This Mask of Glass
By: psych0tic
Disclaimer: Don't own the characters. They are owned by Squaresoft and whoever else thought of them. Boo hoo. BUT! But I do own the story. Even though it's a tad cliché...
Summary: Riku considers himself straight. No exceptions included. So what happens when he gets dared to ask Sora, a guy, out for a date? And... also to be a couple for a whole month?
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Riku felt a surge of emotion as he entered the school building the next day. It was Monday and sure he hated Monday's but... Today was the first day of his official relationship with Sora. He grinned at the thought and made his way towards the brunet's locker. Unfortunately Sora wasn't there yet. But Riku would wait. No matter how long Sora took, he would wait.
Sora stumbled through the school doors as if on cue by Riku's thoughts. He walked down the hallway: hands in pockets and cheeks ballooning. He was thinking and he was thinking rather hard it would seem because he suddenly passed by his locker and Riku.
Riku raised an eyebrow at Sora's odd behavior and he outstretched a hand to grab the smaller boy. When he did Sora turned around with a dazed expression on his face that suddenly brightened.
"What are you doing here?" Sora asked Riku with a big Sora-like grin on his face.
"Waiting for you," Riku replied as he guided the brunet towards his locker. Sora smiled and opened his locker he put whatever he put into his locker and then closed it. He then looked at his watch. They had at least 15 minutes to chat before homeroom started.
"Why'd you walk past your locker?" Riku asked Sora as they were walking down the hallway, hand in hand.
"Ehh..." Sora replied and started swinging his and Riku's hand.
"Ah come on!" Riku said as he nudged Sora with his elbow. "Your birthday is coming up soon... You should be happy."
"But--"
"Ah, ah! No buts," Riku said as he put his index finger over Sora's lips—instantly silencing the brunet.
Sora huffed and pouted a bit. How could he say anything when Riku's finger was over his lips? The milk chocolate haired boy suddenly had an idea. A very... Kinky idea... His face instantly brightened as he thought of it. And Riku's finger was still on his mouth so...
Sora licked Riku's finger.
Simple as that.
Just one swipe of his tongue and Riku blushed, quickly removing his finger.
"What was that for!?" Riku asked, his eyes bulging out of their sockets. Sora laughed at Riku and shook his head.
"So I could talk," he explained.
Riku nodded showing his understanding and they slowly began to walk down the halls again. In silence. Which Riku started to dislike.
"Say something," he suddenly said.
Sora looked up at Riku with questioning eyes. "Something?" he said, furrowing his eyebrows adorably.
"Yeah, something," Riku said as he turned towards Sora with a smile on his face. They reached their destination: Sora's homeroom with only a few minutes before the bell rang. The silver haired boy took Sora into his arms for a minute long embrace.
And they just stood there.
Arms around each other.
For what seemed like eternity.
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Sora was in his second period now, which was art class. All around him students were chatting, painting, drawing... And he just sat there staring at the block of clay in front of him. The teacher gave them an easy task today: create your favorite thing.
And Sora sat there poking the cold material whilst thinking of what to sculpt out of it. His favorite thing, huh? If only he didn't have a lot of favorite things. He looked around the classroom at whatever his fellow classmates were doing. Basketballs, food, Victoria Secret models... He shook his head. None of those things were his favorite.
Sora closed his eyes to think. He furrowed his brows. "What is my most favoritest thing in the world?"
And oh the images flashed inside his mind. But he only focused on two things: hugs and kisses from Riku. But how was he supposed to sculpt that!? Well... he could sculpt them kissing... Or hugging... Or he could just sculpt Riku.
"Ehh... I'll just sculpt us hugging," he muttered to himself and went to work.
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It was lunchtime and Riku waited for Sora by his locker. It seemed that he was practically always the one doing the waiting. But Sora was almost always late... The silver haired boy sighed and checked his watch. The bell rang three minutes ago and he was beginning to wonder what took the brunet so long.
Suddenly there were footsteps in the almost empty hall and Riku's head snapped up. Must be Sora, he thought with a smile. And indeed it was Sora. Riku smirked at the sight of his boyfriend running towards him—arms outstretched. But the silver haired boy only imagined the arms outstretched part so when Sora finally reached him...
"HEY! NO! YOU MIGHT CRUSH IT!!!"
"Huh?" Riku said as he hugged Sora.
"YOU'RE GONNA CRUSH IT!!"
"Crush what?" Riku asked annoyingly as he pulled away from Sora.
"My sculpture," Sora said with a grin as he found out that it wasn't crushed by Riku's manly arms.
"What sculpture?" Riku asked with an eyebrow raised.
"This sculpture of a... bunny," Sora lied and opened his locker to put it away. Riku had a feeling that Sora was lying to him but he shrugged it off as he took Sora's hand in his. The brunet grabbed a brown paper bag from the depths of his locker. He closed the locker before skipping and dragging Riku out of the halls and into the sunny schoolyard.
