Author's Note:
Kiyda: Ahem!
-=stands on stage at a microphone stand in Yuna's trainer clothes =-
Kiyda: It has come to my attention (thanks to Gingestune) that some characters of Symphony Remix are out of character. In order to fix those serious errors, I have made it my duty to... actually, if you don't mind, I'm not gonna correct anything. Sephiroth will probably be more rough, and Leon's gonna be more reticent.
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Kiyda: -=sigh=- Whatever. Anyway, like my new outfit. It so rocks!!
-=Riku walks on stage=-
Riku: -=glare=- Dammit, you are one, stubborn attention seeker, aren't you?
Kiyda: And I don't give a monkey on who knows it!!! ^_^ ^_^ ^_^
Sora: -=pops up behind the stage curtains=- Hey, does Yuffie forget in this one?
Kiyda: Mmmm, you're gonna have to find out. -_-;;;;;; Someone threatened to pelt me with cupcakes if I didn't let Yuffie remember.
Riku: -=rolls eyes=- Wouldn't have worked anyway, considering you rather eat cupcakes than cake. You hate cake, remember?
Sora: I don't get that - I like cake!
Kiyda: I like cake, just not the weird, old, crusty, dried up cake that tastes like hard styrophome. BLEH!!! ;P
Riku: Whatever. -=turns to readers=- We have also been informed that the story happens to be a little more comedic than dramatic, and we have accepted and switched the second catagory to humour. She and I don't really mind, but it becomes more of a pressure to make the fanfiction a little more hilarious to the point where the reader is laughing his/her ass off.
Sora: ^_^ Yes, this may come as a shocker, but we do have male readers!
Kiyda: They're my buddies!! ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ After begging them and giving them the URL, they actually have been keeeping up with the story without having me to pressure them. They're excited about it, maybe not about the yaoi, but they actually enjoy my story! YAY!!!
Baralai: -=comes out from the curtains as well=- You're an idiot.
Kiyda: I know, but I'm a cute idiot!! And I'm your idiot!!
^_^ I own Hikari, the kidnapper, the cats, Trinity, Haiku and Spikey.
-_-;;; I don't, unfortunately, own Megatokyo t-shirts.Or Kingdom Hearts. Or Halo. NO RUBBING IN THE PAIN OF NOTTING OWNING KINGDOM HEARTS EITHER!!!!
(And you all know if I did, I would have probably brought your Kingdom Hearts 2 by now and made it more of a shonen-ai than anything else..hee hee hee. I update really quick. ^_^;;; It's a sin having so much free time. When school starts, I'll probably only update every two weeks! Damn being in the optional classes. What am I - a super genius?!)
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Chapter 12. Mood Swinging
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'he seems to be in a really bad mood...'
In a cycle, her gentle hands continued to wrap the bandage around the bicep. She gazed up to her older brother, watching her like a hawk. She quickly darted her eyes back to her wrapping, but then drifted her jade eyes to the brunette slumping in the recliner.
'he doesn't look all that happy either...' she thought. Once she was done, she took a piece of ducktape and slapped it on.
"Ow!" yelped Riku. Hikari frowned and apologized as she stood up.
"Sorry..." she said quietly as she turned her back to him, walking toward the kitchen. She placed the rest of the roll of cloth on the table along with the hydrogen peroxide beside it. She was about to fold the items into the first-aid kit labeled "In case of Sephiroth" when her eyes landed upon a dark figure in their back yard, sitting along the trunks of the yellow fruit trees.
"I-I'll be right back, okay? There's a dog in the back yard; I have to get rid of. He's, um, eating Mom's roses," Hikari lied to her brother who was relaxing on the couch.
"Right," he responded from the living room.
"Thanks, Riku!" called back Hikari, already grabbing the first aid kit. She headed to the door and down the steps from the porch.
The sitting dark figure immediately spotted her and began to retreat, but she stopped him.
"No, wait!" called out Hikari. He paused and glanced over his shoulder at her. She stared at him, trying to form the words at her lips. "I... I want to help you."
He narrowed his eyes at her and turned around to her halfway, gazing at her with a focused, emotionless expression.
