Kingdom Darkness

Title: Kingdom Darkness
Chapter: Solemn
Rating: R [ NC17 later on. ]
Pairings: Riku – Sora
Comments: Phtt. I’m rather depressed right now. Sorry if this reflects in the chapter.


“ Speech “
// Flashback //
/ Mental Speech /


Squaresoft and Disney own Kingdom Hearts, and I make no money from this.






The Key Hole had been there, just as Goofy had said. And the glowing turout out to be nothing more than a haunting Heartless that swarmed around him, trying to knock him out of the tent. A rather sad attempt, and he defeated it easily.


And upon sealing the Key Hole and returning to the gummy ship, Sora had no other choice than to listen to Goofy and Donald squabble.


“ You must have been it before hand, “ Donald insisted, “ Get over it, it’s the first time you’ve ever been right.”


“ I’ve been right plenty times before, Donald. You jus’ don’t wanna admit. “ Goofy defended, but friendly as usual. His light tone seemed to anger Donald more.


“ Like when? I’ve been hanging around you for years and nothing you ever said had been right.”


“ Well, maybe when you’re just not around.”


“ That’s silly. “ Donald crossed his feathered arms, “ I’m always around, anyway.”


“ Not back at the castle. You were always off doing things for King Mickey.”


“ Yeah, well… Pluto can’t do everything, ya know. “ Donald grumbled a little, “ Besides deliver messages.”


“ Aww. Shucks, Donald, don’t start on Pluto! I aint done anything to ya.” Goofy turned his head, ears flopping a little as he did.


“ Yeah well, I don’t like that dumb mutt.” Donald said harshly.


“ Now, Donald, Pluto seems to like you!” Goofy said in his overly happy voice. Donald scowled.


“ He tried to bite my leg off once! So I don’t really think he likes me all that much, “ Donald said, his tone rather cold. More so than the snow all around them.


“ Would you two stop fighting? I’m ready to torch myself up here.” Mushu poked his head out from Sora’s hood, his eyebrows dipping down violently.


“ We weren’t even talking to you, you little worm!” Donald shook his fist at the little fist at the dragon. Mushu huffed out a puff of smoke at him, which only rose and clouded around Sora’s head.


“ Yeah, well. Your voices are giving me a headache.” Mushu said, bearing his tiny little teeth for a minute, before returning to the warmth of the hood.


“ Donald, be nice.” Goofy said,theythey just finished mounting the snowy hill Sora had slid down before. A few soldiers from the nearby camp were standing over the general’s body, covering him in thick gray blankets. Pluto was bounding up to greet them.


“ Do you think he’s okay?” Sora asked quietly, talking more to Mushu than anyone else. The tiny red dragon peered an eye over the hood edge, spotted the general, and crawled onto Sora’s shoulder.


“ I dunno… I never saw the dude past bet before, especially not in the cold. “ Mushu said, eyeing the pale color of his skin.


“ Maybe we should go see?”


“ Yeah, maybe we should go see… Hey! What about Mulan!” He twisted to look Sora in the face, “ You said that if I helped you find your friend, you’d help me find mine.”


“ The Huns didn’t have her… maybe she’s back at the camp.” Sora offered weakly, giving a slight smile. Mushu snorted and slithered down Sora’s body quickly, plopping into the snow and moving through it like a snake.


“ Man I aint helping you no more.”


“ Hey! Where are you going?” Sora stopped where he was in the snow. Goofy and Donald stilled as well, watching the dragon go past them.


“ I’m better off with these guys than I am with your sorry butt.” Mushu looked back, long tongue slithering out with tiss,iss, before heading off to the troops, who were trying to load the general into a flat wagon, cushioning his head with bundles of dirty uniforms.


“ I feel bad for him.” Sora murmured, looking at Goofy and Donald helplessly, then beginning to walk again.


“ I don’t feel bad for that little thing.” Donald stuck his bill into the air arrogantly.


“ I kind of do… He lost his friend, after all.” Goofy said, sounding sympathetic.


“ Yeah… he lost his friend.” Sora whispered, watching as the gummy ship became more and more apparentthe the distance, looking odd and bright against the dull white landscape. He dug his hands deeply to his pockets and fiddled with the lint there, staring at the tracks his friends were making in the snow.


Donald look back, and sighed dramatically, “ Why did you need to mention that, Goof?”
“ Mention what, Donald…?”


“ F-R-I-E-N-D. “ Donald spelled out slowly. Goofy only looked at him oddly, the purest look of confusion haunting his long features.


“ Friend!naldnald whispered loudly. He looked back quickly afterwards, seeing that Sora hadn’t really noticed, “ Since Riku is still under the Heartless power…”


“ Ohh… right. Sorry, Sora.”


“ Don’t say sorry now! It’s too late, Goof!”


Sora listened to his friends fighting again, looking back at the distant figures and the bright red streak, Mushu. He sighed heavily and tilted his head forward, eyes closing slowly.


