When do they leave?
Thanks to everyone who reviewed and read CLOUDED HAZE I'm sorry this took so long i checked every day to see if it would work and today it did.
Just a note from Clouded Haze to R.Y.N.O, if your reading, i got the idea of using Kairi and Sora because I was playing Kingdom Hearts 2 and i just thought 'I wonder how much trouble sora would make if he was around Cloud for a month' so i decided to test the theory.
IT'S A SEQUEL TO CLOUDED HAZE! I SAID I WOULD MAKE IT SO I DID! IM JUST SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG TO POST.
OKAY SO IN THIS ONE I'M HAVING KAIRI AND SORA AS A COUPLE AND BARRETT TOOK DENZEL FOR A FEW MONTHS WHILE HE'S OFF SCHOOL. OH AND PROBABLY A LITTLE OUT OF CHARACTER TOO...
Heres the first 3 chapters, I'll work on the next three then add them as a three. Ok? Well enjoy!
Chapter 1: Denz, Beer, Food, Sora.
Prowler the dog barked from his kennel outside. He stayed there in the night due to his hate of me. He scared me more than Sephiroth sone of the time and he was dead. The dog just... Had these eyes that when I looked into he gave me a look that made me think he was going to kill me in my sleep. So Tifa decided it was best he slept outside to put my nerves to rest. Besides it's not like half-wolf-half-dog would get cold in his kennel with a coat like his.
I sighed as I looked outside. Tifa could release him when I left the house as we agreed.
I was in the kitchen while a frustrated Tifa sat on a stool next to me on the table like worktop. She was lecturing me on my duties for today. I was sitting quietly eating a bowl of cereal while she talked.
"You need to go check on Barrett and the kids quickly this morning, just to see if Denzel is ok there and I need some more beer for the bar and we need groceries and you need to pick up your friends." she pestered flicking up and finger and holding each one as she counted it. "Got that?" she said finally turning to me as I shovelled more cereal into my mouth. I chewed and swallowed carefully before replying to Tifa who was standing with a sour expression and her hands on her hips.
"Denz, beer, food, Sora." I repeated from memory counting each one on my fingers as Tifa did I gave her a small smile. "You can do groceries." I added getting up and washing my bowl in the sink. "And groceries clashes with alcohol so you can do that too." I said with a full blown smirk on my face before putting the bowl away and leaning against the counter by the sink.
Sora had called 8 months ago, he wanted to come visit the month after with his girlfriend Kairi. It had all been arranged, he had even set up a gummi ship to get here – it was used for travel between worlds like we used to go between Radiant Garden and –in my case- the Olympic Coliseum.
I remembered the first time I met sora at the Coliseum i wa looking for my light and he helped me find it in the end. I remember what I heard while there I learnt in my time there that Zack had been there too, he had fought there and been overpowered by Hades, just like me. But trained with the hero there and the goat-man-thing too.
Cid had came and picked me upfrom the Coliseum when I text him, he was surprised I did. That was how I met up with Cid, Yuffie, Aeris and some gut called Squall, he preferred Leon. They talks about Sora while I sat and listened. They knew I wasn't much of a talker.
Kairi had contacted me again the day before they had to leave home to arrive. Shetold me Sora had gone off to fight another Keyblade war and find some lost souls. When sora came back he gave me the full story.
Sora told me he was ready to leave when he got a bottle mail off some mouse guy and had to go on a quest for a while. He contacted me last month to try and set his little trip up again claiming he needed a vacation after what he went through. I had just rolled my eyes at him at told him to get his ass over here with the month this year.
Today was the day he was arriving with Kairi, his girlfriend-now-fiancée. He said they had left their discoveries with their friend Riku, three people who each said to know Zack. It pained me to think of telling them he was dead.
"It's not like I give you the list to sit on my ass!" Tifa grumbled crossing her arms while looking at me. I looked up at her to see her scowling at me from my place at the one end of the kitchen. I was used to her scowling at me right now, she was really starting to annoy me with the mood swings. But I promised Denzel a while ago I wouldn't leave until I had to, and I was going to keep that promise even if he was with Barrett right now.
"Then enlighten me Teef, what do you do at home?" I joked keeping my cocky smirk in place as I slowly walked over and standing in front of where Tifa sat.
"I cook," she started ticking the point off with her fingers. She always did that
"We need food for you to cook." I added into her statement moving around into the living room a she spoke to grab my boots.
"I tend the bar," she added almost in an angry grumble as she followed me.
"One, the bar doesn't open until three and two, we need alcohol." I said again this time my smirk widened. "Three, you aren't allowed the bar open seeing as you are heavily pregnant." she hated when I bought up her lack of cash flow. Not that my deliveries on Monday's to Fridays didn't help the cash flow enough to get by.
"I look after Denzel," she added with a small irking of hostility there. I pulled on my first boot and was wrestling on the second one now, Tifa looked over at me with a glare as I got my boot fully on. I watched as she plonked down on the couch opposite me.
"He's with Barrett" I added looking down at Tifa on her seat.
