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Chapter III: New Start

"Please Xehanort!" Sora pleaded.

"Now why should I let you go? You could get hurt." Xehanort smiled. "People will see you as a small helpless boy and would try to do very bad things."

"I'll wear my uniform. Please, I'll be back before dark!" Sora felt like he was talking to his parents. Only, he wasn't a kid, and Xehanort sure as hell wasn't his father. (Or is he?)

Xehanort looked at him. "The glasses. Off." Sora sighed. The only time he ever took off his sun glasses off was when he was alone or in complete darkness. He hated having them off because people would look into his eyes and assume he was weak. So, reluctantly he took them off, revealing a pair of deep ocean blue eyes. Xehanort smiled. "Now why would you keep a gorgeous pair of eyes like yours-"

"Can I go, or not?" Sora asked getting irritated. He hated people commenting about his eyes.

"Fine. But be back before dark." Xehanort warned.

"Thank you." Sora ran out of the office and down the stairs. Normally he would just wait till get what he needed on his weekend off, but seeing as how Christmas was in two days, and his weekend off wasn't till next weekend, he knew he couldn't wait. And he was getting a Christmas gift. Now Sora, he hated Christmas shopping. All the people who did it he thought were idiots, because there were just running around buying meaningless items that people didn't care about. And also because of his parents. They lived by strict Christian rules and Sora refused to live by them. People at the church would question everything he did and would him to recite things from them Bible, even though he kept telling them he didn't read it because he saw no point to it. So, when he moved out of his parents' house, he got a job as a prison guard and met his first boyfriend. But then his parents found out about his life style, they disowned him, and when his boyfriend found out about the fact that he never came out to his parents, he dumped him. So now, Sora fends for himself, and keeps everyone at a distance.

Sora had caught the bus right on time. He got on and took a seat next to the window. Then he noticed he wasn't alone.

"Hey Luxord." Sora said blankly.

"Hello Love." Luxord took the seat next to him. "Boss."

"Of course. He throws a fit when I going to home for a weekend." Sora crossed his arms. "He never treats like an adult. He thinks of me as nothing more than a child." Sora looked out the window behind him and Luxord put his hand on his shoulder.

"Don't worry. I have something to get anyway. So you might be on your own for a while." Sora smiled. Luxord always knew how to cheer him up.

The bus seemed to take forever. It came to a stop in front of a shopping mall down town. Luxord and Sora jumped out. As they walked in, they saw two mall cops staring at them. Sora just rolled his eyes. To him, people never seemed to know what a prison guard's uniform looked like.

"Something wrong, Love?" Luxord asked.

"Why is it that whenever we're out in public, in uniform, we're constantly stared at?" Sora asked blankly.

"Well. . . Our uniforms are different from other prisons. Ours are designed to fit your bodies in situations such as fights, riots, and escape attempts." Luxord explained. "Most others are just standard police like uniforms."

"Really?" Sora only ever worked at Xehanort's prison. He thought that now a days, all prison had the same style of uniform. "So we're practically the only prison with skin tight jumpsuit-like ones?"

"That's right. And because of them, we're rated number one in guards." Luxord smiled. Sora just shook his head. Luxord was a nut, but just wanted to make the people around him happy.

Sora came to a stop in front of a book store and pointed inside. "I have to go in here." Luxord shrugged and fallowed him inside. Sora scanned the shelves, until he found what he was looking for. HE bought the book, then fallowed Luxord around for a few hours. Luxord stepped into a jeweler's and bought a chain. He had it wrapped and rejoined Sora and they went to the food court.

"Finally, we have some real food! I'm getting sick of all the gourmet food, Boss has us eating." Sora took a bite from his Chinese.

"Yeah. Me to." Luxord took a bite from his sub. Xehanort wasn't cheep, but believed that only the best is good enough.

"Hey, Lux. . ."

"Hun?" He looked up.

"Who did you get the chain for? Other than me, you don't really like any of the other guards."

"Luxord sighed and put his sub down." Just between you and me. . . and everyone else , I got it for a prisoner."

"Dilan." Sora smiled. Luxord was head over heels for the guy. After all, he did save his life.

"Yeah. . . I just wish we could be together. Even if it's just for one night."

Sora sighed. "I know how you can, but you'll owe me, big time."

