He's Going To Be Mine
Well this chapter took me a while to put up cause one, I was sick, yup, poor Shiva caught the flue, two I had typed this chapter and then decided I didn't like it so I retyped it, and three, I've been kinda lazy. So to make up for my long delay, this chapter will be extra long and semi detailed . . . or at least I'll try
Next, I'm not too sure on the thought of Sephiroth coming into the story. One because he will be horribly OOC, not saying that all my characters aren't but I mean, since I haven't played FFVII, I don't know a clue about him. Yeah I've read some fics with him in it but from personal experience, I don't think I can write him in the story. Anyone with GOOD ideas can let me know.
I might be writing a new story sometime soon but I'm not very sure. So be on the look out for something new.
And I have the person to play the role for Riku's ex-lover!
Chapter 11: Strangeness and Old Flames
The day turned into evening as everyone once again lounged around in Leonhart's house. Riku sat on the floor with his back against the arm of the couch while Sora sat in front of him leaning his back against Riku's chest. Rikku sat at one side of the living room table, Cloud sat at the other, and Leon stood in the kitchen doorway. There was nothing anyone had to say. After the trouble they went through earlier, everyone was stressed out. Well most of them anyway. Riku and Sora couldn't possibly be stressed out when they had each other so snuggle up to.
Riku looked around the room and saw that no one's expression had changed. He was getting fed up with the silence and decided it was time to break it.
"Well who's up for so-"
Before he could finish a still very furious Rikku directly cut him off. You could practically see the stem coming from her ears.
"Cloud! I'm so mad at you I could- lid ouin rayt uvv yht syga oui ayt ud!"
Cloud just glared at her and then opened his mouth to speak.
"Crid dra vilg ib!"
Leon and Riku looked at them speechless. The same thought ran across their minds; 'What the hell did they just say?' thing got even weirder when Sora looked at them both and then very calmly said,
"Bmayca lyms tufh."
After Rikku looked at Sora, she sat calmed herself down. Cloud did the same.
"What the hell was that all about? I hope you didn't put a hex on us." Leon said looking around
"I know, I would be pretty upset if I grew a pig tails or a set of cat ears." Riku agreed with him.
"Riku, I would never put a hex on you although a set of cat ears wouldn't be too bad." Sora said flashing him a Sora style grin.
"Wow! Hold the phone! My Sora being seductive?" Riku eyed him.
"We were speaking the ancient language of Al Behd." Cloud said changing topics. The thought of his brother being seductive wasn't really all that appealing
"The what?" Riku asked
"Al Behd." Rikku answered momentarily snapping out of her fury. "I only use it when I'm angry thought."
"Oh you mean like Ricky Retardo?"
"I think that's Ricky Recardo." She corrected him.
"Whatever, same thing." He shrugged off
"I'm more interested in what you said." Leon said wanting to get straight to the point.
Neither Rikku nor Cloud said anything.
"Well, Rikku said she was mad enough to cut his head off and make him eat it. Cloud told her to shut the bleep up, and I just told them both to chill out." He looked around and then continued. "And I trust all of you know what the bleeps are."
"Well . . . that was interesting." Riku said while pressing his face against Sora's back trying to feel the warmth.
"Do you two need a room or something?" Leon questioned
"Not now, later." Riku smirked
"Riku!" Sora said showing all his embarrassment. Riku just smirked some more and cuddled into Sora's back.
"Ok, who's up for some grub?" Sora asked
"Alright! That was the same question I was about to asked before we were all scared shitless by the ancient voodoo language." Riku perked up.
"I don't feel like going anywhere." Leon said. Everyone looked at Sora.
"I'm not cooking." He threw his hands up. Next they looked at Rikku.
"Don't look at me. There's no way on hell I would make food for pricks like you." She glared
"Ouch, that hurt, you know" Sora said dramatically holding his heart while putting on his famous pout.
"Aw, not you sweetie. I don't blame you one bit." She crawled over to him and drew him in a warm hug never minding Riku who was still currently attached to him.
"Um . . . if you don't mind, I would appreciate it if you stopped hugging me." Riku breathed while being squished likes a smore.
"Oh, I'm sorry." The blond girl crawled away and sat back in her spot.
"So the only thing we have left is take out, huh?" Leon walked over to the phone. "What do you want?"
"Pizza!" Sora shouted.
"I could go for some pizza." Rikku and Cloud said at the same time and then cursed them selves for being alike.
