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Kingdom Hearts: A Story Retold

The Second Week

"Oh no I'm late!" Seth cried frustrated. It was Monday, Seth's first day of school, and he was late. He had woken up late and barely got to eat. He told Riku to go ahead of him so he wouldn't be late. Seth had managed to find the school alright but he couldn't find his classroom. His schedule in one hand and toast in the other he was flying down the halls to find room 125, his hair totally forgotten was flying behind him without the tie in it making him look a lot like a frantic girl if it weren't for his clothes. He was wearing cargo pants and a black t-shirt with the 8 elements on them in a circle opposite of there weakness and strength, his favorite shirt, Riku had bought it for him.

Finally room 125 came into view. Seth finished his toast as he entered the room. "I'm so sorry I'm late Miss Kari. I'm got lost!" Seth said as he burst into the room and bowed low in apology.

"Oh you must be Seth Wright!" she said looking up from the board she was writing announcements on. She was rather tall with long red hair and blue eyes a little wide in surprise. She turned to the class. "Class this is Seth Wright. She's new here so I hope you will all make her feel welcome," Tidus who was in Seth's homeroom chuckled when the teacher said she and Seth looked up at her in surprise and embarrassment. "Tidus! What's so funny?" she asked him angrily.

"Um, I'm a boy not a girl," Seth said blushing and then he realized his hair wasn't in its tie and it was covering his face. He quickly put it back into a ponytail. Miss Kari looked at him in shock and embarrassment. The class laughed loudly.

"Settle down class," she chastised. "Seth you can take a seat behind Tidus." She sat down at her desk and the morning announcements came over the PA system.

"Please have a seat ma'am," Tidus said smirking.

"Shut it," Seth said still embarrassed. Neither of them noticed the group of boys talking in hushed voices behind them.

Seth sighed as he sat down under the giant cherry blossom tree with his lunch.

"Tough day?" Riku asked as Seth sat down next to him. Riku wasn't in any of Seth's first four periods but he was in his last 3. All of the others were there too because this was always where they ate.

"Yeah. I got lost on the way to homeroom and was late along with most of my other classes. And Miss Kari thought I was a girl because I didn't have my tie in! And everyone made fun of me and I had no clue what Mr. Som was talking about in History because I just got here and don't know anything about Destiny Islands history and he's so boring! And Mr. Kakaro is even harder then Mr. Slaff, my old advanced pre-algebra teacher!" he sighed again and started to eat. All of them had heard about the incident in Homeroom except for Riku, who burst out laughing.

"She really did," Riku asked him trying to stifle his laughs.

"Yeah she did," Sora said, He also had Homeroom with Seth. Seth blushed.

"I still can't believe she did though," Kairi said looking Seth up and down while smacking a giggling Selphie lightly on the head.

"Its really not that hard to see he does look feminine especially with his hair down," a eerie voice said in Seth's ear as an arm wrapped itself around his waist and another pulled out his tie letting his hair fall down to his back. Seth gasped and quickly moved forward out of the grasp of the stranger.

"Give 'im back 'is tie Dan yah," Wakka said standing up and facing Dan. Seth looked over and saw a group of five boys. Dan stood and smirked.

"I don't think so. First let me introduce you Seth. This is Sam, Shawn, Jake, and John," he said, smirk still and place, as he pointed to his friends. Sam had blonde spiked hair highlighted red and what seemed like eyes that were a mixture of red and brown. He had a little tiny hoop earring in his left ear and was wearing a simple brown hoodie with baggie cargo pants. Shawn had dirty blonde hair that surrounded his face a bit, with brown eyes and a black element hoodie (A/n you know those skater ones) with jeans. Jake had unruly black hair and almost black eyes. He was wearing baggy black shirt and baggy black jeans. There were chains hanging from all of his pockets he had a spike necklace and bracelet on. John had red hair and green eyes. He had an earring and was wearing a beige hoodie and pants. Finally Dan had Black hair and steely grey eyes. He had both ears pierced and a skull hang from each one. He had a spiky necklace and wore the same kind of things as Jake though without as many chains.

"Give him back his tie," Riku said sternly as he stood up, hang outstretched.

Dan glared at him. "What are you his boyfriend?" Dan smirked as Riku stuttered out a no. "I'll give it back if Seth becomes my boyfriend," he looked at Seth seductively. Seth shuddered and hid even more behind Riku. Out of nowhere Sora jumped at Dan and grabbed the tie throwing it to Seth who caught it and put his hair into the ponytail. "Brat," he muttered under his breathe."

