Chapter 4 - Bracing the issue
You always tell your best friend everything, even if you don't necessarily like some things about yourself. The trust you have with each other should always take away any doubts you would ever have of being judged, unaccepted, and pushed away. That's why I told Seifer about me, the real and unedited Taichi Yagami. I told him everything from my life in Japan to my sins in Russia.
Seifer would always say that my eyes sparkled whenever I talked about Japan, especially if my stories involved Yamato.
Yamato Ishida was my best friend and first love. He is the only thing that stops me from having any type of romantic feelings for Seifer or Riku. He holds my heart and I'm not going to ask for it back, I don't need to. I know he will protect it much better than anyone else can.
I had told Yama how I felt about him before I left Japan but of course I was to scared to tell him in person so I wrote him a letter containing my true feelings along with a necklace that had a ring on a chain, put it in a small red box with a silk white ribbon on it and set it in front of his apartment door, I also included a white Teddy bear with a red ribbon around its neck just because I found it to he insanely cute. Sadly I didn't get to see his reaction and hear what he had to say about it since I left right after. I'm not sure I want to know though...all these years and I'm still to afraid to approach him...even after I promised myself I would be ready.
"Tai it's okay. We'll...figure something out." Seifer is doing his best to console me but it's really not working. He's been trying to get me out of my curled up position for half an hour now. I just...I feel so helpless. I've been given the task to kill my love's dad and then capture him. I can't...I just can't...
"I can't do this Seifer..." my voice is cracking. I haven't cried in years...maybe it's finally time to release all of those pent up emotions...
"I know," He puts his arms around me and starts rubbing my back to sooth me. "but the best thing for us to do right now is find out why this has to be done." I agree that, that's the best thing to do but I shake my head anyway. I don't want to move... "You're going."
Suddenly, I'm being dragged out of my bed by my leg. My world gets fuzzy once my head connects with the floor. "Seifer..." He ignores me and continued dragging me out of my room, through the halls.
"Seifer I don't think this is the best idea..."
"Cut it out Tai. If you want to know what the point is to our mission then you have to demand the answer out of him! I don't care if he is Silver Slendy! You need to know why exactly we have to do this and I'm not leaving your side for a second until you find out!"
I sigh and give up trying to convince Seifer that disturbing Sephiroth isn't the best idea...it's the worst. He is right though, I need to know why we were asked to do this. I wont be able to do it without a good explanation. Hell, I wonder if I can do it at all...
"Come on Tai. Dragging you down the stairs is something I refuse to do. Unless you want brain damage that is." I cringe at the thought of my head hitting every step until I eventually blackout.
"Fair enough. I'll walk on my own."
"Good." Seifer smiles, putting out a hand to help me up. I glare at him a bit before making my way down the stairs, Seifer right at my heels.
Once we reach the door to Sephiroth's office I sense something is off. "Seifer..." I'm ignored once again as Seifer slams open the door, dragging me inside by my wrist.
"Sephiroth we need to talk!" My eyes widen once I fully take in the position Sephiroth is in above Tidus. Seifer is in the same state as me except he might have the ability to move...
"What is it." I can hear the distaste and annoyance in Sephiroth's voice when he glances up at us, taking his eyes off of Tidus. Definitely not good. He hates being pulled away from his time with Tidus.
"We...um..." Seifer tries to speak but I can tell his brain must be mush right now, he can't form complete sentences.
"Sometime today would be nice Seifer. As you can see, I'm a bit busy at the moment." His glare is ice cold. I think I'm even more frozen then before.
"Hey guys~!" Tidus has also turned his eyes to look at us but luckily his gaze is much warmer then his partner's. "Could whatever you have to say wait? I'm kind of waiting to be filled." Ew. Didn't want to hear that. My eye twitches a bit in disgust.
"R-Right! We'll just go then." Seifer grabs my wrist and high tails it out of Sephiroth's office.
Once we're a safe distance away Seifer bangs his head on the wall and groans. "My eyes!" I smile and start walking to the kitchen, Seifer crawling behind me.
"I told you it was a bad idea."
"Shut up...I'm dying..."
When we enter the kitchen we're completely over taken with the delicious and enticing aroma of food. I think my mouth is watering...yep. Definitely drool.
"Good morning boys. Are you hungry?" Aerith is at the stove flipping pancakes with a sweet smile on her face. Aerith is the sweetest, most caring woman I've ever met. She quickly became a mother figure to me. To all of us. Even at her young age Aerith is very understanding and mature, you can come to her for anything and she'll never let you down.
"Yes ma'am!" I run over to her and give her a hug before moving onto the multiple platters of different foods.
"BACON!" No. No no no no no! I run to the plate with Bacon on it and shove some in my mouth. Bacon never lasts if Seifer sees it. He reaches around me to snag some Bacon for himself, most likely doing the same as me, shoving it into his mouth. That doesn't sound right.
"Would you two stop that! You're like animals! Get a plate! Honestly, you're such idiots sometimes!"
We take a break from stuffing our faces to find Hayner, freshly showered and irritated. Well...at least he's semi relaxed. Seifer pushes it by slowly taking three pieces of Bacon. There's still some hanging out of my mouth.
"You both disgust me." Hayner sighs and moves over to us, pushing us out of his way to take a piece of Bacon.
"Hayner~ that was my piece.~" Seifer whines.
"Shut up! You took like 55 thousand pieces!" It's funny when Hayner over reacts.
Hello everyone! Sorry this update is so late, I haven't had the chance to get on the computer lately and of course Fanfiction is blocked on my school computers so I can't get on it there. Sucks. But I'm actually on chapter 8 in this story so hopefully I'll have all of those up very soon. Thank you so much for reading! Hope you enjoyed!
