Disclaimer: Okay, do you seriously think I own Kingdom Hearts? NO! So, no,
I don't own Kingdom Hearts! Jeeze!
Pairing: Sora/Riku
Author's Note: Okay, sorry for the last chapter- I know, it was extremely short! Sorry about that, but I didn't want to get into the part where Riku goes over to Sora's house yet. It was one of those "in-between" type chapters! hehe- well... all I can say is that I hope you guys enjoy it! Oh yeah, I just wanted to add in the part about Sora cleaning his room because whenever someone comes over to my house, my mom says the same thing... hehe! CLEAN YOUR ROOM GOD DAMNIT! Anyway... read on! Sorry bout the over- excessive Kairi bashing- it's necessary but since you don't seem to like it, don't worry I won't focus on that. I might not even mention her for awhile... Okay well on with the chapter!! This one will be much longer I hope... I'll see when I post it on ff.net.
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Parting Of The Ways
Chapter 4: Realizing Your Feelings Isn't Easy
The brunette boy had finished cleaning his room and he had just slouched down onto the sofa, watching night time cartoons, although he wasn't paying very much attention to them. Rather, he was thinking about Riku. He seemed different in a way. Different like the way he acted towards Sora. Sora didn't want to believe that Riku would actually like him in that way- would he? "No, I'm just over-reacting."
About after 20 minutes of spacing, the doorbell brought Sora out of his thoughts. "Common, Sora, open up!" He heard Riku's voice ringing out, although not as enthusiastic as usual and more hoarse. Sora's mom beat him to the door, hugging Riku quickly and then his mother who had come too. The two women went on with their conversation while Riku and Sora walked towards each other.
"Yo, Sora. Hey." Riku sounded normal as ever.
"Nothing, just waiting for you to come over." Sora started smiling for some reason he didn't know why.
Riku dropped his sleeping bag onto the floor, then looked at the expression on Sora's face. "Riku, your sick. There's no way your sleeping in that. You can sleep in my bed."
Riku must have misinterpreted what his friend had said, "Gee, Sora, I dunno if your bed can hold the two of us." A smile was curving onto his lips.
"No not together! I mean, I'll sleep on the sofa or whatever, but you need my bed." Riku's smile dropped.
Their conversation, though was interrupted when Riku's mom's voice rang out, "Honey, I'll be home tomorrow, don't stay too late and bother them!"
"Oh, how could Riku EVER bother me?" Sora's mom adored Riku for all the things he had showed and taught Sora. The events of Kingdom Hearts didn't seem to change her opinion of him in the least bit.
"Love you sweetie."
"I love you too mom." Riku rolled his eyes. He couldn't stand being babied. His mother knew he loved her, right?
The slamming of the door brought realization to the fact that Riku was actually spending the night with Sora. Sure, he had before, plenty of times, just this certain time, Sora felt more excited.
"Now, Riku, baby, you lie right down, do you need anything?" Sora's mother kissed the silver haired on the head. Jeeze, you would think he was her son, not Sora, with the way she carried on.
"No, I'm fine. Besides, Sora already promised to take care of me." He laughed, but then stopped, realizing his mistake.
"Really? Sora? Ha!" She had always teased her son about being such the ditz he was. It was absolutely adorable. "Okay, boys, what do you two want for dinner? Riku, do you think you can handle spaghetti or will you throw it all up like you did last time you came over and ate spaghetti when you were sick?"
(Let's just say Riku didn't have the best stomach while he was sick...)
"No, it's fine. Don't you remember I was what, eleven?" Riku was smiling, he always knew how completely cute Sora was whenever he ate spaghetti.... slurping the noodles, tomato sauce all over his chin, twirling the fork around in his cute little hand... he erased those thoughts from his mind when he noticed Sora staring at him funny, like, What the crap are you smiling about?
Soon the whole kitchen was filled with the smell of spaghetti. The two boys were sitting, facing each other just staring into one another. Blue eyes meeting the striking green ones.
