Yami: YO! Yami here. Sorry, it has been so long O.O. I have against all nonexistant laws, not been able to update for about two weeks!! And when I finally update, It is such a short chapter!

Also, sorry for my very bad grammar, but english is not, I repeat NOT my first language. My first language is dutch, meaning I live in Holland where they decide to torture poor little high school students with learning Dutch, English, French and German. Not that you wanted to know but, anyway...

Once again, my everlasting thanks to Fenmoon and Midnight808 for leaving reviews. Nothing makes me happier then reviews exept from chocolate pie! and whoe doesn't get happy from chocolate pie?! did you know that your reviews were contradicting each other? It was four AM when I wrote the last chapter, if that explains my weirdness. Well, on with the story!


Chapter two: Clash of the sun and moon
Her hands slowly closed the small black book that held so much of her secrets. The cover was spotless and didn't have a scratch or stain at all, aside from the small neat handwriting that said; 'Property of Kairi, Axel, touch and you die a painful death.' and the other word printed in the middle that was present on almost all books of that kind saying 'Diary'.

She put the book in her bag, that was all packed for the minute they would walk out of their front door for the very last time to kiss farewell to the place they had spent so long.

"KAIRI!!!!" Ah, yes, she had been wondering how long it would take. The only other redheaded minor in the house banged her door open and stormed in he a second before still calm and peaceful room, his eyes screaming blood, murder and fire, the last being inevitable knowing Axel, Kairi's one year older brother.

In his hands, a camera was clutched, which, when freed from Axel's deathly grip, flew towards the female's head, who caught it with two hands and grinned at the fiery boy who looked so angry he could spit fire -or just use the lighter he held in his hand for that, but that's not the point- before opening her mouth. "Ahhh, you found my camera! I thought I lost it! Care to enlighten me where you found it?"

"Ahggg, you know damn well where I found it you little bitch! Why can't you keep those stupid toys of yours outside of my room and my life!" The grin never left her face as she switched her weight to her other leg. "Awww, but your life is just that interesting. Speaking of which, I could actually sleep last night! There were no moans, and no chick or bloke screaming your name -or you screaming his or her name, she added mentally, but she spared the slim redhead the humiliation of getting that thrown in his face-. Didn't you get any? At all? My poor, sex-deprived older brother..."

The fire maned boy stormed out of the room, proving her statement right. Kairi knew it wasn't normal that your brother sleeps with someone else every night. She had known all along it wasn't normal that he always had that lighter with him, that he burned things when he was angry.

She knew it was not normal to place cameras in your older brother's room and have a major amount of tapes from your brother screwing some other person. She knew, yet they all pretended it was normal, like it was nothing. And then to the outside world they were the son and daughter of a celebrity, they were special, if not perfect.

They trusted each other, more then anything. Axel, Kairi, Wakka and Yuffie knew they could tell each other everything, and even if they fought and all, Kairi knew they could never truly be mad at each other.

Yuffie sung something from downstairs, making Kairi jump up and Axel come out of his room with his bags. The two walked down the stairs, looking around for one last time before getting their bags in the car. Yuffie smiled as they all got in the car, and they all returned it. This was a great chance for them, to learn to know and accept new people. But when the car pulled up, and everyone turned his or her attention back to their own business which was in Yuffie's case, driving, Wakka was reading, Axel was staring at his lighter and she looked over all of their faces.

The façade they had created over the years was so strong, people would think they'd be lying if they said they where not family. The only weak thread weaved in their web of lies and charades was her. Kairi knew she was the only one in the family with blue eyes, no grandparents or anyone had them. But nobody had ever checked it, nobody had noticed, just as nobody had ever known Kairi, Wakka, Axel and Yuffie were not biologically related.

That was one painful subject for her. For anybody in their family for that matter. That is why they hadn't talked about it for eleven years now. That was the time Wakka had left the pro-soccer circuit, and it was one year after their family had been created. Wakka had always been secretive towards the press. They hadn't found out he'd married Yuffie until after his retirement, so naturally, they thought the kids were just another factor they were not aware of in the soccer-player's life.

But they, their small group of four knew Wakka was not even able to reproduce. They knew what the younger two had went through. Kairi remembered the day she first met Axel, a red haired boy of only five, green eyes sad and so much more mature then they should have been. Then again, she had been just like him, a four years old who had grown into an adult in an unhealthy short amount of time. The conversations they had shared at the time sounded like the conversations of old people, talking about their pains and infirmities. It had been rather pathetic now that she looked back at it.

Both she and Axel had one thin in common, which was that they both were present at the death of family members. They had both seen something painful, at an age they should not even have been aware of what was happening. The four years old Kairi ad been a girl that was obsessed with protecting and being a perfect older sister to Ariel, the Five years old Axel was a very intelligent person, concluding them both to be very aware of their situations.

