Roxas mentally prepared himself for another day at PTNW High as he crossed the street. As he walked up to the school, he felt a huge weight on him.
"What the hell?" He pushed the weight off and turned to find a dirty blonde, who grinned at him.
"Hey, hi! I thought I saw you, back there---" He pointed behind the school. "But I wasn't sure if it was really you or not." As he rambled on, Roxas stared at him, trying to remember his name.
"Ah!" He interrupted. The boy stopped. "Demyx?" He grinned.
"YAY! Roxas remembered my name!" Roxas blinked as Demyx threw himself on him again, only this time he got himself in the head with the neck of the guitar on his back. "OW!"
"Why do you carry a guitar with---"
"She's not a guitar!" Demyx said with slight horror in his voice. "How can you even say that? She's a sitar." Roxas raised an eyebrow.
"O...k?" Demyx grinned.
"Besides, I'm the Melodious Nocturne, am I not? I have that name because I carry my sitar all over the place. She's always with me." As they walked, another slate-haired boy came into view. "ZEXION!!!!!" Demyx yelled, throwing himself on the reader. Zexion sighed.
"Hello, IX. Get off of me." Demyx complied, pouting slightly.
"Zexion is mean!" He whined lightly. Zexion snorted and looked up at Roxas briefly.
"Good morning, XIII."
"XIII?" Roxas said, confused. Demyx and Zexion ignored him, Zexion in favor of attempting to throw the sitarist off of him and Demyx clinging as hard as he could.
"Yes, you are the thirteenth member of our Organization XIII." Came a voice from behind. Roxas whirled around to find Axel standing behind him, throwing an apple in the air a few times before eating it. Roxas blinked.
"Why?" Axel shrugged.
"Superior's orders." He said, continuing to eat the red fruit. Roxas nodded slowly and started walking with Axel (Zexion and Demyx had left when Axel showed up, Zexion struggling to get to the library and Demyx refusing to let the Schemer go).
"Does everyone have a different name? Besides you and Larxene, I mean?" Axel smiled.
"Yea, no one in our group uses their real names. Xenmas' real name is Ansem, Xigbar's is Braig, Xaldin's is Dilan, Vexen's is Even, Lexeaus is actually Aeleus, Zexion's name is Ienzo." Axel frowned as he listed off the names, trying to remember each one. "Think Saix's is just Sai, of course, mine is Lea, Demyx's is Myde, Luxord is Ludor, I think, Marluxia's is Lumaria, and Larxene's name is Arlene, like I said yesterday." Roxas blinked.
"Wow. Guess I'll be the only one using my real name." Axel grinned and rubbed his hair.
"Got that right, kiddo. We could call ya Sora."
"That's my brother's name." Roxas muttered. Axel laughed.
"Kidding, Roxy!" Roxas turned to Axel with wide eyes.
"Roxy?" Axel ruffled his hair and grinned.
"Let's catch up to Zexy and Dem, or else Zexion will kill Demyx." A loud CRASH! made Roxas jump and look in the direction of where Zexion disappeared with Demyx. "Whoops! Better get going, looks like the show's already started!" Axel ran down the hall, Roxas following. They rounded the corner...
... And Roxas almost tripped over Demyx, who was sprawled on the floor.
"Demyx?" The sitarist looked up at Roxas and grinned.
"That was fun!" He yelled, jumping up and startling Roxas. "Do it again, Zexy!"
"I told you to stop calling me that, IX." Zexion stated blankly from next to Axel. "It's Zexion or VI."
"C'mon, Zexy, don't be like that to Dem!" Axel protested jokingly, slinging his arm around the slate-haired kid's neck (which looked awkward---Zexion was only two inches taller than Roxas, and Axel still towered over him). Zexion stared blankly at him.
"You too, VIII. It's your fault he keeps calling us by ridiculous shortenings of our names." Axel shrugged and stood up.
"Well, Roxy, we better get you to class, else you be late. Goodbye, fellow Organization members. By the way," Axel's voice dropped as he glanced around. "When Lar asks for me, I haven't come to school yet, and might be sick. Got it?" Zexion sighed as Demyx nodded happily.
