This Mask of Glass
By: psych0tic
Disclaimer: Don't own the characters; they are owned by Squaresoft and whoever else thought of them. 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?
Chapter Eight: I Will Part 2
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A few hours went by and the two teens have finally finished packing. They fell on Sora's bed, one on top of the other.
"Ahhh! Geroff meeh!!" the younger of the two managed to say with a heavy and tired Riku on top of him. Sora tried to push Riku off but the boy wouldn't budge.
"No," Riku said and wrapped his arms around Sora. He adjusted his position on the other boy so that his head was resting on Sora's stomach. Sora's soft... fluffy... stomach. That he would surely miss.
Sora, who could now breathe and talk properly, wrapped his arms around Riku's neck. He looked around his now almost bare room. Riku helped him pack almost everything into some boxes and now the brunet was wondering how his mom would fit all of that in the car. Surely there wouldn't BE any space left. He looked at his watch and sighed.
"It's 9:30," Sora announced and put his arm back to it's previous position.
Two more hours to go...
The two boys thought simultaneously. Riku tightened his embrace on Sora as soon as the thought left his system. He buried his head in Sora's stomach and breathed the wonderful smell of freshly done laundry.
"Riku..." Sora gasped as he felt the other boy hug him tighter. "Rikuuuu..."
"Mm," Riku said and continued to smell Sora's scent.
"Riku! You're..." Sora struggled to say as he also struggled to breath.
"Hot? Yeah I know..." Riku said as he buried his head once more into Sora's stomach. He tightened his grip, oblivious to the fact that Sora couldn't breath.
"Yes! But. You're. Killing. ME!"
Riku's head snapped upwards and he raised an eyebrow. "How... Am I...?"
"Ca...n't... Bre...athe!" Sora said in an abnormal high-pitched voice.
"The hell?" Riku said as he raised another eyebrow. "How can you... OH!" Riku exclaimed and loosened his grip on his boyfriend.
"Hehe. Sorry about that," Riku said and smiled sheepishly.
"It's okay," Sora said while taking a very large breath.
"Sooo... What do you wanna do?" Riku asked as he stared at one of Sora's blank walls.
Sora shrugged and sat up on his bed, oblivious to the fact that Riku was still lying on him. Therefore, Riku ended up in a very... awkward position and he suddenly sat up in alarm.
"WE ARE NOT DOING... THAT!" Riku said as he stared at Sora incredulously.
"Doing what?" Sora asked confused.
"THAT!" Riku explained.
"That?" Sora asked as his eyebrows furrowed.
"Yeah! That!"
"...Riku I have no idea what you're talking about," Sora confirmed with a nod of his head.
"Oh," Riku said and suddenly he began to feel stupid. "Never mind then," he said and scratched the back of his head. Sora laughed and got to his feet.
"How about we just... go to the park?" Sora asked as he outstretched his hand to help Riku up. Riku's eyes flitted upwards meeting Sora's and he nodded his head.
"The park... Sounds good," Riku said while taking Sora's hand.
The two boys exited the house, holding hands, on a bright and sunny day.
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Kairi made her way towards the park, camera in hand. It was a nice sunny day and it was also in the morning. She hoped to take pictures of the park for her art project and going in the morning where there were less people was a very good idea. She stepped on the concrete walkway and stopped. Observing the park she saw two people on the swings, one with brown hair and one with silver hair. It hurt her eyes.
Kairi thought that they looked awfully familiar and made her way towards them. Maybe... if she snuck up on them... She would have a great-unplanned picture. It would be a great memory. She snuck into the bushes and made her way slowly towards the two boys.
"Oh come on! Just push me!" Kairi heard Sora say as she snuck closer.
"Eh, push yourself," Riku said with a little laugh.
"Just one more time!" Sora whined.
"Fine," Riku said.
Kairi finally found a good place in the bushes to take the picture. She found a hole in the bushes that gave her the perfect view of the couple. Perfect, she thought as she raised her camera to eyelevel. SNAP! The picture was taken. She looked at her digital camera to see how the picture ended. But she couldn't really see... So she popped out of the bushes. Sora emitted a scream and Riku got whacked in the stomach with the swing.
