Authors Note: Here is chapter two! :D I hope you guys are enjoying the story :3

There is few tiny surprises, nothing big.
But I really hope you guys do like it c:
I'm sorry, Vanitas is such a jerk, but don't worry, he'll mature in the story.

~I apologize for any spelling and grammar mistakes that spell check could not find~

READ ON.

Riku was walking down the stairs in a manner that read 'I'm not happy, so out of the way'. Ventus not too far behind, mostly because Riku had Ven's hand still with his.

Ventus wasn't complaining all too much because he was stuck in another trance seeing that his hand was stuck in the cute taller boy's hand. "Uh... Riku..."

"Yeah?" He came to a stop at the bottom of the first flight of stairs they were going down.

"I'm not really complaining about the hand holding, but I kind of need to get my gym clothes from my locker." Ventus scratched the back of his head and let out a small chuckle. "You can come back with me, it'll only take a minute or do you want to wait here?"

"I'll wait here for a minute, just don't let us be too late, remember that you have to show me the way there." He grinned a little.

"Alright, I'll be back in a flash." Ventus let go of Riku's hand and ran back up the stairs and down the hallway where he always goes to get to his locker. He stood before it and turned the lock to the correct combination numbers. He threw in his English book and grabbed his gym clothes from the top shelf. He took out a pen from his bag and quickly reached for his journal. He opened it to a new page and wrote down

"Journal Entry:
There's a new kid in my class and he's one of the hottest guys I've seen in a while. I'll write more later"

He threw his journal back into his locker and closed the door. Ventus held his gym clothes in his hands and started quickly walking back towards the stairs. He looked down at the ground for a second to see that his shoes were untied, but in doing so, he ran into Terra.

"Hey Ventus, where's the fire?"

"What?"

"Why are you walking so fast?"

"Oh, I'm supposed to go show a new kid to the gym"

"New kid, huh?"

"Yeah, he's really good looking and cool. He stood up to Vanitas for me."

"I see, well... you can talk to Aqua and I about crushes later, now go to him before he gets pissed." Terra laughed and pushed Ventus off towards the stairs.

Ventus ran down the stairs, thankfully without falling and continued walking with Riku through hallways and such and finally got to the gym. They walked through the front door of the gym along with many other students and their gym teacher Lexaeus calling out to the students to "Get changed! Then we'll go outside for class!" Ventus showed Riku the way to the boys' locker room and luckily Ventus had an empty locker underneath his own, so Riku took that one.

They got settled after a minute and making small talk about how gym class was suppose to work. The change room was filled with a bunch of guys just talking about random things, a few talking about who they thought was the hottest girl, best sports players, video games and a few other things but Ventus didn't care too much to listen. He got distracted by Riku taking off his school shirt and tie. All he did was stare. Some guys looked at Riku as well, but in envy. Their face just saying 'Damn, maybe I should work out more' or 'what kind of workout does he do?!'

Ventus' face just kept looking. He took off his own shirt in an unconscious attempt to look too obvious. Riku looking oblivious to everything as he went put on his gym shirt. "Ven, are you okay?" Riku asked as he waved a hand in front of Ventus' face. That snapped the smaller blonde into reality.

"Huh? What?"

"You were staring into space"

"Oh... was I? I uh... Um well whatever, thanks for snapping me out of it" He smiled. Ventus put on his gym shirt and went to get his gym shorts. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Riku unbuttoning his pants and pulling the zipper down. He looked away Oh god... why did this have to happen next to me... He took another peak and saw that Riku was wearing a pair of blue boxers. He quickly looked away again. I can't look or it might pop up. Ugh, I hate being a hormonal teenager sometimes. He thought with a mental sigh. He unbuttoned his own pants and made it look like he casually turned around so he couldn't see Riku. Ven dropped his pants and as fast as lighting he changed into his gym shorts. He threw his clothes in the locker and closed it up. He looked at Riku and saw that he was about to do the same.

A whistle was heard and you could hear the assistant coach Xaldin yell "Vanitas you're late!"

"Like I always am coach dreadlocks" Vanitas' voice could be heard.

"Aww damn, this class too?" Riku asked.

"Yeah... he's in five of mine" Ventus explained.

"That sounds like it really sucks, Ven"

"You have no idea"

Vanitas walked in and saw the two boys in the back. The last few guys who were in, left the change room. "Well well well, so I have two classes so far with Mr. New Kid" He slurred as he walked closer to his locker. This happened to be on the left side in the back, not so far away from the two. Not great.

