Gohan Roxas: Time to add someone new into the mix.

Sora: Should be fun.

Gohan Roxas: Sora, why is your arm in a sling?

Sora: Riku caught me…

Gohan Roxas: Oh… Right.

The New Guy

Ansem led the tall brown-haired man into the castle. He clutched his luggage like he was afraid it would sprout legs and run away. Ansem chuckled below his breath at that thought.

He stopped at a simple room on the first floor. "This will be your room."

The man glanced around the hallway. "This place is bigger than I thought it'd be."

Ansem laughed merrily. "Well, Kingdom Hearts is a mansion." He laughed again.

The brown-haired man gave him a hard look.

"Well," Ansem said then, composing himself and pulling out a key. "This is the key to your room. I'd imagine you'd need it."

The man took the key without a word and stepped into the room.

He heard Ansem walk away, still laughing.

Grumbling slightly, the man threw his suitcase on the bed and started unpacking.

His name was Terra. He was actually quite a handsome man. So much so that he had girls flocking to him. He ignored them. All of them.

There were too many girls flocking to him. That's why he found himself at Kingdom Hearts: to get away from his unwanted groupies.

When he'd finished unpacking, he stepped out of his room, intent on meeting some of the other residents. He glanced left. He glanced right. He looked straight ahead. His head darted right and froze.

There was a beautiful woman standing in the hallway in only her light blue bra and underwear.

Terra's breathing became very, very hoarse. He was instantly attracted to this woman; not just because she was half-naked. She had a strange poise to her, elegance. She looked like she didn't care what anyone else thought in the slightest.

Dimly, Terra felt a tugging on his left arm. He was being dragged away.

"Word of advice," a redheaded man was saying. "Don't ogle Aqua."

Aqua, Terra thought dreamily. Even her name is beautiful.

THWACK!

"OW!" Terra shouted. The redhead had slapped him across the face.

"Hello? Earth to new guy? Anyone in there?"

Terra shook his head to clear it.

"No? There's no one in there? Ha, thought so."

Terra looked at his 'captor'. He had hair that made his head look like a falling comet, and he had bright green eyes.

"Name's Axel. Got it memorized?"

"Er… Yeah."

"Something else to get memorized, newbie. Try not to get too enamoured with Aqua. She's had a fair amount of heartbreak recently."

"Really?" Terra's face was intense.

"Well, her first boyfriend… Zack, his name was… they were 'going steady', as they call it. He met this girl named Aerith and fell head over heels. Aqua noticed it, so she broke it off." Axel sighed slightly. "Then there was Vanitas."

"Vanitas?"

"Aqua moved on from Zack with him. Too bad he's a nutcase."

"How so?"

"Well, he tried to kill his brother Ventus and their mom."

"What?"

Axel nodded sombrely. "That and threatened to kill Aqua if she railed on him."

Terra stared at the redhead.

"She didn't. Ansem did. You see, Vanitas lived here too. And Ansem's got this policy about criminals."

Terra nodded.

"So now the little sadist is stuck in a mental institution for the rest of his life, screaming some bullshit about 'Join with your better half!'."

"Wow."

"Yeah. So it'd be a good idea to stay away from trying to get with Aqua. At least, until you're sure that you won't hurt her." Axel led Terra into the TV room, where four teenagers were busy eating each other's faces.

"Guys! Can't you do that in private? We have a new guy!"

The teens stopped kissing and looked at Terra inquisitively.

"Everyone, this is…er…" He looked at the tall brunette. "I never got your name."

"It's Terra."

"Right, right." There was a buzzing coming from Axel's jeans. "Op, that's me." He pulled out his phone and glanced at the message. "Oh… Wow. Er…" He chuckled nervously, and his hands started to shake. "Sorry, guys, you'll have to introduce yourselves. I have some business to attend to in Larxene's room." He bolted up the stairs.

Terra sat down nervously as Sora, Kairi, Roxas and Naminé introduced themselves. "So," he asked, "what do you guys know about Aqua?"

**KH**

Gohan Roxas: Obsessive much?

Terra: What? I like her.

Axel: *facepalms* I told you to stay away!

Terra: Sorry.

Riku: You should know by now Axel… A guy who's in love never listens.

Gohan Roxas: Please review! PLEASE!