AL: I'm in a drunken state...A VERY drunken state...I dun own no kingdom hearts shtuff...-falls over- Please review...so I'll have the will to write...

missgoo93: Thanks for reviewing! Me and my buddy agreed if I got 1 review in under 4 hours, I'd do another chapter...but now I'm exhausted, I'm almost as loopy as Sora! x.X

Riku flopped mercilessly onto his bed, muttering something incoherent about homework.

"Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy..." He grumbled, sitting up. He looked at the foot of the bed, spotting the backpack he had forgotten many hours ago. He didn't exactly start on homework right away; first came supper, then shower, then an hour long phone call to Kairi. And how much time had this taken up? He counted on his fingers, then let out a frustrated growl.

"Dammit! Seven hours! I can't believe this! It's..." He paused, looking over to the clock. "11:00 pm...an hour past bedtime..." He looked over out the door. 'Mom's asleep...I might be able to finish by 1:00 without notice...' He thought. He sighed, before dragging himself over towards the end of the bed to get his books out. He then retrieved a flashlight from his desk, before grabbing all of his books and wandering over to the corner of his room. He set the books on the floor and sat down, picking the first book up. Math.

"Oh, wonderful." He said sarcastically, turning to the 13th page. At least the other subjects weren't as bad...

---Splurge!---

"Riku, wake up." Riku's eyes opened slowly, and he almost jumped out of his skin when he saw two sapphire eyes staring at him. "Ah..Ah!" Riku tried to jump back, only succeeding in having his head sport a fairly nice bump. "We're gunna be late for my first day! You're gunna show me the ropes, right?" Sora sat back on his heels, watching Riku with the calmest gaze known to man. Riku grumbled.

"What..Where are you from!" Was all he said, before standing up. Sora watched him as he removed the tank top he had been wearing. Sora stared, one eyebrow raised, sporting the look of a clueless child. The look Riku had come to know quite fast.

"Um..." Sora put a finger to his head, seeming to think. "Odiba?" He tried, grinning. Riku paused, his eyes widening. He turned, looking at Sora as if he were crazy.

"That far? Over two hundred miles away? Are you nuts? What were your parents on?"

"What do you mean? They weren't on anything. Dad just got a good paying job here, so Mom decided to move. And..." Sora looked down, then shrugged. "Oh well, how about that school?" Sora stood up, grinning nervously as Riku pulled a black muscle shirt over his head, picking up some black leather pants.

"I think I need to finish changing. OUT!" Riku pushed Sora out of the door, slamming it behind him. He was so tired... After changing into his pants, he picked up some black combat boots and slipped them on over his socks, picking his wristbands up off of the dresser. He slipped them onto each of his wrist, before grabbing a bottle of hairspray and a comb. Not like the comb would do any good. He raced into the bathroom, brushing his teeth and trying to fix his hair at the same time. Sora watched in Amusement, and, as Riku exited the bathroom, he noticed something.

"Who's Gackt?" Sora asked. Riku paused, his eyes widening. He looked as if he were about to tear Sora's head off with that look!

"My god my child, you are so sheltered!" Riku jumped up, posing in front of the poster. "Gackt is the greatest singer in Japan!" He said, giving Sora a strange look as if he were an outsider.

"I'm not an outsider. Can we leave yet? I'm already aware of your plans to kill me over the simple fact that I don't know who Gackt is." He stated bluntly. "And pouring iodine in my eyes will only hurt yourself." Riku obtained that 'kicked puppy' look once again, before his jaw locked. He marched back over to his books, piling them into his pack. He then slung it over his shoulder.

"C'mon. Before we're late." Riku grumbled, trying to keep the last of his strength visible. Really, he could bounce off the walls at times like these. If he had coffee. Riku fell silent during the walk, so naive little Sora decided to strike up conversation.

"I heard people here eat their babies if there's too many." Sora commented. Riku paused, a look of disgust crossing his face. Where had Sora learned that! Especially in Japan!

"Wh..What?" Riku paused. "No! We do not! That's a tale told to people to fool us with Chinese. Everybody thinks Chinese and Japanese are the same. Stereo-typing, Sora. You'll learn that there's a lot of that in this world." Riku's expression softened as his gaze lowered.

"Um...Oh..." Sora trailed off, not really knowing what else to say. "Did I offend you, Riku?" Sora asked, looking up. He could already tell he had...

"Nah. I'm..used to that from outsiders." Riku said. Sora knew he was lying, but something piqued at his curiosity.

"Outsider?" He inquired, raising an eyebrow. Riku paused, before smirking a little. "Yeah. An Outsider." Something then came to the older boy. "Who told you that you could penetrate my territory?" He asked. Sora cocked his head.

"Huh?"

"Who told you that you could bardge into my room and wake me up like that?" Riku asked sharply, crossing his arms.

"Your mom did. She assumed I was a friend of yours because I wanted to know where you were so we could walk to school together, and she said, 'Oh, you must be one of Riku's friends! Could you do me a huge favor and wake him up?' So, I did! ...After coming to many rooms..." Sora finished sheepishly, scratching his head.

"That was nice of her..." Riku rolled his eyes, looking down. Sora, however, interrupted his brooding.

"Destination, Ahoy!" He cried. Riku looked up. Indeed, the school was just up ahead. Riku had a strange sense of Deja Vu, before running to catch up to his lost 'charge'.

"Wait! How'd ya know?" He asked, catching up to the boy.

"Instinct!" And with that, Sora zoomed off into the building, Riku following behind at a much slower pace. He could take his time, unlike Sora, no doubt.

And Riku was miraculously correct. Sora was fidgeting in his seat as if he had ADHD or something. (A/N: No offense to people who have that. My sister does, and she's a jittery as a Cricket, just bouncing all over the place! XD)

"Sora..." Sora looked up at Riku addressing him. It seemed he was...hyper. But that was only Riku..or..maybe not. Everyone was giving Sora strange looks.

"Calm down a little! You're already gaining strange looks from pedestrians!" Riku said quietly, as if it was a secret.

"Pedestrians? Where?" Sora looked around. "I don't see any, Riku."

"People, Sora."

"Really? I thought Pedestrians were Aliens!" He said. Riku raised a thin eyebrow, shaking his head.

"Afraid not, my troubled friend."

"Sora Watakashi?" A lady poked her head out, and Sora jumped to attention. "Ma'am!"

"Sora...you are not in the military..." Riku shook his head in humiliation as his face burned with embarrassment. Jeez, if this was Sora daily, what was he like when he was hyper?

Riku planned on leaving that unanswered. He stood up, pushing Sora into the registration room.

"Alright, here is your schedule...It shouldn't be too difficult to remember...But if you have any difficulties, ask your friend here, okay?" The Lady, known as the Guidance Counselor Miss Janeshi, said.

"Alrighty, okay!" Riku got up, pulling Sora out of the room.

"I'm so gunna be late..."