Rin: The long awaited chapter has arrived! -dances- I know, I know. I'm lazy and it took me forever to write it but it's pretty long. That's a plus, right? Besides the fact that I think it's really crappy and terribly written and just so very boring. But if you people like it, I guess that makes me happy.
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On with ze story!
0o0
Sora took a step back, completely shocked. "What are you talking about Cloud?"
The said boy shook his head and sighed. "I said to give it up. I know who you are, Sor. You passed all the tests- the looks, the attitude, same excuses, the pocky reaction, and the kitchen fear. I know who you are little brother."
"B-but… How? I'm not that oblivious, am I? I tried really hard to cover this up!" Sora felt like he was starting to cry. "I can't believe you saw right through it!"
Cloud pulled his brother into an embrace. "Hush. Don't worry Sor. I'm the only one so far who knows. We have a special bond, right?"
Sora pulled away with a smile. "Yeah, you could always tell when I was in trouble even if you couldn't stop it."
Hurt flashed across Cloud's eyes. "I'm sorry, Sora. I had a feeling that something was wrong but I didn't do anything to fix it. I'm so sorry."
Sora put a hand on his brother's shoulder and flashed a smile. "It's not your fault, you were only ten. It was my fault for not doing anything. I knew what daddy did was wrong but I was terrified of him. Even Riku blames himself."
"Oh, yeah. I think he was of the worst it effected. He stopped talking, eating, playing, he even stopped practicing with his sword."
Sora gasped. "He did? Because of me? Riku loved sword fighting more than anything!" Sora really started to cry. "I completely ruined everyone's life! It's all my fault! You, Riku, mom, even dad's!"
"Shh… it's okay. We got over it; it's not your fault. But you must tell me… how did you get back here? Didn't you go to Heaven or whatever?"
Sora wiped a tear away. "Yeah, for eight years. Then last week during magic class, someone yelled fire and outside there were demons and they were practically everywhere! And two of them kidnapped me. They wanted to take me to the head boss but they didn't get to because I escaped. They chased me off the edge of a cloud and I fell into Riku."
"Wow. So what Riku said was true."
"Ah-uh. But it gets more confusing. Supposedly, I'm some sort of important angel who needs to be captured and sent to Oblivion or something like that. Aeris tried to tell me but some guy got her. I don't know what to do…"
Cloud blinked. "Aeris? Who's she?"
"An angel. She's like my second mother. I've been living with her for the past couple years. She's really nice and pretty too!"
"Hmm… Sounds familiar."
Sora shrugged. "I don't know much about her past; she changed the subject every time I brought it up."
"Did you get the pocky yet?" A male voice cam from behind them. There stood Leon looking quite bored. "We're hungry and we don't want to wait on your ADD."
Cloud jumped up and wrapped his arms around his boyfriend's neck, nuzzling his head into him. "Awww! Poor Squally's jealous! Isn't that cute?"
Leon rolled his eyes and pushed the boy off. "I told you before, you can only call me that under one circumstance."
Cloud gave him one of his cutest smiles. "I just wanted to know Sora better. You can't blame me for that, can you?" He batted his eyes a bit and widened them for full effect.
Leon turned quickly. "Whatever, just hurry it up."
"Wow," Sora said after Leon left. "I'm glad my brother has such a kind and caring boyfriend."
"I know but I love him all the same."
0o0
Later that evening Sora escaped his past home with Riku and Revenge carried on his back he was still complaining. "I can't believe they want me to write another song. Why don't they try it for a change? I can't think of anything on such short notice!"
"I can help." Sora said trying to cheer him up. "I wrote songs before. You can use one of mine."
"Thanks."
Sora smiled and looked up at the night sky. He noticed a bright star. "Riku!" He cried, pointing to the star. "It's the star of Lady Mitsuki!"
"Lady Mitsuki?" Riku repeated in question.
Sora gasped. "You've never heard of Lady Mitsuki? Haven't you studied angel history?"
"Wha…? Oh, let me guess, your mother taught you it."
"Um… yes she did. Do you want to hear the story?" Riku nodded and Sora cleared his throat.
"You know angels are required to start learning magic at an early death age. All angels are great at magic but there are a chosen few to whom magic comes very easily. They are above everyone in their level and can master the hardest of spells in one or two tries when most takes up to 5 years of intense training. They-like all angels- aren't born as angels, they must die and go to Heaven. They are all pure souls who won't be rejected by God. The Chosen Ones die by fate, not accident, so when one goes to Heaven, the angels know something wrong is going to happen.
"Chosen Ones are saviors. They save Heaven and earth from Twilights, demons or possibly humans. They use their powerful magic and strong wills to defeat their enemy.
"One of the most famous and strongest Chosen Ones is Lady Mitsuki. Because she had one of the hardest battles of all time and she never had any training before. In her case Lady Mitsuki avoided her death. They myth says that she was fated to be murdered one day for trying to stop a robbery. But for some reason, Lady Mitsuki didn't go into that store like she planned to. So she lived. Two years later on the exact day of her planned death day, the Twilights attacked.
"At the time, Twilights were a new enemy. They are half angel, half demon. When they were alive they were good and bad. No one knew what to do with them so they created the world of Twilights. Why the Twilights attacked, no one knows, but Lady Mitsuki had to act fast. She knew she was the one to stop them but she didn't know how. She used her gut instinct and she realized some of the most powerful magic attacks to date. After the battle was over, Lady Mitsuki died. She went to Heaven and lived as a hero for the rest of her time.
"And in honor of Lady Mitsuki's skills and bravery, the gods created a special star for her and every year on the day she died, which is also her planned death date too, the star shines brightly in the sky for all to see. Rumor has it, if you pray to the dead on her star, a miracle will happen."
Sora got down on his knees and prayed.
"Sora, it's just a myth."
"I'm superstitious!" Sora jumped up a second later. "Done!"
