Author's Notes:
Holy goodness, I've been trying to update for a while now. My Sora chibies were in tears. Okay, take a brief look to the right. Notice how very small the page down censor is? Yeah. Go get your self some cookies. And a camel. Cause this chapter might take a while to read. XD Please PLEASE read the notes located at the bottom when you're done as it will explain a few things. Thanks!
Sephiroth's Guide to Love and Deception
Chapter Nine: School Spirit!
Like most very odd days, this one started out quite well.
There he was, laying on the beach. On a very thick, soft cotton blanket with a trembling brunette underneath his body, glancing up at him with such sweetness, such naivety and innocence that it made him want to cum far too soon.
He whispered his name to him. So light, barely above a whisper. He sounded so waton, so eager.
It was driving him insane and he couldn't help the throbbing member the younger boy felt against his thigh, making said boy whimper softly as he drew his sun-kissed legs around his waist and bucked, nudged, repeatedly into him.
"Please," Sora whispered to him, his beautiful azure eyes wide, shining in the setting sun, pleading to him as he continued to grind his hips into him, those beautiful crimson lips reaching up and pecking him on the lips softly, lingering.
And Riku, more than ready to oblige, positioned himself properly over the boy, his hands caressing his thighs before he took hold of his waist, setting the tip of his member right at the young teens entrance, but refused to push in. Teasing him.
Sora tried to buck again, whimpering in impatience but Riku held him down by his waist, smirking as a soft chuckle escaped his lips.
"Relax Sora. Patience is a virtue." he teased in a seductive whisper of his own, gently pushing in but only the very tip, the head, a burst of pre cum slicking Sora's insides.
He whined loudly as he begged with his eyes for Riku to push all the way in, his arms wrapping themselves around Riku's neck as he pulled down, making the silver haired teen laugh again, holding his waist firmer so he couldn't be forced down until he was ready.
Then Sora leaned up, pecking him on the lips again and even delivering a nose kiss before he laid back down flat on the towel, and in a very familiar, high pitched feminine voice, he asked–no demanded "Riku! Let me pee in your hair!"
Whoa. What?
This naturally, made the silver hair beauty wake up with a start, a light scream escaping his lips as his eyes went wide and he darted them around his room, calming down once he realized he was in his own bed, alone.
He glanced over at his alarm clock: 7:25. School started at 8:30. And he'd promised Mrs. Madison he would come over for breakfast to at least have a glass of juice.
Riku sighed and laid back on his bed. Why the hell he'd dreamed of Sora with Kairi's voice–and wanting to pee on him no less– when he was having such a tasty dream was way beyond his comprehension. Then he felt a slight tension in his lower stomach...and sighed.
Oh. He had to go to the bathroom.
"I swear, how the hell you and Cloud managed to have hair that down right defies the law of gravity is beyond me," Ri snapped in an annoyed tone as she broke yet another comb in half after trying to run it through Sora's hair.
The brunette pouted. "It's not my fault! I told you not to try and style it!"
"Don't be ridiculous Zo, of course I had to style your hair," she smirked. "I tried doing Cloud's after helping him into his–um–uniform and I actually got somewhere with Roxas'. So I figured 'Hey, two out of three won't be bad'."
After the fifth comb she was on broke, she sighed and tossed it out the window. Then, taking a few beads out of her hair, she put a few of them on a single strand of his bang and tilting her head to the side, smiled. "There. You're all dolled up."
"Thanks," Sora replied sarcastically, rolling his eyes and walking over to the mirror that hung on his bedroom wall. His room still wasn't completely unpacked but all the furniture and all his school supplies were. That and the Playstation 2–there was no way he could leave that packed with Roxas around. The boy was addicted to Soul Calibur II.
He looked down at himself and smiled. Not bad, to say he was wearing a uniform.
Long, navy pants with cargo pockets (He had to have more than four–it was just a rule for him.)with a small silver chain that ran from his black belt (that he'd gotten studded with a zipper that ran through the middle) to said cargo pocket on his left side. A white button up collared short sleeved shirt with a navy, light blue and white plaid tie around his neck–he'd already explained to his mother that it would not be tied under any circumstance. His trademark yellow shoes–though you could only see the two of it as the pants covered the rest of the shoe rather well.
He was surprised that they matched, but then the gold insignia (1)on the upper left corner of his shirt with the words "Kingdom Hearts" above it while the words "Academy" below it were a goldish yellow–so it worked. Somehow. He wore thin chained bracelets around his left wrist that matched the chain on his pants.
Not bad, really.
"Trying to look good today, huh?" his sister teased as she plopped down on the bed, quickly crossing her legs in the process so he wouldn't have to endure a panty shot. She wore a pleaded skirt in the same fashion and colors as his tie, only the main color of the skirt was light blue. It was rather–short on Riku, showing off her own smooth, long, sun-kissed legs, her black thigh high boots clinging to her skin, though they were low in heels size.
Her tie was the same as her skirt and her blouse was white and button up as well, though made of a much more delicate material–not that Sora really thought about what it was. Silk? Though the shirt, like her skirt, was a bit too short, as it didn't cover her naval at all and seemed to her chest.
Closely.
Her hair was still crazy, going in every angle, up down, side to side, in some kind a weird high pony tail with braids here and there only the beads were now the colors of her outfit–she stated that her hair was already gold to match the insignia so she didn't need that color. She wore a gold watch on her left wrist , the face being that of the insignia for their school (she'd bought it from the school's store when they'd gotten their outfits) and a gold bracelet on the other arm.
He hunched lightly at her comment and she snickered. "Are we trying to look good for–oh I dunno–Ku?"
Sora sighed and gave her a back glance. "Ri..."
"Oh don't start with me Zo, come on! I know you two are getting along again. Tidus told me all about you snuggling up to him in bed and calling him your 'cookie'."
"I was hungry, I had a sweet tooth, and in my dream, he was a cookie!" Sora whined, pouting at her now and she laughed.
"Don't go five year old on me Zo, I'm only teasing," she laughed, standing up and ruffling his hair a bit as he pouted more and playfully crossed him arms over his chest, stomping his foot. She rolled her eyes. "Seriously Zo–you and Ri. What's going on there now?"
The brunette unfolded his arms and sighed slightly to himself as he walked away from her slowly, going over to his desk and packing his knapsack with the books and supplies he would use for the day. "I–I really don't know. I mean, don't get me wrong," he began, stopping what he was doing to face her now, gesturing with his hands.
"I did forgive Riku–I did! I mean, I'm not mad at him anymore. I was bitter but after yesterday...I'm not mad. Heck, I missed Riku." Sora began to twiddle his thumbs and Ri looked slightly annoyed. "Okay...so what's the problem then?"
"Well...I just don't know if I should just jump into a relationship with Riku."
"Were guys ever in one?"
"Well sort of. I mean...we did...that thing after Tidus' party. And we had a long talk and we seemed to be going in the same direction until everything happened the way it did. But now that things are all back to normal between us for the most part as friends...I just don't know if I'd like to try anything else just yet."
She listened to his words and nodded slowly. "Look Zo, you have every right to be cautious. I would be to. But I think first, you need to realize if Riku is even interested in you like that anymore."
"He seems to be," Sora replied so softly it sounded like he whispered it.
"Seeming and actually being are to different things. Don't assume anymore–you're not good at it," she teased and after a moment, Sora caught on to what she was referring to and glared at her. "All I"m saying is–find out how he feels about the whole thing. Then you work it from there with your own emotions. No use trying for something if the other party's heart ain't in it, right?"
"I guess," Sora said uncertainly.
"Don't guess. You're not too good at that either. That's why you got drunk at Tidus' party–getting all the answers in twenty questions wrong."
"Shut up," he grumbled, throwing his backpack over his shoulder–only to have it throw off of him as a pair of strong arms wrapped around his waist and pulled him against him roughly.
"Sora, oh god," Riku breathed happily, sniffing his hair. Sora looked, well startled. And a little alarmed. Why the hell was Riku sniffing his hair...
"Um...where did you come fro–oh yeah. Window," Ri replied matter of factly, pointing slightly at the open window as she walked over to it before leaning over the sill of it and looking into the room in the house beside their own: Riku's. Cloud's room was the same way with Sephiroth's.
Riku turned Sora around to face him, frowning down at him slightly and Sora blinked at him confused. "Sora–you are Sora–right?"
"Uh..."
