LeeLee-san: Oh my gosh are they still reading?

Rin-san: You have returned wooh.

Cloud:/sigh/

Rin-san: Oh hush Cloud you're in this chapter..

Cloud: Yeah yeah.

LeeLee-san: Well as stated before, we do not own Kingdom hearts I or II, or any of the characters created by the awesome Tetsuya Nomura.

Rin-san: Now on with the story!

"Speach"

'thoughts'

/actions/

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Chapter 2

K.O.!

After that phone conversation with Riku, Leon couldn't help but worry all the way home. Just what was Riku planning? It was even worse when he arrived home, only to pace about his floor, thinking of all the possible things the evil silver haired one could come up with.

'What if he's planning on locking us in a room together for lord only knows how long because of some mysterious call we both received?'

'What if Riku was planning on making a large billboard stating his feelings for Cloud and then putting it up on the same highway the blond rode on every day!'

'What if Riku was going to secretly tape him saying that he liked Cloud and then posted it on the internet or have them run it on the news?!'

'……What if Riku went and told him himself!!'

No! he wouldn't think like that, 'Riku would never………..wait. Doesn't Sora know Cloud?' A look of utter horror and fear worked itself onto Leon's face. Why hadn't he thought of that earlier!? Just thinking of the way Riku had said 'he would find out in due time' made him shudder. The only thought running through his mind at the moment was 'I've gotta stop him'. It became a mantra playing over and over in his head.

Adrenaline hit him all at once. With the way the brunet was running at breakneck speed to grab his keys and get to his car, it was doubtful he would have been seen by anyone. They would have just seen a brown and black blur running from Leon's house, only to jump into Leon's car and drive off down the road, heading further into town.

Faster and faster the scared one went, doing his best not to go too far over the speed limit, he had to get to Sora's before Riku left. He was going to stop Riku no matter what. Buzz.

'….What the heck is that?'. Buzzzzzz '…there it is again' Buzzz…clunk.

'…Oh crap…cell phone.' But it would seem Leon noticed a bit too late that his cellular device had been vibrating, and it managed to vibrate itself all the way down to the car floor…on the passenger side. 'Damn.' He didn't have time to stop and get it..he had to get to Riku. Glancing over, Leon could still see the animated cell phone vibrating on his car floor. It wasn't..that far away..he could reach it if he tried..

Ignoring everything driving school had taught him..don't take eyes off the road, don't talk on cell phones while driving, if something falls, leave it until you stop. But no, Leon decided otherwise, he could reach it and return his eyes to the road without any harm being done. He reached for the offending object..that somehow got further and further away the more he stretched. 'Stop running away from me Damnit(We should really keep a tally mark on how many times Leon says or thinks some form of the word damn.)' Leon thought as he glared at the phone.

To onlookers on the street it would have seemed a car had decided to drive itself down main street and then decided the road was no longer a suitable highway, the side walk looked much more comfortable. To Leon on the other hand, it was only a brief moment of him reaching to get his phone, nothing big would change from that right?

Wrong. Leon hadn't noticed the car steering itself towards the sidewalk, towards a nice little pair of people having a 'nice' little conversation. One of the pair had seen Leon's car, being that they were facing the car's direction; they had enough time to move out of the oncoming car's path. Unfortunately, the other member of the pair had his back turned to the oncoming traffic. He didn't see Leon's car coming straight towards him. He could only slowly turn to see what had made his companion flee the scene.

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Mmm caffeine. Cloud needed caffeine to actually wake up, because Cloud was currently in a state of, what his mother called, zombie Cloud. Sure he was up and walking, sure he looked conscious and he could form some sentences. But he was still dead to the world. If he was asked anything or told anything in this state of being, who ever told him better forget about him remembering later.

That was why Cloud was currently in Starbucks, the yummy smell of coffee starting up Cloud's brain. The closer he got to the counter, the closer he was to drooling on the person standing in front of him.

"Welcome to Starbucks, may I have your order?" Cloud would have leapt for joy, had his body registered what his brain had heard. For a moment the only response the cashier received from the spiky haired blond was /drool/.

"Umm Sir?" The cashier said slowly growing frightened from the blank stare she was receiving from 'zombie' Cloud. Waving her hand in front of his face, she tried to get his attention, somewhat amazed at how he had even managed to arrive there in such a state.

After a few seconds of waving, and a few angry murmurs from the people in line behind Cloud, the blond finally snapped back into reality. /blink blink/ "May I have your order sir?" The cashier asked once more, hoping this time she would receive an actual response. Lucky for her, Cloud was here this time and he was ready for his coffee.

"I'll have…umm..a french vanilla coffee, lots of sugar and cream." No..that wasn't a gay drink. Or at least if you asked Cloud he'd say no. So sue him, he liked flavored coffees..they tasted good. He wouldn't stop getting flavored coffee just because he might be assumed to be gay. He didn't really care what other people thought, especially if they didn't know him.

"Um alright, I'll have your order ready in a moment." 'Aw damn..he's gay..' Though the cashier solemnly as she went to fill his order.

