Disclaimer: I don't own, don't sue and I'll eat some cake…
Leo: I thought that I'd do the second chapter straight away so I don't get sidetracked so consider you guys lucky, I've never written two chapters in one day…
Molokai: Stand back…
Leo: Well enjoy!
WARNING: This fanfic contains (Male x Male) relationships and its AU (alternate universe) so if you don't like, get out and don't flame… also Sora is way OOC, cause I wanted to change his look and attitude… don't hurt me…
(LAST CHAPTER)
Sora didn't say anything, he was still lost in the song, the words, the words that he wrote due to his hatred for his parents, the beat that came with Yuffie, the rhythm that Tidus brought and the melody that Leon made from his experience in playing guitar, as well as Cloud's masterful playing all brought a sense of achievement and fulfilment in Sora, it was the happiest moment in his life.
Chapter Two – The beginning of a relationship…
(Three years later)
Sora was sitting in his apartment block with sheets of paper lining the floor around his bed, all of them occupy lyrics for the band's album. What had started off as writing songs for fun and performing it for kicks might turn into a profession, if Sora could create another five songs to accompany his earlier works.
The days of performing well-known band's works is over, as now they pursue their own achievements, with their own creations. They automatically placed 'Living a Lie' as their main song of the album. (AN: That was the song in the previous chapter) It was fitting, considering as they all experienced the feelings that Sora sung in the lyrics.
The said boy scratched his head in frustration as his mind raced, using cliché expressions, thought of perfect lines and tried to make one and one fit into a song. He gave up shortly after and headed to his laptop and went online to see the other members online, as well as an email.
He had a difficult choice, email, or friends… duh, the email of course.
He opened it and to his surprise it was from a person he had never met, he his head slightly to the side as he read the email. It seemed that the person found Sora on a story writing website, due to Sora's writing abilities, he also writes stories for fun, as well as lyrics.
The person over the email wanted to know what secrets await in the next chapter of his story that he was writing. Sora simply stated that he would have to wait like everyone else to see what happens in the up coming chapter of his story, which he was going to post, as soon as bothered to type up the next chapter (AN: That is so me)
Sora then went on to discuss the ideas that he had for his lyrics and how they should be played to his fellow band members. After a couple of minutes talking, Sora left a copy of the lyrics to Cloud and Leon to determine how they should play the song, which, in turn, would decide how Sora would sing it.
They all agreed on meeting at Leon's house for practise and see what needs to be changed from their songs and what should be implemented. Sora exited from the conversation, but left the internet on, just in case, and went back to his lyrics.
About ten minutes after he finished talking to his friends, he was distracted from his thoughts as he was notified about an incoming email, by the sound from his laptop. He went over to see who it was by and was surprised that it was the same person from before.
The email stated:
'Okay, I trust that it is as good as the last chapters, I love that you put Leo and Kurata together they do belong together… who do you see yourself as? And why?'
Sora was confused at such a question, but he replied anyway:
'I would consider myself as being Leo, I mean he isn't exceptionally strong, but he isn't completely weak… not to mention that he has someone like Kurata to depend on, that is so cool… what about you?'
He sent the email, and went back to his lyrics, only to be interrupted by another incoming email from the same person.
'I would think of myself as Kurata, because he seems to be the dominant one of the two, and because I would love to be able to protect someone like little Leo.'
Sora smiled at that response, the story that he was writing was about a boy named Leo who was coming to terms with himself and his life. He was on the brink of killing himself, because he thought no one cared and because he only true love Kurata couldn't love him because they were both boys. Kurata, in the later chapters, would eventually save Leo from dying and they fall in love with each other.
Sora loved those types of sappy love stories, especially , due to his bisexuality he loved reading both normal and love stories, but he mainly preferred the ones, because they interested him more than the normal ones.
'Okay cool.' Was all that Sora relied with, he was more interested in doing these lyrics, then talking to some stranger about his story, for whom he had never met.
As the weeks went by, Sora was nearing the completion of completing all the lyrics for the album, as well as practising with the band at least once a week to make sure that they play all of the songs for their album well. Sora was also gained a friendship with the person over email, such a friendship that they learnt each other's names, he was apparently named Riku.
They even sent pictures of each other to one another so they could see whom they were talking to. Sora learnt that Riku, was about a year older than himself, about 6 inches taller and had the most unique hair, silver and he was planning to dye the tips of the hair jet-black, to make it even more unique.
Sora himself changed as well, he went from his childish, red and blue outfits to his casual white and black. He only ever wore t-shirts and cargo pants and his trademark sneakers, never boots or normally shoes. He also changed his hair from his spiky cinnamon brown hair to red at the front and jet-black at the back, which was turned into a ponytail that slung over his shoulder. The only thing he kept was the crown necklace that he received from his father the day before he moved away from him.
