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Warning: Yaoi pairing. (male-male relationship) leave if you don't like it.
Author Note: Hello! Here's a next chapter and it's definitely longer than previous ones. I don't know when the next update will be.

False Mask

Sixth Chapter

The knock came from the front door. I knew who was it, without even answering the door. I opened the door. It was Sora, in the deep pink shirt and orange jeans. He grinned at me, holding the small cage and white plastic bag. I moved out of his way so he can enter the room while suspicious about that cage. He didn't tell me he had a pet. I followed Sora into my bedroom, and then watched him put his cage on my desk.

"What is that?" Curiously, I asked. Sora blocked my view on his cage. He opened the cage and picked something. He turned around so fast and practically shoved his pet into front of my face. I screamed as I saw the dark rat with creepy eyes. I jumped backward, nearly stumbled over the bed. Sora laughed, and put his rat back in his cage.

"Why the hell you own a ugly rat?!" I yelled while looked at the cage. It was a huge, black rat.

"He isn't ugly. And his name is Gray Tail." That reminded me that Sora had once called me 'silver hair' back in the school. I scowled at him.

"I won't have a rat in my bedroom! Get it out!"

"No. There is nobody to feed Gray Tail. If you want to kick him out, you will have to kick me out as well." Sora grinned and knelt down. He shoved his hands in his bag. He took the large box and another, small bag. "This is the litter." He held up the large box with litter inside. "And this is the food supply. For Gray Tail." He put both on the desk, besides the cage.

"Oh, fine. Just keep your stupid rat away from me." I muttered angrily. "Put it in the closet."

"Whatever for?"

"Mom loathes the rats. When she sees one, she will go crazy. The closet's good place to hide your ugly rat." I gave the rat my glare before heading for my drawers to get my navy shorts. Sora opened the closet, just close to my bed, and put the cage in there. "I'll go to the field, you want come?"

"Yeah! I want to see you in the action. Wakka said you're best." Sora said excitedly. I picked my shorts and headed for the bathroom to change.

Sora and I were walking and talking all way to the field. I glanced at the skies, and noticed the dark gray clouds. Wasn't it supposed to be the sunny day? It was also a bit windy.

"I hope it won't rain on the game." I spoke, watching at the dark clouds. "Playing will be difficult if it rains." Sora looked up to watch at the clouds. He silently nodded. Then it dawned on me. It was raining when I crashed into Sora. Did Sora know this? I sighed, finally tearing my eyes away from the clouds. I realized we were on the edge of the soccer field. I spotted the gang, talking to each one. My friends were there, and as well Sora's bouncy friend Selphie. I noticed there were few more, the usual students from the school, they just wanted to play.

"Riku!" Kairi hollered, "I heard on the radio, it said it will rain any time now!"

"Yeah! You better hurry to win the game." Tidus said, smiling.

"Hey!" Wakka glared at him. Tidus whistled innocently.

"But Wakka... you never win." Tidus shrugged and picked the soccer ball up. "People, pick the team. Wakka or Riku?"

Just as I expected, Wakka's team outnumbered me. But one thing I didn't expect is I'm only one in the team! Apparently, Wakka's team just realized it. They looked at each one, uncertainly.

"Oh, all right." Sora said as he walked over to me. "Come on, Selphie." He gestured his friend to follow. She followed happily. I didn't mind Sora being on my team... but Selphie? Nobody knows, even Selphie, that I'm scared of her. We went on the field and started to play.

After the quick round, we gathered together nearby the table. It still didn't rain, but the clouds looked like they're darkening. I still can't believe it about Sora. I watched him playing the soccer, and oh man. He was good, but not good as I was, of course. Selphie was a bit awful but she did excellent at distraction. I smirked at the memory when she squealed so loudly that Wakka lost his focus on his ball.

"No, I think it is the emerald." Sora said, shaking his head. I snapped back to reality. Emerald what? I turned to look at my friends. Sora and Kairi were debating but about what?

"No, it's light teal." Kairi said, pointing at me. "Can't you see?"

"Er, what are you talking about?" I was so confused. I heard a chuckle from Tidus.

"They're talking about your eyes' color." He said.

"But I think they're emerald." Sora refused to change his mind.

"Of course not. They're aquatic, ya." Wakka joined.

"Or, aquatic green!" Selphie giggled. The four people leaned toward me and looked at my eyes so hard. I rolled my eyes and looked at Tidus. He was also looking at me quite hard.

