Disclaimer: All characters of Kingdom Hearts is property of Square-Enix and Disney.
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"Ro---atchoo!" His nose turned red. His head throbbed hard and loud. His body felt cold and hot from time to time. This worried Roxas as he watched Sora rubbing his temples.
"You should take a rest," Roxas said as he pushed the brunet to lie on the bed.
"But I promised Riku to meet him today," Sora said weakly. Roxas rolled his eyes.
"Your health is much important than seeing that stupid guy," Roxas said. Sora whined. "Take a rest or you won't make it to the contest." This shut Sora up.
"Fine…" the brunet said then closed his eyes. Roxas sighed. He looked at the clock hanging by the wall before he sighed again. The clock is showing the time is 10 o'clock in the morning. He should be at school by now but apparently, his older brother got sick again, thanks to a certain silver-haired guy named Riku. Yes, he will always blame the young man even if it was not his fault at all.
'Sigh. I might as well take a rest.'
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'Sora is sick,' he thought then sighed. His friend looked at him in concern. 'And I was planning to bring him to see stars tonight.'
"Riku."
'But it's my fault. If I hadn't brought him to the pier, he wouldn't be sick…'
"Riku!"
'Oh well. I guess I'll wait till he gets back. Hopefully soon…' Riku looked at his wristwatch that had date in it. 'Three more days till full moon.'
"RIKU!"
"W-What?" Riku looked at frowning Kairi and sweatdropped. "What is it, darling?" Riku asked. Kairi crossed her arms and frowned terribly. Riku sighed. "Sorry."
"What were you thinking?" Kairi asked.
"Nothing," Riku replied. Kairi arched her eyebrow. "All right. All right. Sora's sick."
"Really? Oh dear. Is he all right?" Kairi asked, worried.
"Maybe."
"That's weird. I thought he has recovered…" Kairi mumbled. Riku gulped and weakly smiled. To be the truth, he had not told Kairi about last night where he and Sora had gone to the pier. Reason: afraid. "I hope he'll get better soon," Kairi said.
"Hopefully."
"Hoohh…" Kairi smirked as she folded her arms on the table.
"W-What?" Riku did not like the way Kairi looked at him.
"You're into Sora, aren't you?" Kairi asked. Riku gaped.
"W-What? No!"
"Yes you are. You know, this is the first time I see you're worrying over someone you met for less than a month," Kairi said then grinned. "You like him."
"…Am not," Riku said, blushing.
"Liar."
"Whatever."
"I knew it!" Kairi exclaimed and chuckled when Riku's face turned redder than before. Slowly, she reached for Riku's hand and squeezed it firmly. "Riku, do you love me?" she asked.
"Of course," Riku replied without hesitation. Kairi smiled. "I love you more than anything in this world," Riku said as he caressed Kairi's cheek before he kissed her.
"Hmmmm…sweet," Kairi said. "So, are you going to visit him?"
"I'm not sure…I have enough of receiving Roxas' glare," Riku said. Kairi laughed.
"Come on! I want to see Namine too," Kairi said.
"Fine. Fine."
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"You sure have a very low antibody," Riku said at Sora, smirked when the brunet pouted. "Oh well. Have you taken medicine?"
"Yep. Roxas forced me to take those painful medicines," Sora said, grinned as Riku laughed.
"Then make sure you take a very good rest if you don't want to take those medicines anymore," Riku said. Sora nodded.
"I'm planning to," Sora said, grinning. Riku nodded. Then silent. None said anything. For a few minutes, Sora was staring at Riku who also happened to be staring at him. Their eyes, blue to aqua, sending some kind of sensual feeling into their body. Weird but true, Riku wanted to look at those blue eyes forever. "Riku."
"Hmm?"
"Why do you hate homo?" Sora asked. Riku stiffened.
"I just hate them," Riku replied.
"Why? There must be a reason," Sora said. Riku bit his bottom lip.
"It's just…wrong," Riku said.
