A/N: Hello! Anwy here. This is my first fanfic ever (well, technically not my first. My first was made years ago and I submitted it to a teacher. Yeah, submitted it to my teacher. It was Riku/Sora btw lol). Anyway, I hope you will enjoy this. Please forgive any grammatical or maybe spelling mistakes, as I'm not a native English speaker :) Cheers! -Anwy

Chapter I - The Encounter

A pair of sapphire blue eyes fluttered open, welcomed by a faint sound of dribbling water drops. It was drizzling. Great morning Sora thought. First day of school, and I'm pretty sure I'd snooze easily with this weather. He yawned, then got off from his bed, yanking his soft thick blanket.

"Sora? Are you up yet? First day in your sophomore year, remember?" A voice was heard from outside, half yelling. It was Sora's father, Cloud.

"Yes, Cloud! I'm gonna take a shower." Sora answered, rushed to the bathroom.

Cloud was cooking in the kitchen, wearing a baby blue floral apron. Another guy was sitting on the couch, reading a newspaper while drinking a cup of coffee. A few minutes passed by, suddenly that guy let out a squeak, shocked nearly spilling his coffee, as his neck wrapped by a pair of tan colored hand. The shocked guy turned his neck to see who was the owner of that hands.

"Morning, Leon." Some harmless wet spikes of brown hair was seen, together with a super-wide grin. Apparently Sora had finished his shower.

"I won't take you to school if you made me spill my coffee." Leon stared at Sora with a don't-do-anything-stupid-in-the-morning glare.

"Aww, Leon. Don't be so mean. It's your responsibility to take our son to school, whether he made you spill your coffee or not." Cloud chuckeled, serving breakfast to his son.

Taking his plate, Sora joined Leon, sitting on the couch. "Morning, Cloud." Sora kissed the guy with an apron on his cheek.

"Morning too, Sora. Go eat your breakfast. You don't want to be late at your first day." Cloud ruffled the boy's hair, smiling.

Sora finished his breakfast quickly, and then walked toward a table, where a glass of milk was served (without any doubt, it was his. No one else in this house drink milk other than Sora). He gulped down his milk in less than 2 minutes, as if he was in a milk-drinking contest. Leon stood up, glanced at Sora to make sure his son was done with his business, then walked out the house to get inside his car. After grabbing his bag and lunch, Sora joined him.

The drizzle had stopped (actually there's still a really really really light drizzle, but no one cared enough to shield their head or even with their umbrellas). It left a faint smell of soil and a nice soothing atmosphere. Absolutely Sora's favorite.

"HEY, Roxas! Over her-Hey you deaf! ROXAS!" Sora waved his hand above his head. A blonde teenager who were looking for the source of Sora's voice and found it, now ran toward Sora, slicing trough the crowd of students. Sora was happy that he could find Roxas right after he arrived at school. Roxas was Sora's best friend since they were baby. They've know each other as if they were twin. They were inseparable.

"Thank you for the voice pollution, Sora. Just stop grinning like that, you'd tear your face pretty soon." Blondie sighed as the brunette showing his signature grin. "Anyway, good news, we're on the same class, Sor." Roxas smiled as he patted his best friend's shoulder.

"Ha, I knew it! That's why I'm feelin' reaaaaal good when I woke up." His grin was then even wider.

Roxas didn't respond. Still a little sleepy, perhaps. Roxas grabbed Sora's hand while walking, leading their way to their class room. Suddenly, two slender hands sprouted out of nowhere, hugging the blondie and the brunette from behind. Roxas and Sora were shocked, almost tripped until those hands let them go.

"OH MY GOD HI SORA!" A loud greeting was heard from their back. The inseparable boys turned their body, only to meet a tall, blonde man with green eyes, showing a friendly big grin (but still couldn't beat Sora's). Roxas' expression showed that he was slightly annoyed, minding the fact that his eardrums were already attacked twice this morning.

Sora hugged this tall blonde tight, while he hugged him back. "Demyx! Sounds great like always." He squeaked happily, proudly showing his best smile to this man. Demyx was Roxas' older brother, 2 years older than them, which means he was in his senior year. Sora got along pretty well with Demyx (not as well as him and Roxas, though), as they had a similar, bubbly personality. They had spent lots of time together, since Sora went to Roxas' house almost every week (sleepovers didn't count). Behind Demyx's shoulder, an unknown shorter man with dark blue hair stood motionlessly. He ran his hand trough his bangs, drawing it slightly upward, even though at the end it fell down back to its place. His expression was impassive. Demyx suddenly grabbed this man's wrist, pulled him forward so the boys could had a better look.

