Chapter 3: Waiting.
Carbuncle was in the only place he thought to go, it was the just about the only place he could go or even remembered how to get to. 4 years of unmoving nearly complete isolation wasn't good for the sense of direction. He could have went in to the training center, but he didn't feel like fighting right now. He could have gone in to the Library, but didn't feel like being alone. The cafeteria…he wasn't hungry. Carbuncle was always welcome in cockpit, but Nida wasn't up there and just as before he didn't feel like being alone.
So after a short walk, he went to the only other place he really felt like going.
"Carbuncle?" Cho opened the door for the small GF, sure to close it behind him. "What are you doing here?" Cho asked, sitting down on a chair in the small living room area of his room, he was proud of that face.
Cho had to be...no Cho was the only junior classmen to have his own room. After much begging and numbers break ins of his office to avoid the scheduling process, he eventually got to Cid, who also denied him. And when he asked what he would have to do to get one, Cid told him that he would have to become a SeeD.
And of course, Chocoboy said "Let me take the test!" over and over on numerous days despite Nida's discouragement and chastising of it until Cid was forced to give in so the boy would leave him alone. So he set a date, mainly just to humor him, and Cho took it seriously, and of course asked Nida to help him study for it. Nida didn't exactly take him serous about it either, but if he wanted to learn more why stop him?
So under Nida's coaching, he learned everything he needed to know about the test in a week. He didn't sleep once during the 7 day period, but he did study hard and was diligent in review. Nida of course disapproved of the no sleeping and eventually forced him, physically, to go to bed.
After a full day of rest, Cho asked Carbuncle to train him physically. The GF obviously didn't want to at first, but eventually he agreed to do so, unable to resist the cute and innocent face he was so good at faking. Until he found out that the test was in a week from then and told Chin he couldn't do anything in that short period of time. And there was no way he was going to let him junction.
So the test came, and Cho took the written part of the test……and passed much to the surprise of everyone, especially the upper classmen. He was the first person at Cid's door the next morning, more accurately on his desk because he'd broken in again, and by then he had forgotten why he was doing all of this work in the first place.
He had a new goal by then, he was trying to prove to everyone that if he'd come this far that he could do it, he was a fast learner and easily finished the first part of the test. Cid figured that if he had gotten this far, why not let him finish, though he doubted that Chocoboy could get a low level GF. So instead he gave him a relatively simple surveillance mission.
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5 months earlier...
"Hey Nida, Guess what!" Cho ascended the lift from the third floor to the cock pit with so much excitement that he could barely stand still, the moment the lift docked with the next level he ran forward and hugged Nida from behind. Almost with enough force to not him over.
"Whoa!" Nida glanced over his shoulder questioningly, managing not to run the garden into something from being thrown off balance so suddenly. "Hmm, What?" Nida looked over the boy with a once over look before returning his gaze outward past the windshield. As of now he was docking the garden in a cleared area near the ruins of Triberia Garden, a place surrounded by mountains and forest, hard to maneuver around for anyone else not as skilled as Nida was.
"I passed! I passed the written part of the test!" He shouted excitedly.
He wasn't surprised, not after he watched Cho work so hard trying. "Good Job." He reached back and ruffled the boy's head lightly with a proud smile appearing across his face "I knew you could do it." Nida said congratulating, finally setting the garden down in a reasonable spot.
"Now I have to get a lower level GF, Cid's finding one for me right now." Cho said, Nida could hear the undertone in his voice, he knew that under tone...
"Ok." Nida sighed. "What are you planning?" Nida let go of the throttle and turned around, resting his hands on his hips.
"Nothing….--" Cho said innocently, looking up at Nida with an accenting voice.
Nida looked down at him expectantly, the Chocoboy may have been able to fool someone else but not him, he knew him to well. He just stared silently.
Cho dropped his head, he couldn't get anything past Nida. "Nothing big, I serous this time. All I'm going to do is get a GF myself." Cho said with a sigh.
"Huh? You know where one is?"
Cho nodded.
"Do you know how dangerous this is?"
"It's not really, the GF is a Chocobo."
"Huh? You have to be kidding me." Nida shook his head, leaving the throttle with his job done for the moment and heading down the lift with Cho.
"Yeah and…. Can you come with me. I need somebody to over see the test." Cho pleaded.
Nida really didn't have a choice, he couldn't let Cho go by himself, it may have been dangerous. Nida nodded a silent agreement.
