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Chapter One:

FutureSex/LoveSounds

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"Hey, only assholes leave their weights out!" Vanitas roared from the reception area at the front of the gym's main floor. The perpetrator in question, a young man with highlighter yellow hair and freckles across the bridge of his flushed nose, whipped around and let out a nervous laugh before picking up his weights and dashing them towards their corresponding rack. "No running," Vanitas added for good measure as the blond disappeared around the corner. Then he snorted and shuffled back through the paperwork he had been given to sign off by his manager, Ansem, a man whose fake tan was so acute he could be accused of sporting blackface. It was amazing he still had skin at all, judging by the amount of years he had to have been dousing it in chemicals to have waist length grey hair. As Vanitas scribbled through the first page and turned to the second, a shadow passed overhead. Two cerulean eyes under a dull blue, shag fringe surveyed him with a piercing glance. Vanitas snorted and cocked his head in greeting before continuing his paperwork. As he moved from form one to two, the being above cleared his throat and leaned in.

"When are you off today?" he asked.

"Nine," Vanitas mumbled. A devilish grin spread across his face as he added, "add and subtract two."

"Seven eleven?" Zexion said flatly. "That was weak."

Vanitas shrugged and mumbled that he'd be picking up booze and condoms. "Cause you know who's coming in at ten, huh?" he added with a wink.

"My mother," Zexion cut in with confidence. There was a moment of silence as Vanitas stared at him in confusion. Zexion's brows furrowed together as he started, "wait-"

"You said it first!" Vanitas cackled with glee. Zexion scowled and hid his blush behind his bangs.

"You're always making mother jokes, if the variable followed the pattern as usual it would culminate…" then he rolled his eyes and said, "then I suppose you're talking about your significant other."

"Nah, I was talking about your mama," Vanitas tried to say coolly. But a snort took him before he could finish. Zexion scoffed and launched himself off the edge of the reception desk in exasperation.

"Not that I needed a follow up on your sex life, anyway," he snapped as he turned.

"Love you too, Sexy-one," Vanitas called behind him. Zexion huffed and stomped off. A buzz sounded at Vanitas' side. When he picked up his phone, he saw two new texts signaled on the home screen. Perking up, he scrolled through his unlock code and pulled up the unread messages.

"Hey V Grr :P In at 9:45 instead of 10. Plane is ahead of schedule. Nice lady sat beside me, on way home from seeing her granddaughter, got her number and everything! I think I have a 90 yo pen pal. Lol :D"

"Aren't u gonna say u can't wait 2 c me?"

"? ? ? Isn't it implied"

"Can't wait 2 b in u ;P"

"Huh"

"Huh?" Vanitas thought to himself, a little miffed that Ventus had not said some cute uke thing like, oh noooo u can't say those naughty things V Grrr, u'll make me " " on the plane, or something of a comparable nature, with eggplant and water droplet emojis where the word "cum" should have been. "Huh" was at best disinterested, and at worse offended. Vanitas punched in a quick reply and hit send.

"Never heard that one before."

"Heard what?"

"Is 'huh' THE future sex/love sound? Guess love really is dead."

"We'll have to find out tonight..."

Vanitas sat back and put his hand over his mouth in satisfaction. Normally Ventus wasn't so forward, if you could call making vague statements about the near future "forward." When Vanitas glanced up, he saw Zexion glaring at him from behind a pamphlet several feet away. When he nodded and held up his phone, Zexion raised a brow and said, "good tidings?"

"Very good," Vanitas responded.

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A/N: Lately I've been thinking about the many possibilities a character like Vanitas offers along with the dearth of stories that have him as a bottom! I always enjoy character role reversals and other surprises in stories, so if you do too, enjoy. Also, I wish I could put emojis in these texts, but ff is stupid about certain character combinations and I can't unicode. T.T someone help me...