it. Riku was actually surprised that despite how girly Sora would act sometimes, he had no kind of journal or diary or anything that even hinted at some kind of crush. There was a photo album, but all the photos were of Sora and his family and then the rest of his friends, Kairi and Riku included, from destiny island.

"This is not helping," he sighed dropping the album back into Sora's drawer. What was the point of having time to go through a friend's stuff if he had nothing to go through? "Don' tell me he doesn't like anyone yet...that does give me a bit of an advantage though," Riku muttered turning his attention back to his friend. Once Sora did develop a crush he'd definitely go after the person, there was no doubt about that and with how good Sora looked, no one would turn him down. "I'll just tell Kairi after our date that it turns out I don't like her like I thought I did," he said more to Sora's sleeping form than anyone. "Then I'll come find you and do whatever it takes to make you mine." His plan decided on he allowed him to acknowledge how tired he actually was. He'd have trouble sleeping himself, all his thoughts on dealing with Kairi, so when he'd seen Sora come out of his house from his bedroom window he couldn't pass up the chance to go see the boy. He would end up paying for it he knew when he had to get up in a few hours.

Yawning he climbed into the bed beside Sora, which to his surprise the brunette instantly threw his arms around him before he'd even completely lied down. When he did get himself settled, he found himself lying there, Sora's arms around his chest, his face in the crook of his neck.

"I could easily get used to this," Riku said sighing happily. He vowed to himself that this would become an everyday thing, that Sora would be his soon enough, all he had to do was break up with Kairi and tell Sora everything the next day. Any other problems beyond that he could deal with later as long as Sora agreed to stay with him.

(X)

Sora let out a long sigh hugging his pillow more tightly. The same nice warm pillow he was so used to waking up to, but somehow it felt more solid than it usually did. He went to fluff it, only to realize to his horror that the pillow had grown arms and had wrapped them around his waist. Deciding he was still half asleep, as this could be the only solution as to why his pillow now had arms, he snuggled the pillow more.

'I don't care anymore; at least I can have the illusion of being held for once in my life.'

"Geeze Sora, you really like to snuggle things don't you?"

Sora's eyes snapped open and he sat up quickly looking down at Riku with mixed emotions. Sure he wanted Riku in his bed, but the reality was, Riku was in his bed.

"Ri, Riku? What are you doing here?" He asked his words tumbling over each other. He tried to climb off the boy, his face going a deep shade of red, but only managed to end up directly on top of his friend.

"Oh come on Sora, don't you remember? You claimed your undying love for me last night and then we had the time of our lives," he said huskily.

Sora's blush somehow deepened.

"Wh, what? That's not true! You'd never-" he cut himself off looking away, Riku starting to laugh.

"I'm kidding. You fell asleep last night on the porch while we were talking. Your mom found us and told me to just stay the night since you were latched onto me. As such I ended up sleeping with you."

Sora nodded slowly, his blush not ebbing at all.

"Right…O, oh! Sorry!" Sora finally got the courage to climb off of his friend and sat down beside him.

'I'm having the shock of my life, I can't believe this…if I'd been aware of this, I'd have taken pictures!' Sora mentally whined.

"It's alright, not like it's the first time," Riku said waving Sora's apology away with his hand.

Sora's blush somehow deepened even more and he merely nodded at his friend.

'That felt so wonderful…and comfortable…why did Riku have to do that? Now I know what I'm missing!' Sora screamed out in his mind just wanting to tackle Riku and have his way with him. They were so close to each other and already in bed; it couldn't be that hard to do.

"As much as I'd love to hang out this morning, Kairi and I are going to see a movie. Want to come with?"

Sora's mood crushed he shook his head wondering if he could get a fake smile on his face this early in the morning. He could.

"Naa, just meet me at destiny island later so we can finish the raft."

"Sure thing," Riku grinned licking his lips as he smirked evilly. "Thanks for the wonderful night Sora."

Sora groaned before he began to laugh and threw his pillow at Riku who dodged it by running out of his room.

"Riku you traitor!" Sora screamed as he listened to Riku's own laughter from outside his room. Once he heard the door to his house shut Sora let out a sigh and looked down at the pillow he'd thrown. "But I mean it too Riku. You're a traitor…no…not you. Kairi is." With that said he got off his bed and picked the pillow up off the ground. He threw it back onto the bed and walked out of his room down the steps and into the kitchen.

'I just want this life to be over with. I hate this! How can I win Riku over in three days before school starts?' Sora thought sitting down at the kitchen table and looking down at the pancakes his mother had made him.

"Eat up Sora," she said with a big smile on her face.

Sora forced his own smile back on and nodded to her.

"Sure thing mom!"

(TBC)

I think that went better than the original chapter…I mean it's more or less the same, a bit of dialog change and a few things added here and there, only one piece of dialog was actually completely taken out. I think it worked in the long run…now to just keep this up with the other chapters…