YAY! Chapter two! This is pretty big for me considering I usually never get passed chapter one….Disclaimer: I don't own kingdom hearts, Wet Seal, or Hot topic(or other franchises that might get named here)…
" " talking
' ' thinking
plain italics…dream sequence
bold italics… flash back
RECAP
." "So" Kairi asked, " what do ya want to do today"? "Hmmm" Sora pondered as they started walking down the sidewalk. "We could go to the beach and hang with Wakka, Tidus, and Selphie." Sora offered optimistically. "Alright!" Kairi exclaimed. They proceeded to go and fetch the afore mentioned people.
The sun was just setting as a dark figure strode across the cobblestone street towards the heartless he had just thrown to the ground. Squatting down so that he was eye level with the vile creature, "Where is he, you ass, tell me and maybe I'll spare your life or just insure you a quick and painless death." the hooded figure growled at his victim.
The thing being attacked gave an ear-shattering screech, but the hooded figure was able to understand its horrible screeching language. " He was transported back!" It wailed, " Back to where he came from!" After it spoke those words there was a bright flash and the creature was gone. The hooded figure stood up and walked towards a set of steps, muttering "I'll find a way to get back to you, don't' worry. I'll get back to you, Sora. I promise."
After Sora and Kairi had exhausted themselves at the beach hanging with Wakka, Tidus, Selphie and Zell they, well, Kairi decided to drag Sora to the mall. And that meant that Kairi would get to shop and Sora could hold all of the bags. "Gah! There's nothing to do and I'm practically brain dead from boredom!" Sora squeaked, causing other mall goers to glance in his direction with a half-hearted glare. He had already wasted about an hour at FYE while Kairi was busy trying on clothes for 3 hours in Wet Seal. That place gave Sora the creeps anyway.
"What do you think?" Kairi's voice interrupted his thoughts. She walked out of the dressing room wearing a denim mini skirt with a red sparkly halter top. "God Kairi! You look awesome!" Sora gapped at his girlfriend thinking about how much she had grown since they were little. 'why does it feel like I am dating my little sister?' this thought had crossed Sora's mind many a time, but he just brushed it away. Soon he felt himself being dragged out of Wet Seal and down the mall walkway, he zoned out as Kairi began dodging people left and right. "Wait! Kairi!" Sora said, a familiar sight bringing him out of his stupor.
"What is it, Sora?" Kairi turned around wondering why Sora had stopped her.
"Give me a sec, will ya?" Sora gestured toward the store and Kairi understood. Sora wanted to go to Hot topic. She absolutely hated that store, mainly because the people that worked there scared her. As Sora walked in he felt a pang of longing in his heart as he was engulfed by Atreyu's new cd blasting over the speakers. 'Riku' that one word echoed across his mind like ripples in a pond. He and Riku used to shop here when he was younger. His mind drifted back to one of the most depressing days of his life.
The sun was setting on an image of two boys still out on their island sitting on a paupu tree after a hard practice session. "Sora, do you think that we'll always be on this island?" the silver haired youth decided to break the comfortable silence that had settled between him and his friend. The boy in question stared up at his friend with a confused look on his face.
"Where did that come from Riku?" Sora had no clue as to why Riku would even want to leave such an awesome place such as this, but he also knew that even though his friend was only 8, he was prone to some pretty deep thinking that would put most teenagers to shame. "Why would you wanna go and leave the island? You wanna go and leave me and Kairi and everyone else like that?" Riku just laughed as Sora's seven year old face twisted into a mix on concern and fear that his best friend would leave him.
"No, I would never leave you and Kairi. It's just…." Riku trailed off and paused. "It's just that I am getting tired of the same old thing everyday. I mean I love practicing with you. I could never get tired of that!" He added quickly seeing hurt look that graced Sora's face. "It's the island life that I am getting tired of." Sora didn't like where this conversation was going. He also noticed that the sun was almost set and that they had to be back home before dark.
"Riku, we gotta go. It's almost dark." Sora lifted himself off of his position on the leaning paupu tree. He followed Riku down the plank to the shack and then to the docks.
Both boys soon found themselves within shouting distance of their houses. "Riku?"
"Yea?"
"What's going on at your house?" Riku looked at his house and noticed that there was a big white van in front of it.
"I don't know Sora. Lets go check it out." He broke into a jog and Sora followed suit. The closer they got to Riku's house the more letters on the van Sora could make out. 'Destiny City Moving Service'. He also saw men in white jump suits going into Riku's house and bringing out boxes. Riku ran into his house find his family and find out what was going on. Sora just stood outside trying to take it all in. 'Riku is moving! But where, will I ever see him again? Why is he moving? How comd he didn't tell me?" Sora's thoughts were flying through his mind at top speed.
