Sora woke with tears in his eyes. He looked around to see Riku and his aunt trying to figure out if they should take him to the hospital or not. Riku turned when he heard shuffling and moved to where Sora was on the couch.
"Sora are you alright?" Riku sat beside the younger teen that had just awoken. Aunt Sophie was staring down at him with concern.
"I think so." Sora was still in a slight state of shock at what he had seen when he passed out. He was hoping that it was just a trippy dream but that small voice in the back of his head told him otherwise. It told him that it was something much more important; it almost seemed like a warning of sorts.
"What happened to you?" He looked at Riku and wondered if he should tell him the contents of his disturbing dream. And if what he had seen was indeed a vision of sorts Sora knew that it would probably clear up years of wondering for Riku's family. Sora opened his mouth and then closed it again, words failing him at the moment. He cleared his throat and tried again.
"I don't know, the last thing I remember is talking to you guys about your uncle and…then…nothing." He decided that he should wait and tell Riku what he saw when they were alone. "How long was I out?"
"Not long, just about twenty minutes." Aunt Soph sat down beside him and grabbed his hand.
"Is there anything I can get you honey?"
"Some water would be nice. I'm parched." She was in the kitchen before he could even finish and came back with a pitcher and three glasses. Sora downed one glass and then another. After making sure that Sora was ok, he and Riku said there good-byes to Riku's aunt and then made their way back to the house. "Riku there's something I need to tell you."
"What's that?"
"I saw something when I passed out." Riku just nodded urging the brunette to go on. "I saw an alter that someone had made for your uncle. And then I saw his final moment." Riku was silent letting that soak in. Finally his voice found him.
"Are you sure that you saw the real thing? Not just some crazy dream?"
"You guys know where he was found right?"
"Yea but what does-"
"In my dream or vision whatever the hell it was, he was laying on a sideways grown paupu tree on a small raised section of land by an island connected by a wooden bridge."
"Holy shit dude…" Mouth thoroughly agape Riku tried his best to concentrate on his driving. "As far as I know only family members remember where he was found." The two were silent for a brief period both immersed in their own thoughts.
"He said something." Sora spoke again staring out the window as he waited for Riku's response.
"What did he say?" Riku was still finding all of this hard to believe.
"He said 'I'm so sorry, maybe we can meet again.'"
"Please tell me that you're kidding." Sora huffed indignantly.
"Why would I joke about something like this?!"
"I'm not mocking you! I'm just…it's that…god this is friggen intense. I'm sorry I'm just exceedingly wigged out right now and you have to admit this is all rather hard to believe." By this time they had finally pulled into Riku's drive way.
"But there was something strange about what I saw." Riku just gave him a look as if to say 'duh! You saw my uncle die!' So Sora decided to clarify. "Well, stranger than it already was. It was almost as though it was a warning to me, to us." For a while they sat in the car Riku grilling Sora about every detail he could remember. Only when Riku's mother came out to make sure that they were ok did they go inside. They once again shut themselves in Riku's room after dinner.
"Well, the only thing your 'vision' told us was that the guy you are the reincarnation of knew exactly what made my uncle kill himself. Would've been nice if he had said why."
"I think that maybe past Riku loved past Sora but past Sora didn't' feel the same about past Riku." Riku scratched his chin in thought.
"That's plausible I guess. It would explain the last thing he said and that my family got most of the story right."
"Yea. Hey Riku, do you think that we could do something that would get our minds off this thing? Like play the PS2 or something?"
"Sure." The remainder of the night was spent lost in a blur of swords, missions, chocobos, and laughing.
The next morning the pair decided that they would hit the mall for something to do. The moment they set foot in the mall Riku started to regret suggesting the idea. Sora dragged him from store to store aimlessly looking. He as almost as bad as a girl. Riku cheered up though when they entered Game Stop and began to play some random game that was being featured on the Wii. Riku was about to beat Sora again at some meaningless but amusing Wii task when someone called out to the two boys.
