Caged Thoughts
Chapter Four: And So The Planning Begins.
Warning:This fanfic contains Shonen-ai. No Yaoi has been detected, but in the near future, some leakage may occur, and Yaoi may spill forth. BEWARE, and have a nice day. :D
Disclaimer: Ok! -breaks down- I… I admit it! I don't own anything in relation to (business-wise) Kingdom Hearts, the Final Fantasy Series, Disney, Square Enix/Soft… or -sniff-, or… CHOCOLATE! Oh, wait, I actually think I made my own chocolate once…
Reviews:
SugarHighHiei: I know… that would never happen. Riku just loves poking fun at Sora, in this fic or in the game, he always does/did. But, we all know it's only because he loves seeing Sora get fired up.
Reina-183: Thanks! I'm glad you like it. Or maybe… you're just saying it's good, but aren't admitting it yourself? And you actually HATE it? Oh well. D I hope to update soon. That is, if writers' block doesn't come to visit again.
Praetor: Wow, two reviews in one day? Also, thanks. For the comment on my humor, I mean. I can be quite serious at times though… see? -scrunches up face and frowns-
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-sneezes, bursts out laughing-
No, seriously, I can be.
To the Tidus and Wakka thing: I know! It seemed so strange to me at first, for some reason (Maybe because we don't see much of them in Kingdom Hearts, and I haven't played any of the Final Fantasy games… I know! It's so sad. I'm just worried I wouldn't understand the plot if I started it at FF 12), but when I started getting the idea, it seemed more natural as I wrote… typed it out. –shrugs- I dunno. Anyways, maybe we'll see some Wakis in our near future. 'Wakis'… Heh.
Gehkiie: AGH! -shakes fist- I envy you. I envy you with a rage that is comparable to a strawberry. 'Cause… they're red. And rage is normally symbolized by the colour red. You know what I mean, right?
-slowly turns around- OMFG!wonone111 IT'S A STALKER! Oh, wait, that's a chair…
Note:
O.O
MY STUFF CAME IN! I'm so happy. Weee! I am now the proud owner of all four of the Gravitation DVDs made for the series (I still need to find the OVAs…), and the collector's box! So I can put them all in… and make them all nice and organized… unlike my room. Well, it's not that bad, compared to my friend's rooms. o-o;;
I also got the Kingdom Hearts Soundtrack! It rocks! But, I was so sad to find out it didn't have the 'One Winged Angel' song on it. I watched all of the DVDs yesterday. 325 minutes of Gravitation straight. Now my right eye is twitching. -twitch, twitch-
Narration: Lalala. This is the narration.
Thoughts: 'Blurble.'
Speech/Talking: "Blurble Number Two."
About an hour had passed since the group had made it to their destination, and as planned, the Sandcastle-making had commenced. Kairi had gotten tired of it after a half hour, and went to go sit down and watch. Selphie joined her soon after, but seemed much more intent on watching their two other friends.
"Selphie…?" Kairi asked, leaning over to get a better view of said person's face.
"Hn." Selphie replied shortly. She continued to watch Riku and Sora, who were then wrestling with each other on the ground.
"You're pretty quiet…" She turned her head in the direction Selphie was looking in.
"Ok, that's it, I can't stand it anymore. Kairi, come with me." Selphie grabbed Kairi's wrist with both hands, and pulled her up in one tug. She swiftly led her away from the other two, yelling back at them that they were going to talk about 'girl stuff'.
"What did she say?" Sora questioned from underneath Riku.
"Something about going to talk, I don't know. I think she's bored with us," replied Riku. "Now… what happened to that declaration of surrender?"
Sora's face scrunched up. "I'm not saying those things! I can't believe how arrogant you are some… tim-" Sora trailed off in the middle of his sentence as Riku started tickling him again. "No-ah Ha… Haha… HAHA-he… ha… Ri- Haha…ku!"
The two had been tumbling around on the ground previous to then for a while, resulting in a thin layer of sand covering the both of them. Riku, of course, had gained the advantage and was now straddling Sora's waist in an attempt to keep him pinned. It had all started with a comment on how one of Riku's turrets was made a little sloppily… and that led to the massive attack on Sora's vulnerable sides. Or, anywhere else Riku knew he was ticklish.
