How about we save Aqua, uh?
"Don't you ever do that again!" Vanitas snarled as he shamelessly slapped Aqua.
"Fourteen minutes! That's not bad, you know!"
He was angrily shaking, holding her wrist so tightly it hurt – although she kind of felt it might not be the best time to mention it.
"You. Could. Have. Died." He hissed.
"But I did not. You healed me. You were right, you learn faster with lives on the line!"
Quite honestly, he did not exactly save her life, and that was probably the main reason he was angry. After fourteen minutes, two minutes after she passed out, he managed to cast a Cure on her – a weak one, that could probably heal a bruise but not even a cut. That was enough, however, to wake her up, and seeing how panicked and desperate he was (and how painful and close to passing out again she was), she cast a couple of Curagas on herself, healing her wounds. She was really proud of Vanitas, but she could also see how furious he was – and she felt a pinch in her heart.
"Don't you adopt his methods. You are nothing like him. If you do that again... Don't you see I almost killed you?"
"You did not! Your spell is the reason I -"
"That's not what I'm talking about! Look around you, Aqua!" He interrupted angrily. And she did.
Dozens of red eyes were staring at them. Unversed. A huge, huge amount of Unversed, surrounding them. It took her a moment to understand.
"They came... From your panic? You couldn't control them, is that it?"
"And I'm so angry right now I can't call them back. I'm doing my best so that they don't attack you. NO!" He snapped at a big unversed who stepped towards Aqua. The Unversed backed off immediately, as if it had been hit.
"I have something to tell you, but I cannot be sure whether it will soothe your anger or just makes it worse. So let's make a deal: if it makes things worse, I will leave right away. And you will decide when you think we can meet again. Deal?"
The whole deal probably made him more nervous than he was before, but she wanted to take precautions. And to tell him it was okay to be mad at her.
"Deal."
"Have you ever heard of delayed magic?" Upon his blank look, she went on. "This is a really advanced magic technique, granting its user the ability to delay a spell. The delay time depends on the person, as it requires a lot of strength and magic. I would lie if I said I had mastered it yet, but I've been able to delay some spells for up to thirty minutes."
His expression remained unchanged. She gathered all of her courage.
"Before stabbing myself, I set up a delayed Curaga where I was standing, at exactly twenty minutes. I wouldn't have died. But I needed you to believe I would, or I doubt you would have succeeded."
He looked away. Was he deciding whether he was still angry or not? He massaged his temples for a while.
"So you're telling me that you used a technique that requires a huge amount of strength and magic, that you almost bled yourself to death, and yet managed to cast TWO Curagas, let alone that other delayed one that was probably still pumping through your strength to remain active, while dying?"
"I wouldn't put it that way, but... yes."
"And from the beginning, you knew I wouldn't be able to heal you … Shoot, you knew because there was no way a simple Cure would heal you, and yet you still did that?"
The unversed started growling, and Aqua no longer felt completely safe. She understood he would feel betrayed. She stood up and stepped back.
"Please send Memo when... or if you want to talk to me again, okay? I'm sorry I put you in such a situation... Take care of you."
But when she tried to leave, two massive unversed blocked her way. She clenched her keyblade, unsure whether she should attack or not. She looked back at Vanitas.
The boy vigorously clapped his cheeks and jumped on his feet. He turned to her, and his usual sarcastic face was back. Almost instantaneously, all the unversed, including the ones blocking her way, and even including Memo, turned into a cloud that went back to Vanitas. She could almost hear his teeth gritting while he absorbed all of the Negativity back, but he did not lose his smirk.
"There is no way I would refuse to see you again when I barely know how to heal a papercut! I don't need Memo to tell you that we'd better see each other soon, unless of course you're fine with the idea of me dying because you failed to complete your training!"
Aqua smiled back at him, incredibly relieved he did not hate her.
"Also, delay magic? The reason nobody uses that isn't because it's complicated, it's because it's pretty useless! Tell me, in what kind of fight exactly would you plan an attack 30 minutes ahead? That's quite the opposite of a spontaneous fight, if you want to know."
"I guess you're right", she laughed, "but I'm sure that there are times when it can be pretty useful. See, in our situation, it helped!"
"Yeah, but what kind of psycho would delay a healing spell? Oh I know you're in pain but hey just wait for 15 more minutes! "
"If you have many people to heal, you can delay that spell so that you have time to gather everyone at the same place and heal them all at the same time, using less magic than if you had to heal them one by one!"
He shrugged, unconvinced. "If you say so. I have to go. I'll do my best to practice, but focusing on happy thoughts when you almost died in my arms... A while ago, I would have regarded that as a happy thought, though."
Aqua laughed and came closer to him, giving him a soft kiss on the cheek.
"Perhaps that will help recording today as a happy memory, then."
His grin grew wider, as he put his fingertips on his cheek.
"I guess that could do."
To be fair, Vanitas is right. That's some pretty useless spell. But Aqua needed a backup plan x'D
Also, it's coming! Tomorrow, the 1st of December, my first prompt of my KH Advent Calendar will be released! If you want to read it and not miss it, remember to follow me to get an alert as soon as it's out. I'm so excited, SaphirActar and I have been working on that for so long. I will keep the 2chapters/week for SP but you will also get a daily prompt on the calendar. They will be about several characters, will tell different stories, each prompt being independant from the others. So see you tomorrow for the first prompt! *super super excited*