Feeling bored so I typed up a second chapter for anyone who cares. Enjoy a first day of school! Roxas actually speaks this time, Kairi's little friends are pretty unique themselves and the teachers aren't as normal as she thought, so Namine is in for a surprise...

The Disclaimer stands.


Chapter 2: The Artist's Companion

"So, you nervous?" Kairi teased. The two friends walked down the street and across a road, making their way to a Monday morning of school. It was a little earlier than usual, since Namine wanted to get a little head start.

"Should that even be a question? I don't even know where to start. I bet everyone here is a wacko like you."

"Oh, you mean the students? They're just the start f it. Wait till you see some of the teachers... I wonder which tutor group your in? And hey, what was up with leaving yesterday? Do you not like Roxas or something?"

"Hmm...Not exactly. Just forget it. New school, new start, right?"

"Go for it. The worst you can do is act all shy, since it'll make people think your boring. Be fun and confident. Like me!"

"Yeah, I'll give it a shot." Namine said, ending the conversation with a sigh. The two had made it Destiny Islands Academy. It was a good school that was rebuilt a few years ago. Sora calls it the shinier version. Namine stared up at the great building whilst mentally trapping away any hesitation, fear and pressure.

Once she and Kairi and gotten their lesson schedule and compared them, Namine was more disappointed than she had hoped. "I can't believe I'm only in your maths and humanities lessons."

"Well, we have a lot of maths over two weeks so that counts for something. Your tutor group is 10b in room S9. Not too far from mine. Oh and you have Roxas, Riku and Xion in most of you lessons too. Olette is in quite a few too."

"Even if you know these people, I still don't. Can we get to class already? Or I'm going to die of...anxiousness, I guess."

"Haha! That rhymed. Anxiousness, guess."

"What? Are you five?"

"Yes." After walking up two fleets of stairs, Namine looked pretty tired already, and Kairi laughed but walked her over to her classroom, and offered to take her inside also. "Don't worry, since we're slightly early, I'll show you who's important. These guys are loyal friends, so they can be trusted to take care of you, okay."

"Okay, I'm not five either, Kairi." Sliding open the classroom door was the most nerve wrecking experience she'd had in the past two days. Namine opened her eyes slowly, hearing the sound of chattering students, and saw that a percentage of the class was still missing, and there was no teacher in the room. "Oh, we really are early." Namine said.

"Yeah, yeah. We have to hurry or I'll be late." Kairi dragged her unsuspecting friend over to a group of people in the back corner, and then let go of her. Namine stared at the familiar blond boy, the tall and silver haired young man and a girl with mid-length black hair thrown over each of her shoulders. The second two looked the most approachable in Namine's eyes.

"Okay, he's Roxas, that's Riku and this is Olette! Wait, where's Xion? Anyways, I want you three to take care of Namine. She's been my friend for ages and she's pretty awesome. You guys, you better not let me down!" Kairi yelled angrily, waving her fist in the air and running out of the room. It was more of a demand than a request.

"So, this is the amazing Namine we've heard all about. Brilliant artist, Kairi's best friend. Oh, I guess we don't know much about you." Riku said dopily.

"It was an accurate description, at least. I moved here yesterday and I only know Kairi and Sora."

"Makes sense. So, do you live close now?" asked a smiling Olette.

"In between Kairi and Sora's houses, actually." The whole time Roxas stayed silent, pulling a sly grin. It was bugging Namine, a lot.

"Oh, Roxas and Sora are brothers so you live near Roxas too. Here that buddy?" said Riku, turning back to the blond boy.

"Yeah. I've kind of already met Namine. Yesterday when she and Kairi came over and she-"

"That story isn't important." Interrupted Namine, "I just bumped into him, I didn't even say hi, you know."

"But you did-"

"Like I said," Namine laughed awkwardly, "It's not important. Can you come with me for a second, Roxas." Roxas looked at Olette and Riku but then followed Namine outside the classroom.

