A/N: OHMYGOD!! I got a review! For a moment I was doubting my writing abilities, but I'm glad I at least got 1 review for my first fic. HAZZA!!
Anyways, I would like to thank Luna Tiger, quil'n'parchemnt. I read your bio and saw what you like in a fic and I was impressed that I actually caught your interest. 3 you made me happy. Wow... I don't suck at writing as much as I thought I did. That's a big first to me. I had rewritten that chapter a few times. Oh and thanks for pointing out that I spelt Leon's last name wrong. ;; That was a complete accident. Forgive me, I ment to put an "e" instead of an "I", but my spell checker has risen up in mutiny against me. LOT'S OF SHINEY THINGS FOR YOU!! ::dumps shiney objects in LT's lap::
But I also need a betta reader to help me out. Any takers?
A look ahead: In what dreams may come. Lovesick. Before everything and after.
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Two souls with everything Yet to be said.
One light for each Undeserved tear.
Two saddened angels, In heaven, in death.
Nothing but all the same...
Me and my reflection.
[Some poem I made a long time ago]
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Daylight Breaking Part II
"...Sora... Hey, Sora. Get up."
Goofy looked worriedly down at the key barer, dog-like face scrunched in what was supposed to be a frown.
Sora lay asleep in his chair inside the three companion's gummi ship, face contorted in pain. He turned to his side, falling out of the chair to land on the cold metallic floor with an audible thud. His eyes flew open just before he hit the hard floor, squawking awkwardly. "Ow..." The boy groaned, rubbing his forehead – the spot that had hit the metal floor first. His sense took a moment to return fully, the first thing he recognized was his surroundings. Then the fact that he was laying face down on something cold and hard. "Jeez... what gummi ship managed to run me over?" Sora asked more to himself as he sat up to look around.
The gummi ship... That's right. He had been had fallen asleep...
But had everything before been just a... dream? Or had it been some sort of prophetic vision like he had before setting out on his journey?
"Uhuck!" Goofy said while bursting into laughter. "Yer awake! I thought ya'd never snap outta tha dream!" Donald only shook his duck head and glared angrily up at the knight. "Uh... yeah."
"Did we make it?" Sora asked curiously, picking himself up. He plopped into his seat with a trademark grin and forgot all about the dull pain in his head. Donald shook his head, muttering something about being still a day or so away with the warp drive busted. A previous battle with a few heartless ships had damaged it before take off, making the trip to their next destination take a lot longer than scheduled. Chip and Dale said they would have it fixed after they all landed. But he only sighed. That dream had him rattled a little bit...
What had it all ment? Who were those weird people? And what was it that made Sora feel so uneasy? Sure he had a sort of six-sense about these sorts of things. But something just felt very odd about that dream... Like it hadn't been one of his at all. More like it had been someone else's instead.
Regardless of that fact, it was still a little strange... maybe what caused it was because he had read and re-read the collected information from Ansem's Reports after gathering all the missing papers. To Sora it was a bit difficult to believe Ansem never started out evil. He always had the belief that evil was born, not made. Like in fairy tales he used to read.
Unknowns... perhaps that was what those people were... or maybe it was just a dream...
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Leon hated waking up in the mornings (if one could consider it morning in this darkness). That was a fact. To him it was always a pain in the ass.
Especially when you first step into the bathroom, flip the light switch and end up temporarily blinded by the florescent light. No matter how long he had been living in Traverse Town, Leon could never get used to that for some reason. It didn't matter why Traverse Town seemed to have nothing but endless night, it was just quite simply a pain to get up in the mornings. He steadied himself by clutching to the side of the bathroom counter until he could once more see. It took a few minuets though.
Leon rubbed his eyes, peering into the mirror at his reflection.
He looked tired. Not just sleepy, but tired in general. His face didn't show it too much, save for the fine lines under his steely grey eyes. The man sighed before turning on the cold water and splashing his face, turning it off without looking to wipe the water from his eyes with his free hand.
The brunette was fully aware of what caused his many sleepless nights. This problem of his just so happened to be blonde haired, blue eyed, and sleeping on his living room couch. Shaking his head, Leon turned to the shower, turning on the water before adjusting it to his liking. He stripped himself of his sleep ware with no great hurry, stepping into the hot spray.
It wasn't that Leon felt uncomfortable around him... After all, he was the one to offer some hospitality. They got along fine enough, no arguments or anything. Well, at least none that he was willing to bring up. If they had differences then they settled it while sparring.
It was a different matter, however, when that problem has been staying at his house for three months – not that Leon hated him staying, god help anyone who would have to be roommates with Yuffie and Aerith. The girl's were never a problem to hang around, but when it came to living with women... that was a different story entirely. No... the problem was finding out that it wasn't just women he liked. And also finding out that it was, in fact, Cloud Strife who made Leon realize this. It was a shock to the system at first.
Now...
Now Leon had no idea what to do.
