Disclaimer: I still don't own Kingdom Hearts
Sora Meir yawned widely and blinked at the early morning sunlight peeking through the curtain covering the small window at the end of the hallway as he made his way down the stairs of his tiny house that he shared with his mother-well, she was his foster mother, apparently she'd found him randomly outside her door when he was only a few years old- and ran a hand through his messy brown hair. Silently, he entered the small bathroom located on the landing before the first floor and looked at himself in the mirror, only to cringe at what he saw.
He looked horrible. His skin was pasty, his eyes were red and there were huge purple circles under his eyes from little to no sleep for three days. He'd been having weird dreams and feelings since Wednesday, and he didn't know what they meant. The last time he'd had such dreams ad feelings were just before a tree fell in on the house during a thunderstorm and nearly killed his mother. Sora grunted lightly as he turned on the tap and splashed water on his face before drying it with a towel, hoping the dull throb in the back of his had would go away.
"You look horrible, Hon, you sure you're up to going out?" his mother asked from the doorway, causing Sora to jump since he hadn't heard her come down the stairs. The brunette boy smiled at his foster-mother lightly as he placed the towel back onto the counter.
"I'm fine, Tsura. I need to go to Riku's today, my exams are coming up next week and he said that he'd help me with the review for Physics." He replied walking past her and down the stairs, grabbing his short-sleeved sweater from where he'd left it on the railing the night before.
"Yeah, sure kid, I think you just want to spend more time with that boy. You two are already practically joined at the hip…" Tsura mumbled as she walked into the bathroom to shower. He sighed, but smiled lightly as his mother responded to him, she'd been nothing but supportive of the two ever since they'd taken a step from friendship and started dating, and even though Riku was already a University student and Sora was only just reaching the end of his third year in High school. Riku's mother, Mrs. Kurai, on the other hand, had taken to not even looking at Sora unless he addressed her directly, in which case she responded crisply, or-if Riku was in the room- very sweetly, then sent him dirty looks when she thought her son wasn't watching. The woman's actions didn't really both the boy; he'd never really liked her anyway, before they'd begun dating, she'd always been sugar-sweet and obviously fake. Sora had taken to calling her the Cookie Monster when she wasn't around.
"I'm going! I'll be back around seven! Bye!" Sora called up to his mother as soon as his toast came up. He grabbed an apple from the fridge for lunch and rushed out the door without waiting for a response from his mother. After leaving the house, Sora sprinted down the concrete steps, to Riku's side door, which was conveniently at the bottom of said stairs-that's right, the two boys were neighbors and friends since he could remember, and lovers since a year before-hand.
Sora knocked on the door, though he didn't wait for a reply from within before entering, knowing Riku's mother, she would have allowed him to stay outside all day waiting for Riku. Apparently Riku's father had noticed his mothers cold front while Sora was around because he'd told the boy, that if anything was wrong or if the two had made plans or something to just knock and come in-so long as it was a reasonable hour. The brunette boy raised a hand in greeting to Mr. Kurai before gesturing to the stairs and raising an eyebrow, silently asking if Riku was awake. The man at the table smiled and shook his head, but gestured to the upstairs anyway, giving Sora the 'okay' to go and wake his son up in whatever way he could think of.
The boy grinned and nodded, slipping his shoes off and heading up the stairs to Riku's room. Silently entering said room, the Brunette smiled lightly as he looked at the sleeping figure of his lover underneath the blankets across the room, which was larger than Sora's room by at least threefold, because obviously, since Riku had both parents and both of his parents worked high-paying jobs, Riku's house was one of teh nicer, bigger ones on the block. Grinning again, Sora shut the door quietly behind him and proceeded to take a few steps at a sprint, ending in a flying leap at Riku's sleeping form, landing square on top of the other boy, causing him to let out a yell of surprise and fall off the bed as he was startled out of whatever dream he was having. Sora smiled as he rolled over onto his stomach taking over the bed and looked down at Riku.
"Morning, Riku." The boy said, his voice muffled by the pillow his face was half-hidden in as he took in Riku's scent. It was like freshly fallen rain with a little bit of a spice that Sora couldn't place, he loved Riku's scent almost as much as the boy himself. Key word was almost.
Riku sighed as he sat up, rubbing the back of his head from where he'd hit it, his eyes still bleary from sleep as he looked at Sora, who looked incredibly comfortable on his bed, trying to decide what to say to the boy. With another sigh, Riku smiled and stood up "Good morning to you too." He said, turning his back to Sora and shuffling over to his closet to grab his clothes, then to the small en suite bathroom. As the silver haired boy turned to close the door, he raised an eyebrow at Sora, the fact that he'd been jumped on finally clicking into place. "And Sora? Next time, can you just wake me up like a normal person?" he said, waiting for the shorter boy to raise a hand in response before closing the door and slipping on his pants, only to realize that the shirt he'd grabbed wasn't clean.