"Don't say 'uh', I need you to say something. Anything!" Riku demanded, shaking him slightly, looking a little worried. "Where I can hear your voice properly."
Sora and Ri cut each other side glances before looking back at Riku slightly bewildered. "Um Riku? Did you take a sip of your dad's coffee again? You know, after he added all the sugar?"
The silver haired boy sighed with relief, his face melting into a grateful smile before pulling Sora back into a hug, embracing him tightly. "It is you. Oh god, I thought you were going to sound like Kairi and have to pee again."
"Ooookay, and on that note, I'm going to get cereal," Ri replied in an unsure tone, glancing over at Riku as if he were unstable before slipping out of the room carefully. Sora just stood there, letting the boy hug him close, looking completely lost.
"Riku...why did I sound like Kairi and have to pee? Do I want to understand what you're talking about," he asked in a timid manner.
"Uh? Oh!" Riku laughed, pulling him away and casually, strolled over to Sora's bed and plopped down on it, propping himself up on his elbows. He was wearing the exact same outfit as Sora, only he had his hand bandaged up as usual (Sora found it was just a fashion statement choice) and a silver chain around his neck with pendant: a heart with a fleshed out point, an x in the middle of it with sides sticking out throughout, making it almost seem like thorns.(2) "Yeah–bad dream. We were–goofing off and then you just sounded like Kairi and asked to pee on me. Turns out, I had to go to the bathroom."
Sora nodded slowly, giving him a kind smile before darting his eyes towards the door and pondering on whether he should make his own exit. Riku noticed but ignored him. "You asked."
"I shouldn't have," Sora admitted, picking up his knapsack and slinging it over his shoulder. "Ready?"
"Er...just a minute," Riku replied matter of factly before getting out of Sora's bed and climbing up on the window, jumped the small distance to his house and into his room, disappearing for a few moments before coming back with his own backpack.
"Okay. Ready now." he smirked as he landed on his feet gracefully from the sill and began to walk for Sora's door.
"Oh uh–Riku...wait a minute," Sora replied suddenly, as if just remembering something. He grabbed him by his wrist and tugged him back toward him slightly, making Riku give him a suggestive eyebrow raise. "What now? Sora! Bad boy!"
"Riku! NO," Sora laughed, rolling his eyes and pushing Riku away from him and accidently on to the bed–he was aiming for the floor. Riku smirked, propping himself on his elbows again. "You're so...forceful!"
"Shut up!" Sora laughed, picking up his night shirt from the floor and tossing it at Riku's face, who caught it, laughing and tossed it aside as Sora took a seat of his own next to him, propping up on elbows of his own.
He waited until they both finished laughing before he looked somber and Riku frowned at him. "What is it Sora?"
"Look...about Kairi–" Riku groaned, rolling his eyes and sitting up. "Geez, Sora. I said I would play nice. I told you fives times yesterday after you gave me the third degree about why she was crying after you'd left."
"And you still never explained that," Sora frowned at him.
Riku hunched. "Not my place, I didn't do it. Ask Kairi. Anyway, I don't walk to talk about her right now."
"But that's just it Riku! You don't like talking about Kairi–and the only reason you are being nice and friendly is because I asked. And now that I think about it, you never told me why you don't like Kairi."
"That's important now?" Riku snapped slightly. "You didn't seem to care before when you just assumed it was because she was defending you against me."
"Yeah–but Ri told me I suck at assuming," Sora joked lightly then sitting himself up as well, he looked over at Riku, tilting his head slightly, watching the teen as he seemed fit on looking at the carpet instead. "We could always talk before Riku. Let's talk now. Why don't you like Kairi."
"You want the blunt reason? Or the well detailed, thought out version?"
"Blunt's fine. You're always blunt," Sora smirked slightly and Riku raised an eyebrow. "She's a bitch. She's being a bitch. And hell–she might have always been a bitch and may continue to be one. There. I said it."
"Riku!"
"You said blunt," he snapped and Sora sighed exasperated. "Fine, fine! The detailed verison!"
"Because Sora, she–you don't know the entire story. Look, Kairi and I were talking about a few things and what she said ended up being completely false. Then I found out that she knew about the kiss but didn't tell me. And don't start defending that again because she just didn't tell me at all Sora! She had every chance during our next class, every single chance at lunch before I went postal. She didn't say a word about it. She only kept apologizing about what I saw–like it was some big secret that I hadn't been aware of.
"She just made everything worse. Then when I brought it back up, she either completely denied it or tried to twist things like I was just trying to put the blame of everything that happened between us on her. And maybe, at first, I was. But she had a part to play too. And I think she did it on purpose Sora."
The brunette was watching him intently the entire time he spoke, only looking away rather unsure after he'd finished. "Riku–I mean, this is Kairi."
"Yeah, that's what I thought at first too," Riku replied bitterly before shaking his head. "Look, just don't worry about it Sora. I'm sure she's got some excuse she'll dig up for everything. She's done a good job so far, right?"
"Riku..."
"I don't wanna talk about this anymore," he replied matter of factly before grabbing his bag and pulling the door open violently, he walked out, not even bother to close it. Sora looked after him. He was confused over Riku's words...or maybe he wasn't and just didn't want to decipher them properly at this time. After all, he'd just gotten over his drama with Riku–why start more of it?
That's the excuse he gave himself as he calmly left his own room and headed down stairs for breakfast–into chaos.
"You are not leaving the house in that young lady!" his mother snapped, pointing a cooking spoon at Ri's blouse first, then her skirt while his stepfather proceeded to read his newspaper, seeming unfazed. He would start his new job the next morning, so this would be his final day of his vacation. Which was fine–he'd wanted to see how their first day went anyway.
Riku was standing behind Roxas, eating a few grapes as he watched the two women in amusement while Roxas ate his a bowl of Cocoa Crispies, looking just as interested. He too, wore the exact same outfit only his arm bands were blue and white checked instead of his usual black and white, and he had on the same odd necklace he'd been wearing ever since they'd come from singing karaoke. He'd never told Sora where he'd gotten it and he'd meant to ask but he just kept forgetting.
"Mom! The school only said I had to wear the stupid uniform, not how I had to wear it," Ri replied defensively, rolling her eyes slightly.
"I could careless what the school said, I'm telling you are not going out in clothes that are two sizes two small for you young lady!" their mother snapped. "For goodness sakes, leave something for the boys to guess about!"
Ri burst out laughing. "Mom! I'm wearing a shirt that shows my naval and a skirt that shows my lower thigh–not a two piece bikini bathing suit! Just calm down a bit!"
"Calm down! My daughter is leaving the house with that...hair!"
"I always do my hair like this!"
"And looking like a tramp," their mother finished, shaking the spoon at her before stirring another batch of scrambled eggs and making Ri roll her eyes again as she leaned back against the counter and folded her arms over her chest and watched her mother irritated.
"Why on earth can't you just be more like Cloud," she began, matter of factly. "You're suppose to be setting an example for your younger brother and your younger cousin like he is! Good grades, normal friends, and normal outfits."
"Mom. Sora is the one that makes honor roll. Cloud hasn't seen it in what? Years? Sephiroth is by no means normal–and neither is Zack now that I think about it! And as for outfits–"
Cloud took this exact moment to stroll into the kitchen, catching everyone's attention. Riku promptly nearly choked on the grape he was eating and Roxas' mouth dropped while Sora looked equally surprised. DiZ nearly plastered the paper in front of him and their mother–well she look liked she might have a stroke while Ri only smirked in some sort of odd triumph.
How anyone could breath in pants like his was anyone's guess, but Cloud was managing some how–it was such tight black leather that it literally looked like another skin on him around his ass and thighs. He wore boots that reached up to his upper thigh, with so many zippers and buckles and such on them, it must have a secret combination to get them off. The bottom sole of the shoes were in combat fashion, though the heels were quite low, if there were any at all.
He wore serval black belts around his waist, though only one actually fit around his waist while the rest dangled, a single black tail swaying from side to side behind him lazily, it being black in color. He wore his trademark turtle neck, though Ri had shrunk it, so now it clung to him as tightly as the pants had and a little of his stomach showed, but not enough to see the naval.
He wore black leather bands on either wrist that matched his belts perfectly, a collar around his neck to match, though there was a rather large silver bell in the middle of it in the front that jiggled softly with each step he took.
