Chapter 2
Darkness and the Sea
WARNING: This chapter contains a short yaoi scene,
Riku looked lazily out of the window, after a few minuets of staring at the falling cherry blossoms he gradually turned his attention back to the room. Sakura was the only one aside from himself who had finished the assignment and was reading a book. Next to her Kairi was working intently on her math; Selphie at her side copying the problems, Wakka was, as usual, asleep and drooling on his notes, Tidus worked quietly while listening to his head phones and Sora was ignoring his math work and doodling on his notebook. Riku noticed the teacher coming down the isle to where Sora was. He cringed and hoped that Sora would notice, but when the teacher was two desks away and his friend still hadn't noticed he grumbled and stood quietly "May I use the rest room?" He asked coolly "Of course you may Riku." Miss Hana replied with a smile, on his way out of the class he discreetly whacked Wakka on the head waking him up. The orange haired boy sleepily pulled his math paper to him and pretended to be doing work. Once he got to Sora's desk he "accidentally" bumped into Miss Hana and while he was helping her up, skillfully slid Sora's partially complete math paper over his notebook. "I'm sorry Miss Hana." He said smiling, she dusted her self off and smiled "that's alright Riku; now get to the bath room."
"Of course." He grinned at the extremely thankful Sora and walked out of the room.
At the end of class Sora nearly knocked Riku down hugging him "Thank you so much Riku!!!! You're a life saver!!" Riku cringed and tried to pry himself from his best friend's tight grasp "Alright already, people are staring Sora, let go!!" he growled finally getting away then grinned. Sora grinned as well and put his hands behind his head; Wakka and Tidus came up behind Riku and Wakka slapped him on the back knocking the wind out of him "Hey Riku, danks for saving mi bum during math, mon!!"
"Geeze, you're welcome!" Riku groaned rubbing the spot where Wakka had slapped him. The four of them walked out across the school court yard and by Kairi and Sakura; it had been a month since she'd come, a lot of boys liked her but the only people she actually seemed to pay attention to were Kairi, Riku and Sora.
Sora smiled and waved to them, Sakura was watching Riku and when he looked in her direction the two made eye contact. She looked away with a small smile, Wakka noticed and grinned widely "She likes you."
"Yeah well shut up, leave her alone." Riku said with a warning glare. They headed for the play islands, Tidus and Wakka were eager to beat Riku and Sora at a game of blitz ball. The two were positive they would win because their reclusive friends had not played in two years. Sadly they were horribly wrong, after Riku and Sora had won seven out of seven games the two got bored, leaving Wakka and Tidus to complain to the others.
Riku sat on his normal perch atop the paopu tree and Sora leaned comfortably against it, "hey Riku?"
"Hmm?"
"Do you like Sakura?"
Riku blinked at the random question then looked off into the distant horizon "kinda, she is really cute and pretty. But to tell you the truth I kinda have my heart set on someone else."
"Really? Who?" Sora said now looking interested and staring at his best friend with curious eyes. Riku laughed and ruffled up Sora's messy hair "I'll tell you when you get older."
"Hey!! You've said that before! And I think now I'm old enough to hear, come on Riku I'm only a year younger then you!!!"
"What do mean I've said that before??" Riku frowned a bit cocking his head to the side, Sora looked up at him surprised "you mean you don't remember?"
Riku shook his head; Sora looked out to the sea and began to explain
"We were in this very spot three years ago. You told me not to try a paopu by myself because it would taste gross, and the only time it would taste good would be if I ate it with some one I really cared about."
FLASH BACK
"Okay then I'll share one with Kairi,"
Riku let out a forced laugh "so you'd really want to spend forever tied to her?"
"Well I dunno… maybe. Who would you share one with Riku?"
"Me? Hn. I'll tell you when you're older."
"Hey Riku that's not fair, I told you!!" Sora yelled with a pout
"I told you I always win didn't I? It's all a matter of being smart" Riku laughed and ran off followed closely by a very annoyed Sora.
END FLASH BACK
"Oh yeah…" Riku whispered looking thoughtful
"See, so I'm assuming the person you would share a paopu fruit with is the same person that you've got your heart set on. So come on Riku, who is it??"
"Do you remember when we closed that door to Kingdom Hearts?"
Sora nodded "I told you to take care of Kairi, I was so sure that you'd return here with her and leave me to wander in darkness. I mean after everything I did to you…"
"Riku… how could you think I'd do that to you?"
"But you didn't. Why?"
"Because I wanted you back as well. You're my best friend. Life here wouldn't be the same at all with out you."
"Hm." Riku smiled slightly "But this doesn't answer my question. Who do you love, Riku?"
Riku looked at him with a mix between a frown and a sad look then he sighed "I suppose it is time I tell you."