With a grunt, Riku exited the bathroom to hunt for a clean shirt, and glanced over at Sora, who was currently passed out on the bed, that hadn't taken too long. Smiling and shaking his head, the silver haired boy grabbed a tight black zippered top and a yellow and white vest from his drawer, pulling them on before clicking the lock on his door, so that his mother wouldn't come barging in and demand to know what he was doing with Sora asleep on the bed. With that being done, he walked over to Sora; kneeling beside the boy he shook him gently.
"Sora, time to wake up." He said quietly to the sleeping boy, the only answer he got was a groan and a light shove. Riku smiled again and shook the smaller boy again; still attempting to wake him humanely, unlike the boy had woken him. This time, Riku got no response what-so-ever. Now, getting slightly frustrated, he decided to take a page out of the fairytales and gave Sora a light kiss on his lips, pulling back after a moment, a fairly hopeful look on his face. Nothing. Riku's eyes narrowed as he thought of a particularly cruel way of attempting to wake the boy. Leaning over to the brunette's ear Riku said "Sora! Wake up! Your Physics Exam is in five minutes!" he held his breath and waited, for a twitch, a jerk, anything to show Sora had heard the magic words 'Your Physics Exam' but his words weren't even met with one of the boys fingers moving.
Now, thoroughly convinced that Sora would not wake up any time soon, Riku sat down on the bed next to Sora, staring at the boy's face for a moment, he noticed for the first time just how pale Sora was and the dark circles under his eyes. The silver haired teen let out a breath "No wonder you aren't waking up…what've you been doing for the past few nights?" Riku asked the sleeping boy quietly. Tsura had told him the night before, when he'd called to speak to her son, that Sora hadn't been sleeping well but he'd thought she'd meant just one night, since he hadn't looked too bad on Tuesday, which was the last time Riku had seen him, because he was busy studying for his exams, which was what had sparked that day's meeting.
"R-Riku? Where are you? Riku?" Sora muttered from beside the boy, causing Riku to snap out of his thoughts and stare at his friend/lover curiously. He was obviously still asleep, and so Riku didn't answer him, but simply watched as his boyfriend began to twitch, as if he were being electrocuted or something and continued to call for him. As Sora continued to mumble in his sleep, Riku's brows furrowed slightly was it just him or were Sora's cries of his name getting more frantic? He cocked his head to the side lightly as Sora again called his name, louder this time. No, Sora's cries were definitely getting frantic. Just as Riku leaned over to try and wake Sora up again, to stop whatever dream it was he was having, however the boy shot upright, barely missing bashing his head against Riku's as he looked around, sky blue eyes wild with…fear? Riku's eyes widened slightly as Sora seemed to look right through him
"Sora? What's wrong?" Riku asked quietly as Sora continued to look around the room frantically. As soon as he spoke, Sora's attention snapped back to Riku and the boy let out a sigh of relief and tackled Riku off the bed, making the older boy wince as he hit the same spot on the back of his head again, causing a loud thump. Said thump must have sounded like something completely different from downstairs. "Sora? Care to explain?" Riku asked from his place beneath the boy.
Said boy simply smiled at him "Bad dream." He said, though it was something much more complicated than just a bad dream. "Now, let's get to those Victors!" he said rolling off of his lover and heading over to grab his bag from where he'd set it beside the door. He heard Riku sigh from behind him and looked back, a stupid (fake) grin plastered on his face. Riku smiled back, though it was obvious he wasn't completely convinced with Sora's smile.
"Its vectors, Sora, not Victors" was the only response Riku gave as he dragged a chair over beside his desk so he could sit and explain for Sora.
And it's the first chapter! Thanks to my one and only subscriber, khfreak116! You get a Virtual Cookie! Yay!
'Meir' according to 20000-names(dot)com is a Hebrew name meaning 'Giving Light', I thought it fit Sora's character pretty well, and since I had him be found by a random woman (Tsura) in this, it shouldn't really matter, yes?
This story isn't meant to go by the games, but it will have some of the same aspects of the games (The Heartless and Keyblades, for example)
Also, again according to 20000-names(dot)com 'Tsura' is a Gypsy name meaning Light of Dawn.
And, lastly, 'Kurai' is just a name I had floating around because of my own misreading of someone's name, and I thought it would make a good last name for Riku. If anyone knows whether it's an actual word, let me know what it means, kay?
Thanks alot
~Star