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Childhood Crush chapter -

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Groaning in frustration, Riku let the towel he had used after his shower slip off his shoulders, and fall to the floor. He had taken a shower to calm himself from a dream he had, only to find he needed to be at the hair salon in fifteen minutes. His hair was still damp, but he had to leave now or he would miss his appointment.

He couldn't quite concentrate however, the dream still fresh in his mind. He reached down to pet his cat, Sky, as he coiled himself around Riku's leg. Riku had found sky in town a few years back, and had sort of adopted him. Heh, who knew he would have had a slight soft spot for the cute kitten?

"I'll let it dry on the way there..." he mumbled to himself as he threw on a black tank top. Sighing as he ran a hand through the wet strands of silver hair, he also pulled on some black pants. Then, Riku grabbed his house key, and exited the door, heading for 'Angel's Hair Studio'.

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"Sora, honey, get off your play station," Hinoki said, giving a small sigh as she tapped her foot on the ground. She was beginning to think it was a bad idea to have let Sora unpack that last night.

"Cant.....must.....defeat.....Lloyd..." Sora droned like a zombie, his eyes never leaving the screen, not even once.

His whole body was completely still, save his fingers which occasionally tapped the 'X' button in a pattern.

"Oh, Sora, for goodness sake," Hinoki threw her arms in the air exasperated, and rolled her eyes. "You have drool dribbling down your chin...." She blinked after she had said that, giving her son a blank look.

Sure enough, there was a small trail of saliva dripping down Sora's chin. Lifting one hand to wipe at the drool with the back of his hand, the cinnamon haired boy only succeeded in smearing the wetness.

Sighing yet again, Hinoki walked over to Sora's play station and....shut it off. Sora's eyes widened after a moment at the realization that his PS had been shut down, and he let out a pathetic, 'Nooooooooo, I was so close though!' He then sent a mild glare in his mothers direction.

"That was-" Sora began, but was cut off by Hinoki.

"Yes, yes, I know. I'm 'pure evil'. Now, since you're not playing your game anymore, hurry up so we can go get your hair cut. I swear, pretty soon its not going to be sticking in random places, and it'll look funny cause it'll...well...droop."

Sora blinked at his mother once, then twice. "My hair will... 'droop'?"

"Yes, now will you go get ready before I drag you into town in nothing but your boxers."

Not putting it against his mother to do that, Sora sent another small glare, sighed, then got up to get dressed and brush his teeth.

This only took him five minutes, and soon he walked out the front door with Hinoki, heading to the hair salon.

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It only took Riku ten minutes to get to 'Angel's Hair Studio', and once there, he sat for a few minutes as he waited for Priscilla.

Priscilla was the person who had been cutting Riku's hair for the past few years, and he kind of considered her as a friend...Maybe he could talk with her about how he had seen Sora yesterday, after so many years. Then again, maybe he had just finally snapped, and that had been his imagination.

"Good afternoon, Riku," he heard Priscilla greet, and looked up from the chair to offer a small smile.

"Come sit down, I'm almost ready for you. I only need to take care of a few things up front." She said, as she led Riku to the room her and Elizabeth shared for clients, before heading off for the front of the salon.

Riku sighed as he hopped into the chair, and leaned back, while closing his eyes to wait patiently, ignoring the other people in the room. He tried to keep his mind blank, but simply couldn't. Knowing Sora was back just let a ton of memories flow through his mind.

"Come on, Riku," Called a young Sora, his blue eyes sparking with mirth and enjoyment as he giggled.

A small festival had been held that year on Destiny Islands and Riku and Sora had begged their parents to let them go until they caved.

"Wow, look at that, its so cool!" The younger boy said, pointing to a small, silver crown necklace.

Riku looked at the necklace with his head tilted to the side, and scrunched up his face cutely.

"Can you but it for me? Oh pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease Riku!" Begged Sora, who was now jumping up and down as he used his baby blue eyes to the fullest, as a pout graced his lips.

"Errrm..." There was absolutely no way Riku was able to resist the look Sora was giving him. So, smiling at his younger friend, Riku purchased the necklace with some money his mother had given him, and placed the necklace around Sora's neck.

Now that he thought back on it, Riku began to wonder if Sora still had the necklace, before ending that thought. He didn't want to think about anything anymore, but he couldn't seem to shut his mind down.

Thinking back a few years after Sora had moved, Riku noted that almost all the people he had dated had either had blue eyes, or wore blue contacts.

'I guess you could say I'm a sucker for blue eyes...Blue eyes like his...' Ack! There he went again, thinking about that stupid boy who was now dead to him.

"Cloud's eyes were the closest..." Riku mumbled to himself. Hm, he kind of liked this thought, since it wasn't one of the other boy.

Cloud and Riku had gone out for almost to years until Cloud had broken the whole thing off. That had always been one thing that confused Riku, and still did.

