Disclaimer: I, Sora's Sacrifice, do not own Kingdom Hearts (none of em'!) or any of the characters or creatures in it. This is just a fanfic! That is all.

A/N: Hmm...not so sure about this chapter...I think I liked the other ones better...oh well. I guess it'll do. I hope you guys like it! Well, enjoy! R&R!

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Broken

Chapter 3: I'm Sorry...

Sora walked to school instead of taking the bus, cursing the hot weather. He wouldn't have minded it so much, if he wasn't wearing a turtle neck and long pants due to his beating the other night. Sora's heart beat faster with each step he took, getting closer and closer to his school. Closer to Riku. Closer to having to tell him he couldn't be his friend anymore, that he couldn't talk to him anymore or anything.

Sora wouldn't let himself cry over this again, at least not now. It was one of the many things he learned from Riku; crying was a sign of weakness, which made him weak. Ever since Riku told him that, Sora tried not to cry, which turned out to be a lot easier said than done for him. He also learned to never mess with Riku's hair, that Kairi, Naminé and Selphie were all sisters (and that they were only so mean because when they were in first grade they were teased and bullied all the time), and that sea-salt ice cream was a foreign ice cream.

Sora smiled as fond memories of the past week floated into his mind, memories of Riku. And then, there were the not-so-fond memories, all containing his father, which Sora frowned upon. Sora shook his head as he neared the front of the school, teenagers on the stairs, at the top of the stairs, next to the doors, going through the doors and into the school, and some on the railings.

Sora stopped and stood in front of the school, taking a deep breath before walking up the steps and going through the front doors and into Destiny High. He didn't look around, he just headed straight for his locker. He tried to avoid anyone's gaze, especially Riku's. He hadn't seen the older teen so far, though, and he was kinda thankful. He didn't know how he was going to tell him, so he figured the words might just come out when the time came. He heard familiar laughter somewhere behind him, along with an accented laughter, and knew who it was right away. Riku. Well, Riku and Wakka, to be exact.

Sora tried to hurry and get out of there, quickly putting in and taking out books from his locker. He soon heard the laughter die down, and heard Wakka, with his strong accent, say 'See ya, mon!' and figured Riku would be coming his way. Sora's heart started beating fast again as he heard footsteps coming towards him. They got closer and closer, tormenting Sora. It seemed like time was going in slow motion, and Sora wished Riku would just be next to him already. He wished he would just smile at him, with that amazing grin of his. He wanted to feel Riku's skin on his (beta fish says my goodness!), like he had so many times that week, when Riku would be in such a hurry sometimes that he would drag him along. He wished he would just look at him with those two beautiful aquamarine eyes. He didn't want to see pain in those eyes, he didn't want to hurt him. But inside, Sora felt that he would be hurting himself more then Riku.

The footsteps still drew nearer, though they sounded unfamiliar to him. They definately weren't Riku's. They sounded lighter, like, a girl's footsteps, maybe? Sora turned around and met two, beautiful blue eyes surrounded by pale skin and pale blonde hair framing a pretty face.

"Naminé?" Sora asked unsuredly, hoping the petite girl didn't want to pick on him or anything. But her eyes didn't look like they wanted to cause mischeif or pain, they looked...sad, apologetic, something he hadn't seen in her eyes since...ever. Naminé nodded slightly.

"G-gomennasai," she said, her voice as soft as an angel's, bowing slightly. Sora was shocked. Naminé had always been the quieter one, sure, but she still wasn't very nice. What was this all of a sudden?

After Sora got over his shock, he nodded, and smiled at her. "Li desu yo," Sora replied. The girl smiled back, a real smile, not a mocking smile.

"Naminé! Come on!" a female's voice screeched (it sounded like Selphie's). Naminé gasped ever so slightly.

"I'm coming!" she yelled back, her voice still soft, before nodding to Sora one more time and dashing off to her sisters. Sora's smile faded as she left, and he sighed and turned back to his locker, only to see a smug looking Riku next to it, leaning on the other locker, again, and crossing his arms. Sora cursed himself inwardly when he almost screamed in suprise, his cerulean blue eyes wide with fear, schock, and worry.

Riku started laughing and Sora's suprised face was replaced with a sad one. "Looks like Naminé's interested," Riku teased after his laughter had died down. Sora wasn't looking at him, he was looking at the ground, trying to avoid looking into those two beautiful eyes that he had grown to love so much after such a short period of time. Wait--love? Did he really love them? Did he really love Riku's smile? Did he really love Riku's laughter? Did he really love Riku? In only a few moments Sora confirmed in his heart that he did indeed love the older boy (not romantically), of course he would not tell him this, due to fear of being embarassed...again. He didn't really feel like he would be embarrassed if he told him, though. I mean, he would have around any other person, but he felt safe around Riku. Even knowing that he had a father at home who most likely wanted to kill him, he still felt safe with Riku. Riku had been Sora's angel in his time of need, and angels weren't supposed to have to go away...

Riku noticed Sora's sad face and his cheerful smile went away. "Hey, are you okay?" Riku asked, putting a hand on Sora's shoulder, his expression showing slight worry for his friend. Sora refused to look at him and continued with his locker business, the words he expected to come out not wanting to. Riku looked at him in confusion, expecting an answer. "Sora?" he asked, furrowing his brows slightly. Sora shook his head and closed his locker without turning to face Riku. Riku waited for an answer, a reply of some sort, besides the shaking of the head. He received no reply, though, and before Riku could say another word, the school bell rang, and kids hurried to their classes. Sora silently left Riku standing next to his locker, wondering what just happened.

