Sorry for taking so long guys! But here is the long awaited next chapter of DC! Enjoy and R&R for me, please! Disclaimer on profile…
Destiny Central
Chapter 4:
Everybody Loves The Underdog
Maths… why Maths… why didn't they timetable Sport before Maths so the kids were still hyper enough to think, let alone stay awake? Kairi kept her head down with her red hair loose around her face so Sensei Trepe couldn't see her eyes were closed.
"Psst! Oi! Whatsername… Kairi!"
She glanced up quickly, looking around for the source of the voice, and flushed strawberry pink when she saw it was the new boy, Sora. He gave a cheesy grin when he saw that she'd noticed him.
"Yeah?" she whispered back, eyes scanning the front for Sensei Trepe, who was still busy scrawling trigonometry equations on the chalkboard.
He grinned and leaned back on his chair just across the isle from her, stretching leisurely. "Is the Maths class always this boring?"
She shook her head. "I'm only new here. You want to ask Yuffie that." A small part of her mind scowled at the thought of the girl, who obviously thought Sora was hot. She pushed it back.
"Where is she?" he asked, looking around the classroom. All around them, students were busy writing notes or whispering to each other.
"Not in this class," Kairi replied. "There're four Maths classes for our year, you know."
His look became bemused. "That many? This place is bigger than I thought."
The violet-eyed girl smiled. "Yeah, I know. There's about a hundred in each year, but the primary section only has three hundred all up. This town has two other primary schools." Oops, Kairi thought, smirking inside, I think I just overloaded his brain with information.
"Gawd, I had no idea. So that's what the play equipment's for? I thought maybe we got to use it…" a wistful expression replaced his confuddled one.
Whoa… a guy of many expressions. (1) She laughed at him. "I think Yuffie and Tidus use it any time they want."
"Really?"
Kairi laughed again at the guy beside her. "You're so funny… you're so little-kiddish!"
The blue-eyed Sora gave her a puppy-dog face.
"Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…" she actually leaned over and pinched his cheeks.
"Kairi!" Sensei Trepe snapped. She looked up, frozen in shock.
"Yes, Miss- I mean, Sensei?"
"Unhand Master Sora at once."
She flushed bright red, and mentally cursed. And I'd only just recovered from him speaking to me… her hands dropped like they were handling hot coals.
Trepe's piercing eyes glanced her way, then she turned and stalked back to the front of the class. Sora grinned- more of a smirk, Kair thought, miffed- at the flushed Kairi. "Bell goes soon," he whispered. "I think Riku said we're all in Sport together."
She perked up, amethyst eyes sparking with interest. "Really? Yay!"
Sensei Trepe spun, looking at the dead silent class over her spectacles. "The bell will go in three seconds." She announced.
Her eyes widened in surprise at the two suddenly vacant seats of her only two new pupils this year. Sora and Kairi had snatched up their bags and raced out of the room before the bell had even rung.
Scant minutes later, Kairi, Yuffie, Namine and Selphie were lined up a few metres away from another gaggle of girls on the edge of a brown oval, arms crossed over their chests against a sudden chill wind as they watched the males of their Phys. Ed. class mill about in the centre of the field.
"Hang on… why is Tidus taking his shirt off? Is he insane?" Kairi muttered to Yuffie, squinting to see a familiar blond figure out on the grass.
Dark indigo eyes grinned at her, shining with amusement. "Nope, he's just blond." Yuffie continued as the others laughed. "Actually, the guys do this every first day of school when there's new girls. They can't help it. It's like male peacocks strutting their stuff. They have to show off and parade a few sixpacks- including some you'd rather not see- to all the girls." She broke off and made a face at Riku as he separated from the herd of guys and swaggered over to them, silver hair dancing around his face.
"Explaining our tradition to pretty little Kairi here, eh Yuffs?" he said, grinning. Aquamarine eyes laughed at the redhead, who almost kept her flush under control. Almost.
