Heaven's Eyes
Chapter One:
Two Sides Of Love
Sora's point of view
"And why are we here again?" Roxas Strife, who is allowed to call himself my brother because he is, yawned and stretched himself out in my car. Our car, but I drove most of the time.
"Because your best friend Axel told us to pick up his cousin" I stared through my window at the rain.
Roxas groaned. "Our ex-best friend" He stared at the rain as well. "If he was a best friend, he wouldn't make us wake up at six o'clock in the freaking morning!"
We, the Strife-brothers, don't like it when you make us wake up before twelve o'clock in the afternoon. Keep that in mind. There's nothing we want to wake up for so early in the morning. To be precise, I don't like the morning at all, so that's why we sleep through the morning to wake in the afternoon. Makes sense.
I rolled with my eyes. "Well, Axel doesn't have a car, so…"
Roxas shook his head. "Oh, hush. I'm gonna check this guy out" He opened the door and jumped outside. "God, do you know how hard it's raining?"
I rolled with my eyes once more. "No way, it's raining?" I mumbled sarcastically. It was always raining.
Roxas slammed the door shut and joined the shadows and left me with my spinning, depressive mind.
And when I was alone, the only thing I didn't want to think about slipped into my mind again.
I believe in true love. And you see, because I'm male, all the girls think it's cute and won't take me seriously. Duh.
But it's actually quite stupid to think about the fact that my true love is out there somewhere without me and maybe making out with some super-muscled guy. Yuck.
I pressed my forehead against the dashboard. "Man…" I muttered. I'm probably the only seventeen years old who's thinking about these things. Probably? I'm absolutely the only seventeen years old who's thinking about it.
I could see new shadows join the old ones, which meant Roxas and Axel's cousin were coming my way. I stared straight forward to the rain again and ignored the urge to sigh.
The back door opened and Roxas' voice drifted inside.
"-and of course, he said I should hand it over to our precious Axel, which I would never, ever do. If I'm sane enough in any case" Ah. They were talking about Roxas' management over his band. I should've known.
An absolutely wet Roxas crawled inside. "Hey Sora, this is Kairi, Kairi, this is my brother Sora"
I heard the door shut and I turned around to greet my new passenger.
Axel had a niece.
And when I looked in the girl's eyes, my whole world broke. Every single piece of me, everything what made me who I was broke into a billion of pieces. It all drifted off like balloons, flowing away on the mild summer wind.
But before I could crash to the floor, the girl caught me. It was like she was my gravity, it wasn't the usual gravity anymore what kept my both legs to the floor, it was her.
It wasn't the sun my world was turning around. It was her.
She was the centre of my universe. The most important thing to me ever. The only thing I would wake up for early in the morning.
I wasn't connected with her like a rope of a balloon, but like an iron grip, keeping me strong and fierce enough to take care of her.
Slowly, things came back. My love for my brother. My love for my family and friends. My loyalty toward everything I believed in.
But she was the only certain thing in my life.
I quickly realized she was my true love. I found her. My only one. Kairi.
Kairi's point of view
Great Axel. Just great. He invited me to come over at his place.
He lived in Twilight Town, where it's always raining. I lived on the Destiny Islands, where it's always sunny.
So I would've been stupid if I took his invitation.
But Axel's still my favourite cousin – heh, he is my only cousin – so I decided to check things out.
I could've wait for the summer, of course. But I knew myself. I came immediately.
The train was dry and warm. I entertained myself with my iPod all the way. Music was my life.
No, you read it correctly, music is my life. Music plus Axel plus my father plus my best friend Naminé is my life.
Nope. No boys. No love.
I don't believe in true love or love at first sight. It's ridiculous that there would be just one boy who is meant for you in this whole world. Do you know how big and gigantic this world is? You can guess once: you don't have one chance to find your true love.
I once fell in love before. Riku. Sheesh, it wasn't all like butterflies, blushes and stuttering... I just liked him more than the rest. But since he was busier with his own body – his muscles and his hair – I decided to break up. Joy.
And since then, nobody else. Actually, the only boys I ever liked were my father and Axel.
Oh, I never thought boys were disgusting, but I never wanted something more from them either.
Axel called me yesterday evening. He still doesn't have a car – u-huh, that means he's still as broke as three years ago – , so he sent his two best friends to pick me up. They were twins, he told me. Axel would want my opinion about his friends, I was sure about that. I wondered how they would be.
Soon, I stood in rainy Twilight Town, seeing nothing but rain, rain, rain, rain and shadows.
I soon discovered I forgot my umbrella. Great Axel. Just great.
"Hey!" A low, deep male voice interrupted my displeased mind.
I turned to see there was a boy running at me. He was from my age and had blond hair. It looked like it was usually spiky, but the rain had washed it all over his face, so it dripped in his eyes. Which were light blue, like the rivers in the mountains.
I found him attractive. Maybe interesting, but not love. No, no butterflies. No blushes and stuttering. Just attractive.
"Hey" I responded automatically.
He eyed me curiously before grinning. "Heh, noticing your haircolour, I bet you are Axel's cousin"
Great Axel. Just great I have the same haircolour and same surname as you.
I smiled at him. "Just the person I wanted to look like." He laughed and I extended my hand. "Kairi Hikari"
He took my hand, still grinning. "Roxas Strife" So this was one of his best friends? Sure a nice one! Twins look like each other, they always told me, also in the mental direction, so I figured his brother would be just as nice. Good job, Axel.
Roxas appeared to be in the same band as Axel. He was actually the manager since a friend of him couldn't do the job.
"Sheesh, you must have a lot of stress if you are Axel's manager!" I said in sympathy. Axel usually didn't listen to anyone at all.
He laughed. "Yeah, well, actually, the whole job is kind of... stressful. I don't think it's the correct job for someone like me, but hey, I wanted to do something for our band too"
A car appeared in the shadows, with a shadow within. Dark glasses. Perhaps double glass.
"I went to that friend and told him I didn't think I was able to do the job anymore. But he laughed it off and said he knew the perfect person for the job."
He snorted and continued talking while opening the back door.
"Since we have just three members, I knew who it would be, and of course, he said I should hand it over to our precious Axel, which I would never, ever do. If I'm sane enough in any case"
Roxas crawled inside and I followed him. "Hey Sora, this is Kairi, Kairi, this is my brother Sora"
I raised my gaze to introduce myself to Roxas' brother and froze in place when my eyes met his.
I forgot everything. Who I was, who I wanted to be, how I thought about things, why I thought I lived, for who I thought I lived... everything.
In that precise moment, I lost my whole being. It tumbled to the floor, breaking in a million pieces. It left me breakable and fragile.
But the next second, before I could fall along those pieces, the boy in the driver's seat broke through my shield and let me in his world, making me his to take.
His world was my world. My world didn't exist anymore.
This boy was the most important thing in my whole life. He was the first thing what would ring through my head, the first thing I would think about when I woke up.
I lived for him. He was the gravity which hold me into place. He was the sun my world, his world, turned around.
I never believed in true love, but I found it. Sora Strife. The only one who made sense for me.
Slowly, as if I was not sure I wanted to take them back into my list of important things, other things came back. My father. Axel. Naminé. Music.
They were all important, but not from the same calibre as the importance of the boy.
The boy was oxygen. The boy was the only thing I wanted, needed, knew.
My only one.
(Author's note:
I'm sorry it's not going that hard with uploading, but well... yeah... don't blame me My homework wants to kill me. U-huh... so, only solution is to make it and see what happens ;) -)