"Are you going to tell me off or something?" Roxas asked. The lack of care in his voice was all the more annoying.

"What's your problem?" Namine said. Though it was pretty unnoticeable, she was pretty angry.

"What problem?" Roxas smiled. He so knew what Namine was talking about.

"Uh, I'm trying to get to know them, and your shoving awkward and unnecessary conversation in there."

"Just being honest."

"Well, don't be. What others don't know won't hurt them, right?"

"Come on, it'll be funny."

"Not for me. It was an accident. I was looking for the bathroom."

"You shouldn't put the words 'accident' and 'bathroom' together."

"Ugh, you know that's not what I meant! Anyways, when we get back in class, please don't say anything dumb."

"You and Kairi are pretty similar. Except you didn't threaten to hit me."

"Well, you and Sora are nothing alike. Except for your spiky hair." Namine opened the door and the two sat back in their seats. Roxas was still grinning the whole time. The teacher had entered the room. She was quite young with a long brown plait and a pink bow in her hair. She was quite pretty and had a very gentle demeanour. Picking up a pen, she wrote her name on the whiteboard.

"Good morning, class 10b, It's nice to meet you all. I'm Ms Gainsborough, but some of you whom I've met before will know me as Aerith and I'll be your tutor for the year. Any questions?"

A girl at the front raised her hand. Her hair was to shoulder length and had big curls at the ends. "Yes, Selphie?" The teacher said.

"Are you and Mr Fair going out?"


Namine's first lesson was English with Mr Strife. For a lot of the time, most the girls in the class were just making googly eyes at him and he gave a bunch of them detention.

Namine was glad that none of the teachers she'd had so far were old. But she had to admit, it was pretty funny when Mr Strife put his pen down and just said, "Okay If you girls don't stop that now, it's detention for all of you!" Namine was thinking the whole time; 'Poor guy, can't even do his job on the first day of the year because of the girls...'

After the lesson had passed, it was break and Namine rushed over to Kairi's class door without hesitation, waiting for the red head to come. Kairi left the classroom and was pretty much attacked by Namine when she gave her a huge hug. "Kairi! It was so weird! Roxas was so annoying from the moment he started talking. Thankfully I sat nowhere near him in English and was next to Olette. But then all the girls in the class were annoying the teacher and they got detention. It was just so bizarre."

"Oh, don't worry. It gets weirder. Wait until you see our humanities teacher for our last lesson. Yikes."

"Is it always like this? All the teachers I've seen walk around the school look so...young."

"A lot of them are as crazy as the students though. Destiny Islands has such an interesting inhabitance."

"You make it sound like you're a load of monkeys."

"Homo sapien Erectus, actually."

"Oh, don't get all science-y on me." Kairi just laughed and the girls went down to the canteen. But as they sat down at a table to just talk, Kairi called over a group of her friends to meet Namine. And so walked over Sora, Olette, two boys behind her, Riku, the girl who asked about Ms Gainsborough's love life and then Roxas.

The large group sat down and Kairi began to introduce Namine to three new people. "So this is Hayner and that's Pence. Their pretty close friends with Olette. And this is Selphie! She's another close friend of mine, Namine. I have a feeling you two will get along well!" Selphie giggled and greeted Namine, making feel more relaxed that she was meeting potential friends.


The next lesson had to be absolutely, without a doubt Namine's favourite. Art! Her teacher was Mr Highwind but sadly for Namine though, he had a high temper, bad hearing and was not the friendly looking teacher Ms Gainsborough was. 'At least the he's good at teaching art'.

But things only got worse, they were studying nature and for Namine, being partnered with Roxas for painting wasn't exactly running through fields of flowers. "Roxas, please stop taking my paint brush!"

"It's the biggest one though. It'll get the stupid painting done fastest!"

"Painting detail isn't about speed! Precision is the key! Gimme the brush!"