"I could go for some Sora." Riku suggested
"No one wants that but you Riku." Leon coldly stated while picking up the phone to dial the pizza place.
After a series of rings someone picked up the phone.
"Hello, this is Pizza Pizza, what would you like." A man from the other line asked.
"Hold on." Leon put the phone away from his face and then turned to everyone. "What kind of pizza do you want?"
"Pepperoni!" Was Sora's cutely replied.
"Pineapple." Riku said calmly.
"Ewwww." Sora cringed at the thought of pineapples on his pizza.
"Spinege alfredo!" Rikku said
Sora almost puked at the thought of a spinege pizza.
"How about we get an anchovy pizza." Cloud commented. He had a thing for anchovies
Leon just sighed and turned his attention back to the phone. "We'll take two large pizzas, both with different sections. I want pepperoni, pineapple, anchovies, spinege alfredo, and crab meat."
"Ewww Leon." Riku groaned. Everyone else agreed and complained with him.
"Aw shut up all of you! I don't want to hear your bitching and complaining when I let each one of you have a different topping."
"Will that be all?" The person on the other line asked.
"Yeah. How long and how much?"
"About 20 minutes and the total is $20.95"
"Ok, thanks." Leon hung up the phone and took a seat next to Cloud.
"So, how long will it take?" Rikku asked.
"About 20 minutes."
"Oh."
"So what do we do until then to occupy our time?" Sora said innocently not know what kind of thought that made the hentai minds around him have
"Well, I know a few thing that I could do to occupy Clouds time." Leon said not aware that he had just said that out loud. Cloud just elbowed him in the side and mumbled to him self.
"You know what Leon, I swear that one day you are going to seriously piss me off."
"Why, because you know everything I say is true?" Leon slyly smirked.
Cloud just grumbled and blushed a little.
'Good, I'm starting to rub off on him. I just hope I can rub off on him in more way than one.' Leon's smirk grew even wider.
'Damn it! He's started to actually make me want him. Imagine that, me Cloud in bed with a hot guy like Leon. Two sweaty bodies moving around, under the covers, all night . . .' Clouds thoughts trailed off. He saw that he was starting to get a little too happy down south.
Time passed by and it was almost 6:00 PM. Right before Sora was about to fall asleep the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it!" he jumped up. He wanted to stretch his legs anyway from sitting so long. He walked over to the door while taking the money from Leon as he went. Sora opened the door and saw someone he wouldn't have expected.
"Aeris!" He yelled while latching onto her
"Hey, Sora." She said hugging him back
"What are you doing her?"
"Delivering your pizza. I didn't know you lived here." She smiled
"Well I didn't know you would come. I thought you worked at Good burger."
"Well I do but I kinda got a job delivering pizza too."
"Well you're all into fast food now aren't you?"
"Is that Aeris?" Rikku said getting up from her seat. She walked over to the door and to her surprise she was right. "Aeris! Oh my gosh, it's been so long! You look beautiful!" Rikku hugged her.
"Well you're just full of comments aren't you? How could I possibly look good in my work uniform?" She said modeling for the other girl.
"Come in!" Rikku bounced around.
"Oh I don't know if I should. I am on work."
"How dare you say that? We haven't seen you in three years and you want to just get up and leave." Rikku grabbed one of her arms and started to pull her in the house. It didn't take Sora too long to join in on the pulling. Aeris was finally in the house and in the middle of the living room floor. After getting her clothes straightened out from all the pulling, she looked up and saw a guy she hadn't seen in years.
"Well, hello Cloud." She smiled at him.
Riku ran over and took the pizza out of Aeris' hands. All he was concerned about at the moment was food. Sora saw Riku with one of the pizzas and grabbed the other box. When they sat down and opened the box, both gagged at the contents of the box. There was pineapple mixed in with alfredo sauce, pepperoni with the spinege, and anchovies on everything.
"Well I really think that Pizza Pizza misunderstood what Leon meant but sections on the phone." Riku said while putting the box on the table.
Leon took a look in the box and then flinched. "Wow! I think we would have been better off making a pizza, Riku."
"I agree."
Sora put the pizza on the table as well. After a few second Riku sighed.
"Well a pizza is a pizza right." he took a slice out of the box.
"Don't tell me you're eating that?" Sora was stunned
"Well, yeah. I'm starving over here! Now's not the time to be picky!" Riku put the Pizza to his lips and took a bit.
"Arg, I think I'm gonna be sick" Sora said holding his stomach
"Hmmm, not bad. You should try it Sora." Riku munched away.
