Sephiroth's Guide to Love and Deception

Sephiroth’s Guide to Love and Deception
Chapter Five: Operation: KuZoey

Saturday.

The deadline.

And despite getting the brunette to at least, scream at Riku on Thursday for ‘stealing’ his precious necklace, he’d reverted back to not speaking or being in the same room with the boy.

Which was making her end of the bargain, getting Riku and Sora on a good terms before 12:00 midnight tonight–or Operation: KuZoey as she nicknamed it– that much more difficult. (Ku stood for Riku, Zo stood for Sora and long ‘e’ sound at the end was just to make it sound cute.)

Now that Riku had already put up his end of the deal: their parents had already spoken with and wired the payment for the house yesterday– and she really had to re-thank Sephiroth because they totally ended up paying less than what it was worth– and would begin the moving in process officially tomorrow with the London’s and her younger cousin, Roxas (or Roxy as she called him) helping.

He would be coming down for the entire school year and after having a little conversation with him on the cell phone, she was excited to learn she had a new ally in her plans–he’d been only too happy to help after she explained why Riku may or may not be a jerk.

Ri sighed, as she looked over the list she’d comprised –a checklist of sorts, to get her job accomplished. And she had to admit, she was rather proud of it.

Ri had made it her business to go to the local exotic wares store to go get Cloud’s cat suit. All she had to do was make sure both Sora and Riku went with her–and then the real fun would begin. There was so much stuff Riku could use to his advantage, it would be his own damn fault if he didn’t help her succeed with part one–getting Sora to talk to him again.

The next on her to do list was using one of Sora’s weaknesses against him: food. And she had that part covered: they would go to Sora’s favorite spot and she, along with Roxas, would ‘mysteriously’ have to leave, giving Riku a chance to have dinner alone with Sora. This would give him the time to soften Sora up to him again–to which step three came when they returned around eight, when karaoke would start–and then step three would take place.

Sora other weakness was music. He listened to anything and loved everything. And Ri had the perfect songs for Riku to dedicate to Sora...something sure to catch his attention if Riku sang them right.

And finally, the part that she was rather looking forward to: the final step. Making sure there was no way in hell Sora could go or sleep anywhere but in Riku’s room–to which she was sure she would have no problem getting everyone to help her with after this hellatious week:
Sora had tried to sleep in Sephiroth’s room again on Friday–he’d been going back and forth all week between her room and Seph’s room. Cloud naturally, agreed to let him sleep there and so had Sephiroth–or at least, in front of his parents, who were present when Sora asked just to make sure it was okay.

But oddly enough, Sephiroth spent the entire day cornering Sora to have little...talks...with him (Rikku had caught him twice) and by the end of the day, not only did Sora down right refuse to sleep in his room, he was paranoid about sleeping anywhere out in the open where Sephiroth could have easy access to him.

So in the end, he slept, remarkably, on the floor in Sephiroth’s parents room. Rikku didn’t know whether to be embarrassed–or die from the sheer humor of Sora being so afraid of Sephiroth that he’d risk looking like a total five year old and sleep with somebody’s parents.

But when Sora went to go to the bathroom, Mr. London for unknown reasons she didn’t care to know about, locked the boy out of the bedroom, leaving his pillow and sheet outside the door. So Sora ended up, once again, in Rikku’s room to sleep.

Actually, he’d bugged her into submission because she’d said no like, a hundred times before she gave in. But as a ‘reward’ for being so ‘stupid’ as she called it, she tried keeping him up the entire night whether it be cheerfully slapping him with things when he did finally fall asleep just to wake him up or singing loudly with her headset on.

This however, ended when Sephiroth came storming into the room with his precious sword, looking as though he was teetering on the edge of a sleep induced homicidal rage due to all the noise he was hearing as his room was right next to hers, and told them in a very eerie calm and cold manner to “Shut. Up.”

This once again, resulted with Sora running to Mr. And Mrs. London’s room for salvation, causing Mr. London (who bore the exact same look as Sephiroth) to issue a few threats of is own if Sora came back in to his room for any reason a third time before making Sora sleep with her again. (And he was in a bed sheet. Ri just didn’t want to think about that though–no matter how incredibly hot Mr. London looked with his tan skin and sexy cat like amber eyes...)

And they finally got to sleep–at around six o clock this morning.

Only she, Riku, and Mrs. London–who was very perky and she didn’t care to ponder on why–where awake: Sora was knocked out and Sephiroth had gone so far as to put a death threat on his door if he or Cloud were disturbed under any circumstances.

So if nothing else went right, the boy was sleeping with Riku tonight–and from there, Riku was on his own.

She looked over her list again and nodded. This could work.

Or at least, her plan had started out fine: Roxas had arrived with her parents later in the day and Sora (finally waking up) was thrilled to see him.

But just as the blond had promised, he seemed to make himself far more interested in getting to know Riku, something that caught the silvery blond by surprise but he didn’t seem to mind none the less–but just as she’d hoped, Sora did. Which meant there still was something there after all.

So when she’d suggested that to go get Cloud’s outfit, Sora had declined because Riku was going–but mysteriously wanted to go after Roxas showed interest, asking Riku if he could point things out and show him a round a bit as they went.

