Well, here is ch.2! Thanks for thereviews! Good and bad are welcome, just no vulgar language, please! I also plan to not make 100 of the story to take place on this island, but most of it will. Enjoy!

Chapter 2: Nightmare

During the night, Riku awakens frightened from a nightmare, so he sits up in bed, panting out of breath from being afraid, and rests his forehead in his hand. It is the third time it has happened tonight, so he is afraid to go back to sleep. He looks over to his right and sees Sora sleeping in his bed about twenty-seven feet away.

Riku wants to tell Sora about his nightmares and sleep closer to him for comfort, but is too embarassed. He sighs, swallows his pride, and then crawls over to Sora. He sits up on his knees when he gets to the side of the bed, then hesitates before shaking him awake, feeling bad for doing so. "Sora. Sora."

"H- huh? Wha?" Sora groans, sitting up awake. "Riku? Is something wrong?"

Riku feels bad and a sharp pain stings through his heart. Seeing Sora's tired face and calloused hands from working so hard makes him feel especially bad about waking him up.

"Well, what is it?" Sora urges, though not grouchily.

"Um, well, I keep having nightmares and I can't sleep," Riku finally answers.

"About what?"

"Does it matter?"

"Well, it usually helps to talk about your problems."

Riku makes a sad face. "Ansem."

"Oh. Don't worry. He may have given his life to save the world and give you your form back, but he's in a better place now."

"No, Sora. Ansem as in Xehanort's heartless."

"Oh. That Ansem."

"It doesn't matter anyway! I'm sorry I even bothered you!" Riku yells, angry at Ansem and himself.

"Wait, Riku," Sora tells him. "I'll bring your bed over here next to mine. That way, I'll be right here if you need me."

Sora gets up and drags Riku's bed over next to his, and then helps Riku into it.

"Thanks. Good night, Sora," Riku smiles, now only inches away.

"Good night, Riku," Sora returns.

The next morning, Riku jumps up awake from another scarey Ansem nightmare. He looks over and sees Sora cooking something with a stick over a fire.

"Oh, hey, Riku. Good morning," Sora greets.

"Good morning, Sora," Riku replies unhappily.

Sroa sets his stick down gently, then walks up to Riku. "Ready for breakfast?"

"No," Riku replies in anger.

"What's wrong, Riku? I'll carry you over--"

"No!" Riku yells, then sees Sora's hurt expression and sighs. "I'm sorry, Sora. It's just . . ."

Sora sits down next to Riku on his bed. "Riku, it's okay. Things are kinda stressfull right now. I'm feeling a little stressed-out, too."

"Sora, it's just that . . . those dreams about Ansem . . ."

Sora puts a hand on Riku's shoulder. "I know you're scared. Who wouldn't be of a creep like that? But you need to just try to forget about him. He's gone. He can't hurt us anymore."

"You have no idea what being hurt by him is like! I lived with him all that time . . . "

"Riku, if it would make you feel better, you can tell me about it."

"Well, alright. It all started when the Cheshire Cat found me in the dark realm . . . "

"Well, what have we got here? A lost boy?" the Cheshire Cat asked.

"Who are you?" Riku asked.

"The Cheshire Cat, of coarse. But don't look down in the dark realm or your pants will fall up."

"Cheshire Cat, don't scare the poor child," Maleficent ordered. "Don't listen to him. Your pants aren't going anywhere. But you are," she smiled evily.

When Riku entered the castle, he saw a tall man with tan skin and silver hair - Ansem.

"Hello there, boy. I am Ansem and this is my wife Maleficent. Who are you?"

"Riku," Riku replied angrily. "Where am I!"

"At the Hollow Bastian Castle, of coarse," Maleficent answered.

"Okay, so you met them. What happened that was so painful?" Sora asks impatiently.

"Well, Ansem and Maleficent soon took me in as their son, so I was made part of the 'nice, happy family'," Riku begins.

"Riku, the power to control the Heartless is a very special one. You have a big responsibility now. So make us proud," Ansem told Riku, hugging him.

"All I want is to save Kairi," Riku informed.

"Well, you will with this power. But you must also make it worth our while by helping us, too."

"You see, Sora, Ansem made me do all of those horrible things in order to save Kairi. And once, he wanted me to fight you in Agrabah, but . . ."
"Riku, I want you to do us a little favor, okay?" Ansem smiled while embracing Riku. "I want you to eliminate Sora while he's still tired from fighting Jafar."

"Oh, so you think I'm not strong enough to defeat him while he's strong!" Riku yelled.

"Now, Riku, you look cute with the pouty face, but I'm afraid that won't hurt Sora," Maleficent informed, pinching Riku's cheek.

Riku slapped her hand away, then screamed, "No! It's not a fair fight!"

"Riku, we just worry about you. You need more training before you get into anything too hard," Maleficent comforted.

"We don't want our little Riku hurt," Ansem added.

"No! I'm not doing it! Make someone else!" Riku rebelled.

"You'll do it now or else!" Ansem threatened.

"Oh, yeah? Or else what? You'll ground me!"

"Or else I'll fill your posterior with excrutionating pain!"

"In other words, you'll spank me! Hah!" Riku provoked. "Come and get me!" He bent over and slapped his own butt while sticking his tongue out.

