Laughter is by definition healthy
Summary:
Two separate families. Two houses. Two cameras. Two weeks. One war. Sora and Roxas started it all when they betted that they could out prank the other.
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom hearts, or Final fantasy.
"Come on Cloud! Get up!"
There was a mental list of things Roxas never wanted to do. One was go a week without Sea Salt ice cream. Another to have to spend a day at the mall with Kairi and Namine.
But topping them all off was waking up his older brother. He wouldn't ever except for the fact he couldn't walk to school, especially when it was raining. But Cloud, was twenty-three and could drive, whether he liked to or not. It was weeks like these when he bugged them when their Dad was out on a business trip.
But Cloud locked his door, and the only way to get in was banging until:
A) You knocked down the door.
B) Cloud got so irritated and opened it.
C) The neighbors hear the banging and call the cops, which led to making up a sob story about his brother being trapped in the room.
"Cloud it's raining! RAIN-ING!"
There was a muffled noise, and finally a yell resounded from the room.
"Roxas, I thought we got over this a long time ago, Rain falls from the sky."
Cloud was in a bad enough mood, to reply. This was very bad.
"CLOUD!"
Finally the door swung open, flinging Roxas backwards. Cloud was not happy. His hair was askew and his eyes set in a deadly glare.
"What?" He was cold, but stifling a yawn.
Roxas glared back, though with Cloud at his full height, it suffered from Roxas's height disadvantage.
"I need a ride."
For a second, Cloud looked like he was going to kill him, but simply walked back into his room.
"We really need to buy a calendar."
Roxas ran in his eyebrows furrowed in confusion. He clicked on Cloud's computer, checking the date, and let out a nervous laugh.
Whoops. Spring break. The time of all greatness, where kids goofed off, and made it last before their next big break in the summer. He ran down stairs so fast, that even Cloud couldn't catch him. He should probably make breakfast.
Cloud had been in a really bad mood lately. Tifa had just announced that she was going to move and that her break up with Cloud had been too hard to handle. Yuffie was moving to though, saying something about that she was going to make sure that Tifa stayed on the right path. Cloud wasn't entirely sure what that meant.
But at least Roxas could cook. Well he could cook better than Cloud. He didn't light things on fire. But that's what take out was for.
About an hour later, while Roxas was trying to make his eggs less brown, Mr. Grumpy decided to enter.
In that instant an evil aura seized the room.
Roxas cringed. Today was going to be a dark day for the world, Cloud Strife was brooding.
Roxas usually was the quiet one, but with Cloud you had to talk, or else you would go absolutely insane. So he was just extra quiet and rude to new people because he saved all of his talking for trying to keep sanity.
"We've got new neighbors."
Dead Silence.
"You're still mad because Yuffie and them moved out."
Tifa's name was sort of band from the house hold. But still silence.
"You should go welcome our neighbors."
Finally a reply came. "Why aren't you coming?"
Roxas narrowed his eyes, knowing where this was heading.
"I don't do meeting new people." Don't try Cloud.
"Well if you aren't going I don't see the point in me going." I'm never leaving.
"Well I think it would be good for you to meet new friends, after they moved." I want the house to myself.
"Well you know you don't have a lot of friends." Look who's talking Social Nobody.
"I have plenty. You don't. Now go." Jerk, stop talking to my friends.
"No."
Leon had a lot to worry about in his life. His parents were deceased, and he was left as the rightful guardian of a hyper, annoying, little bro-sneeze.
Another one came from Sora. Leon had told him not to play in the rain, and to wait for the movers inside. But talking to Sora was like talking to an unruly child.
He was currently sitting across from Leon sneezing. Sora had wrapped himself in a blanket that was now contaminated.
They had just moved from Destiny Islands. A wonderful beautiful place, but with the Social Workers on their backs they had to move. And off to Traverse Town, which apparently took forever for movers to get there. Good thing they had brought a handful of stuff along with them, or else Sora would be freezing right now.
