A/N: Bye guys! Off to disneyland!
Chapter 2
From his place on the living room couch, Vanitas could see Ventus, Anti and Xion get into Aqua's car and drive away as he watched them through the large living room window. Slowly, Vanitas grabbed the TV remote and turned off the idiotic show he hadn't really been watching and got off the couch. He began to make his way to the kitchen where he knew Riku was more than likely washing the lunch dishes.
'C'mon, Riku…. Let's have a nice little chat…' Vanitas thought as he applied some soft pressure to the thin metal fame around his bottom jaw; he had messed it up some years ago in an accident and now needed the metallic frame as a brace. He was almost there when he stopped and headed up the stairs, there was something he had to take care of first.
~Aqua's Car~
Ventus turned to Aqua, a lovely blue-haired girl in her late teens, and sighed. She had been the love interest of his older brother, Terra, but that was before he had disappeared ten years ago. Ventus and Aqua often talked about all the crazy stuff he would do in order to show off to her. Aqua could see that depressed look in his eyes and decided to try and get his mind off of it.
"So, Ven… Tifa finally decided to let you kids get a pet, huh?" She asked sweetly, making Ventus look up and smile.
"Yup! Took her long enough! Xion and Anti have been looking forward to this for a very long time." He replied as he looked into the back seat at Xion who was talking to Aqua's little sisters, Kairi and Namine, as Anti gazed out the window in amazement. He could hear the young girls whispering amongst themselves.
"So… Kairi, Namine, I heard my brothers Sora and Roxas were acting like complete idiots the other day at school to try and show off to you guys." Xion whispered with a snicker as the other two girls giggled.
"So true, you should have seen Sora! He was all strutting around the cafeteria like he owned the place." Kairi replied with a smirk on her face as Namine went into a little fit of giggles.
"Yeah… Hehe, Roxas did practically the same thing."
"Oh, wow! My brother's are such losers! So… You girls ever gonna tell them that you like them…?" Both nodded in reply and Namine answered in words.
"Yup, we're just waiting for the right time. Hehe…!"
"So, Xion, do you have any secret crushes…?" Xion blushed at the question, there was no way she could ever tell them that she had a slight crush on her family's caretaker, Riku. Both girls giggled at the sight of the blush.
"Oh! So you do, I wonder who it could be!"
"Is he handsome?" Xion only nodded in reply as she sunk away from them. Ventus listened to what they were saying as Vanitas' words clawed their way back into his head.
'Could it be true….? Could Riku and Xion like each other….? He's much too old for her….'
~Strife House~
Vanitas stepped away from his little brothers' door with a key in his hand.
"That should stop those two from bothering my little chat…" His amber eyes focused forward as he headed back down the stairs towards the kitchen, he couldn't have his little brothers messing up what he was about to do. Glaring ahead, his bare feet brushed silently against the soft carpet. His parents had spent a great deal of their money on this house for their kids to live in while they were gone, and even though Vanitas would never openly admit it, he actually love both of them and what they did for their family very much. He was now at the kitchen and his feet slid silently onto the icy tile floor as he headed over to the counter that lay between him and Riku, who washing dishes.
~V*R~
Riku really didn't mind washing dishes for the Strife children since they always cleaned them off so well before handing them to him. Suddenly, Riku heard something behind him making him quickly turn around, he was not happy to see that Vanitas was less than three feet from him with a hand on the counter. Not letting his dismay show on his face he tried to strike up a conversation with the boy.
"Hey, Van, what's up? Do you need somethi-…?" Riku's voice trailed off as a slightly creepy smile slid over Van's face as his hand reached what it was looking for, a long bread knife with jagged edges. Ever since he was a kid, Riku could hold his own in a fight but this child scared him. Everyone knew that Vanitas was not mentally right, he was extremely sadistic and loved to torture living things just so he wouldn't be bored.
"Yeah, Riku, I do need something from you…" The words slid out darkly as the boy's finger curled around the handle of the bread knife, causing it's blade to reflect some light onto the purple high-lights in his black hair as pulled the knife to himself. Riku swallowed hard at the lump in his throat that his nerves were creating.
"Really, like what?" Riku's eyes grew wide as Vanitas pressed the hooked edge of the knife to Riku's stomach, grinned happily and then brought the point up to run it down the length of Riku's throat, adding a bit of pressure in order to draw a few drops of the older boy's blood.
"Like how about keeping your hands off my sister that is unless you wan-!" Vanitas' creepy speech was cut off by the sound of the door bell. Vanitas hissed at it and drew away the blade thinking his family had come back. Riku quickly uncurled his soapy fingers from the sink counter and bolted to go answer the door as fast he could. Vanitas glared as he watched him go and gently put the knife back on the counter then headed out to follow Riku.
"I'm coming!" Riku's almost sounded too desperate as he reached for the handle and quickly pulled open the door, he was greeted by the sight of a smiling young man with brown hair.
"Hi, there! This is still the Strife residence correct?" The handsome young man asked gleefully, but before Riku could find his voice Vanitas found his own.
"Terra?"
