Here's the next chapter! If you were hoping for a continuation from the last chapter then sorry it's the next part of the Kids chapter. In this Kid's chapter they're in seventh and eighth grade though. For the person asking for more romance, chill. It's still too early for that, even though I am on chapter 26. This story is progressing slowly and that's most likely how it will always progress. You'll get some romance, just be patient. Besides, in the description it says light romance. So I didn't promise anything juicy.
Disclaimer: All characters owned by Square Enix.
Chapter 26 – Kids pt II
"A date?" The brunette repeated, eying the blonde questioningly.
"Yeah," Beat said as he began to blush. "You know, the thing two people go on to -"
Sora covered Beat's mouth with his hands. "I know what it is," he began to blush as well. The brunette removed his hands. "But why me?"
"Do you have to ask," Beat sighed, leaning his head back on the schools outside wall. The two were sitting in the grass outside of the school, where they always went to each lunch by themselves. "You're everything a more, Sora. Don't you see it?"
Sora looked down at the grass.
"I know you like Riku," Beat said a bit frustratingly, catching Sora's attention. "And I know we're real young but I can treat you much better than he probably ever could! I mean c'mon yo, wouldn't you like to say you've dated Daisukenojo Bito?!"
The brunette began to giggle. It was surprising hearing Beat say his full name like that, he hated it when Sora had found out a long while ago in their elementary days. "I'll go on a date with you, Beat," He gave in, seeing a big smile appear on the blondes face. "But don't make it anything too crazy."
"Yes!" Beat jumped up cheering. "Rhyme is going to be so happy!"
Rhyme was Beat's younger sister. Sora has only met her a couple of times, and in those couple of times he was able to tell that she had a very close relationship with Beat as her brother.
"He must talk about me a lot for him to mention Rhyme being happy." Sora did have a crush on Riku, since forever. But one date couldn't hurt. Although, he never knew Beat had a crush on him… "Mom did say I was oblivious to everything…" And he's known Beat since he was in third grade, he was his second best friend.
"You won't regret this Sora, I promise." Beat told him.
Roxas walked through the halls of his middle school. It was lunch period, which he usually liked to skip due to a lack of friends. He didn't want friends here. He still missed his old friends back in Twilight Town. Everyone here thought he was weird.
"Stupid Ven." He sighed. It was his brother's sickness that made his parent's decide to move to Destiny Islands. Somehow such a small island had a better medical treatment hospital for his twin.
The blonde quickly became alert from the noise of rowdy boys in the hallway. Hearing them he hid behind the wall.
"This will be sick!" He heard one of them say in excitement. He heard something drop on the floor, it sounded like it had wheels by the slight rolling sound it made.
"Imagine the detention we'd get if we're caught!" One of them snickered.
Roxas' blue eyes rolled. He decided to peer out from the wall to see exactly what these 'ignorant' boys were doing. Vibrant red spikey hair caught his eyes, which nearly began to gleam from the blonde's sudden infatuation.
Roxas hid back behind the wall, his cheeks blushing and heart beating fast. He placed a hand on his chest.
"Who is he?" He thought, imagining the image of the handsome red-head he just saw. He began to compromise taking another peek, but shook his head deciding not to. He couldn't risk being seen, they'd think he was weird. Not that everyone else didn't.
From his earlier peek it seemed that the group of boys, four of them precisely, were playing with a skateboard.
"Axel, you've gotta do this!"
From what it seemed, they wanted whoever this 'Axel' guy was to ride the ramp in the hallway for the handicapped. "Whoever Axel is, he must be really dumb," He definitely couldn't be the red head. "The slippery floor and angle is definitely easy to kill yourself on." Thinking that, Roxas considered doing it himself. "Nah", Destiny Islands definitely wasn't something great enough to kill yourself over.
"Go, Ax!" One of the boys urged.
"Alright!" The Axel guy yelled.
Roxas heard the movement of wheels on the floor beginning to move faster and faster. And that's when he saw who the 'idiot' Axel was. He saw a flurry of flame like red hair rush by him and heard the excitement and laughter echo in the hall from the red head… "Axel!? That's Axel!?"
"Hey," He heard the red head yell at an innocent teacher and student coming out of her classroom. "Watch out!"
The teacher in shock just stood there like a deer in headlights, Axel panicking and falling off his board avoiding hitting the teacher. Roxas cringed, hearing the impact of the idiot teen hitting the floor and his board tumbling over.
"AXEL!" The teacher began to furiously yell. Roxas watched as the red-head began to hopelessly try and explain himself. However his attention was grabbed by the white haired teen next to the teacher who gave him a blank stare. He recognized him as the boy he had walked home near a couple of times in elementary school.
