Okay so this is my first time here on , and I am here to say my work is not Perfect nor very very good.
But I would be very happy to have you read it and enjoy. Waring it is a yaoi, T rateing for now. Might sumbit to change later on. Also plain warning, My spelling is terrable.......I mean really really bad; same with grammer, if their is anyone who wants to wrok as an editor for me they are welcome too.
Oh yeah, Seifer and Hayner and all of kingdom hearts (c) of Squar Enix.
MOVING SLOW
I have always loved alleyways, like the ones you see in movies. The dark arcane looking ones. Not the dirty and rusty ones that you're afraid to step into. Just the ones that are clean and you just want to walk along and hum to yourself. Maybe that's why I'm not as pissed at my parents about moving to Twilight town. Even though I've only been here a couple of weeks I still can't get that excited feeling of walking down the closed path that leads between market street and central. I watch in amusement as the other pedestrians take the tram, sure it is faster. But it's so boring. What's also cool about this place is the underground walkway. It feels like your going underground in one of those subway stations without having to deal with the subway. The vents that circulate the outside leave a very nice breeze that doesn't smell, bad….but more so that it smells like the earth. The rusty worn smell; the city smell.
The other cool part about he underground tunnels, is that, apart form the cleaners who sweep the place every week or so. No one ever comes down there; the place is almost always empty. Almost always. When I moved it gave me a great place to practice skate boarding. Which I hadn't been able to practice in a long time as there are not many places to skateboard in Destiny islands; it's a beautiful place; but all it is, is a giant sand pit. It was like I was deprived of much of the sidewalk, plus the only skate park there was very small and always crowded. There were few times when I could go skate on my own, but that meant cutting class, which also meant being held back. Let me tell you now, it's very embarrassing and it hurts your self esteem. I had to watch as my friends raise a grade higher and I was still in the same class. But here, here I can skate to my hearts content. I can skate to the store and to the post office, when school starts in the next month I can skate to school. I even found someone who like skateboarding as much as me. He lives near by. His name is Roxas. He's really cool, I met him and his friends out in one of my favorite alleyways that was not far form home and was near the sandlot. Though I wish our meeting hadn't been as awkward.
I had been walking along (WALKING) to go get my skateboard at the shop, where it had been the last two night to get repaired after a very embarrassing incident. (Will explain later.) Now the few times I had been back in this area I had passed a side alleyway that led to a small room just under the tram tracks. Hidden by a chain link fence and the entrance obscured by a maroon curtain that might have been, in a past life a actual theater Curtin.
As I decided that day to walk in, I had walked into both a blessing and a near death experience. One I hope to never have ever…..ever happen again. Anyway, on entrance to the room, the comfortable amount of light and darkness compared to the bright summer light of Twilight Town made my eyes close to the pain of adjusting. Upon opening them I came face to face with a large blue object; two inches form my face. It wasn't so much the nature of the object of the thing in my face as more over it was the close proximity of it. Now normally this isn't me, but I am a human being and had just moved to a new home, Where I didn't know anything about the place so my sense were on a abnormal high. So of course naturally; I jumped. Then to my luck I tripped over a pipe on the ground and fell flat on my ass.
Seconds past and I soon realized that the thing that had been close to my face was there yet again. In the whole confusion of the ordeal plus my head in pain of hitting a wall I was terrified of the blue object. Apparently it shown threw, as I soon heard laughter and the large blue object was removed and instead there was a hand. Tied to that hand was a face, kind and smiling apolitically (though still laughing) the faces eyes half closed in a crescent shape; a bright blue in color. Framed around it was a sea of blond hair spiked up in an unusual style.
"Sorry about that man" I heard, the boy's voice was kind enough, and he seemed genuinely sorry. That might have been the only reason I took the help and got off my ass. I took a quick moment to glare at him; all I got was a shrug. "Really, I didn't think you'd be scared of a struggle bat."
Struggle bat; Now tell me, if you had never heard that name you wouldn't be cautious too.
"Struggle bat?" I asked raising my eyebrow. The boy nodded, and held up the blue object. On full inspection of the object, the giant round thing that I had seen close up was really a bat, padded with a wooden handle. Thinking back on it I remembered seeing one on display somewhere down near the shop closest to the sandlot.
"Yeah, these babies are used during the struggle tournament. Next one is up in three weeks." The blond said looking at his struggle bat proudly the way a hunter would his gun. Perplexed by the damage it could cause by whatever it threw. "You struggle?" He asked.
"No." I responded flatly still looking at the bat. It was padded, so obviously not of any real use or purposeful damage. "Some sort of sport?"
"Thought so, well you look like you can fight you should try out." The boy said, when I looked up to his face he was turned to look a poster off to his right, On it wrote STRUGGLE TURNOMENT SUMMER SPECTICAL 20--.
"Oh I'm Roxas by the way." Roxas said returning his gaze to me. "This is Olette." He said gesturing his hand over the couch, where sat a girl I hadn't seen before. She was cute as far as girls went; she had a calming brown shade of hair that was cut short except for the bottom layer which was slightly curled and layered down by her collar bone. My first impression of Olette was that she loved orange. Sure wore enough, but as time had passed on the next couple of days I grew used to it, by the end of the first week when she met up with a blue shirt I almost didn't recognize her. She responded with a happy "Hi" and a wave that would only ever work with a girl. "And this is Pence" Roxas continued, moving his and over to a box, on it sat another boy, black spiky hair held up by a black and white headband. I nodded; Pence defiantly wasn't imitating, to put it nicely. He is chubby, but not fat. He had a stupid grin on his face and a Popsicle stick in his mouth, which I would have loved to have pulled a bet that it had been ice cream before.
