Adopted

Chapter 6

"Aqua it's alright, he'll come around I promise."

"Terra I shouldn't have yelled at him! I'm a monster...I'm no better than his father."

"Aqua stop! We are not him, okay? We love Ven with all our hearts and you and I both know we'd be the first to die for him."

"But keeping this a secret?"

"We talked about this...he's not ready."

Ventus slowly opened his eyes, he was back home on the couch. He scanned the room and spotted a blanketed lump on the loveseat as well as two more snuggling at the foot the sofa he was on. As soon as a socked foot touched the carpet two sets of eyes quickly stared at him.

Aqua left her blanket and quickly wrapped her around the blonde boy, her sobs let loose and her tears freely falling, "Ven I'm so sorry! I'm so...so sorry! Please don't leave like that again."

The pair was wrapped in another set of arms as Terra also cried and hugged his family, "Ven you have no idea how scared we were."

Ventus nodded, his vision blurry as he was surrounded by his family. The family that cared...the only family, "I'm sorry...I didn't mean to scare you guys. I shouldn't ha-"

Aqua shushed him, "No Ven I should be apologizing to you. I'm sorry...forgive me?"

Ven nodded as he buried himself into the hold, forgetting about everything: Sora, his biological mother, his brother, Roxas, Vanitas. Vanitas? "How did I get here?"

"He brought you," Terra said, pointing to the lump on the couch, "Then it was too late for him to go out so we said he should stay here. Vanitas he said his name was."

Later that night Terra and Aqua slept soundly in their beds knowing their son was safe and forgiving. Now it was Ventus's turn to sit by someone's side, "I barely know you and you do this for me," he said to the sleeping older boy, "Even though you probably won't hear this I want to thank you. Thank you for taking me back here and thank you for keeping me company. Who knows what I would have done?"

"You would have been crying on the swing set all alone."

Ventus jumped at the sudden answer from the apparently awake Vanitas, "I- I didn't know you were-"

"Listening to everything you said?"

Ventus nodded due to a loss of words. He sat back down next to Vanitas whose smirk was completely unreadable whether it was because of amusement or concern. He found himself swimming in those yellow eyes again, completely engulfed in them. He must have noticed him staring so he shook Ven a bit, "Are you alright?"

"Um yeah I'm fine. Um Vanitas what are you doing?" He asked as the Fair boy began putting on his jacket and coat.

"I have to get home, you know Sora. He's probably worrying. Goodnight Ven."

Ventus smiled at his savior as he left their home...the home where the name Roxas is now banned.