Sora strained to say something in-between his giggling, "HahaheHA… RIK- HAHAHA -U!"
Nonchalantly, Riku brought his eyes up from viewing his hands - which were paused above the bare part of Sora's stomach, his shirt had moved up a bit during the struggle - to meet Sora's own sapphire-blue ones. "Yes?"
"Fine. Fine. I'll say it," Sora sighed, then drawled on, "Riku, your strength: not comparable to anyone's; your agility: swifter are you than a fox; your intelligence: almighty to that nerd in Math class; and… you're…"
"Yesss?"
Sora grabbed his shirt, tried pulling it over his face, and mumbled into it.
"What was that? I didn't quite hear you." Riku poked a finger at Sora's bare side, and gained a slight twitch in response.
He mumbled again, a bit louder.
Riku smirked. "I'm sorry, you're going to have to speak up."
Sora cracked.
"YOU'RE THE SEXIEST PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE!"
Of the few people walking or running about, doing their daily errands or whatever else it was they did in the afternoon, all of them turned to the source of the yelling. Sora was thoroughly embarrassed. Most of them just shook their heads and kept on walking, recognizing the two, but of the few that didn't, just left it alone with confused looks on their faces.
"Why…" Riku leaned back a bit, still straddling Sora, and placed both hands crossed on his chest. "I am flattered."
Replacing his shirt with a hand, Sora shook his head and sighed. "Can I get up now?" He propped himself up on his elbows and tried pulling his lower half out from under his captor.
"I don't know…" Riku purred. Slowly leaning in, he used his hands to 'walk' himself closer.
Sora squeaked and his arms collapsed to lie at his sides.
Riku hovered his face over Sora's own blushing one- "You're quite…" –and then fully draped - or more like flopped - himself over Sora. His arms snaked themselves around Sora's shoulders, and his head found its way into the left crevice of his neck. "…Comfortable."
Rolling his eyes, Sora sighed again. "Riku! I wanna get up! C'mon…" he whined and struggled to get out from underneath the other lazy teen, "muuu… Riku!"
"Mhmmm?" Riku spoke against the side of Sora's neck.
"Get…" He lifted his left knee up and used both hands to push Riku off of him. "OFF!"
"Oomph." Well, it had worked… partially. Riku's body was off of Sora's, but his arms were still latched onto him. They were now around his neck.
"ARGH! RIKU!" Sora screeched in annoyance.
Riku mumbled into the sand he was lying in, "Yephsh?"
"I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM!"
"Mhmm- Oh! Uh… go in the bushes or something." Riku scrambled to get up and let his friend free. He hoped he would make it in time…
"No!" Sora blushed profusely. "I'm not going in clear daylight… I'll… Be right back!" He made an attempt to run, but it looked more like he was imitating a familiar duck's way of moving. It was more humorous than attractive.
Riku shook his head.
Although, to Riku, Sora's humorous traits were also attractive.
"Selphie!" Kairi dug her heels into the ground and they both stopped moving. "What are you doing?"
Selphie sighed. "I'll tell you in a minute. C'mon." She started a rigorous climb up the ladder of the watchtower - of which, Kairi had just noticed, they had stopped in front of.
The auburn-haired girl followed suit, and they both eventually made it to the top. Kairi sat down on the left side, leaning against the makeshift 'wall' of boards, and Selphie sat on the opposite side with her legs hanging over the edge.
The silence was broken by Kairi's impatience. "So…?"
"Ok, well… I have a plan. Now, it's going to take a lot of work… ok, maybe not work, we're just going to have to be careful about it," Selphie concluded.
"Um… ok-"
"And the way I see it, it shouldn't take that long to finish either. At least, I'm hoping that's how it'll work out. They're so obvious and-"
"Obviously not… obvious enough for me to notice," Kairi mumbled. She cut in on Selphie's rambling, "Selphie, I have no idea about what you're talking about."
"-so, then we could… oh. Really? You're serious?"
"Yes… is that a bad thing?"
"I just thought it was… you've never noticed what's going on between Riku and Sora? Sora may not know it himself yet, but still…"
"For the last time, no! I have no idea of what you're talking about!"
Selphie sighed. Again. "Ok, well, I'll explain…"
And so, a scheme began to form between the two girls.
