Disclaimer: (First one's gotta be official) I do not own Kingdom Hearts or Kingdom Hearts II or anything associated with the Square Enix and Disney companies.
But if I did, Roxas would be the main character and there'd be tons of yaoi moments (between the main character and his 'friend'). Yay!
WHOO! This is my first fanfic of all time. OAO Oh no! I'm just doing this for my own fun and benefit, so don't mind me. Please no flames, and all that blah. Those make me sad. Anyways, read and enjoy! I'll try to update as frequently as possible, but beware: I might stop the story halfway through if I'm stuck. So give me suggestions and stuff.
Title: Broken Clockwork
Chapter: 1: Therapy Stinks
Summary: Roxas was always on top of things, following time down to the second. Until he met Axel, carefree and fun. What happens when you mix two opposite elements of life together?
This is mainly an AkuRoku fanfic, so let me tell you right off the bat:
IF YOU DON'T LIKE BOY-BOY LOVE, YAOI, ETC. DO NOT READ THIS.
IF YOU DO, IT IS OF YOUR OWN ACCORD AND IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT YOU TOOK THAT RESPONSIBILITY UPON YOU.
PLEASE DO NOT FLAME IF YOU ARE NOT SUPPORTIVE OF THIS GENRE.
THANK YOU.
That's all.
Thanks so much for reading :D
Lovely Lulu
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"You lead such an organized life, dearie!"
Fat ladies never ceased to amaze me. There were so many different kinds of them. With a range from the way-too-nice ones to the I'll-make-your-life-a-living-hell ones, you could always expect the impossible.
Mrs. Potterbee laughed heartily, daintily placing her fingers upon her broad chest. She was a fat lady herself, but was just a little to cheesily nice for me. She slid her round glasses to the end of her nose and looked down at me.
"Get out a little! Have some fun! Sometimes you're just too on-the-dot."
Mrs. Potterbee was my therapist. My parents, who were never around, always seemed to worry about me since they were never home. In their place, they decided to hire therapists to help me and my twin brother with our problems - whatever that meant.
I glanced at the clock and watched as the second hand ticked ever-so-slowly. Didn't this old bag understand I had places to go? Things to do? People to er… meet? None of the things she was saying to me would ever sink in. Why did I bother showing up all the time anyways?
Shut up, you old hag.
Finally, the minute hand, hour hand, and second hand all lined up perfectly on the clock.
12:00 pm
Mrs. Potterbee opened her mouth to continue on with her useless ramblings, but before she could speak, I quickly rose from my chair in her small office.
"Thank you for your time. I need to go now. Have a nice day." I said quickly, bowing slightly before ducking out of the pitiful excuse for an office. My mother told me ever since I was little to "be kind to the people who help you", so I always said 'thank you' and 'you're welcome' and 'have a nice day'. In reality, though, I didn't give a crap how they survived or whether they cared for my thanks or not.
Reaching the front desk, I quickly signed my name out and walked out of the building. I glanced at my watch.
12:03 pm
Good, I thought. I can still make it on time.
Hurriedly, I unlocked the car door and jumped in, starting the small red car and driving out of the parking lot. I headed to a tall white building. It read on the side in small, outlined letters, 'Destiny's Therapy'. My brother's therapy building looked a lot nicer than mine, and a lot happier. 2 fake palm trees stood straight in front of the main door, giving the impression of a hotel on a beach… or something.
I walked in the front door and sat down on one of the chairs. Next to me sat a red haired girl in a pink tank top with 4 zipper lines on it and a black miniskirt with glittery stars patterned across it. She turned to me and smiled widely, teeth glaringly bright.
"Hey, Roxas!" She exclaimed happily. "Waiting for Sora again?"
This was how the conversation started every single week. At 12:05 pm I sit down on the chair next to this girl, Kairi, who drives my brother to his therapy sessions. I talk to her for exactly 3 minutes before my twin, Sora, comes out.