"Sora, Riku!" Sora turned around just as he lost to Riku to see Kairi meandering towards them.
"Oh Hey Kairi!" Riku finally turned at the mention of the red head's name and without a word pulled her into a rough hug.
"Hey Kai, so what are you up to today squirt?" Riku jumped back, anticipating the swing that came from Kairi.
"I'm not a squirt I've grown up since then! And I'm just doing some window shopping." Sora chuckled at the violent nature of the two and wound up catching Kairi's attention. He leaned back slightly when she narrowed his eyes at him as though deep in thought.
"Hey Sora? Where did you go to day care when you were about seven or eight?" Sora squinted his eyebrows at such an odd question but tried to remember none the less.
"Uhmmm…I think I went a place called Mrs. Katie's. Why?" Kairi's eyes lit up as she inhaled to commence her answer.
"Well after I saw you the other day I knew I had seen you somewhere before and it was bugging the crap out of me so I went and looked through some of my old photos and junk and found a picture from when I went to Mrs. Katie's and saw that unmistakable hair in the photo!" Sora eyes got rather big as he vaguely remembered a small girl that looked rather like Kairi who used to annoy him and his friends on the play ground.
"Holy crap I remember you now!" The smile on Kairi's face tripled in size as though her face had no limit to how far it could stretch. Riku was the only one who noticed that slowly Kairi was turning inward towards Sora and away from him almost as though he didn't exist at that moment.
"That is completely awesome! But anyway are you doing anything tonight Sora?" Sora glanced at Riku in question to which the silverette only shrugged.
"Uh we don't have anything planned right now."
"Well there is this killer party going on tonight and you should come it'll be a lot of fun!" Sora noticed how she left Riku out of the invite and couldn't help but wonder why.
"We'll think about it, Riku's got your number right?"
"Yea he should have it, just text me if ya'll decide to come and it was good seeing you guys again." She waved as she walked pass them and out into the throng of mall people. Sora turned to Riku as they were leaving store a short while later.
"Am I the only one who noticed that Kairi kind of ignored you?"
"Naw, it sometimes happens when Kairi latches on to something, but it's still rather rare for her to do."
"Sooooo about the party?" Riku just smiled as Sora so subtly hinted at what he wanted.
"Well do you want to go?"
"Yea, but do you want to go?"
"I'm always down for something when there's drinking involved." Sora just laughed and tugged Riku into another store hoping to find something to wear for the night since most of his clothes were still at home and Riku's would never fit.
Sora got Kairi's number from Riku and texted her as soon as he and Riku got back to the house. It turned out that they had spent so much time at the mall that they only had about an hour to get ready and get out there.
"How do I look Riku?" Sora modeled the clothes he had bought and Riku had a hard time keeping his jaw from falling open.
"You look great Sora" he tried to say nonchalantly. "How about me?" He did a full turn as Sora put on an intense scrutinizing face.
"You my friend also look great. Now come on we don't have much time to get there and neither of us knows exactly where we're going." The next twenty minutes were spent getting lost on back roads and through neighborhoods, but they finally found the place. Even from the car they could tell this party was already out of hand. There were teens running around on the lawn drunkenly, with the stereotypical red cups in hand and the music could be heard at least twenty feet away from the house.
"Hey Riku?" Sora stopped Riku a few feet away from the door.
"Yea?"
"Well umm…" Sora just stood there ringing his hands, "well, this is only the second time I've ever drank in my entire life and I just wanted to warn to that I don't exactly remember what kind of drunk I was the first time. And I apologize in advance for anything stupid that I might do." Riku threw his head back and laughed.
"Don't worry about it Sora. I've seen plenty of first time drunks and I know how to handle almost any kind of drunk. Even the horny ones." Sora's shoulders visibly sank in relief but his face burned with a deep blush at Riku's words and smirk. With that out of the way he turned and walked the rest of the way to front door and pushed it open. The second he did the boys were engulfed in waves of techno, people, and the smell of everclear. They began to try and push their way through all the people so that they could find where the drinks were. After some trying they finally found the kitchen and grabbed a cup of red shit off the counter.
