How She Feels (Zexion Version)
A Kingdom Hearts Story
Chapter 3:
A Snow Ball Fight and Expressions
AN: Alright so I'm back with another chappie for this. I really have been neglecting my stories and I really feel bad about it. So I'm trying to get back into the swing of things. I promise3d the person that I nabbed a piece of a scene from that I would send them the finished versions of my stories once I got them done for them to read and that was so long ago I bet anything they have totally forgotten about it and I feel really bad about that too, so I really need to get my butt in gear and get these done so I can tell that person that the stories are done so they can read them and tell me what they think of the scene that I nabbed from them. Since I practically begged them to use the scene since I loved it sooooo much.
(Said scene will not be coming up until much later in this story, which will mean second to last chappie, which I am actually quite proud of that chappie despite having nabbed it, with how much I have changed it, it has really done a number to my skills.) The last chappie that will be in this story will kind of be like an omake, almost like an after thought. The second to last chappie, in a way IS the final chappie, but the chappie after that is more or less a add on IF the How She Feels series had continued. But enough chatting let's get on with this chappie cause I'm so excited to get it out!
Previously
'Oh shit, screw Zexion. Minerva help me!' Amaterasu thought to herself as she took off away from Saix.
A mad laugh followed her as Saix pursued her, and tackled her to the snow covered ground.
"Don't kill me!" she shrieked, and she tried to cover herself.
However, Saix was not out to kill, he merely scooped up a huge pile of snow and dumped it on Amaterasu's head. With a loud screech, she began to shake it away. Suddenly, Saix was tackled off of Amaterasu. She sat up and looked over at the one who had tackled Saix.
"Don't worry Amaterasu. I'll save you from Moon Man here, Got It Memorized." Axel smirked.
Then instantly the whole clearing that the Organization was in suddenly erupted into a all out snow fight. Whether it was a snowball that flew, or whether it was being tackled into the snow. Everyone was in on it, even Xemnas. Amaterasu looked on around her, surprised that this whole thing was going on. Then she spotted Zexion, entirely unaware of the fact that she was behind him.
Oh this was going to be fun...
Chapter 3
Taking silent steps through the snow, Amaterasu crept up behind Zexion, finally exulting in the fact she was going to have revenge on him for the time he had once scared her out of her mind with one of his illusions. Once she was right behind him, she lept onto his back and he went face first into the snow below him. Laughing as she sat on his back, Amaterasu gently ruffled the hair on top of his head then got up off his back and took off away from him, and waited a little ways away to see what he would do. Zexion shoved himself up off the ground, the bangs that usually covered his face covered in snow, his visible eye glaring at her. She smiled cheekily at him and turned around to run again, but was thrown onto her back as a strong body tackled her.
Not knowing what hit her, she cried out terrified that Zexion had called up some kind of illusion to punish her, but then she heard a deep chuckle come from above her. She opened her eyes and noticed silver strands of hair obscuring her view. Pushing the silver strands out of the way, she found herself staring into Xemnas' sunset eyes. They had a mischievous glint in them, something that Amaterasu had never seen in them before. Shoving hard against Xemnas' chest, she managed to switch their position so she was sitting on top of him, straddling his waist.
His hands came up to her hips to steady her as she almost fell over. Her cheeks were red from the cold so he wasn't able to tell that she was blushing from the way that they had ended up. Suddenly Amaterasu was swept up off Xemnas by an invisible force and was hung upside down. She blinked for a few seconds trying to figure out what was going on. Once she did however, the result was not pretty.
"Xigbar, your ass better let me down right now, or so help me, when I do manage to get down I will give you the thrashing of your life, and it will be one that you never forget. Do you hear me, Xigbar? Get me the fuck down! NOW!" she yelled, absolutely incensed that he had resorted to using his powers when all they were doing was having a little snow ball fight.
Xigbar walked into view below her and began to laugh as he watched her.
"What's wrong Ami? Can't do anything while you're up there? Betcha really wanna get me right now, huh?" he asked mocking her.
Amaterasu crossed her arms across her chest and closed her eyes before breathing deeply. Zexion recognized this sign, but in no way was he going to ruin the fun for Amaterasu. She deserved to have revenge for what Xigbar had just done. No one else but he had seen this part of her powers and it would be quite the show to see how everyone else reacted to them. Quite the show indeed.
