New chapter! X3 Umm . . . Bon Appetite?

Sky-Pirate-Tat- Yes! It was hard relating to that scene though. I love talks, especially with my mom! She talks to me like a best friend sort of thing, so I was always comfortabl with talks. X3 And I'm glad I'm writing this fic right for you!

LiLi-Sama- Well, now that I know what the flashback actually is . . . It should be having more details! Whne it comes I'm not sure though. XD lol! Thank you so much for being patient. Lol! Yes! We should have that! A parody or something . . . lol!

Maiako Sandiku- Hmm . . This story has a sort of close chemistry, but it's supposed to be purely platonic. X3 No Shounen-ai! Just a gay character, which influcences sort of his sector of the story. XD I'm happy you like it! Umm . . ways? I don't get why people cut either! But when I write I just sort of try to put myself in their shoes, plus I like reading stories like that. XD Read a book called Cut, by Patricia McKormick. It's very good! That was my inspiration. Lol!

Forbidden

A Kingdom Hearts Fanfic

Chapter Six

Doorbell. 'Just ignore it . . .' Again. 'Ignoring . . .' And again.

"God, shut up!" Riku shouted as he got off the couch. He threw the television remote across the room. It didn't break like he expected it too. He opened the door, and standing there was the same boy he had met the day before: Sora.

Riku glanced at his hand. He was wearing a white wristband today. It was on the same arm. "What do you want?"

Sora met Riku's impolite question with a glare, and before he said anything he reached into his pocket and pulled out a newspaper. He dropped it in retailiation, making Riku struggle a little to get it it since he wasn't exactly prepared. He caught it, but it still loked awkward. Sora sniggered. Riku didn't.

"Just giving you the paper, asshole," Sora emphasized. Riku remembered how this same guy was decently nice yesterday, or at least he tried to be. What was wrong with him now?

Not even giving a proper or cheerful goodbye like the first time he had delivered the paper, Sora turned around and looked like he was ready to head to the next apartment door. Riku's mind suddenly rememered last night, and the conversation he had. He hated talks, but it wasn't so bad. At least he didn't have pride anymore. He wouldn't have to worry about losing anything.

He grabbed the back of Sora's collar when he turned, pulling him and making him fall flat on the floor. Sora rubbed the back of his neck and turned his face. He was pouting now. "What was that for?"

"Get me a job," Riku demanded. Sora's expression went from angry to curious. "Paper boy or whatever, I don't care. Just get me one."

Sora didn't really mind doing what Riku asked, truth be told. He just didn't like the word choice. But all the same he was new and he figured it would be hard to look for something like that if you didn't know where to go. He pushed himself up and tried with best to give Riku a smile. Half of it was real.

"I won't give you my job," Sora said, "I've had it for two years. Weird, I know, but it's mine."

Riku gave him a strange look, through he wanted to laugh in Sora's face instead. What was he so worried about? He wasn't that determined. If he couldn't get a job today, he'd just tell his father he couldn't find one. He walked past Sora to outside and onto the outside hallway. "Not a big deal. Help me find one then."

"I've got to finish my rounds . . ."

"Like I care. They can wait for their mail."

Sora pouted, but he didn't protest.

-

Kairi's mother knocked on the door just a little bit before entering. She remembered the days when she was able to enter without any trouble at all, but those days were over. At least for a little while. She frowned at the thought. 'Riku . . . why?'

Kairi was sitting on her carpet floor doing work, wearing an oversized shirt that reached her knees. If she was wearing shorts undeneath that, she couldn't tell. She looked up to her mother and the two exachanged awkward smiles. The two used to be very at ease around each other, but things quickly changed.

'And as a mother,' she thought, stepping in the room completely. 'It's my duty to be brave when my children are in trouble. I have to step up and try to work things out.'

"Hey Mom," Kairi said in a soft voice, trying her best to smile. Truthfully she didn't want to smile. She felt horrible. Everyday she thought the same thing while tearing away at the bleeding skin on her fingers. Every single day. 'I just want to die right now.'

"W-Well," her mother started, kneeling down so she was sitting in front of her daughter. She made sure not to make eye contact as she found new things to do. As she spoke she picked up Kairi's homework and arranged it nicely, making sure to keep everything in a neat pile while still marking the pages that were being worked on. "I thought that it's been a couple of weeks since we've done anything together. You know, girl stuff."

