Lead Astray

-whiteribbons-

A/N: FUH DON'T KEEL ME FER THE LATE UPDATE?! Lol, well, here's some explaination, and whatever. I don't really remember what I promised in this chapter so, sorry XD;;; I just let it flow. I hope that everything will just you kno, register to y'all? Hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: Rgua ariet gla vwwb suaxklunws. LOL, ok, I just said it was being disclaimed, don't sue me, k? Gee, I'm not getting a stready pay or anything. Not even old enough for that yet, man!


"gwt, Aiel, kwr'a fi qlrxg rgw aybawr!" Blue eyes glistened at the top of the sky outside, but because of the little basement hole they were currently in, he could only see glimpses of the magnificent rays of red, pink, yellow, orange, yellow, and blue together. "Ur kiija kujw ur'kk vw l iewrrt ibw!"

"Nya… qgt si qw glcw ri? U'n ruews, lbs sls alus ur'a slbfweiya ri vw iyr ai klrw." The brown haired boy remonstrated, getting back into his luxurious blue satan bed, tired out of his wits. He had no intention in following his brother's little spurts to do something 'rebelling', and taking off at twilight just to watch the sunset was one of them. Their father had already warned them about Layuzania's dangerous night shifts. And truth be told, he just didn't wanna get out of bed. It was just him to be lazy and do as he likes. And what he'd like was sleep.

"Vyr veirgweeee…" And he wasn't going to get that too soon.

The two had trotted from their underground room and to the nearby porch, or at least one of the nearby porches, one that they were sure they wouldn't get caught. Their butlers were usually in the other wing by this time of day. It's the exact time the day ones go to sleep and the night ones change shift, so surely, they were busy doing that.

The blonde giggled full-heartedly, playing around with his brother's dog ears. The brunette pouted at him and swiped at the blonde's fidgety hands, "Eizla, U xiyks xglbfw nt nibs." This comment made the blonde pout and continue to walk up the three flights. It was pretty obvious why the brunette refused to go up again after finally getting down, and he wasn't the kind of person who stayed up all night either. But that was just one of the many differences he and his twin brother had.

When they finally arrived at their 'unreasonable' destination as Aiel would desperately want to comment on, they took a seat on the expensive pearl lined ground, comfortably staring up at the beautiful mix of clouds and hot colors. Even Aiel had to admit it took the trip.

The two rarely got to see the sunset, they were usually forced to be preoccupied with things by their butlers and teachers and such. Today, however, being the king's birthday, had the butlers and instructors lay off for the day, due to orders.

The two, instead of learning how to find the symmetry line of a parabola, or learning how to fully utilize their fighting techniques, had fooled around happily the entire day. But with the swimming, bed-jumping, playing tag, and pranking butlers and maids, the two got pretty tired and decided to call it a day early—well at least Aiel wanted to.

Eizla didn't really have a gland in his body that indicated the tiredness of him and when excessive vigorous activities should end, or at least that's what Aiel would say constantly to all their friends. And it was rather true. Even now, one would be afraid of the cat-boy jumping him out of nowhere by the oddly fascinated look in his ocean orbs. The spikes on his head were blowing softly to the left, and his mouth was slightly open, pleased. Aiel had to smile at that. Well maybe he did look a bit peaceful.

It wasn't usually like that for the blonde. He was such a rebel. Surely, yelling at your instructors about how one thing isn't another, and kicking and punching at your butlers when you don't want to go to bed wasn't this cute little blonde boy sitting calmly next to him.

Aiel admitted then, completely, that it was worth the trouble.

"Tiy jbiq," The brunette started, helping himself up, "U rgubj U kujw aybeuaw lkir vwrrwe."

Yellow cat ears perked as he turned and looked up at his twin, "Qgt?"