Riku leaned forward and planted his lips on Sora's. The younger boy was startled at first but started to kiss back. Riku smirked and wrapped his arms around Sora's body deepening the kiss. Sora smiled inwardly and brought his arms to the other boy's neck, bring him down. "Isn't that what you wanted?" Riku asked afterwards.
Sora blushed. "How did you…"
Riku kissed him lightly in the forehead. "I just did."
0o0
Once in his room, Riku had a question. "Hey, Sora? What exactly is a Twilight?"
"A deceased person who did both good and bad things in his or her past life. One of the most well known Twilight was a man who once served in the army to fight evil then fell into darkness. He died eventually by a warrior. Most people believed the warrior was a chosen one but he was reincarnated. If someone wasn't pleased with something in their past life, they are reincarnated to fix it. And chosen ones never are reborn into a new life.
"Anyway, since the Twilight did many good needs before he lost himself into the shadows, he became a Twilight. I have seen a picture of him before; his feathers are a mix of demon and angel. Black and blue. He's really famous. A lot of angels trust him and many demons look up to him as well. It's kinda hard to tell what side he's on, ya know?" Sora recited as if he was a dictionary.
"I guess." Riku agreed taking out his homework. "What was his name?"
Sora thought. "You know what? I don't remember."
"Good job." Riku replied sarcastically. "Hey, do you think you could help me with my English homework? I'm demons remember? And you know more about them than I do not to mention attacked by them."
Sora shrugged lazily. "Sure why not? I don't know as much about them as angels but I'll try."
"Thanks and in return, I'll do your math homework."
Sora perked up. He shoved his textbook to Riku. "Please!"
0o0
That night, Sora was tossing and turning, Sleep refused to come to him. He glanced at the clock. 3:48. Damn.
'I have less than 24 hours to stretch my wings.' Sora thought. He looked over at Riku. The moonlight made it seem like his silver hair was unearthly. His long lashes covered his aqua eyes and his skin glowed. He looked beautiful. Sora leaned in and kissed his forehead. He couldn't resist; he did love his best friend after all. Riku grumbled and turned over in response.
Sora smiled softly and jumped out of bed. He slowly made his way toward Riku's balcony. He slowly opened the door and stepped outside.
He breathed out. "Ignite." His wings fluttered out. Sora sighed in relief. He'll have to stretch his wings everyday so the pain won't start up again.
"What am I going to do?" Sora wondered softly, running his hands through his hair. Aeris was kidnapped, two wacko's are after him, there are two more weirdo's watching his every move and he was in love with his long lost friend who technically wasn't in love with him but with the former him. Sora sighed. "What was Aeris trying to tell me? What about the Chosen One?" He shrugged, it was probably nothing important.
"Give him back."
0o0
Riku slept lightly. He wasn't completely asleep yet not completely awake. He heard Sora rustle in his sleep but paid no attention. Riku felt something soft on his forehead. It passed as soon as it came. He didn't know what it was so he mumbled. "Stupid bug…" softly and turned over.
Riku then heard light footsteps. He opened his eyes and sat up, looking around.
Why was his balcony door open? And what was that object outside? Is that Sora?
Riku slowly and quietly tiptoed to the door, careful not to scare the thing away. He peeked outside and lightly gasped.
There was a skinny person with two huge wings. His hair was sticking in all directions. Riku heard the thing sigh.
Then, it struck him; it must be one of the demons. That's why Sora wasn't here.
Riku stepped out onto the balcony and narrowed his eyes. "Give him back." He demanded coldly.
The demon was startled. He didn't turn around nor spoke. Riku growled. "What did you do with Sora? Where is he?"
The demon sighed again. "He's been here the whole time."
"Wha-what?"
The demon looked up at the nearly full moon. "The one you are looking for, the number one in your heart has been here the whole time."
Riku was getting pretty pissed off. "What the hell are you talking about? The number one in my heart? What the fuck is that? You better tell me what you did with Sora, you bastard!"
The demon chuckled. "You are so clue-less. But you've always been clue-less. Sora's here and you're too clue-less to know." And with that, the demon jumped off the balcony. Riku rushed to the railing hoping to catch a glimpse of the demon.
He sighed. "Maybe this was all a dream…" Riku notcied a single silver feather on the ground. He picked it up and took one last glance before walking off the balcony and shutting the door.
Under the balcony, the demon was save. His identity was still save, Sora slid down the wall. "That's right Riku, it was all a dream."
0o0
"Okay class, listen up!" Mr. Hikari said the next day during social studies. "The lunar eclipse is coming up. It will occur next week around 5 in the afternoon. I expect all of you to watch it. Lunar eclipses that cover the whole world are very rare. It occurs only once every 5,000 years, give or take. You're all very lucky to be able to witness and remember it." The bell rang. "No homework for tonight."
The class left the room. Riku yawned following them out the door. "Tired, Ri?" Sora asked.
"A little. I had a really weird dream last night. You were gone and my balcony door was opened. On my balcony was one of the demons. I asked him where you where but he started talking in riddles. It was kinda confusing, and really realistic."
"Maybe you should try figuring out what the riddles mean…" Sora said clearly stating that he should.
"Nah. Why should I? It was just a dream. What he said means nothing in real life right?"
Sora sighed. 'Damn. I was hoping that would work. He needs to know damnit! Why aren't I brave enough to tell him?' "Maybe you should just remember it- just in case." He suggested.
"I don't think so. He's not even real and I already hate him, He called me clue-less." He said with a terribly performed pout.
Sora rolled his eyes to himself. 'That's because you are! Seriously, can a guy get anymore clue-less?' "Dreams are not to be questioned nor be left forgotten."
Riku looked weird at him. What's with the sudden seriousness? "Everyone has dreams every night. They have multiple ones each night. But no one remembers them all. The ones we do remember mean something. They're there for a purpose. I'm sure you don't want to hear me ramble about my mother's teachings but Riku…" Sora looked at him straight in the eye; his own eyes pleading to listen. "Please, remember it and try to solve the riddle. It's probably really easy, please?"
