Disclaimer: Don't own Kingdom Hearts. I'm so sorry that this is late; I WAS working on it since Saturday though. I was also working on a contest entry, so that contributed to my slowness. Damn FF wouldn't let me upload it till I changed it into a txt. -.- I have reposted this chapter since I realized that stupid FF cut out something. It's the beginning paragraph.

Bite me, Why Don't You?

Riku flicked a note to Sora during the discussion. Sora eyed him warily, unsure of the contents. He opened it up only to read—

"I was right. You are the cuter twin."

Sora was so surprised and embarrassed by the bold statement that he accidentally tumbled out of his desk, forcing it to topple on top of him. The boy groaned as he felt the heavy weight on him. As Sora struggled to escape from the hold of the desk, the teacher had turned around to see who had caused the din in the class. Sora gulped as the teacher glared at him.

"Any reason you decided to disrupt my class, Strife?"

Sora blushed, shook his head, and replied with a clueless look on his face, "N-No sir. Sorry sir?"

The teacher turned redder as the class grew louder, giggles and snicker of the students echoing.

"Then you," the teacher grabbed the water buckets from the storage cabinet, "can hold these as you stand outside!"

'What!' Sora thought, his eyes widening. Riku suddenly stood up from his desk.

"It was my fault as well. Please excuse me," Riku said, bowing respectively to the teacher. The teacher, despite Riku's polite apology, handed the buckets to them both, then shoved them out the door, yelling, "Fill them up with water from the fountain outside the class, then stand outside the hall!" The teacher shut the door to their backs.

Riku sighed and headed for the fountain with Sora dutifully following. As they filled their water buckets, Sora found himself saying, "Thanks for standing up for me back there."

Riku smiled apologetically, "It was my fault anyway. Who knew you could get startled so easily?" Riku handed Sora the bucket that he had filled up. The brunet took it, attempting to ignore the pain in his arms from the labor.

"Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Owwwwwwwww!" Sora shouted, shifting his weight from foot to foot, making it apparent that he had absolutely NO body strength. Riku gently grabbed the bucket from Sora's hands and set it on the floor.

"Like the teacher would care if we're actually carrying it," Riku sighed. "So old fashioned, that crazy old man."

Sora pouted, and like the good student he was, picked up the bucket again. There was a good silence for about five minute before the smaller of the two's arms started to quiver. Riku watched with great interest and wondered when Sora would drop it. He didn't have to wait very long. A minute later, Sora dropped the bucket on the floor, the reason being that he had absolutely no stamina left in his arms. The water bounced out of the bucket and splashed Sora from head to foot. Riku chuckled at the image of Sora's wet dog impersonation. The brunet whimpered as he attempted to blow away the wet strand of hair in his eyes.

Riku's eyes softened as he said to Sora, "Hey. Let's go to my locker."

Sora tilted his head to the side questioningly, "What for?"

Riku sighed and dragged Sora off. As they got to said locker, Sora asked, "Won't we get in trouble?"

Riku banged his head against his locker in exasperation from Sora's goody two-shoes-ness, and told him, "Just use me as the scapegoat if we do."

The teen pulled out a paper from his pocket and peered at it as he attacked the dial of his locker.

"Twenty-five. Eleven. Thirty-nine" Riku said slowly as he turned the dial. He pulled the hinge and opened his locker. After rummaging around, Riku finally pulled out a black shirt that would be skintight on himself and some leather-like pants with chains on them. Riku handed it to Sora.

"Change into these clothes or you'll get sick."

Sora stared at the clothes with a blank stare. Riku shoved it into the arms of the other boy.

"Change. Now," ordered Riku.

Sora reluctantly took the clothes from Riku and headed towards the bathroom. Ten minutes later, Sora returned wearing the designated clothes.

"Fine. Happy now?" Sora inquired, angrily pouting, "I put my clothes away in my locker."

Riku nodded as he observed how the clothes fit on the other boy. Granted, they were tight on himself, but they were considerately looser on Sora. Said brunet blushed as Riku traced his figure with his eyes.

"That looks good on you," Riku finally said.

"Thanks," Sora shyly replied.

Riku tilted his head up in thought, "Keep it. It looks good on you."

Sora shook his head, "No way. I can't!"

Riku crossed his arms across his chest. "Keep it," he ordered.
"It's a spare and you look really cute in it. I'm not going to take it back cause of that."

Seeing that he couldn't refuse Riku, Sora pouted and stared at his clunky yellow shoes.

"Fine."

At that time, the bell decided to ring.

"We should grab our bags and head to our next class," Riku said as he started to run to the class room.

"Hey! Wait up!" Sora shouted, attempting to catch up with the platinum-blonde.

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"I hate Science." Axel nodded to Sora's remark, "You and every other person out there."

"Whatever," Roxas said, "English is the best class ever."

Sora sighed as he rolled his eyes, "That's cause you ace it."

Roxas shrugged as he brought his lunch over to the table. The blond sat in between Axel and his twin. From left to right, on the other side of the bench, Tidus, Wakka, Selphie, Kairi, Hayner, Pence, and Olette. On the twins' side, they sat like the following: Sora, Axel, Roxas, Cloud, and Leon.

