Awesome! I got the next chapter posted faster than I thought. There might not anymore updates for a week or more due to School T.T
Enjoy, read, and review.
Chapter 6: Explanations
All three of them entered the living room and Roxas took a seat on the couch while Riku sat on the recliner. Roxas looked at the floor but could feel Riku's eyes burning into him.
"I'll go get some drinks" Sora said as he walked toward the kitchen. Roxas looked up at Riku, who continued to stare at him as if he had two heads.
"What!?" he exclaimed annoyed. "Sorry. I just can't believe you and Sora are separated with no side effects." he relied, rubbing the back of his head.
"What do you mean by-" Roxas tried to ask but was stopped when he heard a 'thud' in the kitchen.
The next thing he saw was Riku running to the kitchen at lightning speed. 'What's going on?' he thought as he sat there wondering until he heard Riku yell. "Sora!" Riku called. "Roxas get in here and help me!" and with that said he hurried to the kitchen to see what was wrong.
Roxas entered the kitchen and immediately noticed Sora on the floor Riku sitting next to him. He place Sora's head in his lap and checked his temperature and pulse.
Riku looked up at Roxas who was now kneeling beside the passed out brunet. "What happened to him?" he asked. Riku could sense the worry and shock in his voice.
"It seems like I spoke too soon." he replied as he picked Sora up bridal style and carried him out of the kitchen. Roxas followed Riku upstairs and into Soras' room. He watched as Riku laid Sora on the bed and tucked him in.
"We should let him rest for now." Riku said as he turned to face Roxas, who was leaning on the frame of the door. He replied with a nod and the two of them went back into the living room to their original places.
"Tell me what's going on." Roxas told him bluntly. "If I do then you tell me how you two got separated, deal?" he informed the blonde. "Fine, but you first." Riku grinned and began o explain what was happening to Sora.
"When you and Sora, you know, you took half of him with you." he paused to watch Roxas' expression. "But if now both of us only have half of each other then why isn't anything happening to me?" he asked eagerly. "I feel perfectly fine."
"Because, you're a nobody Roxas. You've only ever been half, so in a way you have all your strength and power while Sora is a lot weaker than he probably realizes." Riku told him as if he knew everything.
Roxas just looked the floor when he figured out that it was his fault that Sora was so weak and helpless.
"Now that I've answered your question, its time you answered mine." Roxas looked up from the floor and into Rikus' aquamarine eyes.
"So… what exactly happened?" Riku asked hesitantly. "We aren't sure." Roxas replied ashamed. "Just start from the beginning and maybe we can figure something out." Riku told him.
"Well, this morning Sora complained that he didn't feel very well." Roxas began. "Did he say what was wrong?" Riku asked sincerely. "He told me it was just a little headache, but I could tell it wasn't that simple. Then after lunch in class out of nowhere he fell out of his chair and hit the floor pretty hard." Roxas said looking at the floor again. "Tidus helped him up and the teacher told him to go see the nurse. On the way there when I came out he was leaning against the wall as if to keep himself from falling. When I asked him what was wrong, he looked at he and was about to answer and then passed out."
He paused and looked up from the floor to see Riku's face covered in worry. Then he continued explaining "I took over after that and got him to the nurses' office. He was out for nearly half an hour. Then on the way home… he was really tired by the first few blocks, which is unusual." Riku interrupted him for a briefly moment when Roxas heard him say something to himself. Roxas couldn't hear what he said and continued once again." I came out to see what was up and he passed out again, but…" Roxas stopped and Riku could see the others lips curve down.
"But what?" Riku said trying to figure things out. "It felt different than the other times." Roxas told him. "How?" Riku asked in a firm voice which made Roxas jump in surprise. "Normally I didn't feel a thing, just a feeling that something was wrong with Sora. That time I started feeling dizzy myself. Then it felt as if part of me was being pulled away from me, but I didn't feel any pain… just emptiness and lonely." Riku gave him a sympathetic look and walked over to him and put a hand on is shoulder.
Roxas just looked up at him and smiled. "I know how you feel." the older said before leaving to check on Sora.
Roxas just sat there and waited for him to return. He looked up at the ceiling and noticed something he never did before.