Riku sighed in defeat. "Fine. You really like your mom's books and myths, don't ya?"
Sora smiled, back to normal. "Of course! They're very interesting."
0o0
"Hey guys!" Roxas said cheerfully. It was lunch now and Roxas and Namine are finally going to meet Sora. "Is this Sora? I'm Roxas."
"Yup. Nice to meet you Roxas." Sora said sitting down next to Riku.
"You too. You know what?"
"I look like someone you know?"
"Yeah, but who… Oh, I know! You look like me!"
Sora blinked. "Okay, not what I was thinking but sure! Let's go with that!"
A girl with blonde hair came out of the heard of hungry teenagers. "Can't they get this school organized?" She came over to the table and sat down next to Roxas whom sat across Sora. "You're Sora right? I'm Namine."
"Yeah, nice to meet you."
Namine smiled. "We're getting a lot of students this year."
"We are?" Riku asked.
Roxas nodded. "Yup we just got two new students and rumor has it that there are more coming."
Cloud and Leon came next. Cloud sat next to Sora and Leon sat across from Cloud. "We are? Really? Last year we only got like one. This year so far we got Mr. Niwa, Mr. Hikari, then one girl and 5 guys in one of my classes then Sora and now the new kids. Sure beats last year." Cloud said poking his piece of cardboard pizza.
Kairi came over and sat next to Riku. "I heard that the new kids are 18 and really hot. I think they're brothers. Someone told me that they look alike."
Cloud shrugged. "Who cares?"
Roxas joined in. "Yeah really. There's a chance they might not even like us."
A leather jacket clad arm suddenly wrapped around Sora's neck and pulled him into the arms' body. "Hello Sora."
Everyone at the table froze. 'Who the hell was he?' 'How does he know Sora?'
"Wha.."
Riku growled. "Who the fuck are you? Let Sora go!"
"Tsk, tsk." Another voice said. "It's our first day here and you're already cursing at us?"
"I'm sorry." The other man said, releasing Sora. "I guess I should introduce myself…"
Sora turned around to see the man for the first time. He gasped completely shocked to see who was in front of him.
"S-Sephiroth?" Sora stammered. "As in the Sephiroth?" Riku blinked. How did Sora know this guy? He shivered. Whoever it was, Riku did not like even if he didn't touch Sora he wouldn't trust him.
Sephiroth smiled kindly, yet Riku shivered again. "I'm glad you heard of me, Sora."
"Who hasn't? I mean, you're the only the… uh…. best student body president we've ever had! Right, Sephiroth?"
Sephiroth chuckled. "Oh, I wouldn't say that…"
"Sora, how do you know him?" Riku growled.
"From school!" He chirped. "He was the president of our school."
"You mean the crazy school Sora went to?" Tidus asked.
"Yes, we do go to a rather weird school. But I heard of Sora's disappearance and was asked to go and bring him back."
"What?" Riku shouted. "Then why are you a student here?"
The other man stepped forward. "We didn't know how long it would take to find him. So we had to apply to a school. And to our luck he was already here."
"Um…Sephiroth? Who is this? I don't think I've ever seen him at school before."
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry. This is Ansem, my brother. He doesn't go to school anymore."
"I didn't know you had a brother."
"Well now you do."
Sora suddenly felt uncomfortable. "Would you guys like some lunch?"
They both shook their head. "Sora, we really need you to come back."
"Not yet. I wasn't to spend a little bit more time here."
Sephiroth shrugged and sat next to Cloud. "Hello Cloud." He purred.
Cloud backed up a bit. "Um… hello."
"You don't remember me, do you Cloud?"
"…No but it seems like you do."
"Excuse me." Leon coughed. "But I do not want you to talk to him."
"Oh?" Sephiroth said with a small glare on his face. "And who are you to decide?"
"Leon. His boyfriend."
"I see. But I was just asking him a simple question."
"I know that but you're making him uncomfortable. And that's pissing me off."
"I'm sorry, I didn't know."
Leon snorted. "Don't tell me. Tell Cloud."
Sephiroth turned to Cloud and gave him a little bow of his head. "I'm terribly sorry Cloud." He reached for the blonde's hand and gave it a quick kiss. The blonde stared at it, shocked.
Leon stood up bluntly, walked across the table, grabbed Cloud and glared at Sephiroth before pulling his boyfriend out of the cafeteria.
"Oh dear me." Sephiroth said watching Leon pull Cloud out. "Seems like I ticked him off."
Ansem sighed. "We have to concentrate! We're here for Sora, not get vengeance."
"Don't worry. I found one of the other allies our master mentioned. I gave him a little assignment.
"Who, what and when?"
"Secret, secret and tonight."
0o0
"OMG! I realized that too. I thought about it but I wasn't sure." Ayu agreed to what her best friend just said.
"I know. I'm so happy. But don't tell anyone, got it?" Soya asked.
"Of course. We'll see what he does." Ayu stood up. "More coffee?"
Soya nodded her head and handed her cup to Ayu. "It seems like it was only yesterday…"
Ayu poured more coffee into the cups. "And yet when we think of all that's happen in between, it seems like forever you know?"
Soya laughed. "Quite so. So, what's our plan?"
"I think we should leave them alone…"
"Are you serious? What happened to the trouble making best friend of mine?"
"I mean, we should hide in a closet and watch while they're trapped in a bedroom filled with kinky stuff."
"I like how you think."
"If it worked on Cloud, it'll work on Sora."
Ayu handed Soya her cup and raised hers. "To good times!"
Soya laughed in agreement. They clinked their mugs together and chucked down their coffee.
The phone started to ring. Ayu stopped drinking and answered the phone. "Hello! Ayu Masaki speaking!"
