Disclamier: I dont own Kingdom Hearts, i swear! IM INNOCENT!!

Sorry this took so long! I've been gone a lot lately.

"Axel, honey, wake up." Aerith stood in the doorway of Axel's room. "Time for school."

"Uhhgrrrhhhh…" Axel covered his head with his pillow. He didn't notice his mom pick up his cell phone off his side table. She silently opened it, and scrolled through his recent calls.

Anger flashed across her face.

"Axel!" She snapped.

"What?" He looked at her. He noted the look on her face, and then the cell phone in her hand. Shit. I forgot to delete my recent calls.

"You called Zexion?" She looked him right in the eye.

"No, mom, he called me." Axel looked at her innocently. This was an act that he put up many times.

Her face softened a little. "Did you answer?"

"Of course not, mom. Why would I?" Axel sat up, and stretched. His mom smiled.

"Okay, honey, sorry for getting all angry like that. You know the last thing I want to do is upset you." She ruffled his hair. "Breakfast."

He nodded. When she left the room, he groaned. "Yeah because making me move schools because you didn't like my friends or the fact that I am gay just doesn't upset me at all, mother…"

&!&!

Axel picked at his pancakes. He took his fork and stabbed at it repeatedly.

"You okay, son?" Leon asked.

Axel smiled. "I'm alright Leon."

"Dad."

"Dad."

Axel shoved a huge bite in his mouth and looked at his watch. "Gotta go mom." He gave his mom a quick kiss on the cheek and nodded to his father. "Bye Dad."

Axel ran out the door, slightly stumbling on a shoelace. Axel was never one to tie his shoes…

"Hey!" Demyx and Riku waved from their spot on the sidewalk. "Come on, we're going to be late!"

Axel ran over to them. "We gunna ask Roxas today?"

"Yeah. Riku's going to ask in first hour."

"I'll do it." Axel volunteered. "In music."

"Why?"

"T-that way we can all be there. And in music too! That only seems fitting…" Axel silently applauded himself for his good excuse.

"You've got a point." Riku agreed. Demyx nodded.

"Oh yeah!" Demyx shot a finger in the air. "I heard that we are getting a new student."

"Really?" Riku asked. "What's his name?"

Axel smiled to himself.

"Zexion something-or-other." Demyx said.

"Weird name." Riku said. Demyx nodded.

"Hey, we all got weird names." Axel said. "Take principal Xemnas. That's a weird name."

"What's your problem? This kid's probably like a total loser or something." Riku said.

"No, actually, I know him." Axel said.

"How?" Demyx and Riku were both stunned. Axel had never told them about him.

"My old school. I'm still friends with him." Axel said. He took a slight amusement with the looks on his friend's faces.

"Really?" Riku scratched his head. "You never told us about him before."

"I know. But now I guess it doesn't matter. You're going to meet him anyway." Axel said.

"Yeah." Demyx quickly added, "He's not gay or anything, is he?"

Axel was saved from answering this question because they heard the warning bell ring, and they were still a block away from school.

"Shit!" Riku cursed. They all ran as fast as they could toward the school. Principal Xemnas was so uptight with being late and shit. Nobody was really in the mood to serve detention. Xemnas's idea of detention wasn't regular detention though. He made you do janitor work instead of just sitting in a room for an hour. That's why the school was so well behaved.

All three boys ran to their lockers and grabbed their first hour books. The hallways were starting to clear, which meant that the bell was going to ring very soon.

Axel ran into class and sat in his seat right on time. The teacher glared at him, but jut rolled his eyes. "Alright children… today I am taking the pleasure of telling you about a new way to solve equations…"

Axel felt sleepier and sleepier as Xaldin droned on about equations and some other stupid shit. He could talk forever, and it seemed like he never needed to come up for air…

&!&!

"Alright Ax, remember to take it slow today. We wouldn't want you to break Roxas's leg or something today," Demyx said.

"I know." Axel looked apathetic.

"Oh, you know, then STOP FAST-WALKING!" Demyx grabbed Axel's shoulder to restrain him. "Why are you in such a hurry?"

"Because, I'm eager to see what Roxas says!" Axel pushed Demyx's hand off his shoulder, and quickened his pace even more.

"SLOW DOWN!" Axel stopped walking at the voice. Demyx's face oozed fear, and so did Axel's.

"What is the hurry?" Xemnas sauntered over to them.

