Ghost of a Chance

Chapter 4: And yet you wouldn’t believe….

“Someone you know Sora?” Leon asked.

The silver haired kid looked terrified.

“Kadaj?” Aerith’s voice suddenly caused focus to shift from the boy to her.

Kadaj was nervous; here he was, in what could be seen as a trap, against the two people who killed him…

And yet…

“How do you know my name?” Kadaj meant her eyes.

“It came to me in a dream.” The woman told him and walked across the room to look into his eyes.

“A dream?” Kadaj took note that Cloud didn’t seem overly worried, things were odd here… very very odd.

“A dream,” Aerith confirmed, “someone asked me to watch out for you, and to guide you if you needed it.”

Kadaj looked confused.

“Then do you know him?” Sora asked suddenly.

“No, I’ve never meant him before.” Aerith told them.

Kadaj looked at the faces around the room, none of them knew him, and there was a definite lack of Turks, anything Shinra related, and a hunk of Cloud’s buddies. Adding what Axel had told him on that planet and the other minor things he’d seen, Axel calling his weapons from no where, a lack of materia, and the difference in currency, one thing could only be true. He wanted to check one final thing, one minor thing. He turned to Axel, “Have you ever seen a Chocobo?”

Axel stared at him for a second, the sudden question surprising him, “Nope, no idea what those are ether.” He told him, still confused.

Which meant…

He needed to sit down, fast. This was impossible right?

“I’m not on Gaia anymore…” Kadaj muttered it to himself as Cloud quickly offered the sliver haired male a chair, he had seen enough people pass out to recognize the symptoms of shock.

“Gaia?” Cloud asked.

“Was that the name of your world Kadaj?” Aerith asked him.

“Yeah…” he was still in slight shock.

Axel had been concerned for the other male. He hadn’t really been sure why, but for some reason he felt as if he needed to protect him. Kadaj had opened up to him, but now there was another feeling. Nobodies didn’t have hearts so it couldn’t be love. But then again Roxas had told him a number of times he loved him so… He pushed that thought down, there were more important issues right now, like-

“Sora, why did you bring Axel here too?” Leon asked, voicing what the Nobody had been about to ask.

“Well they were stuck on that planet, and we were coming here, if you want I can take them somewhere else.” The Keyblade master told them.

“I’m not in the Organization so you don’t have to worry about that.” Axel told them.

“The Organization doesn’t exist anymore anyway.” Yuffie told him. “Sora got rid of them.”

“But Axel also died…” Sora was again staring at him, but it almost seemed as if someone else said those words.

“So then why is he alive now?” Tifa finally broke her silence.

Kadaj hesitated before adding to the conversation, Axel already knew so why not… “I died before I woke up on that world.” He didn’t look at anyone. Died, killed same thing.

“So, we have two people that died that are now alive.” Leon thought out loud looking at the two.

“One of which came from another… another what?” Cloud added, staring at Kadaj.

“Plain of existence, reality, universe?” Kadaj offered.

“Reality fits best from what you were telling me.” Axel told him, he was standing near Kadaj’s chair, wanting to be close enough just in case he needed support, but it seemed as if every minute they talked he was feeling more relaxed.

“Reality, right, so why is he here now?” Leon asked.

“To get a second chance.” Aerith told them, “My dream told me that much, it’s so he can get a chance at what he never was allowed to before.”

Kadaj meant her eyes, she seemed to almost know more then what she was telling but didn’t want to say any more.

“And what’s that?”

“To live for himself.” Aerith told them, finally taking her eyes away from him.

That cinched it, she did know more then what she was telling.

“Not to break up this happy little discussion, but the two of us were strained there for a while. Would someone mind to much if we barrowed their shower and got a real meal?” Axel broke in.

“Together?” Sora suddenly asked.

“Together, oh you mean shower… No not unless he wants to.” Axel answered, glancing at Kadaj, the silver haired male seemed surprised by something.

