Kingdom Hearts Fan Fiction ❯ Kurome ❯ Unidentifiable Smell ( Chapter 5 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

C.E.: I know. Why the length between updates? Well, school sucks right now. They expect me to bring home the second and third largest books I have. ¬¬; And my muses are having fun annoying the hell out of each other. Then the other two are standing on the sidelines making bets on who will cave first under the annoyance. I got the inspiration for Riku's cousins from a picture on deviantArt, so I don't own the picture and changed it from brothers to cousins. :)

Dunno why this is even here….

Disclaimer: If I did own the game or anime, my muses would surely ruin it. So, I don’t own either. Unfortunately...

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Riku was sitting in his room after the day had gone by. He had to admit, it was very boring. Nothing could pacify him enough to keep him entertained. That was when the platinum-haired lad went to his room to try and read for school.

He had stayed back from his lack of being there, making him in the same grade as Sora and Kairi. ‘Joy. Repeating a year of school. That seems fun…. Not.’ Riku blew his bangs out of his eyes.

He would have to do something with his hair. He could always cut it, but he never really put much thought into it. Must run in the family, partially. Riku thought to himself, ‘I must’ve spent too much time visiting my cousins on the sidelines before the world was consumed by darkness.’

The book that was in his hand fell from it onto the ground with a plop.

“Riku?”

Aquamarine eyes looked over to his mother standing in the doorway of his room.

“We’re going to visit your cousins tomorrow. We’ll be staying for about a week and a half,” grey eyes softened a tad, “and they called about an hour ago wondering how you were.”

Riku nodded, it wasn’t really every day so much that they called. It was more like every other hour. Seriously, did they not need any sleep at all? Ore did they just eat caffine in the ground coffee state?

“They said to tell you that and for you to call them back.”

The platinum-haired boy nodded, only he didn’t really remember his cousins’ phone number. It was probably the way they had kept him from remembering anything normal about them.

Riku’s mother turned to leave but turned back to look at her son, “Their number is on speed dial. I figured you would forget it.

Aqua eyes closed as he nodded his head.

He waited until he heard his door shut before he reopened his eyes. A week and a half he would be staying with his cousins. Riku didn't want to.

'Last time I visited Kadaj, Yazoo, and Loz; they pushed me off of a boulder and made me fall into a tree. I still say it is their fault that I won't go near a rock that has a tree within three feet of it. Make it about a six foot radius now.'

Silence reigned over the room, it was a bit annoying. He kept thinking he heard this weird low buzzing noise, but when he concentrated on it, it would go away.

'I have to see King Mickey in a few days too. I can't make it if I'm at my cousins'! How am I going to get out of this?' Riku sighed irritably, he put his hands on his knees, 'This won't do. ... Time to face the music and call the three of them.'

Getting up, the platinum-haired teen made his way down to the phone by the kitchen. His mother was in the living room reading a book, she must've bought it recently for Riku never seen her reading it before.

Shaking his head, the platinum-haired teenager grabbed the phone and hit the speed dial number for his cousin's house. His eyebrow lightly twitched when he heard a for that said for him to enjoy the music while the party is being reached.

He a solo guitar beginning of the song Until the End by Breaking Benjamin. The song played, and Riku couldn't help but be reminded of him and Sora when they were separated and trying to find each other while dealing with Organization XIII.

Tapping his foot unconsciously, Riku almost didn't notice the line being reached. His cousin's voice on the other end startled him out of his daze while listening to the Music back tone.

"Hello?"

"Uhh..." Riku blinked as he thought of what to reply with. However, nothing came to mind, "Hi..?"

A gasp was heard on the other line, "RIKU!"

Said platinum-haired boy held the phone away from his ear and he saw his mother glance at him briefly at the sound from the phone. When he deemed it safe, Riku brought the phone back next to his ear.

He faintly heard the three troublemaking cousins of his making a racket to get to the phone. Yazoo was still as calm and collected as he was when he was a kid, Kadaj was still the devilish fiend and troublemaker, while Loz was the so-called 'mama's boy'.

"Where have you been?! We've been trying to contact you for the past YEAR!! And NOW of ALL times do you call back!" Kadaj's voice went up and down in pitch as he stressed a few words here and there in his questions.

"I've been away, and I couldn't call you to let you know where I was. Sorry." Riku started to walk around a bit as he spoke. Unfortunately for him, the cord started to coil around his body as he walked.

A sigh was heard on the other line as well as a 'HEY!' by Kadaj when Yazoo took this chance to take and talk on the phone. Loz was lightly sobbing in the background, or was it his imagination?

"That's good. At least you are all right. You are coming to stay over with Aunty aren't you, Riku?" the cool voice was heard and the platinum-haired teen walked the opposite way he was before, wincing a bit. And getting more tangled.

"Uh... yeah, Yazoo."

The middle sibling's voice had a happy undertone to it as he spoke, "That's good. We haven't seen you for a while."

"Tell him mom and I say 'hi'." the voice was a tad muffled, but Riku caught it easily. It was Loz who said it.