"Go away Dan leave us alone!" Riku said angrily.

"I know how about a competition?" he said ignoring Riku. "The five of us against you five," he pointed to the boys, "If I win then Seth becomes my boyfriend."

"And if we win then you'll leave Seth alone," Sora said angrily. He really hated Dan.

"It's a deal I'll meet you at Playa Island at 4:00," he motioned to his gang and he left.

"He's really creepy," Seth said and shuddered.

"Yeah but I won't let them win," Riku said confidently.

Seth looked down blushing a bit, "Thank you."

The last few hours of the day went by incredible quickly. Perhaps it was because Riku was in most of the classes and they were more fun classes. Or it could have been time's cruelness to make him nervous. Either way school ended, his homework was finished quickly, and Seth found himself and his friends waiting on the beach of Playa Island. Finally at ten after four they arrived.

"Your late ya," Wakka said critically.

"Oh hush you. OK here is how we will do it there will be five competitions. One with each of us. Whoever gets more out of five wins," Dan proposed.

"All right with us," Tidus said confident they would win.

"Good then I'll choose first. A race from the shack over to the star tree and back," Riku said.

They agreed and chose the runner. Jake would run against Sora. Kairi would judge it.

"Ok ready set go!" she yelled and the two ran off. They couldn't be seen from where the others were standing and they were waiting with bated breathe. Suddenly Sora came into view with Jake close behind.

"Go Sora you can do it!" Seth and Riku cheered him on.

"Yes I win!" Sora said proudly as he stood panting over the finish line.

"Ok then its my turn to choose," Dan said he was disappointed that they lost but he could make it up. "A Blitzball game. One on one first to five points wins," So they went over to the sphere on the island. Luckily it was open so they were able to get in.

"Let me do this one guys I'm great at Blitzball!" Tidus said excitedly.

"No way man I'm better then you," Wakka said pushing Tidus down.

"He's right Tidus sorry," Riku said. John was chosen from Dan's group. Seth really didn't know much about blitzball but he knew it was played in a water filled sphere. Oddly though you could breathe in the water and you didn't get wet. Wakka and John got in the sphere and soon the game started. Wakka managed to score two goals but soon was overpowered and lost to John.

"Yes hah! You will be mine Seth," Dan said seductively. Seth shuddered again.

"No I won't we will win!" Dan just smirked.

Wakka was disappointed that he lost but the group cheered him up.

"Ok a swimming race. And we pick Tidus," Riku stated.

"Fine then Sam your up," He nodded.

"OK first one around the island wins," Selphie called out.

"Ready set go!" Selphie called out and the race ensued. When they were out of site Sam had been in the lead. They waited with baited breathe on the shore. Dan and his gang were calm, confident they would win. Seth shifted nervously from foot to foot.

"Don't worry even if they do win I won't let them have you," Riku whispered into Seth's ear.

"Thanks," Seth whispered back. Riku pulled him into a comforting hug, once again Seth blushed, and soon they heard the splashing of two people swimming at their top speed. Everyone's heads turned in the direction and Sam was in the lead.

"Tidus you can do it!" Kairi screamed out to him but it failed as Sam walked up onto the beach.

Tidus slammed his fist into the water muttering darkly under his breathe. Dan clapped Sam on the shoulder. "All right then on to the next one challenge," Dan thought for a bit and Tidus ran up to the group his clothes sopping went. "A sword battle against me," he smirked again. Everyone but Seth new that Dan was very good with a sword. Seth and his friends went over to the side to talk about who would go.

"Only Riku and Seth can go," Sora pointed out.

"Riku you have to do it. I barely know how to use one sword let alone the two that you got for me," Seth said disappointedly. Riku nodded and headed to get his sword from the shack. Seth followed him.

"When this is over I'll teach you ok?" Riku said as Seth and he got to the shack.

"Really? You're the best!" Seth said excitedly. Riku smiled at him and grabbed his sword. The two slowly walked back to where Dan and the other were. Dan's sword was holding his sword looking extremely confident.

"The judge will decide who loses," Dan called from the other side of the beach. It was then Seth noticed another boy there. Seth thought his name was James but he couldn't remember.

"Ok ready set go!" James called out. Neither of them moved both waiting for the other to move first.

"Heh Riku will never win," Sam said.

"No way man, Riku will kick his ass ya," Wakka replied angrily.

"I doubt it," Jake smirked. Seth looked worriedly over to Riku.