What Riku didn't understand was how every month or two, Cloud would come to him because he was emotionally hurt for reasons he wouldn't say, and basically searched for comfort in the younger, silver haired boy.

'Yeah, comfort in the form of sex...' Riku mused.

Sometimes he was deeply worried about the older boy, but had yet to say anything. He didn't know why, he just couldn't seem to let the words come out.

An incisive knocking at his window had woken him one night, and he mumbled curses as he disentangled himself from his bed sheets.

"Who the hell is at my fucking window at two forty-five am?!"

Ready to kill whoever was at his window, Riku drew the blinds, but all his anger quickly left him when he took in the sight before him.

Cloud stood outside his window in the pouring rain. The silver haired boy continued to look in shock a moment, noticing every detail down to how Cloud had his arms wrapped around himself, to his tears mixing with the rain.

Quickly, Riku let Cloud in his room, and demanded to know what happened. However, the blonde boy simply silenced Riku with a kiss, tears continuing to run down his cheeks.

'One month...I haven't seen him since. However, I'm sure I'll see him sometime this month, even though I hope I don't. I hate to see him like that Riku thought to himself again.

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"Yes, hello, I have an appointment here for my son, Sora." Hinoki said, smiling brightly at the woman in front of her. She didn't remember this hair salon being here and figured it was new. However, she decided to give the chance a place, and found it quite nice. 'I just hope they can get Soar's hair how he'll want it...meaning how he always has it.'

Hinoki almost giggled out loud, but held it in as she remembered another time she had taken Sora to get his hair cut, and he almost ended up in tears because the man hadn't cut it how he wanted it. He got over it though.

"Oh, hello. Elizabeth should be done with her current client in a minute, and then I'll send her out to get him," the woman replied. "Now, excuse me, but I should get back to my client. I've been keeping him waiting for so long, and I think I feel bad since he might have fallen asleep." She gave a small chuckle, before offering a smile at the teen and his mother. Hm, the boy seemed like he could be familiar, but she was sure she had never seen him before.

Shrugging slightly, Priscilla returned to her small room she shared with Elizabeth. She looked over Riku, who still had his eyes shut, and almost appeared to be asleep.

"Sorry I took so long Riku, I didn't expect you to be asleep though when I got back." Priscilla grabbed the large cloth so that no hair would get on Riku's clothes, and draped it over him. Suddenly remembering, she turned to Elizabeth. "Oh, Liz, you almost done with her," she asked, nodding toward her current client, "Because you have another customer waiting out in the lobby. I hope you don't mind if I said you'd take him."

Elizabeth turned to her friend and smiled, blowing a few of her blonde bangs out of her eyes as she did so. "No, I don't mind at all, and yes, I'm almost done. Just two more minutes tops."

Priscilla nodded, then turned all her attention to Riku, spinning his chair to the sink, and told him to lean his head back. This confused Riku.

"Hey, Pris, I thought my hair was supposed to be dry for this appointment."

A nervous chuckle emitted from the woman's lips. "Heh, umm....I know I said that, but I was mixing up appointments. And, I'm sorry. I know I shouldn't have mixed them up since it's you." She then turned on the water.

Riku stubbornly scoffed, closing his eyes so water wouldn't get in them. "It's no problem...forget it."

Sighing, Priscilla nodded to herself when Riku's hair was completely wet. "Anyway, anything you wanna talk about today?"

Riku nodded slightly, "Yeah, actually. You know that guy I've told you about before? The one that moved away, well, he's back. I never thought I'd see him again, I mean, he moved and it seemed as though he didn't even really care at the time."

"Hmm, wanna talk about it?" Priscilla asked gently. "You can vent on me if you want. Has he changed or anything?"

"..Why not. No, he hasn't really changed," Riku mumbled, opening his eyes to watch as Priscilla prepared to trim his hair the way he always got it. "Still has that stupid cinnamon brown, spiky hair. Still wears shorts...is it okay if I just stop there?" Riku asked with a sigh.

He then looked took notice of Priscilla's slightly wide eyes, and noticed how her hand seemed slightly frozen in the air, holding the scissors.

"Tell me Riku," she said, almost seeming hesitant of what she was about to ask. "What do you think you would do if you had to be in the same room as him for about ten whole minutes?" She silently cursed in her head as she noted Elizabeth and her previous customer were gone.

Raising one eyebrow, cautiously and curiously, Riku asked, "Why?"

"Well...." Priscilla was about to explain the earlier events, she really was! However, she was cut off when Elizabeth led what seemed to be Sora into the room. 'Now I know where he seemed somewhat familiar from...'

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Bwahahah, yes, I'm leaving you all there. xP It's a pretty good ending though, right? And! I DID finally update Please review, I'm very proud this chapter was longer. Also, sorry about this chapter if it seems...odd. It's not beta-ed, but I wanted it out now, so I'll have it beta-ed later ;

(P.S- I could've ended sooner : p)