School Issues

Chapter 1

Sora was leaning back in hi chair during his first period class. Science was never his favorite subject, so this wasn't helping. Sora was a tall, lanky kid with spiky brown hair and blue eyes. Sitting next to him were his two best friends: Yugi and Roxas. Yugi was short with pointy tri-colored hair and amethyst colored eyes. Roxas was as tall as Sora with equally spiky blonde hair and the exact same blue eyes.

"Sora! Face the front and pay attention!" the teacher, Mr. Kadaj, yelled. Sora toppled over backwards in his chair. Everyone in class laughed at him.

"Owww…that scared the ever loving outta me…" Sora mumbled as he rubbed his head; he hit it on the back of an empty desk.

"You're such a klutz, Sora," Roxas chuckled. Sora glared at him.

"Now then, today we have a new student joining us. Say hello to Claus Valca," Mr. Kadaj continued. A shy-looking, tall-ish kid walked up to the front of the class. He had mid-length dirty blonde hair and silvery blue eyes. The head of the popular kids, Seto Kaiba, stared evilly at Claus. Sora saw this and knew exactly what that meant. He glanced over at Yugi and Roxas. They also knew what was coming.

That kid is gonna get his ass handed to him by those snot-heads, Sora thought.

"So, Claus. Tell us about your self," said Mr. Kadaj. Claus looked around nervously.

"O-ok. Um…I come from Norkia…um…there's not much to tell about me…so that's basically it…" Claus said quietly.

"Alright. There's an empty seat behind Sora. That'll be where you sit." Mr. Kadaj pointed to the desk behind the brown haired teen. Claus nodded and went back to his seat. On the way there, someone stuck out their foot and tripped the new kid, sending him to the floor. All of the popular kids laughed at Claus while he got up slowly and found his desk. Mr. Kadaj didn't notice any of this for he was writing some science gibberish on the board.

"Hey, man. Don't sweat it. All of the popular kids pick on us, too," Sora whispered to Claus while Mr. Kadaj was blabbing about astronomy. "Meet me and my friends after Mr. Star-head finishes yapping." Claus nodded again. The rest of class went well; no one was spitting spit-wads at Sora and Pals or anything else. After class was finally over, Claus met up with Sora, Roxas, and Yugi.

"Hey, dude. What's up?" Sora asked happily.

"Uh…"

"Hey, I 'spose we should introduce ourselves. I'm Sora, the shrimp-y one is Yugi ("I'm not a shrimp!"), and the blondie is Roxas. And, before you ask, we aren't brothers."

"Ok…well, you already know me, but, I'm Claus," Claus said, putting his hand out. Sora smiled and shook it. That's when bad trouble started.

"How cute. All of the little shits in our school are being little shit buddies," Kaiba drawled as he and his gang walked lazily up to Sora and Pals.

"What do you want, high-and-mighty Kaiba?" Sora jeered. Leon, a brusque guy with dark brown hair, loomed over Sora. Sora shied away, and Claus actually stepped forward.

"I can tell by your cowardly behavior that you all are a gang. Who gave you the power to rule over us? Only cowards like you use your status to pick on other people like us. Now, piss off, you yellow bastards," Claus growled. Leon snapped and used a swift and extremely powerful uppercut to shut Claus up. He fell over and Sora attacked, but he was thrown off by another member. Xemnas was the one to keep Sora at bay. He was about to give Sora what he 'deserved,' but then the bell rang.

"Just you wait, you little shits. We'll get you." With that, Kaiba and his gang walked off.

"Oww…that son of a-gyaaah! Kaiba needs to die in a pit of acid, or get murdered or something, dammit!" Sora snarled. He looked over at Claus, Yugi, and Roxas. Sora sighed heavily.

"Alright, I'll take him to the nurse. You guys go to class."

Yugi and Roxas looked at each other and nodded. Sora lifted Claus to his feet and carry-dragged him to the nurse.

"Hey, man. You still alive?" Sora asked worriedly. Claus coughed a little, with a little blood. A good sign he was alive, but Sora still picked up his pace.

"Yo! Nurse-chick-lady? Tifa? Are ya in here?" Sora called into the white room of the nurse. A black haired man appeared, much to Sora's surprise.

"Tifa's not here today. But you can call me Mr. Zack Fair," Zack said. He gasped a little when he saw Clause. "Oh, god! What happened to him?"

"Those damned, snot-headed, populars did this," Sora growled. His tone lightened when he said, "Can you make him feel better?" Zack narrowed his eyes, muttering to himself.

"Aaah…what would Tifa do?" Zack wondered out loud, scratching his head.

This guy has no idea what he's doing! Sora thought irritably. He walked into Tifa's office and found a small refrigerator. He was relieved when he found some ice-pack in the fridge. He rushed back over to Claus, lifted him onto a bed, and stuck the ice-pack on his jaw.

"That's what you do, Zack," Sora said agitatedly.

