Dark Empathy
A Kingdom Hearts Fan-Fiction

Average Read Time: 14 mins

Chapter One

The sensation felt pleasurable, yet painful at the same time. The fire like touches to his body burned inside of him. They were molten, yet icy cold. This man… this sadistic bastard was doing it to him. Moving his touches about his body in a rough manor. He tried to cry out, but the mans hand held firm over his mouth. The cries came out muffled and distressed. He tried to get up, but the mans other hand held fast. It was placed firmly on the others chest to keep him from getting off of the cold and barren pavement. The mans mouth was moving over his naked body, ever so gently. His tongue moved across his nipple, causing it to harden underneath the wetness. It was bearable for the meantime, until the sick fuck bit down hard on the flesh of the nipple. He cried out in pain, his back arching from the discontentment he was feeling. Tears stung his eyes, and the lids closed tightly.

Ryne's body jerked upright in his bed, as he stared straight into the dimly lit room. The morning sun had crept through his blinds to notify him that it was a start of a new day. He brushed a lock of platinum hair from his view, and in the process had found out he was in the midst of a cold sweat. He looked down at his hands in his lap, and raised them up a little. They were shaking. Ryne swallowed, and looked ahead again. Just a dream…

More like reliving a horrid memory.

There soon came a knock on his door. "Ryne?" The voice came, before the familiar face of his brother peered around the corner of the door. "You up?" He asked as he came into the room fully now.

"Obviously." Ryne muttered as he watched him from his bed.

His brother glanced upward some before looking back at him again. "Are you still up for going downtown today?" He questioned.

"Yeah, just give me a few minutes to get ready." He said as he moved out of bed and across the room to his dresser.

His brother watched Ryne carefully for a few moments, until Ryne noticed that he was still standing in the frame of his door. He raised his brows a little, and looked back at him. "A little privacy here?" He asked, as he pulled out a pair of black cargos from his dresser.

He looked at Ryne and raised his brows in return. "I was noticing that scar over your right breast. It looks… redder."

Ryne looked down, and stared at his bare chest. The marks around his nipple were more noticeable. "Fucking bastard." He hissed through gritted teeth.

His brother looked at him in confusion. "Huh?" He didn't understand who or what he was talking about.

Ryne blinked, and looked up again. "Nothing." He said softly, before he moved towards him and started to push him out the door. "Give me a little privacy now, eh?" He said glaring at him as he grasped the door once he got his brother outside of his room. It was only then that he noticed which shirt he was wearing. It was his favourite brown and white graphic tee. "And for God's sake Riku, quit taking my shirts!" He shouted at him, before shutting the door in the others face. He smirked a little for some reason, and he moved across the floor toward his dresser again.

It was a while before Ryne finally came down the stairs. He adorned the black cargo pants he had held up earlier before, with a white muscle shirt. Over top of that shirt he wore a smaller blue shirt with a few zippers on it. His left arm had a black band around it, and he wore a few necklaces around his neck. He wore a couple of rings to top it off. The tattoo that ran down the length of his right arm was visible and exposed now as well. It had black patterns that ran from underneath his sleeveless shirt to the tip of his middle finger.

He moved into the kitchen where Riku was, as he yawned lightly. Riku had started cooking what seemed to be bacon in the pan for the both of them. It sizzled and hissed as it cooked, while Riku moved around to get plates for the both of them. "No eggs, right?" Riku asked as he set a plate in front of Ryne when he moved to the table and sat down.

"You know me all too well." Ryne said, as he placed the pad of his finger on the ceramic plate. He circled it around the edge of the plate absent-mindedly while Riku spoke.

"Of course I do. You're my little brother." He said, ruffling Ryne's hair as he passed by him to go to the fridge.

Ryne frowned a bit, fixing the jagged white locks into place once again. "Uhuh."

