Good Evening, this is KHVeteran

I'm sorry, ya'll...Life slapped me upside the head with lemons starting last April, and didn't really stop 'til a few days ago-not to mention that I didn't completely know how to make out the "notice" from Fanfic detailing their decision to "delete" all "MA-rated fanfics"...since they haven't followed through, I s'pose that s'kay to upload this chapter.

Enjoy!

~Traverse Town Arc: Chapter 8: Intrusion~

Sora awoke from his dreamless stupor, thinking for a moment that the events of the last several hours were nothing but a dream, and that any moment now his mother would walk through the door and ask him why he fell asleep sitting up. But then he opened his eyes and saw the familiar Traverse Town cobblestones.

He almost cried then, but he forced himself up the wall and shook the last vestiges of sleep from his mind. This is my reality, now, Sora thought, so I'm just going to suck it up and deal with it.

Sora looked around, but didn't see anyone within the immediate vicinity. Wandering down the courtyard, Sora noticed Allei wiping down tables. He was about to walk her way when a snide voice halted him in his tracks, "So I finally get to meet Traverse Town's newest player."

Sora turned to see a tall man with long brown hair in an expensive-looking, dark pearl-snap shirt, leather jacket and pants strutting his way. The way he moved, everything from how the snakeskin shoes struck the cobblestones to how he shifted his massive white-rimmed shades farther up his face with his first two fingers, sent bad vibes through Sora. And judging from the way the man was smirking smugly, there was only one thing that he was here for: trouble.

Sora thought about saying "What do you want?" but the last thing he wanted right now was to make another enemy. Instead, he settled for "Who are you?"

"Megumi Kitaniji," the man smiled, "Mayor of Traverse Town."

How can a shady guy like this be a mayor? Sora wondered briefly, but then an image of the mayor of Destiny Islands sprung to mind. "Really? Is there a reason you stopped me? Because I'm trying to find Leon…"

"Yes," Megumi's smile didn't quite reach his eyes, "I was going to throw you out of my city, but our...mutual friend convinced me otherwise."

"What?" Sora exclaimed, "Why?"

"Because ever since you got here, the Heartless have been acting out more than usual. It's not all that hard to put two and two together, especially when that accursed weapon's involved. However, since Leon was kind enough to advocate for your innocence, I'll let the last little incident slide.

"But," Megumi lowered his shades a tad to look directly at Sora, who broke into a cold sweat as he stared back into the menacing red snake eyes, "If so much as a single Heartless appears in First District again, I'll hold you personally responsible."

Megumi bended over to whisper the last few words into Sora's ear, "And if you dare to show up in my territory again after that, player, we'll be playing for keeps."

And with that, the mayor walked off, and Sora felt a chilling wind as he went by.

By the time Sora turned around, he was gone. He vowed never to cross paths with the mayor ever again.

Walking towards the restaurant, Sora never noticed that Yuffie had strode up next to him until she spoke up, scaring the wits out of the key-brandishing youth, "I see you met Shades."

"Don't-!" Sora jumped, "Scare me like that," he finished lamely, realizing only after the fact that he had summoned his Keyblade instinctively.

Yuffie only laughed, "It doesn't work on Leon anymore, so I have to find other people to surprise."

"Speaking of whom, where is he?" Sora asked, Keyblade vanishing to wherever it went when he put it up, "I have half a mind to kick his ass after leaving me to fight every damn Heartless in Second District all by myself."

"Ha, you need the practice," Yuffie punched him playfully. "Besides, I don't know where he is either. I've been looking for him ever since we split up."

"I was going to ask Allei," Sora jerked his thumb over shoulder in the general direction of said woman.

"I asked her earlier, but maybe she's seen him since then." There was an odd tone in Yuffie's voice that Sora couldn't place. "Yeah," he replied, "Let's go ask her."

He turned around to walk to the waitress, Yuffie falling into step behind him.

Yuffie slowed her steps to let Sora pull ahead of her. Once she figured he was far enough ahead of her, Yuffie slipped back into the shadows—not an easy feat in the well-lit courtyard. Truth was, she'd already asked Allei about Leon, and received her answer. But years of performing investigations with Leon presented her with many opportunities to hone her lie detecting skills, and Allei was drowning in the red.

