Chances
Chapter 4
A/N: I'm adding a new pairing! See if you can figure out who it is.
Castle Destiny
"Great!" Xemnas said. "Vexen, I'm almost afraid to ask, but can you fix Marluxia this time?"
"No," Vexen said. "Marluxia will have to live with being dumb and a girl until I can figure out exactly whose hair was in the potion." Marluxia just stared at the two with wide blue eyes. She had no idea what was going on.
Xemnas groaned and said, "Well Luxord, now you have someone to play cards with because it appears that Marluxia became even dumber when he turned into a girl." Luxord squealed happily and dragged Marluxia off to go play poker. Marluxia did not fight because she no longer knew the horror that comes from playing cards with Luxord.
Riku's Lair
"Soooooo," Riku said blushing after the kiss had ended. "I really wasn't expecting for you to uh- you know." Riku was in the process of mentally kicking himself. He was a vampire. He was cold and cruel. He did NOT act like a nervous schoolgirl because he had kissed a human. Humans were supposed to be his prey. His PREY!
"Yeah," Sora replied blushing. "Neither did I." Sora's mind was just one big jumbled mass of confusion. What did this mean? Did it mean anything at all? Was he attracted to Riku? And many other thoughts/questions pertaining to Riku and the kiss. So the two of them just sat there and pondered what had happened and what was going through their heads. All was quiet, until the silence was interrupted by none other than Sora's stomach growling.
Chuckling softly, Riku asked, "About time for me to start making lunch, isn't it?" Sora blushed and nodded quickly, thankful for a distraction.
"So," said the cinnamon-haired boy. "What are you going to make?"
"Well since someone seems a little hungry," replied Riku smirking. "I thought I would make something fast like Mac N' Cheese with hot dogs." The silver-haired vampire walked into the kitchen and pulled out a few pots and a strainer. While waiting for the water to boil, he pulled out a box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese from the pantry and a pack of hot dogs from the fridge. (A/N: Trust me, this is like the best lunch ever!)
When Riku was done, he cut up the hot dogs and put them in a casserole dish with the Mac N' Cheese. He took it to the table, where Sora was eagerly awaiting his lunch. He made it quite obvious when he asked, "What took you so long? I nearly starved!" When in truth, it had only taken Riku fifteen minutes to prepare the food.
After lunch was over, Riku felt a wave of hunger. Of real hunger. He needed human blood and soon. It had been over two months since Riku had fed properly. He groaned out loud and inwardly cursed. Sora asked him if something was wrong.
"I just remembered something I've gotta do," Riku said. "I hope you don't mind doing the dishes." And before Sora could even comprehend what Riku had said, the vampire was out into the forest leaping through the trees. He was trying to put as much distance between himself and Sora as possible. Spotting the town a few miles away, Riku sped up. Since he didn't have all that time to be picky, Riku grabbed the first human he saw and knocked them out. Then he quickly dragged him into an alley and drank every last ounce of blood. Satisfied, he found the man's walled and jumped onto the roof of the nearest building.
A few blocks away, Riku found a video store. Inside a group of guys about Sora's age were talking about something called "anime" and "Yu Yu Hakusho". Riku saw a box set of DVD's that looked like what the guys were talking about and decided to get them. There was just enough cash in the now-dead man's wallet to pay for it. Grinning, Riku took his purchase and headed back to the forest. Along the way, he buried the wallet in case the human police ever actually came poking around in his forest.
Castle Destiny
After two hours of playing poker, Marluxia was scarred for life. She had sat across from the evil-auraed gambling addict for far too long. Unfortunately, she had only received mental trauma, which is 1000 times more damaging than physical pain when playing cards with Luxord. Finally, she ran crying to Xemnas, who had no choice but to let Marluxia curl up in his lap and bawl for two reasons. First, he was a major part of the blame for her emotional scarring, and secondly, she just would not let go of him. Then as usual for her, Namine appeared out of nowhere.
"Xemnas we have a very big problem," Namine said. "The paint that Marluxia used isn't coming off. Over half our counsel are in their rooms either sulking, or crying their eyes out from depression. And Luxord refuses to tell us what ingredients were in the paint because he lost his poker buddy." She said the last part nodding toward Marluxia.
"Well as you can see, my hands are full at the moment," Xemnas growled. "So why don't you just search his memories for the answer?"
"To tell you the truth, sir," Namine said unemotionally. "I'm rather frightened to even thin about what goes on in that lunatic's mind."
Groaning, Xemnas replied, " Fine. Tell Vexen to work on it. I'll see what I can do about this girl." Namine nodded and disappeared just as Roxas walked into his room, which earned yet another groan from Xemnas.
"Hey Xemmy-Wemmy! I'm here to help you out a bit," Roxas said and although he didn't show it, Xemnas was beyond surprised. "The easiest way to get a girl to shut up," Roxas said as innocently as he could. "Is to kiss them."
"GET OUT!" Xemnas shouted as loud as he could while blushing. Roxas left the room and the second he was in the hallway, he was rolling on the ground laughing. Meanwhile, Xemnas contemplated the best way possible to torture Roxas that involved the most amount of pain and, Marluxia just sat in his lap confused by it all.
In his room, Vexen was working as fast as he could but so far, he had been unable to find anything. As far as Vexen could tell, this was normal paint. He hadn't yet finished all the tests when Namine came in again.
"Things are about to get disastrous around here," Namine said. About a second later, they were on fire, then sopping wet a second later. Larxene was throwing random objects at random vampires at random places in Castle Destiny and, Zexion was chasing Saix with Marluxia's scythe. Axel was the one setting fires every two seconds, and Demyx had opted to follow Axel to douse his fires instead of flooding the castle. The only ones safe from this craziness were Xemnas and Marluxia because noone dared to go in the former's room and, Roxas because he was playing cards with Luxord, whom noone wished to be near.
"Riku's Lair
Sora was bored. Why? you ask. Because Sora had finished cleaning the dishes and hour ago and was waiting for Riku to get home. He obviously didn't want to watch another horror film by himself and wasn't really in the mood to watch the new with his face plastered on every other channel. So here he was, lying on his bed waiting for Riku to get home.
Another hour passed, and Riku finally jumped back into his lair/tree house. Sora heard a small thud and raced out to see Riku standing there with a small smile on his face while holding a box in his hand.
"What's that?" Sora asked.
"Oh just," Riku said showing it to his houseguest. "An entire season of Yu Yu Hakusho."
"Awesome!" Sora shouted. "How did you know that I like anime?"
"Lucky guess," Riku replied. "And I assumed you didn't want to watch any of my more intense horror films.
"Is that where you went? To get some movies that I would want to watch?" Sora asked. When Riku nodded, Sora shouted his thanks and hugged Riku. Noticing the position they were in, Sora blushed and said, "You know, I wouldn't mind if- mmmmm." Riku had pressed his lips against Sora's and cut off his sentence. Riku's arms wrapped around Sora's waist and pulled him in as close as possible. Sora's hands traveled up around Riku's neck. A few seconds later, Riku bit on Sora's lower lip and when the latter gasped, Riku's tongue slid into Sora's mouth. Riku explored every centimeter of Sora's mouth before massaging Sora's tongue with his own. Eventually, they had to pull apart because even vampires need air.
A/N: Ok! Thank you for reading this chapter of Chances. I hope you enjoyed it. Once again, thank you to all the wonderful reviewers. Next chapter, Riku and Sora are getting close but can Riku's secret stay a secret forever and, what exactly happens at Castle Destin next? That's pretty much it and see you next time in Chances chapter 5!