"So are you new? I've never seen you around." Asked Olette, I removed my gaze from Pence back to the girl.
I nodded. I had only been in Twilight town for a no more then a week. The overwhelming aura of the town had kept my attention of watching the patrons of the city and as well kept me from making quick friends.
"Wait, you moved into that house down by the 7 11 right?" Roxas said all of a sudden in thought and looking straight at me. I nodded again and shrugged. "Cool, that's only a few houses from mine, we saw the moving van."
"Where'd you move from?" Pence asked.
"Destiny islands." I replied raising my head to look at the bit of light that was now inverted by the train moving overhead. "Oh, my names Hayner by the way."
"Nice to meet you Hayner." Olette said, closely fallowed by a ditto from the two other boys in unison.
"So how do you like Twilight town?" Roxas asked.
"I miss home, but I like it here I can skateboard easily and I don't have to worry about sand issues." I said happily waving my hand in front of my face. I looked at the trio to find that Pence and Olette were giving each other a look and that Roxas was now looking at me like I had grown a second head. "What?" I asked.
"You like skateboarding too?" Roxas asked. I nodded. "Finally, someone else!" He said. "Hardly anyone around here skateboards even though it is the perfect place to do so. The only people here that skateboard are….Me, Axle" Olette took that chance to giggle and spout out a little 'boyfriend' hidden by a cough which Roxas returned with a glare before continuing. "The skate shop crew, most of mail delivery system employs…..you now……and Seifer and Fuu" Roxas said, adding the two last names so quietly that I had to strain to hear it. Not that I needed, I had already met Seifer and his gang. They were the reason I was going to go get my skateboard in the first place. Embarrassment took over and I glared at the ground.
"You okay?" Olette asked.
"I'm fine, I…well I had been on my way to get my skate board out of the shop because of Seifer." I said biting my bottom lip still glaring at the ground.
"So you've already met them, aren't they just the greatest welcome wagon?" Roxas said sarcastically.
"I've met better." I said shrugging earning a smile from the others.
"Well your already on bad terms with Seifer, you'll fit in right with us." Pence said laughing.
"So what happened with Seifer that you had to take your skateboard to the shop?" Roxas asked raising an eyebrow.
"Uh I hit him over the head with it…..I didn't mean to." I said slowly. It really was an accident.
"YOU WHAT!!!" The trio chorused all at once.
"No way?! But you're still standing here, he didn't kill you?" Roxas said looking at me like I was a ghost.
"Ah, no I ran…..really fast." I said blushing from the sheer embarrassment of it all.
"Either or, your still alive." Pence said. "I mean if I ever even touched the leader of the Twilight town disciplinary committee, I'd be pork roast"
"Wait….okay let me get this straight, you hit him over the head…" Roxas said looking at me.
"Didn't mean to. I was skateboarding down Market Street down by the train station, went to jump that little wall." I said pointing. In the direction of the incident "He just happened to be standing there talking to his friends. The skateboard kept going and hit him in the back of the head and I jumped at the last moment. Then……" I Paused, the next part was if anything the most embarrassing thing ever. "I fell on him. I rolled off as soon as possible," I paused to let this sink in. "I then heard 'your gonna get it ya' know', and I ran" I finished, it was a short story but the incident seemed longer in my mind.
I stopped and watched as all three of the others were staring at me like I had done the most amazing thing. Olette was sitting back in her chair as though she had just finished a horror movie. Her eyes wide and in a state of shock. Roxas had dropped his struggle bat and just gaped at me. Pence was close to chocking on the popsicle stick in his mouth.
"What?! it was an accident." I said quickly. They way they were looking at me was worrying me beyond cause. "Really." I said narrowing my eyebrows in confusion.
"Hayner, if you ran…..what happened to your skateboard?" Olette asked so suddenly it shocked me, mostly because she had said it as though she had an epiphany. She was now looking at me intensely, her face written in wonder.
"Ah yeah…..I got a call from the shop saying someone had taken it in." I said shrugging. "It had my name and cell phone number on it."
"Oh." Pence said. "That makes sense, I bet it was Billy." He finished. I had little time to inquire who 'Billy' was before Roxas spoke up again.
"Okay then, well let's go get your skateboard." Roxas said looking at his own watch. "The shop will be closing soon." He said. He picked up his forgotten struggle bat, dropped it in a corner and walked out the door, I fallowed quickly behind, soon fallowed by Pence and Olette. We walked as a group toward the market street to catch the tram to the central. I took a quick glance at the underground with a longing stare. Oh well, couldn't walk everywhere. It is quicker this way, considering I was walking and without a skateboard.
"So Hayner." Roxas said turning around to look at me breaking my thoughts.
"Yeah." I replied.
"You wanna join our group?" He asked looking at me, raising an eyebrow.
I nodded. Roxas held out his and I gave a quick high five. Already things had started to look up. I was in a place where I could skateboard at ease; I had friends now, as well as an enemy. School would be starting soon, things started to pick up very quickly.