Silently Deciding

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Chapter Five: Pain and Kisses

Sora felt the stinging shoot up his leg when the rusty nail was yanked out of the delicate skin on his calf. He could feel the burning sensation all around the damaged area on his leg. He tried to cry out but he was silenced by Riku's soft lips on his own. Sora wound his arms around his waist, gripping Riku's hips hard with his hands clenched tightly. Their bodies were pressing against each other's and that caused a new thrill in Sora that he never knew.

The pain was enormous and it brought unshed tears to Sora's eyes. Riku was also hurting because Sora was hurting. They were linked together by their promise from so long ago that was so ultimately strong. Riku had done the one thing he could think of so Sora could become distracted away from the pain. He kissed him once again.

Riku pressed his lips harder to Sora's, which drew out a low cry of pain and pleasure from him. Riku twirled his hands deeper into Sora's cinnamon locks, tugging lightly and rubbing his fingers along Sora's scalp. The pain slowly ebbed away and was replaced by something more indescribable. Sora pulled him closer, trying to feel more of Riku's body against his. He rubbed his hands in an up and down motion on Riku's muscular back. Sora was getting that light-headed feeling again and he figured out something that scared him: he liked this.

Riku pulled away after a few seconds of enjoying the feeling of Sora's lips on his and he stared down at Sora's flushed face. Sora slowly opened his eyes half-lidded and smiled dumbly at Riku. He smiled back warmly and leaned down to peck Sora just once more on his rosy lips. Riku then knew how much he loved the boy under him. He promised himself to forever protect Sora no matter what.

He rolled off of Sora and went back to clean his wound. Riku looked down to his calf and noticed it was bleeding heavily. Quickly he cast a curaga spell that Mickey Mouse had taught him when they were locked inside Kingdom Hearts. The cut on Sora's slowly began the process to heal and Sora's eyes snapped open and hissed in a breath of air harshly. Usually it didn't hurt that bad but Riku figured it must have been infected or something around those lines.

Riku went over to med kit and pulled out a bottle of alcohol peroxide, anti-infection crème, and a roll of gauze (bandage wraps). Riku cautiously ran his hand over Sora's cut and Sora lightly gasped at the contact. He shut his eyes tightly and tried to shut out the pain. Riku poured some alcohol peroxide over the cut and it began to bubble. Sora could feel the stinging and he could hear the liquid starting to bubble, ridding his cut of any dirt.

Leaning down, Riku gently blew against the liquid that was beginning to trickle slowly down Sora's ankle, relieving him momentarily of the burning sensation. This brought a low sigh from the cinnamon-haired boy and a small smile to Riku's lips for causing such a beautiful sound from his angel.

Next, Riku put a reasonable amount of anti-infection crème on the wound and swirled the creamy substance around over the closing skin. This would cause the cut to clean and protect it from any diseases or infections (hence the name anti-infection). Sora felt the cooling stuff close over the damaged skin on his calf and he sighed in relief once more.

After that Riku unwrapped the roll of gauze and prepared to bind the wound if it continued to bleed profusely. He lifted up Sora's leg carefully under the knee so that his leg was bent. Riku rolled the bandage loosely around the still closing and bleeding wound and pinned it there. He could see some of the crimson liquid start to bleed through but hopefully it would stop soon because of the spell he had cast.

Sora's eyes were still tightly closed so Riku took advantage of the moment to lean down and press his lips softly against Sora's. He could feel Sora under him relax and lean up to press his lips harder to his own, deepening the kiss. Sora timidly wrapped both his arms around Riku's neck, responding back, sharing the kiss with his best friend. Sora could feel the silky soft texture of Riku's silver mane. He ran his fingers through the other boy's silver locks gently. This enticed a low moan in Riku's throat. Sora smiled against his lips.

