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This is the very last update I'm ever going to make for Rinse and Repeat. It's a bittersweet moment, but... Please enjoy. :)

Rinse and Repeat
(Bonus Chapter)

Trying not to wake the blond whose arms were wrapped around his waist, head nuzzled in his hip, Hayner slid slowly into a semi-upright position. His head was slightly propped up on his pillow and he could see over his chest and the bed sheets slipped off his torso and onto Seifer's still head because of the slight movement. In his min, Hayner's thoughts were fuzzy with memories of Seifer's body being pressed against his, pressed inside his from the night before. With a smile and a sigh, Hayner initiated his methodical leave of the bed.

That, however, failed the moment he began really moving.

"I'm already awake."

The younger blond jumped at the sound of Seifer's voice, only to have his hips held down by a pair of strong arms as to prevent him from fully getting up.

"The fuck, Seif!"

The older blond chuckled and lowered his lips to Hayner's abs, brushing the tight skin gently with his lips. Hayner shivered, his senses tingling due to the fact that he was hopelessly sensitive in area around his torso. Hayner cocked his head in confusion, his hands automatically reaching for Seifer's hair as he mindlessly started playing with the light strands.

"Err… what are you doing?" Hayner asked, blushing from his long-term partner's behavior.

"Don't you remember?"

"Huh?"

Seifer laughed and rested his chin on his lover's hard abs.

"Don't you ever remember? What I used to do to you when we were kids?"

"You mean when you used to tickle me by brushing my sides when we were little? And when you straddled me in the middle of Struggle tournaments…"

Hayner scrunched up his face and pouted childishly, only to be pulled closer to the larger blond so that his face was nuzzled deeply into Seifer's chest. Slowly, his mind traced back to the times before when Seifer used to pin him down to any nearby bed and tickle the daylights out of him. Those memories slowly melted into Hayner being pinned down onto the ground during Struggle matches and brawls in the Sandlot. Now that he thought about it, every time Seifer was on top of him there would always be this slightly off grin and a flushed cheeks and busy hands wander around the waistband of his...

"Oh my God, you were feeling me up!!"

"Yeah."

Hayner's eyes widened to the degree of 'scandalized'.

"When we were in elementary school!"

"Yeah. So?"

Seifer lay there, grinning down at Hayner with a playful glint in his eyes. Hayner's blush deepened and pounded his balled up fists on Seifer's chest repeatedly, causing the older blond to chuckle.

"Shit, Seifer! Just how long have you liked me?"

There was a silence and Hayner watched his boyfriend's lips twitch into a thoughtful partial smirk.

"Since the moment our eyes met," the blond concluded, his finertips grazing Hayner's chin and tipping his face up for a kiss.

That only earned him a light swat upside the head.

"Liar," Hayner huffed good-naturedly, pushing aside Seifer's hand and closing the distance between them for a kiss.

It was nice, honestly, to be able to laugh like this with Seifer. And as much as he laughed, kidded, and protested on the outside, in the back of his mind, Hayner had already taken his lover's statement to heart.

- -

"Hayner, this is Seifer – my best friend Serra's son."

Little four-year-old Hayner looked up at the towering blond before him with wide, innocent chocolate eyes. Despite his not-so-pudgy-anymore cheeks and the competitive glint the older boy held in his expression, Hayner couldn't help but instantly like him. He would be a friend Hayner could have a lot of fun with.

"I'm Hayner," he introduced himself, detaching his hand from his mother's and holding it out for the other boy to take.

"My name's Seifer." He took the other boy's hand a shook it 'like a man', which meant full eye contact and with a firm grip, just the way his father had taught him to. "Did you know your hair is the color of a chicken?"

Little Hayner pouted and retracted his hand from the older blond's. He propped his tiny fists on his narrow hips and 'hmph'-ed once.

"So?" he challenged, glaring cutely at the older boy.

"Be nice, honey," Serra patted her son on the head and he swatted her hand away.

"I was being nice, mama. I like chickens; they're cute! 'Specially the baby ones. The… The chick… chickadees! Yeah, the chickadees, right? Those things are really cute."

Little Hayner suddenly cocked his head to the side, the green paopu-print blanket in his right hand flopping and dragging along the floor.

"Am I cute too?" he wondered aloud.

Young Seifer smiled as he took the boy by the hand and led him to his bedroom to show him the new legos his mother had bought for their playdate. Little Hayner followed obediently hugging his blanket close to his chest.

"Yeah," he replied. "Yeah, you are, chickadee."

Little Hayner blushed.

"S-So… do you like to Struggle?"

- -

A week later, Little Hayner leapt onto the bed, his tiny fists clutched to a blue and white pillow. From across the room, Seifer and shut the door quickly, swooping in on the younger blond, hands ready in an attack. He leapt onto the bed and began tickling the living daylights out of his best friend, not caring that their mothers were laughing their heads off and banging on the door, wondering exactly what was going on inside.

