o_p Ummm...Forgive me?
A: Why should they?
Riku: Yes, you have kept me and Sora in the darkness WAY to long!
Me: T_p *sweatdrop* ...I thought you weren't afraid of the darkness
Riku: I'm not
Sora: Liar
Riku: YOU PROMISED YOU WOULDN'T TELL!
Sora: I didn't, you did.
Riku: ...Damn
D: ^^
A: --
Me: o_p Still don't own Citan's bad-ass monocles nor do I own KH

/Sora's bond/

//Riku's bond//

Forever Yours
IX: Tales from Yuffie's Heart

I'm sure you all don't remember well from last time I left off, well Cloud had just managed to prove himself to really be the prince of demons. Donald was currently in pain and agony, but wasn't allowed to scream it out. A whole day had passed by. Otherwise, there wasn't much else to say from the household. Sora was nervous, though he didn't rightly know WHY,

"So..." Ansem had spoke, but everyone was quite silent. Cloud smiled,

"So..." He replied back. A scoff came from Riku,

"Look, this conversation is getting us nowhere," He spoke, Sora frowned to find him in a frustrated mood, "We should be looking out for more of the crystals."

"Riku does have a point," Goofy softly said, looking down.

"How do you know about the crystals?" Sephiroth asked spitefully, frowning while crossing his arms together. Goofy took a glance over at his wounded friend, then back at Cloud, who looked intrigued. Goofy didn't reply though, probably afraid of making Cloud angry. But with no response it made everyone else angry,

"Hey, look at this," Aerith said softly, and the group gathered around her. It was a strange article written in bold, Slayers Reform Shivers came from all the vampires.

"What do you suppose it means?" Goofy questioned as they read over the article. Apparently, it was for a gathering of slayers, Aerith growled, folding the paper as did Riku.

"Those bastards! They're toying with us!" Cloud frowned,

"...I think there's more to it then that Riku." Riku frowned, folding his arms,

"And what does the mighty Cloud think about it?" Cloud shook his head in response, frowning to try and think. Before a sigh came from his mouth,

"We'll have to ask someone who might know about this."

"Yes, but we don't know anybody like that," Ansem replied, "...Do we?" Cloud glanced at Ansem, before shaking his head.

"Well...we might know a person..." Sora said bashfully, and everyone's attention diverted towards him,

"Who?" The questioned, wanting to know the answer. Sora nodded slowly,

"Leon?" A few seconds of pondering and everyone's response was different, especially Goofy and Donald's because they didn't know the brunette.

"Leon? Why Leon?"

"Well...he seems like someone who would be a slayer, so why not?"

"I guess that makes sense," Sephiroth gruffly said, frowning deeply at the prospect.

"So I suppose this mean's you'll get to go back to school?" Aerith said, staring at the group who was sitting on the couch.

"Well there isn't really another way to try and talk to Leon."

"True...but..." Everyone turned to face Cloud who looked very hesitant, "It might not be the best of all ideas."

"Why?" A curious look spread across Sora's face as he had asked the question, besides Leon trying to kill the vampires, he seemed rather nice.

"Because he reminds me of someone named Squall...an immortal..."

"Why's that still a bad idea?" Riku asked, staring at Cloud with the same curious look that Sora wore.

"Because going against an immortal is very dangerous, as well the fact that Squall has been particularly moody because of the divorce with his wife."

"His wife?"

"Another vampire. But not one of a original kind, she came from another place of vampirec creations, and they're not even really divorced, the wife doesn't know how much he despises her."

"I still don't get it." Goofy interrupted Cloud, who looked over at Goofy, annoyed from the interruption, before shaking his head,

"Yuffie is still after Squall, who hates her and all vampires for some odd reason, and it'd still be dangerous to even try fighting or talking to the guy!"

"But how do you know if Leon is Squall?" Cloud frowned,

"I have the feeling that he's an immortal, second he really hates vampires, and third, Yuffie is here! That mean's Squall can't be too far behind!"

"Cloud, why are you so frightened if this is a fact?"

"Because...I'm the prince of demons, and...I really don't want to fight with Squall, without my Mako reacting."