"Why?" he asked.
"Because you're hurt... and.. well.... I'm going to patch up your wounds so sit down before I kick your ass myself!" she shouted, glaring at him. He blinked in surprise and plopped down on the grass with a thud. She smiled and spoke in appreciation, "Thank you!"
Now that she had him right where she wanted, Hikari walked over to him, lowered herself to her knees and sat down the grass beside him near the yellow fruit trees.
"Give me your arm," she ordered him. He blinked at, his face as blank as a chalkboard. She raised a brow at him and smiled like a mother at a frightened child over thunder. "C'mon... I promise I won't her you on purpose."
Hikari reached for his arm, but he backed away. She tried once more, but each time he scooted back in fear as she attempted to touch his wound or even his arm. Finally she became fed up and tackled him onto his back. He stared at her, startled by this action and even more so as she pinned his hands above his head.
"HA!" she exclaimed in victory.
"Ah..." he was left speechless. What could he say? What could he do?
(A/N: Okay, there are allot of things he could do, but I refuse to spoil the fanfiction, so there! ;P)
With one hand still pressing his one wrist above his head, Hikari took his wounded arm down to inspect. Fortunately or unfortunately, the lazily bandaged wound was located around his bicep so in order to properly heal the injury he would be forced to take his shirt off.
(Readers/Note: WHOO~HOO!!)
Hikari blushed thinking about it. She had never really asked a guy to take off his shirt. With Sora, he only pulled up his sleeve, but this guy was wearing a long sleeve shirt. He couldn't pull up the sleeve too far, could he? 'No. No, he'll just have to take it off. It's not like... it's not like this is some kind of stripper bar or something! I just need him to take off his shirt... erm... this is going to be embarrassing. It shouldn't be, but it's going to be,' Hikari told herself.
"Um, can you take off your shirt?" asked Hikari, timidly. She released his other wrist and merely sat upon him.
"Why?" he asked, bluntly.
"Well, um, in order to take care of injury, I'm going to have to see it better, and you're going to have to take off your shirt in order for me to do so..." she spoke to him a little louder. He blinked at her and closed his eyes as he sat up, pushing her off a little without meaning to, took the ends of his shirt, and pulled the black top over his head. She blinked at him, staring at his half naked form.
'Wow, he's really... he's um.... oh, to put in so few of words...' Hikari was having trouble keeping track of her thoughts.... 'He's really handsome. He must work out allot like Riku. He doesn't look as muscular as my brother, but I bet Sora and him would pretty much be parallel in that area. Oops! I'm staring at him too long!'
"Erm, you.... I- nevermind!" Hikari quickly blurted out. She took the cloth wrapped sloppily around his bicep and began unraveling.... but as she did, she made an important discovery.
He wasn't human.
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"Welcome to Gainsborough Burrow! Hi, I'm Yuffie, and I'll be your waitress for today! What would you like to drink?" asked Yuffie.
"Hey, Yuffie," greeted Wakka. Yuffie blinked and grinned at the sight of her friends.
"Wakka! Tidus! What are you doing here?!" demanded Yuffie in excitement. Wakka smiled uneasily.
"We're here on a double date," exclaimed Wakka.
"Wow, I didn't know you and Tidus were gay-"
"WE'RE NOT!! At least, I don't think we are, are we?" Tidus asked , turning to Wakka. Wakka closed his eyes, resting his head into the palm of his hand.
"No, mon, I'm afraid we're straight all de way," answered Wakka. Tidus sat back down as Yuffie came to a hypothesis.
"So Wakka you're taking Lulu out on a date? And you're dating that girl with my teacher?" asked Yuffie eyeing both Lulu and Selphie.
"YEP!" exclaimed Selphie. "You've met my older brother, Squally-chan, haven't you?"
Yuffie blinked. "Squally-chan? OMG, I FORGOT TOTTALLY!!!" shouted Yuffie.
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Leon glanced down at his watch.
4:30 PM.
'She is so dead...'
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"I AM SO DEAD!!!!
Yuffie broke into a run, tearing off her apron and quickly grabbing her gym bag of ninja equipment ready at the front desk.