"U sib'r jbiq, ri nw, ur'a kujw qljubf yo ri l bwq slt, l vwrrwe slt." He fumbled with a bracelet on his hand, and Roxas recognized it as a present from the brunette's lover. He never knew who his lover was, or where he lived, but he knew that was all the boy ever thought about everyday any day, "U sib'r kujw rgw wbs id rgw slt, vwxlyaw ainwrunwa ur'a vls."

The blond snorted, "Fi ri skwwo, tiy aiybs kujw lb iks nlb." And he was smacked.

Chapter 3: She's a mystery.

(A/N: I know, Namine and Roxas will be talking like, a lot. If you're just that lazy to not translate it, I've put a complete translated part of it at the very end, just scroll all the way down then back up again :D ty so much!)

"U ln Namine."

Roxas' large blue eyes widened even more so. He knew for a fact that this girl couldn't have come from his planet, and he also knew for a fact that what she spoke was doubtlessly his language.

"N-Namine… qwkk, U'n Eizla… ie Axel alus U agiyks vw xlkkws 'Roxas' on this planet." He stuttered this out before immediately adding, "giq xlb tiy aowlj nt klbfylfw? Rgua ua rgw gynlb qieks, eufgr? Qglr U'ce aeeb ai dae uab'r wzlxrkt gy—" The blonde girl smiled sweetly before bringer her index finger to her lips. Roxas immediately stopped his rant, sighing out as Namine began to explain herself.

"Die tiye duear pywaruib, Roxas." She giggled at the name then continued, "U'n l qurxg, ie lrkwlar rglr'a qglr rgwt'cw xlkkws nw. Lbs gwew'a l nuz qurg lbaqweubf rgw ewar. Twa, tiy'ew ib rgw gynlb qieks id Wlerg, lbs wvwetrgubf tiy;cw awwb ai dle ua ubswws bir gunlb." Roxas nodded and stared blankly, completely confused. Had these people landed from some other planet with super powers? Were they just mutated? Is he dreaming? All these possibilities, and Roxas, for some reason, didn't want to be right. He's seen those movies with mutated beings, and they weren't exactly the kindest. But Axel was kind, he countered to himself, continuing to look down.

Namine giggled and gestured him to follow her to a little girl's toy tea party table. They took a seat across from each other and Namine tapped the toy teapot twice before effectively pouring tea for the both of them. It was then Roxas understood the witch part. "Lew tiy qibsweubf giq qw glcw rgwaw oiqwea?"

Roxas nodded slightly, taking a sip of the tea. It was extremely fragrant and tasted sweet yet just bitter enough to enjoy. He himself never liked his rwl at home, but something about this one was rather enjoyable.

Namine took a sip of her own tea before continuing, "Rgwew's lkir tiy bwws ri jbiq, vyr ri rwkk tiy rgw reyrg, u'n bir ubxkubws ri rwkk tiy eufgr idd rgw vlr." Usually, Roxas would have protested at this, but the uncomfortable feeling of not being at home, and what has happened thus far has already noted the fact that he should refrain from anything impulsively stupid, "U qukk rwkk tiy rgw reyrg rgiyfg, qw lew arukk gynlb. Vyr bir rgw kucubf jubf. Qwkk, biq rglr U rgubj lviyr ur, nltvw u agiyks alt qw qwew gynlb."

"vyr tiy'ew bir fiubf ri rwkk nw qgt, Eufgr?"

"Eufgr."

"Ijlt, vyr xlb tiy rwkk nw lviyr Lzwk'a qiybsa? Ud gw'a gyer?"

