My updating schedule is pretty spontaneous. I actually hadn't planned on updating today, but I told KikiKitsune that I would so…hmm. Muu. Most of this chapter follows the book. Because I couldn't think of anything else…but don't worry! I'll be sure to take this train off the tracks!
I decided on the ending too! So now we just need to progress with the middle! S'all good!
(And thank you for all of your kind reviews! 3)
"Is that Riku-kun?"
"Ooh! It is, it is!"
"What's he doing in here?"
"He's going over to Sora and Tidus…"
"Oooh, I wonder what's going on…!"
Hearing the girl's whispers and giggles, Tidus looked away from Sora to the door, as if to verify it really was the sex god of their school. Blue eyes widening, Tidus turned quickly back to his friend, shaking the brown-haired boy's arm.
"Sora…" Tidus said softly. Getting no response, he said louder, "Sora!"
And still not getting any response, Tidus flicked Sora's nose. Hard.
"Owwie!" Sora yelped, hands moving to hold his nose, eyes watering. He pouted behind his wrists, half-glaring at Tidus since he couldn't actually glare. More like…narrow his eyes. Yeah. That was it. "Why'd you hit me?"
Giving an impatient and slightly over-dramatic sigh, Tidus waved his hand in the direction of the front of the room, where Riku was currently getting mobbed by the female population in the room. Mouth making a small 'oh', Sora lowered his hands slowly but continued to pout.
And together they sat, the blond and the brunet, watching as 'Prince Riku' struggled to get past the crowd of girls while still being polite. Which was obviously not making him go anywhere. It was fairly amusing, of course, but also slightly…creepy. Here was this male being surrounded by attractive girls , their shirts half-off, skirts rising until, if you tilted your head just so, you could see their panties. And the kicker? Riku wasn't spurting blood out of his nose, or unconscious, or anything like that. In fact, he looked slightly disgusted.
"Think Riku's gay" Tidus and Sora asked at the same time, turning their heads from the scene in front of them to look at each other, laughing. They always had the uncanny ability to say the same thing at the same time. Kind of freaked people out, but was the reason why most of the school thought they were twins. After all, they had the same spikey hair, same colored eyes, same skin tone…heck, they were even the same height and weight. The only thing that was different about them was that Sora still had some baby fat on his face, and he had brown hair, as opposed to Tidus, who had blond.
As they laughed, a shadow covered them. Blinking, the two boys rose their heads, and upon seeing who it was gave a quiet 'eep!'
There stood Riku, scowling and glaring down at them, arms folded over his chest. The expression was nothing like the look he gave the girls he had been getting molested by. This was…harder, angrier. Enough to make Sora seriously wonder if Riku could perform magic, put an illusion on himself to make himself seem perfect to everyone. And that if you got too close, you could see past it. But of course that wasn't it…
"Hey!" a swat to Sora's head shook him out of his thoughts. "I know you can hear me, so listen!"
Holding his head and pouting, Sora muttered under his breath, "Man, why's everyone hitting me today…"
And then he realized exactly who had hit him, and that pout grew as he narrowed his eyes at Riku, which was like a puppy glaring because someone said it was cute. So he wasn't very intimidating.
"What do you-" Sora began, stopping when the hand on which the ring was on was grabbed. The ring was slid off his finger, and another ring was slid on, this one fitting. Letting the hand go, Riku put his ring on his middle finger, holding it out to see it. Blinking his large blue eyes, Sora looked at the new ring, other hand feeling it.
"Wha- this is my ring…" Sora said, confusion clear in his voice. Rolling his eyes, Riku gave an exasperated sigh.
"No shit, Sherlock. You took mine when we were in the bathroom, remember?" Riku said slowly, as speaking to a particularly slow child. Which wasn't too far from the truth. Sora was known for figuring stuff out right away, and then forgetting the answer or whatever it was minutes later. But, not this time, oh no! Sora remembered clearly!
"You were the one who left first! You took my ring!" Sora exclaimed, pout disappearing as a fire began to grow behind his eyes.
"Whatever," Riku said, rolling his eyes.
"And besides," Sora continued as if Riku hadn't said anything, "Why do you have the same ring as me? Huh? Huh!"
To anyone else listening in on the conversation (and there were. The whole class, in fact), it would have seemed like Sora was just delaying the inevitable. That is, he would soon succumb to Riku's charm, and they would end up having hot sweaty man sex as soon as school let out.