His ears had been completely covered by his spiky blond hair (Ri had made sure to at least cover them since she couldn't get the hair to lay down.)and in their place, where a pair of black ears that poked out through his hair on top of his head the twitched slightly, in an almost cute fashion. (Ri had gotten Wakka to talk to this weird goth girl he spoke with to animate the ears and tail to make things more...interesting for the day.)
His beautiful blue eyes stood out more so now that his pupils were slitted to look more like a cat's, thanks to a pair of contacts she's picked up as well, his rose colored lips standing out more as the poked out in a pout, a light scowl on his face.
The only thing he hadn't wore were the whiskers–but that was because Ri didn't feel that he needed them–and he refused to wear them.
No one said a word as he leaned down, picking up a muffin before planting the cordless phone in front of Sora. "That crazy red-haired guy has been calling for five minutes. Answer him damn it. Oh...yeah... sorry mom. I mean, answer it please." he muttered before placing the muffin in his mouth.
Not being able to resist, Ri quickly pulled out her cell phone and snapped a photo, making Cloud glare at her before he grabbed his own back back and headed out for the side door of the kitchen and out of the house.
DiZ sat his on the table and taking a sip of his coffee, he gave his wife a side glance, amber eyes twinkling with amusement. "I do hope that's not what you call 'normal' dear."
He was rewarded with a towel being tossed at him while Mrs. Madison muttered something about Sora being the only normal one.
The room was silent as Sora began to talk into the phone nervously.
"Axel? Oh hey!"
He ignored Riku and Roxas glaring at him, Roxas stabbing his spoon into his bowl, making Sora give him a sheepish smile. As he listened. "Huh? Well yeah, Riku is in the room–huh? Why?"
There was a pause and Sora nodded even though Axel wouldn't be able to see it. "Sure, I'll listen."
"So Roxas, are yo excited about your first day of school?" Mrs. Madison beamed. "Yes Aunt Annette," Roxas grumbled absently, narrowing his eyes at Sora as the brunette looked confused.
"Wait...what do you mean? Sure...I'll meet you later. Where? Fine, I'll see you then. Um...bye."
Sora hung up the phone still frowning. Riku raised an eyebrow at him. "What's up."
"Yeah–why was Axel talking to you," Roxas snapped and both teens looked over at him.
"Jeez, keep the jealousy in check Rox," Sora teased, giving him a sheepish smile. "It was like that. Actually–I dunno. I'm kinda confused. Axel said he wanted to tell me something important–but he need proof first so he said meet him later."
"Proof about what?" Roxas snapped.
Sora hunched at him. "How should I know? You're boyfriend is weird."
". . .He's not my boyfriend damn it!"
"Roxas!"
"Sorry."
The blond looked up at the sound of a care swerving–just in time to see some guy he didn't know trying to gain control of the wheel before he hit a lamp post then gawk at him again as he drove on down the road. Cloud scowled.
"I will get you for this," he replied matter of factly, glaring at his sister hatefully as his tail swayed from side to side as the group walked the last bit of distance to their looming school.
Ri laughed manically as Sora only shook his head in a sympathetic manner, Roxas still watching after the car in mild amusement with Riku while Tidus, who had joined them with Wakka a few minutes before on their way, was playing with the tail as he snickered, further annoyed Cloud.
"You should be thanking me," Ri replied with pride, sticking her nose in the air. "Not only does your sister have the best taste but I doubt very seriously that anyone even the great Sephiroth himself, will be able to keep their eyes off you today. Let alone, their hands."
Cloud glared at her. "That's exactly what I want. To get molested by strangers in school. And don't even start me with that bastard–making me walk to school just to embarrass me."
Another car swerved as it fought not to hit something and Wakka just burst into laughter. "I've never actually known someone that literally wore an outfit that should be outlawed!"
Cloud rolled his eyes and, wagging his tail in an annoyed fashion to make Tidus leave it alone, he stormed away from them and onto the campas, his black cat ears pointing directly up on his head in an alert type fashion.
The group paused as they watched everyone practically stop what they were doing to glare at him, some a lot more obvious in their thoughts then others, while the blond made his way up the steps and into the school, keeping his face forward, ignoring the spotlighted attention and catcalls that a few females–and males–were giving him all the while.
When he'd disappeared the courtyard in was in an uproar, a lot of students wondering allowed if their friends had seen 'cat boy', some laughing about the antic, most admitting how cute he obviously was and others about how he had gotten that tail of his to move.
The group laughed as they made their way onto the campus grounds as well.
"I feel a little bad for Cloud in that outfit. Sephiroth will be all over him now," Riku replied, shaking his head.
"He'd better," Ri nodded. "I spent like, a lot of munni to make that boy look good. My work better be appreciated."
"Well I'm sure if he doesn't, Axel will," Roxas replied darkly, causing the gang to look over at him. "He seems to notice every blond he sees, after all."
"Oh that's not fair," Ri frowned at him. "Sora was a brunette when he tried pulling him into the room as Kairi explained. And Rude? He's like, totally bald."
Roxas glared at her and she rolled her eyes for the millionth time that day before touching Riku's shoulder and muttering "Talk to the idiot in my leave." before she ran over to a pair of girls that almost seemed to be waiting for her, hugging the first, who had short brown haired that reached her mid neck. The second, a girl with black hair in some kind a of weird Elvis mohawk hairstyle only watched, her crimson eyes trained on the pair though despite her cold demeanor, she was at least, smiling.
Sora watched them talk for a moment, recognizing the brown haired girl as Yuna and the other as Paine while Riku took Roxas and the pair walked up a little, talking about Axel as Ri had just asked him to. Sora briefly noticed that Tidus seemed to be watching the brown haired girl too, smiling slightly when she laughed as something Yuna said before Sora elbowed him in the shoulder, gaining his attention. He smirked and Tidus gave a sheepish smile.
"What can I say: older women," he joked and Sora only shook his head as they caught up with Riku and Roxas, Wakka following close behind though he seemed to be preoccupied looking for someone of his own.
"...don't believe her. Just give Axel a chance. He may seem questionable and all but hell, you liked him before the phone call. Or at the very least, you were interested. Can you honestly tell me you aren't now?"
Roxas hunched and Riku smirked just as Sora came up directly behind him. "Then I"ll take that as a no. Look–don't jump to conclusions yet. Talk to Axel a bit before you write him off. I've learned a while back the hard way not to go off what someone else says in these types of matters. And the source isn't that trustworthy to begin with: thrust me."
"But the guy on the phone."
"Was jealous and probably would have said anything to ruin what he might have thought was going on between you two," Riku hunched. He paused, looking up and the others followed suit just as a young man with flaming hair came into view, looking around the courtyard before meeting eyes with Roxas, looked relieved before he began to run over.
Like a reflex, Roxas took a step back and made like he was going to try to walk off but Wakka caught him by the arms and held him still. "No running mate! Take him like a man. You'll have to eventually."
Tidus snickered and Sora glared at the playful teen while Riku only rolled his eyes. Before long, Axel was right in front of Roxas, smirking down at him as he muttered his pardon to Wakka for pulling the boy away from him. Taking him by his arm he yanked him a few feet away before he paused and began to speak to the blond in a low voice while said blond only glared at him with a stony face.
It didn't take long. Roxas rolled his eyes after a while and shifting his book-bag, began to walk back over to the small group that was watching and sighing in dismay.
"Roxas–stop being so stubborn," Axel called, following him.
"I'm not being stubborn. You just can't answer my question," the blond snapped matter of factly as he tugged on Sora's shirt a little. "Come on, let's go inside."
"Roxas, you're not really giving Axel a chance if you're not listening," Sora sighed, giving Roxas a pleading look and Roxas glared at him for a moment before grabbing Riku by the shirt and began to pull forward. "Come on, let's go inside."
"Damn it you little–" Axel began agitated, grabbing Roxas around his waist and pulling him forcefully into an embrace from behind–one of which the blond fought to get out of.
"Get off," he snarled but Axel only smirked. "Not till you listen to me. Got it memorized?"
His struggling continued for a while before seeing it was in vain, Roxas sighed, calming down almost immediately before looking stubbornly at the springy grass.
"You ready to listen kid," Axel murmured, and Roxas simply grunted. "Look. When I said that you actually do mean something–"
Roxas scuffed.
"I meant it," Axel frowned, annoyed that he wasn't being taken seriously. "You're not like everyone else I've met Rox. You're...different somehow. You make me feel different. Sure, I jumped all over you like I would most guys but who the hell wouldn't? Do you know how fuckable you look?"
