by Flare Haynekie
Disclaimer: …………
Warnings: AU, OOC-ness, shonen-ai
Author's note: Bwahahaha! I have mah
lappytop! Cuddle, cuddle. I named it Fayt Leingod, so shush.
Moving on.
This was written between work… and while hearing the KH2 OST. Yeah… aside from other songs… like Bleach songs. Which reminds me that this first part was written with an overly happy Bleach song! Aww. But I changed to "Passion –after the battle-". It's such a sad song for me… Moving on! Read! Don't kill me!
Oh, before you go read, I started fixing all the mistakes from the first 24 chapters, so I have to post the fixed ones soon. Plus, I redid their first kiss. Because you all wanted more out of that. Bah, go on now. For real.
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Chapter 25: Untold sad memories…
Sora opened his eyes, noticing it was still dark. He turned around so that he wasn't facing Riku, and covered his mouth as a few tears escaped him. It wasn't possible, right? Because Riku was right there. Turning around again, he came face to face with Riku's eyes, their color barely noticeable in the darkness of the room. Riku stroked Sora's cheeks, kissing his eyes to try and stop the tears. But it only made more fall.
"Is something wrong? Why are you crying so quietly in the middle of the night?" Riku questioned him, as the brunet closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"You're here." He said with his broken voice. Softly, so very softly as if saying it louder would result in Riku disappearing. "You're here with me." He repeated.
Riku smiled. "Yes, I'm here." Then he frowned at a sudden thought. "Is that bad?"
Sora shook his head. "It makes me happy. But it was so sad. I'm sorry, I'm being silly."
Riku smiled again and sighed. He held Sora closer. "Don't worry about it. I won't leave you again like that. This time I will keep my promise, okay?"
Sora nodded, closing his eyes. "I love you…" he muttered, trying to let it pass as just a sound on the still air of the room.
But Riku heard it. He placed a simple kiss on Sora's head, and got more comfortable on the bed. "Me too. Now go to sleep, I'm not going anywhere."
Sora nodded once more, but he was already dozing off. Riku gave a content smile, and followed suit, giving a silent prayer that neither of them would have that dream again. It was too sad a memory to be relieving. Ah, but they had to write it… after that then, he decided.
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"Sora!" Cloud called, running downstairs in search of his little cousin, but the house was empty. What time it was? He made it all the way into the kitchen and stared at the bright digital numbers on the microwave. 8:20. Sion had already left for work and Sora, along with Riku, had gone to school. It was Tuesday. Walking back up to the guest room which was currently his bedroom, he found Leon had gone off to work too. "Stupid responsible people of this house…" Cloud growled rather childishly at himself as he got dressed.
Once he had breakfast, he went over to look for Yuffie and bother her a bit. But apparently had also gone off to work. And Cloud was bored. So he headed to the local library to actually work on his neglected assignment.
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Sora walked happily down the school halls, Riku at his side. They were quickly found by Selphie, who gladly latched her arms around Sora in a hug.
"Why are you happy, Sora? Why?" she asked, quite curious, since she knew for a fact that Sora would be happier if he was wearing the long checkered pants that belong to the male school uniform. And maybe the different shirt they had too.
"I've just found there's a good thing to having to wear a skirt after all." Sora replied, proudly.
"Really? What is it? What could it possibly be good from having to wear a skirt rather than pants? I would be happy if I could wear pants instead." Selphie replied, rather long to be a quick reply, but it was Selphie after all.
Sora smiled cutely, probably unaware of the cute blush on his cheeks. "Riku was going on about how it's still hot because the cold winter air wasn't arriving fast enough, and how he would like to wear shorter pants. But I'm okay cuz my legs are out in the open which means that I get lots of air. And I don't have to worry about anything showing cuz I'm wearing boxers which are similar to short pants."
Selphie stayed quiet for a bit. Once she recovered, she hit Sora over the head. "I didn't need to know that. Silly Sorae."
"Yes, yes. Ah, here's my next class, are you coming too Selphie?" Sora asked. Of course, it was still the middle of the morning so they were only changing classes.
"Of course!" she was quick to reply. "You left the classroom before I did, so I had to catch up to you. Besides, all of us of the same class group take the same classes together. It's either to enforce good friends, or they're too lazy to give everyone different class schedules. I'm voting for the latter one, of course."
Sora smiled, as the three of them entered the classroom and took their respective seats. Yup, today was a very good day. Minus that memory from the early morning which Riku had made him relieve by writing it. But it was turning out to be good either way. Even Kairi wasn't glaring at them too much. But, then again, she was busy worrying about a babysitting job she got to the day before. The little one wasn't too much trouble, in fact he was down right cute. But she was worried about the older triplets.
