Disclaimer: I hate this things If I owned KH I would have someone writing this things for me
Parings: Sora/Riku others later on
Rating: PG-13 for now rating to change
Warnings: This fic is a YAOI and in case the paring didn't give it away it means male/male relationships don't like don't read. Really very simple. It's also an AU okay. Well having said that enjoy the story.
A/N: Thank you so much to all the people who have reviewed I really do love getting feedback and feel free to e-mail me anytime. Lady Geagua thanks for the suggestion greatly appreciated, but I already have something in mind for what Sora's good at. I would never let my Sora (hears Riku growl) err Riku's Sora be just an average normal boy. I won't tell you what it is yet, that's next chapter, but there's a small hint in this chapter, let's see if anyone can pick it out. BBchan I will be introducing more FF characters a little later on. And animegirl171 it's almost like you can read my mind I am planning a triangle type of thing but it doesn't involve Riku/Sora/Tidus, and that's all I'll say so just sit tight, wait and see.
"It was Riku."
He hissed out barely audible to his own ears.
"Bored yet?"
Riku asked coming to stand before Sora. Riku noticed Sora was looking at him with a strange expression on his face. He frowned.
"Hello, cat get your tongue?"
Riku asked waving his hand in front of Sora's face. Sora blinked, slowly loweringhis arms down form his stretch andmanaged a weak smile.
"Uh, sorry I was just thinking."
"Well don't think too hard you'll hurt your self!"
Rikusaid chuckling. Sora forced another weak smile. He turned his face away from Riku and placed his book back inside his back pack.
Riku shifted his weight from one leg to another. Sora was acting a little strange but, perhaps he was tired of waiting for him.
"So you ready to go?"
"Yeah let's go."
Sora answered standing up swinging his back pack onto his shoulders holding on to the straps. They descended the bleachers and headed home.
They walked at a slow pace, Sora was looking down at his feet, walking heavily with worry. While thinking very seriously. To have said he was confused would have been an understatement. In his dream it had been Riku, Sora was so confused. Riku had stood before him with water dripping from his body. It wasn't as if he had never seen Riku with out his shirt, in fact he had seen him wearing much less. It was the fact that he remembered wanting to touch and taste Riku, that really had his brain reeling to find answers to what he was feeling. To answer why?
Why he felt the things he felt?
Sora had no clue. He took his feelings mentally analyzing, combing through them carefully. He and Riku had been friends, best-friends in fact, since forever. They did everything together, they thought the same way most of the time, they never disagreed or had ever argued about anything. Besides Riku was in great physical shape, so what if he thought Riku was gorgeously hot, who in their right mind didn't? Most of the girls in school tripped over themselves to get his attention and to be honest some of the guys too. Anyone would have to be blind to not notice how hot Riku was.
Even though above everything and anything Riku was his friend, his best friend and a dream was just that a dream. Coming to a conclusion, Sora decided his dream had been just a dream. He knew sometimes dreams were a reflection of what he was feeling subconsciously, but his dream was most likely just reflecting his admiration for his friends physic and as for the urge to lick him, he blamed that on fucking teenage hormones. Feeling he had justified his craving for Riku, Sora walked a little lighter more at ease. Convincing himself he always had the strangest dreams, and that dream only added to the collection of weird really meaningless dreams.
"Sora are you okay?"
Sora looked up from his shoes and looked overto Riku, smiling cheerfully.
"Huh? Yeah Riku I'm fine."
"Really? You've been kind of really quiet."
Riku said a little worried regarding,Sora's behavior. Sora gave Riku a sheepish grin.
"Sorry I guess I just spaced off. Hey wanna come over to my house and finish our homework?"
Riku smiled glad Sora was talking, and seemed to be just fine. For a second he thought something was bothering his friend and was worried Sora wasn't talking to him about it.
"Sure."
They walked in silence the rest of the way, until they reached Riku's house. Where they stopped, Riku turned to Sora.
"Let me just shower and change real quick and I'll be right over. Okay?"
"Uh-huh."
Sora answered. Riku smiled and headed for his house. Sora watched Riku going into his house and turned to walk the few paces over to his house, which was next to Riku's. Thinking again he was lucky to live right next to his best friend, Tidus lived a few houses down from Riku's, Kairi lived two blocks away and Selphie lived further on another neighborhood.
