"So Squall-" Sora started but was suddenly cut off.

"Call me Leon"

"Okay Leon. How old are you?" Sora was trying to get to know the new butler better while Riku was occupied in the kitchen and Cloud finally decided to take a seat on one of the couches looking, well, looking how Cloud always looked.

"I'm twenty."

"Really? You don't look like it. You look the same age as Cloud here," Sora said as he flashed a bright smile at Leon.

"Leon! Could I use your help preparing for dinner?" Riku called from the kitchen.

"Aww you're no fun Riku! I was just about to get to know him better."

"I was doing him a favor before you invade into every crevice of his privacy with that mouth of yours," Riku teased.

"Don't worry young master. We will have plenty of time to get to know each other. I will be around just as much as Riku is." And with that Leon got up from his spot on the couch and joined Riku in the kitchen.

"Sooo. What do you think of Leon?" Sora asked Cloud with a mischievous eyes.

"I don't like him."

"What? Why not? He didn't do anything to make you dislike him."

"Fine. He's alright."

"'Alright'? I was looking for an answer like 'Oh my sweet Shiva Sora! He's so hot and his ass is so juicy!' coming from you," Sora said with a pout.

Cloud couldn't help but give a little eyeroll at that. His subconscious had completely agreed with Sora, but he refused to acknowledge such a thing for the time being. But that suit really does make his ass look plump. No! Stop it, Cloud! What are you thinking? A distraction was needed. He walked over and pinched his pouting lips. "Come on, Goofball, let's go for a swim."

"Right now? But it's 6PM!"

"The pool water is warm at night. Come on." With a ruffle of his little brother's hair, he strolled up the stairs while taking off his shirt, revealing creamy white toned skin and muscles.

"Sooo.. is Leon a super human?" Sora asked with his mouth slightly agape.

Both the Strife brothers were standing in the doorway of Leon's room clad only in their swim trunks. Cloud remained speechless at the scene in front of them. For the couple of hours that they've known Leon, he had managed to settle into his new home quite well. Mr. Strife's room was cleared of his belongings days before the funeral, and Leon had gladly taken the open room. Speaking of Leon and the room, it looked as if Leon had lived in it for months instead of hours. His gunblades were in a display case against the wall in the far corner, the closet door was opened, revealing many black suits and other apparel. The shelves were already occupied with books, a desktop computer was sitting at the desk along with a laptop next to it. The bathroom door was closed, but an educated guess suggested that it was occupied with many of Leon's personal items as well.

"How did he manage to move all this stuff here all by himself? The only time he was left alone was when me and Riku greeted you at the door!" Sora explained with mild panic.

"Come on. You can ask Leon later. Let's go swim," Cloud said monotonously. Maybe Leon really was a super human. He made a mental note to check into him later on; he definitely didn't want a stalker to be living with him 24/7.

Cloud went to turn on the underwater pool lights that illuminated the water. Sora on the other hand was testing the water with his feet. Was the water really warm at night? He wasn't given any more time to think about it as he felt a harsh push on his back.

"Woa-woah!" splash.

"The best way to go into a pool is definitely a belly flop," Cloud said with a smirk.

"Oh really?" Leon's voice could be heard behind him. Before Cloud even got the chance to turn around, Leon had already placed a firm hand on the small of his back and gave a very firm shove. The satisfying sound of a splash reached his ears.

Blond spikes resurfaced a second later. He shook his hair out like a dog and gave Leon a well deserved glare, his chest being slightly pink with his body weight going into the belly flop. This earned a chuckle from Leon. I'll get you back for that later. In retaliation, he splashed a large amount of water at his butler, but as he looked up, Leon didn't sport a drop of water on him.

"Gonna have to try better than that, Sunshine," Leon said and ended with a wink.

"Bastard." Blue eyes turned around in alertness, "Something's wrong. Sora hasn't resurfaced."

With the underwater pool lights, a massive black blob can be seen forming under the water. Sora could be vaguely distinguished as the blob had a hold on Sora's right leg, and it was obvious that Sora was struggling for air as he let out more and more air bubbles.

"Sora! Fuck!" Cloud shouted in panic. His sword was still by the door where he had left it earlier in the afternoon, and Sora was now a good 20 feet away from him in the pool. The Heartless had now taken form, a hand wrapped securely around Sora's leg and yellow beaty eyes stared at Cloud.

"Cloud, get out of the water. Now." Leon demanded.

Two gunshots could clearly be heard a second later, which alarmed the blond. He turned around to see Leon holding a gunblade expertly. Those two gunshots met the targeted Heartless, which let out a muffled cry underwater and its form dispersed and disappeared. Sora was released, but not looking in a very good condition.

