Author: Daralis Devon

Rating: T

Summary: spoilers for KHII. Sequel to Marionette. A few days after marionette, can't tell any more or I'd give it away.

Warnings: could be considered shonen-ai. Riku/Sora
A/N: I had this up on it's own, but decided it would be easier if I put it with Marionette, so, here it is. There's a time leap here.

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In a small cave in an uninhabited island, two boys in their late teens could be somewhat seen under the leafy coverage. One, a tawny haired boy, his sapphire blue eyes seemingly void of life stared glassy-eyed at the other he faced. The second, his hair the smokiest of ivory, currently had his eyes closed, his dark eyelashes even darker against alabaster skin. Almost an hour of the blue eyed teen staring unmovingly, did the other stir. Strong, slightly muscled arms wrapped a little tighter around the other, thinner boy's body. His dark lashes rise slowly to reveal eyes the greenest of emerald, which looked at the younger for a moment before grinning, "Hey Sora, you already awake? I usually wake up way before you!"

The boy named Sora didn't respond, yet the lighter haired boy didn't look as if he expected the other to anyways. He stood and pulled Sora up with him, dragging him to the mouth of the cave. Setting Sora down near the entrance, he looks out at the gloomy scenery, watching the rain beat down upon the ground in torrents. "Wow, that stuff is coming down hard. Glad we got our stuff before we slept, right Sora?" he said. Sora appeared to be staring outside with a blank look. The boy watched the rain a while longer, then started to get ready to move the younger again. As he put his hand on Sora's shoulder, the boy made a soft noise. The elder leaned towards him, trying to listen closer, only to meet silence.

Later, near lunch, Sora made a louder noise, effectively waking the other from his slumber, "Yeah...wha's wrong, Sora?" He leaned closer, near Sora's lips as they started to move again, "...'Ku... 'm 'ngry..." As 'Ku' processed the words he spoke what he came up with, "Riku, I'm hungry... Is that what you said, Sora?" Sora responds with a slight movement of his head up, then back to its previous position. Riku stands up and goes to the food area, picking out a good looking star fruit and starts to cut it in half, then in small pieces for Sora, leaving the uncut half for himself. Plopping down next to Sora, Riku starts to help Sora eat the fruit, while eating his own half. After they were both finished, Riku felt Sora attempting to say something, "...'Ku...thirsty...water...'lease...?"

He stood up, "Okay Sora, hang on. I gotta find the water first." He searched around in the other pile, "...no...no...empty... Ah ha! Found it!"

Riku walks back over to Sora and helps him drink the water. After Sora drinks the water, he says in a soft, hardly heard voice, "Thanks...Ri...ku..."

Riku answers, "No problem." Sora falls asleep a few moments later. When Riku realizes this, he tips the younger slightly to lean Sora against himself, then decides to sleep himself.

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(Sora's Dream)

A young boy sits on a dock, carelessly swinging his legs back and forth, his blue eyes shining with happiness as he watches his friends practicing dueling. A little girl about the same age with odd purple eyes sits next to him, her shoulder length red hair swaying in the gentle breeze. They both watch another boy with silvery gray hair duel their other three friends.

"Go Riku!" the young blue eyed boy shouts to the silver haired boy. "Yeah, you can do it, Riku!" the red haired girl cheers. One of Riku's opponents, a slightly younger blonde haired boy, stops and pouts at the pair sitting on the dock, "Hey! What about us? You won't cheer on me, Sora? Kairi?"

Sora and Kairi stare at each other, shrug, and start to cheer every so often for the others. After what seems like a few minutes, Riku won, the others on the ground, winded from their fight. Riku looks over at his friends, "Hey Sora, wanna fight? I still have energy."

Sora answers, "Yeah! This time I'll beat you!" He jumps from the docks and the world freezes in place.

(end dream)

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Sora's body jerks a little and Riku, still sleeping, unconsciously hugs the younger closer.

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(Riku's Dream)

Two children around four or five, one with hair of silver-gray, the other with brown, were running around in one of their yards playing tag. The silver headed one laughed as the younger tried to catch him, "Gots to move faster, Sora!" Sora tried to run faster, shouting to the other, "No fair! You older than me! Slow down, Riku!" Riku only laughs and goes faster.

Riku and Sora were in third grade, a bully comes up to Sora and starts picking on him. Riku stands up and defends his younger friend, who was close to tears. That day he went home early for fighting at school. He came home with a black eye and couldn't watch TV for a week, but that was one of the happiest days of his life.

Riku and Sora were at the play island when they were both in fourth grade, play fighting with toy swords, Sora slipped when he was at the edge and fell into the water. Riku dove after him when he realized that he wasn't coming up and dragged him to shore. After making sure his friend could breathe, he fell over on the sand.

(End Riku's Dream)

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Riku wakes up and looks at Sora, who still slept, leaning against Riku's shoulder. Riku smiles then, remembering his dream, "I'll get you back to normal...I promise... I want to see you smile again." He moves Sora over to their bed and goes to the entrance of the cave. 'Hmm...the rain stopped...' He thinks as he snags a few of the water bottles and walks to the freshwater pool to refill them. He comes back and sets the bottles in their selected area, then grabs the pot. After checking on Sora, he walks out to the ocean and gets a bit of that water.

"Hmm...I think I'll make another stew...what'll go in here...potatoes, if we have any...do we have leeks...? And...whatever else I find...yeah..." Riku says to himself and walks back to his home, setting down the pot and looking through what they had in their small homey cave. "Okay...carrots, potatoes, turnips...onions, these mushrooms I found...this tomato...I think that should be it. Time to find a fish...a good one..."

Riku checks on Sora again and notices him awake. He sits Sora up so that he was leaning against the wall of the cave and could watch either Riku or the outside. Riku then goes over to the fish area and, after ten minutes and a few falls into the carved out tank, he stands, triumphantly holding a struggling fish, which he kept a tight hold of. As he walks back to the vegetables to prepare those, he thinks, 'Great, now my greatest battle is holding on to a fish?'

Meanwhile, Sora watches Riku as he makes their dinner. If you looked closely, you would notice a small, small smile on his face.

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...end...

Daralis- It's so cute! And funny! I told people that I'd keep going!Sorry it took so long, I had a major writer's block. Anyways, soon the horror that is school is about to start soon, so I really won't have much time to work on my stories. Please review! They may give my brain ideas...or at least get it working... -.-'