Coming to stand in front his front door, he took out his key placing it in the doorknob turning it, unlocking the door. He was about to walk inside, when a soft pink petal flew gently pass him. Turning his head he saw another one and then another, stretching his hand out he caught one. Smiling brightly he turned and ran towards the back of his house placing his key in his pocket.
His house like the others, had a very big back yard, his though was filled with many types of trees, some very rare plants, and flowers, thanks to his parents who loved foreign greenery. He didn't know what half the plants in his house were and didn't care much all he wanted to do at that moment was go to the one tree. Getting closer he ran towards the tree, he wanted to see. It stood tall and proud in the middle of the yard.
He stopped short of the base of the tree and stared up in amazement. Every year around that time just before Autumn, it bloomed and it was covered by small light pink flowers and for an entire month it would look incredible. Then it would loose all the flowers, slowly shedding away petal by petal. Sora was in love with that tree, he didn't know what it was called and didn't think it mattered. Sora thought the tree having a name would not change what it looked, smelled or did. Just like Shakespeare wrote in Romeo and Juliet what's in a name that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
So really having a name to call the tree would not change the fact Sora was in love with it. He was in love with the Rain of petals it gave. He walked a little closer watching mesmerized.A soft breeze, shook the tiny flowers making them rain petals all around him. He closed his eyes feeling the petals gently brushing past him, sometimes stretching out his hand catching one and smiling.
He had one hand stretched out feeling the petals gliding through his open fingers. He was still standing like that, when Riku walked into his backyard about fifteen minutes later. Riku saw Sora standing there hands outstretched, and he stood there watching him in silence. Remembering it had been like that the first time he had seen Sora.
Flashback
He was looking out the window of the car holding his soccer ball in his lap. His parents had tried to take it away and put it in one of the boxes with all their other stuff. But he had refused and had insisted on carrying his soccer ball with him, or more like had pouted and whined until his parents gave up. They couldn't take his ball away from him, it was the only thing he had left. They were moving and he had to leave everything behind; his friends, his school, his team. At the thought of his team he clutched the ball even tighter.
He was no longer looking out the window, but instead waslooking at thereflection of the little scared five year old boy staring back at him. He felt so sad, he wanted to go back home, but he knew better they weren't going back.It didn'tmatter how hard he whined, screamed or pouted, they weren't going back. He wanted to go back so badly, he actually felt like crying, crying until his parents took him back. He wanted to cry he could feel the sting of tears, but he wouldn't he was being brave, boys didn't cry and he wouldn't cry. He was Riku, he was brave he wouldn't cry.
"Look Riku we're here. Hearts Vale."
Riku heard his Mom announce as his father drove through a neighborhood. These houses were big with pretty yards and shinny new looking cars in the driveways. It was very much like his old neighborhood, with one exception he hadn't seen any other kids so far. Not that he wanted new friends.
They drove into their drive way which didn't gave a garage it just curved around from entrance to exit. His Dad stopped at the top of the curve in front of their house. His parents stepped out of the car, looking around smiling. His Mother turned and saw Riku, who was still sitting in the car, clutching his soccer ball like a life line. She smiled at her only son.
"Come on Riku. Come see your new home."
Riku turned his face away from her, not saying anything, he had decided to give his parent the silent treatment. His mother sighed and moved to his side of the car opening thedoor to the backset,bending down to talk to him. Riku moved a little bit away from her, not really getting far, since he was still wearing his seat belt.
"Riku I know it seems bad, but you'll find new friends and a new soccer team to join I promise."
Riku only glared at her, an looked at her as if she were the biggest traitor in the world. His Mother tried a different approach.
"When we came to see the house for the first time, I saw a little boy next door why don't you go see if you can find him?"
Riku shook his head. She sighed in defeat. Riku was a very stubborn little boy and she knew he wouldn't do something if he didn't want to. She had only herself and her husband to blame, they had decided to raise Riku to be a very liberal, independent boy. The complete opposite of how they had been raised. They didn't want to force any of their opinions on him, they only showed him and hoped he would pick the right from the wrong and so far it seemed they were doing great, Riku was very polite and well behaved, but very protective and outspoken about his choices.
"Alright."
