A/N I will post ages for everyone introduced in each chapter before the actual chapter here.
Sora 18
Kairi 17
Riku 19
Chapter 1: And so it all begins
Its three days before the school year at Destiny High starts. Registration was yesterday and for Kairi and Sora that meant "One more year of this hell hole." They sighed in unison, then laughed at their like-mindedness.
They were sitting on a crooked Paopu Tree branch on the Island they used to visit regularly as kids, and they thought for old time's sake to go visit the Island. Watching the sunset, they sat in silence.
However for Sora the sunset was more than just the beautiful scenery at which paired by the sky's grace. It was the perfect chance to acknowledge his best friend, childhood friend and crush in what he determined as the perfect lighting. He admired the way the sun's current lighting made her lightly tanned skin glow. She was 5'6", and she was wearing a pink with purple striped bikini which allowed him to take in her petite, fit figure she had earned from being a cheerleader. Her skinny, toned, long legs; her perfectly round, tight rear. As his eyes were roaming upwards along her figure he also took in her tiny arms that he could probably wrap his hand around, and her c-cup breasts that looked like they were about to burst her bikini top wide open. Oh how he hoped they would so he could… 'Whoa! Sora focus.' He thought to himself, lost in his offset thought. He admired the shine coming from her dark red, almost maroon like colored hair. As she turns to look at him from the side he found her beautiful cerulean colored orbs, shimmering brightly almost like it was for him. He roamed his eyes downwards noticing her cute little nose and two diamond studs in her ears, but quickly noticed she was smiling at him. That smile, from those moist pink lips he yearned to caress with his own. Her best feature by far in Sora's opinion is her glistening smile that he would do anything if it meant she would never lose her smile.
Kairi and Sora were just staring at each other as if staring into a new light, and neither of them even realized they were staring nor could they look away or say anything, completely entranced in one another. Unbeknownst to Sora, because he was a little pre-occupied, or "alotta" pre-occupied, Kairi was actually returning the favor. Kairi didn't know what came over her or why she couldn't stop staring. All she knew was that Sora was hot, and not just because it was 92F (33C) outside and they've been running around all day. Playing in the sand, splashing around in the shallow areas of the water, or just chasing each other.
Sora was 6'2" standing and… 'Is that water or sweat?' Kairi thought to herself, but either way his skin had a typical sun tan, and was shining, almost godlike to her due to the sunlight being emitted. She noticed the two tattoos he had obtained after his 18th birthday. One was a set of dog tags on his right peck with 2 year of birth to year of death dates on top of each other under the dog tags in remembrance of his parents who died in the military. Then there was his crown tattoo on his right arm up near his shoulder. His shoulders were perfectly aligned and toned, along with his arms which weren't over the top big, but they were noticeably big. Her eyes drifted lower, and as she did she admired the six pack he developed some time along the years of basketball and just constantly being active. In this lighting though she found them almost 'edible.' He was sitting on the branch with his right leg dangling and his left was up towards his chest, foot on the branch. Which in turn allowed her to take in his toned calves. Her eyes drifted back up to his face. The piercings he had wasn't much but was a major turn on. He had a piercing on the right side of his lip with a black full small hoop in, and both of his earlobes gauged to an eight with the silver half-moon ball end jewelry in. She always wondered if he used gel for his hair or not, because the way his brunette spikes stand is just unruly, yet she liked them regardless, and was actually one of her favorite things about him. She then stared into his eyes. She always loved that his eyes were her color cerulean.
Kairi instinctively bit her lip, which didn't go unnoticed by Sora. 'Uh-Oh' Sora thought to himself 'it's like a growing tumor that has a mind of its own, I can't let her notice! Quick Sora think of something!' he thought franticly looking for a solution while trying keep his composure.
"I knew you losers would be down here!" a long haired silverette shouted walking down the bridge towards them. The comment shook Kairi out of her day dream, and caused Sora to fall backwards off the branch onto his back. "Speaking of tumors" Sora grunted under his breath 'well at least now I don't have the fourth unwanted "visitor."'
