Kingdom Hearts Fan Fiction ❯ Depths of memory ❯ Stepping stones ( Chapter 9 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

By: BDP

9. Stepping stones

New Xillion City, summer 2004

Sunday morning, 2.41 am

His eyes were still shimmering with tears as he blinked once, then twice before finally resting them back on my face. A trembling hand rose up to cup my left cheek and I held it against my skin, bringing it to my lips and kissing its palm lovingly while closing my eyes.

I was sure of what I was doing; I had had the time to think about it thoroughly. I wanted him by my side always.

He approached me and laid his lips on mine softly. I tasted the salty taste of his tears and the sweetness of the kiss, the smooth caress of his fingers on my face, and I wished vividly for him to grant me his presence in my life for ever because I was helplessly drowning into him. Drowning into him and I didn't want to ever resurface.

He let go of me and ran a thumb over my lips as he looked into my eyes. I couldn't be sure of what he was thinking at the time, I couldn't tell what his answer was going to be; he just kept looking at me without saying a word and with an unreadable expression on his face.

"Was that a yes?" I gently asked, biting my lower lip in suspense for his answer, a small nervous smile on my lips.

He chuckled nervously and wiped away a tear rolling down his right cheek hastily, trailing his eyes away from mine. I watched how his cheeks flared up cutely and how his smile grew into a grin. "You still need me to tell you?" He whispered and now looked at me as more tears left his eyes.

I honestly didn't know what to think; my insides felt like one puddle of nervous goo and I couldn't think of anything else than a possible 'yes' or 'no'. Now I know why most men found the proposal the most difficult part of an engagement.

He threw his arms around me and hugged me tightly. "Yes! You silly!" He sobbed.

"Y-yes?" I stammered, not realising for a moment. "You say yes?" I needed the confirmation, just to make really sure he was sure so I could be sure that I wasn't dreaming.

"Yes!" He spoke again, kissing me in my neck this time and giggling.

"Oh Sora!" I breathed out in relief and wrapped my arms around him while he kept laughing. "I love you." I held his face in my hands now, still faintly shaking from all the emotions that had flooded through me just a few moments before. "I love you so much! Thank you!"

He only broke down in laughter again and took me in his arms, spilling more kisses on my head and on my hair. "You should ask me to marry you more often."

I laughed, "I don't think so, I think my heart won't survive the overdose of emotions next time…"

He giggled again and held me close. "You make me so happy, Riku…"

I looked up at him and gently brushed a stray lock of brown hair out of his eyes. "Don't think I'm only doing this because of—" I didn't want him to think that I had asked him to marry me just because of the time he hadn't left to spend with me anymore.

"Shh…" He hushed me with a finger pressed against my lips. "All I need to know is that you wouldn't have asked me if you didn't truly care about me and loved me." He whispered. "That's enough for me to know."

I took his hands in mine and kissed them while still looking at him. "You're so beautiful."

He gently smiled again and bit his lower lip. "I feel beautiful…" He looked at the silver ring glistening on his left hand finger now and pursed his lips in admiration. "It's so shiny…" He said with a grin. I laughed again and he turned his head to me. "I feel like celebrating…"

I quirked an eyebrow with an impish smile. "What did you have in mind, sexy?"

"Ooh…" He whispered, throwing his left leg over my lap so he straddled me now. "Is this one of the advantages of being engaged? You calling me 'sexy'?"

I chuckled up at him and took him by his hips, "Hmm… maybe? There are plenty more advantages tied to the pleasure of becoming my husband."

"There are even more when becoming mine…" Sora whispered against my lips with a seducing smile, his fingers creeping in between us.

I made a low sound in my throat, catching his lips with mine as he took hold of my manhood and applied gentle pressure. "You sexy little kitten…"

He purred and bent down to bite me in the crook of my right shoulder, his tongue sweeping over the skin he had put his teeth in seconds before and I shuddered at the pleasurable shock that went through me. He moaned softly, his right hand still wrapped around my erection, his warm breath playing against me, slowly driving me crazy.

Tranquilly his hand on me moved up and down, making me burry my face in the crook of his right shoulder so I wouldn't let go of the groan of desire that was threatening to tumble off my lips.

With my left hand I was holding him close to me and with my right one I followed the path that went around his waist, slowly, yet surely crawling towards his rear that was still hidden underneath the covers he had wrapped around his hips earlier but that now hung loosely on his back. I slid the fabric gently aside and put my hand in between, caressing the smooth and soft skin there and cupping one cheek and squeezing his warm flesh longingly.

