I just finished watching Gravitation today:does happy dance: It was just too cute!
Anyways, I hope we all enjoy this next chappie and review! (pretty please?)
Love of Fallen Angels- Part 3
Run and Hide
Riku spun around, finally spotting Sora.
"Sora?" Riku asked, dumbfounded. Slowly, anger and fear won out over shock. "How long have you been there? What did you hear?" Sora backed away from the fury in his friends voice.
"I- I just got here, honest Riku..." Sora lied, not quite able to look Riku in the eye. Radiating cold fury, Riku walked towards Sora, the frightened brunette backing up right into a tree. Riku pinned Sora there, one hand above each of his friends shoulders as he leaned in.
"How long, Sora? What did you hear?"
"I wasn't-" Sora protested, looking at Riku just in time to see the cut on Riku's neck reseal itself. Sora's eyes went wide and he looked away again quickly, certain his eyes were decieving him.
"Don't even think about lying to me, Sora. I know if you're honest or not." Riku said, bringing Sora's mind back to the present moment. Sora swallowed, not looking at Riku and instead opting to look at the next tree over from where the silver-haired teen was pinning him.
"I... I heard almost all of it- I got here just a little after you did, I think." Riku froze in place, something shattering inside of him.
Without a word, Riku turned and ran off, leaving a frightened Sora to reorganize his thoughts.
''Sprout your wings Riku.'' Sora shook his head, denying the words even as they repeated in his mind. 'Not Riku- Riku doesn't have wings.' Sora sank slowly to the ground, knees shaking too badly to hold him up.
''... o great guardian angel...' But he's not- Riku's not an angel...' Sora's head couldn't keep coming up with excuses to deny what some part of him had probably always known- angels had to be real, and Riku was a real live angel.
''If not angels, then what are we?'' Sora blinked, tears welling up in his eyes as he recalled what Riku had said when the red haired- was he really an angel?- person had asked that question.
''Abominations that were never meant to exist.'' Sora sniffled a little- Riku had sounded dead when he had said that, as if he was resigned to the fact and didn't care enough about his own existence to even try to change it.
"Riku, you don't really think that, do you...?" Sora asked the silent woods. He stayed sitting like that for a good hour before he finally managed to get to his feet and stumble out of the woods.
"Did you find Riku, Sora?" Kairi asked, a worried look on her face.
"You were gone a long time." Namine said, cocking her head to the side and looking at him in a puzzled way. "We were just about to go look for you."
"Uh... yeah, I saw Riku, but he's not feeling well. I'm not really either, so I think I'll go home. Bye." Sora said, not waiting for a reply as he turned and headed for his home. He could hear his friends and brother's confusion behind him, but he needed to be alone for a little while- just until he sorted his feelings on the whole matter out.
He barely remembered to reply to his mother's kind 'hello' when he got back to his house, prompting a swift 'what's wrong?' from the woman.
"I'm fine Mom- just tired. I'll be back down for dinner later." Sora told her, halfway up the stairs before he finished speaking. Once in his room, he crashed onto his bed and rolled onto his back, simply staring at the ceiling as he thought about the encounter between the man with red wings and Riku.
'Is Riku really an angel? Wouldn't he have told me?' Sora wondered, feeling slightly hurt that Riku had never said anything to him.
'I think that man said something about him being a guardian angel? And something about him betraying his assignment... who I wonder? This doesn't make any sense!' Features settling into an adorable scowl, Sora turned onto his side.
'Well, Riku will always be my best friend. That won't change.' Unsurprisingly, Sora felt a small pang of sadness. His expression softening, Sora curled up tighter and hugged himself. 'Just friends. Right. That's all. No more.' Deciding against letting himself wallow in self-pity and tormenting himself with thoughts of something he couldn't have, he turned his thoughts back to what to do with what he'd learned.
'I still can't believe that Riku's really an angel. I thought they were a myth... he never said anything about it...' Preoccupied, Sora didn't hear the door open and close quietly, and didn't even realize that another person had entered his room until the intruder laid a gentle hand on Sora's shoulder.
"Sora honey? Are you feeling okay?" his mother- Kyoko- asked. Surprised for a second, Sora glanced up at her, then turned his attention back to the wall.
"I'm fine Mom. Nothing's wrong." he lied, though he wished he sounded more confident.
"Do you want to talk about it? I can tell something is bothering you." Sora smiled slightly. It had just been him and his mother for years, and they were very close- more often than not, his mother was more like a friend than a mom. She was still very firm on what she felt she had to be, but he loved her very much.
Sighing, he sat up.
"What would you do if..." Sora trailed off, not sure if he wanted to tell his mother the whole story, especially when he knew it was such a far-fetched tale. He settled for a hypothetical situation. "...if one of your good friends kept a very big secret from you and never told you until you found out by accident?" His mother had a thoughtful look on her face, wanting to carefully choose her words so her son wouldn't land himself in more dangerous situations.
"How big is this secret?" she asked. Sora hesitated before speaking.
"Life-altering. It's such a big secret that it's hard to believe it, but... what would you do, especially if your friend ran away after you found out?"
"Is this friend important to you? Is this secret a big enough deal that you wouldn't be friends anymore?" Sora closed his eyes, looking down.
"I don't know. He might not want to be friends anymore." Sora's heart began to hurt- it was the most painful possibility, but it had to be considered. Riku could simply avoid Sora if he wanted- Sora had never had the knack for finding Riku like Riku could find Sora.
"If you're really are friends, then I'm sure you'll be fine. Are you angry with him?"
"Maybe a little." The hurt at Riku's silence on this did make him a bit angry as well- he still had problems realizing that Riku wasn't totally honest with him, like Sora was honest with everyone.
'Well, except for one tiny little thing, but no one needs to know.' Sora thought.
"Angry because he didn't tell you or is it something that has to do with the secret?"
"... because he never told me." Sora's mother smiled- Sora couldn't help but smile back. His mother had a very infectious smile, impossible to resist. Being the Dear Abby of Destiny Island, she was used to cheering people up and helping them with their problems, and it was always easier with a smile firmly in place.
"Does he know you're not mad at him?" Sora blinked. Of course Riku knew he wasn't mad at him- didn't he?
"Go talk to him- he probably thinks you don't want to be friends anymore and that's why he ran." Sora blinked.
It made sense- and Sora felt silly for not realizing it.
"Thanks Mom." Sora said, standing up. "I'll be right back."
"Hurry up- it'll be dark out soon and I don't want you wandering around in the dark by yourself."
"Okay. Bye." Sora quickly hugged his mom, then darted out of his room and took the steps two at a time down, just jumping the last four. He landed with a heavy 'thud' he felt all the way to his knees, but he ignored it and ran out the door, barely remembering not to slam it on his way out.
A/N: So- was this chappie good? Sorry for not updating yesterday- had a ton of stuff I had to do!
Thanks again for all the lovely reviews! I'll try to update soon!