"And what made you think we'd be down here Riku?" Kairi said a little more flustered then she meant. Riku had a bit of a bigger build than Sora, had a darker tan and was about 2" taller. He didn't have a six pack, but he did have toned abs, at least that's what Kairi could safely assume since they were hidden by his white tank top. He was also wearing his blue jeans and black Nike high tops, but she knew from the basketball games he had really toned calves. She did notice his gold and silver bracelet that was handed down by his father before he deceased.
"Hey, sorry for intruding on your guys' "peeping session". I just came to remind you of the party tonight, but I can leave and let you get back to staring each other down." Riku smirked, teasing his friends he's known since pre-k.
"Whatever dude." Sora said slightly agitated, a slight blush on his cheeks; Riku knew how Sora felt about Kairi, and given the circumstance she'd already be his.
However, "RIKU! You know I'm with Hayner, why do you think I would do something like that?" Kairi retaliated in a slight shock, a blush creeping upon her face, which went unnoticed by Sora, but not Riku as he's quite observant, Sora's a bit dense in these situations. Riku's seen Kairi eye Sora on multiple occasions since the beginning of junior year. Sora on the other hand has been in love with her, basically since the "cooties" stage ended in fourth grade.
"Oh yeah, speaking of asshole, who has he invited to his party this time?" Sora said venomously. He had never been invited to one of Hayner's parties, not that he didn't understand why he didn't, not like he cared much either. "Ow!" he said in mock hurt as Kairi punched him in the arm "meany head!" Sora said in mock angry baby talk and turned his head, crossing his arms while pretending to pout. Kairi giggled a bit while shaking her head. Sora smiled when he heard her giggle.
Hayner was a 5'11" football quarterback, usually always wore one of his Destiny High Football jerseys which was blue and white stripes for home games and white and blue stripes for away games. He always wore camouflage shorts when he wasn't playing, and green high top Converse. He has brown eyes, short straight spikes in his blonde hair, and was actually toned and slightly tanned.
"You do realize that the reason you're never invited is the same reason we lost that year right?" Riku said nonchalantly expecting Sora to say something sarcastic.
Flashback
Riku and Sora were both on the varsity basketball team since there freshmen year. They were that good and to the point that the other teams literally didn't stand a chance against them. They won the championships with zero losses their freshmen year. Sophomore year was no different except for the fact that Hayner confronted Sora about an hour before the game.
"Hey what's up Hayner" Sora said excited for their second championship win in a row. Hayner and Sora didn't have problems at the time.
"Nothing really" Hayner simply stated "I'm only here honestly cause my girlfriend's here cheerleading and begged me to come, but good luck. Destiny High could use another win." He said with a grin.
"Oh no joke? Who are you dating now? Bet she's hot." Sora said with a wink just poking fun and being friendly.
"I'm dating Kairi now, you know head cheerleader for us." Hayner said with a smile. Riku had just walked in on the conversation at this point. 'Uh-Oh' Riku thought to himself and looked at Sora, not pleased with how his best friend looked at that point in time.
Sora felt like his stomach just dropped. He was going to ask her out after they won the championship again, but now he thought 'why bother.' "So, you and Kairi huh?" Sora asked depressed but trying to hide it.
"Yeah dude! Pretty sweet right? I mean I am the QB for the football team, and I scored a nice piece of ass as such." Hayner stated arrogantly smiling. Sora's eyes furrowed. Riku's eyes furrowed and looked at Sora. Sora was clenching his fists hard, so hard Riku could see the white in his knuckles. Then Riku's eyes widened as he saw Sora's arms gearing back 'SHIT!' Riku thought as he tried to stop Sora but was too late. He was too fast.
The next thing Hayner saw was black. Sora had knocked him out cold with a single punch straight to the nose, his nose was definitely broken. There was blood all over his face and on Sora's knuckles.