"Maybe Selphie's right." Tidus commented. I walked away from the gang, putting the distance between us. I heard some of them broke into the laughter.

"I'm going home." I said, and felt something wet on my face. I realized the rain had finally arrived. And it was getting dark.

"Wait. I'm coming too." Sora said, and followed me.

The bright light… I groaned and threw my blanket over my head. But the blasted light was so bright; it got through the thin, white sheet. Oh well, it's time to wake up. I opened my eyes and threw my blanket off. I felt something was wrong, very wrong. I realized I wasn't on my bed. I was sleeping on the floor. I jumped on my feet, got a little dizzy spell. Sora. Right. I remembered Sora was here. I yawned tiredly and took off to the bathroom in the hallway.

I opened the door, and went to look at the bathroom mirror. I realized the mirror was fogged up. Then I heard the piercing scream. I jerked my head to find the horrified Sora in the shower. I covered my eyes with my right hand and bolted out of the bathroom. I slammed the door closed, and then wondered what the hell just happened. Why didn't Sora lock the bathroom door?!

"Riku! What…" I saw my father in robe, came running with the tired-looking mother behind of him.

"Ah, nothing… Sora forgot to lock the door."

"That scream was Sora's?" Surprised, my father exclaimed. "He sure is loud." My mother mumbled something before went to her bedroom. My father shook his head then chuckled.

"Riku? Put the decent clothes on." With that, he went after his mother into the bedroom. I looked down and realized I was only wearing the black boxers. Not that I was embarrassed. I just didn't know. I went into my bedroom to put on the light blue robe. I heard some noises in the closet. I knew it was that ugly rat. I glared at the closet, didn't really knowing why. I heard the door opened. I turned to find Sora with really red face. I can't help it but was amused. He was wearing the towel around his waist.

"Do you know how to lock the door?" I asked, "I could teach you how." Sora blushed even redder and went after his large backpack. "I'm off to the bathroom." I picked up my blue jeans and white sleeveless shirt from the drawers, and went to the bathroom. After the quick shower and change, I went to the living room. Sora was sitting on the dark green loveseat, watching the television.

"Riku?" Sora heard me and said without even taking his eyes off the television. "Kairi called. She wanted you go to the mall with her and the gang."

"When?"

"At the two." I looked at the clock at the DVD player. It was just an hour until the two o'clock. All of a sudden, Sora bounced from the loveseat and went to the front door. "I forgot the few things at my home. I will meet you at the mall. Okay?" I nodded and watched him going out of the house.

I sighed and dropped myself on the loveseat. For some reason, I can't stop thinking of the scene in the bathroom. I blushed lightly when I recalled the memory.

I found the gang; they were sitting on the table in the McDonald store. They always gathered in that store first. I wondered if Sora knew that. I greeted my friends and sighed in relief when Selphie wasn't there. I sat among them and waited for Sora to arrive. Sure enough, in the few minutes, he arrived. It was Tidus who first spotted him. He dropped his jaws by first sight of Sora. I looked over my shoulder to see Sora. To the people who didn't know Sora probably won't gawk at him. But we did know him. He was actually wearing something so normal. He wore the dark blue T-shirt with the black jacket, and he wore the light blue jeans.

"You aren't color-blinded anymore?" Tidus said, surprised. Sora blushed at his comment, and mumbled something I can't hear.

"Ah, this is so great!" Kairi cheered, "You look so cool! Well, not as Riku but still cool!" Sora sat on the chair, grinning.

"Thanks…" Sora almost whispered. "Are we going to order or what? I'm kinda hungry."

"Me too, ya." Wakka said, taking out the piece of paper. Wakka always ordered for us but he had little problem with remembering our orders. So he always wrote the orders down.

It had been a usual day. We ate our McDonald meals and went to the clothing store. Well, more like being dragged by Kairi to there. Kairi brought some skirts and tank top. I purchased the shirts for Sora, thank to Kairi's insistence. We went to watch the movie, 'Spiderman 2'. Then after the movie, we spilt up. Sora and I were walking to my house. We walked in the silence until we reached my house.

"Riku? I will be right back in an hour." With that, Sora took off. I watched him until he vanished from my sights. And then I wondered where he went. I shrugged and went to watch the movie on the television. It was boring but I got nothing better to do. My mother said something to me but I didn't really listen to her. She went to the kitchen to do some cooking. After the movie finished, I glanced at the clock. It had been the two hours. I looked around the room, maybe Sora sneaked into the house without me knowing? I searched for him in the house but didn't find him.