"By the way, this is Zexy-uhm-Zexion, my ol' pal since few years ago. Well, you guys never saw him since he continuously rejected my invitation to our lovely house!" Demyx introduced his friend to Sora and Roxas. Actually Roxas already knew about Zexion since Demyx talked about him a lot. A lot. But Roxas never met him in person. "Well, it's not like Zexy-man doesn't want to visit us, but he reads too much books." Demyx made a fake pout on his face, then turned his face to Zexion.

"Well, sorry about reading to much books because it's my hobby," a tiny hint of sarcasm was detected in his low, soft voice. His face is still unreadable, "but you never mind to come over to my house after all, so I don't see that as a problem." Sora was impressed to this man because his slow-careful- way of speaking. He seemed like a smart guy, Sora thought.

Breaking the noisy sound of students chattering, an ear hurting sound of a bell rung loudly for a few painful seconds, calling all students to go to their class to start the lesson. Demyx (which was still holding to Zexion's wrist for a while -either intentionally or not-) snapped his head up, a little bit startled. "This bell never failed to startled me," he laughed, "we better get going. See ya at lunch!" He winked, and then dragged Zexion while waving his hands toward Sora and Roxas.

"We better rush into the class as well, Rox! Detention at the first day is not funny." Then Sora and Roxas half-run into their class.

The first day of school wasn't that bad. Most of the teachers only asked their student about their holiday or introducing what will they learn for this year. A few teacher, usually the ones who were old or had no sense of humor or had never felt any happiness in their life (at least that was what Sora thought) just started their lesson without any friendly how-are-you-and-by-the-way-this-is-not-holiday-anymore chat.

Everything was reaaaally slow, until the goddamn-I-hate-that-noisy bell rung. It was lunch break, students' second favorite time at school (the first favorite time was definitely when the school's over). Sora grabbed his lunch that was prepared by Cloud this morning, then went to his numero uno buddy's desk, Roxas, who then stood up and followed Sora got out from class room. They went to the cafeteria which was quite far from their class. Th Sora and Roxas didn't talk to each other. Both boys were sleepy from the lesson before this lunch break (it was math, and everyone knew how tiring math is. Period.) so they just mutely walked toward cafeteria. The cafeteria in their school was quite vast. It was located on the side of the school's main building. There was a counter where students can buy some lunch if they hadn't had any time to prepare some. Right next to the cafeteria, there was a park. It has few trees, and filled with short grass. It also has some benches, where some students can use to sit and eat their lunch or just hang around after school (even though right now no one used it because it's wet because of the drizzle earlier). After a couple minutes, from the corner of his eyes, Sora recognized Demyx as they arrived at their destination. Demyx was waving to their direction, already saved two seat in front of him for Sora and Roxas. They're both relieved that Demyx already saved a spot for them, because the cafeteria was overwhelmed by students who were viciously looking for seat. Zexion was there too, sitting next to Demyx, reading a book and ignored the food-filled tray in front of him.

"Hey guys! How was the first day of your sophomore year so far? Boring?" The older blonde asked excitedly, staring to his younger brother and Sora. Sora and Roxas yawned together unintentionally, then Demyx chuckled. "I'll take that as a 'yes'". Sora smiled at Demyx, then started to eat his lunch. Roxas ate his lunch too, and sometimes took his brother's french fries even though his hand was jokingly slapped by Demyx every time he does that. Food in Zexion's tray was still untouched, crying to be eaten by him but disappointed because he chose book over it.

"Are you going to eat them?" The brunette throw his question at Zexion who at first didn't realize that he was being asked. "W-well it's not like I want it, but you better finish them off before our lunch break is over." He then continued to chomp down his energy supply.

"Ah. Yes." Zexion then back to his book for a few seconds, then closed his book and started to eat.

"Bad old habit of Zexy-man," Demyx frowned, "we should punish him for not eating his food!" He grinned, shoving his face right in front of Zexion's, who then jerked his head back, startled by Demyx's sudden move.