Roxas decided to run down his part of the hallway where he was hiding, not wanting to get anywhere involved in Axel's mess.
The voices began to fade the farther he got down the hallway, but he could tell that Axel was in deep trouble. "Axel…" He heard the bell ring and removed all traces of the red-head from his mind, or at least tried to, as he headed to his next class.
Selphie rolled her pen through her fingers. She was sitting in study hall next to Riku. "You've been improving a lot in Blitzball Riku." She mentioned.
Riku pulled his long snow-like hair behind his ear and smiled. "Yeah, my dad's happy about that."
She eyed Riku's math paper as he began to work on a problem. Watching him constantly write and then erase on the first problem. "But it looks like you still need to improve in math!" She said, sticking her tongue out.
"Hey," Riku laughed. "Quit it!"
Selphie giggled, she loved it when Riku was in this type of mood. She remembered when she had first met him in sixth grade; he was quiet and never spoke much. He's still that way towards people he doesn't know, but that didn't bother her as long as he spoke to her.
"I just don't understand this." He leaned on his desk.
"What's not to understand," Selphie questioned. "Every problem has an answer. It's just going through step by step to find the answer!"
"And that's what I can't do."
"Think of it as a game of clue?"
"Right, because that has everything to do with a math equation. I'll keep that in mind on my next test."
"Just trying to help," Selphie pursed her lips. "Y'know Riku, do you like anyone?" She asked slyly.
"No, that's gross." Riku tried to refocus on his homework.
"Are you being serious?!" Selphie asked, flabbergasted.
"Of course not!" Riku laughed.
Selphie grinned. "Well I'll figure it out someday Riku! And that's the day you should beware!~"
Roxas sat at his desk, the white haired boy's empty stare haunting his mind. "And people call me weird," He thought. "Riku is even weirder." But Riku had something holding his reputation up, and that was his plays on the Blitzball field. To Roxas it seemed that on this island Blitzball was all the mattered. If there was anything he could decide for his future, one thing is that he would definitely never ever play Blitzball. "Ever."
The blonde raised his hand. "Can I go to the bathroom?" He asked the teacher after being called on.
"I don't know," The teacher teased. "Can you?"
Roxas sighed, he hated when teacher pulled this bull on him. "May I?" He put much emphasis on the 'may'. He rolled his eyes as the teacher shook his head no.
"Really, after making me go through that you say no?!"
"Class ends in a couple of minutes, you can go then."
Roxas began to play with his pencil until the end of class, grabbing his backpack and heading to the bathroom he always went to. The one that no one ever went to. There had been a rumor that someone saw 'bloody Mary' in that bathroom and ever since no one went in.
"People are so gullible."
Roxas hung his backpack on one of the stall door hooks, although he didn't go in the stall. Instead he eyed himself in the mirror. "I hate this uniform." He began to fix his tie under his sweater vest. Yes, sweater vest. He didn't understand why a school on an island would have such a thing. To him, sweaters should be foreign items to islanders even if they were in the dreadful form of vests. Luckily the school was very well air conditioned.
He stopped, hearing the door begin to creek. Not wanting to be seen he ran into the stall, and stood up on the rim of the toilet, holding his backpack in front of him. He heard the footsteps of someone walking in. Being able to see under the stall door, he saw that the person was wearing a student uniform.
"That teacher is such a nark."
The voice was familiar. "Could it really be…" Roxas began to try and get on his tip toes, trying to peer over the stall to see who it was. But he gasped when he heard the toilet automatically flush. "Curse automatic toilets." He hid his face behind his backpack. Before that incident happened he did get a peek, and he was left thinking why couldn't it just be someone else who walked into the bathroom and not Axel.
"Who's there?" He heard him ask.
Roxas kept silent, but began to panic in his head when he heard Axel begin to open every stall door. He would've been somewhat safe if he had locked his stall door before hiding in it, which he regrettingly didn't do.
"What happened to no one ever coming in here?!"
He heard his stall door open and his heart began to pound.
The red-head began to laugh.
"Even his laugh his perfect." Roxas kept his face hidden behind his backpack.
"Who are you?!" Axel giggled.
"No one, go away!" Roxas definitely didn't want to be seen by this guy in this situation.
Axel licked his lips and tilted his head before sighing. "Freak." He said as he walked off and out of the bathroom.
Roxas closed his eyes, trying not to take that blow as hard as it was. He let out a breath. "At least he doesn't know who I am," He jumped off the toilet seat and got out of the stall, looking in the mirror. "The freak."
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Notice the differences in character when they were younger? xD Riku was a bit more playful and Roxas was more introverted yet self conscious of himself. Sora is still somewhat the same though : ) . Hope you guys liked the update.