Title: Everything but Nothing – February
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts II
Characters: Roxas, Riku
Prompt: Table #5 – 013: February
Words: ~1,040
Rating: PG15
Summary: In which February is not the month of fluff, at least, not to Riku.
A/N: 50scenes challenge
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts
Roxas stretched his arms above his head as he laid on the couch comfortably, watching as Riku hurriedly prepared breakfast. The taller keyblader had roughly pulled his long silver white hair in a ponytail and whipped on an apron.
"Can you give me a hand, Roxas?" Riku suddenly asked as he caught Roxas' staring gaze.
Sighing, Roxas got up from the couch and headed towards Riku, "I knew you wouldn't be able to do it all by yourself."
Rolling his eyes, Riku ignored Roxas' comment and handed the blond keyblader a spatula, "look after the eggs for me, will you?"
Roxas took the spatula and looked at it grimly. He was never good at cooking…the eggs that Riku was asking him to look after, they were going to end up nearly inedible. Roxas looked at Riku's back and acknowledged that Riku too must know that the eggs weren't going to end up perfect like the eggs Riku can make. "Hey Riku, why did you drag us up so early in the morning anyway?"
"Hm?" Riku did not turn around to look at Roxas as he continued fussing over the soup he was stirring, "it's February, that's why."
"Right…", Roxas frowned, he waited a while and when Riku did not explain further, Roxas asked again as he probed the egg in the frying pan with a spatula, "so what's so special about February?"
Riku immediately looked up and turned his head to look at Roxas, "you mean you don't' know!"
"Why so shocked?" Roxas looked back at Riku, "how do you expect me to know anyway?"
Riku stared unhappily at Roxas for a couple of seconds before he pointed at the frying pan, "it's time to flip the eggs"
"Oh!" Roxas smiled up gratefully at Riku, "so let me guess, it's one of Kairi's special months where everyone is supposed to meet every morning at some ungodly time for a picnic party or something?"
Letting out a small chuckle, Riku shook his head, "I have no idea what makes you think that something like that even exists, but it's not, February has nothing to do with that fluffiness in which Kairi fawns herself over."
"Right", Roxas replied with sarcasm, suspicious of Riku's words as the thought of the gang actually taking advantage of his lack of knowledge to set him up with a month of early morning tea parties or something tedious of that sort.
"I'm being serious", Riku put the last of the vegetables he had chopped up on the chopping board into his soup, "I would never attend any of Kairi's obsessive fluff parties."
"Hm~ Well then I guess from now on we won't have to wake up early and we can cuddle all we want in the morning", Roxas chirped.
"No", Riku pointed at the frying pan, signalling for Roxas to keep flipping the eggs, "I refuse."
Roxas felt tempted to throw the spatula at Riku's head and force the other to obey him, however he restrained himself and flipped the eggs with a yawn, "so, what's so important about February that makes waking up early more important than sleeping in?"
"You mean you really don't know?" Riku looked at Roxas strangely before he grimaced with disgust at the state of the eggs. He extinguished the fire for the pot of soup and bought the ladle out as he started scooping soup into bowls for both Roxas and himself.
"I wouldn't be asking if I knew", Roxas sighed and leaned against the kitchen bench.
Riku blinked and held his tongue. Roxas asked a lot of questions he knew answers to, and Riku was sure that Roxas knew himself, the types of questions he asked. "February is the month in which the yearly tournament is held."
"Tournament?" Roxas raised an eyebrow.
"Sword tournament, the official one anyway, we have heaps of smaller ones every now and then, I'm sure you know." Riku placed the rather disgusting looking eggs onto separate plates and placed them beside the soup.
"What's the prize? Honour? Money?" Roxas asked, wondering what he'd do if the prize was money, all the things he could buy, maybe upgrade his gummy ship…
"You treat the village to dinner", Riku answered as he started eating, beckoning for Roxas to come eat as well.
"What?" Roxas took his seat and started eating as well, "what kind of prize is that? It's more of a punishment than anything else."
Riku shrugged, "I think it's an honour to be able to treat the whole village to dinner."
Roxas shook his head, sometimes, he just didn't understand Riku, "so, we're waking up early because?"
"Gotta train, the tournament is at the end of February, we've actually been really slack you know?"
Suddenly, Roxas put down his bowl of soup and walked towards Riku, single-handedly, he pushed Riku so that the older keyblader was lying with his back on the kitchen table, right next to the breakfast.
"Roxas?"
"Riku."
"What?" Riku frowned, wondering what Roxas was up to now.
"Let's have sex right now."
Riku wonders how Roxas always manages to say something so embarrassing and almost vulgar with such a straight face.
Roxas does not give Riku time to speak as he keeps talking with one of his hands already wandering and groping, "you're the one who wants to train right? We can start now, firstly with your stamina."
Struggling, Riku pushes Roxas off of himself when Roxas starts sucking on his neck, "Roxas, I'm being serious here, can't you stop being so horny?" Riku pouted at the other before he continued talking, "really, if you don't want to train with me I could always find other sparring partners, there's plenty on our island."
Sighing, Roxas lifts his hands in defeat, "fine, I guess I can let you off for now, I heard from Sora that you guys celebrate this one day in the middle of February, something along the lines of a day of love and just pure bliss."
Riku looked wearingly at Roxas.
"Don't tell me you don't celebrate it. If it means I can have you all to myself for the whole day, I'll gladly celebrate it."
Riku swore he was going to give Sora a good beating for even mention such a crude celebration to Roxas.