Title: Freedom

Pairings: Future CloudxLeon SoraxRiku AxelxRoxas

AN: This is what happens when you watch Monster House on pain killers.

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or any of the characters mentioned. Damn.

Warnings: This contains Yaoi, which means two people of the male gender are kissing. Turn back if this offends. I use flames to light hairspray on fire. This is also a very angsty chapter.

Chapter 7

Leon lay down on his bed, with Cloud on top of him using him as a pillow. Both boys were silent and sleepy. Cloud rested his chin on Leon's chest, staring with wonder at the other boy's face. Reaching up with his hand, he ran it through the older boy's hair, savouring the silkiness. Leon gently caught his hand and brought it to his mouth, kissing each individual finger. He ran his other hand over Cloud's wing, causing the blonde to moan softly. He was surprised at the softness, but then again everything about Cloud was soft. His hair, skin, eyes and personality. The brunette smiled, knowing he probably looked like an idiot. He frowned though when Cloud looked suddenly sad, not meeting Leon's eyes. He slid his fingers underneath the smaller boy's chin, an unspoken question in his eyes.

"How can you touch me? I'm nothing but a freak." Cloud whispered, his voice breaking. Leon shook his head, leaning up to kiss Cloud again.

"No, you're not. You are an angel." He kissed any exposed skin he could find. He murmured soft words of comfort. All of the words didn't reach the blonde's ears, but the soothing tone of his voice did. A few tears slipped down his cheek. Suddenly tired, he fell asleep on Leon's chest. The brunette continued to stroke Cloud's hair, saddened by this turn of events. Did Cloud not see how amazing he was?

XXX

Reno and Rude sat in their police car, each equally silent. For the first time in a long time, the two friends couldn't find a safe topic to discuss. Finally, Rude cleared his throat, causing the redhead to look up with a look of hope.

"We need to talk." The redhead sighed softly. That was never good.

"About?" The bald headed man sighed.

"Tifa." Reno frowned.

"O...k?"

"I want to...start seeing her. You know, not in the professional sense." Reno smirked; he could see where this was going.

"So...go for it?" Rude looked at him, eye brow raised.

"Look, I know we tried once. Thank god we ended that relationship before we killed each other. Now Tifa is a sweet..." Rude growled in warning, causing Reno to switch the word he was going to use. "...Woman and I have no problems with you seeing her, you know not in the "professional" sense." He smiled at Rude. It was true. They had tried the dating thing. They both knew it would have never worked, yet they tried anyways. Rude was Reno's best friend and it was better it stayed that way.

"Thank you."

"Eh, we all know I'm amazing." Rude looked at him seriously.

"In all honestly, you are." Reno felt heat flame up on his cheeks.

"Yeah, well..."

XXX

Axel sat on the couch, absentmindedly running his fingers through Roxas's hair. A movie played in the background. Roxas had become quite addicted to the films. The redhead tilted his head, hearing and odd noise. The boy was...purring? Axel grinned slightly, then scratched behind the blonde's ear, drawing a 'mmmmmmmmm' of pleasure from the younger boy. Roxas had his head on Axel's lap, his blue eyes closed. He stopped for a moment, examining the teen. Feeling the scratching stop, Roxas opened his one of his eyes. Axel tried to smile, but the smile didn't reach his eyes. Roxas sat up and gave the teen a look.

"What is it?" The redhead shook his head. Roxas grew angry.

"We're friends aren't we? You can tell me." At this Axel turned away.

"This is something you shouldn't know."

"Don't do this. I'm not some fragile thing that can't handle anything that is thrown at me." His tone changed slightly. "Please." It became almost pleading. "Please tell me. Don't shut me out." Green eyes meet cerulean ones. Axel squeezed his eyes shut. 'Here it goes...'

"Roxas, I like you. Like in the movies, like Cloud likes Leon." Now here is the part where Roxas ran off, stammering excuses. Only, that didn't happen. Roxas leaned forward and kissed Axel. It was awkward at first, but the two found a pattern and stuck to it. Afterwards, the two were panted heavily and Axel leaned against Roxas's forehead.

"Was it like the movies Axel?" His tone was hopeful and Axel melted. He kissed Roxas again.

"It was even better."

XXX

It was early evening and everyone had gathered in the kitchen. Tifa seemed to have something on her mind. Everything eventually quieted down and she cleared her throat.

"I was informed today that I have about six months of vacation time. I'm overdue for a holiday. I was thinking maybe we could all go to the beach. You know, stay in a nice beach house and everything. How does that sound?" This question was met with approval from everyone. Sora and Roxas were especially excited at the prospect of going to the ocean. One person however was not as excited as he should've been.

Later, Demyx sat in his room, dangling his legs of the side of the bed. He should be ecstatic about going to the sea. It's where he was originally from after all. But, his former home was also a symbol of death. His family had been murdered trying to protect him. In his nightmares he could still hear their dying screams. He brought his knees up to rest his chin. His was interrupted out of his musings by a knock at the door. Xaldin opened it and looked at him with interest.

"You okay? You looked depressed back there." The blonde shrugged, looking miserable. The older man sat down next to him, so close that the trailing end of one of his dreadlocks brushed up against Demyx's arm. "It helps some times to talk, you know." Demyx was shocked to feel tears well up in his eyes. Before he knew it, his story was spilling out. The murders, being put into the circus, being sold to scientists, the painful experiments and, worse of all, the rapes. By the end of it, he was sobbing, clinging to Xaldin's strong arm for support. The raven haired male hadn't said anything during all of this. Demyx was afraid he would be disgusted. Daring to look up, he was amazed to see tears in his eyes. He looked at Demyx and gruffly stated,

"I can't believe you went through all of that. It's not fair. No one should have to go through that. Least of all you." The blonde rested his head on Xaldin's chest, shaking from the after math of his crying jag. The two remained in silence, until Demyx softly intoned,

"That's why I only where jeans. I...would hate for people to look at me with disgust or pity in their eyes." Xaldin nodded in understanding. Taking a big risk he inhaled slightly,

"Then, can I see?" Demyx looked up at him, eyes wide. Not trusting himself to speak he nodded. Rolling up the oversized sweatpants he was wearing, he stretched out his legs and held his breath. Xaldin ran a hesitant hand over Demyx's leg, tracing out the map work of scars. Some of them were deep and looked 

like they would have been painful. He gently traced out the scarred tissue, fascinated by the contrast of his darker skin against Demyx's creamy white skin. The blonde teen was watching with equal fascination. No one had touched him with this amount of gentleness. It made him feel...almost precious. Like he was a fragile vase that needed to be handled with the utmost care. Their eyes met and a kiss ensued. Xaldin tasted like old leather and liquorice combined. The blonde tangled his fingers in Xaldin's hair, surprised by the softness and warmth. The older male broke off the kiss to pant, "For the record, I don't think they make you ugly." Demyx let out a soft tinkling of laughter.

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Luxord leaned back on his chair, stunned at the fact that Saix had just come up with a good idea. He scanned through the pictures again, smoke from his cigar curling up to the ceiling. After a few minutes he sighed,

"It's a good idea." Xemnas grinned evilly.

"It'll take a few days to get it all together. That'll lull them into a false sense of security. They won't know what hit them." Luxord grinned an equally evil grin. He hadn't forgotten those brats made him bleed. It was now time to make THEM bleed.

Wow. Yeah, um...I don't know what to say. Its kind of sad and evil at the same time. Hmmm. Anyways thank you for reviews/alerts/favorites. Much love to you all.