// He was alone on Paopu Island.


After embarking on a one-hour search of Destiny Island, a fruitless one at that, he had settled for sitting, legs hanging over the edge and kicking at the water.


“ Man… I wish I knew where Riku was. “ He said to himself, turning over a ripe fruit in his hands. It was soft to the touch, so much so that he handled it delicately, thinking it might bruise. It didn’t seem to, though. Merely glisten up at him, daring him to take a bite.


And then, he wondered what it might taste like. Riku had said that there was nothing sweeter than the bond of two souls… but he was alone. Would it hold true to him anyway?


Raising an edge of the fruit to his lips, he daringly pressed his Cupid’s bow lips against it, feeling the slight prickle of fuzz. It felt rather nice, and he found himself drawing his lips across it again and again, eyes sliding shut.


“ Going to try it?”


It startled him, and he nearly dropped the precious fruit. Turning to look quickly, he smiled widely when Riku sat down beside him.


“ Going to try it?” Riku repeated with a gentle measure to his voice, “ Or just toy with it like that?”


“I was thinking about it but I don’t have anyone to share it with, so it’s kind of pointless.”


It was oddly quiet for a moment.


“ Maybe you should anyway, “ Riku begun, pausing to look up to the moist Paopu leaves above him, “ Just to see how it tastesd mad maybe I’ll kind out for myself.”


Sora grinned a little, with a slight nod, more towards himself than Riku, “ Okay.”


He raised the fruit to his lips again and took in the heady smell of the rind. It smelled sweet, so maybe it would taste as so? Running his tongue along his lips nervously first, he parted them, and allowed his teeth to sink into one corner.


It popped a little when he bit into it, and instantly his mouth was filled with the sweetest juices he could ever imagine.


“ Wow, Riku.” Sora wiped his mouth on the back of his arm, peeking over at Riku, who was leaning close to him, “ Its really good.”


Riku smiled a little, resting his chin on his friends shoulder, “ Well then, Sora. I suppose your going to share it with Kairi, then?”


Sora seemed to be thinking, looking down at the lovely fruit in his hands, “ No, I don’t think so.”


The fruit was then presented to Riku. He blinked, and looked up at Sora. He hadn’t really meant what he had said… merely teasing Sora. But the sweet aroma drifting from the fruit was heady and powerful.


“ Friends forever, right?”


“ You sound like some sappy little girl, the way you word that, “Riku smiled a little, somewhat sadly, and took hold of Sora’s wrist, “ Yes, friends forever.”


He allowed Sora to steer it to his mouth, first nibbling on one of the star points, then taking a large bite. He coughed a little bihen hen swallowed, running his tongue across his glistening lips.


“ Now we’ll always be together, no matter what will happen.” Sora’s smile was bright. He dropped the fruit on the ground beside him, and wrapped those thin arms around Riku’s wide shoulders.


“ Together… no matter what.” Riki whispered into Sora’s ear. The younger boy nodded, carefully placing himself across Riku’s lap.


“ No matter what.” Sora smiled again, and it was electrifying. Riku felt himself being drawn to it, snaking a hand through that soft brunette hair before meeting Sora’s lips with his own.


Sora made a pleasant little sound, the kind he did only when he was surprised like this. But then he gradually relaxed, and placing his hands, hesitantly, at Riku’s barely shoulders. Riku shuddered a little when Sora placed his somewhat chilly hands on his skin, and to make up for the lack of warmth pulled Sora closer.


Just as Riku was sliding his hands beneath Sora’s somewhat stupid pale blue shirt, faded from years of wearing, the younger boy pulled away and looked around.


“ What?”


“ We’re in public.” Sora said nervously. Only the lonely silhouette of a person in the distance told signlifelife.


“ So what?” Riku questioned, his arms sliding lower to Sora’s hips, and pulling him closer this way.


“ What if they see us… doing this?” Sors bis biting his lip. He always did this when he was nervous. And it was really starting to annoy Riku. So he leaned in and roughly bit his friends lower lip, tugging it away and suckling on it gently.


“ I don’t care if someone sees us.” He answered, releasing his lip and running his tongue across it soothingly. Sora gasped and melted against him.


“ But… but what if they tell my mom…” Sora said weakly. Riku dro bac back into the ground with Sora on top of him, taking to a spot just behind Sora’s ear and attacking it relentlessly.


“ Don’t worry about all that.” He bit his earlobe, “ Just close your eyes.”


Sora whimpered a little and sprawled himself oddly across Riku, moaning now and then. Riku laid his head back after a while, his hips bucking up mutely.


“ Riku…” Sora said softly, tilting himself off to one side a little, to run his shaking hand down Riku’s side, thrilling in the way the muscles twitched and grow slid to his touch. He traced a certain muscle down its curving V, until it reached the top of Riku’s pants. But friend was already breathing deeply.