"SORA!" Sora flinched and turned towards the voice. "Coach Ventus! I…" Sora was cut off "I don't need to hear it. I already heard it all. You let that asshole bait you, and now I have no choice, you know the rules."
Coach Ventus was around ten years older than Sora and had been coaching for 4 years now. He was clean cut, short spikey blonde hair, around 6'1", and had blue eyes. He had a fit build, black shorts, black running shoes, and a blue 'Destiny High Basketball' T-Shirt on. Ventus wasn't really tanned but his skin was naturally darker.
"But coach…" Sora was cut off again by a dismissive hand gesture "Go. You're off the team" Ventus said regretfully. Sora turned around simply said "fine" and left the premises.
Ventus heard a slight chuckle from his side. He turned towards the voice "what the hell are you laughing about. I just kicked one of our best teammates off the team and you think it's funny?" "Not that" Riku replied, he took a deep breath to regain his composure "I swear Sora's fist went through his face." Ventus scoffed lightly in a humorous tone, and smirked a bit "Get the hell out there and win this Riku" "You got it coach."
End Flashback
"Yeah but it was fucking worth it." Sora responded coldly. 'He still hasn't let it go' Riku thought to himself while shaking his head.
"I never heard the reason why you were kicked off the team, what happened?" Kairi asked curiously. Hayner never told her about the incident that took place, instead he lied and told her that he was visiting some family out of town when in actuality he was in the hospital that night, and recovering over the weekend. Sora didn't tell her because he didn't know how to approach her about it nor did he want to impeach on her happiness, even if it made him miserable. Riku never told her or even hinted at it because she essentially was the reason he was kicked off the team, just through a third party, and it was really none of his business to tell anyone, he had more morals than that. Despite the fact he's told Sora to tell her about the incident, but Sora just shrugged it off, and his usual response was "no reason."
"Tell you when you're older" Riku and Sora replied in unison. Kairi being a few months younger than Sora and a year younger than Riku, was annoyed by their response. The boys laughed while Sora was putting on his black hoody tank and white DVS skater shoes, and Kairi huffed in annoyance while putting on her white shirt that hugged her body, black leggings, pink skirt that went down mid-thigh, and her black and purple DC high tops.
While walking their path towards the boat, Kairi just couldn't let it go. "You know its real fucking annoying that I don't know why one of my best friends was kicked off the team" She spat out. Angry and annoyed that she has known about this little secret for over a year, but never knew what it was.
They approached the docks where the boats were tied up but instead of taking both boats that were there, they just hopped into Riku's leaving Sora's behind. "Trust me, you don't want to know" Riku stated. Kairi looked over at Sora, and she could swear at that very moment he mouthed the words "punk bitch." Which he did, Sora was deep in thought whether or not he should tell her what really happened, what Hayner had said about her, and even how it made him feel through the whole conversation that he and Hayner had that night.
Sitting in the boats, Riku began to paddle the boat along as Sora was just staring into the distance, deep in thought about that night and what he should do. Kairi was staring at him 'I've only seen him like this once before, this must've really affected him'. She reached over toward him hesitantly. Sora's thoughts were disturbed by a hand resting on his. "Sora? Was it really that bad?" She asked, trying to obtain some sort of answer from what happened. Sora opened his mouth as if he was going to say something, but instead closed his mouth, looked down at the deck of the boat, then raised his head and looked out into the distance.
Riku, reading his friend like a book knew what Sora was thinking. "Heh, could've been worse, but for him it's like a fucking mind game. Does that satisfy you as an answer for now?" Riku said in a tone that was kind of rude but got the message through to Kairi that Sora didn't want to talk about it and it wasn't Riku's place to tell anyone. "Not really, but I guess it will have to do." Kairi responded disappointedly.
Kairi felt a warm breath on her neck and the whispered words "I'll tell you soon, I promise" coming from Sora. Kairi looked at Sora in the eye and smiled slightly. 'That damn smile, even when she's faking it she's adorable.'
