Me: ok, here's the next chapter every1's been waiting 4, so I'll quit stalling and let u read. FYI, this is a flashback chapter. That's y the chapter is titled the flashback chapter.
Disclaimer: if I could draw every1's attention 4 about five seconds, I would like 2 clear sumthing up. I don't own Kingdom Heart. Wish I did, but I don't.
Riku sat on his window sill, wishing that the rain would stop so he could go outside. He hated being cooped up like he was. He didn't move at all until he heard a knock on his door. "Come in," he said. The door made a creaking noise as it opened.
"Being depressed doesn't get rid of the rain," an older voice behind Riku stated.
Riku turned around to see his older brother. He had long silver hair that reached his lower back and yellow-green eyes that would give anyone the creeps the first time they were seen. He always wore black clothing and had a sword strapped to either his back or waist. He always said that he would rather have it and not need it then need it and not have it. Riku smirked when his older brother said his statement. "It's worth a shot, Sephiroth," Riku said back.
Sephiroth chuckled before he wrapped his arm around his brother's neck pulled him away from the window. "Come on, spoiled prince," Sephiroth said. "Kadaj and Yazoo want to go out somewhere and you know we can't leave those two alone."
"Yeah," Riku agreed. "Because Kadaj is an immature kid who is older then me, but acts younger, and Yazoo is a depressed emo. Those two are twins, why can't they act the same?"
"Because Yazoo and Kadaj are just that way." Riku laughed while Sephiroth chuckled. It wasn't unusual to hear Sephiroth chuckled, but it was when he gave out a laugh. Didn't matter what kind, it was always a good idea to the younger siblings to lock themselves whenever Sephiroth laughed.
"If you ask me," Riku said once he stopped laughing and removed his brother's arm from around his neck, "Kadaj looks more like you then he does Yazoo."
"Not all pairs of twins look the same."
"One more thing," Riku said, putting up his index finger. "Why do you keep calling me 'spoiled prince'?"
"One: it annoys you. Two: you act like one."
"No I don't!"
"Yeah you do!"
"Hey!" a voice yelled from down the hall. Both the brothers looked to see someone who was younger then Sephiroth, but older then Riku by a couple years, and he almost looked like Sephiroth, only he had shorter hair and his eyes shined with a child's innocence. Next to him was someone else that looked the same age. He almost looked like the first, but his hair was a little longer and he had a bored, emo look to his face. "Come on, guys! We don't want to wait all night!"
"Says Kadaj," the second one stated tiredly.
"Cheer up, Yazoo," Riku said, slinging an arm around his older brother's neck. "When are you going to quit acting like an emo kid?"
"When Kadaj learns to grow up," Yazoo simply replied, not bothering to remove his younger brother's arm.
"So basically, never," Riku stated boredly. Yazoo nodded. Riku burst out laughing, Sephiroth chuckled along with Yazoo, and Kadaj just glared at his twin and younger sibling. They ran around the town for a few hours before retiring to their rooms. Riku laid on his bed, wide awake. He was exhausted, but he just couldn't get to sleep. He heard footsteps outside his door. He sat up and went over to his door, pressing his ear against it as soon as he reached it. The footsteps were fading. He opened the door and looked around to see long flowing silver hair round a corner. It was Sephiroth, and Riku knew it. None of the others kept their hair that long. It always ended up being cut.
He walked out of his room and followed his oldest brother. He stopped every now and then whenever Sephiroth stopped and looked around. He brother was acting weird. He looked around the corner to see no one was there. His brother just disappeared. He scratched the back of his head before shrugging and going back to his room. The rest of the night was sleepless to him. He was wondering what his oldest brother was doing walking around at night. When he was finally able to close his eyes, his older, HYPER, brother came running in to wake him up. "Riku!" he yelled. "Time to wake up! Sleepy head needs to wake up!"
"Kadaj," Riku groaned. "Go away. I didn't get any sleep last night."
"Well that sucks ass," a voice at the doorway stated. Riku looked over to see Leon and Axel standing there. Axel had a smirk on his lips and Leon just looked like his usual bored and grumpy self. "But you seemed asleep when we came in," Axel stated.
"That's because Kadaj came in when I got about five minutes of sleep," Riku said.
"What made you stay up all night?" Leon asked.
Riku was silent for a minute. He looked at his older brother. Kadaj usually went investigating strange things, so Riku really didn't want his hyper brother to cause any problems. "Kadaj, can you go away?" he asked his brother, who only frowned a little before placing an evil smirk on his face.