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They reunited after class, which was around midday, at Caroline's shop. Sora was fussing about the play, and he was trying to talk to Selphie, but the hyperactive girl's attention was more into their homework, rather than everyone else.
Sora tried to add a little whine this time. "Selphie…"
Which resulted in Selphie looking up startled, and Riku pulling Sora in a hug. Tidus and Wakka gave a slight blush at the sight, but continued to do their homework.
"Yes?" Selphie replied, her attention off her work for two seconds before she looked down again and started to scribble down sentences.
"Um, um, after a certain part, can you just, I don't know, narrate the rest?" Sora asked, trying to see if that brought her attention, to no luck. So he then added, "after Rikue's castle burns?"
Everyone looked up at Sora, their work forgotten. This was more important.
"Rikue's castle burns!" Selphie asked, quite shocked. "But, but, what about Rikue?"
"I don't know." A tear ran down his cheek. "I don't want to know either." He wiped it off with the back of his hand, suppressing the rest, brought up due to the freshness of that sad memory.
Selphie nodded once, twice. She knew. Of course she knew. Everyone knew. "Yes, of course! I'll do my best!" She exclaimed with a smile, trying to cheer up Sora.
The current members of the fan club today were all huddled near the entrance watching. They didn't want to be eavesdropping. They had already heard from Selphie that they were all writing a play of the legend staring Riku and Sora, but they wanted to see the play. Not know details of it before hand. Waiting was hard, but they had agreed it would be worth it. They also didn't know what to do when they saw Sora's tear. They wanted to rush over and comfort him. But they let Riku do that. It added fuel to their club. They were just so cute.
"So, does this mean the play's written?" Tidus dared to ask.
Sora shook his head. "No, not really. There are a lot of things missing. But for some reason that came ahead… I'm sorry."
Wakka, who had been startled when he saw Sora cry, hit Tidus foot. "Don't worry about it, Sora! I'm sure it'll all come back to you!" He glared at Tidus. "Right, Tidus?"
Tidus softly glared back. "Yeah, of course." He gave Wakka something resembling a pout, probably tying to imitate Sora, which resulted in Wakka giving a sigh, and grabbing Tidus hand under the table, giving it a soft stroke before letting it go and focusing back on the forgotten homework.
Tidus smiled to himself, and focused on his papers as well, the table falling silent as they all tried to do last minute essays.
"I was told to do them for next week." Sora mused, at which Selphie looked up at Sora.
"Wah! That's not fair! Why don't you do it today too and hand it in tomorrow with us? That way you won't feel you're that behind, right? And it's not like you won't do it until the last minute if we leave you…" Selphie replied, tapping the table with the pencil, probably trying to think of what else to write.
Sora took out his own notebooks and papers, showing a specific one to Selphie. "I started writing this essay during class. We're supposed to hand in two pages, right? I already got one done."
Riku smirked, passing his hands through Sora's soft locks, earning something similar to a purr from the brunet. "So responsible, Sora!"
At that Selphie glared. "You shouldn't talk. You did the whole two pages during class the same day they announced it."
"I was feeling inspired." Riku brought Sora closer to himself in a half-hug. "That was the day I saw Sora out the window."
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"Where are we going?" Sora asked, curious by the whole thing.
After the rush to finish the essays, Riku had silently agreed something with Selphie. Then he had dragged Sora back to his house, and picked up random clothes. Once he had a set that pleased him, he gave then to Sora with instructions to change and meet him on the veranda once he was done. Sora wasn't sure why he was doing that, but complied anyway, putting on the knee-high jeans, the baby blue hooded shirt. Riku hadn't picked shoes for him, so he put on some special sandals Kairi had brought by earlier, which had a single blue belt that ran across his feet. And they matched his shirt, which was nice. If he met up with Kairi, she would make a fuss of him not looking very girl-like, so he decided to grab the square blue bag, that was really a small thing, and slung it across his chest. Inside he put his keys, some money, and his cell phone. Lastly, he grabbed the black, faux fur lined coat that Riku had picked out, and ran out the room.
Cloud passed by him, stopping him. "Are you alright?" he asked, which was strange, because Sora didn't remember feeling sad or anything.
Sora nodded. "I suppose. Why do you ask?"
Cloud let go of Sora. "Well, I had a really sad dream. But when I woke up everyone was already gone. I pretty sure you would feel the saddest."
"I'm alright." Sora looked down, clearly sad. He took a deep breath and looked up at Cloud. "Anyway, I have to go." And with that he ran down the stairs and out to door into the front of the house, where Riku was waiting.
Without asking questions, Riku grabbed Sora's hand, softly leading him close for a kiss. "Come on, fluffy-love, we'll be late."
