You and I Collide

Yay, here is the next chapter. ^^


It was one of the average days for their practice, and Riku thought he could
get to Sora, but oh was he wrong...

"If we're gonna work together you may try and be polite to me." Riku said,
smirking at Sora who was skating backwards facing Riku,
while Riku faced Sora skating forwards.

"You're not going to be here long enough to make it worth the effort."
Sora said as a come back glaring.

"What, you don't think I can put up with your shit?"

"No, I don't think you can skate." Sora said merrily 'Oh yeah, I love
watching him get like this. Hehe, it's so cute to see him like this.
There I go again!' Sora shook his head 'He's note cute, he's a son of a bitch.'

"Listen Sweetheart, there's only two things I'm good at, and skating's the
other one." Cloud just watched in the corner as he prepared for another day.
'Those two act like cat and dog. But--they are good together.'

Sora suddenly stopped skating and went to the side to get a tissue. "My gosh, you
really are a Neanderthal."

"Hate to tell you, but I'm from Minnesota. That's south of Neanderthal."

Sora gave an evil glare towards Riku before wiping his nose
with a tissue. "So what do you do for fun?" Riku questioned
giving Sora a dazzeling smile. "Polish your knife collection?" He then added, raising
an eyebrow.

"I'm sure I don't do anything you would find exciting." Sora
began as he skated off forwards and then turned backwards
with a mohawk. (It's a turn mind you, not a hairstyle! Hehehe)
Sora kept on saying this while keeping his eyes locked with Riku's
"I don't open beer bottles with my toes, I don't sit around and
count what's left of my teeth, hey, I don't even enjoy a good tractor
pull." Sora now stopped with a tango stop in front of Riku looking in
his usual pissed off/sarcastic mood.

"Wow, life of the party, huh? Place must be crawling with girls." Riku smirked
looking down at Sora. 'And maybe a few guys. Hehe.' He thought to himself.

"As a matter of fact, I do have a girlfriend."

"Well there's a rough gig. What do you do, keep her chained up in the basement?"

"Selphie, at the moment in is London touring with a ballet theater."
Sora said in a tone colder than the ice itself.

"She must be very smart. I bet you look pretty good from a few thousand
miles away." Riku couldn't help himself but grin. Sora only rolled his eyes
until Cloud came up ready for their practice day.

Riku and Sora got into position as Cloud kept tutoring Riku. "Shoulders
bent, chest up. Remember, shoulders bent. There. Now, head higher."
Riku lifted his head higher all right, he looked up at the ceiling and
opened his mouth. Truth be told, he really did look dumb at that moment.
"After we're through here, can't we please teach it how to breath with it's mouth closed?"

"WO--AH!" Riku suddnly fell backwards even though he was
standing still, he tripped on his heals. "Don't quit your day job."
Sora turned his head over his shoulder to look at Riku while
chuckeling. 'Oh--my--gosh--he can actually laugh...but I guess it is my pain that's his enjoyment.'


They started crossovers together again once Riku had gotten up.
"As I have said before, Riku, you are stem, Sora, you are petal.
Together, you make flower." Sora started going faster which Riku
couldn't keep up with the new skates. Sora's hand slipped from
Riku's and then Riku fell again, tripping on his toepick. Sora skated
up and stopped by Riku bending down and said, "Toepick" in the
most cute and innocent tone you ever heard. "Gah, what is he acting
like an innocent angel for?' Riku glared in Sora's direction.

"Okay again."

Again, it started out fine and then Riku lost his hold on Sora's hand
and then when he almost grabbed it back Sora pulled it away. Which
meant again, another fall. Sora skated by again and stopped with
the back of his toepick with a scratch stop. "Toepick" came out of his
lips with the same innocent tone.

"Again."

Riku and Sora almost had it this time but now it was time to change
from holding wrists to hands and as Riku reached For Sora's
hand, he skated faster and Riku lost him. Bam! He hit the
ice again. "Gah." Was all Riku could say before Sora said in a
very high, almost singing voice and stopped again. "Toepick"

Again, and again, and again. Fall, after fall, after fall, was followed
by that same angelic tone. "Toepick"

"Now backward crossovers." Cloud thought maybe Sora would stop
being such a brat and actually give Riku a chance.