"Wait-"
"Not now, I'm late for my tutoring lessons!" shouted Yuffie as she bolted out of the door.
All the way, to the school, Yuffie ran down the streets of Zanarkand until she reached her school and burst through the door of her classroom.
"Gomen nassaiiii-OOF!" Yuffie tripped over her shoelace and skidded across the slick, hardwood floors. She came to a stop at her teacher leather boots. She glanced up to find him in his natural attire of jeans not so tight or baggy, sneakers, and a white, tight t-shirt. She lowered her eyelids and sighed in depression.
'Why do I always get in these awkward situation...?' wondered Yuffie to herself.
Leon leaned down and picked up her gym bag as Yuffie crawled onto her feet. She was blushing a bright red in embarrassment and quickly dusted off her apron she still wore.
"I'm really sorry, Professor Squall-"
"It's Leon-"
"-But I was at work at mom's restaurant, and she always needs help on the weekends, and I almost totally forgot and-....-=sigh=- I'm sorry..." Yuffie apologized, hanging her head as she twiddle with ends of her apron.
"Apology accepted. Now suit up," Prof. Leon ordered, tossing the gym bag into her arms. Yuffie's face lighted up, and she grinned happily as she saluted him.
"Yes sir!" she saluted and quickly unloaded her equipment out of her bag. Since she was still in her waitress attire, she was unsuited for combat. After unveiling the apron, Yuffie swiftly pulled on her belt full of shuriken stars and other ninja equipment and put on her headband. With one last tie she was ready. She had changed into some clothes Hikari had lent her: a "Evil Miho" T-shirt and some jean flares with a red strip down the sides. She only trusted her sneakers instead of any type of boots.
"Ready?" asked Yuffie, posing in a fighting stance. Her mouth fell at the weapon he rested on his shoulder.
It was a large, slick, metal blade, with the body barrel and leather handle of an old western gun. A small keychain, the replica of the pendent dangling from his necklace, was attached to the end of the handle. She blinked in wonder.
"Wow. That's a very cool sword, Professor," spoke Yuffie. She then grinned slyly. "Are you sure you wanna use that?"
Reticently, Leon nodded. He set the gun's tip against the floor instead of resting on his shoulder. He lifted it back into the air and maintained a fighting stance.
"Ready?" Yuffie asked. She smiled. "Okay, go!"
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There was silence in the house of Jenova as Riku and Sora sat in opposite sides of the living room: Riku rested on the sofa and Sora in a recliner. They were minding their own business, consumed in their own thoughts full of anger and frustration.
'How can she be so stupid?! What kind of idiot wants to heal her kidnapper?! She defended him, too. What's up with that?! Geez, why the hell does she do things she does?! She's so damn confusing, like all women. She's nice and pretty and kind, too damn forgiving. Almost nothing like her brother, who's reckless and temperamental and cocky and... and he's really a great guy,' Sora spoke in his internal thoughts. ' I can't believe what he said back there. Why did he want to take the blame?! He would've been killed.... At least, I don't think that guy was bluffing when he said he's kill us both if we didn't say. Riku's has a great heart, and he might just do anything to protect his little sister...and me, I guess...'
Gliding his eyes over Riku, Sora watched him from his lazy position in the chair. Riku as laying on the sofa with his arms folded over his abdomen and one foot dangling off of the couch. His seagreen eyes were steady on the ceiling.
'He looks so calm and collected....but he gets upset just like everyone else. And when he gets upset, he gets kill-happy,' Sora mentioned mentally in his head. Sora continued to watch his every movement, the rise and fall of his breath and the opening and closing of his eyes as he blinked. Sora began to preach in his thoughts once more as he watched his bishounen friend, 'He's really, very beautiful... okay, I admit, I think Riku's beautiful. No big deal, Riku is just very attractive. It'd be hard not to feel something from him. It's not only his physical appearance that makes him appealing. His courage, his integrity, and his love just make him even more- Wait, did I just say love? No, wait, that can't be right. I didn't, did I? And what if I did, that wouldn't mean I was in luh..luh... Dammit, Sora, you are not falling for -'
"Riku!" Sora exclaimed bluntly, pointing his brows together in frustration. Riku turned to look at him with a curious expression.
