Kingdom Hearts Fan Fiction ❯ Future Tense, Unspoken Emotions ❯ Home Coming, Bloody Separation ( Chapter 2 )

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

2.

Sora and Riku never let go as white light engulfed their bodies. Warmth spread to their very souls. Their journey was indeed over.

Both looked at each other through the almost blinding light and simply smirked.

Both looked a little worse for wear. Bruised, battered, shirtless, dirty but completely satisfied.

Grudgingly, their hands were forced apart as light guided one away from the other. Both youths felt themselves plummeting down to earth.

Through the light and past the blinding speed, they could make out the tops of the trees, the rooftops and the winding pathways that made up the main island in Destiny Islands.

“We’re home!”

Kairi stood at the waters edge waiting on her two best friends. She could feel it in her bones that they had defeated Xemnas and were on their way home to her and their families.

Tonight, she would tell Sora how she felt about him. This was her night. She could feel it.

A flash of light pulled her to glance at the mid afternoon sky. Two shooting stars came hurtling towards the island.

“It’s them!”

She began jumping up and down on the spot, eager to see her friends smiling faces again. She was desperate to hug and kiss Sora. She wanted to do it when they found each other in The World That Never Was, but held herself back.

Closer and closer the two shooting stars fell.

Fresh and revitalising water swept over Riku and Sora as they finally hit home. Both surfaced simultaneously.

“Before we go ashore Sora? I wanna ask you something.”

“What is it?”

“Will you be mine? Together I know we can and will change the death that is our fate. I know we can if we become each others.”

“Riku. You don’t have to ask. You already know my answer.”

Riku looked through his soaked silver bangs with a sparkle in his aquamarine eyes.

“Cool!”

He floated closer to the soaked brunette. His hand touched Sora’s side slightly under the water. Lips millimetres apart.

“Sora! Riku!”

Kairi’s distant calls hit the two males like a hurricane. Riku grimaced slightly.

“Hurry up you dumbass! I wanna get home, have a good meal, shower then sleep for a month!”

Riku scoffed at his friend come lover before diving under the crystal blue water and following the other male to the shore.

Excitement took over the younger youth as soon as his feet touched the sand on the seabed. He almost sprinted through the water to touch dry land again.

Riku looked on slightly dejectedly and simply walked up to the shore and the antagonising red head. Sora stopped in front of Kairi before reaching into his pocket and pulling out the key chain from Oathkeeper.

“This is yours. Said I would give it back.”

Riku smirked slightly at Kairi’s downcast face as she was given back her gift to Sora. He then watched as Sora bent over slightly and rested his hands on his knees.

“Sooooo tired Kairi. What a fight that was. Got my ass handed to me. Got roughly pounded into the ground!”

Riku smirked once again. He knew what Sora was talking about.

Kairi couldn’t hold it in any longer. “Sora? There’s something I want to tell you.”

She didn’t care if Riku was standing right there. That guy bugged her anyway.

“Sora!”

Dammit! Before she could even utter the words she was dying to tell him, Donald and Goofy shot past her and leapt into their leaders arms, tipping him back into the ocean. King Mickey followed soon after, jumping into Riku’s arms.

Kairi stood back and growled slightly at the sight before her. That should be her in Sora’s arms.

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Celebrations aside, the five heroes and Kairi sat at the waters edge staring out at the setting sun.

“We had better head back to our own world.”

“I know Donald. Keep in touch. I’m gonna miss you guys.”

“I have a feeling we will all meet again soon.” Mickey whispered to Sora and Riku.

Both the youth’s stomachs flipped. Did the King know the horrible future awaiting them? Or, was he simply trying to make them feel better?

Sora, Riku and Kairi watched them leaving on the Gummy Ship. In a blinding flash of light, they were gone.

“No cold sleep this time. Bye guys.”

Sora sniffed back a small tear. Riku saw this but fought back the urge to kiss it away. He couldn’t….at least not while Kairi was there.

“Kairi? You wanted to tell me something earlier?”

“Oh! Yes I did….its just that, well….”

