Here's chapter three! Thank you so much reviewers! Sorry for the wait!
LovelyLily – Thanks for two reviews! And I'm glad you liked the ideas and my story. I hope chapter three doesn't disappoint, it's a bit different then the other two. Enjoy!
Brie92– Wouldn't it be weird? Having someone like your twin? The idea just popped into my head though, and Hayner seemed like the best person to make a huge deal out of it. Maybe Sora did forget about the ghost boy . . . or maybe not! You'll have to read to find out the rest!
Soon – to – be – author - Thanks for reviewing, and I'm so glad you like it! Good to know my idea is new, that's what I was aiming for! Hope you like chapter three!
Blacksakura13– It's so awesome that you reviewed both chapters! Thanks! I'm really glad you like Sora; I was just trying to make him a little bit in character. And the Leon and Seifer being enemies – I never played FF8, but I do know they are enemies! But still glad you like the idea!
And I would personally be completely and utterly freaked out if something like that happened to me – being confused for someone else, and being new. I used to be confused for this girl in elementary school . . . but the weird thing is that we look nothing like each other now. Okay . . . I'm rambling. Anyway, hope you like chapter three!
Acherona– You're back! Glad you liked this chapter and the characters! Yeah, poor Sora, probably going crazy with everything that's happening! And I'm impressed you noticed the small part of Axel I put in there. And I love that idea too, Roxas being 'obsessed'; Axel is way too desperate in some fics! And the popular crowd will actual make more of an appearance in this chapter! Hope chapter three doesn't disappoint!
Oh, and Cloud probably really can't survive without hair gel . . . like most KH characters!
Blue Fox of the Moon – The look – a – like part sure is popular! In real life, it'd be both funny and . . . beyond creepy. It must have been hysterical for you since you were right there. Anyway, enjoy chapter three!
UberBex– Kill Roxas off?! Never! I love Roxas too much to EVER kill him off! But, anyway, Hope you like this chapter!
Psalmofsummer – Yes. Yes he does. XD. Glad you like it!
Once again, thanks all reviewers for chapter two! You guys are great!
This chapter will be about Soracoping with everyone knowing now. There will also be more of Kairi.
Hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: You know, at this rate, I'm never gonna own it . . .
Warnings: BoyXBoy, cursing.
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o4: I Have My Moments.
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As the whole cafeteria stared at Sora, the brunette banged his head against the table, cursing at Hayner. The blond himself smiled sheepishly, and whispered to Sora, "Er . . . sorry."
Sora brought his head up to glare at Hayner, and the others started to glare at him too. Not wanting to say something in the silent room, he gaped at them, eyes narrowed. Roxas shook his head and in a mocking motion, rubbed his two pointer fingers in a shame sign – Hayner looked like he was about to lunge at the other blond, as Roxas scooted away in silent laughter. Sora smiled weakly but regained his frown as he saw that everyone was still staring at them intensely. Like they were the main act in the spot light.
But luck seemed to have a bit of pity on him, and the lunch bell rang – signaling that lunch had ended. It was a few seconds until everyone started to hesitantly move around, not taking their eyes off of him. Sora, Hayner, Pence, Olette, Roxas, and Kairi filed out together through the crowd. Everyone was looking at them, just staring. Then they all went their separate ways to their lockers, and to 5th period.
2 more periods. I think I can do this, Sora thought as he gathered his books, and shut his locker. But then people started to actually scoot over to the sides as he walked down the middle of the hallway. He rolled his eyes, Yeah, watch me. I'm the freak kid with a haunted house . . . so what?
He got to Chemistry classroom, and saw Kairi yet again. She waved at him come over. Kairi was sitting at about one out of twelve two person stations, complete with a Bunsen burner and multiple tubes. Sora had never actually done any actual chemistry work while homeschooling . . . but he saw movies! That had to count for something . . . right?
Anyway, he smiled at Kairi slightly as he proceeded over. She smiled sweetly, "Hey Sora, we've got two classes together! That's pretty cool."
"Yeah . . ." Sora answered, narrowing his eyes a bit at how every single person who came into the classroom stared at him. Kairi sighed, and gave him a sympathetic look, "Ignore them. I actually think it's pretty cool."
"Really?" Sora asked as he finally sat down, directing his attention away from the stares. "I'm personally freaked out of my mind."
