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Chapter 1: A quarter from an angel and a Bmo lunch box
When life gives you angels...you marry them before someone else does-Yuffie
‘They don’t pay me enough for this.’
Don’t get Cloud wrong the store its self was amazing. Items up on display and spread out, representing every fandom that had ever existed. It was actually quite a sight to look at. Fandom heaven. A sanctuary. The best thing next to bacon. Well, you get the picture.
The only problem was the fangirls and fanboys.
Now Cloud understood that everyone had their own thing. And fans liked to show support whether by words, pictures or items they owned.He was one himself.(A fan not an item) But if Cloud had to hear one more fourteen year-old girl squeal ‘kawaii’ he was going to lose it.
Seriously since when has the Black Butler manga ever been the same as the anime? I mean the anime veers of-course so fast that the original manga plot isn’t even there. Most of it isn’t even the same. I mean Lizzie is supposed to be some bad-ass in manga, now all she cares about is making things pretty and Ciel happy. (Silly girl that's Sebastian's job) Not that he didn’t like the anime, he had especially enjoyed Alois character. Man could that boy rock those boots. Even if he wasn’t in the manga. And Cloud was looking forward to season 3 The Book of Circus.
Cloud leaned against the glass counter that was his work place. He sighed as four teenage girls walked in giggling.
“Omg! How Kawaii is this!”
“I Know right? Look there’s a L plushie.”
“Oh, how cute! Isn’t L the cutest!”
“I totally saw that episode where he’s stacking up the sugar cubes this morning.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, You should watch it, it gets like super dramatic.”
Shoot me.
Cloud let out a groan. Closing his eyes he began to massage his temple. He was really tempted to yell out ‘guess what L dies bitches!’ just to mess with them.
tap tap
‘Huh?’
Cloud opened his eyes and looked up, only to see no one up at the counter.He could have sworn he had heard a tap.
tap tap
There it was again.
Dang it, if another kid was trying to prank him again he was going to flip a bi-
“Excuse me.”
Cloud leaned over the counter. And got a face full of brown spiky haired 4 year-old.
“Can I see that?” A tiny finger pointed past Cloud.(Had children always been this small?)
“Oh, sure.” Cloud turned to grab what the item the boys was pointing at.
It was a BMO lunch box.The lunch box was teal with the cute robot’s face on front. A little handle sat on the top, with little arms at the side and feet at the bottom.
The little boy stood on his toes looking at it as if it held the world’s wonders.
Seriously the boy wasn’t blinking.
“Do you want to look inside?”
A small nod.
“Okay. So this Lunch box is the ultimate deal. It come with it’s own Jake the dog thermal. A Finn the Human container, an Adventure Time fork and spoon and a small book with lunch time ideas.”
“It’s beautiful” the boy whispered. “Um..how much is it?”
“ 34.95”
‘A ducky backpack, this kid has style’ Cloud thought as he watched him. The kid swung his backpack off his back. A tiny tongue peeked out of his mouth as he rummaged through it.
“Oh,” he said sadly as he finally looked up “I only have 6 dollars”
“You’re short some.”
He nodded sadly looking like a kicked puppy.
Maybe it was his cute face or the fact he had always been a sucker for brunets , expecially ones with blue eyes. But Cloud felt himself drawn to making him happy. He wasn’t thinking of giving him the lunch box for. Thirty-five dollars was thirty-five dollars and Cloud needed the money. Besides he thought the kid was cute not god. Maybe he could give hi, a free key-chain....
Cloud sighed.
“I’ll make you a deal.”
Blue eyes looked up with curiosity.
“When do you start school?”
“August 25. Why?” Cute head tilt.
Damn. The kid was some kind of professional.
“I’ll give you the Sunday before school starts. That’s about a month from now to come up with the money.If anybody else tries to buy it I’ll tell them that it’s already taken and just waiting to be picked up.Deal?”
The boy stretched his hand over the counter to grab Cloud’s.
“Deal”
Cue the way too adorable bright grin.
Cloud was about to tell him to take the lunch box and run to his heart’s content. When a lady came up to pay. (Stupid lady and her stupid need of purchasing season two of Criminal Minds. Cloud could have been helping a young boy succeed in his first robbery.) And when Cloud looked back to where the boy had stood all he found was a note on the counter.