Riku took her long pauses and nervous glances his way as his queue to leave. He felt confident. He had nothing to worry about. Sora was his just as he was Sora’s after all.

“I’ll catch you guys later. Gonna head home yeh?”

He would wait for Sora. He would wait just up the beach at the pier where their boats rested.

“Riku, wait.”

“No Sora, I’m heading home.”

Sora looked on with a saddened expression gracing his beautiful face.

“Hello? Sora? I wanna tell you something.”

“Sorry Kairi. Ok….shoot!” He chirped as cheerfully as he could.

“Well, I-I wanted to tell you that I missed you so much when we all got separated. I longed to have everything back the way it was before the Heartless attacked. However….with hindsight, I am glad things happened the way they did. Now I know, without a doubt just how much you mean to me….What I’m trying to say Sora is….that, well, I kinda….I think I’m….no, I know it. I-I love you Sora.”

The brown haired youth looked at Kairi, mouth agape. He couldn’t think up any kind of response to her bold statement. Since when had she loved him?

Wait….now that he thought about it, she probably always had loved him.

“Say something Sora.” Her voice was almost pleading.

Still Sora said nothing. Kairi took this as her opportune moment.

Slowly, she placed her hands on his shoulders and raised her face to his. Millimetres separated their mouths. He could feel her hot breath on his lips.

“This is wrong!” The voice in his head screamed at him.

Before he could pull back, soft lips touched his ever so gently. The voice in his head screamed once again. “No!”

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Aquamarine eyes stared on in furious shock as the two kissed less than thirty feet away from him. “You are not doing this to me you bastard!”

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Sora’s senses finally caught up with him. He violently shook his head and pushed the petite red head away from him.

“What’s wrong Sora?! I thought you felt the same way about me?!”

He swiftly backed away from her, glaring at her the whole time.

“You’re wrong! When did I ever say that? I love you as a sister….nothing more.”

“Sora?”

“I do have very strong feelings for someone. This person makes me feel whole. We complement each other in every way. I am this person’s light….they are my darkness….We CAN coexist!”

Kairi looked on through blurred, tear filled eyes. Who was he talking about? It couldn’t be, could it? She walked towards Sora so cautiously, as if he would explode at the slightest touch.

“Sora? Please.”

Now she was pleading with him. His eyes were shut tight. His head downcast towards the sand.

“No Kairi. I truly am sorry, but my heart, and my body belongs to another.”

“Who is she?” Kairi managed to choke out through thick, hot tears.

“Not she….not even close.”

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Riku refused to move from his spot behind the pier. He could clearly hear the few words exchanged between the two. Given his time in darkness, he had learned to rely on his other four senses after he lost his sight through his own fee will. Sora had given the pest of a red head the brush off. A small smirk formed on his thin lips. Still he stared at them.

“Who is she?”

“Not she….not even close.”

Slowly, Riku stood up and began walking back over to his lover and Kairi. Both heads whipped round as he approached.

“NO!”

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Both Sora and Kairi heard the soft footfalls on the damp sand. Both snapped their heads up and looked at the intruder.

Sora broke into a huge smile at the stunning sight of Riku walking casually towards him. Kairi almost dropped as realisation slapped her hard.

“NO!”

Sora whipped his head back round in shock at Kairi screaming.

“It can’t be Riku! It can’t be! It’s just not right! Sora?! Tell me it’s not true. You can’t be with him….can you?!”

She looked on in disbelief as her two best friends walked towards each other, lightly touched hands and turned to face her. Their fingers intertwined.

“But….how?! Why?! When?!”

Tears cascaded down her ghostly pale skin. Sora remained quiet. Riku however remained calm and spoke up over Kairi’s loud sobs.

“How? That’s pretty obvious isn’t it?” He slyly questioned while glancing over at Sora.

“Why? We both feel the same way about each other but it took until Sora was kicking the crap outta me for us to realise. When? Around about five hours ago.”

Anger swiftly crept across the red heads pretty features.

“Oh! I get it….when you were soooooo pleased to see me Sora, you were to busy thinking about Riku! I thought something was wrong, the way you cried over him. The way you fell to your knees clutching his hand! Isn’t it right?!”