She laughed, then inquired, "Has . . . anything actually happened? I mean, really?"
"Well . . . yes. But you'll probably think I'm a nut," Sora replied, rolling his eyes. Kairi then rolled her own eyes in return and reassured, "Give me your best. I have to say, I'm pretty open minded."
With a long sigh, Sora recalled, "Well, just yesterday, I went into this room in the house. But I weird thing about this room was . . ." He looked at Kairi. "It was completely and utterly white. Absolutely perfect."
Kairi had dropped the book she had picked up to write with, and just sat there frozen still and stiff. Sora widened his eyes and slowly reached out to touch her shoulder, ". . . Kairi . . .?"
She blinked, "Huh?" She looked around, and then at Sora's confused and worried expression. She smiled weakly and bent down to pick up her pencil, "Ah, Sorry Sora. Spaced out there for a second you know?"
Her eyes bluntly told a different story, but Sora decided it'd be best to smile and go along with everything. As if things weren't dysfunctional and weird enough . . . then Kairi completely froze on him. And it was when he was talking about the white room too . . .Does Kairi know something? Sora wondered on the fact as the teacher finally arrived into the chaotic classroom. After a few seconds, the class silenced, and the teacher just had to bring him back into the spotlight, "Ah, Sora Leonhart," She said. "Do you mind sharing withthe class something about yourself with the class?"
What she really meant was, 'Get up here, you have no choice.'
Sora took a deep breath, and stood. Kairi flashed him a reassuring smile as he walked to the front of the classroom. The class room stared at him and he stared right back, "Um, hi, I'm Sora Leonhart, I used to be homeschooled on Destiny Islands, and . . ." He bit his lip, before smiling mockingly, "I do live the haunted house. But it's not a big deal you all make it out to be. Thank you."
He walked back to his desk, feeling both proud and strong, after his 'introduction'. He and Kairi shared a high five and she grinned, "Talk about cocky. But . . . you sure did leave the class at a loss."
Sora turned to look at the rest of the class. They were still staring at him, but it wasn't that emotionless, dark gaze that was freaking him out. Some were gaping in disbelief, and then some were smirking at him. But some had overall stopped staring and directed their attention somewhere else. Sora raised both eyebrows and smiled, "Well what do you know? Must by my charm."
"Ch, egomaniac."
At that time, the teacher finally got readjusted and took her spot in front of the room, "Okay, Thank you . . . Sora. Anyway, today we'll be working on a review of the formulas we've learned. Sora, I presume you're working with Kairi?" The two nodded, and she continued. "Okay, then. We'll be having a test soon, and Sora is the only one excused from work until the next unit. Begin working!"
She walked back to her base at the desk, and the class arose in a bustle. Kairi grinned at Sora as she snapped on a pair of goggles, and handed Sora a pair, "Do you know that science is my favorite class?"
Sorafumbled with the goggles, and finally snapped them on, squinting as he rubbed them, "Is that . . . a good thing?"
"Maybe," She rolled up her purple long sleeved shirts sleeves, and couldn't contain another grin. "It's so awesome that you're gonna be my partner now – I mean, now I'll have some company."
Sora looked at her through fogged goggles, "You were working alone?"
"Yeah," She grabbed a thin, long beaker and examined it closely. "The class was an odd number – no naturally, I was by myself."
Naturally? Is Kairi some sort of outcast? Sora frowned, and watched helplessly as Kairi continued to cheerfully examine and place beakers. "Er . . . can I help?"
"Oh no, you just watch. Wouldn't want you blowing up the classroom," Sora gaped, and said definitely, "Just because I've never actual done chemistry class, doesn't mean –"
"Sora, relax," Kairi rolled her eyes, giggling. "It was a joke. Of course you can help."
"Oh," Sora faintly blushed and scratched the back of his head. Kairi kept giggling, and then said, "Here," She handed him a large beaker and pointed behind him, "Fill this with water to the top line. Be careful, it's very fragile."
Sora nodded, and hugged the beaker close to him, as he walked over to a line of sinks. He slowly started to fill the beaker withwarm water and waited. Then over at the next sink, a tall guy with some sort of mullet/Mohawk hybrid of hair began filling up his own beaker. Sora shrugged and decided to say, "Hi."
