Sky Days chapter 08: The Heart and the Sky
BW: Hello everyone. Things are really chaotic now. Sora and friends discover something disturbing, but not unexpect. Makoto + Sekai = the Infamous Cheating/love affair arc. Plus, we're introducing someone special for this chapter. Sorry for the long wait.
(I don't own anything from School Days, but the OC's belong to me; one more thing, the name Sora or his appearance has nothing to do with the Sora's of other franchises. The Sora in this story, is my own original character, okay? I think you already know the drill by now)
The next few days later after the pool, Sora is once again wandering around town. This time though, he is not alone. His friends are following close behind.
"It's nice to take a stroll, don't you think Tetsuo?" Kongo asked Tetsuo.
"Kongo, you read my mind. It's been while since we hung out. Even if we did it at the pool." Tetsuo said.
"Don't the two of you ever stop talking?" Sora asked, feeling as annoyed as ever with these two, "Why are you even following me, anyway?"
"Who else is gonna keep you company?" Tetsuo asks.
"Hanging out with you is what keeps me happy." Kongo flirts, once again, glomping onto Sora. Sora's irritation grows higher.
"I'm about ready to sock you guys again... huh?" Sora froze. His ears had caught a strange sound.
"What's wrong, Sora?" Tetsuo asked, noticing this. Sora dashs to an ally, travels down it. His two friends, worrying about him, decides to following him.
They reach the end. What do they find? Something absolutely praise worthy of being an asshole. Sora watches with shock, and disgust, as a boy cannoobling with some girl. Their names; Makoto Itou, and Sekai Saionji, respectively.
"Holy crap..." Tetsuo whispered, with a generally surprised look on his face.
"What do we have here...?" Kongo whispers, also surprised.
Sora remained silent. His bangs shading his eyes from the light. He may have appeared calm, but something was stirring him up inside. It's called... well, I'm sure you'll figure it out.
Anyway, Makoto rests on top of Sekai, with a tight huge, and lips fastened together.
"Sekai..." Makoto whispered into Sekai's ear. Both of them were breathing deeply.
"Don't... Makoto..." Sekai moans. She was starting to feel something in this moment with Makoto. Suddenly, something caught her eye. Something with a ferious aura. It was like the sky was turning red, and black ominous clouds circling around.
What she saw, was the boy named Sora Amamiya, who glares down on the pair of cheaters before him, with full blood lust, and killing intent in his eyes. Sekai was frozen in terror.
Luckily, just as Sora was about move his foot forward, Tetsuo and Kongo quickly but quietly grab their friend's arms, and carried him off as quickly as they could. Makoto remained oblivious.
"What's wrong, Sekai?" Makoto asked.
"Nothing..." Sekai muttered, with her face contorted with fright, "But I think a few years off my life span went down the drain..." she added. Makoto had no idea what she was talking about.
(-The park-)
Trio dashed all the way to the middle of the park. They were all panting since they ran so hard to get away.
"That was way too close for comfort..." Tetsuo sighed, out of breathe.
"Okay, just what the hell was that?" Sora yelled.
"Well, apparently, those two were going at it; right behind Katsura's back, too. The poor girl." Tetsuo said.
"Well, it's not like this wasn't to be expected. Not many guys stay faithful to one girl. Guess we know which catagory Itou belongs to, now don't we." Kongo said.
"That's not what I meant!" Sora yelled, "Why'd you pull me out of there?" Sora asked. Then again, he was curious as to why Itou is going around Katsura's back. By curious, we mean furious.
"Isn't it obvious? If we let you get your hands on Saionji or Itou, you would've been something you'd regret." Tetsuo said.
"What would I regret? Weren't you ones that said I should beat the crap out of Itou and get it over with?"
"Yeah, but aren't you the one trying not to break Katsura's heart? If you so such as put Itou or Saionji in the hospital, she's bound to hate you for it. Or worse yet, she may never speak to you, or even look you in the eye again." Kongo said.
After hearing that, Sora suddenly turned into a pale faced, dried up mummy, laying flat on the ground.
"...Mommy..." Sora ottered, sounding almost as if he were dead.
"See, we told you." Kongo snarked.
"Wow, that's one word I thought would never come out Sora's mouth." Tetsuo commented, "Well, either way, you won't have to do anything, 'cause I got this." Tetsuo said. Upon hearing this, life came back to Sora. He lifts his head from the ground, complexion returning to normal and all.
Tetsuo held out his cell phone, and shows a picture of Makoto and Sekai going at it. He had taken it before he and Kongo made their dangerous escape with Sora in toe.