And just as they’d worked out, Roxas suddenly had an interest in going to another store along the way–and Riku offered to come with–until Sora all but pouted that he was suppose to be going with them. This cause the three of them to look at the brunette and said chocolate haired beauty simply stormed off toward Hot Topic–before Ri grabbed his arm and pulled him to a place called “Secrets”, Riku following while Roxas headed to Burger King to eat as he waited for her to come and get him.

And she watched with amusement while Riku tried countless times to engage Sora in a conversation before the boy simply glared and walked on, trying to ignore his presence–which wasn’t hard, as he was too busy awing and blushing at all the things in the store.

And then...it happened.

“Sora ”

All three spun around and Sora looked almost grateful while Riku looked down right as irritated as she was when a certain red head ran her way over, waving madly at Sora.

When she got closer, Ri masked her dismay with a big goofy smile. She hadn’t counted on this at all.

“Sora? You don’t see anybody else standing here?” she teased, taking a step in front of the brunette and forcing the red head to notice her. “Geez Kai, how bad do you got it?”

“Rikku Oh my gosh, it is you ” Kairi squealed in a girlish fashion before placing her in a suffocating hug. “It’s so great to see you I knew you were in town but you never came by ”

“I...was...breathing Becoming an issue ” she snapped and Kairi let her go with a sheepish giggle. “Sorry ”

“Tis alright my dear,” she taunted in a classy voice, brushing herself off as she took in a few deep breaths, then placed a hand on her hip and took in the red head. She looked so sweet standing there in her rather short sweet pink dress, zippers running up the front. Her red hair, which she remembered to be a bit shorter, longer now as the bangs fell over her face.
She wore high-top shoes with pretty pink ribbon for laces that tied around her ankles.

She smiled warmly at her and she found it was almost hard to believe she was this conniving evil witch Riku made her out to be. But then again–that might have been the point.

The silver haired boy in question only continued to glare at Kairi as seemed to ignore him–more than likely on purpose though Ri decided to be ‘nice’ and not make the situation any worse than it already was–after all, Sora was here and she wanted to make sure that Riku was completely right about Kairi’s involvement in all of this.

Not so much for Ku and Zo. Just you know–on principle.

“So what are you doing in a place like this Kai?” she questioned, raising an eyebrow and Kairi blushed. “I’m here with my cousin, Axel.”

“Oh...he’s here too?” Sora spoke up, blushing lightly–he always did when ever the guy was mentioned now since there first meeting and Riku raised an eyebrow at this.

“Didn’t know you had any other family Kairi,” Riku stated to the girl cooly, finally speaking to her.

She glanced over at him, pretending to just notice him. “Oh...Riku. Why are you here?”

“It’s a free island, I can be anywhere I please,” he replied matter of factly and Kairi nodded, placing her hands behind her back and rocking on her feet.

“I know that silly,” she laughed. “What I meant was: why are you here with Sora?”

“He’s not,” the brunette grumbled as he began to study some kind a stirrup–thing and Kairi giggled. “Thought not–but I guess I should have known that since you looked so unhappy.”

Ri couldn’t help but made a ‘she went there’ face as she cut her eyes to Riku–and was very proud to see only a flash of anger rush through his eyes but his expression remained calm. “Well you know me Ki. I like to be straight forward with my asshole-ish tendencies. Being an ‘in the closet’ asshole just doesn’t suit me–know what I mean?”

Kairi glared at him a moment before looking rather smug. “Wouldn’t know about being an asshole Riku, so I’ll just agree. But if I ever need any help, I’ll be sure to give you a call.”

“Likewise,” he inclined his head and the two had a rather intense staring contest as Sora, now taking an interest in this conversation, looked between the two rather confused while Ri stepped up. “Ooookay, well Kai, what were you saying about this Axel cousin of yours?”

The girl perked up immediately. “Oh yeah Well, he dragged me in here because he wanted another chain for his pants and–”

“Is he hot?” Ri asked, no longer paying the girl any attention as she looked around for said cousin.
“He’s a sexy beast,” a voice purred as he came into view and Ri face lit up.

The boy was right up her ally: crazy flaming red hair that spiked but didn’t, long in length. Startling emerald eyes, with black tear drop like tattoos in the far corners of each, making them stand out more than they already did.

A cocky yet sexy smirk on perfect crimson lips that matched his hair. Tall, lean, yet muscular with long legs and lanky arms that for some reason just fit with his frame. And he was wearing tight leather pants that had so many zippers and belts it made her down right dizzy (like Sora’s outfit) with orangish-red, yellow, and white flames on the bottom, the left pants leg flame’s reaching his knee while the right only reached his lower calf.

A deep red short sleeve shirt, tight fitting in all the right places–good lord, she practically wanted to pee on her self, she thought he was so hot...

...and then she instantly wanted to cry when she watched him walk right over to her younger brother and caught him around the middle, pulling him back against him, his mouth nibbling softly on his ear, making Sora freeze on the spot and blush.

“Hey–Axel,” Sora mumbled as Ri all but pouted, looking put out as she folded her arms over her chest and stomped her foot.

