Of Promises and Paopu
By The Ambitious Blank
B>Disclaimer- Kingdom Hearts doesn't belong to me.
Comments- Surprise! ^^ Consider this an early Christmas gift to all my fans.. a Riku/Sora lemon! I tried to make it a little prettier than an average PWP. ^^; It's up to you to decide whether or not I succeeded in that. The link to it is in my profile under my website. ^^;

Just click on the link to it once you get there. W00t.

Please leave reviews for it here on ff.net when you're finished. ^.~; Now.. if you want it without the lemon.. here you go. (I'm tellin' ya, though.. it's a lot better with than without..)

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Maleficent had promised Riku powers if he would help her.. and so he'd promised within a moment, anything to see Sora again. Anything at all, if he could only see him again. So, he was given the ability to teleport as he pleased. But, he wasn't permitted to go anywhere withou Maleficent with him.. he hated that, it was like she was trying to be his mother or something, an idea which fully sickened him, down the very pit of his stomach. He sighed, rolling over in his bed.. she'd been too tired to do it that night. Or at least, that was what she'd said. He rolled over again, unable to sit still.

"I have to see him." He whispered to himself, gathering his courage and sitting up, climbing out of the bed. He closed his eyes and concentrated, holding his hand out in front of him. A portal opened, on the other side he could see Sora, asleep in a bed.. slowly, he stepped through, and was met with the warmth of the room. Sora stirred slightly, but gave a sigh and didn't move again, except for the slow rise and fall of his chest.

"..." Riku moved forward, silently. The door creaked open behind him, and he whirled, met with a piercing grey-blue gaze, surrounded by a frame of brown hair, with a long scar running down a pale forehead.

"Who are you..?" He asked, quietly. Riku was frozen for a moment, almost shaking under that cold, hard gaze, then replied just as quietly.

"I'm Riku.. Sora's friend." He said, lowering his eyes like a puppy about to be punished. The man studied him for a moment, then nodded.

"I'll keep my watch up until the end of the night, then.." He murmured, leaving the room. Riku blinked, then heaved a sigh of relief. He was lucky Sora was such a good judge of character and easily made such understanding friends. He turned again, facing the sleeping form. He reached out, touching the tanned face he'd longed to touch again for such a long time, and Sora murmured something inaudible.

Feeling like the prince about to awaken his princess from an enchanted sleep, he leaned down, pressing his lips lightly to Sora's. Just like in the stories, Sora's eyes fluttered open.. but his reaction was slightly different. After Riku pulled away, Sora sat up in a hurry, almost getting tangled in the blankets in the process.

"Ri.. Ri.. Riku?!" He stammered. Riku smiled.

"Shh.. can't stay long." He pressed gloved fingers to Sora's lips, making the boy silence in confusion, at least until the fingers were pulled away. He tried to speak again.

"But Riku--" He only got two words in before Riku cut him off with a deep kiss. Sora didn't struggle, only returned it immediately, in what was almost a trained reaction. Both boys shut their eyes as Riku pressed Sora to the bed. Warm body pressed to warm body, lips locked together in that same perfection they'd experienced during their first kiss. It had felt like an eternity before they were able to feel this again.

Aquas carefully peered into Sora's strikingly blue eyes. Beneath the layers of varying emotions that wouldn't last, he could see trust.


Ultimate, undying devotion.

Something yanked hard on Riku's heartstrings, and he smiled down into that gaze, leaning down and brushing his lips over Sora's. The boy beneath him blinked slowly, confused. Riku only smiled, which made Sora smile, too.

Thoughts raced through Riku's mind.

There is always that single moment in someone's life.. when they realize that they aren't alone.. and whether or not they choose to willingly remember that later on..

Riku pulled away and collapsed beside Sora, taking him in his arms. Sora snuggled against him eagerly, giving a quiet sigh of contentment.

..they'll always have someone who's there for them.

They lay there in the afterglow of what they'd done, Riku hugging Sora to him tightly. He buried his face into the mess of brown hair, inhaling the scent of the boy. Sora looked up at him with his typical, adoring blue gaze, and snuggled closer into Riku's warm body. Riku reached down and grabbed the covers, pulling them up and over their shoulders.

No matter what..

Riku ran his fingers through Sora's hair until he heard the boy's breathing slow into a steady rhythm, and knew the boy was asleep. He smiled to himself, realizing he hadn't been this happy in a long time. He let his eyes slide shut, falling asleep with a single comforting thought:

..I'll always have my Sora.

~*~

The warmth was gone.

That was the first thing Sora noticed as his eyes fluttered open, met with morning light streaming in through the window. He rolled over to the place where Riku used to be, finding him gone. He felt tears begin to well in his eyes, which he blinked back furiously as he searched for some explaination, and found none. He sighed and fell back onto the pillow, staring at the ceiling. Images of the previous night flashed through his mind and he felt the tears well up again.

"Riku.. why did you leave again..?" He whispered. A knock on the door came, and he sat up.

"Get dressed, it's time for you to leave."

~*~

Riku stared at the blankness of the black ceiling in the room he was staying in, arms folded behind his head. He said nothing, ignoring the fact that Maleficent was scolding him as a mother scolds a child who's hand she'd found in the cookie jar.

"Sneaking off during the night.. how dare you, after everything I've done for you.." She ranted and raved, and finally, the silver-haired boy got fed up with it.

"And what have you done for me, huh?!" Riku snapped, sitting up and glaring at her with furious aqua eyes. "..what have you done for me?! I don't see either of my friends with me, I don't even see my island anymore!"

"Such a greedy little child.. mine, mine, mine.. I notice you haven't exactly done anything for me.." She tsk'ed, and Riku growled, opening a portal to the room where Sora was. As he stepped through, he looked around him.. the beds were empty. No sign of Sora was left, except for something left on the bed. A star-shaped yellow fruit was lying on the pillow.. Riku reached out and touched it, as if he were afraid it was an illusion. He picked it up and stared at it, then hugged it to his chest. Warm tears swelled in his eyes, and he sniffed a bit.

"Boy. Come back with me."

He turned.. Maleficent was standing there again. She smiled at him.

"..I'll find him for you. I promise." She said. Riku hesitated, then looked down at the fruit again, before he nodded.

"Yeah. Okay."

~*~To Be Continued..

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