The little ninja poked a tongue out at the youth. Riku smirked. "Whoa, feisty Yuffie!" Moving closer, he put a seductive tone into his voice. "I like that." (2)
While the ebony-haired girl was still speechless, he stepped back and stretched leisurely, pulling the black cotton shirt over his head. The male model effect was spoiled only by an irate ninja sinking her elbow into his half-revealed tanned stomach.
"Oof."
Kairi sank to the ground in a fit of helpless giggling as Yuffie snickered at her handiwork. "Time to play, Riku," she remarked in a sickly sweet voice. "Wakka's about to kick off…" she smirked as a grinning Wakka belted a Blitzball towards them, knocking Riku over as the cocky youth tried to rise again.
"Yuffie… that was awesome!" A cheerful voice rang out. Yuffie spun, laughing her head off, as a shapely girl with long blonde braids bounced over to them. "Do it again! Please, Yuffs?" she pouted, her green eyes glimmering with barely hidden amusement.
"Rikku!" Yuffie squealed. "I didn't think you were coming today! I didn't think you were coming back to Destiny at all!"
Rikku giggled, hopping from one foot to another, with her hands tucked behind her back. She poked a breathless Riku in the side with a toe. "Hey there, One."
"Two," Rikku nodded up at her, trying to clamber to his feet.
Rikku giggled again and helped her male counterpart off the ground. She offered a hand to the slightly bemused Kairi as well, full of bubbly mirth. "I'm Rikku! Not to be confuzzled with Riku of one K, of course. That's why he's One and I'm Two. Y'see? Makes things simpler! A bit, anyway- there are still three Davids and two Matts in our year, not to mention all the Toms running throughout the school…" she halted her chattering to give brawny Wakka a massive hug and to beg for a piggy back ride which he willingly gave.
Riku watched his unofficial Twin chortle astride the auburn-haired Blitzballer's back, then turned as if to head back to the horde of now completely shirtless males- twenty-three, Kairi thought, not that she'd been counting. He paused suddenly. "Rikku…
he said, back turned but menace evident in his voice.
The hyper bubbly girl sprung from her perch and ran and jumped to land in front of the youth with aquamarine eyes. "Your keys!" She announced triumphantly with a flourish of one lace-ringed wrist. Riku snatched them from her small hand and continued around her. She spread her hands and grinned at Kairi, who had been watching the whole episode. "What can I say? You got it, I'll steal it!"
Yuffie popped up beside Rikku, slinging an arm around the blonde's shoulders. Apart from the identical Cheshire Cat smirks, their looks couldn't have been more different. "It's a little thing we have going," she informed her young new housemate. "We like to see who can steal the most from everyone- we don't usually pick teachers-"
"'Cept Cid. He's fair game, and cool about it," Rikku piped up.
"'Cept Cid, never shops, and definitely never Aerith. But everyone else is fair game."
Kairi's attention at that moment was taken by a lone figure on the outer edge of the boys. He alone was still wearing the regulation black shirt, and looked isolated despite his close proximity to his classmates. Aww- he's so adorable! She smiled slightly, just watching him. But he could still fit in, if he wanted to. He's just… shy.
"Something on your mind?" Yuffie materialised beside her and she started.
"Noth- I was just wondering why Wakka's down here if he's in Year 11. Shouldn't he be wherever the rest of his year is?"
Yuffie grinned. "He's not wagging or anything, if that's what you mean. It's just, he has a bit of trouble with school work sometimes- dyslexia. Not stupid, just not capable of doing some stuff his courses require. So the school compromised- he's allowed to do an easier certificate for each of his courses if he helps out in the school. Since he's really good at Sport, he assists with a lot of Sport. He's helping Auron now 'cause it's a free period for him." She took a deep gulp of air, having said all that in one breath. "That explain it?"
Her listener nodded thoughtfully, watching the carefree young man joke with theYear 10 boys. "Auron?"
"Our Phys. Ed. teacher. "Rikku appeared out of nowhere. Kairi jumped as she continued talking- Rikku and Yuffie seemed to do that a lot. "He's really hot, too!" She giggled and grabbed Kairi's hand. "Come on!"