Riku put a hand on Ven's shoulder and said that they should leave. Ven agreed to the idea without a second to waste, as they were walking out Vanitas called out "Hey, Ventus."

He stopped not even turning around "What?"

"So, did you get a boner looking at the taller one there, or what?" He asked smirking.

Ventus turned to look at Vanitas with wide eyes and a red face. "What? O-Of course n-not" He stuttered. "Why w-would you even ask that?!"

"Ha! You probably did" Vanitas laughed as he changed his shirt.

"I did not!" Ventus could feel his own face starting to heat up ridiculously fast.

"Come on, Ven. He's just trying to get to you" Riku said turning Ventus around "Lets just get our attendance taken, then go outside."

"Y-You're right" Ventus breathed out trying to calm his embarrassment.

They walked out towards the gymnasium where the teacher and the coach looking at the students waiting around for the signal to be able to leave outside to the field. Ven started looking around the gym hoping to find someone.

"Hey... looking for something?" Riku asked.

"Yeah, but more like someone" He answered.

"Who?"

"My friend, Aqua" Ventus smiled "You'd like her, she's really cool and way nice"

"Are you trying to set me up with her?" Riku joked.

"What? No!" He answered back a little too enthusiastically. He cleared his throat "I mean, no, no. I want to just help you and your friends make some more friends" He grinned.

"Well that's really nice of you, Ven." Riku answered "Should I worry about a catch somewhere?" He asked in a somewhat serious way.

"What? No way." He looked at Riku "People can do stuff to be nice, you know"

"Yeah... you know, you kind of remind me of my friend who moved here with me... He's always helping people for no reason."

"Really?" Ventus smiled. "Tell me about him."

"Well, he and I grew up together. Basically since he was five and I was six. We went on a lot of adventures together. He's been with me through everything. I remember this one time, he and I made a raft, trying to see if we could get to Atlantica for free." He laughed about his old memory about the water world they tried to sneak into. It was said to have the best water park off the coast of Destiny Islands. It wasn't cheap, the better the park, the more expensive. "We actually made it, and we saw people dressed up as mermaids swimming in tanks and stuff for that 'under the ocean' feel. But we didn't know there was a camera from the side we came through so the security kicked us out. We didn't get into too much trouble though."

"Hahaha, that's awesome. I wish I did that, but I went to Never Land Amusement park just because it was closer. Although, I got free passes for helping out Peter. The guy who runs all the cool flying stuff."

"Really?"

"Yeah, I had to help him get some supplies and had to stay up with his friend Tinker Bell fix some things in the Indian part of the park, fixing the things for the fire and making sure the totem poles were in their right places. I brought Terra and Aqua with me early, but Peter wouldn't open it until all the broken flying rides were fixed and crap."

"That sounds like something Sora would do"

"Did somebody say my name?" Aqua popped up behind Ventus and a boy with brown hair and blue eyes, popped up behind Riku.

Both of the boys who were talking jumped and looked at the person who was behind them. "Aqua! Hi!" Ventus greeted.

"Hey Ven." She greeted back while patting the little blonde boys head. "I see you made a new friend" She smiled at him, indicating the silverette with a nod of her head.

"Yeah, he's new here."

"Sora! I forgot you had this class." Riku said doing a handshake with Sora.

"Yeah, I ran late cause I couldn't find the gym" Sora put his arm behind his head let out a chuckle. "Oh and Kairi has lunch with us during sixth period."

"I wonder what other classes we all have" Riku asked.

"Oh!" Riku and Ventus said at the same time.

"Riku, I'd like you to meet Aqua."

"Ven, I want you to meet Sora"

Both of them said their introduction at the same time. "Oh" They said it again.

"Hi, I'm Aqua" Aqua said introducing herself to Riku first with a handshake.

When she went to give a Handshake to Sora, both Ventus and Aqua jumped back and took a look at him. "Vanitas?" They asked.

"Who's Vanitas?" Sora asked confused, "I'm Sora" He smiled.

"Sorry..." Ven apologized "You just look like this guy..."

"Named Vanitas?"

"Yeah... you don't bully people do you?" Aqua asked.

"What? No. That's horrible to hurt people." Sora said "Why did you ask that?" He asked confused.

"Because of..." Ventus looked around "Him..." He pointed toward Vanitas who was sitting on the top of the bleachers in the gym talking to a friend of his with spiked red hair and jade green eyes.