All anyone could hear in the air was the sound of two distinctly different kinds of laughter. Where Seifer's was a suppressed snicker-smirk of some sort, Hayner's was full-blown joy in its most potent form. Still, the two different expressions of happiness were simply sounds that belonged together.

Outside their room, the two mothers smiled to each other, nodding about the agreement they'd made back in college.

"They sound like they're having fun," Hayner's mother commented.

"Yeah, Lucia," she smiled back, giving her best friend a platonic kiss on the cheek.

"They probably don't know any better right now," Serra commented, smiling a bit sadly as she watched them run back to Siefer's room. "Do you think they'll still be like this when they're older? I mean..."

"Hey," Lucia interrupted, pressed the tip of her finger to her best friend's lips, "don't worry so much. I mean, even though we didn't have a daughter and a son, we agreed to raise them to be open-minded right? So even if they don't... well, there's still a chance, so don't sweat it."

The two shared an amused giggle as sounds of laughter and excited exclamations came from the other side of the bedroom door.

Just then, the two boys burst out of the room, both with excited looks on their faces.

"Guess what, mommy!"

"Yeah, mama! Guess!"

The two women smiled at their sons and ventured to ask. They shared another private and amused moment when the two young boys' eyes lit up at the sound of their mothers' interest.

"What, Hayner? Seifer? You guys'll have to tell us cuz we're old and can't keep up."

"Well," Seifer proclaimed proudly, "when we get older, we're gonna get married and move into a biiig house with a biiig yard and Struggle all the time!"

After the initial shock of the almost out-of-thin-air explanation, the two mothers could barely stifle their giggles as they faked dismayed expressions on their faces. Seifer's mother suddenly began blinking rapidly, the fluttering of her eyelashes combined with an exaggerated roll of the eyes amusing the two young boys to no end.

"So you two will ride off into the sunset and leave us two poor old women alone at home with your silly fathers?"

Serra fake-swooned after the proclamation and fell over, her best friend catching her dramatically mid-fall. Lucia then fell to her knees, clutching her best friend's hands in false panic as the two of them lay on the floor.

"Oh, heavens! She's fainted! Hurry, Hayner darling! Hurry, save her!"

Hayner chuckled and blushed, half-hiding behind Seifer as he pulled the older boy back into the bedroom with him.

"Don't worry, mommy, we won't leave you guys. 'Sides, you're not that old!"

With that, the two boys made their way back into the room, laughing about their mothers' antics, the two stood up and straightened their clothes. Serra turned to her best friend and wrapped an arm around her shoulder, bringing the other woman into a sweeping side hug.

"Looks like there's hope for them being together after all, Lucia."

"Yeah," she replied, resting her head on Serra's shoulder. "Yeah."

For every review received, I smile. :)

So that was it. Rinse and Repeat is finally over and all I can really say is that I've had such a great time writing it! Thank you guys so much for sticking with this story for so long. Actually, come to think of it, this story only took a month to write. I guess this was one of those lucky creations that really just took off the moment it hit the paper and pen... or maybe keyboard and screen in this case? -laughs-

Oh, and for anyone who didn't catch it, the agreement Serra and Lucia made back in college was that they wanted their children to get married one day. And err... about Seifer saying being gay is gross and all at the beginning, it's because he went through a tough-guy phase and really fucked up his relationship with Hayner when they were little.

Explanation of Title
(Because sometimes, you just need these kinds of things)

Pretty much, the entire idea of the story was that during the two months that it took for Hayner to -finally- fall for Seifer, it was his process of cleansing his entire being of anything that had to do with Roxas save for their memories. After he was able to get rid of his feelings for Roxas, he could 'fall in love' again without anything holding him back.

I guess the whole thing with their first time being in the shower was a bit symbolic... holy shit! Symbolism inside of a yaoi fanfic?! And Sephiroth is really a five-year-old girl! XD

Honestly, I've had a great time getting to know my fellow Seiner fangirls. Teehee. A special thanks to FinalFallenFantasy, Ninny-na, SugarCoatedMuffin, Bonfiore'sGirl, Kitsune'sTemari, BonneNuit, and TheGlacierMist for being amazing to no end and constantly leaving me excellent reviews. I thank everyone who alerted or favorited this fic and anyone who might've passed it on to their friends to read.

Honestly, I would love to write another Seiner fic some day, but right now I don't really have any inspiration. Regardless, keep your eyes peeled because I might come back with another Seiner one day! And I'll make sure the next one will be as epic as an uke SOLDIER on mako overdose! Or inversely epic from King Mickey showing up and ruining cutscenes all over the KH universe... yeah. That epic. :)

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