Sora nodded with another small pout "did you think that when Xehanort's heartless took over my body, that I had given my heart to darkness?"
"What does this have to do with my question??"
"You'll see. Just answer mine."
"Well…yeah." Sora looked down sadly; Riku smiled and shook his head "nope. I never gave my heart completely to darkness."
"What?? But…"
"True I did open it to darkness, I let it consume me. But I could never have given my heart entirely to the dark, which is the one reason why I was able to break it's hold over me."
"Riku what are you saying??"
"How could I give something away that is no longer mine?"
"What? You're not making any sense!" Sora moved away from the tree to look up at Riku, he was shocked to see Riku hiding his eyes with his hair.
"I couldn't give in to darkness entirely because there is a large part of my heart that no longer belongs to me, it belongs to you."
Sora stood there with a look of pure shock "R-Riku…."
The silver haired boy smiled sadly and looked away
"I'm saying… that I love you, Sora. But you love Kairi, so now you can see why I didn't want to tell y-" Riku was cut off as Sora pounced on him and they both crashed to the ground. His eyes widened as Sora's lips pressed tightly against his own. When the younger boy pulled away he just smiled at his confused silver haired friend
"S-Sora??" Riku questioned still looking shocked.
"I love you too Riku!!" Sora exclaimed happily
"What? But what about Kairi??"
"I do love Kairi, but more like a sister. Me and her are more like kindred spirits then any thing else. I thought I was in love with her but when you disappeared it gave me time to think. When she pointed out that it was you under the disguise of Xahnort's heartless I forgot all about her being there because I was so relieved that I was back with you. I started crying for goodness sake!"
"but…Roxas and Namine"
"I told you Riku, just kindred spirits. Didn't you notice how happy I was just to get a glimpse of you? I kept looking at you after you got your true form back; I could hardly contain myself, and after everything we've been through. I am sure that I do love you very, very much and… blah blah blah."
"Sora."
"hmm??"
"Shut up. You talk too much" Riku whispered as he leaned up and pulled Sora into a passionate kiss. Unknown to them someone was watching their happy little moment. "Well, this certainly will be an interesting factor…" said a figure in black trench coat as they faded into the shadows.
The next day was a Saturday, and the class field trip. This year it was to the huge waterslide on the other side of the play islands. Sora jumped at the chance to see Riku in a bathing suit, so he waited by the fairy boat wearing his red, orange and black swimming trunks and a fitted black t-shirt. Kairi was the second to arrive; she wore a light purple and blue bikini top with a design of a paopu fruit on the left side, a short blue skirt and matching blue flip flops, to say the least if Sora wasn't head over heels for Riku he would have jumped Kairi in a minuet. Then Sakura came in a black sports bra like top with a pink rim and a design of cherry blossoms reaching across the top from the right, she wore baggy black boys swimming trunks and slippers. Sora was beginning to get anxious after Selphie, Tidus, and Wakka arrived, and Riku was still nowhere to be seen.
"Hey look Sakura there's Riku!" Kairi said with a grin, Sakura and Sora both looked at the same time, and both turned beat red at the sight that greeted them.
Riku walked up in a tight black wife beater tank top, black and royal blue swim trunks with a yellow stripe up the side, sunglasses and his long silver hair pulled back in a pony tail. "Hey guys, sorry I'm late." He said with a smirk. Sora nearly fainted as did Sakura.
"Well you look hot Riku." Kairi said with a smile "don't you think Sakura?"
Sakura blinked and could only nod in response.
"Well I'll say!!" Sora exclaimed earning a grin from Riku and a lot of interesting looks from his classmates, he blushed a little "I-I mean how come I never look that good!" He said obviously nervous.
"Well I don't know Sora; I think you look pretty hot too." Kairi said with a slight blush
"Yep. But still nothing compared to me, Sora." Riku laughed with a wink
"hey!!"
After a couple of hours of playing in the water Riku decided it was time to have a little fun with Sora. The brunette was currently racing Kairi in a swim match, he of course won and Kairi sulked away to recover from the slight slap in that face that he didn't let her win. It was the perfect opportunity "hey Sora!" Riku called from the beach, the brunette grinned, waved and swam to where his best friend was standing. "Hey what's up?"
"Not much. I was just gonna take a stroll to the secret place, Care to join me?"
Sora blushed a little but nodded. The two left the rest of the class discreetly and nobody noticed them go, nobody except Sakura. She watched them sneak through the foliage and moped. She wasn't as blind or stupid as the rest of the people who knew Riku and Sora seemed to be, she knew that there was something going on between them she could sense it.