As much as she'd like to find out what Allei knew, Yuffie did not want to resort to the techniques common to her interrogations. And so, she had to resort to an alternate means of intelligence gathering. Sure, it took more time, but Yuffie learned patience long ago and she was beginning to like the idea of not getting her hands dirty.

Hiding outside of Allei's and Sora's lines of sight-but still within earshot—Yuffie closed her eyes and listened as Sora approached Allei, the sound of his footsteps changing from the clack-clack of the cobblestones to the click-click of the bricks that made up the patio of the outdoor restaurant.

"Hey, Allei," Sora greeted the woman Yuffie had once thought was her friend.

"Hi, Sora," Allei responded. Judging from the way her voice was muffled, Yuffie guessed that she was facing away from him. "If you're here for some more hot chocolate, you'll have to wait. Boss man's got me on cleaning duty."

For the last hour and a half, Yuffie thought spitefully. She might not have worked as a waitress at any point in her very eventful, young life, but she knew for a fact that it did not take that fucking long to polish the same damn table.

"No thanks," Sora said, "I was just wondering if you'd seen Leon."

"He's…in the kitchen, having a very private conversation with Aerith." Yuffie's eyes snapped open, and before her brain could register the thought, "I knew it," she had already scaled the side of the café and was climbing somewhat ungracefully over the second-floor balcony.

"I suggest you wait out here for him," Yuffie heard Allei finish as she quickly tested and picked the locked door.

She had just successfully pried it open when she heard Sora calling for her. Shit, cover's blown, Yuffie cursed mentally. But then again, she had a five-second head start.

That was more than long enough for the last surviving ninja of Wutai.

Sora raced through the restaurant's immense kitchen, trying his best to keep up with Allei – who had run into the building as soon as Sora mentioned Yuffie's name. And Sora didn't think that was a coincidence, she used me! That—(he restrained himself from using several decidedly impolite terms)-! She knew Allei was hiding something!

"Some ally," he grumbled.

Suddenly, a Yuffie-colored blur came from around the corner and shoved him into the wall. Wincing from the pain, he barely missed Leon running after her, calling her to stop so he could explain.

When did this turn into one of mom's soap operas? Sora's humor side kicked in when his sarcasm didn't.

Grumbling something not so nice about the two, and dreading what he was about to stick his nose into, Sora trudged on to see what had gotten Yuffie so worked up.

Leon looked up at the roofing tiles Yuffie had disappeared behind that lay upon the massive bailey that separated Districts One and Three, and sighed. This was exactly what he had been afraid of. But there was little he could do to salvage their friendship at the moment.

During their travels, he had come to realize how she saw him and he had tried to tell her several times that he wasn't interested in her in that way, but the young, hyperactive ninja just didn't know when to take a hint.

He sighed again, running his hand through his long hair, the past hour or so running through his head.

He and Aerith had met up in their usual nook in the restaurant's kitchen.

"What took you so long?" Leon embraced Aerith, "I was getting worried."

"It would take more than a few Heartless to be the end of me," Aerith replied after planting a quick, gentle kiss on his lips.

"You have no idea how much I've missed you." Leon said in between the kisses he placed on her smooth skin, each one lower than the last, "Missed this. All those years, travelling Zero District and beyond, training Yuffie…it's been torture."

"I can tell," Aerith half-chuckled, half-gasped as Leon's lips grazed the skin just above the hem of her dress, "Speaking of Yuffie, I think she's begun to suspect—ah! You have to tell her, and…soon."

"I know," Leon sighed above her exposed chest, the cool breeze making her wet nipples become erect, "But no matter how I play it out in my mind, she always throws a tantrum and runs off."

"She's only a child, Leon…," Aerith gripped Leon's head from continuing his teasing so she could make her point, "She'll get over it."

Leon let the conversation drop after that, licking and sucking her breasts. But as aroused as he was, he was getting very impatient with foreplay. So impatient, that he accidentally clipped Aerith's nipple with his teeth, resulting in a very high-pitched feminine cry from her.