Cloud was his friend. It wasn't natural to be attracted to other men. Also when that other man just so happens to be seemingly attracted to a woman without even noticing you in the first place. That had been the real shock: To find out that he was in love with Cloud. So Leon had been living in a small house that consisted of a kitchen, one bedroom, a small den, and a bathroom with a strait man, who didn't seem to quite notice the strange way Leon would avoid as much physical contact as possible outside of sparring sessions.
Pushing those thoughts aside, Leon let the hot water run over him, letting the warmth ease away the ache in his right shoulder – it had been hurt in a spar. He closed his eyes for a moment to clear his head. He did not need another mental debate, which would have been one of many over the past month he had come to find more truths about himself. Matters aside, he concentrated on the task ahead: The next tournament at the Coliseum. In two days they would be leaving.
Two days, just him and Cloud... just the two of them...
Gods, this needs to stop, Leon chided himself. It was stupid. That's what it was, stupid. He wasn't a teenager and there was no reason to get over excited just because they were going to be alone. There's no reason at all...
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Breakfast was meager. Just a bowl of oatmeal. Cloud had woken up shortly after Leon had gotten out of the shower, sitting at the table across from the older man with a tired expression as he stabbed at his bowl a few times rather groggily. He looked tired. Then again, Cloud always looked like he had just woken up from a horrible hangover when he got up. But today was a little different.
"Something wrong?" Leon asked without even looking up from his breakfast.
"... No." Cloud said, his tone rather bitter. "I just feel as though I got ran over by a gummi ship." He paused to take a bit of his food. "That is the last time I ever let Cid talk me into having drinks with him."
Drinks? That would explain why he had left and had not come back until near dawn. So that was why the blonde was in a sour mood. Cloud was never much of a drinker, since he was almost incapable of keeping down any liquor at all. Leon had figured out that much after sitting down with him at Cid's one night.
Of course he wasn't better of than Cloud was. It had been one of the very few times Leon had decided on being idiotic enough to try and consume alcohol. Only a couple of shots of vodka and he was already drunk enough to have passed out. Cid, laughing, had willingly helped Cloud drag him home to nurse the soon to come hangover.
That had not been a good night. Yeah, a sure fire way to impress people.
"Well, I think it best we get some training done before we get started on stocking the ship with supplies." Cloud said, standing in one fluid motion to empty the oatmeal from his bow and put it in the sink. He didn't notice Leon send him a glance as though to say, "you're not eating?" He only rinsed the bowl out without a word.
This was strange behavior. Even for the blonde. Hangover or not, Cloud never left his plate unfinished. But that wasn't important.
Leon, grimacing down at his own half-emptied bowl, agreed with a slight nod. Oatmeal wasn't exactly his favorite thing to eat anyways. He too washed out his bowl, forming today's to-do list in his mind. Sparring for an hour or so would help loosen him up a little. Plus he had to go see Aerith before going to Cid to check up on the Tiny Bronco. Then off to help the refugees for the rest of the day to make sure all was well while he was gone. Today was going to be one long day...
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Why...?
It was a simple enough question. Before everything and after, the plan was to simply get the information needed and find the last member of this little party.
He stood there for a moment, thinking, until he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned his hooded face the shorter one standing next to him. "Where will we start? Do you even know where we are?"
The taller one, apparently older than the other, said nothing at first. Only looking out at the place they had landed.
There were buildings every where. The area was empty, shops lining the walls (if one were to climb the stairs) of this place. Neon light shone from the tops and glowed from signs all over. Especially an interesting looking fountain. The two cloaked ones had, after walking to the ends of the path, blacked out. In fact, he couldn't even remember even reaching the end of the strange path. It had just kept going on forever. Now the two stood in the front of a door leading to another part of the very town their feet stood upon. The older of the two knew exactly what his younger companion was trying to say.
What was the next step?
"We don't know anyone here," The older one said, looking down with a small smile. "That makes our job that much easier." He turned to face his companion, placing his hands on those slim shoulders. The younger one didn't flinch, only frowned.
"Our relationship isn't natural. Three people in one relation isn't fair."
"What makes you say that? She suggested it."
"Yeah... I'm just a little uneasy about it." The younger one looked down at his boots until a hand grasped his chin gently and brought his face back up. A gloved hand slid the hood back to bury that hand in spiky blonde hair. Their lips met for a brief moment. It would have been a deeper kiss had the door not swung open, making them both break apart. The hood was drawn over; this time the older one smiling as he made sure he could see the bottom half of his companion's face.
"Later... We'll worry about it later." The older whispered before they both just simply disappeared from sight.
[End Part 2]
A/N: Wow... the plot's going along a lot faster than I had expected. The next chapter or so is mostly character development. I'm sorry for the shortness of my chapters but I have a page limits. I really wish that wasn't so, but what can I do? Anyways, I thought it would be fun to kind of switch roles, since everyone usually goes from Cloud's side on his liking to Leon. I just sort of switched it and twisted it a little =D I have angst coming up soon, don't worry. It's just that Action/Adventure and Romance are the two main ideals here.
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