He arched and our erections touched, making it hard for me to keep any sound from escaping my mouth. He then moaned in my throat, his forehead resting against my right shoulder. My hand on his bottom then travelled further, mimicking the same movements from earlier on the other lobe, causing the same reaction.

Sora was breathing more heavily now, moaning and whimpering softly on my skin, adding more virtue to his motions of pressure and release on my manhood while moving his butt cheeks enticingly against my hand.

One finger slipped in between his lobes and I felt him tremble slightly against me, moaning my name. "Don't tease…" He breathed throatily, applying a slightly opened kiss underneath my right ear, sending more chills down my spine and right into my crotch, making it twitch and in a result, making him chuckle deep in his throat.

God he was so sexy.

"You're the one teasing." I murmured back, taking his right ear lobe in between my lips to suckle on it. My index was now drawing small circles around his small entrance and he was pushing back against it almost desperately.

"No, you are…" He moaned and I chuckled.

He moved his head away from my shoulders and kissed me hungrily on my lips, sending the both of us on the bed. "You want to be on top? Again?"

He laughed as he sat up and placed his hands on my hips for balance. "I like this spot." He giggled and wiggled his hips making me bite back a groan at the friction caused.

"I can't guarantee that you'll keep that spot for very long." I throatily whispered, my hands moving to take hold of his hips, coaxing him to put his body in the right position on top of me. I watched as his small upper front teeth dug themselves into his lower lip, catching but a small stroke of flesh in between them, before he letting go, his eyes still hungrily on mine. He then brought his hands flatly up his body, caressing himself, sliding them up over his chest and all the way up into his hair before arching back a little, seemingly enjoying the sensation of my eyes ravishing him as I mentally pounded myself into his tight little body over and over again.

He had given me a great gift, one I knew I had been searching for ever since I lost my virginity so many years ago; the real, deep and durable feeling of really good sex. No, no joke here, I'm being serious. With Sora I could be myself, I could let myself go completely and he would love it. Enjoy it. Drink from the pleasure eagerly and still ask for more.

He would take me to unknown heights, lift me so high and let me fall back into his welcoming and loving arms over and over again. This is going to sound so cliché, but I finally knew what love really meant. That feeling deep in your guts that made you sick when you didn't see the person you loved or the way your heart just beat faster when he laughed, or even when he simply looked at you. It was a constant urge that continuously needed to be satisfied with a touch, a kiss or a meaningful look, a desire to be with that person every single minute of the day, for him to be the first person you see in the morning and the last in the evening. It was the realisation that this person was the one, that he would share your life, your joy and your pain no matter what until that day when life would end and only the memories of this magical feeling you had shared would remain. I didn't need to be convinced that love transcended death; our love was the perfect proof of that.

It would go on for ever.

I sat up and pulled his lips to mine in another hungry kiss, feeling how his hands wrapped around my shoulders and how he positioned himself on me.

"Can we now?" he impatiently breathed against my lips in between kisses and I chuckled at his impatience, grabbing his hips.

"You sure you'll be able to handle it?" I whispered, lowering him slowly on my length.

He cried out softly and threw his head back, making my smile grow bigger. I lowered him further on me, his velvety walls stretching themselves to allow me more entrance.

"G-god…!" He choked out with difficulty, his arms around my shoulders slightly trembling. He then relaxed a little and moaned softly. "I love how you feel inside…" He throatily whispered and I almost slammed him down on my erection, barely able to control myself.

"Your time on top has been considerably shortened, babe..."

He wiggled his hips slightly in response and completely slid down on me. "Riku…!" He gasped. I waited a little, wanting to give his body the time to adjust itself to my length.

I then coaxed him to move slowly up and down on me with my hands on his hips, watching with growing fascination how his facial expression switched between delight, slight pain and relief on and on, accompanied by the matching moans, whimpers, gasps and soft cries. It didn't get any sexier than that.

"Beautiful baby…" I pulled him to me, devouring his lips while I made him move faster on me. He mewled my name continuously and broke the kiss to breathe in the much needed air. He arched his before falling back against me, panting and moaning as his hips kept moving up and down on me in a steady, relaxed rhythm.

I needed more control over the situation, I couldn't hold myself back much longer. I pulled him down with me on the bed and we rolled over, my hands sliding into his lying on each side of his head, intertwining them as I lowered my face to press a soft kiss on his plush lips.