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After class, Sora hurried to his locker, hoping he wouldn't bump into Riku. Once he was done putting stuff in his locker, he slammed it shut and turned around, getting ready to hide from Riku before the next class started. But when he turned around, Riku was there, staring at him, raising one brow and looking at him suspiciously. Sora gasped and noticed how Riku did that a lot. Seconds later he remembered what he had to tell Riku and his sad face was back.

"Why are you in such a hurry?" Riku asked suspiciously, arms crossed. Sora gulped and looked down, sadness filling his pretty, cerulean blue eyes. Riku's expression softened slightly, he didn't want to make Sora feel bad, he just wanted to know what was wrong.

"R-Riku..." Sora began, gulping again.

"Yeah?" Riku asked, impatient as ever.

"I...um..." the spiky-haired teen continued, trying to get it out. "I can't..." Sora tried, but failed again.

"You can't what?" Riku asked, furrowing his brows and wishing Sora would just hurry up and tell him.

"I..." Sora could feel tears welling up in his eyes. Riku seemed to notice this, also, and his expression softened completely. "I can't...talk to you...anymore..." Sora managed, closing his eyes. Riku furrowed his brows in confusion.

"What?" Riku asked, very much confused. At first he thought that Sora might be joking, but he looked too sad to be joking, and Sora wouldn't joke like that. From the short time he had known him, he knew he would never do something like that. Unless he was doing it to save one of his friends or something.

"A-and...and I c-can't b-be friends with y-you anymore..." Sora whispered the last part, a single tear escaping his eye.

"What do you mean?" the older teen asked, horror in those two aquamarine orbs, hidden by his long, silver bangs. Sora couldn't talk without sobbing, so he shook his violently, more tears escaping his sad eyes. He couldn't face Riku, he just couldn't. Before Riku could say anything else, Sora had dashed off down the halls of the school, kids giving him confused looks, and some annoyed ones.

I'm sorry, Riku... Sora thought before falling onto his knees and crying, away from the school, away from his house, away from Riku...

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Naminé saw Sora running, tears flying behind him. Her eyes saddened and she wondered why he was crying and running off like that. She looked towards the direction that Sora had come running from and saw a confused Riku. But there was some other expression shown on his usual smirking, laughing, teasing, angry, or smiling face. Was that...was that sadness? Naminé could have sworn it was, but she wasn't positive. She figured Riku had probably been the one to upset the young boy, and she wondered why he would do such a thing. It had looked like they were getting along over the past week, so what had gone wrong?

Naminé was too lost in her own thoughts to realize that Kairi and Selphie were talking to her.

"Kairi!" Selphie screeched, finally earning Naminé's attention.

"Huh?" Naminé asked, confused.

"Don't space out like that, Naminé!" Selphie scolded her, hands on hips, an annoyed expression on her face. Naminé looked at them for a moment before coming to realization.

"Oh! Gomennasai!" Naminé apologized. Kairi rolled her eyes towards where Naminé was looking, and when her eyes landed on Riku, she looked infuriated.

"Naminé!" Kairi screeched, causing Naminé to jump slightly. She didn't have the chance to reply before Kairi was yelling at her again. "I can't believe you! And my own twin, too!!" Kairi screamed, earning a lot of attention.

"What?" Naminé asked innocently, thoroughly confused.

"Riku! You were staring at him!" Kairi stated, causing Selphie to become furious with the innocent blonde as well.

"N-no I wasn't!" Naminé protested, the teenagers who were listening thinking it was getting more and more interesting.

"Yes, you were! We saw you doing it! So just admit it!!" Kairi demanded, hands on hips.

"No I wasn't--"

"Riku is mine. Stay away from him, Naminé!!" Kairi interrupted, and with that Kairi and Selphie marched away angrily, bombarding Riku in his confused state, which wasn't such a good thing. Of course, it was never really a good thing, now was it?

Naminé sighed sadly and gave Riku a sympathetic look before heading to her next class.

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A/N: Well...yeah. Sad? I hope it was sad...it was supposed to be sad...and if it wasn't sad, then I would be sad, because I would have failed at making it sad...anywho. I think this chapter is a little short...sorry. Thanks to everyone who is reading this, and to everyone who has reviewed the last two chapters, and to everyone who is going to review this chapter! Please do review, it makes me want to type, and that means the next chapter would be out sooner, and that would make you guys happy...right? Well, thanks again for reading, please review!

I'm not sure if I'm going to use Kairi, Naminé and Selphie very much in the future chapters...as for this one, I'm not sure, I just kinda...decided to include them. And I'm sorry if any Kairi or Selphie fans are reading this and are mad at me for making Naminé nice and not Kairi and/or Selphie. It's just...well, Naminé is my favorite KH girl, so I couldn't help but make her nice. Besides, I saw it most fit to make her the one who changes.

Oh yeah, I used some Japanese in this chapter, I hope you guys don't mind. I'll probably use some more Japanese in future chappies, so be ready for that. But don't worry, I'll always tell you what the words I used mean after the chapter is over...or maybe I'll decide to put them in () after what they said...I dunno. But for now, here are the translations for this chappie:

Gomennasai - I'm sorry

Li desu yo - (It's) okay

Yeah...those aren't like...EXACTLY right translations, but it's the basic idea of what they mean, so...yeah. Well, I should stop talking now. Please review and stick with me through the whole story!

P.S. Thanks to my wonderful beta, flurry of dying flames! (beta fish says she'll make sure the Japanese used is correct. Even with the simple phrases she used in this chapter, nee-chan got them all wrong.)