"What?" he asked. Sora panicked.
"Huh? Uhm, uh, nothing! Nothing, really. I..." Sora began, but sighed when his words failed him. He sat up in the recliner, pressing his forearms against his thighs. He smiled at Riku, gently. "I really think what you did back there, the whole 'I threw it' thing?" he finished. "I think that was really heroic thing to do. That took allot of guts. And a lot of heart."
Riku blushed slightly at his words, but turned away. He bit his tongue, then glanced back at Sora, giving him a genuine smile. "Forget it. I just didn't want to be alone, you know?" assured Riku.
"Alone?" asked Sora, confused. Riku sat up and leaned against the back of the couch.
"Yeah, I mean, if you had died or gone away or something.... I would be all alone. I wouldn't have any friends or... or anything. It'd just be me and Hikari again. Together and without anyone else in the world..." Riku told Sora, his head lifted to the ceiling as he stared at it as if it were about to fall apart. Sora could feel an emptiness crawl over him. He felt a pitiful and little sympathetic toward Riku.
"W-Well," began Sora. He wasn't all sure he should be telling Riku this or letting him further into his feelings, afraid Riku would only run amok. But Sora threw away his doubts and lifted his blue eyes to Riku's form again. "I would have been alone, too, if something had happened to you. I just.."
Why was it so hard? Sora felt this big chunk of cement in his throat. He didn't want Riku to know everything about him. He didn't want more people to feel so attached to. Sora only wanted a close friend. He wanted someone he could depend on no matter what. He wanted someone to be buried within him and to never leave him.
"Sora... Sora!" Riku called out. Sora glanced up to see Riku gazing back at him. Riku smiled.
"I'm listening," he told him. Sora's eyes were brought back to life, and he just let the words spill.
"I would never let any harm come to you. It would be okay with me if he killed me, but I don't want anyone to touch you. You're my best friend, Riku. You've become closer to me than almost anyone else has ever had," Sora told him. Riku blinked in surprise. Sora continued. "I know that it might sound weird, but I don't want you to ever leave. You're my closest friend. Somehow, you've come to feel like a soul mate. And so soon."
(A/N: o_o; Soul mates technically don't have to be your lover. Just wanted to make that obvious...)
Riku was speechless. What could he say? He had never had anyone spill his guts before him or deep confessions. It was mind job, telling him this. He didn't know what to make of it. All he knew was that Sora was acting very vulnerable. He trusted Riku, allot, and they had only met about a day or two ago.... 'What does he mean by all that? He won't let any harm come to me? Or anyone to touch me? I don't get it... Am I bestfriend or a boyfriend? I don't... I don't understand...' Riku confessed in his thoughts. 'I guess... I guess Sora has come so close to me, too, in such a short amount of time. He is someone so kind and nice; it's hard not to enjoy his company. I think....'
"Yikes, I think Hikari left the water running, by mistake..." Sora spoke, getting up from his seat and walking into the kitchen.
'I think he feels like a soul mate to me, too...'
"Sora...?"
Sora turned around to see Riku standing in the kitchen, too. Sora blinked at his unusual, tender expression. His heart beat rose.
"What is it, Riku?"
'And I think...'
Riku draped his arms around Sora's waist, bringing both of them into an embrace.
'I'm falling in love with him...'
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While Yuffie and Leon are battling it out, Hikari is discovering more and more about her mysterious kidnapper. Can there be a variety of colors for blood to take? Or is he the only one in the world that bleeds GREEN?! And what about Selphie and Tidus? Is Selphie the only one feeling the chemistry, or is Tidus beginning to have doubts about his undying love for the silverhaired angel? Not only that, but Riku and Sora are just becoming closer and closer together...will they finally realize their true feelings? Or are they too busy freezdrying their feet?!
Find out in Chapter 13. Heart Breaker!!
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"It's mine.... my own... my precious...." - Golem, random fangirls/fanboys, my bestfriend named Trinity, and me
Kiyda: Ahem!
