'Kay, so this is a work in progress. At the moment, this is not all I have. I have been writing, and on paper, I have fifteen pages (DUN DUN DUUUHHHH). So hopefully I'll be able to transfer them on to the computer in a good amount of time, but I cannot really promise anything. It may take a while for me to get everything onto here. I'm still kinda surprise about how short it looks on here, in word this first chapter is four pages long. Oh well. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom hearts, or Final Fantasy in any way/shame/form. Though, I do own the up-coming plot.
'Once upon a midnight slumber, it felt as though a soul of deep intentions was watching above me. My heart sunk with the knowledge that this could be a sign. A sign of higher beings watching over us for protection. Though I had immediately felt afraid, some other emotion wrapped around my senses, an emotion that seemed to resemble-'
The sounds of pencil scratching on paper stopped with the irritating sound of a school bell being rung. The dainty fingers grasping lightly onto the pen flinched with the sudden jumping up from the boy beside the blonde. His face turned into an annoyed scowl as he watched the brunette stretch his arms, causing his back and arms to crack. He felt himself cringe at the disturbing sounds.
It had not been a good morning for Roxas, for one. It was Thursday. Nothing good ever happened on a Thursday, unless you make something happen. Second, his twin, Sora, had forced him out of his bed today. It wasn't even a gentle nudge out of bed like thing; instead Sora had taken the more 'He'll-definitely-wake-up-after-this' approach. Roxas couldn't stress on how much he hated this idea. It always started with Sora slamming into his room, and tackling him in his bed. After scaring the boy shitless, Sora would then yank back the covers, revealing to Roxas the bright lights, the cold air, and the 105 pounds that would be sitting on his lungs. Some wake up call huh?
It seemed to take all of Roxas' effort to push himself up from the desk he had been sitting in for the past 70 minutes now. English wasn't a hard class for the blonde, it came natural to him, and writing was just something he enjoyed to do, that was when he had enough sleep on his part.
'So, Roxas! What are you doing after school today? I'm going to hang out with Riku and Kairi, they really wanna go to some carnival thingy. Did you know there was a carnival in town?' The brunette seemed to talk on and on about what he was doing after school today. Which confused Roxas faintly. When they left the house this morning, he hadn't made any plans what so ever. It took him a moment before he realized that Sora had probably been texting to his friends during the entire class on his cell phone. That wasn't a surprise.
'-Then we'll be – OH! RIKU!' Sora seemed to be in the middle of his sentence, leaving Roxas to think two more things. One; had he taken a single breath in the last two minutes? And Two, since when had he been walking. Oh well, it didn't matter to him any more, now Riku had to put up with the fidgeting brunette, and honestly, Roxas was faintly glad.
'Hey, I'll see you two in science. Riku, make sure Sora doesn't run into the goal post again in gym.' Roxas shouted out a fair well towards his twin and his silvered haired friend who seemed to laugh at the memory of Sora running into the goal post last class. Obviously Sora didn't think it was that amusing because the shorter teen seemed to be making a frustrated face as Roxas shook his head, chuckling to himself at his brothers odd actions.
It was another day, and another class. Roxas couldn't help but over hear some other student's conversations as he fiddled with his lockers lock, his eyes glancing over to two girls who seemed to be swooning over some Hyde man. He had heard that name before, wasn't he a pop star or something? It didn't matter that much, it was probably just another pretty faced star who used his looks or whatever. He really had no interest in certain music, his world revolved around music that actually made sense. Unlike that hip-hop stuff that Kairi listened to. He seemed to shiver at the thought.
Roxas tugged his lock from his locker, grasping onto it tightly as he tilted his head to the left, attempting to make his right headphone not fall out of his right ear. It wasn't until he could feel it falling out of his ear when he realized that is was still sending the song 'Taste of Ink' by The Used into his headphones. Roxas groaned at the lack of space in his arms and hands. He shut his eyes trying to think of a way he could manage to shove everything into his locker, while at the same time, tugging out his camera and his next book. He glared at his locker with extreme hatred. He just knew it liked to watch him suffer.
'I swear…' Roxas whispered lightly under his harsh breath. He had thought he had spoken quietly enough for no one to hear him. Obviously, he was wrong about that as well.
'You swear? Hm, I've never actually heard you swear a lot before, Roxy.' A sly voice came from behind Roxas. A fiery red headed teen stood, his lanky body was slouched slightly as his hands were shoved into his tight jean pockets. His head was tilted to the side out of curiosity, a smirk on his lovely thin lips.
Resisting the urge to drop everything down and slap Axel, Roxas shook his head in frustrating, his right headphone falling from his ear finally. Roxas could feel his eyebrow twitch as he slowly turned to face Axel, a menacing glare on the smaller boys face. This caused Axel to stiffen. He had picked a very bad day and time to pick on the younger boy. He did the only thing he could do. Laugh nervously, and offer help.
'H-hey, Roxy, how about I help ya'? I'll help you and you buy me lunch.' He just had to add that little bargain in there. Axel seemed to have a bit of at witch in his smile, head tilting to the side curiously to the side once more, as Roxas watched his older friend carefully before letting out a sigh of defeat.
