A/N: I based this on my own experience with Entomophobia (or Insectophobia). Nyctophobia is the fear of the dark/darkness.

Disclaimer: Do you really think I own Kingdom Hearts? Really? You're wrong.


For as long as Sora can remember, he's been afraid of the dark. It wasn't so much the darkness itself that scared him, but rather the feeling of being swallowed by eternal darkness. Of being trapped with no way back to the light. For as long as Sora can remember, he's had a night light. Once he turned 13, however, his parents decided it was time for him to face his fears. Now, Sora sat huddled in his blankets trying and failing to find a sliver of light in the pitch black room. Panicking, the brunette fled his room and his house, running through the streets in the middle of the night to find the one person who made him feel safe in the dark.

Riku awoke to the sound of knocking on the door to his balcony. Rubbing the sleep from his eyes, the 14-year-old walked groggily over to open the door, already confident of what – or who – he'd find there. Sure enough, he opened the door to find a messy head of brown hair and scared blue eyes staring at him. "Sora, what's going on? It's almost one o'clock in the morning." The silver-haired teen stifled a yawn as he gauged his friend's appearance. He looked shaken, as though he'd just woke up from a particularly vivid nightmare.

"R-Riku…" he stuttered, tears forming in the corners of his eyes, "C-Can I stay with you tonight."

Startled and worried, the silver-hair teen nodded, stepping aside to let his younger friend inside, closing the door behind him. They walked over to the bed and sat down, and Sora started crying. "Sora! What's wrong?! Did something happen?!" Riku looked at his best friend with an expression of worry, wondering what had shaken the boy so much to make him cry. When Sora failed to respond, Riku wrapped an arm around him in a comforting hug. In response, Sora practically jumped into his friend's lap, wrapping his arms around the other boys waist and crying into his night shirt.

"S-Sorry, sorry…" he stuttered out between sobs. Riku hushed him in response, muttering a mantra of 'it's okay's and 'don't worry, I'm here now's. "M-Mom and dad t-took away my night light. I-I don't like the d-dark."

"I'm sorry, Sora. But it's okay now." Riku pushed his friend back just enough so their eyes met. "You're safe here, Sora. I'll never let the darkness hurt you."

"You p-promise?"

"Of course! Now come on, time for bed. It's almost 2 in the morning now."

Sora looked at him and nodded in response before laying down. "Hey, Riku...thanks" he said, tiredly smiled at the older teen.

"For what?"

"For being my friend."


A/N: Not gonna lie, I think the ending could've been better but I was trying to finish this before I had to head to Calculus today. For those with no prior experience with phobias, a phobia is explained as an extreme irrational fear. When faced with what they are afraid of, people suffering from phobias react different ways. However, in my experience, I have a small panic attack. So that's what I did here. And of course parents always think phobias are the easiest thing to get over but they're not. Especially when the phobia is coupled with some form of traumatic experience. So I had Sora seek out the one person who would listen to him. Also, no Sora's parents would not be worried if they woke up and he wasn't there because I imply that this has happened before.

Edit: Yeah so my friend pointed out that the ending sounded like a romance fic which wasn't what I was going for. So I fixed it. Though most of you wouldn't know what I'm talking about since this story is like 5 hours old when I was fixing this so...nevermind. Maybe I'll do some romance drabbles in another fic if the readers so desire.