Well, here's chapter 15 guys. I'm so sorry for the wait. It took me forever to write the chapter after. I hope you enjoy it. There are a few swear words in this chappy, so advance warning. Oh, and Cloudnapping. ^_^
Enjoy~!
Chapter 15
Leon woke the next morning, and as soon as he opened his eyes he regretted it greatly as pain stabbed its way into his cranium via his eyeballs. "Holy Shiva on a breadstick!" Leon swore and closed his eyes again, groaning as his head spun. This was not a good way to wake up in the morning.
Cloud shifted on his left (or was it his right? Leon couldn't tell at the moment) and placed a hand on his cheek. "Leon?" he asked quietly.
Leon moaned in pain again, eyes squeezed shut. "Shhh…. Don't talk," he pleaded quietly.
Cloud stayed still for a moment before the bed moved again and within seconds there was a small glass of something pressed to Leon's lips. "Drink this. It'll help."
Not even pausing to think about what was in the jar, Leon downed the liquid and swallowed, gasping in shock and shuddering as his veins lit on fire. By the time the heat died down, Leon groaned and cautiously cracked open his eyes, sighing in relief as he turned to look at a curious looking Cloud. "Whatever that was, I never want one again." Shuddering, he rolled out of bed, braced himself on the wall as his head spun, and then headed to the bathroom to down a heap of water.
Cloud followed him cautiously, hovering in the doorway as he watched Leon down handful after handful of water from the tap. "How are you feeling?"
"Dehydrated. Hangover is gone though," Leon rasped as he turned the tap off and dried his hands. "What did you give me?"
"A hangover potion. I picked it up from the Hospital Wing last night."
"Right." Leon turned to look at his partner, leaning against the sink in just his boxers as he crossed his arms. "Now tell me, why did I need it in the first place?"
Cloud pursed his lips and flicked his gaze up and down his lover for a second or so. "What do you remember?"
"We went drinking with Reno and Zack. That's about it."
"Okay. Well, long story short, they got you plastered," Cloud replied with a shrug.
Leon's gaze narrowed. "How?"
"They kept giving you spiked drinks," Cloud replied with a wince as he averted his gaze.
"And you didn't stop them?"
"I would have if I'd noticed! As it was, I didn't notice until too late. Those two are geniuses at spiking drinks under my nose, and just because I haven't seen them for six years doesn't mean that their skill has diminished any." Cloud's blue gaze flew to Leon's in a glare.
Leon sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose between his fingers. They stood in silence for a while before Leon turned to turn the shower on, and with a last, meaningful glare at Cloud, he stripped out of his boxers and stepped under the warm spray.
Cloud, getting the message that he wasn't welcome, stepped out of the bathroom and shut he door. Leaning against the wood, the blond closed his eyes and let his head thump back against the wood for a few seconds. Pushing off and walking back over to the bed, he took his time getting dressed.
By the time Leon emerged, Cloud was just doing up the last of the leather armor, and he paused when it was done to watch the brunette appreciatively as he got dressed.
Leon still didn't talk to him, so Cloud assumed he simply wasn't going to. Standing, he picked up his sword, slung it onto his back and walked to the door. Walking out without a word, he began the walk to the Great Hall by himself.
As he entered for breakfast, Cloud was met with a waving arm from Sora as he leant out into the aisle to make himself stand out better.
"Morning!" Sora greeted chirpily as Cloud approached. "Where's Leon?"
"And how is he?" Yuffie asked with a grin.
"He's pissed," Cloud replied with a sigh and slipped into the seat beside the brunette teenager.
"Oh…." Yuffie cringed. "Good luck getting him out of that funk."
"Thanks…I think," Cloud replied as he rolled his eyes.
"So what are you guys doing today?" Sora asked as he looked at Yuffie, dragging her into the conversation as well.
"Talking to Professor McGonagall," Cloud replied.
Pink smoke suddenly filled the main entrance, and as everyone turned to look at the commotion, Marluxia stepped out of the smoke, cherry blossom petals floating around him. "Good morning my petals!" Marluxia greeted cheerily as he practically skipped down the corridors, the area and people on either side of him getting covered with cherry blossom petals as he skipped along.