Written in green crayon and in messy scribbles was:
Dear mista Counter guy,
Thank you for your help. I’ll be back to buy that Lunch box. I promis.
Sora
p.s I left you a lumpy space princess sticker. enjoy.
Sora, huh?
‘Well then Sora has style’ Cloud thought putting the sticker and note in his pocket as he went back to leaning on the counter.
The group of girls who had came in earlier were heading out the exist.They were still giggling, but this time they were talking about how hot Light and how him and L were probably each other’s wingman.
“HEY!” Cloud called out to them.
They turned.
“GUESS WHAT? SPOILER ALERT L DIES!!!!”
‘Oh, yeah they didn’t pay him enough ,and he was probably going to get scolded again. But moments like this were totally worth it.
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Riku was bored.
He was sitting on a bench swinging his gray sneaker covered feet.
Riku was pouting. Not that he would admit it, because pouting was for five year old babies and Riku was no five year old. He was turning seven soon thank you very much.
Onlookers walking by chuckled at the boy’s grumbles of 'ain’t no five year old’, 'I can put my shoes on propewy’, 'turning seven in october’ and 'why is my life so hard?’
‘Dumb Kairi and her random shopping sprees. Why did mommy make me have to come with her. I could be using my new scooter right now.’
The silver haired boy let out a dramatic sigh as he laid back on the bench.
He should be home right now, proving to Tidus how much better at tree climbing he is. Getting scrapes on his knees and cuts on his hands. Having his mom yell at him to come to inside to dinner, only to be yelled at more for getting dirt on the just barely mopped floor.
An active child like him can not be tamed by random stores and fake gourmet free samples. He needed to be free! He was like a lion in the wild waiting for the-..er not allowing the ...the other animals...who weren’t like him to...well you get what he means.
Like seriously Fancy Snack Central ‘pigs in a blanket’? those were obviously Frank hot dogs in disguise. You’re not fooling the Riks!
‘I could really use a gumball right now’
Riku stood up and started to search the pocket of his shorts for change until he found what he was looking for a quarter. He then walked happily to the gumball machine, a skip in his steps.
Unfortunately he ended up tripping causing his quarter to role away somewhere else. Riku stood up looking around for his quarter.
'I will not cry.’ He told himself resisting the urge to cry, 'The Riks doesn’t role that way.’
He hung his head down sadly.
There goes his happiness.
“Is this yours?”, a soft voice spoke.
Riku looked up and he gasped.
The cutest boy he had ever seen stood before him.
Chocolate brown spiky hair. Big round amazingly blue eyes. Shorter than Riku with tan skin that told him that this boy liked climbing trees outside. He wore a sleeveless red jacket and a shirt with a turtle on it. Green dinosaur sneakers adorned his little feet. A duck backpack slung over the side of his shoulder.
How cute.
And the best part?
The angel had his quarter in his hand.
Riku realized that he was just standing there gwacking at the boy. So, he nodded slowly confirming that the quarter was his.
“Here.” , the angel took Riku’s hand and pressed the coin into his palm.
Riku just nodded again.
He stood there and stared.
Wow he was pretty.
“Um..here”, the brunet said pulling something out of his backpack. He once again put it in Riku’s hand. “My name is Sora and ’at’s Gunter.”
Sora smiled up at him. Riku almost melted.
“I have to go now bye~” the cute boy called over his shoulder running off.
Riku watched him go.
He looked down at the penguin sticker in his hand.
Riku didn’t know how long he had been standing there until Yuffie showed up.
“Hey kid. Your sister will be out in a sec. Hey are you okay?”, She said as she came up to him.
“Yuffie”
“Yes?”
“What do you do when angel returns your quarter?”
“A quarter?”
“And gives you a sticker.”
“What type of sticker?”
“Penguin.”
“Well that’s easy. You marry the angel.”
“Marry?”
“Of course~ you don’t want someone stealing that angel would you?”
“No.”
“So you have to marry the angel before someone else does.”
Marry.
Riku pressed the quarter and sticker to his lips.
Okay then.
He would marry the angel.
Sora.
Wait.
What’s does marry mean?