Sora's therapist was a clockwork guy, like me, and always let Sora out exactly when he was supposed to: 12:08 pm. I know, weird, right? But I guess I couldn't blame him. He probably just wanted to get home and read or something. He should seriously consider switching to be MY therapist, though. I'd love to have a therapist wanting me out of his office at the due time. Sora could have Mrs. Potterbee and chat with her as long as he wanted to.
"Yeah. Sora should be out soon, right?" I replied dully to Kairi's obvious question. Mine was obvious, too, but this is how conversation went between friends of friends.
Kairi had an appointment right after Sora, so she usually stayed in the building, wandering around or whatever till about 12:00 pm. Then I came in and 'talked' to her.
In reality, I didn't want to have anything to do with this preppy ditz (well, that's what I think of her as. She's probably really a very nice girl with too many friends for her own good.) I only talked to her out of mere social necessity. I tried very hard not to become an emo kid by talking to her and some of Sora's other friends. (He had too many friends for his own good, too.)
Kairi was one of Sora's best friends, and with good reason. Both of them were always hyper, always talking, always smiling, and very popular at school. They were at the top of the world as Sophomores.
"Yeah! I think so!" she turned to look at the front desk and we sat, not looking at one another. "He gets off at 8 minutes after and at 10 minutes after I get in there. Xemnas sure is exact!"
"Yeah."
"You are too, aren't you Roxas! Coming in here at 12:05 on the dot every week. Well, I guess that just means I get to be the lucky one to talk to Sora's big brother!" She smiled even wider, if that was possible, as she carried on the one-sided conversation. I really should respond with something meaningful someday.
I never even glanced her way as I said my favorite line, face totally and completely emotionless if not bored, "Yeah, I guess."
Kairi really was a very pretty girl, but I never felt attracted to her in any way. A lot of boys at her school, according to Sora, 'dropped to the floor with roses in their hands' whenever she passed in the hallways. I'm sure he was just being funny, but one could seriously doubt these things in a weird school like Sora's.
"Ohhhh," she slid down a little in her seat. "I'm bored. When's Sora gonna come ouuuttt?" she pouted, crossing her arms and glaring at the desk in front of her.
I looked at my watch and watched as the seconds flickered by.
12:07:54
12:07:55
12:07:56
12:07:57
12:07:58
12:07:59
12:08:00
Then, right on cue, Sora got shoved out into the open front office to face me and Kairi. Then, also on cue, Kairi jumped up, smiling once more, out of her seat.
"Soooo-rrraaa!!" she sang as she ran up to him and hugged him tightly. He hugged her back, singing her name back to her.
"Kaaaaiii-rrriiii!!" they both jumped up twice and let go of each other. I held back a grunt of disgust as I looked away from them.
"Sooo. How was your appointment?" Kairi questioned eagerly, as if expecting a very exciting surprise.
"Totally fine! Have fun in yours!" Sora showed an impressive white row of teeth back. "I'm leaving with Roxas now. Thanks for the drive here, Kai!"
"No problem, Sor!"
"Muah Muah," They air-kissed each other on the cheeks and waved good bye to each other. Kairi skipped into Xemnas' office, leaving Sora to skip over to me. I stood up at pat him on the head quickly before walking over to the front desk and signing him out.
"Come on, let's go." We both walked out of the building and out to my Mustang.
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Roxas was always so strict with his time. Poor him. I don't know what kind of strange illness passed over him or whatever, but ever since our parents stopped coming home everyday like they used to, he took up their job. He was always on top of things, always picking me up and dropping me off, buying the things I wanted, blah, blah, blah. You get the point.
For my therapy sessions, Kairi helped out though. I almost felt like she was the mother! No, maybe more like the dad, but she doesn't like girls, duh. Roxas was totally the mom. I mean, he hasn't really come out of the closet yet, but he's totally hot for guys.
Anyways.