The reaction he got from the guy was one he didn't expect, "Hey little guy! I'm Demyx Mizu! That was an awesome intro."
Demyx was grinning fully, and Sora smiled hesitantly, "Er . . . thanks. Just trying to get my point across . . ."
"And you sure did! A haunted mansion, wow! Axel and I thought that was so cool!"
Sora looked at him, "You know Axel?"
The grin never faulted one bit, "Of course! Everyone knows Axel, and I'm his very best friend!"
"Apparently," Sora smiled and thought back to what Hayner said about Roxas being 'obsessed'. He then took a look around and spotted Axel himself, at a table in the far back. He then wondered on how extreme this crush was . . . but then he thought, I just met him, it's really none of my business.
"Hey Demyx," He asked, staring up at the tall blond. "Are you guy's seriously freshmen?"
"Huh?" Demyx actually frowned for a minute – but then he chuckled. "Oh, no. Most classes are mixed. Axel and I are technically juniors."
"So, there's really no point in age groups?" Sora asked as he turned the water off, and carefully lifted the beaker. It was heavy! He hugged it and used all his arm strength to hold it. "I mean, since there mixed and all."
"There is a point," Demyx said, smiling. "So everyone knows their place! It's like a food chain!"
So I'd be like the little bunny – no, I'd be grass. He sighed and said, "Er thanks. See you around."
"Bye Sora! Have fun in your Haunted house!"
Sora rolled his eyes, and made it back to his and Kairi's table as fast as he could. He set down the beaker, and the red head looked up, "Well, it certainly took you long enough."
"Hey! I was talking to Demyx!" Sora sat down and watched her as she poured different chemicals into the beaker. "Let me tell you, he can really talk."
"Congratulations, you lasted through your first conversation with Demyx," She muttered, trying to pour water into a beaker, but her hand kept shaking. "But I'd say stay away from that crowd."
"What, the popular people?" Sora asked. "But you know how much Roxas –"
"Yes Sora, I think the whole world knows about Roxas' crush," She rolled her eyes. "But he could do so much better than my cousin."
"Wait . . . Axel's your cousin?" Sora turned in the seat to look at the said person, and then back at Kairi. "You don't like him?"
"He's a jerk," She answered simply, not taking her eyes off her work. "And Roxas is just plain stupid for liking him."
Sora flinched, "Ouch, that's harsh." Kairi then sighed and put down her beaker, looking down, and said, "Sorry, I didn't really mean it. It's just that . . . Axel and I . . . aren't on the best of terms. Never really were."
"Oh . . ." Sora was at a loss of words. It was silent for a while as Kairi continued working, and Sora watched her. He was slumped in his chair, and held his chin in his palm as he watched the mixing chemicals bubble and twist. But then he noticed something strange that he was pretty sure wasn't supposed to happen – Kairi didn't seem to notice. The colors were blending and the mixture was turning black and blue and smoke started to rise rather high into the air. He looked at Kairi again, and noticed a little white book in her lap that she was reading. And she was muttering. Sora looked horrifyingly between the smoke and Kairi, and the inattentive class. As the smoke built up, Sora's panic level increased. He finally reached out to touch Kairi's shoulder, it was ice cold. He shook it forcefully, and Kairi snapped out of the trance, and blinked. Then the smoke was like a bomb, as it rapidly exploded and thinned into a dark dust that filled the room. A couple people started coughing and most were waving their hands around, trying to get rid of the dust. The teacher stood and coughed as she made her way over to Kairi and Sora's station.
Kairi quickly shut her white book, and hid it under her books, and turned the Bunsen burner off, extinguishing the fire. The teacher gave them a timid look, "What were you doing?!"
Kairi looked down, "Uh well . . . –"
"It was me," Sora said immediately. "Sorry Mrs. Hikari. I thought I could do something, but I messed up. Kairi didn't know."
The teacher looked at Sora then Kairi, and sighed, "Okay, I'll let you off the hook. But please Sora; don't try anything else until the next unit."
"Okay," Sora nodded, and the teacher walked away. The smoke was slowly starting to demolish, and everyone got back to work. Sora looked back at Kairi, "What was in that book?"
