Well hello there! Glad you could make it for the second instalment of Kiss and I Will Surrender! This chapter's theme song is 'Thank You for the Venom' by My Chemical Romance. Oh, and I have recently discovered the existence of Xion, and she fits another character profile really well, so she will be appearing in this story. Now, where were we... ah yes! Are you ready for a drunk Sora and Kairi? It's pretty funny, I assure you, he he!
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts. Well, I own the games, but unfortunately not the copyright, but if I did, guaranteed little kids wouldn't be able to play those games anymore!
Kiss and I Will Surrender
Two
Thank You for the Venom
Sora chinked his shot glass with the five other people around the table, and downed the strong liquor before he lost his nerve. It burned as it surged down his throat like poison, giving his body a fiery burst that got rid of the last of the chill the weather had caused. He slammed his glass down, noticing he did so in complete synchronisation with the fair haired boy sat next to him. The three older members of the band they were celebrating had finished first, and were grinning as the red headed ditzy girl started choking on her vodka.
"Kai, we said drink it, not snort it!" Zack chuckled heartily, whilst Riku rubbed her back to ensure she recovered. Sora laughed and shook his head, as they all put their glasses on the tray in the centre of the table and Cloud took it back to the bar with their drinks orders. Kairi had always been awful at drinking. When they had been in Art College together, she got drunk after one beer, and downing drinks was out of the question, she was just physically incapable. Anything stronger-tasting than fruit schnapps had her coughing and spluttering, and it was usually Sora who had to save her from suffocation or something along those lines. And now that she had found a flat with some crazy rock chick, she spent most of her time getting drunk on her one beer and then sleeping in when she should be at her job.
The chocolate haired young adult took a quick glance to his right; Roxas was fiddling with a paper napkin, folding it into different origami shapes. He had an intense look of concentration on his face, his brow furrowed over cerulean orbs; he looked like a child absorbed in their latest drawing. Finally, he settled on making a fortune teller, and started rummaging in his pockets for something to write with.
"Hey, you got a pen?" he asked, turning to Sora, catching the boy by surprise. Sora jumped a little, and then pretended he had been looking past the golden boy, looking away and then refocusing his gaze. Roxas looked at him intently, one eyebrow raised in a quizzical look.
"S-sure..." Sora stuttered, not knowing why he was so flustered by the singer's presence. Perhaps it was just the aura of 'cool' that Roxas gave off. He had this air of apathy and distance about him, with that poignant smile that while appearing cheerful, did not reflect the emotions of his eyes. Sora had always been good at reading emotions, and he wondered what it was that had made this boy so sad that he couldn't even muster up a proper smile.
He rummaged in his coat and found a Sharpie marker pen, handing it to the vocalist, who took it and flashed him a grin which showed his straight white teeth. "Thanks," Roxas said, beginning to write down colours and numbers on his fortune teller. "I'll make sure to tell your fortune first!"
For some reason, Sora's face became heated. Must be the vodka, he thought absently, turning back to the table as Cloud returned with their drinks. He handed beers around to everyone except Kairi, who had an alchopop. As soon as he was sat back down, Cloud leant across the table to look at what Roxas was doing.
"Roxas, can you stop being antisocial please?" he chided in a brotherly fashion, when he saw Roxas trying to invent fortunes, his pen stuck in his mouth.
"Let him alone Spiky, he's going to tell our fortunes in a minute!" Zack said, taking a deep swig of his beer as Cloud flushed from the nickname.
"Stop calling me that!" he muttered, looking away and pouting, his cheeks a rosy pink.
"It's not as if you can talk, Zack," Riku put in, his arm slung over Kairi's shoulders. He flipped his long silver hair out of his eyes and grinned at Zack, who was glaring at him.
"Can I make up a fortune, Roxas?" Kairi asked, leaning across to her left. Roxas looked up at her and brushed a few loose strands of his yellow hair from his face.
"Sure Kairi, what shall we write?"