Moving to the outer reaches of the clearing that they were in so that he wouldn't get caught up in Amaterasu's powers, Zexion leaned up against one of the trees and made sure he had a good view of what was about to happen.
"Final warning Xigbar. Get me the Fuck down. Or you will be really sorry. I am not kidding." Amaterasu growled lowly, eyes still shut and breathing as calmly as she could.
"Oh really, what are you going to do. You can't even reach me. Your little sword Cosmos can't reach down here. And if you throw it, I know you can't call it back to your hand. So if you throw it, you have no other weapons to use. SO what are you going to do? Glare at me, call me names, curse at me? You've done all those before and those have gotten you no where." Xigbar laughed in her face.
"I don't have any other weapons other than Cosmos, do I?" Amaterasu asked, her eyes slowly opening.
Usually her eyes were a calm ocean blue, but now they glowed a bright violet, and the hair that was now dangling below her head slowly turned the same violet as her eyes. Uncrossing her arms, she allowed them to fall towards the ground and slowly black flames began to lick their way down her arms as well as making their way up her body. She flicked one hand at Xigbar and those black flames followed her movements and flew at Xigbar, swirling around him, licking at his body and burning him. Xigbar's concentration on his powers was broken and Amaterasu was released from where she was floating and she managed to flip from being upside down, to landing gracefully on her feet. Standing back up, she raised her hand and the black flames that were surrounding Xigbar left him and flew back to her hand.
Amaterasu lowered her hand back to her side and merely stood there watching as Xigbar stared at her. The black flames she had summoned were swirling around her body, clinging to it like a second skin, however nothing on her body was being burned. She took a few steps toward him raising her hand and he backed away, terrified that she would send the black fire after him again. Suddenly a arm appeared around her waist and another one snaked up her arm. The black fire quickly took to the body that had pressed itself up behind Amaterasu, wrapping that person in a second skin of fire as well.
Zexion pulled Amaterasu's arm down, and the arm around her waist slid up and the hand connected to it turned Amaterasu's face so that he could kiss her. The fire subsided slightly, and Zexion whispered something in Amaterasu ear. Her eyes closed and she relaxed back against him, almost as if she had slipped into a trance.
"You really don't want to anger her too much, Xigbar. She holds herself back most of the time. But anger her enough, and you will end up, as she put's it "a crispy critter". I've seen her do it to Heartless a number of times, and it even works on them. I believe I will be getting her away from you so you don't end up getting killed." hissed Zexion, and with that a Dark Corridor opened around the two of them and in a swirl of Darkness, the two of them were gone.
"Um, what just happened?" asked Axel, brushing snow off his coat.
Demyx walked over next to him.
"I think that Zexion basically just told us to screw off in no uncertain terms." he huffed, shaking his head in defeat.
He had been having a good time. It was rare that they all got out of the Castle unless it was on a mission, so this was a rare treat, and now it was ruined. In a cave quite some distance away a bloom of darkness appeared and Zexion appeared in it with Amaterasu. Sliding back against the wall to the cave, he leaned forward and whispered into Amaterasu's ear again. Her eyes snapped open and she looked around.
"What the heck?"
Her head snapped around as did her body when she no longer saw the rest of the Organization around her.
"Zexion, what the literal fuck. I was going to teach Xigbar a lesson..." she hissed.
"And you would have killed him in the process." Zexion cut her off.
Amaterasu snapped her mouth shut. He was right, her anger had gotten the best of her.
"Sorry, Zexion...Thank you for stopping me. Xemnas wouldn't have been too happy with me if I had." she whispered.
Zexion pushed away from the wall of the cave.
"You have no reason to thank me. You know how much I care for you and you know that I would do anything for you." he whispered, putting his arms around her waist and pulling her to his chest, "Even if Xemnas had tried to hurt you, I would have protected you."
Amaterasu's arms circled around him.
"You forget Xemnas likes me as a friend, so he wouldn't try and hurt me. But knowing that you would do that for me is touching." she replied, "You know I saw a frozen lake back near the clearing, why don't we go ice skating?"