-=stands on stage at a microphone stand in Yuna's trainer clothes =-
Kiyda: It has come to my attention (thanks to Gingestune) that some characters of Symphony Remix are out of character. In order to fix those serious errors, I have made it my duty to... actually, if you don't mind, I'm not gonna correct anything. Sephiroth will probably be more rough, and Leon's gonna be more reticent.
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Kiyda: -=sigh=- Whatever. Anyway, like my new outfit. It so rocks!!
-=Riku walks on stage=-
Riku: -=glare=- Dammit, you are one, stubborn attention seeker, aren't you?
Kiyda: And I don't give a monkey on who knows it!!! ^_^ ^_^ ^_^
Sora: -=pops up behind the stage curtains=- Hey, does Yuffie forget in this one?
Kiyda: Mmmm, you're gonna have to find out. -_-;;;;;; Someone threatened to pelt me with cupcakes if I didn't let Yuffie remember.
Riku: -=rolls eyes=- Wouldn't have worked anyway, considering you rather eat cupcakes than cake. You hate cake, remember?
Sora: I don't get that - I like cake!
Kiyda: I like cake, just not the weird, old, crusty, dried up cake that tastes like hard styrophome. BLEH!!! ;P
Riku: Whatever. -=turns to readers=- We have also been informed that the story happens to be a little more comedic than dramatic, and we have accepted and switched the second catagory to humour. She and I don't really mind, but it becomes more of a pressure to make the fanfiction a little more hilarious to the point where the reader is laughing his/her ass off.
Sora: ^_^ Yes, this may come as a shocker, but we do have male readers!
Kiyda: They're my buddies!! ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ After begging them and giving them the URL, they actually have been keeeping up with the story without having me to pressure them. They're excited about it, maybe not about the yaoi, but they actually enjoy my story! YAY!!!
Baralai: -=comes out from the curtains as well=- You're an idiot.
Kiyda: I know, but I'm a cute idiot!! And I'm your idiot!!
^_^ I own Hikari, the kidnapper, the cats, Trinity, Haiku and Spikey.
-_-;;; I don't, unfortunately, own Megatokyo t-shirts.Or Kingdom Hearts. Or Halo. NO RUBBING IN THE PAIN OF NOTTING OWNING KINGDOM HEARTS EITHER!!!!
(And you all know if I did, I would have probably brought your Kingdom Hearts 2 by now and made it more of a shonen-ai than anything else..hee hee hee. I update really quick. ^_^;;; It's a sin having so much free time. When school starts, I'll probably only update every two weeks! Damn being in the optional classes. What am I - a super genius?!)
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Chapter 12. Mood Swinging
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'he seems to be in a really bad mood...'
In a cycle, her gentle hands continued to wrap the bandage around the bicep. She gazed up to her older brother, watching her like a hawk. She quickly darted her eyes back to her wrapping, but then drifted her jade eyes to the brunette slumping in the recliner.
'he doesn't look all that happy either...' she thought. Once she was done, she took a piece of ducktape and slapped it on.
"Ow!" yelped Riku. Hikari frowned and apologized as she stood up.
"Sorry..." she said quietly as she turned her back to him, walking toward the kitchen. She placed the rest of the roll of cloth on the table along with the hydrogen peroxide beside it. She was about to fold the items into the first-aid kit labeled "In case of Sephiroth" when her eyes landed upon a dark figure in their back yard, sitting along the trunks of the yellow fruit trees.
"I-I'll be right back, okay? There's a dog in the back yard; I have to get rid of. He's, um, eating Mom's roses," Hikari lied to her brother who was relaxing on the couch.
"Right," he responded from the living room.
"Thanks, Riku!" called back Hikari, already grabbing the first aid kit. She headed to the door and down the steps from the porch.
The sitting dark figure immediately spotted her and began to retreat, but she stopped him.
"No, wait!" called out Hikari. He paused and glanced over his shoulder at her. She stared at him, trying to form the words at her lips. "I... I want to help you."
He narrowed his eyes at her and turned around to her halfway, gazing at her with a focused, emotionless expression.
