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DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN KINGDOM HEARTS. I DO NOT OWN DISNEY. I DO NOT OWN SQUARE ENIX. I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING OF THE ABOVE, THEY BELONG SOULY TO THE OWNERS OF THE ABOVE STATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. DO NOT OWN ACE BANDAGE EITHER.

AUTHORS: TAKER AND AKIRAGALE

E-MAIL: GateGuardian@jimmyeatworld.net (TAKER) and akiragale_532@yahoo.com (AKIRAGALE)

RATING: NC-17

STORY: SUMMARY: Sora and the gangs last years tougher in high school. Each one must face the demons that haunt them before they can leave Destiny Island.
CHAPTER:

WARNINGS: PROFANITY, VIOLENCE, DEATH, RAPE, ORAL, ANAL, SEX, YAOI, HETEROSEXUALITY
CHAPTER CONTENTS: PROFANITY AND VIOLENCE.

DEMONS
CHAPTER NINE: THE CALM
JUNE 26, 2007

Lunch, the one time of day if you can ignore the noise you can think to yourself. Gale thought standing at a table with his books. Thinking the Turks could be up to something, he surveyed the area. No sign of Elena... No sign of Tseng... No sign of Barret... 'All is good.' Gale sat down, lowering his head. Gale felt a sudden push from behind, kicking his seat out he rose a fist ready to strike. Riku walks up behind Gale, and gives him a playful push from behind. Kicking his seat from beneath him, he rose a fist ready to strike.

"Oh Riku. Sorry." Gale lowered his fist with an ackward grin.

"WHOA calm down killer." Riku held both his hands up ready to catch if Gale threw a fist. Seeing Gale sit down again, he grabbed his trey which had been sat down on an adjacent table, and placing it next to Gale.

"How are Sora and Kairi?" Gale asks breathing a sigh of relief for Riku not being messed up.

With a smile on his face, Riku points over to the table that Sora and Kairi are occupying. They're already have arrived to lunch and begin to wave over Gale and Riku. Picking up his trey, Riku pulled up next to Sora and Kairi. Gale walked over to a vending machine to get a bottle of water and returned. Pulling out a chair at the table, Gale sits his head down. Chris appears next to him and stares into his eyes. Both just look at each others eyes as Chris sits down next to him. Around the round table they sat Riku, Kairi, Sora, Chris, Gale then Riku once more.

"You're not brooding over the Tseng thing are you?" Sora asks Gale with a hint of sarcasm.

"After what me and Riku dealt with in history, yeah I am why?" Gale caught eyes with Sora, he stopped his sarcastic approach.

"Sorry but you lost me." Kairi tried to act confused.

"When I went to my car with Riku, Tseng showed up after Riku went back in. We took a ride and I told him I wasn't going to join the Turks." Gale gave aloud a sigh.

"So whats the problem then?" Kairi once more acted ignorant. Gale raised his head slightly look her in the eyes.

"Now the Turks are going to make our lives a living hell." Gale drops his head down on the edge of the table.

"EH! They always say that, but they didn't seem to bothered to get really uppity about it in the past." Sora looks around him. All eyes are on him as if his hair was on fire. Gale opens his water and takes a long chug as Riku eats some of his Pepperoni Pizza.

"Hey. Are you okay?" Riku rubs Gale's neck trying to make him feel better.

"I guess, where's Jason?" Gale chugs the rest of his water. He looks around the table to see they're eating except Sora whose looking at the ceiling thinking to himself.

"Not sure, he's usually here by now. He's probably held up in line." Sora took a long drink of his soda. Gale quickly snags some of Riku's fries.

"You know I can go and buy you some." Riku looks blankly at Gale while eating some of his own fries.

"This has been bothering me for a while, Chris are you a vegan? I've never seen you eat anything besides a salad at lunch." Kairi looked over at the lettuce, tomato, onion and cheese lunch plate.

Gale grabs Riku's coke chugging it empty. He decides then to go into the lunch line and grab something for himself.

"THE HELL!" Riku shouted as he looked into his now empty bottle.

"No, just Jewish. Cannot touch pork, not even with a fork. Plus the School food really sucks." Chris politely informed Kairi across the table.