A few seconds later, the sound of a crash echoed as Ayu's mug smashed against the ground. "T-T-Tetshui?
0o0
"We need to work on our project" Sora said jumping off the bus.
"We'll work on it tonight. Remember, our deal." Riku stepping off. They walked to the front of the house but Sora didn't go in. "Is something wrong?" Riku asked.
Sora shook his head. "No. I just need to do something real quick. Go ahead in."
Riku shrugged and walked in. Sora waited until Riku was no where in sight before he ran to the side of the house. Once he was away from all windows and hidden in a bush, Sora mumbled, "Ignite." And his wings appeared. Sora grinned. "Night's too dangerous. This will work.
He again mumbled; "Disnite" and his wings disappeared. Sora looked around for any witnesses before hopping out and grinning.
Sora walked into the kitchen to see Ayu, Riku, and Soya completely shocked. Sora gulped. "H-hey guys!" They all turned to him and in between the three was a man. Sora blinked. The man also looked at him confused.
"Sora?"
Riku laughed. "Yeah, he does look like him, doesn't he?" He grabbed Sora's hand and brought him over. "Sora, this is my dad, Dad, this is Sora. He fell into the ocean and I found him. He doesn't remember where he lives but where ever it is, its pretty messed up."
Sora bowed. "Nice to meet you… Mr. Masaki."
Mr. Masaki gave a little nod. "Tetshui, please. It's nice to meet you too."
Suddenly a catchy jingle rang out. "Oh. Please excuse me." Tetshui said pulling out his cell phone. "Hello?"… "Yes."… "Tonight."… "Oh really? Okay."… "Is tomorrow good?"… "Yes?" … "Good."… "Who?"… -sigh- "That idiot?" … "If you say so. Yeah, I know the location"… "Not here I can't. I'll call you later for more information. See ya."
He shut the phone and shoved it back in his pocket.
"Who was that honey?" Ayu asked.
"One of the guys I work with." Tetshui answered. "Say, are you free to night, Ayu? I want to take you out since we haven't seen each other in a long time. Just to two of us?" He asked looked at Riku and Sora.
"Sure! You don't mind, do you guys?" She asked the boys. "I could get you a pizza or something…"
"Chocolate covered pizza with Oreo and Butterfinger bits!" Sora yelled. "You have fun and get us a pizza!"
Riku nodded. "I'll take care of Sora."
Tetshui frowned then nodded. "Alright. We'll leave soon, just let me finish that phone call."
0o0
"The history of demons is pretty easy." Sora explained pacing across the room while Riku sat on the floor, taking notes. "It may seem complicated to you but let me tell ya, it's far much easier than angel or Twilight history. Believe it."
"How long will this take?" Riku asked with a heavy sigh.
Sora stopped pacing and tapped a finger to his chin. "Lesse, about a ten minute talk."
Riku raised an eyebrow. "And the angels'"
"… Two hours, more or less."
Riku's jaw dropped. "Two hours?"
"More or less. Be thankful you got the easy short one. Luckily for me, I know angel history like my own childhood!" Sora said not mentioning that it was most of his childhood.
There was a knock on the door and Ayu stepped in. "Boys. We're leaving."
"Wow, Ayu. You look good in a dress." Sora commented taking a glance at Ayu's outfit. Instead of her usual tank top and shorts, she wore a short black dress with spaghetti straps and rhinestones. Ayu smiled.
"I haven't seen you in a dress since the funeral." Riku said still writing.
"That's because I haven't worn a dress since the funeral." Ayu replied then turned to Sora. "Your chocolate covered pizza with Oreo bits is on the kitchen table. We'll be back… eventually. Don't stay up too late, do all your homework and if I get any calls from the neighbors about loud moaning, Sora is sleeping in the guest room and the next time you try to do it, I'll be watching in the same room." She had an evil smirk on her face.
Sora face turned red while Riku threw a shoe at Ayu. She ducked and looked at the hole in the wall the shoe made a dent in. "Geez, major anger problems. See you guys later!" Ayu winked and slammed the door shut.
"So anyway…" Riku said. "Let's continue." Sora nodded although still red. He talked about the history while Riku took notes and asked questions. After about fifteen minutes they went down for pizza. Riku continued to question the demons but not all of them were for his project. "So why do the Twilights join up with the demons?"
Sora picked up a piece of Oreo. "Not always. But most of them do. I think it's because they're jealous of the angels because they want to go to Heaven, but they can't. So they join up with the demons."
"Why, do you think, the demons want you?"
"I can't say." Sora answered softly, refusing to look into Riku's eyes. "I don't know much of it myself but whatever it is, it's not good."
"You're right it's not good." Sora and Riku turned around to see a tall man with a brown mohawk leaning against the door with a long black trench coat. He took a step toward the table. "Hello… um… hold on a sec…" He took out a card. "Leese… Sora right? Anyway, I'm here to destroy you!"
Sora blinked and Riku's eyes narrowed. "Who the hell are you?"
"Who- Me? I'm Deymx, a Twilight send by a high standard to kill you."
Riku growled and pushed Sora behind him. The angel sighed and put his hand on his shoulder. "Riku, I got it. By the looks of it, he doesn't seem very strong anyway."
Deymx pout and pointed a finger at him. "That's not true! I was sent here to kill you and that's what I'm going to do!" He raised his hand and a large guitar-like weapon appeared. "Dance my puppets, dance!" He moved his fingers over the strings and a few water clones appeared.
"Sora what are you planning to do? You can't really do magic!" Riku exclaimed. Sora thought for a moment and raised his palm to Riku's forehead. He leaned forward and gave him a quick kiss before whispering against his skin, "Ju nen." Riku fell back, unconscious into Sora's arms then was carried into the dinning room. He looked back over to Deymx with a look of murder in his eye. "Now where were we?"
