| Title: A Dream Come True Author: munky Rating: NC-17 (Forget lemon! This is hot like wasabi!! Sappy with a pinch of angst/angry confused Claude who changes into happy compassionate Claude and a dash of shoujo-ai at the end! Wooh!) Pairings: Dias x Claude, Rena x Celine Disclaimers: Err�the characters aren�t mine. They belong to ENIX, Sony (those corporate bastards!!) tri-Ace Inc. LINKS, and Minato Koio with any and all rights reserved. I�m just borrowing them for a lil bit without doing them any harm (well, not much harm really) so please don�t sue. I�m a broke ass bum with no life anyhow so :p Author notes: This sure isn�t a bedtime story for the kiddies cause I am a horny virgin with a vewy vivid imagination. Please bear with me�anyhoo, I got hooked on Star Ocean: 2nd story and I thought it would be an uber shibby idea to pair Dias and Claude together and Claude seems like the uke type to me. Any advice, flames, comments or mental analysis can be sent my way at [email protected] Flamers will receive the lovely gift of a dead tokomon sent by my Goth muses!! ^_^ Enjoy! ON WIT DA FIC!! Night had fallen on a group of adventurers traveling across the pseudo-planet of Energy Nede. Tired and sore from battling countless monsters, which swarmed the land, they climbed onto their Synard and flew off to the closest town, a place known as Fun City. Their leader, a purple-haired Nedian known as Rena, decided to pay the small ticket price and stay the night at the City�s inn. She knew that her friends had battled hard and deserved a break from the constant turmoil they had faced since coming to Energy Nede. The party split up at the gate and went on their separate ways, planning on joining up at the inn later to sleep. One of the group, a small young man with blonde hair, stayed back at the gate, scanning the crowd for someone. When he couldn�t find who he was looking for, he gave a dejected sigh and kicked at a small rock on the ground in frustration. �Claude darling, what�s the matter? You seem quite down right now.� A scantily dressed blonde woman stood nearby him, watching. �Maybe if you joined me at the racetrack, you might cheer up a little bit.� �Celine? Um�I appreciate your concern, but I�m just going to wait for everyone back at the hotel.� �Alright.� Celine watched him leave with a troubled look on his normally cheerful face. She frowned, worried, as he melted into the crowd, and sighed. She knew that Claude was old enough to take care of his own problems, but still, she was concerned as she walked towards the bunny racetrack. //Why am I so obsessed with Dias? Ever since I met him, I've just become all hooked up on the guy. It's easy to explain some of my feelings away by saying that it's only natural because of how much of a jerk he was when Rena first introduced me to him. But, why him? Of all the guys in this merry little band, why'd I have to fall in love with Dias? And why a guy in the first place? I'm bisexual, so I could've fallen in love with a girl instead.... grr. My love life is way too complicated...// As Claude walked, he became more drawn into his thoughts than anything else. His head hung down, his shoulders drooped, and his eyes stared at the ground. It was inevitable that he would run into someone eventually. But when he looked up at the person he bumped into, he was still surprised. He didn't expect to cross paths with Dias himself. But there he was, in the flesh...all six feet four inches of him, scowling at Claude in irritated displeasure. "Watch it, Kenni. Just because we're in the same group doesn't mean you can try and push me around." Claude's face darkened. "Well, why don't you watch it, jerk? You're the one pushing people around, not me." Dias smirked. Claude was no match for him, but he was scrappy and self-confident, which was why he was so attracted to the blonde in the first place. He could feel some unidentifiable force pulling him towards Claude, but had never followed it. Suddenly, he frowned, shaking his head. //I am a warrior...I do not sink so low...I cannot obey the whims of my body. I must suppress them. // The voice in his head kept muttering those words like a mantra and Dias was able to control himself enough to regain his senses. "Hmmph....I'm too much of a warrior to sit around and squabble with a child like you. Goodbye...Kenni." And with that, Dias waltzed off. Claude's face turned red with anger and embarrassment. How *DARE* Dias call him a child?! He had done as much as Dias during his years of life!! More even!! And couldn�t Dias at least call him by his first name? // "Yeah, well...whatever you do, drop *DEAD*!!" //Stupid idiotic jerkface moronic stuck-up smug sonofva...// And with those heated thoughts burning in Claude's mind, he stomped off. Eventually, he found himself in front of the inn, sore and tired from wandering around so much. He decided that it would be okay to rest for the night with the others and not camp out in the woods like he had intended to during his walk around Fun City. All he was looking forward to was a good night's rest. But fate is a randy sort of beast and Claude's dose of annoyances hadn't fully been given out yet. He had just been able to flop down on his bed and uncharacteristically brood when he heard a knock, followed by Rena entering the room he was...surprise, surprise...sharing with Dias that night. Rena hesitated, clearing her throat softly before she spoke, her face radiating the concern that had already crept into her voice. �Are you alright, Claude? I noticed that you seemed very distant tonight�is something wrong?� //God�if only you knew how I really feel. // Claude looked up at her, annoyed. But all Rena could see was loneliness and sadness in his sapphire eyes, and she shook her head and sighed. �Oh Claude�I never knew that this was how you really felt. You miss your family that much, don�t you?