"Loz–"

"I heard, Yazoo. I'm not deaf." 'yet.' Riku said and thought the last word in his mind for fear of insulting his cousins in his mother's presence.

"I heard you cut Yazoo off, Riku."

"Don't worry. The volume on your phone must be a bit louder than ours, or mayber ours is louder. But don't worry about it." Yazoo explained easily. He may have seemed the less dangerous of the three, but in reality, he was the worst when he was pissed off. Riku shivered at the distant memory. He unconsciously played with the phone cord with his free hand.

"Don't be mean, Kadaj. He just heard what I said is all."

"Yeah. I'm still sorry about it. Uh... I don't know the volume on our phone. I don't recall it being changed." the only child replied, biting his bottom lip all the while, but clear enough so it didn't seem like he was.

"That doesn't matter!!"

"Ignore the two children in the background. On another note, how do you like our Music back tone? The music seemed to go with us in a way." the long-haired cousin said, and Riku could tell that Yazoo was playing with his hair from how he was talking.

"Please don't be mad, Kadaj. He is coming to see us after all."

"I like it. I don't recall having the cd, but I've heard it on the radio a couple of times." the platinum-haired teen licked his lips and spun a bit on his foot. He saw his mother make a motion with her hands, but he wasn't sure if it was going clockwise or counter clockwise.

The sixteen year old mouthed 'what?' to her with furrowed eyebrows.

"FINE! Then he WILL receive PUNISHMENT when he gets here!!!"

"Twirl around counter-clockwise. You'll pull the receiver off the wall if you don't. Besides, you look like the phone is trying to take you hostage." her cool gray eyes easily matched is and she, too, raised and eyebrow at him.

"Hold on." Yazoo sighed into the mouthpiece of the phone and from what Riku could hear, try and calm Kadaj down. Riku took this time to unwind himself from the phone cord. It DID look like it was trying to take him hostage.

A crash was heard and Loz yell for Kadaj to calm down. The aqua-eyed lad winced as he heard that, finally getting free of the phone cord. Another crash and a dull thud sounded muffledly over the phone.

"Is it all right if we call you back, Riku? Kadaj is throwing a temper tantrum." Yazoo's voice sounded hurried. Riku nodded, even though he knew he couldn't see it.

"HE WILL PAY DAMN IT!"

"Sure." a sound of glass–or expensive for that matter–breaking was easily heard.

"Kadaj came down! He'll make it up to you, I'm sure."

"Thanks. Bye." the clicking of the ended call sounded before th edial tone was heard. Yazoo didn't give Riku enought time to reply when he hung up. The platinum-haired teen looked at the phone with a raised eyebrow, "Okay..."

'That was weird. And I was worried about being rude.' he put the receiver down where it goes before trudging back up to his room to pack and then read. It wasn't like there was anything else for him to do, anyways.

How Riku hated boring days...

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Kagome sighed as she looked aound the large room. She had been introduced to everyone who was in it, except this Cloud person. Where was he anyway? She had tried asking them before, but the answer that came up was 'we don't know'.

Resting her head on her uninjured hand, which rested on her leg, the priestess looked down at her injured one. She remembered biting it to try and take away the pain.

Kagome blew hair out of her mouth in a huff and grew bored very fast, 'Yeah. And a whole lot it did for me. Not. More like it made it worse for me.'

It had been a day or two since she had arrived here, and still hadn't seen sign of the one-winged man. Was he even going to come back for her? Or is he just going to leave her here for his own damn amusement? The modern teen didn't know and so, she closed her eyes in tiredness.

A smiling man with black-brown hair and deep cerulean eyes flashed in her mind behind her eyelids. Her eyelids twitched, where had she seen him before?Awave of grief washed over her mind as she felt tears prick at the back of her eyes.

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"Haha!" a little seven year old girl laughed as she peeked from around the house to see her father scratching the back of his head and loock around his person. His other hand was on his hip. The little girl's pigtails swished when she shook her head at how funny her dad was. Especially when they play Hide-n-Go seek.

The girl's bright blue-gray eyes sparkled as she tried her best to tiptoe to the man who now had crossed his arms in frustration to think of where his daughter had gone. Unfortunately, her small shoes squeaked on the wet cement from the earlier rain shower.

The man turned and his messy brown-black hair swayed with the turing of his head. A large smile wormed its way onto his tanned face. His mouth formed something before he fuly turned and scooped the giggling girl into his arms, "Found you."

"Daddy!" the seven year old pouted before smiling and hugging her father around the neck. Her big blue eyes peered up at him as he went to the slight dry spot under the Goshinboku tree on the shrine.

"Daddy?"

"Hm?" his voice was slightly deep, but it still had the undertone of a man who was a kid at heart still. He sat his daughter in his lap as he sat Indian-style where the cement was the most dry under the five hundred plus tree.

"When are you going back to work?" she rested her head on his chest, his strong heart beat filling on of her ears and making her happy.