"Why?" he asked.
"Because you're hurt... and.. well.... I'm going to patch up your wounds so sit down before I kick your ass myself!" she shouted, glaring at him. He blinked in surprise and plopped down on the grass with a thud. She smiled and spoke in appreciation, "Thank you!"
Now that she had him right where she wanted, Hikari walked over to him, lowered herself to her knees and sat down the grass beside him near the yellow fruit trees.
"Give me your arm," she ordered him. He blinked at, his face as blank as a chalkboard. She raised a brow at him and smiled like a mother at a frightened child over thunder. "C'mon... I promise I won't her you on purpose."
Hikari reached for his arm, but he backed away. She tried once more, but each time he scooted back in fear as she attempted to touch his wound or even his arm. Finally she became fed up and tackled him onto his back. He stared at her, startled by this action and even more so as she pinned his hands above his head.
"HA!" she exclaimed in victory.
"Ah..." he was left speechless. What could he say? What could he do?
(A/N: Okay, there are allot of things he could do, but I refuse to spoil the fanfiction, so there! ;P)
With one hand still pressing his one wrist above his head, Hikari took his wounded arm down to inspect. Fortunately or unfortunately, the lazily bandaged wound was located around his bicep so in order to properly heal the injury he would be forced to take his shirt off.
(Readers/Note: WHOO~HOO!!)
Hikari blushed thinking about it. She had never really asked a guy to take off his shirt. With Sora, he only pulled up his sleeve, but this guy was wearing a long sleeve shirt. He couldn't pull up the sleeve too far, could he? 'No. No, he'll just have to take it off. It's not like... it's not like this is some kind of stripper bar or something! I just need him to take off his shirt... erm... this is going to be embarrassing. It shouldn't be, but it's going to be,' Hikari told herself.
"Um, can you take off your shirt?" asked Hikari, timidly. She released his other wrist and merely sat upon him.
"Why?" he asked, bluntly.
"Well, um, in order to take care of injury, I'm going to have to see it better, and you're going to have to take off your shirt in order for me to do so..." she spoke to him a little louder. He blinked at her and closed his eyes as he sat up, pushing her off a little without meaning to, took the ends of his shirt, and pulled the black top over his head. She blinked at him, staring at his half naked form.
'Wow, he's really... he's um.... oh, to put in so few of words...' Hikari was having trouble keeping track of her thoughts.... 'He's really handsome. He must work out allot like Riku. He doesn't look as muscular as my brother, but I bet Sora and him would pretty much be parallel in that area. Oops! I'm staring at him too long!'
"Erm, you.... I- nevermind!" Hikari quickly blurted out. She took the cloth wrapped sloppily around his bicep and began unraveling.... but as she did, she made an important discovery.
He wasn't human.
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"Welcome to Gainsborough Burrow! Hi, I'm Yuffie, and I'll be your waitress for today! What would you like to drink?" asked Yuffie.
"Hey, Yuffie," greeted Wakka. Yuffie blinked and grinned at the sight of her friends.
"Wakka! Tidus! What are you doing here?!" demanded Yuffie in excitement. Wakka smiled uneasily.
"We're here on a double date," exclaimed Wakka.
"Wow, I didn't know you and Tidus were gay-"
"WE'RE NOT!! At least, I don't think we are, are we?" Tidus asked , turning to Wakka. Wakka closed his eyes, resting his head into the palm of his hand.
"No, mon, I'm afraid we're straight all de way," answered Wakka. Tidus sat back down as Yuffie came to a hypothesis.
"So Wakka you're taking Lulu out on a date? And you're dating that girl with my teacher?" asked Yuffie eyeing both Lulu and Selphie.
"YEP!" exclaimed Selphie. "You've met my older brother, Squally-chan, haven't you?"
Yuffie blinked. "Squally-chan? OMG, I FORGOT TOTTALLY!!!" shouted Yuffie.
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Leon glanced down at his watch.
4:30 PM.
'She is so dead...'
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"I AM SO DEAD!!!!
Yuffie broke into a run, tearing off her apron and quickly grabbing her gym bag of ninja equipment ready at the front desk.
