Around 2 hours had passed, and we got to spend some time with Shara and Aria. Although Aria was able to talk to us at first it became clear that she got fixated on Sonia.
She would ask, “How are you so strong?”, “do you watch any shows?”, or “what would you like to play?” And Sonia responded to every single question with enthusiasm.
Before we knew it, it was time to leave and go back to Jades Snooze and Booze shop and as we walked back we would talk to each other about how nice Kobadera’s family was, how kind and caring Shara was giving us food and treating us as if we were one of theirs.
All the while Aria kept wanting to play tag. Then Sora looked at Sonia and said, “who won the game?” And Sonia responded gleefully, “her, it turned into a hide and seek game without me knowing.”
As she said that I laughed, and continued to tell her that it would be nice to visit from time to time.
After that Sonia asked Sora, “any plans?” Sora questioned her and with a moderately confused expression, “training a bit, why?” That’s when Sonia asked if she could train with Sora, and without a second thought Sora said “sure”
A couple minutes pass and after a bit more talking they finally arrive at the store and see a car with a jeep right next to it. As we look at the two cars and walk towards it Sonia starts to look at Sora And sees him slightly agitated.
They begin to walk into the store and at that moment Sora instantly goes up to Kobadera as he''s sitting down near the bar and tells him, “So you had the gall to show up after making me walk all the way here.”
As those words left Sora’s mouth Kobadera muffled out the noise by plugging the ear Sora was talking to, and right after Kobadera responded to Sora with, “good to see ya too kid…”
Sora calms down and replies, “I guess it’s good to see you too.” After those words, just over the counter Jade looks over at his daughter Sonia and sees her smiling.
At that moment Jade''s eyes begin to tear up as Kobadera and Sora look at Jade and look back at Sonia as Sora nods his head towards Jade as if signaling her to go to him.
As she begins to understand, she starts to approach Jade and hugs him as she says, “Let''s catch up dad.” And with sheer joy coming from Jade and struggling to hold his tears back he looks at Sonia and says, “Let''s catch up.” As they go to the backroom to chat both Sora and Kobadera hear “thank you.”
Kobadera seeing this unfold, he decides to tell Sora it''s time to go back home. And Sora looks at him as he nods in understanding and both leave the store.
A few minutes pass, and while Kobadera drives and Sora sits in the car as the sun starts to set Kobadera tells Sora that he''s grown up a bit more than before.
Sora looks at Kobadera and says, “What makes you say that?” And Kobadera responds, “Before you used to not be so keen on helping people emotionally, you were the one that needed the help, but now you just helped a family get back together.”
Sora looks back at the road and says, “who knows maybe a grumpy old bald guy helped me realize that there''s a bit more to life than crying for what has happened.”
As Sora says those words he starts to look through the side window towards the road as they go back and continues, “but even though I did talk to someone other than you about my past, fact is, I couldn’t even tell Jade about it.”
After those words Kobadera said, “although very little, life is taken one step at a time, no one can move on completely, that moment in life shapes the character…”
As silence fills the jeep Sora feels like he''s achieved something in the long time.
*1 day later*
Kobadera calls Sora from his room, “Hey kid, have you heard of this?” As Sora gets up with his pajamas he goes down to the bar area as the T.V. continues.
“A meteor is set to hit the Earth scientists speculate it will come but due to the variable in speed the specific time is within 1 month or 3 months.”
Sora responds, “Huh, really, it''s most likely nothing. If anything the world has measures to counteract it.”
Kobadera starts to talk to Sora, “I agree, but it''s good to know what''s happening in the world, right kid.” Sora Talks back and shrugs his shoulders, “I guess, either way there''s nothing we can do about it.”
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Sora starts to walk to the front door and Kobadera asks, “Where are ya going?” Then Sora tells him that he''s going to train a bit, Kobadera looks at Sora with a pretentious face, “Really kid, with wunzie on.” He starts to laugh at Sora.
Sora looks down and he''s shouts back, oh shut up!
A couple minutes pass and Sora has the clothes he needs then heads out, first pushups, sit-ups, squats, planks, and then the cardio portion where he runs all the way to Jades store.
As he arrives he knocks on the door to see that a person opens it and surprised by the absolute stranger at the door Sora remembers that it''s still a store, as that happens Sora walks in and Jade looks at him with a stare that felt like daggers.
