Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts. It belongs to Square Enix and Disney.

Hello everyone! Now, I have a good excuse for posting this when I said I was taking a break for NaNoWriMo. You see, this is my novel for NaNoWriMo! (it's just a fanfiction novel). So prepare yourself for 50,000 words of Kingdom Hearts fun!

Each chapter with be written in first person POV, with the majority of the chapters being in Roxas's POV. And the pairings are a little difficult for even me to figure out. It'll probably be my usual favorites. (Squall/Cloud, Zack/Aerith, Tidus/Yuna, Wakka/Lulu are the pairings that are set in stone.) I'm still working with Kairi, Sora, and Riku and Roxas, Axel, and Namine. I have no idea how I'm going to do this. Who knows, Kairi may end up with Pence again.

Angel in Disguise

1. Roxas: Meander

Sora has never been the brightest crayon in the box, not by any means. I mean, he could hold a fifteen minute conversation about nerds candies with the cat. Sometimes I'm ashamed to call him my twin.

But that's beside the point. The point is that Sora can be a little slow sometimes. And when Riku challenged him to a game of blitz ball, well, I knew it wouldn't end very well. Simply put, Sora isn't very good at blitz ball or any other sport for that matter. He can barely manage to walk and chew gum at the same time. So why he thought he could actually win against Riku, who is actually really good at sports (for an art geek), I don't understand. What confuses me even more is that Kairi and Naminé, both of whom have grown up with me and Sora, encouraged it.

It started off as a normal day. My alarm clock went off and I picked it up and threw it against the wall where it, annoyingly, continued to ring. So then I got up and jammed my thumb against the off button until it finally shut off. And then, in my usual sleepy daze, I walked out of my room and down the hall to the bathroom where I spent the next ten minutes yelling at Sora through the door until he finally comes out completely awake and all cheerful. How can anyone be that damn cheerful that early in the morning? It's not natural and no one else in the family is like that, except for maybe mom, but she's a little crazy. Not psycho, metal-ward facility crazy, just normal mom crazy.

Anyway, after I got out of the bathroom and was feeling a little more awake, I ventured downstairs to try and snag some breakfast without Sora spotting me. But like always, he did and so I was stuck down there for the remainder of the morning listening to him chatter away about something. I was still half asleep then, so I really don't remember what he was talking about.

After breakfast I meandered-

You know, "meandered" is a funny word. Most people don't really use that word in normal conversation. It's fun to say though. Meandered.

Sorry.

After breakfast I meandered back up to my room and got dressed. In what? Just my normal summer clothes. White pants and a black shirt with a white checkered pattern around the sleeves.

The next thing I new Sora was in my room raiding my closet because he forgot to take his laundry downstairs for the maid to clean. The one chore we actually have and somehow, every week, he ends up forgetting until I storm into his room, because half of my clothes are missing, and I'm the one who drags the enormous pile of clothes down the stairs and into the laundry room so the maid can clean them.

Maybe Sora has short term memory?

Anyway, after Sora stole my clothes he bounced - yes, bounced - over to me and proceeded to drag me out of my room and down the hallway and then down the stairs, all the while telling me about how he promised we'd meet "the gang" down at the beach by ten-thirty.

I do not remember agreeing to that. But it's Sora, and what Sora wants to do, Sora does. And since there's no way I'm letting him go out to the beach on his own, I'm always the one who gets stuck going along with his adventures. Hey, at least I'm smart enough to know that coconuts do not make a good substitute for a baseball. But anyway…

We biked out to the beach where Sora collided with the bike rack and ended up flying off the bike over the handlebars. I laughed at him and got off my bike before I pushed it into the rack and chained it.

Sora managed to not get hurt as he chained up his bike as well.

We continued on to our usual meeting spot down by the docks and along the way Sora just had to stop and chase a sand crab. He's such a kid. Long story short, the sand crab pinched his finger and made it bleed and I had to listen to him whine about it the rest of the way to the docks.

By the time we reached the docks everyone else was already there. Even from a distance I could see the blonde hair and white dress of my best friend, Naminé, and the red hair and pink dress of Kairi. The two were sitting on the dock with their notebooks, probably talking about the comic they're working on.