From there it was fairly simple, he knew the Chocobo, and being the expert he easily got it to junction. That wasn't all, the Chocobo had friends, a Mog and a Moomba though none of them were really actually GFs. But what Nida and Cid didn't know wouldn't hurt them, he just had to make it look like he was junctioning. And to Cid's amazement Cho had come so far, he had to let him go on the next field exam.
But the fact remained that he wasn't old enough to go on something this dangerous, there was no way in good conscience that Cid could. So after a few days of thinking and maneuvering schedules he assigned him to a group with Nida of course as a squad leader, he wouldn't have usually let someone already a SeeD go with the cadets directly. But this was an unusual situation.
The mission was to go to Deling and report on the status of the Galbadian army post sorceress control. Of course there was high hostility of Balamb Garden and there would be opposition, it was extremely dangerous going in to center of the Galbadian regime. And there would be a high numbers of guards and solders, more so then ever before since Galbadian seemed to be hiding something.
Luckily it wasn't their job to go into to much detail about Galbadian affairs, that would be the job of candidates older and preferably stronger.
Nida, by himself with only Cho to look after per instructions, were to be simple scouts, scout out an area before a team moved and gather information. Simple, and at times not remotely safe.
"We don't have a hard task, sneak in, look around, get out. We shouldn't have to fight much either." Nida explained, looking around the bright lights of the city. It was dark, or it would have been in any other city, but the constant lights made it bright enough to see clearly.
"Alright! You lead the way." Cho nodded excitedly, he was anxious and ready and willing to do anything Nida said. Which made him block out a few thoughts. 'Come on! Focus Damnit, you can think about that later. YESSSS! I'm gonna be a SeeD!' Chocoboy thought to himself, jumping excitedly. He'd heard from Nida that the key to this test was to follow orders, follow orders until there was no way possible to do so.
"The first place we scout is the Presidential Palace." Nida said." "The plan is simple, we go around the side gate and climb up from there. Then we survey the front yard and the first floor and report back to Team B. Got it?"
"Yes!"
After that Nida led Cho the side of the gate where the security would be strategically the weakest.
Nida, being just tall enough, jumped up and grabbed on to the top of the brick wall, pulling his body up to about shoulder length just enough so that he could see over the barrier to the other side. "Hmm..." His eyes rolled over the area inquiringly, he didn't see any guards in the vicinity, nor anything else potentially treating. Nida glanced back at the boy "It's all clear."
Nida let go of the wall and jumped down, somehow managing to be eerier quite during the whole process. "Ready?"
"Yeah." Cho waited for Nida to knelt down, then with a clumsily skilled agility he climbed on to Nida's shoulders, then dived over the concrete barrier, landing stealthily on the other side. "Nida?"
"I'm right behind you." A few seconds later, Nida came down on Cho's side, taking another quick survey around the area before proceeding. "Alright Cho, just follow me so we can get this over with and move on to the next area."
Even with the most careful proceedings around the east of the Presidential Palace they could only make it half way across the court yard before a fiend attacked them. Which made Nida mentally kick himself. That's why there were no solders around out here, monsters were guarding the place. Not a bad choice of fiends either, this one was a Wendigo which could be hell for beginners, like Cho and himself.
"Uh…" Cho rubbed his head and took a smile back nervously. "What do we do?"
Nida may have been able to fight one, not easily but he could, but Cho couldn't. Even worse yet looked as if this whole place was filled with monsters just as strong or worse. The Galbadian army couldn't handle some of these.
"We retreat for now, there's no way we can handle these things. Besides, we've gotten enough details on this place." Nida finally told him.
So they retreated, reporting back to Team B as they were supposed and relaying that there what types of monsters guarding the front gate and first floor. After that the next assignment was to scout the sewers for a possible underground entrances into rumored Galbadian hidden bases, the had to enter from the from the Clock tower.
"All we have to do is go look around." Nida held on to the sides of the railings and slid down the ladder and into the tunnels of the sewers bellow the city. His voice immediately began to echo off the walls, mixing with the distortion of running water flowing through a channel of trenches laying in the center of the tunneled structure. "That's all, don't mess with the monsters, that might alert any body that may be down there. Got it?" Nida asked, Getting an obedient nod from Cho.
They had come down right next to a wall, leaving only one way for them to go. The first thing they saw was a water mill being turned by the current of the water in the trench, a wooden bridge spanning the channel leading from one side of the tunnel to the other.
They avoided a few Creeps coming at them from the shadows along the dimly lit walls, as well as a few Flan in their path. Cho moved as silently as possible but quick enough to keep up with Nida's pace as they searched, as nervous as Cho was not having any weapons to fight with he still managed follow with out complaints. It wasn't like this was the first time he was up against the dangers of monsters with out being able to protect himself, in fact it had been constant.
