Hey everybody! JoBro-fangirl here with another update! I know you must be overwhelmed with shock at how fast I updated this time! (Ha Not!) Actually this is just a preview for my next chapter, I know that all of you have been waiting for months on end for me to finish it and I am sorry! ;( Why am I posting a preview instead of the actual chapter? You see, unfortunately I seemed to have misplaced the written material I had on this chapter and I'm going to have to try and rewrite it all from memory. This preview was written before that happened so this is the original material that you're going to be reading. However I may not get to writing the rest for a while because of schoolwork and adult responsibilities but I hope that you enjoy what I have written so far and maybe this will tide you over till I post the rest. Well, hopefully I have some Kingdom Hearts fans out there because this is what this chapter is about! And I know that I have labeled this story M and believe me, it is labeled that for a reason! Not for this chapter or any other KH chapter because even you guys know that Disney would have a heart attack if someone wrote a SMUT for Kingdom Hearts! (Not that they aren't on this website…I'm sure if you look hard enough, you could find one!) But my KH portions are sooo not going to be smutty, if anything they'll be fluffy, because I just feel that the characters are too young and that the setting is too innocent. But if you do want smut with this genre, stick around for my next KH fic, oh yes, there will be smut, you'll see….hehehe. Anyway I have labeled it M for Resident Evil and Devil May Cry respectably. So on with the story! (yeah, that next KH fic is probably not going to happen for a while! ^^;)
Disclaimer: If I owned it, there wouldn't be so many freaking damsels in distress!
(By the way, this chapter begins after Kingdom Hearts II, the morning after they arrive back on the island. Forgive me if I get the time line at the end of the game mixed up! My brother says I did, you guys can tell me if he's right! ;))
Chapter 7
Message in a Bottle
"My crown is in my heart, not on my head."
-Shakespeare-
"Sora! Wake up!" Kairi hollered as she tossed pebbles up into Sora's open window, "Come on! We're going to be late! Riku's already waiting for us on the island!" Kairi was beyond frustrated as she picked up a huge rock to throw at his window. She reasoned that if she could hit him hard enough in the head, he would wake up, or receive a concussion, she hoped for the former. Unfortunately she dropped the rock, causing it to land on her toe and initiate a painful shriek from her lips.
After being hit with more than twenty pebbles and then hearing a painful shriek from Kairi, Sora worriedly tossed the bed sheet over his head, thinking something bad had happened to the princess of heart. He immediately regretted the action as the sun burned eyes that were the same shade as the deep blue sea. Shading his eyes from the harsh sunlight, Sora peered down over his windowsill, scanning the terrain for the impatient little nymph who had been shouting and throwing rocks at him for about an hour or so. The sight of burgundy-red hair glistening in the sunlight gave her away immediately. Spotting his profile in the second-story window, Kairi sighed with relief,
"You're finally awake!" She giggled, suddenly forgetting her hurt toe as she shaded her eyes from the sunlight. Seeing that she was perfectly fine, he sighed with relief, yet Sora wasn't too happy at being awoken two hours before his normal time and with sleepy eyes asked,
"Kairi, why'd you wake me up so early?" She laughed,
"You lazy bum! Quit complaining, I woke you up later than most people sleep, now get dressed so you can meet us on the island!" He smirked at her retort,
'Lazy bum huh? Heh, you really don't know how much I've missed that nickname…' He thought, thinking it strange that the nickname he used to despise was suddenly music to his ears. Well, now that he thought about it, the only person who could call him that without offending him was Kairi. He looked down at her, staring up at him with her aquamarine eyes, sparkling like diamonds on water. There was no way he could refuse those magnificent eyes, they were his weakness, and as his enemies often said, his downfall. He nodded his head, signaling that he was complying to her wishes.
"Yeah, okay whatever…" He mumbled, his voice hoarse from lack of use. He rubbed his eyes as he watched Kairi skip merrily towards the beach, her long mane of red hair glistening in the morning sun. Suddenly he wondered what it would be like to run his fingers through her long silky strands, would it feel as soft and smooth as satin? Or maybe even softer? Sora shook his head, what was he thinking? He'd only gotten back from his adventure and he was already thinking about Kairi in inappropriate ways! Jeeze, hormone attack! He'd told himself that he wasn't going to be disappointed if Kairi turned him down, if she didn't like him in the same way, then that was that. For now, they were just friends and he was going to respect that. Sora stretched his arms up over his head, his body yawning in protest at his lack of sleep. He looked down towards his pillow, truly considering climbing back underneath the covers. He reconsidered his actions when he thought of Riku and Kairi storming into his house and dragging him out of bed and he decided that it was best not to ignore his friends for too long, he wouldn't dare put it past them to do something like that…
His stomach growled and rumbled hungrily, snapping him out of his thoughts and he realized that he hadn't really eaten since before he, Donald and Goofy decided to invade the World that Never Was. That, plus the beatings he'd taken from Xemnas proved to be a good enough reason to lounge in bed all day.