Down in the water I saw Tidus, who had already fallen and gotten his blonde hair soaked. Wakka stood nearby with his easily noticeable orange hair that spiked up in the front. He was holding a blitz ball and laughing at the pissed look on Tidus's face. Selphie stood on the edge of the beach in her, most likely custom made, yellow dress with her brown hair perfectly curled like always.

It was only a matter of time before Tidus did something stupid to ruin her "perfect hair" and piss her off.

And then there was Riku, who I hated. A lot. Unfortunately, I have to put up with him because he's Sora's best friend. Even more unfortunate is that the three of us and Kairi grew up together so we know frickin' everything about each other. Trust me, that's not always a good thing.

I suppose Riku and I got along once upon a time, but now we can't stand being around each other. In some ways we're complete opposites. He's tall with longish white hair and green eyes and I'm on the short side with spiky blonde hair and blue eyes. He's good at sports but prefers anything art related, particularly painting and theatre. I'm okay at art stuff but I prefer anything sports related.

We do have some things in common. We both look out for Sora and have the same friends and go to the same school. We've both grown up in the same neighborhood ever since we were born.

"Riku!" Sora yelled as he ran over to the white-haired bastard.

I ignored the two as Riku hugged Sora and picked him up before spinning him around-- I mean really, what guy picks up another guy and hugs him while spinning him around? If it weren't for the fact the Riku flirts with all the girls at school I would swear he was gay.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. After all, my older brother Squall is gay. He even lives with his boyfriend and is planning on proposing soon.

I paused by the edge of the water to say hello to Tidus, Wakka, and Selphie and then I continued on to the docks to sit with Kairi and Naminé for a while.

That's one of the many things that Riku has always made fun of me for. I have always preferred hanging out with Naminé and Kairi because, while they are eccentric, they've always been the most reliable and the sanest of my friends.

"Hey, Roxas." Naminé greeted me without looking up. "Did you have fun getting here?" She asked, knowing that even a simple walk down the street with Sora could be eventful.

"Sora found a sand crab and it pinched his finger and made him bleed." I told them as I sat down between them.

Kairi laughed and set down her pencil before she looked up at me.

One of the most striking things about Kairi is her eyes. Her eyes are this beautiful violet-blue color that I have always admired. Sora and Riku have also always made fun of me for it and tease me about having a crush on her. It's really the two of them who have a crush on her, and I always end up threatening to tell her to get the two of them to shut up.

"That sounds like Sora." Kairi said fondly. Did I mention that she likes Sora and Riku? And not just in the 'oh, we're just friends' sort of way. Am I going to tell them? Hell no! It's too much fun to watch them try and get her attention. "Did he ride his bike into the rack again?"

I nodded. "Yeah. And he went flying over the handlebars."

This time, both Kairi and Naminé laughed, probably imagining the scene play out.

I leaned back, supported by my arms, and relaxed, completely at ease with the girls. I knew they wouldn't push me off the dock or take my shoes and run away with them or anything stupid like that. That wasn't their idea of fun and I was thankful for that.

"Tidus!" I heard Selphie shriek, followed by a loud splash.

I looked over at them and sighed when I saw that Selphie had been knocked over by the blitz ball and that her expensive dress was soaked.

"Ooo, Tidus is gonna get it now." Kairi said, leaning forward to watch.

"Selphie should know better than to get that close to the water." Naminé remarked. "She does it every time and ends up 'ruining' her clothes." She drew air quotes when she said "ruining".

Naminé is different from most of the girls I know. She's from a very wealthy family like the rest of us, but you'd never know that unless you visited her house. She doesn't wear all the expensive clothes or jewelry. She doesn't go out and buy expensive things that she doesn't need and she doesn't go buy things so she has something to brag about. She doesn't even have a car.

Not that you really need a car when living on Destiny Island.

Naminé prefers simple things. In fact, I swear that she has seven of those little white dresses plus some in different styles for winter and school dances. I don't see how she keeps them so clean all the time. Not once in the ten years that I've know her have I ever seen a mark or stain on one of them.

"Uh-oh." I heard Kairi mutter.

I look back over at the others just in time to see Sora picking up the blitz ball. I jumped to my feet and hurried off the dock, vaguely aware of Naminé and Kairi right behind me. I knew I had to get down there and try and stop him before something bad happened.

By the time we got down there we were too late. Riku had already challenged Sora to a one-on-one game and they were heading out into the water to play.

