Blade of Light: Showdown at Hollow Bastion
Disclaimer: I don't own kingdom hearts, but I do own a Roxas plushie!
Author's note:
Hm...only about...two or three chapters left...or four or five, depending on how I decide to end the story. Mwahaha, a happy or a sad ending? I do not know. I'm uber sorry for not updating in ages, I feel so bad! I started school three weeks ago and its been hell ever since. Goddamn Junior year is hard! And then I got sick, which was lovely because that meant I could finally finish this chapter for you all. Thank you for being patient, enjoy and review!
The story so far: (Because its been ages since the last chapter)
Sora and Axel left Port Royal after a victory over the Organization, but was it really a victory? The Organization seems to be all to pleased with the turn out, and have sent Riku to Hollow Bastion to test Sora's strength. Riku, who was revealed to be Sora's nobody, is starting to doubt his feelings towards Roxas and the Organization, will he fight Sora once again? Or will he finally realize his feelings towards Sora?
"...You don't know what its like to feel empty inside, to know that something is missing, and no matter how much you try to cover it up with fake emotion, its still there, a great empty hole...I've already excepted my fate..."
"I have...two nobodies?"
"Yup, on of them is Roxas, and the other...is Riku."
"What are you still doing up?"
Sora looked up from the spot he had been staring at on the kitchen table to see Axel leaning against the door frame. It had been three day's since they had returned from Port Royal and Sora hadn't been sleeping much. Kairi had heard Sora scream one night after he had gone to bed, and was starting to get worried, but when she asked him what was wrong she just got a silent shrug.
In fact, it seemed that was the response he was giving most of the household since he turned up on the door step with the red haired Organization member. The only person he actually talked to still was the strange red haired boy, and even that was a rare occurrence.
"Nothing, I was just thinking about what you told me," Sora said resuming his table staring.
"What? About Roxas and Riku?" Axel asked, leaning over Sora and staring at the spot that he seemed to be transfixed by, "There's nothing there you know, you're not going to find answers in this table."
"About Riku being my nobody," Sora said, seeming to ignore Axel's comment about the table, "Why is he my nobody? You have to know more then what you've already told me, please Axel, I have to know."
"Why do you assume that I'm hiding something from you?" Axel asked sitting down opposite Sora.
"Because you have to know more then just the fact that he's my nobody and Roxas hates my guts, I could have told you that much." Sora said impatiently.
Axel sighed, "Ok, I don't know everything, but I can tell you what I do know. Roxas was created as an experiment by Ansem, to study the way hearts work. Now, I'm not sure on all the details, but he wasn't treated well, so, he escaped from Ansem's lab in Hollow Bastion, and ended up on Destiny Islands, where the two of you became friends."
"Roxas was an...experiment?" Sora asked, confused.
"Yes, Ansem created him as a model of you, to experiment on those pure of heart. Don't ask me how Ansem knew about you, 'cause I have no idea, but he knew that the Keyblade Master had to be someone with a strong heart. Roxas must have secretly read Ansem's notes on the heart and his research, because he knew about the doors to the heart of the worlds and he also knew about you." Axel cleared his throat and continued, "He knew that you could bring him the infinite power he needed to take over the universe and get revenge on everyone in it. He wanted power over everyone who ever did anything to him, so to do that, he had to somehow obtain your heart and use its power to unleash chaos unto the worlds. It would also mean that you, being the only one who could stop him, would be out of the way."
"My dream!" Sora exclaimed, "It wasn't just a dream, it was a memory!"
"Was that why you screamed last night?" Axel asked.
"Yes...I had that dream again, no, it was a memory, of Roxas."
"Thats right," Axel said, leaning back in his chair, "He gets you to open the door, doesn't he?"
"Yeah..." Said Sora slowly, "And then Roxas is surrounded by a swirling dark mist, I try to help him, but then I feel this searing pain in my chest. I look down, and I'm being swallowed by the darkness. Little by little, it starts to engulf me, and I feel like my heart is being ripped out. I struggle to stay conscious and beg him to help me, but he only laughs, his eyes eclipsed by darkness. Then, I start to slip into the darkness my self, but before it engulfs me completely, I see a blinding light and my whole body becomes warm, and slowly the darkness begins to ebb away. I can hear Riku calling to me, and when I'm finally able to see again, I'm lying in the secret place, with Riku's standing above me smiling. And then I wake up." Sora quickly wiped away the tears that had started to form in his eyes, "But what does it mean? Why haven't I remembered it until now?" He asked, slamming his fist on the table, frustrated.