She giggled a bit again, "Tiy'ew ai aqwwr lbs xyrw, Roxas." She started, causing Roxas to blush a bit. He indeed wanted to refuse the fact, like he usually does, but once again, he refrained from impulse, "Qwkk, syw ri iye 'ubgynlbwaa' qw sib'r wzlxrkt suw hyar kujw rglr. Iye stubf qlta fiwa vt rgw altubf, 'ri glcw l rlarw id tiye iqb nwsuxubw.' Vyr tiy;kk fwr rglr klrwe rii." This girl was a puzzle in a puzzle, the blonde concluded to himself, wondering if the blonde was always like this. "Tiy aww, iye qiybsa gwlk yo lkniar unnwsulrwkt, wzxworubf rgw dlrlk qiybsa. L dlrlk qiybs rljwa la nyxg runw ri gwlk la l ienlk gynlb'a ienlk qiybsa." She took another sip of her tea before taking the conversation up again, "awwubf la Aluz lrrlxjws gua gwler, Lzwk qukk rljw lviyr rgeww qwwja ri fwr rgar gwlkws."

"Ewlkkt? Die ya, lkk iye bienlk qiybsa gwlk qurgub giyea, klefwe ibwa gwlk qurgub l slt."

"Vyr tiy arukk suw qgwb tiy'ew agir rgeiyfg rgw gwler, xieewxr?" Her blue, omniscient eyes scanned him carefully. He was shocked for a moment before nodding sadly and looking down.

"Rgua wla nt dlykr." He said, softly. But she smiled at him, and for some reason Roxas sensed it, magically making him jerk up and stare at her as she answered.

"Bwcwe, Lzwk lkwlta fwra ubri dizwa kujw rgua, ur'kk vw dubw. Qglr tiy agiyks qieet lviyr die biq ua tiye iqb aldwrt, Eizla." The way she said his name made him want to cower in fear, but the way she acted, so graceful yet all knowing and tough. It all was hidden behind a non-blinking smile. People like this Roxas couldn't take, people with the mask that hides their emotion. But something told Roxas that she hides her emotions for a reason, as if she taught herself throughout years just to manage what she's doing now. It's as if her life depended on that mask never faltering.

But it was the only thing he could read from her, and being who he is, reading wasn't usually a problem. What he got from the red-head was a caring girl, but has enough spunk to stand up for herself.

And Axel…

…he just hoped was fine.


The red head peered from the window that lead to the main store, watching as the blondes discussed what-not in some alien language. "Why didn't I think of this sooner?"

Kairi laughed, "I don't know, I wouldn't trust Namine if I were you," Axel opened his mouth to say something but Kairi stopped him, "I know, I should be nice talking about her, she is my sister after all, yet, I really think whatever she learns about him at this moment, she won't be 'inclined to tell you' anything." Axel laughed sheepishly at his own failure.

"That's true, and I should probably know her as much as you do."

Kairi shrugged and tightened the bandages around his torso, making them secure so that the heart he grows back won't plop right out. "I don't think Roxas is learning much either, other than minor details, that is."

"So pretty much, we're just going to have to find everything out on our own?" Kairi took the liberty to laugh, humored by Axel's displeased face.

"I think Namine knows just about everything, but she doesn't want to tell anyone. I do believe there's a law to it, the witchcraft law. Or, that's what I've read recently."

Axel shook his head, "There's always a limit to our powers, maybe she doesn't want to hurt us by straightforwardly telling us that she can't tell or it's the end of her."

"…well I know for one thing, she wasn't like this until she was reincarnated. She couldn't shut up about something for seconds." Axel didn't laugh at this, as much of a joke as it was. He only stared out to the blondes with blank, ominous eyes, recalling a few things he never wished was true.

"These powers have changed us drastically." Kairi nodded slowly before pushing Axel down.

"Hey!"

"Get some rest, Mr. Emotional, you'll never get better like that."

"Ha ha, call up Xigbar and tell him I'm coming home tomorrow morning. I don't expect this skinny little body to crawl all the way over there with this wound." They both laughed.

"Well I do." Kairi said, picking the phone up, making Axel arch an eyebrow.

"You saddist."


"Demyx, I suggest you stop trying out different forms of drag." The eye-patched man stated, dodging different garments as they were thrown at random.

