AL: Sooo tired...-.-; I spent...12 hours pausing every few hours trying to put this in print! x.x; I'm tired.
Riku: Nah, she owns natta.
Sora: Enjoy your reading!
The day that Riku ever thought his day couldn't get any more hellish or humiliating, ...he had been flat outwrong.
"You're late. For your first class!" Mr. Kalune didn't look all that happy today. Sora 'meeped', jumping behind Riku. Mr. Kalune raised an eyebrow, looking at the boy. "Who is this?" He asked, putting his hands on his hips.
"The new kid. My neighbor. Take your pick. I was registering him." Riku said boredly. He grabbed Sora's hand and walked over to his desk, all but hurling the brunette into the desk beside him. Sora landed right in the chair, his eyes wide with shock.
"Very well, then. Now class, as all of you know by now, or should, the most famous lines from Romeo and Juliet is, 'Romeo oh Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name and if thou wilt not be but sworn my love, and I will no longer be Capulet' . Now. Can anyone care to translate that?" Mr. Kalune looked around. "Ah, new kid..What's your name? Why don't you try?" Sora blinked, scratching his head.
"My name's Sora." He stated. "Is it...Romeo, Romeo, where are you Romeo? ...Deny your..uh...father and refuse your name..no, wait, that doesn't sound right...deny my name? No...Um...Deny the name and if you will not be but sworn by my love, and I will no longer be married?" He shrugged. Mr. Kalune frowned, shaking his head.
"Sorry to say, Sora, but that is not correct." He paused, his eyes narrowing on Riku. "What about you? You said you would study yesterday. If you did, you would have the correct answer." Mr. Kalune wasn't one to play games, and Riku knew it.
"Sorry, sir. I would have said the same. Why don't you try Kairi?" His gaze narrowed on the redhead as Mr. Kalune turned to her. Kairi gave Riku a 'You bastard' look, before clearing her throat.
"Romeo oh Romeo, why must you be Romeo? Deny your father and refuse to take his name and if you will not, swear to be my love and I will no longer be a Capulet." She glared at Riku, sending hushed whispers from everybody else in the room. Sora's face grew red and lowered out of embarressment.
"Almost there, Kairi. Why areyou Romeo? ..." Riku decided to drown out the rest of the lesson. Why did they have to learn Shakespeare anyways? Sora looked the same, except he was...drawing? Riku tilted his head up to see, and his eyebrows furrowed. Sora drew some pretty dark things. It looked like that scene out of Audition where that dis-assembled man was eating vomit out of the dogbowl. (1)
"Ugh..." Riku settled for just lazing back in this period, yawning. He had heard all of this before.
---Splurge!---
"Is it...edible?" Sora asked, poking around at his food. Riku just gained a look of disgust as he stared at his own food, and, without any warning at all, turned and vomited onto the ground. There were a few yells of 'digusting' and 'ew', as Sora stood up.
"Riku! Are you okay?" Sora put a hand on his shoulder as Riku nodded, coughing. Sora's face twisted into a grimace, as another hand grabbed Riku's arm. Sora looked up. "...Huh?"
"Kairi." Kairi's gaze hardened as she struggled to pull Riku out of his chair. Once she managed to have him standing, she looked over at Sora. "Come on." She then continued to push Riku out of the Cafeteria, Sora following behind with a look of puzzlement. Riku didn't seem to feel sick, Sora noted. ...So why had he vomited?
"I don't know why you did that," Kairi paused, opening the Nurse's Office door, "but you better explain. Lay down." Kairi pointed a finger over towards the bed. Sora thought she acted more like a mother hen rather than an ex-girlfriend, but... It wasn't his place to say. Riku, on the other hand, just grumbled something, crawling into the bed.
"It smells like dead people." He complained. Kairi rolled her eyes.
"It does not. Nobody has ever died on that bed, Riku. Just tell me why you did that."
"Did what? I threw up because I remembered something horridly digusting." He said, shrugging. When Sora had shown him that picture in the lunch line..he had suddenly not had an apetite. Realization dawned on Sora, and he mercilessly began to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Kairi turned on Sora, who was still laughing. Without warning, Riku lunged at him.
"You know, don't you? It was in the middle of lunch, Sora! You made me imagine things I didnot want to while I was eating!" Kairi just stood off to the side cofusedly as Riku started to playfully try to ruin Sora's hair. Nothing worked, sadly.