Deymx was shocked to see the boy's eyes. They were no longer pure innocent blues but now the pupils were cat-like slits and they changed into a dark indigo. Sora raised his hand and cupped it into a 'C'. "Azaku." Blue and white lightning sparked from inside the angel's hand. He quickly raised his arm and yelled, "Release!"
The lightning traveled down Sora's arms and onto any traces of water. The water clones tracked water on the ground and touched Deymx's feet causing him to get struck with high voltage. As he screamed Sora smirked darkly and whispered. "Kenshon." Dark storm clouds appeared over head and struck Deymx again. He fell and looked up terrified into Sora's eyes. His eyes- so dark and sadist, it made the angel look like a whole new person. Like a demon.
Sora brought his left hand across his face and held it out to the side as he mumbled, "Evaluate."
The clouds disappeared leaving Deymx breathing heavily on the floor. Sora went up to him quickly and smoothly like a cat- only faster. He lifted up the Twilight by the two drawstrings on his coat and brought his face to his own. "Hello Deymx." He purred darkly. "What were you thinking? Going up against me, of all people. I'm far out of your league. Leave now and tell your master to send someone much stronger." Sora let go and turned his back to him. "As in, right now."
Deymx scurried to his feet and disappeared immediately. Sora smiled meekly and reached down to touch the water with his hand. "Evaporate." The water evaporated into the air. The angel stood back up and in an instant his eyes went from angry, dark indigo to a wide, pure, deep blue again. He smiled. "That was almost too easy."
Sora saw Riku lying on the ground. He knlet down and placed his palm to Riku's forehead again. "Ju le."
Riku's eyes fluttered open. "Sora…? Uh. What happened? Where's the Twilight?"
Sora grinned and helped Riku stand up. "I touched a pressure point in your forehead making you pass out. Then I hit the guy with a chair. I was right, he wasn't strong. He ran away along with his water clones."
"Pft. He's pathetic."
"I know. So how about you start on my math homework, ne?"
0o0
"Urgh…" Deymx moaned stepping into the room. "I'm back."
"Did you succeed?" A voice came from the back. Deymx sat down in a chair across the room from him.
"You're not the master. Where is he, Sephiroth?"
Sephiroth smirked in the darkness. "He'll be out for the next two days and besides… I'm the one who sent you after him. Now answer my question."
The twilight sighed. "I didn't. I failed. He's too strong. He sends a message to bring someone stronger next time."
Sephiroth reclined in his seat. "Good. That's what we want, to let his guard down. You did good." A door opened. "Go in and get healed. If she refuses to work, press the red button on the wall located next to the door. Now leave."
0o0
Sora was finishing his report when a heavy text book landed on his lap. "Homework's done." Riku said. "What do you want to do now?"
"Hold on…" Sora said typing a few more words. "Done! Let's watch a movie." He smiled up at Riku.
"You pick, I'll make the popcorn." Riku said opening his bedroom door. Sora skipped down the stairs and into the living room. Riku went into the kitchen and took out three microwave-able popcorn bags. As soon as he stuck the first one in the microwave, he heard Sora scream.
"OMG!"
Riku ran into the room. "Sora what's wrong? Are you alright?" He saw the boy on the floor hugging what looks like himself. "Sora…?"
"You have my favorite movie!" He squealed holding it up for Riku to see. He took it from him.
"…Tarzan…? Out of all the good movies I have, you wanna watch Tarzan?"
Sora pouted taking the movie back and holding it possessively. "It's my favorite movie and I haven't seen it in years!"
"Alright put it in the VCR." Riku said with a sigh, not being able to resist Sora's whining. He went back to finish the popcorn. A few minutes later Riku was laying on the couch with Sora on top of him, happily munching on the popcorn.
As they watched the previews Riku began to talk. "You know, this is exactly how Sora and I would watch this movie. It was also his favorite and everyday he would beg me to watch it with him. He even memorized the songs and he'd sing it every time."
Sora leaned into Riku's collarbone. "When I was little I would watch it a lot and I would always sing it with my mom. But once I started school, I haven't found the time to watch it."
The movie started and Sora perked up. He hummed along with the song and started to sing.
'He's not that bad of a singer.' Riku thought. Suddenly a pair of arms wrapped around his stomach. Sora hid his face in Riku's chest. Riku looked up to notice it was the part with the jaguar. Later on Sora started to relax and sing to the next song. Riku spotted a scar on Sora's shoulder. He traced it lightly and Sora jumped. "Where did you get that scar?"
Sora turned back to the TV. "Bizarre dish accident."
"Oh? Tell me about it?"
The song just finished. "I was cleaning the dish, slipped on water, and the dish fell on me and broke."
"Oh." Riku said quietly still looking at it even when Sora finished watching the movie. 'Sora got that same scar from a dish accident too. Tripped but the dish hit the floor. His dad was the one who sliced him with a piece of broken glass. Déjà vu.'
0o0
That night, later on, Riku and Sora fell asleep at the end of the movie and Ayu and Tetshui found them. Ayu giggled behind her hand and silently removed the popcorn from Sora's hands, pulling the blanket over his shoulder. Tetshui frowned in disapproval. He dropped it when his wife turned around with a huge grin.
"They're cute together, no?" Tetshui just nodded. "You're staying here for the night, right Tetshui?" She asked hopefully. He nodded again. "When are you leaving?"
"Probably tomorrow night."
Ayu looked away and started to walk toward the kitchen then stopped. "You're going to gone for a while aren't you?"
Ayu and Tetshui both knew that it was a statement- not a question.
0o0
The next day, Selphie was more hyper than usual. She ran all around the halls yelling for Sora then once she found him, glomped him sending them both crashing to the floor. "Sora! Guess what today is!"
"… Wednesday…?"
"Of course not, silly! Look beyond that!"
Rin came bouncing behind her. "How could you forget so soon!"
"I give up. What is it?"