Both males stood in silence not even listening to Kairi’s tirade. On and on she continued.

“To think! When I was stuck here so worried about the two of you being safe, you….you were….I can’t even say it! It’s totally disgusting!”

“How so Kairi? It shouldn’t matter what sex a person is….or what sex the person they fall for is….neither can help who they….want to be with.”

Riku seemed completely unaffected by the red heads fiery temper.

“Fall for?! Don’t make me laugh! It’s completely unacceptable. Two men….no, scratch that, two boys being together! Kissing each other! F-fucking each other!”

Tears still flooded down her cheeks. Riku stood absolutely bored. He had had enough. He wanted to go home, away from Kairi.

“I thought you were more mature than that Kairi. I guess I was wrong. Sora? Lets go.”

Kairi watched as the two males left together hand in hand. She felt sick inside. Crushed.

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Sora felt like shit. No, correction. He felt like shit warmed up. Even though he never really harboured any real feelings for Kairi, he couldn’t stand to see her cry the way she had. However, on the other hand, he really felt angry the way she had blatantly judged both him and Riku with her slanderous words.

“Yes….I’m just angry!” He shouted to no one in particular as he rowed his small boat back to the main island.

He certainly wasn’t shouting to Riku. He was too far away. The two had remained in complete silence after they left Kairi. Riku then proceeded to steam away ahead in his boat. That too, pissed Sora right off.

He stole a glance back to the small island to see if he could spot Kairi on the beach. He couldn’t.

“If that was how bad Kairi took me and Riku….what’s my mum gonna be like? Damn….don’t even wanna think about it.”

Turns out, that was all he could think about.

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Riku docked his small boat. He sat in silence at the back of the beach and waited on Sora. He was still kind of bummed out that Sora and Kairi had kissed but deep down, he knew it meant nothing. Nothing like their heated kisses and intimate caresses meant.

Feeling the cold night air whip his hair about his face, making his lean body shiver down to the bone, Riku pulled his knees up to his chest and buried his head in them. His arms gripped around his legs almost painfully.

“Why do I feel like crying?” He questioned to no one.

“It’s not like anything bad has happened. Man….I feel like such a girl, sitting out here crying at nothing. God Dammit!” He screamed while jumping up and punching the coconut palm he was previously leaning against.

He heard cracking noises right above him but looked up far too late.

BAM!

A huge coconut smacked him right between the eyes.

“Ah shit!”

He stumbled around blindly trying to get the throbbing pain away from his face. He jumped around on one leg while vigorously rubbing at his forehead.

“Damn ugly, gay, poof coconuts! Just you wait till I get up there!” He screamed at the unsuspecting fruit while waving his fist in temper at the top of the tree.

“If I’m not mistaken? Were you just screaming at those coconuts?”

Riku stopped yelling and whipped his head round in the direction the smooth male voice came from.

“It’s just you. Yeh….well….it jumped out the tree and hit me!”

“Riku? You really are a dumbass!”

The two youths stared at each other for a few seconds before bursting into fits of laughter.

Sora grabbed Riku’s hand and pushed his own body into the warmth of Riku’s. Slowly, he ran his fingers through the silky soft moonlight silver hair. He found himself wondering just where Riku got such long and beautiful hair. These small thoughts were pulled from his head by lips gliding over his. So softly at first before those same lips pushed onto his even harder, demanding access.

Before the kiss could go any further, Sora pulled back from those pale but alluring lips.

“We have to get back and tell our families….before Kairi in her fit of rage tells the whole island.”

“I guess you’re right Sora. Lets go then.”

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Two hours, many greetings, tears, laughter and each of their mothers punching them in the face for being gone so long, both Sora, Riku and their mothers sat in the living area of Sora’s house. The talk had died.

Previously it had been about the two boys getting back to normality. Basically, them going back to mind numbing high school.

The words were, “Enough of this sword fighting, key swinging nonsense. It’s high time you idiots got back to normal again. Get your heads out of the clouds and pay attention to more important things.”

