"Day fifty-seven," Roxas announced, crawling out of the black sleeping bag he'd bought exactly fifty-six days ago in Twilight Town's marketplace. He rubbed stretched and rubbed his eyes, staring out over the clocktower's ledge. The sunset, or sunrise as it seemed in the morning, looked as bright and red as ever.

Xion sat up in her purple sleeping bag and stretched too, letting out a giant yawn. "Every day's a number to you, Roxas."

He shrugged. "Habits die hard. And there's not a whole lot else to tell how much time's past since we got back."

"It's nice, though," Xion climbed onto the ledge, "not doing missions every day."

"Or getting lied to. Or having to kill each other," Roxas added, and they laughed. Since Sora had accidentally set them free while releasing Ventus, the past seemed so far away. It still hurt sometimes if he remembered too much, but that was obvious. They'd been through some rough stuff back in the Organization.

"Hey. Morning, Axel." Roxas kicked the side of his bright-red sleeping bag, but Axel just pulled it farther over his head. Kicking or dumping water on his head were usually the only two ways to get him up, and the first didn't seem to be working today. Unfortunately, there wasn't any water on hand.

"Come on, sleepyhead," Xion said, trying to yank his pillow out of the cocoon.

Axel poked his head out. "Sheesh, I come back and find you two living it up after I spent a year finding my heart in the Realm of Darkness, and you two still have to wake me up early? You're almost as bad as Saïx."

"Do you really want to waste your whole day sleeping?" Xion asked, ignoring the insult. Axel was always grumpy in the morning.

Axel just yawned and stared at her in response.

"I think that's a yes," Roxas said. He joined Xion on the ledge. "Hey, we could always just push him off. That would wake him up."

Sighing, Axel flopped out of his sleeping bag. "Just because the laws of gravity mysteriously disappear whenever we jump or fall doesn't mean you have to have so much fun with it." He sat on the ledge too, ruffling his hair. "So, if I'm not allowed to sleep, I'm sure you two have something better to do planned."

Roxas and Xion glanced at each other. They'd hoped Axel would come up something to do, as usual. In the fifty-six days since they'd returned to Twilight Town, they'd already used most of their ideas: climbing trees in the woods outside the mansion, ice cream eating contests (Xion won, to Axel and Roxas's surprise), pranking the Dusks that liked to hang out around town (they'd had a lot of fun with that since the Nobodies had the annoying habit of pranking them when they were in the Organization), and some other stuff.

"We could… uh…" Roxas tried to think of something. When you spent most of your life doing nothing but following orders, it was kinda hard to think of stuff to do just for fun. He didn't even have any memories of Ven's or Sora's to fall back on. Maybe it was better that way – he wasn't them. He just wanted to live his own life, now that he had the chance. He just wished he knew exactly how to do that.

"Maybe… no." Xion shook her head.

"Guess there's nothing to do without fighting for our lives on a daily basis." Roxas grinned.

"Are you saying you miss the Organization?" Axel asked.

"No way," Roxas said quickly. "It's just… Xion and I've never had normal lives before. All we know is fighting."

Axel nodded, lying down on the ledge with his hand behind his head. "Well, the universe never stays peaceful for too long. And with everything attracted to your keyblades, I'm sure you'll be the first to know when something happens."

Swish

Xion's head whipped around, but there was nothing behind them that she could see except the clocktower wall. "What was that?"

Roxas summoned his keyblades. "If I had to guess, something happening."

A wet something tickled them from behind, and the tune to Simple and Clean began to play. Without any idea how or why they were doing it, the trio began to sing along.

XXX

"We are very bored," they sang together, hopping up onto the ledge and linking arms.

"We have some cardboard," Roxas sang alone.

" Yay!" The other two chimed in

"Let's burn it!" I dare you to guess who sang that.

"Wait no—" Xion unlinked her arm from Roxas's. "We could use it to build an epic fort, tonight

Roxas shrugged. "There's nothing else to do."

They began the first verse together.

"We've already, climbed all the trees, out there-"

Axel had to insert a pyromaniac moment. "And burned a building (fire!), right to the ground, and said-"

"We didn't mean to do that," they sang together, "we were just trying to toast, some s'mores

"But Axel got carried away, 'cause he's a bit of a pyro." Roxas and Xion pointed to their friend before they all grinned and sang together again.

"And now we have to run from the cops!"

The chorus began again.

"We will need duct tape, and just to be safe—"

"Wait!" Xion finally realized something. "Why are we singing?"

"And what is up with the random background music, playing?" Roxas asked.

Axel frowned thoughtfully. "I really don't know…"

"It's Simple and Clean?" They sang in a whisper.

"The daily things-"

"Like ice cream on the clocktower," Roxas sang in the background before they all joined in together again.

"Aren't keeping us busy."

" This song confuses me…" Roxas wanted it to end, but there didn't seem to be any sign of that happening soon.

"What is making us sing?" Xion asked.

"Who cares?" Axel shrugged. "At least we're doing something, other than wandering around, and ranting… Why do I figure that Demyx has something to do with all this?"

The three of them posed dramatically due to some force outside of their control. "Maybe we'll have an adventure!"

"What about the fort?" Roxas asked to begin the third chorus.

"Let's save the cardboard, for something else," Xion suggested. "Right now, we need to figure out why we are randomly singing."

Axel interrupted randomly, "Hey, I found duct tape!"

"Duct tape!" They began the high-pitched part loudly, "Let's use it on whoever did this, and tape them to a tree."

"My voice really hurts now," Axel sang scratchily, "It's hard to sing really high pitched, like this! How long is this song?"

" When we find that guy," Roxas and Axel sang, "We will make him cry, "Please! Have mercy!" No way! Making us sing a song that was sung by a girl, is not fair to us guys."

Xion took the next high part to tease them. "Oh, please, you guys are just over-reacting, to a few little high notes."

"Regardless of singing, we still feel kinda bored right about now, let's go get ice cream!"

To Axel's annoyance, the high-pitched part repeated AGAIN. "Hang on! I thought that would be the ending , of this random song."

They sang the last lines of the song together.

"This has been going on, for exactly four minutes six seconds, right now! Is it over yet?"

XXX

They had to wait for the instrumental ending to finish before they could move out of the dramatic poses they had struck earlier, at which point they quickly turned around to see a watery human-shaped image disappear.

"Finally!" Axel shouted hoarsely, rubbing his throat.

"What was that?" Xion asked.

"Didn't you listen to me sing? I think it has something to do with Demyx. I mean, a watery-looking thing and music appearing at the same time? Who else could it be?"

Roxas was already rolling up his sleeping bag and sending it into the realm of hammerspace through a dark corridor. "Let's go find out!"

A/N: So what do you think? It helps if you listen to Simple and Clean while you read about them singing the parody; I'm not positive the words fit perfectly. Please review! Next chapter involves Sora, Kairi, and Riku, but not all of them are in perfect condition…