The three girls ran, the green-eyed girl hauling the other two along as Yuffie whispered into Kairi's ear. "Rikku had the biggest crush on Auron- she's told everyone. But since he doesn't even look at her half the time and he's a teacher who's probably about three times her age, she goes out with Gippal. Now he definitely sees her!"
They both burst into giggles as Rikku slid to a halt in a puff of dust, and threw herself at a greying man. "Aury!"
"Wow." Yuffie remarked to no one in particular. "He's more tolerant this year."
The man glanced down at the schoolgirl clinging to his middle, and sighed. "Hello, Rikku. Back again this year, I see."
"Just for you! I live just to see-slash-annoy you, my dear Aury!" She replied happily, beaming up at him without a trace of embarrassment in her pretty face.
"Well… that's good. Now, I have to get these boys to do something before they rampage around the school… if you'll excuse me?"
She didn't budge. In the end Yuffie pulled her off the slightly harassed-looking man, giggling insanely as he walked off. "You're going to have fun this year, Ri!" She said, grinning.
"I know…" the blonde sighed happily, gazing at their Phys. Ed. teacher with pure joy in her eyes.
Yuffie stood up on tiptoe suddenly, shading her eyes as she followed the path Auron had just taken. "They're starting!" She gasped, all excited.
A soccer match had just begun, out in the middle of the field. Riku was obviously captain of one team, and some unknown- "He's one of the many Toms" Yuffie whispered to Kairi- was captaining the other team. There was a lot of shouting, and so much procrastinating going on with the guys all jockeying to show themselves off to the girls that the small redhead didn't really believe it could be called a soccer match at all. She settled back to lounge on the spiky grass, violet eyes closed.
Several minutes later, her eyes snapped open at the sound of squealing from Rikku. "Look! Look! Look! OhmiGawd! Look! That new kid just stole it off Riku!"
Sora! She sat up and scanned the game hastily. Sure enough, the shy blue-eyed boy had the ball in his possession, and was ducking around three guys, weaving right between the other two… closing in on the goal…
"Score! Sora did it! He got the goal!"
The girls went crazy. Kairi smiled softly, blushed a little as her eyes focussed on the boy who was been clapped hard on the back by his team-mates… even Riku was congratulating him!
Sora, the new hero, looked over and noticed them all cheering. He smiled and waved, just before Tidus shoved him into a headlock, rubbing his spikes furiously and shouting congratulations into his ear.
A small giggle escaped her slightly parted lips. Everybody loves the underdog.
(1)- Yep, this was SO stolen from the Squffie Community. It just seemed to fit in though. Sorry whoever I flogged it from!
(2) –ROFL, good memories. Hools said this to me at Variety Night, when I was yelling at Brock to go find a hat. He kept saying no and I was just like "GO GET A HAT OR ELSE"- I'm usually more tame around people I don't really know. But Noodles heard, and when he said that I cracked up.
And OMFG, I realised I'd forgotten to put Rikku in the story! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! So I put her in! As Yuffie's partner in crime, of course, LOL- and Riku's "Twin"! Coz everyone needs their own Twin! Gawd, I've got about five, not including my real one!
Haha, so now it is done! After probably about three months or so absence… what did you think? Did anyone count all the six packs that have shown up so far? Plushie and dessert of your choice if you review AND guess correctly! Otherwise, you get one or the other. Okies? LOL, I have my suspicions on who will be the first to guess correctly… unless anyone else wants to try and beat her…
So, the next fic to be updated will be- Renegade Hearts. Care to leave a review for it when it's updated? I'd like that… >smiggles> SO please, R&R this one too, of course. grins at skippinsunday Happy now? You've been bugging me for a while now, LOL! And I'll send you back that chappie soon, okies?
Now, I'd love to thank everyone's reviews so far, but I haven't noticed a raise on that ban for responding to reviews. Bah. Not nice, not nice at all. So I shall just list them… COZ I GOT 31 WHOLE REVIEWS FOR THIS FIC! AND I SAID I'D UPDATE AT 20! YOU GUYS ARE SO KIND TO ME! >glomps all and sundry> And plushies for all who asked for them! grins? Do you know how cool it is to have to go through three pages to name all your reviewers? And so sorry about the length it took to update…
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