Axel gave her a mock sympathetic look. “Sorry babe, you’re not my style–though,” he looked back down at Sora and nipped his neck, making him yelp. “You’re just so damn adorable kid. Maybe we can find a dark corner and–”

“Do you have an off switch?” Kairi exclaimed, making Ri laughed as she pulled Axel away from Sora while Riku surprisingly, did the same with the brunette, both ex-friends glaring at Axel with intense, hard glares.

Axel ignored them, pulling away from Kairi roughly before walking over toward Riku and Sora, who was pulling away from Riku just as roughly, glaring at him before it melted in a shy smile at Axel.

This made Axel smirk in a predatory fashion. “And what exactly are you doing here precious? I thought we were a little too naive to know what this place was, let alone what to do in it.”

“I’m a little too naive, you could teach me things if you like ” Ri shouted at him and Axel laughed while Sora gave her an exasperated look. She hunched. “You’ve got Kairi and Riku Share the hotness ”

“Erm–”

“Aw, it’s okay So-ra,” Kairi teased, grabbing the brunette by the arm and tugging him away from Axel who raised an eyebrow at her. “I won’t let Axel molest you. We can look around the store together.”
“What, so you can molest him?” Riku responded, taking Sora’s wrist and with a sharp yank, pulled him over to him, making the brunette scowl at him. “He’s already here with me Kairi. Go finger yourself.”

“This must be Riku,” Axel smirked as he glared between the pair, Ri coming to stand beside him as she gently ran her finger up and down her arm which made him look down at her amused but he said nothing.

“Somehow, I just don’t think that’s the case Ri-ku” Kairi replied cheerfully, saying his name sarcastically as she gave Sora a tug her way and he scowled at her as well. “Last time I checked, you guys weren’t exactly getting along. Sora may be kind but not stupid–he wouldn’t let himself be hurt twice by the same jer–person.”

“Maybe if people would learn to keep themselves out of other peoples relationships, that wouldn’t have happened,” Riku snapped yanking Sora to him again and Kairi laughed.

“No one made you be a jerk Riku. You did that all by yourself. Stop trying to blame people for your mistakes ” she snapped back, yanking Sora her way again.

Riku’s face completely frosted over and his eyes flashed dangerously as he opened his mouth to speak and Ri stepped in. The pair had already said to much and she didn’t want anything either had to say to one other to jeopardize her chances on getting Zo and Ku on speaking terms–something that could happen if Sora knew any parts of the truth–if it was that–too soon.

“Alllllright children, let’s stop trying to yank my brother’s arms out of his socket,” she began, taking their hands off of Sora. “And let’s get back into our respective corners. Kai, I can use another’s girl opinion, so why don’t you come with me to find Cloud’s outfit. Axel, you help me find the perfect pants because you would know–you’re a sexy beast.”

“Sexy beast,” Axel repeated with a smirk nodding.

“And Riku, you go find me some accessories,” she replied, pulling the silvery blond to her and then whispering in his ear “and try to calm the hell down. Don’t blow so soon–we’ll get the ammo we need and then we’ll destroy her on our own time if need be. But don’t make things worse with Sora then they already are With the way Kairi’s acting, she could easily turn the whole thing against, you–just like you said she did when you confronted her What if Sora believes her over you? Then he’ll think you’re a total ass Look, I’ll keep them as preoccupied as I can so for the love of god, try not to piss Sora off.”

Riku nodded and they both looked over to find Kairi stepping up to Sora and placing a pair of bunny ears on him, cooed. “And don’t you just look so adorable?”

“Fuckable,” Axel corrected her matter of factly and everyone glared at him.

“Will you stop hitting on my brother, damn it ” Ri snapped with mock desperation, making Sora slowly pulling the ears off as he blushed deeply.
Axel only flickered his tongue at him when he looked his way, making the brunette quickly look away and blush deeper still. Riku gave Axel a dark glare but the red head only raised an eyebrow and gave him a challenging smirk.

“Well...,” Kairi replied slowly, glaring at Axel a moment before taking the ears from Sora and placing them back on his head. When he looked over at her, she smiled and gave him a wink. “You do look really cute Sora Adorable. I just want to give you a nose kiss and everything ”

“Aw geez, don’t say that,” Sora moaned, taking the ears off again as he rolled his eyes and made her giggle.

“Yes please,” Riku agreed darkly. “Shut up.”

Kairi snapped her head in his direction, fuming at him before Sora got her attention again by waltzing off, grumbling that he was going to go see if they had something.

Kairi watched him leave before turning her full attention back on Riku, glaring hatefully at him–to which he only countered with calm indifference.

“Got something you wanna say?” he snapped.

“Yeah, Kai, come help me find the rest of Cloud’s outfit,” Ri cut in, ushering the girl in front of her, ignoring her protest. When she was far enough away, Ri ran back and grabbed Axel by the wrist.

“You’re coming to.”

Axel, allowing himself to be lead away, hunched as he replied “You know– you don’t have to bother–I’m not interested with getting in your way. Whatever you’re trying to do, that is.”

Ri paused and both Ku’s frowned at him.. “You’re not?”

“No,” Axel hunched, then smirked as he rose an eyebrow. “Well at least, not for Kairi’s sake.”