Riku had moved to the stove then. He looked over his shoulder and frowned a bit. "Ryne, what's wrong? This entire past week you've been acting so different." He muttered carefully as he got the strips of bacon and placed them on the others plate.

Ryne looked up from the plate and stared at him momentarily, before looking back down again. He wasn't about to tell Riku about his nightmares. He just couldn't. And he hadn't even told the entire story behind them to him yet anyway.

As if to save Ryne from this predicament, the doorbell rang. The chime echoed throughout the entire house causing the two to silence.

Both of the brothers looked toward the front door, before exchanging glances. Before Riku could speak, Ryne stood up and started out of the kitchen and toward the front door. "I'll get it." He called back as he disappeared around the corner.

Riku watched him leave the kitchen and sighed as he sat down at the table.

Ryne had opened the door and looked to see who was standing before him.

Sora held up a hand in greeting. "Hey Ryne. You and Riku ready?" He said grinning.

Riku had come up behind Ryne and looked to Sora. "We haven't eaten yet." He stated.

"We can grab something on the way downtown." A gruff voice said, as he came up the front steps of the porch.

Sora looked behind him, smiling a Leon a bit before looking back at the brothers. "Leon's right Riku." He began as he shifted his weight onto his other leg, before he held up a hand and crossed his index finger and middle finger together. "Promise."

Riku stared at Sora and Leon for a moment. Finally, he shook his head and held his hands up in exasperation. "Fine. Just let me go and turn the stove off." He said, and left to go back into the kitchen. He soon came out, after turning it off and stepped onto the front porch once again. "Let's go." He muttered a tad bitterly.

Sora noticed the tone in Riku's voice, and frowned upon it. He nudged him in the side, and grinned up at him. "Lighten up, huh?"

Riku said nothing as he locked the door behind him. He moved off the front porch and toward Leon's Jaguar parked in the driveway.

Sora sighed. "There is just no way of getting through to that guy." He placed his hands on his hips, before he headed toward the vehicle. Ryne and Leon followed suite, and they all got into the Jag. Leon moved into the drivers seat with Sora in the passenger's side beside him, and Riku and Ryne in the back seats.

"To downtown." Leon said as he started the car to life and pulled out of the driveway. In the suburban area Leon was a very decent driver. He certainly was careful, that was for sure. The car ride through the streets seemed to be a silent one. It was only when Sora spoke, that the ice had broken. "So... I haven't seen you two lately. What have you been doing these past few weeks?"

Riku gave a shrug of his shoulder in response to Sora's questioning. His gaze fell outside of the window, saying nothing more to him.

Sora rubbed his neck some. "Oh... Uh... well." He wasn't quite sure what else to say to that. He had been just trying to make friendly conversation between them.

Prick. Ryne thought to himself as he stared at Riku in regards to his response. His gaze turned on Sora then and he smiled. "Well, just last Thursday, Kairi, Selphie and I were at the movies. And when we came out, you'll never guess who we saw. We saw-" His words were cut off however, when Leon had switched speeds when he got onto the expressway. It seemed the instant Leon had pulled into his lane he floored the gas pedal. The sudden action made both Riku and Ryne jerk back into their seats and clutch the arm seats tightly in their grasps. Sora seemed unaffected by this change in speed. In fact, he seemed to be enjoying himself judging by the smile on his lips.

"L-Leon?" Ryne began to slowly speak his name. "Maybe… maybe you should slow down."

Leon frowned instantly then and gave a shake of his head. "If I slow down, we won't get there in time."

"In time for what? We're not going anywhere!" Ryne cried out in protest.

"Quit going so damn fast." Riku hissed as his hands tightened around the armrest once he saw what Leon was going at. 112k/h.

"We've got to go fast if we want to make it in time for breakfast at Lodger's." Sora explained as he twisted in his seat to look back at the brothers. "They stop serving hash browns at 11:00."

"We don't have to have hash browns..." Ryne said softly as he sank into his seat a bit.