With the lowest voice he could conjour up he tells me, “Who the hell are you.” Sora freezes up and then Sonia walks out from behind and tells her dad to stop playing with Sora.
Sora looks stunned for a second and then regains his composure. Following those events Sonia asks Sora if he was here for the whole training thing.
Sora responds, “of course, why else would I be here?” As those words leave his mouth for some reason he feels those same daggers on him again and then Sonia tells him, “okay, I''ll get ready.”
Sonia goes to the back as Jade asks Sora, “so… what kind of training?” Sora responds with self defense training, nothing too big.
*Sonia comes out with a black jacket and a white tank top with brand blue tracksuit pants and Sora goes with her to a pretty private park.*
Sora Talks to Sonia, “Alright Sonia.” Sora cracks his neck, “show me what you got.” As he says that, he puts his hand out in a come at me position.
Sonia starts hopping slowly as if she was trying to find an opening, and as Sora blinks he notices Sonia quickly approach him and go for a kick to the ribs, Sora quickly blocks and goes under her leg going for a punch to Sonia''s back.
Sonia realizes that’s what Ritsu was going for and quickly pivoted her foot to spin as fast as a ballerina and by combining it with taekwondo left Sora wide open for another kick.
As the kick approached Sora he quickly put his forearm up and tanked the hit, then he quickly put up his other hand to grab Sonia''s ankle and hold the leg that hit him.
With Sonia cornered she says, “I give in.” Sora lets go and tells her, “well done, you were pretty creative with that.” Sonia compliments Sora back saying, “thanks, you''re pretty strong yourself.”
Sora giggles a bit and says, “reading up, training, and practicing everyday for a year does that to you, either way, want to keep on going?”
Sonia grins and looks at Sora as she takes up a stance with her arms loose and her foot slightly forward while her other foot is gripping the ground. She looks at Sora and tells him, “bring it.”
*3 hours pass and before they both knew it, it was noon*
After training for all that time Sora and Sonia decided to ask Jade whether or not they could go to Kobaderas family since it''d be nice to say hi to Aria and Shara, Jade said it was fine and let both of them walk over.
As they both arrived at the doorstep and knocked on the door Shara opened the door and greeted them in, Aria with a happy impression went up to Sonia and hugged her.
Shara told us both to take a seat at the sofa as she got ready with the news going on about things happening in the world, Sonia and I decided to put on KidShow Network and have some shows play in the background for Aria to watch together with us.
As the show played we watched it and had fun, and before I knew it the food was ready and we ate then went back after playing tag with Aria.
The same thing happened over and over everyday with waking up, exercising, sparing, being at Kobaderas house, and occasionally going to the library to pick up new techniques.
Over time Sonia and I picked up pretty good capabilities to defend ourselves. Sonia''s endurance and speed picked up, as my overall knowledge became better at understanding how to fight people and predict where the opponent will attack me from.
A whole month passed and eventually my birthday came around. Kobadera decided to launch a secret surprise at Kobaderas house on October 18th that honestly scared me half to death since I didn’t tell them about my birthday and they started jumping out of the wall but it was fun…
At this point on my birthday the thought started to loom over me. Around a month ago I decided that there was no reason for me to stay in Texas but I found such a nice family and group of people that helped me better myself.
Because of that it reminded me of my friends that I used to have back home, Johnny might already be in Britain, Kuzu, Chidon, Tucker and everyone else…
That''s when I told everyone on that day, the day that I was born, that I would go back in 2 weeks.
To the surprise of everyone, some started to cry, Aria and Shara. Some started to give a smile of pure understanding, Jade and Kobadera. And one gave me a hug and asked me why… Sonia.
I told her that I had to, it wouldn''t be fair to them for me to only stay here and leave my past behind.
I looked at her and told her, “You and I both worked so hard to become strong, but it wasn''t only because we needed to get stronger physically, but mentally too.”
She looked at me with tears streaming down her eyes and hugged Sora then said the same words that her father said the first day we talked, “Thank you.” then she continued “thank you so much Sora.”
As the hug wrapped up, I said, “okay, well, since we had that whole thing, we still have 2 weeks, let''s celebrate!”
But unbeknownst to us or the whole world… things were going to change.
As the party began, the news in the background was playing, “the meteorite has disappeared from view, scientists say that the trajectory must''ve changed with the speed, so much so that they had failed to notice.”