"Xigbar! Look at this stuff, its all from Saix's closet! Who knew he was secretly a kink. I always wondered how he kept Xemnas preoccupied." Xigbar mentally stated, this is why I have early white hairs.

"You know that's not true, Demyx, the two have no time for romance. These are disguises for us. Saix… hand-sewed them."

"HE HAS THE PATIENCE TO HANDSEW?!" Silence broke out through the corridors.

"Demyx, let's go." Xigbar said, sighing while pulling Demyx off the crest, hoping they wouldn't get caught. The young man, however, began thrashing about, but when Xigbar's grip didn't falter, he secretly grabbed up a maid's outfit as he was dragged to their shared room.

When Xigbar finally got in and locked the door, he sighed and laid on his bed, completely tired.

Demyx had snuck off towards their new personal bathroom that was almost completely obscured with boxes. They just moved there, and it was enough to have to take the long route to carry their stuff and not get caught. He doesn't know how Zexion could get unpacked so easily, all he's gotten down so far was his new bed, and a simple small table with a phone and lamp on it, for late night reading.

He let out a groan and walked over to the first box near the door, telling himself that next time he'd burn most of his belongings along with the rest of the room. He couldn't help, however, to notice constant thrashing that came from the bathroom direction, and he began to twitch uncontrollably when a muffled childish voice cried out, "Hey… Xigbar? Can you help me?" Like usual, it was a plea of life or death (although he uses that plea for more than life-death situations, thus is why no one really cares when he works himself into a real life-death situation) but Xigbar being Xigbar moved his pirate-like self to the door, but the second he opened it, he got a small, responsive, "nevermind…" and saw something that made his face beat red.

Shutting the door immediately, he tried rubbing the blood that rushed to his face. Demyx was sprawled on the floor with a maid's outfit that had a skirt that seemed too short for any normal maid to wear, and it complimented his skinny feminine body almost flawlessly, leaving the skinny, pale, hairless legs to run out of the frills, just like that. Just like that, Xigbar felt his stomach do flips. Of course, the two have realized their feelings for eachother, and came to an agreement about it…

…but Demyx being Demyx, can find the most fundamental ways to indirectly tease the pirate-like man.

That's when the phone rang, and he though (finally) he's been saved from a few images that fixated themselves in his brain. That's when he noticed it's rand quite a few times already.

Diving, he answered, "Xigbar residence, how may I help you?"


"Hey Xigbar?" Kairi twirled her hand on the twisty phone-line, giggling at the way the man was heaving, "Are you and Demyx at it again?"

"As if. Do you think for a second that I'd answer the phone if we were?" The man answered, just as jokingly.

"Heh. Maybe." Kairi made a pouting lip that anyone could see through her voice. Even Axel, eyes closed, faced towards her back, sensed it. It's that powerful. "Anyway, Axel's gotten himself in a fix. I'm too lazy to explain so ask Zexion, he knows everything. Buttttt… he'll be staying with us the night, and he says he'll be there by morning. Though I highly doubt that, you know how he wanders off and ends up destination about thirteen hours later."

"Hey!" Came an indignant yell from behind her, this only made her giggle even more.

"Right. Tell him we'll expect him. And I'm sure Zex can work up an excuse if you are late." Sighed the man, Kairi had the phone away from her ear and towards Axel at that moment, immediately putting it back to her ear.

"Right. Bye."

"See-" She slammed the phone on his goodbye (like usual) making Axel lower his eyes at her.

"You saddist." He repeated before plopping back to bed and finally taking in some type of rest.


Roxas was wandering helplessly through the store, not really paying attention as he found occupation with the fake fishing toy. It was an easily made one, one of those things with a circle that looks like a lake with holes, and you put the fishes in. On the bottom, there's a unleveled floor, which caused the flish to go up and down as you spin the dial (causing the fish to go on a merry go round). The fishes' mouths were loose, so when they'd go up, the mouths would open, and down, the mouths would be forced to close by the side of the 'water'. A simple contraction, Roxas concluded, using the little fake fishing rod to fish them all out one by one.