So drinks in hand the pair went out to where music was blaring just as Raver's Fantasy came on.
"Riku!! I love this song! You have to dance with me!" Riku just nodded and downed the rest of his red shit as did Sora and followed the brunette into the mass of dancing bodies. Once there Riku grabbed Sora's hips and pulled him back so that he could grind against him. Sora's eyes widened at the sensation, he bit his lip and closed his eyes when he felt Riku's hands caressing his hips and moving down to his thighs.
"Enjoying yourself?" Riku whispered seductively into Sora's ear and relished the shudder that went down the brunette's body. All Sora could do was nod. And soon the pair was lost in the ecstasy that was liquor, music, and moving bodies. By the time two more songs had gone by the boys wound up dancing front to front, grinding their growing hard ons together. But soon the need for refreshment of some kind broke the two apart and they stumbled their way to the kitchen for another round of red shit.
"You guys came!" Sora splurted into his cup in surprise and turned on his heel to see a dolled up red head staring him down.
"What's up you two?" Kairi giggled a slightly drunk giggle.
"Not much has been going on with me," Kairi began to saunter closer to Sora in a manner that completely blocked Riku from the conversation. "But I want to know more about what you've been up too all these years?" She tried to put her arm around his back and move him towards the stairs at the back of the kitchen, but Riku caught Sora by the arm and saved him from the drunk Kairi.
"Do you guys wanna go and dance? This song is amazing!" Sora squeaked a quick yes and ran out of the kitchen leaving Riku and Kairi stare each other down for a small second before moving to follow the brunette. And that was the pattern for the most of the night, Kairi trying to steal Sora away somewhere and Riku preventing it. But once the alcohol really kicked into their systems all three teens just wound down and chilled on a couch talking and laughing.
"So you guys are saying that ya'll are the reincarnation of this Sora guy and your uncle from fifty years ago?" As Kairi's slurred words reached Sora's ears he lazily opened his eyes to stare at her.
"Yes, that is exactly what we are saying."
"But ya'll can't be their reincar- reincar-…reincarnations because for one: ya'll don't love each other and for two: I'm assuming that both of you are straight." Riku just glanced at Sora while she spoke laughing on the inside about how wrong she was. He was not straight at all and he was falling in love with Sora. Riku just hoped that Sora was falling for him right back or else the story would play itself out again with the same tragic ending. Sora didn't answer Kairi's drunken rambling mainly because he didn't feel like dealing with the reaction he was sure his answers would get. Instead it was Riku who piped up.
"Aight Kairi, it's been fun but me and Sora gotta get back to my house now so we can sleep this off and avoid as much of a hangover as possible." With that the boys stood up but before they could really get anywhere Kairi stopped them.
"Yous guys are waaaaaaaaay to trashed for either one of yous to be driving. Just go upstairs and sleep it off." With that she herded them both upstairs all three exceedingly unsteady on their feet. She ushered them into a random room, shut the door and then left. She was so drunk that she didn't realize she was missing her perfect opportunity to molest Sora.
As she shut the door Riku and Sora stood there just looking at each other for a small moment. Then without warning Sora ran, well wobbled, around the dark room until he found what he was looking for.
"Found the bed." Moving towards Sora's voice Riku tried to follow suit but when he went to put one foot in front of the other he failed and wound up on his face. He got up and tried again to walk only to end up in the same position all the while Sora sat perched on the bed laughing as he watched Riku's blobby outline hit the floor.
"It's not funny!!!" Riku whined as he pulled himself up onto the bed from the floor. Once both were firmly on the bed and going nowhere they laid there staring at the ceiling until Sora sat up, looked Riku square in his closed eyes and mumbled drunkenly at him.
"Do you think that what Kairi said was right?" Riku cracked an eye open.
"About what? She said a lot of the things that didn't really make that much sense."
