~*~ One Shot, One Kill ~*~

“I feel it deep within. It's just beneath the skin. I must confess that I feel like a monster.”

"Come on, Ri! You know something? You really suck at this," Vanitas shouts from his post in the goalie net, as I run down the field. He is easily bored right now, seeing as he is nonchalantly lying on one of the goal posts, yawning. It also kind of proves that he does anything to get a rise out of me, seeing as he trusts no one will get the ball from me after he passed it off. So pretty much, like usual, he is taking every advantage possible to annoy me.

"Oh hush," I say putting a foot on the ball and spinning in a circle to avoid Riku. Instead of rushing me and stealing the ball, as he had initially planned, Riku barely misses me and we simply collide shoulders instead. When he hits me, a powerful twinge of pain courses through my shoulder, like a needle was stabbed into me. I make a face of pain, while my hand instinctively reaches up for my shoulder. Luckily, the pain quickly subsides, allowing me to continue to play the game without any falter... You know, more than usual.

As soon as that little episode of my life concludes, I run off ahead and make my way to a clear place to pass. I don't really have time to think all too much about where to pass, before I notice Terra closing in. "Yeah, Riley," my little brother Sora shouts as I pass him the ball. When I pass him the ball, all of the guys quickly ignore me and go after Sora, leaving Vanitas surprised I got so far with the ball. Even though I'm farther away, I can still hear him muttering things to himself. It just makes me think that I may not be nearly as good in sports as Sora, Vanitas, Ven, or the four guys on the opposite team, but I can keep up at least.

Just when I look over at Sora, I see Roxas running over at Sora, to try and cut him off for the ball before he reaches Aqua. I don't even say anything, but Sora notices Roxas all the same and quickly spots that Ven is open. "Ven! Here," Sora shouts, passing the ball over to Ventus as soon as Roxas almost reaches him. Ven turns around as fast as he can without falling down and follows through with the pass, heading off to the goal.

The other team quickly split up, thinking of our tactic, with each person taking their own person to block. Riku took Sora. Roxas had Ven. Leaving Terra to block me. "Hey, girly," I tease Terra, ruffling his hair as soon as he gets over to me. He frowns as soon as I say "girly" and slightly glares at me for a few minutes, before smirking. Why am I suddenly afraid? Alright, ignore that and continue with the story Riley... You can already assume why I call him that, but for those of you who can't, it's because he has easily one of the most feminine names I've ever heard a guy have in my life. In his defense, my name is pretty masculine.

"Dude, I wouldn't try to annoy the person you're playing against. It can be bad luck," Terra points out, ruffling my hair in response. I slightly glare back at him, before looking back at the game, to see what is going on. I guess it's not too hard to annoy me, I should work on that. Either way I always hate being called "dude," and Terra sadly picked up that habit from Riku.

"But it's hard to not be annoying to you when I have the opportunity," I shoot back at him, nudging him before running away to get Ven's incoming pass. He hasn't exactly passed yet, but seeing the position that he is in right now, it is safe to assume that he probably will need to. Roxas is right on his tail... or maybe he was on Roxas' tail... I think one of these two needs to dye their hair a different colour or something. It is hard to tell the difference between them all of the time. Oh wait! I see Roxas' ring on the kid further behind, meaning that it is Ven being chased by Roxas.

Ven kicks the ball over to me and I start to run towards Aqua, making myself that much closer to the goal with each and every step. With my target is right in sight, I'm starting to get goosebumps that dot along my arms and legs. I'm extremely nervous for several reasons right, some being silly and others are a little more important. The biggest reason is easily the fact that the game is pretty much tied up right now and if I score, our team wins. I feel like the whole team is depending on me right now, and the pressure is about to make my heart explode... or more realistically, just make me throw up.

The whole world seems to slow down to almost a deadly halt with every last thing around me fading into the background. I no longer am paying attention to Vanitas as he torments me from across the field. Nor do I pay the slightest bit of attention to Sora and Ven's now muffled shouts of encouragement. The only thing I am listening to fully is the sound of my feet across the soccer turf and my heart thumping in my chest with each step. 

Ba dum... 

Ba dum... 

Ba dum...

Oh hush up now will ya, I think to myself as I press myself to run ever longer without stopping to look behind to see the inevitable. I already know that Terra is right on my heels and I have to force myself to go ever further before he catches me. I don't know when he will, but I do know that if I don't keep my feet moving swiftly beneath me, it will be rather soon.

I finally look up from my feet and I see just how close I am to the goal post. It feels almost as if I can just reach out and touch it from here. My sense let's me know I'm not that close and if I were to reach out, I'd be more likely to fall flat on my face instead.

I turn my head to the left to see Riku running right at my from that angle. Turning my head to the right I see Roxas coming from that side as well. Seeing as I can practically hear Terra breathing down my back, I know he's only a few feet behind me. I have to shoot this ball now or else I'll be completely surrounded and the perfect opportunity will be lost. I can slowly feel the odds of us winning slipping away from me.

Without much thought, I lift up my leg in order to kick the ball and pray that it gets past Aqua. It reaches all the way back and on the swing down all pressure is finally relieved from me and I start to smile, knowing that we just won. Then there's that monkey wrench, that smirk from Terra's face not too long ago that I knew only meant trouble.

“Oh Riley! Forgot to tell ya this! Love ya,” Terra shouts right behind me, I swear I can even hear the smirk hidden in his words.

Right then, all of my attention that was focused on getting the ball into the goal is diverted to the words I just heard. A startled little jump makes my foot move just enough that it only grazes the side of the soccer ball, barely missing it.

Despite already passing where the ball was, my leg still continues to swing at full force, making me lose my balance and fall flat on my back. When my back collides with the floor the wind gets knocked out of me and I feel light-headed, but not from the lack of oxygen.

“You are... The biggest... Asshole,” I say in between gasps for breath, lying on the floor.

Sora and Riku race past me with Sora stealing the ball to make in the final shot instead. As he made the final goal in I get flooded with the relief that I didn't just cause us the game from my slip up. Even though we won either way, I can still hear Vanitas muttering something about stupid girls and how we shouldn't play sports with boys because of out emotions. Now he's marked down on my kill list.

Terra comes into view, chuckling, before reaching his hand out. “Alright I guess I deserved that. But in my defense... I didn't think I would have gotten that much of a reaction from you with that,” he teases, helping me up.

“Whatever, but remind me something,” I ask, making Terra lift his eyebrow, “When I'm done killing you. Please remind me that I need to go get Vani.”

“You wouldn't,” Terra says, pushing me playfully with his fist.

“I'll give you until the count of ten,” I say, folding my arms over my chest and glaring over at him. Immediately he figures out I'm joking, but still turns around and runs off. I chase after him the second he turns around.

“You cheater! You didn't even count,” Terra shouts back.

“Never said I had to!”