...And now, for the mid-to-moderate lime. It would be a full-fledged lemon if it weren't for Riku's perspective :P But, either way, it's citrus. (Gotta love the word "citrus"!)

In fact, I'm wondering if this Part merits an "M" rating or not... I think, probably not, I've seen worse "T"-rated fics.

The Crazies and the Loonies and the... Other Crazies

Part XIII - Disgusting!

After a few minutes, Riku followed Cloud, hoping to calm Leon's nerves and figure out a way to confirm or unconfirm his suspicions. But they were nowhere to be found in the living room, nor in the hallway... there was only one place left for them to go, and Riku was sure of exactly how Cloud was comforting Leon.

As if to validate their location, a long moan emanated from Leon's bedroom: "Leooooooooooooooooooooon..."

Riku shook his head disapprovingly and stood across from their bedroom door, hoping to catch their attention once they were finished. But about fifteen, perhaps twenty minutes later, the door swung open, probably from a combination of the facts that Leon and Cloud had forgotten to jamb the door shut, that the closing mechanism in the door was very weak, and that a particularly potent gust of wind had just blown through the open window across the hall from the door.

Even though he only saw them for a split-second (he quickly placed his hand in front of his eyes), Riku was, to say the least, disgusted by the sight. A split-second later, Leon moaned into the small of Cloud's back.

"Are you done?" Riku asked, slightly opening his fingers enough to see their faces, to see if they had even heard him. But instead, he caught a glimpse of where they were... er... connected, and he saw the strangest sight: a dark shadow flitted out from that spot and crept along the floor, running toward the door. "Ugh," Riku retched. "Well, now I know why I thought I was seeing those shadows. They really exist." He turned to Leon and Cloud, with his hand still over his eyes. "Get dressed, you two. We've got a mystery to solve."

"So... the shadows come into existence when you two..." Riku trailed off meaningfully. He, Leon, and Cloud were sitting in the kitchen trying to work out the mystery. "Exactly how often have you..."

"It's been about... I dunno, eight, nine weeks?" Cloud asked. "Then... that's around 60 days... so probably around 65, maybe even seventy or ei-"

"A lot," Leon cut off Cloud before he could reveal the exact amount. "So we're looking at dozens of these shadow things!"

"Probably," replied Riku gravely. "And we don't know where they are, if they're intelligent, whether they're good or evil... anything about them."

"I need some fresh air," Cloud said, standing up and walking to the door. "This is confusing me."

"It's confusing us, too," Leon replied, following him.

Cloud and Leon both stopped after opening the door, their mouths open in shock. Riku, curious, followed them (remembering to close the door) and his mouth fell open as well.

The dark shadows resulting from Leon and Cloud's lovemaking had grown into one huge shadow that was now growing at an alarming rate. Tentacles of darkness slithered out of it and grabbed citizens, squeezing them in a dark embrace. After a few seconds, the tentacle would retreat back into the shadow, unfortunate man, woman or child still in its grasp, letting the shadow slowly sap the life out of the person.

"That thing's... eating up everyone!" Cloud exclaimed in a panic.

The gigantic shadow seemed to hear Cloud's cry, and turned toward him, Leon, and Riku. Himhimhimhimhimhimhimhimhim, Riku could hear the shadow say, though through his mind rather than his ears. Cloud ran toward the monster, pulling out his gigantic sword. (1) The dark shadow, however, merely extended a tentacle and grabbed Cloud. And with that, it flew off the ground ("What the f---... it's f---in' flyin'!" Cid could be heard shouting) and retreated into the afternoon sky.

"Gummi ship... we need to get to the gummi ship," Riku panted, running towards Cid's shop, quickly followed by Leon. "We need to follow it and destroy it..."

"And rescue Cloud," Leon added angrily.

(1) No, no, not that sword:P It's that sword that he has in KH, with the bandages or gauze or whatever-its-called around it :)

Well, now it's officially official... there is ONE CHAPTER LEFT (two, if I decide that it needs an Epilogue). Fear not, since I have a plot in the back of my mind for (:coughandhavealreadystartedwriting:) a fic that centers around Leon and Cloud... not a sequel to this, but a fluffy-ish one with LeonxCloud as the main pairing.

Included in the final Part will be, probably in order:

-An introduction
-The actual final Part
-Some projects I will be working on after completing "Crazies"
-Some other fics I recommend, including filter settings to find them quickly
-Et cetera :P

This was actually another of the shorter-yet-important Parts. But I promise that the final Part will be quite long. Perhaps even more than the length of Part II (the longest part to date), although I can't guarantee. And (gasp!) in it I will solve many mysteries which most of you don't think qualify as mysteries, such as "What happened to (enter character here)?" or "Will the author ever confess his authorness?", etc etc. :P

And now, since the fic is (I still have a hard time saying this) almost done (cry), I won't be able to hit my goal of 50 reviews, 750 hits, etc etc. But oh well, I'll just try and get a lot of reviews, hits, etc on one of my other stories! (Yes, I'm an optimist :P)

And... and... I'M HAVING TROUBLE FINISHING THIS PART BECAUSE I CAN'T LET GO::cry: