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[mybadhabit]

Who: Sora kingdomkey and Speed of Sound Sonic mybadhabit
What: Shopping!
When: The afternoon of April 8th
Where: Temple of Baldur and the Near Shore
Warnings: Enough fluff to make your teeth rot, probably.

You really couldn't call the confrontation with Gojyo a fight. It wasn't even a scuffle. Sonic had, through the lethargy, wanted to try talking things out, but it seemed Gojyo really only wanted a chance to stroke his own ego and kick him when he was down.

What a bully.

Still, he had a point about needing more adult friends. Even before Gojyo has said something, it was a concern bubbling at the back of Sonic's mind for several days. If only he could just figure out how to attract the attention of people his own age long enough to show his worth. He knew how to build a reputation among criminals, and teenagers seemed to flock to him, but other young adults? He was at a loss. It wasn't as if there was a designated place to meet up and hang out for adults like there was for the kids.

He mulled that thought over a bit as he headed home and changed from his catsuit into skinny jeans and a Ninja Anime shirt, loading his wrists with wristbands and bangles. He couldn't do much about the adult friends situation right away, but he did promise to take Sora shopping about a week ago. Some retail therapy would definitely pick up his mood, and it was hard to stay somber around Sora.

After a quick touch-up to his eyeliner, he zipped off to Sora's temple to see if the teen was up to an afternoon around the town.

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[oathkeeper]

It had been a few days since the hullabaloo at the school and Sora had spent most of his time at home just trying to relax. The final battle had been rough on him and even with the other members of his team there to back him up he had taken a bit of a beating. It hadn't helped that he was the only one in the library with an actual damaging weapon, or so it seemed.

His shoulder was still tender from the blight-goop that had stuck to him but it was mostly healed. He decided to wear a light blue hooded tshirt today and his normal knee-length baggy black shorts.

As per usual, Sora's temple is completely unlocked. He has a bad habit of leaving all the doors unlocked all the time... But Sora can be found laying on the sand in the back yard, half asleep. Riku Replica had taken off for the day so he was taking a well deserved nap in the sun.

[mybadhabit]

Poor Sora's nap is about to be disturbed by a ninja crouching down over him, poking his cheek gently.

Then he cups Sora's face in his hands and smooshes his cheeks together. "Look at this cute little chipmunk I have found."

[oathkeeper]

Startled awake, Sora yelps and flails and in quick instinctual god-like reaction vanishes from sight only to reappear above Sonic and falls, landing flat on Sonic's back.

He just decides to cling there for a second.

"I'm not a chipmunk you're a chipmunk."

[mybadhabit]

Sonic is never going to get used to the fact that people can just teleport everywhere. It makes sense, but it kind of throws off his whole speed of sound thing, just a little.

Still, having Sora suddenly land on his back is not enough to knock him over, and instead, he simply hooks his arms around Sora's legs and stands up. "A very clever retort. I have been defeated by your boundless wit and infinite insight. I don't know how I will ever recover."

"Are you up for going shopping and getting bubble tea today?"

[oathkeeper]

Granted, it was more of a sneeze-teleport than anything. He hadn't expected it to happen that way either.

Effectively piggy-backed he just grins happily, feeling triumphant despite Sonic's actual tone. "Recover by buying the bubble tea! That's your punishment for waking me up too."

He yawns lightly next, rolling his shoulder. "Strawberry with lychee... Hmm, yep lets definitely go. After that crap at the school I'm ready for things to settle down a bit."

And with Data-Roxas. What a whirl.

[mybadhabit]

"Well, I could have stood over you until you woke up, but I figured that would be a little creepy."

He teleports the both of them to a large mall on the Near Shore, heading towards the food court to get that bubble tea.

"I've never had bubble tea before, but that does sound good." He has a weakness for strawberry that he can never really resist. "How did you fare in the fight?"

[oathkeeper]

It takes all of Sora's self control to not gape at Sonic. How did someone never have bubble tea before?

By now he's hopped off Sonic's back and walks alongside him, listing flavors off on his fingers. "Strawberry is my favorite with lychee pieces, but you can get pretty much any fruit flavor and even stuff like avocado. The normal bubbles is tapioca, but if you don't like those you can get green apple or star fruit or dragonfruit pieces..." He'll go on like this for a while...

When he's finally done he just shrugs. "Leo and me went to the library. I ended up taking tall Riku too because Namine wasn't around with him. We were in trouble for a little while but we managed. It was annoying my power wasn't working to unlock the windows though..."

