A/N: Thank you all for the reviews and faves! AssassinZAssassin, yes, I can see Fang daring someone to do that. Thank you for the suggestions! FFLightXHopeTifaXCloud, there will eventually be a bit of LightningXHope in the story, as I am a fan of the pairing. Forgot the disclaimer last time, but it's on my profile page. Enjoy! BTW, the story's rating is getting bumped up to M for nudity, sexual remarks/possibly scenes, etc. Thought I'd let you know!
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Once everyone had stopped laughing long enough to draw breath, they managed to start the game up again. Sazh spun the bottle, and it stopped on Vanille.
"Truth or Dare, kiddo?"
"Um, truth, Sazh?"
"Alright. Have you and Fang ever slept together?"
"Well, when I was scared of the storms back in Oerba, she let me-"
"No, no, no. I mean 'slept' slept."
"Oh! Well, yes, yes I have."
Vanille's question answered, she reached for the bottle and spun it, waiting for it to stop. It finally stopped on Yuj.
"Well, well. I'll take the dare, Vanille."
"Alright, bluey. I dare you to, um... tell us the one person in this room you would be in a relationship with!" Vanille yelled the last few words triumphantly, pointing at Yuj and gloating. Yuj looked as though Titan had asked him to run a marathon. Fang was looking at Vanille with respect, while Snow, Serah and Lebreau were all sniggering. Maqui was looking at them, trying to figure out what was so funny.
"Uh...um..."
"If you don't wanna do the dare, do the punishment instead."
"No way, I'd be out 5000 gil! Fine, if I had to, it would be Maqui, okay!" His humiliation wasn't ended yet though, as the other members of NORA-bar Maqui, who sat looking shellshocked but oddly happy- started making catcalls while Yuj spun the bottle. It landed on Fang.
"Dare."
"Alright, I dare you to...proclaim your undying love for Lightning in front of us all."
For the third time that night, Snow's drink graced the coffee table with it's presence. Lightning looked ready to kill, and Fang seemed to think the whole thing was tremendously funny. Turning to Lightning, Fang took one of the soldier's gloved hands into her own, and got down on one knee.
"Oh, Lightning, words cannot express how happy you make me," Fang started while everyone else laughed their asses off, "Will you marry me?"
"No."
Everyone else laughed at Fang's ultimate rejection, and this time Lightning joined in. "Ya know, Sunshine, when someone asks ya to marry 'em, ya don't usually say no."
"Whatever. You're not my type. You got one limb too few."
After a few seconds, Hope was the first to understand what Lightning meant, and started laughing again. "Oh, Maker, Fang! You just got PWNED!"
The members of NORA, along with Serah, understood what Light meant, and even Sazh and Vanille figured it out eventually. Fang got it, too, and started sulking. She spun the bottle, and it landed on Snow.
"Heroes are brave, right guys? I'll take the dare, Fang."
"That...was dumb. Dumber than usual, Snow."
"Ah, cool your jets, Light. Alright ya big lunkhead. I dare ya to rip off Serah's clothes in front of us all!"
Lightning had Fang in a headlock as soon as her brain registered what Fang had said. "Take it back!" "Can't do that, Light. Once a dare's been given, it can't be changed." "Damn it, Snow, you aren't helping!"
Serah stood up at this point, and motioned to Snow to stand up too. "Alright. Snow, do the dare."
"Um... you sure, Serah?"
"Yes. Do the dare."
"Okay. If you're absolutely sure..."
Serah nodded, then motioned for Snow to get on with it before she changed her mind. Gripping the front of her shirt, Snow kissed her gently, before ripping the shirt off. Fang and Vanille both leaned in eagerly, earning themselves a punch from Lightning, Hope and Sazh had the decency to look away, Lebreau just looked as though it was nothing she hadn't seen before-which Lightning thought warranted further investigation- and Yuj and Maqui both got nosebleeds.
"Alright, they've done the dare! Snow, get my sister something to wear before I kill you, and Serah, why do you wear shirts that can be ripped off so easily?"
Snow rushed off to the wardrobe in his and Serah's bedroom, while Serah answered Light's question. "They're cheap, so they can be replaced easily. Also, it helps when Snow and me are a bit, well, frisky."