They were holding hands perfectly and Riku was actually pretty good
with backward crossovers, all though, they couldn't even begin
to compare to Sora's delicate, yet powerful pushes with each
crossover/cutback. They were now switching forward and an open inside
backwards-to-forwards mohawk and Riku lost Sora's hand but again
he tried to grab his hand, but Sora lowered his hand. 'What a bastard.' Riku
thought as he lay there on the ice once again.

Sora didn't come by this time. 'Hey!? Where's the toepick?'
Then suddenly a very soft yet high angelic voice went, "Toepick"
and laughed as he started to skate.

Latter that night Riku had to put bags of ice around his waistline
from all those bruises, 'Oh, I wonder what makes him so prissy.
Is it this Yuna character? What, was she his sister or something?
I wonder if he's jealous of her.'


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It was time for an ice make, on one of their practice days so the
Zamboni was resurficing the ice. Sora took his brake by reading
a book. While Riku put on his hockey skates and got out his old
hockey stick and puck. He went backwards in front of the
Zamboni fiddeling with the puck and yelleing out in happiness.
"Riku dodges Wakka, Riku passes Axel, Riku shoots past Peter,
and he scores!" He quickly got out of the way of the Zamboni which
litterly, would have ran over him if he hadn't.

Riku sat down now by Sora who still seemed enraptured in his book.
Riku put two hockey sticks together as if a baseball player would
comparing different bats. "If you're so bored why don't you read?"
Sora questioned lifting up his reading glasses slightly and started to
read again. "You mean like a book?" Riku questioned back.

"That is the generally accepted format, yes." Sora said still looking
as if he were reading.

"Is this the beggening of a conversation here? Riku looked over at
Sora puzzled but a slight grin on his face.

"I was just simply asking if you knew how to read." Sora now turned
toward Riku putting down his book.

Riku started to tape the top of his hokcey stick before saying, "Yes,
Riku can read." Riku said in a very caveman sounding voice while
stomping his feet to add to the whole effect. Sora rolled his eyes and
looked back at his book. 'Hmph, this dope isn't as bad as I thought'
he said smiling to himself. 'Wait! You're nuts! Go back to
being the smartass you are!'

"What was the last book you read?" Sora looked back at Riku. "You were in college?"

"The last thing I read in college was a letter canceling my
scholarship when I couldn't play anymore."

"Okay, high school."

"I was a hockey player. The only thing I had to read was a scoreboard."
Riku continuted to tape his hockey stick.

"And they graduated you?" Sora questioned raising an eyebrow.

"They revered me. I was a God." Riku grinned widely.

"What a tragic commentary on our times." Sora turned back to read his book.

"State championships, my last game. 300 people carried me around
their shoulders on the ice. It took the state police 2 hours to break it up."
Riku said slightly frowning at Sora. 'Oh, how I miss those days, but hey,
I do have Sora...WAIT! There I go again turning into a cukoo birdie.'

"What did you plan to do once your gladiatoren days were over?"
'Hehe, he is cute' Sora thought, but didn't stop himself from thinking about it this time.

"I don't know, but you can bet your smartass comments
I never thought I'd end up being part of a freak show like this."
Riku finished taping his stick and tossed the tape aside.

"What a shame."

Riku smirked, "So where did you come from?" Riku paused waiting
for an answer but Sora just read--or pretended to. Now
Riku turned to face Sora. "You were in college?"

Sora acted as if he were still reading. "I had tutors," Sora paused
to look at Riku again. "Excellent tutors. Riku grinned at him as
if saying, 'I win' Sora slammed down his book, took off his glasses
and stood up out of his chair. "Gah, will you please find a place
to put your...your clubs!" Sora angerly went on the ice.

"Man would I love to see you play hockey." Riku grinned.

Sora suddenly stopped 'Bastard' and grinned, "Any day." All he got
back as a reply was Riku raising his eyebrows and grinning. 'Oh, this should be fun.'

