A/N:
XCX:HA! Guess what people! I now have Word back up and running! Thank you so much relatives with an extra disc! I now can make sure that everything is already spelled correctly and I no longer have to worry about proof-reading it 20 different times!
Thank you so much for your kind words of encouragement everyone! They really helped me get back on my feet and start writing again. :Squeals: they're so supportive. You guys sooooooo rock! I'm very happy that you guys like Jin! He can be kind of… difficult at times, but I love him:huggles Jin:
Jin: Can't breath…
XCX: He's my second OC. My first was a girl named Yuki in my Inuyasha fic last year (taken down). I made her too cocky and she was too high and mighty for her own good. You know when the author pampers the character and he/she knows everything.
I'd say I've made my writing skills move in leaps and bounds, but I still need a lot of work. Also some of you guys wanted Sora and Jin to get together? Make Riku jealous?
Riku: How can you think like that?
Jin: You did abandon him…
Sora: And pushed me away…
XCX: And you're so damn sexy!
Sora and Jin-"
XCX: What?
Riku: Can't argue with the author. :strikes a dramatic pose:
Sora: Just get on with the story.
XCX: Party poopers… well… about the jealousy thing… it may happen… you'll have to read… Thank you everyone! Please enjoy!
Read on and live for the thrill of life. :3
Disclaimer: I don't own KH or FF. I wish I did, but I don't. So sad…
Chapter 5
Found and lost once more
"The second district?" Kairi said, looking at the sign on the door.
"Come on, we'll search this area." Riku grabbed her arm and they walked along the cobble stone paths, their shoes making a slight echo in the alleyways.
"Do you really think Sora's around here? It seems like no one's here." Kairi said, holding onto Riku's arm a little tighter in slight fear.
When the large building across from them chimed, and Kairi nearly jumped out of her skin from the echoing ring that chimed throughout the town.
"I'm gonna die of a heart attack..." Kairi moaned and followed the unaffected Riku.
"Quiet!" Riku ordered and slapped a hand over Kairi's mouth.
Riku pulled her into a nearby alleyway and pressed both their bodies against the wall, try to hide in some manner.
"Riku what are you?" Kairi pulled Riku's hand away from her mouth and began to object to the sudden 'attack' when a lady ran by, oblivious to their presence.
The woman's features were etched with fear as she ran, long dirty-blonde hair in her scared face. She held her long green dress up with one hand and the other waving back and forth like she was trying desperately to move her body faster. She kept glancing over her shoulder, her brown eyes darting around for the nearest danger.
She was almost to the doors that lead to the first district when a Heartless appeared from thin air and ran her through.
"We've gotta help her!" Kairi said, struggling against Riku's grip to try and help the injured woman.
"Too late." Riku whispered; his green eyes still locked with the scene before them.
It was too late. As the next moment the woman fell to her knees, a gaping hole in her chest. Her eyes were wide with frozen fear and her mouth opened and closed like a fish out of water.
The Heartless' jerky movements slowed and it looked at a crystal heart shining in its clawed hands.
The next minute it disappeared, the heart still in its claws, in a small vortex of shadows.
The woman's unmoving body faded to be replaced with another Heartless, in small clanking armor. And, it too, left without a trace, into the black void, and into thin air.
"Do you think that's what happened to Sora?" Kairi asked, shaking slightly from the sudden sight.
"Not likely. He wouldn't go down without a fight." Riku growled, eyeing the spot the Heartless had stood.
The two continued their search, but when they had looked over and in every crook and crane of the surprisingly large town, no sign of the brunet was found.
OoOoOoOoOoO"Maybe he landed somewhere else." Kairi said with optimism shining in her blue eyes.
"Maybe..." Riku repeated, glowering at the wall opposite of where he sat, perched on a few crates in the first district. He ran his gloved hand through his hair, a habit he had since he was ten when he was stressed.
"You look down... maybe I can help!" A bouncy voice giggled.
Riku and Kairi looked up. A reedy looking girl with short black hair greeting them with a wide, bright smile on her thin and pale lips.
"Not likely... besides what are you gonna do? Attract him in those clothes?" Riku scoffed, eyeing the girl's attire in disgust.
The girl in front of him huffed and bonked him upside the head.
"Hey!" Riku made a move to knock her back, but Kairi placed a gentle hand over his.
"We're looking for a friend. His name's Sora. Have you heard of him?" She asked, polite as ever.