“Knock it off. Sora’s spoken for,” Riku replied matter of factly and Axel only snickered. “Are you so certain pretty boy? After all, it doesn’t seem like he’s that interested in either you or Kai. Though he seems to give a rather...nice response when I run my tongue over–”

“Come on here, sexy beast,” Ri snapped sarcastically, pulling the laughing teen along before she looked back at Riku mouthing ‘ Geez, I wish he’d stop coming on to my stupid brother.’

“That makes two of us,” he grumbled in a jealous fashion before Sora came jogging up with some kind of bottle.

“Hey Ri, look at–” When he saw it was only Riku, his face fell into a frown. “Oh.”

“Yeah, it’s just you and me now,” Riku smirked and raised his eyebrows suggestively and Sora only scowled and rolled his eyes as he stormed passed, putting the bottle of whatever it was, down.

Riku ignored him, picking up a different shade of bunny ears he’d been studying. Carefully, he moved behind Sora, who’d stopped short of storming past him to look at something else.

“As much as I hate to agree with her, she’s right. You look cute like that Zo,” Riku replied absently, fitting the bunny ears on the teens hair and giving him a half smile.

Sora glared at Riku, frowning deeply–but that didn’t stop the mild pink that reached his cheeks before turning away from him, not bothering to remove the ears from his head. Riku smirked lightly and followed.

“Leave me alone,” Sora grumbled, giving him a side glare as the silvery blond walked beside him, pretending to study objects.

“Oh, so you’re talking to me now?” Riku teased and Sora glared at him. “Didn’t I just tell you leave me alone Riku?”

“And you remembered I had a name. Geez, must be a good day,” Riku replied as if talking to himself before continuing. “Besides, I’m not bothering you, I’m walking beside you,” he pointed out in a calm demeanor.

“You being near me does bother me,” Sora replied indignantly and tried storming off but Riku only walked faster. “So my very presences bothers you.” Riku responded.

“Yeah, it really does,” Sora snapped almost sarcastically and before he knew it, Riku had him cornered, his hands on either side of Sora’s head while he brought his face inches from his own. Sora only glared daggers at him. “Move.”

“Why should I,” Riku taunted. “I like bothering you Sora. I like to get under your skin. At least in some way, I’ll know I still matter to you–that I actually mean something.”

Sora cut off his would be rant and his face softened slightly, though he still frowned. “And why, Riku, would you care if something that was so worthless–”

Riku rolled his eyes. “You’re not worthless Sora.”

“Then why did you say it ” he snapped back.

“Because I was pissed off,” Riku replied matter of factly, still not losing his cool. “And I’m sorry about that.”

“Well good for you,” Sora replied, this time in full sarcasm before trying to duck under his arms and get away. But this only caused Riku to pin him against the wall with his body to which Sora gave him a death glare. “You better get off of me ”

“No,” Riku replied matter of factly. “And I’m not leaving you alone either. Not unless you can look me straight in the eye and tell me that you hate me and never want to see my ugly mug again.”

Sora glared at Riku and opened his mouth...but nothing came as his look faltered. Riku felt his heart skip a beat but he only smirked triumphantly. “You can’t do it.”

“. . .I can’t call you ugly,” he replied softly and Riku glared at him a moment, slightly confused, before his face picked up, and smiling, he burst into laughter.

“It’s not funny, you jerk ” Sora snapped but his facial features were in full pout mode. Riku’s only response was kissing Sora on the nose lightly, making the brunette blush further. “Gods, Sora, you’re so cute sometimes. And the bunny ears only make it worse...”

“Don’t kiss my nose,” Sora pouted and getting an idea, Riku leaned in and kissed his forehead softly, lingering there a moment before pulling away. Sora sniffled, still in full pout mode as he grumbled “Don’t kiss that either. I don’t want your lips on me Riku. You suck.”

Riku paused, tilting his head to the side as he studied Sora for a moment, looking indifferent again.

Sora glared back at him annoyed. “What?”

He didn’t answer. Instead, he leaned in again and this time, took Sora’s lips captive, feeling the chocolate haired boy gasp into his mouth, giving him the precious seconds he needed to dart his tongue in and taste him, those wide beautiful sapphire eyes staring at him in alarm while he, heavy lidded, only gazed back.

He was in pure bliss, he’d missed being able to touch Sora, feel him. A wave of emotions filled him as he watched those wide eyes softened–then lowered half shut–then finally, flutter to a close as he felt the boy relax into the kiss, returning it and Riku let his hand cup the side of Sora’s face, tilting it slightly as he deepened the gesture.

Well, for all of one minute anyway.

As if realizing what he was doing, Sora’s eyes flew back open abruptly and with a slight grunt, he pushed Riku away from him, glaring at him before storming off, ignoring Kairi as she ran after him, the cashier screaming “Hey kid You gotta pay for those rabbit ears ”

He felt a hand on his shoulder a moment later and looked up to see not Ri, but Axel staring down at him with a smirk. “Sooo...he warmin up to you get.”