Both youths had been fed, showered and changed. Now, they both sat twitching nervously in front of their mothers. Sora fiddled with the bottom of his black t-shirt, causing it to wrinkle terribly. Riku on the other hand sat playing with strands of his hair, not even noticing he was going to end up with a mass of tangled hair.

“Look….we both have something we have to tell you.”

Sora looked over at his lover with slight fear in his eyes. Riku reflected back that fear.

“Boys? What’s wrong? Don’t tell us you have to go away again? We just got you home!”

“No….for now we are here to stay….there’s something else we have to tell you.”

Still the two males remained silent. Riku’s hair was now a mass of tangles and tugs. His mother had to swat his hand away before it became too hard to brush out. Sora’s mother finally spoke up. “Ok. It’s getting late and you two have to go back to school tomorrow. If it isn’t important, can’t it wait till later?”

“No….we have to tell you now.”

Both looked at each other and nodded slightly. Riku finally found his shaky voice.

“You see….we are together….as in a couple. We realised our feelings after we defeated Xemnas and wound up fighting each other in the darkness.”

“Excuse me?”

Both mothers leapt up and grabber their own offending son.

“No way! Forget that! Get that menace out of here! I don’t want my only son turning into one of them! Get Riku out of here!”

Sora gritted his teeth and watched seething as his lover was hauled out of the house by his hair. He wouldn’t cry. He couldn’t cry. He was just too angry!

“Why did you do that! What’s so wrong with me and Riku?! We love each other! Isn’t that all that matters?!”

“Love? Don’t make me laugh! You are still a child! That screw up has obviously messed with your head. You will not see him again. Do I make myself clear? I will inform the school of my decision! No son of mine is a fag!”

That did it. Sora was about to explode. Then he remembered something of vital importance.

“I’M NOT EVEN YOUR SON!”

Riku had had the exact same conversation with his own mother. She stood her ground and forbade him from even looking in Sora’s direction again.

Both youth’s sat in their rooms, far too angry to even shed a tear.

Sora sat on his bed with his head buried in his knees. He could still feel the dull ache snaking its way up his lower back. His only reminder of the one night both him and Riku shared.

Riku sat slumped over on his bedroom floor. How could his mother say such awful things about his best friend? How could she be so heartless?

“Wait….she isn’t even my biological mother! I forgot all about that! Idiot!”

However, remembering this didn’t change the fact that he couldn’t see Sora again. Anger clouded Riku’s senses. He stood up abruptly, held out his right hand and summoned Way To Dawn. He pulled the blindfold out of his pocket and tied it securely over his eyes.

He couldn’t see but in essence, could see so much. The outline of everything in his room was an unsettled jagged red.

Rage blinded him. Swing after lethal swing, Riku proceeded to trash his room. Chairs went flying. Walls were slashed with the mighty Way To Dawn.

After so long of destroying his room, Riku collapsed onto his floor with a loud thud. It was then he felt them soaking through his blindfold. Tears.

In another fit of rage, he pulled the black material from his face and threw it as hard as he could towards the wooden floor below him.

Tears of rage flooded from his eyes and poured down his cheeks. He needed an outlet for all of his pent up anger. It was then he glared down at his pale right wrist.

“No….I couldn’t could I?….Yes….I could!”

Holding the Keyblade in his left hand he raised it to his right wrist. In one swift motion, skin and tissue tore deep, crimson poured thickly. Three more times on his right wrist he repeated his actions.

Blood dripped onto his knees and the floor. Pain seeped through the four deep lacerations. His vision blurred slightly.

“Riku you fucking idiot. Why are you doing this?” He couldn’t find an answer for his silent question.

He couldn’t cry anymore. He couldn’t see anymore. He simply sat in darkness and let crimson take over him.

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Sora jolted awake. Something had unsettled him but he just couldn’t place it. Something just didn’t feel right.

Dread and uneasiness ran from his pours, disguising themselves as beads of sweat. This dread was the same as that awful dream. He felt as through he had just lost someone.

Sora sat up and glanced around his room. Catching something out of the corner of his eye, he squinted in the direction of the corner of his room.

