Last Kiss
Author: Bounty Hunter Darcy
Summary: Eh…not much to it. Riku is in an institute for the suicidal where he meets Sasuke Uchiha and Neji Hyuuga. Just a little three-shot about their various losses.
Disclaimer: Do not own Kingdom Hearts or Naruto or the song 'Somewhere in Between' by Hawthorne Heights.
Warnings: Mentions of Yaoi (boyXboy romances), suicide, and character death (obviously if there's suicide, right?)
Chapter One: Sasuke
Riku was in a state of complete depression. He sat here in this white room on a four poster twin sized bed, looking absently out the window at the pouring rain. He didn't move or blink and hadn't in a long time. Some of the staff here actually thought at some points that he had simply turned to stone, the only visible hint that argued that fact being the steady rise and fall of his chest as he breathed.
The door opened with a click but the silver-haired teen didn't look over. He knew who it was by the aura they gave off…that and their reflections in the window. They got together every Friday, though what they did was considered a distraction to the other members of the institute.
One of the boys was the same age as Riku, but in stark contrast. He was pale skinned with dark eyes that were hollow, like a train tunnel that hasn't seen a train in years and you can never see the back of. His hair was black with midnight blue highlights and stuck up choppily in the back.
He wore black constantly, except for on the 10th of October, 9th of June and Halloween. On the tenth, he wore a dark, ocean blue t-shirt with a wide collar that obscured the bottom half of his face and white shorts that fell to his knees. On the ninth, he wore a white t-shirt with a collar that reached up to the top of his ear which he left zipped up to his collar bone, a red and white fan proudly emblazoned on the back, and black pants that were held up with a rope like-obi and fell in folds around his calves. Halloween was the only time he wore a bright color. He wore a bright, orange and black zip-up coat that hung off his lank frame and orange pants that he carefully folded up so that they just covered the top of his feet, which were bare on all occasions.
His name was Uchiha Sasuke.
The second was a year older that Riku and Sasuke. He had long coffee-brown hair that was tied in a loose ponytail near the bottom of his back-length tresses and pale lavender eyes that appeared to see through everything and everyone's thoughts and emotions.
Unlike Sasuke, he wore white constantly except for on one date, the 19th of January.
On this day, he'd don a form-fitting black t-shirt with a fishnet one underneath but only visible a little where the sleeves ended, black pants that stopped exactly at the top of his bare feet but fell in almost precise folds around his calves and a white sash that was draped diagonally over his right shoulder to his left hip where it wrapped around his waist and the remaining foot and a half was secured in the loop of where it started around his waist.
His name was Hyuuga Neji.
Riku turned his head slightly to look at them and noticed that Sasuke had his electric-looking guitar. It was bright orange with a solid blue square covering the top where the neck met the body.
A sad smile appeared on his face as the door was closed and locked securely and the two boys sat on the tile floor in the middle of the room, waiting for Riku to get up and join them. He did, sitting down with the other two, completing their triangle on the floor, crossing his legs and resting his hands on the floor in the gap between them.
"You have the song?" Neji asked, voice almost emotionless.
Riku nodded and reached into the pocket of his baggy pants, pulling out a paper that had been folded into quarters. He unfolded it gingerly but didn't read it, opting for putting it on the floor in front of him, word side down. He knew that if he read it, then he would start crying and didn't want to until he sang it.
Neji nodded and looked toward Sasuke as he tuned his guitar to his liking. The raven finally looked up, placed his hands properly, and strummed a few test notes. Finding them proper for the song, he took a deep breath and began to play.
"You're
an angel, I'm a devil
But we'll meet somewhere in between
Heaven,
Hell, or the bedroom
I'll take you away from everything"
Sasuke had written this song special for his dead fiancée. Riku and Neji could see the emotion that he was pouring into the song, even though his face was emotionless. Neji knew slightly more because he and Sasuke had lost their most precious people within hours of each other, something that neither teen would forget.
