Kingdom Hearts school for heroes, the crown jewel of the city known has Radiant Garden in the large country of Destiny Islands. For years, this school was the foremost in the mental and physical of heroes, since it was opened up by Headmaster Ansem, then taken over by headmaster Xehanort, after that Headmaster Mickey, and currently Headmaster Xemnas. This year was the start of a whole new adventure
Sora and Roxas Strife, twins who usually get along except neither can agree on who is stronger.
Riku Valentine, a down to earth boy who doesn't like to be pressured into stupid things. His father knew Sora and Roxas' father since their days back at the school, so Riku somewhat knew the twins and was considered a distant cousin.
Hayner Jacks, an almost uncontrollable boy who shoots off his mouth too much for it to be good for him and is also a compulsive gambler.
Pence Xero, a somewhat secretive and overly organized boy who tends to keep quiet about most things.
Wakka Trell, a boy who is a complete sports fanatic and values his friends more than anything.
And finally Tidus Julian, a somewhat shy and fragile boy who is willing to learn every hero-ing tip he can be taught.
These seven boys were all to be roommates at a small shack in the south side of the schoolgrounds. They all met at the first day, in which there are no classes. The first three days are spent to have the students get used to their roommates, and with a shack that only had four rooms, one combination living/sleeping/kitchen/dining room and three bathrooms, things were going to be chaotic.
"This is it bro." Roxas said, looking at his map of the grounds. "Shack XIII."
"13 is supposed to be an unlucky number, right?" Sora asked.
"Weird, it's always been lucky to me." Roxas smirked, opening the door. Nobody was there. "Looks like we get top bunks early." Roxas said, looking at three bunk beds and a futon that was in front of an area where a TV would go if there was one in the shack. Roxas and Sora picked top bunks right next to eachother, that way they would have backup if something attacked them in the night.
"We're gonna beat dad's old records by at least double." Sora smirked. He and his brother both had their father's blue eyes but Sora had brown hair like his mother but it was spiked like his dad's. Roxas was blonde like his father Cloud and but had his mother Aries' light freckles, barely visible unless you looked closely. At this point Riku Valentine walked in.
"Is this Shack XIII?" he asked. Looking at a paper similar to the one Roxas had earlier.
"COUSIN RIKU!" the two yelled, tackling Riku.
"Sora? Roxas? I haven't seen you since Cloud's last birthday party." Riku smirked, getting up. "And what's with this cousin stuff? We're not related."
"Oh come on Riku!" Roxas started. "Our parents have been around eachother forever, they all had the same cabin back when it was co-ed living."
"We see eachother at least twice a year every year and your parents tell us to call them Uncle Vincent and Aunt Tifa. Biologics don't matter, we're cousins, and we got your back." Sora smiled. "Now claim a top bunk before some other idiots get here."
"I heard that!" said another voice. A blonde kid walked in with a giant flatscreen TV under one arm and an Xbox 360 under the other. "Hayner Jacks, gambler and tech junkie extraordinaire. Would you like to start kissing my feet now, or would you like to build up to it?"
"Cocky little punk, aren't you? You'll fit right in with us." Roxas smiled.
"Why were we all leaving our boxes of junk on the porch?" Hayner asked. Roxas and Sora did so to claim their beds early, Riku did it because his 'cousins' did it and he assumed that was what they were supposed to do. Hayner just did it because of all the stuff. They all got their boxes in, but after the first three to enter the shack that year were done… Hayner was about halfway through.
All of his electronics and other things were out of the box, but in a total mess on his bed. Riku helped set up the minifridge, which was chosen to hold the group's soda supply. Sora and Roxas helped hook up the surround sound to the TV, which if the right cords were plugged into the right places would work for Sora's high-tech radio too. At this point the top bunks were for Sora, Riku, and Roxas with Hayner sleeping below Riku.
"Is dis Shack XIII?" asked a new boy with a heavy Jamaican accent who arrived a few minutes later. "Me name's Wakka, man."
"Welcome to the crap-shack that never was." Roxas greeted. "The top bunks are ours and the one Hayner over there is sleeping on is his. The other two and the futon are free game for now, but remember, if nobody's sleeping in it the futon remains a couch at all times."
"I'm Sora, he's my brother Roxas, and there's a guy in the bathroom named Riku." Sora smiled.
"Thanks a lot man I hope we get to be good friends, if not I'll beat all you up in your sleep." Wakka joked. "Anybody watching TV?"
"No, but we we're gonna turn it to the game pretty soon." Sora said, picking up the remote and changing it just as the blitzball game started.
"BOOYAH!" Wakka yelled, diving towards the futon, which was in couch-mode.
"GO TRAVERSE TORNADOS!" Sora and Wakka cheered in unison.
"Yeah, I'm a big blitzball fan too, Roxas is an observer, his sport is struggle." Sora stated, at this point Hayner woke up and fell out of bed.
"STRUGGLE? WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE TEAM!" Hayner yelled.
"The Twilight Town Tigers, you?" Roxas answered.
"I can tell we will be a great group." Hayner smiled. Riku stepped out of the bathroom.
"What's all the commotion? Who's he?" Riku asked.
