Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts series, Square Enix, or Disney.

A/N: Would these two make a good tag-team, since their elemental abilities are so similar and all? Probably not...

The World That Never Was...

The last thing Vexen needed in the afternoon (or during any part of the day, really) was to be drop-kicked in the back of the head by Demyx...yet it still happened anyway.

"VEXEN...I HAVE A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU!!"

'A bone...?' The fourth member of Organization XIII gently rubbed the newly-formed bump underneath his dirty blonde locks, 'Do we even have bones...or blood...or internal organs?! Hmm...I should go back to my lab and research this...'

"Two days ago, you promised you'd take me to White Castle...and you broke that promise!!" Demyx wailed, swinging his arms about in a frenzied manner.

Vexen forced a tiny smirk. "Oh, but aren't we ALREADY at a white castle?" He waited for someone to laugh at his little joke. No one did.

In fact, Demyx looked positively livid now. "Vexen...it's not nice to promise someone something, and then let them down. It's not going to make regaining a heart any easier for you, you know..."

"Oh, please...the food there is nothing less than total crap, I'm sure!" Vexen rolled his eyes.

"Hey, don't go dissing the food if you've never even tried it! You...or maybe Zexion...of all people should know never to judge a book by its cover!!"

Vexen was already growing terribly exhausted of this petty little argument about White Castle. "Look...you're old enough to go to places on your own, right? You don't need anyone to take you to White Castle, okay?" he replied.

"Uh..." Demyx pouted, his mind reeling in a desperate attempt to come up with a real reply, all the while his own side of the argument dying right before his very eyes. Suddenly, a rather evil idea came to him.

"Oh, Vexen?"

"Goddammit, Demyx, can you please just leave me-"

"If you don't take me to White Castle, I might just let slip to the Superior that you've been processing illegal drugs in your laboratory and selling it to the other members for munny..."

Vexen immediately froze in his tracks (something to be expected from the Chilly Academic). "What...what did you say?" The older man hissed through clenched teeth.

"I know all about it," Demyx beamed like a school girl on her first date, "Marluxia and Larxene both admitted to the whole thing while smoking on a double-ended joint in the girls' bathroom, which only has one stall, I've noticed..."

Vexen cursed under his breath; in one fell swoop, he had been caught off-guard and utterly thwarted by this cheeky newcomer.

"Fine...we'll go to White Castle..."

"WHOOP-WHOOP!!!"

Vexen knew that, without a doubt, he had picked the wrong day to finally stop sniffing glue...and to have cancelled the order for all of those Lucky Star hentai doujins.

Meanwhile, in the girls' bathroom...

"Marluxia..."

"What is it, Larxene?"

"When did...when did you dye your hair silver?"

"..."

"Man, I am SOOOO high right now!"

"Me too."

"...Hey, Marluxia?"

"What is it, Larxene?"

"...I got a case of the munchies."

"Then go and solve that case so we may all sleep soundly at night once again!"

"...Okay..."

Leaving Marluxia alone to enjoy what was left of their double-ended joint, Larxene got up and dashed out the door. Marluxia chortled quietly to himself.

"She left her bra and panties on the floor..." The pink-haired man lifted the woman's undergarments into his gloved hands, and attempted to snort them.

Unfortunately, it was a failed effort.