The Adventures of Riku and Sora
A Blue Dragon Fic
III
Sora got up from the chair after he finished breakfast and took his backpack from the corner and put his empty glass in the sink.
"Mom, I'm going to school." He said.
Mrs. Barzhad was still staring at the empty seat where Mr. Barzhad used to reside.
"Its just not the same without your father!" she burst into tears.
"I miss him eating all of my food! Messing the house up for me to clean! And telling me he loved me!"
Dauragon looked up from the newspaper that Mr. Barzhad had usually been hogging.
"Sister, you're better off without him. He ate messily, hogged the paper, left the toilet seat up, and watched T. V. nonstop!"
"He's still my sticky-bun!" she sobbed, holding the stove for moral support.
"I don't know what you see in that man! He walked around in the NEUD!"
"Now that I can explain!"
The comment earned her weird looks from Dauragon and Sora.
"I think I'll just be going. By mom, by Uncle D.!"
The paid no attention as Sora left. Sora walked across the street and waited in front of Riku's house waiting for him.
He saw his father behind him as Riku walked out, hugging his Masamune and crying.
"My little boy is going to elementary for the first time!"
"Dad, I'm a freshman!"
"Don't ruin the moment!" he suddenly said, sternly.
Riku sighed and walked away and to the sidewalk.
"My dad gets on my nerves, sometimes. I wish he'd stop treating me like a kid!"
"Riku, you are a kid."
"You know what I mean" he said as the two turned right down the sidewalk to DIHS (Destiny Islands High School).
"Oh! Did your dad come crawling back yet?" Riku asked Sora.
Sora sighed.
"Heck no! I hear that 'a crazy man in tights' robbed husky-pork stores. I want to know why dad's going so crazy!"
"Yeah? Well I want to know where the heck he got tights."
Sora gave him a look.
Before they could continue Tidus joined them.
"Wassup, guys?" he asked, trailing behind them.
"Yo, Tidus. You win the blitzball game?" asked Riku.
"Some crazy guy smashed the husky-pork stand and the game was cancelled on account of insanity."
"Tidus, you're really pushing it" Sora growled.
"What!? Oh, it was Mr. Barzhad, wasn't it. That poor, diluted man. He didn't run off again, did he?"
" . . . "
"I swear, Sora, you need to keep that guy on a leash!"
"Can we PLEASE talk about something else?"
"Fine . . . Hey, it's the new semester. Riku, Sora, you gonna be in drama class."
"You know it!" Riku said.
"Yep" Sora responded.
"Wakka told me his old drama teacher is transferring to our school, and she's a babe!"
"Not interested" Sora and Riku said at the same time.
"Come on! At least tell me if you agree when you see her. I hear that three students were suspended for asking her out, and one student got expelled for hitting on her!"
"Why would I be interested in a grown woman?" Sora asked.
"Why WOULDN'T you be interested in a grown woman?"
Sora and Riku stopped and stared at Tidus.
"Tidus, you're a sick, sick puppy." Sora said before walking again.
"I hear she's only nineteen, come on!" Tidus said.
Suddenly, a large boy with dark hair and the clothes of a thug jumped out of the bushes.
Riku looked him up and down.
"Who the crap are you?"
"Nunya biznessness!"
Sora and Riku looked at each other and held up their hands.
"Businessness . . . ?" They pretended to ask each other.
"That new teacher is MINE!" he yelled.
"And if I catch you lookin' at her, you're both in for a bruisin'!"
Riku and Sora tried not to laugh.
"You're cruising for a bruisin'!"
Riku and Sora stifled a laugh.
"You're applyin' for a cryin'!"
Riku and Sora laughed out loud.
"That was just funny!" Riku said through laughter.
"You're beggin' for a de-leggin'"
Riku and Sora stopped.
"Now you just made that up." Sora pointed out.
"Hey! It's Bernie!" Tidus finally piped up.
" . . . "
The bully Bernie was quiet.
"You still in the ninth grade? How many times have you been held back, two, three?"
"I'm only eighteen!"
Tidus smiled, not even knowing he was insulting Bernie.
"You were held back four times! Hey, can you add yet? What's two plus two?"
"Uh . . . Five?"
"What comes after 'A' in the alphabet."
"Thirty-one?"
"Who was the first president of the U. S.?"
"Uh . . . False?"
Tidus, Sora, and Riku fell on their backs laughing so hard that they were crying their eyes out, and Bernie ran off crying.
Riku tried to talk.