"Riku, this is Wakka. Looks like only one or two more roommates and we're full house." Sora smiled.
"Is the dumpy looking guy in the door one of them?" Riku asked, everybody turned to the boy in the doorway.
"I-is this Shack XIII?" he asked.
"Sure is, welcome to the club…" Sora said, waving his wrist around to signal the boy to introduce himself.
"Tidus. Tidus Julian." He said quietly.
"Let me guess, you're a little shy and you wish for the approval of others as friends but are to scared to ask." Riku said, Riku Valentine was excellent at reading people
"Th-that's about it." Tidus said before looking down. Sora and Roxas tackled him.
"Welcome Tidus!" they said in unison.
"Do you two have to tackle everybody?" Hayner asked.
"We didn't tackle you or Wakka did we? Besides, it may give the guy a bit of an ego boost." Roxas said with a smile. "Lets help the guy unpack." Afterwards Hayner got out his deck of playing cards and they started playing poker, and Hayner was winning. Pretty soon it came to be Tidus' turn.
"I don't know if this is good, I haven't played this before, but I have four aces." Tidus said, laying down his cards.
"Fa-FOUR ACES! You win, I give up!" Hayner said hitting his head on the table.
"Good job Tidus." Riku congratulated.
"Is this Shack XIII, or do I have the wrong one for the fifth time in a row?" asked a slightly husky boy in red at the door.
"Fifth time's the charm then. Welcome to Shack XIII, you get the futon. Keep it as a couch if you aren't sleeping on it." Riku said, throwing the boy a soda.
"Thanks, I'm Pence Xero." Pence greeted.
"I'm gonna dig a pit out front, I want to make a bonfire later." Riku said, taking a shovel out of the utility closet between the second and third bathroom.
"Good idea, but let's get some more people first." Roxas suggested.
"I know! All seven of us have the same classes with eachother and two other cabins, let's go invite them." Sora smiled, jumping on the couch.
"Fine, but no more caffeine for you." Riku ordered.
"Okay. We're in the same classes as shack XII and cabin XIV." Hayner said, grabbing his class guide.
"What's the difference between cabins and shacks?" Pence asked.
"Cabins are for girls, they're supposed to be nicer." Tidus answered.
"Okay then, lets go! Lets find shack XII first." Sora said, running west with a map in his hand, then he stopped, fiddled with the paper, and ran east. "Held the map upside down." Sora said as he passed the other six, five of them turning their heads to Roxas.
"I read the map to get here, okay?" Roxas said, running after Sora. Within five minutes they got to Shack XII.
"Hi!" Sora greeted. "We're from Shack XIII, and we wanted to invite you to-"
"Piss off." said a man with silver hair and a leather jacket with a picture of menacing wing of black feathers on the back.
"Great, first-years." Said another man with a scar who was swinging a hybrid gun/sword.
"Well isn't this nice. Go away kiddies or we'll smash your faces in." said a third with a strange beanie with some Japanesse writing on it.
"Okay… we'll be on our way then…" Sora said, turning around and walking away, the rest following him and Riku shot the three older students from Shack XII a menacing glare. After about ten minutes going south, then about ten more minutes going back north and ten going west, not only did the group decide to let Roxas have the map at all times but they got to Cabin XIV and Sora knocked on the door. After a few minutes a redheaded girl answered.
"Hi, I'm Sora, these are my roommates Roxas, Riku, Hayner, Pence, Tidus, and Wakka. We're from Shack XIII. We decided to introduce ourselves since our two groups will be in the same classes… and also, stay away from Shack XII, we were over there half an hour ago, they aren't very nice." Sora rambled.
"Sora, give the lady a turn to talk." Roxas said, hitting his brother in the back of the head.
"Heh, it's alright." The girl giggled.
"We wanted to invite you to a little bonfire party we're having about nine o'clock." Riku said, checking his watch. "Come on guys, we need to dig the pit and get firewood. Shack XIII, 9:00." Riku said, leaving with his roommates in tow. Sora and Roxas started digging a hole as Pence went to the School Shop and bought marshmallows and Hot Dogs and the rest went to look for large branches. Afterwards at about a quarter past nine when it got really dark the girl from Cabin XIV came with her roommates.
"Hi." Sora greeted, shaking the lead girl's hand. "I didn't get your name when we met."
"Kairi. And those are my roommates Selphie, Namine, Yuffie, and Olette." Kairi smiled, nodding to each of her friends in turn.
"COUSIN YUFFIE!" Sora, Roxas, and Riku yelled in unison.
"You all know eachother?" Namine asked.
"Yeah, her adoptive father and our dad and Riku's dad were all like inseparable when they all met here. " Roxas explained.
"Woah, small world." Selphie smiled.
"Marshmallows anyone?" Pence asked, walking into the group with three bags of marshmallows and two packs of hot dogs.
"Yay!" Olette said, running to Pence and hugging him. "Thanks for bringing snacks bro!"
"BRO? IS EVERYBODY HERE RELATED?" Tidus yelled.
"It would seem that way, yes." Selphie said, sitting by Tidus. "Selphie Alaine."