Riku gave a hockey stick and gloves to Sora, he had no extra pair
of skates, so his figures had to do. He started out by giving Sora
the puck, just so he could get a good start. For goals they set up
different objects to pass the puck in between, such as books, teapots, etc.

Riku set dropped the puck down and counted it off before saying,
"It's on." to Sora smuggly.

Riku right away let's Sora keep the puck to well, as he said it,
let it easy on him. But that changed quickly, "Come on, you can do
better than that!" Chuckled Riku. Riku then takes the puck and
swerves around Sora and heads towards the goal. "Hey!" yells
Sora as he heads towards his goal to block Riku, but Riku shoots
between Sora's legs. "That's one!" Riku then turns his hockey
stick upside down and blows on the tip as if it were a gun.

Riku puts the puck back at the starting point and they try again.
"Come on, take it." Smirks Riku. Riku started off easily, giving
Sora a chance to snatch it, but Sora's thing...really isn't hockey.
Sora get's the puck from Riku but stops and looks up at
Riku strangely, 'He looks cute when he sweats--' but Sora's thoughts
were cut short because Riku snatched the puck from him.
Sora starts slamming his stick down. Half hoping to get it and
half in rage. "OH NO!!!" Sora turns over his shoulder to
see that Riku shot between his legs again. "That's two."
And this time, Riku salutes Sora. They get ready to go again...

Riku gets the puck off the bat, he decides to not play Mr. "Nice" anymore.
"Stop it you!" Riku just grins at Sora before making his third goal.
Before you would know what happened next Riku now had eight points
and then raised his arms up in triumphant glory at Sora. "Argh!"
Riku puts the puck back down, because they agreed for ten to be the
winning order, the score was--R: 8 S: 0.
But hey, who knew that THAT would happen?

Sora grabbed the puck and scooted around bhind Riku before saying,
"You make me ill!" and Riku just grins back. Then Sora stops and
looks at Riku, like he were lost in another world, and then lifts his
hockey stick up very high and slams it down on the ice taking the
puck with it like it were a baseball bat and hits Riku right in the head...

The next thing Sora knew, they were in the hospital, and Sora saw
Riku pass by in a stretcher. Sora sat down next to Cloud, still amazed by the
whole thing. "It's not like his nose was perfect." Sora turned to Cloud.
"He's the one who wanted to play." Cloud just flipped through a magazine.
"He's like those morons who insist you punch them in the stomach as heard
as you can." Sora turned to face Cloud again, waiting for a response.
"I don't know why I'm even explaining all this to you, all I did was play
his stupid game. Next thing you'll be telling me is how quilty I sound."
"Is not guilt." Cloud finally spoke, not even looking at Sora. "well at least we
agree on that." "Iis fear." "You've gotta be kidding me, what do I have to
fear about?" Cloud finally looked over at Sora, "Because you have finally
found yourself a partner." Sora just laughed and shook his head, but then
spotted Riku. "Oh my gosh." Sora said as he got up.
"I thought you said it was just his nose."

Riku came out being pushed in a wheelchair by a nurse, groaning in
pain while holding his head with his left hand. He had a huge bandage
wrapped around his only leaving little holes for his eyes, the end of his
nose and his mouth. The nurse came up to Cloud and Sora and
stopped Riku in front of them. Sora paniced, "What's the matter with
him? Not my Riku, he can't be hurt!' "What? What's wrong?"

Riku groaned again before lifting his left hand up to take off his bandages,
revealing an awful mark on his nose/bottom of forehead. Cloud and Sora
looked at him before Riku smirked and said, "Toepick." Cloud still
stared but then turned it into a smile and chuckled. Sora just looked
at Riku in anger before narrowing his eyes and going to the door.
Sora pushed the door open extremely hard, and yelled "ARGH!" in anger.
"Hey, what's his problem?" Riku raised an eyebrow at Cloud. "I think
he's nervous about re-match." Riku chuckled. "Hmm." while nodding
his head and grinning. 'Well, let's just see if you can compete with me, Little Ms. Muffit.'