Whoo! A little RikuxSora slash in this chapter for all the loyal reviewers. Heh.
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I listened to 'The Ghost of You' by MCR while typing this chapter. For some reason, it seemed to fit, too. O.o;;
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Sora groaned, and sat up. These days were the worst. Namine and Riku were at school, so he had no one to talk to. And, he wasn't about to go to school and ruin Riku's life. Or, should he?
While he pondered that idea, the door slammed shut. He looked over to see Riku and Namine's aunt, who wasn't exactly a real ray of sunshine. But who would be, when they were sent away from home on jobs so much?
"I'm home," She yelled out, then looked at the clock on the living room wall. "Oh, that's right. Riku and Namine are at school." She sighed, then walked past Sora.
"Hi honey, have a good day at work?" He said, laughing.
"Bills.." The woman muttered, and picked up a yellow slip of paper, then walked in the kitchen.
Sora sat on one of the couches in the lounge, trying to figure out what to do. The only thing he'd done lately was sit around, waiting for the random evil bad guy to attack, then of course, he'd save the day. Somehow..
Well, Sora had one other thing he'd been doing lately. Riku constantly worked on the same stack of papers. Just what was on those papers, anyway? And Riku would get really pissed off any time Sora or Namine tried to see them.
So, he obviously wanted to see them. Really Bad.
Sora yawned, setting back on the couch. "I'll just sleep 'till they get back," He mumbled, and made himself comfortable.
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"Sora!" Namine's voice shot through his head. He blinked a couple of times, then looked at her.
"I'm making food! Want to see?" She grinned, then ran into the kitchen.
"Wow! That's hot!" He heard her voice yell.
"Oh crap!" Sora said. "Maybe this is how they died, in a fire! Don't worry Namine, I'm coming!" Sora yelled, running through the kitchen, straight through Riku, who was turning off the oven.
"Gwah!" He yelled, and fell on the floor. "Sora! Jeez! Don't do that." He stood up, poking at his stomach, then shivering.
"My bad… I thought Namine hurt herself." Sora said, an almost non-existent blush etching across his face.
"Uh.. Right." Riku set a stack of paper on the cabinet. Not just any stack of papers, the stack of papers.
"I'm going to go take a shower, I'll be down in a bit to cook. Sora, don't let Namine set the house on fire, okay?"
Sora saluted, and Namine giggled.
Sora waited until Riku was upstairs in the bathroom, then ran to the papers. "Namine, could you spread these out for me so I could read them?" Sora asked, eagerly looking at Namine.
"Um.. Sure." She said, grabbing the written ones and placing them all over the cabinet. "Is that okay?" She asked.
"Yeah, yeah that's perfect. Thanks Namine," Sora said, eyes scanning across the papers. Most of it was too scribbled over to read, but he could make out some of it.
"Father's plan.. Hm. What's this about a key?" Sora said, looking at a sentence that read, 'Need the key to KW 203'.
Sora blinked, then reached into his pocket. Was it still there? His fingers reached something blunt edged and cold. He pulled the key out of his pocket, running his fingers over it.
"The key," He whispered, staring intently at it.
He read on through Riku's plans, finding a drawing of a strange looking circle with an odd shape in it. Witch craft…?
He looked on, 'Shape Shifter' was written in bold next to the symbol. He moved, looking at the next paper. A small map was drawn on the paper, he scanned over it. Room 203 was circled, the room was pretty big. There was a big question mark in the middle of the drawing, followed by some very tiny handwriting.
Sora squinted, trying to read it. "Dad.. Is here?" A hand slammed down on the papers and Sora's eyes snaked up it to see a very annoyed Riku.
"Umm.." Sora started, but Riku cut him off. "You like snooping in other people's things, huh?" Sora stepped back as Riku gathered up the papers.
"Riku, listen, I didn't mean to snoop, I was just curious.. And, I think I might know--"
"Save it, okay Sora?" Riku growled, then went back upstairs.
Namine walked in the room, pouting. "Sorry Sora."
Sora blinked. "Sorry about what?"