"Wrong? How wrong? In term of what?" Sora asked. Riku is struggling inside, to find the right answer.
"Sora…God made us humans consisted of two genders. Don't you think there is a reason why God made male and female? Obviously it's so that these two genders could be together and produce more human," Riku said. "Besides, because of gay peoples having sex with each other that the world is now filled with various kind of incurable disease."
"But that doesn't mean you should hate them," Sora said. Riku frowned. "I mean, they love each other and that's more than enough."
"That wouldn't be a true love," Riku said.
"Love doesn't recognize genders, Riku," Sora said. Riku bit his bottom lip. "Love is all about heart."
"…" The statement from the brunet made the infamous Riku speechless. He never thought he would be having a difficulty in talking bad about homosexual relationship. Usually, he would continue to ramble about how disgraceful and disgusting those kind of relationship with anyone else until they could not argue anymore. However, the brunet managed to make him turned silent. The brunet even told him something that he never thought about.
"I don't think Riku hate gay people," Sora said. Riku blinked. "I know Riku had never hated them."
"Why do you think that? Don't you remember I burned my father's novel last time? That shows you how much I hated homosexual," Riku said. Sora smiled genuinely.
"Then, Riku wouldn't have dated with Roxas," Sora said, once again made Riku turned speechless. "I think…something must have happened that made Riku broke up with Roxas." Riku gulped, stared at the brunet in disbelieve. "Right, Riku?"
'He knows. He knows. But how? No one knows, not even Roxas. Except him. Except that guy so how come he…' Riku shook his head and calmed himself down. 'No. it's impossible. He wouldn't know the real reason. It's just his assumption.' Riku then smiled. "Yeah…something happened that made me broke up with Roxas…and made me against homosexual relationship," Riku said. "But I won't tell you."
"That's okay," Sora said. "I understand."
"…Thanks."
"But tell me one thing, Riku."
"What?"
"Do you really hate homosexual?" Sora asked. Riku always quick in answering such question before but now, his voice stuck in his throat the moment he opened his mouth. Sweat trickled down from his forehead as he thought about the answer.
"…No," is his answer and it surprised him more than it surprised Sora. Then, to his amazement, Sora smiled cutely.
"I'm glad to know that."
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After sending Kairi home, Riku went home by walking. It was nighttime and the air was chilly. He had to stuff his hands into his robe pockets to warm himself. The moon above shone brightly that Riku could see the path before him without streetlamp help. Although Riku preferred the streetlamp than the moon itself, because no matter how hard the moon tried to shine, clouds sometimes tend to block the light. Just like himself. As much as he wanted to accept homosexual relationship, something will try to stop him.
Or someone.
"Struggling, Riku?" A voice stopped him. Riku looked at the person standing before him and frowned badly. "My…what a frown. It's been a while since I see that one."
"What do you want?" Riku asked, hissed.
"Chill. I just come to pay a visit to my lovable best friend."
"Who's your best friend, you bastard!?"
"Deny as much as you want, Riku. You will always be my best friend…" the person smirked slyly. "For you joined my principle of life ever since five years ago." Riku gritted his teeth in anger. "Now…I heard you've become a friend to gay-lover." Riku stiffened. Fear suddenly surrounded his body as he thought about one thing. "Who's the lucky guy, Riku?"
"He's not a gay-lover," Riku said.
"Right. He read your father's novel." Riku gulped. "Let see…Sora, brother of Leon whom married to Cloud, brother of Roxas." Riku's eyes widened. "He's cute, I have to admit that."
"Y-You! Don't you dare…"
"In fact, he's must cuter than Roxas. My, I'm worried he'll be able to convince you not to hate homosexual, Riku," the person said and smirked as Riku glared at him deadly. "But I'm more worried that you'll fall in love with him…"
"I'm not going to fall in love with him!" Riku shouted.
"Oh really? We'll see about that…in a month," the person said before he walked away, leaving standstill Riku.
"Bastard…Vayne…"
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A/U: Things getting ugly here...