Well the first real chapter! This is the introduction of the character, Hono. I chose that name because of the four elements. His name means fire. Enjoy!

Chapter One

A New Rivalry

The bright morning sun shone through Sora's window. He slowly got out of bed and went to get breakfast.

'Mmmm…School uniform. This is gonna be ridiculous!' he told himself in his head.

"Ah, c'mon! I bet you it won't be that bad." A familiar voice spoke to him. A transparent figure appeared next to Sora. It was a spiky blond haired boy in a white outfit. His face looked a little like Sora's. 'The Key of Destiny.' No. 13 of Organization XIII and Sora's Nobody, Roxas.

"Hey! Why the sudden appearance?" This was the first time Sora saw Roxas since being in the World That Never Was.

"I just wanna see how you're day goes in person."

"Could you still do that while you're inside of me?"

"I could," Roxas smiled. "But I'd rather follow you around."

"Okay, but no one else is able to see you, right?"

"Only Kairi and Riku."

"Good morning, Sora!" his mother greeted him as he walked into the kitchen. She wore a sky blue dress with flower designs on it and an apron over the dress. She had blue eyes and long brown hair tied into a ponytail.

"Morning, Mom." Sora replied and noticed Kairi sitting at the table with a grocery sack sitting in front of her. She was wearing a white blouse, a blue plaid skirt, navy blue knee socks, a black leather dress shoes. "Kairi? What are you doing here?" Kairi had never been in Sora's house before. He was kind of embarrassed at having her see him in his pajama bottoms with no shirt on and started to blush. Roxas gave a silent snicker, but Sora knew he was laughing at him.

"No 'good morning' to me?" she asked teasingly.

"Oh, good morning…" he was still a little red in the face. Kairi just giggled.

"Don't worry. I knew you meant to say 'hello' or 'good morning'. By the way I brought you your uniform. You need to get dressed soon, though. School starts in an hour." She gave him a smirk as if she was expecting something funny to happen.

"Oh man!" Sora whined as he turned to go upstairs to his room.

A boy with straight black hair and red eyes stood in front of a school building, Destiny High. He wore a white buttoned up shirt and blue plaid slacks. He had a wooden sword sheathed onto his backpack that seemed to be stuffed with books.

'This is where he lives?' he thought. 'Wise Guy, what is it that you want here? You want the Princess, but what I want is to battle the Keyblade master to see if he really is as powerful as they say.'

"You look nice, Sora." Kairi complimented. "So do you, Riku." The two boys wore the same outfits; white buttoned shirts, blue plaid pants, and black leather dress shoes. Sora looked like he was going to die wearing it.

"I knew I'd lookridiculous!" he complained.

"Oh, c'mon Sora!" Riku said optimistically. "It's not that bad."

"What ever you say." Sora stuck his wooden sword into his empty backpack and put it on his back. "At least there's a sword fighting class that the three of us can practice and teach Kairi some more moves."

"You guys think I'm getting better at using a Keyblade?" Kairi wondered. She had a long wooden dowel sheathed onto her bookcase.

"Of course!" Sora encouraged his friend. "I know you'll get even better in the next few days."

"Yeah." Riku agreed.

"Okay." She suddenly broke into a mad dash. "I'll race you two." she called back to them. They both went and caught up with her.

Seven minutes later, they reached the school all at the same time. Sora bent down to catch his breath. Riku caught his breath while still standing upright. Kairi didn't even seem to need to catch it.

"Man, Kairi." Sora said. "You've really gotten athletic."

Kairi gave a slight giggle. "Thanks! I really want to be able to a great fighter if the Heartless ever appear again."

A boy with a dark tan and orange hair that went up into one huge spike wearing the same uniform as Sora and Riku came running up. "Hey, wassup you guys!"

"Hey there, Wakka." Sora greeted. "What's goin' on over there?" He looked over Wakka's shoulder and saw a crowd of teenagers gathered around in a circle.

"That's what I was coming to tell about. A new kid just challenged Tidus to a swordfight." Then there was a thud. Two boys came out of the circle and were carrying a spiky-headed blond in the school uniform on their shoulders. He carried a red wooden stick for his weapon. Sora walked into the circle.

The person in the middle had black hair and red eyes and carried a wooden toy sword. He looked somewhat arrogant. Sora appeared in front of him and walked forward and brought his hand out to the new kid.

"Hi! I'm Sora." He introduced himself. "What's your name?"

The kid raised his sword threateningly and replied. "How about we make a deal? If you win, I'll tell you my name. But if I win, you have to let me spend time with the girl of my choice."

"Umm… Okay…" Sora brought his sword out and went into a fighting stance. The black-haired boy went into a fighting position as well.

"Dude," Wakka elbowed Riku's arm lightly. "This is gonna be good, ya?"

"I think Sora will win this!" Riku told Wakka. "I've seen him fight now and he is equal to me in strength now." It was only a year ago when Riku was still stronger than Sora and was better at stuff than he was. He was happy to have a friend like Sora, even after all of the horrible things he did.

Sora went and leaped at his opposition. His opponent sidestepped and did a horizontal slash at Sora's chest, but he blocked the attack. Sora countered with a slash at his leg, the other boy lifted one leg off the ground to evade the attack, but got hit with the blade of the toy sword. He fell flat onto his back. Sora brought his sword onto his shoulder and smirked. Another victory.

The boy with flaming red eyes pushed himself off the ground and did a flying kick. He hit the spiky headed boy in the face. Sora back stepped a little and felt his lip. Blood was dripping.

"Oh man," He complained. "You gave me a fat lip!"

The new kid brought his sword up towards Sora's neck and shook his head. "You really shouldn't let your guard down until you know your opponents defeated." He chuckled.

"I guess you want to hang out with the girl of your choice, right?" Sora sighed.

"Bingo! Now, do I want to hang out with that cute brown haired girl?" he looked over towards Sora's friend Selphie. She had neck length brown hair that curled at the bottom and green eyes. "Or, how about that beautiful red head?" he looked over at Kairi now.

Sora started to feel a little uneasy. He didn't know if he could trust this boy or not. "Sure, I guess you could hang out Kairi."

"A beautiful name as well." He walked up to Kairi and knelt down and grabbed her hand and kissed it. Sora couldn't help but feel jealous. After saving Kairi two times, he felt they should be together.

After school got out, Sora and Riku waited at the front gates for Kairi. Sora watched as Kairi and the new kid talk and wave to each other. She walked towards her friends.

"Kairi?" Sora asked. "Did you happen to find out his name?"

"Yes," she replied. "It's Hono. Why do you ask?"

"Just wondering," Sora was still upset about the new kid kissing Kairi's hand. "Anyways I'll see you guys tomorrow." Sora headed towards his house.

"He shouldn't really be jealous," Kairi told Riku. "It's was just a harmless little kiss on the hand."

"I don't know. You know how Sora can be sometimes." Riku reminded his friend. They started to head to their houses.

Hono was in a dimly lit study. In front of him was a laptop. He typed in a few keystrokes in a program.

"Initiating video chat." The computer said. A shadowed figure appeared on the screen. Hono couldn't tell what the person looked like, but he knew who it was.

"That was a short battle this morning." The figure said in an electronic voice. "I was thinking Sora would have won."

"Alright, Wise Guy," Hono replied. "I've gotten closer to the subject. I want to know why she's so important!"

"Patience, young one. I'll tell you when the time is ripe." The screen went blank and Hono just sat in the desk.

"Hmph, at least I'm being paid handsomely for this."

Well things sure are getting interesting. The next chapter should be up by Monday or Tuesday. Please R&R!

Xinck