"Which reminds me..." Sora said softly, "What is Mako?" Cloud shook his head,

"Another experiment of my father's and it makes me react in certain ways..." Sora's mind flashed back to when Cloud looked like he wanted to kill all the school jocks. Sora frowned lightly, staring at Cloud with a different light, he didn't want to be like that? Sora felt a lot more sorry for the prince of demon's staring with sadness.

"So what's the big deal with Squall? Just because he's an immortal?"

"He's the immortal for guns...and his Gunblade is very vicious..."

"So? You're stronger then that!"

"Yes, but I haven't lived nearly as long as he has! He has more knowledge of strategies and I could easily be overcomed!"

"Cloud?" Aerith asked as Cloud stared, one small tear falling from his face.

"That and he was one of my friend's when I was a child...what if I try to kill him? And I don't want any of you dead," spare the evil glare at Donald, "so we should just leave Leon alone."

"Yes, but you don't know if Leon is Squall," Riku walked up to the blonde, who stared hesitantly, "So snap out of it prince!"

"Riku!" Ansem scorned at the grumpy silver haired boy, "Either way Cloud, you don't have to come, but we need to question Leon about the Slayers, this is urgent for our survival." There was a slight stunned silence from our group, before a nod confirmed the thoughts,

"Yes...we should go..."

"But I don't think we should go at school time," Sora said, blinking as everyone stared over at him curiously, "Remember, he tried to kill Cloud in public, that mean's he'll be out hiding."

"Damn," Sephiroth cursed, frowning deeply, "He's probably ran away again..."

"Well maybe we can try to find that Yuffie person!" Kosui pipped in, suggesting so.

"Well that sounds like a good idea!" Goofy agreed with the small girl, who was smiling softly.

"But then she'll be out at night." Aerith interrupted, "And how are we going to find her?"

"Trust me," Cloud suddenly got up, a smirk upon his face, "I can practically smell other types of vampires."

"Then it's settled!" Sora jumped up with a grin, hoping this would bring the whole group closer to true freedom of the Light that would destroy them, Sora then glanced at Riku who was staring with confusment.
/Right?/ Riku stared even more, before smirking right back,
//Right.//

So slowly the day passed, but it passed oddly as well. Donald started to try and train Sora into summoning the keyblade, the odd huge key, at will, and also at Sora's magic. Meanwhile Goofy would train Sora at his defenses, and Riku would watch this all, after Donald decide to give up from Sora's willfulness in trying to summon the keyblade and Goofy left, Riku took Sora in a hug. Sora blushed slightly, then smiled up at Riku,

"So was it any fun?" Sora playfully stuck his tongue out,

"I think it was very productive."

"More productive then this?" Riku gave Sora a kiss upon the lips, nibbling at Sora's lips softly. Sora shivered, purring as part of the Riku's canine's had sunk into his lips.

"Riku," Sora squirmed, looking up at Riku, "not now." Riku sighed, giving Sora a sarcastic pout,

"Oh, but why not?" Riku licked at his own lips for the remaining blood bits. Sora frowned slightly at Riku, who tilted his head closer to Sora's, purring. And Sora shuddered, Riku KNEW he couldn't stand that sound!

"Meany," Sora pouted pathetically and Riku laughed, still holding onto Sora with a small smile. Sora grinned back with his silly grin, kissing Riku on the lips and tangling his hand's in Riku's hair, moaning into the kiss he started. There was a sudden cough, but that didn't stop Riku from slowly leading Sora onto the ground. The cough became a little louder, but the hormone crazy boy's paid no attention. Finally the cough sighed,

"OH BOYS!" Riku annoyingly separated from Sora's kiss, slight saliva had managed to get away from his mouth, looking up at the figure with an angry look.

"Sorry boys, but it is getting dark soon, you should probably go help out," Aerith said, looking down at the two and their position, suddenly blushing as she thought of Cloud. Cupping her face because of the sudden deep blush, and moving out from the room.

"You know, she's right," Sora said, his arms now on Riku's chest to prevent Riku from falling on him, Riku huffed, looking down at Sora.

"Oh must we?"

"Oh yes we must," Sora replied, before grinning softly at Riku, "I promise you can have more fun later, okay?" Riku grinned, getting off from Sora, and continued to grin, Sora smiled nervously back slightly.