Gale grabs 2 more bottles of Coke and an bottle of water and some cheese sticks coming back to the table after paying the lunch woman. He sat for a moment slowly enjoying his cheese sticks.

"You're Jewish? Hmm" Sora stops suddenly to think to himself.

"What exactly does HMMM mean?" Chris squinted her eyes at him as if Chris is trying to insinuate Sora doesn't like 'him' or 'his' people. Gale quietly drinks his water before eating some more of the cheese sticks.

"God damnit, where's Jason?" Gale looks around for the muscle bound freak.

"You didn't see him in line?" Sora cocked his head sideways as he normally does when confused.

"Nope. No shirt, no skin, nothing." Gale began to suspect the worst for their buddy Jason.

"Well let us finish eating and go find him." Chris stabbed her salad some more and took a big.

Feeling uneasy, Gale looks right at the crew at the table. "Let's skip the rest of the day"

"What? Why?" Sora responded a little shocked. Kairi on the other hand enjoyed this idea from her facial expression.

"Because we can?" Gale leaned back drinking one of his Cokes.

"Forget that. Day's almost over any ways. I just got English, gym and study left. But since we all have study at the same time..." Sora changed his mind on suddenly skipping the last bit of school.

"Lamer." Gale looked at Sora with fake anger.

As Gale looked over his shoulder, he spotted Jason walking into the lunch room. Jason looked very roughed up.

"Hi guys." Jason falls face first onto the table making a loud thud several other students including Selphie and Tidus look over at the sound.

"What the Hell happened to you?" Gale looked at the messed up hair of Jason Hill.

"UGH! I'm just exhausted. I feel asleep during History class and I just woke up after one of the Turks ruffed me up a little." Jason didn't move his head off the table top.

"Which one?" Gale crushes the now empty can of Coke in his hands.

"It was just Elena, she slammed my head against the desk before Mrs. Rosa could look, she hits with no force. She did wake me up though. For that I'm thankful. I'm getting lunch." Jason stood up and ran into the lunch line pushing Reno out of the way. He growled at him but kept his cool. Upon Jasons return Gale gave a loud sigh looking at Jason.

"So they've started first Vincent fucking with me and Riku in class and now Elena hitting your dumb ass." Gale pulled on his face trying to keep calm from going over to the Turks table and beating them all down.

"In my defense, she' cannot hit." Jason looked at Gale as if he was trying to insult Jason's a wimp.

"Still, she hit you. That's not cool." Gale looked back at Jason as if he was a wimp.

"I think they're just going to be fucking around with us for a week or so. It's not like I cannot handle myself." Jason looked around the table.

"Just watch your backs, everyone please." Gale laid his head down onto the table.

Jason reached over patting Gale on his back. "Don't worry, me and Sora got Gym next, ready for another ass kicking from coach Cain?"

Gale grumbled thinking to himself.

"Come on. Cheer Up Gale." Gale turned his head listening to Kairi who's giving him a big smile.

"Yes..." Sora puts his head down and grumbles with Gale. Sora clearly hates Cain's class Gale thought to himself as their heads laid on the table. While Sora's head is down and Kairi's further from him than Sora is, Jason reached over and stole some of Sora's fries.

Gale slammed his fist down on the table making everyone's trays jump slightly.

"Okay you're really making me mad. Whats on your mind?" Kairi turned Gale's face to look at her.

"Tseng..." Gale spoke lowly into the table, noone could hear him.

"SPEAK UP!" Kairi glared angrily at Gale.

"Would you say me and Tseng are alike?" Gale looked up off the table at Chris, Riku, Sora, Kairi and Jason.

Kairi and the rest look at each other for a moment, all of them completely dumbfounded. As Sora was about the speak, the lunch bell rang. The entire cafeteria got up in a hurry ready to get to class. Chris and Kairi walked off togher to their own classes while Gale walked to his class silently with his hands in his pockets.

Jason and Sora walked to gym class togher. Sora looked at Jason and asked him "What do you think of that?"

"I don't know, Tseng and Gale the same?" Jason looked confused at Sora.

"I'm trying to make a connection, I mean they both need their friends heavily, but who doesn't?" Sora looked right back at Jason as he opened the door to their class' Locker Room.