"Tidus you . . . hah hah! . . . know . . . hah hah! . . . that guy . . . hahahahahah SO FUNNY!"
Tidus regained his composition.
"Yeah, his name is Bernie. He went to middle school with me. Don't mind him."
Sora and Riku stood back up.
"Lets just get to school before we're late" Sora said, walking on with Riku and Tidus following.
In a few minutes, the three arrived at DIHS and the clock indicated that they only had three minutes to get to their lockers.
"Geez! My locker is on the other side of the school from here! I guess I'll have to run . . . " Tidus said eagerly.
Sora and Riku immediately went past the office and down the hall to their own lockers, for they didn't want to be anywhere near Tidus when the trouble started.
Tidus began to speed down the hallway, pushing people that weren't even in his way just for fun, knocking down security guards and almost colliding with the principle.
***
One minute later, Sora, Tidus, and Riku made it into first period drama class with only one minute and sixty seconds to spare! After the bell rang, a woman that was indeed good-looking walked into the room.
She was . . . Mrs. Rikku Osterot!? She, of course, was and Al Bhed from a neighboring island and the mother of none other than Riku Osterot.
Riku and Sora's jaw's dropped open.
"Whoa! She IS hot! Tidus whispered a little too loudly."
Riku slapped Tidus hard on the back of the head from his desk.
"That's my MOTHER you're talking about!" Riku whispered just as loud.
"She's still hot!"
"Riku, your mother's nineteen!?" Sora asked a little too loud.
Everyone heard and scooted their seats away from Riku.
"I don't know who said my mother was that old, but she's thirty-five, thank you very much!" Riku basically screamed.
Everyone scooted their seats even further away.
"Mr. Osterot, do you have something you would like to tell the class?" Mrs. Osterot asked.
"As a matter 'o fact, I do!" Riku ran to the front of the class on to Mrs. Osterot's surprise, stood on top of the desk.
"Everyone, that's my mother! If I hear one comment about her I'll beat down every last one of you!!"
"Young man . . . "
Mrs. Osterot looked down at the list to find the name of Riku.
"Riku Osterot, is that your name? Get off of my table."
Everyone laughed.
"Mom! You don't remember your own son's name!?"
" . . . I only have one son named Riku, and he's in elementary!"
Riku slammed his forehead.
"Mom! Its ME! I'M your son Riku! And I'M A FRESHMAN FOR PETE'S SAKE!"
"Oh . . . Riku honey! I didn't know you were out of elementary!"
Everyone laughed aloud, and tears welled up in Riku's eyes.
"Why don't my parents know me anymore!?" He jumped off of the desk and ran out of the room in tears.
Everyone was quiet. The intercom came on and the principal's voice rang out.
"Students of Destiny Islands High School, for no apparent reason, I've decided to cancel school. That is all."
Everyone was still for about eight seconds, and then there was a burst of commotion as people started running out of their rooms yelling:
"NO school! We're out of school! Three-day weekend! Hooray!"
Kids were leaping out of windows, running through walls, and tearing down doors, etc. The youngsters of DIHS were desperate to get out. The teachers tried to calm everyone down, but joined the rush eventually.
Tidus was about to start running, but Sora grabbed his shoulder.
"Dude, we have to find Riku!"
"Why? What's he done for me lately!?"
"Remember yesterday when you dropkicked Farley McNuthid?"
Tidus paused.
"He took the fall for me . . . I guess I'll help find him . . . but after that, I don't owe him anything! I only dropkicked that Farley McNutthead once!"
The school and halls were empty, and tumbleweeds rolled across the empty halls.
"What's a tumbleweed doing in school?" Sora asked as he and Tidus went to the bathrooms, where Riku was most likely to be.
"Sora, must you be so single-minded? Tumbleweeds emphasize emptiness, loneliness, vacancy!"
" . . . Well that answers all questions but one."
"Which is?"
"What's a tumbleweed doing in school?" Sora asked again as they turned the corner.
"Hey listen!" Tidus stopped Sora outside of the bathrooms.
*sob*
"Riku's in there!" Tidus finished. He was about to go into the boys' bathroom, and then Sora stopped him.
"Listen closer."
"What?"
"Tidus *giggle* its coming from the girls' bathroom."
They both started cracking up.
"Why's Riku in there!?" Tidus said purposely loud.
The sobbing subsided.
"Riku, why are you in the girls' bathroom!?" Sora asked, not used to being so loud in a school.
"I-I wanted to see what it was like . . . ?"
Sora and Tidus tried to hold in the laughter.