“ Sora… please.” Riku begged, his eyes shut and head tilting back on his long neck. Sora took this chance, and slid his slim hand into Riku’s pants.


First, he toyed with the fine, obviously trimmed patch of hair he came across first, following it until his fingers crossed across the burning staff. He took a deep breath and wrapped his small hand around it, giving a first experimental tug. Riku’s hips seemed to follow.


Riku seemed to like it. Of coarse, why wouldn’t he like it though? He had certainly enjoyed the treatment that Riku gave him a few nights ago… Sora suddenly found he blushing, and hid his face in the hollow of Riku’s throat.


“ Mm… feels good.” Riku said in a hushed voice, when Sora begun to move his hand at a more steady pace, his strong-arms curling around Sora tightly. The younger smiled a little against the throbbing skin, nestling in a little bit deeper. Never before had he felt so protected, loved and wanted. But then again, he had never felt this way before.


“ Riku…” Sora begun steadily.


“ Hmm?” He opened his eyes a little, mouth still open and taking deep breathes.


“ I like you a lot.” He breathed out, even his own breath becoming quick and labored. Riku cracked a rather crooked smile.


“ I know, Sora. And I like you a lot to—“ Sora cut him off.


“ I mean… love.” Sora blurted out, feeling his face turn burning red again. So he pressed it deeper into Riku’s throat, trying to somehow hide the blush. Riku’s eyes cracked open again, staring straight up, hips buckling slightly.


“ Sora… I…can’t say I feel the same way.” Riku said honestly, his mind growing fuzzy from arousal.


“ What do you mean?” Sora’s had stilled and Riku groaned out deeply at the loss of sensation.


“ I can’t. “ He repeated, slipping his hand up Sora’s smooth back and dancing his fingers across his shoulder blades, massaging the soft, smooth skin he found there. And trying to coax Sora in continuing by pushing his hips up needily. Instead, Sora withdrew his hand.


“ Sora! “ Riku gasped. Hand flying to his own crotch quickly, “ Where are you going?”


His brunette friend didn’t say anything, though. Only turned, his head sagging a little, and went down the long gangplank to shore. Not even bothering a slight glance back. Riku gritted his teeth together tightly and turned his head to the side, looking upon their shared Paopu.


And suddenly, he didn’t feel much like wanking anymore.//


“ Another memory?”


Ansems voice was cold in his ear. Riku jerked away from it, brushing at his neck to rid the feeling. The tan man just stood in place, gazing at him with his amber eyes, then turned away.


“ It’s gone now.” Riku reassured. Ansem said nothing, the hard edges in his back growing even more so.


“ They keep returning to you.” Ansem was leaning over a desk, scribbling down with a long feather quill, “ You haven’t lost the entirety of your heart yet. But most of it.”


Ansem spoke about it with such ease. Riku winced at the tone and tightly gripped the spoke, over where his heart used to be. The crevice felt empty and barren.


“ Why keep me around Ansem?” Riku wondered out loud, peering up at him for half a second, and then looking down respectfully, “ Kill me. Make Sora really suffer.”


“ He suffers now, the longer you two are apart, “ He said it as though it were the simplest, most obvious thing in the world. He dropped the quill and turned to face him again.


“ Then kill me anyway. Take my soul.” Riku offered. Ansem grinned harshly.


“ Why so eager? I thought you cared about the boy.”


“ I don’t.” Riku answered, his hands clenching at his sides. Keep it stored away, “ I didn’t. And I wont. But… I know he –“


“ – Cares for you. Loves you. Desires you. “ Ansem finished, rubbing his pointed tongue across his smooth lips, “ Your heart was an interesting one to look into. So many memories… that one was my favorite. You should have seen the look on his face.”


Riku wanted to push the comment a little bit more… he’d bet that Sora cried afterwards, somewhere alone, until his eyes were too puffy and unwilling to shed another drop. He was just that way.


“ Please… just end me now.” Riku bowed his head, and then dropped down to his knees. Almost pleading with the older man. Ansems expression was passive.


“ Why should I? Simply because you ask me too? I am neither that forgiving nor understanding… I shall not end your life, but rather, forever bind you to darkness. To suffer the lost of your friend.” Ansem spoke those words smoothly, as though each one had been carefully planned.


Riku looked down, and was surprised to see a few small Heartless sitting on his thighs, their large yellow eyes peering at him curiously. He wanted to throw them off, but… he just closed his eyes, and turned his chin up.


“ I’ll do it myself then. “ He said, his voice shaking a little, “ I wont let you me me to harm Sora anymore.”


Ansem hit him them, and Riku had to fight to now wince from the strike. He had been hit many times since coming here, for his lack of respect and disobedience.


“ You care for the boy.” Ansem said, acid clear in his tone, “ You still hold part of your heart… but it shall be gone soon, in due time. “


Ansem turned away from him then, leaving Riku in the center of the room, alone.





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