The blond blushed and the small group adverted their eyes slightly, Wakka taking this time to give an overly loud whistle before waltzing off, no longer interested in where this conversation was going.
"I like you Roxas," Axel stated matter of factly, nibbing softly now on his left earlobe, sucking it softly and making the boy give an involuntary murmur. "And I'll be damned if I give up on you just yet. Got it memorized?"
Roxas nodded slightly and Axel smirked. "Good."
"Axel!" a voice called that made everyone look up. A male with long straight blond hair that haloed his face , came jogging over as two girls came after him, all three wearing the school uniform.
Sora perked up slightly when both girls waved at him and the one with flipped brown hair came running over squealing. Selphie and Kairi–the first of which, he hadn't seen since he'd gotten back.
"I'll be over here," he heard Tidus grumble to Riku as he simply stuck his hands in his pockets and walked off right before the girl could reach them. Sora caught Selphie looking over and watching Tidus, looking rather sad for a few moments before taking a breath and closing her eyes, perking up before she hugged Sora hard, squealing.
"Sora! I can't believe you're really back! I like, missed you soooo much! I'm soooo sorry I haven't seen you before now but I just got back from a summer with my grandmother and–"
"Selphie that's nice but I can't breath," Sora gasped and giggling, Selphie released him before turning her attention to Riku and giving him the same bone crushing hug as she rambled on, leaving Kairi to walk up and hug Sora.
"I missed you," she smiled and Sora laughed as he looked down to her. "You just saw me yesterday!"
"Yeah...but there are twelve hours between last night and now and I missed you," Kairi teased before looking up at him pouting. "You didn't miss me, So-Ra?"
"No, he was too busy withering beneath me last night to really miss anybody," Riku replied matter of factly, coming up behind her, causing both to look up at him.
"Riku! I told you not to tell anyone!" Sora joked and Kairi looked between the two suspiciously before looking as though something dawned on her and she laughed. "Oh guys! Gosh–you two are so stupid!" she giggled and she slapped both boys on the arms before all three's attention was caught by a very loud growl.
"Get. Off. Of. Me!" Axel snarled, pushing the new blond away from him, making him stumbled back before he wrapped an arm around Roxas' waist, who was staring at the new boy with slight interest and confusion.
"But Axeeel," the blond whined in an desperate manner, a wee bit over dramatic. "I told you I was sorry about yesterday! I didn't know your boyfriend would answer Kairi's phone! I thought that was why you told me to call that one when I couldn't get in touch with you: if you don't answer your phone, you're with one of your boyfriends." He sounded a little bitter when he said that last sentence.
Axel's eye twitched. "What the fu–I never said–!"
"What did I do wrong Axel," the blond began in a soft tone now, sounding depressed. "I gave you want you wanted easy enough. You seemed happy with me–you told me so. You said I was beautiful. And that I was yours and only yours. That I was different–that I made you feel different. So what changed in like, two days Axel?"
He looked up at Roxas then, frowned. "Oh. I guess that'd be you?"
"Nope, not at all. He's all yours," Roxas snapped matter of factly, snatching away from Axel before he stormed his way toward the long staircase that made his way to the school.
The blond seemed happy as he tried to snake his arms around Axel. "See? No more pro–hey!" he snapped when Axel pushed him away, glaring at him in a dirty fashion before running after Roxas, running backwards for a moment to give Kairi a death glare and point at her. "I swear to god you little bitch, I'm going tell that little fucker next to you everything!"
Kairi's innocent, happy go lucky demeanor melted instantly into that of unease as Axel turned around and picking up speed, raced after his target. Sora turned to look at Kairi a little disturbed by Axel's comment while Selphie, who was still hugging Riku around the neck, tilted her head as she and the silver haired teen looked over took looked at Kairi, the brunette looking confused. "Em...which 'little fucker' was he talking bout?"
"Sit your asses down–don't bother to take out any notepads and take notes, you won't be needing them today," their first processor growled as he sat lazily behind his desk, his feet propped up on it as he twirled what looked like specially crafted sniper riffles slowly in either hand lazily, his single eye–as the other was patched– watched ever single person that filled into the room.
The man seemed to have a permanent sneer like smirk on his face, his long blackish-gray hair pulled into a low, single ponytail, his piecing golden eyes flashed dangerously as he watched them all as if they were his prey, that long scar that covered most of his left cheek not helping in the least.
He wore the professor's standard uniform: a very long zip up hooded trench coat–or making it was cloak–with black pants, boots and gloves, the same school insignia hanging from chain that dangled rather lowly on his chest, both the chain and charm being silver
"Hurry the hell up, I don't have all day!" he snarled gleefully, that smirk never wavering and everyone hurried inside, scrambling to get to a seat. When the last person, a teenage boy with short spiky red hair in the front in which the bangs fell over his eyes slightly while it was very long in the back, being in a single pony tail, strolled inside, a playful look about his face as he plopped down in his own seat, mimicking the professor's seating position, his arms hanging over the back of the chair. To Sora, he already looked bored.
"Isn't it odd how we have a few classes with people in other grades?" Kairi whispered to him, catching his attention. Sora frowned at her. "Huh?" She laughed. "The classes: some of them are separate by year because of the level–like English. But then others like electives or the different history classes—they're all mixed up! Isn't that fun?"
Sora shook his head. "That's great Kairi. I'm busting at the seams."
She gave him a look and smacked him over the shoulder, making him snicker before they were interrupted by the tip of a gun being pointed at Sora's head, right between the eyes.
"Got something you wanna share with the class Mr. Madison?" the professor snarled at him, still smirking and Sora wondered for a brief second if that was just the way he sounded–like he was constantly growling.
"Erm, um, no?" he rambled, sounding unsure as he broke out in a light sweat.
"Good. Cause I'd sure as hell hate to think that there is something more interesting going on in my class that I'm not involved in," the teacher replied in a taunting tone before taking his gun away, twirling it again as he turned his back to the class and strolled back toward his desk.
Sora looked back over at Kairi, who looked shaken but mouthed if he was okay and Sora nodded slowly, grateful.
Seriously. He'd nearly peed on himself just then.
"I am Professor Xigbar and you will address me as such. You call me anything else:" and he let go of a few rounds of bullets–no–laser shots– into the air, making the entire class except the bored looking red head kid–who had sunglasses over his eyes at this point–duck in their seats, some like Tidus going to extreme and hiding all the way under the desk.
The professor paused in his firing and began to twirl his guns again, his maddening smirk widening. "I don't give a fuck if you don't like history. I don't give a fuck if you don't like me. Hell, I just don't give a fuck about you period," he replied nonchalantly, hunching at that last bit. "But I do give a fuck about one thing: my munni. And I don't get my munni for teaching you little bastards if you don't learn. And you don't learn if you don't pay attention. And if you don't pay attention, I don't get paid. And when I don't get paid:"
He twirled both guns at once into an upright position before bringing both arms outstretched at both of his sides and bringing them together in front of him, let another few rounds go but this time at a target, causing the students to cry out, duck and act accordingly.
The bored teen sat up straight, and his face would have been hilarious if Sora wasn't so frightened of their crazed professor. He looked half sleepy, bewildered and upset all at once as the arms of his sunglasses shattered away from his frames, making the body of the glasses fall to the ground with a 'clank'.
"My babies!" he snapped before looking up at the professor.
Xigbar only smirked as he stared him down.
"I think we got an understanding, " he growled in a nasty, humorous whisper, winking at him.
"I'm serious!" Kairi exclaimed, looking at Selphie and Ri as she told them the same story she'd been telling to everyone that had yet to go to Xigbar's class for the millionth time that day.
They group was at lunch now, and while History, the class Professor Xigbar taught, had been quite a–strange start, the rest of the classes had so far, been uneventful.
"He shot the poor guy's glasses straight off!"
"How is he allowed to have those in school anyway?" Selphie frowned and Wakka rolled his eyes.
"This is Kingdom Hearts, yeah? We've got a professor that actually teaches a 'Gifted' class (for students with odd/magical/elemental abilities), so I don't see why we can't have a psychotic history teacher that likes shooting guns at his students."
"He's been here for years," Riku added, taking a sip of his milk. "Seph said he's been here since his days in S.O.L.D.I.E.R. He, along with Professor Saix, use to be in the same unit with my dad."
