by Flare Haynekie
Disclaimer: The legend's mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And so's the plot!
Warnings: AU, OOC-ness, shonen-ai
Author's notes: wow! Chapter 8!
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Chapter 8: 2 a.m.
Tired from the day's event, Sora happily dropped on his bed after a well-deserved bath. He looked at his bedroom floor, noticing all the boxes still unpacked.
"I doubt I'll go to grandma's store tomorrow…" Sora sighed. He gave a small jump when he heard his cell phone go off near his ear. With a quick search, he found it under his pillow. "Hello?"
Sora? Hey, it's Riku. Were you sleeping?
Sora softly smiled. "No, not at all. I was planning to, but not yet…"
Riku chuckled. I called to ask you, at what time are you going to the store tomorrow?
"I'm not sure anymore."
What do you mean? Did something happened to you?
"No, no! It's nothing like that. It's just that, I haven't yet unpacked almost all of my stuff. They're all in boxes on my bedroom floor. So I thought I might as well unpack it all tomorrow…"
You want any help? I could come over right now and help you.
"I'm not sure. I'm kinda tired, but it could be fun. And you can stay over if you want too!" Sora added, his tiredness replaced with excitement.
Sure, I'll pack a few stuff and I'll come over in a second.
Sora gave a little cheer, quickly blushing for doing so. After hearing Riku's chuckle and quick ruffling of clothes, Sora smiled softly while holding the cell phone. His smile widened when he heard Yuffie over the cell phone telling Riku to go to school tomorrow no matter what.
Yeah, yeah! If I don't go, then look for Sora. I'll be with him. Riku said before shutting the door, muffling a yell from Yuffie. Sora giggled, then sighed as he continued hearing Riku's breathing over the cell phone. Sora quickly looked up at his door as he heard Sion's voice on Riku's side. Who are you?
Sora quickly ran to his door opening it, hearing Sion's voice more clearly.
Uh, I'm Riku. Sora let me stay over. Riku handed the cell phone to Sion.
Hello?
"Dad… let Riku in already!" Sora laughed, leaning on the railing to look down at the front door.
Riku noticed him and waved. "Hey, Sora."
Sora smiled, running down the stairs and jumping on Riku to give the older boy a hug. "Riku!!!!!!"
Riku grabbed Sora tightly, careful to keep his balance. Sion stared at them before ruffling his hair with his free hand.
"I'm gonna be in the kitchen if you need anything." Sion said with a sigh. "And close the door." He ordered, giving Riku back his cell phone before walking away into the nearest door.
Riku pressed the end button on his cell phone, feeling how Sora nuzzled him. "Sora? Hey, what's wrong?"
"Missed you." Sora said with a childish voice.
"But we were together just a while ago." Riku said, pocketing his cell phone so he could hold Sora better. "Besides, aren't we supposed to be cleaning up your room?"
Sora nodded, closing the door before jumping off Riku. "Come on, you have to see it! It has the most perfect view of the entire house! And, it's the biggest room too! I placed dibs on it before dad could." Sora happily dragged Riku up the stairs and into his room.
Not entirely surprised by Sora's happiness, Riku smiled as Sora dragged him into the large room, closing the door after them. Sora quickly pointed to the stack of boxes adorning the middle of his room.
"They sure are in the way, Sora." Riku stated.
"I know. Dad put them all there so I would clean it up faster…" Sora trailed off, holding the edge of his tank top.
"Well, that doesn't seem to have worked. You've been two days on the island, and you've already spent both days outside your house." Riku stated, picking up the first box labeled [Sora-clothes]. "Anyway, let's start with your clothes. It's easier to organize, and it'll be two boxes less."
Sora nodded, picking up the second clothes box and helping Riku organize them according to Sora's way of organizing them. After both were empty, Sora placed them on the hallway. Meanwhile, Riku picked up the next box labeled [Sora-posters] and set it aside before picking the next one labeled [Sora's toys].
"Since posters are usually the last thing to put, let's try and figure out how to organize the three boxes of toys you have." Riku said.
Sora softly blushed. "Actually, they're four. When I announced at my other school that I was leaving, the rumor ran throughout the whole school. I didn't know until after, but all the girls had decided to give me a going-away present each. And since they're girls, they all gave me these little stuffed animals. I didn't want to put them in another room, so I told dad to get me some furniture with shelves to place them all. Three of the boxes are full of stuffed animals."
With a soft laugh, Riku ruffled Sora's spikes and opened the first box. "Well, no use worrying about it now. Help me place them on the top shelves."
Sora nodded, grabbing the tabby cat Riku threw him. After the plushies were up on the shelves, and so were figures, boats, cars, and god knows what else, it was time to make with the heavy equipment. These said equipment being Sora's computer, TV, the various gaming systems {1} (and the games), the radio, and hidden in all that, the alarm clock. Once everything was set (except the posters, Sora didn't want to hang them in the end, so they stashed it in a corner of the closet), Sora tiredly jumped on his bed.
"I'm tired." Sora whined.
Gazing at the clock, Riku noticed it was already 2 a.m.! "No wonder, look at the time."
