Late much?
Sora gawked at...well everything really. He really just couldn't seem to keep his chin off of the polished hardwood floor.
Everyone was draped in the abnormally large living room. After a careful and discreet headcount there were fourteen members of the adopted family in all. Jeez, they're giving the Octomom a run for her money. Sora thought idly. Looking at the group of people spread on the seven couches in the room, he couldn't help but notice all of their ridiculous hairdos. It seemed like Kairi was the only one there with a normal hairstyle.
The living room was beautifully decorated. In an interesting kind of way. Everything in the room was pretty modern-looking except for the furniture. It was as if everyone brought furniture with them when they came. Each of the couches was different. There was a pink floral corner of an L couch, a rather plain grey-ish purple-ish love seat, a black double Lazy Boy with flames, a light blue couch, and a few other strangely designed couches with a weird penis-looking symbol floating around on it.
After meeting everyone, they had all traversed into the castle to lounge in the living room. On the way in, Kairi was pointing out the behaviours of all her adopted siblings. The redhead, Axel, was whispering into the blonde boy, Roxas's, ear and he turned bright red. She pointed out Leon and Cloud, and after close scrutiny, Sora decided that their relationship had to be fabricated. The two may have sat next to each other, but they hardly said a word at all.
Currently, Kairi was holding Sora's hand while the family gave them a long and uncomfortable once-over. Axel was the one to break the silence first.
"Kai, he looks gay." He was immediately hit with a flying pillow from Kairi's direction.
"Jesus, Axel, that is so rude!" She threw another pillow when he smiled deviously at her. Chuckles sounded throughout out the room. Apparently they were used to this kind of behaviour.
After Axel's obnoxious comment, the mood lightened considerably. To Sora, at least. The conversation was pretty light and didn't get serious as most of these encounters with girlfriends' parents had for Sora. He actually really enjoyed Kairi's family.
Though there were only a few people who didn't say much of anything. Zexion, Xemnas, and Saix kind of sat out and listened. It seemed like everyone was used to it. Sora was honestly surprised that they had accepted him so easily. Some of the people looked pretty scary. Like that Xigbar guy who carried a gun around with him. Or the guy always shuffling a deck of cards in a way that made it seem as if he way going to steal all of your money.
"Dinner time. Everyone get working." Xemnas said. Immediately everyone got up and went into the kitchen (Sora guessed) in a practiced way that said this happened every night. Kairi sat with Sora as everyone else got ready to make dinner. "You too Kairi. Just because you have a guest doesn't mean you're exempt from your duties" She opened her mouth in protest, but was quickly silenced by a stern look from her adopted father.
"Don't worry. He's harmless." A quick kiss and Sora was alone with the rather intimidating patron of the house. Needless to say, Sora got a little nervous. Loud noises of cooking wares and loud voices came from the kitchen. Xemnas was just staring.
"Look," Xemnas said after a while with a sigh. "As long as you don't send her home crying, pregnant, or addicted to drugs, you're free to go. And if you do get my daughter pregnant" An aura of certain doom emanated from the man, making him even more intimidating and scary. "You had best take care of them." Abrubtly, Xemnas got up and walked off, leaving his evil aura to dissapate around the scared brunette.
Sora sat on the couch, thinking about what Xemnas had said. It wasn't as if he hadn't heard it before. His mother smashed it into his head everyday since his father left. He was pulled out of his thoughts as Riku sat down in the space Xemnas had just occupied. Jeez, all of the family lectures in one night?
"He wasn't too terrible was he? Normally, he's totally direct with this kind of thing." Riku said with a smile. He seemed like a really nice person. Sora felt like they could probably be good friends.
"Nah. I've had worse." They shared a smile.
"Well, I think you're gonna have a lot worse. People in this family are super protective. If someone doesn't like you, you're out." Sora kind of figured. They seemed like an extremely tight-knit family. He'd seen something similar before with one of his other girlfriends. Despite popular belief, Sora is really popular with the ladies. He gets around.
"I'm not worried." And he wasn't. Sora was confident in his charming abilities. He'd gotten a pirate to love him. (exchange student from Port Royale)
"You're confident." Riku was impressed. Not many people were so self-assured with such a large group of people to impress. "But maybe a little too confident?" Sora's relaxed smiled wilted the slightest amount. The silver-haired male gracefully rose from the paisley couch he was sitting on and moved to sit next to Sora. Right next to him. Almost uncomfortably invading Sora's bubble.
A confused expression found its way onto the brunette's unsuspecting face. Riku was way too close for this to be comfortable. Sora made to scooch away but he happened to be at the end of the couch.
"Um...Why are you so close to me?" He asked. Riku just smirked in a startlingly attractive way. If Sora hadn't stubbornly ignored it, he would say it was sexy.
"Good luck, my friend. I know you'll need it." Before Sora could analyze that confusing sentence, Riku kissed him. In complete shock, Sora looked into the other man's amused eyes. He felt a hand grasp his shirt and pull his body on top of Riku's.
Sora still couldn't seem to comprehend what was happening. When a deliciously warm tongue swept across his bottom lip, Sora seemed to get a loose grasp on the situation. He grabbed a handful of Riku's shirt, intending to push the older man onto the floor. Sadly, Sora miscalculated in a big way and just ended up pulling Riku closer.
From the outside it would look like the two were heatedly kissing on the couch. And that's exactly what Kairi saw when she came into the living room to get her boyfriend for dinner.