Authors Note: I love the people who are following/favoriting/reviewing the story c: Honestly you're the best.

This chapter is a bit short, but full of surprises xD
I didn't have time to do a spell check or anything.

MY COMPUTER GOT THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH SO IM GONNA TAKE A BIT LONGER WITH STORY UPDATES, IM SORRY.

I hope you enjoy! c:

"Oh hey, Ven" Riku blinked "Didn't expect to see you here."

"Honestly the same" Ventus smiled "So what are you doing here?"

"Sora has been at my house bugging me about getting him a snack" Riku sighed "I gave in because he gave me this puppy dog face. It's like impossible to resist"

"Oh I bet it can't be that hard" Ven laughed.

"You think so?" Riku grabbed his phone from his pocket and flipped it open. He pressed a few buttons and then showed Ventus the screen. "That is what he looks like with the face"

Ventus looked at Riku and then at the phone. As soon as he did, he became drawn to the sad adorableness that is Sora's big blue eyes that show for when he's asking for something. "Wow... I see your problem now" Ventus agreed.

"Yeah, so since this is the only place I memorized on how to get to so far, I came here"

"Well Terra is doing the same thing. Except he just asked. I'm hanging out at his house tonight with Aqua too"

"You guys seem like a tight knit group" Riku smiled.

"Yep, they're my best friends in the world. Been with me since I was little"

"Cool" Riku smiled.

"I-I'm going to go get their d-donuts now" Ven stammered slightly at the sight of Riku's calm smile that just made him look twice as good.

"I'll wait for you outside" Riku offered.

"Oh you don't have to do that!" Ven brought his hands up in a defensive way.

"Don't worry about it, Sora can wait as payback for annoying me" He joked.

"A-Alright" Ventus stammered again and then went to go stand on line to order some donuts. While Riku walked out of the little store and waited.

About two minutes later Ventus had just got to the front and order the donuts he needed. While he was waiting for the workers to put the two dozen donuts in the boxes, his phone vibrated. He grabbed his cell from his pocket and opened it up to read the message: "Now don't make me wait too long"

He didn't recognize the number but by process of elimination, and looking out the window to see Riku smiling at him, he figured out it was his. Ven replied: "Chill your butt, they just finished with my order c:". He paid the cashier fourteen munny, grabbed the bag that the boxes were in and left the building. He met up with Riku and they started making nice small talk.

Little laughs, smiles, jokes and funny movie quotes made Ventus' crush grow a little bigger.

Ven and Riku stopped in front of a park because that is where they went their separate ways.

"So I'll see you in class on Monday?" Ventus asked.

"Yeah, so long as I don't get sick or something" Riku shrugged.

"Why do you think you'd get sick?" Ven questioned.

"My cousin, Zexion, he's got a little bit of the flu going on and I'm taking care of him. Since I'm living here with him, He's gotta be healthy to take care of me" He pointed out. "Although, it's ironic since I have to take care of him now, but whatever"

"Oh thats nice of you" Ventus smiled "Well, okay, I'll let you get back to him. Tell him I said to feel better"

"Yeah, okay. Bye Ventus" Riku smiled then started walking away.

Riku walked down the block and made a turn and disappeared from Ventus' sight. Ventus turned toward the entrance of the park and started walking. He was taking a shortcut to Terra's. Ven loved this short cut because this park was filled with the lovely sight of trees around the paths. He loved seeing all the smiling children playing on the playground and the happy couples walking around hand and hand.

While Ven was walking towards the exit where he needed to go, he looked over to the side to see a familiar set of spiky black hair hiding in a bundle of trees. He turned his head slightly to the side to get a better look at who he suspected was Vanitas. He walked closer to the set of tree's and hid behind one as he peaked towards what the other man was doing. He noticed that Vanitas was looking around him, looking around to see if there wasn't anyone around. He didnt notice Ven and what Vanitas did next surprised the blonde boy.

Vanitas started climbing a tree. Ven looked up to notice a small meowing kitten was stuck on one of the higher branches. He looked back at Vanitas and saw he was climbing quickly yet somehow gracefully. As graceful as anyone could be climbing up a big old tree. Vanitas climbed to the branch that was right under the kittens. Vanitas was wearing a red sweater with a black shirt and white jeans. He zipped the sweater and grabbed the small kitten into his hand. He put the kitten in his sweater and had its head sticking out to get some air.

