Dusty - walks into the roomwithSora and Roxas- Hello again everyone, I apologize for the long wait for this chapter but I've been kinda busy with life.

Riku - No, he had writer's block.

Dusty - Glares at Riku - Well that too, but if I hear one more outburst from you I'll write you with Kairi by the end of the story.

Riku - shrinks back from the glare - Ok, sorry.

Dusty - Sora, please do the disclaimer.

Sora - Dusty does not Own Kingdom hearts, myself, or any other characters that Squaresoft has developed over the years.

Dusty - And on with the story.

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Roxas' Pov

Lost and Found

"Sora I am in love with you!" I heard someone practically scream out as I walked into the restaurant with everyone else that had shown up to help with the preparations for Sora's surprise party. I heard several gasps around me, as well as the one from my own throat. Kairi and Namine looked at each other before sitting down on either side of the seemingly shocked brunette.

Gods, not just cute, Sora is GORGEOUS. I thought as I tried to swallow the lump in my throat. I like Namine. I thought.

"But you love Sora." a voice in the back of my mind said mockingly.

I guess I do. I thought back to the voice, which laughed at me a little bit.

"Riku, it's about time you admitted it." Namine said looking towards Kairi who giggled in response.

"Ya mon, we been waitin' for a while ya." Wakka said sitting down next to Riku and smacking him on the back.

Staring at Sora's eyes I couldn't help but feel strange. But the moment of shock was fleeting. That's when I saw it; those beautiful cerulean orbs were filling with tears, which fell down his cheeks. My little cherub was crying.

Looking around at each of us he slammed munny down on the counter and climbed past Kairi and took off running.

Then that was when I saw it; the bright red slap mark on the silver haired teen's cheek. "What did you do to make him mad!" I practically growled out glaring at him.

He looked at me before shoving Tidus out of the way to stand up. He met my glare calmly almost no expression crossing his face.

"I made him mad because I don't need you around you fucking asshole!" his blank expression turned into a glare as his sea green eyes met mine causing me to take a small step back. "All you will do is bring him pain and suffering like you already did with the dreams." he practically spat out at me sparks.

Then I felt it. A hard backhanded slap to my face that made spots swim in my eyes. "You will NOT HURT SORA!" Riku growled out punctuating it with a slap to my other cheek.

Feeling rage that had built up in me from the first hit I glared back at him. "Why on earth would I hurt the one who I am…was a part of!" I said balling my hand into a fist and hitting Riku as hard as I could in the stomach. All he did was grunt. Still extremely angry I slapped his other cheek with my other hand.

"Riku! Roxas! STOP THAT IMMEDIATELY!" I heard Kairi yell at us. Both of our heads turned at once and we both took a step back from the pink clad girl's glare.

"What?" we said both at the same time.

"Can't you see that Sora ran off?" Namine said glaring between Riku and myself.

"Go and find him." Tidus and Wakka said in almost perfect unison. Startled they looked at each other and began to blush shifting their eyes away from each other.

"Us? Why us?" Riku said glaring at me again, I swear if he does that again I won't just hit him in the stomach.

"Because you two are the ones who drove him off." Tidus said glaring at me causing me to take a step back from him.

"But, but, but..." was all Riku could get out.

I put a hand over his mouth ignoring the resulting glare. "We need to talk a bit anyways Riku." I said looking at his sea green eyes which widened in shock. "Let's just go, and we can talk while we look for him." I finished and waited for his nod before removing my hand from his mouth.

All he did for a moment was stare into my eyes as if in a momentary trance. "Riku!" I waved a hand in front of his face.

"Huh?" he asked snapping out of his daze as I motioned to the door. "Oh, Ok." he looked at everyone else. "Umm you can all have our food when it gets here." Riku said turning to me his hand outstretched. "C'mon Roxas, we have some talking to do."

I took his hand uncertainly as he helped me up. When on earth did I fall? I thought to myself. When he let go I kind of missed the touch, it was like loosing a small part of myself.

Walking outside of the restaurant with Riku an awkward silence fell between us. We glanced at each other from time to time, and blushed a bit before looking away. We started off towards Sora's house first, still glancing uneasily at each other.

"Riku." "Roxas." we said at the same moment. "I'm sorry." we both finished staring at each other and blushing before the uneasy silence set in again.

"So." Riku deadpanned out, "you wanted to talk?" he glanced at me again a slow blush creeping across his cheeks.

"Yeah," I said meeting his aqua colored eyes for a moment. "Ummm..." I stammered. "I would never do anything to hurt Sora." Or you. I mentally added as I looked him directly in the eyes.

"No? Then why are you, his nobody, here?" he asked with a slight glare at me.

"I just wanted to see him again." I said, as he just looked at me his sea green eyes as wide as they would go. "I don't know why, or at least I didn't." I blinked at him.

"So, why did you want to see him again?" he asked staring me inches from my face.

I looked at him for a moment then noticed where we were. "Umm... we're at his house now." I said as I reached up and knocked on the front door.

He just stared at me for a moment while we waited for his mother to answer the door.

"Hello boys." Sora's mom said to us. "Where is Sora?" she asked looking between us eyebrows raised when she took in the slap marks on our faces but said nothing about them. All we could do was blink at her in response. Well at least that was all I could do.

"He's not here?" Riku asked looking her in the eyes questioningly.

"We got into an argument with each other, and Sora took off running." I quickly added pointing at myself and then Riku.

