Sora held onto Riku as he continued crying. Riku held him, rubbing his back and trying to sooth him. "It's alright Sora. You're ok." he said softly. Sora continued sobbing "I-I-I broke the rules." Sora cried. Riku held him tighter "Don't worry. I know for a fact, Mickey will not say a thing about this." Riku promised. Sora buried his head further into Riku's shoulder and hair. "I hurt them..." he said sadly. "I hurt them..." he repeated. Riku pushed him back a bit "Sora! It was self defense! You were almost raped by four or five guys!"
Riku's eyes widened a bit as Sora's tears began falling harder and he began shaking more. Being nearly raped was what he was the most upset about, he was trying to keep his mind off it by thinking of the parts he was slightly upset about instead. "I'm sorry. It's alright Sora. Come on, let's go to my house. No studying tonight. We're going to relax and try to put this all out of our heads." he told him. Sora nodded, his crying not calming though. Riku looked at Sora's clothes and frowned. His shirt was useless and his pants were so ripped they no longer stayed up.
I never thought I would ever use this again for anything. Riku thought as he pulled out his old black cloak. Sora looked at it surprised as Riku put it on around him, "D-Ditn-didn't you toss it away in-hic-the organizations world?" Sora asked. Riku shrugged "When we were about to go through the door to fight Xemnas, it ended up getting blown back to me on the wind. So I rolled it up and stuck it in a pocket." Riku explained as he picked Sora up. Sora wiggled a little so that his face was still hidden.
Riku looked down at him sadly as he stood up and made his way home with him. Setting Sora on the bed, Riku got some of Sora's clothes for him that he had left a couple times when staying over. Riku looked at the bruises before deciding Sora had enough on his mind. Riku gave Sora's cheek a light touch and a light went around him. Sora looked at his arms surprised. "Healing magic? Th-That's against the rules though." he said softly. Riku hugged him "Don't worry about the rules right now. You've had a rough time of it, especially tonight. Just relax for a little bit."
They spent the weekend at Riku's house, letting him stay in doors without worrying about the guys at all. Riku did ask what happened though, what Sora had done. Sora explained it, though he seemed a bit uncomfortable thinking about it. When he was turned over and spread out, he couldn't stand what was happening. He brought his Keyblade out and hit the ones close to him. When they had come back at him he had panicked and shot fire at them. It had missed, though it caught the place on fire. They freaked and ran out of the building.
"So they didn't really get anything more than a few bruises?" Riku asked. Sora nodded "I think so. I hadn't really been aiming all that much, I was just swinging it around." he admitted. Riku nodded and laid down beside him. "Sora, do you like School?" he asked, looking over at him. Sora turned to his side to face him. He frowned as he tried to think about it. "I don't know...I guess I like seeing everyone from the island there." he said. "Do you like school though? You can always see them at the island." Riku told him. Sora curled up a bit. Riku could tell Sora's answer was no. It wasn't just this experience either probably, Sora didn't really like classes or studying.
"I feel like we don't really belong in this world anymore really." Sora said sadly. Riku nodded "Ever since we came back, I've felt different from everyone. No one else here knows about whats out there, or what happened." Riku agreed. Sora looked up at him "I hadn't felt that we had changed much at all since we left, but no one seems to treat us like we were from here to begin with." he said softly. Riku sighed. "Sora, I think tomorrow will be our last day of school."
Sora looked at him confused. "Our last day? I thought we still had a few months. Did we get orders from the king?" he asked. Riku smiled and shook his head "No Sora. We just wont go back after." Sora frowned as he tried to think about it. "We'll go to school normally tomorrow. I'll leave a message for Kairi so she understands what is going on. After school we'll meet up on the island." Riku told him. Sora looked at him "Are we going to be staying on the island instead of school?" Sora asked. Riku rolled his eyes and smiled "No Sora, we'll travel to other worlds." he said. Sora looked up at him surprised "We always go to other worlds with a purpose, it would be nice to go to a world just to see it. Not with any rush to go to the next one to save them from darkness." Riku said. Sora smiled and nodded, nuzzling into Riku more. "Yeah. It does sound really nice."
The boys looked at each other, still a bit shaken at what had happened. "Like I said guys. He probably just picked that thing up off the ground, when he swung it he hit something else and a spark was made and that caused the fire. Things don't just appear and a person can't make fire out of thin air." Jake said determined. They were on school grounds, which worried the boys all the more if they ran into Sora after what happened. Not only had he beat them and scared the hell out of them with the fire, but they failed to do as planned. They didn't rape him, and they didn't hold much fear against him now probably. If Sora so much as mentioned it to a teacher or authority, they were screwed.
