Ch 7: Sunday

Updated 03/06/15


Dawn approached Sunday morning as Sora and Kairi began to wake up on the living room couch to the little "pitter-patter" of sprinkling precipitation.

"Mmm," Kairi groaned and spoke groggily, "G' Morning Sora."

Sora rustled and moved his arm from around her shoulder slightly disoriented, "Hey, where's Ishibashi?"

Kairi sat up in a rush, "Dang it. That's a great question ... I hope she found a spare room."

He shrugged, "Either way, she's bound to be inside." He stood and went to the next floor and made his way to all the spare rooms. However, he looked to no avail, until he decided last minute to peek into Vanitas's open door, with the desk light still on, even when the pale grey light fed through the closed blinds.

His eyebrows raised, on their own accord and smiled at Vanitas's relaxed muscles and Anika on the bed cuddled next to him in the fetal position.

Sora shrugged and quickly headed down stairs and hugged Kairi from behind who stood facing the fridge pondering what to make for breakfast.

He kissed the crook of her slender neck, "Anika is cuddled next to him," he whispered.

She whirled around, "No way! How'd she end up there?"

"No clue," he shrugged, "but he looks really calm, and waaay more relaxed than normal." He pulled away from her and leaned against the counter.

Kairi nodded and pulled out an egg carton, and strawberries from the fridge, and pancake mix and a waffle maker from the pantry. She plugged in the appliance into the island and accordingly arranged a cutting board, a mixing bowl, and utensils to begin her breakfast preparations.

Sora looked at her plans laid out across an entire half of the island, "Want help?"

She smiled and shook her head as she began mixing all the ingredients to make fluffy waffles.

Upstairs Vanitas stirred and opened his eyes and accidentally nudged Anika while he stretched. He immediately halted all movement and slowly turned, but she hadn't been phased. He released his breath, and stood to shower, with a last glance at her over his shoulder.

Vanitas went into the hallway, made a left turn and another immediate left and went into the light beach styled bathroom that Anika had showered in the night before.

He heated the water to scalding, shred his clothes off and stepped in. His black spiky hair flattened as he ran his hand through it.

He chuckled and shook his head with a smile on his face, splashing droplets onto the tile wall and opaque glass. I'm well rested, uncommon.

He grabbed a Coconut-Vanilla scented all-in-one shampoo, conditioner and body wash and massaged it into his hair and lathered his body with it. He rinsed, turned the water off and stepped out while grabbing a black towel from the basket rack. He took the towel and ran it through his thick hair, towel drying it, then wrapped it around his waist. He wiped the mirror with his hand to remove excess fog and brushed his teeth.

In his room, Anika wakened and looked at her surroundings. What the fuck. A bed? I was at his desk. She dazedly thought. Whatever. She discarded the thought. All she knew was she was very comfortable. She didn't even worry where Vanitas was.

She got up off the bed, stretching side to side with her arms up to stretch her long torso, and sighed deeply.

Vanitas walked into his room and paused at the threshold, watching her stretch.

From her peripherals she noticed his figure. She whirled around, "You perv!" She grabbed the nearest pillow and tried to chuck it at him with all the force she could muster.

He caught it with ease, chuckling, "Chill!" His hands raised in surrender, with his right hand clutching the pillow.

Vanitas walked to his dresser, tossed the pillow back onto the bed and selected his clothes for the day. While pulling out a navy blue scoop neck tee, light grey skinny jeans and some plaid boxers, he spoke, "Good morning by the way.

Anika smiled internally and responded civilly, "'Morning." She swayed, debating whether or not she should ask Kairi for extra clothes or ask Vanitas for her clothes in the dryer. She bit the corner of her lip and decided, "Well, I'm gonna go ask Kairi if she has any other clothes while you change."

He looked at her with his bright saffron yellow eyes. "You don't wanna stay?" he joked.

She tilted her head in sarcasm, "As enticing as that sounds, I wanna get dressed too."

He laughed as she exited the room to be met by the alluring smell of homemade waffles, fresh strawberries and pomegranate-green tea. She bolted downstairs to lo and behold a delicious set up of breakfast at the white marble island. Anika squealed, "Looks delicious!" Her tongue licked her lips in anticipation.

Kairi smiled wide, "You want different clothes before you eat?"

Anika had to force her eyes away from the food. "Yeah." She looked at her friend who was still in her clothes from yesterday, and exclaimed, "Am I the only one that changed into something that slightly resembled PJs?!" A laugh escaped her lips, and she added, "You guys should change too."

