Battle high: not your average high school

After Battle twenty-five

How will they live together?

Kiki looked at Artemis with a rather bored expression. "Well that was an invigorating little speech. How nice. My eyes are now open to all of my foolish mistakes," she said blankly, sarcasm dripping from her voice. Kirai sighed. He knew she'd say something like that.

She turned to walk away but stopped when she heard Artemis's last comment. She laughed softly to herself. "Yes. Because you certainly do not have a very self-confident air about yourself. You definitely did not just march over here like you owned the damn place and started lecturing me. Definitely didn't come across as overconfident at all," she retorted, and wiggled her fingers at him in a very mocking half-wave. Kiki continued her walk to wherever the fuck she was headed to next without another word.

Cloud blinked. "Well that was quite interesting."

"How does Taiki date that girl.." Prism whispered to her brother curiously.

"Very carefully?"

Artemis looked both sides trying to find Sora, "So, who has a clue to where Sora might have gone to instead of the house. Because I'm pretty sure she wouldn't head there yet knowing that's the first place I would go look for her," said Artemis. He then turned to them all with an idea.

"Well let's just go home instead and we can wait for her there, Kirai, Cloud if you two want to go look for her since I know Kirai might want to. You two can, but I need to help the girls and show them where their rooms are and Alex needs to help me anyways," said Artemis. Kirai looked at Cloud, who was looking back at him with the same bored expression. "Suuure."

"Why not," Cloud said blankly.

Prism poked them both. "Don't kill each other okay?"

"Good idea."

"No promises."

Prism glared at Cloud. "Do I need to take your knives away?"

"No mother, I'll be good," he responded, looking at her innocently while twirling one of the knives in question absentmindedly. "Come on Shizukana."

Kirai sighed. "Wish me luck..," he grumbled, and followed after Cloud. Artemis sighed, "Now that half the headaches are gone..the rest of you come back with me and we will go get you all moved into your rooms then when they get back we'll go get you all enrolled," explained Artemis as he glanced at the others.

Sora walked around the city, she was too lost in thought to even notice where she had been going. She came to a stop when she had bumped into to someone, when she looked around she remembered where she was, it was her old neighborhood when she was a child.

"It was mainly just Cloud.. remember when I was the annoying one?" Prism asked with a small laugh to herself.

"Where exactly are we going to stay anyway?" Primrose asked curiously, twirling a strand of hair.

"Where are we going," Kirai asked unenthusiastically.

Cloud shrugged without looking back at Kirai. He was walking ahead of him, partially because he was just faster and mostly because Kirai was walking extremely slowly in his annoyance at having to be with Cloud. "No idea. Somewhere in the city I guess."

"No shit."

This time Cloud did glare at him over his shoulder. "You're the one who asked."

"Oh, it's the house I kinda of inheritated from my parents after they umm died..," said Artemis, he then turned back away from them. He refused to talk about how he had gotten the house and what he had done in order to actually to make sure they couldn't try and keep him out.

Sora froze in her spot for a moment and then when she shook her head she started to walk down the streets towards where her old home was. She ended up taking the same path that she and her parents had used to take when they would walk home together.

Primrose and Prism shared a doubting look, but neither of them tried to ask him about it. They were smart enough to take the hint that he didn't want to discuss whatever he was hiding.

"Well where do you think she'd go?"

Cloud laughed. "Aren't you supposed to know that? You are her boyfriend after all."

Kirai already felt like punching this guy. "We haven't exactly had time to discuss key spots where she would head off to when she was royally pissed off. Kinda busy kicking the government's ass and too tired to anyway since we have to put up with your ass all day."

"Someone's a bit irritated."

"Again, I find the need to say, no shit."

Artemis led them all back to the house and it was a pretty big house with four rooms. He found the key he had hidden in a secret compartment and put the key in the door and opened the door. Inside the house was still clean and upstairs was nice too, it's just that the rooms needed to be reorganized and he would have to knock some walls down to make another room.

Sora slowly walked down the path until she had reached the final corner to where she and her parents would turn before they would see the house in front of them. Sora turned the corner and just as she remembered, the house was still there at the end of the path. Sora for some reason found a need to run to the gate and looking around again as if to find her parents.

"...They aren't coming..."

Primrose looked around. "Somehow I find all of us staying in one house will be disastrous."

Prism nodded in agreement. "Give it a week, dear. Sora and Kirai will be ready to make me an only child."

"Alright you just need to shut up. If you don't want sarcastic answers then don't ask questions, okay? Okay great. Now just to clear it up I don't know where the fuck I'm going, got it? Fabulous. Now just shut your fucking mouth and follow me," Cloud said calmly, not even sounding mad despite his words.

