This Was Revised On The 11th Of October 2009
I Would Like To Say A Huge Thanks To My Beta Shadow Hunt. You Are Amazing And She Has Turn This Rubbish To An Amazing Piece Of Writting That It Is At The Moment
It was amusing how naive some people could be. No scratch that. It was amusing how naive Sora Tsubaki could be.
Sora was just like any other average teenager living in Twilight Town, the capital of the great nation of Destiny Islands. The nation was a collection of islands that laid hundreds of miles away from any other main land, which helped cause it to become a great and exotic holiday destination. The villagers of the island had even begun to advertise their many legendary beasts and monsters that roamed the islands because of all the tourist interest in it, but as for whether Sora actually believed in these stories like the rest of his friends, the fact was he didn't.
But honestly, he really should have.
Sora was clueless to the shadows that were lurking around in the darkness of night and even in the bright daylight because he was never paying attention to his surroundings. Even if people around him were actually caught up in these mystical battles, Sora never noticed because he didn't believe in all that mumbo jumbo. As a kid he grew up with these sort of stories as a bedtime tale but as he grew older his best friend, Riku used them to frighten him. It was like that everyday and today was no different.
It was a normal Monday morning around eight thirty in the morning and Sora was still sleeping much to the annoyance of Riku, who had just walked into Sora's bedroom. Riku ran his hand through his platinum hair as he watched Sora peacefully sleeping. Usually Riku would label this as cute but today they were late for school so the cuteness disappeared due to his anger. The older boy walked over to the sleeping boy and grabbed a fist full of his covers before yanking them off Sora's small body. The brunette was abruptly woken up as the cold air crashed onto his tanned skin. "It would be nice if we could get to school before lunch." Riku said harshly to his friend.
Riku watched as Sora laid on his bed and glared up at him. Slowly, he lifted himself up and stood before grabbing his clothes and matching into the bathroom without a word. Sora wasn't exactly a morning person.
Riku sat down on Sora's messy bed and leaned against the wall that Sora's bed was against. "Stupid human" He muttered under his breath.
It was nine fifteen in the morning by the time the two boys arrived at their school, Twilight Town Academy. Once the two boys had registered, they made their way to first period. Riku walked happily down the corridors as Sora stalked behind him. The class they were headed to was Math, which was Sora worst subject. He hated anything to do with that class and he always blamed Riku for making him take it. The teacher was, luckily, not actually in the class at the when they walked in, so Sora wasn't worried about being tardy.
They took their respective seats once they were in the class. Sora sat beside his good friend Roxas, who was currently staring out of the window with an amused expression, while Riku took his seat next to Roxas's twin sister, Namine. Many people speculated that Riku and Naime had started dating after Riku's break up with his ex-girlfriend and long time best friend, Kairi, but Sora knew that this wasn't true. No matter how beautiful Namine was, Riku clearly stated that he wasn't going to date anyone else for a while.
"Hey Sora. Have you heard about the new transfer kid that supposed to be arriving today?" Roxas asked. "It's really rare that new people appear on the island. I think the last new person to move to the island was you, Sora."
It put a smile on his face as Sora recalled his first week on the island because it was possibly the best one of his life. It had only been two days since moving when he had wandered out of his house without his parents and made his way down to the beach. He remembered it raining heavily that night, with the wind blowing harshly against the sand and making the already chilly night freezing to little five year old Sora.
It hadn't taken Sora long to lose his way and become lost on the unfamiliar island. The moment he realized he was lost he began to panic and run randomly in a far off hope of where he headed being the right direction. "Mum, Dad?" Sora had remembered crying helplessly into the sand after he finally fell to curl himself up in a ball.
"If you stay out here you will freeze to death." A voice said to his right. "My guess is that you are lost?" Sora looked up at the sliver haired boy who was standing over him. The slightly older boy had a black jumper pulled over his chest and for some reason didn't seem to be as bothered by the chill of the night. Sora nodded as the boy held out his hand to pull Sora up. "I'm Riku Valentine"
Sora hesitantly took Riku's hand. "I'm S-Sowa Tsubwaki" Sora stood up and looked the other boy in the eyes. He had the brightest colour of green he had ever seen in his short life.
"Riku." Said an unknown voice. Sora turned to the left to see two men standing a good ten feat away from them. One of them had long silver hair and looked like a much older version of Riku and the other male who had spikey raven hair looked nothing like him, making Sora guess that the first man was Riku's father. The raven haired man walked over to Sora and Riku and knelled in front of the two children. "Hey your the new kid that's moved here, right? Are you okay?" Sora hid behind Riku as the raven haired man started Sora in the eye. Sora felt slightly lowly in the man gaze but the raven haired male just smiled. The man stood to his full height and held his hand to Sora, but he looked at it hesitantly for some time before he lifted his own hand to grab it. Sora was stopped when he heard a terror filled voice.