Vanitas started climbing down carefully going down the same way he went up. He held the kitten in place with his hand and from what Ventus could see, the kitten was snuggling its head underneath Vanitas' chin. Vanitas was smiling slightly down at the cat and he made it down the tree. He pulled the cat out from his sweater and pet the fur on it's head for a quick minute before he set it down in front of an empty silver bowl. Vanitas walked by another tree and pulled out a brown paper bag. He walked back in front of the cat and took out a carton of milk and poured some of it in front of the bowl. "There you go little guy" He said as he petted the kitten that started drinking the milk. "You must be alone too, huh?"

What is he talking about...? Ventus thought to himself for a minute.

The cat meowed at Vanitas as if giving him an answer. "Yeah, it kind of sucks to be alone. Don't have much of a family" Vanitas rambled "I use to have someone who never made me feel alone, but they left me and forgot about me." Vanitas sighed.

I wonder who he's talking about? Ventus thought to himself. As he turned on his heel and went to start walking, he stepped on a twig and it made a crack that may as well have sounded like bomb going off.

Vanitas turned his head in the direction of the sound. A glare of death plastered on his face, because he knew that if someone saw him save the cat, he'd have to do some serious fighting in order to get them to never speak of it, or remember it. "I swear if someone is here..." Vanitas grumbled to himself "But anyway, the only reason I saved you cat was because you remind me of how cute my friend was"

Ventus stood frozen in place holding his position hoping that Vanitas wouldn't get up to look around. Vanitas shifted his gaze around, but after a minute when he didn't find anyone, he went back to just taking care of the little kitten.

Ventus looked at the ground before he started walking to stepping on anymore twigs. He ran away from the sight he had just seen and started making his way to Terra's.

I don't know how to think about this. I mean all this time I thought of Vanitas as a mean and cruel and evil guy, whose sole purpose in life was to just pick on me until he gets bored. I mean, four years of bullying Ventus panicked as he thought. And in just five minutes, I see him climb a tree in an awesome way, save a cat, feed the cat and when I looked into his eyes... they were sincere... but really sad. Ven stopped running as soon as he hit Terra's block. He held his upper weight on his hands as he held them to his knees and panting. It feels so strange... to see someone I expected to be evil, to do something nice...

Ventus shook those thoughts out of his head as he regained his posture and started walking down the block and up to Terra's front porch. He rang the doorbell and waited for someone to answer the door.

Terra yelled that he'd get to the door in a sec. Ventus looked at his phone and saw that he was early, but he didn't care. Terra opened the door and Aqua was already in the game room helping setting things up.

Ven greeted Aqua and vice versa. The three of them started off with a comedy movie eating pizza went off to playing plenty of Black Ops, Call of Duty and Gears of War. Of course Aqua winning at all three, twice.

This entire time, they all had a great night. Somewhere in the back of Ven's mind though was still lurking around the "deal" he made with Vanitas. Plus the memory of Vanitas saving that kitten from the tree was still so adorable, but yet it still confused him. The whole "I'm alone" thing got to him a bit.

"Hey Ven" Terra shook his friends shoulder. "Ven!"

"Huh? Wha-? Oh! yeah, what?" Ven asked.

"You okay? you were spacing out" Aqua asked.

Ven was debating on whether or not he should tell his friends about the deal he made. But he shook his head against it because he knew Vanitas was going to make him regret it somehow. "No nothings wrong... I was just uh-" Ven quickly looked at the now empty bowl of chips, "Just wondering why we were out of chips" Ven got up from his seat on his favorite bean bag chair, grabbed the bowl and ran into the kitchen to fill up the bowl; hoping to avoid Terra or Aqua asking any further questions.

While Ventus was pouring all the chips into the bowl, Terra decided to pop into the kitchen to grab a couple extra soda's for himself and Aqua. "Hey Ven?"

"Yeah?"

"Whats up? Are you really sure you're okay?"

