Wish
Disclaimer: Wow I'm sleepy today. I was up doing homework that I should be working on right now.
Jessie: Joh… you should be doing your homework…
Joh: Yeah, yeah…
Warnings: Yaoi, confusing stuff (this is where hints of the real plot start coming in)
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The girl huddled up, moving her blue crayon frantically over the paper. Tears blurred her vision as she scribbled blue lines across the white paper. With trembling, pale fingers she picked up a second crayon, brown this time.
She hesitated, her eyes red and circled from crying.
'What's taking so long?' the man demanded.
'I can't see him, he's—'
0o0
The morning started much like any other morning. The alarm by his bed jolted to life, waking him along with it.
With a groan he flopped over onto his back, blinking several times as he cleared his head. Morning sun was filling the room, warming his skin. He pushed the covers off of him and yawned, stretching his arms over his head.
He ran a hand through his messy hair, ruffling it as he scratched his neck.
"Did you know that you snore?"
Riku was seated on top of his desk, legs crossed neatly as he surveyed Sora.
Sora nearly shrieked, forgetting momentarily who Riku was. "What…what are you doing?" he hissed once he had regained his composure.
"I'm bored. There's nothing to do but watch you sleep."
"That's creepy, don't do that again." Sora grumbled, dragging his feet over to his dresser. He pulled out a shirt and jeans before glancing at Riku. "Can you not watch me while I dress?"
The silver-haired genie smirked and slid off the desk. "Why? We're both guys. What do you have to be embarrassed about, master?"
"Just…go back into your…box thing."
Riku sighed and rolled his eyes. Sora blinked and Riku was gone, although he could have sword he heard Riku's muffled voice telling him he was boring.
Sora returned his attention to getting dressed. Great. He was getting a headache before school even started. He was off to a great start.
0o0
"Sora? Sooooora?"
A sharp jab in his rib brought him back to reality. "Ouch! What?" He looked around, blinking like he had just woken up.
Tidus was grinning at him. "Daydreaming? About Kaiiirrii?" he sang out her name, giggling when Sora shoved him playfully.
"No! I was just thinking." Sora pouted, grabbing his sandwich from his lunch tray and taking a large bite out of it.
"But you never think." The blonde reached over to snag the cookie from Sora's lunch and gulped it down before he could steal it back.
Sora sighed and pushed his tray away from him. "You can have the rest."
Tidus blinked, taken aback. It only took him a moment though for him to lunge at the tray and eat it all before Sora could change his mind. "Fwatt's fhrong?" he asked through a full mouth.
"You slob." A girl teased, taking a seat at the table next to Sora. She pushed her red hair back and made a face at Tidus.
"Hey Kairi!" Sora greeted her cheerfully when she sent him a small smile.
Her friend Selphie soon joined them, chattering happily about something she saw on the news. Sora was only half paying attention, distracted by the fact that he had a Riku containing cigarette box in his bag.
"—probably part of some kind of cult—"
"Here?"
"Scary…"
"—saw one yesterday!"
"Liar!"
Sora looked up when Tidus flicked a grape at him. "You going to play blitzball after school with us?"
"Uh… not today, sorry." Sora smiled apologetically. "I have a pile of homework." And two wishes to make.
"Sucks."
"Yep."
0o0
Ugh. Finals.
Sora chewed the end of his pencil as he flipped through the pages of his textbook. He was reading it… but the words seemed to be going straight over his head.
"You've been reading the same sentence for the last hour." Riku informed him, leaning over his shoulder.
Sora jumped a little, still not quite used to having company when he returned home from school.
"It's boring!" He explained, slamming the book shut and sighing. "I suck at studying."
"I've noticed."
Sora was silent for a moment, just lazily sorting through his thoughts before something occurred to him. "Riku? Were you really bored today?"
"Huh?" The silver-haired teen looked up at him, confused.
"I mean, you were in that box all through school…that's like seven hours!" Sora swiveled around in his chair to frown sympathetically. "I'm sorry… that most have been awful for you."