"No problem. Thanks Love." They chuckled and finished eating, then left the mall. They got back up on bus and headed back to work. Sora wasn't looking forward to tonight, but it was for Luxord, he kept telling himself. When they got back, Sora went straight to his room. He laid the book down on his bed. He walked over to his mini frige and took out a beer. He then got out some old news papers and tape and started wrapping the book. When he was done, he placed the book on his nightstand and laid back on his bed.

"Man I hate the holidays." He whispered to himself and took a sip of his beer. He looked over at the picture of him and his parents. They looked so happy. . . But he knew better than that. His family was never happy. It's because of them he was the way he was. Cold hearted, always angry, and didn't trust anyone. Sora sighed and looked over at his alarm clock. "Five forty five. . . Prisoners should be at dinner by now." Sora chugged his beer and picked the book. On his way to drop off the book, his was interrupted by Even.

"Sora, Xeha-" Sora held up his hand to shut Even up.

"Even, please don't. I don't care if he wants to see me. I'll see him soon enough." Even just stared.

"Alright. I'll let him no." Even then noticed the book in Sora's hand. "By chance, you didn't check your bank account, did you?"

"Yeah. Do you have any idea why he did it?"

"He told me not to say, but he said something about it being a way to apologize for the first time you guys met." Sora lifted his hand to his nose. Not only did he had a bloody nose after they met, but Lea had broken it.

"I'll see you later Even." Sora said walking past him. When he came to the cell, he looked inside. "Good, empty." He used his card key to open the gate and stepped inside. He walked over to the back bucks and looked discouraged. He couldn't reach the top bunk, so he had to step up on the bottom one, and pull himself up onto the top bunk. Sora found it weird to be sitting on a prisoners bunk. He picked up the pillow and noticed the picture of Lea and Reno. They looked so happy there. It really made Sora wonder why Lea had killed him. Everything he read and watched about it just said that Lea was a ticking time bomb and that he must have been mad about something an took it out on poor innocent Reno. Sora placed book under the picture and jumped from the bunk. He closed the gate, then ran back to his room. His heart was pounding and not from running. For some reason, he was nervous.

His heart was pounding so hard, he jumped when there was a knock on his door. He turned around and opened it. "Xehanort."

"You ok, Sora?" He asked placing a hand on Sora face.

"Yeah. . . Actually, I'm glad you're here. I need to talk to about something." Sora pulled Xehanort in and shut the door.

"Really, about what?" He asked pulling Sora close to him.

"Sora gulped. "Luxord wants to spend one night with number III." Xehanort's face was expressionless. Sora's heart was racing. "Please! He never asks for anything!" Xehanort held up his hand in to silence Sora, then he smiled.

"I could allow it, but what do I get out of this?"

Sora sighed. "This." Slowly, Sora unbuckled and unzip parts of his uniform. Smiling, Xehanort placed one hand Sora's side and started to unzip his pants with the other. Sora gasped, and the next thing he knew he was on his back with Xehanort on top of him. . .

Lea and the gang were lead back to their cell, but the guard kept Dilan back.

"Luxord, what are you doing? If you get-" Luxord shut Dilan up with a kiss and undid his cuffs.

"Do you really think I care?" Luxord wrapped his arms around Dilan's neck and Dilan pinned him against the wall. . .

Lea jumped on his bed and placed his head on his on his pillow. He felt something hard and sat back up. He lifted up his pillow and found what looked like a box wrapped in news paper.

"What is it?" Myde asked.

"Not sure. . . Could be a Christmas percent." Lea flipped over. "But who would. . . give it to me. . ." Lea slowly took off the paper and opened the book. It was filled with blank line paper. "A journal. . . And no pen." Lea sighed.

"Looks like someone has a secret admirer." Luxord said taking the pen from his back pocket and throwing it to Lea. "You didn't get it from me." Luxord closed the gate after Dilan stepped in. "Good night."

Dilan laid down on his bunk facing the wall. Isa was smiling, but didn't want to start anything right now, so he just went to sleep.

After Myde and Ienzo fallowed Isa and Dilan to sleep, Lea jumped down from his bunk and sat down by the gate. It was the only good source of light.

