Chapter 2

Sora and Riku arrived in The Alter of Naught, the very top of The World That Never Was. They were both exhausted and completely out of breath. It had been a long time since either of them had climbed so many stairs. They both plopped down at the top of the stairs and stared off into the abyss, neither of them saying a word, both seemingly in complete stagnation.

"So um, Riku…what happened? How did we get here? I can't remember a thing."

"I don't know, all I remember was seeing this bright light and then passing out. When I woke up, I was here."

"Wait a minute! What about!"

They both turned around abruptly and stared at the far side of The Alter of Naught. The door to Kingdom Hearts had completely disappeared.

"Well…at least we know that that's not the case," said Sora giving a sigh of relief.

"Yeah that's a load off my mind" replied Riku running his hand through his silver hair.

"So then, what happened? How is it that we just suddenly appeared here? So bizarre."

"It was me," said a voice in the distance.

Sora looked up and jumped backwards, tripping over the steps he was still sitting on. It was Roxas, standing right in front of him.

"Roxas! How did you? Where did you…What's going on?"

Roxas just smiled at the confused boy.

"It was I who brought you here, but it looks like you still haven't figured out why."

Roxas pointed over to Riku, who was completely motionless. He was completely petrified.

"Riku!" shouted Sora, running over to Riku. Trying to get his dear friend to move.

Sora glared at Roxas.

"What did you do to him?"

"Don't worry Sora, Riku is fine. I just stopped time so that I could talk to you…alone."

Sora sat back down and ruffled his hair.

"Um, okay, but why did you bring us here? Couldn't you have just talked to me back on the island?"

"Unfortunately, no. I can only exist here because this is where your memory of me is strongest. After all, I am still a nobody"

Sora was still a little confused, but that did make sense to him. Even so, that wasn't really what he was worried about.

"Okay, but still, why did you bring us here. I mean…what does Riku have to do with any of this?"

"Heh, I was wondering when you would get to that. I brought you here for two reasons. First is because you wanted to come. I could tell that you love Riku but you could never tell him how you actually felt. You were afraid he would reject you. Am I right?"

Sora just nodded. Roxas had hit it right on the mark. In fact, Sora was a little embarrassed because someone else had known how he truly felt for Riku.

"Second, is because I wanted to come here as well. I wanted to see the only person I ever loved. The only friend I ever had. You remember Axel don't you?"

"Axel!?" Sora blurted out in surprise.

Sora couldn't help but feel confused. All along he thought that Roxas like Namine'. The way he had talked to her before he merged with Sora, he seemed that he was completely infatuated with her.

Sora was silent for a while, thinking of a question to ask. It was funny, with all of the questions he had all he could think about was, why Axel?

Finaly, Sora blurted out something that seemed a little insulting. He didn't even realize what he had said until he said it.

"But, if you love Axel, then what about Namine'?"

Roxas didn't seem too insulted by the question, like he knew it was coming.

"Well…Namine' to me, is like Kairi to you, a good friend, but that's all she ever was…a good friend."

It was starting to make sense to Sora. After all, Roxas was right, Kairi was just a friend to Sora.

Sora looked over at Riku, who was still frozen in time. He couldn't help just staring at him, in all of his splendor. Even when he was completely still he looked almost lifelike.

"Well, I can see you two have some stuff to talk about. I guess I'll be going, There's have someone I have to meet."

"What do you mean by that Roxas?" asked Sora inquisitively.

Roxas turned around and pointed off somewhere in the distance.

He looked behind Roxas and to his surprise, saw Axel leaning against one of the poles at the side of the steps.

"Axel!" shouted Sora, jumping up form where he was standing.

"How did you get here? I thought you were…"

"Yeah…I was. But thanks to you I'm able to be standing here today. You see I live on through your memory, just like Roxas does. So I guess that means I owe you one hu?"

Axel gave a smirk face and walked over to Roxas, taking his hands into his own.

