[KH] Shine and Reflect: Meeting (event 1)

Summary:  Thirteen moments in the lives of Lea & Isa. (No slash.)

Introduction:  There's no way I wasn't going to take on this challenge. XD  I'm basically just gonna go down the timeline and pick significant moments for the boys to write about.  I'm only supposed to do ten, but there's thirteen I want to write.

I'm posting the stories for this challenge alongside the stories for Wishing-Fire's 101 theme challenge (on FFN and MMO), but they're two different series for two different challenges. I just want to keep all my AkuSai stuff together as much as I can. *sweatdrop*

And yes, I've been taking on a million challenges lately - I'm not going to work hard to finish most of them, it's just for fun, and to see how far along I get.  (This one, though, I will try to finish, since it is so short and for my OTP.)

Event 1 - Meeting (rough draft)

He looked tiny, cornered against the wall and surrounded by all those big fourth graders.

"Say that again, punk."

The blue-haired kid didn't sound scared when he said, "I guess you're not deaf, just stupid.  So I can call you a rank, crook-pated ratsbane, and you'll have no idea what I'm talking about."

'Nope,' Lea thought from where he was watching behind the fountain.  'No one knows what the heck you're saying, but we know you're making fun of him.  They're gonna beat you up now.'

The main bully grabbed the kid by the front of his shirt and started to hit him.

Lea hated seeing kids get hit.  He hated seeing big people pick on little people.  He hated seeing a weak person be brave and get squashed for it.  So he ran out, yelling, and started hitting the bullies as much as he could before they stopped being surprised and started to hit back.

He felt like he was on fire.  It was awesome, even when it did start to hurt.  He wasn't really winning, but he wasn't on the ground yet and his fists were connecting and he was starting to see blood.  'I can take 'em,' he thought for one thrilling moment.

Then someone did knock him to the ground, and now it hurt more and he couldn't hurt them back so he couldn't ignore the pain anymore, and he screamed in helpless rage and was about to scream again when someone else's bellow drowned it.

He thought it was a new person at first, maybe a junior high schooler who'd seen the fun, but then he realized it wasn't.  The other kid had been having his butt handed to him, but now somehow he was throwing them off like some kind of tiny superhero.  The guys hitting Lea stopped, staring at the little blue-haired monster behind them in surprise.

Then the kid started kicking their butts, with no style or grace but sheer power and speed; he didn't seem to even notice any of the strikes they landed.  His eyes looked weird.  Some of the bullies ran away; the rest jumped him as a group.  Lea, forgotten, grinned wildly and leaped at their backs.

When it was over, the other kid collapsed.  Lea looked at him in surprise, because he hadn't thought he was that hurt.  He crouched down and shook his shoulder.  "Hey.  Hey, Berserker.  Wake up."

The kid stirred and moaned, "So tired...."

"Man, you really are a berserker, just like on TV....  Come on, let's go."  Lea pulled the kid's arm over his shoulders and dragged him away.

The kid woke up when they were heading across the town square.  "Ow...what happened?"

"We kicked their butts," Lea said happily.

"Oh...."  A pause.  "Who are you?"

"I'm Lea!  What's your name?"

"Um, Isa....  Hey, let go."

Lea did, and watched as Isa checked himself.  Like Lea, he was bruised and bloodied and limping, but he could walk on his own now.  "My glasses!" he cried in horror.

"Sorry," Lea said uncertainly.

"Mother's going to be--"  Isa shuddered.  "Never mind Mother; Father will be furious with me."

Lea winced in sympathy.  "Then you want some ice cream before you go home?"

"What?"

"Like, so you'll be stronger, and can take it better."

"Ice cream doesn't make you strong."

"Yes, it does!  When you taste that sweet sea-salt, like eating ice cream at the beach with your friends, and even afterwards it's like--"

"Sea salt isn't sweet."

Lea stared.  "Haven't you had sea-salt ice cream before?"

Isa wrinkled his nose.  "That does not sound tasty at all."

"Are you crazy?!?!"  Lea seized his arm and started dragging him away.

"Ow!  Let go!"

"Not 'til you eat some sea-salt ice cream and start yelling that it's the most yummy thing you've ever tasted in your entire life!!!"

"No!  Let go!  Help, I'm being kidnapped...!"

Later, Isa stared at the bar of ice cream in his hand, after having taken the first bite.  "...This is delicious."

"Best thing ever, right?!"

"Of course not.  I still prefer mint chocolate chip."  Isa took another bite.  "But this is very good."

"Best thing ever, best thing ever, best thing everrrr...!"

Author's Notes:  Lol, thank you to the Shakespeare Insult Kit. XD  I bet little Isa came across it somewhere and had fun with it.

This drabble should be 800 words longer...my usual problem is writing above the word count, not below. o.O  Hopefully I can make up for it with the extra three stories....

Complete:  1/10 (1/13)