Well, it took a bit, but here I am with the next chapter. I hope you enjoy it and that you come back to read it. Anyway, enjoy!
Disclaimer: Yes, I still don't own Kingdom Hearts.
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The supplies for the trip were stacked up high in Kairi's little house, and everything was being checked off as it was brought in. Everyone was feeling tired. If it wasn't from discretely hauling supplies from the market, it was from being cooped up in the house. The Destiny Islands were now on alert for both Sora and Riku ever since Sora had run away from his parents house. And Riku, being the "pedophile" that he was, couldn't go out in broad daylight anytime soon. So, they had to stay locked in the house, away from the windows letting in sweet sunshine and cool ocean air. Donald and Goofy had arrived just that morning after the call to come and help make ready for their trip to help the king. The letter still hadn't made Sora feel any better, but he was…adjusted for it this time and ready to face the future.
Goofy stumbled into the house loaded down by the little Potion vials and Ethers he had managed to scrounge up from the market. It wasn't a very large haul… "Hey Goofy!" Sora said, almost excited for the change in scenery. "Hey…where's Donald?" Goofy set down the boxes (nearly dropping a few in the process) and replied to him, "Well, he went to go check the…uh…burial!"
"You mean the barrier, right?" Riku hadn't been around the knight all that long, but his infectious smile and screwy vocabulary had already gotten the best of him. "Uh… yeah, the barrier, hyuk!" The barrier was supposed to be able to repel any Heartless or Nobody that entered the area, but since the Heartless attack (if that's what it can be called), everyone had been jumpy at the slightest noise. Why it had started to fail now, no one knew, and that's why Donald was looking into it.
"CONFOUND IT ALL!!!" That and the door slamming announced Donald's angry return. Hardly a happy person a fair bit of the time, he was especially furious now. "I am a magician, and yet for all my training, I can't tell what's wrong!!!" "What's the analysis, Dr.? Will our baby be okay?" Donald turned to glare at Riku. "For your information, fly boy, that barrier was keeping the darkness from swallowing your island again! For some reason, it's failing and I can't find out why!" Donald was very proud of his magic, and apparently the failing barrier… well, everyone gets the point. Riku smiled wryly at the infuriated magician and said, "So we definitely cannot stay here for much longer. The Heartless are drawn by the Keyblade, and there are three here. I don't think we have much time left…"
Sora turned to him and replied, "Yeah, and we thought that they were gone with Maleficent. I guess she survived The Town That Never Was and the Nobodies." He frowned at that. He had never liked that witch, especially with her brood ready to leap upon Destiny Island, but he had thought she perished when she attempted to stem the flow of Nobodies from chasing them (the only notable thing she had done.). With the Heartless that had come there, it meant that she was still alive and commanding them.
At that moment, Kairi burst in (to join the rest of the class reunion), out of breath but smiling happily. "Alright. I have good news and bad news. The good news is…pant,pant…is that no one has any idea where Riku or Sora is… The bad news, they're starting a search of every district on the island. They won't be starting near here, but with the number of people they have, it will only be a matter of hours." She waited a moment for all of it to sink in and continued, "We have to hurry, unless you all plan to have the policemen send us off."
"Right," Sora said, "I better go hit my house real quick, unless Kairi plans on providing me clothing for the trip." Everyone laughed nervously at the thought of Sora wearing a thong and a tight pink dress. "Riku, could you come with me? I figure I they catch me, I might as well show them who I'm running away with."
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The house was dark with the absence of Sora's parents. "Of course they wouldn't be here. They would be out hunting for their delinquent son."
"Hey." Riku startled Sora out of his thoughts. "Let's hurry, unless you want your parents to chain you in your room." Sora smiled widly at the return of a certain event like the one he just mentioned. But all the fun aside, they headed up to Sora's room to pack up some of his clothing. The door stood wide open and all of his things were thrown around. "What were they thinking, that I would leave something important laying around?"
"Oh hardly, Sora." The black figure materialized behind them, shutting the door and sealing it off. "What the hell?!" Maleficent, because that's who it was, smiled evilly at the two of them. "Now, now, Riku, why have you turned against me? I remember a strapping young boy who sold himself to the darkness."
"Trust me, you old witch, I have turned from you and the darkness that has consumed you!" Riku didn't need to be reminded of that time, the time when he fought against Sora... it was hard enough to live day to day with it on his mind.
"Well, you shall soon turn back." She turned to Sora. "Ah, so I see you're still alive. You are far greater skilled than I ever thought, but of course you had to be to destroy the Organization for me!"
"But I have a reason to be here, you see. Since you did that favor for me, I have one for you. I'm giving you a warning; do not go with the King. There is no doubt you are powerful, but with the many Heartless that I have there, you would never be able to make it in and back alive... or at least in your own bodies..." She turned to leave, but said over her shoulder, "Oh, and by the way, the Heartless are coming here. To give you a gift from me. If you want to avoid them, I would suggest you hurry..."
She laughed at them, filling it with malice and hate beyond recognition. "I have repaid my debt! Have fun!" And with that, she disappeared in a cloud of black.
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It took very little time for the two of them to get Sora's things together and call Kairi to tell her to get everything ready. They practically sprinted back to Kairi's to make sure everything was in place, hardly worried about who saw them.
"Is everything ready to go?!" Sora's voice rose over the din of hurry that covered the house. No one answered, but it was obvious they were lucky to be making it out at all. Random items were left out all over the house. "Damn it, we have to hurry. We're not sure when the Heartless are going to be here..."From outside, there came a scream from Kairi. "Guys, HURRY!!!" Riku peeked out of a window near the door. There were people everywhere, and none of them too happy. Among them... were Sora's parents.
"Sora, come out of there! We know you have been brainwashed by Riku! Please come back to us!!!"
That sentence repeated itself through Riku's head for a while until it finally stopped. "I've... brainwashed him, have I?" It made him angry, unbearably angry. He stormed outside in front of the crowd. They all saw and jeered him, demanding he bring Sora out to his parents. "You think I would really do something like that to my friend?" He held back the word he wanted to say. "Besides, I'd let him come ot if it weren't for the fact that he didn't want to. Let me ask you something; Did Sora's parents tell you what they did to him?" Everyone looked around, not really understanding what Riku was getting at. "They locked him up like a common criminal because of us! They barred his windows and had locks put on the outside of his door just so they could control him a little more!!!"
Suddenly everyone didn't look ready to pull anyone limb from limb. Everyone eyed both parents, who suddenly went red in the face. "Well, he was acting like... like... a gay!" And that was the start of something terrible.
While the two of them were being grilled, everyone else in the house took the chance to get the last bit of things to the Gummi Ship waiting behind Kairi's house. "Umm, Riku, I think it's time to go..." Sora pulled him away and through the back. "I gotta say, I didn't think everything would go so well..."
Sora turned to him. "Riku... ummm... what you said back there... thank you..." He started turning red, he had something else to ask him. "Uh... Riku... would you... would you be my boyfriend?!" He turned away quickly, face turning redder by the second. "I... I know that we will be on the run, especially with the Heartless and Nobodies after us again, but I just want to know... to know that no matter what, I'll always have you with me..."
Riku smiled; no, he laughed out loud. Is this what bothered him? "Hey," Sora said, "this is serious! How can you..." And again, as so many times before, Riku's kiss cut off any words he had thought of saying.
Riku pushed him onto the Gummi Ship, and they felt themselves push away from the atmosphere. But thy didn't know for sure. They were in the back making out...
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I realize there was probably a loss of direction here, but I thought that something was wrong here. It may just be me, and I understand. I'm sorry if something IS off. Anyway, read and review!