"Come out, school is cancelled and we're the only ones left! Lets go home!" Tidus yelled.
"School is cancelled!? Hot dog!" Riku rushed out.
"Race ya'!" He yelled.
"You're on!" Sora agreed.
"WAIT!" Tidus stopped to both of them.
"We're the only one's here in school . . . can you say 'possibilities'?"
"Possibilities" Riku and Sora said at the same time."
Tidus slapped his forehead.
"Not literally!" He flicked them both on the forehead.
"We can do ANYTHING we want. Eat all the food, break into girls' lockers, no one will ever know . . . "
"Cool!" Sora agreed.
"What is cool, young man?" The principal loomed up behind him.
"I don't know why you three are still in school, but the minute I heard myself announce that there was no school . . . "
"Sir?" asked Tidus.
"I was in the teachers' lounge when I heard myself announce that there was no school?"
The three boys looked at each other.
"Principal, how could YOU have announced it if you were in the teachers' lounge?" asked Riku.
"I don't know . . . but I'm following the announcement and going home to my wife! Later dudes."
The principal started pimp walking down the hall, and turned the corner.
The three blinked.
"Lets have fun!" yelled Tidus.
"WAIT!" Sora yelled.
"What?" asked Tidus.
"Shouldn't we try to find out what's going on?" Sora responded.
" . . . "
"An adult that WASN'T the principal apparently made that announcement, and they wanted the school empty for a reason!" Sora concluded.
"Nooo way! Too scary!" said Tidus as he sat on the windowsill of the large window.
"It's not like its dar—"
"Sora, NO!" Riku tried to stop Sora from finishing.
"I was only going to say it wasn't dark—"
Suddenly the sun fell and the moon came up, and it was pitch black outside.
" . . . well the lights—"
"Sora, NO!" Riku continued.
The lights went off and it was dim.
" . . . oops."
"Now you might as well say that the doors and windows are locked and a crazy maniac is after us!" Riku yelled.
"NO!" Sora and Tidus screamed.
It got darker, and the doors locked. A crazy laughter echoed.
"AAAAAHHHHHH!" the three scared youths ran in opposite directions.
Riku, Sora, and Tidus were in for one scary night.
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AN: Heh, well I fixed the symbol problem on chapter two, and this one should be free of errors.
A Blue Dragon Fic
III
Sora got up from the chair after he finished breakfast and took his backpack from the corner and put his empty glass in the sink.
"Mom, I'm going to school." He said.
Mrs. Barzhad was still staring at the empty seat where Mr. Barzhad used to reside.
"Its just not the same without your father!" she burst into tears.
"I miss him eating all of my food! Messing the house up for me to clean! And telling me he loved me!"
Dauragon looked up from the newspaper that Mr. Barzhad had usually been hogging.
"Sister, you're better off without him. He ate messily, hogged the paper, left the toilet seat up, and watched T. V. nonstop!"
"He's still my sticky-bun!" she sobbed, holding the stove for moral support.
"I don't know what you see in that man! He walked around in the NEUD!"
"Now that I can explain!"
The comment earned her weird looks from Dauragon and Sora.
"I think I'll just be going. By mom, by Uncle D.!"
The paid no attention as Sora left. Sora walked across the street and waited in front of Riku's house waiting for him.
He saw his father behind him as Riku walked out, hugging his Masamune and crying.
"My little boy is going to elementary for the first time!"
"Dad, I'm a freshman!"
"Don't ruin the moment!" he suddenly said, sternly.
Riku sighed and walked away and to the sidewalk.
"My dad gets on my nerves, sometimes. I wish he'd stop treating me like a kid!"
"Riku, you are a kid."
"You know what I mean" he said as the two turned right down the sidewalk to DIHS (Destiny Islands High School).
"Oh! Did your dad come crawling back yet?" Riku asked Sora.
Sora sighed.
"Heck no! I hear that 'a crazy man in tights' robbed husky-pork stores. I want to know why dad's going so crazy!"
"Yeah? Well I want to know where the heck he got tights."
Sora gave him a look.
Before they could continue Tidus joined them.
"Wassup, guys?" he asked, trailing behind them.
"Yo, Tidus. You win the blitzball game?" asked Riku.
"Some crazy guy smashed the husky-pork stand and the game was cancelled on account of insanity."
"Tidus, you're really pushing it" Sora growled.
"What!? Oh, it was Mr. Barzhad, wasn't it. That poor, diluted man. He didn't run off again, did he?"