Still the two stood there until Dan couldn't take it any longer. He ran at Riku his sword raised. Dan took a swing at Riku from up above but Riku raised his sword and blocked it. The two stood there for a minute until Riku removed his sword from the position it was in from blocking the blow and slashed at Dan in the sighed. The sword hit knocking the wind from Dan.

"Give up yet?" Riku smirked.

"Never," with that he smacked his sword into Riku's stomach and Riku fell to the ground on his back his legs curled up. Dan looked triumphant and Seth gasped audibly Seth's friends however didn't look fazed at all. Suddenly as James raised his hand to call out the winner Riku shot his legs out and leaped up hitting Dan squarely in the chest knocking his backward. Dan got up and the fight continued. The battle lasted for at least ten more minutes each blocking and landing blows. Finally Riku knocked him into a tree where Dan struggled to get up.

"Riku wins!" James exclaimed loudly. Dan's gang made a large outburst at James. However James's job was over and he quickly hightailed it out of there. Seth and the others cheered loudly.

Seth ran over to Riku and threw his arms around his neck, "You did it!" Riku blushed and gently pushed Seth off him as he was hitting his bruises.

"Oh I'm so sorry are you ok?" he asked looking at the bruise on his arm.

"Yeah of course this is nothing," Seth didn't really believe him but let it be just happy that they still had a chance.

"You were great!" Sora exclaimed.

"Ya the best man," Wakka said clapping his hand on Riku's shoulder. They all congratulated him at his excellent performance.

"Well there's still one challenge left and it has to be with Sean and Seth so you may not win which you won't," Dan said his friends supporting him.

Riku thought about the next challenge. It had to be something Seth was very good at. Reading and playing video games were probably Seth's strongest points. Since he couldn't think of anything to do with reading he decided on a video game challenge. But what game. Well that would be decided later, "All right whoever wins at a video game will be the victor."

Seth's eyes lit up. He was awesome at video games! Back home he would always beat Lauren and Drew and all the others. Unfortunately it seemed that Sean was good at this as he soon said.

"Why don't you just hand us the win I mean I am the best at video games," Sean smirked. The others looked worried since they had never seen Seth play a video game before and wasn't sure how good he was.

They all headed into their boats and went to Riku's house where they would do the challenge. Mrs. Brave wasn't there but she had left a note saying she had gone food shopping. The Gamecube and PS2 were both in the living room. It was rather large with a big television in the center on a stand with casing underneath it. A wooden table was in the center couches and an armchair surrounded them. Shelves adorned the walls with random knick-knacks.

Riku opened the casing and revealing the systems and a multitude of games. "Ok then how about Metroid Prime 2 Echoes. Whoever gets ten kills first wins," Riku placed the game in the console and pressed power. Sean and Seth grabbed a controller and the television was turned on. The start screen came up and the set the settings. They would fight in the Sidehopper Station arena. Seth was player one and Sean was player two.

The screen came up and the game began. They battled furiously trying to land hits on each other. However in the end Seth won spectacularly. He hadn't even taken a single point of damage the entire game.

"How could I have lost?" Sean yelled outraged. Seth jumped up, the others screaming in delight, and wrapped his arms around Riku's neck.

"Yay we did it!" He yelled slightly muffled happily into, the now blushing, Riku's neck.

"Yeah. Now you have to leave Dan!" Riku said as Seth let go.

"We don't have to."

"Yes you do it's my house," Riku pointed out. Dan growled and walked out his friends following.

"I think we had better be going too it getting late," Sora pointed out. The other's agreed and left saying good bye to Riku and Seth.

"I'll make some dinner. Mom's note said she'd be out and to make dinner for ourselves," Riku headed towards the kitchen.

"I didn't know you could cook," Seth said following him.

"Yeah but I'm not that good," They entered the kitchen. It wasn't very big but it very nice. It was rectangular with a sliding glass door leading to the backyard. The walls were a mix between a light and dark green but most of it was covered with cherry cabinets that had little silver round knobs for opening. The counters were covered in gray granite along with the small island. There were four stool chairs along one side of the island. There was a window above the sink and one next to the stainless steel refrigerator.

"Pasta sound good?" Riku asked. Seth nodded happily. Riku reached into the pantry and pulled out a box of pasta and a can of sauce. Seth got a pot out from under the cook top and filled it halfway with water. He placed it onto the cook top and turned on the gas. They talked for a bit and then the water started to boil. Riku put the pasta in and timed it for eight minutes. Riku added and the two ate in silence until Seth spoke up.

"Um Riku do you you know like Kairi?" he asked quietly. Riku stared at him questioningly.