"That still doesn't mean he should have a gun," Selphie insisted and Ri finally burst out laughing. "Poor Reno though! He's such an idiot. I was wondering why he was so upset during second period. He bitched about those stupid glasses the entire time to Rude."
"Rude," Roxas cut in, glaring at Ri. "Isn't that one of–"
"Oh don't you start," Ri sighed, tossing her sandwich down on her tray and rolling her eyes. "Will you just let the entire thing go and go kiss and make up? You haven't even gone out with Axel for two days and you're already acting like you're some committed, married couple. Knock it off!"
"I have a right to be mad Rikku, he's just playing around with me!" Roxas snapped then after thinking about it a moment, added. "And I am not his damn boyfriend!"
Ri shrugged and went back to his lunch while Kairi looked at him seriously. "He does that with everyone, so don't take it so personal."
"Kairi!" Selphie squealed looking scandalized and the red head only shook her head. " It's not some big secret. He is and Roxas deserves to know that."
"But you can see this is making Roxas upset–why would you say something like that," Sora frowned.
"Because she likes to dwell on the misery of others and wants to make matters worse?" Riku suggested and the table glared at him. He raised an eyebrow. "I was playing." Though he didn't sound like it in the very least.
"It's okay, I'm glad she told me," Roxas sighed, stabbing his food with his fork. "Wouldn't want to waist me time, afer all."
"But you don't know if you're doing that yet Roxas, you're just going off of hearsay, and I've already told you that going off of her hearsay isn't exactly the wisest thing to do," Riku snapped.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Kairi snapped at Riku and the boy only glared at her with his usual cold expression. "Nothing Kairi. I'm only playing," he replied in a cool demeanor and her eyes flared up.
Meanwhile at a table across the lunch room, Sephiroth watched his 'pet' intently as Cloud tried hard to ignore him, pretending to actually be interested in the stories their best friend Zack, a handsome blue eyed senior with sapphire eyes, was telling in an animated fashion, making the others at their table, Tifa–a girl with long brown hair and brown eyes, Reno, and Rude–a bald with eyes Sephiroth couldn't remember because the fool was always wearing those forsaken sunglasses.
Sephiroth gazed at the latter three of the four distastefully before he continued to watch the blond, who was looking over at Zack's tray of food, his eyes reflecting his hunger as he watched the food intently–and this made him smirk inwardly. His poor kitten was suffering–but he'd chosen to do so, after all.
Zack caught Cloud staring and in mid sentence, changed the subject. "Hey kitten. Want some fries?"
"No," Sephiroth told him matter of factly, rounding on him. Zack, along with the rest of the table, looked over at him while Cloud only continued to stare at the tray, no longer seeming to be staring at the food as his frown deeped just by hearing Sephiroth's voice.
"I've already told Strife that if he wanted to eat, he will take it from me only."
Zack raised an eyebrow and Tifa frowned at him. "Sephiroth! You can't force Cloud not to eat just because of a stupid little bet!"
Sephiroth didn't honor the girl by looking at her. He was not fond of the girl by any means–hell, he wasn't really fond of about 1/3 of the table actually–only Cloud and Zack,– and even the ever persistent yet on some annoying level, Reno were actually 'allowed' to be in his presence on a regular basis.
The remaining two were only there by pure circumstance: the girl was a friend of Zack's and had a silly crush on Cloud that annoyed the living shit out of him. And the bald one was Reno's best friend and followed the red head everywhere, including the bathroom.
Though Sephiroth never really referred to anyone as a friend–just associates. Or in the case of his 'friends' close associates. And Cloud? His code name was 'S.L.A.V.E.–whether the blond was aware of it or not was not Sephiroth's main concern however.
He took a sip of his bottled water–because Sephiroth did not really like carbonated drinks and quite frankly, he was 'too good' to be seen drinking out of a damn carton–and finally, after a few minutes of silence (and letting the girl stew in her own anger of not being addressed as if she were important) he finally answered.
"I'm simply following the terms of the arrangement: He is to obey my every whim until the end of this day. And as such, I will tell him when he can eat, sleep, and if I so desire it, shit as he is mine to control and mine to command."
Tifa scowled at him but he still didn't look at her. Actually he looked at Cloud, smirking at the blond, who was glaring up at him now, growling slightly. "Though if Cloud did everything I said so willing–well he wouldn't be Cloud then would he?"
He moved a few stands of the teen's spiky hair and Cloud pulled away from him in an annoyed fashion, slapping his hand away. Sephiroth's smirk widened but he pulled his arm back, never the less.
"Strife is already aware of the terms of his lunch so if he'd like to eat, then I suggest he'd stop being so stubborn and accept his milk."
Reno glanced over at Cloud, tilting his head to the side. "Come on Cloud, milk's not so bad. Think of it as going with the 'theme'. Cats can get full off of it–you probably could to. I guess. But damn I'm happy I'm not you cause I would need like, five cartons–and maybe a little catnip cause milk just really doesn't seem all that–"
"Re-no!" Zack shouted in an annoyed fashion, punctuating the boy's name. He looked over at him. "Huh?"
"Shut. Up."
"...Oh. Yeah. Fine...okay. Ass."
Zack tossed his fork at him and Reno ducked it, both pretending to act normal as it hit a short haired blond in the back of the head, making him turn around and glare back at them.
"Cloud, I know Sephiroth's being a jerk, but just go on and drink some milk," Tifa smiled at him, placing a hand on his shoulder to get him to look at her. And he did. Only he still looked pissed off. She ignored the demeanor and gave him a thumbs up. "It can't be that bad! Unless it's spoiled or something. But not even Sephiroth's is that mean."
"He's worse," Cloud snarled in a low voice and Reno reached over the table and thumped him in the forehead, making Cloud look up at him like he would mame. "Stop arguin and drink some damn milk! Before you openly drool on our food. Cause fuck you, I'm eating mine."
"Reno!"
"Leave me alone!"
"Cloud? Please?" Tifa persisted, squeezing his shoulders a bit and giving a frustrated snarl, Cloud slapped away from her roughly, rounding on her. "For the love of–no, Tifa, I'm not excepting Sephiroth's milk because I. Will. NOT! Suck his damn dick in front of the entire damn lunchroom!"
Well the entire room turned their attention on that one and Tifa looked over at Seph horrified as Reno burst into uncontrollable laughter, Zack hiding his face behind his hand as he ducked down in his own seat and tried to pretend he just wasn't sitting there while Rude, simply shifted his sunglasses on his face, gathering his tray and simply walked off to sit somewhere else for the time being.
Sephiroth, as usual, just wasn't fazed at all. He only continued to sip on his water, eyeing Cloud's every move as the blond glared hatefully at him, meeting his eye contact head on, scowling deeply.
The awe struck lunch room remained quiet until a lone feminine voice could be heard grumbling from Sora's table "I swear to god, I'm not related to him."
"Then maybe you should have thought about that before you decided to add me to your collection!" Roxas snapped, as his keyblades connected with Axel's chakrams, both struggling for dominance as they pushed against each other, his keyblades in a 'x' in front of him while Axel's weapons were on either blade, licks of flames trying to touch Roxas' face to make him give in.
The pair were in their psychical education, the professor, a man with long blue hair, startling amber eyes like Riku's father and a large 'x' scar right between his eyes that spread out on his forehead watched them intently, his assistant and co-teacher, a tall, lanky...something with long floppy hears watching as well, though he looked a little worried.
For their first day, the professor–Saix–insisted that they wouldn't begin light: they'd go straight into their first lesson (and according to what Riku told Roxas earlier, the only lesson unless the assistant, Goof, was teaching)–combat.
Roxas was rather looking forward to it until he realized he'd been paired off with Axel, who was no longer in his playful mood.
Actually, he'd seemed to be rather irritated and angry at Roxas and before too long, Axel had thrown down his wooden practice swords, pulling out a pair of red and silver chakrams out of literally nowhere, flames swirling around him–and making the entire room leave the floor quickly, backing up against the wall and out of the way as they watched the ongoing feud of words and weapons in alarm.
At this point, Roxas had discarded his own wooden swords–not willingly however as Axel had literally, burned them out of Roxas hands. And though he wouldn't admit it, the boy was actually amazed at how well Axel could control his powers–he never once touched Roxas' skin, only the swords in his hands.
But never the less, this pretty much left him defenseless and Roxas didn't remotely know how he'd done it, but when Axel made a move to bring his weapons down on him from above and Roxas put his hands up defensively, realizing the professor had no intention of stopping Axel despite his assistant's pleas for him to step in, he'd somehow pulled out weapons of his own.