But obviously they were not at the point yet.
"Psh, you think I want to have the same ring as you? A friend made this ring for me. But hey, good job noticing they were switched," Riku said, sarcasm thick in his tone.
The pout returned full force, eyes narrowing once more. How dare Riku call him stupid! Well, he didn't actually, but the way it was said and all that…Riku thought he was special! Short bus special! And he wasn't!
"I did notice!" Sora exclaimed. "Right Tidus?"
Tidus' eyes widened, fear hidden in the blue eyes as he was suddenly brought in the conversation. Torn between sticking with his friends, and just backing down, Tidus gave a nervous laugh, trying to ignore the glaring tenth grade.
"R-right Sora…"
Rolling his eyes again, Riku said, "It was loose on your finger, right?" he waited for Sora to nod before continuing on. "Well, it fit my ring finger perfectly. In other words, a place that's worthless for the ring to fit. That's why I had to get it-"
"As if we care why!" Sora exclaimed, hands clenching.
"-because it would cause a riot if I were to wear it on my ring finger," Riku continued, ignoring Sora. He paused for a moment, raising an eyebrow. "And besides, its creepy having the same ring finger as a guy."
"Yeah!" Sora said, somewhat quietly though, clearly reluctant to agree with the older boy.
"Glad we agree," Riku said with a smirk. He looked down at the ring on Sora's finger. "I can tell you've worn it a lot though, what with all the scratches. It must be very precious."
And with that, Riku left, as well as the girls in the room. All, that is, save three girls.
"Sora! Sora! Sora!" a loud voice said, brown hair entering his field of vision as Selphie Timmit, Tidus' crush, bounced over. "You have the same ring as Riku! Oooh, oooh, tell me where you got it! Please? Please?"
"S-selphie!" Tidus said, eyes widening as a fierce blush settled on his cheeks.
"Yeah Sora! Spill it! Where'd you get the ring!" red hair joined Selphie's brown as Kairi Mokosh joined her friend.
"Wha?" Sora blinked, and yet another girl joined their group.
"Tell me Sora, or I swear I'll castrate you!" Rikku threatened. Sora didn't know her last name, since it was way too difficult to pronounce, and even harder to spell.
Sweat tricking down his neck, Sora gave a hopeless look at Tidus, only to start trembling his lower lip when he saw his friend was too preoccupied staring at Selphie.
"I don't remember where I got it…" he said softly, hunching his shoulders to prepare himself.
"BULLSHIT! YOU JUST WANT TO HAVE THE SAME RING AS RIKU-SAMA! YOU MEANIEEEEEEEE!" Selphie yelled, smacking Sora's head.
"HOW CAN YOU BE SO CRUEL? YOU JUST WANT RIKU ALL TO YOURSELF!" another smack followed Selphie's, and Sora whimpered.
"YUNNIE! GET MY TOOLS! OPERATION CUT-OFF-SORA'S-REPRODUCTIVE-ORGANS IS ABOUT TO BEGIN!" Rikku's eyes glimmered with a maniacal sheen as she stood before Sora, nostrils flaring. Fearing for his reproductive organs, Sora gathered his stuff and stood up.
"I DON'T REMEMBER, DAMMIT!" he wailed, before running out of the room, followed by Tidus.
As they slowed from their run, Tidus laughed.
"Man, the way those girls were hitting you, I can see why you're not that bright," Tidus said with a grin. Sora pouted, rubbing his head.
"You're just jealous because Selphie talked to me," Sora sulked. Tidus gave a gasp, eyes widening before glaring at Sora.
"Lies! I mean, okay, so I was upset that my darling Selphie ignored me, but at least I wasn't the one getting pwned by Riku!"
This time it was Sora who gasped.
"You take that back! It was clearly I who was doing the pwning!"
Laughing, Tidus patted Sora's head.
"No, man, he was pwning you like a n00b. Sorry to say it, but it's the truth!"
If there was one part of the day that Sora loved, it was supper. Usually his mother made a wonderful meal of ramen, or sometimes they would have western food. Lately his mother seemed fond of it, especially the American kind.