"Hmmm… Sora… isn't that a girl's name?" She said, giving them both a taunting grin. She put he hands on her knees and looked at Riku and Kairi through lowered lashes. "Sure 'it's' a guy?" She taunted.
"Shut up." Riku growled. He jumped off the crates and stormed off toward the second district.
"Riku where are you going!" Kairi called after him.
"I'm... going for a walk. Don't follow." Riku snarled over his shoulder. The stress and fact that they were walking in circles wasn't helping either. And a slight headache forming in behind his eyes was making thinking impossible.
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Sora looked over the town and at the various stores lining the streets. So this was a town... He'd never seen one, so the sight was new.
Focus Sora, focus! His mind scolded.
Shaking his head, he walked along the rooftops, watching a small white teddy-bear-thing with a small red pom-pom on it's head pace back and forth, with it's wings and nose twitching every now-and-then.
"From what I know, Kairi and Riku are here..." He said to himself. "And they're searching for me..."
He sneered when he caught sight of Kairi talking to a taller girl with short black hair.
"What's with him?" The girl asked.
"Nothing... He's probably just stressed out, that's all."
'That's all' she says. Shows how much she knows. Sora mocked inwardly.
"By the way my name's Kairi!" The bitch. Sora's mind interjected.
"I'm the Great-Ninja-Yuffie! Pleased to meet you!" The girl grinned back.
I'm the freak who had a run-in accident with a closet. Sora mind snorted.
"Do you live here?" Kairi asked.
"Yeah, with my friends: Aerith and Leon. Cid too." Yuffie added, stretching her arms behind her head and fiddling with the feather there.
Soon the girls started to talk about other things; quickly boring Sora. He took off toward the second district, hoping to find Riku there somewhere.
Just because he couldn't interfere, didn't mean he couldn't watch.
The older boy was slashing at Heartless who had appeared around him.
Sora sat on the perch of the Clock Tower and watched Riku slash through various Heartless.
Every time the other boy slashed through a Heartless Sora watched the hearts float up, into the dark night sky, to fade to the stars.
His silver hair, shining in comparison to the pale moonlight that shone on it, was like watching silver water, flowing around his shoulders with each slash he made. His taught muscles moving with his every movement fascinated Sora to no end.
"Riku..." Sora whimpered and watched the teen, a dream-like expression on his face, wishing he could touch him or at least talk to him again.
Did he still love Riku? He had turned him away, and he had gone to get Kairi first, leaving Sora with the Heartless. But he was searching for him now, so he obviously cared, right? But then maybe he was just guilty and as soon as he knew Sora was safe, he'd leave with Kairi. Maybe he really cared for him and was trying to find him to make up for pushing Sora away, so he could confess his love and leave Kairi behind.
Wishful thinking… Sora sighed, resting his head in his hands that were propped up by his knees.
His moment of longing and daydreaming was interrupted by the sound of the bell behind him striking midnight. (A/N: HAHAHA The clock on my computer just hit 12:00. Ironic. And yes I am giving up my sleep to write this for you so you better be grateful:Yawn: I need some coffee...)
"Ahh!" Sora, scared, shocked, and frightened beyond belief by the sudden loud chime, slipped and fell off the edge of the roof he was on.
His hands groped for something, anything to grab. He was already seeing flashback of his past.
He twisted his body around just in time to grab the edge before he fell to the ground, where Riku was watching with wide eyes.
"Sora!" He yelled. He instantly forgot the Heartless, and ran over to the bench nearby. He jumped off it and up onto the walkway that lined the walls, trying to get his legs to move faster so that he could make to his friend in danger.
When Riku reached the steps to the Gizmo shop, he turned to the side to see Sora trying to pull himself up and back onto where he had been minutes earlier.
"Sora!" Riku screamed, his mind racing for something he could do.
Every muscle on Sora's body froze at Riku's outburst, and he nearly lost his grip when Riku shouted it again.
Images of him and Riku together... alone... kissing passionately, and thrust against each other popped into his mind. Each one more heated than the last.
He shook his head vigorously to rid the heated images he didn't need at the time.
"Sora, are you okay! Hold on!" Riku made to run into the Gizmo shop so he could take a ladder up to the roof, but the next thing he knew a hooded figure was standing above the still struggling Sora.
"What the hell?" Riku cursed. His grip on the Keyblade tightened, and he shot into the Gizmo shop, past the Heartless that were at his heels, and up the ladder, in record timing.
