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This will be slash. Riku/Sora, Axel/Roxas, Sasuke/Naruto plus others
Summary: Sora Strife was one of the unlucky ones. He had the Sight. He could see them. And the one thing he was always told was don't ever attract their attention; it was either that or death. But when he catches the attention of one of their Princes, his life will change forever and so will the lives of those closest to him…
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Chapter 1
"Faeiries seem to be especially fond of the chase."
–The Folk-Lore of the Isle of Man by A. W. Moore (1891)
"Faeries…elves…goblins…Class? What would you call these?" the teacher asked as she quickly skimmed an old tattered book. She adjusted her glasses and tucked a gray hair behind her ear as she looked at the many uninterested faces in her classroom. Her old eyes quickly sought out a victim as they landed on a pair of nervous blue oceanic orbs.
"Sora? Did you read last night's chapter? If so, what would you call these?" she asked.
'A nightmare.' His mind supplied but Sora internally shook his head. He didn't have to read the chapter; he knew everything having to do with those creatures…
"Sora!? The answer! If you will!" the teacher huffed and Sora's face burned as he heard a few of his classmates begin to snicker and giggle. With a suffered sigh he opened his book and only pretended to skim it.
"Magical things." He said tersely and held himself back from saying what he really wanted too. 'Vile creatures! Things that only torture people…scary and horrifying to look at.' His mind once again supplied…although not all of them were so horrible to lay eyes on…some were so beautiful that—
"Stop." He told himself. They weren't beautiful at all! The things they did…the things no one else could see but him…
"Umm…you're almost there Mr. Strife. Now…all these would be classified as folklore…supernatural beings…the fairies especially. Said to be so beautiful and they help people! Legends have so many wonderful things about them!" the teacher gushed and Sora stopped himself from scoffing.
'Beautiful…yeah right…and they only help themselves…' he thought angrily as he remembered all those things he'd seen since he was a little boy.
"A Cornish woman who chanced to find herself the guardian of an elf-child was given certain water with which to wash its fae…and the woman ventured to try it upon herself, and in doing so splashed a little into one eye. This gave her the fairy sight. This is by Lewis Spence from his book Legends and Romances of Brittany. My, my…how wonderful it would be to see such things…I can imagine it now…" the teacher's face became dreamy and more than half the class groaned. Sora however grew pale and he set his head down onto the table. Thank God this was the last class of the day.
"If someone came up to me and said they saw a fairy…I'd call them crazy and send them to the crazy house!" Tidus, the class clown, and one of his brother's and his friends said loudly and laughed. The joke wasn't funny but the whole class laughed anyways.
Sora stifled his groan.
In his mind, he was the unluckiest person to live. Out of all his family he was the only one to have inherited the Sight. It just so happened that he was also the youngest making everyone extremely overprotective. It took days of pleading but he finally managed to convince his uncle that going to school wouldn't put him in any danger. His uncle only agreed when Sora had mentioned that the school was private and Catholic. He also mentioned the one fact that made his uncle approve. There was iron almost everywhere. This was good because fairies hated iron, couldn't be near it for long because afterwards it would hurt them…
His brother came along too even though he claimed he hated the school and even his cousin joined in. They knew all about it but even though they couldn't fully understand what he had to go through, they still took care of him.
It was painfully annoying at times...but they cared.
RING!
Sora slightly jumped as the bell rang. He slowly gathered his books and headed towards the hall. He quickly found his brother and cousin (and their friends) waiting for him.
His brother had a dark blonde hair and blue eyes like himself. He was maybe an inch taller and his hair didn't stick up as wildly as his did. He was currently wearing a mask of concern and Sora quickly changed his own facial features as he thought this might have been what tipped Roxas off.
His cousin though, had bright blonde hair and blue eyes as well. A childhood encounter left him with three scars on both sides of his cheeks. Naruto had a cheeky grin, which quickly turned into a frown of worry as soon as he saw Sora. Naruto was maybe four inches taller than him, but it was okay seeing as how he was the oldest.
Their masks of concern quickly tipped off everyone else and a little something called "The Domino Theory" as Sora had dubbed it slowly descended on the once chatty and happy group making them all frown and gain a look of confusion. They gave him looks of concern which he pointedly ignored as he reached them.
"Sora? You okay?" Roxas asked quietly as he slipped besides him as they started to walk home. Naruto began to talk loudly with Neji, his friend, but Sora could tell he was trying to listen. So was everyone else…but Sora couldn't blame them, his strange behavior and odd habits tended to get people curious.
"I'm good. Listen I'm gonna—" he was stopped as someone called his name.
"Sora! Hey Sora! Wait up!" a red-head girl with violet eyes quickly caught up to them and Sora heard Roxas groan and everyone else snicker.