"What book?" Kairi tried to play dumb and clueless, but Sora could see through it. He knew that something was up. "You know what I'm talking about! I . . . you were doing something Kairi, and you knew exactly what you were doing."
Kairi bit her lip and adverted her eyes; she let out a deep breath, "I'm sorry. I was reading my journal, and I accidently added a chemical that I shouldn't of."
Lies, all lies. Sora was about to intervene and prove her wrong – but the shrill bell rang, and class ended. Kairi pulled off her goggles and bolted out of there. Sora sighed and slowly pulled his off.
Who are you trying to fool, Kairi?
He made his way to last period, Gym.
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There were only two good things about Gym. One, Roxaswas with him in the period. And two, it was the last period of his first day. He had almost made it! But otherwise, gym was so far his least favorite period.
"So . . . how long do we have to do this?"
Their class was running outside, and the gym teacher gave no slack to new kids. Sora was forced to endure a sweaty and old loner gym uniform until the one Leon ordered came. And if that wasn't bad enough, it was absolutely freezing outside. It was only thirty minutes into the period and Sora felt like his legs were going to practically fall off.
Not the greatest end to my day . . .
He and Roxas were lagging behind the rest, both nearly out of breath. Sora was thankful that Roxas wasn't one of those fast and sports – obsessed guys. It was once again another trait they shared.
"Well," Roxas huffed out. "Until he's satisfied we've worked 'hard enough'."
"When will that be?!" Sora whined out.
Roxas laughed a bit, and asked, "You've never had a gym class have you?"
Sora shook his head, and Roxas sighed, "You're lucky. I've been through this since kindergarten."
"Well . . . I think . . . my . . . luck . . . just . . . wore . . . out," Sora was heaving in horse and incomplete breathes that made his throat pain. He had honestly never been worked so hard in his life! This was like torture! And even though Roxas was going the same speed as him, he didn't seem like he was on the verge of dying like Sora was.
I really am a wuss, Sora thought glumly back to the taunts that his old friend Tidus used to give him. The only sport he was good at was Blitz ball, and Twilight Town didn't even know what it was! Anyway, he dragged himself around the path, and fell down in the grass beside Roxas. The gym teacher was finally satisfied that they had 'worked' hard enough, and let them go back inside.
"So," Sora asked, wanting to know so much. "What do you think of my house being well, you know, haunted?"
Roxas shrugged, "I don't know, I mean, it's just a myth. It's not really haunted is it?"
Sora bit his lip, but didn't answer – he was truly at a loss of words. Roxaslooked at him with raised eyebrows, and widened eyes, "Is it haunted?"
"Well . . . er, kind of," Sora admitted sheepishly. "There was this one time, yesterday . . . that . . . something weird happened. There's this room, and it's . . . well . . . white. It has furniture and everything! And when I went in there, I sat down – and there was a sketch book. I opened it . . . and it was blank before but now . . . it had a picture . . . of me."
Sora sighed and looked at Roxas, who was looking straight ahead – Sora couldn't tell his emotions, "You think I'm crazy don't you?"
"No," Roxas said simply, and then inquired. "So . . . the room was white?"
"Pure white," Sora added. "I call it the white room."
"Didn't anything else happen?" Roxas asked, still not looking at Sora. They were now in the gym, and they were permitted to sit down and relax. Sora hesitated on the question but nodded, "Well, this morning – I saw a ghost."
"Really? What did it look like?" Roxas' eyes were wide and believing – which gave confidence to Sora that he wasn't thought of as a nut. Sora continued, "It was white and . . . foggy. It looked like a teenage boy . . . like us, almost. And . . . and it was smiling . . . but it was friendly . . ." He drifted off, thinking back to the incident – that ghost sure wasn't all that menacing, and yet Sora ran off like the idiot he was.
Roxas filled in the silence with another question, "What did you do?"
"Um, well, I was sort of frozen, but then I picked up a branch and swung it at –"Roxas started laughing, and Sora glared, "It was defense! You'd do the same!"
The blonds' laughing died down and he held up both hands, "Okay, okay. Sorry. Go on."
Sora glared a bit longer, then rolled his eyes, and decided to continue on, "Okay, as I was saying, I was swinging a branch for defense and it was like he didn't want to scare me or hurt me at all. He just told me what I was doing wasn't nice . . . and I, well, ran."