"Sure, Riku!" Kadaj said. "I'll just go bug Sephy!"
Riku groaned. Sephiroth hated the nickname that Kadaj gave him. Sephiroth usually tries to kill him when he hears it. Whenever he hears it! Kadaj bounced out of the room and disappeared as Axel and Leon came in. "Alright," he sighed. "I didn't want Kadaj to know because, you know how he is."
"What's going on, Riku?" Axel asked, tilting his head to the side, matching his green eyes with Riku's aqua green ones.
"Well, I heard someone walking by my room last night. When I checked to see who it was, I saw Sephiroth turn a corner. I followed him for a minute before he just completely disappeared. I don't know where he went, and there was no sign of him going down that hall. I think something's going on with my brother."
"Maybe we should investigate," Leon suggested.
"How so?" Axel asked.
"By following him." Axel and Riku looked at each other.
"Guys, I would rather figure out what's going on with my brother myself. If it's something bad, I don't want you two to get hurt or involved in any way."
"Riku, even he strongest person in the world needs help once in a while," Leon's wise words of advice reached his ears.
"But sometimes he doesn't wish for it when it's about his family," Riku said back. "Something is going on with Sephiroth and I want to find out what without anyone else getting involved. I don't even want Yazoo involved. And that's saying something!"
"They have had more fighting experience then you, Riku," Axel pointed out. "You're the youngest in your family, and I don't think Yazoo and Kadaj want to lose a brother."
"Well I don't want to lose one either! That's why I want to go after Sephiroth myself and find out what's wrong with him!"
Leon and Axel stared at him, before looking at each other. Riku saw a look in their eyes, but he just couldn't figure out what the two were thinking. It couldn't have been anything good. "Fine," Axel finally said, breaking the quiet and tension in the room like it was ice. "But, we're going to be staying the night here, if that's okay with you. I mean, Leon had a fight with his parents again, don't want to see them for a while, and you know me. I can't stand the people I live with. They're annoying and always trying to control me."
"Everyone tries to control you, pyromaniac," Leon gruffly stated.
"Yet you are the only one who can," Riku stated. "So, what did your folks do this time?"
Axel shifted a little before turning his gaze into a glare and turning his head to the side. "I'd rather not talk about it," he simply replied in a tone that disturbed Riku and caused Leon to give the red-head a strange look.
"That bad?" Riku asked. All Axel did in response was nod his head a little as he stare glazed over with thought. "Stop thinking about it, Axel," Riku said. "It'll just make you feel worse." Axel snapped out of his thoughts before he looked back at Riku and gave a small smile. Riku smiled back before he said, "It's fine if you spend the night here. I'll let the others know as well." The rest of the day, they guys were just doing random stuff. Mostly Axel and Riku acting like complete and total morons while Leon tried to control them, and was failing. It was around midnight when Riku heard something, most likely his oldest brother, walking by his door. After checking to make sure Axel and Leon were asleep, Riku slipped out of the room and started to follow Sephiroth.
He never knew about Leon and Axel actually following him as well. They were glad that Riku couldn't tell the difference between fake and real sleep. Leon still thought that Riku needed to learn that. Following his brother was different this time. Riku didn't lose sight of him and Sephiroth didn't pull a disappearing act again. Riku followed his brother for about thirty minutes, not even aware of his own stalkers behind him. When Sephiroth approached an old, seemingly abandoned, mansion, Riku started to get really curious as to what his oldest brother was up to. Riku slipped inside, hoping to be unnoticed. Fate was on his side since nom one was in the mansion for the exception of Sephiroth and the two behind him, who he still had no clue about.
Sephiroth entered a large room, and Riku followed. Inside, it seemed like a temple of some sort. Sitting on a throne-like chair on the other side of the room was another person. Riku could tell that he had silver hair, darker then his own and Sephiroth's, and golden eyes. Who he was, Riku had no clue. He was looking around a pillar, watching his brother, who was walking up to the stranger. "There you are, Sephiroth," the calm and empty tone of the stranger's voice said. "I was starting to think you weren't going to come."
"If I do not return, you would come and get me, Xemnas," Sephiroth responded.
'Xemnas?' Riku thought to himself. 'That name sounds really familiar. Where have I heard that name before?'
"How right you are," Xemnas replied. "And I bet you are starving right now. Why do you even torture yourself? You live with humans, but you refuse to bite them."
"They are still my brothers," Sephiroth replied. "Even if I am no longer human."
"What's he talking about?" Axel whispered into Riku's ear, making the teen jump in surprise. His eyes were wide when he saw both Leon and Axel there.