Suddenly Riku's shadow appeared on their hard wood wrap around porch. "Sora." He said, moving down the stairs towards where Sora stood near the bushes. He didn't even trying to conceal the sadness and despair laced within his voice. "Dad got a new job on the main land. He got one for my brother too. We have to move." Sora could feel the tears prickling his eyes. Sora ran up and embraced Riku desperate to keep him there as though one gust of wind would carry him far away from the island. They stayed like that for sometime until Riku felt a hand on his shoulder.
"Riku, honey, its time to go." His mother smiled sadly as she watched her son say good-bye to his best friend. She had argued with Riku's father almost violently so that this wouldn't have to happen, but their financial situation over-ruled his son's sentimentality is Riku's fathers eyes. Sora let go of Riku and followed him to the van. Riku opened the back door to the family's car, got in and rolled the window down. He looked at Sora, who now had tears running freely down his face. His electric blue eyes so full of sadness that they could burst. Finally finding his voice as Riku's father started the car and backed out of the drive way. "YOU BETTER WRITE TO ME RIKU! BYYYEEE!" Sora watched the car with Riku's face in the back window till they were out of sight. Then ran into his house and up to his room. He laid there for the rest of the night crying.
"Can I help you with anything?"
"Huh?" Sora was broken from his reverie as one of eccentric Hottopic sales people asked him a question. "Uhh…no thanks..I think I got it." He said blushing; he had been blocking the entrance for a couple of minutes. He quickly made a be-line for where the store had laid out its tight pants and graphic shirts. And with the little bit of money that he had Sora bought an Atreyu shirt, a shirt that said " Oh no… Your gonna try and cheer me up now, aren't you?" and a pair of regular tight girls jeans. Walking out of the store he saw Kairi and couldn't help but laugh. She was laying on one of the many benches placed throughout the mall one hand over her eyes bored out of her gourd. "Hey sleeping beauty." Kairi quickly sat up and took the arm Sora offered to her. " Shall we go?" Kairi just giggled, "Not before we get my passions sir knight." Sora just sighed, let go of Kairi and walked back to the bench. "God…why did you have to give me such a materialistic girlfriend?"
Meanwhile, at Destiny Force Harbor and Welcome center one of the many passenger boats from the mainland shores was docking. Now this was a regular occurrence so no one gave the tourists a second look until one man got off of the boat that made them start doing double takes. The man was about 6" feet tall, with extremely pale skin, but not the sickly looking skin. The lack of sunlight skin, he also had long silver hair that fell over his shoulders and stuck out slightly at some odd points on the way down. His bangs obscured his aquamarine colored eyes as a ray of sun played upon his face. He was wearing very unusual attire for the islands, which would be a long pair of baggy girl jeans and a tight black shirt that showed of his awesome peck muscles.
Ignoring the stared he got from many passing by girls, the silver haired man made his way over to the Information Center and asked for someone to call him a taxi. As soon as he turned his front side back to the crowd he suddenly grew anxious and started to scan the sea of people flowing around him for any sign of danger. He shook his head and forced himself to relax 'Get a hold of yourself Riku, dammit!', he mentally berated himself, 'You aren't with Xemnus in traverse in anymore!' He had gotten extremely tired of being wound like a spring every time that man came around. He decided that some fresh air would do him good, so he grabbed his bags and headed out of the harbor station to wait for the taxi. Blinking as his eyes were assaulted by sunlight, he gazed at how much the little town had stayed the same, sure there was a small business section in what was now considered down town, but it was now where the level of business that Traverse Town had possessed. "HONK HONK!" Riku looked around for the source of the loud annoying car and found that his taxi had arrived. Sighing heavily he got up and helped the cab drive load his baggage into the trunk.
"Where to?" The tan, blonde haired cabbie asked.
" Uhh….1483 West Virginia Dr, please." Riku answered and rested his forhead against the cool window. 'jet-lag is murder!' It was actually quiet interesting to watch as the scenery changed from what you could call a minor city to hints and traces of island. Riku watched as all of the houses he used to know flew passed, barely getting to see if any of them had changed since he'd been away.
If you had been walking through the North park Mall parking lot at this very moment you would see a pile of boxes over the other cars, seeming walking all by themselves. But if you had bothered to walk around the cars you would see a vibrant looking girl with shoulder length red hair, holding a hand that protruded out of from the boxes, leading it. From the bottom of the pile you'd see two very lean, hairless looking calves followed by black canvas low top converse. "Kairi! A little help please!" a voice from with in the boxes and bags whined. "Alright, sorry Sora" Kairi said as she opened the trunk of the black mustang they had finally reached and started to pile the boxes in. Soon a mop of chestnut colored spiky hair emerged from over the packages. Finally Sora was free from the confines of the possessions Kairi had purchased. "Wanna put the top down, Kairi?" Sora asked getting into and starting the car. Kairi jumped into the passenger seat with a squeal. "Yay! Lets!" Kairi acted like she was five whenever Sora mentioned putting the top down, if you couldn't tell she loved putting the top back.
