by Flare Haynekie
Disclaimer: …………
Warnings: AU, OOC-ness, shonen-ai, Kairi-bashing?
Author's notes: Um, this was written on different days, which is probably why the ideas shift a lot. Sorry!
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Chapter 15: Cloud arrives
Hours later, when the sun was down, and the stars where high in the sky, Sora was sitting down in Yuffie's kitchen eating the Devil Fudge Cake after Yuffie had given him some weird dinner with seafood (don't ask). Riku sat across him, watching Sora eat the hot cake (just finished baking) with ice cream.
"You like it?" Riku asked when Sora looked up to wonder what Riku was so interested in.
"Yeah! You want some?" Sora asked, grabbing a spoonful of cake and ice cream and showing it to Riku.
Riku ate it. "No more okay? Remember that you have to sleep early."
Sora looked at Riku questionably as he swallowed. "What do you mean?"
"I don't know what I'll do tomorrow, but you have to go pick up Cloud at the airport."
"You're going to school, that's for sure."
"I don't think so. I'm going with you to keep you company and to meet this cousin of yours."
"But you'll go to school on Monday right?"
"I'm not sure. Which reminds me, when are you starting classes?"
"Monday…"
Riku blinked. "Oh."
Sora nodded, finishing his plate of cake and ice cream, Riku picking it and placing it on the sink. "Yeah, it's a drag." Sora added.
"Then I'll go to school on Monday." Riku decided. "Can't leave my Fluffy alone, right?"
"Fluffy?"
"Fluffy?"
"You said Fluffy when referring to me."
"I did?" Riku sighed. "Maybe I'm just tired."
Yuffie entered the kitchen, rubbing her eyes. "Guys? What are you two doing awake? I thought for sure that you two were asleep hours ago."
Riku looked at her curiously. "Yuffie? Where exactly were you?"
"Watching a movie on TV? I think I fell asleep halfway." Yuffie said, yawning.
"A movie?" Sora asked, Riku pulling him up.
"Some weird old movie about a green heart-shaped stone. Anyway, get your ass upstairs. You both have an early morning tomorrow." [1]
The boys laughed as they rushed up the stairs.
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There was a knock from the door, Sora rolling off the bed onto the floor. Another knock, and Riku also rolled off the bed, falling onto Sora.
"OW!"
"Sorry."
"You guys up already?" Yuffie asked, opening the door.
"Out of the bed at least." Riku replied, getting up and helping Sora on the way.
Yuffie sighed as Riku walked past her in direction of the bathroom with Sora trailing behind him. "You guys better hurry up. It's already 9:30 and Sion told me that Sora needed to be at the airport before ten."
Rushing was heard as the boys rushed to take a bath and get dressed. As soon as they were ready, they ran out the door without eating anything. They made it at the airport with three minutes to spare, Riku holding Sora before the brunet fell on the floor due to exhaustion.
"We could've walked you know. Make your cousin wait an all." Riku said, as Sora breathed normal again.
"Cloud wouldn't like that. He gets annoying if you make him wait." Sora said, looking around the crowd. "Help me find him. He has hair kinda like mine, only his is a very bright blond."
"And blue eyes?"
"Yeah… how did you know?"
"He's coming while glaring at me. I think he hates me more now."
Cloud was walking over to them, holding his duffle bag in one hand, and a suitcase in the other. Looking overly pissed, he stopped in front of them. "Sora…?"
"Hi Cloud! Um, this here is Riku. Remember? You talked to him on my phone yesterday." Sora said, trying to calm down Cloud's rage.
"This is Riku?"
"The one and only." Riku said, grinning.
"Hmm. I guess you can't be that bad." Cloud said, giving Riku his duffle bag. "Let's go you two, I want some breakfast. Airplane food sucks."
"Breakfast?" Sora asked. "Oh my God! Riku, we missed breakfast!"
Riku sighed. "Of course we did. We just woke up a while ago, remember?"