"He wouldn't want to be found if he's upset. He hasn't cried since he was six, his eyes may have teared up a bit, but never cried." she said looking at both of us again.

"Oh, ok, thank you ma'am." Riku said, "We'll look on Paopu Island then." he finished and grabbed my hand to lead me away. I felt something inside of me leap at the contact.

I let out a small gasp hoping he didn't notice. Gods I can't stop looking at him... I thought and sighed inwardly.

He just looked at me and blushed for a moment before turning his head quickly away.

"Riku," I said summoning up all the courage I could and taking my hand back. His sea green eyes met mine, and I swear for that instant inside myself I felt something flutter. "I'm sorry, I think I love Sora too." I squeaked out and flinched back from his sudden glare which seemed to soften almost instantly.

"You what?" Riku asked looking at me for a second then staring forward his hands clenched into fists at his sides.

"I-I-I can't explain it." I said feeling that strange jumpy feeling in my chest again. "But I kept wanting to see him again from somewhere besides the mirror. His blue eyes, bright smile, tanned skin. Him." I blinked as two sea green eyes were inches from my own.

"If you ever hurt him, I will NOT be responsible for my actions towards you." Riku said quite flatly. "I love him too, and we don't know how he feels." Pulling his face from mine he stopped walking.

That's when I noticed we were at the island, I guess we had been running when we left Sora's house.

"Sora!" Riku called out.

"What happens if he either doesn't love us back, or loves both of us?" I asked looking around the island.

"I guess if he doesn't love either of us in return we just remain his friends. Umm if he chooses one or the other, well I guess the other loses out. And if he loves us both, well I guess we share." Riku said looking left and right as we walked. I noticed yet again there was a slight blush on his cheeks.

I didn't know what to say or do, so instead I started looking around harder. "I guess." I said quietly looking towards where I thought I could hear loud crying.

"Sora." We both called out at the same time.

"I think I hear him over there." I said pointing to a huge tree. Blinking I strained my ears again as we walked closer to it. I could definitely hear crying now.

"I think I hear it too."

"Sora!" we both called out together as we got closer to where the crying seemed to come from.

"He's in the secret place." Riku said pointing to a small hole in the rocks behind the tree near where the waterfall was.

I knelt down and started to crawl in the hole. It was kind of dark once we got a ways away from the entrance and I couldn't see very well. As I got farther in I could hear the crying even louder. I stopped for a moment to let my eyes adjust when I felt a hand touch my butt. It was quickly pulled away as I turned my head behind me. I could feel the heat rising in my cheeks as I stared at Riku behind me.

"Sorry." Riku said blinking in the dimness. "Since we came back my eyes haven't been that good in the darker places, and I didn't see you." he finished obviously looking away from me again.

"Ummm..." was all I got out as we crawled farther in.

There in the middle of the largest part of the cave was Sora, hugging in on himself and rocking back and forth and crying. When we were clear of the small tunnel we both stood up and ran over to him.

He seemed to be crying extremely hard and didn't really notice us yet.

"Sora." we both whispered placing our hands on his shoulders. He looked up at both of our faces; I had a feeling directly into our eyes.

Riku gently wiped the tears away from his cheeks, and I ran a hand through his hair to try to comfort him. His hair felt like silk beneath my fingertips.

"Sora." Riku practically whimpered.

"Please don't cry, we never want to see you sad or hurt because of either of us." I said softly looking towards Riku who just nodded quietly.

Riku's eyes were starting to glisten with tears as he spoke. "We both love you Sora, but we understand if you don't love or want either of us in return." he finished staring right into Sora's eyes starting to shake a bit.

Sora pulled both of us into a tight hug.

Damn he's a LOT stronger than he looks. I thought as I felt the breath almost crushed out of me when I hugged him back.

"I-I-I don't k-k-know what to s-s-say or do." he said hiccupping some of the words out.

"You have all the time in the world." Riku and I said at the exact same moment. We gave each other a strange look as we hugged Sora tighter before letting go.

He stopped crying and looked between both of us giving us an odd look.

"Umm...Why are there slap marks?" he asked us. Riku and I just looked at each other. I couldn't see my own face, but if I looked similar to Riku at the moment I could shame a thousand sunsets.

"Well?" he asked more of a hiccup than word.

"It's not important." Riku said looking into Sora's eyes.

"Let's go back, everyone's probably worried about us." I said and Sora just nodded.

We all crawled out of the secret place and started to walk back when I noticed it. Sora's white pants were covered in gray streaks from the cave.

"Umm Sora," I said and he turned his head to look at me. "Your pants are filthy." I said pointing to the stains.

He looked down and sighed. "I'm gonna go home and clean up then, please tell everyone I'll meet all of you later today." he chirped out looking between myself and Riku.

OH FUCK! I mentally slapped myself as I looked at Riku. If he goes home now he'll see the preparations for the party.

As if reading my mind Riku spoke up. "My house is closer. You can take a shower and I'll wash your clothes for you." Riku said looking at me and then down at his own clothes. "And us too I guess." he added with a sigh. I looked down and saw what he meant. We were all slightly muddy from the cave.

So about an hour later, we were all in Riku's living room towels wrapped around our waists and waiting for our clothes to finish drying, watching cartoons and trying not to look at each other to keep from blushing or staring.

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Dusty - Well I hope you all like it, sorry about the semi cliffhanger/ open endedness of this chapter.

Roxas - Gods this is awkward... I'm going to be stuck in nothing but a towel with Riku and Sora until you can write again...

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