"What did you do this time, Axel?" Axel grinned wolfishly.
"Just the usual stuff of Arlene---"
"Axel..." Axel paled and grabbed Roxas' arm, dragging the poor boy down the hall.
"Sorry, Lar, gotta run, he's gotta be at class early, right Roxy?" Before Roxas could even answer, Axel tightened his grip and went faster. Larxene sighed from her spot by Zexion.
"Damn pyromaniac." She muttered.
As soon as Axel left, Roxas gave a small sigh of relief. He honestly didn't know what he had done to Larxene, and he had a feeling that he didn't want to know. Sighing, he sat down in his seat next to a girl drawing in a sketchbook. She glanced at him, then turned to him fully.
"Hey, you one of Cloud's brothers?" 'Not again...' Roxas groaned as he turned to the girl.
"Yea..." She grinned happily.
"I thought so. You're Roxas, right?" Roxas nodded slowly and she stuck her hand out. "My name's Namine. Kairi is my older sister---she's friends with Sora?" Roxas nodded slowly and shook her hand. "So, what are you doing here in PTNW High?" Roxas shrugged.
"Last-ditch attempt to learn to socialize?" He muttered, taking out a pencil. Namine giggled.
"Larxene tell you that?" She asked. He glanced at her and nodded. Namine shrugged. "This is an advanced placement school." Roxas looked at her with wide eyes. Advance placement? "A school for smart people." She said, giggling. "Or talented people. My talent is drawing." Roxas raised an eye brow, but didn't say anything as the teacher walked in. At the end of class, Namine handed Roxas the paper that she had been drawing on before she started talking to Roxas. He looked down and raised an eyebrow at the image.
"Axel?" He questioned, looking at an amazing likeness of the pyromaniac on paper. She blushed lightly and nodded, holding her books to her chest tightly. He looked back at the paper, tracing the tattoos under the drawing's eyes lightly before looking at the girl. "You like him?" She blushed harder.
"Yea..." Roxas smiled, handing her the drawing.
"You should mention it sometime to him." He said. She shook her head.
"You keep it." She said, pushing the drawing back into his hands. "And no, I won't tell him. You're actually the only one who knows besides Kairi." Roxas rolled his eyes and was about to answer when a hand landed over his eyes.
"Guess who, Roxy?"
"What the hell!" Roxas yelled, throwing Axel's arms off of him. Turning around to glare at the red-head, Roxas vaguely noticed that Namine had disappeared. "Axel, I was talking to someone?"
"Namine understands." Axel shrugged, turning around. "Come on, Superior called another meeting. It's what, September?" Roxas nodded, following Axel. Axel grinned. "September... September..."
"It's September 3rd, Axel." Axel rubbed Roxas' hair.
"Right." He said. "Six days til the ninth!" He more or less sang out, pulling Roxas' hand and dragging the boy down the hall again.
"What's on the ninth?" Roxas asked, barely managing to keep up with the rushing pyro. Said pyro grinned.
"Ninth, ninth, nine-nine, September 9th." Axel grinned and practically threw Roxas down by Larxene (when the hell had they gotten into the cafeteria?) and sat in his seat, between Saix and...
No Demyx. Roxas frowned.
"Meeting will start now." Xenmas sat by Xigbar at the top of the table and looked around the table.
"Where's Demyx?" Roxas whispered to Larxene. She scowled and put her finger over her mouth. Marluxia leaned over her.
"Demyx has been excused from the meetings from here on out." He whispered. Larxene hit Marluxia on the head, creating a loud THUNK! when the pink-haired boy's head went down and crash-landed on the table. The meeting came to an abrupt halt as they all looked down the table at the last three.
"They wouldn't shut up." Larxene said simply.
i feel i should mention this. XD forgot to last time. i don't actually know what Saix, Marluxia, Luxord, and Larxene's Somebody names are. so i typed up their Organization names on my document and anagramed them until i came up with a semi-suitable name. yep.