Kingdom Hearts Fan Fiction ❯ Dirge ❯ Pregnant? ( Chapter 7 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

: Dirge

Pairing: CloudXRiku!

Rating: M

Disclaimer: I don’t own KH, Square Enix does.

Warnings: Yaoi in later chapters, and violence, and bad language.

Music: HYDE (Need I say more?)

Prompt: Sin

Riku awoke early the day after Dirge. Cloud and Squall were already gone, making the bedroom seem bigger and emptier than ever. Riku’s bed was warm, but it didn’t keep out the cold that seemed to emanate from the room. For the first time, Riku began to see his surroundings through an outsider’s eyes.

Sora’s brow head peeked into the room suddenly, startling Riku.

“Hey Riku! Get up! Cloud told me to give you something!” Sora’s words didn’t register at first, and Riku just sat there staring at him stupidly.

“Eh?” he asked. Sora just rolled his eyes and walked in. He grabbed Riku’s arm and pulled him up, then began to proceeded to drag him from the room.

“Hey wait!” Riku finally said. “I have chores to do!”

“No ya don’t.” Sora replied. “You’ve been promoted. Besides, Cloud’s sword doesn’t need to be cleaned every day. You get to spend the day with me today!”

“More sparring?” Riku asked apprehensively. He didn’t feel like sparring, it was too early in the morning. Besides, after what Cloud’s speech yesterday, Riku didn’t think he could ever be able to hit Sora again, even in fun.

“No, not sparring. I wanna take you to meet someone. But first…” Sora’s voice trailed off as he drug Riku into the storage room and began to rummage through some of the boxes. After looking for a few minutes, he pulled out a large, cloth-wrapped package and handed it to Riku. “Cloud wanted you to have this, it was supposed to go to Axel but…well he’s not around any more. It used to be Cloud’s before he got Zack’s sword.”

Riku picked up the package and slowly unwrapped the dirty cloth. As he did so, the light caught on a piece of exposed black metal, making the item shine brilliantly. Riku whistled appreciatively as he pulled out a short black sword. The worn leather handle and sheath were full of pock marks and imperfections, but the blade itself was a dazzling black. One long scratched marred the perfect surface of the blade, it ran from the hilt all the way to the tip, if Riku didn’t know any better, he’d think the scratch was meant to be there. It was clear that the weapon was made for use, and not for show, but even so, it was beautiful in a deadly sort of way. Elegant even.

“Wow.” Riku said in awe. He held it up to the light, admiring the way the light played on the black metal, making it shine a deep purple in spots. It was his first time holding a weapon of any kind.
“Yeah!” Sora beamed. “I wanted it, but when I got my weapon Cloud was still using it.”

“It must of cost a lot.” Riku remarked.

“No, all our weapons were stolen from merchants on raids. The only one we ever paid for was that huge sword Cloud uses. It was Zack’s first weapon.”

“So…Cloud is giving this to me?” Riku asked incredulously.

“Yeah, he trusts you now. Now come on, I want you to meet someone, but we’ll have to go all the way to the East side.”

“The East side?” Riku asked. “But I’m not allowed to go anywhere.”

“Well I’ll be with you, so it’s ok. Besides, now that you have a weapo you’re ok. No one will bother you usually. Now let’s go!” Sora pushed past Riku and headed toward the room with the stairs.

“Aren’t we going outside?” Riku questioned.

“Nah, walking on the ground is too slow. We can make better time up here. Come on!”

Confused, Riku followed. Sora and him climbed up onto the roof and looked around. Riku found he could see over all the other buildings for miles. The only thing obstructing his view was the gargantuan walls of the city to their left.

“Ok….now what?” Riku asked. He was getting tired of asking questions, it made him feel uncomfortable.

“This way!” Sora replied. He walked over to the edge of the building and stepped off. Alarmed, Riku tried to stop him, but then he saw that Sora wasn’t falling. Upon closer inspection, he saw a long thin plank of wood connecting a ledge on their building to a ledge on the next. “Coming?” Sora asked. He gave Riku a big smile and jogged across the board to the other house.

