Disclaimer: I still don't own Kingdom Hearts, though I am working on taking over the world…
Five and a half hours after they'd started studying; Sora dropped his spiky head down onto Riku's desk with a groan and a painful sounding thunk. Turning his head slightly, to look at the ever patient Riku, he groaned again.
"I'm going to fail Riku…" he said miserably to the silver haired boy, who merely sighed and patted Sora's shoulder lightly.
"You won't fail. Just remember what I told you and try not to get distracted by anything. Your exam isn't until Thursday; we still have lots of time to get you ready." He said trying to reassure the boy, though, based on the work he'd seen from Sora in the past five and a half hours, even he doubted that his friend would pass his exam. Though he'd explained everything clearly to the brunette, he still didn't grasp the basic concept of Physics, which wasn't good at all. Deciding to try and get Sora's mind away from failing, Riku shut the text book with a thump and tossed it onto the bed. "Sora, what was it you were dreaming about?" he asked, an eyebrow raised at the boy, who'd head was still on the desk.
Immediately, Sora looked up at him, his eyes darkening slightly at the question. "It was a nightmare…the same one I've been having for a few days now. And…there were things; I'm not sure what they were…but I couldn't find you, they carried you off somewhere…I don't remember much aside from that…" He answered, though he wasn't being completely truthful, he remembered exactly what happened, every feeling and sequence that the dream went through. He picked up a pencil and began to doodle on the review sheet they'd been working on. As he finished he pushed said sheet over to Riku, who raised an eyebrow at the little drawing of a black shadow-like insect thing. Riku continued to study the picture for a few minutes then looked up at Sora.
"Something like this carried me off?" he asked, his eyebrows raised, Sora looked away from him after a moment. "Sora? Is something wrong? Are you okay, are you sick or something?" the silver haired boy asked reaching over to cup Sora's face and make him look over at him. The boy frowned slightly as he noticed Sora's eyes were wetter than they should be. "Sora? Tell me, what's wrong, please?" he asked gently, keeping the Brunette's face towards him as the smaller boy tried to look away again.
"I-it's nothing…" the boy mumbled, more to himself than to Riku, his eyes cast downward as he spoke. He felt Riku's fingers touch his forehead lightly as his hair was brushed out of his face, and despite trying to hide his face from the older boy, he looked up into Riku's sea green eyes and sighed lightly. His lover was obviously concerned, but Sora didn't want to worry him any more than he already was. He smiled at the older teen "I'm fine Riku, the dream, and the…the weird feelings I've been getting…it's just scares me." He mumbled placing his hand over Riku's larger one, which was still on his face.
"Last time this happened, I had a dream that Tsura was going to leave, and then she almost got killed by a tree falling on the house, do you remember? I don't want anything like that to happen to you…I don't want you to leave me…" he said quietly, looking down again dropping his hand from Riku's and studying both his hands as he clasped them in his lap, not wishing to meet Riku's gaze again for a moment while he tried to get rid of the tears that were threatening to fall, cursing inwardly when one escaped.
"Sora…" Riku said quietly as Sora explained himself then looked down, a tear leaking from his eye. Riku sighed lightly, pulling the smaller boy forward to hug him tightly, and then held him at arms length, studying his face. "Sora, I'm never going to leave, okay? You know that. I swear I won't leave." He said, still studying Sora's face as he looked away again, Riku could tell that there was something the boy wasn't telling him but he didn't push the issue. "Why would I leave the best thing that ever happened to me?" he asked quietly, raising an eyebrow at the younger boy, who continued to avert his gaze from Riku's face. "Sora, tell me honestly, do you think I'd leave you willingly?"
Sora continued to look down, not meeting Riku's eyes because he hadn't told the whole truth, he's lied to his lover, he'd told Riku that the little shadow things had carried him off, but in truth, he'd walked off with them willingly and disappeared into a shadow of his own will. He had left willingly, and it scared the small brunette boy even more because Riku had just sworn that he wouldn't leave, now he didn't know what to make of the dreams. He was forced to meet Riku's eyes as the older boy hooked a finger under his chin and forced him tot look up, asking whether Sora thought he'd leave willingly.
"I-I know… I don't think you'd leave me willingly…I just…these feelings I've been having, I know I don't think you'd leave me, and you don't think you'd leave me but…it's just…what if, someone threatened your family because you loved me?" Sora asked quietly, staring at Riku's face. He couldn't think of how else to word what he was trying to say, or how else to say it without sounding insane. He knew Riku wouldn't be going anywhere anytime soon, but there was always that small chance that it could happen, and the feelings and dreams were telling Sora that the chances of him leaving were getting higher. He glanced at Riku again, who looked confused as he listened.
