First off, I would like to apologize for my absence since my last chapter. I was at family a week after the chapter and on June 3rd my grandmother passed away. After she was buried, I went with my other family (who had come up to the funeral) back home. Okay, problem starts here. My grandparents don't have internet, which shoots down my chances at posting stories. Second, I'm lazy, been here two weeks already and I'm just NOW starting on this thing again! While on my way to my family (the first talked about) I typed up a Harry Potter story. I, however, was not able to put it up due to the fact that my aunt's house did not have the connection I needed at the time. So, if all goes well. I'll be able to get all things done and said.
Reviewers for the last chapter (if I get anymore... I'll pass out...) chibi chidori, KingdomHearts309, animeangel, kawaiidark, VampssAmby20210, Soul-Spirit, and Rinoki Rio. Thanks!
Cassidy dell and animeangel have been given the permission to personally e-mail me with their story requests. However, there will be one rule... Your idea must be where I can put it in a one-shot. That's all I'm asking. My e-mail address is Sageofwind2008aol.com.
Like I said earlier, the idea for this chapter and probably the next one will be based on an idea my friend gave to me during the school year. No one will hopefully never see it coming... but one might... ::points at screen:: I KNOW YOUR OUT THERE! YOUR NAME BEGINS WITH 'C', YOUR OLDER THAN ME, AND YOUR BROTHER CAN IMMESNSELY GET ON ONE'S NERVES! AND YOU HAD BETTER LET ME READ YOUR MYTHOLOGY STORY!
::sighs:: Phew! Had to get that one off me chest!
Also, I want to know something; do any of you mind if I do a romance story with a neko-fied Rockman.exe and K.H. 2 Sora? I want to so badly! Or at least a Goofy x Sora story? I want to do something new... please let me! ::does Sora pout::
Warnings- Yaoi, slavery, abuse, uh.... forced labor... language(?)... and, uh, other good stuff!
Disney and Square Enix copyright Sora, Riku, and other Kingdom Hearts characters that I may use in this story.
Oh, and scene borders will now be an - instead of a bar. FFN is getting strange on me...
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Servants, Obey Thy Masters
Chapter Ten: Arising Perplexity
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"Why is it still raining, Riku?"
Sora gave Riku a hard stare as the servant shrugged his shoulders carelessly at the inquiry. "I don't know... It just is..." The heir smiled sadly at the elder's answer, and went back to brooding over the wet scenery that took its unusual new taste to rain too seriously. Sora sighed in a bored manner, his head placed on his hands held-up by his elbows that were placed on the windowsill. The clear drops of liquid poured on the surrounding land like an unspoken burden, filling Sora with more doubts of sun. Riku just sat there beside him on the day bed near the window. Riku's head was hung down while his astounding aqua eyes were closed as he held his arms crossed along his chest. He enjoyed rain, but obviously, his master didn't...
"When will it stop?"
Riku's eyes snapped open, his vision locking onto Sora's nimble figure. His narrow eyes blinked sternly and he sighed just like his companion had done earlier. "Do you truly think I'm capable of knowing that? I'm only human..." Riku pronounced, hoping that his statement would imply that he didn't know anything about the weather's 'lovely' patterns. Sora glared at Riku, not seeing as this being the time to joke around. He asked a question and he wanted a decent answer, not one with sarcasm and annoyance etched into the words. He wanted Riku to apologize for his wrong... which was exactly what he was going to do. "You didn't have to answer it like that... you know, Riku?" Sora asked, pouting playfully. He knew Riku couldn't take the guilt trip. Especially when his beloved was the one he had inflicted sorrow on. Riku turned his head towards Sora, noting how those big blue eyes blinked with tears as that bottom lip stuck out sadly.
Riku could feel his heart break...
"I'm sorry, Sora..." Riku whispered as he pulled Sora into a soft embrace, hoping to quell that adorable face back into a bright smile full of the sunshine that was absent on that stormy day. He heard Sora sniffle softly and sigh into Riku's strong arms. Riku couldn't help but grin at the younger teen, pulling him closer to his warmth. "There, there... I didn't mean to be so harsh..."
Sora mentally snickered at his lover's words, knowing that he had his beloved eating out of his small palm. He then tilted his head to have his eyes penetrate the elder's sight. Then, unable hold a straight face as he saw Riku's remorseful expression, Sora busted out in fits of laughter. He buried his face into the taller male's chest, letting his fit rage on in the cloth. Soon, after the noise died down, Sora found a disturbed look on the silver-haired teen's face.