"Thats how Riku became your nobody Sora, don't you see?" Axel said, smiling kindly at the brown haired boy, "You were on the brink of slipping into the darkness, and giving up your heart, but you heart is to strong to be destroyed that easily. It created Riku to save you, he is the light in your heart, the light that will never let you give in. He has always pushed you to become better, to be stronger, even when you lost to him, he pushed you to beat him next time. He became your rival, am I right?"
Sora nodded quietly, not meeting Axel's eyes.
"As, for why you haven't remembered it until now, I can't say. Memory's a complex thing, almost as complex as the heart, and the two are always intertwined. It may have been that your heart locked the memory away to protect you from the darkness, or maybe it was such a traumatic event that you blocked it out. What ever the reason, the minute you became a heartless in Hollow Bastion, the seal on those memories was broken, and ever since Roxas was recreated, you have been slowly regaining your memories of him and visa-versa."
They sat in silence as Sora tried to process everything he had just learned about his best friend.
"Axel," Sora said quietly, "You lied to me, you said that all you knew was that Roxas and Riku were my nobodies, but you knew the whole story all along, didn't you?"
At this, Axel shifted uncomfortably in his chair, "Well, maybe not the whole story, but enough of it to be a threat to the Organization. Although, they don't know that I know that much. But I didn't intend on leaving you in the dark Sora, it wasn't the right time to tell you the whole story when we first talked. Do you think that if I had told you everything back then, that you would have been able to fight Luxord full heartedly? Do you think you would have been able to keep a clear head?"
"No," Sora admitted dejectedly, "But that guy, Luxord, he said that it didn't matter if I won, because the real victory would go to the Organization. What did he mean by that?"
Axel stood up so suddenly that his chair fell to the ground with a loud clattering noise. "Why didn't you say something earlier!" He gasped out, looking frightened.
"I didn't think it mattered," Sora said, scared by the look on Axel's face, "What's going on Axel?"
"They must have completed Kingdom Hearts," Axel said, a horrified expression dawning on his face, "It all makes sense now, they used you to collect the hearts they needed to complete it."
"What!" Sora asked, a look of horror creeping onto his face, "You mean all this time, every heartless or nobody I killed..."
"Their heart was sent to Kingdom Hearts," Axel said, completing the sentence for him, "Thats why they insisted on leading you on for so long, to use your Keyblade to complete Kingdom Hearts."
"No," Sora said horrified, "They haven't completed it yet, their still missing two very important things."
"Whats that?" Axel asked confused.
"Our hearts, they still need me and Kairi's hearts," Sora said gravely, "Once they have those, then they will have completed Kingdom Hearts. This isn't a game of cat and mouse anymore, they're done toying with our emotions, it a battle for life or death now, not just for me, but for the whole universe. I can't afford to lose again, because if I lose this time, its all over."
Roxas could feel the power of the darkness coursing through him. Laughing he turned to the brown haired boy who was writhing on the floor, calling out desperately to him.
'Give into the darkness Sora,' Roxas said, eyes eclipsed in darkness, 'give me your power, and give me your heart!'
Roxas laughed again, as the small brown haired boy disappeared in the swirling darkness. He could feel the boy's heart starting to give into the darkness, when he was blinded by a painful white light. Screaming, he could feel it flowing through him, ripping apart his body.
'Aaaggghhh!' he screamed, trying desperately to get away from the light.
Roxas sat up abruptly in the dark room, gasping for breath. He could feel a cold sweat trickle down his bare back as he sat in his bed shaking, his knees pulled up to his chest. Reaching a hand out, he tried to find the comforting warmth of Riku, but he was only met by cold empty sheets.
"Riku?" he whimpered, casting his eyes around the room for any sign of the boy. But the room was dark and empty, and for once Roxas wished that he hadn't let Riku get so involved in his plan, for now he was cold and alone.