"Leave him alone!" Riku said, holding his blade in front of him threateningly.
The man only removed his hood and looked at Riku with a narrowed purple eye.
This sudden removal of the teen's hood almost made Riku quiver. He looked only years older than himself, but waves of power and anger rolled off his body in threatening waves.
Jin stared at the silver-haired teen; hate residing in his eyes, but his facial expression never showing it.
"Jin?" He heard Sora gasp.
Jin didn't say anything. He turned his heated gaze away from the Keyblade master to study Sora coolly, leaning over and offering an outstretched gloved hand to Sora.
Sora gladly took the offered hand and was pulled to his feet instantly, by Jin's strength.
"Sora…?" Riku walked toward his friend, but the green-haired teen raised a hand toward him and Heartless surrounded him and Sora in a protective circle. "Sora?" Riku stared in disbelief when Sora moved closer to the teen, holding onto his robes like a scared child.
"What'd you do to him!" Riku shouted, holding the Keyblade tighter.
Again, Jin didn't answer and turned to look at Sora.
Sora held onto Jin like he was the only thing keeping him standing, and Jin had a vague feeling that if the young brunet let go, the boy's own legs couldn't support his quivering body.
Sora was staring intently ahead of him at Riku, his eyes filled with pain, love, disbelief, and fright rolled into one into one. His strange emotions guarded. Like he no longer trusted Riku more than his gelatin legs.
Riku looked between them and tried to move closer. The Heartless found this as an intrusion and moved closer together to tighten the ring around the two they were protecting.
Kiss him.
Jin was surprised when Ansem's deep voice rang through his head, but the command, itself, left his mind numb.
Kiss him? He asked quizzically.
I want him in rage; he has feelings for Sora, no matter how he denies it. The rage should blind his judgment for a while if it goes accordingly. Ansem justified.
Jin tried to think of some way to free himself from his 'task', but he couldn't disobey Ansem, of all people. Yet, part of him WANTED to kiss Sora.
Slowly, something warm was growing inside him. Something he hadn't felt for years, and a day after meeting the boy, he was in love. Or was it only lust?
Lust. It's lust. Jin declared to his mind about his emotions. He couldn't love. He wasn't supposed to. Yet…
Hesitantly, Jin moved his hands up and gripped Sora's chin in his hands. He felt Sora tense at his sudden touch, but he relaxed for a minute, trusting Jin. Slowly he turned the boy to face him.
Sora stiffened when Jin suddenly grabbed his chin, but he went along with it, thinking Jin knew something he should just rely on and go along with instead of moving away. He sure as hell didn't trust Ansem, even if the guy had told him to trust him. The guy had an eerie sense to him that Sora's instinct told him not to trust anytime soon. Jin on the other hand… he seemed reliable. The only one he could trust.
When Jin's warm lips were pressed to his own, he couldn't help but push back lightly, out of reaction and unfilled desire.
Jin was taken aback at the sudden action, but he wasn't complaining. The very feel of Sora's lips pressed to his was almost enthralling.
I want him in rage, not surprise. Ansem ordered. His words meaning that more had to happen.
Jin's eyes darted to the corner, seeing Riku standing there in stiffened shock, with his mouth agape and his voice working like an old car refusing to work on a cold morning. (A/N: Sounds like my mom's car.)
Once more, Jin was hesitant with his moves but he let the tip of his tongue slip between his lips to brush across Sora's petal soft ones.
Sora happily complied with a long moan that made Jin's stomach give a powerful lurch.
As Sora let out his long moan of pleasure and need, Jin took this as encouragement. He delved deeper and pushed his tongue past Sora's lips, sending tingles through his entire being when both of their tongues brushed together.
Riku couldn't remember a time when his whole body felt like it had been set in an inferno only to be taken out and placed in ice-cold water. It was like having knives stabbed into his heart and twisted back and forth. It was worse than when Sora had kissed him.
Riku's entire being shook with rage and anger. He felt possessiveness crash against his anger.
He let out a feral growl and charged at the Heartless, ripping them up four-by-four.
Sora moaned as Jin wound his arms around his waist and pressed him closer to his taller body.
Never had he felt as good as he was feeling now.
His body was burning with a primitive desire, that seemed it could only be calmed with Jin's gentle, yet firm, touch. His body seemed to mold to fit against Jin's and it was made him mewl every time Jin made contact with his tongue. Jin's fingers were kneading Sora's waist, squeezing and releasing with a type of wanting of their own accord.