Sora's thoughts:
"He's so pretty."
"His eyes are gorgeous."
"He looks like an angel."
"Damn, he's hot."
Until Riku broke the silence, starting to feel uncomfortable. "Man, I'm hungry....."
Sora blinked. Why did he just think about Riku like that? There was *no* way he was gay, or bi. Sora liked girls, right? Wrong. So very wrong.
"Yeah, me too." Sora was always hungry, what a surprise.
"Your always hungry. What about that response was supposed to shock me?" Sora kicked Riku hard in the shin at that comment. "OW!! SORA THAT HURT!" Riku winced.
"Sora! He's sick- don't break his leg!" The brunette woman came in checking on the timer located on the stove. She had heard all the noise and decided to check it out.
The next thing though, both boys were kicking each other under the table and both were smiling like complete love-sick teenage girls at each other. Both were thinking, "Hehe, this looks a lot like footsie!"
"Riku? Sora? Hungry?" Sora's mom placed a plate pilled with spaghetti in front of both boys. With a smile she said, "Eat up you two, especially you," she nodded towards Riku.
Sora rolled his eyes and started eating. Looking up every now and again to notice Riku's silver bangs floating across the top of his forehead so magnificently. Sora was trying oh so desperately to control his emotions. "Girls, Girls, Girls, Girls. Think that way. Think about women, think about why men love women. Think about how sweet they are. Think about how people would react if they knew he had a thing for Riku. Think about that."
But the problem was, Sora really did have a thing for Riku. A very BIG thing, might I add.
Riku had noticed Sora staring at him. He picked his head up and looked the other straight in the eyes. "Why's he looking at me like that? Does he feel the same way as I do?" Riku almost jumped out of his seat with happiness at that thought- but he managed to control himself.
"What's the matter Sora?"
It's now, or never.
"Nothing, Riku. What made you ask that?" Sora smiled and traced his finger along the design of the plate.
"Okay, whatever you say, Sora."
The two went back to eating, carrying on their usual conversation with each other. The same "Guy" type of conversation without another word about anything that would hint something being the matter with Sora.
After about another twenty minutes, both boys had finished eating and were now sitting on the sofa together both playing Nintendo 64, gripping the controller in their hand firmly, trying desperately to beat the enemy on the screen. It was a team effort, Sora and Riku against whoever they were playing. They were so young for their age, those were the only two on the island who were still into playing those silly games.
"Common', Sora! Your not helping!"
"Whatever, Riku!!! I'm trying! I'm doing better than you by the way."
"Yeah, sure, Sora." Riku couldn't stand not being number one.
Finally, they had lost, Riku blaming Sora, and Sora blaming Riku. Like usual. It was absolutely adorable the way those two fought. It was now about 11:55, almost midnight, when yet again, Sora's mother rushed in carrying blankets, shoving the two boys off the couch and onto the floor. She started unfolding the sofa, revealing a bed, for Sora to sleep in. After about another five minutes, she announced, "Boys, I know, your both old enough to stay up all night. In fact, you could if you wanted to, although Riku, you need your rest. And Sora, dear, I don't want you catching whatever it is that Riku has, so you both need to go to sleep now. Riku, I'm sure by now you know where Sora's room is."
"Sure I do, but Sora, you need to change first, so go ahead first."
"Night you guys. Love you both." She kissed both Riku and Sora on the forehead and headed off into her room.
Riku started picking up his bag and taking out a pair of checked blue and black boxers and a plain, white tee-shirt. He unfolded them (What this guy folds his clothes when he goes somewhere, Jeeze!) and waited for Sora to go back into his own room so he could change. When he noticed Sora wasn't budging, he pushed him down the hallway, and into his room. "Sora, I know you would love to stick around and watch me change, but you need to change too you know?" Riku smirked. That just slipped out there.
