-Okay; so the last chapter kind of worked out my stupid writers block. Idunno though. This one is in Rikus point of view. Hope you enjoy! :D

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Disclaimer: Just. Shove. It. :( I do not own Kingdom Hearts. All rights go to those who rightfully own them.

Chapter Nine :D

I tried laying back down to rest. I couldn't help but to remember Soras expression when I backed away from his kiss. He knew I was lying about the cold. Why didn't he bring it up? I sat up and sighed loudly. Sora was mad at me, I knew it even though he was too much of a nice person to admit it. I wanted to tell him what was eating at me but what if he didn't accept me? Maybe Terra was right, maybe it would be impossible for me to tell him about my past. Too many things intruded my mind now. There was no way that I could go back to sleep. I trudged myself out of my little nurses room and walked to the Dinner Hall, pretty sure that Sora would be there eating breakfast with the others. When I got to our table everyone except for Sora was there. They looked down at their plates and muttered hey extremely quiet as I sat at the table.

I figured that Sora had gone for a walk or went back to the cabin so I didn't ask where he was, instead I said hi back and ate a plain pancake. "Did the doctor say anything about you coming back to the cabin?" Roxas asked obviously trying to avoid a different topic. I nodded and said, "He said that I can come back tonight if I feel up to it."

I recalled the night before, after Terra had left the doctor came in smiling brightly while looking down at his notepad. He had looked up and said in soothing voice that I had recovered almost completely and mentioned that I was lucky to have Sora. I asked him what he meant but instead of explaining it he merely laughed to himself and started to jot something down in the notepad. He smiled at me once again and before he left he said, "You can go back to your cabin tomorrow, if you'd like." over his shoulder.

"You're doctor's hot." Roxas said softly. Axel looked down at his boyfriend and smacked his arm softly. "I'm gonna go back to the cabin, 'kay guys?" I said quietly. They looked at me worried as I got up. I had come over there looking for Sora and he obviously wasn't there, no point of sticking around. When I got to the cabin I plopped down on Soras bunk, not feeling like climbing up to mine. I grabbed my book which was surprisingly right next to Soras pillow. 'The God Box' was written on the top of the cover. I've read the book so much that I could practically recite it front to back but it never got old. Never. I was up to chapter thirty-eight when I checked the time. '9:53 AM' my phone blinked. Why wasn't Sora back? He didn't seem like someone who would go deep into a forest alone; he had common sense. I got up and walked over towards the lake where I thought at least one of the others would have been. When I saw Axels' flaming red hair I called out his name and waited as he got out of the water and jogged over to me.

"What's up?" He asked while he shook his head to dry his hair. "Do you know where Sora is?"

His face went serious but looked down at his bare feet. "What? Where is he?" He looked at me with a stern face and said, "Promise you won't get mad."

"Just tell me where the hell-" Then one thing popped into my mind. "Terra?" I was beyond pissed. I stormed off to the main cabin screaming at Axel all the way. "Why the hell didn't you tell me? Didn't you think I deserved to know? What the fuck possessed you to let him go?" I was angry at Axel and the others but not as angry as I was at myself. I should have gone with Sora to breakfast. It was my fault not theirs but I never did like taking responsibility. I barged through his office door and found no one. As I turned to leave I remembered how last summer him and I had hung out in his cabin-like place numerous times. I quickly opened the door and flooded with anger at what I saw.

Terra was holding Sora down as he kissed him. I balled up my fist and collided it against Terras cheek. While he was still down I hit and kicked him some more. I know that sounded bad but the dude deserved it. Axel picked me up by my waist and carried me out of the main cabin. "Why the hell did you do that?" I screamed when he put me down. "Cause if I hadn't then you might have beaten him to death!"

"That was what I was trying to do! Are you blind or just stupid?" Just then Sora wrapped his arms around my waist and cried softly into my chest. "Hey. Hey. Hey. Why are you crying? Don't cry." I soothed him. "I-I shouldn't have gone w-with him." he said in between sobs. I picked him up and let him wrap his legs around my waist. "It's not your fault. Don't worry." I carried Sora back to our cabin and laid down next to him on his bunk.

"I'm sorry." he said quietly as he set his head on my chest. "Don't be. I should be the one apologizing."

"I just didn't think he was that type of person."

"I didn't either." I kissed the top of his head softly.

"He told me that you didn't love me. That you were hiding from me. And I remembered this morning when you backed away from me. I thought; you know;" he paused for a while before continuing, "I thought that Terra was telling the truth. But that didn't mean that I wanted him." He sat up and looked me in the eyes before saying, "I don't care about your past. I really don't. Nothing that happened to you in your past could ever make me love you any less. You can tell me when you're ready. Just know that I personally can't judge you because of your past. I'm in no position to judge at all." he laughed and continued in a joking manner. "I don't care if you were a girl before. If you're into bestiality. That's you're prerogative. Just tell me what's eating at you whenever you're ready. Promise?" He held his pinky out looking for a pinky promise. I smiled and promised.

When I picked up my book he smiled and admitted to reading it while I stayed in the nurses room. "Paul reminds me of myself. I like it." he said as he laid back down and rest his head back on my chest. Somewhere in the middle of Chapter Forty Sora started to softly snore. All though it confused me how he can fall asleep in the middle of the day I ended up falling asleep not much longer after he did.

-Riku saved the poor defenseless Sora! YAY! :D Anyway, tell me what you think, good bad or indifferent.