"No of course not she's like a sister to me. Why would you think that," Seth relaxed a bit when Riku replied.

"Well she was flirting with you all day in class and yesterday to," Seth said in between mouthfuls. And this was true Kairi had been flirting unabashedly with Riku.

"I guess…" It was then that Seth helped himself to another plate of pasta. "Wow you eat really fast," Seth looked down a bit, "Not that that's a bad thing." Seth brightened up.

"Lauren used to say that a lot too,"

Lauren. Seth talked about her a lot. She seemed like a nice girl but Riku always felt a pang of jealousy whenever he heard about her.

"Seth?"

"Hmm?" he replied his mouth full.

"Was Lauren your girlfriend?" Seth swallowed quickly.

"No! Of course not she was my best friend," Seth said a little angrily, "Everyone said that it was so annoying,"

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to…"

"No I'm sorry I shouldn't have yelled," Seth said looking down. Riku smiled at him.

Mrs. Brave got home at six and the boys helped her put away the groceries. Seth was extremely happy that night but neither Mrs. Brave nor Riku knew exactly why. When they asked him he just said because he was. The real reason was that Riku was single and Seth couldn't be happier.

The next morning came quickly and today Seth wasn't late. (A/n I know I should probably have done the first day but oh well.) The bell rang as Seth sat down for Homeroom. Miss Kari was writing the announcements on the board as Principle Lunser spoke over the PA system.

"Today is Tuesday April 24th. Tomorrow the book club will hold its monthly school meeting in the library," Seth's ears pricked up at this, "Track tryouts start today after school. You must have permission from all of your teachers." The notices ended and the bell rang signaling the end of Homeroom. Seth looked at his schedule, as he didn't have it memorized yet, first period history with Mr. Som. He walked to the room and met Kairi there. She was the only one of his friends in that class.

"Hi Seth," she said cheerfully.

"Hello," Seth replied and the two walked to there desks in the back of the room chatting the entire walk.

"Alright students quiet down," Mr. Som said in his monotonous voice. The class quieted down and Mr. Som began to drone on about dates and things that Seth didn't even pay attention to. The entire class sat there in a stupor until that heavenly bell rang.

"Augh thank god I hate that class," Kairi complained. Seth laughed a bit.

"I hate this class too," They went there separate ways and Seth walked to biology. Sora and Wakka were in this class and he sat next to them in the middle row. Science was Seth's favorite class besides those he was with Riku. The only problem they were now studying the human body which really grossed Seth out.

Today they were on the skeletal system which wasn't as bad. The class went quickly and they were assigned some short homework that would take only fifteen minutes. Pre-algebra came up next. This had to be the hardest class he had ever had.

Mr. Kakaro hated it when students were late. He would close and lock the door the second the break was over. The students that were late would have to go back and get a pass from the teacher and if they didn't they got a detention.

Luckily Seth wasn't late Tidus however was.

"Oh no please Mr. Kakaro just let me in this once?" Tidus pleaded through the door.

"I'm sorry Tidus but this happened before so no," Mr. Kakaro went to writing complicated slope problems on the board, "Now unless you can get a pass you have a detention." Seth finished copying down the problems and started to work on them as Tidus went to go ask his teacher for a pass. But alas he came back without one.

"So detention again Tidus," Mr. Kakaro sighed, "I'll see you after school today." Tidus took his seat in back of the class. "Now does anyone have the answer to this problem?" he asked. Several hands were raised including Seth's. The class went on, with the problems continually growing harder as the minutes passed. The bell finally rang and Mr. Kakaro yelled out the homework over the noise, "You have to do problems 1 – 30 on page 657 for tomorrow." Seth sighed god he hated math.

Lucky for him English was next with Miss King. She was rather pleasant but the subject was very boring. Everyone but Riku had this class with Seth. "All right class we will be starting our new novel today," Miss King said excitedly. The class didn't show the same enthusiasm. Well except for Seth who loved to read. Hopefully the book was good. "We will be starting a fantasy section today so the book is a fantasy book," everyone seemed a bit happier as she said this. "The book is called Inkheart by Cornelia Funke."

Seth's friends back at home had read that book but he hadn't. They said it was good and very long which, was his favorite characteristic of a book. Out of the cardboard box beside her feet Miss King pulled out a large red book. The students groaned at the size of the book. "Oh come now it's only about 800 pages," they groaned even louder this time. Seth however couldn't be more delighted. Miss King noticed this and was very happy, "Well at least one person is excited. Thank you Seth." Seth blushed as everyone looked at him. He hated to be in front of crowds.

