The Key Holder

Knight Manor

By: number thirteen Roxas

Authors Ranting: Finally I got Chapter two done and ready to read. I took some time thinking about this one. Chapter Three will be done soon and out sometime next week. So I hope you like it. Review after you read it please.

Disclaimer I don't own Kingdom Hearts there I said it.

Driving with Sora in the passenger seat next to him, Riku thinks 'What am I doing?'

"Are you okay?" He asks Sora, breaking the strained silence.

Fighting back tears Sora replies, "Yeah, sure." "Course I'm okay. I almost got robbed and raped, and you just chopped a man's head off with a CD." "I'm just fine!"

"I meant are you hurt?"

"If you hadn't of showed up those guys would have...", Sora whimpers, with tears streaming down his face.

Riku reaches over and puts his hand on Sora's shoulder giving it a gentle squeeze. "Look what's important is that they didn't and that you are okay."

Trying to change the subject, Riku asks, "So, what's your name?"

"Sora Hayter." "What's yours?"

Hesitating for a moment, he decides to tell the truth. "Riku Knight."

Sora quickly does a double take and mentally checks the name against the dozens of magazine covers he has seen Riku's face on. "Riku Knight? As in the owner and founder of Gekkotech computers?"

Riku shrugs, "Guess I'm busted."

'Damn!' Here I am sitting beside one of the richest men in the world." And he just saved my life. "I can't believe it."

"You're The Key-Holder?", he whispers, in awe.

"The Key-Holder is dead", Riku says vacantly. "He died five years ago. Any newspaper would tell you that kid."

Still not convinced, Sora whines, "But the shot dodge?. Only The Key-Holder can shot dodge!"

Riku jerks the car to the side of road and slams on his brakes. He looks Sora in the eyes and tells him, "Listen Sora, The Key-Holder is dead!" "And it's for the best he stays that way."

As Riku pulls back onto the road, Sora notices that they have now left the city, and the two lane road they are traveling on is practically deserted.

"So where are we going?"

Riku doesn't answer and continues on, staring ahead at the road

One Hour Later

"Wake up! We're here." Riku says as he shakes Sora out of his sleep.

"Where's here?" Sora asks still half asleep. He looks at the clock and realizes he slept for over an hour.

Riku exits the car and opens Sora's door for him, "Welcome to Knight Manor."

As Sora steps out of Riku' car he gazes in awe at the huge house in front of him. The building stands four stories tall and resembles a medieval castle. "Whoa! How big is this place?"

"The house itself is 85,000 square feet (7896.5 square meters) and sits on 389 acres of land (157.41977 hectares)." Riku answers as he walks to the large double front doors. He slides a card through a card-reader next the door and they slowly swing open. "Come on in."

An elderly British man greets Riku as he walks into the house. "Welcome home, Master Knight." "And may I enquire to who our young guest is?" Sora guesses him to be in his late 60's.

"Sora this is Luxord. He has been with my family as our butler since I was boy myself. This is the man you want to talk to if you ever need anything in the house" "And Luxord, this is Sora. We ran into a slight...how do you say...problem, and he needs a safe place to rest for a bit."

"It's a pleasure to meet you Sora" Luxord says cheerfully. "You look rather tattered from your day. Would like to have a shower and clean up?" Sora notices for the first time that he has blood stains on his shirt, "Um, sure."

"Follow me please", Luxord says as he motions for Sora to follow him. They wind through a maze of hallways and finally enter a large bedroom. "The bathroom is though there. There are towels on the hangers." Luxord turns and leaves as Sora stares all around the exquisite bedroom.

Sora finally walks through the door into the large bathroom, strips off his stained clothes and looks at himself naked in the full length mirror. He notices the blood stains in his brown hair and how dirty this day has really gotten him. He steps into the large glass cubicle, turns on the water, and begins to enjoy the cascading spray from the multiple nozzles situated around the shower.

When Luxord returns to the kitchen, he finds Riku leaning against the counter sipping on a coke. "I took care of establishing an alibi for you. As far as anyone is aware, you were in a board meeting earlier this morning".

"Thanks" Riku responds as he stares blankly at the wall.

Luxord decides that it would be best to leave Riku alone at the moment.

"You know, he has the gift," Riku says.

"Excuse me, but I don't understand what you mean, sir."

"I mean he has the gift to unlock his mind. I felt it when I first came in contact with him. He has the potential to be stronger than I ever could be. If only he could be taught to…"

"Are you sure teaching him to free his mind at his age would be a wise thing to do? You were in your 15 before you ever learned for yourself." Luxord points out to Riku.

"I can't let Sora be helpless like he is. At least if he learned how to fight he would stand a chance."

"With all due respect, sir, I think wanting to teach Sora is your way of bringing back a part of yourself. He may not be ready."