"Maybe there' a piece of the puzzle we're missing." Jason shrugged his shoulders as he and Sora went into the locker room.

~O~

Gale walked into his science class pulling his chair out sitting down crossing him legs. Gale rubbed his eyes ignoring the teacher. The teach walked out from her desk wearing the normal business woman-esq suit like the other teachers wore. A large black haired bun in the back of her head. Brown eyes and a very large chest most of the other guys in class got off with.

"All right class turn in your homework, and we'll get started." The teacher smiled looking out at her class.

"Yes Ms. Lockheart!" All the guys except gale spoke up at once.

Gale yawns loudly not paying attention to anything but his own thought's.

Tifa walks up besides Gale. "All right class, please get your note books out and follow along with me."

"Can I go to the bathroom? I'm not feeling well." Gale rose his hand speaking without getting called on.

"Yes you may. Give me a moment." Tifa walks to her desk, grabs a piece of paper and writes a hall pass as she gives out instructions.

After receiving the pass, Gale exits the room walking down the hall to the bathroom. As he nears the bathroom he spots Vincent and Chris talking.

Gale stops behind some lockers near a door. As he looks he can see Vincent and Chris talking with Chris laughing and smiling, but Vincent with no facial expression.

"Let me ask you something, Chris." Vincent leans onto the wall by Chris.

"Yeah sure, what's up?" Chris smiles looking into Vincent's eyes.

"So how is your dad? I've heard rumors going around." Vincent spoke to Chris very casually, calmly, with no hint of malice but he could be an attempt to lower his defense.

"I don't know, I ignore him any chance I get. I really don't like my dad." Chris acts as if talking about his dad doesn't bother 'him'.

"You should! I don't think either of us should take shit from our fathers. We don't need our old men holding us down." Vincent's attitude changed from joy to serious. Gale almost jumped but he didn't see a violent action towards Chris to jump in.

"I know VInce." Chris sadly agrees with Vincent knowing he's right.

"Just listen to me okay? I'm a Turk, but I'm not dumb." Vincent dropped some of his stern speaking but still kept a serious touch to his voice. He put his good hand against the wall by Chris' head.

"Are your friends reasonable people?" Vincent calmmed down and kindly asked.

Gale growled lowly to himself as Vincent put Chris in a dangerous position. "Lay one hand on him and you die." Gale swore lowly to Vincent.

"I like to think so. Why?" Chris smiled and looked into VIncent's eyes. Vincent's face had never changed. Never did he smile, nor did he frown. The whole time his eyes however became more friendly.

"It's just been bothering me, I mean I joined the Turks because I hand noone else. But now..." VIncent lifts Chris's face to look at 'him.' Gale closed his eye, slowly reciting his mantra and calmed down. He didn't like Turks, especially ones who held guns to his friends. Vincent slowly turned his head away from Chris looking at the ground.

"Is something wrong Vincent?" Chris turned VIncent's head to look him in the eyes.

"I don't know, I'm conflicted between my integrity and my friends. One hand, I don't want to face Tsengs wrath again." Vincent pulls up his broken hand, wrapped in Ace Bandage to show Christine. 'He' gasps and looks at the hand, and lightly touches. "But I don't want to keep dishonoring my family's name."

"I really don't think the Turks are going to do anything for you honestly, they're just street thugs." Chris holds his hand softly while looking Vincent dead in his eyes.

"They're more than just bullies, they're also connected with several organized crime families." Vincent's face moved a little when he mentioned their sinister ties.

"Tseng is the current recruiter for this school, he's looking for someone who can help him toss down their head so that he can ascend into power. I don't see why he has to do this to us." Vincent pulls his right hand away and once more, hiding his right hand behind his back. Gale starts to walk up, but stops himself letting Vincent continue as he opened his mouth.

"What happened?" Chris tries to take another look at his hand but Vincent pulls away.

"Apparently by not beating you and the big guy down, I earned a few broken figures." Vincent shrugs his right arm. Pulling his left arm up and pinning Chris with his left hand against the wall.

"But I can't make the same mistake twice." He looks into Chris's eyes with his good hand touching Chris' chin.

