Fighting Fate
It was a drizzly morning in Inaba as Sōji Seta listened to Yosuke Hanamra talk about the recent string of murders. Though he was mostly zoning in and out of the conversation while his friend rambled, when all of a sudden something in the corner as Sōji's eye caught his attention.
There were two boys, roughly around their age, whom he didn't recognize. One of them looked relatively normal; except for those black and white rings he had that completely matched his entire wardrobe. The other kid was the one who stuck out like a sore thumb though; he had on these shoes that looked like they were size 30 that were black and bright yellow, MC Hammer-style black shorts with multiple yellow belts strapped to it that was topped off with what can only be assumed were two blood-red fanny-packs on both sides of his hips, and a black vest/hoodie. At this sight Sōji then nudged Yosuke's shoulder.
"Hmm, what's on your mind captain?" Yosuke asked.
Sōji cocked his head in the direction of the two out-of-place teens.
Yosuke arched an eye-brow and laughed, "Wow, sure takes a special kinda man to come out dressed like that."
Shōji followed-up with, "Who are those guys anyway? They look about our age."
"No clue," Yosuke shrugged, "I'd definitely recognize them if they were in our class though... Hmm, now that I think about it, as small of a town that Inaba is I'm surprised that I haven't seen them around before."
After a couple of seconds of silence Yosuke continued, "Why do you wanna know about them anyway? You think they're involved?"
Sōji calmly looked at his friend, "No, I'm sure they don't have anything to do with what's been going on. I just like to make sure that all our bases have been covered," he said while trying his best to word everything as carefully as possible.
Yosuke just gave a blissful smile showing his content with that answer. While Sōji was careful not to lie to his friend; the young adult still wasn't exactley honest with his energetic partner. He was sure those two had nothing to do with recent events and he did just want to cover all bases, that much was true. Though these were just secondary reasons for why Sōji Seta was interested in those two. The real reason behind the leaders' intrest being that those guys just seemed… Out of place.
Sōji couldn't put his finger on it but he had this strong feeling that they didn't belong here; not just in Inaba but… Here. In this world with them.
He actually had to fight the temptation of running up and demanding, 'who are you and what are you doing here!'
Although he may just be overthinking it; Sōji considered about asking Teddie in private about those two, considering the guy... Um, bear-mascot?... Didn't actually belong here himself either. Was it possible that they were like Teddie?
…
It had been a couple of hours since Sora and Roxas woke up on that park bench and so far talking to the locals here had done very little to help them.
"God, it's like all anyone here talks about is fuckin murders," a frustrated Roxas screamed.
Sora began pessimistically stating, "We don't have a Gummi Ship, and Donald and Goofy aren't here to help. King Mickey is, god knows, where. And we have no way of communicating with the outside world…"
"Look Sora… Don't worry man, we'll find a way to reach everyone," Roxas comforted while trying his best to keep a controlled tone of voice.
"Yeah, you're right! Sorry bout that," Sora smiled as he immediatly regained his composure.
Completely dumbfounded at how Sora was able to quickly go back to his normal cheery self, Roxas began laughing hysterically.
"H-Hey! Don't laugh at me," Sora pouted.
Whether Roxas was laughing at Sora, or was just laughing because he was just so strung-out emotionally at this point he wasn't entirely sure. Soon Sora joined in as well.
Without any warning a hand clutched them both on the shoulder. The two immediately cocked their heads and saw a large, balding, man in a suit who then brought his head down to their ear level.
In a deep, raspy, voice he stated, "Now… That's not the way to school is it…? Need help getting there?"
Though Sora was still at a loss for what this man wanted; Roxas, who had actually gone to public school, knew that this was a truant officer. Roxas came up with two excuses they could use:
1) They forgot their school supplies and were going back home to get them.
or
2)They didn't go to this school.
Roxas decided to go with the second one; since if he told them they forgot their supplies, the officer would just follow them home and wait outside while they got it, which would lead to the problem that they had no home to lead him to and it would just snowball from there.
Roxas spoke up, "We actually don't come to this school sir," said with the most conviction he could muster.
The truant officer smirked, "While I might not recognize you two, but do you really think I'm THAT stupid?"
The two boys shot him a pair of confused looks.
He then whispered, "There's only one high school kid... And you two are at least fourteen."
Roxas began mentally kicking himself for not realizing it. It was such a small town; of course they'd only need one high school!
After they were dropped off at Yasogami High School and were "escorted" (read: dragged) to the principal's office was when things got complicated.
After looking through the schools records the principal began, "Let's see here Sora and Roxas… So you're both sixteen, meaning second year students, but I have no record for either of you... Care to explain?"
Not wanting Roxas to feel the need to cover-up for everything Sora decided to chime in, "We're just new transfer students."
Roxas fought the urge to do a face-palm after hearing that little gem, but decided instead on nodding to help sell their story.
A now-confused principal asked, "So, why weren't we informed beforehand?"
To Roxas' surprise Sora was able to give a swift response, "It was kind of a last minute thing, and with the way cities are getting our parents thought the country was the best choice for us."
Roxas decided to take back what he thought earlier, the kid might not be so bad at this lying thing after all.
The principal sighed, "Well, I can understand but… Dammit, this is just too much paperwork… Look I'm assigning you both to Kashiwagi's classroom, alright?"
They both quickly nodded their heads and were shown where their new classroom was.
A.N: Hello and I would like to thank those of you who read this story! So I guess they're now enrolled in school huh? Wonder what'll happen when Sōji sees them! If you enjoyed this story please check out my other works like "Soul Eater Vs. The World," "The Real Slim Shady?", "Soul and Chrona: Too Much Adventure!", and "Bred to Die Born to Live." Please Favorite and/or review so I know where my strengths are and how I can improve as a writer, as well as give me motivation to continue writing! It's all to benefit you, so please give me some CONSTRUCTIVE criticism! No Trolls Allowed! (I deal with that ENOUGH from my abridged series…) I hoped you enjoyed! Thank you for reading! See you in the 3rd chapter! ~Traffic9991