"Wait-"
"Not now, I'm late for my tutoring lessons!" shouted Yuffie as she bolted out of the door.
All the way, to the school, Yuffie ran down the streets of Zanarkand until she reached her school and burst through the door of her classroom.
"Gomen nassaiiii-OOF!" Yuffie tripped over her shoelace and skidded across the slick, hardwood floors. She came to a stop at her teacher leather boots. She glanced up to find him in his natural attire of jeans not so tight or baggy, sneakers, and a white, tight t-shirt. She lowered her eyelids and sighed in depression.
'Why do I always get in these awkward situation...?' wondered Yuffie to herself.
Leon leaned down and picked up her gym bag as Yuffie crawled onto her feet. She was blushing a bright red in embarrassment and quickly dusted off her apron she still wore.
"I'm really sorry, Professor Squall-"
"It's Leon-"
"-But I was at work at mom's restaurant, and she always needs help on the weekends, and I almost totally forgot and-....-=sigh=- I'm sorry..." Yuffie apologized, hanging her head as she twiddle with ends of her apron.
"Apology accepted. Now suit up," Prof. Leon ordered, tossing the gym bag into her arms. Yuffie's face lighted up, and she grinned happily as she saluted him.
"Yes sir!" she saluted and quickly unloaded her equipment out of her bag. Since she was still in her waitress attire, she was unsuited for combat. After unveiling the apron, Yuffie swiftly pulled on her belt full of shuriken stars and other ninja equipment and put on her headband. With one last tie she was ready. She had changed into some clothes Hikari had lent her: a "Evil Miho" T-shirt and some jean flares with a red strip down the sides. She only trusted her sneakers instead of any type of boots.
"Ready?" asked Yuffie, posing in a fighting stance. Her mouth fell at the weapon he rested on his shoulder.
It was a large, slick, metal blade, with the body barrel and leather handle of an old western gun. A small keychain, the replica of the pendent dangling from his necklace, was attached to the end of the handle. She blinked in wonder.
"Wow. That's a very cool sword, Professor," spoke Yuffie. She then grinned slyly. "Are you sure you wanna use that?"
Reticently, Leon nodded. He set the gun's tip against the floor instead of resting on his shoulder. He lifted it back into the air and maintained a fighting stance.
"Ready?" Yuffie asked. She smiled. "Okay, go!"
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There was silence in the house of Jenova as Riku and Sora sat in opposite sides of the living room: Riku rested on the sofa and Sora in a recliner. They were minding their own business, consumed in their own thoughts full of anger and frustration.
'How can she be so stupid?! What kind of idiot wants to heal her kidnapper?! She defended him, too. What's up with that?! Geez, why the hell does she do things she does?! She's so damn confusing, like all women. She's nice and pretty and kind, too damn forgiving. Almost nothing like her brother, who's reckless and temperamental and cocky and... and he's really a great guy,' Sora spoke in his internal thoughts. ' I can't believe what he said back there. Why did he want to take the blame?! He would've been killed.... At least, I don't think that guy was bluffing when he said he's kill us both if we didn't say. Riku's has a great heart, and he might just do anything to protect his little sister...and me, I guess...'
Gliding his eyes over Riku, Sora watched him from his lazy position in the chair. Riku as laying on the sofa with his arms folded over his abdomen and one foot dangling off of the couch. His seagreen eyes were steady on the ceiling.
'He looks so calm and collected....but he gets upset just like everyone else. And when he gets upset, he gets kill-happy,' Sora mentioned mentally in his head. Sora continued to watch his every movement, the rise and fall of his breath and the opening and closing of his eyes as he blinked. Sora began to preach in his thoughts once more as he watched his bishounen friend, 'He's really, very beautiful... okay, I admit, I think Riku's beautiful. No big deal, Riku is just very attractive. It'd be hard not to feel something from him. It's not only his physical appearance that makes him appealing. His courage, his integrity, and his love just make him even more- Wait, did I just say love? No, wait, that can't be right. I didn't, did I? And what if I did, that wouldn't mean I was in luh..luh... Dammit, Sora, you are not falling for -'
"Riku!" Sora exclaimed bluntly, pointing his brows together in frustration. Riku turned to look at him with a curious expression.
