Radiant Destiny

Chapter 12: “It seems I’ve know you forever.”
I know I said to much but hell I’m completely nervous now that I might have just scared Sora away from me… I couldn’t help it, that shit head blond was messing with Sora. I was going to let Yazoo take care of it but when Yazoo said that this Seifer was just like Zell… Well that pissed me off! Zell was a creep who almost raped Yazoo three years ago and I’d be damned if I let something like that happen to Sora… I was the first person Yazoo told… I held him as he cried until father came home. Father heard the crying and came to find out what was wrong… Yazoo broke down and told dad… I have never scene father that pissed in my life… and I never want to again. Rumor had it that Zell ran away but me and Yazoo believe father did something… I know it’s a bad thing if he did but he did it not just for Yazoo but for anyone else who would have to deal with Zell next…


Once I stopped remembering I noticed that everyone walked away… everyone except Sora… So there we were, me and Sora… I looked at him and he was doing the cutest thing. He was biting his bottom lip looking at his feet as he rocked on them all with a slight blush… That’s when I knew… Sora is my soul mate…

“I hope I didn’t scare you into not being a friend Sora…” I said hoping against hope that he’d look at me… And he did! Sora stopped rocking and biting his lip looking at me he tilted his head to the side… So cute! “No… I mean it did scare me at first but once you explained I was okay… I’d love to have you… as a friend Riku…” Sora answered with a pause that I hope meant more than friends but it might just be my wishing and not even a pause at all… God I hope it was a pause!

I smiled at Sora with my confident smile even though I am nervous as hell right now… “So Sora does that mean we’re friends?” I asked. Sora smiled at me with a very goofy smile. “Of course we’re friends Riku. I hope that all of you can become my friends.” Sora answered. “Ha ha… you’re already half way there Sora. The only ones out of us who are left is Kadaj and Loz.” I said trying to lighten up the mood a little not to mention calm my nerves down…

Sora chuckled a little and I knew I wanted him to do that forever… “Yeah I guess your right… So Tifa, Mrs. Wildfire, told us someone dropped off a big black dog named Boss…” Sora said. I smiled. “Yeah that was my friends Wakka… He lives o Destiny Islands.” I answered. “…Destiny Islands?… I never heard of it…” Sora responded tilting his head again. “It’s a group of small islands in the middle of the tropic… That was were we moved from… We and Wakka’s family has been transferred everywhere together for a good while now… Wakka’s like family, he even dated Yazoo there for a while…” I explained but at the end I panicked thinking Sora might think the wrong thing. “Oh I see… So why didn’t Boss come here with you?” Sora asked. “Not enough room in the car… Boss might be a retired boom sniffing military dog but he hates to be in small spaces.” I answered laughing a little of how stupid that seemed…


“Wow! Boss can sniff out bombs!? Cool!” Sora said getting really excited now. “Ha ha yeah even though he can still do that after a dog hits 12 they retired because of safety reasons… Now it’s his children’s turn.” I answered loving how excited Sora was. “Oh…” Sora said calming down a little… “So…. What kind of dog is Boss?” Sora asked. “He’s an Austin Healer with one blue eyes and one red eye… He’s very loving.” I answered starting to wish it would stop being uncomfortable talking to Sora… “Oh cool I use to have a blue-tick Austin Healer once… She ran away…” Sora responded.

The basement seemed to get stuffy to me… I had to get out… “Hey Sora? I’m going to be outside for a little bit, it’s too stuffy in here…” I said hoping Sora would come with me… “Oh good I thought it was just me… I’ll go with you if that’s okay?” Sora asked. “Don’t matter to me…” I responded. I turned and walked towards the stairs quietly cussing myself for sounding so dark and un-welcoming but Sora followed me non-the-less…

Neither one of us said a word as we went up the stairs and out the door to the side porch. There was only an old porch swing so I sat down to find Sora sitting right next to me. The swing was so small that Sora’s leg was touching mine making me mentally tell my hormones to take a hike… We sat there for a while just enjoying mid-September’s cool night air in complete silence… It’s funny really… I just met Sora today but it already feels like I’ve known him all my life… the only difference is that I know hardly anything about him… That I would change… I want to know every single detail and moment of Sora’s life… I want to keep him safe forever… Does that make me seem stalker-ish?, God I hope not…