"Uhh, we're in a hurry to get to class." Axel's was originally going to stare at his feet, but when Roxas walked by, he opted to look Xemnas in the eye and stand up to him. He just hoped that he wouldn't get in a heap of trouble for it…

"You're not going to be late, are you?" Xemnas stared down the boys. Demyx's face paled and he twiddled his fingers.

"No, Xemnas, we just love to go to our classes and learn." Axel tried not to faint.

Xemnas looked sort of shocked. "Oh, well carry on, then." He strolled away.

Axel let out the breath that he had been holding.

"That was amazing!" Demyx declared. "I haven't seen anyone actually look him in the eye and not pass out."

"Yeah, well, I'm just brave like that." Axel proclaimed.

Demyx laughed. "Let's go to class, Mr. Fullofyourself."

They walked into the class, and took their usual seats next to Riku. Who was on time today. Go figure.

"Hey Roxas!" Riku waved Roxas over to them. Roxas walked over, avoiding teenagers with instruments that were bolting about the room.

"What's up?" Axel couldn't help but look at his adorably innocent face. His blonde spikes that stood up in unruly ways…

"AX!" Riku punched Axel's arm.

"Oh!" Axel shook thoughts of Roxas out of his head, there was plenty of time to think about him later. "We're starting a band… and we need a drummer. You up for it?"

Roxas's face brightened considerably. "Yeah, that sounds awesome!"

Riku and Demyx hi-fived. Nothing unusual there.

"Well tell you later about details." Axel smiled at Roxas, who smiled back. When Xigbar clapped for attention, Roxas rushed back to his seat. Axel silently cursed Xigbar in his head.

"Alright, pay attention people. Today we're going to listen to the musical stylings of…" Xigbar closed his eyes and ran his finger around the room (Gotta love his teaching method. Heh.). When he opened his eyes, he was pointing at Sora.

Sora smiled.

Uh-oh. Sora was attempting to play the guitar.

Everyone in the class plugged their ears. Some were even going 'La-la-la-la' to drown out Sora's noise. Let's just say that he tried hard to play, but it didn't really come out that well. When he was done, he took a bow and sat next to Roxas.

"That was…" Xigbar searched for something to say "…interesting…"

&!&!

Axel sat on his bed, still trying to get Sora's 'musical stylings' out of his head. It sounded more like stepping on a dying chicken. Axel shuddered.

Axel's cell started to ring on his bedside table. He picked up and flipped the phone open.

"Hey."

"All hell is going to break loose in your school tomorrow."

"Zex?"

"Duh."

"Let's just hope that you don't get the shit beat out of you, Zex."

"I won't. I'm not as weak as you think I am, Ax."

"Are you sure? Cuz all the girls could kick your ass in 8th grade." Axel laughed at the memory. Zexion was puny and short back then.

"Don't worry about me."

"I'm not."

"Yeah, okay."

Axel jerked his head toward the sound of footsteps going up the stairs.

"Gotta go." Axel hung up the phone and shoved it under his pillow. His mom opened the door.

"Hey Axel, dinner in 10." She looked at his bedside table, where his phone usually sat. "Where is your phone, honey?"

"I left it in my locker mom, sorry."

"You know you're not supposed to bring it to school, Axel!" She snapped.

"I know mom, I wasn't thinking this morning. I'm sorry."

"Alright, but you know the consequences." She said.

"I know mom, grounded for a week, no music."

"That includes band related things."

Axel knew not to say anything because his parents would just ground him more. He nodded, fighting the urge to punch his mom in the face. Okay, that was really disrespectful, but she's always been a bitch to him. Don't be fooled when she says 'honey' and 'sweetie.'

Aerith smiled and shut the door behind her. Axel turned around to face the wall, and slammed his head into it.

"UUUHHH!"

&!&!

A boy who was on the shorter side, with blue-gray hair that covered one side of his face strolled down the hallway, taking in the scene. He got a lot of weird looks, probably because of the fact that he was wearing all black and every other kid in this school was prep looking. He smiled. His takeover of this school was going to be fun. He quickened his pace a bit when he spotted the red head that he was looking for.

"Axel."

The red head turned around. He smiled. "Zexion!"

Zexion tilted his head a little bit to look at Axel's friends. There was one with long silver hair. Zexion didn't really like his look. Plus, he was too tall. Zexion looked at the other one and smiled. He had blonde hair, styled mullet like. This one might be worth something.

"Zexion, these are my friends Riku, and Demyx." First Axel pointed toward the silver haired one, and then the blonde one. They both waved.

"This is my friend from middle school, guys." Axel told his friends.

Riku whispered something in Demyx's ear and they both snickered.

Oh yeah, this is definitely going to be interesting.