"Marluxia, what the fuck are you wearing?" Axel asked loudly as he took in the Graceful Assassin as he came within scrutinizing distance.
Marluxia stopped and looked down at the new robes he'd picked up the day before. The undergarments were green and black, while the outer cloak was a pretty dark green colour and had pink blossoms fluttering around as he moved. All in all, he looked like a rather controlled flower storm. "What? I like it."
"I like it too Marly," Demyx added with a smile. "It suits you."
"Naww, thank you Demy," Marluxia smiled as he patted the water mage on the head and continued skipping merrily for the teacher's table, greeting Professor Sprout with a cheery good morning.
"You're not supposed to encourage him," Axel hissed with a sigh. "My god. I'm surrounded by flamboyant idiots!"
"I will have to disagree with that statement," Zexion argued as he passed by, a frown on his face as he had his Lexicon out and was reading something. "We aren't all flamboyant, and we aren't all idiots."
Axel grumbled and planted his chin on his hand, a disgruntled sneer on his face.
"Some one's in a cheery mood this morning," Riku said as he walked past, nodding to Demyx.
"Shut the fuck up Riku," Axel grouched as he flicked the silver haired teen his middle finger.
Snorting in laughter, Riku flicked him one back and continued walking down the aisle to sit with Sora, Yuffie and Cloud. "Morning."
"Good morning Riku," Sora greeted with a smile as Yuffie shuffled over to make room for the other teen. "How'd you sleep?"
"Okay, if it hadn't been for some idiot trying to make a potion at one am this morning."
"What happened?" Cloud asked curiously.
"It exploded. We have orange paint all over the common room, and no one's owning up to it."
"You sure it wasn't Pinky?" Yuffie asked in amusement as she craned her neck to see the pink haired nobody exchanging words with a very unimpressed looking Vexen.
"Pretty sure," Riku replied with a sigh. "How's Leon this morning?"
Cloud was about to answer when the subject of conversation walked past, ignoring them completely.
Riku winced. "Not good I'm assuming?"
Cloud rolled his eyes in response. "Excuse me." Getting up, he followed his partner up to the main table and dragged him to the side, the two getting into a quiet argument filled with lots of angry glaring.
Yuffie sighed as she watched them. "Ah jeeze. Oh well, not our problem." She went back to her breakfast. "They'll kiss and make up soon enough."
Sora and Riku looked at each other and shrugged, Riku serving himself up some breakfast while Sora continued eating.
"What have you got today?" Riku asked Sora.
Sora listed off all his classes, asking Riku the same question back.
"Can I come?" Yuffie asked suddenly.
Both teens blinked at her in surprise.
"Well, if we stay I'm going to have to become a student, and I'll be in the same age group as Riku," the ninja explained. "May as well get a feel for what will happen if we do stay."
"Sure," Riku consented with a shrug. "I don't mind."
"Thanks." She grinned and downed the rest of her pumpkin juice.
"Don't think I'll be explaining everything to you though."
"Got it," she replied in amusement. "A chance to bug the teachers. Awesome."
Riku met Sora's gaze and rolled his eyes, getting stuck back into his breakfast.
Sora just grinned and continued eating.
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Riku stopped and stared, blinking in surprise at the scene that he'd walked across later that afternoon.
Demyx was screaming like a little girl, and trying to helplessly shield himself against some Ravenclaw students that had water guns, and were attacking the blond. Riku recognized one of the girls as the one he and Demyx had accidently doused in water a few days back. Backing up a few steps, he quickly tried to disappear, hissing in shock as a sharp spray of water doused the back of his head.
"What the hell was that for?" he growled as he turned to face the group of five, glaring at them angrily.
"Payback for the other day," the Ravenclaw girl huffed as she hefted the large water gun and settled it on her shoulder, her other hand planted on her hip.
The two glared daggers at each other while the other four Ravenclaw students looked nervously between the two.
