So, while I'll try to keep the major events in worlds intact, I'm not going to to stress the minute details and order of events. There will be a strong accuracy but if you spot a slight inaccuracy, please don't crucify me. Or do, but make it count. Also in the middle of watching and reading High School DxD as that is what has the most requests for next world. There's a few already in queue, so don't hesitate to throw in your own suggestions!
Sora threw himself over Shinji as an explosion went off near them. He was about to put up a reflect spell when he noticed a car drifting in front of them, blocking the heat from the blast. A woman in a black dress with fair skin and purple long hair tapped down her shades and motioned for them to get in.
"Shinji Ikari?" she asked.
"M-miss Misato?" Shinji responded.
"The one and only." she grinned. Her smile fell when she looked to sora. "Why aren't you in the evacuation facilities? Whatever, there's no time. Both of you, get in!"
Both of them got in, with Sora in the back seat. Misato took off like a bullet away from the destruction the Angel was doing to the city. Once on a relatively quieter road, Misato addressed Shinji.
"So, for a kid who has seen what you have today you sure don't ask many questions." she noted.
"Well, I-I just do as I'm told. I find that things go easier that way." Shinji answered.
"What about you in the back? I didn't know Shinji was bringing friends." Misato said to Sora.
"Well actually, I kind of just got lost I guess? We just met today, but yeah we are friends. I was about to make a run for it with Shinji when you pulled up. Totally cool drift by the way." Sora said easily.
"You were willing to put yourself in harms way for someone you just met that day? Wow, ballsy kid. And yeah, I'm a pretty good driver." Misato boasted.
"So um…" Shinji piped up. "A-are we going to see my father?"
"Well, yeah. He called you here after all. Don't you know what he does?" she asked.
"No. All I know is that he left me alone." Shinji muttered.
"Your father is the leader of Nerv, an important organization. But, I guess you don't like him much. I guess we have that in common huh." Mistato said somberly.
Sora just sat back and took in the exchange, trying to follow Lilith's advice to let things play out. They reached a complex and it was a long way down with trains and freight elevators. Along the way they got a view of what Misato called the Geo Front, an underground haven for life and Nerv. A world beneath the world. Finally, Shinji noticed they were going in circles and called out the fact that they were lost.
"Uh...Miss Misato, a-are we lost?" he gingerly said.
"We aren't lost! I just haven't gotten the full lay out of this place yet!" she defended.
Sora just sighed. He was keeping the hands off approach, but he was also trying to figure something out. Since coming to this world he hasn't felt much of his power, as if it was gone. He was initially alarmed but noticed that something else was there where his power used to be. His thoughts were interrupted as the doors to the elevator they were on opened revealing an attractive blonde in a swimsuit and white lab coat.
'Weird combo but it's someone's kink' Sora thought to himself.
After a stern reprimand to Misato the blonde name Doctor Ritsko Akagi led the group to where they needed to be. It was a dark room and Sora felt something off about the place. The lights flicked on to reveal they were in a huge hanger, with an equally huge humanoid machine held up by it. It was purple with a menacing face that had a horn shooting out of the top of it's head. That's all that could really be seen, but Sora could sense it. The heart within the machine. There was a human trapped inside of it, and Sora realized this must be one of those machines Lilith told him about. He overheard Shinji talking to his dad, being told he was expected to use the giant robot to defeat the angel.
'What a bastard' Sora thought as the senior Ikari told Shinji to either pilot the evangelion or to leave.
It didn't look like Shinji was going to pilot, and his father made good on his word, telling someone to go get a person named Rei.
"Rei."
"Yes?"
"The spare is useless. You will have to pilot."
"...Yes."
Sora walked up to Shinji and just gave him a hug. He knew that some people were just not fighters, and it isn't fair to have to fight when you just want peace. Life wasn't fair, he knew that well, but that didn't mean everyone just had to deal with it. It was okay to not want to. Shinji melted into Sora's hug, latching on to the kindness.
His father grunted and asked who he was.