"Sora!" The small brunette child turned around to see his mother running towards them. The next thing he knew, Sora was being swooped up by his mother. The men who had originally found Sora watched as the woman whispered "sorry" repeatedly into Sora's ear. Sora watched as Riku's father lifted him up as well.
"Be grateful that my son found him when he did. It's a very bad idea to let a child wander around at night. If it was anyone else that found him, you may have never have seen your son again" Riku's father bluntly stated.
"Thank you." Sora's mother smiled sweetly at the Riku before she walked away with her son in her arms. Sora looked back over his mother's shoulder.
"Bye-bye Riku!" The small brunette grinned brightly and waved his hand at the other boy who smiled enthusiastically in response.
Yes, that night had been a good one, even considering the horror he had first experienced from being lost. He and Riku had been best friends ever since though, so he was glad he had wandered off from his parents.
"Roxas." Sora said with a smile meant for Riku. "That was ten years ago."
"Exactly that's my point. That is how rare newcomers to this island are." Roxas threw his hands up in the air for some unknown reason. It was just something that Roxas liked to do because Roxas was a random person. Sora always firmly believed in the phrase 'time flies when your having fun' because even if he hated half his classes in his timetable, he always had his friends to keep him amused.
It was now lunchtime and Sora sat in his usual seat in the cafeteria beside Riku as he hurriedly tore into a burger. Namine, Riku, and Kairi sat and watched him make an mess of himself as usual. "Sora, slow down. Your going to end up choking again and this time I am not giving you my air." Riku said into his ear, making Sora remembered the highly amusing time when he almost died by choking on a chip. He had blacked out and Riku had no other option but to give Sora the 'kiss of life'. The girls sat at the table laughing as Sora grinned at his friend's comment.
"Riku, You loved it and I know it." He stuck his tongue out at Riku playfully. "Do you want another one?" Sora balanced on his knees on his chair and stuck out his lips as if he was asking for a kiss. Riku pushed Sora away with a grin and the brunette fell to the floor with a loud thump. Kairi was nearly crying because she was laughing so much, as was Namine. Sora eventually got back on his chair and glared at Riku who just laughed at his best friend, however, Riku suddenly stopped laughing when he caught sight of two older boy's walking towards them.
"Hey, Namine. Can you and Roxas meet me in the forest around nine tonight? I have a maths test tomorrow so I'm going to Tidus's to study." The platinum blond boy grinned at the Namine who smiled and nodded her head at her older brother. Namine was curious as to why Vaan had asked her and Roxas to meet him at the forest but she ignored it for now.
"Okay, Vaan but if your late I'll get Roxas to slap you." Namine said with Vaan rolling his eyes at his sister in response.
"He better pass, Tidus," Said Roxas with a playful glare at his brother's best friend. "Because I'm coming after you if he doesn't." Tidus lifted his hands up in the air in surrender which caused Namine to giggle but Sora noticed that Riku found none of this amusing. He always wondered why Riku had stopped talking to Tidus but when the brunette had asked, Riku had given him no response.
"Guys, Guys lets go outside. I mean, look at how sunny it is for once." The brunette whined as he tried to pull on Riku's arm in order for him to get outside but he ended up slipping and falling on the floor again. He glared at everyone and pouted. "Seriously, you would think you're a vampire or something." Sora laughed out loud but everyone just paled and looked at the brunette before pretending to laugh it off. It was scary how right Sora actually was.
"Yeah, he'll suck your blood, Sora." Tidus smirked and looked at Riku, who just glared at the older male.
"Yeah well I might." Riku agreed. "I'll suck you dry, Sora- at least that's what mutt thinks." Vaan pinched the bridge of his nose as Tidus scoffed at Riku's remark. The two teens quickly turned and walked away from the table.
Sora scratched his head at that awkward conversation. "I don't get it!" Riku slapped his forehead in response but was really relived with that response.
The rest of lunch passed relatively quietly until the bell for fifth period went. Sora and Kairi said goodbye to Riku and Namine before heading up to art. Sora was naturally good at art which surprised a lot of people, especially Riku. In almost a blink of an eye, fifty-five minutes passed right by and the bell for the final class of the day sounded throughout the school. He quickly packed away his stuff and waited for Kairi before heading to English.
As they walked into English class, Sora took note that Riku was late yet again. This was understandable though due to Riku's fifth period, physics, being on the other side of the school. Roxas and Hayner were already sitting there waiting on them.