"Tidus Julian." Tidus smiled, shaking Selphie's hand.
"Hey brudda! When are we gonna get that first nephew man?" Wakka teased.
"Hahaha!" Riku and Yuffie laughed.
"They're just joking around." Tidus smiled, Selphie smiled back and they just roasted marshmallows together.
"So Kairi, Where're you from?" Sora asked.
"South Traverse." The redhead answered.
"Really, I'm from north Twilight, that's about a ten minute walk away." Sora smiled.
"Hey, are you and Namine sisters, because you look a lot alike." Roxas asked.
"Nope, we're just best friends." Namine answered.
"Cool, you wanna do something sometime?" Roxas asked.
"A little forward, aren't you? Okay, I guess." Namine smirked, eating a golden brown marshmallow.
"Wow, not even a day and my brother scores a date. I'm lucky I'm the strong and smart one." Sora smiled
"Oh really?" Roxas questioned. "Okay bro-bro let's settle that!" Roxas said, running into the cabin and grabbing two long suitcase-like things. He opened them up and they held two key-shaped weapons, a back one and a white one, which seemed like polar opposites.
"I call the Oathkeeper." Sora said, taking the white one.
"What are they doing?" Kairi asked, concerned.
"This again?" Yuffie asked. "Every time they have a disagreement they get these things and fight eachother, it was funny when they were little and Uncle Cloud made them for those idiots. They could barely lift them over their heads."
"I got one too, their dad made it for me a year or two ago. The white one is Oathkeeper, the black one is Oblivion, and mine is called Way To Dawn." Riku explained
"You two had better stop it!" Selphie warned.
"You can't stop them." Yuffie frowned.
"You could if you had a flame thrower." Riku smiled. Yuffie and Riku chuckled at the thought.
"Well, well, well. Look at the kiddies." Said a voice. The three older guys from Shack XII, along with some others, a short one in a creepy yellow hat, a morbidly obese guy with black hair, and a guy with red ribbons wrapped around his face.
"You weren't invited." Roxas said, stepping forward.
"You were going to, weren't you?" said the guy with silver hair and a black wing jacket.
"The words 'go away or we'll smash your faces in' come to mind when we remember that." Sora pointed out.
"What was that shorty?" said the blonde kid with the black beanie.
"Step off Siefer." Riku said.
"Or what Riku? Back home I've got a whole gang, and you're just the emo little loner." Said the kid named Siefer. "Isn't that right, Pete?"
"Sure is boss." Said the fat guy with black hair.
"Hey man, you're ruining the vibes, go away or we'll plaster ya'll over the ground." Wakka spoke up.
"A bunch of rejects and little girls?" said the kid that had the sword-gun thing.
"Oh it is so on!" Yuffie said, taking a large shuriken out of nowhere.
"Look guys!" Tidus said, stepping between the people. "We all have to deal with eachother for the rest of this year."
"Actually we have the same cabins all four years, my sister's a senior and she told me about it." Kairi piped up.
"Okay, and these guys are juniors so… the next two years we'll all have to deal with eachother." Tidus started. "At least until you guys are off to collage"
"Or prison." Sora added.
"THAT'S IT!" said Siefer, pulling a steel baseball bat out of the back of his jacket. Riku ran into the shack and out with a long suitcase and opened it to reveal a key-like weapon that looked like it was half angel and half demon. As Sora was loosing to Siefer, Riku ran in and knocked the blonde back.
"Sora, let me deal with him, you and Roxas deal with Pete." Riku said before some red laser things cut everybody off.
"Because it is the first day I'll let you first years off, but Siefer, you and your roommates should know better." Said a man in a black cloak with the school coat of arms sewn onto the chest.
"Headmaster Xemnas, these little brats provoked us." Pete yelled.
"Provoked or not, every year you boys start beating up anybody who gets in your way, I have instructed the school staff to keep a close eye on all of you at Shack XII." Said Headmaster Xemnas. "Return to your domicile at one and let these freshmen get to know eachother."
"Thanks headmaster." Sora smiled.
"Don't thank me, thank Kairi's sister, she knew where Kairi's cabin was and where Siefer's was and asked me to tell them to stay away if possible. Oh and good work on bringing your own weapons, at Kingdom Hearts we believe a ready weapon means a ready wielder." Said Headmaster Xemnas before walking away.
"Wow, the guys here are really laid back." Roxas smiled.
"Well according to my sister that's only the first few days, after that they become sadistic and evil monsters with no heart of any kind." Kairi said giggling. "We'd better head back, it's getting a bit too dark"
"Wow, what a day." Roxas smiled, seeing Namine look back and wave at him. "Can't wait for tomorrow."
AN: hope you liked the first chappie, more to come as soon as I feel like it. I don't own kingdom hearts and all other copyrighted material. To those who are confused about family ties I will simplify it now.
Sora and Roxas are twins in this story and their parents are Cloud and Aerith. Riku is the son of Tifa and Vincent, and Barret is the ADOPTIVE father of Yuffie. Sora and Roxas consider Yuffie and Riku to be cousins because of how close their three families are. Pence and Olette are brother and sister, and Kairi has a sister who is in her senior year of school at KHSFH.