Zexion's eyes slightly widened at the words 'ice skating'. He wasn't fond of the ice, let alone skating as it was. He hoped that he could dissuade her from the idea.
"Um, Ami...you know...I, uh...I really don't think..." he began.
Amaterasu focused her eyes on him then narrowed them.
"Tell me you're afraid of ice, Zexion?" she teased.
Zexion snapped his mouth shut and glared at her.
"Of course I'm not. I was just worried about you being cold. I didn't want you to be too cold out on the lake. If you're fine, then I'm fine with going out on the lake. Which direction was it again?" he hissed at her turning to face the outside of the cave.
Amaterasu walked up behind him and brought her arms up around him, pointing in front of him with one hand.
"That way..." she whispered in his ear.
The warm puff of air on his ear made him shiver, and he had to collect his self-control for a second and force himself not to turn around and force her up against the wall and drown himself and a deep, wonderful kiss and then even more then that. He wasn't sure of Amaterasu was ready for that, and he didn't want to push her if she wasn't. Opening a Dark Corridor, Zexion pulled her through and when it closed they both found themselves standing at the edge of a large frozen lake. Amaterasu gave a small laugh and walked to the edge. Leaning down, she pressed a hand to the edge of it and shoved down hard.
Her hand remained above water so it was obvious that the lake was frozen enough to hold a good amount to weight. '
Although just to make sure...' she thought to herself.
She turned to look at Zexion.
"Hey Zexion would you mind turning around for a second? You know of a few powers that I have, but there are a few others that I don't want anyone to know about. Not even you. I trust you beyond measure. But still." she asked him, giving as small smile.
Zexion nodded turning around, giving her the privacy that she wanted. Amaterasu unzipped the coat that had been given to her and slipped her hand inside it. Sliding her hand under the few layers of clothes that she had put on, Amaterasu reached into the pouch that she had sewed into the pants that she had procured a few years before coming to The World That Never Was. It had been a gift from her brother. It's contents were some of her most prized possessions.
Pulling out a blue orb, she held it tightly in one hand and placed the other down flat against the ice.
"Ice 3, spread." she whispered softly.
Her hand glowed light blue briefly before a web of ice spread away from her hand, making the ice thicker all over the lake. Sliding the orb back where it came from, she closed the coat back up and stood back up. Walking silently over to Zexion, she slid her arms around him.
"Okay, I'm done. It's safe to skate on the ice now. We don't have to worry about falling through. I strengthened the ice." she whispered to him.
He turned around in her arms and looked into her eyes. They were that purple color again, but there was no anger in them. Only the proof that she had used some of her more unusual powers. Letting go of Zexion, she pulled him down to the edge of the lake then leaned down and ran her hand over the edges of first her boots then Zexion's. When she pulled her hands away, the bottoms of their boots were covered in a layer of ice.
Amaterasu stepped out onto the lake and glided away. The ice on her boots and the ice of the lake sliding against each other smoothly. Once she was a few feet away, she stopped and spun around, looking back at Zexion.
"Well, are you coming or what?" she asked him a smile on her face.
Zexion glanced down at the ice, a wary look on his face. Then with a look of determination in his eyes he waked to the edge of the lake and tried to do the exact same thing Amaterasu did...and ended up sliding backwards and landing flat on his back. Amaterasu's laughter rang out around them as she skated over beside him and slowly circled around him.
"Are you okay?" she giggled, reaching down to him.
Zexion sat up and glared at the ice below him. He had known this was going to be a bad idea.
"I'm fine." he snapped, swatting her hands away.
Planting his hands firmly down on the ice, Zexion started to lever himself up off the ice.
"Wait, that's not the best way to..." Amaterasu began.
But it was too late and Zexion's feet slid out from under him and he face planted against the ice. Amaterasu couldn't help it. She bent over laughing hard. Zexion pushed himself up.
"Shut up!" he hissed.
Amaterasu gave a few more giggles before gliding over in front of him and offering her hands.
"Here. Come on." she smiled gently.
Zexion tried to keep an angry face as he looked up at her, but he couldn't manage and a small smile crept across his face. Taking her hands, he rose shakily to his feet and tried to keep his balance. He almost fell again, but Amaterasu caught him by pulling him against her and he remained upright.