She said straightening up knowing Riku would come out when he was ready, she moved away from the car leaving the door open. After his parents had gone in thehouse, Riku unbuckled his seat belt and stepped out of the car. He need to stretch, he placed his ball on the ground and stretched his arms and legs. He started kicking his ball without any enthusiasm. He kept moving closer to the neighbors house, and stopped when he heard laughter. Being a very curious five year old, he decided to investigate the source of the laughter.
Picking up his ball he walked towards the neighbors back yard. It was there he saw a boy maybe a little younger then he was with spiky messy brown hair and blue eyes. He was running around a tree that was in the middle of the yard. He walked a little closer trying to see why the boy was laughing. He watched as the boy stretched out his hands trying to catch the petals falling from the tree. He was laughing running around chasing the petals. Riku thought it was strange. Not being one bit shy he was about to ask the boy why he was chasing the petals, when a petal landed on his nose making him sneeze. He lost the grip on his ball and he watched as it rolled away from him only to stop at the boy's feet.
"Huh?"
The boy looked down feeling something tap his foot. He bent down picking up the ball, looking around wondering where it had come from. He spotted the boy standing a few feet away from him and his eyes lit up and he ran towards the boy with sea-green eyes and pretty silver hair standing in his yard.
"Hi I'm Sora! Who are you?"
Riku blinked.
"I'm Riku."
Sora smiled.
"Hi Riku nice to meet ya. Did you just move here? 'cause I've never seen you before."
Riku nodded, thinking Sora was very friendly. He turned his gaze to his ball, which Sora was still holding in his arms. Sora noticed and raised the ball a little towards Riku.
"Is this your ball?"
Again Riku nodded. Sora was now slowly turning the ball in his hand, almost as if studying it.
"I've never seen a ball like this before, is it to play something special?"
Sora asked, remembering that the orange balls were for playing basketball and the little white ones were for baseball but he had never seen one like this black and white with weird shapes.
"It's a soccer ball."
Riku explained to the eager boy.
Sora smiled up at Riku and bounced up and down excitedly on his toes.
"You play soccer?"
"Uh-huh."
"Wow! Can you show me?"
Riku looked at the smaller boy and thought that perhaps his Mom had been right. Maybe he would find new friends after all.
"Okay!" Riku agreed
"Cool here!"
Sora said giving Riku his ball back. Riku took the ball and showed Sora a few head butts and kicked the ball from one kneee to the other never once dropping the ball. Sora looked on amazed,with Riku's skills. Soccer looked cool.
"Can I try Riku?"
"Okay."
Sora grabbed the ball back as Riku offered it to him. He threw the ball in the air meaning to do a head-butt. Unfortunately he threw the ball way too far over his head and it landed with a soft thud a couple of feet behind him. Sora of course was absolutely clueless, and was still looking up waiting for the ball to come back to him. When he saw the ball was not coming back he, turned to Riku to ask him where the ball had gone. That's when he saw Riku laughing, he was on his back lying on the grass holding his stomach, with one hand, while pointing behind Sora with the other.
Sora was looking at Riku, with a confused expression and didn't understand what had made the boy laugh. When he saw Riku point behind him, he turned to see the soccer ball a few feet away from him. Sora giggled a little embarrassed.
"Oops."
After a few more giggles Riku got up from the grass. Riku took the ball and explained to Sora how it was done.
"Okay, don't throw the ball too high, and always keep your eye on it. Like this."
Riku demonstrated again, and gave the ball back to Sora. Whose eyes were shining with excitement. After a few more trials and errors, he finally got it right, head-butting the ball twice in a row, before it fell on the ground as it bounced of the top of his head. Riku smiled approvingly and Sora gasped in surprise. He had actually done it and in only a few tries.
"I did it, I did it!"
Sora chanted, while skipping around Riku.
"Alright I can't believe it! Idid it Riku! Piggy back!"
Sora yelled jumping on Riku's back. Riku being unprepared for the sudden attack, stumbled forward and fell to the ground laughing with Sora. Riku laughed watching Sora giggling cheerfully on the ground. He felt better, and decided his Mom had in fact been right. This place wasn't so bad, and he had already made a new friend, a pretty cool friend.
They spent the next couple of hours playing and laughing. At the moment they were taking a break sitting on the lawn in Sora's front yard. Riku was telling Sora about his friends back home, because he missed them and because Sora wanted to know.
