Sólo Tú, Sólo Tú by Dark Silicon

Chapter: Practical Jokes (Once)

Disclaimer: If I owned Kingdom Hearts Kairi wouldn't exist, but she exists because I don't own it.

Author's Note: I just realized how short my other chapter was. Oh well. I'll try to extend this one.

"Wake up! Rise and shine, it's already eight o'clock!" Sora just squeezed his eyes tighter and the girl talking laughed. Sora felt the girl fall out of the window and land on his bed, pulling the comforter off of him. Sora growled and pulled the blanket back, but the girl held on tightly. "Sora, you have to get up. We're going to have a little ceremony for Tidus. Obviously you have to come." Sora soon recognized the voice as Kairi's and he rolled his eyes under his eyelids. This was the last person that he wanted to be talking to right now. "Besides, we're going to leave tonight." Kairi whispered this and Sora's eyes popped open. They couldn't leave tonight! Riku and him still hadn't found out about Tidus, and Sora didn't really want to leave anymore anyway. It wasn't really his cup of tea at the moment. He felt Kairi's body leave the bed and heard her jump down out of the window. Good. Sora sat up and stretched, it was only eight o'clock? He had been up all night...Sora stood up and was about to get dressed, but he heard someone else fall through his window.

"Will you people just ring my doorbell?" Sora growled angrily and he turned around to face his bed.

"No, that's too original." Riku explained as he grabbed the little orange fish doll and looked it over. "This thing is so ugly Sora, get rid of it." Riku laughed and Sora just sighed. Kairi and Riku all in one morning? It was really too much. "So, are you going to the ceremony? Cuz, I have an idea." Riku elaborated as he tossed the fish to the foot of the bed.

"What is it this time?" Sora asked and Riku just grinned.

"We have to examine Tidus' body. That will give us more of a lead as to what's going on. Besides, I know what you do to kill people now." Riku mumbled and Sora cocked an eyebrow.

"That's great Riku, but I have to talk to you first." Sora stated firmly and Riku just looked at him. Sora shifted and held on to the bottom of his pajama shirt. "Don't stare at me!" Sora whined and Riku laughed, looking more at Sora's feet then his face. "Listen, I was thinking...and, Ur, well. I think that we should, this is hard." Sora mumbled to himself and Riku just cocked an eyebrow. What was Sora trying to say? He was usually pretty talkative. "We need to see other people." Sora mumbled and Riku looked up at his face.

"Huh?" Riku asked and Sora just flushed.

"Well, listen, we can still be friends and all, but, to me this isn't working out." Sora explained and Riku tried to manage a laugh. What was this all about? Sora wasn't the one to usually play practical jokes.

"You're really bad at practical jokes Sora, you have to at least sound a little bit serious." but it was the fact that Sora sounded so serious that worried Riku. Sora sighed and sat down on the bed, saving his fish from an untimely end of falling to the floor.

"I'm not joking Riku. I'm serious. You really don't seem to be...well I suppose it's also my fault." Sora mumbled and Riku just stared. There was no way, this was all happening too fast! He had just won Sora and now he wanted to break up with him like that? What had he done to piss Sora off like that? It should be him that was dumping Sora!

"What the hell do you mean?" Riku asked angrily and Sora just stared at him. "I didn't do anything to you! If anyone should be angry, it should be me! You tried to kill me yesterday!" Riku growled and Sora just blinked.

"What do you mean?" Sora asked Riku curiously and Riku just sighed heavily.

"You went into crazy mode and stabbed me through the heart with your stupid sword. Somehow you managed to fix the wound, but I thought that you were going to kill me!" Riku explained, his face growing hot. Sora sighed and then looked at the fish in his arms.

"Oh...then, that explains why I was in the Tree shrine. I thought that you left me there." Sora explained and Riku let out a deep breath. He felt a little bit of his anger leave him, maybe that's why Sora had been so upset with him. "Well...then, forget what I said. But, I have a couple issues to address." Sora smiled and Riku jus laid down, eyes closed. That had been a pretty nerve-racking moment. He had really thought that Sora was going to get rid of him. "First off, you have to be nicer to me. For someone who claims to love me, you don't really act very lovey." Another made up word, Riku noted and he smiled. "Second, you have to figure out what's wrong with me before I kill Selphie or someone who I like. Third, Kairi wants to leave tonight." Sora informed Riku, and now the white haired boy jumped up.

"Tonight? She wants to leave tonight?" Riku asked frantically and Sora nodded. That wasn't good. There was no way that they could figure this all out in a day! That would be next to impossible, there was too much to find and not enough leads. "Well, we can't." Riku bluntly told Sora and Sora nodded in agreement. There was just too much to solve.

"I knew that you'd say that." Sora laughed as he stood up, but Riku grabbed his hand. Sora looked back at him and blinked. "Well, what? We have to get moving." Sora told him, but Riku just pulled Sora back onto the bed, into his lap. Sora smiled and let Riku pull him into a little hug.

"Hey, you should have told me if you didn't think I was 'lovey' enough...I was just a little preoccupied with the situation at hand. If you know what I mean." Riku explained and Sora nodded.

"I understand. I was acting silly that's all." Sora shrugged and Riku laughed.

"Not really...I wasn't paying much attention to you, although, you are the murderer that we're trying to catch." Riku mumbled and Sora frowned. He pulled away and faced Riku.

"You really think it's me?" Sora whispered and Riku bit his bottom lip.

"Well, yeah Sora. I mean, who else could it be?" Riku asked and Sora just frowned. "I saw you try to kill me." Riku explained and Sora sighed.