"This is Sora. He is a civilian who I found with Shinji. He didn't make it to the shelters in time so I thought it best to bring him with me for his safety." Misato stated. She hated forcing Shinji to take on this great responsibility, and at the very least would make sure Sora wouldn't get in trouble for her decision.
"So be it." The leader of Nerv said, just as a blue haired girl was wheeled out on a gurney by some medics.
Sora instantly recognized the girl and couldn't stop a low mumble from coming out. "Lilith?"
Nobody heard him except and she filed that information away for later. Shinji stared at the girl as she bled through her bandages, clearly in no shape to even stand up on her own. He started to feel the weight of his cowardice, knowing that if he didn't fight, she would have to. This is of course exactly what his father wanted, to pressure him to pilot the evangelion. Suddenly an explosion rocked the geofront causing everything to shake. Rei was knocked out of her gurney and painfully hit the floor and Shinji rushed towards her, holding her up even as her blood stained his shirt. He stared at the blood, never having seen anyone else's and thought how wrong this all was. A large steel beam broke off from the ceiling right above him breaking him from his thoughts, and he thought he was going to be crushed. He closed his eyes but nothing happened, so he looked up and saw the giant purple machine had raised its hand on it's own to protect him from the debris.
Sora once again was stopped short from trying to cast a protective spell, and he wondered if he needed to actually do anything. Any life threatening thing must have happened before and Shinji still made it to the end, so maybe his knee jerk reactions would just make things worse. He saw Shinji staring at the giant machine that seemed to be staring right back. Shinji looked down at Rei who was cringing in pain, and then up to his father. Sora saw Shinji's chest fill with air as he shouted out to his father.
"I'll pilot! Please, father!"
His father smirked, and called the technicians to prepare Unit-01 for Shinji.
Sora was made to wait in a random break room while everything went down after Shinji got into the evangelion. They told him he was not under arrest or anything of the sort, but he knew that he still wasn't allowed to just walk around as he pleased. Unfortunately, he underestimated the underhandedness of Nerv. As he was just laying on a bench living his best life, a Nerv agent snuck in the room and got near him. The agent pulled out a handgun with a silencer attached and aimed right at Sora's head. The gun went off as dull as a hammer to a pillow, and Sora jerked. Only instead of the small gush of gore the agent expected, he saw a small orange hexagon appear where the bullet hit. The hexagon acted as a shield and stopped the bullet which was now crushed up against it, and Sora turned his head wondering what all the noise was. When Sora looked up his eyes locked with the agent's and they both lounged at one another. The agent was well trained, but Sora's speed was superhuman and the agent was run through by Sora's keyblade. Having killed the would-be assassin, Sora noticed his keyblade looked very weird. It was now made of bright orange light that formed the shape of his Kingdom Key.
"Well, Lilith did say Nerv was a terrible place. I'm not safe here, and I can't just destroy the place. Damnit, this complicates things." he said to himself.
The geofront was built like a fortress, with almost every door needing proper credentials to access. Sora searched the agent and took his ID card, gun, and shades for prosperity.
"Alright, time to get the fuck out of here and redraw the plan." he said, sneaking out of his room.
Ritsko was alarmed at the sudden pattern blue alarm that went off within the walls of the geofront, but it was gone as soon as it appeared. She couldn't just ignore it, but the angel currently beating Shinji to death was a more pressing matter. She heard Misato yelling out Shinji's name in tandem to the monitors showing the evangelion's cranium being breached. The visual feed they had showed unit-01 spraying blood from it's head where the angel had pierced through. Ritsko looked ruefully at the commander of Nerv, Shinji's father as he sat passively on his console above them all as if they didn't just blow their one shot to make it all work.
'Accursed man' she thought to herself. But as she was about to look away she saw a faint smirk work it's way on his face. 'What the hell are you smiling at!'
Suddenly the various monitors and graphs began to beep and shine. Unit-01 had miraculously reactivated itself, despite it being in every sense out of commission. The jaw of the machine unhinged from it's sealed state with a very beast like roar, showing giant white teeth. The unit ran into the angel, beating it back and grabbing it's arms, breaking them like twigs. The angel was knocked down and the machine began pounding into it, using the angel's own broken rib pieces to break into its orb. Sensing it's impending doom the angel decided that while it may not have been able to prove to its brothers and sisters that it was the best form of life, it could at least take down this great enemy so they would not have to deal with it. Such was it's hatred for Lilith and her spawn that the angel wrapped itself around the evangelion, and supercharged it's core and reversed it's A.T. field. The explosion that resulted knocked out the visual feed and leveled a large bulk of the city.