"Ah. That would be a good thing to memorize," Zack said to himself, whipping out a little notebook. He quickly wrote down something or other. "See, I'm just a trainee. I don't know everything that Tifa would. I'm just learning." Zack looked at the clock. "You should probably get to class. I'll do my best to look after your friend."

"Alright. Thanks, Zack." Sora walked out of the nurse's office, looking around every corner to make sure no one would attack him.

He was walking past a men's bathroom when he heard a, "Hey!" Sora turned to see the druggies Xaldin, Marluxia, and Larxene. Sora froze, knowing full well that he couldn't run anywhere; the drug addicts would just get him after school.

"Uh…hi. What's up?" Sora asked cautiously. Xaldin and Marluxia loomed over Sora.

"You know what's up. You haven't paid us for letting you out of our custody," Xaldin said evilly. Marluxia nodded vigorously.

"Oh, gimme a break. You know that I gave you your 'release fee.' You just smoke too much dope. You can't remember a damn thing," Sora said harshly. Xaldin grabbed Sora's shirt and shoved up against the wall.

"That's not what I mean. You see, we're running out of money to buy crack. Since we know that you're VERY contributing, we figured you'd give us more money!" Xaldin's breath was terrible, and Sora had to breathe it in.

Sora growled, "Get a job, druggie!" Xaldin punched Sora in the ribs. The younger teen slumped to the floor, and Xaldin and Marluxia proceded to beat the crap out of Sora.

When they finally finished, they shoved Sora into a toilet stall and duct-taped the door shut.

"Maybe that'll teach you to not meet our demands," Xaldin hissed. The three of the drug addicts slouched off, leaving Sora in the bathroom.

Meanwhile, Roxas and Yugi were getting antsy in their class.

"Dude, Sora hasn't come back yet," Roxas whispered to Yugi.

"Yeah. He should've been back by now. I know I'll sound like his mother, but, I'm

getting worried," Yugi murmured back.

"Should we ditch?"

"No! Wait 'till the end of class. THEN we'll find him."

"Got it." The two of them waited until the end of History (taught by Mr. Cid Highwind).When the bell rang, they immediately ran around the school, looking for Sora.

"Hey, what if the drug addicts got him?" Yugi panted; he and Roxas had been running around for awhile.

"If that's the case, then Sora's screwed," a new voice said. Yugi and Roxas saw that the voice belonged to Axel. Next to him was his almost twin Reno. They both were red-heads with green eyes.

"How do you know that?" Roxas challenged.

"Trust us. You don't know Xaldin and his flunkeys like we do," Reno said calmly, but his eyes betrayed him; he was clearly worried about Sora.

"Where would Xaldin and the other druggies hide a person?" Yugi asked quietly and thoughtfully.

"The bathroom, where else?" Axel answered.

"But which one? There are TONS of bathrooms in this school!" Roxas exclaimed. Axel and Reno both looked at each other.

"Well, where's the bathroom where the druggies are always hanging out?" Yugi shrugged and Roxas looked at the floor in thought. Then, it came to him.

"Is it the one near Mrs. Gainsborough's room?" Roxas asked.

"That's the one!" Reno said. "So why are we standing around chatting like old ladies?" Reno zoomed of to the restroom. Axel, Roxas, and Yugi followed Reno as fast as they could. Eventually, they all came to the druggie's bathroom. They looked inside the terrible room. It reeked of marijuana and there was graffiti all over the stained white walls. On the floor was dried and fresh blood. They also saw a duct-taped stall door.

"Sora? Sora! Are you in there?" Roxas began banging on the door. When there was no response, Roxas started to tear off the duct-tape and threw the door open. Sora was passed out and slumped against the toilet and blood was everywhere. Roxas retched at the sight of his best friend. He ran to the next stall over and puked.

"Oh, dear god…" Yugi said in horror. Roxas stumbled out of the other stall.

"T-those…bastards…" Roxas muttered while he wiped his mouth. "They'll pay for this!" There was a scuffing noise as someone walked in. Axel whipped around, fists raised. Claus backed up, away from Axel's hostility.

"Zack let me out the nurse's office and I heard some people talking. So I came…what in hell happened?" Claus asked, shocked.

"Those damned pot-heads did this to Sora," Yugi said furiously. Claus didn't wait for anything else to be said. He briskly walked over to the seemingly dead body of Sora, picked him up, and carried him to Zack.

"Damn…that kid is strong," Axel said in disbelief. The four teens walked out of the bathroom and went straight to Zack's office.

"So you're back, huh, Claus? You need something or…holy god…" Zack trailed off, looking at Sora. Zack got up quickly and gingerly took Sora from Claus, placing the brown haired teen's limp body on the same bed that Claus was on.

"Is he gonna live?" Claus asked, concerned for his friend. Zack furrowed his brow.

"For now, he needs to be patched up really well. I'll bring in someone else in to take a better look at Sora. But, he should live," Zack confirmed as he got some medical supplies.