Roxas had always hated being alone, that was why he had made sure to surround himself with friends where ever he went. He had made sure to make friends with all the kids on Destiny Islands, and then again in Twilight Town, that way he would always have someone to be with. Even in the Organization he had made two good friends, but now Axel was a marked traitor and Demyx had been eliminated.
Sighing, Roxas hugged his knees closer in a failed attempt to stop shaking. Closing his eyes, he watched the dream play over again, and when the blinding light blinded him for a second time he opened his eyes.
"Damn that Sora," he thought, rubbing his eyes and getting out of bed, "How could ones heart have that much light?" Roxas crossed the room, picking up his coat off Riku's favorite chair and pulling it on before he sat down. Pulling a faded, beat up note book from his coat pocket, he flipped through pages of detailed notes until he reached the page he was looking for.
"All worlds begin in darkness, and all so end. The heart is no different. Darkness sprouts within it, grows, consumes it. Every light must fade, every heart return to darkness."
Roxas stared at the words that Ansem had written, and frowned. Ansem, the great philosopher, the great scientist, how could a man who was so revered be so wrong? If all hearts are consumed by darkness, how is it possible that one boy could have enough light in his heart to create something like Riku? How could one boy's heart be strong enough to carry on the way Sora had after all that the Organization had done to him? Could a heart really be that strong?
Realizing that he was sitting in the dark, he searched around for a light to turn on. That was another thing thing he hated, the dark. When there were others around, he pretended that he was more comfortable in the dark, but when he was alone, he couldn't stand it. It brought back to many bad memories from the days that he was Ansem's play thing, his "experiment".
Finding that there was no light in Riku's room, Roxas went back to the chair and sat down nervously. He could feel the coldness of the room seeping into him, chilling him to the bone. The room seemed be be darker then before, Roxas flicked his eyes around nervously. Yes, the room was definitely getting darker now, Roxas shuddered as the darkness began to close in on him. He could see shadows begin to appear, slowly rising from the ground, their yellow eyes barely shining through the thick darkness. The room was turning into the basement of the castle in Hollow Bastion, the walls turning into the smooth dark walls that had imprisoned him for so many years.
Roxas closed his eyes, whimpering, hoping that the shadows would all go away, but when he opened them, he saw that the shadows had begun to close in on him. Roxas curled himself into a small ball, hoping they wouldn't see him, but his attempts were in vain. One of the shadows launched its self towards Roxas, ready to attack, and suddenly, the air was full of shadows, all of them bearing down on the blond haired boy.
Roxas braced himself, waiting for the shadows to tear him apart, but when the pain didn't come he slowly lifted his head and looked around the room. The smooth dark walls were once again the familiar walls of Riku's room and a soft blue light was shining through the window from the city below. Roxas sat shaking, his mind buzzing with questions. What had happened? Were the shadows really there, or were they just a figment of his imagination? Why was he suddenly remembering his days as Ansem's experiment?
Deciding that it was all from a lack of sleep, Roxas got up from the chair and crawled back into the bed, wishing that Riku was there to protect him. Making sure that his head was well hidden under a pillow, Roxas fell into a troubled sleep.
"Pathetic," Riku muttered, standing outside the door to the safe house, "Do they honestly think that they don't need protection?"
It was early morning and the boy was the sole occupant of the street. Looking around to make sure that no one was around, Riku approached the door to the safe house and was surprised to find it unlocked.
"Wha--?" He gasped astonished, "They even leave their door unlocked? This is unbelievable! Its got to be some sort of trap, nothing is this easy."
Regarding the door cautiously, Riku gave it a soft nudge with his hand and stood back, waiting for someone or something to attack him. But when nothing happened, Riku approached the door and stuck his head in cautiously. He saw a quaint entry hall that seemed to lead to a small, cozy kitchen.
Slipping quietly into the entry hall, he closed the door carefully and proceeded into the kitchen, where he saw a small set of stairs leading to an upper level. Forgetting about the hypothetical trap that he might be walking into, Riku ascended the stairs quickly and found himself standing in front of a door at the end of the hall. He felt drawn to the room and without thinking, he opened the door and quietly slipped into the room.
The room he had entered was small, but cozy, just like the other parts of the house Riku had already seen. The floor was littered with clothes, and leaning against the wall to his right was the keyblade.