The people down in the command center of Nerv all held their breath as they waited for the feed to be reestablished. The commander simply held his grin, even as the feed came back on to show unit-01 walking through the flames.
His grin became a full smirk. "She's finally awake."
Sora made his way out of the geofront and made it top side. He only had to kill the guards at the very last exit doors, and he stalked about the dark streets of Tokyo-3. The fighting had died down some time ago he noticed, and it seemed like the city had not been repopulated yet. Sora followed the sound of heavy machinery and came across Nerv personnel dismantling the defeated angel. It was blown to bits, and by bits that meant chunks the size of cars. Sora was about to move on when a thought struck him.
'Wait, the red core thing is like the heart of the angel. Maybe I can use a piece of it to find out more about what's going on with my magic.'
Seeing a piece of the angel's core about the size of a fist across the way, he locked on with a flow motion connecting it with a nearby building ledge that would be out of the way. He dash forward in a split second, appearing for less than that to pick up the piece of red core, then dashed to the top of a nearby building out of the way of the Nerv workers below. Sora jumped away for a few more blocks and stopped finally to sit and focus on the orb. To his surprise, it felt exactly like a heart.
"You're so strange, you feel just like a heart. I wonder if…" he said, trying his best to link with the core.
He felt the core violently fight back, the few hundred thousand souls that resided in this particular piece of the core did not want him to intrude on their private space, and he even saw a small orange shield pop up in front of his face.
"Oh you don't like that do you? Well too bad.I want to know more about you and I will get into you whether you let me or not!" he told the core.
Sora struggled with the souls within, forcing his will over theirs and ultimately finding the only way to get into the collective heart of the core was to beat all the souls into submission. With that in mind, instead of trying to push against the souls, he pulled them all into his own heart.
Sora found himself in his Dive to Heart, but it looked different. It was now an endless plane of just dirt, with a grey sky filled with clouds. Around him the multitude of souls stood, almost human like in appearance. They seemed disoriented but quickly focused on Sora, as collectively they knew he dragged them in there and that he was the enemy right now. With a deafening roar they all changed him. Sora quickly summoned Ultima Weapon and jumped high into the air.
"Final!" he yelled.
As the light dispersed Sora summoned cyclones of fire to devastate the ranks of the red souls. They were weak, only having their numbers to boast about. He easily cut down scores of them at a time with each swing of his many keyblades. Eventually, there were no souls left.
Sora went back to the outside world and found the core to offer no resistance now. The souls were still present, they were just subdued now and allowed him to do as he pleased. So he poked and prodded until he found himself inside of the core.
Sora found himself inside of a vast red ocean. Surprisingly, he could breath in this water. He swam about, feeling the souls passively watch him and keep a short distance away from him. He didn't know where he was going, as far as he could see around him was just red. He went to summon his keyblade to propel him through the water but as soon as the souls saw the bright orange weapon they began frantically howling and moving erratically. Sora was alarmed at the stark change and readied for a fight. To his surprise, the water in front him began to crack as if it were made of solid glass. The crack grew and seemed to go on for miles until finally Sora felt his heart get pushed out by a tidal wave of force.
Now back in the real world, Sora quickly looked down at the red piece of crystal in his hand. Slowly it began to crack and red liquid leaked from them. After a few moments, the entire thing exploded into a gush of red water and dried into the air. Completely destroyed.
"What...did I do?" Sora asked himself.
He didn't know what this all meant, and he was no closer to figuring out what was up with his powers in this world. Frustrated, he kicked at the ground and decided to keep moving to find somewhere warm for the night.