Riku studied him a moment before hunching and nodding. Axel smirked. “Then this should make this far more entertaining.”
And with this, he licked his lips and walked after Kairi and Sora, Riku glaring heatedly at the back of his head–trying to burn a hole in it.
~~~~~~~~~~~

Ri wanted to bang her head on the table. Damn Kairi–she was ruining e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g

After they’d picked up Cloud’s outfit and dropped it off to her temporary room, she’d set in her motions to get Riku and Sora set up for dinner–only to have it ruined by him asking Kairi to go as well And as it were, she and Roxas had to cancel their ‘leave them alone’ plans because it didn’t take a scientist to realize Kairi just wasn’t going to do that after the third nonchalant attempt at it and it was more than obvious that she was now getting suspicious–as was Sora.

So here they all sat, Ri anxiously awaiting karaoke time–her last hoora before forcing Sora to sleep with Riku–that she had worked out to a tee: Roxas would sleep in her room so she could simply say no while Seph already agreed he’d handle the rest, as well as getting Cloud to go along with their plan.

She looked at her watch: 7:56 p.m. It would start in just four minutes and then hopefully, everything could still work out.

“Great, here comes the other one,” Riku grumbled and everyone but Roxas looked up to see Axel making his way over, in the same outfit he had on before (well everybody was), and to everyone’s utter happiness–which told her that Sora was not interested in Axel, a good thing cause he could have been hard competition for Ku– he this time zeroed in on Roxas.

She glanced at her cousin, who hadn’t even noticed the guy walk in, as he was trying to finish his dessert.

He was almost a carbon copy of Sora, only his hair was shorter, spiked, but not nearly as untamed. He had piecing blue eyes as well, fairer skin than Sora’s sun kissed but both were the same height and size.

His pants were black from the waist to his mid thigh then went to a grayish-white from there, his black and white shoes visible underneath with red straps instead of shoe laces. He wore a black zip up shirt trimmed in that grayish white on the bottom underneath, a large silver ‘x’ as the zipper dangled as he left the top unzipped to create a collar.

He wore a white and red short sleeved jacket with a hood, small black checkers alining the stitching where the shoulders were and across the upper portion right across the breast of the jacket, which was a tad bit shorter than the black zip up shirt underneath.

He wore a wristband, black and white checkered, on his left arm with a black tap over his index finger and a white one over his middle finger.

Seriously, he was the only boy she knew who could make checkers work and still look good doing it. He looked just as adorable as Sora, only a tad bit more serious than the brunette–though he could be just as playful, just not as carefree.

Said blond only looked up when he felt he was being over shadowed by something and looked up, past Kairi, who was sitting on the outside of the booth, and up at the red head who stared down at him hungrily, with a raised eyebrow.

“Ooookay,” he sighed, cutting his eyes to look at Ri as if she knew what was going on.

“Hey,” Axel began in a soft, suggestive manner.

Roxas cut his eyes back over to the flamming red head before darting them back at to his food, looking serious as always. “Uh...hi.”

“How you doin?” he continued, pushing Kairi clear of the end of the booth seat (and by her head no less) and sitting on his knees, he began to crawl to the blond slowly.

Roxas cut his eyes quickly back to the red before darting them back to stare in front of him, now trying hard to keep his focus on Riku as he scooted away from him.

“Fine.”

“Where you from?” Axel asked next climbing slowly on the top of the boy, making him abandon his fork as he leaned him backwards, the blonds head now in Ri’s lap, thus making both blonds stare at Axel with confused expressions.

“Twilight Town? Uh...what are you doing?”

“Nothing in particular,” Axel purred slowly, dipping his head in and running his tongue along the boy’s neck, taking in his scent, Roxas just darting his eyes from side to side looking alarmed while Ri only raised an eyebrow at him.

“Hey uh, you wanna get off my–”

“You like cats?” Axel murmured huskily before with a slight moan, began to attack the boy’s collar bone, making Roxas’ voice hitch. “Yeah, I l-like cats...”

Ri continued to stare at the pair, her face calm. “Um, you guys?”

“What’s you’re name,” Axel asked next before biting down softly, making the blond give a hiss of pleasure.

“I-I– ” The blond looked up at Ri helplessly. “W-what’s my name?”

“Roxas, you idiot.”

“Roxas you Idiot,” the boy repeated softly without thinking about what he was repeating, leaning his head back to give Axel better access as he slowly closed his eyes and took in the attention the boy was giving.

“Roxas...I like that,” Axel smirked into his skin before pulling his face away, making Roxas groan in displeasure from the loss in contact.

The red head then took this moment to look into Roxas azure eyes, his emerald ones shining hungrily before smirking. “The name’s Axel. Got it Memorized?”

Roxas nodded softly, still gazing at Axel in almost a helpless manner. This caused the red head to smirk even further. “Good.” Then with a deep purr that gave most of the table’s inhabits excited shivers, he then dipped his head down and began to ravish Roxas’s lips, making the blond moan from the sensation.

Ri sat there, eye twitching slightly, as she continued to look at them with a blank stare. Only when she could tell Axel had decided to snake his tongue into her younger cousin’s and began to grind his hips into him (causing Roxas to moan in pleasure and slightly lift his leg like he wanted to wrap it around Axel’s waist) did Ri begin to tap lightly on Axel’s shoulder, trying to get his attention.

“Uh...Axel? Axel”, Ri began in monotone, sounding like a broken record. “Axel...Axel...Axel...”