This was Kairi, she was Sora's best friend…and she was totally in love with him. She stopped in front of the group and gave a dazzling smile. Her innocent face made Sora smile too. Kairi was by no means 'ugly and annoying' as Roxas had dubbed her. She was quite pretty and was the only one who had accepted Sora the way he was, never once questioning him about the strange things he'd do or say and merely stuck by him and offered him comfort. She was an amiable companion but—
"Wanna walk me home? I'm sure they can get home by themselves." She chirped and Sora pretended to not notice the look of contempt she aimed at his brother and cousin. He sighed…
…but he couldn't bring himself to love her the way she loved him. She'd have to settle for friendship.
"Sure Kairi. I'll catch you guys later okay…?" he mostly said this to Roxas who had tensed and was currently scowling. Naruto didn't seem happy as well…but right now he couldn't bring himself to be questioned. 'Thank you Kairi, this distraction was exactly what I needed…' he thought as he stepped away from his group. The redheaded girl looked smug as she attached herself to him like another limb and tried to lead him away.
"Don't be late." Roxas issued his threat and Sora merely gave him a smile. 'Overprotective brother…' he thought kindly.
"Psh!" Kairi scoffed. "He's sixteen! He's not a baby! And it's Friday! Forgive him if he wants to spend it doing something fun instead of playing video games and staying at home! You're not his keepers!" she tugged on his arm as he sent her a scolding look.
"Kairi…" he sighed. He flashed Roxas and Naruto a look of forgiveness. He could see Roxas begin to turn red from anger and saw Naruto's hands clench and he thought maybe this was a good time to get away.
"Before night." Roxas declared. "Bitch." He growled under his breath but quickly turned around and began walking at a fast pace. The others followed, Naruto sending him another worried look.
Kairi 'humphed' as they began walking the opposite way. "Your brother is a frickin dictator. And you!" she lightly punched his arm. "Ya gotta fight for your freedom! Don't let them bully you and make your choices! Be your own man! Sora!" he gave her a slight grin.
And that was the reason he couldn't be mad at her. He couldn't tell her the truth of why his brother and cousin and even himself acted the way they did. So she thought she was helping him by standing up to them; she thought that Sora didn't like the way they stood overprotective of him every single day of every single second. Telling her, telling anyone could mean his death…could mean losing his eyesight…there was no telling what the fairies would do once they found out that he had the Sight…. Actually he didn't want to think about it.
"Wanna stop by my house and hang for a bit? Talk? You seem kinda down." The girl lightly squeezed his arm. He grinned and gave her a weird lopsided hug.
"Nah…I think I oughta listen to my dictator brother and come soon. I'm just tired, don't worry about it." He told her.
They walked a few more blocks before Sora looked up and he unintentionally tensed. Kairi felt his movement and she looked up but he wasn't staring at her anymore.
In front of Kairi's front door there were three fairies standing there. They, like so many of them, took on features that didn't look anything remotely human. Two of them had wings and feathers and what seemed to be beaks on their otherwise human looking bodies. They were willowy though and they each had a blue tint to their skin. The third one though looked human except for the vine like dress she had on which seemed to move on her skin. Her hair was a dark green and her eyes a yellow. They were terrifying and yet so wondrous to look at.
"Sora?" Kairi prodded. "What's wrong?" she tugged on his arm. Sora snapped out of it and he trained his face like all those other times. 'Be normal…remember! You can't see them!' he mind screamed. 'Don't let them know you can see them!'
"Psh…I'm fine! You know me! Always spacing out…" he said lamely and hoped it sounded convincing enough and really hoped that Kari wouldn't want to talk about it…not here, not now.
She raised an eyebrow. "Okay…well…I'll see you later then." She began to walk to her door and Sora tried to stand as normally as he could as one of the beak faced faeries began to sniff at him. Kairi gasped then and Sora tried his best to not react. She whipped around and looked excited. "There's a dance tonight! At the club! You know, Heartless!? We should totally go!" she exclaimed.
"I don't like dancing." He said quickly and tried to keep his breathing as steady as possible as the other two joined in. He pretended to not notice the vine-girl touching his face and sniffing his neck. Mortals couldn't feel a fairy's touch…
Kairi still looked optimistic. "Come on! I'll call you later kay!? Bye!"
As soon as she walked thru her door Sora turned and ignored the vine-girl's giggle and comments. He felt them following him and resisted the urge to bolt. If he did, they'd follow. 'They love a good chase…'
He quickly walked back towards his house and seeing as they still followed, he ducked into a store. They seemed to lose interest then and quickly left, but Sora suspected the vast amounts of iron the city had might have swayed their decision.
Sora sighed and thanked his uncle mentally. It was his choice that made them all move here in the first place. The city was heavy with iron and steel so not many faeries ventured far within it. When Sora was little, he detested it. He loved nature and everything it had to offer but as he was quickly exposed to what the faeries could do, he quickly decided that the city was also beautiful and most of all safe…. solely because they didn't like iron or steel…
He sighed and was about to leave the store until he saw him. Sora turned around then and seeing as he had entered a bookstore quickly picked up a book and covered his face with it pretending to read. He chanced another glance and what he saw terrified him.