"What are you two doing here?!" Riku harshly whispered back.
"Do you honestly think we're going to let you handle something that's going on with your brother yourself?" Leon responded with his own question. Riku just gave them both a small glare before he turned his gaze back to his older brother.
"I wonder," Xemnas said. "Would they still consider you as their brother if they knew?"
"I do not know," Sephiroth replied.
"Is that why you will not tell them? Why you act like a disgusting human?"
"You were once human yourself," Sephiroth pointed out with a small glare in his yellow-green eyes.
Xemnas leapt down from his chair and landed in front of Sephiroth. "And I hated every minute of it. If you know what is wise, you will never say that I was once human. Because I deny the fact that I ever was." He ran one of his clawed nails down the frame of the silver-haired man face. "Is that clear?"
"As clear as it can get," Sephiroth replied. Xemnas smirked before he removed his hand from Sephiroth's face and went back to his chair. "By the way, were you aware of your stalkers?"
"What?" Sephiroth asked. "What are you talking about?"
"It seems that stealth does not run in your family very well," Axel, Leon, and Riku heard the strange man say before they felt nails digging into their arms and themselves being pushed into the pillar they were hiding behind. "Marluxia, Demyx, and Zexion. Bring them here." Sephiroth turned around to see the three called ones bring out his brother and friends. Sephiroth's eyes widened when he saw them. "You should have known they were following you, Sephiroth."
"Sephiroth!" Riku yelled. "What's going on?!"
"You shouldn't have followed your older brother," Xemnas stated.
Sephiroth's eyes went into a glare as he turned back around to the one in the chair. "Xemnas! Let them go! I'm sure they won't tell anyone!"
"This is a place that no human should know of. If they know of it now, then they must be human no more."
"They will not remember any of this! I swear it!"
"You were only turned last month, Sephiroth! You do not have control over your powers yet! Now silence yourself!"
"No! They are my brother and my friends! I will not allow you to do any harm to them!"
Xemnas seemed that he wouldn't take anymore. Once again, he left his seat and approached Sephiroth, grabbing his (Sephiroth's) neck once he got to him. "Either silence yourself by will or force."
Sephiroth grabbed the cold hands around his neck, trying to pry them off, but wasn't succeeding. Blood was starting to trickle down from the corner of his mouth and from the wounded that Xemnas's nails were making in his neck. "Sephiroth!" Riku called out once he saw the dark red blood. "Let him go!" A smirk was formed on Xemnas's lips before he threw Sephiroth into the wall. On impact, a large crater was forming into the stone wall, and Sephiroth was unconscious. "Sephiroth!" Riku called out again before he blacked-out from the hit he received on the back of his head. The last thing he felt was his body hitting the cold hard floor as he heard his friends yell out his name.
When he woke, he felt weak, and was being shaken harshly by someone. His eyes slowly opened to see Axel with a worried look upon his face. Leon was standing behind the red-head, clutching his neck. Riku's eyes widened when he saw blood on both Leon's and Axel's necks, pouring from a couple puncture wounds right where their necks met their collar bones. "What happened?" Riku's weak voice asked. "Where's Sephiroth?"
"We don't know," Leon replied. "We went unconscious after you did. When we woke up, we were the only ones here. It's day now. I'm sure Kadaj and Yazoo are worried about you and Sephiroth right now."
Riku nodded and stood, with the help of his red-headed friend. He leaned on Axel's shoulders the entire walk back home. Leon allowed Axel to rest every now and then by taking Riku off of his shoulder and placing the silver-haired teen on his own. When they finally got back, they opened the door to a terrible sight. Riku's eyes were as wide as they could get. Axel and Leon looked just as shocked. Both Kadaj and Yazoo were lying on the floor, in a pool of their own blood. "Kadaj?" Riku's broke voice managed to get out. "Yazoo?" He removed his arm from Leon's shoulder and slowly made his way over to his older brothers. He collapsed next to their still bodies, tears streaming freely from his face. He let out a fierce yell of anger before he just completely broke down.
No long a flashback!
"Hey, Riku!" Axel yelled out. Riku opened his eyes and tilted his head back a bit, staring at the red-head. "You okay? You look like you're about to cry."
"I'm just remembering," Riku replied.
Me: ok, that's all I have 2 offer 4 this chapter. I hope u enjoyed it and now u no who turned Riku, Leon, and Axel. Maybe I'll let Sephiroth come in next chapter…MAYBE!!!!!!!! And don't give me a hard time about killing off Yazoo and Kadaj, I feel bad enough about that.