"I mean about how we really might not be the reincarnations of Sora and Riku?" This is when Riku's drunken balls of steel came out.
"Y'know Sora there is one way to tell." Sora's eyes grew wide.
"What is it?" Riku motioned for Sora to come closer to his face. Sora inched slightly closer. Riku motioned twice more and each time Sora only inched slightly closer.
"Sora you're gonna have to get a lot closer if you want me to tell you." At this Riku reached his arms up behind Sora grabbed his ass for leverage and pulled him closer. Sora yelped at the sudden intrusion just in time for Riku's tongue and lips to easily find his. He stayed frozen for a small second while feeling Riku's mouth working on his, Riku's tongue sliding against his. But all too soon Riku let him go to search his eyes in the dim light from the window.
"You just….you…just…" Sora was at a lose for words.
"Yes Sora I just kissed you and now you can do one of two things. You can kiss me back or you can hobble out the door to brush the homogerms and everclear breath out of your mouth." Sora just stared at him like he was insane and then timidly dropped his mouth to Riku's again. This time Sora wasn't so paralyzed. Sora stared down at Riku hesitantly and then slowly lowered his lips. With Sora commanding this kiss it started out chaste and just kind of stayed there. Riku just rolled his eyes and pushed his tongue through his lips and touched it lightly to Sora lips waiting for the brunette to grant him entry. As was everything else he did Sora slowly opened his lips and gasped at the feeling of Riku's tongue once again sliding along his own. Hands began to grope and breathes began to hitch, but right as Riku went for Sora's neck the brunette slumped down, unmoving on top of Riku.
"Sora?" Riku gently shook the brunette. He got no response. "Sora?" Still no response. "You passed out didn't you?" A soft snoring reached his ears as an answer. With an amused smile gracing his lips Riku softly pushed Sora off of him, on to the other side of the bed, tucked him under the covers and made sure the boy was on his side incase he got sick in the night. Then he snuggled up to Sora's back, wrapping his arms around the small waist of the brunette. "Good night Sora."
Around ten that morning the two boys were awoken by the psycho ring tone emanating from the Sora's cell phone. Sora groggily shot up and quickly regretted it. He felt like someone was taking a jackhammer to his neck and an at least four ice picks to his head. He figured that damn ringtone definitely wasn't helping so he grabbed the phone from his shorts pockets and had a vague feeling that this wasn't going to be pleasant.
"Hello?" The voice that came over the phone snapped Sora wide awake.
"Sora! May I ask why you haven't been going to school?" Sora had completely forgotten about school.
"Mom! I…" It was then that Sora as glad that a night of drinking tended to make you hoarse the next day. "I've had a cold and I didn't want to get everyone at school sick. And before you ask I couldn't call in to excuse myself because you or dad have to do that for me. I just didn't think about getting you to call because you're so far away and occupied with grandma, I didn't want to bother you."
"Right you have a cold. Sora, I can tell you that I wasn't born yesterday. You better be in the school the very next time it's in session or so help me god Sora when I do come home from this trip I will you rip your butt up one side of the house and down the other!!" With that last sentiment the phone loudly clicked in his ear as his mother slammed the phone down onto the receiver.
"What the hell was that about dude?" Sora slowly removed the phone from his ear and turned to face a very pained looking Riku clutching his head.
"Dude….I forgot about school." Riku's eyes widened and he looked up from his lap as he realized exactly what Sora was saying.
"Wait, are you telling me that you aren't on holiday?" The brunette just shook his head. "Really!? That's the only reason you got to stay with me this week cause we have one week off!" Sora just stared at Riku as he broke into laughter.
"You've got to be kidding me." The laughter continued as Sora's head just sank lower and lower onto his chest. "Well Riku it looks like I've got to go home today so that I can get ready for class tomorrow but if you want since my mom still isn't here we can hang out this weekend together."
"I would love that Sora. But I have a question real quick."
"Yea?"
"Do you know where we are?" Sora looked around and realized he had no clue where the hell he was.
