Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts doesn't belong to me, and the characters belong to Tetsuya Nomura (I think... he designed them, at least) and I'm not getting money for this fic even though I wish I was, because that would make my life so much easier...and yadda yadda yadda
This is my fic... Please read and review, I love reviews! Oh, and by the way, if you like Kairi you won't like certain bits of the story... but please try and keep an open mind and read anyway. so... on to the fic!
It was a week before the end of school, and the classroom was filled with chaos. The teacher had announced to the class two days prior that he had finished teaching the curriculum, and they were too exited about the end of the year to actually learn anything, and, frankly, he needed to work on his shopping list because his wife had invited guests to come over during the weekend. At this the class had erupted with cheers, and the algebra 2 teacher pressed on. He told them that they needed to keep their voices at a reasonable volume so that they wouldn't disturb the classes that were still in session. Of course this didn't happen, but it really made no difference, since there were no classes that were still in session.
"Really, I don't see why they're even keeping us in school. It's not as if we're actually doing anything," muttered Riku. He and Sora were sitting on the radiators at the back of the classroom. Of course, the grill of the radiator was painful on the bum, but they were used to it by now. Sora sat with his legs swinging childishly, he was looking longingly out the partway-open window. Riku sat with his legs crossed and his back leaning lightly against the glass. His platinum hair caught the sun, making him seem as majestic as ever.
He waved his gloved hand around vaguely. "We could be swimming in the ocean right now. Instead were stuck in here with these…" Riku indicated the classroom with his hand, "…cretins."
One boy picked up another, and swung him around while one of their friends slapped his (the boys, not his own) butt playfully. Behind them another boy was arm wrestling a girl who was wearing a ridiculously short skirt. The girl was winning repeatedly. Farther away in the corner, unknown to the teacher, a group of students were playing strip poker.
Riku watched with apathy as a boy took off his shirt. Riku turned his cerulean eyes back on Sora when he heard his friend sigh loudly.
Sora met Riku's gaze, "I wanna go swimming," he whined. Riku laughed and ruffled his friend's already messy hair.
"And I want to kick Wakka's butt in blitzball."
Sora sighed, crossed his arms over his chest and looked back to the window, missing some guy get humped by two of his (obviously horny) friends. Riku glared at them, then turned to Sora.
"Class gets out in a minute."
"Yeah, so?"
"Well… didn't you say you wanted to go swimming?"
Sora looked down with a sigh. "Yeah… but you know my mom said that I'm not allowed to go down to the beach before the end of school…"
"I don't remember saying anything about the beach…" Riku raised an eyebrow and grinned after he said those words.
The bell rang and the two friends stood up; they walked out of the classroom side by side.
"Not the beach?" Sora asked skeptically.
"Nope, the pool," Riku replied innocently, not even turning his head.
Sora stopped. "The pool? What pool?" It took Riku a moment to notice that his shortie of a friend wasn't with him.
"You know, the school pool. I'll take you, if you're willing to skip Biology that is."
"I'm willing to skip Biology, but I'm pretty sure that the school doesn't have a pool." Sora caught up to Riku.
"Well, then I guess it's settled. We're going swimming!" The silver-haired boy grabbed his friends arm and dragged him down the hallway. At the end of the hall was a plain-looking door. Riku glanced around; when he was sure that no one was paying the two of them any attention he opened the door and dragged Sora inside. The door opened up to a set of stairs, and Riku urged his friend to go up.
"Where are we going?" asked Sora.
"To the pool on the roof."
"Riku! There is no pool on the roof! That's just a myth to trap unsuspecting freshmen!" Sora shook his head in pity. Riku had always had strange conspiracy theories, but this was going a bit far.
They finally came to another door at the top of the stairs. Riku paused and turned to Sora, on his face was a maniac grin.
"That's just what They want you to think!" Sora grimaced. "They." It always came down to "Them." Riku opened the door.