Kairi drove me to my therapy sessions at Destiny's Therapy since Roxas has his therapy sessions at Oblivion Services a little earlier than mine. I know, creepy name right? Well, it only seems fitting for Roxas. He's so emo all the time. Sometimes, I feel like I stole all his happiness when we were born. His therapy sessions are about an hour LONGER than mine. Doesn't that say something about him? I wouldn't mind switching therapists with him, though. Mr. Xemmy is soo boring compared to Mrs. Potterbee. He doesn't even let me talk unless he asks me a question! Mrs. Potterbee, on the other hand, probably wants to talk to Roxas, but Roxas is all "Shut up, you old hag."
But.
To me, I guess it's fun to have an emo mother like Roxas. He's not even all that emo sometimes! Really! Sometimes he can be very caring, just like a mom – like I said! – and sometimes he can be very mean. I'm glad he's my brother. He takes good care of me. And for that, I am very grateful.
Mr. Xemmy glanced at the clock on the wall behind me. I whipped my head around to look, too.
Please let me talk a little longer… I thought. He never gave me much time, but it was already 12:07 and the second hand was at the 30 second mark.
Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick.
"Well, Sora, it was nice to have this chat. I'll see you next week," he leaned back in his chair, never looking away from the clock. Suddenly, his eyes tore away from the ticking time bomb and he looked straight at me.
"Now get out of my office." He then proceeded to push me smoothly out the door.
I watched as Kairi jumped up and grinned at me. We did our usual routine: hug-jump-jump-question-answer-kiss-kiss. Then she skipped into the devil's office. Oh no! I beg of you! Don't eat her!
I skipped over to Roxas. He pat me on the head, as if he was 3 years older than me instead of 2 minutes. While he signed me out, I hopped from one foot to another.
Therapy stinks. Mr. Xemmy stinks. He probably only works in therapy so he can gather data on the human heart. Then he probably likes to go around the world, sending his evil minions to rip the hearts out of other people and store them in a heart-shaped jar! Good thing I don't stink!
I smiled at my conclusion as Roxas came wandering back to my side.
"Come on, let's go," he grabbed my hand and we walked to his ugly red Mustang. Yellow buggies are so much better.
"Where do you want to eat?" He glanced at the passenger seat.
"Mmm…" I had to think for a while. I never really did like to pick which places to dine at. "SUGARLAND!" This was, by far, the best place I ever ate at.
"NO. For lunch, idiot," He rolled his eyes kept heading for the area where food was abundant in this city. After waiting for, not even, 3 seconds, he responded to his own question. "We'll just go to Cloud Café."
"OK!"
Cloud Café had the cheesiest name around, but the food tasted GREAT. Not only that, it was CHEAP. Though, it didn't really matter to Roxas and I. We were as poor as Bill Gates, anyways. Our house was huge, we had tons of money to spare, we had 3 maids (because Roxas didn't really like that many people following him around the house), lots of awesome furniture, and all that whatnot. I was just worried about the money things because most of our friends didn't have as many riches as us. Oh, Pooh.
Finally, we pulled into the café's parking lot. There were lots of cars around since 12:24 was a pretty good time to eat lunch.
"YAY! MOCHA! COFFEE! CAKE!" I screamed as I hopped out of the car and stretched.
"Yeah, yeah. You aren't getting cake or coffee today, though. You should never be allowed around that stuff - Don't look at me like that! You know it's bad for you anyways. Let's go inside already."
What's the point of eating if there's no sugar involved?
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Chu Chu. Hope you enjoyed the first chapter. I'll be posting up more after I get back from camp. Yay! Camp's only, like, 3 days long. So don't worry about it.
Next Chapter: Axel meets Roxas, but will Roxas stay for a chat or run away with his brother from the freaky pyropedo? How old are these kids? Where are Roxas and Sora's parents anyways? Is Riku gonna come in anytime soon?
Find out NEXT TIME, kiddies, on Broken Clockwork!
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