Disclaimer: If I owned Kingdom Hearts, then I would be making Riku pin Sora down and start kissing him senseless in the game, not writing a crappy fanfic about it.

Warning: This is a yaoi fanfic, so if you're opposed to boy x boy at all then stop reading now. Also, this story will (eventually) contain graphic scenes and slight language, so kiddies beware.

Chapter 1: First Impressions

"Sora! Hey Sora! Wake up you idiot, we're gonna be late for school!" said a blond teenager, trying to wake up his twin brother who was still buried deeply under the covers, blissfully unaware of the other's presence. Roxas tried again, calling his name louder and lightly shaking him by the shoulders. Still, the sleeping boy's only response was to curl up tighter in his bed, and the frustrated blonde finally pulled the blankets off completely, startling his brother awake.

The brunet half opened his azure eyes to peer up at the annoyance who called himself his brother. "Whassa matter, Rox?" mumbled the boy sleepily, his voice sounding a bit odd from just being woken up.

"Well clearly you've forgotten, but today is our first day of high school and if you don't get downstairs in 5 minutes then I'm leaving without you, got it?" replied Roxas, walking out of their bedroom without another backward glance.

Startled, Sora shot up, sparing only a split second glance at his alarm clock before scrambling off the bed and hurriedly grabbing his new uniform from the closet. Then he scurried off towards the bathroom, fumbling with the buttons of his white collared shirt on the way. He got dressed quickly, knotting his plaid necktie clumsily before grabbing his toothbrush and scrubbing his teeth furiously.

How could I have forgotten the first day of school? Sora thought miserably, rinsing his mouth and splashing cold water on his face before pausing to look in the mirror. His hair was a lost cause, cinnamon brown spikes sticking out in every possible direction, without a single trace of hair gel. Not that Sora minded, seeing as how he had about 30 seconds to meet Roxas downstairs before getting left behind and being tardy on his first day.

He took the stairs two at a time, mumbling a quick thanks to Roxas who was holding out his book bag for him at the landing, and quickly pulled on his shoes. The blonde was already heading out the door and Sora hurried after him, casting just a brief glance of longing towards the kitchen, wishing that he could've at least grabbed a piece of toast. However, he knew there was no time for breakfast, and he didn't want Roxas to leave without him.

The truth was, he knew that Roxas wouldn't be any keener on that idea than he was, although the blonde would never admit it. Although Sora and Roxas were identical twins, the only difference in their appearances being their hair, their personalities were almost complete opposites. Roxas was shy and quiet, and easily got angry or sad, while Sora was always the friendliest person in school, innocent and cheerful. Together they balanced each other out fairly well, Roxas becoming a bit more talkative towards others when Sora was around, and Sora calming down a bit from the ball of energy that he usually was.

Sora was aware that the first day of high school would probably be hard on his twin, even though they would know many of the students from their middle school class. Roxas usually had trouble making friends, but Sora, on the other hand, was like a people magnet. He had always been popular, not exactly in the "cool" sense, but simply because he was so likeable. There was rarely a person Sora met who he didn't get along with.

Thankfully the walk to Destiny High was a short one, and the brothers arrived earlier than Sora had expected, seeing that there was still a fair amount of students filing in through the gates. Sora, better at dealing with crowds, took the lead, making sure that Roxas was following him closely. They found their homeroom fairly easily and walked inside. It looked like most of the class was already there, many people clustered around the desks in large groups, catching up after the summer break.

Glancing around, Sora caught sight of a familiar redhead and called out happily to his best friend.

"Kairi!" grinned Sora, weaving through several of his classmates to reach his friend near the back of the room, Roxas trailing behind. As soon as they reached her, Sora was pulled into a tight squeeze from the girl, who pulled back after a moment to smile up at him happily.

"Hi, Sora, Roxas!" she said cheerfully, waving at Roxas. "How was your summer?"

"Pretty good," replied Sora. "It's great that we ended up in the same class."