"I don't mean it." Sora told Riku, and the white haired child burst into laughter. This caught Sora off guard, was that funny?

"Don't look so defensive! It's just, do you seriously think that I thought you meant to kill me?" Sora smiled, that was a relief. "I bet that you're having memory lapse or...something." Riku trailed off at a sudden thought. "Sora, are you schizophrenic?" Riku asked and Sora just looked around.

"I...what?" Sora asked and Riku just shook his head.

"Never mind, just a thought." Riku mumbled and he pulled Sora back into a hug. He was too cute to be alive. "Anyway, we have to get moving." Riku told him, and he let go so Sora could get dressed. Riku waited for Sora to leave, but instead Sora decided to kiss him. Hey, it wasn't a bad thing.

"Better start without them." Kairi sighed and Selphie just nodded. "I told them to show up, but, they were both still sleeping when I left." Selphie sighed and motioned for everyone to start the little ceremony that they had designed. Riku and Sora had never shown up. Instead they were still on the other island, just leaving Sora's house. It always took Sora a lot longer to get dressed than anyone else on the island. The two also weren't planning to go to the ceremony, they had to find Tidus' body. It was most likely in Tidus' bedroom, waiting for its coffin. Sora and Riku quietly walked over to Tidus' house, which was covered in vines and flowers from head to toe, and towards the left side of the house. Riku looked up at the top window and sighed, eyeing the vines that ended in a flower box on the windowsill. That was Tidus' room, but, he didn't think that the vines would support his weight. Riku looked over at Sora, who seemed to be thinking the same thing.

"Listen, this doesn't look safe. We're going to have to find another way in." Riku told Sora, but the brunette just smiled.

"I can climb it." Sora stated boldly and Riku just frowned.

"No you can't. You're skinny Sora, but, I still think that your ninety-pound body will dislodge that flower box." Sora frowned and Riku just crossed his arms. He wasn't going to let Sora climb that.

"Oh well, just let me try, please! It's not that high." Sora laughed, but Riku looked behind him. There was the ocean.

"Sora, the ocean's right here! If you fall, then you could fall in the water." Riku explained but Sora just snorted.

"I can swim." Sora mumbled, and then he grabbed a vine. Riku frowned and looked at Sora angrily as the brunette attempted to climb the house.

"Get down Sora! If you fall, I'm not going to catch you!" Riku yelled as Sora was already half way up. Maybe he could make it? Riku still doubted it highly. "Sora!" Riku yelled up frantically, but Sora just kept going. This was stupid. Riku sighed, it was no use, he wasn't coming down. And he was almost there anyway. Riku watched as Sora grabbed onto the flower box, and he was going to pull himself in, but, he wasn't really going anywhere. "Sora! Did you find Tidus?" Riku called up to him and Sora sighed.

"He isn't in there." Sora told him, and he started to climb back down. Riku frowned and decided to go look in the back window. Her could be in the living room, though he doubted it.

"I'm going to check around back." Riku told Sora, and the brunette nodded. Riku walked around back and looked through the back window, Tidus wasn't there...but his Mom was. She looked up at Riku in shock and then frowned. Riku grinned and waved a little. "Hello Mrs. Tidus' mother. How are you?" Riku asked and the woman just glared, walking towards the window. She was about to address Riku, but a loud snapping noise made them both turn around. There was another snap, and then a thud. Then a few more thuds, and a painful squeal. Riku was confused for a moment, but then he broke into a run. He ran to the side of the house to see that all of the vines that had been on the house were hanging loosely off of the house. Some broken, and others still attached to the flower box and windowpane that were on the ground. And there lay Sora, underneath all of it. Riku frowned and walked over to Sora to help him up. He had told him not to climb that. But, Sora was just too stubborn. Riku got down on his knees, but Tidus' mother had just shown up. She looked up at the mutilated window angrily and then looked at Riku.

"So, is this some kind of a joke?" she asked and Riku shook his head. "Well, then what...uh oh..." the woman mumbled as she walked over to the mess on the ground. Riku looked at her and decided to ignore her. He pulled the flower box and windowpane off of Sora, and lifted the brunette up into a sitting position. Of course, now Riku knew why she had been worried. Sora had slammed his head onto a large rock, which caused the brunette to start to bleed from somewhere on the head that Riku couldn't find. And, his eyes were gently closed. Riku felt his heart skip a beat...there was no way that Sora had...died? No, he couldn't have died from a little fall like that. Riku turned him over and started to look through his hair for the wound, Tidus' mother checking some of his swollen limbs. It wasn't very hard to find. It was above Sora's right ear, and it had chipped through his skull. Riku was speechless...there was no way. "Let me see it." the woman asked and Riku handed him over.

"He...he's not dead...is he?" Riku asked and Tidus' mother sighed, the bags under her eyes becoming more visible. She didn't answer and Riku felt himself turn pale.

"I don't think that he's dead, no..." the woman finally answered and Riku sighed with relief. "Go take him to his mother, she's a better doctor than I am." the woman told him and Riku took Sora back. "Actually, let me do it. You shouldn't drag him around." the indecisive mother stood up and then ran off to find Sora's mom. Riku looked Sora over and sighed. His left arm was definitely broken, the box had fallen on it. Riku didn't really want to...but he had to see if Sora was alive...He placed his ear on the boy's chest and his eyes grew wide. He moved his ear over a little, and then a little more. But...no matter where he went...Sora's heart was perfectly silent.

He was dead.

- The End -

- To be Continued -

Wow.