"Hey there. Long time no see hu?"

"Uh, yeah, it's been a while hasn't it?" replied Roxas trying not to blush too much.

"Come on, let's go."

Roxas looked over at Sora, who looked to be completely caught up in the moment of seeing the two of them again.

"Hold on, I have something I have to take care of first."

Roxas walked over to Sora, took his hands and stared him in the eye.

"Sora, you know what you have to do don't you? You have to tell Riku how you truly feel and when you do, don't hold anything back. Let him know what you think and I promise you won't regret it."

"But, how can you be so sure? I mean, what if he says no?"

"Then everything you hoped for will come to a screeching halt and you will finally have an answer, but I wouldn't worry about it. Look deep inside yourself and tell yourself that Riku would actually end your friendship over something so trivial as you expressing yourself."

Sora looked scared. He couldn't even think of that happening. A shiver ran down his spine and a tear fell from his eye.

"That wasn't exactly the kind of thing I was hoping you would say." said Sora, whipping the tear from his face.

"Heh, don't worry about it, you'll be fine."

Roxas leaned in and kissed Sora's forehead. Sora couldn't help but blush, even though he knew Roxas was the other side of himself, still, he was a different person all together.

"Like I said, you won't regret it."

Roxas got back up and walked back over to Axel, putting his arm around Axel's waist.

"You two play nice now," shouted Axel giving a wink and in a flash of brilliant light, the two were gone.

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"I don't know, but we have to figure a way out of this place if we want to get back home." said Riku.

"Wha? How did you?"

"Sora, are you okay? What's gotten into you lately?"

Sora stood up and looked around franticly, but he could find no trace of either Axel or Roxas.

"So bizarre, what did he mean by that last part, 'you won't regret it"

"What? Who won't regret what?" asked Riku, trying to figure out what Sora was talking about.

"Oh nothing, nothing," lied Sora through the grit of his teeth.

Sora sat back down next to Riku and just stared at the ground. He was more confused than ever. What was he going to do? Should he tell Riku what he felt, or should he just blow it off and possibly regret for the rest of his life never telling Riku that he loved him.

Sora just ran his hands through his brown hair and shook it franticly.

"Sora, are you okay?" asked Riku, putting a hand on Sora's back.

A shiver ran through Sora's entire body. He snapped back to reality and nodded.

"Of course Riku, never better," lied Sora again, hoping that Riku would see through his deception.

"Well, okay, but we need to try and get out of this place. Maybe we can open the door to Kingdom Hearts again, but I wonder if it's possible with only two Keybaldes."

Riku walked over to where the giant door used to be and stared off into the distance, as if he was trying to see if the door would be out there somewhere.

"Damn, I can't take this any more!" yelled Sora, slamming his fist into the ground.

He got up and ran over to Riku, grabbing him around the waist from behind.

"Sora, what are you doing? This is no time to be fooling around."

"I'm sorry, but there's something that I have to ask you, it's been wearing on my mind for a long time now and I just can't take it anymore."

"Sora…"

Riku could feel the distress in Sora's voice; all of the build up anguish and remorse was practically pouring out of him.

Riku turned around, with Sora still clinging to him, and put his arms around him, holding Sora tightly in his arms.

"I've been so afraid that you would hate me if I told you…so I just held it in."

"Go ahead and ask me Sora. You know I could never hate you, no matter what you did."

Sora looked up at Riku with tears flowing down his face. He stared into Riku's caring eyes and blurted out,

"Riku, do you love me?"

-Author's note- Well, sorry to leave you hanging like this, I didn't want to make the chapters to off balance since the first chapter was only 3 pages. :( I guarantee though, that you'll like the next chapter. Be warned though that it is entirely Sora/Riku Yaoi, and I personally think that it is not PG. Anywho…keep reading Yaoi fans. BTW, might have messed up the spelling and junk on my stories so just bare with me..lol