"Yup," agreed the girl. "I heard that Selphie's in our class, too, but I haven't seen her yet."

"Oh…maybe she overslept?" At Sora's comment, Roxas snorted loudly and Kairi stared at him curiously.

"It took nearly 10 minutes for me to wake Sora up today," explained the blonde. "Apparently he completely forgot that summer ended." Roxas smirked.

Kairi giggled as Sora punched his brother's arm playfully. "Oh, look! There's Selphie!" Kairi said happily, waving towards the small brunette girl who had just walked through the door. Selphie waved back when she saw them, and hugged them all briefly as she greeted them, before turning to Kairi with an excited gleam in her eyes.

"Okay, Kairi, you'll never guess who I saw in the hallway on the way to class," she said, giggling slightly and flipping her hair.

"Who? Who?" asked the redhead excitedly. "It wasn't…oh my gosh…you didn't see him did you?!" she squealed, voice practically raising an entire octave at the end. Sora and Roxas exchanged helpless glances. Great. It was a girl thing.

Selphie paused for dramatic effect, and then, in a stage whisper, she leaned forwards slightly and said, "It WAS." At this, Kairi shrieked, and both girls began jumping up and down, waving their arms wildly and drawing several stares from their classmates. Finally they settled down a bit and Kairi brought her voice back down to a human pitch.

"So…? Was he really like the rumors all said?" Kairi said in a hushed voice, eyes alight with fascination.

Selphie gave a dreamy sigh. "He was better."

Finally, Sora could stand it no longer. "Who?"

"Sugisaki Riku," chimed both girls simultaneously, before glancing at each other and bursting into another fit of giggles.

"Like that helps at all," grumbled Sora. "So who is this guy?"

"The hottest, smartest, most athletic, guy in all of Destiny High. He's only a sophomore and he's practically famous," said Kairi.

"Yup. Everybody knows him. He's even got his own fan club," added Selphie.

"I'm so joining it," sighed the redhead.

"Way ahead of you, Kai," giggled Selphie. "But what I'd really want is to actually meet him. The only person who always stays by his side is that red-haired guy, Axel, I think it is. They've been best friends since they were like kids or something, but other than him, Riku doesn't really stay with one person. I mean, he never even keeps a steady girlfriend, although everybody says he's made out with nearly the entire female population of Destiny High at one time or another. And," she said, giggling again, "apparently he's gone farther than that with nearly half." Both girls blushed and Kairi squealed again.

"What do you find so appealing about a playboy?" asked Roxas, sounding rather disgusted. Sora couldn't blame him.

Selphie sighed. "But there's the part of him that's such the typical perfect, popular type, and then there's the bad boy side."

"It's just so mysterious," finished Kairi. The brunette girl nodded furtively. But before the girls could continue gushing about this Riku person, or the guys could try to tell him how stupid that sounded, the bell sounded and their homeroom teacher walked into class. The four sat down next to each other, the girls still stifling giggles and Sora wondering mildly what the guy had to look like to get reactions like this, before the teacher began his introduction and class began.

oOoOo

Classes had passed by fairly quickly for Sora, falling easily back into the routine of school. The only real differences between high school and middle school so far were that classes were bigger, and everywhere he went, people were whispering about "Sugisaki Riku". Even guys. There hadn't been anyone like that in middle school. In fact, Sora had probably been the closest thing, and he had been nothing compared to the way people talked about this guy.

The brunet had begun tuning out the conversations about "Mr. Popular" coming from the girls, hardly listening as they wondered excitedly if he had the same lunch period, making their way towards the cafeteria. In fact, Sora clearly hadn't been focusing on a lot of things, because halfway there, he realized he had left his bento in his locker.

Excusing himself from his friends and brother, Sora hurried back through the hallway, beginning to run once he was sure that everybody was already inside a classroom and the halls were empty. He was almost to his locker, and was rounding a corner when all of a sudden he collided into something large and warm. Not something, but someone.