"The guy with the black hair?"

"Yep." Riku answered for him. "He's been bugging me ever since this fucking morning."

Vanitas looked over and saw the group looking at him and gave them that beloved middle finger with a toothy smirk. Riku gave one right back. Vanitas saw him and his smirk changed into a sneer.

They turned back to their own group and went back to talking. "So... New kid has some guts against, Vanitas? Ven, I approve." Aqua smiled after giving him a one armed hug.

"Approve?" Sora asked.

"Aqua" Ven groaned. "Ignore her, Sora; she's just making a joke. Somewhat of an inside joke, don't worry, you'll get it eventually" He wove it off with his hand.

After that Lexaeus blew his whistle and told everyone it was okay to go outside. While all the students were getting out the door, Xaldin blew his whistle and yelled "Axel. You don't have class now, Get out!"

Axel yelled back "It's Friday coach and I have a free period now, so you can leave me alone." And he walked through the doors and on the way to the field with Vanitas.

Riku, Sora, Ventus and Aqua all sat on the bleachers outside getting acquainted with one another.

"Hey Riku, there's a track going around the field, I'll race you all the way around and back to these seats." Sora challenged his best friend.

"Sora, I don't want to be, because you made me promise not to be, but... you suck at running. I beat your slow ass every time." Riku shot back.

"Except now, Gramps." Sora joked.

"I'm only a year older than you." Riku sighed.

"You're a sophomore?" Aqua and Ven asked surprised.

"Yep" Sora smiled "So come on, Riku, unless you're chicken." Sora teased.

"You know I'm not chicken about anything." Riku looked at him. Sora started making chicken noises in his best friends face. He even bent his arms that looked like he was flapping chicken wings. "Alright alright!" Riku caved. "First one back buys the loser whatever they want for dinner."

"You're on! Aqua, count us off?" Sora asked.

"Yeah sure"

The three of them got off the bleacher and down towards the track. Sora and Riku took their places and Aqua stood beside them outside of it. She raised her arm up and counted "3, 2, 1... Go!" She shot her fingers in the air and they ran.

It was really amazing the speed Sora and Riku had. They had already covered a quarter of the track in fifty seconds. "Whoa..." Ven stared at them in awe.

"Damn Ven, you picked a good one"

"What are you talking about?" Ven questioned.

"I can already tell you like him. Terra told me on my way to the gym, but I didn't think your boyfriend would be pretty cool."

"He's not my boyfriend!" Ventus called out a little too loud and had some faces look at him in confusion.

In the middle of the Track you could see Vanitas and Axel though kicking a soccer ball in the net. They happened to hear Ven's outburst and looked at him as well.

"So Vanitas, what's your plan for today, to bother little Ven over there?" Axel asked.

"First let's wait to see which of those idiots make it back to the bleachers first."

"You know that guy with the brown spiked hair looks a lot like you; I almost got scared when I saw him running into the locker room after you came out. I thought you may split into two people and died your hair and wore contacts or something."

"He looks nothing like me! I'm twelve times as good looking as he is anyway."

"Whatever you say" Axel scratched his neck "But my opinion stands"

Sora and Riku had completed a third of the track and were about to go for half. Riku was slightly ahead, by a few inches but Sora looked like he wasn't giving up.

"Come on, Sora, you're not going to win." Riku taunted his younger best friend.

"Hey I may be down, but I'm not out" Sora said putting in some extra strength to run faster.

"Well, it looks like you're finally getting as good as me." Riku smirked.

"Practice makes perfect" He smiled.

"Well you should practice a little more then." Riku said and just like that he started running faster and was about a foot ahead of him.

"How do you keep doing that?!" Sora called.

"Practice!" He yelled back.

Axel whistled as he saw the silver haired boy run so far ahead of brunette. "Wow, Vanitas, he may be as fast as you are. Looks like you got some competition."

"I can out run cop cars, he can outrun his friend. Big whoop" Vanitas wasn't all that impressed.

Riku ran right past the two messing with soccer balls and glared at Vanitas. Then ran towards the bleachers. Sora came running past the two about ten seconds later.

Riku ran up the bleachers and took a seat next to Ventus. "Wow Riku, you covered that entire run in three and a half minutes. I'm impressed." Ventus praised.