"Sakura!!" Kairi called as she ran up to her, "the others are going to the snack shack, have you seen Riku or Sora??" she asked bending to catch her breath "umm..." Sakura looked in the direction that they had gone with an odd look, but then she closed her eyes and smiled "Nope. Sorry, I'll help you look though; maybe they already went to the snack shack for sea salt ice cream or something."
"yeah maybe, if not we could always just get ice cream our selves." Kairi laughed
"ha ha That sounds like a plan to me." Sakura smiled, and then looked back at where Riku and Sora had gone one last time before heading for the snack shack with Kairi.
Sora whimpered as Riku kissed his neck and fondled around in his swimming trunks "R-Riku..s-should we really be doing this now? I-I mean the class… they might c-come looking for us, Ah!" Sora screamed as Riku began to fondle him a little more roughly, Riku grinned and looked at Sora, his bangs falling over his eyes "what you don't like this? Should I stop?" he started to stop and Sora whimpered and arched upward. Suddenly they heard Kairi calling their names, both boys froze as the voices outside got closer "I bet they're in the secret place" Kairi said heading towards it, "h-hey! I think I just saw Riku over by the Paopu Island!" Sakura suddenly said, "kay. You check there I'll check out the secret place." Kairi replied now sounding really close. Sora jumped and Riku quickly let go of the younger boy "damn Kairi." Riku cursed annoyed he straightened his swimming trunks and watched as Sora retied his own with a crimson blush across his cheeks. He smiled but then a drawing on the wall caught his attention one that he was sure wasn't there before.
Kairi walked in and found Riku staring at the drawing of herself and Sora sharing a paopu fruit and questioning Sora about it. She guessed that the reason Sora was so red was because Riku was probably teasing him. "Geeze you guys, I've been looking very where!!!" She said placing her hands on her hips "s-sorry Kairi, we were just…um." Sora looked away a little embarrassed "Exploring." Riku said turning to face her "but you guys have explored every ounce of this island, you know it like it's the back of your hands" Kairi responded looking back and forth between the two there was some thing they weren't telling her. "Hey I haven't been here in nearly three years; I wanted to revisit all the places the three of us used to play in." Riku said with a shrug "And then I found this…" He motioned to the drawing on the wall "you guys get married with out telling me or something?" He smirked staring at Sora "R-Riku!!!" Sora yelped "though can't say I blame you Kairi I think every one on this island wants to get into Sora's pants, or is it the other way around?" He growled "Riku! That is a horrible thing to say!!" Kairi suddenly yelled "It's true isn't it? So, Kai why were you looking for us?" Riku replied staring at her with a sudden cold look "The boat is going to take us back to the main islands now, every ones waiting on you two." She replied clearly upset with Riku, the older boy shrugged "K then. We shouldn't keep them waiting, come on you two." He said as he walked out of the cave.
The walk back was silent and Sora found him self extremely confused 'I think every one on this island wants to get into Sora's pants, or is it the other way around?' Why, why did he say that?' he thought distressed. Unfortunately no words were said on the boat either, Sakura looked at the three best friends Riku was leaning against the rail alone and staring out at the sea and little away from him was Sora and Kairi. Sora was staring thoughtfully out at the horizon as well but every once and a while he'd peak over at Riku who did not return the gaze; Kairi watched the parade of colorful fish that swam along side the boat. Sakura moved next to Riku "penny for your thoughts?" she said with a smile as she tossed a penny at him, he caught it and looked at her "no thanks." He tried to give it back but she wouldn't take it "you know, I've always been a little afraid of the sea, it's so big and you don't know what's out there. It kind of reminds me of when I was a little girl and afraid of the dark, it's the same concept really, it's immense and you don't know what's lurking in it. But even though it's a little scary it's very compelling. Sometimes you just want to disappear beneath the aqua green waves or fade into the darkness where nobody can find you…" She turned to look into his eyes as he stared at her with a puzzled look "where nobody can hurt you." He got momentarily lost in her coco colored eyes "But don't listen to me I'm just a dreamer." She said with a shrug "but one thing I do know-"she turned back to the sea "-Is that you should never be angry with a friend just because of an assumption. Find out the truth before you throw away the trust." She smiled and nodded to him as the boat pulled into the harbor "See you Monday Riku" and with that she walked off of the boat. Kairi walked off as well and Sora started to follow her but Riku grabbed his arm. He started to turn around but the older boy wouldn't let him. Riku leaned in close so that his breath was on Sora's ear "I need to talk to you. Come to my house tomorrow evening, understand?" he whispered Sora nodded "good. Now go Kairi is waiting" he let go of Sora's arm and walked off of the boat. Leaving Sora even more distressed.
(A/N: I'm not very good at doing Jamacan acsents, so bare with me ;)