Riku decided he was going to have a little fun and tease Sora a bit. He nibbled lightly on Sora's bottom lip and licked the middle asking for entrance. Sora opened his mouth and granted permission but Riku just pressed his lips harder to Sora's ignoring the acceptance. That got Sora annoyed so he decided to tease Riku back. He lifted his hips up, connecting with Riku's which caused him to gasp in surprise. Riku's 'little fun' backfired. Sora took the moment to slide his tongue into Riku's mouth and taste his best friend. It was then Sora realized something.

He pulled back and turned his flushed face away from Riku so he couldn't look at him. Riku on the other hand took this only as a sign that Sora needed to take a breather for a moment. He buried his face in the crook of Sora's neck, started to nibbling in various places on the smooth skin of his neck. He'd nibble in one spot a little hard and then lick over it as an apology. Sora squirmed underneath him and he lightly giggled because it was tickling him. He realized the something again and regained somewhat of his common sense because he removed his arms from around Riku's neck and placed his hands on his chest, pushing the other away.

"Riku. . . no," Sora said weakly.

Riku looked down and peered into Sora's cerulean blue eyes with his aquamarine orbs questioningly. He didn't understand. He had thought Sora had wanted this, wanted him. His face remained only a very few inches away from Sora's and he didn't remove his body off of the brunette's.

"What do you mean? Why not?" Riku questioned him.

Sora replied with only one simple thing that he thought would solve and explain everything to the silver-haired boy above him. "Kairi..." he said. A look of pain crossed over Riku's face but Sora missed it, either intentionally pretending it wasn't even there or actually never really spotting the look.

Riku rolled off of Sora and sat stiffly cross-legged with his back facing Sora. He knew this was just too good to be true. He didn't know what to do anymore. He was being to hate Kairi more and more even though he tried not to. He knew Sora liked her and if Sora did, he wanted to be able to accept her for him but it wasn't that easy! He didn't like her anymore! She was getting in the way, screwing everything up!

"Riku... do you know what happened to Kairi earlier today?" Sora prayed that he didn't. He didn't want to assume that Riku had hurt her but he was the only one here on the island when she was being abused. Sora wanted so much for him not to be the one but. . .

"Yeah, I know what happened to her," Riku said coldly. "Who do you think did it?!" It was more of a statement than a question. They both knew who did it but one of them didn't want to admit it.

"Riku, you didn't? You didn't actually. . . hurt her, did you?" Sora sat up, crossing his legs Indian style leaning forward, anxious and yet dreading to get an answer out of Riku somehow.

Silence. No answer. No acknowledgement. No reply.

"Why?" Sora asked softly with his head lowered down in defeat. "How could you. . . hurt someone like her? She's our best friend," Sora looked up, his gaze piercing Riku in his back. His eyes were blazing and his vision was blinded by tears of anguish and sadness.

Riku twirled around and faced Sora with his aqua green eyes matching Sora's with barely controlled anger. "Her?! Best friends?" Riku sneered.

"Yes, best friends Riku! What else?! We have been best friends ever since we were young!" Sora stood up forgetting about his injured leg and ignoring the stinging pain, staring down at Riku with his arms to his sides and his hands clenched into fists from his anger. "We did everything together! We always hang out and had fun and-" Sora was cut off.

Riku stood up with his face a few inches away from Sora's. He got right in his face and his aqua green eyes were flickering with anger and lust. A very scary combination on Riku's features but it seemed to cut Sora off of his rampage. "We?! I didn't want it to be 'we'! I wanted it to be 'us'!" Riku reached out and roughly grabbed Sora's upper arms. "Just me and you! Best friends forever!" Riku shook him once before he embraced Sora tightly causing him to blush and he continued in a low whisper. "Is that so bad Sora? Is it so bad that I wanted us to be together? Only us."

Sora didn't just yet return the hug. "Riku. . . look. Just because you wanted that didn't mean you had to hurt Kairi. She's our friend and she wouldn't hurt us, much less a fly." Sora felt Riku tense up so he laced his arms around Riku's waist, bringing his best friend closer to him. "And we are together Riku. Best friends. Together forever. Always." Sora closed his eyes and relaxed into the hug against Riku's warm body.

