NOTE (please read first): This is a Riku & Sora shounen ai fiction. In case you don't know, shounen ai means male/male love with NO sex involved. If you find a relationship between two men disgusting, please don't read on. I'm writing this fic for a bunch of people who like shounen-ai, it's far from me to annoy anyone. Of course, comments are welcome. Oh, and it is my intention to keep the fic PG-13, so if you find something unsuitable please let me know, as I'm not too familiar with this sort of rating.
EDIT (10/11/2004): Chapter 1 is finished. :)
Sora had a dream most weird.
In his slumber, the water flowed and swirled around Sora like a second skin as he plunged relentlessly into the deep darkness of the ocean, headfirst, the sea caressing him with liquid fingers, and singing in his ears in his journey down. A soft calm surrounded Sora, and when the boy opened his eyes he could see the sunbeams through the surface -shining up there like broken jewels kept far away from his reach- before his attention changed to the perfectly rounded bubbles making their way up, bubbles filled with the air from his lungs. Sora thought they looked gorgeous, these bubbles which were carrying his life-breath away inside them.
A movement of the camera and Sora found himself back into the surface, in a beach of warm pearly sand bathed by waves which yielded themselves once and again to the soft summer breeze. The strength of the sun blinded Sora for a moment, forcing him to cover his eyes and blink, and when his hand moved away from his brow he realized he was not alone any longer.
Sora instantly recognized the boy who was giving him the back with half his legs in the water and his bluish hair glowing in the strong light as Riku, his best friend and worst rival, and was about to run towards him when he noticed the tide receding. Sora raised his eyes, first in surprise and then in fear as a huge breaker began to form only steps away from his friend, yet Riku did not seem frightened in the least. He turned to Sora and smiled at him encouragingly, and offered his hand to him with a strange invitation in his pool-like eyes that made Sora feel utterly puzzled and confused, because he had never seen such a look in his friend's eyes before. Not when they played their war games, the wooden swords in their hands and the sweat chilling against their heated bodies; and not when they would lay on the emerald grass late in the evening to watch the red and orange hues of the sunset and smell the salt in the wind. Not even when they both fought for the attentions of Kairi, who Sora believed was the prettiest girl in Destiny Island and in any other island in the world or worlds. Now Riku was staring as Sora as if he was offering himself, and also as if daring Sora to come to him and forget about anything else. But before Sora could shake away his confusion the huge wave before Riku broke with a roar, and both Sora and the dream had to follow their course back into the profoundness of the ocean.
The waters had devoured the world again, yet this time Riku remained with Sora -still stretching his arm in his friend's direction, still gazing at him in that odd way. And suddenly all that Sora wanted was to take Riku's gloved hand in his hand and lose himself in Riku's eyes. He struggled to swim his way towards him, yet the submarine currents cruelly took them apart, submerging Riku to the oblivion and regurgitating Sora to the surface, where Kairi, as charming as ever in her short skirt and sandals, welcomed him with waving hands.
Then would came the strange sensation of being duplicate, and a sense of falling and being submerged before the dream changed completely and filled Sora's restless mind of tiled floors in the middle of nowhere, skilfully decorated with glowing images of foreign princesses of exotic beauty. And combats took place in his dream, too, tough battles against antennae-headed monsters as dangerous as weird, but when Sora awoke at last, only one image remained clear in his brain. The sand, the sea, the sun, the wind against his hair; and Riku's eyes, and Riku's hand just inches from his reach -so near, yet so far away.