"You're
a dream and I'm a nightmare
But we'll meet somewhere in
between
The sheets or covers, and the headboard
I'll be a king
if you are a queen"
Riku remembered vividly seeing Sasuke write the word 'nightmare' over and over again on his arms, legs, torso…anywhere he could reach and some places he couldn't. He'd even said that as soon as he got out of the institute that he was going to a tattoo parlor and get his fiancée's name tattooed on his back in old style English with the phrase 'the dream to my nightmare' underneath it.
The silver-haired teen thought that it was a little self-pitying until he realized that his dead boyfriend had been the light to his dark… so, he said that he would go with Sasuke when they got out and get a tattoo of his own.
"I
just fell in love for the first time
Watch as I pick myself up off
the ground
In the dark, I'm so far from the spotlight
Can you
see me now?
I turn my back and walk away, away from the
pain
Screaming loud, drown it out by the sound of the rain
Listen
up, I've had enough of all this waiting
I need you more right now
than I ever did"
Both of the boys heard the waver in Sasuke's voice as he said the last line. Sasuke himself could feel burning tears gathering in his eyes, but he forced himself to continue with the song. He had to…for Naruto.
"You're
the minutes, I'm the hours
But we'll meet somewhere in
between
Never now or too soon
I say we meet at a quarter to
three"
The last line was actually when Sasuke and Naruto were supposed to meet for their anniversary dinner…three whole years…but the blond had not made it to the restaurant. He had never even made it out of his house…
A brief flash of a bottle of Naruto's medication bottle was what Sasuke saw…
Lithium…the best medication for bi-polar disorder, but if not taken carefully, it could kill you…Naruto had taken the whole bottle after writing his suicide note…
Sasuke felt the tears spill over and a heart-wrenching sob was torn from his throat, earning him a sympathetic look from his two friends.
"Sasuke, maybe you should…"
"No! I've got to finish it…"
The raven quickly continued before he could get caught up in his depressing thoughts.
"I
just fell in love for the first time
Watch as I pick myself up off
the ground
In the dark, I'm so far from the spotlight
Can you
see me now?
I turn my back and walk away, away from the
pain
Screaming loud, drown it out by the sound of the rain
Listen
up, I've had enough of all this waiting
I need you more right now
than I ever did"
Neji and Riku watched as Sasuke repeated the last verse four more times amidst his sobs, tears pouring in rivulets down his pale cheeks.
When Sasuke finished, he flung his guitar away from him and doubled over, holding his stomach as he sobbed hysterically.
Neji crawled over to him and wrapped his arms around the crying boy's shoulders, holding him close to his body. Sasuke gripped Neji's white t-shirt like a lifeline and tried to speak through his sobs.
"It hurts so much…it feels like…my kidneys are on fire…"
Both Neji and Riku knew that Sasuke wasn't really in pain. He wouldn't be able to get his hands on Lithium or any other drug that causes kidney failure since the members weren't allowed to leave the premises and their visitors were searched before they were allowed to see them.
Riku had been told that Sasuke's case was different from the others'. Whenever he got into his hysterical fits, he would complain of kidney pain, increased heart rate, and physically feeling a blockage in his heart. These were all symptoms of overdosing on Lithium, which is how his fiancée had died…a purpose overdose.
"Make it stop…please…"
Sasuke's sobbing had reached the point of almost screaming and was tearing at both Neji and Riku's heartstrings. Eventually, the silver-haired boy crawled forward too and held the sobbing boy along with the brunet, resting his chin on Sasuke's crown.
"We're both here for you," he whispered, not really expecting Sasuke to neither hear nor care even if he did.
Surprisingly, Sasuke's sobs subsided to whimpers and sniffles.
Neji looked appraisingly at Riku and said,
"Nicely said."
Riku gave a half-smile and gently pulled away as Sasuke lifted his head and returned to his position on the floor.
The raven didn't acknowledge the fact that he had just been sobbing his heart out on his best friend's shoulder with both boys holding him, but Neji knew that he would thank them in his own way and time and didn't push it.
Sasuke picked up his guitar again and looked at the brunet.
"You want to go next?" he asked.
Neji chanced a glance at Riku and saw the silver boy shake his head slightly, indicating that his song was to be saved for last.
"Sure," Neji said.
He handed Sasuke the paper with his song on it and Sasuke looked at the first line before nodding and tuning his guitar to fit the song.