Gale steps away from the lockers walking past Vincent and Chris to the water fountain drinking some water before going in the bathroom.

"Excuse me for a moment." Vincent follows Gale in the bathroom.

Gale stands at a urinal doing his business. Vincent walks next Gale standing in front of a sink. Gale looks over to see Vincent's washing his one good hand, trying not to get the cast wet.

"So Tseng broke your fingers for not beating Chris and Jason down, huh?" Gale snidely remarks as he finishes.

"So how much did you over hear?" Vincent continued looking into the mirror.

"Most everything. Just know Vincent if your Turk asshole friends hurt Chris or any of my friends, I will beat the shit out of them. ALL of them." Gale washes his hands.

"I follow orders, not make them." Vincent grabs several paper towels drying his hand off.

Gale reaches over and grabs Vincent's hurt hand squeezing it tightly. "Then stop following orders."

Vincent falls to his knees, his good hand holding his bad hand. Attempting to free it from Gale's grip. Gale bends his wrist towards Vincent, his face doesn't change in the slightest, but his eye begin watering as the pain begins to over take Vincent.

"I wish I could." Vince keeps his voice low. Low from bringing attention, low from letting out pain, and low from admit weakness to Gale.

"Why not turn your back on the Turks?" Gale squeezes down harder, twisting his wrist.

I have my reasons " Vincent grinds his teeth, attempting to free his hand from Gales' vice like grip.

Gale slaps his good hand. Quickly releasing Vincent from his grasp, Gale grabs Vincent by his shirt collar and lifts him to his height. Vincent looks away, but Gale turns his head to face him.

"The Turks will fall soon enough, and I don't want to hurt you more than I have already. Because then I'd be hurting Chris." Gale pushed Vincent into a wall.
"What are you talking about?" Vincent keeps calm at Gale's accusation.

"Isn't obvious?' Gale pulls Vincent slightly off the Wall.

"Chris likes you and I'm not about to take that away from him." Gale suddenly releases Vincent.

"I doubt it. I'm not into men like him." Vincent lifts his right hand cradling it.

Gale takes a deep breath and grabbing for Vincent's hand. "Get to class you maggot."

Vincent quickly pushes him away with his foot. "Na ah ah. Besides Study Hall, who fucking cares?"

Gale grabs Vincent, and begins to throw Vincent against the wall instead just pushing him, and slamming his hand against the wall "What was that?"

Vincent steps on Gales toes and pushes him away once more. "Study Hall, noone cares. Me and Chris have the same Study Hall."

"Fine, go be with Chris. I know you like him too." Gale begins to walk out of the bathroom. Vincent grabs Gales' shoulder before leaving.

"I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that." Vincent applied some pressure with his good hand on Gale's shoulder.

"Eh?" Gale turned his head slightly, the light causing a glare in his eye.

"I said I didn't catch the last thing you said. Look, I'm not trying to rattle the cage here. If Chris likes me, I'll let him down softly and keep his secret." Vincent releases Gales' Shoulder, and offers his bad hand in a friendly hand shake.

Gale turns around and looks at Vincent. Red banana, Turk outfit, he wasn't sure if he could completely trust Vincent or not. "Hurt him in anyway and I break more than your other hand." Gale lightly shakes his hand, Gale goes to release the grasp and leave, but remains locked with Vincent.

"Look, I'm not like the others. I won't hurt him if he comes on to me. I promise." Vince pumps their hands twice. Vincent tries letting go, but this time Gale's holding onto his hand.

"Can I ask you a favor?" Gale didn't change his face, but his tone did soften up a little from their little argument.

"Yes you may." Vincent pulls his hand back, and Gale releases the grasp.

"Please inform me if there are any plans to hurt one of my friends. Not asking you to fully turn away from the Turks just inching away from them." Gale turns around from Vincent, a little mysterious smirk in his face.

"I'll try and let you know somehow, I can't guarantee anything. But from what I heard, Sora is definitely their next target. I'm trying to know Chris a little better to get to Sora, learn him better and hopefully talk Tseng out of it." Vincent leans against the wall, he checks his watch for the time.

"All right, thanks." Gale turns his head once more and smiles at Vincent, thanking him.