All over the layout of the ceiling where pictures, both drawn and taken with a camera. Roxas squinted his eyes in an attempt to figure what the pictures where of.
"So someone finally noticed." Roxas looked in the doorframe to see Sora leaning on it, obviously still tired. Riku stood behind him to catch him if he fell again and never took his eyes off the brunet.
"What is all this?" Roxas asked, again looking at the collection of pictures. "I'm not entirely sure myself" Sora replied with a half smile. "My mom told me when I was really little I would always be drawling these weird pictures."
"I remember that." Riku interrupted. "In fact that's kinda what started our friendship." Riku said folding his arms over his chest as he remembered.
"I was in my second year of preschool, so I was about three." Roxas' eyes widened after hearing that. "You were two when you started preschool!?" he asked.
"Well it was more like a daycare center than a school. My parents were really busy during the day." he explained.
"Sora also went we he was two, and since all the kids got to played together before nap time everyone knew each other no matter how old or young." Roxas was surprised to find out how young Sora and Riku must have been when they met.
"I think they only did that to wear up out." Sora laughed. He was now looking at the pictures as well.
"Anyway I met Riku because some kids were picking on me… again." Sora began, getting back on topic. "They were both much bigger than me, no doubt four." he said with his smile never leaving his face.
"I was sick the first few days so I didn't know Sora, or that he was being picked on for a while." it was Rikus turn to speak. "I always hated when people picked on others even as a kid. You can imagine how I felt when it was my first day back and the first thing I see is a defenseless two year old being ganged up on by the three biggest guys in the class."
'So Sora was the school victim' Roxas thought to himself.
"When I went to go stop them my best friend at the time, Wakka, grabbed my shoulder and told me to forget it." Riku spoke in a firm yet hurt voice.
"Of course I ignored him-" "And I'm glad you did" Sora interrupted looking at the floor now.
Riku just smirked and continued "When I confronted them they just laughed and tempted me to bash their faces in." Roxas looked at him in shook when thought about what Riku could probably do to anyone that got him mad.
"What did they do to you?" he asked. "First they picked Sora up by his backpack and made fun of him. They said things like, you'd really want to protect this freak? or how cute, kiddy as a little protector." Riku mockingly said as he swayed his hands in the air.
"Then those jerks had the nerve to throw poor Sora as if he were nothing." he told the blonde through grinded teeth. "What did you do?" Roxas asked, fearing the answer.
"What do you think!? I kicked each in the shin and when the saw the anger in my eyes they ran. They weren't expecting me to fight back, all talk no action." was Riku's reply.
"I was too shocked to understand what was going on." Sora finally spoke up. "Riku was the first person who ever stood up for me. I might have been two but my mom told me I was a lot smarter than I should have been." he chuckled.
"Same here, I was told I understood a lot about things I souldn't for at least three more years." Riku announced proudly.
"After that the only they did to Sora was bump him while they passed him."
Roxas just stared at them for a moment before speaking. "Okay but what does that have to do with the pictures?" he asked.
"Well…" it was Sora's turn to speak again "A year later Riku was still looking out for me but once when he went to the bathroom they took advantage of this. They came from behind and pushed me down, it didn't hurt as much because I was a little bigger, but still…" he gave sad smile before continuing.
"They took my backpack and spilled all the pictures I had in it all over the floor." Riku took over for him "I came back and saw Sora on the floor with two of the three bullies kicking and stomping on his papers while the other had one foot on his back holding him down."
Roxas could sense the rage in Riku's voice as he spoke. He couldn't help feeling it himself when he pictured someone as innocent as Sora in such a situation.
"After I taught them their lesson' Riku said grinning "I went to help Sora pick up his pictures and to my surprise I was in some of them."
Riku looked up at the ceiling and then at Sora. "I didn't think much of it until I realized some had been drawn before I met him."
Roxas eyes widened and turned to face Sora just in time to see him start to fall again.
wellthatsthenewchapterhopeyouenjoyeditohmygodareyouactuallyreadingthiswoweitheryouarereallyintothisorreallyboredorbothIdontknowbutwhileyourreadingthispleasereview
Okay just to make one thing clear... This is not a Yaoi, not a Sora/Riku, its just their friendship.
Until next time my people!!!