A/N: SOOOOO!!! Here is the start to my BRAND NEW Kingdom Hearts AUhighschool!fic. I write this with my best buddy(Not RAWR) from classes and I thought it was good enough to be on FFN...so here it is. It contains many parings such as- AkuRoku, NamiKai, LarMar,and SoRiku. This bit is before the main events of what occurs in the fic, about a month before school starts. So read on!

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Red hair falling in his eyes, Axel listened, letting the music fill him up. That is, until…

"AXEL! WOULD YOU TURN THAT RACKET DOWN! SOME OF US ARE TRYING TO READ!" came the screams of a teenage girl who then stuck her head in the open door of Axel's room.

"Fine, fine, I got it" Axel said as he turned down the knob on the radio. "That better?" he asked as Namine nodded, left, and shut the door. Namine was one of the youngest members of Axel's "Family" so to speak. It had all begun twenty years ago…

A group of collage graduates bought a large house and began living together. One was a professor of science, looking for a job. One was a quiet business man who just opened a bookstore. And was Xemnas, a simple guy who had nothing special about him at the time. Then, on a warm summer day, they saw two young teens, one boy with greasy red hair, and an older girl with bleached blonde hair. They argued with each other, yelling back and forth, "I'm tired! I'm hungry! I wanna go home!" wailed the girl. "We can't go home since you just HAD to steal Dad's credit card and buy that Prada bag! Which, by the way, we have to sell for food!"

Xemnas then stepped in, finding out that the kids were grown up together, and we're practically siblings (the definitely fought like siblings) who's father had just kicked them out. Their mother had died when they were five. That teen boy was him, Axel. And the girl was his "sister" Larxene. They were the first of others to explore the big house and make it their own. Shortly after, they were joined by Saix, a freshmen in college who rented the loft in the garage and worked part time at Starbucks. The greatest shock was when Zexion, the self proclaimed loner, who had arrived a year after Saix brought home two blonde elementary kids and a 13 year old boy. The three had been living on the street after their parents had died. The older boy was Demyx and the two kids were Roxas and Namine. Demyx only had his guitar and the younger one each had one teddy bear. They were afraid they would be separated so they ran away. Zexion had found them huddled under a bus stop in the rain. Roxas grew into a ball of energy while Namine became his polar opposite. She was orderly and neat, and often yelled at everyone. The last one of the family as a boy with pink hair and then became Larxene's boyfriend. Marluxia made up the last part of the "Family".

Now in this big house you would find all those people. Xemnas kept to his office, working for a multi-national business. Xigbar could be found in the driveway, fixing someones car, as Xladin arrived form his job as a dental asstiant. Laxeaus might just be leaving so he could do inventory for his bookstore. Roxas was found in Vexen's lab, playing with the chemicals as Vexen himself watched. Zexion liked to keep to his room doing god knows what. Larxene and Marluxia were either off on a date or making out in the back yard. Saix was normally at class or work and didn't get home until later. Luxord, the surprise member was often passed out on the sofa (he got fired every week for showing up drunk). Demyx and Namine liked to sit in the basement as Namine wrote and Demyx practiced his guitar. This was the life they had, the life they shared.

This was home.

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A/N: YAY! It's up! Review please! I would love it and it would befinit us oh so very much!

~Maureen