His deep, sapphire eyes may have been glued to the little toy, but he was paying more attention to his thoughts. Namine was a nice talk for once, actually getting to talk in his own language and all, but he still didn't get much of the direct answers he expected. He must admit how angry it's made him, but he also appreciates the blonde girl's help. A cat ear twitched in annoyance as he recalled the words she had said. What was this about tasting your own medicine? And how did they suddenly become those superpower zombies?

Roxas was used to learning just about everything without even trying, making sense out of anything that people said. He aced all his classes back on his home planet, and not one person's words or face would ever fool him. He usually knew it all. He was only used to not reading his brother. Well, that was mostly upon seeing how his brother was so annoyed from getting read every five seconds of his life, he made himself an ability to avoid it, but Roxas didn't mind that. That was mostly because he'd find out the boy was hiding something due to the brother's reaction of suddenly getting emotional and wanted to talk his mind out anyday. Really, what is the use of that ability?

He murmured names under his breath as he remembered his foolish excuse of a brother. He didn't want to go back, but he wanted to at least see a familiar face. The new faces were annoying him, and he couldn't help but notice that his want for an adventure…

…isn't really there anymore. Adventure wasn't how he wanted it. With his brother in a cool exotic jungle. Well, he had to ditch his brother in the middle of running away from a life-death situation, and his cool exotic jungle was a city with delinquents who have super powers. He just wanted home.

Wherever home was suppose to be.

Groaning, he replaced all the fish and started up the game again before Namine walked over to him with a smile. "Nltvw tiy agiyks fwr ainw akwwi. Lzwk's lkelst lakwwo."

Roxas nodded and rubbed his eye, only then noticing how sleepy he was. It was Eleven, or well, according to the clock he thought he could read. Either way, it was late, and he just followed Namine to who knows where.

But then he stopped and asked, "Xlb U akwwo qurg Lzwk?"

She gave another smile, but unlike her other ones, this one seemed to actually radiate a warmth that made Roxas squirm under. He had no choice but to smile back as she muttered back, "Ayew!"


A brunette hung his head in shame, sitting solemnly on a house's steps. "I can't believe it. I can't believe I just lost Eizla like that…" He buried his head deep into his arms, crying softly below the stars. A door opened and closed behind him, and he felt a presence make its way next to him, playing with one of his floppy dog ears.

"You know it's not your fault. He couldn't have wandered way too far. We'll find him. He should be in this city." Soggy, red-rimmed ocean blue eyes peered up and got captivated with Cyan ones that stared through heavy, silver bangs. The boy could do nothing more but break his shell and glomp onto the man, sobbing uncontrollably into his arms.

"But Shibuya's a really heavy place…"

"I promise you we'll find him." Came the confident reply, causing the boy to finally stop.

All that could watch them that night were the small stars, and the brunette couldn't help but notice a shooting one from behind the silverette's shoulder.

"Please keep Eizla safe."


Translation:

"I am Namine."

Roxas' large blue eyes widened even more so. He knew for a fact that this girl couldn't have come from his planet, and he also knew for a fact that what she spoke was doubtlessly his language.

"N-Namine… well, I'm Eizla… or Axel said I should be called 'Roxas' on this planet." He stuttered this out before immediately adding, "How can you speak my language? This is the human world right? What I've seen so far hasn't been exactly hu—" The blonde girl smiled sweetly before bringer her index finger to her lips. Roxas immediately stopped his rant, sighing out as Namine began to explain herself.

"For your first question, Roxas." She giggled at the name then continued, "I'm a witch, or at least that's what they've called me. And here's a mix with answering the rest. Yes, you're on the human world of earth, and everything you've seen so far is indeed not human." Roxas nodded and stared blankly, completely confused. Had these people landed from some other planet with super powers? Were they just mutated? Is he dreaming? All these possibilities, and Roxas, for some reason, didn't want to be right. He's seen those movies with mutated beings, and they weren't exactly the kindest. But Axel was kind, he countered to himself, continuing to look down.