"Why? Do you want me to leave?" her father feigned a sad look and tone.

"No, no, no! It's not that! I'm just curius 'cause I don't want to you to go, but mama explained that you had to." the little girl vigorously shook her head back and forth at the beginning of her sentence, before giving her hair a chance to rest peacefully on her shoulders. Or a little above them.

"Well, I'll have to leave a little bit, but right now I'm on vacation. Do you remember me reading the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee to you?" he was rewarded with a nod from his child, "Do you remember Atticus Finch? The lawyer whose thinking and treatment of the black people were before his time?"

"Yeah! He was my favorite and so was Boo!" the child gave a small laugh and hugged her father while resting her head on his collar bone.

He chuckled a bit, "Well, I'm like Atticus in the sense that I'm a lawyer. I wasn't assigned a case to defend or go against someone yet. Besides, I'll come back. Your mother just worries about me. She has to take care of you and Souta you know. So, she'll need me to help her support our two kids."

His daughter nodded her head with what he was saying. A question came to her, "If Atticus was from the South in the United Sates, where are you from?"

The man looked down at his daughter and smiled, "I'm from the Northeastern part of the US. Around the New Hampshire area, a little towards Massachusetts. Would you like to go there sometime? You could visit my mom and dad when we do."

"Yeah!" Are they nice, grandma and grandpa?"

"Of course, but they were strict to an extent, just to make sure that I stayed on the right path that was my own as I was growing up. How about we call them, though, a bit before you go to bed, just to day 'hi'?"

His black-haired daughter smiled up at him brightly before hugging him more.

"I'd like that."

A small laugh came to her ears, "I thought you would."
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"Kagome?" a voice tried to penatrate her mind.

"Kagome?"

'Hmm?' the priestess opened her eyes and looked up at the person calling her name. It was Merlin. The wizard stroked his white beard before looking at her curiously, "I just wanted to see if you were all right. You looked ready to fall asleep and fall off of the chair."

That's right, she was sitting on the chair that was on the raised platform in the middle of the room. It had small steps in a cricular way leading from the top to get off of it, but it wasn't that high, but Merlin might need them.

Kagome went back to looking at the stone floor. Aerith was out, as was Yuffie. Cid was at the computer, making sure the Defense system was still up. And Leon... Leon, she has no clue as to where he is. He just left without a word.

'Hope he's all right.' the modern teenager recalled seeing three minature fairy-like people go with him.

"Let me see Kagome!!" the voice was extremely muffled by the wall and door, but the priestess caught it nevertheless. The vooice seemed familiar... ...

Souta!

The slate-eyed girl shot up off of her seat and off of the platform to the door. She grabbed the loop handle and opened the door after tugging at it a few times.

"Souta!" his name came out of his mouth when she saw she short figure talking–more like yelling at–with Leon. He turned as soon as he heard his name from her. His chocolate eyes sparkled happily when they saw her unharmed and well.

"Sis!" he ran to her as well as he could and made her bend down so he could hug her. Leon looked at the two of them with his arms crossed.

"Where are we?" Souta pulled back a little to look at his older sister, confusion in his eyes. Kagome thought for a moment before speaking, though it was more of a question than a statement, "Radiant Garden? Is that right Leon?"

The brunette blinked before nodding to the sixteen year old.

"Radiant Garden? I can't believe that silver-haired man with that one black wing brought us all the way here!!" Souta qyestioned before getting angry at the man who had brought them here. However, Leon cut Kagome off before she could make a comment.

"Silver-haired man... with a single balck wing..?" the question had pauses, like the Prussian-eyed male was in disbelief at the accusation towards teh person or at the description, like he knows him.

"Yeah." it was Kagome who answered. Her slate eyes noticed how he glanced over his shoulder and around their area.

"Inside." Kagome went to open her mouth, "Now!"

The raven-haired girl closed it, and looked at the brunette male a bit before bringing Souta with her into Merlin's home. Why was he acting like this? Had they some how caused it? Were they going to be kicked out now?

Questions swirled in her mind, but there was no answer for them.

Leon waited until he heard the click of the door shutting before he really took a look arounf. Was it true that Sephiroth brought Kagome and her brother–Souta was it?–here? If that was the case, then why had he brought them here?!

Huffing irratibly, the gun blade weilder walked to the door of Merlin's. He wanted answers. And the one–he felt had the most information–was the elder one of the duo. He wanted Kagome to spill verything she knew from when she first met Sephiroth.

And he was going to get the answers one way or another.

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TBC
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C.E.: n.n; I finished it without the use of a spell check! Yes:D I hope you like this chapter. It took me a bit to finish it. But once i got writing, I had the ideas flowing. And I just took a test on my favorite book! Yup! It was Haper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. XD God I LOVE that book. I know, shoot me I'm a nerd. :P I don't care. I love it. It is so inspiring. I was glad when Boo killed Bob Ewell. I didn't like the Ewells much. Otherwise, I had no problems with the other characters. Anyway! Please Read and Review! It is ver much appreciated:)