He moaned into the kiss when I pushed in, his nails digging into the back of my hands, his body arching slightly and breaking the kiss. "Riku…"

"Feels good?" I breathed in his right ear, feeling his hips rolling against mine and hearing him whine his pleasure.

"Yeah…" He throatily whispered with a small smile, his eyes tightly closed.

"I didn't hear you…" I whispered, licking his earlobe and pulling back out of him only to slide back in with a hard stroke. I chuckled deep in my throat at his loud and passionate cry and grazed with my teeth over the sensitive skin beneath his ear before closing my lips and pressing soft kisses the long his throat, down to his collarbone, letting my tongue out to taste the softness of his dampened skin.

"You're driving me crazy…" He softly said, arching his neck, his eyes closed.

I nipped at the skin of his collarbone, letting my right hand skim over one aroused nipple. "It's pure madness that is driving me…" I let my voice sound deep in my throat, knowing what effect that had on him. I smirked at the way his breath shivered a it left his lips, his body trembling at the low vibrations of my voice.

He bit his lower lip as he lay back on the mattress. "Mmmh…I thought it was love?" He moaned up at me as I moved myself to face him again.

I smiled down at him, my eyes fixed on his swollen lips. "That too, but right now…"

"Fuck…!" He whimpered at the series of slow and deep strokes I made inside of him.

"Exactly." I grunted back, my lips pressing against his throat now.

His moans filled the room with each thrust in him, his body trembling beneath mine. His sweat was welling up in small pearls all over his body and mingling with mine as we worked towards our peaks.

I shot my essence deep within him with a hiss, my body trembling on top of his and almost completely drained of all energy.

He whimpered quietly as I pulled out gently. I could tell he was wondering what I was going to do as I started kissing my way down his chest and dipped my tongue into his navel teasingly. I continued my short journey down his body and came to face his erection. With my right index I caressed it gently, lovingly touching it. His soft moans gave me the instructions to follow, showing me how he liked it.

I closed my eyes and tentatively licked the base of his shaft, earning a delighted gasp from him. I smiled, knowing I was doing it right and teasingly licked his shaft up and down once, enjoying how Sora grabbed a handful of my hair and whispered with a voice thick with lust; "Stop it. Don't make me hurt you."

I chuckled and wrapped my lips around his tip, sliding him inside my mouth oh so slowly, making sure my tongue played with his tip. His hand in my hair tightened and I heard him groan lustfully. I moaned back, applying suction as I pulled back up and smiled up at him before going down on him again.

"Baby… don't stop…" He now whimpered, the back of his head pressing into his pillow as he arched slightly.

I could taste his pre-cum on my tongue and I let go of him to pump him with my right hand, wanting to look at his delicious state of dishevelment, and how his sweet, boyish face got taken over by rapture.

"Oh god… Riku… yeah…!"

I swirled my tongue over his tip, taking him back inside my mouth, knowing he was close. It didn't take long before he let out a high pitched series of gasps and his sticky load shot into my mouth. I swallowed his seed without hesitating and pressed a last kiss to his manhood before moving up his body to hold him close as he still trembled from the aftershocks of his orgasm.

Almost immediately he fell asleep in my arms with a happy smile on his face. I kissed him on his forehead and nestled myself next to him, taking the cover lying next to us and covering us with it.

I waited for sleep to come, while watching him, caressing his small, perfect nose, the curve of his perfect plump lips, his cheeks and the perfect arch of his eyebrows as he slept, thinking of how beautiful and simply perfect he was.

I pressed a soft kiss on his forehead and laid my head close to his, not wanting to close my eyes, wanting to look at him like this forever.

New Xillion City, autumn/winter 2004

Friday evening, 6. 21 pm

The lights on the other side of the river were starting to light up one by one, the sun barely gone underneath the horizon and already artificially replaced as the city prepared itself for the bustling night that was ahead.

I watched the many different neon lights flickering up in the street beneath me, people in big coats and scarves walking by the many stores and shop windows thinking no doubt about the holidays up ahead. It wouldn't be long before snow would start falling from the skies, making everything look like a postcard scenery.

A smile crossed my features as I spotted one particular white scarf and a big mass of spiky, sandy brown hair hastily crossing the street in front of the building. I turned away from the window and re-arranged the curtains that hung in front of it before glancing at the clock above the TV and noticing that he was running a little late. There probably was a lot of traffic on his way home from the magazine.

I walked over to our bathroom to go do my hair. He would call when he would enter the house.