"Here, let me help you. I had to teach my brother how to skate too. It won't take long. Follow my movements." she whispered.
Amaterasu gently moved Zexion's hands down to her forearms and her's to the same on him.
"Now, don't look down. That's rule number one. You'll never be able to get used to skating if you're always looking down. So that means eyes on me." Amaterasu whispered.
Zexion didn't react and was still staring down. Amaterasu sighed and gently bumped her head against his.
"Did you hear me?" she asked.
Zexion looked up, a glare on his face.
"I don't want to fall again!" he hissed.
"You won't, trust me. Now pay attention." Amaterasu hissed in return.
She knew he wasn't angry with her. He was annoyed. Zexion was used to being good at everything immediately and not having any trouble at it or having to have anyone teach him how to do it. This was obviously very frustrating to him.
"Kay, now follow my movements. One foot in front of the other. However when you move your foot, don't just step. It's more like sweeping your foot out from inside to out. We'll work on pushing off to start out moving later." Amaterasu said gently, starting to move backwards slowly.
Zexion followed unsteadily, wobbling back and forth, and side to side as he struggled to stay upright. However after a few minutes of following Amaterasu and letting her lead him. He finally was able to just hold Amaterasu's hands instead of clinging to her arms. He would stumble and almost fall every so often, but he almost had the hang of it. Finally, after a while longer, Zexion felt that he was ready to try and skate on his own.
"Ami, I think I want to try this on my own now." he whispered, trying to pull his hands out of hers.
Amaterasu tilted her head and almost seemed to pout as she looked at him. She had been having fun as she lead him around, teaching him how to skate. But it would be much more fun if were able to skate on his own. True, he wouldn't be able to skate as well as she was, and he wouldn't be able to keep up with her, but it would leave her free to do more and skate more along the lines of what she was used to being able to.
"Are you sure?" she asked softly, tilting her head.
Zexion ave a soft smile, "Yeah, I think I got it now."
Amaterasu nodded and slowly let go of his hands. Zexion gave a few small wobbles, but managed to stay standing up. Amaterasu slid away a little more, and Zexion took a few gliding steps. True to his word he managed to stay up. A pleased expression lit up his face, and a smile lit itself upon Amaterasu's face.
Her teachings were successful. Turning around, Amaterasu quickly glided away from Zexion to the other side of the lake and spun around.
"Well, lets see how well those lesson's worked. Come over here." she called over to him.
Determination stamped itself across Zexion's face, and he began to make his way over to Amaterasu. He didn't make it as quickly as she did, but Zexion did manage to make his way across the lake and over to Amaterasu. Just as Zexion reached Amaterasu, he lost his balance and slipped. Amaterasu reached out to catch him and managed to grab his hands, but instead of keeping him from falling, Zexion only pulled her down with him. They landed in a pile on the ice, Zexion laying on top of Amaterasu.
Amaterasu blinked for a few seconds, trying to make sense of what had just happened, then burst out laughing. Not seeing what was so funny, Zexion gave an annoyed growl, and started to get up.
"Oh come on, Zexion. You have to admit, it was funny. You haven't seen me fall on the ice yet have you? Now I'm on the ice, right?" she laughed as she began to pick herself up off the ice.
Rubbing her hands together, Amaterasu huffed warm air onto them.
"Damn, I didn't realize how cold it had gotten." she whispered.
She looked up at the sky above her. It had darkened considerably. She turned and looked toward the horizon and noticed that the sun had dipped down and was starting to head towards setting.
"Hey Zexion, I know you've just gotten the hang of skating and everything, but it's gotten late and I'm cold. I want to get something to warm up before the others get back. I know they'll stay here for a while. They don't get out of the Castle very often so they're going to make the most of it." she called to him, as she noticed him trying to skate around the lake.
Zexion slowed to a stop and turned to look at her. He opened a Corridor and appeared at her side, pulling her against him.
"As you wish..." he whispered to her.
Sliding through the Corridor that was open next to them, they were gone in an instant and the Corridor disappeared in a swirl of darkness. The only indication that they were ever even there.