" . . . "
"I swear, Sora, you need to keep that guy on a leash!"
"Can we PLEASE talk about something else?"
"Fine . . . Hey, it's the new semester. Riku, Sora, you gonna be in drama class."
"You know it!" Riku said.
"Yep" Sora responded.
"Wakka told me his old drama teacher is transferring to our school, and she's a babe!"
"Not interested" Sora and Riku said at the same time.
"Come on! At least tell me if you agree when you see her. I hear that three students were suspended for asking her out, and one student got expelled for hitting on her!"
"Why would I be interested in a grown woman?" Sora asked.
"Why WOULDN'T you be interested in a grown woman?"
Sora and Riku stopped and stared at Tidus.
"Tidus, you're a sick, sick puppy." Sora said before walking again.
"I hear she's only nineteen, come on!" Tidus said.
Suddenly, a large boy with dark hair and the clothes of a thug jumped out of the bushes.
Riku looked him up and down.
"Who the crap are you?"
"Nunya biznessness!"
Sora and Riku looked at each other and held up their hands.
"Businessness . . . ?" They pretended to ask each other.
"That new teacher is MINE!" he yelled.
"And if I catch you lookin' at her, you're both in for a bruisin'!"
Riku and Sora tried not to laugh.
"You're cruising for a bruisin'!"
Riku and Sora stifled a laugh.
"You're applyin' for a cryin'!"
Riku and Sora laughed out loud.
"That was just funny!" Riku said through laughter.
"You're beggin' for a de-leggin'"
Riku and Sora stopped.
"Now you just made that up." Sora pointed out.
"Hey! It's Bernie!" Tidus finally piped up.
" . . . "
The bully Bernie was quiet.
"You still in the ninth grade? How many times have you been held back, two, three?"
"I'm only eighteen!"
Tidus smiled, not even knowing he was insulting Bernie.
"You were held back four times! Hey, can you add yet? What's two plus two?"
"Uh . . . Five?"
"What comes after 'A' in the alphabet."
"Thirty-one?"
"Who was the first president of the U. S.?"
"Uh . . . False?"
Tidus, Sora, and Riku fell on their backs laughing so hard that they were crying their eyes out, and Bernie ran off crying.
Riku tried to talk.
"Tidus you . . . hah hah! . . . know . . . hah hah! . . . that guy . . . hahahahahah SO FUNNY!"
Tidus regained his composition.
"Yeah, his name is Bernie. He went to middle school with me. Don't mind him."
Sora and Riku stood back up.
"Lets just get to school before we're late" Sora said, walking on with Riku and Tidus following.
In a few minutes, the three arrived at DIHS and the clock indicated that they only had three minutes to get to their lockers.
"Geez! My locker is on the other side of the school from here! I guess I'll have to run . . . " Tidus said eagerly.
Sora and Riku immediately went past the office and down the hall to their own lockers, for they didn't want to be anywhere near Tidus when the trouble started.
Tidus began to speed down the hallway, pushing people that weren't even in his way just for fun, knocking down security guards and almost colliding with the principle.
***
One minute later, Sora, Tidus, and Riku made it into first period drama class with only one minute and sixty seconds to spare! After the bell rang, a woman that was indeed good-looking walked into the room.
She was . . . Mrs. Rikku Osterot!? She, of course, was and Al Bhed from a neighboring island and the mother of none other than Riku Osterot.
Riku and Sora's jaw's dropped open.
"Whoa! She IS hot! Tidus whispered a little too loudly."
Riku slapped Tidus hard on the back of the head from his desk.
"That's my MOTHER you're talking about!" Riku whispered just as loud.
"She's still hot!"
"Riku, your mother's nineteen!?" Sora asked a little too loud.
Everyone heard and scooted their seats away from Riku.
"I don't know who said my mother was that old, but she's thirty-five, thank you very much!" Riku basically screamed.
Everyone scooted their seats even further away.
"Mr. Osterot, do you have something you would like to tell the class?" Mrs. Osterot asked.
"As a matter 'o fact, I do!" Riku ran to the front of the class on to Mrs. Osterot's surprise, stood on top of the desk.
"Everyone, that's my mother! If I hear one comment about her I'll beat down every last one of you!!"
"Young man . . . "
Mrs. Osterot looked down at the list to find the name of Riku.
"Riku Osterot, is that your name? Get off of my table."
Everyone laughed.
"Mom! You don't remember your own son's name!?"
" . . . I only have one son named Riku, and he's in elementary!"
Riku slammed his forehead.