Sora nodded with a smile.
Sora! Damn you, where the hell are you!"
Sora looked around. "Uh oh…"
Riku looked at him puzzled. "Is everything alright?"
"Um, sure. Hold on." Sora took out his cell phone and called Sion. "Yeah, dad? Um, I think he got home and saw the note. Yes, I'm alright. Of course my head hurts! Which is why it's only for emergencies! I'll call Axel and explain it to him, so don't worry. They'll probably arrive together anyway. Sure, okay. Bye, then." Sora hanged up and sighed.
They had been walking towards the mall, Riku leading Sora the whole time while the brunet had been busy talking to Sion. But since he said he was going to call someone else, he decided not to ask.
Sora dialed a few numbers. "This is going to be an expensive bill. Ah, hullo, Axel. No, it's Sora. Yeah, I know. What! He's there…? Shit. Heh… hi?" Sora quickly pulled the cell phone away from his ear, a similar voice to his screaming, "Where are you!" Putting the cell phone back on his ear, he gave a nervous chuckle. "We moved to Destiny Islands. What? No! We didn't mean to leave you behind, but dad said that it was better if I got enrolled first to avoid a few troubles. Apparently the school year's still starting, so we're okay… no. Well, dad had said that it was better if we left early. He said he left you a note and money for the fair… Ah, your stuff's over here. Yeah I chose a good room for you. Everything's still in boxes though. Yeah. Axel's coming with you? Why am I not surprised? Oh, you and Axel should buy cell phone's over here. They have this cute charms that according to rumor, it's fun to see who yours gets matched with. Mine? Not telling! And! So you don't hear it from Cloud's mouth when you get here, yes, I tied myself to a pole in silent protest so dad wouldn't drag us here. Why didn't I…? Because you know very well that it causes us headaches, and it's only for emergencies. Erm… well, at the moment I didn't want to trouble myself with the headache I was sure to get from telling you when you were half across the world in that school trip…"
Riku chuckled. He was curious as to who was on the other side. Surely it wasn't the one called Axel, because he had seen the difference in attitudes. They were standing in front of the movie theater now, Selphie, Tidus, and Wakka wondering who Sora was talking to.
"Oh, I'm going to see a movie now. When are you coming? Ah, you already separated two tickets already? You leave in half an hour? Okay. I'll meet you up at the airport. What? Oh… yeah. I do have school. Okay, then. Find me then. Yes, I trust your way of always finding me. Sure. Bye, bye, Ro."
Sora hanged up, and smiled, holding the cell phone to his chest. He put it away on the purse, and ran up to give Riku a hug.
"Come on, Sora! Riku!" Selphie called. "If we don't go now the movie will start and we'll miss a great part of it!"
Riku laughed, grabbing Sora's hand and dragging him into the movie theater. Sora still smiling.
He was coming to the island! What great joy Sora felt. If it wasn't because he had been half-way across the world at the time, they would've arrived together.
Yeah, together as they should be.
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To Be Continued!
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(Author's notes, now known as rants… really!)
Heh. Fear me for I have written this is the span of two days. Which was in between of the current work I'm doing, lazing around, and playing Kingdom Hearts 2… in Japanese! Because I'm very picky about the voices, and after seeing one part of it, very important part, in YouTube, and screaming at Axel's bad English acting, I decided to not play it in English. So I'm playing it in Japanese, with my sister next to me with the strategy in her hands (the bible!). Much fun. In ten hours we already reached and passed Disney Castle. And I'm getting around with low levels again, whoot! Yes, ignore me. I'm an idiot. Hehehehe. Aside from that I now got Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix (FINALLY!), and OZ: Over Zenith (aka as "The Sword of Etheria" for some strange reason…). But most importantly, my plot bunnies are happy. And my sis is happy because of that little bonus at the end. Ah, I'm not saying who it is. But Axel is there for kicks. He's such a fun character in the game.
AND THANK YOU ALL FOR WAITING! Love you guys!
(Things you should know)
In my head Sora looks cute in that outfit… and he looks really, really cute in that drawing I did with him in the Destiny Island uniform (the one Kairi wears, whoot!). Yeah, that's how it looks like. Finally. And the coat… well, I have one similar to that.
Oh, come on! I gave you a clue! Don't ask me who it is…
Whoot! Holy Week (or Golden week, or spring break, whatever you call it) is almost over! Being stuck in my house is boring. Specially since I've been all week working. And I've only finished the first chapter of the book! It's an evil book, I tell you!
Yes, I've finished ranting. Toodles, people! (yes, I write toodles instead of tootles… it's the same thing. But to me it sounds better and looks cuter as toodles. So shush.)