Selphie and Rin both had matching smirks. Rin leaned down to whisper in Sora's ear. Riku looked over to them with an eyebrow raised from his locker. He couldn't hear anything, with Rin's low whispers and Selphie loud giggles. The look on Sora's face went from confused to understanding. He grinned went Rin pulled back and shot an evil look toward Riku. The platinum blond looked back and blinked. They knew something he didn't and when it involved the hyper twins, it can't be good.
"Selphie!" Riku called. She turned to him. "Where's Tidus?"
"He decided to help Wakka with set up the blitzball tryouts tomorrow. They're setting it up now." An evil and knowing smirk followed. Riku gulped. Whenever Tidus gave an blitzball excuse, it meant Selphie had a plan that she won't tell you. Poor Sora will be so corrupted being with her.
0o0
When Sora and Riku got home, the first thing they noticed was Soya's car in the driveway. They walked in to see tables among tables filled with sodas, cakes, cookies, ice cream, candy and anything else you would find in Willy Wonka's dreams. Sora grinned, running to the nearest ice cream bar and started making a sundae. Riku felt his heart stop.
"Please don't tell me that was today!"
Soya came out of the kitchen with a bottle of root beer in her hand. "Darlings!" She grinned. "That's the spirit, Sora! You're a natural." Sora answered by raising his spoon before shoving more ice cream into his mouth.
Riku's eyes widened. "Sora! Be careful! Don't choke."
Soya huffed with a roll of her eyes. "Riku dear, you need to loosen up! Be more like Sora! Look at him. Eating without a care in the world."
Riku was looking at him. He was amazed even though, he was lost, couldn't remember where he lived or how to get home or the fact that they're were highly dangerous demons after him, could just forget about all of that and have a good time. The Sora Riku knew could do that and he was always jealous. That makes them exactly the same.
Ayu came out of the kitchen next munching on a cookie. "The girls will be over shortly. Soya, are you positive Cloud doesn't want to come?"
"Unfortunately. Leon's coming over and Cloud won't share. He must have heard us talking about using them as the firemen." She pouted.
"You mean there's going to be no firemen?" Rin gasped walking in the room with cupcakes. "That sucks."
"The last ones were really hot though." Selphie complained carrying cotton candy. "Cloud and Leon would have made really hot firemen."
Kairi followed them in the house with a bag of funnel cakes. "And the best part of having those two is that they'll makeout for us unlike the last ones."
Namine giggled following with a big box. "Once we asked them, they ran without their payment."
Ayu shrugged. "Free show."
"N-Namine…?" Riku asked wearily. "What's in the box?"
"Oh this?" She giggled. "Nothing."
0o0
Deymx hesitantly looked around the room. As soon as he was fully in, the door slammed behind him. The twilight froze. The room was dark, cold and silent. There was a single light in the room, barely filling the whole room. The corners remained dark. A dark figure sat on the bed, in one of the corners. Deymx turned and started banging on the door. "Get me out of here! I don't need any help! Get me out!"
The figure stood up. Deymx faced the person, back against the wall. "Stay back!"
The figure lifted a hand and surprising giggled lightly. "I'm not going to hurt you, you know." The voice was a calm and light. A scowl appeared on Deymx's face.
An angel.
"You're not going to touch me with your fancy angel powers."
The girl stepped into the light with a small smile on her face. Deymx's scowl dropped. "My powers are supposed to heal you." She stepped forward and lightly touched his hurt arm. "What did you do? Play with lightning?"
Deymx rolled his eyes relaxing to the girl's treatment. "Close. That damn angel they sent me up against. They just wanted to make him think we're weak so they sent me out. They must think I'm weak. But they won't stand a chance against the boy."
The angel looked up from his arm. "Angel? Do you mean Sora?"
"You know the legend?"
"Legend? I know he's one of them but only one has ever been a legend."
"That's what they say." Deymx said wincing as the angel put on the medicine. "They say he already has to go up against the ruler and his soul mate."
The bottle dropped. The girl froze. "H-he already found it? The demon? No one has ever been against them both. Sora could never do that. He's only a kid. He still has so much to learn!"
"But there's more." The girl stopped talking. "I'm guessing you train the boy, right?"
"Yes, I'm Aeris."
"Deymx. But Sora can just might win. He found his mate too."
0o0
"Put more shadow on!"
"Move his hair real quick."
"Too much! Too much!"
"Someone get a paper towel."
Riku eye twitched causing Kairi to yell and bop his head. "Stop moving Riku."
The boy growled under his breath. He learned the hard way never make fun of girls when they're sugar high. They've been shoving sugar down their throats for the past two hours. Now completely insane, the girls decided they didn't like Riku's attitude. So in three minutes flat, they tied him to a chair and gagged him. Which it's pretty hard when you're up against a guy with strong muscles but apparently not strong enough against four sugar high teenage girls. Ayu, Soya, and Sora watched amused in the background.
Namine pulled out her special box, opening it away from Riku. All the girls, including the moms and Sora looked inside it then back at Riku with an evil smirk. Ayu grabbed a small container and opened it. Riku's eyes grew. 'Oh hell no!'
Ayu opened the eye shadow while Kairi and Rin grabbed him from behind. He screamed into the gag. Riku's eyes never left Sora as he giggled picking out the next makeup for them to put on.
Ten minutes later, Riku was wearing eye shadow, eyeliner, eyeliner, blush, fake earrings, a hair bow and body and hair glitter. Sora walked forward and pulled off the gag slowly. He leaned close into Riku's lips and breathed, "You look so sexy when you're involved with bondage." He pulled back with a smirk, not unlike the ones Riku usually wears.
"Why do I have to do this?" Riku asked glaring at Sora.
"Because." Kairi chirped picking up his chin to put on some lip-gloss. "You're the sacrifice we must offer to Sora."
"Is he do your liking, Sora?" Rin asked once Namine finished with the eyeliner.
Sora put his finger to his chin, tapping it. "The colors are all wrong."
"What?" Selphie asked. "But we've been doing it this way for years!"