"Mom! Its ME! I'M your son Riku! And I'M A FRESHMAN FOR PETE'S SAKE!"
"Oh . . . Riku honey! I didn't know you were out of elementary!"
Everyone laughed aloud, and tears welled up in Riku's eyes.
"Why don't my parents know me anymore!?" He jumped off of the desk and ran out of the room in tears.
Everyone was quiet. The intercom came on and the principal's voice rang out.
"Students of Destiny Islands High School, for no apparent reason, I've decided to cancel school. That is all."
Everyone was still for about eight seconds, and then there was a burst of commotion as people started running out of their rooms yelling:
"NO school! We're out of school! Three-day weekend! Hooray!"
Kids were leaping out of windows, running through walls, and tearing down doors, etc. The youngsters of DIHS were desperate to get out. The teachers tried to calm everyone down, but joined the rush eventually.
Tidus was about to start running, but Sora grabbed his shoulder.
"Dude, we have to find Riku!"
"Why? What's he done for me lately!?"
"Remember yesterday when you dropkicked Farley McNuthid?"
Tidus paused.
"He took the fall for me . . . I guess I'll help find him . . . but after that, I don't owe him anything! I only dropkicked that Farley McNutthead once!"
The school and halls were empty, and tumbleweeds rolled across the empty halls.
"What's a tumbleweed doing in school?" Sora asked as he and Tidus went to the bathrooms, where Riku was most likely to be.
"Sora, must you be so single-minded? Tumbleweeds emphasize emptiness, loneliness, vacancy!"
" . . . Well that answers all questions but one."
"Which is?"
"What's a tumbleweed doing in school?" Sora asked again as they turned the corner.
"Hey listen!" Tidus stopped Sora outside of the bathrooms.
*sob*
"Riku's in there!" Tidus finished. He was about to go into the boys' bathroom, and then Sora stopped him.
"Listen closer."
"What?"
"Tidus *giggle* its coming from the girls' bathroom."
They both started cracking up.
"Why's Riku in there!?" Tidus said purposely loud.
The sobbing subsided.
"Riku, why are you in the girls' bathroom!?" Sora asked, not used to being so loud in a school.
"I-I wanted to see what it was like . . . ?"
Sora and Tidus tried to hold in the laughter.
"Come out, school is cancelled and we're the only ones left! Lets go home!" Tidus yelled.
"School is cancelled!? Hot dog!" Riku rushed out.
"Race ya'!" He yelled.
"You're on!" Sora agreed.
"WAIT!" Tidus stopped to both of them.
"We're the only one's here in school . . . can you say 'possibilities'?"
"Possibilities" Riku and Sora said at the same time."
Tidus slapped his forehead.
"Not literally!" He flicked them both on the forehead.
"We can do ANYTHING we want. Eat all the food, break into girls' lockers, no one will ever know . . . "
"Cool!" Sora agreed.
"What is cool, young man?" The principal loomed up behind him.
"I don't know why you three are still in school, but the minute I heard myself announce that there was no school . . . "
"Sir?" asked Tidus.
"I was in the teachers' lounge when I heard myself announce that there was no school?"
The three boys looked at each other.
"Principal, how could YOU have announced it if you were in the teachers' lounge?" asked Riku.
"I don't know . . . but I'm following the announcement and going home to my wife! Later dudes."
The principal started pimp walking down the hall, and turned the corner.
The three blinked.
"Lets have fun!" yelled Tidus.
"WAIT!" Sora yelled.
"What?" asked Tidus.
"Shouldn't we try to find out what's going on?" Sora responded.
" . . . "
"An adult that WASN'T the principal apparently made that announcement, and they wanted the school empty for a reason!" Sora concluded.
"Nooo way! Too scary!" said Tidus as he sat on the windowsill of the large window.
"It's not like its dar—"
"Sora, NO!" Riku tried to stop Sora from finishing.
"I was only going to say it wasn't dark—"
Suddenly the sun fell and the moon came up, and it was pitch black outside.
" . . . well the lights—"
"Sora, NO!" Riku continued.
The lights went off and it was dim.
" . . . oops."
"Now you might as well say that the doors and windows are locked and a crazy maniac is after us!" Riku yelled.
"NO!" Sora and Tidus screamed.
It got darker, and the doors locked. A crazy laughter echoed.
"AAAAAHHHHHH!" the three scared youths ran in opposite directions.
Riku, Sora, and Tidus were in for one scary night.
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AN: Heh, well I fixed the symbol problem on chapter two, and this one should be free of errors.