"But I need it!" he yelled holding the brush firmly, leaving Namine pulling on it like her life depended on it. Her sentences began gapped with her heavy breathing.

"Roxas, you can have it once you respect... the art... of painting!"

"SILENCE!" yelled Mr Highwind. The short man was standing over the bickering teens with piercing red eyes. "Detention for the both of you at the end of the day!" Oh no, Namine was not going to let Roxas get her a detention on the first day!

"But-!"

"Nooooo buts!" Mr Highwind screeched. Namine couldn't believe she was already shot down. He wouldn't even listen to her plead.

Roxas laughed quietly. "He said butts..." Mr Highwind's face was turning red from rage.

"You have always been my least favourite student, Roxas." He spat, "Double detention for both of you!"

"Why me?!" Namine whined.


And so the lesson ended with that. Namine had scored a detention for arguing. It was lunch time and Namine met up with Kairi, who was with Riku, Sora and his brother Roxas.

"Hey Namine." Sang Kairi, "So how was art?" Namine knew that Roxas had probably already told his side of the story.

"Well, this guy over here was trying to take a paint brush from me and his excuse was that he wanted to get his painting done quickly. In the end, we both got double detentions and I never even got to finish my painting. Neither did he!"

"It shouldn't matter to you how I do my class work. Why, do you care about what I do?" Roxas teased.

"I don't care about you, it was for your canvas. It doesn't deserve for you to just ruin it with a mass of paint."

"Anyway," started Riku, in an attempt to change the topic, "does anyone know where Xion was?"

"She hasn't come in, and it's the first day of school." Added Sora.

"Maybe she's feeling a little sick." Kairi suggested.

"Maybe she forgot today was school. It could happen." Said Roxas, and Namine and the others couldn't help but laugh. Afterwards the group went to actually eat they're lunch and Namine learnt a little more about each of the boy's personalities.

Sora was cheesy, Riku was mature but still made fun of Sora a lot and Roxas was a mixture of both. But in the end, they were all pretty found it particularly interesting how Kairi would talk to them and how it was different to her. Namine had a habit of over-observing.


So the next lesson came and Namine was finally with Kairi. They had a double dose of Humanities with a teacher Kairi said was completely insane. Namine had no idea if that was good or bad.

The two girls and Sora entered the class room and the whole atmosphere was dead silent. The teacher waited with arms crossed as students sat in their respective seats. Namine took the only empty seat, by Sora. The teacher wrote his name on the board in capital letters.

"Welcome to your humanities lesson. I am Mr Sephiroth, and I'll be your teacher for the rest of the year." There was an awkward silence after the long haired teacher's voice faded. And then there was this strange, sticking noise. "Who is chewing gum in my class?!" Mr Sephiroth shouted. His head snapped to one side and he pointed at boy. "Perpetrator! Spit that filthy gum into the bin!" Namine was actually quite impressed at how good the teacher's sense of hearing was. His slow voice was almost demonic and the student instantly got up and threw away his gum. Once he sat down, Mr Sephiroth leaned closer and said, "Instant detention...And if you ever do that again, you can have a little talk to your head of year."

Kairi quickly passed Namine a note whilst Mr Sephiroth was busy yelling. It read: 'I told you he was crazy!'

And so went the lesson. Learning about the current wars while the students looked aa still as soldiers; which made Namine feel as though Mr Sephiroth was the general and they were all in a military base.


The dreaded time came when Namine would have to face a double detention from a lesson she thought would be her favourite. And lucky for her she has to spend it with Roxas, who seemed to only cause trouble. Kairi thought it would be best if she at least walked the Namine over to the art class room, while she got Sora to walk over Roxas.

"Kairi, I just can't believe it. How can one guy be so annoying?" Namine whined.

"Maybe you're looking at this the wrong way. Everyone else sees Roxas as a really fun, considerate and clever guy. Maybe things will get better and you two will, you know, stop arguing. I asked Riku about it and that's what he said. The guy's like a wise man, he's never wrong about anything. Sora says he sees chemistry between you two."