It wasn't a hot day but they sat underneath their oak tree to shade themselves from the sun. Riku leaned against the trunk of the tree and stretched his legs before picking up his lunch to eat. Sora settled himself between Riku's legs and he leaned on the older boy.
"So, about tomorrow," Riku said as he wrapped his arms around Sora's waist.
"Hnn?" Sora hummed and dug inside his bag to see what his mom made him. He took the sandwich out and inspected it. It didn't look like bologna, nor did it look like cheese... TUNA FISH SANDWICH! EW! He dropped the sandwich back into his bag.
"Do you wanna just skip school for the whole day or... Celebrate when school's over?"
What a stupid question to ask.
"Let's skip school the whole day," Sora said with a smile on his face as he reached back into his bag to look for something edible.
"Alright," Riku said with a smirk as he reached into his own bag bringing out Doritos, a ham sandwich and some Juicy Juice.
Sora still had his hand in his bag when Riku suddenly shoved his sandwich in front of Sora's face.
"Not as tasty as the teriyaki one but at least it's edible," the brunet heard Riku say. Sora shrugged his shoulders and leaned in to bite the offered sandwich. And while he was chewing the sandwich disappeared so when he wanted another bite...
"Hey, where'd the sandwich go?"
Riku burst out into laughter and parts of the sandwich that he was eating suddenly came out of his mouth. The other parts went down his throat causing the handsome boy to choke.
"It's not funny," Sora said and pouted oblivious to the fact that Riku was choking.
"Hrk ghck..."
Huh, that was odd. 'Hrk ghck?' What's that supposed to mean? Sora turned around and he saw Riku making weird gestures towards his throat. He raised an eyebrow.
"What're you doing...?" Sora asked as he watched Riku's eyes bulge out of their sockets and more weird hand gestures.
Oh... my... God... STUPID SORA CAN'T YOU SEE I'M CHOKIIIIIIIING!?!?!?!, Riku mentally screamed. He was about to cry, he was about to faint... Hell, he was about to die.
And suddenly it dawned upon the younger boy that his boyfriend just might be...
"CHOKING!?!?!" Sora screamed as Riku nodded vigorously. It was Sora's turn to have his eyes bulge out of their sockets as he got off of Riku and started pounding on said boy's back. Hopefully it would help because Sora didn't know how to do the Heimlich.
More pounding later and Riku finally hacked up the piece of sandwich that decided to lodge itself in his throat. He glared at the evil piece of food before turning towards Sora with a grin.
"Thanks for saving me," he said with a little wink.
Sora giggled and leaned into Riku. "You're welcome."
"Buuuuut I think you gave me tons of bruises," Riku said as he pouted down at Sora. "You abusive boyfriend you," he added and they suddenly burst out into laughter.
Yehp, nearly dying, being saved by your boyfriend and laughing about his abuse is fun.
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Sora entered his house holding his sculpture in his hands. It was of him and Riku hugging. He thought it looked kinda odd but dismissed the thought. He was going to give it to Riku tomorrow or something. Tomorrow—his 15th birthday. He grinned as he went up the stairs and to his bedroom. He was going to spend the whole day of tomorrow with his favorite person in the world: Riku.
Sora put the sculpture on his shelf before throwing himself onto his bed. And then he was drifting into a deep slumber.
Sora's mother entered her home, tired and hungry. She sighed as she walked past the hall and to the living room. She went over to her phone, which had its red light blinking, indicating that she missed a message. Pressing a button and turning the volume up the message started playing.
"Monday, 1:00 PM: Hey honey, I'm coming home tomorrow at around 12 so you better be there to welcome me back. Oh shit, I gotta go, see you tomorrow. –Beep-"
Mother stared at the answering machine in disbelief. Was it really 10 years already? She checked her calendar. Yep... It was 10 years... Which meant that he'd come back tomorrow. And tomorrow was also Sora's birthday.
She sighed and quickly went up the stairs to Sora's bedroom. They had to leave. They had to leave now, unless she wanted to cope with the psycho she married...
"Sora--" Mother said but suddenly stopped talking as she saw her son asleep on his bed. She smiled and was about to leave him alone when she remembered that they had to pack tonight. They absolutely had to. So she walked into Sora's room and sat on his bed. She sighed again.
"I wish I didn't have to do this but..." she whispered and shook her son slightly. "Sora, wake up."
Sora mumbled something unintelligible in his sleep and rolled over in his bed.
"Sora! Wake up!" Mother hissed and shook him more vigorously.
Sora's eyes snapped open and he saw his mother shaking him. "W-what?" he asked sleepily.
Mother took a deep breath before telling Sora the horrible news.
"Your father's coming home. Tomorrow."
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End of chapter. Hehe. This story is almost coming to a close ;-;. BUT DON'T WORRY! I will have a sequel up n-n! ...That is if you want me to o.o.
L337 Mistress: Hehe, I like what you said. But uh-- :X. I shouldn't say because you'll find out in the next chapter :3.
Shadow-Kitsune: And what'll you do if I hurt Sora? Ò-ó eh? EH? WHAT? XD
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