That remark had caught Sora totally off guard. Did he know? "Riku! I was just spacing, God!" He had to cover this one up somehow.
"Yeah, sure. Just hurry up, I'm tired and I wanna get some sleep."
Sora entered his room and carefully closed the door behind him, making sure it didn't squeak so that he wouldn't wake his mother up. He walked over to his dresser and opened up the underwear drawer, pulled out the same ensemble Riku had, a different design of boxers (If you really wanna know, I'm imagining Sora with red ones, like his shorts sort of from Kingdom Hearts.) and quickly pulled them on. Closed the underwear drawer and started looking around for anything that Riku might snoop through. You never knew what he was capable of, for all Sora knew, Riku might go on some expedition, checking everything out- and for some reason this worried Sora.
Sora opened the door carefully, almost screaming when he saw Riku standing right there.
"Jeeze, Riku! You scared the crap out of me!" Sora tried hard not to yell, he didn't want to wake his mom up.
"Sorry, but you change so slowly. Now, can I go to bed? I'm not feeling all that well anymore."
"Sure, Riku, nighty night!"
"Yah, I love yo-" Riku stopped himself.
"What? What did you just say?" Sora wasn't really paying too much attention, thank goodness.
"Oh, I said, I love your sleep wear! Hehe! Anyways, night, Sora!" Riku was blushing like crazy as he rushed past Sora and into his room, slamming the door and getting into bed, his face hot, he almost on the verge of tears.
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Okay, this ending was a bit better I suppose. Sorry, I'm listening to the Nightmare Before Christmas in the other room. I like Sally lol, I'm listening to her song about Jack right now. I was seriously pissed when she wasn't a princess of heart. She might not be as pretty as the others, but she is very nice- isn't that all that matters? I love that movie- possibly my favorite of all time, and I adore the music. I think it's wonderful. So reviews? I hope this chapter was an improvement! And I didn't bring Kairi back in- so I guess the setting was more peaceful. Riku's going to have to leave and then I'm not sure who or when or where or how will confess their true feelings to the other one. Hope you enjoyed!
Pairing: Sora/Riku
Author's Note: Okay, sorry for the last chapter- I know, it was extremely short! Sorry about that, but I didn't want to get into the part where Riku goes over to Sora's house yet. It was one of those "in-between" type chapters! hehe- well... all I can say is that I hope you guys enjoy it! Oh yeah, I just wanted to add in the part about Sora cleaning his room because whenever someone comes over to my house, my mom says the same thing... hehe! CLEAN YOUR ROOM GOD DAMNIT! Anyway... read on! Sorry bout the over- excessive Kairi bashing- it's necessary but since you don't seem to like it, don't worry I won't focus on that. I might not even mention her for awhile... Okay well on with the chapter!! This one will be much longer I hope... I'll see when I post it on ff.net.
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Parting Of The Ways
Chapter 4: Realizing Your Feelings Isn't Easy
The brunette boy had finished cleaning his room and he had just slouched down onto the sofa, watching night time cartoons, although he wasn't paying very much attention to them. Rather, he was thinking about Riku. He seemed different in a way. Different like the way he acted towards Sora. Sora didn't want to believe that Riku would actually like him in that way- would he? "No, I'm just over-reacting."
About after 20 minutes of spacing, the doorbell brought Sora out of his thoughts. "Common, Sora, open up!" He heard Riku's voice ringing out, although not as enthusiastic as usual and more hoarse. Sora's mom beat him to the door, hugging Riku quickly and then his mother who had come too. The two women went on with their conversation while Riku and Sora walked towards each other.
"Yo, Sora. Hey." Riku sounded normal as ever.
"Nothing, just waiting for you to come over." Sora started smiling for some reason he didn't know why.
Riku dropped his sleeping bag onto the floor, then looked at the expression on Sora's face. "Riku, your sick. There's no way your sleeping in that. You can sleep in my bed."