"Key...blade?" Riku muttered to himself, "That must mean..." Riku's eyes fell upon a bed that had been pushed against the wall under the window. "Sora."
Riku walked over to the side of the bed and looked down smiling at the younger boy, who had fallen asleep in his clothes. He watched as the younger boy's chest rose and fell peacefully, as if he had no care in the world.
"What should I do?" he thought, sitting down carefully next to the sleeping boy and resting his head in his hands, "I've been sent to fight you, but in my heart, I know that I can't bear the thought of causing you more pain." Realizing what he had thought, Riku let out a small laugh, "ha, in my heart, if I had a heart...but either way, I can't do it. I realize now, that you were never the one who I was mad at, you weren't the one who betrayed me." Riku pulled off the blindfold that covered his eyes, and leaned over the sleeping Sora, "I don't know what's going on anymore," Riku whispered, "but I do know, that I love you Sora."
Riku leaned down and kissed the sleeping boy on the mouth. He could feel the boy starting to stir and heard him let out a small moan. Then, he heard something that made his blood run cold, the sound of the front door opening and the voices of two people entering the kitchen.
"Riku?"
Looking down, he saw that the Sora had actually woken up and was looking up at him surprised. Standing up quickly, Riku hastily tied the blindfold back on and ran from the room. Hurtling down the stairs, he flung himself into the kitchen, where, to his horror, he saw Kairi and Tifa back from their early morning shopping.
"Riku?" Kairi gasped surprised, dropping the eggs she was holding, "What are you doing here?"
"Damn it!" Tifa muttered, "Kairi, go to Sora's room and don't leave it until someone comes and gets you, do you understand? I'll take care of this guy."
Tifa launched her self at Riku, who was still looking horrified at the situation. He noticed her just in time and was able to dodge her punch, but was thrown against the wall when she surprised him with a kick.
"Kairi, go now!" She yelled, not taking her eyes off Riku as he quickly pulled himself to his feet.
Tifa launched herself at Riku again, trying to buy time for Kairi to get up the stairs, but Riku had already come up with a plan. Dodging Tifa once again, he swung out his arm, and hit her in stomach sending her flying across the kitchen, where she hit the wall hard and lay still.
Riku straightened up to see Kairi standing off to the side looking scared. Riku walked over to her, grabbed her arm and had started dragging her towards the front door, when he was hit hard in the face with her hand.
"Riku, what the hell do you think your doing?" She demanded, glaring at him.
"I'll explain later, but right now we have to get out of here." Riku said calmly, massaging his face where Kairi had hit him. "Please, you have to trust me, I'm not going to hurt you."
"No! I'm not going anywhere with you!" Kairi said, trying to free her arm from Riku's grasp, "If you don't let me go, I'll scream."
Riku quickly clamped a hand over Kairi's mouth, much to Kairi's dislike, "I don't doubt that, but I can't have you waking up the whole house. Now, I'll take my hand off your mouth if you promise to come with me calmly and quietly, do we have a deal? I promise I don't want to hurt you or Sora."
Kairi glared at him, but slowly nodded her head and stopped struggling. Riku smiled and took his hand off her mouth, but kept a strong grip on her arm.
"Leave her alone!" Yelled a voice from the stairs.
Riku looked up to see Sora standing at the bottom of the stairs, ready to fight.
"Let her go!" He yelled again, glaring at Riku.
"You want her back?" Riku said, smiling at Sora, "Then come and get her, we'll be waiting in the castle, I'm sure you remember where we were waiting last time, don't you Sora?" Riku summoned a dark portal behind him, and backed into it, still holding Kairi. "And come alone."
Sora watched them disappear into the portal, a mixture of anger and curiosity filling his heart. What did Riku want and why had he been his bedroom? Sora blushed when he remember what Riku had been doing when he had woken up. What was going on? Why hadn't he taken his heart when he was sleeping?
Sora noticed Tifa lying unmoving on the floor across the kitchen.
"Tifa!" He said, running over to her lifeless form and falling to his knees. "Please Tifa, please wake up." He gently shook her shoulders, but she didn't stir. Panicking, he got to his feet and ran up to Clouds room. "Cloud!" He yelled, banging on the door, "Cloud wake up, Tifa's in trouble."
Clouds door flung open and Sora was almost knocked over as Cloud came barreling out of his room.