Sora had the cell in his hand, and stares at the picture.
"What the hell is this picture?" Sora calmly asked.
"Ain't that obvious too? It's blackmail. Blackmail!" Tetsuo proudly said.
"Ooh, I get it! Your going to show that picture to Itou and Saionji to get them to stop their affair." Kongo guessed currectly.
"Right-a-roonie! And if all goes well, we should get Itou to break up with Katsura. It's pretty clear that he's not gonna stay faithful to her, not after what we just saw, anyway." Tetsuo said, failing to notice Sora glare at the pciture in the cell.
"Or better yet. Show it to Katsura, and tell her what's going on before it's too late." Kongo suggests.
"Oh! That's a great idea!" Tetsuo praised.
"Right, that is to say, if you can show it to any of them." Kongo said, sigaling Tetsuo to look towards Sora by pointing at him. The next moment, Sora literally prepares to sallow the cell phone whole, and proves it by shoving it into the hole under his nose.
"Hey, what do think you're doing? Don't eat my cell phone!" Tetsuo tries to get his cell back.
"Shuddup!" Sora shouts, trying his best to eat and sallow it. Soon the two began wrestle with each other.
Kongo noticed that people were beginning to stare.
"You know guys, people are watching, and you're embarrassing yourselves." Kongo said, with embarrassed blush.
Moments later, Tetsuo finally managed to pull his cell phone away. He checks to see if it was alright. It seems nothing was damaged.
"Whew...! Sora! If anything happens to my phone, I'm holding you responsible!" Tetsuo threatens Sora, who didn't take it seriously at all. He could care less about Tetsuo's cell phone, but he can't have him spreading that photo around.
"Don't show that Katsura-san! In fact, don't show it to anyone!" Sora said.
"What? Why?" Tetsuo asked.
"This is our secret, got it! You better take it to the grave!" Sora demands, "Besides, Katsura-san's not gonna like it. She's delicate."
"Says the guy who gave her unknowing boyfriend and all too aware best friend the most menacing and epic death glare ever." Tetsuo snarked.
"I'm serious!" Sora glared at Tetsuo.
"Of course you are..." Tetsuo weakly smirked.
"But Sora, you know this may not be the best idea." Kongo said.
"He's right you know. In fact, I guarantee that you'll be royally biting yourself on the ass later on if you do this." Tetsuo said.
Sora ignored these warnings, and walked off, leaving his two friends behind.
"Hey! Sora!" Tetsuo called out to him, but Sora once again ignores him, "Damn, that guy's stubborn."
"He's been like that ever since he was little." Kongo stated, "So, what'll we do?"
"Guess we'll have to go along with it. In the mood he's in right now, he's bound to kill us." Tetsuo said.
"Guess that means we'll be taking a short break." Kongo said.
(-A distance away-)
Meanwhile, Sora is still walking. His head was in the clouds.
"I know..." he thought, "I know this'll mean trouble, but she seems so happy with him, and yet that bastard..." Sora was beginning to get irritated again; remembering the image of Itou and Saionji kissing each other. It was enough to make his stomach turn.
But then, another image pops into his head; the time he and Kotonoha talked to each other alone at the pool. The look on her face seemed more relaxed then before, and her smiling and laughing had deep meaning behind their relationship, but...
"Why have you been so kind to me, even after I rejected you the way I did?" Kotonoha's question echoed in his head. He was beginning to wonder why himself. Well of course, being friends with her might have been just as good as having her as girlfriend, but maybe he doesn't want to be just friends. All of these thoughts were beginning to confuse him.
"Dammit! What's wrong with me? Why am I thinking about all of this?" Sora yelled in his mind, as well as showing visible signs of frustration. Before he knew, he had stoppped moving his legs forward, and stood in place.
Suddenly, he felt something bump into him.
"Kya!" a little girl's voice squack, with a thud following after.
Sora turns to his side and sees a little girl, with dark hair in a white dress on the ground. He couldn't see her face, since her head was down.
"Ow... ow..." she muttered, rubbing her forehead.
Sora was stunned for second, but gather his senses, and looks down toward the girl. "Hey, you okay?" Sora asked.
"Y-yeah..." she answered.
"Here, sorry about knocking you ever." Sora apologized, advances forward and extending his hand forward to her. Seems he's forgotten about his confused state at the moment. However, he did hear a crunching sound as soon as he stepped forward.