When breathing became a need, instead of a thought, Sora pulled away, albeit hesitantly, and pressed his face into Jin's neck. Inhaling Jin's musky and dark scent.
He thought he might mold into a puddle the way Jin was holding him so possessively, and so close... so comfortably. His warmth mingling with the after-effect of the passionate kiss.
Finally looking up from Jin's warm neck, he saw Riku fighting off multiple Heartless in a lame attempt to reach him, his rage showing in his aqua-marine eyes.
When he looked up after the last Heartless disappeared, his eyes locked with Sora's again.
He shot Sora a pained look and Sora tensed; he turned away, with no hesitation, to again, burry his face in Jin's neck.
This made Riku's blood boil, again.
His best friend was turning him away for a complete stranger!
"Sora what in the name of..." Riku stopped mid-sentence when Sora lips moved to kiss Jin's neck repeatedly. His teeth darted out occasionally and then his tongue to sooth the bite seconds later. What the hell!
His mouth agape, he snapped out of his trance and charged toward Sora and the mysterious 'lover' (Riku's anger doubled at this thought). Mainly the older teen.
No one takes my best friend away. No one. Riku growled.
Bringing the Keyblade above his head, Riku was about to deal a critical blow to Jin when Sora turned Jin's body around, while still holding onto the man's waist, so he was between Riku and Jin.
"Back. Off." He gritted through a clenched jaw. Turning his head around to look at Riku with a cold, guarded glare of deep ice blue eyes.
"Sora what are you?"
"I..." Sora didn't know what he was doing. Why was he protecting someone who had taken him away? Why was he trying to stop the desire of his affections from killing someone who had kissed him passionately out of the blue?
Because it felt so right. Was he starting to care for Jin more than Riku? The one he had worshiped since he was only a younger toddler. The one whom he had held one-sided love for for years?
Yes.
But what was the feeling of doubt loitering in the back of his clouded mind?
"I'm protecting the person I love...?" He vowed, his gazed hardening toward Riku. But his answer was more like a question to himself.
Riku could only gape.
Sora, the Sora he had grown up with for almost all his life, hadn't said that. Had he?
"W-What?" Riku stuttered.
"I love Jin." Sora elucidated, shooting Riku a look that clearly told him to back off.
"Sora..." Riku took a deep breath, trying to remain calm and prevent his body from moving on it's own accord to rip Sora's arms off the person called 'Jin' and place them around his own body. "Sora... what happened after you disappeared?" Riku asked, a pleading look in his eyes once more.
"You mean after you abandoned me?" Sora spat, distaste apparent in his voice and features.
"I had to find Kairi. You understand we couldn't leave her." Riku retorted. His anger was now building again.
"No. YOU couldn't leave her behind..." Sora scowled, and pointed an accusing finger at Riku, but his glare softened. "But you could leave me..."
"Sora... Kairi and me have been looking all over for you! What's going on! She said you slapped her hand away! What's is wrong with you! You're acting nothing like your old self!" Riku was now only three feet away. Sora didn't take notice.
Jin, who had been watching the soup opera, did notice the boy's close range. Close enough to snatch the boy in his arms away. Though he didn't move, his body was edgy and ready for anything the silver-haired teen tried.
"You're acting like spoiled brat! You took off and you hurt Kairi! Don't you care that Kairi and I have been worried sick! You're as bad as those shadows!" Riku was panting with almost unbridled anger, looking at Sora with a smoldering green glare.
"Have I... really changed that much..." Sora whispered, lowering his head so his unruly sable bangs covered his face.
Riku froze and recalled his words. "S-Sora... I- I'm sorry I didn't-"
"Oh yes, you did." Sora's anger boiled past the breaking point. His anger could rival Riku and more some. "You meant every word you said." He ground out. "And I'll say it's an improvement that I've changed!" He shouted, his deep, bright blue eyes holding a sense of loathing to them.
Loathing for Riku, his best friend.
Said Riku was struck dumb. He had abandoned Sora for Kairi, and now the favor was being returned. Double-time.
Sora didn't take notice of how much his words were affecting Riku, or the sting every word and syllable held. Each bite his insults and accusations held rooted deeply in hate.
The once, friendly, and kind Sora was gone from Riku's life.