Ansem was furious. Before Riku could get away, he grabbed him by his belt and slung him over his knee.Riku screamed and cried so loudly that everyone in the castle heard loud and clear. After Ansem was finished, Maleficent carried Riku in her arms and put him in his bed.

"I screamed and cried like never before. I didn't even know pain like that existed," Riku begins to sob.

"Riku . . . ," Sora says in sympathy. "Don't cry."

"And that was just my first spanking. They got worse and worse . . . my last one was horrible . . .," Riku continues. "It was after I lost that battle to you in Hollow Bastian."

Riku was on his knees panting in the main room. All of the other Heartless leaders were there, standing around watching and whispering things to eachother that caused giggles.

"Riku!" Ansem yelled.

"I'm sorry . . . Ansem," Riku wheezed. "He's just . . . too strong . . .now."

"No, I think you held back!" Ansem screamed.

"No, really! I fought my hardest!" Riku argued. "Do you really think I'd hold back after all those horrible spankings you've given me!"

"Yes, I do," Ansem smiled evily. Riku was now standing, so Ansem backed him up in a corner of the dark room.

"Well, I didn't!"

"How could you! Of all the times to lose, you do it when he's here and almost has us defeated!"

"I'm sorry! I did my best! Really!"

"Riku, bend over."

"No! Please don't!" Riku begged on his knees. "I'll do anything!"

"Sorry, little Riku, but you've done enough! Now bend over!"

Ansem bent Riku over right in front of everyone. Only this time, it was not a spanking; it was a beating. And it was four-times worse than his first spanking.

When Ansem finally stopped, Riku was spraddled out on his stomach in the floor screaming and crying in such anguish that you would think he had been chopped in pieces. He just layed there with his face, hair, and shirt soaked with tears, as well as his face lying in a puddle of them. He had been beaten so hard that the butt of his pants were soaked with blood and he was unable to move except for spasms from crying and screaming.

"Muahahahahahahaah!" Ansem roared with laughter.

Maleficent lifted up poor helpless Riku and put him in his bed. Being concerned about someone for once, she looked at his injury and cringed.

"You mean, Maleficent actually cared!" Sora exclaims in unbelief. "Riku?"

Riku is crying his eyes out -- something Sora has not seen in years. He grabs Sora and greives over his shoulder. "Sora, thanks for listening!"

"Well, you're welcome, Riku. Please don't cry," he tells him, patting him on the back while hugging him.

"Sora, you can't even begin to imagine what that felt like! No one can unless they've felt it! It took me three months to recover! I really slowed King Mickey down when we were fighting in the dark realm!" Riku continues. "It hurt so bad . . . !"

"Riku, it's okay ."

"No, it's not! If he ever comes back . . . !"

"I'll be there to protect you," Sora finishes. "If he hurts you, then he'll just have to hurt me too."

"Thanks, Sora. I couldn't ask for a better friend." He lets go of Sora and smiles at him with a red, swollen, and wet face.

Sora places a hand on the side ofRiku's face and wipes a tear from his eye. "Don't cry anymore, Riku."

"Okay."

"Are you ready for breakfast yet?"

"Yeah," Riku sniffs. "He pushes himself up off of the bed.

"Riku, do you need any help?" Sora offers.

"No. My leg is feeling better today." He limps over by the fire with Sora just barely helping him to balance. He helps him into a chair and hands him a stick with food on the end of it.

"Sora, do you havea brush?" Riku asks him.

"A brush?"

"Yeah,a hair brush."

Sora digs in his pocket and hands a red brush to him.

"Thanks," Riku smiles to him. He starts to brush his hair, but it is full of tangels.

"Here, let me help you," Sora offers. He once again sets aside his breakfast and walks behind Riku, who is still in his seat.

Sora brushes through one part. "Oooooow!" Riku screams.

"Sorry," Sora laughs, seeing that a bunch of Riku's hair is stuck in the brush. He continues and brushes a bit more gently now. "Geeze, how can you stand to have this much hair!"

After breakfast, Sora and Riku draw some squares in the sand with a stick and play HopSkotch. They play all day until the sky turns dark blue, which is night time on this island.

"I think it's time for bed now, Riku," Sora laughs, still not bored with their game.

"Actually, I'd like to sit on the beach with you for a few minutes. It helps me get to sleep," Riku replies.

Sora helps Riku limp over to the beach and they sit there together peacefully.

"You know, this may seem like a weird thing to say after all of this, but . . . I kinda dread going back to the island," Riku says.

"Dread? Why?" Sora questions.

". . . The Heartless killed my parents. I have nowhere to go."

Sora falls silent. ". . . What?"

"Yeah. Ansem told me. That's why he and Maleficent treated me like their son."

"Well, you can live with me! It'll be fun! Like we're brothers!" Sora suggests.

"Sora . . . you've already done so much for me. I can't intrude on your family like that," Riku declines.

A few minutes later, the two fall asleep on the shore. Luckily, it is not high-tide.

so was it good? I've been thinking about the yaoi request, but must decline since I am Christian, but I may put some shonen-ai in it. Next chapter: Riku and Sora fight! Who will win?