Author's note: Sorry for not updating in a while. I have been really busy lately with school and all. Plus I kinda have writer's block too. And my social schedule has been full believe it or not. Ok enough about my life…like anyone wants to hear about that…let's go on with the story!!!!

Disclaimer: This is the last time I'm gonna say this: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or any of the Final Fantasies or any of the brands mentioned in this fic! WE GOT THAT PEOPLE??? j/k

Chapter Six The Truth & Kairi Gets New Friends

The ride home was awkwardly silent, except for bubbly Kairi. She kept talking about Dr. Sepiroth and how cute she thought he was. Riku was thoroughly disgusted by her rambling on like that. He despised the "doctor", if you wanted to call him that. He never wanted to see him again.

When they got home, Riku ran up the stairs to his room. As he walked into his room, he took all of his "punk" attire off. He put on a clean black shirt and a clean pair of dark blue jeans. He went into his bathroom to clean off his eyeliner and to brush his silver mane. Then he realized that he left his cut open so he quickly put a black terry cloth wristband that had a Happy Bunny™ skull and crossbones on it.

"MOM!!" Riku shouted as he slid down the banister. "Yes Riku?" Luna said as she came to the bottom of the steps to meet her son. "Can I go hang out with Sora?" Riku asked, talking about the arrangement that he had made with the spiky, brown hared boy. "Sure Riku. Do you have your cell?" Luna asked being protective of her son. Motherly instincts you could call it. "Yea Mom thanks!" Riku said as he rushed out of the door.

It felt good outside, especially when you're sprinting like Riku was at the moment. The wind was blowing his silver hair back. He got to the other side of the island in a matter of minutes. Sora was standing in front of the waterfall, patiently waiting for Riku.

"Hey Riku!!!" Sora exclaimed. He ran over to his aquamarine eyed friend and gave him a big hug. Sora really liked Riku….. as a friend. Sora had to remind himself that he did not have those kind of feelings for his best friend.

"Hi Sora." Riku said calmly. He wasn't one to get too excited over the little things. They walked into the cave and sat down on the ground. Sora looked tired for some reason. Maybe it was because of flashlight tag the other night. Riku had left around 10 or 11 but they probably played until 1 or 2.

"So watcha want? Well I mean why did you want me to meet you here?" Sora asked Riku hurriedly. "Nothing I just wanted to talk and hangout and stuff." Riku said timidly, completely unlike him. He sort of wanted to tell Sora how he felt about him, but couldn't bring himself to do it. Riku actually had a crush on someone of the same sex. Plus he wanted to tell him about the real reason he moved here, the truth.

"How was your day so far?" Sora said, trying to make a conversation, instead of sitting in the already growing awkward silence. "Ok I guess…" Riku trailed off. He guessed that this was the perfect time to tell Sora about his past.

"Hey Sora, I need to tell you something." Riku said quietly, again unlike himself. "Sure Riku." Sora said as he was thinking about what Riku was going to say, hoping that it was about his feelings toward him.

"Well remember when your mom asked me why we moved here?" Riku said as calmly as he could. "Yea, what about it?" Sora said now trying really hard to figure out just what Riku was getting at. "Well that wasn't the truth…" Riku said as he was interrupted by Sora. "Ok so what about it?" Sora said inquisitively. "As I was going to say. We were running away from someone." Riku said bashfully. "WHO?" Sora said as he jumped off the ground. Now he was really curious as to what was going on with Riku, his best friend maybe something more. "My dad if you want to call him that." "Oh my god!! What happened are you ok?" Sora was genually worried about his friend. "He was abusive towards my mom ad towards me. He raped my sister pretty much every night and well……he tried to rape me too." Riku whispered, trying to hold back the tears that were pushing there way out of his eyes. "I've never told anyone that he tried to do that." Riku said as Sora walked his way over to the silver hair teen to comfort him. Sora gave Riku a warm hug and told him "It's alright, I won't tell anyone. What happened next?"

"My mom separated from him after he pulled a gun on her. We pressed charges and had to go to court. I didn't have to go up to the stand but Kairi did. She had to tell the judge, the jury, the audience and the defense what he did to her and me and my mom had to watch as my sister cried and told detailed descriptions of what went on in her room every single night for the past 7 years." Riku paused, realizing he was still in Sora's arms, but if Sora didn't mind, neither did he.

Riku was about to continue his story but Sora said, "But Kairi's only 14, you mean it started when she was 7?" Riku nodded as Sora's jaw dropped. ""Dad", if you could call him that, was charged with a number of things such as possession of drugs with an intent to sell and many more. a/n: I don't know a lot about legal matters and such so bear with me! Ansem, his name, is put away for a long time." Riku sighed and continued. "We thought we were going to live "happily ever after" but then his family came after us saying things like he would never do that to the ones he loved and we made the whole thing up to get him out of our lives so mom didn't have to go through a messy divorce, which she had to do anyway." Riku said sounding depressed.