Which flipped Leon's sadist switch.

In a sudden, aggressive move, Leon picked Aerith up and pinned her to the wall—one hand between her legs and the other gripping her shoulder.

"Leon, what-"

"Just shut up and kiss me," Leon said before kissing her so deeply, he soon lost track of who was trying to suck the other's face off.

Somewhere along the line he had managed to stick two of his fingers into Aerith's mound, tickling her G-spot with extreme prejudice, causing her to moan even louder around their locked lips, neither of them coming up except to gasp for fresh air.

After several minutes that felt like hours, she began to tighten up around his fingers. Sparing a momentary glance down, he saw that she had started stimulating her clit in quick, jerking circles. Feeling a pang of guilt, Leon nevertheless continued, scissoring his fingers until he felt Aerith's orgasm dribble onto his palm.

Shoving him away from her, Aerith gave Leon a wicked grin, "My turn, lover boy!"

Wasting not a single moment, she pulled Leon's pants down as if they were made for a stripper, and pulled him down to the floor, "You're not the only one who can play the domination game!"

She swallowed and deepthroated Leon without so much as a single tear, using her other hand to pump in a semi-circular motion. Leon gasped and tried to grip the tile floor, "The hell you learn that?!"

Aerith only smiled. Leon made a note to himself that he would have to ask that later.

Even as much as he masturbated, Leon wasn't used to an assault like this, and it only got worse when she started toying with his balls. It wasn't long before all the aggressiveness of his previous sadistic attitude melted away into bliss. He felt himself nearing his orgasm, and tried to warn Aerith, but she must have gathered as much and promptly sat down on Leon's dick.

After a loud moan from Aerith, and much twitching from Leon's member, Aerith began to rock her hips, so that Leon's tip was being teased by her G-spot. As pleasurable as that was, it wasn't anything compared to Aerith's previous assault, and Leon found his old impatience returning.

He shifted his weight suddenly, throwing Aerith off guard, as she switched into a position in which he had more power. Grabbing her legs so that they formed a V, he plunged himself into her, ramming his member into her with excessive force. In all their years in this relationship, Leon had never heard head Aerith moan so loud.

But she somehow got the best of him, and got locked into a scissoring position. She laughed as Leon groaned from both pleasure and frustration.

And thus they began a battle of domination, each one trying to subvert the other, until Leon finally pinned Aerith into doggy style with her face plastered against the table. With so much of their time spent fighting, it was a while before Leon finally was able to pour his seed into her in a loud orgasm that could've rattled the roof.

Pulling out (a motion that caused him to gasp heavily from the sensation given off by his sensitive penis), Aerith turned to face him, and the proclamations of love would've soon spouted from their lips if a certain teenage ninja had chosen at that time to open the door.

The memory of the hurt in her eyes, the single tear racing down her cheek, the way her hand shook as she attempted to throw a shuriken at him. It was a thousand times worse than what Leon had been expecting.

"Leon?" Allei's tentative voice asked. He wasn't sure if that tone carried the message of "Are you okay?" or "You deserved it." Maybe it was both.

"I'll be fine," Leon lied, "I just hope Yuffie sees fit to forgive me."

Sora knew he shouldn't stare, but he couldn't pull his eyes away. It was just that he had never seen a woman as exposed as Aerith was before—her breasts hanging out of her half-buttoned shirt and some white substance leaking from her…down there.

And it appeared the woman was as embarrassed as Sora was.

Finally it was an older man's voice that broke the awkward silence, "I thought I told you two that you could not fuck in here! Seriously, go rent a room! Do you know how much one of those tables costs me?"

Sora turned around to see a tall man in a bartender's outfit with black hair and a three-day shadow. Sora couldn't see his eyes from around his wire-rim shades, but after his run-in with Shades, he wasn't sure he wanted to. Although Sora normally associated people with the bed-head, unshaven look with the douchebag crowd, this man actually managed to pull it off as "cool".

"And you, young man, don't you know it's rude to stare? Even if she's baring it out to the entire world."

"Uh, S-sorry," Sora found his voice, even though his face was still running red hot.

