Hinyah~ Hikari here with the new chapter.

Apologies to those who follow both my stories and were disappointed that neither were updated last week.

Here we are this week with an update for BOTH stories.

Well, now on to the story.

Chapter 31

Three days passed sooner than expected for everyone, but at the same time each day itself felt like it dragged on for hours. Either way the days went by and now it was the day of the next hangout. With the meeting being set before noon outside of the theme park, Riku and Saruhiko had to make sure that they got up as early as they could to prepare. That still left them feeling tired and overly groggy in the morning, but there wasn't much else they could do about it.

As much as they would have rather slept in or wished the meeting was a later time, they couldn't do a thing about it. Sora and Yata were human after all. With humans being… well human, the vampire brothers had to play by how they lived. At least when it came to the time when to be awake opposed to other things.

No matter what, even though they felt tired or something else, there was a bit of something in the air. Something they couldn't quite explain. Maybe it was excitement how the day could go, or just a little bit of nervousness. Maybe it was even both of them together. The two brothers weren't really ones to pick up on this sort of thing though, so they choose to try and ignore it, not even knowing that both of them were having the same thoughts and feelings.

But they were here now at the park. They paid at the front of the park for the tickets and headed on inside. Now all that was left was to find Yata and Sora and start off the day hanging out. Riku searched the front area for a short bit until he spotted the fairly spiky brown hair.

"Hey!" Riku called out as he approached.

Sora turned around and smiled and waved over at Riku. "Riku! You made it! And Saru too, though…"

Yata came up from behind Sora, staring long and hard. "How the hell did you get through security with him sleeping on your back?!"

Riku looked to his shoulder to look at his younger brother's sleeping face. He stared for a moment, not for any real reason other than just to give a moment of suspense. He then turned back and shrugged. "I couldn't get him to really wake up. Nearly fell asleep while eating. But I guess now that we are here…"

Riku walked over to a nearby bench and placed Saru down. Though sitting up right, he slouched forward, his face still calm and tranquil.

Not wanting to wait much longer Riku gave a slight shove on Saru's shoulder. "Hey, wake up already."

Saru's response was to mumble something incoherent, lazily swat at Riku, and then flop over sideways so that he was lying down on the bench. Even though that was the response the Riku expected at this point, he still let out an exasperated sigh. No matter what it seemed that Saru would always be difficult to wake up and that would probably never change.

Once again Riku shook him. "We're at the park already, you can't keep sleeping now."

Saru half asleep went through the motion of throwing a knife at Riku before rolling over so that his back was to the group.

"Honestly…" Riku muttered under his breath.

A moment later he grabbed Saru by the shoulder and turned him back to facing them. Riku always wanted to take the lighter approach first, but usually that work hardly work. As much as he didn't want to cause a scene or anything else, he had to at least wake Saru one way or another. So with not waiting a second more he grabbed both shoulders and yanked Saru to his feet.

Grumbling out complaints, Saru blearily blinked his eyes open before swatting at Riku's hands.

"Good, you're awake," Riku commented before shoved his hands into his jacket pockets. He then turned around to face Sora and Yata. "So I guess we are ready then."

"All right!" Sora said. "So where are we going to go first? Anyone got any preferences."

Yata was the first to respond. "Don't really care either way just as long as we can get started before the lines get to be too long."

"How about we start simple then? We could go on the chocobo carousel that's right at the front of the park," Sora suggested as he pointed to the nearby carousel.

"Sure, that's okay with me," Riku said with a nod.

"I guess so," Yata added.

"Then let's get in line!" Sora cheered as he began to walk towards the ride.

Riku followed behind him and Yata started to walk but he stopped a few steps later. He turned around to see Saru still standing there. "Hey, are you going to come or what?"

Mumbling a bit, Saru grudgingly began to follow behind the group.

"Guess you don't have much to say today," Yata muttered as he walked next to him as they went to catch up to the other two boys.

"It's too early Misaki." Saru murmured out.

"It's twelve o'clock noon, how is that early?"

"I'm nocturnal."

Yata raised an eyebrow. "Really? Like a night owl… or more like a vampire?"

"Yes, really."

"Ah… that didn't really answer my question," Yata replied.