The brunet fell backwards and landed on the floor none too gently, although his small body clearly had not been enough to impact the person he had run into. Sora glanced up at the other student, ready to apologize profusely for the embarrassing accident, but when he caught sight of the other's face he suddenly forgot how to breathe.

Aquamarine eyes were staring down at him, a rather amused looking glint in them at the sight of the much smaller boy who had rammed into him. His features were somehow delicate yet startling at the same time, set in oddly pale skin for someone who lived on Destiny Islands. Silky locks of silver hair reached just past his shoulders, and long bangs slightly covered those breathtaking eyes.

He was much taller than Sora, and clearly stronger as well, muscles visible even underneath his uniform. And even though he was wearing the exact same thing as everyone else, somehow it just looked different on him, fitting him perfectly and suddenly make Sora self conscious. In his hurry to get dressed that morning, his tie had become loose and crooked, shirt hanging out slightly, giving the smaller boy a rather messy appearance. And he had just crashed into this incredibly perfect boy.

And somehow Sora just knew. He knew that this…this godly person, was the one of all the rumors. This was Sugisaki Riku.

The silver haired teen bent down slightly, offering a large hand to Sora, who was still sitting on the ground and feeling rather dazed.

"You okay?" God, even his voice sounded perfect somehow, and he had only uttered two words.

Sora blinked. "Y-yeah. Sorry about earlier, I wasn't really watching where I was going and I didn't think there was anybody in the hallways since class has started and so I didn't think I'd run into you and I'm really sorry and," Sora was babbling, his brain not functioning properly with the breathtaking boy's gaze locked intently on him. "A-are you Riku?" he questioned shyly, realizing how rude he sounded but feeling the need to ask anyway.

The older boy smirked. "I didn't realize that even the freshman boys know who I am on the first day of school…I guess I'm even more famous than I thought. Or perhaps you're just interested in guys…?" he trailed off suggestively, smirk increasing at the expression on Sora's face.

When Sora didn't respond, mouth gaping open slightly as he stared at the other boy, Riku continued. "So…you want an autograph or something, kid?" he asked, clearly enjoying this.

Who the hell does this guy think he IS? The smaller boy lifted himself up angrily, ignoring the proffered hand and drew himself up to his full height, which still didn't come up very high next to Riku.

"Excuse me, 'Sugisaki-san', but I am not gay, I don't want your fucking autograph, and my name is SORA," the brunet replied testily, surprising himself by the sudden and intense feeling of dislike towards the boy.

Instead of Riku getting mad like Sora had expected, he simply chuckled. "Well then," he said in a low voice, bending down until they were at eye level. "I hope I'll be seeing you again soon," he continued, leaning in to whisper into the younger boy's ear. "Sora-chan." Sora could feel the warm puffs of Riku's breath on the back of his neck, tickling the small hairs there and despite his anger he could hear his breath hitch and could tell that he was flushing horribly. Riku chuckled again, low and melodic in the boy's ear, tickling his skin. Then he pulled back from the crook of Sora's neck, straightened the brunet's crooked necktie in one fluid motion, and left without another word, smirk still in place.

oOoOo

Author's Notes: Tada my first chapter of my first fanfic. I know that this chapter was kind of slow, but it was just necessary introductions and all that jazz. Bleh. Hopefully the next will be better, and I promise it'll have lots more Riku .

Since this is my first story, I would greatly appreciate reviews of any kind. If you honestly hated it, then tell me you hated it (and please give me reasons why) so that I can work on improving my writing. But please, please, please give me some feedback. People who do will get cookies

Oh and the last name "Sugisaki" was something I read in another fanfic used for Riku and when I was typing his name it just popped up in my head and wouldn't go away. I can't remember which fic it was though, so if you're reading this, I hope you don't mind me borrowing it and feel free to take credit.

-Sankyuu,

Emmy-chan