Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, Square-Enix does. Which is such a pity, because I could do so many interesting things with its characters... HAHAHAHA! *cough* *cough*
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Sokairi fic. Thanks everyone who reviewed, it meant the world to me! (thanks mishi, BubbleFairy03, Raserei Hojo and juzlovnsora! ^_^) So, as promised, here goes chapter 2. Enjoy! =)
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CHAPTER 2 - Weirdness and Friendship Walk Together
"Welcome. You must be the new student."
Sora gulped when he saw an entire classroom looking right at him. He wished they would look at something else; his nausea wasn't getting any better. Still, he managed to gather strengths and said, "Yes, I-I'm Sora." But wait, isn't everyone else here new too? Oh, yes, they have junior school here too, so he's probably talking about the ones who got in now...
The guy, who Sora assumed to be the teacher although he seemed very young - 22 at least - had an intimidating look on his handsome face. Sora also noted he had a scar from the right side of his face to the left side, right above his nose.
"I'm Professor Leonhart." he said, very seriously, the rest of the class still staring at them. "But you can call me Leon. By the way, nice first impression, arriving late on your first day," he added, making Sora feel even more embarassed.
"I'm s-sorry, I..." Sora began, but Leon interrupted.
"Don't worry. Just don't let that happen again. Now let's see... you can sit down there," he said, pointing to a desk at the back of the class. "behind Miss Kairi."
The girl in question was red-haired, and very pretty, Sora noticed. When he passed her, she flashed him a grin and he could see bright blue eyes just like his. And, for some reason, he felt his face get a bit hot, but he calculated it must have been that stupid uniform.
Professor Leonhart, or Leon, was the History teacher, and very strict. Sora made a mental note to himself to not do anything wrong in his classes. When Leon left the class for the other teacher to come in, Kairi turned to him and smiled.
"Wow, you have a cool name. Sora - it means sky, right?' she said happily. Boy, she has such a nice voice...
Sora kept looking at her pretty blue eyes, until she waved a hand in front of him and said "Hello, is anyone there?". He realised he was staring and quickly said "Oh-oh, sorry, yeah, it means sky. But I don't like it, though." Good Sora, what a great thing to say to a girl. That you don't like your own name. "But anyways, what does your mean?"
Kairi thought for a second and said, "I'm not sure. Something like friendship."
"That's really cool."
She smiled. She has a pretty smile too, Sora thought.
In the next minute, the Science teacher arrived. He was the weirdest teacher Sora had ever seen; he had long white-gray hair, and was really tall. His name was Sephiroth.
"So, you inferior humans, I mean, fellow students", he coughed a bit, and continued. "I'm here to teach you the wonders of Science, and prove that even maniacal crazy villains can RULE THE WORLD! HAHAHAHA!", Sephiroth sad, laughing uncomtrolably. When he saw the entire class staring at him, he added "Ahem, now let's start with the basics..."
The following classes were Mathematics, taught by a beautiful woman named Aeris, and English, taught by a serious blond woman named Quistis. Sora payed half attention to them; his eyes were more concentraded in the red-haired girl right in front of him. Kairi answered all the questions the teachers asked, and helped everyone. She's so kind, pretty, and smart...
He heard the school bell ring, meaning it was break time. Sora left the classroom and tried to find Riku, but he wasn't anywhere around, so he decided to eat somewhere and wait for him.
The only problem was, there was hardly any space for him to sit, for all tables had been taken. He spoted the table where Kairi sat - she was sitting with two other girls, one bouncy and brunette, the other with short dark brown hair and two eyes of different colors. They were giggling. Sora thought it was best not to disturb them, so he went outside the cafeteria.
Spotting a good empty place behind a tree, he sat there and took out his home-made cookies his mother had made for him. He loved cookies. But while enjoying his cookies, he didn't realise a girl coming from behind him and yelling "HEYA NEW BOY! WHATCHA DOING HERE????"
He was so scared he dropped his bag with cookies and was choking really hard. "Wha-what-cough-arg-cough-help-", Sora managed to splat out.
"Aw, sorry for scaring ya pal," the girl said, beating him very hard on the back. "Name's Yuffie. I'm in the same class as you - feeling better now?" she asked, watching carefully Sora recovering from the choking.
"Yeah, thanks..." Sora apologised, spotting his bag of cookies on the floor. "NOOO! My cookies..."
"Oops, they seemed really good indeed." said Yuffie, not feeling sorry at all. "Don'cha worry mate, for I'm here to solve all your problems." she added, grinning.
Sora eyed her carefully. She didn't seem like a person to be trusted - she had that mischevious look on her face he didn't like one bit. Thankfully, he heard a voice he recognised.
"Hey Sora! Sorry for being late," yelled Riku, running to meet him. He then noticed Yuffie and looked at her the same way Sora did before, suspecting the look on her face. "Who's this?"
"This is Yuffie, she's in the same class as me..." Sora introduced. "Yuffie, this is my friend Riku."
She held out her hand for Riku to shake. "What a pleasure to meet you, Riku." Riku accepted the hand suspiciously. The three of them heard the school bell ring again, meaning they should go back to classes.
"Sora, we have Physical Education now, so we don't have to go back up." Yuffie explained.
"Oh right, so, see you later Riku." Sora said, waving to Riku, who did the same and went inside the school building.
Yuffie went to the girls' locker room, while Sora went to the boys' one. Other boys were already changing into their gym uniform, which consisted of shorts and a white T-shirt. Sora found his locker and began to change. When he ended, there were only him and another boy of his class in the room. The boy had sandy-blond hair, and seemed like the esportive type.
"Hello," Sora asked. Making new friends wouldn't do any bad, would it?
"Hi there." he answered. The boy got up and introduced himself "I'm Tidus. You are Sora, the late guy, right?"
Sora felt a bit embarassed. He was now know in his class as the 'late guy'. Great way to start the year. "Yeah. That's me."
"Hey Sora, can you tell me something?" Tidus asked, and Sora nodded. "Did put my shorts on the wrong side?"
Sora found this a very weird question, and fighting the urge to laugh, he said "No, you didn't,why?"
"Are you sure? Because that happened once, and let me tell you, it wasn't good." he explained, going out of the locker room. Sora followed. "People kept laughing at me, and when I realised, half the school already knew. I was the joke of the entire school for a month."
"Trust me, it's not on the wrong side." Sora said, wanting to laughed and feeling pity for Tidus at the same time. It seemed like everyone he knew in that school was very weird - but then again, who cared?
Both boys headed to their P.E. class with coach Cloud. He was another serious type; if he and Leon were left in the same classroom alone, the silence would be bigger than two mute people trying to talk. Sora wondered if they were related in some sort of way.
But now he felt sure: that was certainly going to be an interesting year.
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A/N: Yay, chapter 2. Review this one too, please??? *puppy eyes* ^_^ I'll be eternally glad. Anyway, this was more of an introducing chapter than anything else, but it was needed, because Yuffie and Tidus WILL play an important role later on. And I made them really weird, because... I like weird people =D hehe. And Sora is starting to note Kairi, but will she note him? Let's hope so! Next chapter will be more Sora/Kairi centered (and a bit longer... I'm feeling these chapters are way too small, do you think so?). So, until then! Bye!
Tallis