The two of them finally made it into line, walking up right behind Sora and Riku. As they approached, it seems that Sora was already into telling Riku some story of some kind. But the two of them seemed too engrossed to notice that the others had arrived in line. From what they walked into though, it was some conversation about Disney and the latest movie that would be coming out soon.

Seeing that they weren't really going to be apart of the conversation, Yata glanced over to Saru. "So…" he rubbed the back of his neck, breathing out slowly. "Um… Since they are talking and stuff… what are your interests? I mean like, I guess based off what they are talking about, any movies you like?"

Saru just shrugged. "Don't really watch movies."

"Well when you do, like… what genres do you watch?"

"A good mystery I guess, or those investigation solving series."

Yata blinked, feeling a bit surprised. "Huh. Didn't take you for a mystery person."

"I didn't take you for the type who would try to get to know a person beyond first impressions."

Yata's eyes widened at Saruhiko's comment. "Huh? Well… I um…"

"Guys!" Sora interrupted. "It's time to get on the ride!"

Without finishing his thoughts, Yata walked to catch up in the line and stepped on to the carousel. Saru followed closely behind, brushing past Yata to take a seat on a stationary bench. Yata watched as Saru just sat there and did nothing more. He thought about asking him for questioning him, but he shook off the thoughts. He had the feeling he wouldn't get a proper answer anyways.

Just in front of the stationary bench, Sora and Riku had already chosen their chocobos. Ironically or perhaps Sora had chosen a brown colored one and Riku was right next to him on a silvery white colored one. Though Yata really didn't care so much for color he just decided to go with the closest one to where he stood, which was a black chocobo.

The ride began seconds later, and it was what everyone expected the ride to be, just a normal carousel ride that went in circles several times. Out of everyone Sora seemed to enjoy the ride the most, smiling gleefully through the entire ride.

Once the ride came to a complete stop, the four of them exited off the ride and walked further into the park. Sora smiled and he turned to face the group. "Well that was fun!"

"I mean if you call just going in a circle fun, then yeah sure," Yata replied dryly.

"I like to imagine I really am riding a chocobo though!" Sora replied. "One day I wanna get out there and ride one for real."

"You've never ridden one before?" Riku asked.

"Nope. Petting some baby chocobos before, but never was able to ride one. So I still hope one day I can get to do it."

"Well it would be more fun to ride an actual one, much faster anyways," Yata added.

"That's if you get a cooperative chocobo. A feisty one would just buck you off immediately. Or just decide that you're one of their chicks and try to keep you in the nest," Saru butted in, although muttering the last part as if embarrassed slightly.

"Wait what?" Yata asked, sounding more surprised than he had beforehand. "What was that last part?"

"If you didn't hear it, I'm not going to repeat it."

Riku chuckled slightly, bring the attention over to him. "Oh come on Saru, it's a funny story. Why not tell it?"

"Because I don't find it all that funny when not bantering with Zack."

"But I wanna know about this story now!" Sora interjected. "What exactly happened with the chocobo?"

Saru didn't answer, just turned and started walking off. Riku let out a sigh, shaking his head slightly. "I doubt you are going to get him to explain what happened." A smirk appeared on his face a second later. "But I can tell you guys later. Let's catch up with him and see where he is going."

They caught up with Saruhiko rather quick. He was only walking a slow pace so it wasn't much of a challenge to get to him. "So who is going to pick the next ride?" Sora asked as the four of them walked together.

"I still don't really care too much how we do things," Yata stated.

"Hmmm, do you wanna pick, Riku?" Sora asked as he looked to him.

"Ah, I guess?" Riku said before he stopped walking. He looked around the section of the park they were in, there were mostly food places, but there was one coaster right by them. Thankfully the line didn't look too long from what he could see. "How about this one?"

"Isn't that one a bit of a kiddie coaster though?" Yata asked while glancing over to it.

"It's not a kiddie coaster, Misaki. It's a classic family coaster that has been around for almost half a century. There aren't coasters manufactured like these anymore, so it makes it all the more historic."

"And how the hell do you know that?" Yata asked.

Saru answered by pointing to the historical coaster landmark plaque by the line entrance.

"Oh…" Yata mumbled.

"Well I think it looks fun, so let's get on it!" Sora said before marching over to the line.

"The line looks a bit longer than the carousel, but hopefully it shouldn't be too long," Riku commented once the four of them stood in line.

"We can always play a game on our phones while we wait. Something that all four of us could do," Sora suggested.