"That sucks. But don't worry about that anymore. Besides, nobody is like that here." Sora said gently, trying to cheer up the older boy in his arms. Still in his arms. Sora was trying to deny the feelings he had for Riku at this exact moment. Sora reluctantly pulled Riku out of their embrace to look him straight in the eye. "Did he ever hurt you personally?" Sora asked in one of his serious moments that he rarely had. "Yea. I have one." Riku said as he then took off his shirt to show Sora the lone scar on his left peck. It was a minor one but it still counted.

Yes, Sora was looking at the scar on Riku's chest but he was more or less checking Riku out. Luckily, Riku was too upset and distraught to notice. "I'm really sorry, Riku." Sora said without knowing what else to say. "It's ok Sora. Just promise me you'll never do that to anyone, ok?" Riku said with a tinge of sadness in his voice. "Yea Riku, I promise." Sora said as he stood up from his spot on the floor to stretch. Sora stood up as well and turned to Riku. He looked rough, like he had just woken up or something. Sora had an idea. "Hey Riku?" He asked. "What Sora?" Riku said softly. "Ya' wanna come to my house to my house to spend the night?" Sora asked. "Sure, but I gotta ask my mom first." Riku said happily. This change of plans certainly made him happy. "Ok!! Well c'mon let's go!" Sora said energetically. They ran all of the way back to Riku's house.

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Kairi had been sitting, waiting for her big brother and his cute friend to get home. a/n: Kairi is boy crazy, but like that's any news right? Riku had called his mom to see if he could spend the night at Sora's house. Luna told him he could on one condition, he had to have Sora introduce some of the girls to Kairi. Now she had overheard and was so excited. She hoped the girls were nicer than the ones back in Traverse Town. Finally she heard the door open. In came Riku and Sora. She ran to greet them.

"HI!!!" Kairi exclaimed like she was on another sugar high. "Hey little sis. Ready to go?" Riku said friendly. "Yes!!!" Kairi said more calmly. Before they got there Sora called Yuffie, Aeris, and Selphie to ask them to meet them at the park. Of course when they heard the news that there was a new girl in town, they jumped at the chance to meet her. They stepped out of Riku's house and took the shortcut that they took the other night to play flashlight tag.

When they got there, Kairi saw three girls. One was short, with shoulder length brown hair curled at the ends and green eyes. She was wearing a yellow tee and a pair of light blue jeans with white Reeboks. She was obviously the youngest of the bunch, because of her height and body language as she talked to the other two girls, most likely something juvenile. Also she was obviously the hyper one too.

The one in the middle was probably the second youngest, or oldest whichever one you would like to say. She was taller than the younger one but she still was semi-short. She had really short raven hair that she kept back with a white headband and indigo eyes. She had on a pair of yellow shorts, a green tank top and a pair of black Pumas. She was very thin for someone her age, but none the less very pretty. Kairi wondered if she had an eating disorder or if she had a small frame. Kairi also thought that she looked like the "tomboy" of the group, by the way she dressed and her body language as well.

The last girl was the tallest and the oldest, Kairi assumed. She had long, brown hair that was braided down her back. It was secured by a large pink bow. She had emerald green eyes. Everything she wore, with the exception of a light brown jacket tied around her waist, was pink.She was wearing a rosy pink dress and light pink Uggs. a/n: does any one else find those boots ugly? Also she wore medium sized, pink wire hoop earrings. Kairi thought that she was the "girly girl" of the group. Also Kairi thought that she was very kind and gentile.

"Hey girls." Sora said friendly as he walked over to the three girls that were standing under a huge oak tree. "Hey Sora!!" The youngest looking one said. This was Selphie, she was 14. "Hi Sora." The middle one said looking warn out. She was Yuffie, 16. "Hi." The pink clad girl said shyly. Her name was Aeris a/n: is it Aeris or Aerith? and she was 17. "Hi you guys! I'm Kairi and I'm 14." Kairi said outgoingly, not liking to be shy. "Way to put yourself out their Kairi!" Riku said sorta sarcastically. "Yea I know but you know how I am about this sorta thing!" Kairi said softly. "So you guys, this is Selphie, Yuffie and Aeris." Sora said pointing to the three girls. "And this is Riku and Kairi." Sora said introducing them to the other girls. "Hey." Riku said to them. "Hi." They all said simountaniously, but Riku could pick out which voice was Selphie's, the most hyper and energetic one. The other two's voices blended together. "There are other girls but they were all busy right now so you can meet them later." Sora told Kairi as her face lit up more as she was told that she would meet more people, hoping that they would be her friends. "Ok so Kairi you'll be staying over Selphie's house along with Yuffie, Aeris, Rikku, Yuna, and Paine." Sora said kinda exhaustedly because of all of the names he had to remember, not that he minded of course. "Well I guess you'll have a good time tonight huh Kairi?" Riku said with enthusiasm in his voice. Now that Kairi had good friends, he wouldn't have to keep as much of a watch over her like he did in Traverse Town. " See you guys later." Aeris said as she followed the other girls towards the entrance/exit of the park.