"That's what I was trying doing before I saw you." Vincent smiles back at Gale with a hint of devilish delight.

"I mean like watch his back and stuff. Now excuse Tifa will have my head if I miss the entire class." Gale leaves the bathroom with no further words. VIncent walks out and resumes his conversation with Chris. Gale reaches for the door know only for the bell to ring. He dodges the door as it quickly opens and rush of kids come running through. Gale walks in a little bit melancholy.

"Nice of you to finally join us, are you sure you're okay?" Tifa glares at Gale skipping out on her class.

"Yeah just have a lot on my mind. Can I ask you something?" Gale grabs his 'pack and sets it on the table to look at Tifa.

"Yes you may." Tifa begins to move stuff around her decks to get papers ready for the next class. Gale walks over to her desk with his 'pack. He sits in a desk takes a deep breath.

"What would you do, if a certain group kept harassing your group of friends?" Gale kept his eyes closed as he talked to Tifa.

"Honestly, I'd call the police and see what they can do." Tifa looked over to Gale. She stopped fiddling around with her desk a moment, and sat next to to him at student's desk. She grabs his hands and shakes his hands so he'll look at her.

"What if they had the police paid off? What then?" Gale came to a sudden realization that the Turks could have this possibility covered with mafia aid.

"That's pretty rough. You can try to confront them at a mutual place where you feel safe and see if you can talk it out." Tifa saw that Gale was really troubled by someone.

"Gale, I'm your teacher, but I like to think some of my students as my friends. Are you in some sort of trouble?" Tifa looked into Gale's eyes. Tifa's shined a light Gale wasn't familiar with seeing, even though he had been to her class many times.

"No no, just asking for a friend. On a lighter note, you used to teach martial arts right?" Gale suddenly switched topics.

"I have my 4th degree black belt in Muay Thai if that's what you mean. I would also like to talk to your friend Gale." Tifa stood up from the student desk and went back to her desk.

"Would you mind sparring with me sometime? And I'll talk with my friend." Gale winked at Tifa as he grabbed his bag and readied to goto his next class.

"I really shouldn't, but... I guess if it's sparring to test each other's skills. I guess we can. You better hurry now to your next class." Tifa grabbed a stack of papers as some of her students for her next class began arriving

"Thanks for listening to me." Gale smiled at Tifa, threw her a wave and began to leave. for his next class.

A Gale exits the classroom, he begins to walking by Chris and Jason. However they're not talking, it's more like Jason's freaking out on Christ. Jason is clearly venting while Chris is venting very little back at Jason. However Gale just ignores them both going to his next class. Gale can still over hear them however.

"THE HELL WERE YOU DOING WITH VINCENT!" Jason slammed his fists into a locker.

"Calm down Jason, we were just talking. That's all, nothing serious." Chris held 'his' arms up acting as if he'll try and strike 'him.'

"Serious?! SERIOUS?! He's a Turk! How can I not take it serious!" Jason again slams his fists into the locker venting his rage.

"He wasn't acting like a Turk to me. He was actually rather nice." Chris smiled thinking how Vincent was reacting. Jason however go madder with each moment.

"Look, Chris. I like you. You're my friend. I don't want to see you hurt by anyone okay?" Jason took a deep breath and exhaled calming himself down as he talked to Chris like a civilized person.

"Does that include you? Chris looks directly at Jason, he's completely dumbfounded by 'his' words. Jason scratches his and looks up trying to figure out what he meant.

The normally quiet hall suddenly busted into a roar. Students cheering and yelling, many of them Suddenly 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!' Jason stopped looking and ran over. As the biggest man in school and an unofficial Hall Monitor, he should be more than able to stop any two from fighting. Chris ran with him to see who's fighting. Gale stopped from going into his class to ran with Jason and Crush.

AUTHORS NOTES:

Taker: Yeah it's taking longer than I thought, SOMEBODY who will remain nameless should be helping me, but I can't complain. I put him in quotations because Chris doesn't stand for Christopher, it stands for Christine.

Akiragale: Hey, taker. STFU. College + Boyfriend + Friends + Finding a job + Dealing with family stuff = Busy Akiragale.