Riku was speechless. How had he missed those boards? Seriously. Anyways, he crawled out over the board and followed Sora across, albeit more slowly.

The two boys moved over the building in that fashion for over an hour before they finally reached a dead end. Riku couldn’t see a change at all in the scenery, except that now the river was in front of them instead of behind them. On second glance however, he saw that this river had more boats, especially near the entrance to the city itself. The city was still to their left.

“Wow, I didn’t know there were so many boats this close to the city.”

“That’s because this is the East waterway. We live by the North, where only a few poor merchants come through. It’s easier to steal from one merchant than a whole brigade of them. You should have seen the last guy we raided. A real stupid man, he had no guards or anything. If he hadn’t startled Axel we would have made it out without a scratch.”

Riku felt his fist clench, but he didn’t say anything to Sora. After all, Cloud hadn’t told anyone that it was Riku’s boat that had blown up. Sora didn’t know.

“Come on! This way! We don’t want to get caught up here, Tidus might see us.”

“Tidus?”

“Yeah, a real ass. He thinks he’s as good as Cloud, made him own little gang of House boys. They suck at fighting, but there are a lot of them. If he catches me on his turf….well lets just say we’ve had some run-ins in the past.” Sora walked over to the edge of the house and looked over. Unlike Cloud’s house, this one didn’t have any stairs. They’d have to jump down. But the distance wasn’t far, and both boy’s made it down without a problem.

“How do we get back up?” Riku asked once they were safely on the ground.

“We’ll get up through the House when we’re ready. I just didn’t want to come that way, they’d charge us for admission.”

“Admission?”

“Do you know what the House is?”

“Well… not really…kind of….”

“….It’s a place where you can pay to uh…have a good time…you know…have sex?”

“It’s a whore-house.”

“Kind of….now shut up and follow me. I’ll take you to meet her.”

“Her?”

“Shhh…”< br>
“…” Riku followed Sora silently. They weaved in and out of various alleys until Riku though his head would spin off. “How do you know where you’re going?” he asked Sora.

“The Inner city walls, watch them as you move around, they’ll keep you oriented. The rest is just from memory, I come here a lot…”

“Sora?”

Riku turned to see a girl scrunched up against some boxes. She had a jar of water in one hand and a rag in the other. It looked like she was washing something.

Sora turned to look at the girl and smiled. He ran over to her and hugged her tightly, then pulled back some to examine her face. He beamed, then kissed her gently. “Kairi…how have you been?”

“Sora….who’s he?” The girl, Kairi, nodded over to Riku and then looked back at Sora.

“Kairi, this is Riku. Riku, Kairi is my girlfriend. She’s the girl I wanted you to meet.”

Riku smiled gently and bowed to Kairi. “Nice to meet you ma’am.” He swept his eyes over her form, she looked strange for some reason, lumpy. He clothes didn’t fit properly and she looked more heavyset than other girls that Riku had seen.

Kairi blushed at Riku’s gesture and looked back to Sora quickly. She stared into his eyes, then looked away again fast. “Um…Sora…do you have the money yet?”

“No, not yet, I just need a little more time, the next raid will be soon, then I’ll get paid and…”

“I don’t know if it can wait much longer…”

“I’m trying my hardest Kairi…I really am…don’t worry, I’ll have it in time.”

“Um….may I ask what exactly you need money for?” Riku flushed with embarrassment at his query, but he was curious.

Sora paused a moment, then looked at Riku and smiled. “I’m going to get Kairi inside the gate. There is a tattooist on one of the merchant ships who will get her in and help her get on her feet if we can pay him 70 gold. I only need a little more money and I can get her in!”

Riku smiled. “Really?? That’s awesome!”

“Yes well…if we don’t hurry…it may be too late.” Kairi replied, sorrow resonating in her voice.

“Why?”

Sora blushed and looked Riku in the eyes. The teen’s determination was evident, shining proudly through the blue orbs. “Because Kairi’s pregnant.” he replied.