"You did say that you haven't eaten yet. And we promised you breakfast on the way." He added with a grin and turned in his seat to look at Leon. "Right?"

"Right, baby." Leon answered back, and leaned over and gave Sora a brief kiss on the lips. His mouth hesitated to pull back however, and the couple soon found themselves in an inseparable lip lock. Their tongues intertwined and Leon's hands began to shift away from the wheel to find Sora's groin.

"Leon!" Riku yelled as the car began to turn by itself into the opposite lane. He quickly undid his seatbelt and crawled overtop of Leon's seat. He grabbed the wheel immediately before they could run into any cars. It was hard to maneuver the vehicle from the current position he was currently in. Especially since his feet barely touched the ground from having to lean over the seat. It was like trying to balance yourself on a bar, using only your stomach as your means of contact.

"Leon! Take the God damn wheel!" He shouted angrily as he took a glance beside him at the pair.

Leon and Sora were quite happily indulged with one another. They were oblivious to everything else around them. They were lost in the ecstasy of pleasing one another.

Riku glared at them before glancing forwards again to keep his eye on the road. "Leon, I'm serious! Take the fucking wheel, right now!" His gaze ripped away from the road for a minute and moved behind him at his brother. "Ryne, help me!" He shouted at him and looked forwards again.

Ryne was immobile for the moment. His eyes were locked on the view he currently had on Riku's ass. He had been sitting in the seat right behind Leon, so he got quite an observation from where he was. He swallowed and tried to register what Riku had just said. With an ass practically in your face, all you can really do is look away, or stare straight back at it. And Ryne had oddly chosen the second option. He couldn't help it. He was ridiculously infatuated with it, which made him even more confused.

He wasn't gay. And he certainly was not in love with his own brother. He was sure of those two facts. He looked down when he suddenly felt his pants tighten. He cringed and instantly covered his groin with both hands. He was getting an erection? No, this couldn't be. It didn't make any sense. He tried to think of all possible explanations for his current dilemma. Maybe he was thinking of a girl… yeah. That must have been it. There was no other way he would be attracted to a man's ass if he weren't thinking of a woman in the process.

The only problem was he couldn't think of any girls that could turn him on this badly. In fact, he couldn't think of any that turned him on at all. He frowned in thought at that. Maybe he was a-sexual. Maybe he wasn't attracted to the female species at all. No, no that couldn't be it. He'd had girlfriends before. And that still didn't solve the reasoning behind him liking Riku's ass. His thoughts were drained soon enough. Like pulling a plug in a bathtub full of water, when Riku shouted his name again. "Ryne!"

Ryne's thoughts drained completely and he was back in the real world. How long had he been contemplating over Riku's ass?

"Ryne! For the last time, help me!" He yelled at him in an angered tone.

Ryne's mind shut off from that topic entirely as he focused on trying to help his brother. He undid his seatbelt and moved up a bit to Leon and Sora. "Guys, seriously! Cut it out, we're going to get into an accident!"

Leon stiffened then as he pulled back from Sora to look at Ryne. "Hn…?" He blinked slowly looking as though he were drunk on lust.

"Get back to the fucking wheel already!" Riku yelled at him.

It clicked in, and Leon immediately moved to sit upright and straight back into his seat. He moved a tad too quickly though and his foot slipped over and on top of the break pedal.

The tires squealed and every body jerked to the left in sync of the spinning vehicle. Riku had turned the wheel around to try and get it under control when the car was stopping.

"Let go of the wheel!" Sora shouted from his seat at Riku. Riku did, and the Jag screeched sideways to a halt and out of the lane. It was too much of a sharp turn that an SUV didn't have time to stop from hitting their car. It ran into the car head on from the side and sent them off the road from impact.

The sound of the side of the car hitting the hydro pole was the last thing Ryne heard, before he felt his body pass through shattered glass, and his world turned black.

(Go to Chapter Two)

© Stravik, 2006