"Hurts, doesn't it?" Sora said, as though he was reading Riku's thoughts. "It's like a slap to the face. Like no one remembers you, or cares..." Sora sneered.
"I tried to see if you were okay!" Riku retorted, trying to defend what little pride and honor he had.
"Yeah... But I only put up with Kairi because YOU loved her. I never competed for her. Never. Only you..." Sora said, lowering his head once more, but this time is self-pity.
"Sora I think I-" Riku stopped before he said it. Before the words could escape his lips, because he wasn't sure if he really did love Sora. He had Kairi, but he cared immensely for Sora.
"Sora..." Jin whispered into the brunet's ear, tugging on his waist in an almost worried state. "I don't like how close he's getting to you..." Jin whined. He usually didn't talk like this, but Lord Ansem had commanded for him to make Riku jealous, in any way possible. "Let's go home..." He whispered into Sora's ear, gibing it a slight nibble.
The brunet gave a shiver and cuddled closer to the taller teen.
Home.
Could he call the place he lived in a home now?
He was trapped there. And he doubted that Ansem would want him to pull a stunt like this one again. But, if Jin was there, then maybe it could be a safe-haven.
Holding onto Jin tighter, he nodded his head in recognition, his grip of Jin's black robe tightening until his knuckled turned a pale white.
"Okay."
Riku panicked when he saw the darkness pool at Sora's feet like it had done the night the boy had disappeared. A foretold sense of dread that the darkness would once again rob him of his best friend was settling none to easily into the pit of his stomach.
"Sora! Don't go!" He made a dash to grab the brunet's arm, but on contact Sora let out a long line of curses in a hiss like voice.
"Jin... it hurts..." Sora mewled, his eyes glazing as he looked up to Jin.
He tried to free himself from Riku's grip, like he had at the island. His arm felt as though it was going to melt to the bone with the intense heat from where Riku's hand was.
"Make it stop..." Sora whimpered, looking at Jin with imploring eyes.
Anger filling him to the brim and rolling off his body in large waves, Jin sent a large blast of darkness hurtling into Riku.
The poor boy was knocked back, into a pile of crates, trying to fight the pain he felt in his side, and struggling to stay awake.
"Sora..." He whispered, holding his hand out to the boy.
Sora shook his head and looked away, tears from the hot pain in his eyes. Though Riku's hand was gone, the sting of the touch was still evident on his arm in bright red skin as he and Jin disappeared from the surrounding area of Riku's vision.
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"So... how did it go?" Ansem replied calmly as Sora and Jin appeared before him.
This room was different than the others. Instead of the never-ending darkness, Sora was in a grand room of white marble and black curtains draped from sky-high windows. A long, plush carpet leading to a throne where Ansem sat quietly; watching them with amber eyes.
Jin bowed before Ansem where he sat and he tugged on Sora's arm, trying to make him kneel before the lord, but Sora refused by pulling his arm away from Jin's grasp.
"So Sora... care to tell me how you left your room without anyone noticing? I have to say, it provided a shock for me as well." Ansem smiled, shifting his black chair, though it was far from uncomfortable with its large cushions.
"Those books... I'm not stupid you know." Sora scoffed, turning his nose up to show he was no fool.
"My, my. A little cranky after our nap?" Ansem mocked lightly, giving Sora a smirk almost similar to Riku's.
"Shut up." Sora grumbled, a light blush staining his tanned cheeks. He was starting to hate that contending tone of Ansem's.
"So which book told you that? Was it 'Diuja's Black Alchemy?' Or did you prefer 'Black and White'?" Ansem said, changing the subject a slight interest.
"I don't trust you." Sora said abruptly, startling Jin so much that the servant jerked slightly.
"That is fine with me..." Ansem smiled again, looking at Sora with his same cocky expression. "If you don't trust someone, that doesn't make you cold, just misunderstood." He smiled. "Many people misunderstood me when I started to study the Heartless. Why should you be any different?"
"…" Sora turned his head away to stare at the ground only a few feet away, scowling at the white marble.
"Did you enjoy seeing your friend once more?" Ansem said, breaking the pregnant silence that had settled upon them. "You two seemed to enjoy eachother…" Ansem let the word eachother draw out his brows rising up in mocking curiosity.
"It's none of your business." Sora snapped, turning on heel and storming out of the room.
Jin looked between the two, having an internal battle of whether or not to follow and comfort Sora or to stay and talk with Ansem.
It was as if Ansem could read minds.