Hikari Hokari was a young woman who was the class representative at her school for her classroom 2B. She had two sisters, a father, and a deceased mother. She was average looking, with plain brown hair split into long ponytails behind her head. She had brown eyes, with freckles dotting her cheeks and nose. She wasn't particularly curving like some of the other girls her age, but she could still hold her own during gym classes. She never let any perceived shortcomings bring her down though, because what lacked in outward appearance she more than made it for it with internal fortitude. She was steadfast and reliable with a strong sense of justice. She was also very compassionate and tried to view things from other people's perspectives to better understand them. Since her mom died she has had to pick up the role of maternal caregiver and she fulfills it very well, ensuring her sisters and father are fed and taking care of themselves. Her sweet nature was what stopped her as she made her way to school, because as she walked down the street she noticed a young man sitting against the wall of a building asleep.
'Is he homeless? He looks like he should be in school? Maybe he's just cutting classes?' she thought to herself, before deciding the direct approach was the best approach. 'Won't find anything out by just standing here.
"Excuse me? Sir?" Hikari said, gently tapping Sora's shoulder.
In an instant, she felt her face pressed hard against the wall and her hand bent into her back. 'Wha?"
"Who are you, who sent you?" Sora said, having put her in that position. He was pressed flush against her back and she could feel his hard body through their thin clothes.
"I-I'm Hikari! Hikari Horaki! I go to school just down the road, but I saw you sitting there and was wondering if you were alright!" Hikari said, her brain finally registering that she was slammed into the wall by the man.
Sora had reacted to being touched per his training with Yuffie. But as the fog of sleep cleared he realized there was no threat, and her story was perfectly believable. He let the girl go with a bashful chuckle. "Sorry about that, force of habit."
"I-it's okay" Hikari said whilst rubbing her sore arms. "Where did you learn to move like that? It happened so fast I didn't even realize until a few moments later."
"Well I've learned to watch my back, even when asleep. The world is a pretty dangerous place after all. I just reacted to being touched while asleep. I'm a light sleeper." Sora said to her.
"Interesting. Well, I still want to know who you are." Hikari said, regaining her origin focus.
"Oh! The name's Sora. No last name, before you ask. Just Sora." he said.
"Well, my name is Hikari Horaki. Are you a student?" she asked him.
"No I'm not a student. I'm just visiting family." Sora said, trying to talk his way out of this.
"But you're wearing student clothes, and you said you have no last name so you must be an orphan, what family are you visiting?" Hikari said, narrowing her eyes at him.
Sora silently sweat under her accusing stare, cursing that he was so bad at lying. 'I could just kill her and be done with it' he thought to himself, but almost immediately yelled at himself for thinking of such a thing about an innocent civilian girl. Plus, she was kind of cute. She felt warm to Sora for some reason. Still, she was currently grilling him. "Um, uh you see, these are all the clothes I have?"
"Oh no you don't buster, I've seen this game before. Whether or not I startled you is irrelevant right now because you're trying to skip out on school! Well I won't let you!" Hikari said, stepping closer to Sora.
"Well I'm being honest about having no family! I'm homeless, that's why I'm sleeping on the street." he replied.
"Hmph. Well, that may be true but you're still coming with me to school. If you don't get a proper education then you'll never get a good job and off the streets." she said, a bit softer this time. "Come on, we can get there early enough to talk to the principal and enroll you if you aren't already. I will help you with whatever you need."
Sora looked in awe as Hikari extended her hand out to him. He was completely floored by the kindness and light coming from Hikari at this moment. She was willing to trust him, a complete stranger, and help him get to a point that he could be self sufficient. She wasn't judging or blaming him or even letting out a bothered sigh. She was genuinely this kind. He felt something in the deepest part of his heart stir, something that had been dormant despite not knowing when it began to be so.
"Light…" he said, moved to tears. Hikari was so pure she could be a princess of heart. It painfully reminded him of Kairi from before his journeys ever began. Just her him and RIku on the island. Before things got so complicated. Before he felt his light slowly getting choked by apathy and jaded points of view. He cried, moved to tears as the nostalgia hit harder than an attack from Xemnes.
