Chapter 6
A few days passed. Sora and Riku were back on the island. After more than two years, Riku and Sora were able to see their home again.
Sora was walking around on the beach, looking for Riku. That night was all that he could think about. No other thought ran through his head. Those feelings. Those wonderful feelings of Riku behind him and inside him. He wanted to experience it all over, more than anything else.
Sora looked to his right. His eyes settled on an opening in the trees. 'I wonder if my drawings are still there,' Sora thought. He began to walk towards the opening. This was the place the darkness had come from. Pushing all anxious feelings aside, Sora stepped into the cave.
As he entered the main cavern, Sora noticed Riku's silhouette at the other end of the room. "Hey, Riku!" Sora called, as he ran toward him. As the distance between them shortened, Riku slowly changed in nothing more than a log. 'Damn!' Sora thought. 'I'm always getting those confused with people!'
He walked over to the wall and sat down in front of his drawings. Sora had long forgotten what he had drawn, but he didn't remember drawing ALL of this. When he was young, Riku told him of the paopu fruit. When you shared it with someone, your lives would become intertwined forever. He had sat down in this very spot and drew his picture on the wall. Next to it, Kairi had drawn her own picture, long ago. And before he left, he had drawn himself giving Kairi a paopu fruit. But he did NOT draw her giving him one. Sora was uneasy about all this now.
Sora looked around until he found a good sized rock and crossed out the picture furiously. 'Wow!' Sora thought as he scratched at the rock wall. 'I was really stupid back then!' Directly above the scratches, he redrew himself. Of course, now he looked a lot better then what he used to look like. This time, he was sharing the paopu fruit with Riku. Sora leaned back to admire his work.
"It's missing something," a voice said from behind Sora. Sora started and quickly turned and found himself staring at someone's crotch. Riku was standing there looking down at the new picture, then at Sora. He sat down and let Sora lean against him. Riku wrapped his arms around Sora.
"What's missing?" Sora asked.
Riku took the stone from Sora's hand and began to draw. "That's what's missing." Now, Sora and Riku were sharing a single paopu fruit together.
Sora looked up at Riku and smiled. He reached his hand up and stroked Riku's cheek. Sora lifted his body and kissed Riku. "I love you," Sora said. "I love you so much. I just wish we didn't have to hide it."
"We don't have to," Riku said. "Who cares if Kairi gets upset. I have no desire to be with her. I love you, Sora, and I won't hide it anymore."
Tears appeared in Sora's eyes. "Neither will I." He kissed Riku again, their feelings of eternal devotion passing to each other through there simple connection.
From the doorway, a female voice called out their names. This time, Sora and Riku did not stop. Even as Kairi walked in and gasped in shock, they continued to kiss each other.
"Sora! Riku!" Kairi yelled. "What are you doing?"
"We're brothers," Sora replied. Riku burst out laughing and Sora joined in.
Kairi's mouth was wide open. She knew what that brothers line meant. After all, she had seen Rent several times. She couldn't get any words out. Kairi couldn't even move to get out of there. All she could do was stand there and watch.
"Riku, I'm worried," Sora said.
"Why?" Riku asked, slightly concerned.
"Because Kairi isn't talking and being annoying like she usually is. Something's wrong with her! I think she's dead!" They laughed.
"I am not dead!" Kairi yelled.
"Damn!" Riku said. "I got my hopes up!"
Tears fell down her cheeks. "Why are you guys being so mean to me?" She ran out of the tunnel straight out to the paopu tree. Kairi just sat there, crying.
"Are you okay?" a voice behind her asked, in a very gentle tone.
Kairi turned around and saw Tidus standing behind her. She gave him a weak smile and wiped the tears from her eyes.
Back in the cave, Sora and Riku stopped kissing and Riku leaned up against the wall, pulling Sora close to his chest.
"Do you think we shut her down too harshly?" Sora asked. "She is still a friend."
Riku shrugged. "Maybe. She was annoying me and I guess we had to do it."
By the tree, Tidus sat next to Kairi. He gave her a friendly smile. "So, you finally found out about Riku and Sora?"
Kairi was surprised. "How long have you known?"
"About two and a half years," Tidus answered. "Since about the time you finished the raft. Back then they kept it quiet, though. I tried not to notice, but I accidently saw them making out. Selphie's the first one who found out, though. She told me, but I didn't believe her."
"Oh! So you and Selphie?" Kairi asked.
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"I always knew Selphie and you would…" Kairi started, but Tidus interrupted.
"No, not her," he said plainly.
"Oh! So you're still single?" Kairi asked, with a glimmer of hope in her eyes.
"No."
"What?" She said, slightly crushed. "Then who?"
In the cave, Sora was groaning delightedly. Riku's hand was in Sora's pants as he also kissed his neck.
"Well, now everyone knows except our parents," Riku said, in between kisses.
"Yeah. I wonder how we'll tell them."
From the other end of the bridge, Wakka came up and wrapped his arms around Tidus' shoulders, kissing his cheek. "Oh! Hey, Kairi!"
Kairi's eyes got watery again, and she began to storm off. Before she could get very far, a letter fell out of the sky and smacked her in the face. She grabbed it and noticed the king's seal on the back.
Riku began to unfasten Sora's pants, but Kairi's voice again interrupted.
"Sora! Riku! It's a letter from the king!" her voice called.
They got up quickly and ran directly out of the cave and straight over to Kairi.
Sora and Riku glanced over her shoulders as they read the letter together. In the background, by the tree, Tidus and Wakka, completely oblivios to the trio, began to make out underneath the paopu tree.