Riku must have misinterpreted what his friend had said, "Gee, Sora, I dunno if your bed can hold the two of us." A smile was curving onto his lips.
"No not together! I mean, I'll sleep on the sofa or whatever, but you need my bed." Riku's smile dropped.
Their conversation, though was interrupted when Riku's mom's voice rang out, "Honey, I'll be home tomorrow, don't stay too late and bother them!"
"Oh, how could Riku EVER bother me?" Sora's mom adored Riku for all the things he had showed and taught Sora. The events of Kingdom Hearts didn't seem to change her opinion of him in the least bit.
"Love you sweetie."
"I love you too mom." Riku rolled his eyes. He couldn't stand being babied. His mother knew he loved her, right?
The slamming of the door brought realization to the fact that Riku was actually spending the night with Sora. Sure, he had before, plenty of times, just this certain time, Sora felt more excited.
"Now, Riku, baby, you lie right down, do you need anything?" Sora's mother kissed the silver haired on the head. Jeeze, you would think he was her son, not Sora, with the way she carried on.
"No, I'm fine. Besides, Sora already promised to take care of me." He laughed, but then stopped, realizing his mistake.
"Really? Sora? Ha!" She had always teased her son about being such the ditz he was. It was absolutely adorable. "Okay, boys, what do you two want for dinner? Riku, do you think you can handle spaghetti or will you throw it all up like you did last time you came over and ate spaghetti when you were sick?"
(Let's just say Riku didn't have the best stomach while he was sick...)
"No, it's fine. Don't you remember I was what, eleven?" Riku was smiling, he always knew how completely cute Sora was whenever he ate spaghetti.... slurping the noodles, tomato sauce all over his chin, twirling the fork around in his cute little hand... he erased those thoughts from his mind when he noticed Sora staring at him funny, like, What the crap are you smiling about?
Soon the whole kitchen was filled with the smell of spaghetti. The two boys were sitting, facing each other just staring into one another. Blue eyes meeting the striking green ones.
Sora's thoughts:
"He's so pretty."
"His eyes are gorgeous."
"He looks like an angel."
"Damn, he's hot."
Until Riku broke the silence, starting to feel uncomfortable. "Man, I'm hungry....."
Sora blinked. Why did he just think about Riku like that? There was *no* way he was gay, or bi. Sora liked girls, right? Wrong. So very wrong.
"Yeah, me too." Sora was always hungry, what a surprise.
"Your always hungry. What about that response was supposed to shock me?" Sora kicked Riku hard in the shin at that comment. "OW!! SORA THAT HURT!" Riku winced.
"Sora! He's sick- don't break his leg!" The brunette woman came in checking on the timer located on the stove. She had heard all the noise and decided to check it out.
The next thing though, both boys were kicking each other under the table and both were smiling like complete love-sick teenage girls at each other. Both were thinking, "Hehe, this looks a lot like footsie!"
"Riku? Sora? Hungry?" Sora's mom placed a plate pilled with spaghetti in front of both boys. With a smile she said, "Eat up you two, especially you," she nodded towards Riku.
Sora rolled his eyes and started eating. Looking up every now and again to notice Riku's silver bangs floating across the top of his forehead so magnificently. Sora was trying oh so desperately to control his emotions. "Girls, Girls, Girls, Girls. Think that way. Think about women, think about why men love women. Think about how sweet they are. Think about how people would react if they knew he had a thing for Riku. Think about that."
But the problem was, Sora really did have a thing for Riku. A very BIG thing, might I add.
Riku had noticed Sora staring at him. He picked his head up and looked the other straight in the eyes. "Why's he looking at me like that? Does he feel the same way as I do?" Riku almost jumped out of his seat with happiness at that thought- but he managed to control himself.
"What's the matter Sora?"
It's now, or never.
"Nothing, Riku. What made you ask that?" Sora smiled and traced his finger along the design of the plate.
"Okay, whatever you say, Sora."