"Uh... you having a seizure of happiness?"
Sora blushed, crimson staining his tanned, yet alabaster cheeks. He brought hand to the side of his lips, fingers closed in a loose fist. Riku chuckled before caressing the younger teen's fist with his ebony-gloved fingers. "Sora... you're so delicate... I'm afraid that everytime I touch... I might just break you..." Sora turned his head away, blush increased, and a small smile his face. Riku couldn't help but enjoy the squirming boy in his arms, shushing him. "Riku?"
"Hm?"
"That night when you tried to take of my gown... what were you trying to do?"
Riku stopped all ministrations he had placed his lover, who seemed to be purring contentedly until the question popped up from the hazy spaces of oblivion. Riku glanced down the heir, noticing the lost look his beloved gave him. Certainly Sora had forgotten about it...? ... Or at least figured it out... 'Guess not...' Riku thought as he gulped under the intense gaze of the 'All Powerful Prince Sora,' who had pulled himself out of the limpet-like hug and sat back on his ankles. Sora meant business. "Well?" Sora proceeded, staring at Riku as if he had nothing better to do. Riku then decided that he needed an excuse and fast. "Um... I-, uh..." Riku then blurted the first thing that came to mind.
"You're so uncomfortable sometimes th-that I tried to show there's nothing to fear around m-me!"
(A/N: Yeah, right, Riku... nice try, though....)
Sora was taken aback by this answer, and it seemed better than anyone would be, so he shrugged and smiled childishly, throwing himself onto Riku with a happy squeal. "Was that all? Well, al you had to do was say so!"
Riku felt sweat trickle down his back and felt his eye twitch... that was it?! That was all it took?
Just some lame excuse and Sora was once more in his arms, loving every touch he was given?
"Sora... can I pass out now?"
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Riku grunted in frustration, recalling the fact that Sora was frantic in their need to get to a certain destination. Sora had rushed in suddenly after he had told Riku he going to see of he could get a snack for them to share. The next thing he knew was that he was being reluctantly drug to the place in the palace Sora so desperately wanted to get to in a hurry. "Sora, what's-" Riku found himself stopped in mid-sentence when Sora stopped abruptly and slapped a hand over his mouth. "Shush... now listen; When I was heading down towards the kitchen, I saw my father with one of the generals of the army talking about my mother! I saw them go into here and I went back for you so you could hear how vile my father speaks of her!"
Riku then nodded slowly, understanding Sora's words. His father and mother loved and cherished eachother deeply and Riku never heard them fight one another or belittle the other behind their backs. Very rarely, but it was usually a joke. This hatred Sora and Riku had built for the guards and the king stood on one foundation; the departed queen. Riku had heard how much Sora's father despised his ruined wife, and he never truly understood why. Now, however, he had hoped to get a clearer picture of this strangely born loathing the king had for his torn family.
"You know as well as I do, your highness, that the prince is coming of age. Soon, he'll be the perfect age to become king and you need to find the princess perfect for him," The general seemed all too enthusiastic about 'finding Sora a new lover,' which burned Riku right to the quick. Sora was his, not some far away slut that just found out about the angelic and admirable prince. Sora seemed to share similar thoughts as he intertwined his hand with Riku's, comforting them both in their silent, chaotic thoughts. The king, however, groaned and threw his arms up angrily. "But what happens if she finds out?! If he finds out!? How do you think my son would react if he figured out I am not his true father!"
"Wha-?"
Sora's eyes widened in shock, as did Riku's. For as long as they knew, Sora was son to the reigning king to the palace and nothing else. This new information scared Riku, and he knew that it was that hard, cold slap of reality that literally broke Sora apart. "If he isn't...." Sora whispered, twisting towards Riku, "Then who is my father?" Riku shrugged mournfully, wishing that he could answer that sweet child-like soul. He couldn't, however, and that was what made Riku want to kill himself right then and there.
"I know that your, ahem... wife... did have a child, but that was not your child..." the general stated, coughing as he spoke. The king glared at the general with serious fury. He shook with diabolical anger and he began to shout at the top of his lungs. "That whore was not my wife! How can you say that when she went off a year after we married and given the position of royal leadership just to have a child for some slave!?"