Now normally I wouldn't have been too worried. After all, Sora was always getting hurt but he also would bounce right back from any injury. And any injury that Tidus or Wakka or Riku would get was just laughed off, even the time Tidus broke his arm and leg in the same day trying to skateboard.

But that particular day I had a bad feeling that something was going to happen and since everything else that I had predicted that day happened, I figured there was a good chance of something bad happening then.

"Go Sora!" Kairi yelled, which wasn't too surprising. She usually did support their little contests. Half of the time the contests were over her, although she never knew that.

What was surprising was that Naminé started cheering on Sora too. She always sat there and watched the contests, but she had never actually cheered for anyone. She must have been hanging out with the other girls a lot recently.

There were a lot more people in our group then, but we didn't all get together at once usually. Wakka's girlfriend, Lulu, usually joined us so it was unusual that she wasn't there that day.

"Don't encourage him!" I exclaimed. There must have been a hint of worry in my voice, because both Naminé and Kairi looked at me in surprise.

"Is something wrong?" Kairi asked.

"I have a bad feeling." I replied. "Call it 'twin intuition' or whatever, but I really think that something bad is going to happen."

Right after I said that I heard Sora cry out in pain. I turned around just in time to see him fall into the water. Before I could even think about moving to help him, Riku was right there lifting him out of the water and trying to help him stand.

I felt the pain in my own leg before I heard Sora scream.

It's always been that way; Sora gets hurt and somehow I feel pain wherever it is that he gets hurt. It goes the other way around too. Kairi and Naminé call it our 'twin connection' or something like that.

"Riku, pick him up!" I yelled, unable to move at that moment. "His leg is broken, you idiot!"

Riku cursed and lifted Sora up off his feet. He carried him bridal style out of the water and then started down the beach. "We have to get him to a hospital!" He yelled back to us.

Finally I could move and the pain in my leg subsided. Selphie forgot all about how angry she was at Tidus and Wakka and moved closer to them to talk. Kairi hurried on ahead to walk beside Riku and console Sora. Naminé walked beside me, silently offering me support.

"He'll be okay, Roxas." She said a few minutes later once we came to the sidewalk. She smiled and slipped her small hand into mine.

"Thanks, Naminé." I said, truly meaning it.

At that moment I didn't have time to think about what trouble Naminé holding my hand would bring as we walked through town. And I certainly wasn't thinking about what horrible rumors would spread with Riku carrying Sora through town. Actually, I probably wasn't thinking at all. By that time I was acting on autopilot; the lights were on but nobody was home.

I don't even remember walking into the hospital. All that I remember is getting Sora into the emergency room and having to wait a few minutes to get him in. And then there was all the paperwork. You'd think that for all the accidents that Sora has that they would have records at the hospital. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, Sora had never been hurt badly enough to be admitted to the hospital.

I know that somehow I managed to fill out the papers and that once I was done Naminé led me over to the chairs so I could sit down. Actually, it was more like I collapsed into a boneless heap in the chair.

It took me over ten minutes of laying bonelessly in the chair to realize that I hadn't called mom and dad to tell them.

Fuck.

"Naminé." I whispered, poking her in the arm. "I need your phone."

Naminé looked at me for a moment, probably confused about why I wanted her phone. She seemed to understand that it was important, as she leaned down and unclipped it from her blue sandals and handed it to me.

I quickly dialed my dad's cell and had to wait four rings before he answered. "Dad? Are you too busy?"

My dad sighed. "What has Sora done this time?"

'How does he always know?' I wondered. "He broke his leg playing blitz ball with Riku."

"Really?" He sounded surprised. It was probably because Sora was always the one who caused other people to get hurt. It was never on purpose or anything, it would just kind of… happen. "Does your mother know yet?"

"No, I'll call her next." I said. "Or should I not call her? I don't want to worry her."

"I'll call her." My dad said. "You just stay down there with Sora. You'll have to call Squall to tell him. I don't have his number."

"Okay, I will." I agreed. I knew that Squall's reaction would be calm like dad's, unlike mom, who probably got all hysterical when dad told her.

Dad told me he'd drop by after work to take Sora home and then we hung up. I told Namine that I had to call Squall and then I dialed Cloud's number, knowing that Squall's cell probably had a dead battery like always. Not that Cloud was any better. Usually Tifa or Aerith picked up the phone. Occasionally I've ended up talking to Zack, Rinoa, or Yuffie and I think Vincent might have picked it up once.

