Dancing was living to Kairi. No, it was a way of life for her.
Title: The Expressions That You Make
Authoress: Andria/Leon...KruezTexture
Chapter Name: Talent
Genre: Romance, Humor and hyper Clouds.
Warnings: Shoujo-ai and Shounen-ai
Rating: T most definitely for the idea of boyxboy bonking is A-Okay with me!
Pairings: KairixYuffie, SoraxRiku mostly but lots of CloudxLeon for your enjoyment too!
Disclaimer:
'Me no owneth Kingdom Hearts
And so I'll break it into parts
One for me and one for you
No, rewind
All for me and none for you
Oh how I wish that was true..'
Begin Chapter Ni
And you consider passivity a state of failure
Looking down on those 'less superior'.
That's why the air isn't good enough
For someone like you
So obviously when I aspire
To take hold of my desires
It's nothing compared to
Even when you just respire
You're a superficial guy
Who lives under the old saying
'An eye for an eye'.
You'll live the children praying
Even though you have so much to give
You are so much higher than that
6:00 P.M. The day after in front of our fanciful dancing academy
Opposites often attract and not always in a love-attraction, sometimes they attract and become friends and just friends. This did not often happen as two opposites could not normally stand one another for more than an hour or so but some did.
This was exactly the case with the two business partners who came to find Kairi. Yuffie positively hated that Squall Leonhart would walk around as if he had a ruler shoved way up that ass of his.
That and everything else about him. But still, maybe that was just the reason why she considered him her best friend. The times she would call at 3 o'clock in the morning and faces she would make to try and get a laugh out of him only irritated him to no end.
They were very opposite and yet alike to the point where they often got along working side by side. In fact so that Leon would respond to the calls and funny faces and would find time to talk with Yuffie.
He considered her something of a best friend. quite possibly the only friend he had. And neither one wanted anything deeper to form from that friendship.
They both just weren't interested besides the fact that they already had to many things on their hands. Dance recitals, concerts, plays and so on. Makes you wonder just what they did for a living.
Well Leon had been the owner of the famous dance company 'LL' since his father passed away and he went in his place. 'YL' later became the new name because Yuffie had come along and applied for manager of the business.
They handpicked people considered the best dancers (mostly ballerinas) in the world to train and travel all over the mainland performing. But for now they'd stay a few months in the ballet capital of the worlds, "Traverse Town.'
As Yuffie sucked in a deep breath and walked across a busy street she spotted her business partner and hurried over to him with a grin. Someone she knew.
"Squallie!" She whispered, knowing he hated being called Squall in any form much less a nickname. "Ready?" He merely grunted in return, a response the spiky-haired girl was all but not used to.
It was funny how someone of only 19 had come to be a famous manager fo a company alongside a 22 year old. Humorous indeed as Squall would often say how easy it must have been during the interview for the job.
He hadn't hosted them as he really preferred solitude and downtime to even meeting his employees, he trusted his assistant enough to make the choice.
And maybe he even thought of her as a younger sister (his assistant that is) when she wasn't checking him out or trying to flirt with him, that is. He wasn't even quite sure she was younger then him. Oh lord.
Yuffie flashed him a grin and turned to make an entrance in the auditorium of Leon's academy for dancing. It was hardly as cold here in the islands as it had been back at the coliseum but Leon was used to the heat as he had lived in Traverse Town for a few short years.
They were going to watch the play, 'Snow Maiden' performed by the top-grade students and chose to sit in the back where people wouldn't take great notice of them.
People often knew how the famous partners looked as 'YL' was considered the best in the world and there were a lot of dance fanatics on the mainland.
As Yuffie glanced around at the audience from the seat she had chosen only two people caught her eye and they were sitting together.
One was a young boy who had to only be 16, he had a serene look on his sun-baked face and beautiful bright eyes like a sky of never ending blue.