Hikari was taken by surprise when Sora pulled her into a hug and cried into her shoulder. She was a head and a half shorter than him so it was a bit awkward, but she let him do so. She was touched that he wasn't a macho man that didn't stifle his emotions, even if she didn't know why he was crying at this moment.
After a few minutes, Sora got off of her and wiped his face. He beamed one of his personal smiles at her, the one full of sun and light that he hadn't been able to give in a long time. She had to turn away to hide her blush.
"W-well, if you're feeling better now, we should be on our way Sora!" she said.
"Yeah sorry, I don't know what came over me." he said, and she could hear the smile in his voice.
"It's okay, tehe." she giggled, happy he was happy.
"Well, lead the way Hikari!" Sora said, walking off in the wrong direction.
"Sora! It's this way!"
Shinji had spent many days in a hospital bed. Upon choosing to continue piloting unit-01, it was arranged for him to stay with Misato. She was nice enough, but he was quickly over the microwave food and booze that was the welcome home party, and stayed in his room mostly. Today was the day he was to start attending his new school, and he sat in that very same school right now, in his class of 2B. He took a look around and saw that he was pretty early, as only a handful of people were present. Ayanami, the blue haired girl he saw when he first arrived, wasn't present. He knew they had the same class, though not where she sat yet. The rest of the students seemed to be minding their own business, but there were two that caught his eye. Mainly because one of them was staring him down, and the other was fretting over the other.
The boy staring him down was tall, a head taller than himself, and wore a dated dark tracksuit. He looked beefy and if looks could kill Shinji was sure he would be a puddle of blood on the floor. The other boy was a bit shorter than Shinji, with large glasses and a recording camera on his desk. Shinji was wondering what they could want with him, when a familiar voice caught his attention outside of their door.
"Well how was I supposed to know that door was a sliding door?!"
"Sora every door is a sliding door! Where the hell have you been all your life?!"
'Hikari and Sora? Sora!' Shinji thought to himself happily. He had missed Sora, the only person to show him kindness in a very long time.
Shinji got up to go follow the voices and find Sora, when the kid in the tracksuit caught his attention with a yell.
"Hey new kid! I want to see you outside during lunch. Do not miss it." he said threateningly.
Shinji was afraid of the forceful nature of this boy, but decided to ignore him in favor of going after Sora.
"That little! He snubbed me! His ass whooping is going to be so much worse now." the boy said to himself.
Hikari and Sora now stood before the principal, waiting to hear if the school had any records of Sora. Of course Sora knew they wouldn't, but he gladly humored Hikari who just couldn't believe he had never been to school.
"Sora, I'm afraid there are no records of you ever attending any school anywhere. What have you been doing all this time?" the principal stated.
"Well, since my parents died I've been on my own. Raised by wolves, living off the city. That kind of thing." Sora said, thinking he was on a roll.
"There are no wolves left…" Hikari stated.
There was a slight tension in the room before the principal sighed. "Sorry Miss Horaki but I can't just let a person we know nothing about into our school. There is a safety concern."
Hikari went red at the face before reeling in her anger, but spoke with no less afront. "Safety concern? Sora lives on the streets! There's blood on his shirt, he reeks of gunpowder, and he has never been to school apparently! The only safety concern is for him, not of him. He needs our help, please Sir."
"Now I'm sorry but the answer is no." the principal said, firm in his decision.
Shinji was surprised at how loud Sora and Hikari were, but was grateful for it because it made following them easy. He ended up facing the door to the principal's office, and could hear Hikari talking loudly. He could make out that she was mentioning Sora's name multiple times, and entered.
"P-pardon the intrusion." Shinji said, shrinking that all eyes were on him now but smiling when noticing one pair of those eyes belonged to Sora.
"Shinji buddy! You're alive!" Sora said, walking over to him and hugging him.
Shinji let himself be selfish and enjoyed the hug without breaking it. "S-so you will be attending this school now? I just got transferred here myself. I'm glad you'll be here."
"Well that's what we were trying to do, but the principal won't allow it." Hikari said, clearly flustered that the principal wouldn't budge on this matter.
"W-what? Why not Sir?" Shinji asked, finally walking out of the hug and facing the principal.