He really shouldn't have been nervous about it at all...when he thought about it he wasn't nervous about the monsters. He was nervous about passing this test. This mission was about recon skills, and he wasn't a reconnaissance type of person. 'I hope I'm not missing something.'
After searching a few blocks heavily, Nida suggested that they head back, there was nothing down here. At lest in this vicinity.
They reported to Team D per instructions, they had nearly a whole city left to survey.
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It was simple enough after that, just to scout the city for any thing and risk assessment. They followed orders completely, if they encountered a risk during recon they of course had to escape and make sure not to leave a trail back to the team they had to report to, which would be especially hard under the time limit they had to maintain for each report. And above all don't start or engage in any fights with the enemy, which made the escape portion when they encountered opposition really important.
As hard as it was for him to restrain himself, Cho following orders completely. And he passed with flying colors, entering the SeeD elite as the youngest member ever and gaining himself a LV 14 ranking.
When he was told he would be getting a separate room he thoroughly proud of himself . Even though he never slept there, and practically lived in Nida's, which is where Carbuncle stood before him at the moment. "I don't know, I just needed to take a walk." Carbuncle said.
Cho gave a small laugh at the prospect, a walk? He couldn't be serious. "Heh Heh, You been in that room for 4 years, I guess you do."
Carbuncle didn't say anything, just shying his head to the side with his eyes narrowed at the wall. Before he left for time compression he'd been at the bounds of restraint and sanity, that was an expectable off for Carbuncle, Cho figured it had to happen some time. But now...he just seemed...even worse now that he was back, something was different about him.
Cho folded his arms and looked down at the GF with a more solemn expression, why was Carbuncle so...depressed? "What's wrong with you? You got Zell back, why aren't you with him?"
"He needed to be alone." Carbuncle said, climbing on to the couch and laying down in front of Cho, his ears twitching lightly.
Cho nearly hit him, glaring down at the Carbuncle angrily. "Are you kidding! You waited all that time for him to come back and you just left! Come On! I mean that was really stupid!" Chocoboy shouted at him.
"No, you don't understand, it was best if I did leave him alone." Carbuncle titled his head emphasizing, how could Cho not know what he meant? Anyway, that wasn't what was making him anyway. He was so happy that Zell and Bahamut were alright, there was no way that was it...so what was it?
Cho sat down next to him, laying his hand gently on his head and scratching lightly behind his ears. If it was one thing he knew about Carbuncle was that his ears always twitched when something was wrong. "Well then why are you so sad?"
"I don't know...this whole thing is just driving me crazy." Carbuncle left out a few details, a few things he didn't really have any reason to tell the boy.
But Cho picked it up anyway, he could always read easily Carbuncle. "You like him huh?" Cho said with a small grin.
Carbuncle lifted his head and stared at him inquiringly for a few seconds, but then just nodded lightly and leaned into the hand currently caressing a sensitive spot.
"Hn." Cho looked away with clear understanding, he had went through a similar thing with Nida, only he took a more head on approach then Carbuncle had.
Carbuncle couldn't do the same, Zell was with Bahamut... to love someone and never able to be with them, the thought made the GF cringed internally. Carbuncle never could have imagined this would happen when he first junctioned himself to Zell, it made him wonder... If he had the chance to go back... would he stop himself from doing it? It would have saved him a lot of pain.
That was if this was the nature of his current pain, he hadn't really had too much of a problem with his current situation with Zell until now... But this had to be why he was feeling this way, if this wasn't it...
"Yeah, there's nothing you can do about that I guess. Dose he know?" Cho asked, Carbuncle nodded again, Hmm... "Wow. Well…um…I guess you can't do anything but stay with him. Look at the bright side, most people in your situation don't get that kind of opportunity." Cho pushed himself off the couch with a light stretch and small yawn, then he lifting his shirt off of himself and neatly setting away that part of his school uniform.
He would be the youngest one at the inauguration ball this year, it was so close that he was starting to get anxious about it. Next week he'd officially be a SeeD, just like Nida.
"Yeah, your right, for once." Carbuncle smirked with a clear shot at the boy's intelligence and judgment.
"Hey!" Cho threw his shirt at him in relation, which Carbuncle avoided with a swift jumping off of the couch. Seeing that he had nothing else to throw, Cho just let it go. Noticing that Carbuncle seemed to have the answer to his previous question "Where are you going?" The boy asked.