I'm not sure who gave me this journal, but I have a pretty good idea. . .Ya know, I don't think he looks like a Sora. He looks more like a Roxas to me. Either way, I don't know why he got this for me. Unless it has to deal with the insurance Reno left. . . Rufus probably gave it away somehow. . .I'm not sure what to say. . . there's a lot. Prison's nothing like heard it was. Or at least, not here. I haven't seen any prison bitches yet, or had had anyone try to make me theirs. Not that'd it work. . . . Reno. . . it's been nine months and the pain is just now starting to subside. It still hurts to think about what I did. But what really gets to me was the fact that he try to fight back. He could have. All he had to do was get his taser, which was right there next to him. One small tap from that thing could make a blue whale scream bloody murder. But, did he feel that he deserved what happened to him? Or did he think it was going to be over between us? . . . Reno was one that was hard to figure out. . . I miss him. . .

Sora woken up by the annoying sound of his alarm clock. He hit the snooze and sat up. His whole body was aching. Xehanort really liked it rough. Slowly, Sora got up and went to bathroom. After getting quickly showered, he got dressed and grabbed his rifle. Then, with a sigh, then went to his station. . .

"What about. . ." Myde looked over his shoulder to the still sleeping Lea.

"I'll come back and get him." Sora said closing the gate. Sora lead them to the food area, then turned around to go wake up Lea. He opened the gate and stepped inside. "Alright. Come on."

Lea yawned and just rolled over on his side. Sora shook his head and took aim at the wall behind him. He pulled the trigger and Lea shot up.

"What the fuck?" Lea's heart was pounding in his chest.

"Good, you're up." Sora said blankly. "Let's go."

"Did you leave this?" Lea asked holding up the journal.

Sora turned around to try and hide the blush that was raising on his face. "How'd you figure it out?"

"That's not the important, now is it? Besides, it was a bit obvious." Lea jumped down and walked up to Sora. "But what isn't obvious is how you found out about my writing."

Sora was forced to look at him. "I looked up your case online and one of the links said you liked writing, so. . . I um. . . Just think of a way to say thank you for what you did for me. . ." Sora just stared into Lea bright green eyes.

"You're welcome. . . " Lea was becoming captivated by Sora's deep ocean eyes. They were pooling him in like tidal pools. Sora then realized his was just inches away from kissing Lea and took a step back.

"I should probably cuff you now. . . "He scratched the bad of his head.

"Yeah. . . I guess so." Sora cuffed Lea's hands and lead him to the food area.

Once there, Lea didn't even bother to get anything, he just took his regular seat. He didn't pay much attention to them, he was thinking about almost kissing Sora. Then his thoughts raced back to Reno. Lea was still wearing his wedding ring and wonder who Reno would feel now if he found out that he almost kissed someone that he barely, knew. Not to mention the fact that it was a prison guard. It was really eating at him.

"Lea?" Isa pulled Lea from his thoughts.

"Hun?" Lea ask dumbfounded.

"Are you all there?" Isa asked.

"Not really. See," Lea looked behind him to make sure no one else was eavesdropping. "Sora gave me the journal, and after that, we almost kissed." Everyone went silent and Isa lowered his head.

"Did anyone see you?" Dilan whisper a little panicked.

"No. We weren't doing intentionally." Lea whispered. "What's the big deal?"

"The warden." Isa said while he got and walked away.

Dilan nudged Lea in the side. "You, go after him."

"Why?"

"You'll find out! Go!" Lea got up rubbing his side and fallowed after Isa. When Lea caught up with him, he was standing in a corner, in a deserted hall. Isa was didn't even notice Lea was standing there, but Lea noticed that he was crying, and was suddenly struck with guilt. For some reason, he felt like he was looking in a mirror.

"Isa. . . Are you alright?" Lea walked up to him and placed his hand on Isa's shoulder.

"I'll be fine." Isa wiped his eyes.

"Really? You look sick." Lea tried to get Isa to look at him, but he turned away from him. "Isa, look at me." Isa didn't budge. "Isa!"

"Why should I?" Isa asked bitterly.

"So I can help solve a problem my friend is having." Lea forced Isa to look at him and then understood what Dilan meant. "Isa. . . "

"Lea. . ." Isa looked up. "Of course there is."

"What?" Lea looked up to and sure enough there was a piece of mistletoe was right above them. The two of them locked eyes and Lea's hands found their way to Isa's waist, just as Isa wrapped his arms around Lea's neck. Slowly, Lea pressed his lips to Isa's. The kiss was innocent enough, but to Isa, it was something more, only he was fooling himself. So he broke it.

"Did we just . . . "

"Yeah, we did." Lea didn't have to let Isa finish to know what he was going to ask. Lea kissed Isa again, only this one was harder and Isa kissed back. Lea got as far as getting his tongue in Isa's mouth, then they were rudely interrupted.