I looked at myself in the mirror and couldn't help the smile that started to grow on my lips. Sora and I were now engaged for 4 months and the wedding was for next week. The butterflies that had made of my stomach their permanent living space were fluttering inside of me again and no matter how much I tried, I couldn't ignore the growing nervous feeling in me. Of course, every groom to be felt like this before taking the big step, I was no different. Maybe only in the fact that I was marrying another man. Well, what were details, anyway?

"Riku, I'm home!" I heard Sora call before the door fell shut.

"In the bathroom, babe." I called back, taking the small pot of hair wax from one of the shelves in front of me.

"I'm sorry I'm late." He whispered and I turned to kiss him as he stood behind me. "There was a monstrous traffic jam on Ohalland and St. John's."

"It's alright, we still got some time, but we'll have to hurry a little." I whispered back, turning around again to continue doing my hair. He went into our bedroom and I heard him opening his suitcase we packed together yesterday.

"Leon called earlier." I informed him, deciding to wear my hair in a ponytail after all. "Said that Cloud had gotten hold of that photographer for the pictures and that she'd come to Destiny City the day before the wedding."

"He did? Oh my god, that's so great." Sora walked back into the bathroom, holding a silver necklace with a silver pendant in the form of a crown out to me. He then placed himself in front of me, facing the mirror and I laid the necklace around his neck while he held his hair up a little. Our eyes met in the mirror and he smiled, his right hand touching the small crown on his chest.

I had given him the pendant for his birthday 2 months ago so he could put the bare silver necklace he always wore to its value. "I've always searched for a pendant just like this."

"You told me that." I smiled, brushing my lips against his left cheek. "It suits you, because you are a king, you know?" I pressed a kiss on his soft skin. "You're the king of my heart."

He turned to face me and smiled. "Tell me again why I can't marry you right away?"

I chuckled. "Because we agreed to hold the ceremony with all our friends and beloved ones." I tapped my right index on the tip of his nose. "And because we already sent the invitations a month ago."

He pouted a little, making me chuckle again. "It's becoming more and more difficult to wait with each passing day. I wish we were there already."

"We will be soon enough." I softly spoke back, kissing his lips and tucking a strand of his hair behind an ear. "Soon you'll be my husband, Mr Sora Haruki-Masako."

He closed his eyes and smiled, letting me press another kiss on his forehead. "Yes, very soon, Mr Riku Haruki-Masako."

I took him into an embrace, closing my eyes so I could feel his heart beating against my chest. "I love you, Sora."

"I love you too, mister. So much." He whispered back, his hold on me tightening before we let go of each other. "And not that I don't love these corny moments with you, but we got a plane to catch." He then said excitedly with a grin.

I laughed and nodded. "You're right. Are you all packed?"

"Yup." He said, still grinning. "Are you?"

"Just need to pack my wax and facial supplies." I answered back, taking the said articles from the shelves underneath the mirror while he walked to the door.

He rolled his eyes mockingly and shook his head with a cocky smile. "Top models."

"What 'Top models'?!" I retorted with a chuckle. "You mean photographers! Who would take a picture of me if I was ugly?" I walked out of the small room and turned off the light, closing the door before walking into our room and kneeling next to my grey rolling suitcase at the end of our bed. I put all the products in a small bag and added it to the other packed stuff.

Sora laughed, sitting on the bed and holding the receiver of the phone in his left hand. "Well, I wouldn't that's for sure, but I bet your mother would."

My mouth fell open at that blunt answer, but I soon started to chuckle because it held a little bit of truth in it. "Are you talking as the photographer or is this my Sora talking?" I asked throwing rolled up socks to his head. The projectile hit him square on his forehead and he fell over on the bed laughing, still holding the phone.

"As the professional photographer and as myself." He chuckled.

I grunted with a smile and moved to retrieve my rolled up socks from behind the bed. "Just call that damn taxi."

Destiny Islands, autumn 2004

Friday night, 9. 15 pm, local time

The sound of waves rolling onto the beach created the background music for the family dinner we held on the terrace of the Haruki's second residence, a large villa on a private island in the Destiny Islands Archipelago.

Cloud, Leon, our parents, Kairi, Sephiroth, Sora's friends, Wakka and Tidus and their respective partners; Lulu and Yuna, and my best friends Axel and Roxas were all tilting their champagne glasses up to both Sora and me, all wishing us the best in the future.

I looked at Sora with a grant smile and made him stand up alongside of me, taking his hand. He looked absolutely gorgeous in his white