"I think I'll pass on that one."
"Aeris." Was all Cloud could muster to say. He totally disregarded the pizza issue. After years of separation Aeris still managed to take his breath away.
"Well Cloud, I see nothing has changed about you. Still lost at words I see." The green-eyed girl joked.
"Wow, I haven't seen you in so long."
"Well I think we've all established that."
Cloud walked over to her and pulled her into a hug. Leon was shocked. He couldn't believe his eyes. Obviously there has to be an explanation for this.
Aeris hugged Cloud back and closed her eyes.
"Cloud, you don't know how much I've missed you. I'm sorry for ever leaving, I couldn't help what my parents wanted to do."
"It doesn't matter anymore." Cloud shushed her. He wanted to pretend everything was ok but he still felt upset that she left him in the beginning. That would never change. All those years without her were like someone who lost his or her eye and couldn't find it.
"Um, am I missing something." Leon interrupted them. "Is she another family member of yours?"
The two parted from their hug and looked over in his direction. Aeris smiled at him while Cloud saw the confused look on his face.
"No." Cloud said. He saw Leon stiffen.
"Oh. Well then is she-"He was cut off by a knock at the door.
"I'll get it." Rikku said being closest to the door.
When she opened it she didn't even get a chance to see whom it was since the intruders barged in. Two men both taller than her stormed in the house.
"What the hell?" She muttered to herself.
The two intruders that had come into the house were Seifer and Irvine. They both walked into the living room and shouted a "Hey, what's up?"
Rikku ran into the living room to make sure she didn't let in two robbers.
"What the hell are you two doing here?" Leon asked very agitated that just when he was about to ask a relationship-threatening question, they interrupted him.
"Just came to visit and see how you're doing." Seifer Shrugged. "Well, I'm actually running away from my folks for a while." He said after wards. "It seems like you sure got a full house tonight."
"Yeah so two more people aren't what I need." Leon snapped.
"Aw, come on you know you love us." Seifer played with him. He defiantly made Leon's blood boil but I guess that 's what made them best friends. They had more of a rivalry than a friendship.
Irvine walked over to Riku who was currently happily eating away at what looked like a rotten piece of junk.
"Whatcha eatin?" He asked as he took the slice of pizza away from Riku's mouth and out his hands. He looked at it for a while and then took at bite.
"Hey! Irvy that was my pizza!" the blue-eyed teen complained.
"I've taken more than your pizza." He said throwing Riku a wink. Riku just blushed a bit and turned away grabbing another slice out of the box. Sora being the naïve one had to ask.
"What'd he take?"
"Riku almost choked on the pizza."
This caught Leon's attention. He never knew Riku and Irvine had any kind of relationship.
"Yes, Riku, do tell." Leon said crossing his arms. By now everyone in the room was staring in his direction.
"Go on Riku, tell the n how I had you begging for more." Irvine joked while eating his deformed slice of pizza.
Riku blushed even deeper. Sora was caught on as to what everyone was talking about. The situation was very amusing, especially to see the cool Riku blush. Then a thought hit Sora.
"So that's where you learned to-"he was quickly silenced when a hand came over his mouth. Riku had already foreseen what he was going to say so he decided to stop him before it got out.
"But you two never went out." Leon said directing his comment to Irvine who just shrugged.
"He was curious one night and asked me how 'things' were done and I showed him. I thought it was so cute; Riku came to me for 'help'." Irvine winked at Riku again who once again blushed.
"Irvine what are you eating?" Seifer asked killing the moment.
"Pizza."
Seifer looked over in the box to see what the other was eating.
"That's not pizza. What is that, shit in a box?"
Irvine looked over at him and then shielded the pizza with his hands. "Don't insult the pizza unless you've taken a bite!"
"Calm down princess." Seifer said reaching for pineapple.
"Princess!?!?!"
"Oh I'm sorry ma'am." He popped the pineapple in his mouth. "Why couldn't you just leave the pineapples on the pizza?" He asked everyone.
"Thank you!" Riku shouted while eating his third slice. Sora was still disgusted with the junk that Riku was letting enter his digestive system. Riku and Seifer exchanged a quick hand slap and went on with their own conversations.
"Are you trying to make a point there buddy?" Irvine asked using his country accent because he was a little upset he was being called a girl.
"Don't act all surprised. You know that from a distance you look like a girl."
"What!? No I don't!" the brunet argued defensively.
"Yes you do, you have those soft eyes and long hair."
"I do agree." Leon said from across the room.