"Sora. . . I don't think that just being best friends with you is enough," Riku replied softly and slowly. He didn't want to scare Sora away again but he had to tell him that. Sora looked up into Riku's aqua green eyes with his eyes filled with confusion and surprise.

"Umm. . . I don't think that would work Riku. I mean we're two. . . guys and well. . . I don't think that's right. I mean, we've been best friends for forever and a day. I think that if we change being that, we won't be able to go back." Sora pulled away from Riku and stepped down on his injured leg. Hissing in pain, Sora fell to the ground. Riku kneeled down to him with concern in his aqua green eyes.

"Sora, are you alright?" Riku looked down and noticed blood had soaked up the gauze. ::Why isn't it closing up?:: "We need to change the bandage." Riku took out the roll of gauze and placed it beside him. He unhook the soaked bandage and unwrapped it. The last layer of the gauze was sticking to Sora's wound and wouldn't come loose by just a light tug. He peered into Sora's scared cerulean eyes. He smiled gently at him. "This is going to hurt a little bit. The gauze got caught in the top layer of your skin when the wound closed." Sora gulped nervously. ::Damn right this was going to hurt:: "I'll count to five this time but just brace yourself."

"One." Sora closed his eyes tightly.

"Two." Sora formed his hands in fists.

"Three." Riku, not making it to five, tugged the gauze causing the wound and the layer of skin to rip. The sound of the sickly tearing of skin seemed so loud and Sora cried out at the pain. He jumped and held onto the closest thing next to him, which just happened to be Riku. Sora laced his arms around Riku's neck. He had his legs wrapped around Riku's waist and he was holding onto him for dear life. You'd think the keyblade master would have thought this little pain was nothing compared to all the other things that had happened to him. Riku blushed at the intimate position they were in. "Umm. . . Sora? Are you okay?"

"Mmph mmmph mmph mmhm," was the muffled reply for Sora. His face was buried in the fabric of Riku's red tank top so his reply was very inaudible.

"What was that Sora?" Riku rubbed his hands up and down Sora's back, soothing and calming the poor boy. Sora lifted his face from Riku's shirt and translated what he just said.

"I said that really sucked Riku," Sora repeated. He buried his face back into the fabric of Riku's shirt. Riku chuckled and he head something coming from Sora that sounded like 'it's not funny and you didn't count to five, you meanie'. A lightbulb went off in Riku's head and he got an idea that might be interesting to test out.

"Maybe I can help make you feel better," Riku said seductively in a slightly husky voice. Sora looked up in curiosity with tears in his bright cerulean eyes.

"How?" Sora questioned him.

"Like this," Riku responded. He lowered his face down to Sora's so that their lips were barely an inch away. Riku waited for Sora to abject or move away but he didn't. Sora couldn't move even if he wanted to because one: his body wouldn't let him and two: Riku's aquamarine eyes seemed to be hypnotizing him. Riku moved forward and brushed their lips together, just teasing Sora a little bit. He pulled back and stared it Sora's clear pools of cerulean eyes. Sora blushed but finally his body let him do as he pleased.

Now he had a choice that would affect the outcome of everything. He could either move in to kiss Riku or he could pull back and walk away from everything. What was his choice? What was he going to choose?

{----{End of Chapter}----} TBC

I love teasing you people with cliffhangers. I know it's wrong but it's so much fun teasing you all. I'm going to leave it off here but review and I'll post the chapter sooner. By the way, another little hint from the last chapter. Remember how Selphie told Sora to take a breather and now Riku was the one to think that in the middle of the kiss.

NEXT CHAPTER: What has Sora done? What has Kairi done? I think it's time to bring in Wakka or Tidus! Your vote! So much fun! By the way, this fiction is going to have some Tidus and Selphie moments! So cute! I love them together! Now who to pair Wakka up with?? Maybe an OC.