The Things You Do To Me
CH 11
Family
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy
In Leon's arms the child stirred, opening turquoise eyes. He blinked once, twice, trying to focus his vision.
"Hey kid, are you alright?"
Demyx looked up towards the voice meeting a brunette with steel blue eyes and a scar on his face. Instantly he panicked. He shot up and scooted away, despite how his body protested with the pain and looked around at the surroundings with wide eyes.
"Damm Leon, scare the poor child shitless."
Cloud got up and walked over to the trembling boy and knelt down in front of him. His sulking and grumpy demeanor melted away instantly.
"Hey." He gave the boy a gentle smile. Who would have thought he was capable of that.
"Don't be scared. You're safe now. Did that big, mean, and ugly lion scare you?" Cloud asked while he pointed at a gaping Leon.
Demyx nodded his head.
"We're friends and family of the guys who helped you." Demyx looked past Cloud's shoulder and saw his saviors resting and bandaged up. He looked around and saw the faces of the other three and saw no maliciousness in them. Cloud wrapped the jacket around the boy tighter.
"What's your name?"
Demyx tried to speak but his throat was dry and nothing came out. All of a sudden Roxas was next to them with a glass of water, handing it to the child.
"Here, this should help." the blonde told the boy while he knelt next to the older man. Demyx took the glass and drank.
"T-thank you. M-My name's Demyx."
Both Roxas and Cloud smiled.
Roxas asked "Are you in any pain?"
Demyx looked down and nodded slowly.
"I'm used to it." he mumbled. This caused for everyone's smile to falter.
Leon and Sora were sitting next to Axel and Riku when Sora suggested "How about you guys wash him up and clean his wounds. Maybe he'll feel better." Everyone looked at him.
"What?"
Roxas looked at Demyx and asked "Do you want to take a bath?"
Demyx though for a while and nodded.
"I'll carry him and you lead the way." Cloud instructed Roxas. The darker blonde nodded and motioned for the older man to follow.
Cloud neared Demyx and asked "Can I?" while outstretching his arms. Demyx lifted his arms in acceptance. The fair blonde lifted up the boy gently and followed Roxas up the stairs while the boy clung onto the navy tank top the man was wearing, not before glaring at Leon when the brunnette said "Momma Cloud is very good with children." Making Sora smile a tiny bit.
Cloud closed the bathroom door while Roxas prepared the bath.
"Give him to me." Roxas said while stretching his arms out to Cloud. The older man complied and handed Demyx over. The darker blonde gently took the boy into his arms.
Demyx wrapped his arms around the new body tighter.
"You have some grip there. You can wash yourself, right?" Roxas asked as he tried lowering the small body into the tub. Demyx only grabbed onto the shirt tighter and shook his head rapidly.
"N-no. Stay. I can't. It hurts."
Cloud and Roxas looked surprised at the younger boy. After some consideration Roxas stepped into the tub and lowered himself into the water, clothes and all, while holding Demyx.
Cloud took one step towards the door until something took a hold of his pants. He turned around and saw it was Demyx.
"Please don't go."
Cloud sighed and sat down near the edge of the tub.
"Fine."
Demyx smiled. It was strange how this child seemed to trust them.
Roxas poured some water into the dirty hair and carefully removed the jacket, which clung onto the body with dry blood, with warm water. Demyx winced.
"Sorry." Demyx only nodded his head in understanding and Roxas finished removing the soiled jacket.
Cloud handed Roxas the shampoo bottle and then lathered up a washcloth.
"You wash his hair and I'll get his upper body." Cloud instructed and grabbed a small arm and scrubbed it down.
Roxas poured a quarter size amount of shampoo onto his palm and lathered it into the dirty hair. "Close your eyes and bend your head back when I tell you." he instructed and grabbed the shower head.
"Are you done Cloud?"
"Let me get his face." The fairer blonde brought the washcloth to the dirty face and said "Close your eyes" while holding the back of the head and scrubbed the dirt off.
"There. Keep them closed."
Roxas sprayed the water over the boy, letting it combine with the murky water below. He then drained the tub and filled it with clean, warm water.
Cloud sat on the tub's edge and lifted the child so Roxas could kneel and hold the boy up to finish washing him. Demyx gave a shiver as his body left the warm water.
"Sorry." both boys mumbled.
Roxas who was now at shoulder level with Demyx wrapped one arm around the small child, supporting him.
"We're going to need you to spread your legs a little so we can scrub off the blood. You'll feel uncomfortable but if you can do it yourself..." Roxas trailed off.
Demyx shook his head with a no, knowing full well his capabilities at the moment. If he took a look at himself, the blood, the pain...all of that would lead to terrible memories. All this time he had tried to focus on the people before him so that wouldn't happen. So he spread his legs, leaning on the teen's chest and digging his hands into the dry part of the other's clothing.
Cloud got to scrubbing off the dried blood and semen but made sure not to harm the child further while Roxas worked on the abused back. Demyx tensed when the cloth clad hand neared his entrance.