The little girl takes Sora's hand, while looking up at him, revealing her face, and drawing Sora's dumbfounded attention.
The girl had a remarkable resemblance to the girl Sora is crushing on, Kotonoha Katsura. However, her hair is much shorter, and she had big brown eyes. Though, she's certainly smaller then Katsura, she certainly had cute written all over her.
"Thanks." the girl thanked, until she noticed something beneath the dumbstruck boy in front of her. "AHH!" she gasped. It was her favorite ice cream, spilled and completely stepped on, and with hope of finishing it off.
Sora looked down, and saw that it was his foot stepping on the ice cream. No wonder he heard crouching sound earlier. He stepped on the girl's ice scream.
"My ice cream!" the girl cried.
"O-oh crap!" Sora exclaimed.
"How could you? That was my favorite!" the girl yelled at Sora.
"N-no, I didn't mean..." Sora stammered.
"Your gonna pay for that!" the girl demanded to Sora. Sora was at a lose.
(-Moments Later-)
After his blunder in stepping on a girl's ice cream, Sora bought a new cone for her. With that, she happily enjoys it.
"It's soo good!" the girl squealed with joy.
"Glad your satisfied." Sora said. He wasn't exactly full of joy himself, considering what this girl just put him through.
"Hey, Mister, what's your name?" the girl asked.
"Huh? I'm Sora." Sora introduced himself. He didn't even know why he did that.
"Thanks for buying me ice cream, Sora-kun!" the girl thanked Sora, with a smile that reminded him of Kotonoha. It's not just that smile; she looks an awful lot like Kotonoha. Could she be...?
"I'm Kokoro. Kokoro Katsura. Nice to meet you." Kokoro finally introduced herself.
Kokoro? Kotonoha, her older sister, did mention a Kokoro. Sora was right. This girl is Kotonoha's young sister.
"Sora-kun, what's wrong?" Kokoro asked Sora, who stared off into space again.
"Huh? O-oh, nothing." Sora snapped back into reality thanks to Kokoro's voice.
"Your so spacey Sora-kun!" Kokoro laughed.
"I am not!" Sora denied. Kokoro continued to laugh. Though, Sora didn't actually mind of that she was laughing at him. She might be Katsura's younger sister, but her personality is completely different. Sora found that kind of amusing in a way.
(-Hours later-)
An hour or so later, Kokoro and Sora walk together along the sidewalk. Kokoro happily hummed to herself while walking a few feet ahead of Sora. She was indeed satisfied with the ice cream she eat earlier.
"Sora-kun! Hurry up!" Kokoro called to Sora, as she spun around.
Sora thought "Why am I hanging out with a kid?"
"Kya!" Sora heard Kokoro's voice cry. She wasn't looking where she was going, and bumped into a thug.
"Watch where you goin', ya brat!" the thug threaten the little girl in front of him. Kokoro was frighten of the thug's words, until Sora stepped in front of her.
"Sora-kun?" Kokoro uttered in surprise.
"Can I help you?" Sora asked the thug.
"And who the hell are you?" the thug asks Sora. In response, Sora simply glared at the thug. The thug was taken aback for a short second, but soon walked away.
"Tch... coward!" Sora insulted. He just scared off a man who was probably twice his age, and twice his size.
"Wow! That was cool, Sora-kun!" Kokoro cheered.
"Yeah, well watch where your going next time, alright." Sora said. From what Katsura said, Kokoro seems to really like Itou. Now, Kokoro was starting to like Sora, too, not that he'd pay any mind.
"Kokoro!" said a samiliar voice from behind. To both Kokoro and her savior surprise. They turn around, and see Kokoro's older sister, and Sora's classmate and crush, Kotonoha Katsura.
"Onee-chan." Kokoro exlcaimed.
"Katsura-san?" Sora exclaimed as well.
"Amamiya-kun?" Kotonoha said when she sees Sora.
"Eh? Onee-chan, you know Sora-kun?" Kokoro asked her big sister.
"He's a classmate at achool." Kotonoha said, but then, she got back on topic, "Anyway, Kokoro, you are way late! Mother and Father are worried, you know!" Kotonoha scolded Kokoro.
"Uh..." Kokoro was at loss. When her sister gets script, she's scary.
"Come on! Let's go!" Kotonoha ordered as the big sister.
"Yes, ma'am." Kokoro complied and walks over to her sister.
Strangely, it didn't bother him that she said classmate just now like it did before, but that wasn't what was on Sora's mind. He remembered the scene he saw earlier today, the one where Itou and Saionji where hitting off, right behind Kotonoha's back. He knew wasn't right, but he wanted to keep that a secret to keep her happy, but...