Life! Is floating fast away
And I look! But your head is turned away
From the moment you left I knew that something wasn't right
But the feeling inside has kept me up all night!
Bloody Romance started blaring out of the speakers when Sora turned the car on. 'That's where that thing went to..' Sora had been looking for that cd for weeks having forgotten that he left it in the car. Kairi shrieked in delight and started to sing along. Sora just smiled and turned it up
You and me are like one heart beat!
Well. You and me are like one heart beat!
So I slice! open my veins
And let! the romance bleed
From the moment you left I knew that something wasn't right
But the feeling inside has kept me up all night
Sora started to sing and felt tears well up in his eyes. He glanced over at Kairi to make sure she wasn't looking and realized that she was off in her own little world. 'good' he thought. This song always depressed him enough to actually want to go and cut himself again. Kairi didn't know about that and he didn't ever want her to know. And he didn't want to ever get repeat that little phase of his life. After Riku moved away Sora got so depressed that started to cut himself. But before that he actually got any worse his parents interveined and put their son on anti depressants. It took awhile but started to better.
You and me are like one heart beat
Well. You and me are like one heart beat
Back into what I thought I knew
This words inside tells me what to do
My heart held in the palm of your hand
(Forget my name)
Now I know the way to go
This place inside my demented mind
(Forget my name)
You saw me bleeding one the bathroom floor
Forget my name
(This time in silence, this time I win)
Forget my name
(This time in silence , this time I win)
Forget my name
(This time in silence, this time I win)
Forget my name
Forget my name
Forget my name
Forget my name
Forget my naaaaaame!
They reached Sora's house a little before the song had ended and Sora noticed, as he was getting out of the car and heading to the trunk, that a taxi leaving the drive way of the house next to his and he saw that the front door was just closing. 'Some one must be looking to buy that old house' he thought with a shrug of his shoulders and turned back to the car to help Kairi with her bags. He grabbed about three or four bags and jumped up the steps to his house and tried to open the door. It was locked. He looked around but Kairi was nowhere to be found. Then he heard a giggle coming from the window. And there was Kairi laughing her ass off. "Kairi! Open this damn door right now!" Sora yelled from behind the boxes he was carrying. He heard a click from the other side of the door and let himself in with mindset to kill.
Riku shut the door to his old house and walked in. It smelled exactly as remembered it, ocean breeze mixed coconuts. 'I can't believe that its been this long.' He thought. Turning his back to the front door, he headed toward a creaky stack of stairs by the patio window. "Let's go check out my old room" he muttered to no one unparticular. At the top of the stairs he took a right down a long hallway and stopped at the second door to his left. The door swung open with a soft creak to reveal a room about half the size of the huge living room. The walls were still the same soft yellow color with sponge like orange spots on it. Riku just stood there looking around the room remembering all the old times he had shared with Sora before….They left. "It brings back a lot of memories" A picture of him and Sora sitting on his bed playing with their wooden swords and talking about how training that day had gone. Riku sighed and walked back down the stairs, near the bottom of the stairs he slipped and started to fall but caught himself and landed in a summersault, banging his head on the nearby wall in the process. "Ssssaaaahhh!" he gasped holding his now aching head. He sat there holding his head for a few more moments before he got up, steadying himself, and walking out of the front door to take in the sunset from his old spot. He walked the 10 minutes that it took to get down to small fishermen's docks. They were a lot smaller than the passenger harbor.
When he got there he found that no one had bothered to move his old boat. "Ha! I can still fit in here" Riku chuckled to himself with surprise. He rowed, in silence with nothing but the waves, out to the small, uninhabited island that he, Sora and Kairi would always hang out on. "ugghhh" he hauled himself out of the small boat and up onto the small docking plank. Before he descended that stairs down to the beach, he took his shoes off so that he could feel the sand between his toes again, something he hasn't done since he had left. Making his way across the small beach the shack, he paused to stare at the old pond and waterfall, feeling more memories cascading over him like the small falls themselves. Entering the shack he walked up the stairs and came to an old sea salt worn looking door. Sauntering down the small gangway out to the small island that jutted out of the water Riku smiled as he realized his old "perching ground hadn't changed a bit and made his way over to the paupu tree that had been leaning at the odd extreme right angle ever since he could remember. "Ah. I remember all the sunsets I've shared here with Sora and Kairi." He said quietly to himself as he heaved himself up onto the tree.