Like today, Sora's mother Seiya had made steak, along with a salad. Cooked medium rare, so the insides were still soft but chewy and the outsides hard, Sora nearly nosebled at the sight of the food. Oh, how it looked oh-so-yummy… It had the same affect on him as Yuffie had all those years ago. Or when he saw Riku today - whoa. Back up. He did not think that. Ugh. He must be starving if he was thinking such evil thoughts!
And so, sitting at his table, Sora got a slab of steak and began cutting it up into small pieces, the cuts clean. He made sure to cut away the fat though, since Sora hated the fat. Icky fat! Grabbing the salt, he poured a large amount on it, scraping it off the tops of the steak and making a nice mountain of salt. Grabbing his fork, he stabbed a piece and began gnawing on it much like Blau's dog chews on her arm when he gets hyper.
"Sora!" Seiya scolded upon entering the dining room. Her long hair in a braid, Seiya looked more like Sora's sister than his mother. And she actually seemed more like a sister than a mother. Which was kind of freaky, but Sora wasn't going to say anything. As long as she kept the food coming and provided him with love and comfort, he was fine.
"Mooom!" Sora whined as Seiya flicked a piece of lettuce at him. "I was hungry! You know they don't feed us at school!"
Hmph'ing, Seiya scooped some salad into her bowl with her fork, taking a large amount of cucumbers. Putting her bowl down, she reached over and took Sora's bowl as well, putting tomatoes in his. She placed the bowl by him, taking care not to put her hand too close to the ravenous boy in fear of losing her fingers. Laughing as Sora struggled to chew a piece of steak, the doorbell rang. Looking at Sora, who was still wrapped up in his vicious battle with the steak, Seiya stood up, making her way past the living room and to the door.
Upon opening it, she was greeted with the sight of Kairi standing before her, smiling shyly, blue eyes lowered. In her hands she held a box with pink wrapping and white flowers.
"Hello…Sora around?" Kairi asked softly, raising her eyes and looked at Seiya from behind her bangs. Turning Seiya yelled behind her, "SORA! ITS FOR YOU!"
As Sora came to the door, fork in hand with the piece of steak on it that he was still gnawing on, he saw Kairi and bit through the piece finally. He chewed and swallowed, waving his mom away.
"Erm. Hi Kairi…" Sora said nervously for fear of losing his beloved reproductive organs.
"Hey Sora," she said, turning behind her and biting her lip. Kairi lived in the house in front of Sora's, so it wasn't like it was uncommon to see Kairi. However, she rarely came over to his house anymore. Not since they entered ninth grade, anyways.
"Er…you need something?" Sora asked, swaying slightly on his feet. It was a natural question, since Kairi only talked to him when she needed something. Like at school, for instance.
"Yes! I need you-" she stopped as a box hit Sora's head, bouncing off and falling to the ground in front of them.
Bending down, Sora looked at the box, eyes widening and a fierce blush settling on his face.
"MOM!" he yelled, turning and chucking the box in the direction of the kitchen. Only to have it hit him in the forehead moments later.
"SORA!" Seiya yelled back, head popping from behind the safety of the kitchen. "I don't want you to get her pregnant!"
Kairi, who until then had no idea what the box contained, also blushed.
"Oh! It isn't like that…"
"I'M NOT ATTRACTED TO HER! GOD, YOU'RE SICK!" Sora yelled, throwing the box back at her.
"You were in fifth grade though!" Seiya laughed insanely, making Sora blush more. No longer wanting to deal with his mother, he stepped out of the house and shut the door.
"God, sorry about her… I swear, she isn't normal…"
"Um. Its fine…" Kairi said, choosing not to ask Sora about his crush on her. "Er. You're friends with Riku though, right?"
It was obviously a rhetorical question, for Kairi continued right on without waiting for Sora to reply.
"Can you give him this tomorrow? His birthday is coming up, you know."
The box she had been holding was shoved into his hands, and without waiting for his reply Kairi turned and jogged back to her house, pausing at her door before yelling, "Thanks!"
And then she went into her house, leaving Sora standing outside holding the pink-wrapped box.
Sighing, he entered the house again, hunger forgotten. Walking up the stairs, down the hall and into his room, Sora dropped the box onto the bed and fell down beside it, fork still in his hand.
Why did everyone hurt his head?
Pwned: Pronounced like 'owned', only with a 'p'. So its like…'powned'.
Seiya: Because I love Uzumaki-sama that much. ;