Chapter Six
"Okay, Ri-Ku." He pronounced slowly, emphasizing on the 'ku'. Sora then cheekily smiled.
"Are you building a castle?" Riku looked at the sloppily molded sand.
"Mhm!" Sora nodded vigorously, holding his bucket in his hand. "Do you want to build the fort?"
"Of course!" Riku began to build a fort alongside the castle. His hands were small though a bit larger than Sora's. He was also not as tanned as the latter.
"Do you always come to this park, Riku?" Sora asked, looking at the boys white hair shift within the wind. It looked just like the snow in the movies he's seen. He reached to touch it, wondering if it was soft and cold.
Sora learned that it wasn't and Riku looked up at him with his teal colored eyes staring into Sora's cerulean orbs. He stopped what he was doing. "No, but today my mommy let me." He smiled.
"Do you have a daddy too?"
"Yes but he's not as nice." Riku began to build the sand again, Sora deciding to help out.
Sora was sitting on one of the nurse's patient beds, a curtain pulled around to conceal who was in the room, lips in a pout and eyes watery. "How come every time I'm close to Riku I end up making myself look worse?" He whined. He was holding a bag of ice too his nose, as well as a tissue.
Roxas was sitting in the chair across the bed from him. "It's alright, Sora."
"No it's not," Sora sobbed. "The first time I've ever spoken to him and I can't do anything right!"
"You're always a klutz, so he's going to have to like that about you too," Roxas stated, fiddling with some of his blonde locks. "That is if he falls for you at least."
"He never will then!" Sora sobbed profusely.
Roxas stood becoming a bit worried. "Just stop crying!"
"No!" Sora retorted.
Roxas covered Sora's mouth with his hand. "Shhh! Listen." He whispered. Sora's crying ceased and the two listened to a conversation going on with the nurse and another student.
"Is there anything you would like, mister?" The nurse asked, looking up at the boy from her desk seat.
"I'm here for Sora…Hibari." Riku explained. Roxas could feel Sora's lips frowning and beginning to tremble, about to continue crying. He then felt something warm and liquidy run down his hand, turning back to Sora to see what it was he realized it was blood. Being slightly disgusted he was going to pull his hand away but then heard the curtain swoosh aside, Riku appearing.
A silence filled the room, two sets of blue eyes staring at the junior; who was staring back at them without the slightest hint of expression on his face. "There's blood on your shirt." Riku broke the silence, walking over to the empty seat Roxas had last occupied and sitting down, hands in his pockets.
Sora began to cry again, deciding not to even care about embarrassing himself even more than he has already in front of the Blitzball player. Roxas moved his hand away and went over to the sink to wash off his hand. "Don't think I'm here to see you or anything," Riku put a headphone in his ear. "Selphie told the teacher I wanted to come here."
"Then you shouldn't have come." Roxas moved the trash can over to Sora, throwing away the old tissue and giving him new ones to place to his nose. "Sora, take off your shirt."
"But I don't have another one." Sora sniffled.
"Hmph, that's not surprising." Riku rudely commented, reaching into his backpack.
"Hey, shut up," Roxas yelled, unbuttoning Sora's shirt so he could at least try and wash some of the stains out. "No one asked for your -." A shirt hit Roxas in the back of the head, hanging over it.
"You can borrow mine."
Roxas got really mad, turning into something like a growling puppy. He turned around pulling the shirt from off his head. "No! He won't!"
"And I suppose you have one he could use," Riku smirked. "Or are you just going to let him walk around with a stained shirt all day."
Roxas growled and turned back around to Sora. "I really hate you." He said to Riku.
"Do something about it then." Riku remained calm, toying with Roxas.
"Why, so you can do to me what you did to that other kid!" Roxas retorted, turning back to look at Riku since he was done taking Sora's shirt off. Roxas knew his place, he knew that he could never get in a fight against Riku or he'd probably never see daylight again. And even though he gets angry easily, he's never actually been in a real fight before.
Riku stood up, hovering over the blonde, his face changing its composure. "Tch, like you know anything about that!"
"Guys!" Sora whimpered.
The Nurse peeked her head through the curtain. "If you guys don't quiet down, I'm going to have to send you to Guidance." And then she left. Riku crossed his arms, sitting back down in the seat. Roxas quietly went over to the sink with Sora's shirt, Sora putting on Riku's extra shirt over his undershirt. His nose had stopped bleeding, so he went into the bathroom and washed off his face.
"I look a mess." His cheeks and eyes were red from the excessive crying, but it soon disappeared after washing it. Riku's shirt was of course a bit big on him, but it looked alright. He came back out to see Roxas folding up his shirt and Riku still sitting in his seat. "Sorry about the mess guys." He felt bad, the aura coming off from the too definitely wasn't a happy one.
"Don't worry about it." Riku stood, grabbing his backpack and putting his iPod back in one of the zipper pockets.
"Yeah," Roxas put the shirt in Sora's backpack for him. "I couldn't get all the stains out, so you're going to have to bleach it." Sora smiled, jogging over to Roxas and giving him a 'great-big-hug'. "Thank you," He let go, looking at Riku. "You too, Riku."
"Don't hug me." Riku told him. Sora took his comment pretty positively and lightly giggled. He didn't like somber moments, so he tried to lighten it up a bit.
The bell rang. "Let's go to lunch, Roxas!" Sora pulled the curtain aside and Roxas and Riku followed him out, Riku splitting up from them once they left the nurse's office.
Riku met up with Selphie to see a large grin upon the girls face. "Soooo," she began. "Did anything interesting happen?" She was following him down the hallway to his soon-to-be-reached locker.
"Who's the blonde kid that's always around Sora?" Riku asked. They stopped at his locker and he began to put in the combination.
Selphie flipped through her journal finding the correct page. "Roxas Strife; moved here when he was ten from Twilight Town, has some anger problems but has never physically expressed them." She then held the page open to Riku. Blue ink filled every inch of open space, filling up the page completely. It was even so fully detailed that it had a picture of Roxas in the top left corner that seemed to be from last year. The picture was of him and Axel eating sea salt ice cream, most likely from the past school sale.
"He's related to Cloud?" Riku shut his locker and leaned his back against it.
"Mhm," Selphie nodded. "They're cousins!" Riku remained quiet. "Why do you want to know about Roxas?" Selphie asked, her green eyes staring intently at her friend.
"Nothing…it's just-"
"YO, RIKU!" Tidus yelled from down the hall, shattering the moment. Wakka was following behind the hyperactive teen.
"Wakka, Tidus!" Riku laughed, fist bumping Tidus. Selphie smiled.
"Whaddup bruddah," Wakka's accent was thick. "Haven't seen you all day!"
"I've just been with Selphie."
"Yeah," Selphie put her hands on her hips. "And you two just ruined a perfectly nice moment!" She grabbed Tidus' ear.
"Ow, ow! Sorry!" Tidus apologized wanting Selphie to let go.
The group caught up with each other for a couple minutes, and when everything calmed down they walked to lunch.
'It's just…what?' Selphie pondered, trying to think of every possibility for what Riku could've finished that with.
This is going to be the last quick update for a while. I want to get more feel for my characters and give them a bit more depth. I also realize I need to advance my writing skills, so I'm going to try doing what I never do and read a book LOL. Usually reading helps my skills. Also I edited the last chapter because I realized that in the second Riku had said that none of the players on the blitzball team last year were seniors, which turned out not to be true because I had Selphie say Leon graduated. So yeah, I fixed Chapter Five a bit (as well as some errors).
The quick updates were good while it lasted ? ~ But I need to make this story less sloppy.