As Luxord turns to leave, Sora passes him into the kitchen clad in only in a towel wrapped around his waist.

"So, what's up?" he asks casually.

"I was just thinking about something. And, I am willing to make you a deal. I'll teach you how to fight like The Key-Holder…if you keep what you saw happen today quiet."

"So, when do we start?"

The Next Day

Having been peacefully sleeping, Sora is suddenly aware of a hand on his lower thigh, massaging his naked leg. He carefully opens his eyes to see Riku moving the covers down off his naked body. Riku's hand continues to gently caress Sora's leg as he slowly moves up to cup his boy balls. He then moves his mouth down to Sora's stomach, flicking his tongue over his bellybutton.

Sora snaps awake!

'Damn, just a dream,' Sora realizes as he sits up in the strange bed remembering he is at Knight Manor. He feels something sticky on his midsection, slides his hand under the covers, and withdraws semen soaked fingers. "Fuck, here I am at Riku's place and I have a damn wet dream".

Needing a change of sheets, he decides to look for a linen closet. "But wait,' he realizes, 'Luxord took my clothes earlier and I'm naked.' Asking himself, 'Who is up at this time of night?', he shrugs his shoulders and walks out of the room naked to look for clean sheets.

"Brother, look!" Roxas yells as he points up to the indoor roller coaster.

"Maybe some other time Champ, when you're a little taller. How about we get some lunch?" a much younger Riku says to his little brother. He had decided to take Roxas, who was six, to Adventure Land. The world's largest indoor amusement park, located on the bottom six stories of Gekkotech Towers.

Riku' leads his brother to the food court and buys him some fast food.

"Sir, can I speak with you for one moment?"

Riku turns to the voice, recognizing Gekkotech's Head of Security, a Mr. Xemnas. "This better be damn good on my day off."

Xemnas gets to the point. "Sir there is bomb on the 14th floor. The group that planted it is demanding $500 million dollars. Otherwise they claim they will blow up the building in thirty minutes. Our techs are working it, but it is my opinion that we should evacuate the building?"

"How close are our techs to dismantling the bomb?"

"They claim they can have it within 20 minutes."

"The building and park stays open. I'm going up to 14, and Xemnas, watch after Roxas for me."

"Oh, and one more favor, Xemnas. Make the call."

Riku walks over to Roxas and ruffles his hair.. "Hey sport, I gotta run a quick errand. Xemnas is going to watch you for a little bit."

Riku quickly changes into full his Key-Holder costume as he rides the express elevator up to the 14th floor. All in black… combat boots, black pants, shirt, long flowing jacket that almost reaches down to his feet, and the slim mask that covers his eyes and nose... The Key-Holder steps out of the elevator with his key The Way To Dawn in hand.

"How goes it boys?" he says casually to the bomb technicians as he rounds the corner and sees the large device sitting on the floor.

"It's 75 pounds of C4 on a proximity trigger. You step within seven feet of it and you start the countdown. We have a crew bringing EMP up to override the trigger so we can dismantle it." "What I don't get is how anyone can think a 75 pound bomb could take down an 85 story building?"

As the obvious hits him, The Key-Holder shouts, "It's a trap, get out! The main bomb is in the sub-basement! Recall the EMP crew down there NOW!"

The Key-Holder rushes toward the bomb setting off the timer. 'Thirty seconds'. 'This is gonna be close,' he says to himself as he draws his pistol and fires two rounds into the floor to ceiling window. He then picks up the bomb, moves it toward the shattered window and heaves it over the sill, letting himself fall headfirst after it. Putting his back toward the approaching pavement, he unleashes a volley of shots into the falling bomb, exploding it in mid air. As he senses the ground getting closer, he completes a flip, and comes to an easy upright landing on the sidewalk.

There is now a rush of activity outside the building as police swarm the building. The Key-Holder gets two steps inside when, suddenly, the entire building shudders as 2,000 pounds of C4 detonates in the sub-basement...

Shaking and covered with sweat, Riku suddenly wakes up.

His mind is reeling. The explosion fiveyears ago, that he dreams about nightly, had completely destroyed the building and almost bankrupted his company. But the damage to his company and the financial loss could never be as devastating as the forty seven thousand men, women and children that died that day…one of them his brother, Roxas.

'Get over it Riku, and stop living in the past,' he tells himself for the thousandth time.

Riku sits up and pulls himself out of bed, needing something to drink. However, he sees something much more interesting. A very naked Sora crosses in front of his bedroom door, tiptoeing down the hall.

Silently, Riku slips on his robe and decides to see why a naked 12 year old is streaking through his house at three in the morning.

Author's Note: I don't really feel like typing a lot. So I'll just say this Review and Chapter Three will come out earlier than this one. Roxas Out