"Relax Demyx. I need to get clean as much as possible. I'm sure you don't want to keep feeling that stuff inside you." The turquoise eyed boy nodded and relaxed slightly at the older man's words.
"Roxas. Try to keep his mind focused on something else."
The teen nodded and drew soothing circles against the younger back. What better to focus on something else than a conversation. As Roxas conversed with Demyx, Cloud washed away the dried substances as best as he could without entering the child to much. Demyx could feel the cloth semi inside him, ridding him of the blood and semen.
Roxas felt the hands tighten on his shirt.
"Hey, hey Demyx. Talk to me. Do you know of anyone we can get in contact with for you? Like a family member or something?" This certainly took the child's mind off the current situation but not in a good way.
"I have no one. H-he killed my parents in front of me. He tortured my brother and made me watch until he got bored with him and killed him to. I have no family. I'm all alone." You could hear the pain and sadness flow out of him while he buried his head in Roxas neck and cried. Cloud had finished cleaning him sometime ago.
Roxas' heart broke. He let the child slide down back into the water and held up the tear ridden face up so there eyes could meet.
"You're not alone. Not at all. You have Axel, Sora, Riku, Cloud, Leon and me. It depends on you, but if you're willing to be apart of my family you'll have a place to call home and a family that will always love."
Demyx looked stunned for a moment and then quickly flung his arms around Roxas and cried some more, but not tears of sorrow but rather tears of joy.
Cloud couldn't help but smile. "I just know this ties me in somewhere."
"Yeah from now on you'll be Uncle Cloud."
"You'll make a good mom Roxas."
"I see now why you hate it when Leon calls you Momma Cloud."
Cloud laughed sheepishly. "Well let's finish getting this guy cleaned up."
They washed and rinsed the boy once more just to make sure he was properly cleaned, the air feeling much lighter than a few moments ago.
"Out you go" the fairer blonde said as he opened up a big fluffy towel and Roxas handed Demyx over into Cloud's strong capable hands.
"Let's get you dry while Momma Roxas dries himself."
"Haha. How about we call you grandpa instead since you're pretty old." Roxas rolled his eyes and wrapped his waist in a towel removing the boxers and t-shirt.
"I'm not that old." Cloud grumbled.
Roxas laughed at the face the older man was making.
"I know. I'm just messing with you. Besides you look way younger than you really are. Alright. Off to my room then."
Roxas went across the hall to his room and searched for clothes for him and Demyx while Cloud followed carrying a warm, clean and fluffy towel wrapped Demyx.
"What did you mean by 'I look younger than I really am.'?"
"Riku's always talks about you guys. How you always looked after him when Yazoo, Loz, and Kadaj, would pick on him even though that would make them pick fights with you. How his favorite cousin Leon would come and beat the shit out of everyone who would pick on you and him. How he was glad that you found someone that loves you, especially since it was Leon even though the family thought relationships within the family was a sin, even more so that both of you are guys. He was glad that you two took him away from that hellhole and that lead him to meet Sora and Axel."
Roxas cursed as he tripped over a pair of shoes making Cloud laugh and receiving a glare from the younger blonde.
"I really need to find a way to keep my brothers mouth shut. He talks to much." Roxas gave the man a grin "One day Axel asked Riku why he looked younger and more innocent than he really was with that silver hair of his and he said "It's all thanks to Leon and Cloud. You'll see once you meet them." he said that with a smirk too and when I saw you guys I immediately saw it."
Cloud tilted his head.
"Well Riku told us your guy's age and Leon doesn't look 25 and you don't look 22."
"How old do we look?"
"About 21 and 18. You don't look legal and Leon looks like a college freshmen."
"No wonder I'm surrounded by perverts." Cloud mumbled.
Roxas laughed. "Hmm, I think I need to search Sora's room instead. I'll be back." He murmured something under his breath and was gone.
"Well Demyx. Now I can't murder my damm brother. Stupid squirt made me soft. He better make it through because I didn't take all that shit for him so he could go suicidal." Cloud sighed. "I can't imagine loosing him." he whispered to a supposedly sleeping Demyx in his arms.
"You're a good big brother." Mumbled Demyx as he snuggled closer to the blonde making Cloud smile.
"Thanks."
Meanwhile the brunettes downstairs were taking care of their patients.
Nana: It feels like Cloud molested Demyx O.o
Cloud: I didn't!
Demyx: He didn't!
Riku:...
Leon:...
Sora:...
Roxas:...
Axel:...
Nana:...What?
Everyone: nothing
Nana: *sigh* Well I think I'm going to make a side story on Riku, Cloud and Leon about their past. All I know is plot bunnies attacked while I wrote this and now they're gnawing at my head saying 'Write it! Write it!'
Cloud: *lifts Nana up and places her in Leon's lap* Just rest up and then you can decide what's going to happen next
Nana: He's like a human pillow too *yawns* I think I'm going to take you up on that offer
Roxas: Well until our author wakes up and has a new chapter. Later
{Nana}