After all that had happened yesterday, he didn't really know how Riku was already out on the island, the energy that was drained from his body when he got rid of the remaining nobodies couldn't have returned that easily could it? Ever since he and Riku were kids he'd always thought that Riku was invincible, and now he truly believed it. But then again, Riku had been living like that for the past year, so it was probably natural for him to rise early, the forces of darkness probably had something to do with that…
Sora realized that he was still fully clothed and deducted that he had probably fallen asleep before his mother was done lecturing him the night before, defeating Xemnas was definitely not something his body was used to, no matter how long he'd been on his quest... Sora looked around his room, it was the same way he'd left it when he began his life-changing journey over a year ago. And knowing his mother, she probably sobbed her heart out and refused to move any of his stuff in hopes that he would come back and take care of it himself. And as stubborn a woman she was, she had waited a whole year.
Sora slipped his bruised and battered body out of bed, flinching as he rolled over onto a sensitive area which he'd later found out to be a large burn on his right shoulder caused by one of Xemnas' ethereal blades...ouch. He pressed his open palm to his chest and silently commanded, 'Heal.' A bright green light issued forth from his fingertips and soothed his wounds giving him his energy back.
He quietly opened his bedroom door in hopes that he wouldn't alert a certain flustered mother to his presence. He tiptoed to the top of the staircase and looked around for any sign of her. Finding none, he silently crept downstairs, wincing every time one of the boards creaked. He had to admit, learning to sneak around in enemy territory was going to come in handy...big time. That was when the smell hit him, the smell every child on the island steered clear of every Sunday morning, his mother's breakfast casserole. The smell that Sora could never avoid, nor escape. It was both disgusting in taste and smell, but for some reason he could never man up and tell her that her cooking was crap, he was just too nice, something else his enemies had mentioned would be his downfall... Sora's mother, Leona made her infamous breakfast casserole out of all the leftover breakfast food she had made earlier in the week, she also added curry, wheat grass and for a reason Sora could never begin to understand, disgusting okra. Every friend Sora had made it a point not to visit his home on Sunday mornings or sleep over on Saturday night for they knew that they too would be treated to the horrifying casserole. In Sora's opinion, it wasn't too bad, he liked the curry, it was just the awful smelling wheat grass and the okra that made him have indigestion if he ate too much of it.
Seriously, what was he? A goat? Sora knew that his mother, Leona was attempting to make him eat healthier and had been doing so for a few years now. She was convinced that he had a growth problem because he was a whole lot shorter than Riku who was only a year older than him and he was barely taller than Kairi who was a girl and by nature-in her opinion- was supposed to be shorter. She was convinced that it was all her fault for providing him with all of those sugar-filled treats when he was younger, so she cut them out entirely and started providing him with nutritious, protein-filled, health snacks, something Sora hadn't been too thrilled with...
Instead of forcing himself to eat her casserole, he decided he was going to sneak out and buy ice cream or something from one of the vendors in town. Yet the aroma of a nice healthy breakfast filled the house and the growling of his stomach made him truly consider eating his mother's terrible food, after all, he really hadn't had a decent meal since, well he couldn't remember when... But when he felt even Roxas grimace with disgust, he decided it was time to high-tail it out of there. He was almost free when she caught him,
"And where do you think you're going young man?" Came a smooth, irate voice from the kitchen. Sora froze in his tracks, already knowing he didn't have much of an explanation for her.
"Well, um I was just...going to the island! Kairi will get angry if I keep her waiting too long!" He said matter-of-factly, scratching the back of his head nervously as he gave her his signature wide-toothed grin. His mother had cried and whined to him when he'd come home last night, not to mention had given him one of her yelling, screaming lectures that had woken up all of the neighbors about where he'd been for a year, why he hadn't come home, and how much emotional stress he'd put her through all of those long months, "I had to spend Christmas alone!" she'd cried. Luckily Donald and Goofy had been there to help him explain the situation since he was nearly comatose after his battle with Xemnas and his long swim to the island.
His mother crossed her arms, flipping her short, engine-red hair,
"You need to eat breakfast young man, Kairi can wait." She said to him in a commanding tone. Sora sighed in defeat, letting go of the doorknob and taking a seat for breakfast. His mother smiled at the reaction she gained from her son, knowing that it was the smell of her casserole that had made him want to flee. Sora, waiting for the disgusting fare to scorn his plate was then surprised by a normal plate of eggs, pancakes and sausage instead.
'Well, now I'm glad I didn't skip breakfast!' He thought, stuffing three fork-fulls of pancakes into his mouth before chugging his milk and scarfing down the rest of his breakfast.
"You know, if you eat too fast, you're going to have heartburn." His mother chided.
"I'm done." He announced seconds later, hitting his chest as his body tried to force the food down his esophagus. He quickly got up, knocking over his chair as he bolted for the door. The chair hit the floor and made another mark on the worn linoleum floor.
"It's good to have him back again." His mother shook her head as the slamming of the screen door was heard through the hallway. She sighed, surprisingly happy with something that had once irritated her to no end.
Upon reaching the island, Sora took a deep breath of the tropical sea breeze, he had missed the smell of mango, coconut and sea-salt and had found nothing like it in any of the worlds he'd been to. He looked around for Kairi, but at the moment, she was no where to be seen.
Hey guys I hope that you enjoyed this preview and I'll try to get back to you with the next part ASAP! Forgive me! :{