Namine pulled at her gown, staring at the floor. "I kind of accidentally told him you were reading the papers.. I was asking when he would fix supper. Our aunt ended up leaving early for another job, so.." She sighed.
"Aw, it's no big deal." Sora said, grimacing in the back of his mind. He just hates me, no biggie.
Namine sat on one of the kitchen chairs, and Sora walked out of the room when Riku entered, not wanting to start a fight in front of Namine.
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When it was about ten o' clock, Riku was up in his room writing new additions to his plan of getting inside the room. He began to wonder what would be in there.. Possibly his mother and father were still alive, then things would be good again.
No more living with his crummy aunt, and instead of him cooking it'd be his mom. He was so caught up in his day dreams, that he didn't notice Sora walk through the door and enter his room.
Riku yawned, laying his head on the desk. Tomorrow was a school day.. Maybe he'd just skip tomorrow. His aunt was supposed to be home until Saturday or something anyway..
Sora walked over to Riku, to see if he was awake. "Um.. Riku?" He tested, then Riku snapped awake. "Whuh?" He rubbed his eyes, yawning.
"Look, I'm sorry about today. I didn't know those papers were private to you, I should've.. I should've asked." Sora twiddled his thumbs, hoping his apology would be enough to clear things up.
Riku looked back at him, cocking a brow. "Huh? Oh, it's no big deal. I just haven't been feeling all that great lately, and plus, you got the papers all out of order."
Sora winced. "Ahh… Sorry.."
"It's okay. I got them back in order." He yawned again, going over to his bed and flopping down on it.
"Oh yeah.." Sora said, remembering the key. He turned to Riku showing him the key. "You know how it said KW 203? I have a key to that room."
Riku's eyes opened wide, and he lurched forward, his face inches from Sora's. Sora lightly blushed again. His heart was beating faster, too.
"Where did you get the key?" Riku said, dumbfounded.
Sora remembered the monster, and winced. "The ground."
Riku took the key from Sora, removing some dirt from it. "It.. Is.." Then Riku looked at Sora's face. "Why are you--" He blinked, finally snapping out of his daze. He moved backwards, his face turning red for a moment.
"Uh.. Sorry, Sora." He said, stuffing the key in his pocket.
Sora felt a tinge of sadness for a second. They had been so close.. He shook the thought away, shrugging. "It's okay. Hey, I'm going back downstairs," He said, starting to leave.
"Wait! I mean.. You don't have to leave yet. Could we maybe.. Talk for a bit?" He asked carefully, almost like the words were poison.
Sora nodded, sitting on the desk chair, waiting for Riku to start another conversation.
"You know.. I never thought I'd be lucky enough to see this key. I've been dreaming about this day for so long, you won't believe it. I'm.. I'm glad I met you Sora. Without you, this wouldn't of happened. So, tomorrow, you've got to go with me to the warehouse." He said, looking Sora in the eyes.
Sora nodded timidly. "What's.. In this warehouse, anyway?"
"What does it matter? You're already dead, so you can't get hurt." Riku said boredly, tracing the key through his fingers.
"But you can."
Riku looked up, then grinned at Sora. "Me? Get hurt? As if. I can take care of myself, man."
Sora rolled his eyes. "It's macho people like you that end up getting stupid deaths, like getting hit by cars or something."
Riku spit his tongue out at Sora. "Okay, mom, I'll be careful."
Sora glared. "Aw, shut it! I'm just trying to be helpful!"
Riku put his head on his pillow, yawning for the third time.
"Sheesh, how many times are you going to yawn? When's the last time you slept?"
"Um…" Riku said, remembering. "I haven't slept in about two weeks. Maybe longer."
Sora's jaw dropped. "Then get some sleep! Riku?" He asked, walking over to him. He was dead asleep. Sora shrugged, then started to walk out. "Night Riku."
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I'm going to hate typing the next chapter.. And you'll probably hate me for what happens.. Total evil character death-- But do you know who dies? No. Oooo… All of you, in your reviews, write who you think will die! Then I'll laugh at you because you'll all probably get it wrong! Mwahahaha!