"No! You've got the colors all wrong! You need a dark metallic blue for the eye shadow, blue eyeliner, black mascara, purple glitter and use the black hoops instead of the green. Pinks and peaches are not his color." Sora recited perfectly, pointing out to each of the mistakes.
Ayu leaned forward. "Your right. Peaches to nothing for his eyes. Black and dark blue bring them out perfectly."
Riku groaned the whole time they took off the light colored makeup and put on the darker. A half an hour past by before Sora was totally satisfied.
"Now it's time for the approval song!" Selphie cheered. Kairi and Rin undid the ropes and pushed Riku into a sofa. They sat next to him and held him down.
Riku looked around for any signs of Sora. 'Now where did he go?' Sora soon stepped out of kitchen and in front of Riku, a sly smile across his face. Soya pushed a button in the background and music started to pump out of the speakers. Sora pulled out a microphone from behind his back.
Riku's eyes widened. 'This isn't… Please tell me it isn't…' He screamed.
A very girly scream.
0o0
"He what?" Aeris asked picking up the bottle that fell to the floor. "But the chances are nearly impossible."
"True but that's just a rumor floating around. Master's sending out his best men to kill Sora."
"Why don't they kill Sora's mate?"
"No one knows. Master refuses to touch him. Taki and Taku saw him before and didn't touch him either."
"Good thing I sent them…" Aeris mumbled as she cast Curaga on Deymx's arm. Satisfied with it, Aeris moved on to his chest and poured the medicine on a sponge, pressing it against the wounds.
"Who are you talking about?" Deymx asked wincing every few seconds.
"Just a few good friends of mine I send to help Sora. Say, Deymx…?"
"Y-Yes?"
Aeris looked up; a sly smile rested on her lips. "I was wondering if you would do me a favor, in trade for your treatment."
"But master Sephiroth told me to come in here. And if you didn't listen, I was told to press the red button over there." Deymx said looking at the button next to the wall.
"Oh that button doesn't do anything!" Aeris giggled.
"It doesn't?"
"Of course not! Sephiroth just wanted to make you feel like your special. He wanted you to push the button- to hurt me. But it doesn't work. Truth is, they don't care about you. They're just using you. And as you said- they're using you."
"Really?" Deymx asked, disappointedly.
"And of course you deserve better!" Aeris persisted. She smirked in her brain. 'And who said angels were all pure and innocent?' "And I think you should join with us. Help Sora out." She finished with his chest.
Now completely healed, Deymx backed up against the wall. "B-but I'm an t-twilight! I can't join the angels!"
Aeris rolled her eyes. "Says who? Just because the majority of twilights go with demons doesn't mean they all have to, right? And maybe, just maybe, you'll be seen in God's eyes as a true angel and not a twilight." The widen in Deymx's eyes did not go unnoticed. "That's what all twilights want, isn't it. Including yours."
Deymx swallowed then nodded. "Tell me what I need do to."
Aeris smiled. "First, help me escape."
0o0
"L-Leon!" Cloud moaned pushing his hips closer to his boyfriends. "S-stop teasing already!"
"Shh…" Leon breathed in his ear sending shivers down Cloud's spine and back up again. "I'm getting there." He brought his lips on the blonde's while slowly sliding his hand down toward his erection.
Just then… the phone rang. Both boys jumped and cursed. Cloud grabbed the phone. "What the fuck do you want?" He growled. Then he blinked. The background there was cheers, music, singing and… screams?
"C-Cloud….?" A shaky voice asked.
"Riku? Is that you?" His glare was back. "Do you have any idea how bad right now is?"
"Cloud… It's back. They're forcing me here. It's playing… over and over and over again."
"Okay calm down Riku. What's wrong. What about Sora?"
"He's the source of it all!" He heard Riku scream. Cloud pulled the phone away from his ear just in time. He's never seen Riku so worked up in a long time. There was only two things that did that do him. Sora's safety/death and then there was…
It clicked. "Riku?" Cloud bringing the phone back. "We'll be over in soon." He ignored the look Leon gave him. ("Us?") "In about five minutes. Just stay calm. Sora must have his reasons. Bye." He hung up.
"Us?" Leon repeated.
"They're tormenting him with his past again." Cloud said grumpily, pulling on his boxers. He threw Leon's his. "Get dressed."
"I'm afraid. What is it?"
"The song." Leon understood quickly got dressed.
0o0
Sora and Namine were dancing in front of Riku- not sexually of course. Riku would rather have it sexual than this. It was Sora's third time singing it and every time someone knew would join him. This time up was Namine.
"Hi Barbie" Namine said.
"Hi Ken!" Sora giggled playing the same part for the third time
"Do you wanna go for a ride?"
"Sure Ken!"
"Jump In..."
"I'm a barbie girl, in the barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation" Sora sang jumping around Namine.
"Come on Barbie, let's go party!"
"I'm a barbie girl, in the barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation"
"I'm a blond bimbo girl, in the fantasy world
Dress me up, make it tight, I'm your dolly."
"You're my doll, rock'n'roll, feel the glamour in pink,
kiss me here, touch me there, hanky panky..."
"You can touch, you can play, if you say: "I'm always yours""
"uu-oooh-u" Sora and Namine sang with their backs together.
"I'm a barbie girl, in the barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation"
"Come on Barbie, let's go party!"
"Ah-ah-ah-yeah"
"Come on Barbie, let's go party!"
"uu-oooh-u"
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
"Ah-ah-ah-yeah"
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
"uu-oooh-u"
Riku screamed as they continued to sing. It wasn't that they were bad; in fact they were pretty good. Every time Sora sang 'Ah-ah-ah-yeah' or –uu-oooh-u' the rest of the girls would join in. He started shaking every time Sora looked in his eyes and cooed.
"Make me walk, make me talk, do whatever you please
I can act like a star, I can beg on my knees."
