Previously Untitled
Warnings this chapter: Mentions of Slash and Homophobia
Pairings this chapter: Larxus, Sora/Riku, Kairi/Hayner, hinted Cid/Vin
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom hearts or Final Fantasy VII
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Good Morning Destiny Islands, this is the great Ninja Yuffie with your daily wake up call! News for today summer is in full swing, and romance is in the air, just last night I caught Selphie Tilmitt sharing a Paoupu with the mysterious tourist we've all been trying to jump, Yazoo Whats-his-name, in other news the rally last night was actually challenged by protestors, you should have seen the furious look on Rufus's face, sheesh that dude needs to get laid…
Sora groaned as he awoke to Destiny Island's self proclaimed gossip princess spreading her "news" .
"Kairi!" he shouted throwing the nearest thing he could reach at the wall, which happened to be his own alarm clock. "Shut that thing off! You know these walls are paper thin!"
"Sorry!" he heard the redhead shout back, but while the radio was turned down a few notches it remained painfully loud.
With a grunt he rolled out of bed and headed downstairs in a still half sleeping daze.
When Sora stumbled into the kitchen he found himself on the floor looking up at the looming shadow he had ran into.
The being was in an all black suit with red pinstripes, long black hair pulled back and adorned with the ever present head band. Sora couldn't help but cringe at the taller man's appearance.
"Jeez Vincent, do you always have to look like your about to suck my blood."
The older man chuckeled and held out his gauntleted hand to the help the boy up.
"Don't worry Sora, your too young for me." Sora laughed and made his way over to the fridge to grab some milk. He opened a cupboard and pulled a jar of peanut m&ms and trudged over to the table and began munching on the colorful candy.
Vincent was watching the boy with amusement, "Do you always eat candy for breakfast?"
The brunette fixed him with a demeaning stare.
"M&m's are not candy, they're a necessity of life."
The other male nodded, not hiding the amusement in his crimson eyes.
"So, Vin why are you here? Last I heard you bodyguards where only needed for trips and stuff."
"Rufus wanted to go over the plans for the trip to Radiant Garden this weekend."
Sora nodded and continued munching on his so called meal. The two remained in silence until a blonde man clad in a white shirt with kahki pants walked in hurriedly and motioned to Vincent to talk to him in the other room.
Sora listened to the muffled sounds of his adoptive father briefing his bodyguard and started absent mindedly playing with his crown necklace. A few minutes passed and Vincent walked back into the kitchen, with a small grin he ruffled Sora's hair.
"If you want, you and Riku can stop by later tonight, I think Cid could use some help around the garage."
Sora flashed him a toothy grin and assured the man he would try. Vincent took his leave and almost instantly Rufus walked back into the kitchen and sat across from Sora, picking up the day's newspaper.
"Hey dad." Sora mumbled around his glass.
"Morning Sora, do you have anything planned for today?"
"I was thinking of heading over to Riku's since Kairi's getting a ride to Cheerleading camp today."
Rufus frowned at his son and went back to scanning the newspaper.
"You just spent two days at Riku's. Your mom and I have someone we want you to meet today at lunch, until then why don't you clean up your room. It's been a mess since Riku stayed over last week."
Sora fought hard to hide the blush that crept onto his face when his father mentioned Riku's stay. It had been risky since both of his parents had been home, even though the boys had not gone very far physically, even being caught in a small kiss would mean everything was ruined, so they kept themselves busy throwing stuff around and generally turning the brunette's room into a disaster zone.
"Rufus, did you get that fax I sent you?" a tall blonde woman asked as she walked into the room.
"Yes." Came the simple reply.
Sora looked between his two parents and sighed, they had never shown any affection to each other.
What a waste Sora thought two people freely accepted to be in love and they can't get past their barriers to show it.
"I heard that the rally was interesting last night." He said, hoping to fill the awkard silence in the room.
Larxene snorted and straightened out her suit skirt. "Some fag lovers decided to show up, then two women decided to give us a show. It was disgusting."
Rufus nodded, "Luckily, Vincent, Tseng, and some other's were able to chase them away."
Larxene interrupted with another snort, "Those people should just stop, the guys are way to girly to stand up to our guards.
Sora had to cringe to stop himself from defending "those people". He wanted to bad to just yell at his parents and tell them that those girls probably knew more about love than they did.
"How did you hear about it Sora?" Rufus asked over his newspaper
"Yuffie was talking about it on the radio." He left out the part about her mentioning Rufus's private life. The wannabe ninja was on good terms with the Shinra's, as she was helping Kairi out with her cheerleading.
"Where's everyone else?" Sora asked, noting how quiet the house seemed, with two adopted kids, and three foster children, the Shinra house was usually a lot louder.
"Tseng took Marlene and the twins to the zoo today. I imagine Kairi is still on the phone letting the world know about her date last night." Rufus replied. The redhead had recently started going out with local attitude problem Hayner Dincht, Sora had met him and instantly had a liking for the blonde boy.
"That reminds me Sora, Kairi was going to hang out with Hayner after practice, could you check on her for us?" Larxene asked in an overly sweet voice that let Sora took to mean that it wasn't a question at all.
"Sure." Sora stood, placed his glass in the sink, and turned to leave.
"And don't forget to be down here at noon, and look nice." Larxene added as he walked to his room to start cleaning.
