Chapter 2.
The next morning, after Donald was done yelling at Sora, he and Seto went for a walk around Hollow Bastion. Sora explained the different worlds and the heartless.
Seto tried to explain Duel Monsters. "You use monsters, traps, and spells to lower your opponent's life points. Each monster has specific attack strength. See?" He showed the boy several different cards.
"So you set them against your opponent's cards." Sora looked at one card in particular. "What's this card?"
"That is my rarest and favorite card, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon."
"It's a beautiful card, yet fearful."
"I think that as well. Now, you forgot something while talking. What about the keyblade?"
"The keyblade is a days worth of information. There's stuff that I do and do not know."
"Where does it come from?"
"I don't know. King Mickey says that there is always a Keyblade Master. And there can be several at once. It's hard to explain."
Seto starred at the boy for a minute. He had to admit, the boy was cute. The chocolate spikes set off his dark blue eyes nicely.
"I have to leave tomorrow." Sora starred at the ground. "Donald, Goofy and I need to protect another world that has been attacked. We may be gone a while."
"Save the world. That's what you need to do."
"I know, but it doesn't feel right leaving you here."
"I'll be fine. Stuff needs to be done here. I can help out. When are you leaving?"
"Early in the morning."
"I'll see you off." Seto smiled.
"Thanks." Sora smiled back.
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The next morning Sora, and the gang left with a wave.
Leon, Cloud and Seto set to work rebuilding the town. They built houses, & stores, picked up debris, and helped others with mundane things. It was hard work. They all fell into bed afterwards.
One the third day of Sora's absence, Seto felt a sting of pain in his chest. His thoughts automatically turned to the boy. The pain kept going on and off for the next five days.
On the sixth day, Sora and the gang returned. Sora surprised Seto at the house site. "Seto!" He yelled.
Seto, who sat on the boards of the roof, nearly fell off at his name. "Sora. Welcome back. I'll be right down." He climbed down to meet the boy.
Sora nearly stopped dead in his tracks. Seto was stripped from the waist up. He had sculpted abs and chest. Sora imagined his hands running over them. "You look like you could use a nice long rest." He mentally wiped the images away.
"So could you." Seto noticed that Sora had cuts up and down his arms and legs.
"Heartless can be ruthless. I ran into so many."
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, my worst injuries have been taken care of."
"When did you leave that world?"
"Yesterday, but as we were boarding this huge heartless swiped my back."
"Yesterday afternoon right?"
"Yeah. How did you know?"
"Yesterday I felt this pain in my chest. It was worse than the others."
"Others?"
"After you left, I started feeling pain. It started on the third day. Along with it, I would lose my strength."
"That was the day we got ambushed by the Big Bodies. I thought I was out when I felt the strength to go on. It was like that every time I got seriously hurt."
"Yesterday, I felt pain, it was beyond words. I lost all my strength. Leon had to catch me before I fell off a support wall."
"Seto," Leon, the brown haired swordsman, walked up. "Is the roof ready yet?"
"Yeah. I'll be right there to help put it up." Seto turned back to the boy. "I have to go. I'll see you at Merlin's." He kissed Sora's head.
"Uh. . . yeah."
Seto waved as he climbed back up onto the half finished roof.
"I seen that," Sora jumped. Behind him stood a smiling girl. Her short black hair was held back by a headband. She looked like a ninja.
"Jesus, Yuffie. Scare the crap out of me." Sora relaxed.
"You like Seto. Admit it." Yuffie smiled.
"I do. He lent me his strength. He likes me as well, I know he does. He said he could feel when I was hurt. What should I say to him?"
"Tell him the truth. All guys like the truth."
"If I get the nerve."
"Anyway, Cid wants to see you. He wants to know about the world you were sent to."
"Since you'll get there first tell him I'm coming."
"Gotcha." Yuffie took off. Sora took one last look at Seto before leaving as well.
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Seto watched as Sora and Yuffie talked. Yuffie had helped him on several chores, but he didn't really know her.
"Hey, space head." Leon yelled.
"Wha? Oh, sorry Leon." Seto fitted the beam into place.
"You know. Sora hasn't shown any interest in girls."
"What!" Seto nearly fell off the beam again. "What are you talking about?"
"I seen you kiss his head. You like him."
"I don't like him. I think I love him. When he's hurt, I lend him my strength. I don't think I could live without him."
"Tell him."
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Sora and Cid were talking as Seto walked in. "What's up?"
"Hey." Sora smiled at him. "Not much. Just showing Cid my pictures from the world."
Seto stood behind the pair as they looked. He stopped them only once. "Wait. Go back one."
Cid rewound the picture. It was a picture of a really tall building. On the side of it, in giant letters, where the initials: K and C. "What do you see?" Cid asked.
"That's my company building. That's Kaiba Corp."
"That means," Sora looked at Seto. "We went to earth. We went to your world."