The pair walked out into the sweltering heat of the roof. Sora gasped as he saw a large pool smack-dab in the middle of it. He turned to Riku with wide eyes. "B-but..."
"You see, Sora, the faculty has a lot of secrets. By making this here pool 'a myth to trap unsuspecting freshmen' they have effectively kept anyone from finding out. And even if someone did find out, no one would believe them." Sora couldn't help but think that Riku sounded a bit insane, but was brought out of his thoughts when Riku poked him hard between the ribs. "Well? Are we going swimming or have you changed your mind?"
"But Riku, we don't have our swimming suits!" Riku only raised an eyebrow. "B-but Riku!" Sora turned beet red.
Riku had pulled off his shirt and was now unzipping his pants. "I don't see what the big deal is, Sora, it's not as if we hadn't seen each other naked." Of course he doesn't see what the big deal is, thought Sora, he has... questionable morals!
This train of thought was forgotten as Sora looked at the water longingly and decided that Riku was right. Riku was always right. Sora also began pulling off his clothes. He threw them to the side and jumped into the pool with the rather overused yell of 'geronimo!'
The water was a welcome relief from the sweltering heat, and the time flew by.
The lunch bell, only a faint sound to the boys on the roof, rang as Riku and Sora were playing a charmful game of let's-see-if-I-can-make-the-other-more-wet-then-he-already-is. So far it was a tie.
Sora looked up and blinked, he hadn't realized that so much time had passed. He turned to see Riku sliding out of the pool.
"Where are you going?" asked a puzzled Sora. Riku plopped onto a pool chair and turned his face up to the sun.
"I'm hungry, but I want to dry off before I put on my clothes."
"Awww... Come on Riku, don't be boring! Wouldn't you rather swim then eat?"
"Nope," was the calm response. Sora pouted, but this was completely wasted on Riku, who had closed his eyes. Sora contemplated splashing Riku with water, but when he remembered how much stronger and taller his silver-haired friend was, he decided against it. Instead he also got out of the pool and went to sit next to Riku. By this time Sora had gotten rid of any qualms that he had had about swimming naked in a pool on a roof with an equally naked friend.
"Hey, Riku, are we gonna come back here tomorrow?"
When he got no answer, he turned around to look at his friend. "Well, Riku?" His friend, who was very good at ignoring him. Sora exhaled loudly and drummed his fingers against the chair. He was bored with this in a matter of seconds. He stood up and went to his clothes. He wasn't dry, but he was bored!
"Are you dry yet, Riku?" he whined. When he, once again, got no answer he figured that his friend must be asleep. He walked over the silver-haired boy and poked him. "Hey, Riku, are you awake?"
Riku sat up with a start, then turned his cerulean eyes at the shorter boy in annoyance. "Geez, Sora! I swear sometimes you have ADD! Can't you amuse yourself for five minutes?"
"No, that's what I have friends for. You're supposed to be amusing me, Riku. And you're being booooring."
Riku sighed. He stood up and walked over to his clothes, but still took his own sweet time in putting them on. Sora bounced on the balls of his feet impatiently. Suddenly, something caught his attention, something bright and colorful.
"Look, Riku! A butterfly!" Sora chased after it, but stopped when he was at the edge of the pool. The butterfly flew further upwards and Sora turned his head to look at it. It started to flutter behind him, and when he leaned back to keep looking at it, he lost his balance.
Sora let out a strangled cry of 'Riku!' as he fell. Riku rushed forward to catch Sora before he fell into the pool, but had underestimated Sora's weight. They both plunged into the pool with a large splash.
The cafeteria went silent as two soaking wet boys came through the door.
"D'you remember when we were in elementary school, there were rumors that high school food would be better?"
"Yeah. I started those rumors."
Riku and Sora reached the lunch line and picked up trays.
"So that's why they weren't true!"
"Nah, they are true."
Sora looked at Riku skeptically. "How so?"
