Ya I know it's been WAY too long since I updated. Well here's the next chapter and hopefully chapter 5 will be up soon. Enjoy
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, any of it's characters, Guitar hero or any of the songs used in this story.
They say intelligence is a gift but I say they are wrong. There is a reason that it is always the brilliant that go insane; they all eventually are led to think about the same thing, light. It is only then that they realize the entire world is darkness, and this truth breaks them. I'm different though, I've only been twisted, not broken. After all, you can't break something that was never whole to begin with.
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The bell rang signalling the end of the day and the quiet art classroom was filled with the sound of closing books and scraping chairs. The students in the room slowly filed out until there were only four of them left; Roxas, Kairi, Namine and Sora. Namine was still drawing and seemed to have not even noticed the bell ringing while Roxas and Kairi each were scribbling their instant messaging address's down on pieces of paper. Sora just sat in his seat and laughed quietly.
"Wow Roxas that's two friends now must be a new record for you." Sora teased.
"Are you sitting there just to give me a hard time? Cause if you are just leave, I don't want to hear it."
"Awwww but Roxie we're FAMILY!" The tone in which Sora said the last word sent shivers up his spine and caused Sora to started laughing in a slightly deranged way. Kairi stepped back from the two cousins slowly and slid the piece of paper in her hand across the table towards Roxas. She seemed scared.
"I'll, uh, cya later Roxas." Kairi ran out of the room leaving the cousins and still oblivious Namine with what seemed to be a sleeping Marluxia. Sora stood up slowly and pulled his black hood back over his head, lifting his black and red school bag with his other hand. Sora started to walk out of the room but stopped in the door frame and turned his head towards Roxas.
"Rot in hell."
With a quick step Sora was gone, almost as if he had slipped into the shadows of the school. Roxas shrugged it off and bent towards Namine and shook her shoulder. Namine jumped in her seat and looked at Roxas in shock. Roxas pulled his hand back almost like he had been bitten, surprised by the abrupt jump.
"Oh my god you scared me, what is it?"
"Class is over."
"OH! I'd better get packed up then sorry about that. I tend to get so involved in my drawing I lose awareness of my surroundings." Namine said as she packed her notebook and coloured pencils into her bag.
"So you have no idea what happened all class?"
"Nope." Namine turned and smiled at Roxas. "Wanna walk home with me?"
"Sure. You had me scared though I thought you hated me."
"Why would I hate you?"
"Because of my cousin."
"Oh, I see why you could think that. Don't worry I'm not going to hate you because your related to that scumbag."
"Thank goodness, let's go home now I'm starving!"
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"So how was your first day here?" Namine asked quietly as Roxas and her walked towards their houses.
"Well other than Sora being a jerk great. I met you and Axel and his friends and Kairi and all them. And most of my teachers seem fine, Ansem even made me an Alchemist." Namine's eyes flew open and Roxas swore that if her jaw could have hit the ground it would have.
"YOU got made an Alchemist in one class?"
"Ya, guess I take after my dad."
"Really? Wow your dad must have a great job where does he work?"
"Oh, um, this company that, uh……..does science stuff?" Roxas stuttered. Namine looked to the top of the small hill they were walking up to the large house that just recently had a new family move into it when suddenly it hit her.
"YOU are the new family in the mansion up there!? Oh my god that must be sooooo nice." Roxas blushed and laughed nervously.
"Do you uh, wanna come see it? I mean you don't have to if you don't want to…"
"Sure! My parents won't mind as long as I'm home by dinner."
"Cool!"
Roxas felt his face heat up as the two continued the walk up the small hill. Did he just invite a girl over on the first day of school? What would his parents think? What would everybody at school say? What would Namine think!? The closer they got to his house, the more Roxas realized, he liked Namine. A lot.
"Uhhh Roxas, this is your place right?" Roxas turned around and noticed that he had walked right by his house.
"Oh sorry I kind of zoned out there."
"Hehehehehe that's okay." Roxas noticed the slight red tinge on Namine's face and couldn't help but wonder if she felt the same way about him. The two walked up the small path to the front door which Roxas opened.
"Mom I'm home!" Roxas slipped off his shoes as did Namine and they both placed their bags on the bench near the door.
"Hi Roxas, oh and who is this?"
"I'm Namine, I live down the street."
"Nice to meet you Namine, Roxas dinner's at six."
"Alright, let's go downstairs Namine." The two teenagers walked down the hall and down the stairs to their left to the basement with no noise but the soft whisper from Roxas as he brushed past his mother.
"We need to talk."
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Sora walked into the Alchemist's room with a slight grunt. The place was too extravagant. Sora loved lavish things; soft couches, large armchairs, regal decorating, but he hated the bright colours the room was in. The yellow colour of the walls would always blind him if he made the mistake of walking in without his hood. He walked into the back near a painting of the moon over a dark forest and pushed in the four corners of the frame causing the bookcase beside it to move to the side revealing another larger room. Inside was one other person.
"You're late" The silver haired boy said as he fiddled with some chemicals.
"I wanted to screw with Roxas after class a little more."
"I fixed the imbalance we had but as usual another two problems replaced it." Sora looked at the litre sized flask in front of Riku which was a light blue colour and looked milky.
"We'll figure it out soon, we've come this far."
"We better get some breakthrough soon or Ansem will kick us out of here and we won't be able to make our meth."
"YOUR meth." Sora growled. "I don't touch that shit."
"Oh sorry your majesty I forgot you only like natural compounds. By the way your opium is in the back cupboard, top shelf."
Sora walked to the back of the room to find a large box filled red flowers.
"Good I was running low." Sora scooped a hand full of flowers and brought them over to a strange apparatus. He had just begun measuring amounts of certain chemicals and turning on several burners when the door opened and Ansem the Wise walked in.
