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Chapter Two: Spread your wings…
This was bad. Really bad. The silver haired boy was mentally cursing himself, how could he have forgotten?! Forgotten that he'd promised to meet Sora. Forgotten that they were going to spend the day together. Sometimes Riku wondered if his name should have been baka!
He'd been on his way to Sora's house when he met up with Tidus… and he'd stopped to talk. He thought that a little detour wouldn't hurt. Ha, how wrong he had been! That little detour had turned into a two-hour chat! Two hours! As if he hadn't been spending enough time with the blonde, now he had to go and postpone seeing Sora to talk to him… for two hours!!
Jeeze, as if he hadn't neglected Sora enough for the past month. Just because he'd shared some… secrets… with Tidus (and in all honesty the blonde was only trying to help) didn't mean it gave him the right to shun Sora. Maybe, Riku mused, telling Tidus that he liked Sora like that wasn't going to help. Although it had eased the pressure of keeping it bottled up.
Now he'd done something awful, he'd forgotten to meet with his best friend. He'd promised as well! Not only that, but it had been a pinkie promise. Which wasn't something Riku did often, but it was worth it for the rose coloured tint that had flushed Sora's cheeks.
It was only when Tidus had voiced out loud that he thought he'd just seen Sora that Riku had remembered. He'd voiced out loud his remembrance, with a very tasteful 'Oh shit', and taken off, leaving a very confused Tidus behind.
Riku had been too late though… by the time he'd reached the beach Sora was already gone. On the sand there was a half eaten sandwich, and… a papou fruit. Even more of a reason to hate himself, Sora had set up this whole day… just to tell Riku how he felt. At least that's what it looked like.
The papou fruit… the Destiny Island's local delicacy. It was a symbol…
They say if two people share a papou fruit their destinies become intertwined. They'll remain a part of each other's lives… no matter what.
God, how badly had Riku messed up this time?! A lot? That was an understatement. There were no words to describe how badly he'd messed up, there were none that existed that Riku could say to curse himself.
What must Sora think?! God with all the shunning Riku had been doing he wouldn't put it past Sora to think that he liked Tidus! Oh… what if he did?! What if Tidus had seen Sora? That would mean Sora had seen them together…
That was when Riku had started looking for Sora in a frenzy, he knew Sora. Sora was reckless… he did things he'd regret. What if? Nah… Sora wouldn't… but what if he did?! It only fuelled Riku to look more. He'd even checked Sora's house… damn he'd checked every house that Sora could have gone to!
He'd checked over by the papou tree, on the bridge, under the bridge, heck Riku had even checked the 'secret' place. There wasn't even a trace of the brunette… no footprints, no evidence of him being anywhere (save the beach)… nothing.
It was around nine when Riku decided to give up. That was until he thought about the mesas. Specifically the one that overlooked the sea. The one where Sora and he had gone, only a few months back.
He'd climbed the fastest he'd ever climbed, hope renewed that Sora would be there. After all Riku had looked everywhere else… there was nowhere other than here that Sora could be. His spirits fell when at first he saw no one… but he looked again through the darkness, and saw his light standing a little too close to the edge that Riku liked. He was about to call out to Sora… before he heard the whispers carried by the breeze…
"Take a step," and with that he took a small pace forward. It was almost as though Sora was caught in a trance of some sort. "Spread your wings…" With the next words Sora stretched out his arms…
It was then it hit Riku… Sora wasn't merely whispering. These were the exact same words Sora had said the day he tried to fly. The day the six-year-old brunette had taken his cardboard wings over to the bridge.
"Ri-kuuuu! Riku!"
"What?"
"Watch me! Watch me fly!"
"Don't be silly, you goof. Humans can't fly!"
"I can Riku… just you watch…"
Riku did watch. He remembered that day clearly. The same words were spoken… the same steps taken. It was like the routine check for flying.
"See Riku. Take a step…spread your wings…and…fly"
He remembered as Sora jumped off the bridge. He remembered as Sora hit the water, his wings destroyed. Sora's dreams had failed him… and he'd cried on Riku. Leant on Riku… used him for support.
"And fly…" Was what snapped Riku out of his daydream. His eyes went wide and he lurched forward as Sora started falling.
"SORA!!!"
"You were right Ri-ku… humans can't fly. And I even spread my wings…"~*~*~*~
Well… that's it. For now. Aren't I evil ^^
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