"Go on. He needs someone to lean on." He said, shifting in his chair.
Jin cast a worried look to his master before briskly walking to Sora's chambers.
OoOoOoOoOoOSora buried his heads in the many pillows on his bed, Selphie, having been woken up by his sudden outburst into the room, was rubbing his back in soothing circles and cooing sweet nothings to him.
"I… I don't know what to think anymore." Came Sora's muffled words beneath the cushions.
"It's alright Sora." Selphie whispered, frankly not know what else to say to the torn brunet.
Jin stopped outside the door to hear them talking like this, Selphie trying her hardest to cheer the boy up and Sora still doubtful.
"I thought I loved Riku…" Sora cried, clutching the pillow tighter. "But… Jin…I don't know how to describe how I felt."
Jin choose at the moment to walk in, ignoring the way Selphie blushed and tried her hardest to cover up what they were talking about.
"Selphie… can you leave for a while." Sora pleaded.
Selphie seemed hesitant to leave Sora with Jin, where-as the teen showed nothing to portray his emotions, but finally decided it would be best for them to talk it out.
"You have a room just down the hall of here." Jin replied, bowing his head slightly as Selphie passed him.
"Okay…" Selphie placed a hand to her chin and stopped in the doorway then motioning for Jin to walk over to her. "Please… I've never seen him like this. Please take care of him." Selphie pleaded, her wide eyes filled with worry.
Jin nodded, giving her a slight push out of the room, and turned back to see Sora watching him.
"Sora… I don't know what to tell you but-"
"Jin… could you come here?" Sora asked a slight blush staining his cheeks.
Jin did as asked and calmly walked over, though his stomach was full of butterflies, sitting himself beside Sora.
"Is there anything I can do for you Sora?"
At this Sora's eyes began to cloud over with unshed tears and his lower lip jut out into a slight pout. Brusquely, Sora flung himself to Jin, wrapping his arms around his waist and sobbing harshly, shoulders racking with uncontrolled sobs.
Jin was surprised with the sudden attack but slowly lowered his hands so they were firmly holding onto Sora's waist.
"It's okay Sora… I'm here for you." He whispered, clutching the boy to him closely.
Sora buried his face deeper, trying to move closer the teen if possible.
Jin could only look on in sympathy. This boy was enduring so much. He eyed the boy, looking over his body and it's small details.
His body was almost feminine. Small shoulders. Narrow waist. Slender limbs. And a… a red burn marking his arm.
Jin's gaze stopped there and he paused his soothing ministrations to grab the appendage in mother soft touches, looking over it great care.
It was the burn that he had received from Riku.
Sora looked up from Jin's lap to watch many emotions play across the teens face as he fingered the burn's edges.
"Will it ever go away?" Sora asked.
Jin gave a start at Sora sudden question and looked from the arm to watch Sora.
His blue eyes… he could loose himself in them. His spiky brown hair… so soft he could run his fingers through it all day. His lips… to utterly kissable… lusciously plump.
Jin gave him a rare smile, reaching down he cupped Sora's face in his warm hands.
"I'll make it go away… I'll make all your pain go away…"
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Riku groaned and awoke to see his world swirling around him.
"Sora…" He moaned and tried to sit up, wincing at the shocks of pain the shot throughout his body.
He clenched his fist, teeth and eyes shut, trying to drive off the pain that coursed through his very being. He had to find Sora.
He had to.
Riku willed his body to sit up, letting out a long sigh of relief when he was able to sit up again.
First he'd have to find out where they had gone. Nothing else mattered.
Nothing.
He'd find his Sora.
No strange dark freak was going to take away what was his. The teen called Jin had to have put a spell or something on him. Sora wouldn't act like that.
Would he?
To many doubts and questions were swimming in Riku's mind to know all the answers of where his friend had gone.
"Rikuuu!"
Ow! Riku held a hand to his head. Headache… His mind whined.
"Rikuuuuuuuu!" OwowowOWOWowowOWOWOW! There it is again.
Kairi.
"Rikuu-"
"I'm up here!" Riku shouted before his girlfriend could continue.
"He must be on the clock tower." Came a monotone voice from below them.
Five minutes later Riku was on his own feet and walking with Kairi and two new people.
"So… you must be the Keyblade master, huh?" The man called 'Leon' said, judging him from the corner of his eyes as he walked toward the hotel, Yuffie and Kairi chatting animatedly behind them.