"Hey Jake." one of the boys said, pale as his white shirt. "What?" Jake said a bit worried. "How do you explain that?" the boy asked, pointing. Following his finger, they all turned to look. Their eyes widened as they saw Sora. He was walking beside Riku still, clinging to him a bit more than before-though if he was scared or just feeling more free to express himself was unknown. The thing that got all of them though, there wasn't one injury on him. Not one of the bruises they had inflicted on him.
Riku noticed the group leave the school grounds, Sora not paying any attention as they walked toward the school building. Going inside, Riku pulled away from Sora a bit "Alright, you'll be fine Sora. I'll see you at lunch." he said with a smile. Sora nodded hesitantly, still a bit scared. Riku placed a light kiss on his forehead "Don't worry. Trust me." Sora nodded and with that, the two went their separate ways.
As the day was coming to an end, Riku looked at his note and nodded. Seeing Sora heading out to go to the island, Riku began walking toward Kairi and gave her the note. She was shocked to see it, but smiled and nodded. "Be safe you two." she told him. He nodded and waved as he walked off. There was one more thing he needed to take care of first before he could leave.
The group was throwing stones into the water as they tried to figure out how Sora managed it all, and at the same time tried not to think about it. Looking over as they heard footsteps on the sand, they saw Riku. Riku was a bit surprised to see that they had gathered on the shore facing the island. They didn't feel much fear toward him though as they gathered up and looked at him. "Well if it isn't the boyfriend. What do you want?" Jake asked with a grin. Riku looked up at the sky.
"You guys are also people Sora wants to protect." Riku said. The group looked at him confused "What?" Riku ignored the question "to me you are just normal people." he muttered loud enough for them to hear. "He's always like that. He doesn't even care if he gets hurt. It's so foolish." he said "What are you talking about?" Jake asked confused. Riku finally looked down at them "Though admittedly he didn't like what you last tried to do to him." he said glaring at them. They took a step backwards. "Sorry, I'm talking to myself." he said with a shrug. "Whatever Sora wants to protect, I will do the same." he said, looking toward the island he knew Sora should be at by now.
He looked back toward them "However, unlike him, I'm not such a nice person. Above all else, what I want to protect is Sora. Not you guys." he told them. He lifted his hand up and looked at it with a bored look. "If I leave it be, you may try to hurt Sora again. Either way you need to be taught a lesson, even if Sora doesn't like it." he said. Darkness began coming from his hand as he spoke again. "Sometimes it's necessary to call upon the darkness, that is the path I have chosen. That's why, if it's needed, I will break the rules." he said as his blade appeared in his hand.
The boys began backing away more quickly as they saw this. It was just like what they saw with Sora, in the way it had appeared in his hand from nowhere. "How-!" Riku looked over at them. "I was talking to myself. Did you hear all of that?" he asked. They continued backing away. "If so, forget all of it." he said, taking a step toward him. "Whatever you see or hear, about me and Sora." he said taking another step. "Or else." he said glaring at them.
As he finished up, having not actually hit them but rather hitting the ground in front of them and creating a large crater, he hid his weapon again. "Just so you know, Sora is just as strong-if not stronger-than me. In case you ever wonder or feel he is weaker and easy to attack again. He's just got a kinder heart than me." he mutter to them. The boys were shaking as they watched Riku walk away. As he left their sight, they collapsed and fainted in fear.
Sora sat on the beach on the island looking at the pillar of smoke in the distance curiously. He was thinking about going to investigate, when he heard a voice. "Sora." Riku said, getting his attention. Sora pointed at the smoke "Look at that! What do you think happened? We should go see-" Riku cut him off "I did that." Sora looked at him in shock "What!?" Riku shrugged "They needed to learn not to do what they tried to, ever again. Don't worry, it was just a threat." "You threatened them!?" Soar shouted shocked. Riku sighed "It was just to scare them. They'll be fine." he said.
Giving up, Sora sighed. "Are you ready?" Riku asked. Sora hesitated "Riku, can we go tomorrow?" he asked. Riku looked at him curiously. "I don't want to go to school, but I want to spend one more day here before we go." he explained. Riku smiled and nodded. "Alright. We'll go tomorrow."