“Do you play any sports?” Sora asked breaking the silence. “Hmm? No not really… Dad says it’s a good experience but with training and school. All I want to do is relax and enjoy time with friends.” I answered. “Training?” Sora asked. “Dad has all of us training with him… He wants to make sure we know as much as he does… Dad’s kind of paranoid about our safety…” I answered always being able to find it funny. “No I get it… When mom and dad died Cloud and Leon had been teaching us how to sword and hand-to-hand fight… Cloud was taught by dad and Leon’s in the army… Cloud could be in the army if he wanted too but he loves kids and loves to teach so he’s the high schools math teacher…” Sora responded.


“Oh cool… So I guess we’ll have to spar sometime…” I said hoping he would get the unspoken words. “Um sure…Roxas is better at it than me though… He and Axel spars all the time and sometimes it worries me because they really go after each other, I mean you’d swear they are actually trying to hurt each other…” Sora answered and apparently he didn’t catch it… Damn. “…I’ll have to watch them sometime then…” I responded really interested in watching and seeing what Axel can do… We spent a good two hours just sitting there, asking and telling stories… Just getting to know each other and see what we have in common… Turns out we are pretty much alike… Same taste in food, drinks, people, books, movies, and music…

“Ha ha yeah the night Twilight came out I was in line for 15 minutes… There was a good 300 people in line and just enough D.V.D ’s…” I said. “Cool! Me and Roxas made Axel come with us, he’s the only one out of the three of us who can drive… Anyways we got there just in time to get a good ticket… 210 out of a good 300... There were people from all the way as the next county…” Sora explained his experience at the Twilight D.V.D release last week… “Yeah me and Yazoo had to go to the main land to get ours…” I responded.


Just as it seemed Sora was going to say something that Seifer guy showed up, this time alone… “Well it looks like someone’s having a good time…” Seifer said stepping unto the porch… I stood up and used my most scary face… “Tough guy… This has nothing to do with you… I just want to talk to Sora, that’s all.” Seifer said with a smirk. “…I don’t want to talk…” Sora said standing up as well and grabbing my right arm as he stood behind me. “Why not Sora? I won’t hurt you… I just want to talk…” Seifer said again. “…no…” Sora answered squeezing my arm and grabbing a handful of my jacket in the back. “You heard Sora, he doesn’t want to talk to you. Turn around and leave.” I said in a demanding tone. Seifer got pissed…


“Who do you think you are?! Hiding behind your father!” Seifer yelled. I raised an eyebrow at that and chuckled. “One, who said I was hiding?, Two, do you even know my father?” I asked. “Tifa said your father’s name was Sephiroth… The new general in town is named Sephiroth.” Seifer answered smugly. “If you know that much then you should know that he taught me and my brother’s how to fight…” I responded. “Big deal!” Seifer yelled again. “Do yourself a favor and leave before it’s too late.” I said showing in my voice how I was getting fed up with all of this. “And what will happen if I don’t?” Seifer asked.

“You won’t be alive tomorrow.” Father answered from behind him. Seifer’s eyes got big for a second before he turned around. “Awe so daddy came to fight your battle…” Seifer said in a teasing tone. Father smiled. “I’m quiet confident that Riku can take care of himself.” Father responded. Seifer just stared up at father, trying to be brave until the door opened… “Sephiroth Storm there you are!” Axel’s mother said in the doorway. “…Storm?…” Seifer asked. “Seifer I thought I told you to stay off my property?… And yes Storm, Sephiroth here is Hojo’s son.” Mrs. Wildfire answered. The next second Seifer was gone… “There’s only one person that kid is afraid of… Hojo.” Mrs. Wildfire explained with a smile. “Sora honey I watched and heard the whole thing after Seifer yelled, are you okay?” Mrs. Wildfire asked. Sora let go of me. “I’m fine… thanks to Riku…” Sora answered with his head down. Father smiled at me as if he knew I liked Sora a lot…