"Hey! That turned out good!" Kairi said oblivious to the fact that she ALMOST gave Sora a heart attack.
"What turned out good?" Sora asked as he jumped from the swings and landed near Kairi.
"This picture of you and Riku!" She said as she showed the picture to Sora.
"Let me see," Riku said as he slowly walked towards the two. He clutched his stomach all the way and viewed the picture. Sora was swinging on the swing with a cheesy grin on his face and Riku was leaning on the pole with a smile on his face. It was a... Good picture.
"Isn't it great?" Kairi asked Riku as he came closer.
The silver haired boy nodded and sat down on the ground. "What're you doing here?" Riku asked her.
Pain flashed in Kairi's eyes for a second. Does he not want me to be here...? She asked herself and then decided to answer. "Art project," she said in her usual tone. A smile crept onto her face as she closed her eyes to hide them.
"Oh," Riku said and shifted his position so that he was lying on the grass. He stared at the clouds that were slowly drifting around.
"So... Kairi, you're skipping school to do an art project?" Sora asked as he raised an eyebrow. That didn't sound like Kairi at all.
"Yes and no," Kairi replied as she turned towards the brunet. "I'm skipping school to do an art project AND find you..."
"Why?" Sora asked.
"Because it's your birthday and... Your mom called my mom and..." Kairi dropped her head and felt tears spring to her eyes. "I can't... Believe you're..."
Sora's head drooped and he smiled sadly at the ground. "Yeah..." he said with a hint of sadness in his voice. He stepped towards Kairi and gave her a hard hug.
"I'll..." Kairi sniffed and wrapped her arms around Sora. "Miss you."
"I'll miss you too," Sora said as he placed a kiss on her cheek. "Don't cry ok?"
Kairi stepped back from Sora and nodded. "I won't," she said as more tears threatened to fall.
"Promise?" Sora asked and held out his pinky.
"Promise," Kairi said with a smile as he took Sora's pinky in hers. "You'll come back... Right?" Kairi asked.
"Of course I will," Sora said unsure if he ever will come back.
"Good," Kairi sighed happily and wiped a few stray tears from her face. "I'll... be going now," she said as she waved her camera at the two boys. "B-bye."
Riku got up from his position and watched Kairi run away, camera in hand. He took Sora's hand in his and they walked down the path leading to the lake. They sat down on the bench that was seated so that you could view the water.
"Pretty," Sora commented as the sunlight hit the water, which made it seem like diamonds were sparkling.
"Yeah... But it's prettier at night, you know, with the moon and stuff," Riku said as he watched the water, also. He then tilted his head so that he was watching Sora instead. It seemed like the diamonds in the water were reflected in Sora's true blue eyes. It was breathtakingly beautiful.
"Hey what's this?" Sora asked as something dropped into his lap. It was a yellow star shaped fruit with a little green leaf hanging off one its ends.
Riku gasped for breath and stared at the fruit in Sora's hands. Breathing is required! Riku mentally scolded himself before asking,
"Where'd that come from?" he asked.
"I dunno," Sora said and expected the fruit. He sniffed it, cleaned it on his shirt and was about to break it in two when Riku suddenly swiped the fruit from him.
"HEY!" Sora exclaimed and tried to reclaim the fruit but couldn't.
"Hmm... It's a Paopu fruit," Riku said after staring at it for awhile.
"Paopu?" Sora said and turned his head to see a Paopu tree situated behind them.
"Yehp. Legend has it that if two people share one, their destinies become intertwined and they'll remain apart of each other's lives... No matter what," Riku explained.
"No... Matter what?" Sora asked and swiped the fruit from Riku.
"No matter what," Riku confirmed and swiped the fruit from Sora.
"So then... Let's share it," the brunet said as a light blush appeared on his cheeks.
Riku nodded and broke the fruit in half. He took one half and handed the other to Sora. "On the count of three... One,"
"Two," Sora continued.
"Three!" they both said together and bit into the fruit. It was warm and juicy and... tasted like... fresh water with a hint of lemons.
Riku, having finished eating his Paopu, looked at Sora. A bit of Paopu juice was dripping out of Sora's mouth and the silver haired boy had an extremely strong urge to lick it off. And that's what he did.
