Hi ppls, im updating, yay. Thanx for all of your reviews, keep 'em coming! Im glad so far i don't have ppl pissed off about the story topic(s). That was one of the reasons I was a bit worried to post it. Well, hope you enyjoy.

Disclaimer: Im too poor and unoriginal to create Kingdom Hearts... *sobs*

Tainted Love, chapt 2: No more Tears

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Sora ran as fast as he could out of there. He soon reached the living room, and looked over by the couch. Oh, words couldn't describe how much he wanted to kill Tatsuki. He layed there surrounded in bottles of beer on his back. Sora glared over at him, but continued on out the door.

He turned the brass knob, managing not to drop Riku, who started to shake a little in Sora's arms.

"It's ok Riku, I got you." Sora murmered trying to reasure Riku and himself.

It was pure black outside. Darkness surrounded the stars, and clouds covered the moon. The only light there really was came from the street lights. Sora continued on, running as fast as he could while holding onto Riku. I fucking hate them.. He kept saying to himself. Why the fuck would anyone ever do this? Especially to Riku.. And why the hell would he keep it to himself?! Why? WHY?! But Sora always knew that Riku tended to keep to himself, especially about his problems. He never seemed to wan't to worry other about his own issues, but this is so different.

"Sick bastard, I WILL kill him." Sora promised to himself.

Sora turned a right at the corner he came to and ran up the walkway. He reached the door, and was about to open it until he saw a note stuck on it. Sora rolled his eyes. She choses to go on bussiness trips at the worse times..

The note read:

Sora,

I forgot that I was supposed to go to New York today. I'm so sorry. I managed to stock up on grocerys and I left some money on the table. If you need me, you know my cell number. I'll be back in a week or so. Don't get into anything stupid. Love you.

Mom

"To late.." Sora muttered, as he read through getting involved. Oh well, this wasn't stupid, this was his best friend, and like hell ANYONE was to touch him, especially his bastard stepdad. He opened the door and walked up stairs to his room. Thank God I'm finally here, he was starting to get heavy.. Sora bent down and placed Riku as gently on his bed as possible. Riku's lip quivered a little, and he shook a bit, but stopped. Sora looked down at his friend, confused and angry.

"I guess the best thing now would to bandage him up, and change him out of those clothes.."

Sora ran to the bathroom, and opened the medicine cabinent. Vitamins, tweezers, deoderent, ah theres some gauze. He reached in and looked around some more and found an ace bandage and some bandages. He grabbed it all in his arms and went back to the room. He placed the stuff on his night stand table, and looked at Riku. I'm going to have to wash away the blood.. He ran back once again, and turned on the faucet and reached for a wash cloth and towel. Sora placed the wash cloth under the faucet and wrung it out, and raced back to his room.

Riku started to shake a little more and then stopped.

"Poor guy.." Sora mumered as he gently tried to take off his shirt. Argh, not working. The shirt wouldn't come off without a fight and Sora was too scared to hurt his friend. He glanced over to his nightstand table, and with his hands, found the scissors. He started clipping away at the front, pulling away at the fabric as gently as possible, revealing his chest. Sora was horrified at what he saw.

Bruises covered him. There was not an inch of skin that wasn't swollen or bruised. Dried blood was starting to flake in specks all over his wounds. Sora was almost too scared to touch him due to all of the injurys. He picked up the wash cloth and as gently as possible started to run it over the blood. Riku flinched as Sora started wiping softly at the wounds. Most of them managed to close up, but some of them revealed raw skin and blood still trickling out slowly. Sora started to feel sick. Never had he seen anyone in such a condition! But he snapped out of it, determined to cover the injurys.

He reached over for the bandages, and started. He didn't have to cover many of the small cuts, only the ones still opened. He reached back over for the wash cloth to wipe away more blood. He realized there was more blood then before, and noticed the big gash in the center of his chest. Fuck, it would probably take stitches for this to close. Sora didn't exactly trust himself with a needle and thread, so he opened up the package of gauze and began wrapping it around his chest. Sora managed to use up almost half of the roll just on that one wound.

"Maybe it will stop bleeding sooner if I wraped his chest with the ace bandage, it would add a bit more pressure.."

Sora once again started. Wrapping Riku as quickly and gently as possible. He pulled a safty pin from his nightstand and clipped the bandage together. Sora was rather proud of his work, but knew there would be more to do. He up and down Riku's arms and couldn't help but cry.

Scars...

Everywhere...

They covered his wrist. Across the vein. Four of them, bigger and more noticeable then the rest, but there were more.

"Riku..... why... WHY?!" Sora clutched Riku's hand and held it to his face. His tears rolled onto his hands.

Never in Sora's life had he thought this would ever happen, not to Riku and not to well .. anyone. It just hurt him so much to see this happen to someone he well, has known his whole life. Some one so dear to his heart... Sora looked down at Riku and clutched his hand closer to his chest.

"WHY GOD?! WHY THE HELL WHY?!" Sora yelled as loud as he could. He didn't know who to blame, but God could of prevented this, he has the power to make it stop.. right? RIGHT?!

"Pl... Please, don't cry.." Sora looked up at Riku, who's eyes were squinted open.

"R.. Riku... Your up.." Sora manage to get out through tears.

"No more tears, please Sora?" Riku begged. Sora wipped his eyes on his sleeve.

"I just can't help it Riku.. since when did this start?!"

"Since they got married.. Don't worry about it, I'm fine." Sora stared at his friend in total disbelief.

"Do you think that I'm fucking crazy?! Quit lying to me!"

"I'm sorry Sora, I didn't want to upset you, Please don't cry.. I can't take anymore pain not from me and definantly not from you!" Riku started to sob quietly and Sora's expression softened a bit.

"But Riku, why didn't you tell me? I would of done somthing to of---

"DONE WHAT, SORA? If I can't help even myself, then what could you of done? There's no easy solution, in fact, I'm convinced there is NO solution!"

"Riku, if you werent so hurt, I would slap you."

Riku was taken aback by that.

"Why not?! Not like I'm not enough! Surely, you too!"

Sora stared at his friend.

"No Riku."

"But you just said you wanted to, so don't wuss out now, C'MON!"

Sora pulled back his arm and brought it so close to Riku's cheek, causing Riku to wince slightly, the fear in his eyes... Sora pulled down his arm, and tears started rolling down his cheeks.

"Sora?"

Sora fell next to Riku on the bed, and sobbed quietly into his chest.

"What Sora? Please quit it.. it hurts to see you like this.."

Sora looked up at Riku's face in total disbelief. Hurts to see ME like this? What about him? Does he not know that this is about him??

"You say that like it doesn't hurt me to see you like this. You can't hide it from me, Riku. I can see the pain in your eyes. For once, just accept help." Sora pleaded through more tears.

"I want to Sora, but I just cant.. Sure Im no longer there, but what happens when he comes for me? What then? Like hell I'm going to allow you to get hurt Sora. Riku clutched onto Sora's hands tightly. "Like hell."

"And thats your problem Riku! You care too much about others and not enough about yourself!"

"No Sora, thats not true..."

"Then what is???"

Riku took a deep breath.

"Only when your involved.." Riku paused and Sora looked at Riku, who murmered softly,

"Only you.."

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Um yeh, so ends chapter 2. Im so incredibly sorry for waiting so long to update, but alot of issues have occured with me. But the issues r over and has been settled and no one was hurt. So anyways, I hope u guys liked the 2nd chapter, hell, I hope u like it all so far, and don't forget to review. C'mon, u know u want to.... ^-^ until next chapter, ba byes~