"So . . . the ghost basically acted human," Roxas concluded, and Sora nodded in confirmation. "That's kind of weird . . . Hey, do you mind if all of us come over one day – to see if we can find anything?"
Sora bit his lip and asked, "Are you sure . . .?"
Roxas nodded, "Yeah, we could make it like a sleep over! We could spend the first half of the night doing normal stuff, and then we can investigate. There'd be you, me, Kairi, Hayner, Olette, Pence, Our brother's, and maybe some of their friends."
Sora smiled and laughed a little, "Look's like you've got all this planned out!"
Roxas blushed a little bit and shrugged, "Well, I don't know, I think it'd be fun . . ." He then looked at Sora. "But if you don't want to do it, I completely understand."
"No, no," Sora shook his head. "I think it'd be awesome too. I'm pretty sure that Leon would be okay with it . . . and it'd be a good chance to further explore the farther end of the house."
"You haven't seen your entire house yet?" Roxas asked, astonished. "How big is that mansion?"
"Huge," Sora answered honestly. "I'd probably still get lost in it."
They both laughed, and the bell finally rung. They walked into the locker room together, and quickly changed. Sora never felt so relieved to be in his own clothes – who know where those loner gym clothes had been. Roxas and him had discussed their plans, and then parted ways. Sora went to his locker, and he barely had any homework, so his backpack was relaxingly light. He made his way to the entrance doors and out of Twilight High. He walked out of the school with bounce in his step. He was proud and satisfied of his first day. He had made friends, and besides gym, all his classes were okay. Although his thoughts were still clouded with the worry of Kairi- He really hoped she was okay. And also, though everyone now knew about where he lived, it wasn't all that bad. After chemistry, people stopped staring and he felt a new found respect. He liked that feeling.
It took about twenty minutes to reach the hole in the wall, and he walked through not nearly as scared as he was earlier that morning. He walked slowly, following the trees, and he heard it again. Leaves. He spun around; expecting to see the ghost, but no one was there.
Great, now I'm seeing things. He sighed and continued on, and ignored the sound when he heard it again. He finally reached the Mansion, and was about to head forward, when he finally heard something that did make him turn around.
"Sora."
It was the same voice that said his name just like that the first day. It was when he thought Leon said it. And now that he thought about it more, it was the same voice of that teenage ghost. He slowly turned around, and froze at the sight of the said ghost.
"Hey," It said. "I've been waiting for you."
Sora let out a high –pitched, shrill scream and darted toward the mansion.
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The ghost watched the boy run toward the mansion and sighed, "How am I suppose to talk, when he keeps running?"
Another ghost appeared beside him, a girl in white, "I'm sure he'll warm up . . . eventually."
The ghost – boy crossed his arms, "But we don't have time for "eventually". He needs to know now," He then shot a glare towards the ghost – girl, "This is your fault, you freaked him out with that drawing."
The ghost – girl pouted and put her hands on her hips, "Excuse me for writing in MY sketchbook. It's his fault for looking through it."
The ghost –boy merely rolled his eyes, and then set a worried gaze towards the mansion, "We don't have much time. He's plotting right this minute."
"And we're gonna stop him," The ghost girl said confidently. "I'm not gonna let what happened to me, happen to anyone else."
The ghost – boy sighed yet again, "But . . . how are we going to do this? We'd need human help."
"And we can get it," The ghost – girl told him. "We just need to let Sora warm up to us, and help him understand."
"I suppose," Ghost – boy said bitterly. "But to him, we're basically freaks."
The ghost – boy disappeared in thin air, and the ghost – girl sighed sadly and whispered, "Riku . . ."
Then she disappeared in a white mist.
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Yes! I finally introduced Riku, the second main character! And the second ghost is obvious, and will play a huge part!
Sorry for saying 'ghost –boy' and 'ghost – girl' over and over again, I couldn't find anything else to call them!
A/N - Anyway, the part with Kairi may be confusing – but it will all be explained later. And the sleep over that Roxas and Sora planned in gym will play a huge part later on. Sora and Roxas' relationship will grow greatly through the week. And the popular crowd like Axel and Demyx will show themselves more in Chapter four. They'll play a big role for sure!
I hope you liked it! Read and Review please! Reviews just make my day!
See you! D