Across the street stood two faeries. They were invisible so he couldn't outright gaze at them. One of the rules that his uncle had enforced was to not stare at invisible fairies. That was rule number three.
One of them was a girl and she looked so miserable that Sora at times almost felt the need to cry for her. She had dark blonde hair, a shade darker than Roxas's, and very dark eyes, almost black. Sometimes she'd come into the sunlight and Sora was able to tell they were a violet…almost like Kairi's. The fairy-girl had a very pale look to her, almost unhealthy and always looked so lonely, so miserable, so sad…the only times she showed something other than those emotions were the times she swatted, yelled at, or scowled at the fairy next to her.
It was this other one that terrified Sora the most. It wasn't because of his looks oh no, for this fairy was male and possibly the most gorgeous, most beautiful thing Sora had ever seen. He had silver hair that shone so brilliantly and eyes that were like not other…Sora almost wanted to ogle but steeled himself and tried to look like he was still reading.
These two had followed him around for days. Always watching, always there. He didn't tell anybody of this. This would probably set him for a lifetime of imprisonment in his own home, no school, no friends, no nothing.
He saw as the silver haired faery gave his companion a smirk and blew her a kiss before leaving her scowling. She followed at a slower pace. Sora swallowed something hard as what he saw almost sent him running.
The silverette quickly donned a glamour and from one step to the next, he became human. Or a very good look alike. But Sora wasn't fooled. They were anything but human. Plus, the glamour this one had chose looked too pretty to be real. He managed to dull his hair a bit and got rid of the shine of his flawless skin but it still looked beautiful. He wore a pair of dark jeans and a yellow tight fitting shirt that would have looked bad on anyone else but he pulled it off very well…
The sad girl merely stood by the door. And then Sora realized something. These fairies were powerful enough to stand being around so much iron…and one had even donned a glamour. He gulped again and hoped beyond hope that Silver didn't come near him.
"Hey there…" Sora jumped and looked to him. This was a bad mistake seeing as he was met with smoldering turquoise eyes that would have melted him had not Sora remembered one crucial piece of information.
He was fae…therefore he was the enemy.
"Not interested." Sora said quickly. And stepped to the side only to have Silver step in front of him.
"You look like a nice person. I just moved here and I thought maybe we could hang out sometime you know?" he breath was good and warm but held a strange coldness to it which made him shiver. He could feel the smirk on Silver's face and this served to ignite his anger.
"Listen…I'm not sure what you're playing at but like I said! I'm. Not. Interested." Sora tried to move again but he was there...again. Sora looked to his face and almost laughed at the look of shock there. 'I guess Silver isn't used to the word 'no'…Glad to help there…' Sora thought smugly.
But Silver quickly shook that look off his face and gained a determined one. 'Oh oh…' Sora thought panicked,
"My name is Riku…Riku Uchiha. Please, just give me your number or something…maybe email and I'll talk to you later alright?" he said. It was more like a command.
The girl by the door gave a giggle but it wasn't an amused one. Somehow she made it sound darker and worse than it was. "This one's smart. He knows idiocy when he sees it…such a smart boy…" she praised and she goaded him. Sora paid no attention and neither did this Riku. And that was rule two. Don't speak to Invisible fairies…
Riku seemed to grow exasperated. "Here…this is my number." He shoved the small piece of paper into Sora's clenched hand. "Maybe we could hang sometime…what's your name?" he asked and looked Sora straight in the eye.
"It's none of your business. And like I said—"
"SORA! HEY GUYS! IT'S SORA!"
Sora held in a groan as Tidus came into the store. His friends however stayed outside. Tidus was his friend too, only thru Roxas and Naruto however.
Riku looked smug then and stepped back allowing Sora to breath normally again. "See you later Sora."
He was then gone and out the shop as Tidus bombarded him with questions and wanted to know where Roxas was. Sora looked passed Tidus to see the fairy girl still there. She was eyeing him with such a sympathy that made him want to throw up. Obviously something had occurred and he wasn't aware of it.
"You poor, poor thing…" the girl said out loud, no one but Sora being able to hear. "Poor little mortal…" and then she was gone too, quickly walking away.
What had just happened?
Rule number one and the most important rule of them all: Don't ever attract the fairies attention.
Sora gulped and tried to listen to Tidus. But he couldn't help but think of Silver—er Riku. He had chanced exposure like he didn't even care if everyone found about him being fae...it was like one of their damn rules! They all live by it! But this one, Riku, risked being found out…and all because he wanted to talk to Sora. Sora felt like ice had pierced him…he'd attracted their attention for whatever reason.
What a horrible day…
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End Chapter 1.
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