He lifted his sleeve to show Sonic his shoulder. "Got this! And I got the killing hit in." There was still a bit of blight burn from the attack he got, but it didn't hurt anymore and was almost healed up. "How about you?"

[mybadhabit]

He's a weird recluse with weird priorities, Sora, you'd be surprised what he has no knowledge or experience with. He, of course, at least knows what bubble tea is, but since it seemed like a frivolous expenditure, never went out of his way to try it. As far as he could tell, it was just tea with fruit in it, and if he wanted that that badly, he could always make it at home.

He still politely listens as Sora rambles, letting him talk as much as he wants, asking questions where appropriate. Bubble tea may not have any great appeal to him, but he's not going to curb Sora's enthusiasm over it.

"Sora..." He sighs when he sees the Blight, reaching for it, but not touching it. "Why are you still Blighted? Have you not been using your fountain? You can't just let things like this go."

[oathkeeper]

Sora pulls his sleeve back down and waves a hand. He didn't want Sonic to worry about something like this.

"It's fine! It doesn't hurt and I'll wash it again later, that stuff the jelly thing shot at me is a little stronger than usual blight I think so it's taking a bit."

Sora didn't want to make a big deal out of this. He smiles. "I'm fine, really!"

They came up to the bubble tea place and Sora starts to order after taking a second to get the attention of the lady at the counter.

"Did you ever figure things out with that jerk red head guy?"

[mybadhabit]

Sonic purses his lips and glowers at Sora, clearly disbelieving, but he lets it drop. In public is not a good place to be fussing over Far Shore problems, after all.

"This is why I wear long sleeves, you know," is all he's going to say about it. Actually, he wears long sleeves because he doesn't like bringing attention to his scars, but with the addition of ayakashi to his life, being as covered as possible at all times seems like a good plan.

Sonic orders the strawberry and lychee combination Sora mentioned before, and waits until they get their teas and find a nice place to sit down before he replies to the question about Gojyo.

"It turns out that he's one of my brothers in the Greek pantheon, Dionysus," he explains with a shrug, scowling at his bubble tea. "Things are... complicated. Apparently I managed to scare him while I was playing around the first time we met, so I apologized for that today. I don't think it was enough, but Axel says I should just leave him be for a while."

[oathkeeper]

Sora's eyes drifted briefly over Sonic's own sleeves, remembering the time he showed some of his scars to him. It still made Sora's heart hurt when he thought about those.

"I know. I promise I'll clean the rest of it off later." He reassures.

He sits and takes a big gulp of his tea, his cheeks puffing up before he swallows. Listening, his eyes went a bit wide when Sonic mentions the Greek Pantheon.

"Axel's usually right about a lot of things, so I'd go with that too." He tilts his head to the side, pondering. It still made him pretty angry that Sonic had been treated that way but...

"Well I hope that all blows over. He seems like a real jerk either way! There's nothing wrong with us being friends you know. Axel and Roxas used to be best friends and they're the same ages as us."

[mybadhabit]

"Good. Taking care of yourself is important."

As funny as watching Sora turn himself into a chipmunk is, Sonic can't help but feel slightly exasperated. He rolls his eyes, reaching up to poke Sora's cheek. "Take normal sips, Sora, someday you're going to choke and spit up all over yourself and I'm going to laugh."

He sighs as Sora talks, then shrugs, hunching up even further. "I know there isn't, but he does have a point; I don't really have very many adult friends."

"Not that I don't like you," he adds quickly, glancing over a Sora. "But... there are things I can't talk about with you, things I can't do with you that I could do with someone my own age."

[oathkeeper]

"Well-" Sora says, while swatting Sonic's hand away from his face, "I'm still sitting on the fact that we're all gods and stuff now and all that doesn't matter but I know you're not gonna agree with me about that still."

He takes another sip of his drink, less this time, and swallows everything but a peice of lychee. "Check this out though,"

He took the little cardboard cut out advertising thing on the table that was sitting there and using his straw he shot the peice of lychee at it and it stuck like glue.

That probably didn't make Sonic feel any better about having teenage friends but he thought it was funny. He smacks the table with the palm of his hand.

"Anyway, but you are making some other friends right? I mean there's Genos and Sheryl? And you said you talk to Axel? I think you're fine."

[mybadhabit]

"I'm not saying you're going to die from it," he rolls his eyes, then arches an eyebrow and gives Sora a pointed look. "I'm saying you're going to choke and spit up, just like you did with those marshmallows. Do you really want to waste all that delicious bubble tea?"

