Yes, I'm alive. Yes, this is a new chapter. Yes, it is short.

No, I did not discontinue this.

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I was just busy at some points guys, I'm sorry. And I had a huge writers block but I really just forced myself to write this small chapter. There were many times I would open the document and just not know what to write . I hope you like it, I can't guarantee when the next one will be up but I know it'll be a continuation of the ending of this chapter and also have a SoRiku part in it.

Please Enjoy.

Chapter 31: The Mansion pt 1

Sora tilted his head over the trash bin, sweat droplets dripping into it from his forehead. "So nauseous…"

"SORA," He heard the coach yell from afar, obnoxiously beginning to blow his whistle. "Get back on the field!"

"I can't." The brunette weakly murmured to himself, his voice shaky.

It's been like this for days. Intense afterschool practices, especially on him since he was going into the season untrained and there were only a couple days until their first game.

Roxas stopped running with the ball, hearing the coach blow his whistle at the rest of them. He wiped the perspiration off his forehead with the back of his hand and dropped the ball to the ground, closing his eyes. "I'm exhausted."

"Someone get Sora back on this field, now!" The coach ordered them.

The players all looked at each other, waiting to see who would be the first to move towards the brunette. But before they came to a decision they saw Sora struggling his way over to the field.

"You okay?" Aqua asked him.

"As okay as I can be."

"I know it's tough, but you've gotta keep going." She tried to smile to ease up his tension, but she realized it didn't work considering the way he waved her off. "Sora…" She frowned.

Sora covered his ears, hearing the coach begin to obnoxiously blow his whistle at the team. It was something he did at most practices when irritated.

"Restart the game!" He ordered. Exhausting sighs emitted from the field as the team got back into their positions.

"Sora," someone put their hand on the brunettes shoulder. He turned around to see Riku holding up a bottle of some liquid substance to his face. "Drink this."

"I'm not sure if I should trust you on what's in that."

Riku gave the brunette a glare before Sora decided he would drink it. "It'll give you more energy and help your exhaustion."

After taking a large gulp he handed the bottle back over to Riku. "If this is some type of sabotage I'll have to kill you."

"Good luck with that." The snow-head grinned before drinking some of the energy drink.

"Well if he drank it too then it must be okay." Sora put his hand on his stomach before taking a breath and going on to his side of the field.

Coach Villiers had split the team up into two smaller units. Sora was on a team with Selphie, Roxas, Hayner, Aqua, and Zack. Riku was on the opposing team which consisted of Seifer, Rai, Wakka, and Tidus. The teams were uneven, but considering one was full of most of the newbies and the other had more experienced players Coach Villiers thought it would be helpful.

"Sora," Selphie called over the brunette. Her bangs were clipped away from her face, her hair in a small ponytail. She held the blitzball in between both of her hands. "Are you feeling well enough to start the game this time?"

"Actually," A smile crept up on his face. "Never better!"

Selphie handed over the ball and walked to a different spot on the field.

"Whatever he gave me really worked."

Sora grinned to himself and his dropped the ball onto the artificial grass. He moved it onto the middle line with his feet.

"I wonder why he would help me. He's never seemed to care…"

"Are you done smiling," Sora was snapped out of his thoughts by Riku. "We kind of have to practice here."

The brunette didn't respond. He took his foot off the top of the ball and put a hand up for the coach to know that the teams were ready to start playing.

The whistle blew.

Sora had kept his eye on the ball, but Riku's reflexes were much faster than his and so he dribbled past the brunette with the ball, bumping his shoulder.

"Damnit!"

Selphie and Roxas, playing fielders, ran after the snow-head. The defenders of the other team, Seifer and Rai, kept close to Riku but gave him enough distance to maneuver the way he wanted to.

Sora began to run.

Later on that day

"So why are we doing this again?" Terra looked over at Xion.

"Because it's mega cool, okay?" Her eyebrows furrowed as she answered in a defensive tone.

"Who says 'mega' anymore?" Hope asked, making Xion give him a look that said 'I do so shut the fuck up'.

"If something even remotely close to creepy happens I'm definitely leaving." Noel commented.

"Let's just head for the door now," Tifa finger combed her hair behind her ear. "If we wait too long someone might see us."

The other four nodded in agreement, and then they all looked towards the door. They had taken a four hour long bus ride to Twilight Town just to visit this 'haunted' mansion Xion had read about online.

"So…," Hope looked at the others. "Who's going to go first?"

"I vote Xion." Tifa nervously smiled. "Not like I want to do it."

"You guys are such babies!" Xion put her hands on her hips as she stood from crouching down behind the bush. It was dark. She took a look at her watch and checked the time. 9:34. She ran towards the front door, her friends following in line behind her. The raven-head pulled on the handle, the door beginning to creak open. "Yes!" She whispered in excitement.

Not wanting to open the door too wide they all slid inside. Hope closed back the door and Terra turned on their LED flash light.

"This already doesn't look like it was a good idea." He said as he moved the flashlight along the tattered walls. The place was dusty with many cobwebs. Every item that filled the house was either broken or old and dirty.

Hope instinctively grabbed Noel's hand.

"You don't want me to train you during practice yet you hold my hand?!"

"Is it just me, or does this look like so much fun!?" Xion squealed, a bright smile on her face as she turned to face the group.

"It's just you." They responded in unison, their voices full of irritation.

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