Kairi giggled and whispered something in his ear, which Sora noticed was pierced several times with small black hoops and some silver bars, which matched his black and white chequered wristbands. He had a gothic silver pendant around his neck as well as the black choker, and when he leaned forward to write Sora noticed a small number thirteen tattooed behind his left ear.
"Ooh, that's a good one!" Roxas laughed, his eyes still not quite as warm as his smirk, and started scribbling something in his elaborate cursive writing. Sora pouted and looked away. He wanted to come up with a fortune with Roxas too. He stopped that train of thought then. He barely knew Roxas, why was he getting jealous over the fact that Kairi (who already knew him) was being sociable with him? It's not as if he was dating Roxas, though the idea seemed ridiculous now he thought about it. Not only was he pretty sure that Roxas didn't swing that way, but he wasn't too sure he did himself. Certainly before tonight, Sora had never even looked twice at a guy before, so this unhealthy new obsession was probably just admiration or something along those lines.
"Finished!" Roxas proclaimed and, as promised, he turned to his left and held up the fortune teller to Sora. "Pick a colour, Sora!"
Sora picked the colour red and they went through the whole shuffling process, first with the letters, then with two numbers. Finally, he had to pick another number, under which would be his 'fortune'. He frowned, and picked the number 13, having just seen it behind Roxas' ear. Roxas lifted the flap and read aloud his fortune to the table of people, who surprisingly were all leaning in to hear the verdict.
"A smack on the forehead means more than just a headache," he announced cryptically.
"Y'what?" Zack asked through a mouthful of nachos, his eyebrow raised.
"That's lame," Riku moaned, tilting his head back as he swig from his beer. "They better not all be like that man."
Roxas scowled at him. So did Kairi. "For your information, Riku," she hissed, "That was the one I made up."
"Whoops," Cloud stage whispered as Riku sweatdropped, Kairi's glare burning into him.
"Sorry babes, I didn't know you had it in you to be so cryptic!" he laughed, ruffling her hair, effectively getting rid of her glare. She giggled, finishing her bottle, her cheeks already rosy.
"That's because I am amazing," she proclaimed, earning polite applause from Cloud and a chuckle from Sora. Roxas proceeded to tell everyone's fortunes, some of them cryptic like Sora's, the others hilariously unbelievable. Zack apparently faced falling down a man hole that evening, and Kairi was in danger of being hit by a low flying pig.
"Now that we all know what fate has in store for us," Riku said, taking his arm away from Kairi to sit at the table seriously, "I propose a drinking game!" Sora groaned, but everyone else cheered enthusiastically, and they quickly settled on the easiest game, 'I Have Never'. It looked like Kairi was going to be needing dragged home tonight, she was already wobbling halfway through her second drink, a big grin on her face as she clapped her hands excitedly. Another sneak peek at Roxas showed that Roxas was also grinning, and evidently trying to think of his 'I've Never's.
"I'll start," Riku announced, once he had made sure that everyone had a drink. "I have never run down the street naked." Sora, Kairi and Zack all drank at this declaration, whilst Roxas and Cloud both looked at each other in a way that said I really don't want to know if you, my brother, have been streaking.
"Me next!" Kairi laughed when she had finished drinking. Sora mentally sighed, knowing this was going to be an 'interesting' statement. "I have never... met a Muppet!" Unsurprisingly, nobody drank. Riku and Zack started having another fit of hysterics at this proclamation, and Cloud excused himself to go to the bathroom, so the game paused for a moment.
Sora sat, twiddling his thumbs, waiting for the hysterics to subside, when to his surprise (and delight), Roxas turned to him. "So, how old are you Sora?" he asked, seeming genuinely interested. Sora was taken aback that somebody like Roxas would give a monkeys about him, and stuttered for a few moments whilst he tried to remember how old he was.
"I... I... I-I'm nearly twenty," he finally remembered, rubbing the back of his head, a nervous habit of his. "My birthday is next week."