Sora guffawed, "I didn't notice until you brought it up! Kai, change, and I'll change once you've come back down." He stood and cleaned some of the dishes Kairi used to make the fresh stack of waffles.

The red head moved around the island, dragging her friend back upstairs and then up another set of stairs across the way from Vanitas' room that entered into the master. From the stairs straight up was a chestnut dresser and to the far left wall of the stairs was the bed. On the left of the brown bed, was the cream, tawny and white bathroom that had a tub in the corner with two windows. A glass shower was on left and a double vanity on the right. In the space next to the bathroom was a huge walk in closet which Kairi brought Anika to. An entire half of the closet had Kairi's clothes, hung up and in some drawers. One quarter had Sora's and the extra quarter had both of their shoes arranged like some extravagant shoe department for a magazine shoot.

Anika looked at all of Kairi's things stupefied, "If your stuff is in here, what's in the dresser?"

She smiled deviously, "The rest of his stuff, one drawer for my jewelry, and two empty drawers out of eight."

"Holy fuck! When did you bring all of that here?!"

"Past couple weeks," she said causally while sorting through her clothes. She stopped upon a new single pair of lacy ones and a green polka dotted one for herself. Next she chose fraying dark jean shorts for Anika and even shorter light jean shorts for herself. Kairi took off her skirt from the previous day and shimmied into the panties facing away from Anika and then stepped into her tight jeans.

"You planning on moving in here or something?" Anika took the shorts and lacy undergarment and slipped into them.

Kairi shrugged, "Even though we officially started recently, I have actually been with him awhile."

"Kai, is that why you've been in an out of the house the last few months without telling me?"

"Yeah." She protracted and tossed Anika a light green loose tank top with white lettering: 1963. Kairi kept her same bra on, put on a white striped tank top. She left the closet and Anika finished changing.

Together, they went back down and Sora took his leave to change. Vanitas had been chatting with his brother, but ended the conversation once the girls came down.

"Nice food selection, Kairi," he commented.

She gave a little jump, "Thanks. Go ahead and serve yourself if you like. I'll wait for Sora."

Vanitas didn't even allow her to complete her sentence before he grabbed a plate, loaded it with four waffles and topped it with strawberries, butter and maple syrup. He pulled out a few forks from the drawer while he was getting his own, just to be somewhat courteous.

Anika grabbed a Tyrian purple mug of the four mugs set on the island near the heated tea kettle. She filled it with the warm liquid, watching the mini curls of steam emanate from the darkened tea.

Vanitas leaned over her and grabbed his own mug to fill with tea.

Anika placed her cup down roughly and looked angrily at him, "You couldn't wait a few seconds for me to move out of the way?!"

"Nope." He smirked, "Its much easier to lean over you."

She scoffed, "Sorry I'm not a giant like you."

"I'd rather be a giant than a troll."

She released her hold on the cup on the island without breaking or spilling anything and turned to face him, only to smash into his chest. She whined, "Goddammit you jerk! Move your ginormous legs!"

From his point of view, he relished the flush of her cheeks and her frustration. "Naw, I'm good in this position," he smirked as he pinned her against the counter.

From the opposite side of the island, Kairi's eyes got wide and her smile broadened as she schemed like some mad maniac matchmaker. Sora returned in a black racer back tank top and some ripped jean shorts.

Anika tried turning back around to no avail, so she reached to Vanitas' plate situated next to her arm and stole a waffle. She stuck it into her mouth, bit a piece off and chewed.

His eyes widened, "That's my waffle! Get your own!"

She shook her head. "You won't let me out to get my own waffles," she countered.

She put the waffle to her mouth again and Vanitas ripped off his own bite from the same waffle. Her face became beet red and let him claim the rest of his waffle.

He pulled himself away and handed her a clean plate, "Here, for your own food."

She took it and gave herself three waffles, a pile of fruit and layers of syrup. Her anger filled eyes met with Kairi's feigned innocence, "I didn't see anything."

Anika pleaded, "Don't lie to me! You totally saw that!"

Sora served himself and Kairi, elbowing his brother in the process. "You interested?" he whispered.

Vanitas ignored the question giving Sora a mere glance, then took a seat next to Anika and ate his breakfast.

She glared at him with her tongue out at him, "Baaaaka."

He snickered with a crooked grin.


A/N: Please review to help make this story better. I'd love to hear your thoughts, even if you want to vent about a bad day. Anyway, hope you enjoyed!

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Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction, anything that resembles real life is a coicidence. All Kingdom Hearts Characters belong to Square Enix and Disney.