Those gunshots alarmed Riku in the kitchen. "What's going on? Sora!" Riku was running at full speed from the house with a yellow apron on. He plunged into the pool where Sora was without hesitation and Riku's speed allowed him to beat Cloud to Sora; walking through water wasn't exactly idea or efficient.

Just a few feet more. He's unconscious. Right ankle bleeding. Wasn't able to summon the keyblade. Riku took in Sora's condition and made a mental note of all the things gone wrong. His fingertips were finally able to touch his soft skin and he wrapped his arms around Sora's small frame as quick as he could underwater. Sora.. hang in there. He tightened his grip on Sora and kicked his feet to rise to the surface.

Cloud felt his body being practically yanked from the pool by his left arm as if he didn't weight 180 pounds of muscle. It happened so fast he didn't register what had happened until he was in Leon's strong arms.

"I told you to get out. It's still dangerous. Stay close," Leon said while keeping a firm grip on Cloud's upper arm.

"Sora!" Cloud yelled. He tried to yank his arm from Leon's hand, but Leon's hold proved to be a death grip. "Let me go!"

"Don't. Give them their space. Riku can handle it, he was trained to."

"But-"

"Just watch."

Riku had worked to shove Sora's body onto the cement first, which proved to be a semi-difficult task as Riku tried to push his body up while in the pool, and Sora was no longer feeling weightless like underwater. He climbed up a moment later with addition weight of his sodden suit. "Sora. Sora! Can you hear me?" His pale hand started to lightly tap his cheek, but with the water on their skin, it sounded like Riku was slapping him pretty hard on the face to Cloud. As if on reflex, he automatically tilted his head up while checking for a pulse. Pulse confirmed. He bent his face close to Sora's and leaned his cheek close to Sora's open mouth. He's not breathing!And Riku did the only thing he could do. With his two hands locked together, he pressed down onto Sora's chest three times in attempt to pump the water out. Then, he pinched Sora's nose and inhaled to his full lung capacity, placed his lips to cover Sora's, and exhaled, transferring all his previously inhaled air from his lungs to Sora's. He then locked his hands together, one on top of the other, and pressed down three ones on his chest again. Sora's fingers twitched a moment before he jolted up from his horizontal position on the floor and started to cough up all the pool water. Riku let out he breath he was preparing to breath into Sora's lungs again.

Cough cough cough.. "Ughhh" Sora laid back down after coughing the last of the water up. "Have the butterflies stopped giggling yet?" Sora said in a slightly slurred voice, looking very dazed as if he had just awoken from a nap. His eyes searched for his guardian's eyes and found them just a few inches away from his face, vibrant eyes analyzing his young master. "Riku? Why are you all wet?" his voice very concerned and thoroughly confused.

Riku just stayed silent as he closes his eyes and wrapped his arms around Sora's shoulders for just a few moments before letting go and meeting those cerulean orbs of Sora's.

"Come on, you're hurt," Riku said as he picked Sora up bridal style and started to carry him up to his bathroom, and Sora didn't object, liking the feeling of Riku's strong arms touching his bare skin.

"Okay. Were you going to cook inside underwater?" Sora indicated to Riku's soaked apron by tugging on it slightly. He was still quite dazed and his eyes were drooping. "I know if anybody were to pull orbits then it'd be only you Riku. You can do anything," he said as he finally let his eyelids shut together.

Riku couldn't help but give Sora a soft smile at that, even though he couldn't see it. He was almost through the doorway when he called behind him, "You guys can help yourselves to dinner. Don't worry about us." he shut the door behind him with his foot. "I'm never letting you out of my sight again."

Cloud and Leon had left soon after Riku did in silence. The blonde had jumped into the shower fist thing to get rid of all the chlorine while Leon had disappeared into his own room.

They were in Riku's bathroom and Riku practically pushed Sora under the shower spray with his swim trunks still on and ordered him to take a quick shower to get rid of the chlorine while he looked for the medical supplies he needed.

Sora walked out minutes later in one of Riku's blue T-shirts and comfortable shorts, his hair damp but still retaining its spikes.

"All done?" Riku asked.

"Yeah, but I think I got your shampoo and conditioner mixed up," Sora said with a sheepish smile.

"Come to the bed. I need to take care of that wound on your ankle."

Sora did as he was told, walking to Riku's bed and having a seat on the edge while Riku situated himself on the plush carpeting beneath Sora. Riku brought his right ankle out towards him to inspect. The wound looked more like claw marks. It wasn't deep, but the surface area of the wound wrapped around Sora's entire ankle. He took his tweezers and clasped securely onto a cotton ball, dipping it in rubbing alcohol and bringing it to he most red part of the wound first.