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Sora tossed the final paper wad into the trash and stood up to look at his clock.
"11:30, great, time to get ready for whatever they've got planned for me this time.
Cause you are the one who always lies close to me
Whispers hello I missed you quite terribly
Sora smiled as he recognized the ringtone, that everyone else thought was a joke, and picked up his phone.
"Hey Ku!" he answered cheerily.
A chuckle came from the other end.
"Hey Sora, what's up? I thought we were gonna hang out today."
"Oh sorry, I forgot to call. I had to clean my room and the parents are having me meet someone at lunch."
"Cool, cool." Riku responded, although he sounded a bit disappointed.
"But Vincent did say we could come over tonight, apparently Cid needs some help."
"You mean Cid needs someone to curse at, and Vin needs a break."
Sora laughed at that, "You know, those are the last two I would've thought would make good roommates."
"How do you know they're not more than that?" Riku said suggestively.
"Riku!" Sora laughed, "Cid and Vincent aren't gay. Especially not for each other, I mean, I just can't picture it."
"Whatever Sora, I know these things."
Sora rolled his eyes and glanced at the clock again. "I have to go but I'll call you when I'm done."
"Kay sounds good. Are you alone?"
With a quick look down the hallway Sora responded, "Yup, Love you."
"Love you too. See you later."
The brunette closed his phone with a sigh, he hated hiding so much, but there was nothing he could do about it.
"Sora? Are you ready yet?" He heard Larxene call up the stairs to him.
"Be down in a minute!" He called back and started to try and make him self presentable.
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A man with shoulder length brown hair sat across from Sora, a smile in his eyes but the rest of his face remained expressionless.
"Sora," Rufus said to the left of the teen, "This is Squall Leonhart, he's the highest recommended tutor from Hollow Bastion."
The brunette looked up surprised, "Tutor?"
"Yes," Larxene replied to his right, "We decided to pull out of the public school, you will be learning from Mr. Leonhart from now on. Luckily, with his help we're hoping that you can graduate early."
Sora had to nearly bite his tongue to keep from voicing his objections. His heart was sinking rapidly as his parents described everything to him. No school meant not seeing Riku everyday. A tutor meant more subjects he didn't like, and less time to work on the stuff he really did enjoy. What made him even more mad was that his parents didn't even ask him. They just decided things for him, and that's how things would always be.
It was hard for him to hide his disapproval, but somehow Rufus and Larxene didn't seem to notice it. Leonhart, however picked up on it fairly quickly. After the explanations were done with, Larxene announced she had a meeting to go to and left. Then, to Sora's surprise, Squall asked him if he'd like to go to lunch, so he could get to know him better. Rufus loved the idea and soon Sora found himself sitting across from the tall man in a small deli.
Sora picked at his food and didn't look up until he heard Squall clear his throat.
"Listen Sora, I know you don't really like this but you could at least try not to hate me okay?"
Sora looked at him and sighed.
"Sorry, Mr. Leonhart, I'm not trying to hold anything against you but ..."
"Leon."
Sora was shocked to be interrupted, "Huh?"
"Call me Leon."
Well that was a first. All of the people who had ever helped him out were stuffy and rude.
"And no more ties by the way."
Now Sora was just confused as he pulled on his navy blue tie, "Why not?"
Leon smirked at him, "I don't really feel comfortable in them, but if you do go ahead."
The teen thought for a moment and undid his tie, throwing it onto the table. Leon followed suit and immediately Sora felt more relaxed. He took in Leon's features for the first time, he look to be in his thirties, and had a scar running across his nose at an angle. He wondered vaguely where it came from, and blinked as tanned fingers rose up to finger it.
"I got this awhile ago," the teacher said, "I don't like to talk about it much, but it sure hurt like hell.
Sora blinked, this guy was talking to him more like a friend than a teacher. He was still confused but decided to go along with it, and soon the two were talking up a storm. It surprised the teen how comfortable he felt around this man, he was really nice to talk to.
"Let's go for a walk, I kinda feel like some Ice Cream." Leon said suddenly after they had paid. Sora nodded and followed the tutor out of the building. As they walked into the sun, Sora undid his over shirt a little and rolled up his sleeves.
"What kind of Ice cream do you want" Leon turned and asked, eyes glancing down at Sora's necklace.
"Um.. I think I'll have sea salt." Sora replied back fingering the trinket.
Once they had their ice cream Leon turned to him, "Nice necklace, where'd you get it?"
"My real parents gave it to me when I was born, it's the only thing I have of them." He replied softly.
Leon looked shocked and Sora wondered what was wrong, but the tall brunette shook it off.
"I didn't know you were adopted." He said quietly.
"Yeah, cause my hair is definitely stick straight and blonde." Sora joked, poking the tutor in the arm.
That earned him a laugh and they continued in comfortable silence the rest of the way back to the car, Sora wondering the whole way why Leon had a hint of a gleam in his eyes that wasn't there before.
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AN: I AM SOOOO SORRY! I know I meant to get this up a LONG time ago and it took FOREVER, but I really liked how it turned out and I made it a little longer for all of you! Please tell me what you think! The good news is though, that the next chapter is already halfway written by my friend who is helping me out! And we finally have a title! YAY!
Thank you all for being patient with me, sorry again!