"Really? Same here," Roxas affirmed, turning in his seat to look at Sora properly, his eyes alight with curiosity now. "I'm twenty on Monday!"
Sora started choking on his beer, and between spluttering coughs he managed to get out, "Same here!" He couldn't believe he shared something as important as his birthday with the boy he was gradually becoming more and more infatuated with. To others, it was just a coincidence, but to him, it felt like something along the lines of fate, or somewhat similar.
"Wow, that's so cool," Roxas stated, his eyes warmer than they were before. "We should celebrate together, what do you think?" When Sora could only nod his head, so stunned was he that he had just been asked to celebrate an event with Roxas, the vocalist continued. "Me and the guys were going to go to this VIP party after our next gig on Monday to celebrate, would you like to come along? You can bring Kairi and any other friends you want if you like."
"Did I just hear VIP?" They turned to see Kairi leaning over, a constant giggle on her lips, her face as rosy as it had been when she was outside in the cold.
"You're drunk already Kai?" Roxas asked tentatively as she swayed in his direction. Sora rolled his eyes in exasperation, whose bright idea was it to let this girl drink?!
"Yup," she slurred bluntly, a toothy grin plastered to her face. "And I just heard something about VIP, didn't I?"
They continued to converse with each other and Kairi for another few minutes; Roxas did most of the talking, explaining that the event was for up and coming bands, and had a free bar and pretty awesome music, as well as lots of private areas for big groups to sit and enjoy themselves in. It sounded pretty awesome, and Kairi and Sora immediately agreed. Sora had been planning on staying in with a couple of friends, a cake and some brightly coloured party hats, but this was by far a much more fun way to celebrate his twentieth. And, Roxas would be there. And he would be Roxas' guest.
"What do you do then, Sora?" Roxas inquired as Kairi returned to arguing with Zack and Riku about her 'I've Never'. Cloud had sat down but was texting for the moment, so it seemed that the game was suspended.
"I just graduated from Art College, and I am about to go to University," Sora grinned sheepishly. He loved painting, it was his life and soul, much like music seemed to be to Roxas, and he loved talking about it too. He had even digitised a few of his paintings and loaded them onto his phone so he could show people on the go. He brought up his favourite as of yet, a drawing of the view from the clock tower at the North end of town, just as the sun was setting. You could see the edge of the platform at the bottom of the picture, and resting on the wall was a small blue crystal, in which Sora had perfectly captured the refraction of the light, which split into seven colours and spread across the ledge like a subdued rainbow.
"Wow, that's awesome!" Roxas cried, the most enthusiastic Sora had seen him all evening. "I'll have to see that in full size at some point, it looks great! Do you do prints?"
That heat was back in Sora's face again as the pools of sapphire regarded him with slight wonder. Thankfully, he was rescued by Zack, who had decided that the drinking game should resume. He turned away, hiding his face from Roxas, who had also turned away to draw his chair back up to the table. It was then that Sora realised that it was Roxas's turn, and he tuned in his hearing carefully, wanting to find out something else about Roxas's life.
"I have never... um... smoked a cigarette." The three older boys cursed and drank from their cans, whilst the three younger people shrugged. None of them saw the appeal in smoking, it seemed, another thing which Sora added to his mental list of things he had in common with Roxas.
The game went around the circle a few times, the statements getting more and more ridiculous as people started to run out of things they had never done. However, it was enough for Sora to find out these things about Roxas, which he was pretty certain, he would write down later so he didn't forget:
He wasn't a virgin.
He had a driver's license.
He had been arrested.
He had never kissed someone of the same sex.
Gradually, however, the game petered out as they kept pausing to laugh or find out the reason why someone had drunk to a particular statement. It was then that Sora's head smacked on the table, causing Zack and Roxas (who were sitting in his direct vicinity) to yell and jump. Zack stopped Sora's can from falling over.
"Are you alright?" Zack asked, and then Sora gave a light snore. He was asleep.