"Whats wrong?" He demanded, "Where is she?"
"Down in the kitchen, there's been a fight."
Cloud took off down the hallway, Sora jogging behind him. When the entered the kitchen, Cloud went immediately over to Tifa and sank to his knees.
"Who did this?" He asked, holding he head in his lap.
"It...it was Riku," Sora said, looking worriedly down at Cloud, "Is she going to be ok?"
"I think so, she's just been knocked unconscious. I'll have Leon take a look at her when he gets up." Cloud carefully picked up the unconscious Tifa and started towards the stairs, "I'll keep an eye on her for now. But what's this about Riku attacking her?"
"I...I don't know," Sora said, looking at the ground, "He was in my room when I woke up this morning, and then he ran out when he heard Kairi and Tifa come home. I heard Tifa yelling, so I grabbed my keyblade and came down, and when I got here, he was kidnapping Kairi."
"What!" Cloud yelled, "We have to save her! Who knows what will happen if he takes her back to the Organization! Wait here, I'll wake up the others."
"No," Sora said, "No, I'm going alone."
"Sora, you can't, you'll be killed, its what he wants you to do. Your walking right into his trap."
"No, he doesn't want to hurt me, and he doesn't want my heart. I don't know what he wants, but I know that I'll be safe. Please Cloud, let me go."
Cloud gave Sora a skeptical look, but nodded and said, "Alright, but be careful, he's not to be trusted. Remember, he still works for the Organization. If your not backk in two hours we'll come after you."
Sora nodded and raced out the door towards the castle, hoping beyond hope that he was right.
"Will you stop pacing?" Riku asked, glaring at Kairi, "You're making me nervous."
They were waiting in the large grand entry hall of Hollow Bastion, the place where Sora had come to save them from the Organization. Upon arriving Riku had released Kairi and gone to sit on the edge of the fountain, Kairi had been pacing angrily back and forth ever since.
"You shouldn't have kidnapped me then!" She retorted angrily, still pacing, "Why did you kidnap me anyway?"
"Well, I wanted a chance to talk to Sora alone, and this seemed to be the best way to get him on his own." Riku said calmly, as Kairi sent him death glares, "You might as well sit down, it might be a while."
Kairi turned to Riku and gave him a cold look, but came to sit next to him on the fountain.
"Why do you wear that blindfold?" She asked after they had sat in silence for a few minutes, looking closely at his face.
Riku turned away, with a frown on his face. "To hide the monster I have become."
"Riku," Kairi said sympathetically, putting a hand on his shoulder, "Your not a monster."
"Aren't I?" Riku asked, turning to look at Kairi, his voice filled wit pain, "I've caused him so much pain, I killed his friend, I broke his heart, and I hurt him countless times. I am a monster Kairi, the darkness has made me one. Can you honestly say I'm not a monster after everything I've done to Sora?"
"Yes," Kairi said, reaching out and gently pulling the blindfold off Riku's face, revealing two shocking blue eyes filled with tears, "Because you can still cry for him." Kairi smiled at Riku as he hastily wiped his eyes with the back of his sleeve. "Riku, why did you come here?"
"I...I was sent here by the Organization to fight Sora," Riku said, looking at the ground, "But when I saw him, I just...I couldn't do it. I don't want to fight him anymore, I don't know what's happening to me. For a while, I was so full of hatred that I couldn't see any light. But, now, I don't know who's side I'm on, the Organization's or Sora's. I'm a nobody Kairi, I have no heart, and yet, I love Sora."
At this Kairi giggled, "Well its about time one of you admitted it."
Riku stood up, taken aback at Kairi's reaction, "Its not funny Kairi! Nobodies aren't supposed to have feelings, we don't have hearts."
"How many times do I have to tell you," came a voice from the other side of the hall, "That you do have a heart Riku?" Riku and Kairi looked up to see Sora standing in the doorway, holding his keyblade and smiling.
"How long have you been standing there?" Riku asked, looking embarrassed.
"Long enough," Said Sora.
He crossed the hall, wrapped his arm's around the older boy's neck and kissed him long and hard. At first Riku was shocked by the sudden kiss, but after a few moments relaxed against the younger boy and pulled him closer. After a few minutes of heavy kissing, both boys broke apart, gasping for breath.
