Roxas' family moves to Hollow Bastion after his father gets a promotion. Roxas now has to go to Hollow Bastion High knowing nobody but his cousin Sora, but what things about Sora will he learn as the year goes on, and just how well will he fit into the school?
Roxas was unpacking his stuff into his room in his family's new house. His father had recently gotten promoted to become the manager of the new Shinra Hollow Bastion Division, unfortunately that meant Roxas had to move away from all of his friends in Twilight Town and start life again with only one year left of high school.
Roxas had a fairly large room with a big window facing out towards the street. His bed was in the corner by the window moved over to the side just enough so the sun wouldn't blast him in the face as in came into the room. He had a decent sized TV in the corner of his room and a small desk to do his school work. All around the room were posters of his favorite bands and on his desk were two pictures, one of him and his friends from Twilight Town, and one of him and his cousin Sora.
He and Sora had known each other all their lives; they had only been born a couple months apart, and would always look forward to seeing each other when their family got together. Roxas' biggest hope was that he would get to hang out with Sora and his friends when he went to school.
xxxxxxx
Roxas woke up, went through his morning routine to get ready for school, got dressed and headed downstairs for breakfast. When he got down there was a plate of pancakes waiting for him on the table.
"Looking forward to school honey?" asked Roxas' mom.
"Ya, I'm going early so that I have more time to look for Sora." Roxas mumbled in between bites of pancake. Roxas' mom just sighed to herself, hoping that Roxas' wish wouldn't come true all year. She couldn't bear to see Roxas' expression when he found out who his cousin actually was.
xxxxxxx
Roxas walked down the street towards his school when suddenly a blonde haired girl popped out from the house he was walking by.
"Hi there, I haven't seen you around here before." Said the girl politely. Roxas laughed.
"I'm Roxas, I just moved here a couple days ago." Roxas couldn't help but notice how pretty the girl was in her simple white tank top and shorts.
"My names Namine, want to walk to school with me?"
"Sure!"
Roxas and Namine walked along the sidewalk, Namine firing off an endless barrage of questions about Roxas' old town, school and friends until fifteen minutes later they crossed the street and walked towards the front doors of the school.
"Well I have to go to the office to get my timetable and locker number, I hope I see you in class." Roxas said as he walked towards the front office. Namine just giggled.
"We have twenty minutes until class starts; I might as well stay with you and show you around."
Roxas entered the office with Namine close behind and got his timetable and locker number with ten minutes to spare. Roxas showed Namine his timetable which caused Namine to cheer seeing that they had the same Art and History class together.
"Art is my favorite subject," explained Namine, "we should have lots of fun."
Roxas looked at the paper in Namine's hand and stared at the square that showed his Art class right after lunch.
"Is Mr. Tucker nice?"
"Ya, but don't call him that, everybody just calls him Marluxia, and NEVER draw flowers, just take my word for it."
Roxas just nodded when he felt a person brush by him, blocking his view of Namine. The boy, who was dressed in tight black clothing and had his wood completely shadowing his face just walked by towards one of the hallways dropping something on the floor by Roxas. Namine just growled.
"Don't worry about him; he never talks to anybody except for a couple of the teachers and one other kid. People say he steals things and my friend Olette said she thought she saw him injecting something into his arm last week."
Roxas bent over and picked up the item near his feet as Namine turned to show him to his locker and felt his jaw drop when he picked it up. It was a keychain he had gave Sora last time he saw him.
xxxxxxx
Namine showed Roxas to his locker, which was conveniently located across the hall from his first period English class. When he walked in he found all but two seats filled, one by a tall lanky guy with extreme red hair and one by the guy who had brushed by him just five minutes ago. He opted to sit by the red head near the window. The teacher came in as the bell rang and placed his stuff on the desk.
"As most of you know I'm Mr. Wolf and I'm your English teacher but you may call me Saix if you wish." Roxas looked at the man who seemed to have scars across his eyes and had incredibly long hair.
Saix began a lecture on what they would be doing throughout the year and then assigned a one page essay on the person that everybody sat beside due at the end of the week. Roxas looked over at his partner and realized that he had been asleep for what he assumed was the whole time.
"…Roxas Balfour?" spoke the teacher, causing everybody to turn their heads as Roxas put his hand up. And that's when the mumbling started, at least until the teacher yelled across the room deafening everybody.
"AXEL WAKE UP!"
The red head beside Roxas promptly sat bolt upright and began scribbling down the assignment on the bored. Roxas was more interested in the person in the corner, wondering who it could possibly be as he waited for his name to be called.
"…Riku Vale?" Roxas saw the hooded boy raise his hand slightly before he packed his stuff away.
"Yo, Roxas!" Roxas quickly turned his head to see the red head smiling at him.