"Ugh… I'm all wet," Demyx whined as he stood, his shoes and clothes absolutely soaked.
"Demyx," Riku began lightly, getting the blonde's attention. "You're a water mage."
The girl rolled her eyes. "Oh come on, that scare tactic won't work."
Demyx blinked at Riku in confusion. "Huh?"
"You're a water mage," Riku repeated. "There's water. We need revenge for this causeless attack."
Demyx blinked a couple of times, suddenly getting it as he grinned.
The Ravenclaw's looked unsure, the female leading the attack still looking unimpressed. "Oh please. Water mage my arse. There hasn't been a witch or wizard truly blessed in elemental magic for centuries."
One of the other girls squeaked in surprise as the water around their feet started bubbling and moving to form one big bubble of water, Demyx drawing the water out of his hair and clothes as he did so. Standing up once the bubble was fully formed, Demyx smiled fondly as the water curled itself around him, caressing his skin lovingly, but not leaving him wet.
Looking at the girl that had led the attack, Demyx grinned, the grin filled with mischief. "You going to join in Riku?" the blond asked.
"Nah, I'll leave you to it," Riku replied as he flicked his hand and shook his hair in distaste, grumbling in annoyance at the water that dripped off it, soaking his robes around his shoulders. "I'm supposed to be meeting Sora."
"Okay."
The Ravenclaw students all began backing up, a couple dropping their guns.
Riku turned with a wave and left. "Have fun."
"Hey, wait a….!"
"Dance water, dance!" Demyx yelled, and the corridor was suddenly filled with loud screams as the collected water rose and swept down and over the Ravenclaw's like a tidal wave, the move effectively starting a no-holds-bar water fight that involved wands, hoses, and even water balloons conjured by Peeves as the poltergeist cackled and joined in, helping Demyx thoroughly soak the Ravenclaw students.
Riku made his way down the steps and paused, looking back as he noticed the water starting to spill out of the corridor and into the stairwell, steadily running over the edge. Shaking his head, he rung his hair out a bit as he went to find his best friend.
A couple of staff members shot past him, and Riku smirked a bit as they paid him no mind. He had a brown haired idiot to find.
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Cloud rounded a corner, looking for Leon who had conspicuously disappeared on him, again, and stopped when his clothes suddenly went POOF.
Blinking, he looked down at himself, eyes growing wide as he realized his usual black SOLDIER uniform had been replaced with a little pink number. He was wearing his combat boots still, along with black and yellow chocobo socks, but his pants had been changed into a very short skirt that was the gayest shade of pink imaginable.
Actually, scratch that. It was a very short, frilly, fluffy, lacy skirt that stopped just above mid thigh, and his usual black zip up shirt had been replaced with a black, pink and silver chest hugging corset, complete with poofy shoulders with black lace, and black and pink lace cuffs on his wrists.
Feeling a tick beginning to grow, he looked up at the suspiciously quiet corridor and scanned the crowd of glittery, flowery, poufy, lacey, bubbly, and colorful outfits currently being worn by about twenty students, feeling his anger overriding his surprise and amusement.
"All right, who did it?"
No one answered. They were all too afraid to move as they stared at the skimpily dressed blond fighter, who still had his sword strapped to his back ironically.
Cloud meanwhile planted his hands on his hips and glared at the corridor of students. "I said, who did it?" he growled.
One of the students suddenly stiffened and twitched.
Cloud focused in on him immediately, snarling, "was it you?"
"I-uh-no-I," the sparkly boy stuttered, absolutely terrified.
"IT WAS HIM!" One of the students suddenly screamed, and that was all Cloud needed to hear.
His hand rose up to grip his sword, snarling as he pulled it off his back and held it behind him. "I am going to rip your innards from your body and then send you back to your parents in pieces for that little prank."
The boy suddenly screamed and sprinted in the opposite direction, hiking up his long, orange, sparkly skirts to run faster as Cloud took off after him.
"GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE RUNT!"
"HELP ME!" he wailed as he sprinted through the corridors and around corners, tears running from his eyes.