His hair was also abnormal but nonetheless just as beautiful as the rest of him, wild and spiky brunet locks defied gravity behind his head and two soft ear tails hung on either side of his adorable face.
He was laughing at a taller blond who was bouncing with excitement. This one looked like his hair was made of the sun, it's silky spikes fell this way and that giving him a spunky, eccentric look that contrasted well with his face and choice of clothes.
Yuffie looked over at Leon and back to the cute blond with a sly smile on her face. The two would meld together quite well, if only she could just introduce them.
Sadly she didn't know the blonde or the brunet at all. In fact she knew no one in the audience besides her best friend there. Of course she knew Leon was interested in men, besides preferring girls herself this was her best friend here!
And so she concluded it was time to play matchmaker. Somehow she's have to become friends with the bouncy blond, somehow..
Well the young boy must have been related to the blond so find someone who knows him and then get introduced to the young boy who would introduce her to the blonde!
Yay for planning Yuffie!
But why was she going to take such great risks (huge exaggeration but hey we're in Yuffie's mind here.) for someone she had never met before.
Ohohoho, because Yuffie had had a meeting with fate once and so she just knew this blonde was destined for her Squallie Wuallie. She noticed his eyes close as he leaned back in the chair and thought, 'That is just like him to sleep.'
With a sigh, she shook her head as the light's began to dim. The ballet was about to begin.
6:30 P.M The show begun long ago.
Leon massaged his temples with his long, dark-skinned fingers before raking them through the softness of his hair. He wasn't a big ballet fan.
I know, I know that sounds so strange considering what he does for a living but he didn't exactly have a choice. His family had said take this job or we will disown you and basically they did disown him even though he took the job.
The only reason he was still in the profession now was because 1, he was working the one person he considered a friend besides this one friend he had had in elementary excluding the fact that he hadn't seen that same kid since the 4th grade and 2, he really frickin' needed the money.
His current living courters was in 'Traverse Town' where 'YL' (Did I mention this stands for Yuffie and Leon?) was staying for a few months but he had lived all over the mainland by now.
It was no joke that he was rich and famous but he could care less about fans or his profession even as long as he still had fresh food and a nice apartment he was A-okay no matter the job.
See most people choose their job because they have skills and enjoy that profession but Leon..Leon hardly enjoyed anything so it was good that he had this job even if he had 0 skills in dancing.
It was good money.
Now Yuffie was slightly different story she was chosen because she had been a dancer all her life and could see potential very easily. She was perfect for manager for the company as she could watch over the employees and make sure they did their job correctly and danced well.
Anyway back to our present situation. This show was boring the hell out of Leon. Albeit this school was fairly high class and named after him, the dancers weren't really all that great.
He could tell and Yuffie had whispered something to him a few minutes ago about the ballerinas sucking. Instead of paying attention to the show now, he was watching the crowd to see what kind of people came to see these things.
Some of them had large spray-painted signs with 'Go So-and-so' or 'You rock -Insert Name Here-'. But not many people, most were high class rich snobs not entirely unlike Leon's family themselves.
He didn't hold the highest respect for anyone so the amount of money you had didn't matter to him. Leon was bad with first appearances on his side but judged others fairly well and quickly.
His grey eyes traveled over the audience until they finally landed on a young blond man. The grey orbs widened at this sight. The blond was nothing short of entrancing, his light skin was framed by golden tresses falling into his blue eyes as he talked animatedly with a brunet boy who still looked to be in junior high.
(Heh, Sowa-poo)
He blinked at first stunned that there was someone so angelic who existed on this earth and caught himself staring. Strange, he had never had any interest in a person before.
Not even platonic-ally.
He just hadn't.
It was as simple as that. Yuffie was someone he had grown to become attached to over years of her trying to befriend him and working with her. For most other people that hadn't worked.
Finally, the blue gaze of the man met with Leon's own and the older man narrowed his eyes. With a light flush the other looked away.
Why was he embarrassed?