"What are you talking about? Explain!" Kairi said in confusion. Sora continued to laugh as Riku sat up, chuckling.
"This idiot was drawing something gruesome from that move Audition. You know, the scene with the nekad man drinking vomit—,"
"I don't need the details!" Kairi said, raising a hand up. "Gym's already started. Let's go before we get in trouble.." She said. Oh yes, she had seen that movie. Not very interesting, but it succeeded in grossing her out and boreing her.
"Haha..." Riku laughed as he stood up. "Guess it's safe to say we skipped lunch, eh, Sora?" Riku grinned at the brunette, who was pouting.
"But I wanted lunch! Unlikeyou, I can handle stuff like that! Next time I'll draw—,"
"No!" Riku and Kairi shut him up. "That's the last thing I wanna hear! Now c'mon!" Kairi headed out the door. Sora looked over at Riku, who shrugged. Exchanging silent agreement and nodding, they both followed.
---Splurge!---
"Riku, I want to talk to you after school." Sora leaned over, whispering. Riku looked up from doodling, a curious expression on his face.
"For what?" He asked, a little too loudly. He grinned nervously at Mrs. Ichigo. He actually wondered how her kids standed her. Mrs. Ichigo sighed, showing her frustration. She then straightened.
"Now, no homework for Friday. You are all dissmissed."
"No dentention?—Wait, no homework?" Riku looked almost distraught. Sora looked at him with a raised eyebrow, but shook his head with a 'nevermind...' look. Riku huffed, mumbling a 'whatever', before getting up. Sora stood too, grabbing his backpack.
"Come on..." Sora marched out of the room and straight across the hall, until he came to his locker. After getting the few books he needed out, with Riku doing the same, they both shut their lockers, proceeding down the hall.
"What do you need to talk to me about?" Riku looked over, anticipating Sora's answer as they exited the school. For some reason unknown to Riku, the boy seemed upset.
"Riku...I..." Sora paused. "I forgot some things back in Odiba and I want you to come with me tomorrow to get them!" He blurted out, adding a small, "Please?"
At first, Riku blinked. And blinked again. He seemed confused. Okay, he guessed he would go with Sora to get whatever he needed...but...he was planning...
Forget it, his mind told him. If Sora wanted him to go with him, he would. Besides. There might have been some really cool stuff there. "Sure." Riku then found himself speaking something that seemed to come out out of nowhere.
"Hey, Sora? I've been wondering..What's your sexual orientation? Because all day at school, you don't seem to have any attraction to anybody..." Riku almost kicked himself for such an idiotic question. It ruined the mood! What mood, Riku didn't know. He saw Sora stop entirely, his eyes boreing into Riku. It made Riku feel slightly uncomfortable, but he was relieved when Sora looked away.
"Asexual." He stated, continueing to walk. Riku paused in step for a moment, before running to catch up.
"Really? How do you know?" He asked. Sora turned to him, and Riku recieved the same 'You Bastard' look that Kairi had given him several hours before.
"My mom. I asked her why I didn't take a fancy to boys or girls, and she said I was asexual; She thinks that I'm not mature enough yet. She doesn't think I'm old enough." He said, continueing to walk.
"What!" Riku almost exploded in confusement. "But you're almost 18, Sora!" He said, following after him. Sora rolled his eyes as they turned the corner. Riku was so strange. He popped up with the most rediculous questions at the most random moments Sora had ever seen!
"Why? Are you gay? Do you want to go out with me or something?" Riku almost jumped; Sora's tone was humorful, but his expression had 'serious' written all over his face. Was Sora really serious?
"Uh...no! Of course not! Why?" Riku tensed as Sora's eyes bore into him. Riku wasn't carrying any feelings for him. Riku saw Sora's gaze lower, before he looked up again, a dopey grin on his face.
"Okay. I'll see you tomorrow. Meet me at the Train Station at 5:30 am, sharp. Don't be late, 'Kay?" Sora then ran up the driveway to his house. "Bye Riku!" Riku only waved slightly, before looking down. He then turned, heading over to his own house.
Tomorrow, their journey began.
Notes: (1) From "Audition", a Horror genred film from Japan, created by Takeshi Miike. A scene from Asami's apartment, where she's eating dinner. After vomiting her food into a dog dish, a completely nekad man lacking body parts comes out of a burlap sack on the set and starts drinking the vomit. More information on that can be found at Wikipedia.