"Guess so." Riku answered.
"There are two messengers here to see you." He said, his monotone voice never wavering. "Their king has disappeared."
"So? What does that have to do with me?" Riku said, slightly peeved at the older males blatant expression of not caring…ness. Damn he needed to work on his vocabulary.
"They were sent by their king to look for you. You are to help them find him."
"And if I don't want to." Riku was never one for orders.
"Your girlfriend said you were looking for a boy named Sora?"
"Yeah?"
"You can probably look for him while you search for the King." Leon wanted to add idiot, but settled for the uncomfortable silence that always followed when he talked.
"I can… find Sora…" Riku whispered, images of Sora and Jin together flashing before the mind's eye.
He could find Sora and make him see he cared for him.
"Where are they?"
OoOoOoOoOoO"It'll only be for a short while." Jin counseled, looking over Sora for what must have been the millionth time in only ten minutes.
"But… I'll miss you Jin…" Sora whined, grabbing Jin's hand and holding it in his smaller one.
"I know…" Jin said, trying to comfort the boy in some matter.
It had been decided two weeks ago that Sora would be sent to a world to train and hone his fighting skills. Problem: He was to be separated by Jin. The teen who had become a part of Sora's heart.
"I don't want to leave you…" Jin whispered, planting a chaste kiss on Sora's nose. "But since Lord Ansem commanded it, I must." Jin brought Sora's hand up to his face cradled his own cheek in the boy's hand. "I'll try to reach you as soon as I can. But I must attend to duties with another world and finding its Keyhole."
"Okay. You promise." Sora's lower lip jut out in a pout, trying to coax Jin into thinking he could shirk his duties, but Jin only gave him a smile and bopped him on the head. "OW! What was that for?" Sora said rubbing his head delicately.
"For trying to be too cute." Jin chuckled. He still wasn't used to these emotions, but when he was around Sora, they came so naturally.
Sora closed his eyes and pressed his soft lips to Jin's, hoping to leave something as a reminder for Jin to not forget him.
Jin responded almost hungrily, seemingly devouring Sora's lips and tongue.
Finally they broke apart for air, Jin nipping Sora's lips delicately with his teeth, leaving tingles where his teeth were, soothing it over with his tongue and licking small circled on Sora's jaw.
"If you two are done…" Came Ansem deep voice.
Jin coughed and withdrew his hands from Sora's waist where as Sora blushed and looked at a nearby wall.
"Having fun?" Ansem said, raising a brow at Jin and then Sora. "Perhaps I should have left more time to yourselves if it was not so valuable. The Keyblade master has now sealed five Keyholes and is moving toward the Coliseum; where Sora will be training."
Sora visibly tensed and Jin's anger immediately rose.
Ansem took note of this and continued.
"I want you to arrive soon and train there. If you can, I want you out of there before he shows up …" Ansem let his sentence hang, leaving the teens to contemplate what might happen in the new world.
"So what will he do if he does come in contact with Riku?" Jin snapped, his words coming out harsher than he had meant to.
"He will have to fight. I have scheduled for other warriors and Heartless to slow him down, at which point Jin will be contacted and sent to retrieve you, but if all else fails… At the rate he is moving, it may become an inevitable battle."
"Why do I have to fight?" Sora asked, almost fearing the answer.
"What is enviable will happen, there's nothing we can do to stop it." He replied, "I will send word for a disguise for you when you need it though."
Sora didn't like his answer, but he would be disguised. Riku wouldn't know it was him. Hopefully.
"Okay. I'm ready to go." Sora said; trying to stand tall, his eyes hardening in hatred.
End ChapterXxX Chains XxX: Yay! I finished this chap! Words up and I no longer have to double check things like a bajillion times!
Jin: Is 'bajillion' even a word?
XCX: From the little red squiggles underneath it, I'd say not. Oh well! I don't care! I'm happy, happy, happy that there ARE squiggles under it! And I'm just plain happy!
Jin: Why?
XCX: Cause I have so many nice reviewers and readers, and gracious family members who allowed me to download Microsoft Word! Word Pad is okay! But I nearly died of all the spelling corrections I had to make in my outlines and over-reads!
Jin: And I care how?
XCX: … I don't know how you care! You can send cookies, donuts, chicken, salad, noodles, hot tea, and even spaghetti. Pocky is accepted too!
Jin: Hungry?
XCX:gives him the thumbs up: You betcha! XD
Jin: Go eat then. Can't have you starving.