Namine giggled and gestured him to follow her to a little girl's toy tea party table. They took a seat across from each other and Namine tapped the toy teapot twice before effectively pouring tea for the both of them. It was then Roxas understood the witch part. "Are you wondering how we have these powers?"

Roxas nodded slightly, taking a sip of the tea. It was extremely fragrant and tasted sweet yet just bitter enough to enjoy. He himself never liked his tea at home, but something about this one was rather enjoyable.

Namine took a sip of her own tea before continuing, "There's a lot you need to know, but to tell you the truth, I'm not inclined to tell you right off the bat." Usually, Roxas would have protested at this, but the uncomfortable feeling of not being at home, and what has happened thus far has already noted the fact that he should refrain from anything impulsively stupid, "I will tell you though, we are still human. But not the living kind. Well, now that I think about it, maybe I should say we were human."

"But you're not going to tell me why, right?"

"Right."

"Okay, but can you tell me about Axel's wounds? If he's hurt?"

She giggled a bit again, "You're so sweet and cute, Roxas." She started, causing Roxas to blush a bit. He indeed wanted to refuse the fact, like he usually does, but once again, he refrained from impulse, "Well, due to our 'inhumaness' we don't exactly die just like that. Our dying ways goes by the saying, 'to have a of taste your own medicine.' But you'll get that later too." This girl was a puzzle in a puzzle, the blonde concluded to himself, wondering if the blonde was always like this. "You see, our wounds heal almost immediately, excepting the fatal wounds. A fatal wound takes as much time to heal as a normal human's normal wound." She took another sip of her tea before taking the conversation up again, "Seeing as Saix attacked his heart, Axel will take about three weeks to get that healed."

"Really? For us, all our normal wounds heal within hours, larger ones heal within a day."

"But you still die when you're shot through the heart, correct?" Her blue, omniscient eyes scanned him carefully. He was shocked for a moment before nodding sadly and looking down.

"This was my fault." He said, softly. But she smiled at him, and for some reason Roxas sensed it, magically making him jerk up and stare at her as she answered.

"Never, Axel always gets into fixes like this, it'll be fine. What you should worry about for now is your own safety, Roxas." The way she said his name made him want to cower in fear. The way she acted, so graceful yet all knowing and tough. It all was hidden behind a non-blinking smile. People like this Roxas couldn't take, people with the mask that hides their emotion. But something told Roxas that she hides her emotions for a reason, as if she taught herself throughout years just to manage what she's doing now. It's as if her life depended on that mask never faultering.

But it was the only thing he could read from her, and being who he is, reading wasn't usually a problem. What he got from the red-head was a caring girl, but has enough spunk to stand up for herself.

And Axel…

…he just hoped was fine.


Hi guyz, OK, now that the chapter's over, here's for the people who actually cared where I died and slept in for the last month or so for this story? My computer was dying steadily, so I had to fix it, and I moved this story into my MP3, and let it stay there for a long time. I refused to take it out for like the month or so, and it wasn't until today that I was like "LOL TIME TO FACE THE BUTCHER KNIVES AND HOPE TO LIVE LOLOLOLOLOL" haha, so if you have a knife to kill me with, make it clean. XD I'll write more chapters from heaven or hell, wherever I'm decided to go to.

So, I just decided to let it flow, and I think IDK what I think, rawr y'all. So then, please just er, review and tell me it sucks, but tell me why k? I don't take the "THIS SUX MAN" kinda flames, but the ones that help me get better. I seriously need to get better, so I appreciate anyone who can help!

Well, Koko-chan woke up at five this morning to write this and is now tired. I didn't even bother to edit, so sorry if there's like a million typos. Thanks for reading! Review please!