"And then I work on your delivery service as a secretary." Tifa finished glaring at me almost as if she meant her glare to say 'go on, try me!' she stood up almost as if trying to show her anger from her stance. The only problem was that her pregnant stomach made it impossible for me to believe she would fight me.
"The service is on hold until I get Fenrir completely fixed up after my last accident." I ended taking a step back so she couldn't take a swing at me. She did swing at me, but luckily missed. She must've forgotten it was the second time I crashed Fenrir in the year. I wasn't happy about it... Stupid possum in my way...
"Did I ever tell you how beautiful you look today?" I said backing away from Tifa a little bit. I didn't want to face the wrath of an 8 month pregnant Tifa.
I really hoped Tifa would have a mood swing sometime soon I don't really want to go get Sora with multiple cuts and bruises. I continued to back away from Tifa as she advanced. Then I stopped as I was backed into the wall next to the TV.
Tifa glared at me before walking flush up against me and pulling me close. I smiled while my face was facing to behind her. Sometimes I loved it when the mood swings hit her. But other times it wasn't exactly fun...
Next she did something I wouldn't expect her to do normally –even if in a mood swing mood- let alone when she was mad at me. She quickly removed my shirt by pulling it over my head as if she needed to see me half naked. Then she stopped, frozen and looked at my bare chest.
"Am I forgiven for whatever I did to make you glare at me?" I asked not receiving an answer as I felt her hand come down onto my chest.
Tifa suddenly started to trace over one of the four very visible scars on my chest eyes roaming to the not so visible ones as she traced each scar in turn.
First Tifa traced the small thin line where Sephiroth first shoved his sword through my chest. I remember Zack telling me to stop Sephiroth and how while I was impaled I managed to somehow shove Sephiroth over the edge and away from me.
Tifa moved her hand slowly and lightly touched the scar where Sephiroth had once again skewered me with his sword, that time my shoulder from when I was defeating him and the remnants. It had pieced through pinning me to a low wall but I could surprisingly still use my arm afterwards.
Tifa looked and once again touched the thin line if of Sephiroth's first defeat from me. I noticed the other scar forming over the first where he skewered me and held me up in the same fight with the remmanants as my shoulder. I had an X shaped mark just to the side of my heart. I was lucky he missed.
(AN: I watched both Advent Children and AC Complete and can't remember if Sephiroth stabs both Cloud's shoulder and chest in complete or just his chest so I just added both because I know both happened.)
Lastly Tifa touched some of my recent scars that were both from the same event; the first time I crashed Fenrir this year. first Tifa looked at the one on my arm where the metal cut it then the one that went diagonally across my back where my sword dug into me as I fell from Fenrir and rolled.
Luckily when I fell off Fenrir a few days ago I only got a cut on my arm where I skided on the floor.
"All those scars..." she whispered still stroking one hand along my back the other stroking Sephiroth's X shaped mark on me.
"Just shows how durable I am." I murmured swooping down to capture her lips with mine. I slowly pulled away and placed a hand on Tifa's stomach.
"We may need to move when it comes." Tifa mumbled against my lips, she knew what I was thinking.
"Or we could just use the nursery I secretly decorated in my old room. We could even extend the apartment to have a guest room." I told her thinking of the spare space over the bar that was just roof at the back right now.
"Really? You painted and set up a nursery?" Tifa asked looking up at me with sparkling brown eyes.
"Yes." I told Tifa leaning back down for another kiss. Tifa kissed me passionately and lovingly. I pressed Tifa against the front door and felt her hands stroke along the long scar on my back. Suddenly I was falling onto the floor outside.
Damn it Tifa! Why opened the door on me! Sneaky little-
"Here's your shirt!" Tifa shouted interrupting my inner cursing at her as she threw my shirt out the door. I sighed as I noticed how the throw was misjudged and the shirt now just hung over the top of the lowered roof.
"Go see Denzel and go get your friends." Tifa giggled before throwing my bike keys at me and closing the door on me.
"I would if I could reach my goddamned shirt" I shouted back as she walked back through the house giggling to herself. I sighed and started jumping in an attempt to get my shirt.
I hate being short. I growled in frustration before bending my knees for an almighty jump. I grabbed the shirt and slid it back over my head and over my chest.
"Love you!" I shouted through the door hearing the muffled 'love you too!' from Tifa as she got ready to go to the shops.
I stood up with a smirk and made my way to my bike. I waked into the garage quickly not wanting to get caught still here by Tifa who insisted that I left already. I walked over to the bike with silent steps flipping open the sword compartment and taking out the swords to put in any luggage that the couple may have when I pick them up later.
I flicked a switch on the bike turning on the engine so I heard her soft musical purr. I quickly sat on my bike smirking to myself as I revved the engine. I steadied the bike while I pulled my goggles out of a compartment in the back. Tifa had bought me some new ones after Yazoo had shot mine off when I first met the remnants.
Great first impressions…
My new goggles were much like the old ones. They had the same shape the only difference were the colours. The lenses were a tinted metallic blue and the rims around the lenses were sliver along with the rest of the glasses. Silver and blue apparently went with black, according to Tifa anyway…
I revved the bike again before I zoomed forward out of the garage like a bullet out of a gun.