A/N: I am still editing this but am doing it more actively now so it will be reposted now. Thank you to new and old readers, for not killing me when I took it down.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Kingdom Hearts I or II or its characters.
It takes a thousand voices to tell a story.
-Native American Saying
Sora Hikari was frustrated with Kairi Galarza.
When they had first arrived in Traverse Town, Kairi's older sister Namine had taken them in.
It had been fine for the first few weeks but then a girl named Yuffie Kisaragi had shown up. Yuffie was a twenty year old third year collage student like Namine. Yuffie was five foot three, while Namine and Kairi were five foot five, and Sora could blend right in at five foot six.
Yuffie had black, chin length hair, and violet eyes. She always wore a thin black hair band around her forehead. Kairi, to put it simply, had a crush on her.
It all went downhill from there.
Kairi wouldn't stop talking about Yuffie, and the two had recently started to flirt with each other. So, two weeks before the start of college, Sora signed up for a dorm room. Fortunately, there was one dorm room left available. He didn't know the name of his roommate but nevertheless he would move into the dorm, a week before the start of college.
Riku Watanabe was still in Radiant Garden, California, currently working at a local Wendys.
Last week, he had been working in a restaurant but had been fired because he refused to adhere to the dress code. After he started to work at Wendys, he had become not quite friends with another employee named Roxas. His looks were distantly familiar but the harder he tried to remember, the harder it got.
They got along well enough and spent their breaks together. After a week of working there, he had noticed a bruise peeking out from under the collar of Roxas's shirt. When he asked about the bruise, Roxas had blushed and mumbled that it was from a fist fight. Riku didn't believe it for a second but didn't press.
In a week he would head to Traverse Town to attend collage.
Riku was packing his bags when he heard angry shouts from the living room. It sounded like Cloud and Leon were having another argument, about what he could only guess.
They had been fighting more often lately, and it was getting annoying, so it was a relief to move out.
All three had been best friends since first grade, and they had been the popular crowd in high school. Alas, this was the real world. They were out of high school and were considered adults. Cloud and Leon had been together since twelfth grade, but it looked like they might break up. As a result they had been fighting viciously lately.
Riku walked to the living room, where Leon and Cloud were fighting. He stay silent as he wait for them to calm down. A few minutes later they finally stopped.
"Um . . . I'm leaving now," he started, interrupting them from glaring at each other.
They turned their attention to him and he couldn't help but fidget under their combined stares.
"Well, I'm sorry we can't see you off but I'm sure you can understand, right Riku?" Cloud started.
"It's fine, I can see myself off," he returned softly.
An uncomfortable silence ensued. Finally Leon broke it with two words.
"Good luck."
He smiled at them before he turned and went back to his room.
He came back a little later with his luggage.
The suitcase was filled with clothes, reading material, toiletries and a few other things. He would travel to New York on an air plane, and then he'd drive to Traverse Town. A rental car would be waiting for him at the airport in New York.
His brothers, rich from their deceased parents firm, were paying for the plane ticket and car rental. He grimaced at the thought of his three older brothers. Riku and his brothers didn't get along, so it was a miracle they were doing this for him.
When Riku finally walked out the front door and to his car, he felt a pang in his heart, but ignored it and drove to the airport, after putting his stuff into the trunk.