"Shinji Ikari! What a pleasant surprise! You start here today yes?" the principal said with forced joy. He was more or less told the Shinji would begin attending his school and was given quite the amount of money to make sure all was well while he studied there.
"Yes Sir. My friend was trying to enroll? W-was there a particular reason he can not?" Shinji said, disheartened at the thought of Sora not being around.
"W-well. You see, Sora isn't really the type of student we cater to here…" the principal said.
"Oh…" Shinji said, depression thick in his tone.
The principal could already feel the funding slipping away, and so quickly changed his attitude. "B-but you are one the esteem saviors of mankind, I'm sure you are a fantastic judge of character. If you think he would be a good fit then by all means, he can attend." the principal said, hiding the bitter taste of being a bitch in the back of his throat.
"Y-yes! Sora is a great person!" Shinji quickly said, and Sora smiled at him for the vote of confidence.
"Then it's settled. Sora, you may attend this school. Now where to put you…"
"Sir, it is at my actions Sora is here. I would like him to attend class 2B, so that I can keep a close eye on him." hikari said, glad to be getting somewhere.
"2B? No no that classroom won't do…" the principal said nervously.
"Please Sir, if it's all the same? It would mean a lot to me." Shinji said, taking a chance and playing the hero card.
'Damn kids don't know anything about anything…' the principal thought to himself. "Fine. Fine fine, but I am holding Miss Horaki personally responsible for Sora. he will be your classmate. Take good care of him."
"Woohoo! Thanks guys, you're the best buds ever!" Sora said jovially, pulling Hikari and Shinji into a hug.
They both blushed and smiled at him.
"Now go, classes will be starting soon." the principal instructed them, shooing them away and out of his office.
Misato was having a bad day. She just got done all of the paperwork she had to do, when she got a report of three dead agents. One killed by unknown means, and two killed by a gun of a caliber issued to their unit. As head of Tactics and Combat she is by default in charge of security, so these were her men. She may have just started working at Nerv, but it was very concerning that a murder happened right under their noses even if it was during an angel attack. She began to review the available footage and was shocked at what she saw. The techs hadn't had a chance to enhance and splice the footage, but she clearly saw what was happening.
Sora, the boy she brought with her, was essentially detained on the Commanders orders. An agent approaches silently to kill Sora. Then it happens. An A.T. pops into existence and protects Sora from the bullet fired by the would be assassin. Sora notices the agent, and runs through him with a strange orange blade, quicker than the camera frame rate can pick up. She sees Sora ransack the agent, and make his way out of the compound and he is eventually confronted by two guards. It seems she was the only one who didn't get the memo to kill Sora, because upon seeing him the two agents immediately begin shooting at him. Sora jumps and spins in the air, expertly shooting both of them between the eyes. Then he ran off into the town, out of the camera's view.
Misato was floored by what she saw. The kind of training needed to make such perfect shots was top of the line, and there is no accounting for the inhuman speed he moved at. All of that isn't even scratching the surface of the possible A.T. field. Misato sat and rewatched the footage multiple times before being satisfied that she had seen everything there was to see in them. She then picked up the phone and dialed her friend Ritsko who she knew would still be working.
"What do you want Misato?"
"Well hello to you too. I'd think you'd be a bit more chipper seeing how we beat the first angel."
"We didn't beat the angel, the Eva beat the angel. Not us nor Shinji had control of the eva's actions after it deactivated."
"Well...I guess. Who did then?"
"Exactly."
"Oh. I guess that is kind of off putting."
"You think? I'm the head of several departments all having to do with the Eva and I still don't know everything about it."
"What is the Eva then?"
"Look, I know you didn't call to play therapist. What do you need Misato?"
"I got my hands on the footage of the murders earlier."
"Oh the one with Sora? Quite fascinating isn't it?"
"I need to know Rits. Is that an A.T. field he is using?"
"All signs point to yes. But he himself isn't an angel, or at least the Magi didn't register him as anything but normal. I am investigating further, but as you well know he is long gone. The commander has put a kill on sight order on him."
"Really? But he's just a kid!"
"Really? Just a kid? He killed three highly trained agents in the world's most secure facility."