“Riku? Is that you?”

He was sure someone was there. He crept out of bed to get a closer look. Sliver hair and a yellow jacket caught his attention.

“Riku? What are you doing here?”

The hunched up figure said nothing. Sora stopped in his tracks as a pale, bloodied face turned to stare at him. Green eyes looking on lifelessly. To say it was creepy would have been an understatement.

Just as the figure turned away, it vanished.

“What the hell was that?!”

Sora flicked on his light and rubbed at his tired eyes.

“What? Bloodied hands?!”

His hands and wrists were covered in blood. Blinking violently he looked back down to find nothing. His guts churned as he looked out his window and over to Riku’s house. Cerulean eyes widened.

“Oh my god! Riku!”

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Pale, lifeless green eyes cracked open slightly only to snap shut again in pain. A small strangled cry came from Riku’s mouth.

He was sure he heard someone call his name.

Sitting in a pool of his own blood, he couldn’t move.

“I….can’t even heal myself….“ He thought weakly to himself.

Managing to move his head, he glanced around the room to see his Keyblade had vanished to whenst it came. Breathing was shallow. Cold sweat poured down his usually flawless face. Blood spotted his silver tangled hair. That same piercing ache from his wrist had not lessened. It only throbbed more, as if his wrist was caught in a powerful vice.

“Why did I do this? What’s worth killing myself over? Am I just too scared to face my fears and my future? Can I even save Sora from his death?”

His eyes fluttered open to face the darkness in his room. He spotted someone in the corner of the room near the door.

“S-Sora?” His voice crackled and faltered.

He gained no response. Nothing, only white noise. Summoning all of his strength, he tried to move. His feet slipped in the sticky blood which surrounded him, but somehow, he managed to pull himself to his feet using his bed to balance against.

Staggering across his room, his pale eyes locked with shimmering, glowing aquamarine. Silver hair flowed down the other’s back, almost floating, even though there was no breeze.

“Riku….what’s worth doing this to yourself? My poor boy….”

A leather clad hand reached out to the slowly dying Riku. Green light emanated from the familiar strangers hand. Wounds slowly knitted back together. Crimson ceased to run. Riku’s eyes once again fell on the other males.

“Sephiroth?”

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Sora leapt out of his window and onto a thick branch of the old oak situated between their two houses. He scaled the tree with swift ease to get to Riku’s room. He felt sick. Something was deadly wrong.

Gasping loudly, Sora stopped in his tracks half hanging from a branch as he clocked a figure clad in black perched on his intended branch.

The person was male, slim built with what looked like ridiculously spiky light coloured hair. With silent grace, Sora jumped up onto the branch. An arm shot out to stop him nearing Riku’s bedroom. Downcast sapphire eyes stared into Sora’s own blue eyes. He could just make out the male smiling slightly at him.

“Cloud?”

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Simultaneously, both males vanished in a sea of jet black feathers. Sora and Riku both stood in stunned silence. Both made their way to the window.

“Did you see that?!” Both shouted at each other.

“Yes….I think it was them….he spoke to me.”

“What happened to you Riku? I woke up to see you sitting in the corner of my room….dying.”

Sora choked that last part out. Riku said nothing but held out his right hand to his best friend. The scars were clearly visible. Healed but still a fiery red.

“I’m sorry Sora. I don’t know what I was thinking….I was just so angry.”

Sora took Riku’s hands in his grimacing slightly when Riku winced as finger tips glossed over the raised painful flesh.

“So….it was them….he saved you didn’t he?”

Silver hair fell over Riku’s face as he nodded ever so slightly.

“Sora? I’m dreading tomorrow….who knows what Kairi will have told everyone.”

Sora said nothing. Instead he pulled Riku’s face closer to his until their lips ghosted past each other. Such a small kiss quickly escalated. Both forced their tongues into the other’s mouth in a heated battle which neither was about to give in to.

A sound from inside Riku’s room snapped them both back to reality and like a shot, Sora was jumping from the branches and into his room.

Riku turned to face the figure in his room.

“I knew it was you. Please….you must get us out of here.”