I was starting to worry about him. What if something bad happened to him? I found my mother in the kitchen and told her about Sora.

"If he got here, can you call me and let me know?" I said. My mother nodded, and asked for my cellphone number. She always forgets so I wrote the number down on the piece of paper and dropped it on the kitchen counter. I left my home. Maybe Sora was at the soccer field. I walked for the fifteen minutes to the soccer field. I saw the familiar person, and that was Wakka. I noticed there were several students on the field and I didn't recognize them.

"Riku! You're here to play?" Wakka shouted, waving at me. I shook my head and answered with a shout,

"No! Do you know where is Sora?"

"Haven't seen him since the mall, ya!" Wakka went to play with other students. I sighed and becoming really worried about Sora. Maybe he was at his apartment? But I had no idea where he lives. I got my phone from my pocket and called Sora's number. It rang and rang but no answer. I saw Wakka finished playing and headed for me.

"Do you know where Sora's apartment?" I asked him, and was surprised by Wakka's nodding.

"Yea! He's my neighbor, ya. I didn't even know until a week ago. He's at third floor and 91 number." He said. I knew where Wakka lives at, so that why he didn't tell me the address. I immediately took off to Sora's home. It was long walk, probably about the forty minutes. I sometimes ran and sometimes walked.

I arrived at his room in the apartment. I knocked on the door, and yet no answer. I opened the door and was surprised to find the door was unlocked. I looked for Sora but he wasn't there. His home was so messy and I knew where his bedroom was. His colorful clothes were left lying around on the floor in his bedroom. I locked his door and left the apartment.

Well, what now? The Dairy Queen store came to my mind. I went there and yet no luck. I sat down on the bench, nearby the store. I must have been looked for him for more than an hour. My mother still hadn't called me so Sora wasn't at my home. The mother. I remembered Sora said her mother died. Maybe he was at the graveyard. I asked the nearest person about the graveyard's location. She gave me the directions.

I finally found Sora, at the quiet graveyard. He was sitting on the grass, staring at the headstone. He looked so miserable. It occurred me I had never really saw him sad. Only glimpses, just before he covered it up with one of his huge grins. But right now, he didn't put on his mask. He turned his head to look at me. He was surprised to find me, I can see. But he didn't grin like always. He didn't move, and stared at the headstone once again.

I walked over to him, didn't really knowing what to do. I sat besides him, and looked at the headstone. Just as I thought, it was his mother's grave. I wanted to say something but was afraid to make Sora more upset. Like I always with Kairi. I knew I was terrible at comforting the people. I tried to remember what my mother did when she comforted me. I recollected that my mother hugged me when I was at the hospital, waited for any news about Sora.

Hesitantly, I moved my arm around his shoulder. He dropped his head on my shoulder, and kept staring at his mother's headstone. Sora and I stayed there for a long time. I noticed it was dark now. The clouds hid the stars and moon. Oh well, it would be nicer if they didn't. I heard Sora's snoring. I realized Sora was sleeping. He slept on my shoulder, snoring.

"Sora? Wake up." I said, gently shook him. His snoring stopped but his eyes were still closed. "Sora?" I sighed. He looked so peaceful. I picked him up and carried him in my arms. I was surprised how light he was, not light as feather but still light. I walked to my house with Sora in my arms. In a half hour, I finally reached to my house with my arms aching. I felt like I was about to drop Sora.

"Riku? Oh, good! You found him." My mother said, looking at Sora. "Where did you found him?"

"In the graveyard and keep your voice down. He's sleeping." I whispered and carried him into my bedroom with some difficulty because of the stupid stairs. I gently lowered Sora on my bed. I pulled the blankets over him, and stared at his contented face. I leaned down and gave him a peck on the forehead. I realized what I had done, and pulled away hastily.

What was I thinking? I sighed; Sora became a problem.

I felt the wet kiss upon my lips. Hmm, that's nice. I kissed back to Kairi. My hand cupped her cheek as I slipped my tongue into her mouth. I felt a bit strange. My mind was bothering me but I can't really figure it out. No, wait. Didn't I break up with Kairi? So, who was kissing me? I opened my eyes to see the blue eyes. He pulled away and grinned at me.

"Sora?" I whispered.