"What?" he asked. Sora panicked.
"Huh? Uhm, uh, nothing! Nothing, really. I..." Sora began, but sighed when his words failed him. He sat up in the recliner, pressing his forearms against his thighs. He smiled at Riku, gently. "I really think what you did back there, the whole 'I threw it' thing?" he finished. "I think that was really heroic thing to do. That took allot of guts. And a lot of heart."
Riku blushed slightly at his words, but turned away. He bit his tongue, then glanced back at Sora, giving him a genuine smile. "Forget it. I just didn't want to be alone, you know?" assured Riku.
"Alone?" asked Sora, confused. Riku sat up and leaned against the back of the couch.
"Yeah, I mean, if you had died or gone away or something.... I would be all alone. I wouldn't have any friends or... or anything. It'd just be me and Hikari again. Together and without anyone else in the world..." Riku told Sora, his head lifted to the ceiling as he stared at it as if it were about to fall apart. Sora could feel an emptiness crawl over him. He felt a pitiful and little sympathetic toward Riku.
"W-Well," began Sora. He wasn't all sure he should be telling Riku this or letting him further into his feelings, afraid Riku would only run amok. But Sora threw away his doubts and lifted his blue eyes to Riku's form again. "I would have been alone, too, if something had happened to you. I just.."
Why was it so hard? Sora felt this big chunk of cement in his throat. He didn't want Riku to know everything about him. He didn't want more people to feel so attached to. Sora only wanted a close friend. He wanted someone he could depend on no matter what. He wanted someone to be buried within him and to never leave him.
"Sora... Sora!" Riku called out. Sora glanced up to see Riku gazing back at him. Riku smiled.
"I'm listening," he told him. Sora's eyes were brought back to life, and he just let the words spill.
"I would never let any harm come to you. It would be okay with me if he killed me, but I don't want anyone to touch you. You're my best friend, Riku. You've become closer to me than almost anyone else has ever had," Sora told him. Riku blinked in surprise. Sora continued. "I know that it might sound weird, but I don't want you to ever leave. You're my closest friend. Somehow, you've come to feel like a soul mate. And so soon."
(A/N: o_o; Soul mates technically don't have to be your lover. Just wanted to make that obvious...)
Riku was speechless. What could he say? He had never had anyone spill his guts before him or deep confessions. It was mind job, telling him this. He didn't know what to make of it. All he knew was that Sora was acting very vulnerable. He trusted Riku, allot, and they had only met about a day or two ago.... 'What does he mean by all that? He won't let any harm come to me? Or anyone to touch me? I don't get it... Am I bestfriend or a boyfriend? I don't... I don't understand...' Riku confessed in his thoughts. 'I guess... I guess Sora has come so close to me, too, in such a short amount of time. He is someone so kind and nice; it's hard not to enjoy his company. I think....'
"Yikes, I think Hikari left the water running, by mistake..." Sora spoke, getting up from his seat and walking into the kitchen.
'I think he feels like a soul mate to me, too...'
"Sora...?"
Sora turned around to see Riku standing in the kitchen, too. Sora blinked at his unusual, tender expression. His heart beat rose.
"What is it, Riku?"
'And I think...'
Riku draped his arms around Sora's waist, bringing both of them into an embrace.
'I'm falling in love with him...'
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While Yuffie and Leon are battling it out, Hikari is discovering more and more about her mysterious kidnapper. Can there be a variety of colors for blood to take? Or is he the only one in the world that bleeds GREEN?! And what about Selphie and Tidus? Is Selphie the only one feeling the chemistry, or is Tidus beginning to have doubts about his undying love for the silverhaired angel? Not only that, but Riku and Sora are just becoming closer and closer together...will they finally realize their true feelings? Or are they too busy freezdrying their feet?!
Find out in Chapter 13. Heart Breaker!!
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"It's mine.... my own... my precious...." - Golem, random fangirls/fanboys, my bestfriend named Trinity, and me