"Hey guys. How was art?" Roxas grinned at the pair Sora shrugged and sat down next to Kairi. A few moments later Riku walked into class with an unknown person slugging behind him. The silver haired teen said something to the teacher before he sat down on the other side of Sora.
Everyone at the table noticed that Roxas's eyes were fixated on the new redhead still standing by the teacher. Roxas was so predictable. Sora looked over to hear Hayner sighing loudly and lifting his feet so that they were on the table.
"Listen up class. It seems we have a new student amongst us" The teacher smiled at the redheaded boy who was standing lazily beside the teacher. The students eyed him closely and decided their first options of this boy and they seemed positive, especially on Roxas's part. The blond couldn't take his eyes off of the redhead for even a second and the only reason he snapped out of his daze was because the new student began to talk with those gorgeous lips of his.
"I'm Axel. Nice to meet you." That was all he said before he walked towards Roxas's table. "Is this seat taken?" Sora and Kairi were ready to burst out laughing as Roxas's face flushed a bright red when Axel put his hand on the chair beside him. All the blond could do was shake his head repeatedly in answer to the other's question.
The teacher watched as Axel sat down beside Roxas and smiled before she noticed Hayner with his feet up on the table. "Hayner will you get you feet down from their? I've told you a million times not to do that." She sighed. "Would you do that in your own house?"
Everyone looked at Hayner who just raised his eye brows at the teacher before he spoke. "Well that's a bit of a stupid question isn't it?" Laughter erupted as Hayner took his feet down from the table in slow motion.
As the period went on, Sora watched Roxas, who's eyes were switching between his work and the redhead beside him constantly. At one point, Axel stood up to go and speak to the teacher and Riku decided that this was the ideal opportunity to tease Roxas.
"Hey Sora, doesn't that Axel guy have the sexiest hair?" Riku smirked at Sora.
Realizing what his friend was doing, Sora decided to play along. "Yeah. His eyes are to die for!" Sora looked at Roxas, who was watching Axel and smirking.
Roxas licked his lips. "God, his ass is hot." Kairi looked up from her work and stared at Roxas in shock. Even Hayner –who was Roxas's best friend- seemed shocked by this. The chatter died down again when Axel returned to the table.
Once the day finally came to an end, Sora walked out of the school and much to his disappointment, it had clouded over the sun as rain poured down upon them. However, Riku seemed to brighten at this fact, even going as far as grinning and wrapping his arm around Sora's shoulders as they walked down the stone stairs. When the two got to the bottom, Riku saw a familler looking car outside the school.
"Looks like my father is here." Riku stated and took his arm off of Sora's shoulders. Sora put his hood up and peeked over at the black car his friend's family was in. When he looked back over at Riku he saw an Ipod in his hand. "I'm trusting you with this and if you lose it, I'm going to kill you." Sora grinned brightly and nodded his head, snatching the Ipod from his friend before he changed his mind.
Suddenly Sora heard his name being called. Hanging out of the window was Zack, who was Riku's 'second' father, though around the village it was thought that Zack was his older brother in order to not cause nasty rumors. Not many people knew this, in fact, the only two people outside of Riku's family who knew were Kairi and Sora. "Hiya Sora!" Sora grin got wider as he waved over to Zack. Riku walked down to his car as Zack was hauled back inside the car by Riku's birth father, Sephiroth. Zack tended to act like a child at times, but it was the only reason why him and Sora got along so well.
Sephiroth smiled at Sora from the driver's seat. "Sora, its nice to see you. How have you been?"
"I'm fine." Riku smiled at Sora's wide grin. "I better get going though because I have a free house tonight so its perfect for studying in!"
"Since when did you study? All that's in your head is your secret stash of sweets." Sora wanted to damn Riku for knowing him so well.
Sephiroth just shook his head an kept the smile on his face. "Get in the car, Sora. I'll drop you off."
Sora looked in the car and shook his head when he saw Riku's older brothers, Cloud and Leon, in the car. "Nah. It seems a bit cramped in there and besides, I wanna listen to Riku's Ipod." Sephiroth just nodded his head and Riku opened a car door as Sora waved goodbye to Riku and his family. The car quickly pulled away and disappeared.
On the route home, Sora walked through the Twilight Town's Dark Forest, because it was a short cut to his house. The forest was notorious for being the center of many of the stories that the villager's told to the tourists if Sora recalled correctly. He had Riku's Ipod in his ears and was blasting one of Riku's heavy metal songs into his ears so he could think clearly.
Ever since he was little, Riku had told him not to venture into the forest alone but did the brunette listen? No.
It was a shame Sora had the music so loud because if he didn't, he might have heard his attacker coming.