6:32 Over to the section that Cloud and Sora have perched themselves in.
Cloud Strife looked down at his younger cousin with a smile. He was glad Sora and Kairi had invited him to the play, it had been ages since he's seen the Harada family (Which he considered Kairi part of.) they were his favorite relatives.
Especially because when Sora was younger, Cloud used to give him lessons in surfing. Then the Haradas had moved to a different island and young Strife was left to himself.
Now that he had finally been given the chance to see his cousin again they couldn't stop conversing about everything. Of course a few years back Cloud had given Sora the talk about sexual orientation to which the younger boy pondered until he finally decided he liked boys better.
And the elder man didn't mind as that was how their family usually was with the males.
Mrs. Harada, whose husband had died, really didn't seem to mind either as Cloud had once brought his old boyfriend Sephiroth to their house and she had gushed about their relationship, wanting every detail.
The blond man sighed.
Sephiroth who had died in a surfing accident three years ago.
But the blue eyed man had gotten himself past the depression stage and had moved on with his life. He was after all Cloud, the intelligent but bubbly young surfing prodigy.
Sora grinned at him and pointed at Kairi who had finally taken place on the dance floor. There were a lot of girls ahead of her but none who were nearly as good as the red-head was. He smiled and glanced around as he felt eyes on him.
Then he noticed the stoic brunet man whose grey eyes were suddenly locked with his. He had to stop himself from yelping at the bored but irritated man who could only be described in three words,
drop
dead
sexy.
But when the sexy man's eyes suddenly narrowed and his lips twisted into a frown Cloud looked down feeling his face heat up. He had been staring. But who wouldn't at that sight?
Oh what he would give to have that man to call his own. Cloud sighed, this always happened, he was always attracted to people he didn't know.
Sadly.
6:35 now to the lovely brunet who can't get his mind off of a certain "sex-god".
Sora looked over at Cloud who seemed to be embarrassed about something and shrugged to himself. He didn't mind the silence, it gave him time to think about what Riku had done the day before.
Well, he had thought about it all of the previous night until somewhere around 3 in the morning. Damnit, why did he have to be the one feeling like this? But the boy was just so-so confusing!
It confused Sora more to think about confusion but he was already confused because Riku was so confusing and-ARGH! He shook his thoughts quickly and began to survey the stage for Kairi but instead he saw Riku.
Riku Masaki moving to the beat of the music in a rhythmic but still appropriate way of dancing ballet. And it really was a wonderful sight to see after all of the other ugly ballerinas who had danced across the stage.
Blech.
Suddenly those green eyes met his. But Riku didn't falter or stop dancing he just smirked that evil smirk and Sora had to remind himself to breath. It didn't work very well and Cloud had to wave air into his face so he wouldn't pass out.
Damn sex-god.
6:40 and back to Yuffie.
BORING!
The only good dancer on the floor was a silver haired boy whom Yuffie already knew to be fabulous at ballet. Riku Masaki, the famous, rich dancer.
That sounded funny coming from her own mind considering she was rich and famous but she didn't bask in the fact or do anything vain.
Actually the boy didn't much either but he had a very conceited way of speaking that wasn't about money or fame. He just was an angel on earth to many people.
Yuffie shrugged to herself, she didn't mind conceit she'd be talking to him later about joining the team but damnit! That was one person, one person to add.
That was it!
She groaned and slapped a hand to her face before noticing a particular girl ont he dance floor. A particularly talented young red-head who was hidden by the other dancers.
She was good. Very good. Better then good. Better then great. She was beautiful. Her grace and style complimented her good looks and thinness.
And so Yuffie decided. I want this girl on the team. I want her and that is all there is to it.
A smile crossed her face.
Finis Chapter ni!
Mehe! Finally the second chapter of TETYM in up and ready to go! I only got one review for the first chapter, it makes me a little sad. In my opinion this is my favorite story that I've written thus far. - Please comment!
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