Now it would have been nice if Cloud had decided to move and let other people get their orders taken. But no, Cloud's coffee was more important, and he really didn't feel like moving off to the side, only to have to come back over to get his coffee. That would have wasted too much of his precious energy. And so everyone else who was standing behind Cloud got to wait with him as he got his order filled, much to the dismay of the disgruntled group of Starbucks goers.

Thankfully for the sake of Cloud's well being, seeing as the line behind Cloud was becoming a bit rowdy, it only took a moment or two before the cashier returned with his nice hot steaming coffee. Finally Cloud stepped out of line, after receiving his caffeine and paying the cashier the right amount of money.

So close was he to enjoying his drink, so close was he to waking up fully, but a certain ringing and buzzing in his pants stopped him after taking only a few sips from his drink. Fishing out his cell phone out of his pocket, Cloud checked to see who would dare disturb him from getting his daily dose of caffeine. Had it been anyone else, Cloud would not have answered, but he would have been in big trouble if he didn't answer this call. With a small sigh, Cloud answered his cell.

"Hello?"

"Hi darling, it's your mother." As if he didn't already know, he wouldn't have answered the phone otherwise.

"Where are you?" He knew that tone of voice..he knew that question. It meant she wanted something..and he was going to have to get it for her.

"…at Starbucks"

"Oh good, could you pick me up…" Cloud mentally prepared himself for the long list of things she would need him to get while he was out. It was amazing he even registered half of the things she told him. Only two things allowed him to do that, he had had some small bit of his coffee, and he knew his mother would kill him if he left even the smallest of things out. And it also meant he would have to make a second trip out..and Cloud wasn't up for that.

"…and a few tomatoes for dinner tonight." His mother finished, somehow managing to say all of those things in one breath.(Yeah we're lazy, we know it. But come on, think about it, would you really want to read the list of things anyway? No, so we saved you the trouble.)

"How many is a few?" Cloud asked raising his brow slightly. He didn't need his mother fussing at him for getting too few or too many tomatoes.

"Only about five or six."

"Ok..is that it?"

"Yeah, that's all. See ya at dinner." Cloud couldn't understand how she could be so cheerful this early in the morning. But upon closing his phone, the realization hit him that it wasn't exactly early…it was only almost two…in the afternoon..So he was a little behind from staying up late last night, no big deal, he'd just catch up on his sleep later.

After taking a few more sips from his now only lukewarm coffee, Cloud exited Starbucks to make his way to his car, parked all the way over on the other side of his building. And he was so close to making it to his car too, but once again he was halted in his march to his car.

"Work late last night?"

"…" Was someone talking to him? That voice sounded mildly familiar, but where had he heard it from before? It dawned on Cloud when he turned to look to the offender.

"Uh…yeah..just a few hours or so." It was just some guy who worked alongside Cloud at his temporary job at Kohl's. God he hated that place. The only reason he worked there was because his mom said that he needed a job to better his social life. A lot of good that was doing him, he spent half the day glaring at costumers for asking him stupid questions, and the other half glaring at his coworkers for asking him equally idiotic questions. What fun.

"Yeah it usually takes forever to count stock in the back, I hate it when I get stuck with that job." Cloud pretended to pay some small bit of attention to the person talking to him. Hmm would they notice him giving a blank stare.

"Uh huh..well the manager said I get paid double for doing over time," 'And I also get to avoid the rest of you in the front when I'm back there' "So it's no big deal."

"Wow you're better than me, getting paid double or not, that has to be the most boring and time consuming job in my opinion." Why wasn't this guy getting the hint that Cloud really didn't care what he had to say? Heck, Cloud couldn't even remember the guys name for that matter.

"Well…it was nice talking to you and all.." Cloud began to dead pan, but the slowly growing look of horror on the face of the guy standing before him finally caught Cloud's attention. He got Cloud's full attention when he started to run away. All Cloud could do was slowly turn around to see just what had caused his co-worker to flee in the middle of his sentence.

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'HaHa got ya' Leon smirked triumphantly as he got a hold of his evil phone. He could now safely return his gaze to the road ahead. Too bad it was a little too late for that. It would seem he returned his gaze just in time to see he was headed straight for poor little Cloud, who seemed to be frozen in place.

Trying as hard as he could to stop the car, Leon slammed his foot down on the brakes as forceful as physically possible. But it would also seem that while his attention was on getting the phone, his foot on the gas pedal had been steadily increasing the car's speed. There wasn't enough time for the car to fully come to a stop…

K.O.

Everything slowed down for both the driver in the car, and the formerly conscious victim, who had been standing on the side walk in shock, but was now laying unconscious against the brick wall that had been behind him.

There was silence. Cars stopped, people who had been walking along the side walk stopped. Anyone within the buildings surrounding them who could see the accident stopped. Everyone in Starbucks turned their heads, speechless. And Leon sat in his car beside himself. 'I Hate You Riku.' Was Leon's only thought before his mind kicked into panic mode. Was that…blood he smelled? Oh God..Cloud just got hit by a car. Cloud just got hit by his car. Leon leapt out of his car to go check on him, praying to god that the blond was still with him. He kicked into overdrive, thinking of all the things that needed to be done. He needed to get Cloud to a hospital and fast, but was he supposed to move him or not? Looking around for help he realized that everyone was just standing there staring at him and the bleeding blond against the wall. Giving his most heated and angry glare of doom Leon growled at all of the onlookers shouting at them to at least call the hospital instead of just standing there gawking.