Keys. Two large, big keys. One black, one white, both in different designs. And amazing, they'd blocked the chakrams and sent Axel back a bit.
They paused, staring down one another as Saix showed real interest for the first time in the matter, explaining that Roxas had produced something called a "Keyblade". But before he could really go further in depth with his explanations, Axel had gone back on the offensive...and they'd been fighting for the last forty minutes.
"I told you! He, doesn't mean anything!" Axel snarled, pushing Roxas back from him and taking the advantage, swiping his weapon at his stomach, twirling it with his fingers when he missed, on the defensive now as Roxas threw a combinations of swipes of his own.
"And I told you! That's not the point!" Roxas snapped, swinging aggressively now. "I don't care if he doesn't mean anything Axel–I care if I mean something! I care if you're just using me just like you do everyone else or if you were generally interested in me other than a quick–fuck!"
He'd hit his mark on his last word, sending Axel sliding backwards, the red head keeping on his feet before twirling his weapons again, raising them above his head, his emerald eyes blazing in fury as he glared at Roxas.
"Damn you! You're exactly the same!" he roared, letting out an angry war cry as he sent his chakram's flying at him, Roxas barely being able to block them from hitting his face as they were coming at him at a high speed, the weapons coming back to their master as he dashed forward, scrapping them along the ground, before he repeated the action, only this time pillars of flames from the ground at Roxas that followed him no matter where he moved to dodge out of the way as Axel pursued him.
"I've tried damn it! I don't know any other ways to get you to see that I'm sorry," Axel snapped finally, crossing his arms over his chest and pausing in his running, shot them out to his sides, throwing a wave of flames at him that the blond leapt over–but barely. "You're so damn stubborn that you can't listen! You won't read more depth into what the fuck I'm saying! You're just like everyone else! Judging me, coming to your own damn, shit n ass conclusions when you don't really no the first thing about anything!"
With that last word, Axel sent Roxas sprawling backwards, the blond landing on his back and skidding across the floor all the way to the far wall, his keyblades spiraling out of his hands and away from him. Leaving him completely at Axel's mercy–and stunned by his words.
Axel glared down at Roxas a moment longer before twirling his chakrams one last time, put them away in a puff of flames before turning on his heels and storming out of the gym–leaving everyone stunned.
Saix only raised his eyebrow, smirking in demented glee. "Class dismissed."
While this was going on, in another class, a blond happily continued on in his own little world, a gentle smile on face as his delicate, thin, fingers, continued to strum his sitar as the entire class watched.
He had blond hair that was shiny, placed in odd spiked up mohake of sorts. He wore a pair of navy blue jeans and a loose fitting gray cotton shirt with some kind of odd symbol on the front in aqua blue. Absolutely no shoes–but who feet and toes were perfect it seemed, pedicured to perfection with a thing gold anklet adoring his left ankle.
He waited until the entire class was ready, simply strumming a few melodies , eyes closed, humming lightly in a sweet, calm tone until the entire room was silent and he had their undivided attention.
He finally stopped playing, opening his eyes to reveal a pair of beautiful forest green, his rose colored lips parting into a smile, two rows of perfectly aligned, pearly white teeth catching a light sparkle as the sunlight hit them just right through the huge widows against the far left wall.
The girls all swooned, sighing in unison before a few giggled while most of the guys rolled their eyes and grumbled.
"Good afternoon everyone," the blond began in a smooth, slightly high in octave (for a guy anyway) tone that made the girls giggle again. "I'm Demyx. Don't call me professor–it makes me feel old." He made a face that looked absolutely adorable and the girls 'awwed' accordingly, making the guys groan again. "I'll be your music liberator for the first half of the semester–oh full, to those who were willing to put up with me for a year."
A few lucky girls giggled while a handful of others grumbled, looking at their schedules to see what they had next semester, trying to see if they could get that fixed somehow.
"We'll have a simple day today. When I call you forward, I'd like you stand before the class and sing everything about yourself," he smiled, looking around the room again before zeroing in on a certain rather petite teenage boy with short silver hair in the back while it was very long–so long in fact that it covered right eye. "Would you like to start uh," he paused to look down at his seating chart that he'd tapped to the board behind him, squinting to see the names. "Zexion?"
A few girls gave Zexion jealous glares as he made his way down from the fifth step (all seating in the room went from wall to wall, in wide stair fashion, going up about twenty steps to fit everyone) looking rather annoyed that he'd been bothered already.
"Would you like to play an instrument as you sing?" Demyx questioned pushing his sitar towards him and Zexion rolled his eyes before glaring back at the minstrel. "I don't want to sing. Or play your stupid instrument. I'm only in this class because all of the intelligent ones have been filled."
The girls in the room seemed to gasp–then boo and hiss at him, one going so far as to throw her English book his way as he glared at the entire class with distaste before giving Dexyx the same glare.
"You can't know you won't like it til you try," Dexym reassured him and Zexion narrowed his eye. "Don't talk down to me. You're a still a student just like the rest of us."
Demyx rolled his eyes, not seeming at all phased by the teen. "Tis a shame! How dare I stand here and completely waist your precious time with my silly music and ambitions! Shame! Bad Dexym!"
He slapped himself very lightly in the face and smirked at the now sour look he was recieving.
"Okay okay, just stop bitching for two seconds," he began, taking that same hand and tugging the back of Zexion's shirt as he tried to walk away, pulled him close to him so that their bodies were touching before trapping him with his sitar.
"What the hell are you doing? Release me at once!" Zexion protested, trying to push him away but Dexym ignored him. "Perhapes all you need is an intervention? Afterall, you can't say you don't like playing a sitar or singing when you haven't tried. And you seem like the type that does rather appreciate a good challenge of the mind."
"Singing is by no means, a challenge," Zexion snapped but his rude demenor was simply ignored again as Demyx took his hands and moved them onto the proper places on the instrument before placing his own over them.
"Tell that to the tone deaf," Demyx replied with an overly cheerful smile and Zexion sneered as his head dropped, his hair completely hiding it now. His breath hitched quietly at the feel of being enclosed by such warmth, and before he knew it, he'd let the minstrel control his hands...control him. He Fought the urge to lay his head back on his shoulder, or grind his hips back into him as the sensation of the teen behind him moving as they played was becoming a bit much for him.
"Sing," a voice whispered in his ear and as if entranced—he simply began in a alto toned voice, soft, light. "Zexion...Zexion is my naaaame..."
The girls swooned again, and Riku rolled his eyes again as he looked over at Sora and whispered ."He's as toned deaf as Kairi."
The brunette snickered, but didn't take his eyes off the pair on the floor, the laughter fading as it went into that of jealousy–making Riku scowl at him lightly. "Sora."
A pair of blue eyes glanced over at him. "What? It's not fair! I want to play the sitting guitar thing."
Riku, hiding his relief as he had begun to take Sora's jealous look the wrong way, gave him a suggestive smirk. "You know Sora...if you'd like, you can play my instrument anytime you want."
Sora blushed but before he could answer, a book smacked Riku hard over the head and both boy looked over to see Kairi, who was sitting on the other side of the silver haired boy, smile at him innocently. "What Riku? I was playing."
"Besides," Ri cut in, looking rather disturbed as she made them all stand up, ignoring their questioning glares. "I think we have enough people playing with other people's instruments as is."
And as if on cue meanwhile behind them, Zack cringed slightly as Cloud let out a low, strangled mew as he tried to hold his cries in, digging his nails into Sephiroth's thighs as he clawed at them, the silver haired senior slammed into him again.
Punishment for not uh...drinking his milk.
Reno was watching wide eyed and mouth opened while Zack continued to try to pay attention to the song the boy down the stairs was singing.
The group of front of them, being composed of Ri, Sora, Riku, Kairi, and Selphie all tried hard to ignore whatever was happening behind them now, all of which now stand up on their row, blocking the pair out of everyone's view, pretending to be that into Zexion's song–making a few other girls in the lower rows stand and clap along.
"S-stop," Cloud half heartedly whimpered in a soft moan but Sephiroth only slammed into him roughly, making Cloud bite his lower lip to keep from crying out loudly.
"Good lord," Reno mumbled in awe as he continued to watch shamelessly, his eyes wide and his mouth slowly twisting in a smirk. "This is fuckin hot."