And that kept up for about another minute or so, with everyone else at the table trying to ignore them and the people now staring at the table until finally, the two ended their rather long and eye catching display of affection.

“...Axel...”

The red head looked up at her with question eyes, panting while the blond underneath him simply looked dazed, not really focusing on anything at all. After all–it was his first official kiss. And a rather intense one at that.

“Could you like, get off my lap? I can’t feel it anymore.”

“Huh? Oh. Sorry,” the red head panted playfully, smirking as he got up and pulled Roxas with him, sitting the blond directly in his lap and wrapping his arms around his waist, looking up at him like he was claiming a prize before looking back at her. “You know: Sexy Beast.”

“Right right, sexy beast,” Ri agreed in happy sarcastic tone before adverting her eyes away and mouthing ‘child molester’ to no one in particular.

“Roxas you alright there buddy?” Riku replied with a raised eyebrow, waving a hand in front of his face.

“...Huh?” the blond replied, looking over in his direction but not focusing on him.
“You okay?” the amused teen asked again.

“... ...Huh?”

“Nevermind,” Riku snorted lightly, shaking his head and leaning back in his seat.

“What are you doing here Axel?” Kairi frowned and he didn’t bother answering, too busy nibbling on Roxas’s earlobe, making him blush. “Axel ”

“Damn it, what?” he snapped, pulling Roxas closer as he positioned the boy right over his lap, making Roxas face him with his legs resting on either side of him, moving his waist a little to get...comfortable...and making Roxas glare at him to which he only smirked. “You turn me on–what can I say?”

Kairi made a disbelieving face while Riku only shook his head and Sora snickered at his cousin. Axel could be a bit much–but Roxas seemed to enjoy it so they seemed like the perfect blend.

“You’re the strangest dude I’ve ever met,” Roxas replied matter of factly and Axel only smirked. “You’ve got no idea, Roxasss,” he hissed before sucking lightly on the blond’s bottom lip, making him utter a soft moan.

“Ooookay, it’s time to sing,” Ri laughed, pushing her way out of the booth by making Riku, Sora, and Kairi get up so she could get out.

She ran over to the counter and smacked down a few bills so they could rent the machine for a couple hours, that way, no one else could join in–only listen as they sang. The bar keeper inclined his head and smiled, giving her a small packet of papers–a list of all the songs on it.

She scanned them quickly, perking up when she fond both songs she’d wanted Riku to sing. This was going to be perfect.

She walked back over to the table, taking a seat on the end of it instead of trying to get back in. “Okay, here’s the name of the game–Axel, stop molesting my damn cousin for two seconds and pay attention– everyone gets a song to sing, but it just can’t be any song: it has to be a song that’s dedicated to someone else and it has to be a person here, though you don’t have to say who if you’re too chicken,” she looked pointedly at Sora who stuck his tongue out at her. “ The singing order will go alphabetically, by our first names, kay?”

‘That way, Riku will have to go before Sora,’ she thought to herself with a mild smirk.

Everyone nodded and she continued. “Okay, so everybody takes a single turn before the next person goes and we’ll keep this up until our time runs out cause I’m not putting down any more money. So the order is: Axel, Kairi, Me, Riku–”

“Why you?” Riku cut in, raising an eyebrow. “Because my name is Rikku and you’re Riku. My second ‘k’ comes before your ‘u’ in the alphabet. Pay attention in English this year.” He stuck up his finger at her and she only rolled her eyes and continued. “Then Roxas and finally, Sora. So Axel, come pick a song from the paper cause your–”

“Pass,” he mumbled as he continued to plant feather kisses on Roxas’ collar bone, enjoying the small mews he could make the boy emit as he let his fingers ghost over the boy’s waist line, leaning him back on the table slightly.

Everyone looked away from them, ignoring the weird giggle Roxas gave as Axel muttered somethign to him and annoyed, Ri held out the paper to Kairi.

“You’re up,” she replied in a bored fashion and waved it a bit. Giggling, the read head snatched the sheet, earning a glare.

She squealed when she found the perfect song for her to sing and ran over to the mic as Ri went over to the machine and made sure her selection played. “Okay, this song is going out to So-ra,” she teased with a huge smile and the brunette blushed slightly and tucked in the booth a bit.

Riku rolled his eyes. “Who didn’t see that coming?”

Ri took a seat back on the table, ignoring everything happening to the left of her with her cousin and the red head and focused on Kairi and her singing–if you could call it that.

Geez.

The girl made her wince like, five times with every high note she tried to hit and she was certain giggling during the song was not part of any of the words.

She almost burst out laughing when she saw Riku stab his plate as he cringed as she sang the climax of the song, earning a soft laugh from the brunette that sat beside him as he watched Riku’s face, though the silver haired teen missed it.

Sora turned his attention back to Kairi after this and the song she was singing: ‘What a Girl Wants’ by Christina Agularia.

When she was finished, they all clapped, some people in the restaurant followed suit, in a polite manner as she bounced back to her seat, beaming at Sora.

“My tuuuuuuurn,” Ri sang as she hopped off the table, pausing to glare at Axel and Roxas again, who were still making out shamelessly as they spoke in between and began called out “This one goes out to all the ladies that need my help ” before she began to sing, making a few people laugh as she did movements and hand motions.

“And then his eyes will squint,” she smirked. “And he’s picked your scent...”

