So there will be an author's note at the end explaining something's.
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Riku woke up to the sun shining in his face. His chest wasn't hurting anymore, his mind was clear. That voice had left him alone all night. And he was sure that last night was the best night of sleep he had gotten in the last two months. He felt at peace for once.
The bedroom door opened and Riku could smell food coming from somewhere in the house.
Sora walked in carrying a tray of food in with him, and Riku watched him with a small smile. That was why he had slept so good. Sora took him to his house last night and he had stayed the night.
The brunette was still unaware that Riku was awake as he heard Sora humming a slightly familiar tune.
Sora put the tray on his desk and turned around.
"Oh your up!"
Sora smiled and grabbed the tray once again and sat on the bed, sitting next to Riku when he sat up, giving Sora room.
"I got us some lunch. I know you really like that burger shack down by the beach so I ran over and got us something. I also got the lemonade we like too!"
The whole time Sora was rambling Riku couldn't help but smile. Sora was perfect, he was caring, thoughtful. And when the sun hit Sora's eyes just right, like now, they looked like an ocean and it made Riku's stomach flutter and twist.
"The lemonade guy told me that if we come by again that he would give us a free lemonade-"
Sora looked at Riku and saw him smiling sweetly at him. That made Sora smile nervously.
"What is it Riku? Why are you giving me that look?" He asked timidly.
Riku shook his head, the blankets pooling around his waist.
"Nothing, you're just being cute. Doing all this for me." Riku said reaching for the lemonade, taking a sip of it. He fought hard the urge to lean over and kiss Sora silly. Only if he knew what he did to him.
Sora's face grew hot at Riku's statement.
"W-well I mean why wouldn't I? We're best friends, Riku." Sora focused back on the food and unwrapped Riku's burger, putting it on a plate before handing it to him.
"Now you better eat all of that, or else." Sora said, trying to act tough. It only made Riku smile more.
"Or else what?" Riku challenged, leaning closer to Sora. "Just what will you do to me?"
The look Riku gave him was almost too much for Sora to handle. That look was insinuating something much different than what Sora thought.
"J-just eat your food before it gets cold!" Sora squeaked out, shoving the burger in Riku's face.
Riku chuckled but moved back, taking a bite of the burger. Man he didn't know how much he missed this food. The burger and lemonade were gone in record time.
"If you were going to be that hungry I would have gotten another one for you!" Sora said, sipping his lemonade.
"What can I say, I'm a growing boy and a growing boy needs food.'' Riku said before laying back down.
They sat in silence for sometime, Sora moved the tray off of the bed so he could get more comfortable.
"You don't have to answer this Riku but...how did you get those scratches on your chest?" Sora asked, looking everywhere but at Riku.
Riku looked down at his bare chest, um when did he take his shirt off? He didn't remember doing that last night.
"Oh uh... I guess I did that when I was on the beach when my chest…" Riku didn't finish. He didn't want to spoil the mood they had.
Silence took over the room and Riku could feel Sora fighting himself to not ask Riku what else had happened on the beach.
"I-I thought you uh...got those a different way…" Sora mumbled out, blushing again.
Riku paused a second and tried to think about what Sora was trying to get at. Then it hit him like bricks.
"Oh! You thought...you thought I got them by someone else?"
Sora hid his face in his hands, face burning red now. And Riku threw his head back laughing. He probably laughed harder now than in his whole life.
"Shut up Riku!" Sora groaned, hitting Riku. "I didn't know okay? It's not that funny!"
He really didn't mind Riku laughing at him since this was the first time he had really laughed in sometime.
Riku caught his breath, having to hold in a few chuckles before he could speak.
"Y-you thought I was with someone yesterday?" Riku shook his head. "And just who did you think I was with Sora? I mean really?"
Sora mumbled something that Riku couldn't understand.
"Huh? I didn't understand a word you said Sora?" Riku said.
Out came another mumble Riku couldn't understand.
"Come on Sora, you know I couldn't have understood that."
Sora sighed, he knew Riku was going to laugh at him again.
"I thought you were with that Serah girl from English alright. With how she acted with you the day before I just thought…" Sora said,
thoroughly embarrassed.
Riku saw how embarrassed Sora was and decided to let this one go. He shook his head and grabbed Sora's hand.
"That girl Sora, she means nothing. She was just another girl trying to get something she had no chance of ever getting." Riku said. "You should know that those types of girls will never have a chance."
Sora looked at Riku and he knew he shouldn't have. The intense look Riku was giving him was almost too much and he could feel himself leaning into Riku…
"Sora! Riku's mom is on the phone and she wants to know when Riku will be coming home!" Sora's mom called from the stairs.