…
Well, maybe it was more of a 'Selphie-telling-Kairi-what-to-do/telling-her-what-she-was-going-to-do' thing.
The flush of a toilet was heard through the door of Riku's bathroom.
Luckily, Sora had made it in time without ruining his clothing. If you know what I mean…
The bush option, as Sora had stated earlier, had not been taken. Instead, he had run to the closest house he knew the owner of. And that house was Riku's.
"Do I need to wash your clothes again? Or did you actually make it in time?" asked Riku smugly.
Strike one.
Sora punched him in the arm and walked over to the couch. He grabbed the remote and sat down, watching the light of the TV screen signal that it had been turned on.
Riku slowly strode over to the couch. "The weather channel? We were just outside. Are you that oblivious?"
Sora twitched.
Strike two.
"No… I'm checking what time it is."
Riku smirked. "That's what a clock's for. See? I have many of them spread throughout my house." Spreading his arms he glanced towards a few of the clocks he had just mentioned.
And that was it. Strike three.
As Riku continued to insult, mock, poke fun at, and whatever else involved gaining Sora's annoyance, he didn't quite notice the leg stuck out just out of his line of vision. He did notice it, though, when he tripped over it. Falling through the air, he flailed his arms in a not so I'm-Riku-And-I'm-Ever-So-Graceful-And-Strong manner. The floor, the floor, the floor… there had been many options for him to choose to fall upon. That didn't mean gravity took him there, though.
"Pfff, Sora, you're so- Wha… AHHH!"
And there was silence.
…
Silence; two sets of very wide eyes.
Sora had immediately regretted tripping Riku as soon as he saw him coming, but now that he was in this position, he couldn't think, feel, or do anything. Ok, scratch that second part. He was definitely feeling embarrassed.
Contentment? Ease, peace, satisfaction… pleasure? What was that emotion that was clearly being shown through those eyes of his?
His eyes… Riku could drown in those eyes. A blue of the heavens, the sky, as fitting to his name. No, his eyes were even clearer than that. He didn't know what he could compare them to. If only he could call the person belonging to those eyes, his. But where had those eyes gone now? Oh, right, eyelids. Humans had eyelids. Riku was thinking about using his just about then, too. And so, he did.
The stumble had been quite an accident, but, what of the fall? What of the space closed between the two? Was it a mere coincidence? Chance? Also an accident? Or, was it… fate? Destiny, maybe?
"…and we should be getting a slight drizzle sometime around 11PM…"
The TV slowly brought Sora back to was then that Sora realized what was happening, what he was doing, what Riku was doing… he jumped up.
"I… I'm s-sorry! I didn'- I shouldn't have- I'm sorry!"
He raced for the door just as Riku came to his senses.
"No, Sora! Wait! I-"
SLAM
Riku winced. The door had been opened and closed. And not just the one attached to the front of the house. Another door had opened and closed, the door of opportunity.
Although… that didn't mean it was the only one. There were still a few left open.
FWUMP!
The bed made a soft muffled noise as Sora collapsed onto it.
'I can't believe I… I'm so stupid. I shouldn't have tripped him.'
He touched a finger to his lips. The tingling feeling was still there.
'Itwasjustanaccidentitwasjustanaccidentitwasjustanaccident…'
But, really. He was only trying to convince himself. Who else would be listening to his thoughts?
'Why didn't he pull away? Why didn't I pull away?'
He couldn't believe the kiss had happened. He didn't really know if it was considered a kiss, seeing how it was an 'accident'. Well, whatever the case, it was his first… had it been Riku's first?
He shook his head.
"Riku. Riku, Riku, Riku. Riku, RIKU-Riku. Riku, Riku, Riku."
No matter how many times he said it, it would always be the same. Amazing. Wonderful. Well, actually… indescribable.
'No.'
He changed his mind.
'He's always different, always surprising… but, always the same…'
"Urgh…" the cinnamon-haired boy moaned and clutched his head. Crawling underneath the many blankets covering his bed, he curled up as tightly as he could. "No more thinking. If Riku comes over, he's gonna want to talk to me…"
'He can't talk to me if I'm sleeping…'
And so, being his naïve self, Sora slowly drifted asleep, dreaming of a certain silver-haired someone in many situations of confusion.