When Sora finally got into the house he threw Kairi's and his bags down on the couch and preceded the tickle the little devil that had locked him out of the house, to death. "Sora! Hahaha Sora! Stop please! I'm gonna pee myself if you don't stop! Hahaha! Haha" She squealed with tears in her eyes. Sora relented upon this exclamation and let Kairi up so she could grab her things and run up to the bathroom. When he saw her running up the stairs he decided to go into the kitchen and make him some hot pockets. Ten minutes later and finally satiated, Sora lied down on the couch and shut his eyes for a nap when he heard Kairi calling him from his bedroom upstairs.
"God, Kairi and I just got settled in too." He groaned heaving himself up off the couch with little effort. "I'm coming!" he shouted back to her and ascended the stairs. When he opened the door to his room his eyes bugged and all thoughts of a nap flew out of his mind. "Wow…." Was all he could say, Kairi was laying on the bed in a black leather bra and matching thong.
" Come over here" she purred Sora obliged, mesmerized this new Kairi before him. But on little detail disturbed him, his little friend hadn't reacted yet. Sora thought that maybe he would a little later when they were actually doing something. He bounded across the room and crawled on top of Kairi and kissed he deeply and passionately, she moaned into it as though her life had depended on it. Sora, panting from the intense kiss, let go of her mouth to move to the junction between her neck and her shoulders. "Oh Yes! She moaned as Sora began nipping at the gentle skin on her neck as his idle hand slid down to Kairi's…lower regions. He slid his fingers under her thong and thrust one inside of her. She yelled a name. "OH!" "Axel!" she screamed. Sora stopped what he was doing immediately and just stared frozen down at Kairi in disbelief.
"You lied to me. You stupid bitch!" Sora yelled, breathlessly, getting off of Kairi, feeling tears well up in his eyes.
"Sora! Wait!" Kairi stammered, " I can expla--" Sora cut her off with a slap in the face.
"NO! No this time!" he yelled his voice laced with venom. " I won't let you treat me like shit, or like you're fucking rag doll again you fucking whore!" Sora spat at Kairi and ran out of the house.
He pelted down the street toward the docks. He was headed toward Riku's old perching spot, Sora went there whenever he was enduring extremely hard and emotional times, or just when he's had a sucky day because that's where he gets the most comfort because he feels like Riku's there with him. Sora noticed that there was another boat tied up at the island and then he saw someone's shoes lying on the dock. He walked into the shack, up the stairs, and down the plank connecting the small island to the cliff wall. "Who are you?" Sora asked annoyed that someone would steal his spot at such a time as this.
"I am no one of consequence," the man answered not turning his back thinking it was someone from the main island. 'Grrrr!' Sora hated it when people gave him answers like that.
"Ok, Mr. No Name, why are you out here?" Sora cocked his head to the side, his cerulean blue eyes shining in the dieing sunlight.
"Just sitting and reminiscing" Mr. No Name answered.
"Reminiscing about what?" Sora asked walking up behind the paupu tree and leaning his elbows in its rough scratchy surface.
"Oh just about events long past, and irreplaceable happy times that one can never go back to." Mr. No Name said with a twinge of happiness mixed with sorrow. 'Wow' Sora thought 'this guy is deep. I wonder how old he is?' " How old are you?" Sora inquired
"Eighteen" no name answered.
"Hey! Same as me!" Sora giggled excitedly 'wait.' He thought. 'Did I just giggle? What the hell is happening to me!'
"What a cowinkydink." Mr. No Name chuckled amused. He still hadn't turned from the sunset, nor had he realized that it was Sora, the object of his desire, that he was talking to. The small talk went on like this for sometime, both boys still completely oblivious as to who they were talking to. They were just soaking up the comfortable presence of each other.
"Well, Mr. No Name, I've had a nice conversation with you." It was true, the conversation was to relaxing and calming, he had forgotten al about his current predicament with Kairi. 'It feels almost as though…but that couldn't be possible… could it?' Sora got up from his spot from the tree, deep in thought, and muttered a small good bye to the man sitting in front of him. When Mr. No Name didn't say anything he turned and left. The sound of shoes clunking down the wooden plank shook Riku from his thoughts. He had been thinking over the conversation so intensely that he didn't hear his unnamed companion say good-bye.
"Oh and by the way my name is--"Riku turned the upper half of his body to his friend but saw no one. 'Oh well' he thought with a sigh. 'I'll see him again, maybe" Riku watched the sun go down and then just ventured through the dark around the island with nothing but the gentle noise of the waves eating the shoreline. When he finally got cold and tired he got his boat and went back to the main land.
DUN DUN DUN! Or is it?
Well.. there ya guys go... don't know whos reading this but please reveiw..i need some feed back people please! how am i supposed to know whether or not this sucks or what to maybe fix! but hey if you don't wanna thats fine too. But until the next chapter, whether you reveiw or not. Bye! hope you enjoyed it!