Chapter 3
Exhaustion was all Sora felt as the group ran up the final staircase to the roof of the castle. The mysterious portal Xemnas had left through stood before them with a transparent staircase leading up to it.
"Damn!" Sora panted. "More stairs!"
Riku, now back to his old body, looked over at Sora. "Are you okay? You need a rest?" he asked.
Sora, still panting, responded between breaths. "Yeah, that would be nice. But you don't look tired at all Riku."
Riku shrugged. "I
guess I'm still stronger than you." Riku sat down, legs stretched
out in front of him. He patted his lap. "Lay your head here, Sora.
We can spare five minutes. This game moves at the pace of the player.
Xemnas can't do anything."
Sora thought for a second. "Yeah,
I guess you're right." He sat down and laid his head in Riku's
lap, but an odd, hard lump was already there. Sora blushed. He got up
to look at Riku's crotch. Of course, he thought. "Kairi! That was
my spot!"
Kairi looked up at Sora and stuck out her tongue. "First come, first serve, Sora. You were too slow. Deal with it." She turned sideways, away from Sora.
Sora shot a pitiful look at Riku. It seemed to say, 'Please tell her to get up.' Riku looked back, saying, 'I don't want to be a jerk. She is a friend.' Sora looked, raising his eyebrows, and saying, 'But Riku, she's annoying!' Riku rolled his eyes and met Sora's gaze. His look, at first, said, 'I know,' but slowly, it melted into a wordless gaze. Riku's eyes were now full of emotion. Several emotions were being poured into Sora's heart. Those emotions that were Riku's longing, devotion, and passion.
Sora knew for certain now. Riku loved him. It wasn't one way. It was a real relationship. His heart skipped several beats, so many that his heart had nearly stopped. Riku had no feelings for Kairi. They were all for him. Inside, Sora was celebrating, but he knew he had to compose himself.
"So," Sora said after a minute, "should we get going now?"
"Yes we should," King Mickey said. "Who knows how much more Man sex… uh, I mean, Xemnas has accomplished."
Sora nearly exploded in laughter. So, he wasn't the only one who noticed Xemnas' name can be rearranged to spell Man sex.
Kairi got up. "Yeah, I'm ready. Riku, your lap was surprisingly soft. I was expecting it to be a little bit firmer." She winked at him and walked away, barely missing Riku shuddering with repulsion.
As she walked away, she glanced over at Sora and something very weird happened, so weird it was deemed weird and unexplainable by everyone there. A person, not completely there, sort of transparent, like a ghost, appeared in front of Sora. This boy had blonde hair and was about Sora's age.
Seconds later, a second "person" appeared in front of Kairi. She had long, blonde hair and very pale skin.
Riku was confused. Who were these people? They seemed to have similar personalities to Sora and Kairi, but they had no physical characteristics of them. Riku watched as the two figures conversed, trying to make some sense of what was going on. He overheard their names. The pale, slender girl was Namine and the blonde boy was Roxas. Apparently, Namine had helped Roxas in getting his body back or something like that. Riku heard other things about nobodies. Then, something even weirder happened. After saying, 'Every time they meet, we meet, too,' or something like that, Namine somehow melted into Kairi. At the same time Roxas began to melt into Sora.
"Wait, Roxas," Sora said. Roxas stopped and came back out. "Axel wanted me to tell you something."
"What was it Sora?" Roxas asked.
"He said…um…damn! I forgot," Sora replied. "Sorry. With all this going on, I can't remember what his dying request was."
"What?" Roxas exclaimed, tears welling up in his eyes. "He died?"
"Yes. He died fighting at my side."
"It's okay, I guess." Roxas said, wiping away a tear. "He died valiantly. And besides, I think I know exactly what he wanted to tell me." Roxas winked. "Thanks for everything, Sora." Roxas returned to Sora's body.
Riku was stunned for a while. Then he remembered everything he had learned while assisting Diz. Roxas was Sora's nobody and Namine was Kairi's. He understood it all once again, except for this Axel thing. What was that all about?
Sora approached Riku and outstretched his hands. "Come on. Xemnas is still up there. Let's finish this."
Riku got up without grabbing Sora's hands. "I guess," he said, rather coldly. Riku walked past Sora, without saying a word, and headed towards the door.
Sora was hurt. He hadn't done anything and Riku was ignoring him. Once again, tears were welling up in his eyes. Slowly, he walked over toward the door.
Kairi saw this as an opportunity to make her move. She went up to Riku. "Hey, Riku," she said, in the cutest, flirtiest voice she could.
"Go away," Riku said, blatantly.
"He's so dreamy!" she exclaimed, clutching her hands together.
"Come on, Sora," Donald said as he and Goofy approached the door.
"Okay, I'm coming," Sora told them.
Sora, Riku, Donald, and Goofy all stepped through the door, with Sora and Riku keeping their distance from each other as much as possible.