"So now that Kairi has friends, I can spend the night at your house tonight." Riku said with the same enthusiasm that he had a little earlier. "Yea! This is going to be soooo fun!!" Sora said excitedly. He was so happy that Riku finally opened up to him. He always knew something was "fishy" about him, but he could never put his finger on it. Now all Sora needed to do was either make Riku confess his feelings for him, if he had any, or to confess his feelings for Riku. He had admitted to himself that, in fact, he could be bi-sexual or completely gay. He couldn't help it that he had developed feelings for Riku over the past few days of knowing him.

"Well, c'mon! Let's go to my house so I can get a change of clothes and stuff." Riku said happily. This had been happiest he had been in a long time. He finally had a friend, something he never had.

They walked back to Riku's house in silence. When they walked in the door, Riku invited Sora up to his room, seeing as though he had never seen his room. When Sora walked in, he was surprised at how everything looked like it was in its correct place. Riku quickly packed a bag and grabbed a few cds and was ready to go.

Riku and Sora were stopped on the way out by Luna. "Did you introduce your sister to some of the neighborhood girls?" Riku's mother asked. "Yea Mom. Kairi will have a great time tonight at Selphie's house with them." Riku said. "Oh that's good. So I'm assuming I have the house to myself tonight, right?" Luna asked in a gentle voice. "Yea Mom. No parties and no boys!" Riku said like her parent. "Oh all right…" Luna said in a joking manner. "See ya Mom!" Riku said as he walked out the door. "Bye Ms. Morimoto." Sora said. "Sora you can call me Luna. Calling me Ms. Morimoto makes me feel old." Luna said friendly. "Oh ok then it was nice to see you again Luna, bye." Sora said politely. "Bye Sora." Luna said.

Sora walked out the door and joined Riku to walk the dreadfully long path to Sora's house, right next door. a/n: note the sarcasm people! They got to his house and were greeted instantly by Sora's mom, Sara a/n: coincidence? I think not! Read on! "Welcome back, I thought I would never see you again!" Sara said half jokingly, half not. Sara was about 5'9 and had blonde hair with Sora's sapphire eyes. She was curvy a/n #3: real women have curves!! and she had a snobby attitude. She wasn't the friendliest person to know but she was fun at times, seeing as she was serious most of the time. Sara wasn't mean to her only child, Sora but she didn't seem to be a very fitting mother to such a kind person as Sora.

"Hey Mom, this is Riku. Our new next door neighbor. Remember I asked if he could spend the night and you said it was alright?" Sora said hoping his mom remembered that she agreed to Riku spending the night. He didn't want to get in trouble, like he did often, for no reason. "Of course I would remember, Sora! How could I not? I was curious to see the new neighbor." Sara said as she turned to Riku. "Hello, you must be Riku. Sora has told me lots about you." Sara said, even though that was a complete lie and both Sora and Riku knew it was a complete lie. "It's nice to meet you too, Mrs. Yoko." Riku said politely. a/n: I know Yoko isn't a great last name but you can't blame me, I'm not Japanese!! No offence to those who are. Other last names for the other character's last names are greatly appreciated!! Riku could tell immeadently that Sara was not a nice person. He didn't even know her and already he didn't like her.

"Ok guys, me and your father are going out tonight so we're trusting you to be on your best behavior here alone." Sara said nicely, unlike her true self. Deep inside she was a cold, heartless person. Mentally Sora and Riku were jumping up and down at the fact that they would be in the house together alone. Sora was excited that maybe he would be able to tell Riku how he felt about him. Riku was excited for the exact reason, but he decided against telling Sora how he felt because Riku thought that it was too soon to tell him his feelings. He barely knew him for a week and he had developed feelings for him. This was a first for Riku.

"Ok Mom, we promise not to throw any huge parties or anything." Sora said as Riku politely nodded along. "Ok." Sara said unemotionally. She moved out of the way so the teens could come into the house.

Ok this was barely 5 pages but I think it turned out great. Yea I know that I haven't updated in awhile, but I think this has a lot of elements that the others didn't. Hope you guys like it. The next chapter will be out depending on how many reviews I get so PUSH THE BUTTON, DAMNIT!!!!! I'm kidding guys, but seriously, I know you want to push the button. Pleezzz!! ::big grins::