"Isa?" The sound of Xehanort's voice made Lea and Isa break their kiss.

"Xehanort." Isa growled.

"What the hell are you doing?" Xehanort's expression wasn't the same sly one it always was. Now he really looked pissed.

"Last time I checked, we were broken up. Why should this be your concern?" Isa moved in front of Lea, who looked really bewildered.

"While you're in my prison, everything you do is my business!"

"Why guess what. I may be a prisoner, but I'm not yours!" Lea had to grabbed Isa to keep him from jumping Xehanort.

"Isa! Just forget about it. He's not worth it. Let's get back to our cell." Lea said pulling Isa away from Xehanort. Xehanort didn't even bother to fallow. Instead, he went back to office, figuring he'd watch him from the security cams.

When they got to their cell, they sat down at the gate. Isa let out a sigh. "Lea. . . are you. . . Thinking about the kiss?" Isa just stared at his feet.

"Not really. Just thinking about what you said to Xehanort. You two were together, weren't you?" Isa was silent.

Then he sighed. "We were. . . But then he broke my heart. . ."

Lea was hesitant. "How?"

"I'll tell you later. . ." Isa curled up into a ball. Lea pulled him close to try and calm him down. He kinda knew how knew how Isa felt. When he caught Reno in bed with another guy, he was broken. He loved Reno and always would.

"Well that'll explain why Xehanort's on a rant." Lea looked up to see Sora standing there smirking with his arms crossed. "Want to get inside?" He pointed to the inside of the cell.

"That would be a good idea." Lea said pulling Isa up.

Sora opened the gate with his card key. " Should I tell Luxord to let the others go outside earlier so you guys can have some alone time? Sora smirked.

"Watch it smart ass." Lea retorted as he lead Isa into the cell.

"Hey, I don't have to do this. I could have just let you sit there." Sora said closing the gate. "I'll be back later to let you two out." With that, Sora left Isa and Lea alone. They just stood there, not sure what to do.

Isa looked at Lea. "We. . . just kissed so. . ."

"Isa. . . I don't think sex is an option right now." Lea said placing his hand on Isa shoulder.

Isa nodded. "I know. . . I just. . . I just want to kiss you again. . ."

Lea gave Isa a small smile. "I can do that." Lea pulled Isa closer to him and pulled him into another kiss. A moan escaped from Isa's throat and Lea pulled away. "Do you not do this with Myde?"

"No. He's just a kid. . . Maybe I should explain." Isa said sitting on his bunk.

"Yeah. That'd be a good idea." Lea sat next to him.

Isa sighed."It was about four years ago when Xehanort and I met. We were at a bar. I was just sitting there when he came up to me and asked me to dance. Of course I didn't so he saw that as desirable and he asked me to sit with him. So, to get him to shut up, I did and we got to talking. After I got up to leave, he walked me out and told me to call him. So, the next night, I gave him a call, only because I was bored. But that night, the two of us had our first kiss." Isa sighed again. "After we started dating. I tried to keep my dog acting habits away from him, but one night, I was sleeping at his place and some idiot decided he wanted to try and break in. I woke up and realized that Xehanort still asleep and the guy was heading to the room. So I started barking. Sure enough, Xehanort woke up and the guy left. Once he inspected the damage, he turned to me and asked me if I was the one barking. I nodded and he chuckled."

"What'd he do?" Lea asked.

"He said it was cute. Which made me roll my eyes. After that, he started calling me puppy. At first I found the name stupid, but I soon grew use to it. I only let him call me Puppy." Isa stopped to gather his thoughts. "Then one night, he didn't show for our date. It hurt like hell, but I got over it the next morning. He called and want to make up for that night, but I couldn't because I had to work. On my way home that night, a flash of white caught my hair. I ran into the nearest ally. When I peeked over the corner of the building and saw Xehanort with another guy, who had his hands all over him. . . At first I was confused. Then I got mad and just ran home. I spent the whole night crying. He called several times, but I didn't want to speak with him. It was clear to me that my nickname wasn't just a name, but a label. I was nothing more than a dog to him. . ." Isa stopped, not wanting to finish.

"Then how'd you end up in the prison that he runs?" Lea asked.

Isa was hoping that he wouldn't. "That's a story for another day." Lea stroked Isa's head, then laid down next to him. Little did he know that Sora was standing on the other side of the wall and had heard everything.