“I’ll put them up in my house.” Cloud told them, heading toward the door, “We’ll talk after they’ve eaten.”

Kadaj pulled himself out of his chair, and slowly began to follow Cloud, Axel walking next to him.

“What’s wrong?”

Kadaj blinked at the red head for a second. “Huh?”

“You seemed surprised by something, what was it?” Axel prodded.

“Why did Sora ask if we would shower together?”

Axel shrugged, “I guess he assumed since we where together for that long that we were a couple.”

“A couple…” Kadaj trailed off.

“Yeah you know, like together?” Axel glanced at his face to see his reaction, which was confusion. Kadaj looked totally and completely confused.

Cloud was leading and also listening to the conversation, Sora was following, as was Leon, they had assumed, like most of Restoration Committee that Kadaj and Axel had been an item. Kadaj’s reactions were proving however that they were not. Yuffie would be so disappointed, it would be one less gossip item for her.

“Like dating?” Kadaj looked mildly horrified.

“Yeah like that. Wait what’s wrong?” Axel asked. The listeners continued to do so without trying to look like they where.

“Dating.” The way he said that word it was almost like it mystified him.

“And probably lovers.” Axel added.

Kadaj’s expression changed to one of shock. “That would mean I would have seen you nude!”

“Yeah, usually comes with being someone’s lover.”

“The only people I’ve ever seen nude where my brothers.”

“Dude you didn’t?” Axel didn’t want to finish that thought.

“No! They were my brothers!” Kadaj’s brain was nearing shut down point.

Axel was glad he didn’t finish that thought. “So what did you never date before?”

“No!”

“And that means you’re a virgin?”

“Yes!”

“At your age? With your body?” Axel asked, checking him out visibly.

“I had better things to do.” Kadaj told him, trying to move away from this discussion.

“Well like Aerith said, this is a new beginning for you.” Axel told him, throwing an arm over the other’s shoulder.

Kadaj wasn’t sure how exactly he should respond, while he could punch the other man, he could also let it stay there, or shrug him off, he went with shrugging him off.

“What? You’re not scared of gay people are you?” Axel asked.

“No. It’s not that.”

“Good, cause,” Axel paused and looked him over again, “ether you’re in denial or you just don’t know it.”

“Know what?” Kadaj had a feeling he knew where this was going.

Axel leaned close to his ear and whispered, “You’re defiantly not straight.”

Kadaj felt himself shiver as Axel’s breath hit his ear, it was a strange feeling for him. He had never really allowed himself to think of a relationship outside of his reunion. But now…

“We’re here.” Cloud broke into his thoughts.

They had stopped in front of a three story simple looking house.

“You live here?” Axel asked staring.

“Yeah.”

“Alone?”

“Well Aerith does stay sometimes.” Sora told them. “And it’s where Riku and I stay when we visit here.

“So I guess you have enough rooms for everyone?” Axel asked, here he had hopped he would be forced in the same room as Kadaj.

Cloud seemed to catch his drift though, and what would it hurt for one night? “We only have two rooms cleaned, Sora gets his room, so you two will have to share one room tonight. I hope you don’t mind.”

Kadaj looked unsure of the sudden situation. Trapped in a room with Axel all night. Well they had spent that time on the plant together.

Axel mouthed ‘thank you’ to Cloud then dragged Kadaj inside, following Sora. “Showers first though!” he reminded the Keyblade bearer, who led them to what was to be their room.


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*has to remember to bump the rating up to NC-17 for next chapter just to be safe* (please remember this is being posted on two sites so not all AN are for a specific site)

Warning: Axel starts to sound like Reno in the next chapter… or maybe it’s just me. (yep these are pre-written now… as in by the time you’re reading this I may have it fully finished.)


And yes the chapter titles do make full sentences when combined.


Why is it going so slow? Kadaj is a virgin, I don’t want to rush his first time *smiles* that and I want this to be a learning experience for him. Plus with how his mind set is I don’t know how someone who’s already not stable, being put threw even more stress, would react if pushed into sex.