"Uhhh…" was all he could manage. "Well I remember getting ready for that party that Kairi was telling us about and then I vaguely when we got here and dancing but that's about it."
"Well your memory is better than mine then." Riku moved to get out of the bed and stretch. "I got another question…do you remember anything from last night? Cause I got nothing." Sora scratched at the back of his head as he thought. Other than before the party and the majority of the alcohol there was this one fleeting image in the back of his mind but he couldn't clearly recall it. Although a blush did creep up his face and neck as he remembered how they danced at the party.
"Other than what I told you about earlier the rest is all a blur." Riku raised an eyebrow at the brunettes oh so obvious blush. He remembered almost everything from the night before, especially that kiss. But he thought Sora would've said something if he remembered the kiss, so what memory was he blushing at? Riku figured it was probably the dancing that he was remembering.
"Damn, I was hoping you could fill me in on some of the events at least." He laughed nervously hoping that Sora wouldn't sense the lie.
"Sorry dude can't help ya out there." By now both were out of the bed and heading towards the door of the room. Once in the hall they looked and around and saw quite a few people passed out on the floor. It was the same heading down the stairs once they found them and then by the front door. Although before Sora got the front door he looked to his left and found Kairi and froze causing Riku to bump into him.
"What's the deal dude?" All Sora could do was point to Kairi and Riku's mouth dropped when he finally spotted her. She was laying on a table shirtless and her skirt pushed up to her hips and a blonde that looked like Tidus passed out on top of her.
"Oh my god dude!" Sora made a move to go and help her out but Riku stopped her. He turned looking puzzled. "What gives? We should help her!" the silverette shook his head.
"No don't. She's done this before and got mad at the last person who did that for her because she didn't know that she'd had sex until about three months later when they were joking about the party. Sora just quirked his eyebrows and turned back to the front door to leave.
They got some breakfast on the way to Riku's house and chilled around once they got there. Soon after that they were on their way back to Sora's house. The ride was not as long as it had originally seemed and a somber mood fell over the car as they pulled into Sora's drive way.
"I really had fun with you this week Riku. And I'm glad we were able to clear up most of that little bit of mystery!" Grabbing his things Sora opened the door and walked to the drivers side as the silverette got out of the car to say good-bye.
"It was fun wasn't it?" Without meaning too Riku wound up no more than two inches from Sora's face just as he stood up. The blush that lit up the brunettes face was absolutely priceless.
"W-w-we-w-well, I guess that I-I-I'll see you later!" With that he turned on his heel and walked as fast as he could to his front door, waving good bye as Mt. Vesuvius pulled out of his drive way. But when he watched Riku leave, that image he was trying to recall earlier this morning suddenly popped back up into his head clear as day. Sora slapped his hand over his eyes in total mortification and disbelief.
"You've got to be kidding me!!"
"Sora! Only you could get drunk at a major bash and not remember your first time!" He spun on the spot to find Axel and Namine standing on the far side of the porch. He must have looked over them in rush to get away from Riku's penetrating glare.
"What!?!" he squeaked.
"You heard what I said; only you would've been stupid enough to get drunk at a major bash and then completely not remember your first time! And by the look of the smile on Riku's face as he left I know something happened!" Between missing a week of school without realizing it and forgetting about giving Riku his first kiss, and a bit more, in a drunken haze Sora just didn't have a lot of patience for Axel today. So without hesitation the boy picked up a stick from the bushes to his left and proceeded to chase Axel around all the while Namine sat on the side lines cheering Sora to 'Hit him harder!'
There ya go guys the *correct* revamped chapter four! But I will go ahead and warn you that the next few chapters are going to be slight filler chapters to further display certain things and events. But I just want to thank the people who reviewed the last chapter! I will admit that I squealed when I saw that I had reviews. And a major thanks to AngelEtty for pointing out a pretty big mistake. Haha but yea thanks again you guys and I'll try to get the next chapter out as soon as I can!