When she was finished singing about how her milkshake brought all the boys to the yard (and picked a few numbers on the back to her seat), bowed deeply as her table (minus the making out pair) gave her a standing ovation, before taking her seat.

“Alright Riku, you’re up next.” she smirked and the silverly blond rolled his eyes as he got out of the booth, walking across the table instead of making Kairi or Sora move, off off and taking the paper from her.

He glancing over it, picked a song and made his way to the mic. But before he could start it, Ri pulled him close to her and whispered in his ear “Sing ‘Tangled’ Riku.”

“What? Why?” he frowned at her and she only hunched. “Dedicate it to Sora and listen to the words as you sing. You’ll understand then.” He glared at her a moment, then nodding, she started up this song, crossing her fingers as she went back to her seat and waited for him to begin, taking notice that Kairi was trying to engage Sora in a conversation.

Ri frowned and smacked Kairi in the back of the hard, but when the girl looked over, she only gave her a teasing smirk like she had been joking around. “Okay children, it’s only polite to listen to everyone sing their songs.”

Sora actually gave an apologetic look and reluctantly, paid attention to Riku while Kairi, crossed her arms over her chest glared over at him as well, looking miffed about not being able to finish her conversation with Sora.

‘So sorry, but you won’t be distracting Zo on my watch,’ Ri thought to herself as she too, gave Riku her attention.

“This song...is for Sora,” Riku mumbled into the mic, making Sora frown at him as he gave his undivided attention now much to Kairi’s displeasure, the words began to flash on the screen, telling him it was time to sing.

“I’m full,
Of regret,
For all the things that I have done and said.
And I,
don’t know.
It will ever be okay to show,
My face.
Around here,
Sometimes I wonder if I disappear.
Cause youuuu
Never turn your head and look,
See if I’m gone.
Cause I feee-eel, there is nothing left to say

To you.
That you wanna hear.
That you wanna know.
I think I should know the things I’ve done are way to shameful.

Oh.”

‘Didn’t know he could sing,’ Ri thought mildly, noticing that far more people were paying attention now, including Axel and Roxas. Sora seemed to be mesmerized by the words now and she could tell that Riku was beginning to realize why she’d wanted him to sing that particular song.

She couldn’t help but notice however, that Kairi was hatefully at Riku now as she noticed Sora’s look as well. Maybe there actually was something to what Riku said–not that she had completely dismissed it.

“You’re just, innocent
A helpless victum of a spider’s web.
And I’m obsessed.
Going after anything that I can get.

And youuuu
Better turn your head and run,
And don’t look back.
Cause I feeear
That’s there’s nothing left to say

To you.
That you wanna hear.
That you wanna know.
I think that know the things I’ve done are way to shameful.

Oh.
(Oh.)

And I’ve, done you so wrong,
Treated you bad.
Strung you along.
Ashamed of myself, I don’t know how,
I got so tangled.

And as he began to get into the bridge of the song, screaming into the mic with feeling he looked directly into Sora’s eyes and he looked back seemingly lost in a beautiful shade of aqua and his smooth voice as it sang out to him–calling him. Beckoning him.

Searching those eyes for something he wanted–something he craved–and completely ignoring Kairi as she tried in vain to grab his attention away.

Axel, noting this, gladly threw a french fry at her, demanding that she shut her mouth so he could hear Riku sing properly, to which she glared at him hatefully.

When Kairi returned to glaring daggers at Riku, Ri glanced over at Axel and mouthed her thanks, making him hunch and smirk before he gave the teen his attention.

“Yooouuu
Better turn your head and look
See if I’m gone.
Cause I feeear
There is nothing left to say
To you
That you wanna here, that you wanna know
I think I should know the things I’ve done are way to shameful
Oh
And I’ve–
done you so wrong–
treated you bad–
strung you along
Ashamed of myself,
I don’t-know-how-I-got- so -tangled ”

Sora only watched Riku, his whole demeanor seeming to soften as he listened to every word Riku sang in his last verse with such feeling–so much emotion– that one had to believe he was speaking straight from his heart, meant every word he said–that it was all meant for him and no other.

He seemed so lost in the music–and he was taking everyone with him that dared to listen.

But before they knew it, he was finished and a lot of people stood and clapped for him, whistling even. Riku only gave a half smile as he nodded his thanks to them before focusing back on Sora, who only continued to stare at him with an unreadable expression–though any signs of hatred or even bitterness were gone from his face.

This seemed to make Riku lighten up more as he made his way back over, his table standing as he got there and cheering for him–minus a very put out Kairi and Sora who was still watching him with unreadable features.

“Okay, “ Ri smirked as she patted him on the back as he walked back across the table to his place in the semi circular booth seat. “Roxas? You’re up ”

The blond got up almost reluctantly as he walked over to the stage, giving a quick glance back at Axel who mouthed something only he could see, making him shiver as he reached for the mic. Ri followed, cutting her eyes back at her brother and Riku.

Riku wasn’t paying the teen any attention as he waited for Roxas to sing–but Sora was staring at Riku now, never waver, and completely ignoring Kairi now as he continued with his staring. Ri smiled. It was a push in the right direction.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It was 11:00p.m. before they all finally decided to get back to their respective homes, Ri having to drag Roxas with them, as he wanted to go off with Axel–something about ‘learning’ something from him.