"In elementary they fed us rubber hot dogs, but now they feed us cardboard pizza. I don't know about you, but I would rather eat cardboard than rubber."
Sora put a piece of old and disease-ridden-looking pizza on his pink foam tray.
"I guess..."
Riku looked pointedly at Sora's tray.
"Plus, cardboard actually has nutritional value."
"Oh, 'cause it comes from trees?"
"Yeah"
They had reached the cashier, and Riku fished around in his pocket for a soaked bill, which he shoved at the lunch lady despite her obvious disgust. She took it by the corner and put it somewhere off to the side before giving Riku his change.
"What about rubber?"
"... That also comes from trees."
Riku leaned, almost posed,against the doorframe as he waited for Sora to pay.
Sora pushed Riku playfully. "Oh, come on, Riku. When we were five-"
"You were five, I was six."
They left the lunchroom and headed to their customary seat on the stairs.
"- you would always try to be all knowing. Whenever I asked you a question that you didn't know the answer to, you would answer 'it comes from trees'"
"So? I was right, most of the time."
Sora giggled. "I remember you told me that babies came from trees."
"That's because I didn't want to scar you for life! You really should show me some gratitude!" Riku replied indignantly.
"Hey, guys!" came an overly peppy voice in front of them.
Sora's eyes immediately glazed over and a goofy grin blossomed on his face at the site of Kiari. She ran up to them and threw her arms around Sora's neck.
"Sooooooraaaaaa! Oh, I missed you! Where were you? Why are you all wet?" she gushed.
Riku scowled. "Get your hands off of him you ugly, red-haired bimbo!" He grabbed Sora away from her, then turned back and growled. "He's mine, you slut!"
Riku blinked. "Hello, Kiari." He smiled pleasantly at her, but it seemed somehow lacking in emotion. Kiari had hugged a soaking-wet Sora, and now the front of her white tank top was completely see-through. Riku snickered quietly. Kairi was apparently wearing a majorly padded bra.
"Guess I was right, those weren't real," he muttered.
"What's that, Riku?" asked Sora. Riku shook his head, and the younger teen promptly forgot about it. Kiari took Sora's arm and led him to the stairs. Riku trailed dejectedly after. He sat with Wakka and started an empty conversation about blitzball. All the while Kiari was outrageously flirting with Sora who was flirting (shyly) back. Riku was pleased to note that Sora's heart didn't seem to be in it today.
Riku gave himself a mental pat on the back. Operation "Seduce Sora" was working perfectly, if a bit slowly. He knew that when he showed the pool to Sora it would get him at least to the second stage of the plan. He was now at the point where sexual tension would start to build up. Already Sora wasn't as interested in the ugly bimbo as much as he was before. Yessss... his plan was working perfectly...
Briiiinnnngggg
Briiiinnnngggg
Briiinnnngggg
Riku groaned and reached over to pick up the receiver. "Yeah...?" he asked in a groggy voice.
"Riku!" Sora's voice. "Riku, I'm so glad that I reached you."
"Eh...? Sora? What... what are you doing? It's..." Riku squinted to see his alarm clock. After a while he gave up and pushed himself up from the bed. "It's either really late or really early..."
"Riku, I need your advice-"
"I'm sure you do. But do you really need it now?"
"This can't wait, Riku, I have to solve this by tomorrow!"
Riku sighed. "Alright. What is it?"
"You see, I like this person..." Riku blinked and sat up straighter. Already? He didn't think that his plan would be so effective. ALRIGHT!
"And, I'm not sure if they like me back, I don't know what to do..."
"I think that you should just tell this person how you feel about them."
"Thanks, Riku! I'll tell Kairi that I like her tomorrow!"
The phone receiver fell from Riku's hand and made a soft sound on the carpet.
...KAIRI?
Strangely enough, that chapter took me a very long time. Oh, and there is a plot, it just hasn't happened yet... Please review!