"Sora..." Riku began, still trying to catch his breath. But Sora put a finger to Riku's lips before he could say anything more. Riku looked down at the brown haired boy and saw that he was crying.
"Riku," Sora said, burying his face in the older boy's chest, "I can't believe its really you. I looked for you, I looked everywhere for you."
"C'mon Sora. You've got to pull yourself together." Said the older boy, wrapping his arm's around Sora and comforting him.
"Why Riku? Why did you join the Organization?" Sora sobbed, tightening his hand into a fist against Riku's chest. "Why did you kill Tron? Why did you kiss Roxas?"
"I...I thought you had forgotten about me." Riku said looking away.
"What? Riku, I would...I would never..."
"When I was trapped in that dungeon, the only thing that kept me going was thinking that you were out there somewhere trying to find me. But, then, one day, I was taken to see Xemnas and he had this magic crystal. He showed me you, sitting around a table surrounded by friends, looking like you didn't have a care in the world. After that, it wasn't hard to embrace the darkness, to hate you, to believe that you really had forgotten about me."
"Riku..." Sora said quietly, "I never stopped looking for you, I never forgot you. What ever they told you, its not true."
"I was blinded enough by the darkness that I believed them. Who knows? Maybe I belong with them Sora, after what I've done I shouldn't be allowed to live, to love, to be with you. I'm a monster, a nobody, I have no heart." Riku stepped away from the younger boy, not willing to meet his eye's.
"No, Riku...no..." Sora said desperately, falling to his knees, "Don't leave me again."
"Sora...you deserve better then me," Riku said turning away, tears starting to form in his eye's, "I've hurt you so much, I'm...sorry, I shouldn't have come here."
Riku started to walk away across the hall, heading for the exit, his shoes making a hollow clunking on the floor. They reflected how he felt, but he knew that this was the best thing for Sora, if he stayed with him, he would only bring more pain and suffering to the young boy. He was so caught up in his misery that he didn't hear Kairi coming up behind him.
"Riku you bastard!" Kairi yelled, catching up to him. Riku turned around to see Kairi's fist coming right at his face. When it connected he was thrown to the ground, where he sat not looking Kairi in the eye, his nose gushing blood.
"Kairi no!" He heard Sora yell mortified. Riku braced himself for the second punch, but it never came. Looking up, he saw that the small boy was doing his best to hold back his infuriated sister, who looked ready to kill Riku.
"Is this what you came here for!" She screamed at Riku, struggling against her brother's grip, "To break his heart again? You're nothing but a coward! If you really cared about Sora then you wouldn't leave him!"
"Kairi, stop this!" Sora yelled again.
"No, its time he stopped acting like a little emo shit!" She screamed, breaking free of Sora's grasp and grabbing Riku by the front of his jacket and pulling him to his feet. "Do you know what its been like for him this past year? Do you know how hard its been to see him in so much pain and not be able to to anything about it? Do you!"
"No..." Riku mumbled.
"I didn't think so, your to self centered to even begin to realize how people around you feel." Kairi roughly let go of Riku's jacket and turned to her brother, "Come on Sora, lets go home."
Kairi pushed roughly passed Riku and stomped out of the hall leaving Sora and Riku standing alone. Riku tried to meet Sora's eyes, but the brown haired boy wouldn't oblige.
"Sora...I..."
"I...I was mostly surprised to find out that you were my nobody Riku, but I was...I was also very happy. To think, that the one I loved was also a part of me, that they were my light."
"I'm...your nobody?" Riku gasped surprised.
"Yeah, but I guess you don't care." Sora's eyes filled with tears, and he ran out of the hall, leaving a surprised looking Riku standing alone.
"Sora, wait!" Riku called out, but the brown haired boy had already gone. Riku sank to his knees, his tears blending with the slow trickle of blood from his nose, "...I do care..."
It was raining in the town of Radiant Garden, a cold dark rain that made everything feel dark and dreary. Sora didn't care much though, as he lay face down on his bed, his mind blank. It had already been two days since his encounter with Riku, and he hadn't left his room since coming back from Hollow Bastion.
Sora sighed, rolled over on his back and sat up to look out the window. The world seemed to have lost its color and the usually busy streets were empty, except for a dark figure that was standing out side of the safe house.