Kirai groaned in annoyance. Such an asshole. He looked around. They were walking around a random neighborhood, probably going in circles. Maybe the houses just looked the same.

Artemis glanced at them, "It shouldn't be that bad...hopefully or else I'll have to make a big dog house to house several people," he said calmly.

"And as for making you an only child...I don't want to know what you mean by that."

When Sora realized it would be pointless to stand in front of the gate waiting for her parents who would never return to come and find her waiting for them. She backed away from the gate and took a few steps away from the house; she looked at it one last time before turning on her heel and went left. Her twin tails flicked the air calmly as she started to head down the next path. She kept walking forward and realized where this path would lead to.

"Sure you do. By that I meant that I'm pretty sure Cloud will be in severe danger of dying again due it his annoying antics that he'll probably throw at us all," Prism explained.

Primrose nodded. "Yeah you might have to do that. By day three Kirai and Cloud will probably be fighting over small things like pancakes or something."

She thought for a second. "Hm.. their personalities aren't quite different. I wonder if they hate each other so much because they're so alike.. and like, maybe they don't want to be so similar to the other, so they hate them even more!" she theorized enthusiastically.

Prism shook her head at her. "Your random strokes of genius are still weird."

"Are you sure we're going the right way?"

"We don't have a destination, dumbass. There is no right way."

"Well I've seen that tree a lot of times, so I'm pretty sure you're walking in a circle."

"That's because this place is really familiar and I'm trying to figure out what it is."

"Oh my god don't remind me of that...I'm afraid that will happen way too much and if it does..they will be the ones grounded so much they will never get to go outside now," sighed Artemis.

Sora kept walking down the path until she made a few right turns and lefts until she finally came to where she had been going. She stopped in her tracks when she saw no one was there since they were all in school or out or eating their dinners already. What stood in front of Sora was the park where she and her parents would always go to everyday before and after school. Sora walked over to the swings and sat down on one.

"It's so quiet now..."

Prism nodded. "Oh it's definitely going to happen. That's inevitable. Cloud is just..," she didn't finish her sentence and just sighed. That pretty much explained it all.

Primrose blinked. "Why do we still put up with him?"

"..good question."

Cloud stopped in his tracks. "Ohhh.. this is Sora's old neighborhood," he said quietly, staring at the exact spot where he'd killed his best friend's parents all those years ago.

He turned abruptly and started walking in a different direction. Kirai almost didn't notice and had to jog after him to catch up. "Hey.. where are you going?"

"To find Sora, where are you going?"

"Why'd you walk away?"

"..I just don't want to be there."

"Well then...they can get grounded...a lot," sighed Artemis.

"He better behave and get good grades or I'll kick his ass to hell and back ten million times."

Sora sat on the swing and gently swung herself on the swing and watched as the area started to turn into a burned color as the sun slowly started to set. She didn't bother to move when she breeze had started to pick, she had just remembered her jacket was with Artemis and still didn't move. She didn't move and stayed where she was and started to cry silently to herself.

"..No one's coming...they won't come...they can't come find me...not anymore.."

Prism laughed. "Cloud getting good grades.. god no. He's gonna end up being that douchebag at school who everyone loves but they hate him at the same time. Be glad you're not gonna be at the same school as him."

"Why not?"

"I just didn't okay!" Cloud snapped.

Kirai went quiet for a few minutes. "..you seem to know where you're headed now," he whispered.

Cloud sighed angrily and told himself to calm down. "No shit," he shot back Kirai's own words at him. "Now shut up." He did know where he was going, but was in no hurry to get there at all. He didn't feel like having an emotional blowup, and especially not in front of Kirai.

"If he doesn't I'll stalk him around school and maybe transfer myself there just to watch him," said Artemis with a smirk.

Sora felt it get colder as the sun kept sinking into the horizon; she wrapped one arm around her but kept the other on the chain of the swing. She was shivering but still refused to even move, she continued crying wishing that someone would find her. She hoped more than anything that it would be her parents no matter how many times she told herself they wouldn't be arriving.

Prism laughed. "Think you can handle all those classes with Cloud?"

Cloud heard Kirai take a breath to say something and spun around and glared at him. "No, okay? No. Stop. You stay in this exact spot. Do not move. If you do. You will not like the outcome." He gave Kirai a few seconds of hard glaring before continuing his walk to a place he swore he'd never return to.

He stared up at the gate of the park, sighing. He had already noticed Sora. He was just gathering what he planned to say.

Which was, he decided, nothing. Maybe if he was just there it would be better. Unlikely but what other choice did he have?

Cloud warily took a step into the park, not liking how nostalgic it was. He stopped and looked around for a second before slowly walking over to Sora.

"..It's too cold for you to be outside," he whispered, breaking his promise to himself of not saying anything. He couldn't just let her sit there and cry without saying anything.