Kairi had stayed in her little bad mood for the remainder of the night, as Sora didn’t seem to want to be bothered with anyone after Riku’s little song, his unreadable demenor staying while he barely spoke.

But in any case, every song she sang after that was aimed at Riku–and none of them were very polite. But Riku didn’t seem to care. He had been preoccupied with trying to figure Sora out, though he didnt’ push the brunette to speak to him in any remote way. And there after, he didn’t dedicate any other songs to him, though Riku had tried hard to get him to sing N*E*R*D’s ‘Maybe’, her other selection.

No, he was more concerned with his own plan making after Ri had given away the final part of her little ‘operation’.

After saying goodbye to Axel and Kairi, they walked into the London residence, not surprised to find their parents had gone out to finally celebrate their moving back and DiZ’s new promotion properly, leaving the teens to entertain themselves.

And by entertain, the group had other plans, unaware to one naive brunette.

“Well, I’m going to bed. Entertaining the masses makes me like, so tired,” Ri fake yawned when they got in the upstairs hallway, walking into her room with Roxas following her.

“Yeah...I guess we should go to bed. We do have to get up pretty early,” Sora agreed softly, still sounding as if he were lost in thought as he tried to go inside the room as well.

But he was met with her door slamming in his face. He looked at the door, dumbfounded for a moment, before knocking.

“Sorry, only one annoying teenage boy can sleep in my room a night,” she yelled through the door.

“But...where am I suppose to sleep? ” Sora whined.

“Oh...I dunno,” Ri countered sarcastically and leaving it at that.

Sora stared at the door a moment longer before giving some kind of knowing glare at Riku who only hunched, walked over and knocked on Sephiroth’s door.

“No. Go away you little bitch,” he heard someone growl. Sora pouted. “Stop calling me that And why not ”

“Because I’m fucking your brother into the mattress and will not be deterred from it ” Sephiroth snapped back and Sora blushed, backing away slightly.

“Zo? Zo If you don’t see me in the morning, call the cops ” his brother screamed frantically from the other side and Sora could tell he was just playing. “Fine, fine, I’ll sleep on–”

“If I catch you anywhere near my living room couch, I’ll slit your throat in your sleep you whiny little bastard,” Sephiorth snapped through the door, making Sora pause in mid walk. He could here Cloud protest but Sephiroth snarled at him to “Shut up ” before he continued his little rant.

“And my parents room is locked, so don’t try that either. I have to pee at exactly 3:00 in the morning, every morning, so if I catch you in there, I will piss all over you. If I catch you in the hallway, I’ll kick you down the stairs until you wake up for getting in my way.”

Sora backed away from the door more, feeling a little hurt. Why did Sephiroth hate him so much anyway?

“Take your little whiny ass and go sleep in brother’s room, damn it And if you so much as give me back talk so help me, I’ll come out of my room and destroy you.”

Sora had opened his mouth to protest but shut it quickly, glaring at the door in disbelief–and slight fear– while Riku himself calmly walked into his room, stretching and yawning–but leaving his door open.

Sora’s eye twitched. This was all some conspiracy–he knew it had to be. He glared hatefully at the door again before grumbling, turned to face the direction of Riku’s room.

“What did you say you little shit?” a voice screamed from the other side of the door and without thinking, Sora kicked the door hard before taking off for Riku’s room, ignoring the sound of a door being slammed opened as he frantically scrambling into the teen’s room, frantically shutting the door just as the vision of pale skin, silver locks and very rageful mako green eyes of pure hatred came into the door way.

“Duck,” Riku replied calmly as he reclined on his bed, a look of pure indifference on his face as he stared at the ceiling and Sora did as he was told, though gave the teen a ‘what for’ glare before a very long blade came straight through the door where his head would have been, causing Sora to yelp and crawl away from the door and behind Riku’s bed.

“And stay there ” he heard his sister shout with amusement before Sephiroth pulled his sword back through the door. Sora listened intently as he heard what sounded like something being put in front of the door, followed by several footfalls as Sephiroth grumbled. “Damn brats.”

Sora stood, glaring at the door. They were all against him They’d planned that Even Cloud Damn his fear of psychopathic silver haired sex on legs...
He looked over at Riku to find him staring at him intently. Sora frowned slightly though there was really nothing behind the look–it just seemed like the proper thing to do.

They continued to stare at one another for a long time, aqua and ocean blue, never breaking, never wavering. Expressionless, both in heavy thought, Sora standing by the end of the bed while Riku lounged on it.

Then finally, someone made a move.

Riku got to his knees, crawled over to Sora and with a light tug that Sora didn’t bother to fight, pulled him down on the bed–and pinned him underneath him as he laid on top of him, the brunette gasping very lightly as he glared at Riku with a somewhat troubled expression.

But the silver haired teen remained calm, only held Sora down by his wrist as he straddled him by the waist, pinning him beneath him in such a way that the brunette couldn’t really move.

Then leaning his head in slowly, he brushed his lips against Sora’s lightly–not kissing him–but so very close to the gesture, Sora could feel every single word he whispered to him, sending shivers up his spine.

“You can’t get away from me now Zo. You’re mine.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Author's Notes:
Thanks for reading thus far! ::huggles:: I hope you enjoyed everything so far and more to come soon! Leave feedback if you like. Happy reading!