"Lemme guess, never saw a woman's parts before?"

Sora shook his head profusely.

"Thought not," the stranger smirked, "Most kids your age see stuff like that and are scarred for life."

"I get it, Mr.H!" The woman protested as she hastened to cover herself, "We won't do it again! There's little point, now the cat's out of the bag!"

The man, Mr. H, obviously, laughed. "Hey kid, what's yer name?"

"S-sora…" He responded, still not over what he just saw.

"I'm Sanae Hanekoma," Mr. H indicated himself, "I'm born on March 3rd, blood type A, a Pisces, a barista, and a big gambler. Beyond that, I ain't telling you anything else 'bout myself."

What's a barista? Sora thought, but before he could ask, Mr. H had returned his attention back to Aerith, "We have rooms available upstairs, by the way. If you're lucky, Aerith, I'll let you use one of them."

And with that, the enigmatic man disappeared back the way he came, leaving Aerith and Sora alone once more.

"So you're the Keyblade Wielder," Aerith's smile didn't quite reach her still-pinkish cheeks, "Be careful. So much depends on you."

"You saying that because you actually care about me? Or are your concerns reserved exclusively for the Keyblade?" Sora simmered.

Aerith seemed kind of shocked at Sora's answer, and then sighed, "Yuffie betrayed your trust, didn't she?"

Sora didn't answer.

"Don't let it get to you. She may not look it, but she's only a little older than you."

"So you're saying that people my age betray others on a regular basis?"

Aerith made an exasperated noise and replied, "No. You're both young, and young people make rash decisions. Just try not to hold it to her too much. If there's anything she needs now, it's a kind heart that will open up to heal her wounds."

Sora snorted and walked off.

"She fancied Leon," Aerith called after him, "But Leon's heart was attracted to mine. Her heart was in denial, and now that the unadulterated truth has been exposed to her, it may have left scars wide enough to let darkness in."

With Aerith's warning ringing in his ears, Sora ventured back out into the chilly Traverse Town night.

Sora wandered over to the table Leon was sitting at, and helped himself to a seat, "Aerith told me it was because Yuffie had a crush on you."

Leon remained silent.

"Then you deserved it," Sora said spitefully.

"Don't take Yuffie's betrayal out on me, Sora," Leon growled, "I was going easy on you last time. Don't force me to fight you for real."

They sat in silence for a moment, neither one breaking the glare that had cropped up between them until Allei smacked them both in the back off the head and telling them to "grow up."

After a beat, Sora finally asked what he had been wanting to say the entire time, "What did you mean by 'finding the leader'?"

"The small fry are just cannon fodder," Leon explained, "If you want to get rid of the Heartless for a while, you find and kill their leader. It's usually big, really big, and it's a tad more intelligent than any of the other Heartless you've ran across so far. Kill the boss, the Heartless back off for a while, and we can make some much-needed improvements to the Town in general."

"Like?"

"Putting wards on the First District Baileys, so we don't have a repeat of earlier tonight."

"You mean, the large swarm of Heartless?"

Leon's silence was his only answer.

"Where do I start looking?"

"The Third District," Leon replied coolly, "It's the only District that hasn't been secured yet."

Sora nodded and ran off, wondering if he was walking into yet another trap that carried the bitter sting of betrayal. There was only one way to find out…

~Intrusion-END~

Told you guys that Lemon was coming XD

I just didn't expect it to be in a flashback, lol. This would've taken place a lot sooner, but several chapters took too long to write out, so I just kept putting it further and further off. And then Leon had to have his flashback….argh! In any case I'm just glad I finally got it done XD

Alright, the Traverse Town Arc is nearing it's end! If you guys have liked what I've done with the characters and storyline so far, you're gonna love what I did with Guard Armor! Mwahahahaha!

But that's all I'm gonna spoil for you guys for now. All I'm gonna say is that Traverse Town is nothing compared to the rest of the KHNoir Universe. I tried to stay close to the general canon storyline up til now, but this Arc's just the spring board for the rest of the story. XD I'm so excited!

Well, I'll be going now. I gotta work on next chapter!

May your swords stay sharp!

-KHVeteran