Cloud is Squall's boyfriend and everyone always says we look alike because of our spiky blonde hair and blue eyes. I don't see it. I mean, sure we have the same hair and eye color, but we really don't look that much alike.

The girls, Zack, and Vincent are Cloud and Squall's closest friends. Tifa has long black hair and brown eyes and tends to wear black and white. She's really strong and has these huge- erm, well… breasts. Hey, it's not like I sit there and stare at them or anything! (Like Sora did when we first met her.) It's just hard to not notice when you're squished against them because she just had to hug you!

Anyway, Aerith has long brown hair that she always wears braided and I think her eyes are green. She's married to Zack, who is Cloud's best friend. Zack's pretty cool, although I think he gets on Squall's nerves sometimes. He's got black hair and blue eyes.

I don't see much of Rinoa, Yuffie, and Vincent anymore. From what I can remember, Rinoa has dark, dark brown hair and brown eyes. She used to wear a lot of blue. Yuffie is crazy and comes from a family of ninja's. She's got short black hair and dark violet eyes. Vincent is the one I've seen the least, but he's the hardest to forget. He's pale and has black hair and reddish-brown eyes. I've never seen him in any colors except red, black, and gold.

Going back to calling Cloud's cell phone…

I ended up getting a hold of Tifa, who told me that Squall and Cloud were off doing something and that they'd be back later. I told her about Sora and his broken leg and she laughed and said something along the lines of, "It's about time! It's unnatural for a kid that clumsy to have never had a broken bone before now!"

I got her to promise to pass along the message and then said goodbye. I hung up the phone and handed it back to Namine, who clipped it back onto her sandal.

I remember that about an hour later, Selphie, Tidus, and Wakka left, knowing that there was nothing they could do to help. That and Tidus was getting restless.

Riku, Kairi, Namine, and I stayed to hear how bad the injury was and to visit with Sora once he was all fixed up. So we sat around for a while longer before Riku got too frustrated.

"What the hell is taking so long?!" Riku yelled in frustration, startling many of the people sitting around in chairs.

It had been around a half hour since Selphie, Tidus, and Wakka left, so we had been there for almost two hours. We still hadn't heard anything about Sora, so we were starting to get a little worried.

"Riku, calm down." Kairi said, laying her hand over Riku's. "It's Sora. He'll be just fine. People get broken legs all the time."

None of us wanted to say out loud how unusual it was for us to hear nothing even after sitting in the waiting room for nearly two hours.

Thankfully, we had Namine with us that day. Personally, I think that she is the smartest of any of us. She was the only one of us who thought to get up and go over to the counter and ask about Sora. And when she walked back over to us she had a big smile on her face.

"Sora's fine." She told us. "His leg is in a cast now and he's resting in room 138. We can go visit him whenever we want to as long as we're quiet."

I breathed a sigh of relief. Sora was okay. Someone just forgot to tell us. It's wasn't like it had never happened to us before. It was just that usually Sora was there to check at the counter every five minutes because he felt guilty that Riku or Tidus or whoever got hurt.

"Roxas?"

I looked up when Namine said my name and gently touched my arm.

"Why don't you go back first. Kairi, Riku, and I will call your dad, Squall, and Wakka." She offered. "We'll be back there in a few minutes."

I nodded and stood up. "Okay. Thank you, Namine."

Room 138. I remember so clearly the first time I walked into that room. I saw Sora sitting on a bed with his leg wrapped in this huge neon green cast. He was laughing, which I thought was a little odd.

Then I saw him.

That pale, lanky redhead with the emerald green eyes.

The one who would later stop my heart in it's tracks with a single look.

The pyromaniac nutcase who I thought was out to ruin my life.

Axel.

End Chapter

Have I mentioned before how much I love writing in Roxas's POV? No? Well, now I have.

It's weird. Normally I have a hard time working with character's like Roxas, but this time it's coming easy to me. Maybe because I make Roxas a bit like me. (laughs)

I should be able to crank these chapter out pretty quickly, and right now I am so far behind. But with it up on here with people actually reading it and waiting for more it makes me want to write more. It's no wonder I finish up fanfics more easily than original stories.