by Flare Haynekie
Disclaimer: Same-same-same.
Warnings: AU, OOC-ness
Author's notes: Fourth! Fourth! I'm so proud of myself nya. Hmm, I should fix the summary… bah, I'll do it some other time.
Chapter 4: Caroline's helper
Sora watched how the silver haired boy managed to quickly attend to all the students that had come and almost killed Sora ten minutes ago. With a sigh, Sora saw the last two students leave the store.
"Thanks. You must be the helper I was told that would come." Sora said.
"No sweat. But, where's Caroline?"
"She kinda left a while ago to show my dad a place where he could get a job."
"Oh, he was your father! I had wondered who he was. And you. You must be new to the island, because I have never seen you before."
"Yeah… I kinda arrived three hours ago. My name is Sora Barzahd, and I've just arrived from Kuri City."
"Kuri? That's where Caroline's daughter moved years ago. I think her name was Dom, or something. She was a cell phone designer or something weird like that. She was the one with the idea for the special 3300 cell phones we have here. Here, I'll give you my number so you can call me if you have any trouble. I'd be glad to help."
"Um, sure." Sora took out his cell phone and handed it to his new friend. "Be careful, I just got it a while ago."
The boy just smiled as he checked the cell phone out. One little detail almost made him drop the small thing. And he cursed. He sure did. "Aw, hell no!" He hurriedly saved his cell phone number and handed the phone back to Sora.
"Is something wrong? Did I say something wrong?"
"No, no. Forget about it. Um, does Sora mean anything in any language?" he suddenly asked.
"It means sky." Sora checked the cell phone. In soft blue letters was the name Riku in the directory. "You're Riku? THE Riku?!"
"I think? I'm the only Riku in the island, that's as much as I know. Riku Akisuki, pleasured to meet you, Sora."
"No! You can't be Riku!"
"Why not?"
"Cause we have to marry!"
"Just because mom and her best friend made that promise, it doesn't mean that we have to."
Sora pouted. "But I need to fulfill all of the things mom asked me to do."
"Do you owe it to her."
"I guess so. This is practically the only thing I can do. I couldn't do anything the day she died, so I have to let her rest in peace knowing that I've done everything she sorta left incomplete."
"She died? I'm sorry, I didn't know."
Sora leaned on the counter, cradling his head on his hands. "It's okay. It was a surprise to me too."
Riku looked at Sora. "I'm gonna go change, do you think you can handle it for a few seconds?"
Sora nodded, glad for the change of topic. "Sure! Hey, um, can I try your uniform?"
Riku stared at Sora for a moment. "I guess it wouldn't hurt. Sure, just let me go change."
A few minutes later Riku came out and handed Sora his uniform.
"Thank you!" Sora smiled and went in the back and changed. He came back with Riku's uniform on. Riku had a larger built than Sora, and was even taller than the brunet, so the uniform was large on all sides. But it looked cute to Sora. Sora found a large mirror close to him, and turned around in front of it. "I hate it." Sora declared after a while.
'Isn't it kinda obvious, you being a girl and all?' Riku thought as Sora headed back to go change. A while later, Sora came out and gave Riku his uniform back, before sitting again on the stool.
Riku stood quiet, hearing the music on the old radio. He put away the uniform in his backpack as he heard the current music reaching it's ending. An old radio with new hits… that was mostly Riku's fault. He's the one who taped the cassette after all. He was about to ask Sora something when he heard Sora softly sing the song that was currently starting. He was amazed that such a tomboyish looking girl had such a lovely voice. He remembered the song to be called "Even when tried by sorrow".
Sora, on the other hand, didn't even notice he started singing until Riku got up and hugged him in the small instrumental solo.
"I'm sorry. Just, let me stay like this for a while." Riku whispered, at which Sora nodded, and continued singing. When the song was over, Riku let go of Sora and walked back to his spot. "I'm sorry. I know we don't know each other, but I just felt like I need to do that."
Sora blushed. "I-it's okay! Don't worry about it. But, you must be disgusted by me, right?"
"Not at all. Why do you ask such a thing?"
At that exact moment, Caroline entered the store. The school lunch's hour had ended a long while ago. That's why the store was so empty.
"I'm back." Caroline said. "Oh, Riku's here too. It's always nice to have so much company."
Sora jumped off the stool and grabbed his backpack, running to where Caroline was at the other side of the counter.
"Oh, Sora. Sion said that he would be home waiting, so you could returned when you wanted to." Caroline informed.
Sora nodded, his blush still visible for all to see. "Thanks. Um, I'll be back tomorrow. I should go home and unpack." He looked at Riku for a minute before looking back at Caroline. "See you tomorrow, grandma. Bye Riku." Sora nodded and ran out the store.
Riku nodded before quickly looking at Caroline. "Grandma?!"
"Yes, Riku. I'm a grandma. That's my baby grandchild, Sora." Caroline chuckled as she walked around the counter to join Riku.
"So Sora's your relative… that's kinda nice to know. Such a sweet girl too."
"Girl?" Caroline laughed. "I suppose you're right. But isn't Sora just lovely? He reminds me so much of his mother."
Riku almost chocked. "HE?!"
Meanwhile, Sora rushed back to his house. He took a box up to his room, leaving it and his backpack on the sad looking bed. After he took all his boxes up, he started to unpack them all and placed everything in their new place. With all the boxes empty, everything in its place, and the bed made, Sora picked some pj's and went to take a bath. When he was done, he went down stairs for some dinner. He softly held a small towel on his neck. He had been drying his hair when his stomach called for food. He sat down, Sion serving the food before sitting across Sora. They ate quietly, Sion looking carefully at Sora's slow eating pace.
"Is something wrong already?" Sion asked, at which Sora nodded. "Will you tell me?"
Sora nodded, placing down the fork. "I met grandma's helper. His name is Riku."
"The Riku?"
"I think so."
"And? Did you make friends with him?"
"Kinda."
"And what's wrong?"
Sora looked up at Sion. He looked around the dinning room, then rested his eyes back on Sion. "I think I'm in love with him."
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To be continued!
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Author's note: Hah! Did this oh soo quickly! I'm so happy. -insert evil laugh here- Cliffhanger! Meep!! I think I meant to leave it like that. But I'm still happy that I did this one really quickly. I mean, just a while ago I wrote the third one too. -sniff- I'm internet deprived again. The song "Even when tried by sorrow", I'm not sure who sings it, but it's in the Rurouni Kenshin Song Collection 2. When I heard it I went, "this is perfect for Sora!" Of course, I didn't have a clue of what the song was called, or what it said. All I knew was that it said "sore wa eien" (which I think it's supposed to mean "that's everlasting" or "that's eternal"), so I searched for it in www.animelyrics.com . Kudos to them for having it!! And translated too. - The first line fits Sora perfectly, so if you have time, go read it, it's under it's original title "Kanashimi ni Tamesarete mo". So, yeah. I'm bored, so I might as well start the next chapter.
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I'm still writing the fifth chapter, so don't hurry me!!! -pout- But thanks for the reviews guys!