From behind, they heard, "The best class ever is Sex Ed."

Sora turned to see the owner of the voice.

"Riku!" He shouted happily.

"Mind if I sit here?" asked Riku.

Sora grinned," Course not."

Riku rolled his eyes as he sat to Sora's left side. Sora stared at the other boy's plate.

"Um…Gonna eat that cookie?" Sora asked cutely.

"Nope," said Riku, handing the hyper brunet the chocolate chip cookie.

Sora happily took the cookie from the platinum-blond. Noticing that Sora was preoccupied with his sugar, Riku decided it would be prime time to go in for the kill.

"AGH!" Sora shouted, banging his leg against the table. He shoved Riku's hand off his inner thigh. "No! No! Bad Riku!"

Riku raised his eyebrow at this comment, "Bad Riku? Hey, I expected something for that cookie."

Sora moved a little bit to his right, away from the molester. In the meanwhile, Roxas was boredly flicking peas at Hayner, using his plastic spoon as a catapult. However, he flicked the last one a little too high. The pea nailed Seifer in the face.

Seifer violently stood up, shaking his table.
"Roxas!"

Roxas stared in horror, "Seifer, it was an accident!"

Seifer seized Roxas by the collar, "So you think you can make a fool of me, huh?"

"Leggo!" Roxas struggled to release Seifer's hold on him.

"I don't think so," sneered Seifer.

Roxas struggled from the lack of oxygen. Using as a last resort, Roxas craned his head and bit Seifer's hand.

"Shit!" yelped Seifer. He dropped Roxas and knelt down, nursing his hand. The beanie-wearer's eyes narrowed, cringing from the currently bleeding wound. He surveyed the area quickly, and spotted Roxas's notebook on the table. Using his left hand, the un-bitten hand, he snatched up the notebook. Seifer smirked.

"What now?" he said. Seifer opened the notebook and precariously held the pages with words on it at an angle so that with the slightest movement, they would rip out of the notebook.

Seifer maliciously laughed at Roxas, then snarled, "Down on your knees."

Roxas stared at his precious notebook. Without a choice, he did what Seifer ordered him to do, and dropped down onto his knees. The stubborn blond bit his lip, trying not to follow his nature, and attempting to resist punching Seifer in the face.

"Roxas!" Hayner shouted.

Suddenly, the notebook was seized by a hand that reached over Seifer's head.

"What was that about Roxas on his knees?" asked Axel. The redhead tucked the notebook under his arm and pulled his lighter from his pocket. Seifer warily gazed at the lighter and backed away. Axel lifted Roxas back up onto his feet, handed him the notebook, then he angrily stomped over to Seifer.

"Ya know what's gonna happen now right?"

Seifer was backed up against the wall. Axel smirked and shook his head.

"You aren't worth my time."

Seifer relaxed and walked away, his back to Axel. He gave a laugh and muttered under his breath, "Knew you were to chicken to do it."

Axel was enraged. He had left the idiot off easy, but now… Taking quick action with his nimble hands, Axel struck his lighter and lit Seifer's beanie. From the random attack, Seifer yelled as he felt the heat on his head. Luckily, Fuu, with her quick thinking, threw water from her water bottle onto the blond's head. Seifer had gotten lucky; only half of his beanie had burned, and the ends of his hair were lightly singed. Seifer stared at Axel with a panicked look and ran.

"And that's how I deal with idiots. Got it memorized?"

Roxas smiled and said to Axel, "For once, I'm glad you're a pyromaniac."

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Sora held the brush over the canvas. His new art teacher, Aerith Gainsborough, had told them to draw or paint whatever they felt like, and also that the best works of art would be displayed on the wall in the hallway. Sora closed his eyes and tried to imagine a good scene to paint. But, why could he only envision aquamarine eyes? Sora sighed dramatically and dropped his paintbrush, allowing his head to thump on the empty canvas. A finger poked the brunet in the shoulder.

"I think you dropped this, Sora," a soft voice said.

Sora perked up. That voice was familiar…

Sora lifted his head up.

"Naminé!"

The blonde girl smiled, "Nice to see you too, Sora."

"You're attending this school too? How come I didn't see you at lunch?"

"I wasn't hungry," Naminé replied, "so I decided to look around the art room."

Something outside then caught Naminé's eye, the flash of silver. Naminé peeked out of the window, wondering what it was.

"Hey Sora," Naminé spoke, "do you know who that is?"

"Who?" Sora turned to face Naminé.
Naminé pointed her finger out of the window, "Him."

Sora stuck head out of the open window. The brunet spotted the photography club working outside. Following the direction of Naminé's pointing finger, he spotted a familiar silver-haired person.

"Oh, him? That's Riku," Sora replied, grinning.

Naminé gave a slight smile back, "Such a strange hair color though. Reminds me of Sephiroth, the English teacher."

"Sephiroth? That's his first name?" asked Sora.

"Yeah. Apparently, he refuses to let us call him by his last name."

"Well. Whatever. Riku's real nice! He gave me these clothes since mine got wet."