"Thanks" Riku smiled for a second before he continued to breathe trying to catch his breath. Sora came right after and sat on the bleacher seat right under Riku and started breathing as fast as Riku was. Both of them trying to catch their breath. "So you owe me a payment of something for dinner"

"Yeah I got it, but you're buying your own drink"

"Alright" They fist pounded.

"You guys seem really close" Aqua brought up.

"Yeah. We've been best friends since we were little and growing up on the Islands" Sora smiled. "We have had so many good times together"

Just then a soccer ball came flying right into Ventus' stomach. Obviously the pain from the impact of the ball was not something taken lightly. Ventus threw the ball off of him and held his stomach in pain. He felt like throwing up, but he held it back as best he could. "Oh my god, Ven are you okay?" Aqua asked worried.

"I'll go ask the teacher for an ice pack or something to help." Sora said running the bleachers and to the adults in charge of the class.

Riku looked towards the direction that the ball came flying from. He saw an obnoxious black haired boy with what he thought was a red haired sidekick, high fiving each other. "Ugh, I knew it was going to be, Vanitas." Riku said angrily.

"Axel could've done it too" Aqua added.

"Is that the red heads name?" Riku asked.

"Yeah. He's picked on Ven too"

"Aqua... You know it wasn't Axel, he hasn't done anything to me since sophomore year." Ven stated. His voice clearly showing he was in pain.

Sora came running back with an Ice pack and gave it to Ven to hold onto his stomach. Ven kindly thanked him and did just that.

"So Ven, how do you Axel didn't help do this to you either?" Riku asked.

"Wait who's Axel?" Sora asked.

"He's Vanitas's best friend." Ven answered "He's the red head standing next to Vanitas over there." He nodded. "And the reason I know he didn't help is because he's dating my brother"

"You have a brother?" Riku and Sora asked surprised.

"Yeah, twin brother, his name is Roxas." Ventus groaned from his stomach pain. "Thanks for getting me the ice-pack, Sora"

"No problem"

"Okay, so it was Vanitas." Riku said. "Excuse me, I have to kick a jerk's ass" He stepped down on

"Riku no" Ventus stopped him by grabbing his wrist. "It's okay, I'm okay. I don't want you to fight him. It's best just to ignore the bully. They'll leave you alone eventually."

"How long has he been picking on you anyway?" Sora asked curiously.

"Uhm... since seventh grade" He muttered.

"He's been picking on you since seventh grade?!" Sora specified.

"Okay then, that's it, I'm doing some ass kicking" Riku stated "Excuse me"

"Riku no!" Ventus stood up and grabbed his arm this time. He lost his balance and went toppling forward with Riku right in front of him. They fell down all the bleacher steps and landed on the ground. Ven landed on top of Riku in a crossed way, his stomach was laying across Riku's. Both of them had the wind knocked out of them.

"Holy crap! Ven!" Aqua shouted. She ran down the bleachers without falling like the two previous.

"Riku! Are you okay?!" Sora came right after her.

The two fallen guys were laying on the ground moaning and groaning in pain. Aqua and Sora pulled their friends up into a sitting position and tried to see if they were okay. They both lightly patted their faces trying to get them to open their eyes. Riku opened his first and then Ven.

"Oh thank god, you both are passed out" Sora cheered.

"Yeah... but maybe we should take you guys to the nurse to make sure you don't have concussions or something" Aqua added.

"Alright..." The teens in pain agreed.

In the distance the four could hear someone laughing ridiculously hard. None other than the lovely Vanitas creating the noise, holding his stomach. "That... was hilarious" He said through little laughs as he walked closer to the group.

"I'm sure you're two little boys are alright." He smirked.

"You know what Vanitas, Get castrated." Aqua said "Sora, you get Riku and followed me to the nurse's office.

"Hey Aqua, you want me to tell the teachers that you're taking them there?" Axel asked.

"Yeah, that'd help a lot. Thanks" She said and started walking back towards the school building.

"Why are you helping her out?" Vanitas asked disgusted.

"Because, I'm dating Ven's brother. If he finds out that I didn't help out, he might get mad at me and might cancel our date tonight." Axel explained. "And unlike you, I actually like going out with the guy I like"

"Oh just shut up and go" Vanitas rolled his eyes. "I'm going to keep practicing my soccer"

And with that Axel went off to notify the teachers that students were going to the nurse for falling down on accident and getting band-aid. To not make it seem like it was anyone's fault then texted Roxas about the truth. Vanitas went back to the pitch and started kicking soccer balls back into the net.