Sora and Riku jerked away from each other. Both were trying to read each other to see how they felt about what almost happened.
"Sora? Did you hear me?" Sora's mom called again.
Sora looked to his door before he turned back to Riku who was now laying down.
Sora really wished that Riku wasn't so good at hiding things.
"Tell her I'll be home in an hour or so." Riku said, hands behind his head.
Sora nodded. But Riku would not be getting away from him that easily. Oh no they were going to work some things out.
"Tell her that Riku will be home around nine." Sora called back to his mom.
Riku sat up again, what was Sora doing? More importantly what was his little brunette plan.
"If you think your going to get off that easily without talking about what's been happening lately, then you are sorely mistaken Riku." He pushed himself off the bed.
"Now get up and ready because we are spending the day together and you are going to talk."
Riku silently groaned before flopping back on the bed.
"This weekend is also the start of the Paopu festival and you are taking me." Sora said.
Riku looked at Sora, "I thought Kairi talked you into taking her months ago."
"I don't think she'll mind. Besides I think she's hanging out with some of her girlfriends today. So, you're stuck with me." Sora grinned.
"I don't know Sora maybe I don't want to go," Rike smirked. "Maybe I want spend the day with Serah."
Before Riku could react Sora had grabbed the blankets he was laying on and pulled Riku to the floor. The befuddled look on Riku's face made Sora laugh, which was music to Riku. It wasn't often that Sora could pull something on Riku without him seeing through it.
"Yeah yeah, now get ready. You're taking me out tonight."
And with that Sora walts out of his room. Oh boy what did Riku get himself into.
The whole island was covered in Paopu fruit shaped decorations. Every shop had Paopu flavored and shaped food. Paopu shaped balloons were in every place you could look. Music blared around them and couples were everywhere. Carnival games were set up where you could win stuffed animals and stuffed paopu fruit toys. Small carnival rides were set up and fun houses had also been set up.
Time had flown by for the two boys, they spent the day walking around the island talking like when they were kids. The two were able to laugh freely without thinking that the other was putting on a front for the other. They went on all of the rides on that were set up around the island. And it wasn't long before Riku saw Sora staring at a giant stuffed Paopu fruit toy.
Riku grinned at the look on Sora's face. He looked like a little kid. To be heard by Sora, he leaning closer to him. "Do you want that? The paopu toy?" He asked pointing to it.
Sora looked up at him and smiled. "Yeah! But you know these games are ridged."
Riku looked the game over, it was a simple strong man game. All he had to do was make the bell ring.
Riku grinned. "Oh you're getting that giant paopu toy Sora." He said walking over to the man, leaving a shocked Sora behind him.
Sora ran to catch up with me. "Riku, you don't have too I could buy that at some store."
Riku weighed the mallet in his hands, oh yeah he was going to get the toy.
"Hey you're the one that wanted me to take you out, so I'm going to treat you right."
Riku flashed Sora a smile that made Sora's stomach flutter.
Sora crossed his arms, and tried to stop himself from smiling. Which he failed horribly to do.
"Alright fine, but you better get it."
Riku nodded and raised the mallet above his head, before slamming it down on the petal. The puck went flying up to the bell which rung loudly.
"We have a winner!" The carne said, getting the giant toy down and handed it to Riku who handed it to Sora.
"And you doubted me." Riku said cockily.
Sora hid his face behind the giant toy.
"Shut it." Came Sora's muffled response. His face was so red and it was all Riku's fault.
The boys spent a few more hours at the festival before heading out to the beach. They sat on the sand look out at the stars. While others would look at the stars and only see them a far off planets, Riku and Sora knew differently. They had friends out there that were waiting to see them again.
Riku chewed on his bottom lip, Sora wanted to talk about what was going on and had yet to ask anything. He knew Sora too well to even think that he could have forgotten the reason they had come here.
Riku sighed and looked at Sora, who was holding the giant toy against his chest. Instead of Sora looking his age, since the toy covered the majority of his body, he looked like a kid holding the toy. Why did things have to be going wrong for them to get this close?
He'll leave you once this is over. He'll go back to the girl.
Riku tried not to react to the voice. This was the first time all day it had bugged him and he wasn't going to let it ruin this.
"It wasn't long after we got home that things started happening." Riku started. Sora's eyes locked with his and he almost lost the nerve he had to keep going.
"School was about to start when I felt something moving in the darkness. I didn't know what it was I thought that maybe you could feel it too...but now I know why."
Sora kept silent.
"It was my own darkness that was growing, so you wouldn't have been able to feel it. I thought it could have been from stress of coming back home and seeing everyone again. The having to dealing with the questions. Then we had the homework…"
Riku knew he was rambling, but he just couldn't keep his thoughts straight.