They had loved their parents really they had, but life has its cruel twists, and the brothers had to learn how to become a family without them.
"Leon can we go meet people." Sora whined. He usually got away with a lot of stuff, because everyone was so afraid that Sora was fragile after their parent's death. He wasn't though, really, He just knew how to use that sympathy.
"No."
"But Leon I'm freezing and it would make me feel better?" Sora was lying and using the guilt card badly.
"Not my problem."
Sora sighed than slowly a smirk crept onto his features.
"But meeting new people is a huge part of growing up."
Oh no.
"Without it my childhood would be corrupted and when I get older, and try to get a job and go to college."
Here it comes.
"I would always have that fear of meeting people and not know how, because my older brother didn't ever want to."
Kick in the water works. Sora looked at Leon glassy eyed as if he were on the verge of tears.
"I won't succeed in anything."
Leon should have never let Selphie give Sora acting lessons. Or let Sora learn new material by letting the counselor discuss his future with him.
Leon sighed. "Fine."
His expression changed into a smile, and he dragged Leon out of the house.
Ding Dong. Ding Dong.
Cloud stared out the window. Ugh. Roxas always got his way. If he wasn't going to the neighbors, the neighbors were coming to him. Cloud thought about yelling no one was home, but then remembered all the movies where it hadn't worked.
Ding Dong, Ding Dong.
Cloud slowly got up and opened the door. He received a scary sight a goofy smile from the short one, and a glare from the tall one. Cloud began to wonder if there's some sort of spiritual being watching over them, and why they hated him.
"Hi I'm Sora, and this is Leon. Were your new neighbors!"
Cloud groaned, which received a death glare from the so called Leon. Why him, out of all the neighbors, why had they decided to bug the Strife family.
"ROXAS! This is your fault get down here!"
There was no response. Roxas was giving him the silent treatment till Cloud found new friends.
"Fault?" Leon muttered, scowling.
"ROXAS!"
Leon elbowed Sora forward. They were already standing awkwardly in the doorway. He would just use Sora-ness to get them out of there.
"Uh if you want I can go get him." Sora was officially scared of Cloud; the man looked like he could take down several silver haired men. "…sir." Sora said raising his hand in a military salute.
Cloud sighed.
"Fine. I can't get him out anyways."
Sora walked his way up the stairs, when Cloud yelled up at him.
"…if you make him mad don't let him near the paint balling gun."
Sora froze, thought about running back down but kept walking. What sort of job had he signed up for?
Their house was kind of trashed, but it had only a few rooms. One had its door wide open, which had a normal looking boy watching TV.
He knocked on the open door.
"I'm Sora." He said cheerily "Were your new neighbors."
Roxas looked up.
"Roxas."
Sora shifted in the door way.
"The uh blonde man wanted you to go downstairs."
Roxas gave him another look.
"Well he can go drown himself."
Okay new topic.
Sora walked in, scanning the room for any weapons. Flashing on the television was a Hidden Camera show. The type of show where people play cruel jokes on other people than catch it on camera, and send it in to win money.
"Welcome to The Last Laugh!"
Sora studied it. It seemed it be people challenging their prank video with others for the prize.
"Ha! I should enter this show!" Sora stated smugly. "I'm so good at pranks."
Roxas snickered. "A person like you, yeah right."
Sora twitched. He wasn't easily angered, except for when you pushed certain buttons.
His eyes darkened to a scary point. "Like me? I could out prank you and your family any day, Blondie."
Roxas sat up indignantly and narrowed his eyes.
"You want to bet on that?"
"Send in your tapes to see if you've got the Last laugh!" The T.V. buzzed.
Sora smiled pleasantly. "Actually I do, we have two weeks to war, and then we send it in, and let the public decide the winner gets…"
"Prize money will be sent to you for 500 dollars."
Roxas and Sora both smiled and shook hands. His eyes now also darkened.
"This is war. No turning back."
Review!!!!!!! I know Sora's a little off character, but he'll be better later.