...It is funny, but no, not it's really not making him feel better about the teenagers thing. He sighs, covers his mouth, and shakes his head. "I'm glad to see you're taking this seriously."

He has to snort at Sora's next point. "Sheryl Nome and Genos are not adults. Sheryl Nome is certainly more mature than average, but she's still a teenager, and Genos..."

He purses his lips together then shrugs. "There are a lot of ways he's less mature than you. Axel, at least, is an adult, and I do view him positively, I'm just not sure we could be considered friends."

[oathkeeper]

"Okay. Okay." He stops messing around with his bubble tea and shrugs lightly.

He knew there wasn't anything he could say to make Sonic feel better about this. Since he was a teenager himself he really didn't understand why it was so important, especially under everyone's circumstances. Like really-

"But does it really matter so much in the end? I mean, there's digital copies of Roxas, weird cyborgs, Hibari, whatever the heck Zangetsu is, people from all sorts of worlds and timelines and all sorts of other weird people here. I think making friends with people our own ages is really the least of our worries. Everything is just..."

He blew a loud raspberry.

[mybadhabit]

Since Sora was a teenager, Sonic knew exactly what to say to make his point.

"So what you're saying is you want to hear all the exciting details of my sex life, then?" he asks with a smirk, raising his eyebrows innocently at Sora.

[oathkeeper]

Sora chokes with a sudden horrified look on his face.

"No!! Ew! Gross! Fine! I'll shut up!"

Is he blushing like an innocent unknowing little kid? Of course he is.

"We're talking about friends here, but I'll shut up!"

He waves his hand and then gets up to walk away towards the stores. Change of subject? YOU BET. BYE SONIC.

[mybadhabit]

"Adult people have adult conversations, Sora~" he giggles as he gets up, following Sora to the stores. "I'm sorry, but it was the fastest way to make my point."

He giggles a bit more as the approach the stores, pausing to throw his empty bubble tea cup in a garbage bin. "So, what sort of clothing do you want to look at?"

[oathkeeper]

"Yeah yeah." Sora grumbles, still blushing like a kid. WHATEVER SONIC.

That wasn't fair to pull on him at all. That was totally mean.

Still grumbling he replies, "I dunno hoodies and stuff. Socks. I thought you were picking something for me."

[mybadhabit]

Well Sora, he did try to hint at the adult conversation aspect before, you were the one who wasn't hearing it. He doesn't feel very bad about being so blunt. In fact, he feels pretty smug.

"Ah right, we were going to make you into an edgy teen, I remember." Sonic starts heading towards the Hardcore Subject. Look, Sora, there are even a few teenagers hanging around outside of it! Doesn't that make you feel better? "Are there any colors you prefer?"

[oathkeeper]

"But no super weird tight clothes!" Sora interjects, finally perking up again. He was used to wearing baggy shorts and loose clothing. Stuff he could easily fight and jump around in. He didn't know how Sonic did anything in all the weird tight clothes he wore.

"Well I like red, black, blue and yellow!"

[mybadhabit]

"What?" Sonic pauses, looking at Sora with wide eyes. "What's wrong with tight clothing? It's idea for fighting; it doesn't get caught on obstacles and can't be used against you if your opponent catches hold of it. Not to mention the range of movement it allows."

He doesn't know how you fight in those baggy pants and clown shoes, Sora. Well, okay, it's mostly the clown shoes that throw him off.

[oathkeeper]

Wow, it's not his fault he's a Disney character okay? He didn't inherit enough Square Enix genes in the feet and shoe department.

"Bleehhh, I don't even think I can squeeze into that stuff. I can fight in my normal clothes just fine!" Sora complains as they enter the store. He'd be open to try stuff maybe, but if it looked too uncomfortable Sora was vetoing.

[mybadhabit]

Sonic rolls his eyes, jabbing a finger into Sora's side. "If you can't fit into tight clothing, then maybe you should consider that you're too pudgey."

Luckily for Sora, the store has a lot more baggy pants than skinny pants, most of which are black and have a lot of belts and chains attached to them. Immediately, Sonic picks out a pair with red straps and skulls, holding it up for Sora's inspection. "What do you think about these? The bottom half even zips off so you can convert them into shorts."

[oathkeeper]

Sora laughs and pats his belly in good nature. "I grew up on an island where I was in the ocean all the time, I think I'm good. I just like comfy clothes what's so bad about that!" Sora's stupid amount of energy left him pretty skinny too.

When Sonic picks those pants Sora actually thinks they're not half bad. Kinda actually look like his normal shorts save for looking a little heavier with all those extra chains.

"I'll try those!"