Riku felt as if he had been struck by lightening.
He glanced at Sora who seemed to lost to be brought back, tears running down his soft cheeks. Riku embraced the chestnut-haired prince, feeling Sora cling to him immediately. "It's okay... I'm here... I'm here..." Riku cooed into Sora's ear, stroking the fluffy cinnamon tresses of the shorter male. Sora quietly sobbed into Riku's bust, reveling the feel of the toned skin clothed in black and yellow rubbing against his face. He never knew that his father was so hard to live with that it his mother was forced to find comfort elsewhere. "So I killed her... and Sora's true father..." the king hissed, his words slicing through Sora's very sanity. Riku leaned forward to clasp his arm under Sora's knees while the other supported his back and carried him back to the bedroom swiftly, needing to get Sora away from the secret conversation before Sora began wailing uncontrollably.
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"Sora... come on, sweetheart..."
Riku was trying his best to feed Sora something to eat after the ordeal. He had washed off
Sora's tearstained countenance, shushing the poor child to calm down. After Sora had stopped, he just sat on his bed, silent and still as could be. Riku could have sworn Sora was a statue made of ice and metal. Riku thought of metal because of the unearthly glow metal had in the moonlight. He smiled, despite the current situation he and Sora were in. "Sora... you have to eat!" Riku hissed in disappointment, placing the warm broth to Sora's petal-soft lips, careful not to burn those luscious lips. After a few moments, Riku sighed, letting his arm fall gently. He placed the spoon in the bowl and pulled the china bowl off of Sora's lap. "Sora..." Riku whispered, moving beside Sora so he could wrap his arms around his angel. "I know you're upset... but I'm here for you. I love you, and it hurts me to see you like this." Sora finally moved, craning his head to stare into Riku's wonderful orbs of icy blue. Sora shuddered, suppressing the urge to cry once more. Riku was there for him and they both knew that... but it was just so hard to digest the fact that after all these motherless years... after hearing that his birth was the death of her... it all turned out to be a different meaning. His birth... his true father... they were all the death of his mother.
He knew the reason why, too.
Through all of his years, Sora never could remember a wonderful memory with him and his 'father'. To Sora, there always seemed to be this tension between the two. But then again, he had always heard from servants who had been good enough to keep alive that the king expected too much and was very brutal and hard to live with... Sora could understand, having been with his father as long as he had. However, even with the whole mother dilemma and the sudden 'choose a friend' ordeal, Sora could never cope with the fact that the king was not his father...
But even so, that wouldn't stop his and Riku's relationship.
"I love you, Riku..."
Riku smiled, letting his lips fall onto Sora's, developing into a soft kiss. Confused at first, Sora noticed how pure and mild it was, realizing that Riku was being different in his approach. This was new of Riku, who had usually forced his tongue into Sora's mouth by now. Consciousness struck him and Sora couldn't help but tear up in joy, realizing that was how much Riku loved him; that Riku was willing to hold back passion just to comfort him. Sora threw his arms around the elder's neck and then shyly nipped at Riku's bottom lip while blushing beet red. Riku pulled back in surprise, not used to this new side of Sora. Sora looked away from Riku, feeling as if he had done something wrong. Riku chuckled, amused by this. "It's okay... I can wait until your over this..."
"W-wait for what?"
Riku began to rub Sora's back with the pads of his fingers. Sora shivered at the contact before leaning into the touch. "When you finally accept what your life is... and that you know I'll always be here for you..." Sora gave a curious expression before shrugging, having absolutely no idea how to answer. Riku let his hand stray to Sora's chin and tilted it up, making those deep oceanic azure eyes bat slowly towards his icy sapphire irises. He leaned in and kissed those delicious lips once more.
"You'll find out sooner or later... how much you mean to me..."
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Yay! I'm done. That means chapter eleven will come up soon. Nonetheless, I am lazy. It'll be awhile. Also, I hope you agree with me on the romance story I want to do before you began chapter ten. I haven't started on it... ;;; But that's me! ::bows:: Oh, yeah, and just a piece of info for those who read this and haven't finished Kingdom Hearts- Getting 'Save the Queen' and 'Save the King' is HARD! AND IT TOOK ME FOREVER TO GET WHAT I NEEDED TO SYNTHSIZE EVERYTHING BEFORE I COULD GET ULTIMA!!
::sighs:: Sorry... see you all next time!