The two went back to eating, carrying on their usual conversation with each other. The same "Guy" type of conversation without another word about anything that would hint something being the matter with Sora.
After about another twenty minutes, both boys had finished eating and were now sitting on the sofa together both playing Nintendo 64, gripping the controller in their hand firmly, trying desperately to beat the enemy on the screen. It was a team effort, Sora and Riku against whoever they were playing. They were so young for their age, those were the only two on the island who were still into playing those silly games.
"Common', Sora! Your not helping!"
"Whatever, Riku!!! I'm trying! I'm doing better than you by the way."
"Yeah, sure, Sora." Riku couldn't stand not being number one.
Finally, they had lost, Riku blaming Sora, and Sora blaming Riku. Like usual. It was absolutely adorable the way those two fought. It was now about 11:55, almost midnight, when yet again, Sora's mother rushed in carrying blankets, shoving the two boys off the couch and onto the floor. She started unfolding the sofa, revealing a bed, for Sora to sleep in. After about another five minutes, she announced, "Boys, I know, your both old enough to stay up all night. In fact, you could if you wanted to, although Riku, you need your rest. And Sora, dear, I don't want you catching whatever it is that Riku has, so you both need to go to sleep now. Riku, I'm sure by now you know where Sora's room is."
"Sure I do, but Sora, you need to change first, so go ahead first."
"Night you guys. Love you both." She kissed both Riku and Sora on the forehead and headed off into her room.
Riku started picking up his bag and taking out a pair of checked blue and black boxers and a plain, white tee-shirt. He unfolded them (What this guy folds his clothes when he goes somewhere, Jeeze!) and waited for Sora to go back into his own room so he could change. When he noticed Sora wasn't budging, he pushed him down the hallway, and into his room. "Sora, I know you would love to stick around and watch me change, but you need to change too you know?" Riku smirked. That just slipped out there.
That remark had caught Sora totally off guard. Did he know? "Riku! I was just spacing, God!" He had to cover this one up somehow.
"Yeah, sure. Just hurry up, I'm tired and I wanna get some sleep."
Sora entered his room and carefully closed the door behind him, making sure it didn't squeak so that he wouldn't wake his mother up. He walked over to his dresser and opened up the underwear drawer, pulled out the same ensemble Riku had, a different design of boxers (If you really wanna know, I'm imagining Sora with red ones, like his shorts sort of from Kingdom Hearts.) and quickly pulled them on. Closed the underwear drawer and started looking around for anything that Riku might snoop through. You never knew what he was capable of, for all Sora knew, Riku might go on some expedition, checking everything out- and for some reason this worried Sora.
Sora opened the door carefully, almost screaming when he saw Riku standing right there.
"Jeeze, Riku! You scared the crap out of me!" Sora tried hard not to yell, he didn't want to wake his mom up.
"Sorry, but you change so slowly. Now, can I go to bed? I'm not feeling all that well anymore."
"Sure, Riku, nighty night!"
"Yah, I love yo-" Riku stopped himself.
"What? What did you just say?" Sora wasn't really paying too much attention, thank goodness.
"Oh, I said, I love your sleep wear! Hehe! Anyways, night, Sora!" Riku was blushing like crazy as he rushed past Sora and into his room, slamming the door and getting into bed, his face hot, he almost on the verge of tears.
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Okay, this ending was a bit better I suppose. Sorry, I'm listening to the Nightmare Before Christmas in the other room. I like Sally lol, I'm listening to her song about Jack right now. I was seriously pissed when she wasn't a princess of heart. She might not be as pretty as the others, but she is very nice- isn't that all that matters? I love that movie- possibly my favorite of all time, and I adore the music. I think it's wonderful. So reviews? I hope this chapter was an improvement! And I didn't bring Kairi back in- so I guess the setting was more peaceful. Riku's going to have to leave and then I'm not sure who or when or where or how will confess their true feelings to the other one. Hope you enjoyed!
