Warning: Boy x Boy, so if you happen to encounter this fanfiction and get offended my any material, don't go crying to your mother, because you shouldn't read these kind of stories in the first place. Though I welcome KH yaoi fans like me...Yay!!!
Disclaimer: I don't own Sora (Riku owns Sora) and sadly I don't own any other characters from KH.
Shadows
Chapter Two
Axe's POV
Dusk fell almost surreptitiously, with a cold breeze and a mantle of purple light that slid between the gaps
in the streets. I quickened my pace, and twenty minutes later the front of the university emerged like an
ocher ship anchored in the night. In his lodge the porter of the Traverse Town Faculty perused the words
of the nation's most influencial bylines in the afternoon adition of the sports pages. There seemed to be hardly
any students left on the premises. The echo of my footsteps followed me throught the corridors and galleries
that led to the cloister, where the glow of two yellowish lights barely disturbed the shadows. It suddenly occured
to me that perhaps Sora had tricked me, that he'd arranged to meet me there at the untimely hour to avenge my
presumption. The leaves on the orange trees in the cloister shimmered with tears of silver, and the sound of
the fountain wove its way through the arches. I looked carefully around the pation, contemplating disappointment
or maybe a certain cowardly sense of relief. There he was, sitting on one of the benches, his silhouette outlined against
the fountain, his eyes looking up toward the vaults of the cloister. I stopped at the entrance to gaze at him, and for a moment
I was reminded of Roxas daydreaming on his bench in the square. I noticed he didn't have have his folder or his books with him,
and I suspected he hadn't had any classes that afternoon. Perhaps he'd come here just to meet meet me. I swallowed hard and walked
into the cloister. The sound of my footsteps on the paving gave away and Sora looked up, with a smile of surprise, as if my presence there
were just a coincidence.
"I thought you weren't coming," said Sora.
"That's what I thought," I replied.
He remained seated, upright, his knees tight together and his hands on his lap. I asked myself how could I feel so detached from him and
at the same time see every line on his lips.
"I've come because I want to prove to you that you were wrong about what you said the other day, Axel. I'm going to run away with Riku, and
I don't care what you show me tonight. (Hint) I'm off to Hollow Bastion as soon as he finished his military service."
I looked at him as if I'd just missed a train. I realized I'd spent two days walking on air, and now my world seemed to be collapsing.
"And there I was, thinking you'd come because you felt like seeing me." I managed a weak smile.
I noticed him blushing self-consciously.
"I was only joking," I lied. "What I was serious about was my promise to show you a face of the city that you don't yet know. At least that will give you
cause to remember me, or Traverse Town, wherever you go."
There was a touch of sadness in Sora's smile, as he avoided my eyes.
"I nearly went into the cinema, you know. So as not to see you today," she said.
"Why?"
Sora looked at me but said nothing, He shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyes as if he was trying to catch words that were escaping from him.
"Because I was afraid that perhaps you were right," he said at last.
I sighed. We were shielded by the evening light and that despondent silence that brings strangers together, and I felt daring enough to say anything
that came to my head, even though it might be for the last ime.
"Do you love him, or don't you""
A smile came and went.
"It's none of your business."
"That's true," I said. "It's only your business."
He gave me a cold look.
"And what does that it matter to you?"
"It's none of your business," I said.
He didn't smile. His lips trembled.
"People who know me know I'm very fond of Riku. My family and ---"
"But I'm almost a stranger," I interrupted. "And I would like to hear it from you."
"Hear what?"
"That you really love him. That you're not going away with him, just to get away from home, to put distance between yourself and Traverse Town and your family, to go
somewhere were they can't hurt you. That you're leaving and not running away."
His eyes were angry with tears.
"You have no right to say that to me, Axel. You don't know me."
"Tell me I'm mistaken and I'll leave. Do you love him?"
We looked at each other for a long while, without saying a word.
"I don't know," she murmured at last. "I don't know."
"Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever," I said.
Sora looked for the irony in my expression.
"Who said that?"
"Someone called Kairi Hikaru."
"A friend of yours?"
I caught myself nodding. "Sort of."
"You're going to have to introduce him to me."
"Tonight, if you like."
Ishuchan: Hey kids, so what do you think?
Axel: It suck!!!
Ishuchan: Don't say that! Makes me feel sad!! cries
Axel: Awww, please don't cry...I know what can make you feel happy! takes his clothes off
Ishuchan: gasp OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG...drools
Axel: Yeah it always works!