Sora was humming at one of his favourite songs on his music playlist on his computer, when he heard the sound of an incoming email on his laptop, he smiled when it was Riku that sent it.
'So where do you live anyway? I know there is a time difference between us, but I just wanted a general knowledge…'
'I live in Hearts Valley, where are you from?' Was Sora's reply, luckily he didn't have to wait long as Riku's reply came just a minute or two later.
'Hearts Valley? Jeez, that's about three thousand miles away from where I live, Destiny City.'
Sora wasn't too surprised, Destiny City was one of the most known cities in the world, and it was the capital of one of the major countries in the world. While Hearts Valley, though a capital was miniscule to the other.
'I see what you mean, I mean 3000 miles over water and other countries from each other, well that's life for ya. Well I gotta get going, my band's practising again tonight, we're recording tomorrow, we gotta touch up on a couple of songs.'
With that, Sora closed down his laptop, grabbed the lyrics he had completed and his guitar case and headed out of his apartment. He met up with the other band members at Leon's apartment, the first time they've officially met in over 6 months due to hard individual practise.
He found out that Leon and Yuffie were boyfriend and girlfriend and they were sharing the house together. Sora felt happy that they found each other, which would make practise for the both of them a lot easier. He also found out that Tidus and Cloud also had girlfriends and they brought them along for the final practise before recording.
Even though Sora was happy for all of his band members for finding that special person in their lives, he kind of felt left out that he didn't have anyone like that. Leon saw this and pulled Sora aside from the rest of the group for a private talk.
"Sora, you okay?" Leon asked, concern on his voice about Sora's sadness.
"It's nothing forget about it." Sora said, placing a fake smile on his face.
"Don't give me that, what's wrong?" Leon said, getting frustrated at Sora's bad attempts to cover his pain.
"It's nothing okay, forget about it." Sora said, anger lingering at the end of every word, causing Leon to back off for the mean time. They both went back to the group, but not before Leon put a final word in.
"You should ask him, you never know what may happen." Leon said, winking at Sora, who was speechless and blushing at the comment.
The practise that evening went well, they all remembered the songs well and they all played brilliantly without much mistakes or errors by any of the members, even Cloud's and Tidus' girlfriends, Aerith and Yuna enjoyed the show. They all said their goodbye's as Cloud and Aerith went on Cloud's motorbike and Tidus and Yuna left in Tidus' white sports car that he earnt through his three years as the CEO of his father's business. Sora leapt into his Mazda RX-8 and left Leon's house, driving incredibly fast, even for himself. Which left Leon and Yuffie at their house.
"Poor Sora." Leon said as he saw him drive away.
"What do you mean?" Yuffie asked.
"No one knows how much pain that poor boy is in." Leon said as he went back inside, with Yuffie following in interest.
"What are you talking about?" The black-haired girl asked getting angry at Leon's exclusiveness nature.
"Alright, what I'm about to tell you cannot be let out you understand me, I'm sure he'd understand if I told you."
"Alright, go for it, I swear I won't tell a soul."
"About five years ago, two months before we knew him, Sora's parents split up and his mother dragged him away from his old hometown. That's pretty bad a person to begin with, but what they did not realise is that Sora had a crush on his best friend in his old town. When he moved away he was devastated to the point to where he cries every night thinking about how he never got to tell him his feelings for him.
"Tonight, considering we haven't seen each other in over six months, it came to a shock to Sora that everyone else in the band had girlfriends and in your case a boyfriend and it hurt Sora, because he has never been able to open himself properly to anyone else nor to express himself about his attractions to anyone because of that incident. And seeing us all have partners was basically adding insult to injury.
"But there is a little bit of hope, there is one person that Sora does openly talk to besides from us, and that person lives about 3000 miles away. Which is pretty bad, but there is something between them, it's just they are both too naïve to notice it…"
Yuffie was stunned, all this time she thought Sora was energetic and actually happy in his life, but to have this sort of thing told to her by Leon changed everything. Of course she knew that he was a bisexual, everyone in the band knew that, but a crush on your best friend, only to be separated before you could tell them is just heartbreaking.
"Why didn't he tell anyone else? Yuffie asked feeling guilty for not noticing.
"Because he didn't want anyone else to worry about his own problems, he even didn't want to tell me about it until he broke down crying one day at school and he told only me it." Leon said, looking down at the ground, remembering that day.
"So he's always been miserable, but he still managed to smile even when he miserable." Yuffie said, looking up at Leon, who nodded in agreement.
"Let's just hope his depression doesn't push him too far."
Leo: Well there we go, two chapters in one day… that's so cool
Molokai: Please review, we'd love to hear what you have to say…