Cloud gradually began to close in on the boy, and just as he got within swinging distance, he was suddenly yanked back by the collar, sword flying from his grip to land against the wall as he was thrown to the ground. Shaking off his shock, he sat up and glared at Leon and Vexen, growling as he realized the boy was well and truly gone. "YEAH, YOU'D BETTER RUN YOU LITTLE RUNT! THE NEXT TIME I SEE YOU I'M GOING TO SKIN YOU ALIVE!" he yelled after the boy.
Growling, Cloud stood up, dusted himself off and turned to glare at his lover. "What gives? You made me lose him," he snapped angrily.
Leon meanwhile ran his gaze over Cloud's outfit heatedly, blinking as he watched the already short skirt rise teasingly up the blonde's backside as he bent over to scoop his sword up, checking it over for scratches and dints, clucking his tongue in annoyance as he spotted a couple on the handle and further down the blade.
"Cloud," he said quietly, and the blonde's blue gaze flew to him curiously.
"What?"
"What happened?"
Cloud snarled and turned to glare in the direction the boy had gone, sword hanging by his side. "The kid hit me with a spell as I came around the corner, and this is what you get. " He walked over to his lover, still looking down the corridor. "Stupid, annoying-" he suddenly yelped as he was thrown over Leon's shoulder, his sword dropping to the ground in his surprise. "Wha-Leon!"
"We'll continue this later," the brunette said to the blond academic before turning and heading back the way they had come.
"Leon! Put me down!" Cloud wailed, flailing and kicking on his lover's shoulder. "PUT ME DOWN!"
Vexen watched them go in amusement, listening to the yelp of indignation from Cloud as Leon shoved his hand up the back of Cloud's skirt, feeling whatever was there, and the loud slap from one of them followed by a yelp. Probably Cloud.
Shaking his head, Vexen headed back down the corridor that Cloud had just come from. Cloud could come back for his sword. He wasn't going to even attempt to move it.
Vexen blinked as he noticed a couple of students heading his way in sparkly, poufy, princess dresses, large blushes on their faces as they quickly ran to where they were trying to get to, obviously without being seen.
Shaking his head in amusement, he continued on his way. Xigbar and Xaldin would appreciate this little piece of gossip.
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Yuffie blinked as Leon came down to dinner that night by himself, a smug smirk on his face. Ducking out of her seat, she fell into step beside the brunette and leant forward to study his face thoughtfully as they walked.
Leon just looked at her, his grey eyes filled with mirth.
"Where's Cloud?" She asked cautiously.
"He's…occupied," Leon replied with a smirk.
"So I take it you two are over your spat?"
Leon glanced at the ninja for a second before sighing and nodding.
"You know Cloud didn't get you drunk on purpose, right? It was all Zack and Reno."
Leon nodded. "I know. That's why I'm here."
Blinking a couple of times, Yuffie stopped and stared as her friend walked up to the staff table and tapped the Headmistress on the arm. Talking to her quietly for a few seconds, she nodded and pushed her chair out and stood up.
Leon led her out of the Great Hall and Yuffie followed, purely out of curiosity.
They made it to the Entrance Hall, and Yuffie had to bite her tongue to hold back her giggles as Cloud stepped out of the shadows of an alcove. His normal black outfit wasn't present. Instead, the blond was wearing a dress. His cheeks were flushed red as Leon smirked at him, and the blue eyes narrowed in a glare as he flipped his lover his middle finger.
The Headmistress, to her credit, barely blinked and circled the blond once before pulling out her wand and casting a spell.
Cloud sighed in relief as his clothes morphed back to their usual look, and he gave his boyfriend an annoyed look. The three headed into the Great Hall, and Yuffie snuck back in after them with a giggle. Whoever said she wasn't a great ninja obviously didn't know her well.
tbc
*giggles* Well, i hope you enjoyed it. Anyway, i'm off to go and put a large load of washing on. I haven't started the next chapter yet, but i have ideas, so I may start it tonight/tomorrow. Probably tomorrow. :) Night all!
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