"I wanna sleep. Turn off the light…" Sora trailed off, starting to doze off.
"Hey! Don't fall asleep yet! Where am I supposed to sleep?"
Sora rolled to a corner, grabbing one of the plushies they placed on the bed, and snuggling it. Riku sighed, turned off the lights and crawled onto Sora's bed. He stayed a while gazing at the glow in the dark stars Sora had fussed about having up as soon as possible, before slowly he too fell asleep. They were dead to the world. As soon as morning was up, while every student walked out of their houses to go to school, Kairi made sure to go first thing to Riku's house so the silver hair teen wouldn't escape her again.
"Better stop him here, before he meets up with that stupid Sora." She muttered as she rang the doorbell of Riku's house.
And as usual, Yuffie answered.{2} "Hey, Kairi. What are you doing here so early?"
With the cutest smile Kairi could afford, she looked sweetly at Yuffie. "Why, I'm here to pick up Riku of course!"
Twitching, Yuffie sighed. "Well, he's not home. He went to stay over at Sora's house. It's that one in front, but I doubt he'll be up already. I saw them still awake at one in the morning when I woke up for some water."
"I see." Kairi said, trying to hide her current rage. "Well, I'll go see if he's up. Sorry for bothering you."
Kairi walked off, Yuffie sighing before going back in. Kairi softly rang the doorbell at Sora's house, waiting a few seconds before Sion opened.
"Yeah? Can I help you?"
"Hello, my name's Kairi. I'm looking for Riku?"
Sion thought about it a second before remembering. "Oh, the silver haired kid?"
"Yes, that's the one!"
"I think he's still sleeping. Wanna go check, or should I?" Sion suggested, sipping his coffee.
"If you would let me, I would like to go and wake him up." Kairi oh-so-sweetly said.
"Go ahead. Sora's room is the one at the end of the hall to the left." Sion let her in, closing the door as Kairi walked herself up the stairs. Sion shrugged and went back in to the kitchen to socialize with his breakfast.
Kairi went directly to Sora's room. She softly knocked, and entered after receiving no answer. Her eyes went wide as china saucers when she saw Riku and Sora. Both were, still dead to the world, but sleeping in such a weird position, Kairi's mind jumped thinking how they ever ended up that way. Riku was currently sleeping on what had been Sora's side before they went to sleep. Sora was across him, his legs on Riku's chest and stomach, while his head was almost at the edge of the bed. The plushies had somehow landed all across the floor, while surprisingly, the bed sheets were still almost intact. It was as if somehow, they fell asleep like that. Sora's right hand held onto Riku's left hand on his (Sora's) stomach. Kairi was speechless. That's when she noticed that Sora's tank top was almost all the way up.
"Oh, my God…" Kairi muttered, slowly backing away from the room. "Sora is…" not even finishing the sentence, Kairi ran out the room, and quickly out the house.
This was big. And she needed to tell someone right away. So she ran in direction of Selphie's house. Maybe her best friend could still help her someway.
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To be continued!
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Author's note: Yay! I'm done! This ish what happens when my Internet is all pitchy. Anyway, another cliffhanger, I know, but I needed to end it! It was getting too long! And so, Sora's third day at Destiny Islands begins with him sleeping practically on Riku. LOL! That's funny. =3 I'm happy. Bye byes!
{1} "various gaming systems" = I've come to the lovely conclusion that most of my cousins that are only child are given mostly everything really cool. I'm not an only child, but one of my close cousins is an only child and she does get whatever she wants, down to the last whim. I hate her.
{2} "as usual, Yuffie answered" = I'm not sure what happened with Riku's parents (my plot bunnies didn't inform me either), but Riku lives with Yuffie and her parents. Yuffie's parents go to work very early in the morning, leaving Yuffie to care more like an older sister instead of a cousin towards Riku.
Thanks to:
1. piggiesofdoom – yay, I got 12 thumbs up for having a romantic and totally original legend! Thank you!!! Oh, and about Selphie, before going into the water Riku took Sora's shirt off while talking to him…. Guess you missed that! Hehe.
2. cammy-world666 – yeah, Riku will wear the, um, trousers in the relationship! LOL! Yay, you loved the legend! Thankies!
3. synchu – thanks for reviewing, thanks for helping me out in a few things, and thanks for being friends to the antisocial bunny by the name of Bunsi (aka Zin). So, yeah! And thanks for liking the story!
Anyways, I apologize for the lateness! It's just that I like to be at least two chapters ahead, but I can't make you all wait while I'm stuck in chapter 9 because of me. I'm sorry to say that the ninth chapter might not be so good as I would want to, due to the fact that I can't write cute and fluffy things when I'm not really feeling that great. No, I'm not sick, but I'm just overly depressed. So, even though I'm feeling better some of these days, I'll try to make up for lost time! So, yeah. Thanks to all for all the nice reviews, I really enjoy them a lot. And thanks to piggiesofdoom and to synchu, for giving me smiles when I needed them the most over the AIM and the msn messenger.
---Flare