"Sora, just go on ahead us with Roxas, we'll be there in a sec" Rika advises as she presses the button that opens the door. Sora nods her head in agreement and grabs Roxas' hand. She leads him down the gummiship's stairs onto the town's busy streets.

"So Roxas, you having fun so far?" Sora questions Roxas with a curious but still happy look on her face. While thinking of an answer he looks at her. He sees her hands and arms behind her back just leaning down and into him with a questioning gaze. She looked…cute. 'CUTE?! My other's other's OTHER? Roxas get your head in the game!' Roxas chastises himself inside his head.

"Yeah Sor—I mean Sora, I'm enjoying this." Roxas answers steadily while Sora straightens up, pondering where they should go and if Roxas knows any good places. Sora gets a bright smile and asks her new friend.

"Hey Roxas, any good places we could all go to? Ri and Kai won't be here for a while." Sora asks

"What do you have in mind?" Roxas answers

"Maybe a game or something—" Sora's then interrupted by a deep woman's voice. Both of them not noticing where they wondered off to. "Seifa!" Sora shouts getting in a fighting stance.

"Roxas, stay back." Sora warns placing herself in front of him, putting herself between him and that bully. "No" Roxas says from behind her. He just walks up around her and stands beside her instead. He finally notices that the place they were was pretty empty.

"Roxas, what are you doing?!" Sora whisper yells at him from beside him. Roxas does indeed glance in her direction tho. He then notices that this is the first time that he's seen her this angry or this serious so far.

"Hey pipsqueak, who's that? Is that your little boyfriend?" Seifa says, mocking her tiny foe. Roxas just steps up and in front of his new friend. Not only does he go up in front of her, but WAY in front of her. He was silently preparing to take their foe head on.

"Roxas, no! You can't face her head on!" Sora whisper screams over at Roxas trying to reach his consciousness with her words, like she knew exactly what he was thinking.

"Ooo, your little boyfriend wants to protect his little shorty's honor?" Seifa mocks the both of them now. She then starts laughing with her two posse members, Fu and Rai.

"Hey I'm not THAT short! I grew a couple inches! Look look! I had a growth spurt!" Sora rebuttals with insistence, pointing at the top of her head repeatedly trying to show how much she grew.

"Enough talk, let's fight, Fu, get the blond squirt, Rai, you and me get the brown one" Seifa command her friends/subordinates.

"Aw, shit" Roxas curses under his breath trying to not to get distracted by looking back at Sora to see how she was doing and her expression.

"Don't worry Roxas! I'm all good, I can take em!" Sora reassures Roxas, again exactly like she knows what he's thinking. Looking at him with a smile on her face, she hops over Rai then gets tackled by Seifa. One eye closed and both pairs of hands clasped with the other's, Sora clinches her teeth while looking at Seifa's smirking makeup covered face.

"Shit!" Roxas curses as he summons his struggle bat from his dimension, which inadvertently confuses Fuu enough to get the jump on him. A couple slashes and a few blocks later, Fuu is pretty tired, until he hears his leader shout to get Sora.

Turns out she managed to get out from under Seifa's massive weight compared to her's. She was standing there exhausted, breathing hard, and with a swollen eye. That's the aftermath of a punch or lots of dirt in her eye. She then summons her keyblade and with the last of her strength, holds the hilt in front of her face close to her mouth.

"Come at me!" Sora breaths, then her eyes go wide with shock and fear as she sees Fuu coming at her, but this fight was supposed to be between the girls no boys allowed. She's not quick enough to move out the way in time.

"Fuck!" Roxas screeches as he switches his struggle bat for his two signature keyblades, Oathkeeper and Oblivion. He uses his hyper speed to block Fuu from reaching her. He's strong but not HIS level of strong.

"Back the fuck off" Roxas commands everyone in their immediate vicinity. Death glaring Fuu and his teammates till they back down. Since they at first didn't, he pushes Fuu off his keyblades and kicks his knees as a warning. He falls to the ground hold his knees.

"Now!" Roxas growls at the two remainders besides him. Seifa just glares right back at him and finally decides to leave. Before she does, she commands Rai and Fu to follow her back to their hideout.