"Will you turn around stupid," Zack whispered harshly at him, not remotely turning in that direction as he reached behind Sephiroth and slapped the red head on the hard over the head.
Reno reluctantly did as he was told...cutting the pair another side glance before focusing instead on Ri's butt, which was wagging in front of him as she moved from side to side.
Smirking wide, the boy quickly shoved both hands under her skirt and gave her butt a tight squeeze, making the girl give a high pitched squeal and jump in place, causing the entire class to turn around to look at her, Zexion and Demyx included as the silver haired boy had finally finished his song, though he made absolutely no effort to pull away from his teacher.
She glared back at him, Reno snickering and raising an eyebrow at her while Zack massaged the bridge between his nose and cursed having such stupid friends.
Ri turned her attention back down stairs, a big sheepish goofy smile plastered on her face as she rubbed the back of her head. "Sorry bout that! I was like, totally into that song–wanted to join in, forgot it was a solo, my bad."
"OH GOD!" a voice whimpered loudly behind them and Demyx frowned up at them in confusion while the group of teens tried to act as normal as possible, pretending they just didn't hear Cloud a moment before–or the hard slapping sounds that were following.
But Demyx wasn't convinced and finally, he let go of Zexion, missing the boy's disappointed scowl before he pulled himself together and frowned seriously, sat the Sitar down gentle on the floor and took his seat as the student teacher began to make his way up to them to investigate.
Zack, seeing this by looking through the small space between Kairi and Selphie, looked over at Cloud and Sephiroth, alarmed. "Hey guys, wrap it up" he whispered harshly. "You're attracting to much attention and I don't want to get suspended just for sitting here!"
His only reply was a mewed moan of ecstacy from Cloud as the teen leaned back against Sephiroth, wrapping his arm behind his neck while his other clung to the older teen's thigh, his black tail wrapping around his waist as the pair moved in perfect harmony, Cloud meeting each thrust with one of his own.
"Gods Sephiroth, harder, please," the blond begged, tightening his grip on his neck and thigh as Sephiroth tightened his hands on his waist and began to slam the teen down on him at a faster, harder pace, making the teen cry out with each thrust as it hit the precious spot deep within.
If this was an anime, Zack would have the biggest sweat drop by his face by now (though nothing could beat the look of horror and blush on Sora's face as he tried hard to look and/or say something to Cloud while the others looked very uncomfortable) but instead he only stared at the pair as if they'd finally lost their mind before spanking Ri on her ass–and getting a "Damn it, stop that!" in reply as she turned to glare at him, he mouthed the word 'Diversion!'
Making an 'oh' face, the girl nodded and turning back around began to sing loudly, just as Demyx had made it three steps away from them, still to far to see Cloud and Seph but close enough to hear them perfectly now unless something was done.
(3)"My name is: R-I- double 'ka' oo. Put all together and you got Rikku. I'm am the one, the only, original Ri," she rapped, placing her hand up after the word 'only' as Riku looked as though he might object. "Beautiful, popular – no one, can touch me!"
Demyx stopped, placing a hand under his chin and tilting his head as he paused to listen and Ri, happy to get his attention, kicked Sora hard, making him mutter an 'Ow!' before he glared over at her and she gave him a demanding look, mouthing 'Try to keep the beat and flow going–I know you're musically inclined.'
"Errr...I am: S-o- single 'er' a? And I don't like singing like the rest of us."
"K-a- pronounced 'I' re. Put all to together and you've got Kairi!"
"And I'm: S to the e to the l, Selphie. Though what I spelled was 'Sel' but that's what they call me!"
"I down right refuse, to spell my name. This song is 'wack' and you people are lame," Riku sang grumbled, pointing at the entire row.
Luckly, as the entire room roared with laughter at this, Cloud screamed and Sephiroth growled loudly as both came as one, Cloud falling forward as he went limp, Sephiroth keeping his tight grip on Cloud's hips so he wouldn't fall off his lap.
The room erupted into applause as they rested, panting, and Demyx beamed at the row in front of him. "Nice, creative even. Very interesting." he smiled before turning around and walking back down the steps toward the front of the room
They watched him intently, all giving a sigh of relief, Zack included until Demyx paused, and looked back at them all, giving a knowing smile.
"The melody of love is the sweetest song that could ever be composed," he began softly, his smile turning into a smirk. "But all the same...tell Mr. Strife to get off of Mr. London's lap. I think. Yeah...that's who was assigned up there..."
The entire row nodded, adverted their eyes uncomfortably as they all sat down finally, Ri scowling back at the pair while Cloud, panting, finally slid of of Sephiroth's lap to the left of him, Sephiroth leaning back against the wall, ignoring everyone around him as he too, continued to pant.
Reno took out a small packet of something and hitting it a few times, held it out to both. "Need a cigarette?" he joked.
Everyone glared at him.
This–well the singing that is–went on for the rest of the class until a chime rang and everyone groaned, not wanting to leave. This made the student teacher smile as he gave them all a smile bow. "That's all for today. If you have any questions, don't be afraid to ask me! Otherwise you can go."
A bunch of girls dashed to the front, Selphie and Kairi included, as the brunette had pulled the girl with her.
Riku and Sora watched them for a moment until hefelt a light touch on his shoulder and turned to see who was trying to get his attention. His breath caught in his throat when Zexion gave him a small lopsided smirk of sorts and gestured with his finger to follow him.
Sora looked back at Riku who was glaring daggers at the teen and reluctantly, obeyed, following him downstairs, wanting to hide in a hole as he could still feel Riku's eyes on them.
The two stepped right outside the door, shutting it softly behind them before Sora leaned back on the wall while Zexion watched him closely, his arms crossed over his chest. Neither said a word for a while and Sora shifted in discomfort. This was...awkward.
"Axel felt that Kairi might try to stop him, so he sent word with me: meet him at the beach after school."
Sora looked at him confused. "What, why would she try to–"
"You left." the teen replied suddenly, cutting him off.
Sora looked back down at his shoes. "Had too."
"Because of one little kiss?"
"Because of Riku."
"I see," Zexion nodded slowly, his serious expression never wavering as he continued to watch the boy fidget uncomfortably.
"Had I know that Riku was your boyfriend, I may not have kissed you in the way I had," the silver haired teen began thoughtfully, stroking his chin in a thinking manner. "Had Kairi told me that part, I would have tried to steal your affections the old fashion way."
Sora looked up at him bewildered. "Riku's not my boyfriend. And what do you mean 'Had Kairi told you'? Told you what?"
"I apologize for causing a rift in your friendship then," Zexion continued, ignoring his question before he stopped stroking his chin and turned his attention back to Sora, giving him a predatory gave though he still looked serious. "Though I'd only be lying if I said I was sorry for my actions Sora. I wanted to kiss you."
The brunette pressed himself against the wall, the silver haired boy closing in on him as he brought his face inches away from Sora's face, his eye becoming heavy lidded while Sora's stayed wide, watching his every room, his left leg bending up slightly, preparing for a well aimed shot just in case.
"Don't bother, I'm prepared this time," Zexion joked, running a slow trail up the thigh of the leg Sora was planning to kick with, making the boy shudder. "No, I wanted you then. And I want you now. To touch you. Control you. Hear that sweet voice of yours scream with ecstacy as you wither underneath me."
Sora adverted his eyes to the side, feeling real uncomfortable now, looking for something–anything—to smack this guy over the head with.
"Kairi just gave me a way to start things, gave me an excuse to capture those delectable lips of yours. But now..."
Sora's went wide eyed and tried to become one with the wall as a book, a bookbag and a sitar all connected with Zexion's head at the exact same time, making the boy fall to his knees, crying out in pain.
Sora blinked and looked up to see Kairi glaring down at the boy with a hand on her hip, the other buried in her bag, preparing to pull another one out and Riku, completely book-bagless, smirking in a smug fashion down at the teen.
Both looked up at Sora in unison who gave them a questioning glare.
"...I thought he was forcing himself on you," Kairi replied simply while Riku placed his hands in his pockets and replied. " I was just playing. Really."
Then the trio looked over at Demyx who was now looking over at Kairi and Riku, his sitar still sitting on top of the boy's head as he hadn't drawn it back up yet. "Oh...you were trying to stop them too I see. Though–I was just jealous."
The rest of the day was uneventful.
Sora and his two best friends were resting on the beach now, all sitting at Riku's favorite spot, Sora and Kairi sitting on the tree while Riku leaned against it as they all stared out into the ocean–just like old times.
