Second Story: Best Friends, Part I
Genre: Friendship/Angst/Romance
Rating: K
Notes: Hint of one-sided SoraRiku pairing, but leaning more towards possessive friendship, KH universe after peace has restored to the worlds and Xemnas defeated
Warning: Yaoi, language, OOCness (hopefully not too bad), mistakes as its unbetaed (Note: Sorry for all the mistakes with Recollections of the Heart. In my defense though, it was four in the morning when written! XD)
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or any of its characters in anyway besides owning a copy of both games. I only write to entertain others and for my own strange, twisted, yet loveable amusement. (And I worship Square and Nomura Tetsuya-sensei for their brilliant minds! And Sora and Roxas are both loveably admirable, holding the half needed to complete the other :3)
Tell Me a Story
Second Story: Best Friends, Part I
Riku knew when he had been bested. He just hadn't expected to be bested out of his best friend. His best friend since when they were little. His best friend who had always competed and laughed with him since they could make noises and walk. His best friend who had stuck with him since he could remember. His best friend whom he would die for without a second thought. His best friend whom he could count on to pull through no matter what.
The only person whom he loved more than anyone else in this whole damn world…
In all his sixteen years, Riku never once thought that he would lose Sora—no, that he would have Sora stolen from him. He had naturally always believed that Sora would be beside him no matter what. Even if Sora had gotten himself a girlfriend—or in this case, boyfriend—he had figured that he would still be put before her, or him. But now, that place standing next to him was left empty and strangely cold.
The silver-haired teen wondered why he was so blind to the obvious theft of his best friend. He should have known that it was coming, should have foreseen these events and stopped it at all costs. When "Hey Riku, let's go out to the beach!" turned into "Hey Riku, me and Roxas are going out to the beach, wanna come?" he should have known to stop it. But he didn't and he hadn't. And there wasn't a single moment in which he regretted it when even "Hey Riku, me and Roxas are going out to the beach, wanna come?" eventually (and perhaps even finally) turned to, "Sorry Riku, I've got plans with Roxas. Maybe next time?"
His blood had ran cold when the realization that the blond, that Nobody, was stealing his best friend away from him had punched him in the face. It felt like a scene out of some stupid cheap, gods awful romance movie that only girls would fawn over, where two best friends were torn apart by a girl. Only it wasn't a girl. It was a boy. A guy was the one who was tearing their friendship apart, piece by piece, strand by strand, until there was almost nothing left. And this movie was not headed towards the ending where neither boys got the girl but still had each other; even Riku could see that quite properly, which made it all the more vexing.
Whenever he walked around, he could see Sora and Roxas, running around together, fingers tightly laced together. Where there was one, the other was not too far behind. That was one of the first observations Riku had immediately noticed and picked up on. The two never separated, it seemed. And even when they did, it never lasted long. It drove him up the wall higher and higher with jealousy because once upon a time, it was him and Sora running around together, holding hands so that they wouldn't lose each other. But now, there was no room for him in that picture, was there.
Riku would not deny that envy drenched his eyes whenever he watched the two. Whether they were lazing on the soft white sand or splashing wildly in the cool waters to eating every meal and ice cream or sparring, everything for them was done together. They were taking doing everything as a pair to a whole new level of meaning. Even further than when the only person Sora hung out with like that was him.
What he hated the most, however, was seeing Sora in Roxas's arms. His smile so radiant with warm content shimmering in his eyes, the brunet had never looked more dazzling. The two would be situated at the tree, where he and Sora used to sit together, isolated from the rest of the world with that blond holding his best friend so snuggly against his own body. They would sit together, basking in each other's warmth, occasionally giving fond pecks on the cheek while, of the most sappiest things to do, enough to make him throw up, watching the sunset. It was sickening because all Riku could think was that it should have been him there, watching the sunset together with Sora while talking and fooling around. And it was. Up until Roxas came into the picture.
Sometimes, Riku wondered if maybe, he was being the bad guy here. Again. Sora just looked so full of life, so happy with Roxas; it almost killed him on the inside to know that the brunet could just brim with joy like that thanks to that Nobody. As his best friend, Riku was supposed to be happy for him. But all he could think about was his own broken relationship with him. He could only focus on the beaming expression on the other's face as he spoke with Roxas and think bitterly that Sora had never smiled like that when talking with him.
There were times when Riku would walk around alone. (Back in the days, he always had Sora to walk beside him. But that was in the past and that spot, abandoned.) He would follow up the curve of the path and find Sora and Roxas (surprise, surprise) having tickle fights which died down to giving soft kisses in the grass. It didn't disturb Riku, seeing two perfectly healthy males liking each other. He just wondered how much longer he could stand it. Roxas loved Sora. Riku was one hundred percent and back sure of this fact; just as sure as he was that Sora was completely smitten with Roxas as well. The two, to borrow a line from a romance chick flick, completed each other. And he was left without a half himself.
Perhaps he was just too possessive, Sora being the only person who ever fully understood him, but Riku knew that the one person he could never give up was his best friend. Even if the person he was fighting with himself to give up Sora to was the only person who could bring out the most dazzling smiles from the brunet. He didn't want to lose Sora. Not again. It was Sora who had believed in their friendship and pulled him out of his darkness. Giving up everything between them meant falling back to a world without the overly cheerful, and stupid brunet. It was his happiness weighed against Sora's happiness and before Riku even finished the thought, he already knew which side had won out because he knew that if in the same situation, Sora would gladly sacrifice his own happiness for Riku's. And he had. Now, it was his turn to return the favor. He would quietly give up his happiness while watching from afar to make sure that Roxas never did anything to harm his best friend and ruin that happiness, although it seemed unlikely. While Riku hated to admit it, Roxas understood Sora far better than he could have ever hoped to in his life. But that was just an advantage to being Sora's Nobody, eh. The two shared a tighter bond than his own with the brunet and it pained him to say so.
The blond had so easily stolen everything from him within a matter of days, and it only bothered Riku because all he really wanted was his best friend back. He wanted Sora back, for their relationship to be back to normal, before Roxas. But he knew it to be impossible. After all, Sora was no longer the happiest and the brightest when with him. Only when with Roxas. And after all that time of sacrificing himself to bring light back to the hearts of the worlds, he deserved to be with the one person who could illuminate the light in his own heart now as well. Even if that person had to be someone who was not Riku…
Riku wondered sometimes if Sora knew about, felt the growing rift between them. He probably didn't though, being the oblivious moron he was. Hmph. It was typical of Sora to never notice such obvious things. But it was okay, because he knew and felt it. The only other thing Riku wanted to know was that…
'We're still best friends, right Sora?'
A/N: I wanted to do write Sora and Roxas's relationship from someone else's point of view, and who better than his best friend, Riku XD I honestly don't think that Sora would actually forget and leave behind Riku, but, it's more fun to write Riku angst hahah xDD Although, it's kinda messy and really short :bashes head on keyboard: but oh well. Next one will probably be a humor one and go back to Sora and Roxas love :3 And hopefully be longer heh
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