"I don't mean anything big, of course."

"Of course," Riku replied. Sora sighed, seeing that Riku wasn't taking him seriously, especially since the fact that Riku had skipped out of the room. Sora then blinked, looking out to the window, seeing that it was a half moon, could have so many days' have already escaped the group? Sora frowned, then hesitantly looked over where Aerith was sitting on the couch, sighing with a big blush; will she die because Cloud didn't want anyone near him as a lover?

"Aerith?" Sora questioned, she looked up, surprised to still see Sora there, after all Riku was probably impatiently waiting outside.

"Yes?"

"Are you really going to die if you don't find someone as your mate?" Aerith looked down,

"Yes."

"But...what happens to an angel if they die?"

"They never get a chance to come back to Earth...or even try to be guardian angels or perform miracles..." Aerith frowned, wiping a sudden tear that had came, "But that's not important, you go help look for Yuffie."

"...Aerith..."

"GO!" Aerith said playfully, laughing slightly as Sora moved, taking one glance at the brunette. Sora was then ambushed with a hug from Riku; a surprised face soon turned into a sympathetic look.

"You worried?"

"Well of course I am! She's one of our friends Riku..." Riku kissed Sora on the cheek, before resting his chin on Sora's shoulder,

"Don't worry, I suppose we can find a way to help her live."

"But could we do it against Cloud's will?"

"Of course we could!" Riku wrapped Sora around a bit tighter, "Because if Aerith dies, Cloud will realize what a fool he's been...and we don't want our friends hurt, do we?"

"No..."

"Good, now, shall we go find Yuffie?"

"Yeah!" Sora turned around from Riku's grip, grinning again, before receiving a light kiss as the two went to walk and find the khaki dressed brunette they met not to long ago.

"Ms. Yuffie?" The call started, Kosui was on top of Ansem's shoulders, calling out for the brunette as they jumped from roof to roof, which was amazing if you thought about it. Ansem wasn't really that athletic in the first place. "...Uncle Ansem?"

"Yes my heartless?"

"How are we going to ask for Ms. Yuffie?" Ansem paused on one rooftop, staring as much as he could to Kosui,

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, how are we going to ask her about the slayers? Also how do we know if she's still even here?"

"That's a good question...but we have no choice but to keep looking...and we'll work out the bugs when we come to it." Kosui nodded at her 'uncles' decision. Ansem paused darkly, looking down to the darkness of the street to hear the sounds of bushes rustling; someone was running, and very fast. "GET READY KOSUI!" Ansem yelled, jumping down from the building, Kosui glomped upon Ansem's neck while he spread out his cloak and humored the figure now below him, "I AM THE AMERICAN SUPERHERO BATMAN!"

"AH!" Sephiroth dodged from his younger brother's antics, who hit a wall, groaning from the pain, "IDIOT! We're on a mission out here! Not to play your little games!" Ansem sighed, rubbing at his forehead, looking seriously at his brother,

"I thought you were ahead of me."

"I probably was, I just happened to look back just in case." Ansem paused in his glare,

"...That's a good idea! Why didn't I think of that?"

"Because you were too busy shouting about being Batman, what next, going to save the world with super gadgets?"

"That actually sounds like fun..." Sephiroth moaned, hitting his forehead in frustration,

"Ansem?"

"Yes Sephiroth?"

"Just...go...try and find Yuffie..."

"OKAY!" Ansem cheerfully answered to his brother, moving out with a confused Kosui on his shoulder. Sephiroth couldn't help but smile after his brother left, he knew Ansem could get serious...but Ansem preferred masking any kind of pain with humor, and it worked, very well. Sephiroth sighed, before moving to try and find Yuffie once again.

"Riku..."

"Hm?"

"Stop groping at my butt." Sora complained slightly as Riku tried to whistle innocently, still Sora hadn't developed his vampireic powers, so they were casually walking around. Sora sighed from the seemingly innocence, before blinking, "..."

"Something wrong?"

"...Not really, I just thought I sensed something."

"What did you sense?" Sora and Riku jumped back to see that the vampire they met earlier was there, hanging upside down in the air with little bat wings from her back, "Hello!" She said cheerfully.