Kairi remembered her grandmother's high pitched screams as her older cousin cut her apart, she remembered the red fluid she feared as much as every child does splattering over the floor, the days following as she and Ariel ran from her cousin, the look of panic in the small three years old's eyes as a knife pierced her stomach, the bang as her last living relative was robbed from life in order to save hers, the policemen lifting her cousin's dead body of her, wrapping her sister's body in a sheet of plastic, saying something about her grandmother's dead. She remembered every detail of that day.

She also knew what had happened to the person she addressed as an older brother. She hadn't known until he had told her, after they had watched a movie with some kids in primary school in which a building with people in it was burned. Axel had dragged her out of there, suddenly remembering their curfew which wasn't there.

He'd told her everything about his family's death that evening, on a bench in the park, fighting back the tears that he couldn't shed because his male pride would not allow him to do something that degrading in front of any other person, especially if that person was a girl even if she was his sister by heart. His parents had drenched themselves in gasoline and then struck a match across the layer of sulphur on the side of the box, the flame covering them whole in less then a second. He told her that they'd told him not to be afraid of the fire and follow them so they could be a family again in the better afterlife. What he'd said after scared her the most. He was still thinking about it, about going after them.

He needed the lighter, as she needed her cameras. He needed it to remind him of the pain, the screams and squirming of the near-dead bodies of his parents, she needed them to reassure that she knew who she knew. They were both screwed in the head, yet they would never be family, and they knew it, yet no one else did.

Both she and Axel had scared off any people that had wanted to adopt them, for no one wanted kids who were physically children yet mentally muted if not demented. Yet Yuffie and Wakka had given them a chance to relive their childhoods. It had taken long years, long conversations filled with awkward silences and icy glares, long fights in which voices pitched higher then seemed humanly possible, insulting everyone in the house, long periods of silence after the door had slammed shut and the salty drops known as tears had made their way down their faces until their couldn't cry any more. I had token years before they had been like they were now, a happy, joking and somewhat childish family, even if Axel was still suicidal and she was still paranoid, the paranoia and doom thinking could not break them apart any longer.

Kairi was awakened from her musings as the car slowed and they drove through a gate. Her eyes looked over the beautiful flowers and trees that grew in the place she would from today forwards call her garden. When they parked their car in the parking lot, both she and Axel spotted the amount of silver haired people in front of the door, which made them rightfully assume those people would move in here too.

Neither of them opted to strike a conversation with the other family. That, and there was a heavy tension in the air. Apparently, Axel and the blue-green eyed boy with shoulder length hair which also hung in front of his eyes, not yet fully covering them, had decided they didn't like each other and were, for no apparent reason, glaring at one another.

"Hey" it was the girl who had spoken, the girl in the family of silver -and one blue, Kairi noticed- haired people. Since Axel and the middle boy of the four that were present were glaring at each other and it would be strange if the girl had addressed her parents, Kairi decided the comment was meant for her to reply.

"Hey" Ok, now it was official. This was lame, as in, really lame. The girl who had spoken to her had her hair in an interesting coup that used up at least half a jar of gel, if not two, and wore a lot of leather. And spikes. And other iron accessories. Kairi's mind came to the conclusion that this was a punk, or at least a girl who dressed up as a punk, basically meaning she was once since punk is among other things a dress style.

She came to the conclusion that they were being silent. 'Hey', is a good start off for a conversation, but you just can't keep on saying it. You can't have a conversation in silence either, but that only half-bothered her right now.

"I'm Paine." The silver haired girl was once again the one to break the silence.

"Oh." Really, best retort ever, keep 'em coming girl. "I'm Kairi."

"..."

"..."

"..."'Damn the silence...'

"And this is my brother Axel"

Paine nodded, and pointed to Axel's glare buddy. O enemy, whatever you want.

"That's Riku." Her finger pointed over to the twins who she had noticed before, but the fact that they were really similar only hit her now. "The one with the wilder hair is Xemnas, the brown eyed one is Xehanort. They're our family's freaks, but mom's dad had brown eyes and dad's mom had yellow ones as to explain the genes."

The blunt explanation earned her a glare from Xemnas' yellow eyes and Xehanort's brown ones. Xehanort looked a little more gentle then his twin, who had his long bangs hanging over his shoulders while Xehanort had his over his back and clearly had a lot more gel covering the silver strands that were pointed directly backwards which his brother had too, but which where less neat.

Paine's finger paid no heed to the glare, even though she herself did scowl, and travelled on to the only blue haired in the group. "That's Zexion"

Zexion's silver-blue bangs covered one of his eyes, and he stood out in the family with his baggy clothing as well. He wore a black long sleeved shirt underneath a grey short shirt, with black, baggy pants, not showing off his actual posture. He looked the youngest of the family, followed by Paine.