"Amamiya-kun?" Kotonoha's voice called to him.
"Huh? What?" Sora sprang back to reality again.
"Is something the matter, Amamiya-kun?" Kotonoha asked.
"N-Nothing really..." Sora stammered.
"Onee-chan, Sora-kun's a real space case." Kokoro joked to Kotonoha.
"Hey! I'm not space case!" Sora shouted at that commented. Kotonoha simply chuckled.
"I'm sorry. I just hadn't realized you were airheaded til now." Kotonoha said, while she laughed again. Sora started blushing. "You were taking care of Kokoro this whole time, right? I'm sorry for any trouble she might have put through." Kotonoha apologized.
"Hey!" Kokoro cried.
"N-No! It's not problem." Sora said.
"Really? Well, thanks for looking after my sister." Kotonoha thanked. She turned her attention to Kokoro, and with a smile, she said "Let's go home, Kokoro."
"Yeah!" Kokoro cheered, and the sister's went on their way.
"Amamiya-kun, do you want to come with us?" Kotonoha asks to Sora. He was taken aback at first, but he couldn't refuse such a chance.
While Sora and the Katsura sisters were on their way home, Kokoro began talking, "Hey, Onee-chan, just before you arrived, Sora-kun did something really cool!" she said.
"Really?" Kotonoha asked.
"Yeah, I was being accosted by this big ugly thug, and then Sora-kun stepped in a scared him off!" Kokoro taled.
"So, he's saved you?" Kotonoha asked.
"Yep. He was so scared, he ran away." Kokoro said.
"Your exaggerating. I didn't anything special. Besides, your own fault for not paying attention to where you were going." Sora states.
"Aww! That's mean!" Kokoro pouted.
"Kokoro! Don't pout!" Kotonoha scolded Kokoro. Then, she looks toward Sora, "Thank you for saving my sister. And again, I apologize for the trouble." she said to him.
"Really, it's no problem." Sora said.
"You really are a nice person, Amamiya-kun." Kotonoha smiled. Sora smiled back in response. He was glad to able to her like this.
"Hey hey, Onee-chan!" Kokoro called to her sister.
"What, Kokoro?" Kotonoha answers.
"Let's have Sora-kun stay over at our house!" Kokoro delcared. Sora stopped dead in his tracks.
"Kokoro, your already demanding Makoto-kun to come and stay over! Now, you want to cause more trouble for Amamiya-kun?" Kotonoha scolded Kokoro again.
"Aw, c'mon!" Kokoro starts complaining.
"That's a no go! It's not good to be selfish!" Kotonoha said. Kokoro was silent.
"H-Hey, like I keep saying, it's no trouble at all. To be honest, I like spending time with you, Katsura-san." Sora said.
"Eh? Is that so?" Kotonoha asked Sora.
"Well, when you have a camera snapping voyeur, and a masochistic pretty boy as friends, your ability to "have fun" is quite limited." Sora comments, referring to Tetsuo and Kongo.
"But, isn't it nice to have at least some friends whom you can really talk to?" Kotonoha asked.
"It's not like I asked them to hang out with me." Sora said, "Anyway, if you wanna hang out some time, then it's okay."
"Really? I feel bad for putting you out like this, but if it's fine with you, then I guess it's alright with me." Kotonoha said. Kokoro caught that last part.
"Really?!" Kokoro squealed.
"Yeah, but we can't bother Amamiya-kun too much, alright."
"Yes, ma'am!" Kokoro cheered.
"Nothing keeps you down, doesn't it?" Sora asked.
"Well, I'll be going on ahead. See you at school." Kotonoha bid to Sora.
"Y-Yeah..." Sora said, and waved goodbye. Kokoro did the same a moment. Soon after, Sora went home as well, but with a lot stuff on his mind.
(Sora) Today, I just met with Katsura's kid sister. She's pretty bubbly, that girl. Seeing that, and seeing that Katsura-san can actually trust me, make me relieved, but, what about Itou and Saionji? The fact that they're cheating on her, just makes me want to... but, as usual, I can't, for fear of her hating. But still, I'm beginning to wonder, should I really keep this a secret? In fact, why should I? Really? What the hell, Sora Amamiya? What's wrong with you?
BW: And that's it for chapter 08. Finally. Seriously though, for it took some long. So what you think? Sora and Kotonoha just grew a little bit closer. Anyway, see you around.