I dont own Riku os Sora...yet.


Everywhere he looked there was smiling faces and people laughing. Little kids were clutching on to their parents arms, tugging them in all directions. Lovers were cuddled up on benches, sharing candy floss or queuing for a ride. Friends competed on the games stalls, underneath the bright flashing signs. Cheerful music played in the background, just noticeable over all the noise and excitement. Everyone was having a good time, everyone except Sora.

Riku had insisted on 'dragging' him here in an attempt to cheer him up, and just to spend some time with the younger brunette. Recently Sora had been more withdrawn and quiet and it was driving Riku mad. Nothing anyone said or did had managed to bring the cheerful, outgoing and enthusiastic Sora back. But Riku, refusing to admit defeat, even went against his reclusive nature to drag the unhappy teen to a funfair in the hope that the sugar and positive atmosphere might brighten him up, even if just a little. So far there wasn't much luck. Sora had allowed his silver haired friend to drag him from stall to stall, refused to actually do anything and had only eaten half his candy floss. Riku was running out of ideas.

"Sora, isn't there anything you want to do?" he asked as he ran his fingers through his hair

"You wanted to come here"

His response was whispered, his arms were crossed and his lower lip stuck out slightly in a slight pout. All in all it resulted in making Sora look very miserable and Riku feeling very cruel for subjecting him to all this.

Technically it was his fault, sort of. He hadn't meant to do it and he had apologized a countless number of times. That still didn't make things better though.

"Sora, I'm sorry." He sighed, sounding defeated. "This is all my fault and I only made you come here to cheer you up and as a way of showing how sorry I am because I know how much you like this sort of thing and-"

Sora had covered his mouth to shut him up for fear that he would keep talking without breathing and pass out or something.

"It's not your fault Riku. Would you just stop all this? Please?"

The sad look in his small friend's eyes was heartbreaking; Riku couldn't stop himself from pulling him into a hug and apologizing again. Riku's eyes met with a game stand, as he glanced over Sora's soft brow hair; maybe there was something he could do to make Sora feel better.

Pulling away from the hug, but taking hold of Sora's wrist, he tugged his arm and directed him through the crowd. Riku ignored the confused look he was getting from Sora and instead paid the guy in charge of the game stall and spent the next ten minutes in deep concentration and silently cursing those stupid games for being so impossibly difficult. But, despite the new intense hatred for such games and the desire to burn the entire place to the ground for being so annoying, those ten minutes were worth it. When he final won he turned to Sora and handed him a small plastic bag filled with water and a little goldfish. With a triumphant grin plastered on his face he bent down so he was eye level with the shorter male. "I know it won't be the same but;"

Once again Sora had cut him off mid sentence, although this time due to shock. The brunette had thrown his arms around Riku's neck (being careful of the fish of course), causing him to stand up straight again. That's not what shocked him though, after all, this was normal Sora behavior. No. What shocked Riku in to silence was the sensation of Sora's lips brushing against his own, even if it was only for a second.

"Thank you."

Sora now rested his head on his elder friend's shoulder and watched the fish swimming around, oblivious to the world around it.

"Graham"

"What?"

"I'm gonna call him Graham"

"Well, it's better that Cheese, I guess"

At this he shoved Riku away from him and poked out his tongue, causing him to chuckle as he ruffled Sora's already messy hair.

"Come on. Let's get you some more candy floss before I take you home so you can put the fish in a bowl or something"

He was answered with a wide grin, a genuine smile. Something he had been longing to see for a few weeks now. He had been worried Sora would react the complete opposite way and immediately take a disliking to 'Graham'. Not because he didn't like fish, far from it. It was just that he had become abnormally attached to his previous fish, Cheese; he never did quite understand the choice of name. Riku had felt especially bad when Cheese had died because at the time he had been looking after it whilst Sora and his parents were visiting a relative. He had accidentally forgotten to feed it and, to make up for it, had fed it twice as much the following day; the result wasn't quite what he had expected.

Yep, winning the younger male a new fish might have ended in his refusal to replace Cheese and an even more miserable Sora. Luckily that wasn't the case.

"Riku, hurry up! I'm hungry"

A pair of small arms wrapping themselves around his waist brought Riku out of his thought. Looking down he met with a pair of brilliant blue eyes, a cheerful smile and a blushing Sora.

"Well we wouldn't want you to go hungry now would we, but you're gonna have to let go of me."

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I was thinking of writing something after this but im not sure...i might if you like this one.