Riku laughed and pulled a comic out from under Sora's bed. "I've been in there way longer than seven hours. It's fine." He studied the images of the comic before looking up at Sora. "You actually feel bad?" he sounded bewildered.
"Of course I do!" Sora slid out of the chair to sit next to Riku. "I would die if I was cooped up in a small space for that long!"
"Huh." Riku was silent for a moment, staring intently at the comic. "Sora, what do you think of people?"
"Of people?" Sora hummed as he thought. "I dunno, people are good I guess.…what kind of question is that? You're—"
0o0
Strange.
Riku thought as he stared at Sora from over the comic. Sora had dragged a small T.V into the room and was hooking up his new ps3. He seemed completely oblivious to Riku who was watching him openly now, no longer bothering to hide it.
No one had ever bothered feeling badly for him. After all, Riku wasn't exactly a human, therefore didn't deserve to be treated as such. Yeah… or something like that.
Sora suddenly turned to him, blue eyes wide. "It's working." He whispered.
Yep. Sora was nothing like any of his previous masters (thank the gods for that).
Definitely more attractive than any of them. Riku thought, eyebrows rising when Sora wiggled happily as he started to work on the settings for his game system.
Sora looked up at him again, looking like he was on the verge of tears.
"Uh, something wrong?" Riku asked, raising an eyebrow.
Sora sniffed. "I don't have any games to play."
Riku held back a laugh. "You could always wish for one."
"No! I was saving my last two wishes for something special!" Sora thought for a moment before leaping to his feet. "Let's go out to the game store!"
"What? Now?"
"Yeah!"
Riku sighed and stretched his arms. "Fine. Can I just walk with you? I don't feel like going back in there." He gestured towards the cigarette box that lay neatly on Sora's desk.
"Sure!" Sora paused, thinking. "Wait…but can't other people see you?"
"Yeah but I look pretty normal, don't I?"
Sora nodded, looking him up and down. He blushed and hastily turned away to find his wallet and keys. "Yeah…sorta…" Riku heard him mutter.
The boy was strange, no doubt, but not bad.
Riku glanced at Sora as the boy bent over to pick up the keys discarded on the floor. Not bad at all.
0o0
Heat.
"I hate the heat." Riku growled, pushing back his long hair as he stomped alongside Sora.
His master sent him a strange look. "How can you hate the heat?"
"How can you like it?"
Sora shrugged and shoved his hands in his pockets. "I grew up here. It's always really hot on Destiny Islands. You get used to it."
"Destiny Islands?" So Riku was on an island…that made sense.
"Yeah. Where did you come from anyway?" Sora led him down a narrower street. The street was small, crowded, and smelled like fried food. Riku liked it immediately. A beach lay peacefully on his left, waves curling up on the sand.
"Radiant Garden." Riku told him, distracted by the way the sun shined off the ocean, casting orange through the blue water.
"Oh! I've heard of that place!" Sora grinned happily. "Never been there before though." He admitted, his bright expression dimming.
"No?"
"Never been anywhere." Sora sighed. "I've been on these islands all my life."
Riku turned to him, surprised. "Never?"
"Never ever." Sora paused. "I bet you've been all over the world though."
"Not all over the world…"
"It must have been great."
Riku was silent. It was true that he had had masters from many different regions and places; therefore he had seen a lot. But, he had never really enjoyed the sights much. It was hard to appreciate the scenery when you spent most of the time in a beat up cigarette box. Depressing, right?
"I guess." Riku answered uncertainly.
"Oh! There's the game store!" Sora cried out, pointing at a small store to their right.
Riku hovered after him, wondering if Sora felt as trapped on Destiny Islands as he did in his little box.
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Joh: I'm proud. I wrote this so quickly.
Jessie: The beginning scares me…
Joh: Bugs scare me.
Jessie: Voilence scares me.
Joh: ladybugs scares me.
Jessie: -Giggles-
Joh: It's true though…
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