'Okay, here. Take these. And don't run away with them, I'm not in the mood to kill you today.' Roxas seemed to warn harshly, his voice raspy as he began to dig through his locker. Axel seemed to watch Roxas intently, shifting his weight from foot to foot, carefully hanging onto the books with his long arms. Then, it was like a light went off in Axel's head. Curiosity was so going to kill the cat today.
'OR! Instead of lunch' he seemed to be rambling from Roxas' point of view. '- You could come down town with me, Demyx, and Zexion!' Axel seemed to jump slightly. Roxas kicked him in the shins to make him not. He had already seen too much bouncing today.
'Ouchy, Roxy that hurts!'
Axel whined as Roxas snatched his books from the red heads hands. Roxas shoved them carefully into his locker, camera hanging from his wrist.'I guess… going out wouldn't be that bad. I've noting else to do today.' Roxas spoke, almost like he had been talking to himself the entire time this was happen. He shook his head lightly before looking back over to Axel. He was rubbing his right shin as he looked up towards Roxas with beaming emerald eyes. For once, Roxas believe that he was safe from the grasping hug of the older boy as he shut his locker calmly. Once again, Roxas was wrong.
'YAY! You won't regret it Roxas, it'll be fun!' Axel seemed to have a lot of energy put into that 'death cling' as Roxas called it. He squirmed and wiggled attempting to get out of his tight grasp, and eventually broke out, breathing heavy as he looked towards his friend who was now rubbing the back of his head, an innocent look on his face.'Does Axel even have an innocent side…?' The blonde thought to himself watching him carefully before a small smile broke onto his face.
It was like the blonde went off into his own little dream world. A day away from homework and his house would be good for him. He never got to spend too much time with Axel, or the other older friends lately. It was like school wrapped itself around him and was refusing to let go, the only interaction he got from his friends had been with Hayner, Pence, and Olette. He hadn't even had time to help Namine with her art project yet. Roxas quickly shook his head, Axel looking at him confused. Soon, that expression was on both of their faces as the bell rang once more.
It seemed to take a moment for both to register what that stupid noise meant, but when it clicked in their heads (Almost at the same time). The two almost screamed. The warning bell had already gone; now that was the bell pretty much telling them 'You-better-be-in-your-fucking-class!' Scrambling around in a circle for a moment the two took in breaths before Roxas pushed Axel in the direction of his class as he turned to opposite way to jog to his own.
As he darted down the hallway, he could hear the fiery red head cursing all the way down the end of the hall. Shaking his head, Roxas let out a cheery laugh, as he grasped tightly onto the door to his class. He went to go in but apparently the door had been locker. Well, and instead of going into the class, he was now on the floor. A bit dumbfounded. Well that was graceful of him.
"Ow. Dang, since when was this door ever locked? Or closed for that matter?" Roxas whimpered quietly, his hand grasping tightly onto his forehead. Still remaining on the floor, Roxas rolled over onto his stomach, rubbing his forehead tenderly before letting out a light sigh trying not to give in to the spinning his brain was doing.
"Oi! Get off the floor, and get in class!" A rough voice snapped towards Roxas as he lay cringing on the floor. Roxas would have snapped back if he didn't already know whose voice it was.
Resentfully standing to his feet, Roxas whimpered once more before looking back up towards the computer teacher, Cid. He was called 'Mr.Highwind' until one day; he went rambling on about how it made him feel old. Now, for every person that calls him by that 'old' name, Cid seems to have freak-outs. Always leaving behind a bloody student or teacher.
"Now get in 'ere! Hm? What happened to your head, boy?" Cid jabbed his thumb backwards, indicating to the room behind him as he leaned forward looking at the developing bump on his head. It was turning red from irritation by now.
"N-Nothing….' Roxas seemed to mutter quickly, scurrying past the computer teacher and to the back of the room. The computers were set up in rows; each row had a computer facing the back of it, meaning there would always be someone else in front of you. Roxas and his friends had taken a liking to the ones at the far side of the room, where Cid never came, and really didn't bother to come and check up on you unless you asked. It was a good spot non-the less though.
Shuffling to his seat, Roxas sat down between two blondes, the boy seemed to be sleeping on his keyboard, and didn't even stir as Roxas tugged his chair out and plopped down. The girl though seemed to see his slightly frustration and placed his pale, gentle hand on his shoulder. Roxas looked up slowly, his eyes had been locked down on the keyboard, he seemed to be focusing on something before noticing the touch. As he looked up at her face, Roxas felt a pit develop in his stomach, her face was worried formed into an expression that Roxas really wasn't use to seeing on her.
"I'm okay Namine. Don't worry." Roxas spoke. His head tilted to the side lightly, smiling warmly towards the blonde girl. She seemed to hesitate before nodding, smiling as well. She pulled her hand off of his shoulder before turning back to the computer she sat at, clicking madly at the screen.
Roxas seemed to watch Namine for a moment before he let out a nice gentle sigh, looking back towards his own computer. Moving the mouse around quickly, opening up the page had been working on for the past week. He would have been done it by now, honestly, it was just that, he always started thinking in this class, and always seemed to get off topic. Shaking his head to empty it of all thoughts, Roxas rested his forehead on the keyboard, much like what Hayner was doing at the very moment. He could of kept himself like that all day, if only the beeping noise of the keyboard buttons being pressed down came rattling in his ears. His head shot up, his eye twitching madly, and yet, Hayner still didn't stir. Roxas laughed at his friend before shaking his head. This was going to become a long day.