"I guess, if you want to," Riku replied.

"What would we even play?" Yata asked.

"Hmm…" Sora hummed, rubbing his hand over his chin. "Game of Life or HeadsUp?"

"Not interested." Saru unhelpfully answered.

"Aw come on, don't start being a party pooper again Saruhiko," Sora replied as he pulled out his phone. How about we just play a Game of Life as we wait? That could be fun at least. Here I will get it started up."

Yata rolled his eyes. "Well seeing as you will keep asking no matter what, guess we gotta play."

Sora smiled. "Great! I will get it setup then!"

"I'll pass." Saru commented when Sora went around them asking color and piece preferences. Instead, Saruhiko chose to pull out his own phone, opening up a different game to distract himself with.

Sora pouted a little and looked like he was going to say something else, but Riku spoke up first. "Just let him play his game. Maybe later on we can convince him."

Sora nodded and then proceeded to start up the game for just Riku, Yata, and himself. When they had gotten about halfway through the game they were almost at the loading area for the roller coaster. Sora paused his game and put the phone back into his pocket.

Right away each boy walked into their own line for the coaster train car. Now all they had to do was wait a few more turns before it was time for them to get on. When it did come, there were two seats that had covers over them. The seats that had the covers over them were in front of Riku and then the other was in front of Yata.

"I'm sorry but these seats are out. You will either have to wait for the next train or pair up," the ride attended explained.

The four boys glanced to the other train cars that people were filling up into. Some were just a single rider in the seat, but some had two people with the smaller person sitting in front of the other. What was most surprising was due to the fact how the train cars were designed, the smaller person in the seat had to sit between the other person's legs.

"I think I will just wait for the next train…" Yata grumbled.

"No, come on Yata. We all gotta ride this at the same time." Sora smiled suddenly and looked to Riku. "Riku you can ride with me, okay?"

"Huh?" Riku said, trying to process what Sora had said to him.

The ride attended spoke up again. "Please make your choice soon so we can get to sending this train out and get the next loaded."

Sora reached out and pulled on Riku's hand, continuously smiling. "Let's just do it then."

Without much of a choice Riku was pulled into the seat and sat down first with Sora following after him. Saru looked curiously at his brother before climbing into his own seat that he was in line for and sitting down.

Yata on the other hand still stood there, crossing his arms. "I'm not sitting with you."

"If you're too shy to get up in my personal space again, then you can go wait for us by the exit, Misaki."

Yata sneered at him and then glanced to Riku and Sora who were already buckled up in the seat. Everyone was looking at him and waiting. He sighed heavily before going to take his seat in the same car as Saruhiko.

"Fine… whatever…" Yata huffed before reaching for the seat belt and placed it around the two of them.

It didn't take long before the attendants went down the train, checking the seat belts and clearing the train to leave the station. As the train began it's climb up the circular lift hill, Saru wrapped his arms around Yata, and leaned forward to whisper into his ear.

"Are you comfortable Mi~Sa~Ki~?" Saru asked in almost a teasing manor.

Yata froze up, completely caught by surprise. "A-Ah…W-What?" His breathing started to increase while he tried to wrap his head around what Saruhiko was doing. Within seconds he could feel his cheeks growing warm and he internally cursed at himself for letting it happen. "What the hell? What do you think you are doing?"

"Isn't this what people do when sharing a seat on this ride?" Saru half asked, faking an innocent tone.

"Y-Yeah… sure but… that's… it's usually when…" Yata stumbled over his words, unable to get a clear enough mind to think straight. His heart rate only increased further at this rate and with Saruhiko showing no sign of letting go, he knew he wouldn't be able to calm himself any time soon.

Yata waited for Saruhiko to reply, but before anything else could happen, the train made it to the top of the lift hill. Now that it was no longer being pulled up, it started to make its descent down the track. While the speed was not extremely fast, it was enough to push Yata back, having him laying back against Saruhiko's chest.

Yata felt Saruhiko's arms wrap tighter around him. With laying back against his chest, he could feel and hear faint chuckling coming from him. Though Yata knew that the ride wasn't extremely long, he felt like it was going to go on forever with him stuck right where he didn't want to be… yet at the same time did.

Kitty here is too lazy to come up with another A/N, and for those who've noticed I've just basically reused the note I wrote for Another Time; Another Life.

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