"What? No! No, in case I haven't made it clear enough, I don't like him at all!"

"Say that to Sora!" Kairi laughed. The two were approaching the door when they saw Sora and Roxas coming from the opposite end of the hall. Fire seemed to flare in Kairi's eyes and the two pairs raced to the door. Kairi, being as competitive as she was, ran like a speed demon dragging along her poor friend. The same went for Sora and Roxas until finally Kairi grabbed the door handle. "Ha! I won! You lost! Your losers! Oh yeah! Come Namine, you gotta do a victory dance along with me!" Namine stood still and stared at Kairi with a 'what the heck are you going?' face, as did the two boys.

Namine was starting to wonder what Sora saw in her.

Sora and Kairi gave their goodbyes and walked over giggling about something stupid. Namine gave Roxas a disgusted look and he gave a confident smile. As they walked into the class room, Mr Highwind turned to face them. "Oh, it's you two. Since its the first day of school for one of you, and around the three hundredth time here for the other, the punishment will be fair and evened out. Just come and help me tidy the supplies and you can both leave in time in half an hour. Got it?"

"Thank Mr Highwind for being fair." said Namine.

"Yeah, thanks Cid." The grumpy looking man had given the two a warm smile then went off to the room next door, saying he he'd be gone for a while and they should just put the paint away.

"Roxas, can you put the oil paint pots up on the cupboard? I'll put away the pastels."

"Sure." The two proceeded to stack away mountains of artist supplies in silence. But Roxas doesn't like silence. "So how long have you liked art?"

"Since I don't care much for you, you don't need to care much for me."

"That's cold hearted for someone Kairi told me was the nicest person ever. I'll do it your way this time."

"I'll take you up on the offer then. I started drawing with proper skill when i was around eleven or twelve. I started painting when I was thirteen. Since then, I've kept every piece I've created in my little art studio."

"You have your own studio. I didn't think you liked art that much."

"Well, you learn something every day. So what about you? Anything special about you?"

"You say that like you haven't seen any. I'm pretty similar to my brother. The rest you can figure out over time."

"Playing the mysterious guy, eh?" Roxas laughed and then dusted off his hands.

"I'm done."

"Then you can help me put away the rest of the liquid paint pots." Roxas walked over to the busy girl and picked up nearly all of the heavy pots. Namine was left with three of them. As she took a step forward, one of the acrylic paint tubes had fallen and she said they'd put it away later. Roxas walked in front of Namine and turned around realising he'd left another pot.

They two crashed into each other, Namine's paints went flying, Roxas stepped on the paint tube and he'd slipped, sending his paint in the air. Coloured liquid went everywhere and drenched to two in flying colours. There was silence for a second and Namine wiped the paint off her face. Roxas broke the silence. "Namine, I'm pretty like a rainbow." he laughed. Namine giggled but then remembered the situation they were in.

"Roxas, how could you say something so stupid? Why did you crash into me?!"

"I was ganna go get the last paint pot. At least one survived."

"Is that seriously all you can say? When Mr Highwind gets back we'll get triple detention, a letter send to our parent and we'll have to talk to the head master!"

"At least it'll be together." he smirked.

"Oh yeah, add being with you to the list of punishments." Roxas laughed again and got up, then walked over to Namine to help her up.

"If you want, I could tell Cid it was my fault."

"Even if it was your fault and you do annoy me, it'll make me guilty if I don't get in trouble too."

"Hey, maybe Cid will let us off the hook a little."

"If we're lucky, which I don't tend to be, as you can see."

"That rhymed!"

"Not this again!"


So that was it for this chapter! The next chapter will be another school day one, but it'll only have the important lessons. Please REVIEW! It'll be nice if i could actually know what the readers think. ^.^

Good luck and Goodbye!