"This isn't over, short stacks" Seifa clarifies, then turns around and walks away. Once those bullies were out of sight, Roxas recalls his blades and sprints over to grab Sora before she falls.

"Sora, are you okay?" Roxas asks with a concerned and pained look on his face. He was going to fucking kill them for attacking and ganging up on Sora at the last minute. First tho, he wants an answer from the stumbling and exhausted Sora. He decides to sit down with her and thinks about her two best friends, Rika and Kairo. He debates on using her gummi phone to call them, when Sora speaks up finally after a few minutes.

"I'm fine Roxas, didn't I do awesomely?" Sora says, while weakly smiling. Roxas just looks down at her with a grimace. He then starts looking around, trying to see if he could find silver hair and a redhead anywhere.

"Hey Sora, can I use your phone?" Roxas calmly asks while trying to keep a good position for her. Sora realizes that he was gonna call Rika and Kairo and tries to sit up.

"Don't tell them…" Sora states as she coughs on her new friend's lap. She still decides to get her gummi phone out and give it to him, so he can call their friends.

"Why? Sora—" Roxas is then interrupted by their said friends calling them. He picks up and they reply immediately saying that they'll be off the ship and down their in a little bit and hopes she's having fun with Roxas. Roxas answers that it's him and they then inquire about Sora. He tells them that she's hurt as they got into a little scuffle and Rika and Kairo angrily curse to themselves and each other while on the phone with Roxas.

"Wait there, where are you?" The angered and worried friends ask. Wondering how bad their best friend is, they ask Roxas how was Sora doing. Roxas says she's trying to go to sleep at the moment, so they should come quick. Roxas also then tells them that they're by where this "Rumble" stadium is. They receive it and say that they'd be there in a few. They also advise Roxas to take care of Sorano in the meantime until they get there. Roxas confirms and hangs up her phone. He silently cradles her semiconscious body while waiting for their friends to arrive.

Roxas then hears and sees Rika and Kairo sprinting towards them. Roxas tells them the situation and they become furious. Rika does thank Roxas for saving their bubbly, but hurt childhood friend from Seifa's gang. Even Kairo bregrudgedly thanks Roxas for his best friend from getting even more hurt then she already was. He's just glad she's okay.

"Hey Roxas, grab Sora's arm and put it over your shoulders to help hoist her body up and I'll get her other side, unless you can handle her even when asleep." Rika advises Roxas and he does what he's being told. After getting Sorano's body situated, the two of them start to talk.

"Hey Roxas, hard to admit it, but I think you have earned the right to be by our side, specifically her's" Rika states while holding Sora's left side up while the both of them are walking behind Kairo.

"You really think so?" Roxas asks while on the inside being insanely happy for some reason. He finally gets the right to stay in the team. Walking through an alleyway he asks where they could go, so Sora could get some rest comfortably. Both Rika and Kairo don't know, so Roxas decides to test his luck.

"Hey, we can go to my house and set her down there" Roxas suggests to the rest of his team. Kairo just looks at him with disgust. Rika thinks about his proposition for a while.

"Your building? You've got to be kidding" Kai accuses the other and only boy of their group. He looks over at Rika to gauge her reaction and realizes what she's thinking about.

"Rika! You can't possibly be thinking about going over there!" Kairo exasperatedly shouts to his other best friend trying to get her focused attention.

"Kai, if it's for Sora's well being and health, then yes" Her other best friend claims to Kairo. Roxas stares back at Kairo, and smiles smugly at him. Kairo just scowls in his direction. Rika notices this transaction and decides to get Roxas to pay attention to where they're going.

"Roxas! Watch where your stepping! I don't want you to fall and bring both me and Sor down with you!" Rika yells angrily at Roxas to get him to focus at the task at hand and not Kairo. Roxas apologizes to Rika for almost getting them both, including Sora, in trouble.

"Alright, lead the way" Kairo says sarcastically as well as giving permission to Roxas to let him be the other one to help carry Sora to their destination. Roxas gets to lead and directs them out of the alley.