A/N: Well, time for the third chapter, in which I introduce Roxas and Sora's high school buddies. Also, I managed to work in the title of the story into the actual story! Try and find it, although it's pretty obvious.
Pairings: SoRiku, AkuRoku, Cleon SephCloud SephZack implied Zemyx
Summary: Sora Hikari thought his life was as bad as it could get. He was wrong, and getting kidnapped by a vampire was the first step in the wrong direction.
Disclamer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts and this is not done for profit. I also do not own any of the Ali Project song lyrics I use
Chapter 3: In Which a Boy Plays a Piano
~0o0~
"Sora! Hey Sora! Tidus to Sora, do you receive?"
"Soooooooooora!"
WHAM!
"Huh... Wah?
Where was he? Oh ya, class. He was in school, dead tired because he had left early, so he could avoid his family at breakfast. Not to mention hiding those stupid hickeys with make-up and putting Band-Aids over the small fang scars. Tidus was standing over his desk, holding a textbook that looked like it had regularly received abuse.
"Oh, finally Sora, I thought you were dead!"
"Go away, m'tired." Sora swatted at Tidus feebly before shifting to a new position. Tidus opted a grin not unlike the Cheshire Cat's, and slunk away.
Sora enjoyed a few minutes of blissful silence, before heated whispering reached his ears. He couldn't make it out, so he ignored it.
Mistake.
The sound of an electric guitar WAY to close shattered through his skull.
"JESUS CHRIST!" Sora shot out of his chair.
Sora looked up to see the new kid, Demyx, looking at him with a sheepish look and holding his fancy blue guitar. Tidus was busy laughing his ass off in the background.
"He leapt… like… ten feet in the air!" He managed to wheeze out in between laughs.
Sora, now wide awake, gave him the death glare he inherited from his mother. Tidus kept laughing, but Demyx gave a small 'eep.' Demyx cleared his throat nervously.
"Sorry Sora, he threatened to blackmail me. A-Anyway, Ms. Gainsborough (A/N: Did I spell that right?) wants you in the music room."
"What for?" Sora asked
"She said it was for the reci-"
Sora launched himself onto Demyx before he could finish the sentence.
"Not around everybody else, alright?" Sora said in a hushed whisper, his hand pressed over Demyx's mouth.
~0o0~
The music room was almost completely empty at the early hour, the only reason Tidus was even at school was the fact that he had extra blitzball practice with the tournament coming up. Most of the team was at school too.
Anyway, Ms. Aerith Gainsborough was a fairly young lady, and it was well known that many of the male students have a crush on her. It was also well known that her fiancé, a man named Zack, was a retired soldier of sorts and could easily snap any horny male student's neck who was caught looking at her funny.
Sora strolled into the room, yawning.
"Ah, there you are Sora." Said Mr. Gainsborough cheerily, "I was wondering if you could finish that piece you were showing me earlier before you had to go."
She gestured to the old piano sitting in the music room's far corner.
"Hmm, what happened to your neck?" She asked, sounding generally concerned.
"Oh, nothing, I just cut it a little, nothin' big." Sora said lightly, brushing off the comment.
He strode up to the piano and shuffled through the worn music sheets until he found the one he wanted. The aged piano bench gave a groaning protest as he sat on it.
"This one?" he asked, looking over at the music teacher. She nodded. With a deep breath he launched into the piece, his fingers dancing along the keys with unnatural grace and seemingly inhuman movements.
This was one of his most closely guarded secrets, him playing piano, that is. So far only his mother, Roxas, Ms. Gainsborough and a few of the music students knew. He was always gifted when it came to playing the piano, and when he had finally gotten proper training, he easily surpassed all of his teachers in skill.
It was so embarrassing. Do you know what people would think if they knew Sora, class clown, was giving the music teacher piano tips?! He would loose his entire image.
As he finished the final sheet, Ms. Gainsborough began applauding.
"Brilliant as usual, Sora! I still don't see why you won't join the band. We would win for sure if you played for us. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. With your talent, you could become a professional."
It was like she could read his mind!
"Thanks, Ms. G, but I just don't want to. Playing the piano is just a hobby for me." He rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.
"All right, but I'm not giving up on you just yet."
Sora just walked out of the room, giving her a wave goodbye.
"Hmm," she mussed, "those cuts on his neck… couldn't be…"
~0o0~
Sora ran back to homeroom just as the bell rang. All of the students had already arrived and most were chatting with their friends. Roxas was there too, chatting with the other new kid, a bizarre looking guy with the brightest red hair Sora had ever seen and facial tattoos. Tattoos under your eyes? Man that had to have hurt.
Roxas and the new kid (what was his name… Axel or some other car part?) had really hit it off. They almost always hung out together now.
Anyway, back to the task at hand, getting to his seat before Roxas noticed him.
~0o0~
"Wait Roxy, ya lost me. Why're you mad at Sora again?"
"Don't call me Roxy." Roxas snapped, "And I'm mad at Sora because he cam home at four a.m., staggering like a drunk person and with at least five hickeys on his neck, that he didn't even know he had! Failing the SAT's was bad enough! I didn't think he was THAT upset about Kairi dumping him!"
"Did any of the hickeys look weird to you? Like they were cuts?"
"Now that you mention it, two did look like scabs… but why are you asking me this anyway?!"
"If my intuition is right, Sora might have something bigger to worry about than getting into collage…"
~0o0~
When the day was finally over, Sora just wanted to die. Avoiding Roxas all day was proving to be a chore. He even had to wait after school for several hours just so he could get home after Roxas left for his kendo practice!
He was lounging on the couch, watching an old vampire movie, enjoying the two hours he had before his mother got back from work, when his cell phone went off, the techno beat scaring the crap outta him. He picked it up.
It was his mom. She rarely called him on his cell unless she needed something. He flipped it open.
"Sora, honey?"
"What mom?"
"You're still grounded, but I need you to run out and pick up some things from the supermarket."
Sora glanced out the window. It was just starting to get dark. If he ran, he could get back home before it got too dark.
"Okay, what do you need?"
"I just remembered we're out of toilet paper."
Ah, that WAS a necessity.
"'Kay, I'll be back before your home."
"For the sake of your future children, you'd better be."
Sora grabbed his wallet from the kitchen counter and rushed out the door as fast as he could.
A/N: So anybody catch the title? Oh, and does anybody know the reason I chose the piano? Well, I'll tell you. It's a pun. Sora's the KEYblade master, and pianos have KEYS too! Get it? Yep, that's seriously why I chose it. Oh, and my dad was the one who recommended toilet paper, I didn't think of it.
Also, I lied, Riku will be appearing next chapter!