"Sora your cousin is likely going to help in this project so I better not hear of any more incidents."
"He's an idiot don't worry about him." Sora said as he carefully placed several of the red flowers into a beaker full of water.
"Regardless, I may ask him to help if you two don't make any progress. That elixir must be completed as soon as possible."
"Actually it seems to be more balanced."
"And the negative?"
"It got milky again, same colour though."
"I guess it will work, either way if the two of you want to be able to supply yourselves with your damned drugs you had best come up with something to get us more funding."
"There are several weapons in the cabinet that you can send in if needed."
"Fine, but don't expect them to last too long, because unless you tell me that formula Sora we won't be guaranteed funding." Ansem walked out of the room as Sora put several objects into the beaker he had boiling, a sneer coming across his face as Ansem left. He would never let that bastard get a hold of his precious formula, even if he died.
"By the way Sora what did 'she' think of Roxas?"
"She seems to like him, nothing to be done about that though we need her to keep acting for her own sake."
"What do you think of Roxas?" Sora crushed the empty beaker in his hand to pieces and shook in rage.
"Don't EVER ask me that AGAIN!"
"Sora you're bleeding watch that you don't mix your blood with anything."
"I'll make that bastard wish he was never born!" Riku looked up at his enraged friend and for the first time was actually scared of what Sora had in plan.
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"So what do you want to do Namine?"
"Well what is there to do?"
"Uhhh just look around."
"Roxas your basement alone is probably the size of my house." Namine giggled.
"Hahaha sorry I guess I'm kind of used to living like this well you ever play Guitar Hero?"
"OMG YES let's play!"
"Okay over this way, I think I set it up in this room."
The two blondes walked to the room Roxas had indicated to find a large screen plasma television with every game system imaginable hooked up to it. In the middle of the room was an electronic set of drums and there were several guitars and other controllers at the side of the room. It had fairly simple furnishings; a large leather couch, two arm chairs and a couple tables.
"Okay let's make a bet." Roxas looked at Namine scared.
"If I beat you, you have to sing a song of my choice."
"And what about if I win?"
"You can ask me any three questions and I have to answer them honestly."
Roxas thought about it for a minute. He figured Namine had to be good if she was going to make a bet on it, but he had beaten the game on the hardest difficulty.
"Deal but it's best two out of three."
"Alright let's play!"
The two grabbed guitars from the side of the room and started the battle. Roxas picked the first song, his favourite; Paint it Black. He wasn't surprised to see that Namine choose the hardest difficulty to play against him. The two played through the song and waited to see who had the highest score. Roxas won by less than 1000 points.
"Nooooooo you're supposed to let the girl win!" Namine whined. She then made as silly a pouting face as she could at Roxas making him laugh.
"Not when there's a bet." Roxas teased.
Namine chose the next song, When You Were Young and ended up not missing a single note.
"Wow, I haven't seen that before." Namine just stuck her tongue out at Roxas. The two agreed that there was only one way to end the battle between the two of them, the hardest song in the game; Through the Fire and the Flames!
The long song seemed to take forever, with each of the two hitting the exact same notes, it was going to come down to who missed a note first. Then Roxas came up with an idea. Slowly Roxas moved towards Namine until he was standing right beside her. The Roxas bumper his guitar down slowly so he knocked Namine's just enough that she missed a note.
"That's cheating!"
"You never said we couldn't interfere!" Namine grinned.
"Okay then!" Namine jumped on Roxas, guitar still in hand, making Roxas fall to the ground. Roxas tried to keep playing but found that Namine had pinned him too well. He did manage to make Namine miss most of her notes though so he ended up winning. Roxas turned over to try and sit up and then blushed when he saw the position the two of them were in. Namine was sprawled between Roxas' legs with their faces only an inch apart. The two stared at each other as their faces turned deeper and deeper shades of red. The two lay there for several moments until the awkward moment became unbearable and Namine sat up.
"Uhhh sorry about that." Namine said quietly. Roxas sat there looking at the blonde girl whose face had turned into the deepest shade of red he had seen a persons skin go in his life. He slowly sat up and scratched his head.
"Where's the washroom Roxas?" Namine asked quietly from where she now stood across the room. She was looking away from Roxas, probably trying to hide her red face, much to Roxas' delight since his face had also started to turn a bright red.
"Uh straight down the hall, the door should be open." Namine turned towards the hall they had just come done not fifteen minutes earlier and walked quickly to the nearby washroom, entered it, and closed the door. Roxas stayed sitting on the floor thinking of what just happened, the heat slowly receding from his cheeks. Thoughts of Namine raced through his head, leaving him wondering whether or not he just had a crush on Namine but if he was actually developing feelings for her.
"Sorry about that, I guess you win our bet even if you did cheat." Roxas turned around to see Namine picking up the game controllers they had flung aside in their roughhousing. His eye immediately drifted to her cheeks where he could faintly see remnants of what seemed to be water droplets.
"Great now I get to think of really embarrassing questions to ask you." Roxas winked at Namine and saw her cheeks flush slightly again.
"Fine but I still want a rematch, and NO CHEATING this time!" Namine said firmly as she planted her hands on her hips. The two of them kept playing until Roxas was called up for dinner and Namine left for home. Roxas escorted her to the door and then walked into the kitchen, the smell of homemade chicken pot pie causing him to drool slightly. Roxas sat down at the table and began helping himself to the steaming hot meal that his mother had just put on the table. His father walked into the kitchen and sat at the head of the table while his mother put her oven mitts and apron away.
Both of Roxas' parents served themselves food and then began eating. The family of three sat quietly eating for about five minutes before Roxas broke the silence.
"Alright mom, I can tell you're avoiding it knowing what I wanted to talk to you about. What the fuck happened to Sora!?"