"How long has he been there?" Sora idly wondered, not giving the figure a second thought as he turned away from the window and rested his head on his knees.
He heard someone knock on the the door, "Hey, keyblade master, you mind if I come in?"
"What ever," Sora mumbled in the direction of the door.
A spiky red head appeared in the doorway as Axel came into the room.
"What do you want, Axel?" Sora asked, lying down again and looking out the window.
"Oh, nothing really," Axel said in a sing song voice, "Just to tell you that there's someone at the door for you. He looked awfully pitiful standing outside in the rain, but he refused to come in, he just said that he'd made a terrible mistake and he needed to tell you that he was sorry. He was also being sent death glares by your sister, so if I were you I'd get down stairs before she kills the poor thing."
"Well, you can tell him that its too late for apologies," Sora said, his voice choked with tears, "I'm tired of him breaking my heart."
"Very well, I'll sent the poor wretch away." Axel said, mock bowing to Sora and leaving the room.
Sora sighed and rolled back onto his stomach, his face pressed into his pillow. After a few minutes he heard a door slam, and then silence.
"Its for the best," he thought, his tears leaving wet blotches on his pillow.
After a few minutes of silence, he lifted his head, and listened very carefully. He could have sworn he heard someone singing, but for a few minutes it was lost in the endless pounding of the rain. Yes, there it was again, a beautiful and haunting voice drifted up to his window, but who?
Sitting up he looked out the window to see that Riku was standing under his window, singing.
When you walk away, you don't hear me say.
Please, oh baby, don't go.
Simple and clean is the way that you're making me feel, tonight, its hard to let it go.
You've given me, to many things, lately
You're all I need, oh oh
You smiled at me, and said
Don't get me wrong I love you, but does that mean I have to meet your father?
When we are older you will understand, what I meant when I said no, I don't think life is quite that simple.
When you walk away, you don't hear me say.
Please, oh baby, don't go.
Simple and clean is the way that you're making me feel, tonight, its hard to let it go.
Hold me, what ever lies beyond this morning, is a little later on.
Regardless of warnings, the future doesn't scare me at all.
Nothings like before.
Sora practically ripped the his door of his hinges as he barreled out of his room and down the stairs. He flew through the kitchen, where everyone looked up surprised. He was out the door and into the street, it was pouring but he didn't care as he approached the other boy, who was waiting for him.
"So I finally got you attention," he said, wiping his wet bangs out of his eyes.
"I didn't know you could sing so beautifully," Sora said lamely, looking at the ground.
"Neither did I," Riku said, smiling at the younger boy, "But something told me that if it was for you, I could do anything."
"Riku!" Sora gasped happily, running forward and embracing the older boy.
"Oh, Sora," Riku said, burying his face in Sora's hair, "I'm sorry, I've been such a fool. I should have never said what I did. I...I just didn't want to hurt you again. I was...afraid, I didn't want anything to happen to you, so I thought that if I went back to the Organiztion I could somehow stop them."
"Riku, why do you think you have to suffer alone?" Sora asked gently.
"Because I'm a horrible person," Riku said, tears coming to his eyes, "Kairi was right, all I ever think about is myself, but I love you Sora, and if you somehow believe that I am even the least bit deserving of your love, then I want to spend my time with you if thats what you want."
"Oh Riku, of course thats what I want," Sora said, tears now coming to his eyes, "I love you so much, I can't bear to think of not being with you. Your not a horrible person, you have a heart so light, so pure, you came back to me."
"Sora, I'm your nobody, I don't have a heart."
"Yes, Riku, you do, Axel told me. He said that you are different the other nobodies because somehow, you gained a heart of your own. Maybe its because you were created from such a strong heart, or maybe it was just through always staying by my side, but you do have a heart Riku, a good heart, a kind heart, the heart I feel in love with."
Riku looked down at the smiling boy and kissed him. They stayed that way, not noticing the cold rain that poured down on them, or the small crowed that had gathered in door way of the safe house, because right now, nothing else really mattered.
Blabbing:
Yay, Riku and Sora are finally back together. Sorry if the chapter was a bit random/jumbled, half of it was written while I was sick and on cold meds, so yeah. Hope you enjoyed it, please leave some nifty reviews! Thanks for reading!