"I'll be back in a few hours." Carbuncle's smirk grew into a sheepish smile. "I have a machine to wreck." Carbuncle had a look that Chocoboy immediately recognized as his own, meaning that this could only end in something being destroyed or someone getting hurt.
"Heh Heh." Chocoboy watched him leave, curious as to what would happen. As long as it made him feel better.
As soon as Carbuncle left Nida walked in to the room, looking in Carbuncle's direction with an almost surprised look. "Where is he going?" Nida asked, he was surprised that Carbuncle had actually been in his room.
"I don't know." Chocoboy shrugged with a light smile "He said something about wreaking a machine."
Nida closed the door behind himself, leaning against the wall with his arms folded and a deferential expression forming on his face while he watched as the boy taking off his pants and tossing them aside in favor of more comfortable clothing that he hadn't retrieved yet. "So, I heard you passed your field exam, congratulations." Nida rubbed Cho's head teasingly, a proud smile on his face.
"Yeah, I'm at LV. 14!" Cho smiled widely, he looked up at him with an admiring look he usually looked at the boy with. "What level are you?"
"Level 22." He said plainly.
Level 22? Nida had risen 5 rankings from level 17 so quickly, and he hadn't even been trying. it made him wonder what Nida could do if he really applied himself. Better yet, he wondered what Nida's paycheck looked like. "Whoa! You have to teach me more, I have to pass those test." Cho said decidedly, Nida had managed to get to such a high level from his first field test, he could only think that he hadn't tried hard enough.
And all this talk about the field exam made Cho remember thoughts he had before, to be exact…
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He was anxious and ready and willing to do anything Nida said. Which made him block out a few thoughts. 'Come on! Focus Damnit, you can think about that later.'
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Now was definitely later, before he realized it he found himself hugging Nida's waist tightly. "Hey Nida?"
"Huh?"
"You know, I haven't gotten any in a week. You know how hard it is to focus when you constantly have a boner?" Cho asked almost teasingly, definitely hinting.
Nida could feel the boy's erection pressing against his leg, which was involuntarily making him hard. The blood rushing away from his head wasn't good for focusing. "I do now." Nida sighed. When he was Cho's age he remembered having more self control, where did all that self control suddenly go? And why didn't Cho have any?
"Really? Then what are you waiting for?" Cho asked, undeniably teasingly this time when he began rubbing Nida's erection through his pants.
Nida flinched, reflectively biting down on his lower lip to hold back a moan from the sudden jolt of sensation. Cho couldn't help but smile even wider at the reaction, unzipped Nida's pants and releasing the still hardening cock from the restricting fabric. No, Cho had no self control or patience for that matter, "Your gonna have to learn restraint." Nida told him.
Nida allowed Cho to push him back on softly on to the chair, an impish smile on his face as he leaned over Nida's leg, pressing his against the other boy's. "Maybe later." with both hands resting on Nida's legs he dropped to his knees before the cock.
The boy grinned sheepishly before giving the long cock a soft lick, running his tongue over the head, paying special attention to the slit where he knew Nida was the most sensitive before taking it in his mouth. Nida freely moaned, his hands inanely drifting to the boy's head, his fingers digging in to the boy's tan hair.
Cho ran his hands over Nida's thigh, slipping them in to his pants and around his waist pushing two fingers in to Nida's entrance. Nida's breath became shallow as he laid his head back and clinched the arm rest, he never understood how he was so sensitive when Cho was doing this to him.
Cho grinned to himself, growing harder just watching what Nida let alone knowing he was causing it. "Ah…Maru…" Nida moaned softly, followed by a restrained groan, where the hell did his self-control go?
Cho nearly flinched when the older boy thrust in to his mouth, forcing him to take the cock in deeper. Then he pushed himself back on Cho's fingers, drawing another heavy breath from his half parted lips while thrust hungrily into the boy's mouth "Uhaa..." It felt amazing, the slick warmth encompassing his member was only intensified by the tongue accenting his every thrust with long licks and increasingly intensified sucks. He couldn't help but intensify his grip on Cho's head and pull him forward in time with his thrusts.
And Cho was loving every second of it, every twinge of Nida's face, ever light uprising of his leg that he had to push down and hold in place... he wanted more of it...
With an inward smirk he stopped thrusting with his fingers, knowing Nida was too far gone to for him to cease abruptly like that.
Nida groaned, opening half lidded eyes hastily, unable to stop a weakened whimper from forcing it's way out of his mouth from. 'Damnit, he's enjoying this.' Nida's hand free hand dug harder into the boy's hair in a grip just short of painful and pushed himself back on the fingers pressing against his entrance. A swift rhythm came about, driving himself back on to Cho's fingers moving messagingly against his inner walls and thrusting his erection into Cho's half parted lips.