"Ahh whatever!" Irvine sat on the couch next to Seifer and then put his legs across him. "Don't hate me because I'm sexy."
"So what have I become, your new leg rest?" Seifer protested. Irvine just shrugged.
Rikku who had been quiet the whole time finally spoke up. "Hey does anyone know where Cloud or Aeris went?"
They were indeed gone. They must have very quietly left the house when everyone was talking about Irvine looking like a girl.
"Who's Aeris?" Seifer asked. He didn't like to be left out of anything
"Well, Aeris is a girl Cloud used to go out with when we were younger and lived on the other side of Destiny Island. All three of us used to hang out. Rikku would come visit us sometimes too. But when they were 14, Aeris moved away to this side of Destiny Island. So three years later we move over here and Cloud was still looking for her. And tonight he found her." Sora looked around after the long explanation he just gave. "Does that make sense to you?"
"Yeah, I guess. You know, that sounds like something out of a romance novel." Seifer commented.
"You calling me a girl and you're the one reading romance novels!?!" Irvine yelled at Seifer who just grinned.
"Correction, my girlfriend read romance novels and she just told me what happened."
"So have you spoken to her since you got kicked out of school?"
"Yeah. But she dumped me and said she can't go out with a loser. And then she got with that foreign guy. Can you believe that!?! She dumped someone a sexy as me for him! Shit he looks like he failed a few times! There no way in hell he belongs in 12th grade."
"Well . . . Leon, you tell your aunt yet?" Irvine asked changing topics.
Leon wasn't paying any attention thought. He was busy thinking about something else.
"Nope." Riku answered for him.
"So who the girl over there?" Irvine pointed to Rikku.
"That's my cousin, Rikku." Sora said
"Wow! Two Riku's."
"It's not that amazing." She said
"Riku." Irvine just had to cause trouble.
"Yes?" they both said at the same time.
"Not you the other one."
"Which one?" they said in unison again.
"The other one." Irvine thought this was too much fun. He started snickering trying to hold back his laughter.
Both Riku and Rikku got fed up and stopped answering them.
"Hey Leon." The cowboy said.
Leon was still zoned out.
"Leon! Earth to Leon!" He yelled.
"Huh, what?" the brunet said snapping out of his zone
"Um look, can I crash at your place tonight?"
"No."
"Come on, please?"
"Why."
"Because my mom told me not to come home."
"Why?"
"Because she said, 'why the fuck do you get kicked out of school in your last year?' And then I was all like I'm sorry and stuff and then she attempted to kill me throwing one of her pumps at me and then she tried to beat me with a frying pan until I ran to the door. She then went to my closet got my gun and then almost shot me as I ran down the street. The last thing I heard her say was 'and don't come home tonight!'"
"Wow, your mom is pretty mean." Rikku said to him.
"Hey, don't talk about my mamma. She's only like that when she's angry but other than that she's really nice."
"Aw, Irvine's a mamma's boy." Seifer poked at him.
Irvine just glared at him. "At least I don't suck my thumb."
"Seifer sucks his thumb!?!?" Riku asked now very interested in the conversation.
"I went over his house to do homework one day and when his parents let me in, there he was in his room sleep with his thumb in his mouth." Riku and Irvine started to laugh.
Seifer popped up off the couch. "Well, I have to go." He walked over to the door and then turned again to give a slight bow and then left.
Seifer walked outside to see Cloud and Aeris making out. He turned and knocked on the door again. Rikku opened it.
"Oh and tell Leon his boyfriend's out here making out with the girl." Rikku looked outside to see that it was true.
"Well, I'll be seeing ya." He smiled as if what he said had no meaning.
This time Seifer walked down the steps and went in the opposite direction of Cloud and Aeris.
Rikku closed the door and went inside.
"Hey Leon."
"Yeah?"
"Go look out side."
"What's out there?"
"Just go look."
Leon glared at her. "If it's Cloud and Aeris kissing, I don't really care."
"How'd you know?"
"You actually thought Seifer was whispering?" He said sarcastically.
She just lightly laughed and then went over to sit next to Sora.
Well, I'm stopping right there and I can sure tell you one thing, this chapter was a hell of a lot better than the first one I originally typed. So I doubt that anyone guessed it would be Irvine who taught Riku a little 'somethin, somethin.'
Well as you can tell there're been a bit of a personality change. I wanted to put the characters a little more in character.
R&R
Revisions 11/11/04Nothing much to say although I did think the 'shit in the box' comment by Seifer was a pretty funny. lol