"Yuffie?"

"YUP!" Yuffie jumped down, and her wings disappeared with a short blinding flash, "What's up?"

"We've been looking for you!" Sora cried out excitingly, grinning at the woman, who blinked,

"For me?"

"Yes..." Riku scuffed in front of Sora, "We have questions to ask of you."

"Questions, from me? Of what?"

"Your...husband?" Sora said, before clasping a gloved hand over his mouth, staring as though he made a mistake. Yuffie stared, before blinking,

"Hahaha, husband, me? I'm just a simple vampire!"

"Who's married to an immortal," Riku replied coldly, and Yuffie froze.

"W...What are you talking about?" Yuffie's face didn't falter, nor did her grin, just the tone of her voice.

"Squall..." Riku said, continuing to glare at the woman vampire, who moved around nervously from his stare.

"Who's Squall?"

"Yuffie..." Sora said, moving from his boyfriend's grasp, and over to the other brunette, "We really need to find out some thinks then your husband, like the Slayers convention they're opening very openingly" Yuffie stared at Sora, before smiling again,

"Okay, if that's all..."

"It will be, we promise." Sora replied, Riku huffed silently, staring at Sora who gave a pleading look back at him,

"Fine, let's just get back and tell everyone we've found her." Yuffie frowned at Riku, who had walked off.

"Why is he so mean?"

"That's because he takes this Slayers thing seriously...and he's probably curious about...you know who, but if it goes against your will, you don't have to tell us anything about that."

"Thank you Sora," Yuffie smiled again as Sora nodded, making a walking path to follow after Riku. Yuffie followed, though looked confused, "Why aren't you two flying there?"

"Well...we're not exactly the same kind of vampire as you are...that and I haven't developed any of my vampire powers, so Riku's taking it easy on me."

"Wow, that's nice of him!"

"Riku's always nice!" Sora exclaimed back at Yuffie, who frowned and looked at Sora oddly,

"What planet are you from? Didn't you just see how mean he was too me?"

"Oh...I guess I should rephrase that, he's always nice to me."

"Why's that?" Yuffie asked, before grinning somewhat shyly, "Does he like you?" She drew out the world, grinning with a pervert look; Sora blushed at the correct statement,

"Is there something wrong with that?"

"Of course not!" Yuffie said, staring at Sora with unnaturally sparkly eyes, which made Sora twitch. "I just love seeing other young lovers!"

"Other?" Yuffie paused, looking down from her own sentence, sighing heavily,

"I might tell you later." Sora looked at the brunette with curiosity, but said nothing as they had finally reached 'home'.

"Oh! Hey Sora!" Aerith had came out, smiling at her new comers, it seemed Riku had already warned her of Yuffie, "Welcome Mrs. Yuffie, I'm glad to see you and welcome you, we'll have to wait for everyone else..." Aerith said gently, showing the door for the brunette's. Yuffie grinned at the welcoming, and happily walked in, Sora watched the older woman jump into the house and looked at Aerith,

"Aerith?"

"Maybe later Sora," she replied simply, walking into the house. Sora stood out there, staring at the door with an awkward silence before being tackled by Ansem.

"HEY! I heard you guy's found Yuffie!"

"Ansem!? OFF!" Ansem chuckled shamelessly, as he continued to glomp upon Sora, only to be taken away from Sephiroth who had an annoyed look upon his face,

"Why are you glomping on Riku's boyfriend?"

"Because me and Kosui found something verrry interesting!" Ansem spoke, getting out of Sephiroth's grip, holding at his chin with a sparkly grin. Sora and Sephiroth stared with a very confused look, but soon then walked off, not listening to Ansem's rambling,

"Ansem gets more insane every day doesn't he?"

"We've been arguing about that at night when you're asleep." And so they entered the house to see Yuffie and Aerith having a 'polite' match. Aerith was offering tea while Yuffie was refusing because it wouldn't be okay to take the tea for free. Sora looked to the side to see a very blithered Riku, staring at the duo as though they were insane. Riku then looked up, spotting Sora, smiling over nervously,

"What are they doing?"

"...A woman thing?" Sora replied, laughing slightly, staring back to the women who were in their tea battle.