"What if nothing, Sora. You are a part of my family, and if someone threatened my parents because you're a part of my life-the most important part of my life, by the way- and because I love you, I'd kill them right then and there. I'm not leaving, no matter what happens. And that's that. I swear to you I'll never leave you, even if someone threatened my life or yours or my parents lives. Do you understand, Sora? Never." Riku said forcefully, almost angrily as he stared right into Sora's eyes. Riku felt betrayed that Sora would even think that he'd even consider leaving just because someone threatened him with the taking of his parent's lives, yes he loved his parents, and yes he would protect them with everything he had, but not in the way Sora was thinking. There was no chance in hell that he would leave the boy willingly.
Sora's eyes widened and he immediately felt horrible for asking Riku such a question. The Brunette opened his mouth to respond to Riku, but stopped as the cell phone-which Riku had given him for his birthday- buzzed in his pocket. He pulled out the small black rectangle and flipped it open to see who it was. It was Tsura. Sora glanced up at Riku as the phone continued to vibrate, he pressed the 'reject call' key and tuned back to Riku, he would explain why to Tsura later. "Riku I-" he stopped as the phone on Riku's desk began to ring. It stopped after the third ring and Sora started to continue with what he'd been saying when Riku's mother called up.
"Riku! It's for Sora!" she said, addressing her son instead of Sora himself for some reason only she knew. Probably the fact that she didn't want to make Sora feel too at home in her house. Something Sora understood, since the two had a mutual dislike for one another, though neither of them showed it openly, only in small gestures here and there.
Sora looked at Riku again, ready to ignore the call and continue with what he was about to say, but Riku had already picked up the phone and thrust it towards him. Reluctantly Sora took the phone from Riku and held it to his ear, though as he did so, he reached out with his free hand and grabbed Riku's own hand, squeezing it lightly and smiling in response to his boyfriends answer. "Hello?" he said into the receiver.
"Sora! Guess what!" came Tsura's overly-happy response on the other end of the line. Sora didn't know why she didn't just come over and ask to speak with him, maybe because his Mother disliked Mrs. Kurai as much as her son did. Either way, she didn't wait for his response. "Your cousin Roxas is in town! He called a few minutes ago and he's coming for dinner-apparently he might be moving here to Destiny Islands with a friend of his! That would be great, we haven't gotten in contact with him since he moved back to Twilight Town...But anyway dear, can you come home now? I need some help cleaning up and starting dinner, I know you were probably studying still and your exam does take top priority, but please, Hon? The house is a mess and I could really use an extra set of hands…or two." she said, saying without saying directly that he could bring Riku with him to meet his cousin, though this time she waited for Sora to respond.
"Of course, I'll be back in a few minutes, just let me ask Riku if he wants to come." Sora said with a smile as he raised an eyebrow at his lover, who raised an eyebrow back. Placing his hand over the mouthpiece he explained the situation to Riku, who nodded in response. "Alright, we'll be over in a few minutes. Bye." He said before hanging up the phone.
As the two packed up Sora's things, there was an awkward silence between them and Sora glanced over at Riku after a moment. "Riku…I'm sorry…" Sora said walking over to Riku and wrapping his arms around the older boy's waist, leaning his head against Riku's chest lightly. Riku simply smiled.
"There's nothing to be sorry about, Sora, I know you were just freaked out by those dreams. I would have asked the same questions." The taller of the two replied, squeezing the smaller tightly to him. Sora pulled back after a moment and leaned up, hooking an arm around Riku's neck and pulling his head down for a kiss. Riku smiled into Sora's lips and returned the boy's kiss, lifting him up so he didn't have to bend down to enjoy his small lover, he smiled even more as he felt Sora's hand move from his neck up to his hair and entwine itself there.
Sora broke the kiss after a minute, smiling at Riku as he was held at eye-level. "Tsura's going to get mad if we dawdle any more." He said, detaching himself from Riku's arms and his hand from Riku's silky silver hair and dropped to the ground before grabbing Riku's hand and pulling him out of the room and towards the stairs. Sora smiled and waved lightly as he saw Riku's younger half-sister Kairi headed up the stairs leading to the front door, dressed as if she'd just come home from a date. She was his age and in his physics and chemistry classes.
Kairi waved back and stepped aside as Sora pulled Riku out the door. He vaguely heard her tell him to have her brother home by midnight and the brunette boy smiled. Had he not met and fallen in love with Riku first, he would have considered dating Kairi. But, Fate hadn't worked like that and so, he was with Riku. And he definitely wasn't complaining.
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