"Yeah . . ." Girl stuff. As in shopping, going to eat with just the two of them, maybe bringing a few friends for fun. They always made time for each other a long time ago, or at least it felt like a long time ago. She shifted and brought the knees she was sitting on to her face and she wrapped her arms around them. She was wearing loose boxers. "It really has been a while . . ."

Kairi's mother smiled, pulling her daughter into an empty hug. It wasn't returned. "I think it's time that you went somewhere. Staying here in this room won't change a thing . . . everything that's happened has happened."

'So what's your point?' Kairi wanted to say, though she held her tongue back. Didn't her mother get it? She was dead. Done. Too many things happened all at once and it all fired back. Just because everything that actually happened wouldn't be happening ever again didn't mean the feelings from then were gone. 'It just won't go away . . .'

Kairi's mother pulled on her daughter even tigher, trying her best not to feel hurt from the lack of emotion she was receiving. No hugs, no kisses. This wasn't like her child at all. She frowned, lying her chin on Kairi's head so she wouldn't see the expression. Would they even be able to make it with everything that happened? Would they be able to recover? To change?

"Come on," she said, finally letting go and standing up. She smiled again, though the both of them knew it was as fake as could be. "We're going shopping. Be ready to go in twenty minutes!"

Kairi looked up, and gave her the same phony smile. "Okay."

-

Sora made this an oppurtunity to show Riku around the city. There were plenty of jobs with the strip malls and the buildings along the roads. The two would have driven, as they discovered they both had their license, but Sora didn't suggest it because finding parking spots were impossible.

"Besides," he told the taller of the two, "You look like someone who doesn't mind walking."

"I don't care . . ." he replied. He sounded funny while holding his nose, but he couldn't help it. This city stuff just didn't work for him. ". . .but this air. It smells like shit."

"I don't smell anything. It must be 'cause you're a country bumpkin."

"Shut up!"

Still, Riku was glad that he had someone to show him around. It was a Sunday so there were plenty of people around to ask, but he was always one to feel more comfortable talking to someone he had already been introduced to rather than not. He'd been called a charmer, but that didn't mean he enjoyed it.

But unfortunately not even Riku's charm nor Sora's adorable habit of changing his cute expressions worked on anyone in the city. As they stepped out of the buildings Sora swore were the last door and the 'lucky one', he sighed. He was actually sort of annoyed. Not really sort of. Very.

"I thought you said you could get me a job?" Riku snapped, glaring. Sora pouted in retailiation, walking ahead of the silver-haired young man to get away from his expression. He was a bit intimidated by it.

"I didn't," he replied simply. He locked his fingers behind his head as he walked. This was tiring. He wanted to go home. "You forced me to come with you, remember?"

"I wouldn't have done it if I knew you were so useless."

"Bitch."

'I bet Dad will hate me even more now,' he thought, actually smirking. The situation was almost worth laughing at. He had only met one person here and it was clear to see that they hated him. But it wasn't his fault. He just wasn't likeable. Everyone hated Riku. That was the way things were supposed to be. "Don't you have a relative or something like that? I really need one."

"A relative . . .?" Sora said out loud slowly, more to himself. He couldn't really think of anyone that had much of a job. Aerith was a babysitter, and since Cloud went to college he could only have a part-time job at his father's work . . . "I got it!"

"You do?" Riku asked, the once fiercly irritated tone in his voice gone. "Where?"

Sora flashed a wide grin. He turned while gesturing his hand, telling Riku to follow him as he started into a run down the sidewalk. He spoke as they went along. "My brother-in-law's job has some openings; he works at the post office, but it's better then nothing, right?"

Riku raised an eyebrow even if the other couldn't see it. "Does your family have this paper boy gene in them or something?"

"Shut up! Does your family have this asshole gene in them or something?"

He should have been angry, but instead he laughed. "Maybe."

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Well, another chapter. Sorry for it taking a while! And it doesn't have much to go with it either. XD But guess what? I have a plot in my head now! I've got all the noes for the story down, beginning to end. I know what's going to happen. YES! –Dances- lol!

I want Sora and Riku to be friends, but right now they're bickering so well. Sora curses more than I originally intended. Riku curses less than I originally intended. The irony! X3 lol! Hopefully everything will go on as I'm thinking it. Yes!