"Now would everyone please come up and take a copy of the book," they got up one by one as she called out there names and handed them each a copy of the book. "Now I was thinking we could do this as a bit of a play," the class groaned. "You will pick a character and be that person for the entire book. Those who don't get a character can read everything that isn't dialogue. Ok does anyone want to be Meggie?" No one volunteered. "All right then how about you Kairi," Kairi sighed and said ok. "Meggie's Father?" Seth raised his hand. "All right Seth you can be him," This continued for most of the period. The rest of the period they got to use as free time.

Finally the bell rang and Seth ran to the cafeteria. He was one of the first on line for lunch and bought a cheeseburger and fries with chocolate milk and a cookie. He walked outside, careful to avoid Dan and his gang, and got to the cherry tree, still in full blossom. Riku was there waiting for him.

"How was today?" Riku asked as Seth took a seat.

"Much better! We got our new book in English it's Inkheart! I never read it before but it's really big!" he said excitedly as he pulled out the large book.

"I still can't believe you excited 'bout that book yah," Wakka said as he sat down. Seth pouted and began to eat.

"It's really really big too we'll never be able to finish it," Selphie said plopping down on the ground.

"It's not that big," Seth said looking down.

"Sure," Sora said shoveling food into his mouth. Then Seth remembered what the principle had said this morning.

"Riku why didn't you tell me they had a book club?" Seth said angrily.

"You never asked," Riku smirked. Seth stuck his tongue out at him. They continued eating chatting about random things. Tidus then looked up at the clock in the courtyard and noting that lunch was almost over and they all cleaned up. They finished as the bell rang and went there separate ways.

Seth had taken one of the new trial courses for this year, a writing class. Selphie had taken this class too. From what Seth had heard the last period Selphie was rather good at writing and loved to write very romantic stories. Seth was really interested in writing and was rather good at it too. Right now he was thinking of becoming and author when he was older.

There teacher Mrs. May was very good at this and made it very interesting. She did however give out a lot of projects. From what he was told they had to write projects very often. Each story had to reflect the genre they were working on at that time. They could also have sub-genres. Mrs. May rose from her desk and started to hand out a paper to each kid. "All right class this next subject we will be doing is romance." Selphie squealed loudly in delight at this. "This paper has some general rules for romance stories. This story must be at least five pages long and is due in two weeks." Seth's eyes widened at this. None of his old teachers made the date so soon.

Mrs. May went over the guidelines and the period ended quicker then Seth would have thought. Quickly he hurried to his next class gym. Seth in a way both loved and hated this class the most. He hated it because well it was gym and he really wasn't very good at outdoor activities. He loved it because his gym locker was next to Riku's and there was only one other boy in there section.

Riku had just arrived a bit before Seth did and was just opening his locker. The other boy was sick that day so it would be just the two of them. They changed while talking but didn't look at each other only stealing glances when the other wasn't looking. They did warm-ups and played a game of soccer which Seth did horrible at.

"Oh I hate gym I'm no good at it," Seth complained as they walked to their next period class.

"Your not that bad Seth," Riku told him.

"I am bad! I got hit in the face with the ball really hard!" Seth pointed to his face and sure enough there were the light marks of a soccer ball. Riku just smiled. Although he did smile he wanted to just hit Erik for hitting the ball at Seth's face. He wouldn't let anyone hurt Seth ever.

Their next class came into view which was Home Ec., a mandatory class. Their teacher Mrs. Warren was waiting at her desk as the students filed into the classroom. They already knew what to do and started getting to work. Mrs. Warren had written what they needed to do on the board.

She had explained the other day that they were going to do a project. Each student would sew a teddy bear together from just the basic materials. Riku wasn't very good at sewing but Seth however was very good and Riku was amazed at his skill.

The bell rang and they went off to shop with Mr. Cart. The entire period was boring in taking notes about different tools. The final bell rang and the class darted out of school. The two friends headed home to do their homework and then went out onto the beach in front of the house and practiced sword fighting until night.

The next day school went by quickly. As the last bell rang Seth had to nearly drag Riku to the book club. The meeting was interesting and they got the new book for the week. The Neverending Story.

The two talked until they got back to Riku's house and they noticed a car in the driveway that wasn't Mrs. Brave's.

"Hey Riku? Whose car is that?" Seth asked.

"That's my dad's,"

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Kinda lenghty and boring. Sorry about that but I guess I just want to have a lot of time with riku before well you guys no I don't want to spoil it for those who don't know what happens