� //Just tell her yes. She�s clueless as to what�s really going on and it�s better if Rena doesn�t know that I�m�well�// With that thought, he blushed red in embarrassment. �Yeah�I do. But that�s all; I�m just feeling a touch of loneliness, Rena. I�ll be okay.� He stared at the floor; guilty as he waited to see if Rena would catch onto the reason why he was so defensive. It was only a matter of time before she realized what he was really going through. But Rena was a very straightforward, almost na�ve girl, and took Claude�s words at total face value. Pity shone in her eyes as she spoke. �Do you need someone to talk to? I could help�or is it just a matter of having some alone time?� //Huh? How dense can you be? // Claude snorted mentally as he stared up at Rena, eyes wide in disbelief before catching himself and putting a humble �lost little boy� look back on his face. �Oh, uhm�I think I just need some alone time�that is if you don�t mind, Rena?� Rena looked at him with a bright, open smile. �Sure. I just hope you feel better, Claude. You know, it seems to me that you act just like Dias sometimes, all quiet and introspective like. You two would make a good pair of friends if you could stop being so competitive with each other.� //I don�t want a friend in Dias�I want something more. // he thought as Rena took his silence as a clue that he wanted privacy and left the room. �Hmmph�. yeah right. Like I�d ever have a chance with him�wishful thinking on my part.� Claude mumbled to the empty room bitterly. Then, with a sigh, he stripped off his jacket, shirt and shoes, leaving his pants and the boxers underneath. He flopped onto the bed and began to brood once more. //Damn you Dias Flac�why do I feel this way about you? I�m so unsure�if only you�d give me some sort of sign that you were interested in me too. // Claude thought to himself in frustration. Those thoughts wandered into more erotic ones of Dias and an errant hand traveled a familiar path down his chest, past his now muscular abdomen and down into his pants to grasp his now hardened and erect penis. He began to rub it, a gasp escaping past his lips. �I�m not interrupting anything, am I? If I am, then perhaps you should learn to lock the door behind you.� Dias stared at the blonde with eyes full of lusty interest. He was becoming hard just watching the smaller blonde man pleasuring himself, but made sure to keep the ardor out of his voice, just to make sure that if Claude wasn�t *that* way, he could at least save some face and retain *some* dignity. �Me? Uhm�. err�no.� Claude quickly pulled his hand out of his jeans. He blushed in embarrassment at being caught masturbating by the exact person who drove him to such an extreme in the first place. What was he to do? The only place that he could run to was the bathroom, which at that moment, sounded like the best idea. Claude got up from the bed and gave Dias a curt nod before rushing into the bathroom, cheeks flaming and blue eyes full of horror as he slammed the door behind him. Dias however, was more occupied with his now *raging* hard-on, of which he rarely experienced except around Claude and still couldn�t quite understand why. It wasn�t that he was na�ve about those sorts of things�it was just that he was confused about having it around a man, and particularly Claude for that reason. //Why is this happening? Do I have some sort of sexual feelings for Claude? He is my rival�besides, wouldn�t it make more sense to feel this way around Rena? I know she likes me, and we have known each other closely since we were children together in Arlia. But I�m not interested in her; I�m interested in my rival�. my male rival, instead. // His mind was musing over these sudden thoughts as Claude made his departure, but Dias managed to catch a glimpse of Claude�s backside, which made his pants feel even tighter than they were before. //Perhaps I am analyzing this situation too much. It may just be a passing case of lust, // he added mentally as the brief glance at Claude�s behind brought all sorts of nice dirty thoughts into his steadfast, usually focused mind and brought an uncharacteristic blush to the tall warrior�s cheeks. Meanwhile, in the bathroom, Claude was facing his own dilemma. //Omigod, omigod�he caught me! Dias caught me fantasizing about him! Does he really know that I�m bisexual? No way! He�d probably beat the ever-loving crap out of me if he had the slightest idea! // Agitated by all the conflicting thoughts in his head, Claude began to panic, pacing up and down behind the bathroom door and nervously nibbling on his already ragged nails. Minutes passed by until he checked his behavior by standing still and pulling his hand from his mouth. //Wait. Why am I getting bent out of shape over this? Dias has probably forgotten all about what happened and so should I! I shouldn�t be worried. // He shook his head slightly to clear it of any anxieties that were left in his head and stepped up to the mirror, seeing only a self-confident face smiling back. //Good! // With that observation, he strode calmly out of the bathroom. During the time that Claude was in the bathroom, Dias had made up his own mind as to how to proceed after what had happened. His decision was to try and find out if Claude liked men, and if so, to finally seduce the nineteen-year-old and put an end to all this indecision that he was going through. So when Claude confidently strode out of the bathroom, he saw Dias reclining on his bed, fingers playing nonchalantly with his long, gorgeous bluish-purple colored hair and was totally dumbfounded by the sight. [next] [back] |