'What should I expect when he tells me?' Kairi thought to herself 'It's clear he got into a fight, that's obvious. But with who? Someone close to Hayner since Sora and Hayner don't get along?' Her thoughts were interrupted by the contact of boat and land throwing her head forward a bit.
"We're here, let's get going. Roxas and Vani are probably already there" Riku simply stated. "Oh! They did walk though, so Sora? You're gonna have to drive us home."
"Great! An all-night party for you guys, sounds fun. So what time should I come get you three?" Sora retorted sarcastically. He wasn't too thrilled about the idea of being home alone tonight, and especially wasn't pleased with Kairi spending the night at her asshole boyfriend's house.
Kairi smiled and innocently waltzed over to Sora, and locked her hands around him, leaning back while using him, and her left leg for stability from falling back so she could look him in the eyes with a pleading gaze. "Sora? You're coming with us right?"
"HAH! Yeah sure, if you can get the ok from Hayner for me to come, and get him to keep his distance from me then sure. I'll go happily" Sora retorted thinking he'd won.
"OK!" Kairi exclaimed excitedly. "By the way…" Kairi started saying as she was walking to his car 'damnit! Did she just?...' Sora thought to himself. "…Done and done" Kairi said with an evil smile.
'She… she did, she talked to him ahead of time didn't she?' Sora thought to himself. "You sneaky little punk" Sora stated and Kairi giggled a little "I'll get you back for that." "Oh yeah! How so?" Kairi asked as the group had approached Sora's car.
Sora's car was a 2001 BMW M3 GTR Coupe (E46). It was painted black with gold trim and red tribal running down the sides. His rims were 5 spokes and colored dark red. The interior was equipped with side view race gauges, 2 bucket seats, grey with red trim, and an identical bench seat for the back. His dash was dark grey, and when he started his car all the lights on the dash were red. He even wired neon strips to illuminate a red glow on his floor boards. Sora's car was bad ass.
Riku opened the passenger side door, and put the seat forward while waiting for Kairi to get in. Sora saw this action and sighed, "Riku! What's my rule for shotgun?" Sora exclaims in a mock scold voice.
Riku sighs, "When a lady is present she gets shotgun by default" he repeats Sora's rule as he grunts muttered words under his breath while climbing into the back seat. Sora and Kairi couldn't make out the words, but his tone was enough for them to tell he was complaining. Sora and Kairi smiled and shook their heads.
"That should be common sense, but definitely manners" Sora jokingly states making Kairi giggle slightly.
As they all got into the car, Sora starts it up and pops it into first. The song that comes on was from Sora's playlist, Linkin Park 'One Step Closer.' Sora looks at Kairi with an evil grin "might want to brace yourself" he stated with a wink. 'Oh no, is he gonna do what I think he is?' Kairi thought and quickly grabbed the "Holy shit bar" and the center column for stabilization.
Sora puts down the parking brake and drops the clutch in one swift motion, and pulls off a burnout drift out of the parking while screaming "WHOOOOOHOOOOOOOHOOOOOOHOOOOO!"
A/N Here's the official first chapter of Hearts and Affects. Enjoy. Please leave reviews, favorite.
I did look up the Fahrenheit to Celsius as I know there will probably be readers who don't know.
Car Lingo for those who don't know.
Burnout=tires spinning at a rapid pace but the car is still stationary, or not going as fast as it should.
Drift=sliding sideways.
Popped into "1-6"=shifted gears.
Dropped the clutch=A racing technique used for launching manual-transmission cars, consisting of pushing in the clutch pedal, putting the car in gear, revving with the gas pedal to your desired launch point, and then instantly releasing the clutch pedal.
"Holy shit bar"=the bar often located above the door on the inside of the car on the passenger side for stability.
I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter. Things are starting off slow right now. But it will pick up.
