Okees! *Stretch* I am back and ready to continue…! {I think…} Honestly, I had the whole story perfectly plotted out in my mind from beginning to end, but err…It all went bye bye! ^_^() So anyway, enough babbling, here's chapter 3. {Thank-you all for the positive reviews from the previous chapters!}
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"…I didn't say anything offending, right? What's up with Sora and Kairi lately?" Riku went on mumbling a few other things of the sort, poking a small twig around in the sand, supporting his head with his other hand. Riku boredly dug his shoe in a horizontal line, until someone else's rather large foot stopped his shoe and thoughts.
"Are you worrying about me?" A little voice called out from behind.
"What the—" Riku's sentence was quickly butchered by another person jumping on top of him from behind. Riku struggled to turn his head to enable himself to get a glimpse of…Sora…???
Unable to grasp any time to even think of what kind of reaction to give, Riku shoved Sora firmly aside.
"THE HELL? Damnit, what is wrong with you? You sc…." Riku stopped, and unfluffed his pants, keeping his cool.
Sora laughed amusingly, taking no offence to Riku's harsh tone.
"I scaaared you." A wide smile stretched across Sora's face, strong and knowing how right he was by Riku's uneasy, yet relaxed, silence.
Riku was taken aback by crushing gloom lines, and not a thought of a sentence to say. He just gave a rather pathetic, grumpy look, although he knew very well his face was showing just the opposite of what he felt. Sometimes Riku even felt uneasy from just feeling…so comfortable around Sora. He felt like he didn't need to have that stern exterior around him. No, it was surely different around Sora.
"Aww hey, what's with that look? Ehm, sorry about throwing a stupid fit. I just really thought I was gonna win that round." Sora laughed childishly, sticking out his tongue with an even goofier smile than before. At this point, he was plopped down right next to Riku, his stomach on the warm, soothing sand beneath him, his arms folded keeping him upright.
Riku looked blankly at him for a few seconds.
…But it wasn't too long before the tension of his seriousness was interrupted by Sora, who busted out laughing.
"What now?" Riku sweatdropped.
"T-That face! Man, you look so tense! Like the worlds gonna collapse or something. 'Aaah, the sky is falling!'" Sora lightly whapped teasingly at Riku's head with his wooden sword.
Riku took some offense to Sora's teasing at first; but after seeing Sora's brightened, purely happy expression, he couldn't help but smile.
"Yeah, yeah…"
Sora stopped his laughter and just flashed a warming smile with his head tilted slightly, happy to see Riku smiling as well.
"So….uh…" Riku stuttered.
Sora stared at him with full attention, waiting eagerly to hear whatever it was Riku had to say.
"…C-Could you stop that? It's even making me uneasy." Riku turned his head in the opposite direction.
"Oooh…sorry." Sora sweatdropped, still smiling away, and began humming.
Why is he so happy? Is there something he's wanting? Uch, this feels just a bit awkward… Riku shook his head and turned back to Sora.
Sora smiled at him, tilting his head to the other side now, as if asking with his eyes 'what is it, Rikuuu?'
Think…of something…to say…argh. Riku scratched his head, reacting slowly to how nervous he was actually feeling.
"How's that leg of yours?" Came out quicker than his thoughts could process. ...Whaat….the hell was that?! Riku mentally smacked himself upside the head.
Sora laughed yet again.
"Fine, it's not really any big deal." He pushed himself up into a sitting position and pulled his shorts slightly up again to show Riku up close.
"See?"
"Uhh…I don't think that's anything to be proud of." Riku smirked.
"Ahaha, I know." Sora lost attention to everything else except his conversation with Riku and smacked his wound.
"OWW!" Sora winced quietly, squeezing his eyes shut.
Riku blinked, sighing at Sora's stupidity, but also showing him a bit of sympathy. Riku rose to his knees and leaned over Sora just a bit to take a better look at that wound.
"Man, Tidus is brutal. That's a lot worse of a whack than I thought. Y'might want your mom to check that out."
Sora leaned his head on his knee.
"Oooh man, it didn't even hurt as much when he first whacked me…" He rocked himself back and forth biting his lips inward to keep himself from whining.
"Do you want me to help you back to your house?" Riku offered.
"Umm…well…Riku…"
"Sora, that wound really doesn't look good…you're leg looks a different color now…"
"Yeah, umm…"
"It's like more than a bruise…"
"Riku…?"
"Whoa, it even looks like it's bending the other way!"
"….Errrrgh."
Riku blinked. Whoa, I'm sounding like his mother or something….
"Ah Riku?"
"Sorry. Let's just get you—"
Riku's arms limped and dropped loosely to his side. A cold shock fled through his nerves and mind, as his eyes widened when he was interrupted by Sora's warm kiss planted so unexpectedly on his lips.
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Wooow…that happened faster than I had planned. ::Laughs:: Ah well…Yes, I was going to make this chapter longer, but hey, I gotta leave you at a good cliffhanger to keep you reading, right? {Hehehe…kinda like those REALLY annoying mangas that do that to you…o.o;} Well hope you enjoyed reading! I'll have chappie four up as soon as I can! R&R, pwease. ^_^