Making a heat of the moment decision Leon picked up the still unconscious Cloud and gently placed him in his car and started making his way towards the nearest hospital..where ever that may be. Call, that's what he needed to do was call and let them know he was on his way. (He obviously hasn't learned his lesson about talking on his cell phone and driving tsk tsk)

Reaching for the phone that had ended up under his butt in the driver's seat, he pulled it out and flipped it open. Only to see that the last missed call, the one that had made him reach down for the evil vibrating phone in the first place, had been Riku. 'I hate you Riku' were once again Leon's thoughts as he glared at the words that kept saying 'one missed call'. Deciding to kill Riku later he dialed the emergency room giving them the heads up that they were on their way.

Arriving at the hospital in no time flat, it was amazing that no police had attempted to stop him at the speed he had been going. He quickly picked Cloud up and got him out of the car racing him inside. Nurses and Doctors were there within seconds putting the blond man on a stretcher and rushing him away. Meanwhile leaving Leon to prepare himself for the bombardment of questions he was sure to receive from staff and police. "Yes It was my fault", "Yes I hit him with my car", "Yes it's the same car that's sitting out in the parking lot", "What?! No I didn't flee the scene of the accident!", "No I didn't do this on purpose", "No I don't have some secret grudge against Cloud", "No I haven't planned this for some time", and the questions went on and on with no end in sight for poor Leon.

That was until Cloud's mother appeared in the room and all went still and silent once again. But thanks to some divine power Sora and Riku showed up right behind her stopping his impending doom and death that he was sure to receive from the fuming mother. Amazingly enough, after the twenty minutes or so it took to calm her down, she decided not to press charges. Probably influenced by Riku(how, you ask, we'll tell you later). She decided on another punishment for Leon. Probably influenced by Riku as well. Lucky Leon.

Leon got to take care of Cloud, he got to do..everything(Yes we went there). It took all Leon had not to send a glare of doom to Riku, who was 'innocently' sitting there, comforting a distraught Sora. How was this even allowed, it couldn't possibly just be ok with the hospital. People don't just get to take care of patients in the hospital. And yet no one seemed to even have the slightest bit of problem with it. Sora took it as they were all to afraid of Cloud's mother to say otherwise..Leon blamed Riku for this as well. It would seem he was going to have to quit a few of his jobs (Leon is a workaholic. He doesn't really need the money..he just works a lot because he has no life.) to take care of Cloud.

'Oh God….Cloud' Leon's distressed mind was finally catching up with him. Cloud was now in the hospital thanks to him….and he had no idea of what condition the blond was in. If he kept this up his hair was going to turn the same color as Riku's and he wasn't that old yet. Letting out a sigh of frustration he shifted in his seat once again…what was taking the doctors so long to come back?! He could've sworn that there wasn't that much damage, bleeding from the head, sure, a few broken ribs here or there, possibly, but other than that there hadn't been anything too major. Or at least he didn't think so, but with all the free time he had, Leon's mind started to wander back to the first time he had seen Cloud.

His heart had stopped beating for a good minute or two and his body had completely frozen up on him. He looked just the way he remembered him, nothing had changed at all. (If your lost and confused, worry not, it will be explained later ) He had stood there staring for the longest time. Even after the blond had left the scene, he continued to stand there too caught up in his shock to process that the spiky haired blond was no longer there.

Where had time gone? Why was it deciding to slow down now? Turning his eyes to the clock, Leon glared, willing it to move faster. And just when all hope seemed lost that they would receive any answers that night, the ER doctor finally decided to show up. Leon was too angry at the fact that the doctor took so long, and then took his time to come out here that he missed most of what the doctor had said. But he caught at least one thing, and he didn't like what he heard.

Cloud..was in a coma. Damn. On the bright side..it wasn't severe..the doctor predicted that the coma shouldn't last more than a month..or so.. Somehow this didn't make Leon feel any better…hmmm he was going to have to quit more jobs than he thought. Leon closed his eyes and rubbed the bridge of his nose. Aw come on..how was he supposed to win Cloud over when he was in a coma? And what's worse, Cloud was probably going to hate him when he came out of the coma. So this was helping him in no way. Why Riku, why?

This was going to be a long month…or so.

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LeeLee-san: Longer than chapter one, neh?

Cloud:…Oh…my…god….

LeeLee-san: What? You're in the chapter, we couldn't have done it without you.

Leon: x.x why me?

Riku: Because I love you

Leon:/glare/

Rin-san: Now now you two, you should you should get along. You never know what will happen in the future.

LeeLee-san: Although if any of you readers can actually manage to guess what's going to happen in this story, you'll be rewarded with a sneak peak of later chapters or possibly even the next story.

Rin-san: Because after this part there will be a middle story and after that story there will be the third and finally part to this tale. See you in the next chapter whenever that gets posted up .