"Here you go, Serah!" Snow arrived back in the room to find Serah blushing, Light glaring at him, and everyone else trying to pretend they didn't exist. "Oh... guess you told her why, huh Serah?"
"She wouldn't have believed it if I'd lied! I'm sorry, Snow!"
"Nah, it's okay. My turn to spin, right?"
Snow spun, and this time it landed on Maqui, who immediately blurted out dare without thinking.
"Alright, I dare you to play seven minutes in heaven with Yuj, kid."
"What? No way, I can't do that!"
"It's that, or streak across New Bodhum, kiddo."
"Oh, damn you all to hell! You're all evil, you know that? EVIL!"
"Dude, calm down. It's not like we have to DO anything. Just sit in the closet for seven minutes, then we go back and you can be evil to someone. 'Kay?"
"Okay. Okay, I can do this. Open the closet."
Fang ever so graciously opened the doors of the giant closet. "Welcome to your boudiour, my good sirs." She said, mockingly curtseying in front of them, and making Hope, Snow and Lebreau laugh. The two teens walked in, and the doors were shut behind them. They heard a scraping sound, and correctly guessed that Fang had moved a chair in front of the doors.
"So..."
"Yeah... Heh heh. Guess this is where it starts to get awkward, right?"
"Yeah...Did you mean what you said earlier?"
"Which thing do you mean?" Yuj feigned ignorance, though he really had quite a good idea of what Maqui was meaning.
"About me being, y'know, the only one you'd have a serious relationship with?"
'Oh god, here comes the awkward part' "Yeah. You probably know, but I'm gay."
"Really? I thought you were just a bit, well..." "Touched in the head?" "Kinda...maybe...yes?"
"Well, no, I'm gay. And as luck would have it, I've fallen for you. So, what are we gonna do about this?"
What Yuj wasn't expecting then was to feel Maqui's lips nervously press against his, slightly clumsily, but determined. Just when Yuj decided to kiss back, Maqui pulled away and whispered into his ear, "I guess I'll just have to...help you back up? Right?" Nodding slightly, Yuj's brain finally realized what was happening.
"Wait, does this mean that..."
"Yeah. I'm gay, too, but I just never wanted to admit it. Y'know, in case the others hated me for it. I kinda fell for you a few days after I started working with NORA, but I thought the others were joking when they said you were gay. I thought that they had realized I loved you, and were making fun of me. Teasing me, y'know?"
"Well... we still got," Yuj checked his luminous watch, "five minutes left. What should we do now?"
His question was answered when Maqui pressed their lips together again, except this time, all traces of nerves were gone. Yuj kissed back, and this time, Maqui didn't pull away.
~Five minutes later~
"A'right, boys, times up!"
"Go away!" came the simultaneous reply from inside the closet.
"That's it. Those are some good clothes in there, and I'll be damned if I let you two ruin 'em!"
Fang dragged the chair away, and opened the closet doors, causing Maqui and Yuj to fall out of it, lips still pressed together, a faint pink tinge colouring their cheeks at having been put on display by Fang.
"So, you two finally got over it, huh? Told each other how you really felt? Good for you." Lebreau's smile indicated that she was indeed happy for the pair, while Snow's eyes sparkled with mirth.
"Snow, did you...plan that?"
"Well, Lebreau and me had been plotting to get you two alone together for a while. The fact that you were kissing while falling out of the closet was just a bonus."
"Yeah? Well, thanks to you guys, I got a 'bonus' right now!"
Maqui smirked. "Oh yeah? Is it 'Yuj'?" That set the group off again.
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A/N: Dirty jokes ahoy! Also, thank god for euphemisms! Or however you spell it. Also, first real kiss of the story! Oh crap, it's a gay kiss. I'm gonna be burning from all the flames for this chapter. Still, maybe people will have some decency and realize that everyone is entitled to love whoever they wish. Also that this is my story and I'll write it the way I want! Hope you enjoyed this chapter, but I still need truths or dares for the group, so please send me them in a review! Or I'll sic Sephiroth on you! Mwahahaha!