"Well, we started it. I saw the way the first agent approached him. He was to be assassinated. Only one person has authority to order the goons around other than me."
"...You should think before you say something you'll regret."
"I didn't say anything, I'm just thinking how the commander expects anything less than a full assault squad to take down a kid that can use an A.T. field."
"A valid concern. But let the grunts worry about that. We have the angels to deal with soon, and you have to keep our mentally unstable pilot stable."
"Ugh don't remind me. What was I thinking trying to take care of a child? I can't even take care of myself, why didn't you stop me!?"
"Now now, the bed is nice and comfy. Lay in it."
"Bleh. I hate you sometimes."
"Love you too. Now I'm getting back to work. If you're done your paperwork you should go get rest for the both of us. It only goes downhill from here…"
"If ya say so. Love ya Rits. Don't forget to masturbate." The line goes dead.
"...One day I'm going to fuck the purple right out of that hair of yours."
Sora was seated next to Hikari in class, to her left. Shinji convinced Hikari to rearrange his seat so he was to the left of Sora himself. They still had a few minutes before the bell rang, despite the principal making it seem like they needed to rush. They idly chatted with each other, talking about their likes and dislikes when the tall jock from earlier came up to Shinji's desk and slammed his foot on it, startling Shinji.
"New kid, didn't forget what I told you did I?" he said.
"Toji! Why did you kick Ikari-kun's desk?" Hikari said, miffed at the rudeness displayed by her classmate.
"What, me and Shinji are pal's, right Shinji?" Toji said, putting his hand on Shinji's shoulder and discreetly squeezing painfully.
Sora knew a bully when he saw one, and got and gripped Toji's forearm incredibly hard, forcing him to let out a yelp of pain and letting go of Shinji. "If you ever hurt Shinji again, I will rip your jaw from your face and feed it to you."
"Whoa other new kid, what the hell is your deal?! You wanna go!?" Toji said, shaking his arm after Sora let go.
"Both of you settle down!" Hikari screamed at them.
Toji faltered but Sora was not fazed. "He was gripping Shinji's shoulder to hurt him. As class rep you can't just let it slide."
"Is this true Shinji? Did Toji just hurt you?" Hikari said, an uncertain tone in her voice.
Shinji looked at all the eyes staring at him and began to panic. 'I-I'm nothing, no one should get in trouble because of me.' he thought. "N-no, I think his hand is just a little big, it was just heavy."
Toji grinned, ignorant of Sora's death glare. Hikari just sighed and told him to go back to his seat because the bell was about to ring.
"Don't forget, lunch time Ikari."
Shinji just gulped and Sora rolled his eyes.
"Shinji, if that guy so much as breathes at you wrong I'll beat the snot out of him!" Sora reassured him.
"O-okay. Just don't get in trouble f-for me. I'm not worth it." Shinji said, looking down at his desk.
Sora was about to retort when Hikari stood and yelled at the class.
"Stand! Bow! Sit!" as the teacher walked in.
Sora was delighted to find that the desks all had electronic pads in them that allowed internet access and for the students to talk to each other.
He sent a warning to Toji, who snorted loud enough for him to hear.
'STAY AWAY FOR SHINJI OR ELSE'
'Or else wHat nEw kid i'LL beat you too!1' was the reply.
Sora smirked and made himself content with waiting for the fated lunch time encounter. As he let class drone on, his thoughts went to his friends back home, and how they were doing. This far away and back in time, his connection to them was weak enough that he couldn't really check on how they were, only verify that they were still alive. He was glad he could at least know that fact, it helped keep his worries down a bit.
He looked over to Hikari who was diligently taking notes. Usually he wouldn't spare a second glance on such a serious girl, but she reminded him of Aqua a bit. A serious person with a kind personality to balance it out. Sora idly wondered why no one thought it weird that a seventeen year old guy was in a class full of fourteen year olds, but decided to just let it ride. Stranger things were seen everyday after all. Finally, the lunch bell rang, and Sora turned to see Toji give a menacing smirk to the back of Shinji's head before walking out with his glasses wearing lackey trailing behind him.