"I don't have any friends." Sora explained sadly, "Tthere aren't any kids near here and my mom won't let me cross the street"
And just as quickly as his sadness had appeared it dissolved into a cheerful smile"But now you're here and you live right next door. How cool is that?"
Riku nodded, seeing the advantage of having his friend live next door. All his other friends back home had lived a couple of blocks from his house. If he wanted to play with them he would have to ask his parents, so he could get a ride, but not any more.
"Yeah I could come over to play or you could come over to play, whenever we want to."
Sora smiled and gasped as if just remembering something, jumping up excitedly he looked down at Riku.
"Come on before they're gone!"
He didn't give Riku a chance to ask anything as he took off running towards the backyard. Riku shot up from the ground following Sora, back to the tree where he had seen Sora earlier that day. The petals were still falling from the tree though more slowly and there were less left on the branches.
"Look they're still here."
Sora whispered almost as if afraid, speaking too loudly would make the rest of the petals dissapear. Soraraised his arms again trying to catch the petals. Riku smiled and helped Sora to catch the small petals which slipped easily through their fingers. They laughed and ran around chasing the petals the rest of the day. Riku thinking Sora was a little strange, but it was okay, he didn't mind.
End of Flashback
Riku stood there smiling thinking back to the first time he had met Sora. After that it had become like a ritual. Watching the petals fall and to this day Riku didn't know why Sora enjoyed such a sight. He began walking slowly towards Sora. Watching Sora who had his face turned upwards and his eyes closed. He looked so innocent, it made Riku want to wrap his arms around him and hold him close. As soon as those thoughts entered his head Riku stopped.
"I have got to stop thinking like that."
He mumbled to himself and crossed the rest of the way to Sora. Standing behind him watching him for a while before he spoke.
"Enjoying yourself?"
Sora hadn't heard Riku approach, but he knew he was there and when he spoke it only confirmed that Riku was in fact there standing behind him. Hearing him speak Sora turned his head back the breeze playing softly with his hair making it gently brush the sides of his face, slowly opening his cobalt eyes to look at Riku with a small smile on his lips. Beautiful. Riku thought.
"You bet."
Sora answered Riku's question turning his head back to the tree. Riku step to the side and stood next to Sora watching the petals rain down on them. Once in a while extending his hand to catch one, only to let the soft breeze take it away into the air. They no longer ran around the tree chasing the petals now they just stood there content at the sight.
Sora was smiling feeling completely at ease. There was no where and no one he would rather be, than right there at that moment with Riku. Not even Tidus knew about the tree. It was something special for both of them and Sora was happy to keep it that way.
Sora sighed and leaned his head to the side, towards Riku resting his head on Riku's shoulder. Riku was not surprised nor was he taken aback by the movement, he merely leaned his head on top of Sora's. It seemed like the most natural thing to do. Just a simple gesture of comfort and acknowledgement of one another's presence. After a few minutes of stillness. Sora took a deep breath and feeling a little reluctant, he pulled away from the comfort of Riku's side. He turned to Riku and stretched his body reaching up with his arms, standing on his tip toe's.
"Let's go inside."
Jin:AAHH! Help I'm drowning in all this fluffiness. (glares at M.C ) When do we get to the angst and maybe violence?
M.C: As usual ignore the muses. I was going to post this Monday, but since it's another long chapter about nothing I thought oh what the hell. And I gave the place a name Hearts Vale I was thinking of Destiny Valley, but it works out.
Demak: Yay! more fluff
Jin: Pink Petals? You could at least have made them blue.
M.C: (shrugs) That whole petal scene was inspired by Yami no Matsuei it's an anime, it start with these really pretty pink petal trees that are dropping all the petals, well really very pretty.
Jin: (pouting) Whatever I will wait patiently for my turn.
M.C: In this chapter I just wanted to show you how far their friendship goes and how special it is for both of them. Heh! chibi Sora and chibi Riku I had a difficult time with getting them to act little and I think they sort sound very grown upish. And having a little eight year old brother doesn't really help when he acts more mature than I do.
Demak: It's true we've been witness to her childish behavior. Shame, shame
Jin: Yeah real tragedy, leave a review she likes them and it gets her typing faster which means more plot development which means action which means me Muhahaha!
M.C: 0 0 Oookaayy Well you heard the muse drop me a review. By the way did anyone pick out what Sora's "talent" is? yes? no? well you'll see next chapter anyway.