"Okay, okay, no punishment's needed. I already started eating, anyway." Somehow the shorter senior looked a bit frightened at Demyx's word.

Then they ate their lunch in laughter, mostly because Demyx's funny stories. He always has stories to be told, and jokes to be laughed at. Several times Sora almost choked on his food, too much laughing, so did Roxas. Sometimes Zexion laughed too, a tiny shy laugh that seemed like he was maintaining his calm image, even though everyone knew that he's highly amused. Sora never thought that Zexion was able to laugh like that. Right after all of them finished their lunch, the bell rang. After saying good bye to each other, this four happy (well, not that happy since they're going back to the worst part of school for a few more hours) friends went back to their class. Zexion, again dragged by Demyx, and Roxas, dragged by his bubbly friend.

There were 2 more lesson that they had to went trough. It was such a tiring battle, to keep their eyes open while the rain started to pour again, creating a comfortable surrounding to depart into the dream land. Sora was already there.

"Hey Sora! Wake up!" A red haired girl that was sitting next to Sora whispered, tried to wake Sora up. "The teacher has been looking at you for a while." She shut her mouth as the teacher walked to the brunette's table, then Sora suddenly awake when the mentioned teacher tapped her fingers on his table.

"Oh boy, sleepy on your first day, huh?" The blonde teacher (who introduced herself as "Larxene" a chemistry teacher) smiled smugly, as she caught one of her student red handed. "Now tell me 7 strong acid that I just mentioned." She seemed pleased with this situation.

"Um... Sorry Miss, I didn't pay any attention." Sora looked down at his lap, feeling guilty and ashamed. A light blush spread across his face, as 30-something pair of eyes stared at him.

"Hmph." Larxene smirked then turned her body, marching back to the front of class room where a whiteboard was placed. "Consider your self lucky, since I have no mood to give you any lecture about how to listen to your teacher at chemistry. This is a warning, boy. What's your name?"

"S-sora. Sora Strife." He stuttered.

"I remember every students that made such mistake on their first day. You just add a new name to my list."

Then a familiar-but-still-startling sound of school bell was heard. After saying "Ta-ta guys, see you next lesson", Larxene went out from the class in a speed of lightning, as if she had been waiting for this very moment.

"You're so messed up, Sora." The red haired girl next to him spoke again.

"Gee, thanks for stating the obvious, Kairi. I was eating a huge strawberry cake in my dream, ya know?" Suddenly Sora's expression lightened up, as he remembered his dream. Kairi just laughed. Kairi was Sora's friend since junior high school, but they weren't that close. Now that they went into the same class together, Sora thought they'd get along easily.

Okay, Sora, just one more lesson to go! Sora tried to motivate himself and promised not to mess this just like chemistry. The whole class was filled with a loud chatter from every corner. Everyone was talking to each other, taking the little chance to chat while the teacher hadn't arrived yet. Sora glanced at Roxas and found him chatting with a boy named Hayner. After a few minutes passed, a tall silver haired guy walked in into the class room. His hair was long, tied up into a ponytail. His eyes -Oh god his eyes Sora stunned, his mouth formed an 'o'- were a beautiful shade of aquamarine, green and blue mixed. It was the most beautiful pair of eye that Sora had ever seen. His skin was pale, complementing his silky silver hair. Almost too pale, that Sora thought that he was sick or something, but the rosy healthy color on his cheeks proofed otherwise. His body was hidden behind his pale blue thin shirt. Sora was pretty sure that he could see the man's abs trough that shirt. His long slender fingers were holding on couple of textbooks (which read Biology, for your information). Everything on this person was just beautiful, perfectly made, and without no doubt everyone is dying to get him, but only one thing that bothered Sora. HE IS A TEACHER. Teacher. That word echoed trough his head over and over until the gorgeous man opened his mouth and spoke.

"Good afternoon, class. My name is Riku Volk, and I will be your biology teacher for a whole year." He then showed a dazzling smile that made Sora's mouth formed a bigger 'o' than before.

That moment, Sora realized that his biology class will never be the way it used to be.

A/N: So, how was that? It was exciting to write a story haha. And if you have a couple seconds to spare, please do leave a review! I'd like to know what you guys think ;) critiques are welcomed too! Thanks a lot :) -Anwy