"Ouch Riku! Couldn't you be a little gentler?" a frown evident on Sora's face.

"Hold still. I'll give you a reward if you can hold still an not whimper or complain." Riku said as he continued to disinfect the wound.

"Okay."

After a few minutes of very detailed disinfecting on Riku's part, he finished and threw away he cotton ball and put back the supplies. "Now, do you want your ankle to be wrapped like a mummy or a do you want one of 'Riku's Big Boy Band-Aids'"?

"Big Boy Band-Aid! Definitely!" Sora exclaimed excitedly and then released a giggle.

Riku tossed his silver bangs out of his eyes before reaching for the box of 'Riku's Big Boy Band-Aids.' They were the largest size of a bandage with pictures of King Mickey's dog, Pluto.

Sora gave out another giggle after the bandage was securely on, and Riku took a seat on the edge of the bed next to Sora.

"Close your eyes, Sora."

Sora obeyed, but was confused as to why he wasn't allowed to see whatever Riku was doing. But then he felt it. Warm, firm lips locked with his plump pink ones.

Memories of his first time meeting Riku flooded through his mind. Riku was his father's 13th birthday present for Sora, and he remembered Riku's sixteen year old look from three years ago, but never in those three years that he's known the silverette has he done something like this.

Sora opened his eyes in shock, realizing that Riku was kissing him. Riku's eyes were still closed and looked very relaxed, and at that, Sora decided to just let whatever happens, happen. He closed his eyes once more, and when Riku moved his lips and pressed his lips to Sora's again in a chain of closed mouth kisses, Sora kissed him back too. Riku's right hand ended up reached out cupping Sora's left cheek with his thumb stroking his cheek, and Sora had eventually shyly wrapped his arms around Riku's shoulders.

With a sigh breathing out from his nose, Riku gave Sora one last kiss before he pulled back and looked into the eyes of a very dazed brunet with pink tinted rosy cheeks.

"That's your reward."

"Really? You should give me more challenges so that I can get more rewards.. I like that reward." Sora smiled a very goofy grin. "Hey Riku?"

Riku couldn't help but smile at that. "Hm?"

"You're still wet. You'll catch a cold if you don't take a warm shower right now." Sora was right. Riku had been so focused on Sora that he forgot about taking a shower himself; he didn't really want his pretty silver locks to be damaged from the chlorine now, did he? The yellow apron had already been tossed into the laundry first thing after Riku ushered Sora into the shower, but his suit was still very drenched.

"That's right. I'll go take care of that now." Riku made to get up and walked two steps before Sora's hand shot out and reached for his wrist, stopping Riku in his tracks.

"Riku," Sora called, and as Riku turned around, Sora quickly locked his arms around the taller teen's neck and placed a quick peck on his lips. "Thanks, for everything," he beamed a bright smile at his butler, "and don't get the shampoo and conditioner confused like I did."

A few hours later, Cloud was crouched down low in front of Sora's open door to his bedroom, peeking inside to check on his brother's condition and trying not to get caught. Too late.

"Hey," a whispered breath came from behind him.

Cloud had his sword on him this time, and automatically reached for his sword and turned around, but dropped his sword back down when he saw that it was only Leon crouched down behind him as well.

"Don't scare me like that," Cloud hissed in a whisper.

Leon ignored him. "So how's the little guy doing?"

"Oh don't worry, he's completely fine, extremely happy in fact. Riku has been spoiling him with all of his favorite sweets. Just take a look at his bed."

Leon peeked around Cloud, and indeed, there was Sora on his bed looking completely in bliss as he munched on food off of his sweets filled bed, Riku sitting a few spots away from him on his bed too. "Does Riku always do that?"

"It's his way of apologizing to Sora for letting him get hurt. Does Riku have to watch him that intently while Sora's licking a popsicle?"

Leon let out a low chuckle. "Sora's his chosen partner in life, I'm sure he's having his own sexual fantasies." That earned an elbow to his gut from Cloud. "Oof. Ouch, easy there. I was going to ask you if you wanted to have a little chat with me in my room."

"About what?"

"How I'm going to work."

"Oh I know how you work alright."

"I meant about me being your butler and guardian. Come with me."

"Only if you agree to go fetch my sword next time when I don't have it on me so that my pride isn't completely hurt like it was today."

"Deal."

A/N: I hope you like the story so far! I only know that you guys like it when you review, so please R&R!