A click sounded, announcing the victory of the silver haired man VS. the lock.

When all of them walked in, Kairi got the feeling they were being watched by one or more pairs of eyes. Now she was officially paranoid and all, but she was pretty sure she was right.

Her musings were disturbed by Paine, who made a comment to Axel. "Hey car part thingy, you're burning.

Axel glared, his green eyes piercing her red ones. "No comments about my hair or my name lassy!"

His glare was returned ten folded, before yet another comment was thrown. "I'm not a dog you fool, and if you say that again then I'll KICK-YOUR-ASS. Next, I was serious, You're burning."

Kairi had spotted it too. Because he he clutched the lighter all time, seemingly while it was burning, his sleeve was being eaten away by small, devilish flames. Now Axel's eyes too, were drawn to the flame. He looked at it for a few seconds before letting out a yell. "I'M BURNING!!" and starting to run small circles, blowing and hitting the fire.

"Your sibling does not posses many brain cells, does he...?" Zexion's voice was cold, and he looked a her brother's antics with a slight frown as if memorizing everything. She and Paine, who had just a second ago been sweatdropping at Axel, now shared a look and simultaneously made a step sidewards, away from the flaming boy and the cold professor-like kid.

"Yahoo! New neighbours!" A loud voice penetrated the room, and they saw a blond haired girl with a lot of braids running towards them. She stopped just in front of their noses, just when Kairi thought they would crash. "I'm Rikku!"

As the silence fell, one that was used to blink, the blonde turned around and pointed towards a hole in the ceiling. "And the ones that are looking to you from up there are Tidus, my brother Cid, the big meany Seifer, and the one that was there but now has hidden was wannabe bad boy Hayner."

The next one to speak was Paine. "My brother is also named Riku..."

The blonde seemed to take this in as something incredibly funny, mouthing Kairi a 'which one' seemingly to avoid the burst of laughter that seemed to come. The female redhead pointed at the silver haired boy who had yet again engaged Axel to a glaring match who was more then happy to comply.

Rikku walked close to Riku and examined his face thoroughly. "Hmmm... we don't look alike at all" . Now, why did she seem disappointed again?

Rikku then took Kairi and Paine's hands and dragged them upstairs, to meet the group which had gotten considerably smaller seeing only Cid and Tidus had stayed. She also allowed herself to be dragged everywhere on a tour that seemed never-ending.

It was all quite boring really, not to mention annoying since Rikku lacked an off switch. It didn't get much more interesting when they ran into the guy that Rikku had addressed as the big meany Seifer, who only was a little arrogant, not all that mean and the one who was named Hayner and who had, as his brother, an over exaggerated nickname since the only 'bad' about him was his clothing while he himself seemed rather shy. The last in that small company was a boy named Marluxia, and was without a doubt the most gay guy she'd ever seen. I mean, a guy with an obsession over plants, combined with long, pink and did she mention PINK hairs? Now Axel wasn't gay, bisexual, hetero or asexual, he was just horny. This guy had passed all limits of gay-ness.

From what she heard from Rikku (or better, the few words she picked out of the rant) they were brothers and orphans, Marluxia being the younger two's guardian.

Kairi finds it safe to think with the three boys around, diverting Rikku's attention away from her. Just as she was musing about a way to shut the permanent sugar-high girl up, they walked in Zexion and the twins who where doing some discovering on their own. Zexion immediately got all attention from Hayner, who seemed to be happy about having at least one boy in the place who was not two years older.

The youngest two took off, Hayner being the dragger and Zexion being the dragged. The twins were holding hands and seemed very reserved, even though Marluxia wasn't being scary of extremely gay or something like that.

After a few times trying to bring up an idle conversation of sorts, Cid and Marluxia being the only ones that really tried, the twins slipped away, to close to one another to be suspicious, yet to close for normal brothers.

She decided to follow their lead and looked over at Paine, who had been rather annoyed and silent during the tour, and noddled at her. The gray haired female nodded back and together they fled form the four males who where to busy with trying to make Rikku shut up to notice, and said blonde who was to busy being oblivious to notice, and as Kairi closed the door to her bedroom and fell down on the bed, she decided that the day had, if anything, been very interesting. Or at least, not boring.

Yami: I am once again, unable to update for another two weeks. This time ti is beacause I have to spend my vacation in France in a house without internet access. But, my vacation starts only next week and with enough reviews I might be motivated to write and upload my story before!. After the vacation I might update more frequent, for I think I will have quite some chapters after a week of boredom.

Coockies for everyone who reviews!!!