They all had walked home together at first, minus Tidus and Wakka who stayed behind for Blitzball practice. But Ri had hopped in a car with her friends, Yuna and Paine, going who knew where. Selphie had skipped out of going to beach in favor of another activites, though Sora had a sneaky suspicion she went to go watch Tidus.
Sephiroth had gone out to play pool with Zack and Reno as the raven haired one of the trio wanted to have a long talk with him about Cloud–who had disappeared off somewhere to get away form Sephiroth for a while. And his cousin Roxas had amazingly, gone off after Axel once he'd spotted him walking home. Sora had noticed Kairi get slightly apprehensive as she too, ran after him, calling that she would catch up in a bit but he'd ignored it and with Riku, made their way to the beach.
And as promised, the girl, though looking worried (and paranoid as she kept looking around) had joined them and it was only the three of them.
And all three had to admit that it felt rather nice, despite the obvious friction.
But at least for the time being, his best friends were being civil. They were engaged in a mild conversation about something he wasn't really interested in, Sora himself waiting, patiently, as he continued to watch the ocean. He didn't have to wait to long.
He saw a lick of flames out of the corner of his eye and making up an crappy excuse, he excused himself. He didn't notice Kairi looking around like a mad woman almost knowingly, as if looking for something–or someone– before he disappeared behind a peir.
"Let's follow him," she replied, still looking around.
"Let's not," Riku snapped matter of factly. Kairi looked down at him, tilting her head slightly before smirking at him.
"Ri-ku," she began in her usual innocent tone.
"What Kai-ri," the silver haired boy replied in his usual cool demeanor.
"What would you do if I gave Sora a Paopu Fruit?"
Cloud rocked back and forth impatiently, listening to the soft ringing that filled his ear before a gentle voiced finally answered. "Hello?"
"...Aerith?" he replied.
"Oh hello Cloud!" she replied with a little excitement. "How are you?"
"I've...been better," he sighed, swatting his tail out of his way.
"Oh? That's too bad," she replied sympathetically.
"Listen, Aerith–is Leon there?"
"No, sorry. He went to go run an errand for me so I can finish dinner."
Cloud fell silent, his disappointment almost making him want to scream in frustration. He'd really wanted to talk to the brunette.
"Cloud? Listen, If there is something wrong, please, you can talk to me. I'll be more than happy to listen."
"No Aerith," Cloud sighed. "T-that's alright."
"Cloud," she countered, in a stern tone, sounding as if she were chastising him. "There is obviously something wrong. And whatever it is, you're very upset. I may not be Leon but I can help, really! Just tell me what's the matter. Please? I'll be worried if you don't."
There was a deep silence between them–one of understanding–and before he knew it, Cloud was telling Aerith exactly what was on her mind.
After about another half an hour and finally saying goodbye, she looked at the phone a moment longer before slowly bringing it down on the receiver, looking up with an worried expression when Yuffie entered the room.
"That old man–causing the engine to blow up in my face," the young girl grumbled, whipping a bit of smug off her arm before looking up at Aerith and frowning, placing her hands on her hips. "And what's wrong with you?"
"I just talked to Cloud," she began slowly and Yuffie's mood didn't let up. "Talking to Cloud makes you upset? How come?"
"Not talking to him–it's what he told me. About his little 'friend' if that's the title he deserves."
"Who? Soapnbox?" Yuffie frowned thoughtfully and Aeirth shook her head. "Yes. I'm very worried about Cloud's well being now. It seems that...well...his friend did something to him that has him terribly upset."
"Oh?" Yuffie replied, taking a seat a the kitchen table and taking an apple out of the bowl. "What'd he do?"
Aeirth looked very uncomfortable for a few minutes and Yuffie, picking up on it instantly, slammed her fist on the table, her eyes wide–and making Aerith jump literally out of her thoughts. "He didn't!"
"Now now, Cloud said he really didn't want to make a big fuss," Aerith began in an unsure tone but Yuffie was far too gone to listen to reason. "Don't make a big FUSS? Aerith–he forced himself on Cloud!"
"But Cloud said that they'd already done it before hand!" Aerith pleaded. "The Sunday he'd arrived–he said urm..Sephnot locked him in his room and..." she went silent and Yuffie's eyes got wider. "What?"
"I think it's one thing to do that in the privacy of one's home... but he did it front of the entire class today–and all because he's lost a bet."
"A bet? He raped Cloud in front of everybody because of a stupid bet!" Yuffie screamed.
"Yuffie, please calm down. I'm sure that's not–"
"Ooooh no! I told Squall Cloud needed him! And did he listen to me? Nooo," Yuffie snapped, slamming the apple on the table as she flipped to her feet and started for the door.
"Oh Yuffie–where are you going?" Aerith called with worry.
"To tell Leon! I know he wanted an excuse to go see him and now, he's got one: saving Cloud!"
She disappeared and Aerith stared after her, very worried now. "Oh dear. I believe I just made things worse."
"What would I do if you gave Sora a Paopu fruit," Riku repeated the question, pretending as if he were really thinking about it. Then he hunched. "Kairi, if your stupid little plan to make Sora hate me didn't work, what the hell makes you think giving Sora a stupid piece of fruit will?"
"Well it's not like you guys are going out, so why should it matter what I give Sora," she teased though her eyes were flashing with irritation.
"Who said we weren't going out," Riku retorted and Kairi laughed. "Please. Sora may have forgiven you–but not that much."
"How would you know Kairi?" Riku replied, smirking at her as he gave her a side look. "You weren't there when Sora was sleeping with me."
Kairi scowled at him. "Sleeping with you?"
Riku hunched. "It's only a matter of time before Sora finds out the truth Kairi. You better concentrate less on what Sora and I do in our free time and more on how you're going to lie your way out of your own mess."
Kairi gave him a smug smirk. "You keep inferring that I had something to do with what happened between you and Sora. Yet, you can't prove a thing. Must be–frustrating."
"Yeah," a very familiar voice replied in a taunting voice and boy instantly recongized it to be Axel's–though upon inspection, the couldn't see the flaming red head anywhere.
"It was."
At that moment, a certain brunette came storming back on to the beach, rapidly making his way toward them. They both watched him intently now, Riku being the first to notice , Riku noticing him by simply giving the boy a back glance through his bangs while Kairi turned fully around to stare at him. She smiled.
"Sora! Hey, where did you–"
"Axel told me everything," he snapped, glaring daggers at her and one could see that her heart skipped a beat as her face completely fell, looking around everywhere for said red head before looking at Sora again.
"Axel...what?" She began, sounding as if she didn't understand. "He told you what?"
" Zexion. After this morning, he had a talk with him. And he told him everything. And he told me!"
The color drained form Kairi's face as she jumped down from the tree, trying to compose herself. "Sora, just calm–"
"Tell me!" he snapped, pulling away from her as she tried to touch his arms in a comforting manner. "Tell me why you would do that to that us. Why did you try to sabotage me and Riku!"
Author's Notes:
As always :makes chibies wave: Thanks for the Reviews! I appricate them a lot!
Good lord, that was a looong chapter. It took me a week to write it and I still didn't include everything I wanted! A few explinations:
In the story:
(1) The Mickey Mouse Head/Insigna
(2) The Heartless Insigna
(3) For those who watch Winnie the Pook, Tigger always spells his name "T-I-double'ga' er!" I've always thought that was cute but my friend actually made a rap out of it and so...it's kind a salute to Winnie the Pooh and private joke all the same.
1. You know you're all wondering "WTF?" by now. I will explain in the next chapter exactly what Axel did and how he found out all the information. I'll also explain where Roxas went to, so don't worry.
2. Leon's going to be playing a bigger role pretty soon, along with the Trav. Town gang.
3. Cloud and Sephiroth's relationship will be explained further in upcoming chapters. Yes, it is odd--but that's mostly in part because of Seph.
4. No, it won't really be ZexionxSora so stop glaring at me.
Next Chapter:
In the words of Dave Chappelle: Gotta Bitch! Axel schools Kairi in the art form of: Don't get mad, get even. We finally get to find out exactly what happened four years ago and Sora's reaction! Will this be the chance Riku was waiting for? Will Kairi be left in the dust? Will Axel ever get back with Roxy? So much to know...so little time. :Evil Laughter Ensues:
I hoped you all enjoyed and please continue to leave feedback because my Axel chibies are despressed without his Roxas chibies.