"Come jump in, bimbo friend, let us do it again,
hit the town, fool around, let's go party."
"You can touch, you can play, if you say: "I'm always yours"
You can touch, you can play, if you say: "I'm always yours""
"Come on Barbie, let's go party!"
"Ah-ah-ah-yeah"
"Come on Barbie, let's go party!"
"uu-oooh-u"
"Come on Barbie, let's go party!"
"Ah-ah-ah-yeah"
"Come on Barbie, let's go party!"
"uu-oooh-u"
"I'm a barbie girl, in the barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation"
"I'm a barbie girl, in the barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation"
Finally the song came to an end as Sora smiled and took Namine's hand.
"Oh, I'm having so much fun!"
"Well Barbie, we're just getting started."
"Oh, I love you Ken!"
By the time Cloud and Leon came bursting in the door, it was too late. The song had finished and Riku was too scarred to move. "See what I told you? They're terrible when they eat too much sugar!" Cloud whispered to his boyfriend.
They pried Riku away from the girls as they started the song again. "Riku?" Leon asked. "Can you hear me? Riku? Oh no, they brought the make-up again."
The platinum blonde had a dazed look in his eye. "I'm going… to go eat something…" He said wobbling over to the table and grabbed a bag of cotton candy, shoving the fluff down his throat trying not to break down.
"It must be worse than I thought." Cloud whispered. "Riku hates cotton candy."
"Didn't the last time he had it, he got extremely high?"
Cloud nodded. "That's why he doesn't eat it. But just like the last time, he can tune the song out fortunately."
Cloud and Leon looked at the girls and Sora singing and dancing. "It was a relief when they stopped singing this song. Poor Riku was stuck into listening to it." Leon said.
"Let's eat sugar!" Cloud yelled pulling Leon toward the table.
"I don't eat sweets."
"I do! I got it from my mom." He grinned, holding up a plate of funnel cake and started devouring it. "Want some?"
Leon smirked and leaned in to whisper in his boyfriend's ear. "You've got something on you." He licked off the powder on Cloud's cheek. The blonde giggled and soon they were on the couch, picking up where they left off.
0o0
It was six in the mourning when Sora woke up. He yawned and stretched before falling back down where he was sleeping. "Sora you're heavy." Riku mumbled.
Sora grinned, refusing to move form on top of his friend. "But Ri-ku! You're so soft!"
Ayu and Soya were up already and had the news on. They were sitting on the couch that Leon and Cloud made out last night (and that was all they did). Leon and Cloud were up too and sat on the floor. Kairi and Selphie were the only ones still sleeping. The other two girls were watching the news as well.
Riku decided that since Sora wasn't getting up anytime soon, he carried him bridal style to the armchair next to the couch. Sora pouted realizing he was in a girl position.
"And in the end, the Destiny Stingers won against the Zanarkand Apes in the Blitzball tournament. Next they'll be playing the Kilika Beasts. And now back to you, Bob." The sports man said on the news. They switched back to the anchors- Bob and Kelly.
"Thank you Robby." Bob said.
"And now a breaking news story." Kelly said shifting her papers. "Early this morning, around 2: 35, the Destiny Prison exploded."
Sora looked at his brother the same time Cloud looked at him. Kelly continued. "No clues as to why the prison burst into flames or how but most of the prisoners died. Police officers found all the bodies except one."
Sora shook his head. "No… it can't be…"
"What's wrong Sora?" Riku asked, bringing the boy closer to his body.
"Child molester and abuser and also rapist of his own son thus killing him eight years ago…"
Sora squirmed out of Riku's grasp. "No!"
"Toya Everheart has survived the explosion and is still alive and missing."
0o0
Rin: Another chapter good and done. I know… three months waiting for this crappy chapter and it ends in another cliffy and I honestly have no clue why I did that because I have no where to go from here. So huh… Nice weather, huh?
Riku's past- This wasn't mentioned much before but, Riku has dolliphobia (I think I made that up). In other words, he's terrified of Barbies. As in if he passes a KBToys (if he even goes near it) and sees a Barbie doll, he will scream, run and hide in a corner chanting, 'See no Barbie, play with no Barbie. See no Barbie, play with no Barbie.' No matter how much it hurts his pride.
Do you know why? Because Ages 3-7 Kairi, Selphie and Sora (yes Sora) would drag him into playing Barbies. And since he can't say no to Sora, he was stuck playing. And Sora loved playing with them, so Riku spend about eight or nine hours a day playing with them. Then after Sora died Kairi and Selphie said that if he played Barbies, it'll help keep Sora's memory fresh. So that's what he did. But continued to hate it. In a few years, a song came out called Barbie Girl. Kairi, Selphie, Rin, and Namine couldn't stop singing and listening to it. They forced Riku to listen to it. Of course at the time they were over playing with Barbies and Riku was showing the first signs of dolliphobia so it traumatized him even more. And now with Sora singing it and being stuck in a chair, he's losing his mind. So what's he do to? Call up the two guys who helped him escape in his past. But that's over already… or is it? – dramatic music starts-
Next chapter: I have no clue honestly. I guess… Sora sings some more. Wings are exposed. Cloud gets locked in a closet with Sephiroth. Leon isn't happy. And more… as soon as I can think of it.
Since school is right around the corner (as much as I'll try to deny it, it's going to happen anyway) so it's going to take me longer and longer to update. I can't go on to the computer during school days and I'm going to try really hard to keep my grades up and finally defeat my friend (who gets straight A's). So I'm really sorry if I don't get anything in till much later and I hope you all stick with me. I still love you people! -hugs everyone-
Another thing: Now that Toya is involved, who knows what that means? No one? Well, it just so happens to mean that this story is almost over. I know it's depressing. I can't picture there being more than 5 chapters at the most.
Review please and I'll be inspirited to write more and it'll bring my self-esteem up because I personally think this chapter sucks!