BWAHAHA!! ... Next chapter... finally...
Naruto, Kingdom Hearts, Inuyasha, and FF7 don't belong to meh!!
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Ninjas, Demons, and Hearts! Oh My!
Chapter Six
"Fine. If no one else is brave enough, then I'll do it," Inuyasha grumbled.
They needed a volunteer to see how the powder would effect them. Let's just say that no one rushed up to that offer.
He held out a hand as Ophelia poured some onto it. Everyone waited, expecting something like spontaneous combustion to happen.
"Now what?" he asked impatiently.
"Umm... " Ophelia was making this up as she went along. "Hold on." She snatched up the Inuyasha DVD the powder had landed on and put it in his other hand.
Still nothing.
"That's it! I'm out of ideas," she decided, after only one try, sitting down on the couch by Tobi. After the incident at the mall, she felt safer around the strange Akatsuki member. "Why don't some of you geniuses do something?"
"Yeah, Vexen," Axel said, grinning. "You're supposed to be smart.
"I don't do magic tricks," Vexen disagreed.
"Kupo!"
Everyone looked down to see the moogle. Then it dawned on Ophelia.
"Yeah! Aren't moogles good at this sort of stuff?" she asked.
"Kupo!" The moogle grabbed the powder and the ginea pig (Inuyasha) and set to work.
"Come and get it!"
Ophelia had ordered take-out that night instead of pizza. She was sure that no one wanted it two nights in a row. And instead of watching PotC:1 and The Matrix, they watched PotC:2 and Liar, Liar. Rin didn't freak out like she did with the undead pirates.
"Teehee... They look like fish," she had said, describing Davy Jones' crew.
Ophelia felt a tap on her shoulder and turned to see Demyx, holding Transformers.
"Before we have to go back, I want to watch this one," he whispered. She just smiled, got up, and went to the den. The two were soon followed by Hinata, Rin, Deidara, and, of course, Tobi.
"I'm sick of pirates, hmm," Deidara complained. "Don't you have movies with more explosions? Hm."
"Don't worry. This movie has plenty of—" she stopped mid-sentence, her mind racing. What if she put in their DVDs? Would anything show up since they weren't there? "Hold on a sec."
With that, Ophelia practically leapt up the stairs to her room, grabbed the disks, and leapt back down.
She was at the doorway to the den when she stopped. Demyx and Deidara were definitely enjoying the movie too much to be disturbed. So instead, she went to her room and used her DVD player. Hesitating slightly, Ophelia placed the Naruto Shippuden disk in the tray and closed it. She backed up, DVD remote in hand, and waited.
Of course she didn't expect the whole TV set to explode. Who would have?
Ophelia let out a startled scream/yelp. Along with that and the sound of the explosion, everyone in the mansion heard. Even Zexion, who was in the library at the other end of the house.
Tobi was the first one in the room. No surprise there. Followed by Demyx, then Deidara, and soon, almost everyone there. They all stared at the smoldering pile of a TV set. Ophelia attempted to explain what happened, but it just came out as a bunch of stutters. She was quite shaken.
"A-a-and it jus-st... BOOM!"
"Ophelia-chan is bleeding," Tobi pointed out.
She lifted her hand to her face and, sure enough, when she looked, her fingers had blood on them. Oh, how she hated blood. A piece of glass must have flown out at her.
"You don't look so good," Sora said warily.
At first, she thought about sitting down, but she was instantly aware of something else.
"The disk!" she cried and ran over to the crispy DVD player. Since the player was no good anymore, she pried open the tray and sighed in relief. The disk was okay. A little scratched up, but okay. They could still go home. Ophelia promised herself to never try that again.
"I'm sorry. I almost destroyed your way home," she apologized to the ninjas from Shippuden.
"It's not like we're in any hurry, yeah... And— jeez! Ar you crying, un?"
Oh god, she was crying! And in front of everyone! What in the world was she blubbering about? Even she wasn't sure.
"Th-they almost wound up l-like Jareth!" she sobbed pitifully. Why did she have to tear up at the most inappropriate times?
Ophelia suddenly felt little arms wrap around her waist. She looked down to see Rin.
"It's alright. We know you were just trying to help," the small girl comforted.
Everyone else just kind of looked at the scene, feeling awkward, when they heard sniffling. All eyes were on Zestu now.
"Suck it up man!" the dark half demanded to his other half. This caused Ophelia to burst out laughing.
"Oh man! We forgot to pause the movie!" Sora suddenly remembered, making quite the commotion. Everyone was like: "Crap! We did!" Then the room was empty, save for the group from the den.
"Umm... I'm gonna finish Transformers," Demyx mumbled and shuffled out as well. Deidara, Hinata, and Rin followed close behind. Ophelia would have left too, if it weren't for someone grabbing her sleeve. She jumped, but quickly realized who it was.
"Yes, Tobi?"
He hesitated, as if he wasn't sure he wanted to say something or not. Then, finally, he spoke.
"When Ophelia-chan screamed... it... frightened Tobi."
Whatever she had been expecting him to say, it certainly wasn't that. How could she have possibly scared...
Ophelia's thoughts were cut short when she was suddenly jerked forward and enveloped in his arms. Was he hugging her? One of the fearsome Akatsuki was hugging her? She knew Tobi was strange, but...
"I was scared because I thought you were in trouble, idiot."
Woah. No third-person pro-nouns. Now he was acting strange, even for Tobi.
Then, without warning, he let go and stalked out of the room.
Ophelia was so confused by that point, she didn't bother with asking him what he meant. Though, if her guesses were correct... But things like that only happened in fairy tales. Then again, she was practically living one anyway. Who was to say she couldn't fall in love?
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Stupid, stupid, stupid!
How could he fall for someone he just met, not three days ago?!
Of course Tobi had heard the old saying "Love at first sight", but to actually experience it? A whole other matter completely. Seeing her big blue eyes look at him for the first time. Having the urge to protect her from anything and everything. And... No. He wouldn't think about that. Soon they would all return home and life would go back to normal.
Yes. And until then, Tobi would just have to deal with the whole "falling in love with Ophelia" thing as best he could.
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Well, until next time!