"Uhhh... Riku?" Sora asked as Riku sat in his previous position.
"Hmm?" Riku hummed as he grinned at the sparkling water.
"Never mind," Sora said with a snort.
"Okay," Riku said, that cheesy grin still plastered on his face. There was a thump and something heavy landed on his lap. Riku thought it was another Paopu fruit but was surprised to find out that it was Sora's head.
Sora sighed into Riku's lap as both boys watched the water wash in and out.
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Kairi was done taking pictures of the woods and walked down the path, towards the lake. She sighed as she kept her eyes trained to the ground. Sora was going to leave her on this island. How could she live without her best friend? It was just too hard to believe. But she knew it was for a good cause. Sora alive and out in the world somewhere surely would be better than a dead Sora? Of course.
Kairi's head snapped up as the concrete was replaced by rock and sand. Then her head drooped again as she walked towards the water. She dragged her feet through the sand and rocks, not really caring if her shoes were going to get dirty.
She finally reached the water and she crouched down. Hugging her camera and picking up a few stones she decided to skip rocks. Of course... She sucked at that. The rocks just plopped into the water, created a minimal splash and sunk to the bottom.
"I should take a picture of that," she said to herself as she got her camera in hand and a rock in the other. She threw the rock and snapped a picture of the splash. Kairi got bored with the rocks and water after awhile and stood up to find something else to take a picture of. She looked around the lake and found a Paopu tree.
"I should take a picture of that," Kairi said and walked towards the tree. When she was near the trunk she raised the camera so that she could get a good picture of a cluster of Paopu fruit hanging from a branch. The sun's rays shone through the leaves giving them an almost translucent green look. Kairi snapped the picture and then looked around. There was a bench situated in front of the tree that wasn't preoccupied. Or so she thought when...
"Kairi, what're you doing here?" Riku asked as he turned his head to see her.
"Uwa!" Kairi almost screamed.
"Sssh, you'll wake up Sora," Riku hushed her and then pointed towards the sleeping boy in his lap.
"How did I NOT see you?" Kairi asked as she looked at Riku.
"Dunno. You're blind," Riku said with a soft laugh as he patted the arm rail.
Kairi's eyes narrowed. "You want me... To sit on that?"
"Yuhp," Riku said with a grin.
Kairi rolled her eyes and took a step back to take a picture of Riku and Sora. Once that was out of the way she took her seat on the metal arm rail.
"This hurts my butt," Kairi whined.
"Live with it," Riku commented.
"Whatever," Kairi mumbled as she took a picture of the sparkling water. Silence soon engulfed them and Sora just wouldn't wake up.
"Wake him up," Kairi said just to break the silence.
"No, you wake him up," Riku countered.
"No, you do it," Kairi hissed.
"You do it."
"No, you do it."
"You."
"You."
"No, you."
"Hey guys... Shut up."
"No, you shut u—Sora?" Kairi said and almost fell of the arm rail.
"Yehp," Sora said as he raised his head out of Riku's lap.
"Since when did you wake up?" Riku asked.
"Since you two wouldn't shut up," Sora said with a smile.
"Oh," Kairi and Riku said simultaneously.
"Yeah..." Sora said with a nervous laugh.
Now that Sora was awake the silence seemed to be more pronounced than anything. The sound of the water seemed to be louder than the sound of their breathing. The sound of a dog barking seemed to be louder than the sound of the water, however. And the sound of Kairi suddenly shrieking seemed to be louder than anything. Especially in Riku's ears.
"What the hell was that for!?" Riku asked Kairi who was now on the ground and getting licked by a huge orangey-yellow dog.
"Pluto! GET OFF!" Kairi said and pushed Pluto away. The dog bounded across the shore and back towards them. He carried a stick in his mouth, which he dropped in Kairi's lap. The redhead picked up the stick and threw it off somewhere; Pluto soon followed.
"Stupid Mr. Mouse's dog," Riku said as he watched the dog run off to find the stick.
"I wonder what he's doing here anyway," Kairi said as she fingered the seams on her white tank top.
"Mr. Mouse is probably jogging or something," Riku said and they all nodded. Mr. Mouse was the school's principal. He was short, had really big ears, and liked to stay fit. Though, why he would go to the park on a school day, nobody knew.