Aqua and Sora made it to the Nurses office and they had the nurse check them out. "So Mr. Marluxia, are they okay?" Aqua asked.

Marluxia had just finished shining light into each of the fallen eyes. "Yes, they are going to be fine, they don't have a concussion. Just a few scrapes and bruises." He explained.

"Can I have another ice pack for the bump I feel on my head?" Ventus asked.

"Sure" Marluxia smiled and went to open the freezer in the back of the office that held the ice packs. "Riku, would you like one to?" He asked.

"No thanks. I've felt worse pain in my martial matches" He answered.

Marluxia gave Ven an ice-pack.

"So, can they go to back to class?" Sora asked.

"I would like to have them rest for the remainder of the period before they go back, is that alright with you all?" Marluxia questioned. "Just to make sure they are okay enough to go"

"It's fine with me." Ven responded.

"I don't mind taking a little nap before Lunch" Riku agreed.

"Okay, so we'll see you guys next period" Aqua smiled. "Come on, Sora. Let's get back to gym."

"Can we play some basket ball?" Sora asked.

"Sure" Aqua agreed.

"Bye!" Sora waved.

"Later" Riku waved back.

"Okay boys, just go take a rest on the beds back there, and I'll wake you up in a half hour." Marluxia told them. They thanked him and went towards the resting area.

"Riku, I'm really sorry that I got us hurt." Ventus apologized from his resting bed.

"You can be a little clutzy, huh?" Riku asked.

"Only sometimes, if I'm near good looking people. I tend to get a little nervous."

"Did you just call me good looking?" Riku looked at him.

"Uh... No. Have a nice nap" Ventus said quickly and turned away hoping that didn't see the pink appearing on his cheeks. He closed his eyes and tried to sleep to avoid the subject. Riku on the other hand grinned at Ventus and his quick change in attitude. He put his hands behind his head and closed his eyes and relaxed.

Inside Ven's head, a dream was starting to happen.

It was a lovely afternoon taken place at a park.

There he was, little Ventus having fun swinging on his favorite swing. Smiling like there was no tomorrow. He was adorable and he couldn't be older than six. "Hey Ven!" He saw a little kid running to the swings while they called his name. "Ven! I got your favorite ice-cream!" The little boy who had a huge smile and ice cream in his hand had black spiky hair and golden yellow swallow tailed butterfly eyes, was none other than a small six year old Vanitas.

"Thanks a lot, Van. I love sea-salt ice-cream!" Ventus stopped his swing and took the ice-cream from Vanitas.

"Yeah, aren't you happy I got you to try it?"

"Yeah" He smiled. "I should get one for Roxas to try, before we have to leave." He looked at his young brother having fun running around, sliding and playing on jungle gyms. "He may love it too."

"Yeah. I'm really sad that you have to leave, Ven." A sad little Vanitas looked at his best friend.

"I'm sorry I have to leave too..." Ven made a frown that looked like it could break the heart of the saddest puppy.

"I'm really going to miss you"

"I'm going to miss you to, Van. You're my best friend."

"You're my best friend in the whooole world~" Vanitas said opening his arms in a somewhat circle to put emphasis on his sentence. "And I love you!" He cheered.

"I love you too!" Ventus grinned from ear to ear. Their undeveloped voices made their moment even more adorable.

"So how about we make a promise?" Vanitas suggested.

"What kind of promise?"

Young little Vanitas grabbed Ventus' hand and crossed their pinkies together "When we are older, we'll find a way to meet each other again. Then, we can get married~!"

"Don't boys and girls usually make this promise?" Ventus laughed.

"Why can't we be different?"

Ventus liked Vanitas' point and smiled. "Okay! When Vanitas and Ventus are older, they will get married!" He cheered.

"Roxas! Ventus!" The boys heard their nine year old brother, Demyx calling them. "We have to go home and finish packing! Mom and Dad are waiting!" He was standing in front of a car. Their car.

"Coming!" Both the boys called. Roxas was already running to their brother.

Ventus stood in his place. "Bye, Van. I won't forget our promise." He smiled "We'll always be the best friends! Forever!"

"Forever and ever!" Vanitas agreed.

Both the boys had a little tear in their eye, but they hugged each other so tight like they never wanted to let go and leave. They didn't, but they did. They used their own little hands after the hug to wipe each others tear. They said their good bye, and Ventus ran off to the car and jumped in the back seat next to Roxas. He looked through the window and looked at Vanitas as he drove home.