Nida abruptly pulled Cho's head forward "Cho...!" The older boy gripped the seat harder, his eyes clinching tightly enough to draw out the beginnings of tears and his body constricting around the boy's finger. He let out a loud moan and spurting cum in to the boy's awaiting mouth.
Cho reluctantly pulled back, wiping away a the small bit of Nida's cum on the side of his mouth with that same smirk on his face that Nida found impossibly cute. He couldn't help but smile when he saw that expression.
Staring back at Nida Cho narrowed his eyes devilishly, his hands sliding up Nida's legs to the loosened unbuttoned waist band of his black pants. Staring at in to the blue orbs as he pulled them down, making him slide down in the chair slightly. Then he pulled Nida's boxers down to his knees, making him slip down even farther until he was half slumping and in to the perfect position.
Nida gave him a half smirk "Your enjoying this aren't you?"
Cho leaned forward, pressing his lips to Nida's in a small kiss and immediately after that same smile returned "Yeah." he whispered, watched Nida for a second, his chest slowly rising and falling from the deep breaths. The one half lidded eyes looking back at him wantonly, and his softening cock still dripping with a small amount of cum.
He was only 14, but even he could appreciate how good Nida looked at that moment, he always appreciated how Nida looked during sex. Just seeing the usual, cool, collectively calm boy shifted to this flustered and overwhelmed one, he loved it. The look Nida had no idea we was portraying at times, like that sleepy expression he had in the morning when he woke up in nothing but a T-shirt and a pair of boxers, or how his hair hung down over his face when he got wet. It was enough at times to make him so horny that it hurt, like now.
Cho ran his fingers over the head of Nida's cock, scooping the last bit of remaining cum giving his own painfully hard erection a few quick strokes. Nida lifted one leg on to Cho's shoulder to allow the boy a better angle, laying in a rarely submissive pose that he knew the boy intended to take full advantage of.
Cho thrust his finger roughly in to older boy's entrance twitching in anticipation, drawing it back and driving it in even harder. Each second he stared at Nida, studying each movement of the body in front of him no mater how slight. He wondered if Nida knew how he looked at the moment, probably not, he never new...Cho paused to force a second finger into the taunt entrances, and pushing the pair making sure to brush against the inner muscles with each stroke. Nida's expression cringed again, his cheeks flushing with a bright red "Cho..." he cried out softly as the roughly delicate work of Cho's fingers drew another spurt of cum from his softening member.
When Cho saw that he couldn't resist any longer.
Cho lifted Nida's other leg on his shoulder, swiftly pressing his hard cock against the still twitching ring muscles awaiting entry. The pushed in to the older boy's ass swiftly, gaining a sharp pant from Nida from the forceful entry, there wasn't much pain though since Cho wasn't as big as he was.
Cho was enjoying every second of it, Nida rarely let him be on top, and he was ready to take advantage of it. Cho never really was a person to like being on bottom, but he loved it with Nida, for once he liked giving in to someone, letting them use him.
"Uuhh-- Harder." Nida grunted, Cho happily did so, pulling himself closer to Nida and pushing in faster, nearly frantic with anxious. Cho held on to Nida's waist, feeling his newly regrown erection pressing against his chest as he leaned forward pushing his young cock in as far as he could.
"Maru--" Nida moaned, reaching up and wrapping his arms around Cho's neck. Another spurt of the creamy white seed spurted from his semi-hard cock on to Cho's chest. Where was his self control again? Cho was the only person who could do this to him...
The feeling of it all, hear Nida moan in pleasure because of him, and the look on his face right now, especially the position he had the older boy in right now, he didn't know how he was able to hold out long. His long since overwhelmed senses were enough to make Cho follow after. "Nida!" Cho moaned in to a near scream, sending his cum streaming in to Nida's body in volumes previously on matched.
He slump, nearly falling as he released Nida's legs from his shoulders and left panting on the older boy's chest with his arms wrapped around his torso tightly.
Cho looked up at him with a devilish grin, catching his breath. He looked down at himself, "Shower?"
Nida rolled his eyes at the implication, reluctant at first, couldn't help but nod in agreement. "No self control."
"Your one to talk."
"Me? This whole thing is your fault."
Cho laughed, hugging Nida righter "Your really cute when you look like that."
Nida let a small grin pass over his lips, rubbing Cho's head lightly.