"Names Axel, got it memorized?"
"Uhh, yeah sorry about that."
"Ah, don't worry about it, Riku is a pretty weird guy, almost as bad as his buddy, BUT enough about that when do you wanna get together for this stupid essay?"
"Oh, well I don't know want to just do it at lunch?" Roxas was still a little thrown off by Riku and how he always seemed to be cloaked in shadows. That and he wouldn't see Namine until after lunch and was looking to make as many friends as possible.
"Sure find me in the caf, just look for the hair." Axel got up and walked out of the room leaving Roxas to find his way to his second period science class.
xxxxxxx
Roxas managed to get to class early and sat behind a lab bench at the back of the room, again by the window. Slowly other students filled into the room, sitting by their friends from previous years until Roxas found Axel sitting beside him moments later.
"Go figure we have class together again!" Beamed the red head.
"Ya it looks like it." Smiled Roxas. He then found two people sitting in front of them turning their chairs back towards Axel and himself.
"These are Demyx and Zexion." Axel pointed to a blonde haired guy with what seemed to be a cross between a mullet and a faux-hawk, and a guy with slate colored hair covering his one eye. The slate haired guy nodded while the blonde, Demyx, began an endless stream of questions until the teacher walked in. Everybody was dead silent as soon as he entered.
"Good you all know who I am and I have a list of who you are so lets do attendance and get down to business."
The teacher called out the names, Roxas' again causing a slight murmuring, and then again explained what they would do in class throughout the year. At the end of class he assigned ten pages of homework, causing the class to complain until he turned around and glared at them all. Roxas could have sworn he felt the temperature in the room drop a couple of degrees. The bell rang and everybody began to leave the room to head for to their next class.
"Don't forget to wear fire retardant stuff; we do have Axel in this class." The remaining students laughed, except for Axel who was complaining about the abuse and Roxas who was asking Demyx what the teacher was talking about.
"Oh Axel has caused a few 'accidents' during labs before usually involving something exploding. Don't worry about it though Vexen is used to it by now and has fire safety equipment EVERYWHERE." Roxas then saw the humor in it and started to laugh.
Demyx stole Roxas' timetable and dragged him by the arm down another hall while Axel and Zexion went upstairs.
"Where are you taking me!!"
"We have music together and it's on the other side of thee school, if we don't hurry we will be late!"
Roxas and Demyx bolted through the halls until they came to the door of the music room and walked in. Most of the students had already sat down along the risers waiting for their teacher to come into the room and assign instruments. Roxas and Demyx took the only seats here they could sit together, right at the front in the middle. A tall blonde haired woman walked into the room with a large pile of paper and what appeared to be a thick steel baton.
"Alright, let's skip the stupid introductions you all know you can call me Larxene, when I call your name come up and get a sheet and fill it out, you will get your instruments tomorrow assuming nobody screws this up." Roxas could already tell this teacher was a ticking time bomb and that he had better do well.
"Demyx your sitar arrived yesterday come to my office after class and get it, it's taking up more space than I care for." Roxas looked over at his new friend with a somewhat quizzical look causing Demyx to tilt his head and whisper to Roxas.
"I'm the best musician in the school so I can use my own instruments. I just happened to get a new sitar for this year." Roxas just nodded his understanding and got up to grab a sheet as his name was called. The rest of the class followed suit, each person filling in their personal information and which instruments they wanted to play. The bell rang as the last student handed in his sheet and everybody headed to the cafeteria for lunch.
Demyx walked into the caf with Roxas and led him to the table where Axel and Zexion were sitting. Roxas got in line for food and quickly returned to his seat to find his three new friends eating homemade lunches.
"I heard some really rich people moved in just this weekend, some guy who works for Shinra." Roxas heard from a small group of people walking nearby. He had sworn to himself to not let people know that was his family.
"So Roxas, you aren't related to Sora Balfour at all are you?" asked Axel, pulling Roxas away from listening to other peoples conversations.
"Ya he's my cousin, I've been looking for him all morning you aren't friends of his are you?" Demyx and Axel burst out into laughter; Zexion just chuckled lightly to himself.
"Bit of advice Rox, Sora has one friend here, you might want to hide the fact your related to him or people will get a bad impression of you." Said Axel as he gasped for air laughing. Roxas was stunned.
"What's so wrong with my cousin?" Axel just pointed to the corner of the gym by the stage where two guys were slouched in the corners wearing all black with their faces hidden.
"There's your cousin and his friend Riku, let's just say they have pissed a few people off and have done a few strange things."
Roxas stared at the two guys in the corner in shock; he had never seen Sora wearing black at all. The most shocking fact of the whole thing was that Sora only had this Riku kid as a friend, something Sora had lied to him about every time he saw him.