"Oh, don't worry about that," Kairi said, waving her hand dismissively at the sleeping boy. "Sora's narcoleptic. He falls asleep randomly. It can be quite funny sometimes!"
"Really?" Zack drawled mischievously, his eyebrows wiggling and a cheeky grin curving his lips. Cloud chuckled, knowing that something embarrassing was probably now going to happen to Sora, and Roxas smirked, not letting on how sweet he actually thought Sora's condition was.
Five minutes later, Zack turned to Kairi, his mischief managed. "So how do we wake him up? Do we just wait, or is it safe to give him a shake?"
"Oh just bop him on the head, that's what I always do," she slurred, and then Riku grabbed her chin and pulled her into a long kiss which silenced her effectively.
Sora woke up to someone flicking his nose. Ah great, I fell asleep in front of Roxas, he thought irritably, sitting up and batting away the offending hand, which turned out to be Zack's.
"Rise and shine, sleeping beauty!" Roxas called, making Sora blush again. Sora rubbed his eyes and looked around at the table. Kairi and Riku were still kissing, but the other people seemed to be finding something quite funny. Cloud had covered his mouth with his hand and was looking away politely, Roxas was smiling but evidently trying hard not to laugh, and Zack's shoulders were shaking and his face was turning blue.
Great, I bet they did something while I was asleep. He looked down to see his Sharpie pen that he had lent to Roxas laid in front of Zack.
"There's something on my face, isn't there?" At that point Zack exploded with laughter and started banging his fists on the table. Cloud chuckled behind his hand and Roxas let out an uncontrollable snort. Oh fantastic, he's laughing at me.
"I'm going to go to the bathroom," he muttered, leaving the table quickly and covering his face with his unruly bangs as he walked through the bar. Damn my narcolepsy! Why did it have to make an appearance in front of Roxas?? He stepped into the men's toilets to find that, yes, there was something on his face. To be more exact, Zack had written I LoVE MeN across his forehead. Oh, fucking wonderful. And to make matters worse, it was in permanent marker. No amount of washing was going to get that off tonight.
He groaned and splashed some water on his hair, which was spiked up all over the place, and tried to flatten some of the thicker locks at the front so as to partly hide the writing. Unfortunately, it didn't work. As usual, his hair just bounced back into its gravity defying spikes, and no amount of water was going to persuade it to lie flat.
He emerged from the bathroom, his face red and his fists clenched, to find everyone waiting to see what his reaction was. "Thanks a lot, Zack," he muttered, causing Zack and Riku to burst into yet more hysterics. Kairi giggled uncontrollably, her head down on the table, and Roxas and Cloud politely tried to mask their laughter. Sora slumped down into his seat and downed the rest of his beer. He was going to need to drink a lot now to enjoy the night, now that he had been branded a man lover.
Eventually, Riku (who didn't seem at all drunk, though he had had at least ten beers) stood up and pulled a visibly paralytic Kairi up with him, supporting her on one shoulder. "I think it's time the little one went to bed," he laughed, and everyone agreed heartily. "I'll see you in the studio tomorrow," he called as he paid his tab and dragged a mumbling, drooling Kairi out of the bar.
Zack left soon after that, having received a text from his friend Angeal asking him to come clubbing. It seemed that he was not the type to turn down such a request, because he was out of Jackson's within a minute of receiving the text, unperturbed by the fact he was going out into the tundra in nothing but a leather jacket, with no shirt underneath.
Cloud announced he was going to ride his motorbike home, but wouldn't allow Roxas to get a lift with him because Cloud was drink-driving. He tossed some money to Roxas and told him to get a cab with Sora, which was probably a good idea because the chocolate haired boy had drunk himself into a giggling stupor. "Good thing I live around the corner from you," Roxas muttered, paying their tabs and hauling Sora out into the blizzard, braving the fierce biting cold and hailing down a cab.
What proceeded next would change their lives, for better or for worse.
And that's chapter two everybody! I hope you enjoyed it! I certainly enjoyed writing it! You'll have to wait until next time to find out what happens!
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