"I'm hungry." Sora whined, giving Riku the dreaded pout-look Riku hated.
"Fine, we'll stop for breakfast on the way home. But I'm not paying anyone." Riku quickly said.
"But I didn't bring money." Sora whined.
Riku checked his pockets. "Shit, me either. Then let's go home and eat something there. I think Yuffie made breakfast already."
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"Thanks for feeding me, um.." Cloud trailed off.
"It's Yuffie Kisaragi. And don't worry, it's practically my job to feed these two already, so why not another mouth?" Yuffie asked herself.
"Did you sleep okay, Yuff?" Riku asked.
"NO! I didn't, so get it through your head!" Yuffie practically screamed, before walking out the kitchen area.
Cloud just looked at them as they all ate. He wondered how could Riku, a complete stranger, make Sora so happy in such a short while (five days counting this one).
"Sora, want to go to the beach again today?" Riku asked. "Today's Friday so its swimming time for our gang."
"Swimming time? Like the other day?" Sora asked.
"Yeah. You don't have to swim if you don't want to."
"If it's like last time, then I guess it's okay!" Sora gave them a big smile.
"Wait, hold up!" Cloud suddenly said. "Sora is going swimming? My baby cousin who is water phobic?"
"Yeah, your baby cousin is going swimming." Riku said. "You can come too if you want to."
"Maybe I will go. When are we going?"
"Well, after we finish this, we'll go get changed, put another shirt and some sandals, then we're going to say hi to Caroline while we wait for lunch time, which is when the gang is out of school, and then we'll go to the beach."
"I have to go see this. Sora is actually going to swim."
"Yeah. And if you stick around after swimming, you can ask Selphie about the legend. She'll inform you on it."
"No!!!!!!" Sora whined. "Don't tell Selphie, Bunny! Don't tell her. She'll tell my father and your father and then we'll be separated. You can't let her tell!" Sora started to cry.
"Sora?" Riku asked. "Shit, he's daydreaming again." Riku held Sora. "Sora! Listen to me. It's okay. Even if she tells, nothing will happen. Sora, wake up!"
"Rikue…"
"No, Sora. I'm not Rikue, I'm just Riku. And you're Sora, not Sorae."
"Wha-? Riku? What's wrong?"
"So you're finally awake? You okay now?"
"Did I do it again?"
"Yes."
Cloud groaned. "What's going on here?!"
Riku patted Sora's hair as the brunet dried his tears. "When you find out at the legend, I'll tell you. Because this is where the weird stuff starts."
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To be continued!
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[Author's note]
Erm, yeah… this is a weird chapter… I wrote it at Judit's and Zuzu's house!!
[Things you should know]
1. The old movie Yuffie's talking about is called "Romancing the Stone" and it's a funny movie. I love it!
[Thanks to]
1. synchu – (x2) as always, lots of thanks!
2. Himoko Yatsumi – first of all, yes, there's a small plot… the legend is supposed to be unclear until further notice! Yes, I know how it will end…
3. piggiesofdoom - … university…. Grrr. Yeah. Um, yeah.
4. babymar-mar – yes, Cloud's coming, Cloud's coming! Weee!!!!!!!
5. cammy-world666 – erm, very interesting! Do tell how he proposed!!! (x2) it's getting beta and beta! Oui?
6. Shi no Yume – sankyu!
7. Kidie, Vanessa, Rei, and Kai – sankyu, all four of you! Your review was fun to read too! Made me laugh at the uni compu lab!
8. Bluumberry – good luck with the game!!! Yeah, The End of The World is a very confusing place!
9. MagRowan – sankyu! And yes, uni is a blast!
10. penny – sure, thanks for reviewing!
I've got to deeply apologize to everyone waiting for this chapter. I'm so sorry! I was gonna post it up last week (eek!), and I was gonna do it in the university computer lab, but the internet in the whole uni fell! And then I couldn't use the computer at home (at all, so I haven't written much either), so yeah. Here's the chapter, and pray that it doesn't happen again!
---- Flare