Naminé giggled, "I was wondering why you were wearing such clothes. It's not really your style."

Sora laughed sheepishly, and then quieted down as he observed the platinum-blond. Riku was shuffling around with a Nikon digital camera and a regular camera. Sora could see Riku drop his head in frustration and yell to Axel, who was taking the class since it seemed to be the easiest elective. Sora had to strain to hear it, but he heard Riku shout, "There's just not something right with this!"

"Riku!" shouted Sora, waving his arm wildly.

Riku looked up to see Sora, and he smiled. "Hey Sora!"

A sudden image ingrained itself into Sora's mind, giving him inspiration. Sora popped his head back into the art room, and sat at his canvas again. Riku, disappointed that Sora had returned into the room, sighed and got back to his work.

Meanwhile, in the room, Sora made rapid strokes with variation in length. Eventually the picture came to resemble a strange pedestal as the focus. On that pedestal stood a shadowed figure, with its hair seemingly billowing to the side. The shadow was accentuated by the heart shaped moon in the background.

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"Woot! Virus!" Cloud excitedly shouted, throwing his arms in the air. Cid dropped his head in exasperation. "Why me?" he asked while rubbing his temples. "You better fix it," he gruffly said.

Cloud nodded vigorously, "Yes sir!" At these words, Cloud set his finger on the keyboard and went to work, furiously typing. Cloud stopped for a second. The blonde turned his head towards Cid, "No way. This is the virus I released on the web a couple days ago."

After some more furious typing later, he turned his swiveling chair.

"I'm done," Cloud shook his head, "That's the last time I use that much binary code again."

The bell rang, signaling the end of the day.

"Yay!" Cloud shouted. "Leon!" Cloud zoomed out of the computer room, no doubt heading for his beloved boyfriend.

Sora opened the door to exit the art room, only to see his eldest brother speed past him. Sora's eye twitched. Cloud must have drunken Red Bull again.

"Sora," someone called him at the end of the hall.

"Riku!" shouted Sora as he realized who had called him.

Riku slung his arm around Sora's shoulder, "Came to pick you up."

Sora semi-flinched away from the sudden contact between them. As they excited the school, Riku glanced at the cherry blossoms again. Then he flicked his eyes to Sora. Quickly, he grabbed the camera around his neck and snapped a picture of Sora, who was lost in thought.

Sora widened his eyes. "What was that?"

Riku shrugged, "Just something."

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Roxas grabbed his iPod out of his bag. Switching the electronic device off hold, he turned it on, and then started up his first playlist. Axel then decided to enter the bus, looking around for his best friend. The redhead then spotted him and decided to seat his ass in the spot next to the blonde. "Roxas! What're you listening to?" asked Axel, sitting back in his seat.

Roxas turned his head to acknowledge his best friend, "Ah. It's, um," Roxas looked back onto the iPod screen, "BloodStream, by Ren."

"Let me hear," Axel reached out for the headphones. Roxas stretched the left ear side over to share with Axel. The blonde restarted the song, so Axel could hear the whole thing. As the intro started, Roxas nodded his head to the beat.

I keeping hearing stories about love,
That people can't seem to get enough of.
The human being that needs,
A little interesting twist in their life.

Take my pills and relax a little,
Work the drug into my bloodstream.
This feeling shouldn't exist.

I'm not high enough to forget you,
It's not enough.

I'm standing on the edge,
And you know I'm going to fall.
You smile and turn away from me,
This isn't love at all.

Feed me lies and feed me hate,
It was never true in the beginning.
I was just your release from reality.
The heart that dances to its own tune,
Do you even have one?

I'm standing on the edge,
And you know I'm going to fall.
You smile and turn away from me,
This isn't love at all.

I hate you, I hate you,
I love you, I love you.
What's the difference between the two?
Though if given the chance,
I'd drive my knife through your heart.

I'm standing on the edge,
And you know I'm going to fall.
You smile and turn away from me,
This isn't love at all.

Like ecstasy running through my veins,
Your essence is in my blood.

As the music was playing, Axel noticed Roxas was quietly singing to the song. In his opinion, the blond had a nice voice. At that time, the bus decided to stop. Ordering the students to get off, the bus driver stood up to shout. Roxas stood up as well, and roused Sora from his slumber. As Roxas separated from Axel to head home, he felt a little twinge in his chest. What was this feeling that shouldn't exist?

"Wait! Axel!" Roxas decided to shout, "Come over and eat Mom's cookies with us!"

Axel turned around and shrugged, "Sure. Your mom makes helluva good cookies!"

With that, Axel walked to their house along with the three, with his arms slung around Roxas's shoulders.

This feeling shouldn't exist…

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Woot! Yeah. Cloud is addicted to computers so I thought he should talk computer-wise like. Binary code is computer code consisting of 1's and 0's. Riku's house is only a little bit away from the school so he walks home. I tried to make this chapter focus on AkuRoku, but ultimately, RikuSora wormed its way into here. Thank you and I love you all! My b-day was a couple days ago, June 13. XD. I got an iPack! And over $200! Well bye-bye everyone and please review!