"I'm back!" A soft smile came to Aerith's lips as she stopped the offering of tea and Yuffie took it,

"Hello Cloud!" Yuffie spat out her tea when she was drinking it, making Aerith frown as the flicks of tea that scattered across her dress,

"CLOUD!? The prince of hell!? THAT Cloud!?" Yuffie asked, staring quickly over to the oncoming figure. A look of terror had spread across the brunette's face, before Cloud smiled,

"Yup, I suppose you can call me that, but I'd prefer not to have my title..."

"OH!" Yuffie said, covering her mouth, and with a muffled voice, "Sorry..." Cloud slightly laughed,

"It's fine."

"So...you want me to answer a few questions?" Yuffie said nervously, especially from the smiling demon of hell.

"Well we want to know if you know anything about the Slayers..."

"Oh heavens yes, I know about them. But if you're asking about their stupid convention...well, it's a trap for a certain pair of vampires, I'm sure," Yuffie answered rather quickly, probably hoping it'd be the last question.

"Do you know which vampires?" Cloud asked softly.

"Not really, I just been hearing that they'll have to capture an important one first..."

"Any names mentioned?"

"Nope."

"How do you know this?"

"I was a ninja back in one of the eras here in Japan."

"Ah..."

"Is that it?"

"Well I wanted to ask how Squall has been, but I do remember seeing him not to long ago..." Yuffie stared at Cloud, twitching slightly,

"...You have? Where is he?"

"I have no clue about right now...last time I saw him though, he was trying to kill me." Yuffie stared, before turning her face,

"But...that's impossible! Squall was on friendly terms with everyone before..."

"Before you two stopped seeing each other?" Aerith interrupted, staring at the pale faced woman. A pained look came upon Yuffie's face, she turned to look down at the ground,

"...Ms. Yuffie?" A soft voice asked and Yuffie looked up, with tears too, to see Kosui still upon Ansem's shoulder, staring, "I...umm..." Kosui then blushed, dodging down to her uncles hair,

"She just want's to know more about Squall and you, that's all..." Ansem said the rest for the shy blonde.

"...Squall..." Yuffie mouthed, before hesitantly standing up,

"I answered all I can that doesn't have anything to do with my past, now if you will excuse me..."

"Wait!" Sora said, walking to the brunette who stared at Sora, "We just want to know what's wrong..." Yuffie stared, but for some odd reason she felt a bit happier because of the teenagers concern,

"...Thank you Sora," Yuffie wiped back one of her tears, staring at Sora, who grinned foolishly back.

"So what's been wrong with you and Squall? I mean I don't even know that much!"

"You know...I'm not sure."

"WHAT!?"

"Riku calm down." Riku frowned, only to see an annoyed Sora, and calmed down immediately. Yuffie stared at Riku somewhat nervously,

"What happened?" Goofy asked, curious of the past,

"He just...disappeared one day, he left everything behind except his weapons, and he left a note...not to follow him, I don't know what happened, I really wish I knew..." Yuffie frowned, sighing and looking down at the ground.

"...Yuffie," Yuffie looked up to see a serious Cloud, "Did Squall have any bad terms with anybody?"

"Not that I knew of..."

"Were you two really happy?"

"ANSEM!" Sephiroth screamed at his sibling, who flinched slightly. A sigh came from Yuffie, though it wasn't a sad one, more of a dreamfilled one,

"Yes...I remember we were happy..." Yuffie leaned against the couch, looking up to the ceiling, "I remember how we met...and even our marriage, and Squall just seemed so happy...I don't know why he could have left like that..."

"Yuffie..."

"But...that's that, and I'm still looking for him..." Yuffie then got up, grinning foolishly at the group, "And since you've seen him, I suppose it can't hurt to be here for a little longer! You," she pointed at the group, "get to help me find my hubby!"

"Now wait a minute..." Riku started, but Yuffie had escaped to one of the rooms.

"Looks like we have a bit more to do now..." Aerith said, and two growls, a happy hyuck, a confused gesture, a phooey, and three smiles was her reply.


A: ...
D and Riku: Idjit
Sora: *giggles*
Me: -_- Very sorry for the long wait everyone...here is the pathetic chapter...