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Ch.6

"Can we talk?" Riku asked. As Sora's parents turned towards them the brown-haired boy hid himself behind Riku. His hands were twisting nervously and he had this heavy feeling in his gut, like he had lied to his parents and they had caught him. A few tears were still coming out of his eyes and his breathing was heavy.

"Of course, what is it?" His mom asked in a gentle voice a note of worry as she saw Sora.

Riku turned and gave a gentle smile and a nod trying to get him to tell them. Sora just shook his head though and continued to hide behind Riku as he whispered, "Can you tell them… please?" his eyes were wide and watery and he bit his bottom lip making the infamous puppy dog face.

"There is a kid in Sora's class that has been really mean to him. Pushing him around and calling him names and stuff. He even tore up one of Sora's drawing today."

"It was going to be a present for you Riku," Sora whispered quietly.

"How long has this been going on for Sora?" his mother asked in a kind, and caring voice.

Sora thought on it for a moment, "A couple of months..." He muttered with his head ducked in shame.

"Sora, sweetie… why not come to us when this first started?"

Sora mumbled his response.

His dad frowned slightly as he gently asked, "What was that?"

The boy had tears trailing down his face as he mumbled a bit louder, "I didn't want you to think I was a freak too."

Sora's parents eyes both widened in surprise, a little sadness and worry crossed over their faces. "Oh Sora, we would never think that of you!" Sora's mother said.

"You're our precious little boy," Sora's father added.

"B-but R-rin said you didn't want me" Sora admitted sobbing, "He said that I-I was just a-a pathetic l-loser who's destined to end up l-lying in a ditch on the side of the road amounting to nothing…" he shuffled away from Riku a bit his arms wrapped around himself as he shuddered.

Immediately Sora's parents wrapped their arms around him, holding him in a tight embrace. Sora's father placed one hand on top of Sora's head, ruffling the boy's brown hair slightly, "That isn't true Sora. You are such a wonderful and bright young boy."

"We just know you're destined for great things!" Sora's mom said with a bright smile. As she gently rubbed the distraught boys back.

Sora sniffled again as a few tears streamed from his face, though these didn't feel like sad tears. These tears felt happier for his parents did actually care for him and loved him very much. Sora smiled as he wrapped his arms around his parents, returning the hug.

Riku shuffled awkwardly before a female hand grabbed him and pulled him into the family hug. "And thank you Riku, we're glad that Sora has such a wonderful friend such as you that he can count on to help him." Sora's mother said smiling at the silver haired boy.

'Hey, are you okay?' Ventus asked Sora who was laying on his bed curled up his cheeks still puffy from his tears and his eyes were red from all of the crying he had been doing.

Sora did not respond at all, he just continued to lay quietly on his bed, hugging a little, orange fox plush tightly in his arms.

'I'm so proud of you Sora,' Ventus said wishing he could give the child a hug. He could feel Vanitas watching but not saying anything still.

Sora remained quiet. Ventus frowned to himself, worried about Sora's lack of response.

'Sora, are you okay? Everything's going to be better now, your parents are helping,' Ventus continued trying to get the boy to respond.

'Would you shut up Ventus, it's obvious the boy doesn't want to talk to you,' Vanitas grumbled.

"Why did I accept them into my own heart... If I didn't, none of this would have happened, I would be a normal boy and I would probably have more friends than just Riku…" Sora thought. He was only thinking it to himself, but his thoughts could be heard as clear as day to Ventus and Vanitas.

'Tough luck. You did and so now your stuck with us. Deal with it,' Vanitas growled.

'Vanitas…' Ventus sighed, 'Don't make him feel any worse than he already is. You know he has had a hard day.'

'So what? Life isn't easy! If he lets such a little thing just as a few harsh words reduce him to a blubbering mess, then he's going to amount to just what that brat said he would. Nothing. So he needs to stop his whining and do something about it, not just lay around crying like a pathetic loser'

Ventus sighed again, dealing with Vanitas on a regular basis was harder than he thought. Vanitas tended to speak his mind all the time, and the majority of it was usually negative in some way or form. Right now was a particular hard moment for Ventus as he couldn't always figure out the right words to say to Sora to calm him or the words to get Vanitas to back off.

"Stop it both of you!" Sora shouted in a whisper, his voice still sore and weak from crying earlier. "Stop talking already…"

'What can you do about it? If I wish to say something I will, and there's nothing you can do about it.'

'Just shut up Vanitas! We should respect Sora's choice to be quiet.' Ventus snapped at his darker half. His worry over Sora making him more snappish than he usually was.

'Oh please, like I would listen to you, you're almost as pathetic as the brat is right now! Listening to the whims of a child, could you sink any lower.'

'But he is just a child! We shouldn't pressure him too much,' Ventus retorted.

"Stop! Please… just stop talking!" Sora whimpered out.

'And why should I listen to a crybaby such as yourself?'

Sora didn't answer back, he only started to sniffle again, letting just a few more tears slip from his eyes. The tears continued to stream down his face as he gripped the plush even tighter and buried his face against.

Vanitas growled, 'Would you just stop with the tears already! Crying is not going to get you anywhere! You need to learn to toughen up! Why do you care about what some other brat thinks!? All your doing right now is proving that stupid Rin bully correct! So stop your crying and toughen up!'

Ventus wanted to respect Sora's wish to be quiet, but he could feel that Vanitas was actually trying to help the boy in his own way. 'I think... What Vanitas is trying to say is that you shouldn't let other people's thoughts bother you. You can't have everyone like you and sometimes you need to ignore those who say mean things. Some people… some people just like being mean to others for no reason. And these people are sad, because they won't ever truly know happiness.'

Sora wiped the tears from his face, "Is that true Vani?"

Vanitas grunted, 'Basically,' he spat out annoyed.

Sora smiled a little, "Thank you Vani."

'Hmpf.'

Ventus paused as he could feel something coming from Vanitas's emotions… was that… embarrassment?

'Aww does Vani have a sweet spot for little Sora?' Ventus said with a teasing tone.

'No, of course not!' Vanitas denied a tad to quickly.

'You do care about somebody else! Are you sure your feeling alright?' Ventus asked trying to not snicker.

'What are you talking about?!' Vanitas growled.

'Awww such a grouch Vani, lighten up.'

Sora giggled as Vanitas replied, 'Maybe you should learn not to be such an emotional fool.'

Ventus continued teasing Vanitas long into the night and Sora fell asleep with a peaceful smile on his face.

And that wraps up another chapter. We still got a lot of Sora childhood to cover, so be prepared! We got so much in store!

Thank you again for reading!