"Why didn't you ask us to help?" Sora asked, keeping him on track.
"Because...you and Kairi...you are both so full of light. You guys don't really know what darkness can do to you and how tempting it is. The darkness makes you feel so powerful yet you are so vulnerable at the same time. It makes you want more of that powerful feeling."
Riku took a deep breath, playing with the sand beneath his hands.
"I thought that since I've dealt with it before that I could beat it this time, but somehow it's stronger. I've been hearing things...a voice."
Riku knew that Sora was going to think he was crazy now.
"I've been hearing it for about two months now, it doesn't happen everyday but often enough."
If Sora thought he was crazy, he wasn't saying anything or he was hiding it well.
"What does it say, the voice, when it talks to you?" Sora asked. Still Riku couldn't read him and that bugged him because he could always read Sora. Anyone could, he was like a open book.
"It's trying to tell me to leave and that everything would be better off if I would listen. Give in to it, whatever it is. It also talks about you and Kairi…" Riku felt so embarrassed talking about this.
"It tells me that you guys don't care, that you both would be happier without me. That I should just fade back into the darkness."
Sora's hand clamped down over Riku's, it still hurt, but the pain wasn't as intense as before.
"You have to know that's a lie Riku! If you left I don't know what I would do without you! And if Kairi was here she would say the same thing!"
Would she?
Riku stiffened, why was that voice talking so much now?
"What is it Riku?" Sora asked, tightening his grip on Riku's hand.
She would have him all to herself.
Suddenly Riku's mind was flooded with images of Sora and Kairi laughing together, walking together, kissing. Riku's heart pounded painfully against his chest.
Even in her letter she never mentioned you, only the boy, who she didn't even remember at the time. Why should she care about you?
"It's the voice again…" Riku said, upset that he let it take over so easily.
Come to me Riku, I will make everything better.
Sora frowned and sat up on his knees, staring deep into Riku's eyes.
"Alright voice in Riku's head, you listen to me. You leave Riku alone, he isn't going anywhere. He's going to stay right here with me, so shut up and leave him alone if you know what's good for you."
Riku grinned. "Do you have any idea how crazy you looked when you did that?"
Sora shrugged, "Hey you're my best friend, one of us has to be the crazy one."
Riku was going to respond when a bang went off above them. Fireworks.
"Yes I hoped we'd still be here when they started!" Sora said over the loud bangs.
The two watched the show, but Riku missed a majority of it due to the fact he was watching Sora. How did he get so lucky to have Sora as a friend.
You won't have him for much longer
Riku ignored the voice, this was their moment together and he wasn't going to waste it.
The streets were quiet as they walked home. A new level was built tonight between the boys, and Riku had no idea what that would mean for them.
Riku had to hold the giant stuffed paopu star toy for Sora as they walked back to his house. Sora complained that it was getting too heavy for him to carry it. And since Riku had been working out so much more it would just be easier for him to carry it. Riku didn't object to carrying it, he didn't mind.
They reached Riku's house faster than either of them wanted to. The night they had was perfect and neither of them wanted it too end. They stopped in front of Riku's house.
"Well this is my stop." Riku said.
Sora nodded. "Yeah...you know Riku I had fun tonight. I should make you take me out more often!" He said grinning.
Riku chuckled, "Well then I guess I will. I had fun too Sora. I guess I should thank you for making me take you out."
"Your welcome!" Came Sora's cheeky response.
Riku stared at Sora, he knew he shouldn't do what he was going to do but he didn't care, the mood was perfect right now.
He leant down and kissed Sora's cheek, before whispering into Sora's ear.
"Goodnight, Sora."
With that Riku turned and walked into his house. Sora stood there for a few seconds before his face lit up like a christmas tree. He didn't even feel Riku handing him the toy Riku won for him.
"Stupid Riku." He mumbled as he walked to his house with a silly grin on his face, his stomach filled with butterflies.
Yeah tonight was perfect.
Author's note:
Soooooooo yeah, that happened. I hope you guys aren't upset with what happened. Trust me I thought long and hard about what would happen between Sora and Riku. I was so nervous to write it but I like it. If enough of you don't I can work some things out later on, but if not then I will keep going with it. I really want to hear from you guys and how you feel about them possibly getting together. v.t.7 I hope I didn't disappoint you since you liked the sibling relationship that Sora and Riku had. I thought that I put in a pairing warning in the first few chapters but I guess I didn't. So sorry guys if you don't like them possibly getting together, let me know please, and I'll see what I can do.
Thank you for reading and let me know what you think!
