Bunnymoon
Saïx rarely bothered concerning himself with his human memories. After all, where would that get him? It frustrated him to no end watching his cohorts fraternize as if they still had hearts, one especially. What was the point? He would rather look to the future, one where pretending would not be necessary. But when he was organizing his desk, a small leather bound notebook slipped out of a pile of papers. Looking at it, he couldn't help but remember his days as Isa, and if he wasn't mistaken, it almost felt like his chest was aching.
Sitting at his desk, Isa was jotting down notes in a leather bound notebook that he had been given for his birthday. Having such a nice and organized outlet to pen down his plans and observations turned out to be more of a blessing than he had anticipated. Not that he was going to let him know. When he unwrapped it, he had rolled his eyes and snarkily asked his friend why he thought he would ever use a journal. Lea had been rather unfazed, he probably had expected nothing else. Truth be told he knew him even better than he'd ever care to admit.
He paused to look out of the open window in front of him, the cool night blowing in on his face. He should be here soon. And then as if on cue….
"ISA… ISA... COME ON… ISA"
There was no mistaking that pitiful attempt at whispering. Isa carefully set his notebook and pen inside the top drawer and climbed on top of his desk. Sitting on top of his desk he could look out over the back street from his second story window. Below his window stood his friend, staring up at him, a large bag in hand.
"Could you be any less subtle? I think the whole block heard you.."
Lea just resorted to gesturing wildly at him, beckoning him down.
"You look like a monkey."
Isa muttered as he carefully scooted onto the edge of his window, legs dangling off. He grabbed onto the drainpipe adjacent to his window and carefully slid down, landing with knees bent. Before, he could even stand up straight; Lea had grabbed his hand and was dragging him down the street. Without a word, he broke out into a run.
"Why are we running Lea?"
But he didn't stop him, or pull away his hand. They ran across the town in its nighttime calm, bathed in moonlight. Everything seemed so calm and ethereal at night. Isa always though their world was rather pretty but at night it was even better. The only sounds were their footsteps on the pavement and the water pouring from the fountains.
The pair was slightly out of breath when they reached the Bailey. They went to their usual ledge where they had a good view of the night sky surrounding the castle.
"So what's in the bag?"
Isa asked flatly, trying to hide his rabid curiosity. Lea grinned devilishly and opened the bag revealing of colorful wrapped candies. He shrugged.
"Saltwater taffy, I figured ice cream would melt so this is the next best thing amiright?"
Isa chuckled and grabbed one of the candies. Lea followed suit and they sat in silence chewing on the sweet and salty candies and staring at the clear night sky. This was their monthly ritual. Whenever the moon was full, they would go out and look at the stars. Isa liked to point out the constellations and sometimes Lea would make up silly stories about them.
"That's Bahumut right?"
Lea was pointing at a group of stars near the horizon. Isa sighed.
"No that's Ifrit, see its diagonal from it's rival Shiva."
"Right, fire and ice. Okay, I'm going to get one right, just give me a second."
Isa grinned watching Lea's eyes frantically scan the sky. The patterns of the stars were so easy for him to find, but Lea always had trouble remembering. As in most things, they were opposites. But that's how Isa liked it, part of the fun of stargazing was getting to point out all the constellations to Lea. Finally, Lea's gazed seem to land on one part of the sky. He looked over at Isa with a cocky grin plastered on his face.
"That's the castle with wings. Alexander."
He stated proudly. Isa replied snidely,
"I guess you managed to get one memorized finally."
Lea leaned back and looked over at Isa,
"Not everyone can be insufferable know-it-alls like you. I've got better things to do than memorize a bunch of shapes ya know."
"Like what?"
Isa looked over at Lea, who looked pleased with himself as always, and rolled his eyes.
"You know.."
"Unless you count showing those ridiculous frisbees off and running around telling everyone your name, I honestly I have no idea."
Lea glared back at him.
"Must not bother you that much if you are still hanging around."
Isa couldn't help but grin back at Lea who was watching him with a mischievous glint in his eye.
"Clearly, I am an idiot."
"You said it."
The boys broke once more into laughter. And then once more they fell into a comfortable silence, chewing on taffy. An array on discarded wrappings surrounded them.
Lea sighed, and Isa looked over sensing a shift in mood from his friend. His agitated excitement from when they first arrived was gone and replaced with
"I still can't believe all of those stars are all different worlds…. I wonder what they're like?"
Isa agreed but couldn't help adding,
"Well, judging that we can't even get into that castle I wouldn't bank on us making it there anytime soon."
The pair laughed, still staring at the night sky. Silence broke out again for quite awhile. All of a sudden, Lea spoke up again, this time with his typical excitable tone.
"If you squint when you look at the moon, the dark spots kinda look like a bunny rabbit doncha think Isa?"
"Wha-"
Lea grabbed his shoulder, which made him pause.
"Before you get all Isa on me, just look."
Isa looked over at his friend in feigned exasperation. Lea merely looked back at him earnestly, so he gave the moon a second glance. He had spent countless hours on the patterns of the stars, but had never really given the dark spots on the moon any thought. Squinting, he looked up at the bright yellow moon. He was right
"Huh, it really does."
Isa replied serenely as looked back over at his friend. Lea grinned impishly back at him.
"Told ya."
Lea muttered as the pair turned back once more to the sky, his friends hand still resting on his shoulder. Stomachs full of saltwater taffy, Lea and Isa looked at the bunny on the moon, and in that moment, both sat there completely content.
Staring through his window at the glowing heart shaped moon hanging in the starless sky, Saïx saw the promise of another moon. One who's light he could truly enjoy. One that could be shared. One that would bring back the fullness he once felt instead of the oppressive emptiness that was his Nobody existence. One with the shadow of a bunny.
((Notes:
One shot. Not beta-d so excuse any mistakes, I did my best, feel free to comment and I will fix them. I might fix things laterI haven't written fanfiction in years so forgive me, but the mood just struck.
I decided that the constellation in Radiant Garden would be Final Fantasy summons because it seemed fitting.
I obviously don't own these characters or setting (just love them a whole lot) and I hope that I managed to keep them in character. ))