XCX: Jin… you care… : eyes shines:
Jin: No. I just can't let you leave this story hanging when you have people waiting for an update. I have too may fans who love me and would hate leave this hanging.
XCX:shine goes out: As a quote from a fic I read a week or so ago: Denial isn't just a river in Egypt bud!
Jin: It's not denial. Read the reviews.
XCX: TT I wrote this in Word Pad and finished in Word, while listening to two new CDs I got from Barnes Nobles (Great store .) with a 50 buck gift card from grandma and grandpa (Love you sooooo much). One of the CDs is by an artist called Keiko Matsui the album called Wildflower, and the other one's Utada's CD called: Exodus.
Jin: Utada's the artist who sang Simple and Clean, right?
XCX: Yup! She's soo cool! I wuv Exodus '04 and Kremlin Dusk. The rest of the songs aren't that good though… TT
Jin: She's not depressed or anything so she can't relate. But she still loves to listen to music with a good beat. Rock, rap, pop, classical, new age even.
XCX: Love Green Day and Good Charlotte too! And Yuki Kajiura, a woman who did some of the songs in .Hacksign, Noir, and Aquarian Age. I love the piano version of Canta per me. I'm starting piano lessons in January. I can't play any musical instrument for beans, so as an X-mas gift my folks set me up for piano lessons. I'd love to play some instrument. I'm in choir and I already know how to site read a little.
Jin: She just can't sing.
XCX:throws keyboard at him:
Jin: OW!
XCX: Oh my gosh I'm so sorry!
Jin: Its okay. I'm sure you didn't-
XCX: I'm sorry keyboard. Did mean ole' Jin hurt you? I'll be more careful :pets keyboard:
Jin: Pathetic… OW:mouse bounces of Jin's head: Dammit! Quit it woman!
XCX:Sticks tongue out: Nyaaaa! Thanks everyone for listening to my ramble of junk and such! I'd like to reply to some of the reviews just because I wuv you all so much!
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person waaaaaaaaaay in the back—You don't have to beg… just worship… hehehehe…
Angel K.D. – Glad I didn't mess anything up! And even gladder that you want to read more. You must not wonder! You must read! And continue reviewing!
Minerva Teller of tales- Aww. Jin. You're likeable! NO Sora! Not lick-able! Well… guess he is that too… :3
vixinkitsune—Sweet isn't what I'd always call Jin (in my book)… Kairi does get on my nerves too at times, but if she wasn't in this fic, then there wouldn't be a fic! Glad you found a story that suits your liking! Always glad to be of service! D
DieCan—Yay! Glad this story's on your faves! I worked so hard! I'll try to keep it awesome! ;D
No name—Thank you for reviewing! Good to know there are few spelling corrections I didn't catch. Believe me, the original... Correction after correction…
Pureheart—You wanted revenge! You got revenge! Riku's comin' around to loving Sora, but they're not gonna make up soon, that for sure. By the way… you may not wanna call Sora yours. Jin says he's gonna polish his pitchfork and Riku's gone to practice chopin' fangirls. Believe me I tired that once too. Couldn't breath on my own for a week… :shudders:
Will's Girl—Now ya know what happened next Here comes chap 6 real soon. Promise!
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Moonshadow Shade—Sorry 'bout your account… I wish Riku was the main character too; but as Squall wouldda put it… beggars can't be choosers. Thank you for telling me I'm developing Sora okay, it was hard changing him from kind boy to loathing for his best friend thing. Tooo many rewrites later…
Kuja—Glad I changed your perspective or thinking on point of views! I think… ?
LordIronDuke 126—Kairi's gotta be there in order for the story to work. Yes! I own Jin! Mah boy! Put that in your pipe an' smoke it lawyers! HA!
…:squeals: It's the greatest! Thank you! You get a donut!
Yvonne—Detail… so hard to compare some things in this fic. Gotta go for a walk around town and experience life in order to explain things as an author… Thank you!
ShadowedDarkness—Change of pace is your friend… is good to change. Change is good… Sora suffering not so good, but in here is good. Don't forget to hide because of Riku and Jin… hehehe… Down guys! Down you horny bastards!
Soul of a Horse—I am awesome! Or at least my fic is… awwww…
XCX: Whew! That's all of 'em. Not too many, but still. I cherish each an every one of them! See you all in chapter 6! Next up is Alice and Wonderland!
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