"Oh... Crap," Kairi said as she looked at her watch. "It's 11:20... I gotta go, guys. Bye," she said and gave Sora one last hug before she left. The two boys watched her leave before getting up themselves.
"I have to go in 10 minutes," Sora grunted and walked towards the path, Riku in tow.
"I know..." Riku said and ran to catch up with Sora. He laced his fingers with Sora's and they walked towards the park's entrance/exit.
"Hey... Can you promise me something?" Sora asked Riku.
"Anything you want," Riku replied as they started walking towards Sora's home.
"Promise me you'll... Do whatever it takes to make Kairi happy?" Sora mumbled.
"Huh?" Riku asked—he had not heard what Sora said.
Sora sighed and repeated what he just said, a bit louder.
"Oh. Yeah of course I will," Riku said as Sora's house soon came into view. They saw Sora's mom running from the house to the car and back. As they approached her she looked at them and then ordered Sora to go bring his things down to the car.
"I'll help," Riku said as both boys entered the almost empty house. They went up to Sora's bedroom and back down again, carrying boxes and a suitcase. They packed everything into the compact SUV and Riku stood on the sidewalk. He was going to watch the car just... Go. He was going to watch Sora leave him. He was—What the hell is Sora doing getting out of the car?
"Sora, hurry up!" Riku heard Sora's mom call as Sora swished past him to get inside the house. Minutes later the brunet emerged carrying something in his hands. He placed the sculpture in Riku's hands, an aloof smile on his face.
"Remember me, don't forget me," Sora said as he looked sadly into Riku's eyes.
"Don't forget me either," Riku responded as he too looked into Sora's eyes.
"Don't forget your promise," Sora said with a small smile as he stood on his tiptoes to kiss Riku on the lips.
"I won't," Riku whispered as he kissed Sora back. "And remember to come back..."
"I will, Riku, I will," Sora said as he hugged Riku one last time. He then walked backwards towards his car, tears apparent in his eyes as he got inside. The engine started. The wheels turned. The car disappeared into the road. Sora disappeared.
The pain shot through Riku's heart and he started crying, non-stop, not caring if anyone saw him at all. He looked at the sculpture in his hands. It was blurred because of his tears and he saw that it was a sculpture of them. Hugging. It was cute. And he would cherish it all his life until Sora came back.
Sora... You better come back.
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You're giving me too many things
Lately you're all I need
You smiled at me and said,
Don't get me wrong I love you
But does that mean I have to meet your father?
When we are older you'll understand
What I meant when I said "No,
I don't think life is quite that simple"
When you walk away
You don't hear me say please
Oh baby, don't go
Simple and clean is the way that you're making me feel tonight
It's hard to let it go
The daily things that keep us all busy
Are confusing me
That's when you came to me and said,
Wish I could prove I love you
But does that mean I have to walk on water?
When we are older you'll understand
It's enough when I say so
And maybe some things are that simple
Hold me
Whatever lies beyond this morning
Is a little later on
Regardless of warnings the future doesn't scare me at all
Nothing's like before
THE END.
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It's finally done. Whippeeee! I think the ending sucked. . ;; Anywho... It's done! Whoo... Hope you enjoyed it all. Thanks for the reviews! I appreciated them muchly. And angel-of-mayhem hearts to yooou since you always review and such. XD. AND LOOK! I FOUND PAOPU FRUIT;;; It's called Carambola or Star Fruit. And it is so yummy . It even looks like a Paopu fruit... Well... When it's cut XD.
Here look at it:
http : www . floridagardener . com / pom / starfruit . jpg (just remove the spaces .)
And now I feel like.. Uhm.. Translating some names. Lol. Yehp.
Riku – agony of separation. Oh how I love that name.
Sora – sky. Duh, everyone knows that!
Kairi – and this one was really weird. Because it has a lot of meanings. O.o;; Like... Beaver and... Nautical mile lmao. BUT, the one I'm going to go with is dissociation.
Credits for the translations are here:
http : poets . notredame. ac. jp / cgi-bin / jedi-inon
Yehp. See ya in the sequel, that is, if I can get off my ass and write it XD.