"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"

"Well I don't know... So about Vanitas-"

Ventus jumped at the sound of his name, a slight chill ran up his spine. The slight flashback of the dream he had came into his mind and he caught a lump in his throat. "What about h-him?" He stuttered a bit at the thought of possible questions.

"Well... what did he talk to you about at school? He didnt like threaten your life or something did he?"

"Not really no..."

"So what did he say?"

"I dont know, what did Aqua say when you finally asked her?"

Terra jumped and looked shocked at Ven. "I d-didn't actually have a-a chance t-to ask her o-out yet..."

"Hey, I triple dog dared you" Ventus squinted playfully evil at him. "So are you going to do it, or will I?" He smirked.

"No no no, I'll do it." Terra sighed. "Aqua! Could you come here for a sec?" He called out to her in the other room.

Aqua called back and Ventus patted his best friend on the back before he left back to the game room. He walked past her on the way and quickly said "Say yes!" and kept going.

Ven sat down on the couch and started watching the still going movie they decided to watch. It was some kind of Detective Movie. He made a mental note to write down everything in his journal before he went to bed tonight.

Oddly enough Aqua and Terra were taken a few minutes and Ventus grew tired of waiting. He was about to get up but he felt his eyelids grow heavy. A big envelope of sleep just covered over his body. He decided to close his eyes for a minute and ended up falling asleep.

Images of Vanitas started popping up again. What was his brains deal? Just because Vanitas is seeming a bit nice, for whatever deranged reason he wanted to be, he was somehow enjoying it. Never seeing Vanitas as anything but a huge ass hole was just to good to resist.

He wondered if it was some kind of witch craft at every image of Vanitas' face. Who cares? Getting a bully off your back is just amazing. But whats the cost of it?

A few hours later, Ventus woke up on an air mattress in Terra's room. He rubbed his eyes to get rid of all the gunk and to help clear up his vision. He looked around after blinking a few times and saw that Aqua and Terra were cuddling on his bed. Ventus smiled She must've said yes He thought.

In Vanitas' house friday night went by like every other night, nothing to do. He hated his life right now.

His father Xigbar getting drunk again while yelling at the TV about "you could've made it into the N zone you moron!" when it wasn't even on.

Vanitas sighed and cursed under his breath. He held that kitten that he saved that afternoon in his hand. Stroking the fur on it's head. He locked the front door and his dad yelled at him to go make him a sandwich. "Go make it yourself you drunk twat" Was his reply.

It's been like this everyday for years. God every fucking day since mom died, I don't understand why the fuck dad had to become an alcoholic. He thought Mom dying was seriously fucking horrible but I would've choose weed over alcohol. At least the smell is better to me.

He brought the cat inside his room and laid it gently on his pillow. He stared at the cat as it was staring at him back. "I checked, you're a guy cat. So what should I name you?" That cat meowed and licked the back of it's paw. "You know... you're kind of cute for a small ball of fluff." He watched it move around. "You remind me of... Ventus." The cat meowed and looked like it was smiling into Vanitas' yellow orbs with it's own green ones. "Alright, I'll name you Ventus. Ven for short" He smirked and sat on his bed. He grabbed a remote and turned on the television. He started relaxing and the cat jumped into his lap. It purred and snuggled itself into a ball.

"You still picking up strays, Vanitas?" Xigbar asked as he standed in his son's door way.

"Yeah. What of it old man?" He asked bitterly as he was channel surfing.

"This one is probably going to run away too. Like all the other pets, you suck at taking care of them"

"Shut up dickwad and get out of my room" He snarled. "While you're at it, lay of the vodka, I can smell it from here and it's not a pleasant smell from you. When was the last time you showered?" He held his nose for emphasis.

"Shut up brat, I still haven't given up on my military school offer."

"Yeah yeah. Just leave" He waved off his dad and Xigbar went to the bathroom for whatever reasons. He started petting the kitten in his lap again. "Hey Ventus, if you plan on leaving again, try to let me know..." He drifted off and fell asleep eventually.

He was having a dream about the actual Ventus, blonde hair and blue eyes with such soft features on his face. The same dream he always loved to have. The dream of them six year old boys in the park and Ven leaving to go home and pack...