This chapter was mostly written by me but she typed it up so my style is frayed, as it were.
Chapter 6
I sat on my bed, combing my hair with my fingers. I was leaning against the headboard, watching Xaotv (just Xao to me) and Xtrei. Xao was at the foot of my bed and Xtrei was sitting on my Vanity's stool with her foot resting on it while she painted her toenails.
"So, how did you guys like high school?" I asked them.
Xtrei glanced up at me, then her eyes fell back to her toenails, murmuring softly, "About the same as my other did when she went.
Xao looked up from her sketch pad. "It's not as good as its cracked up to be. I have to say I didn't like it particularly," she continued as her eyes went back to her sketch.
I looked at her. My head cocked to the side in confusion. She felt my stare, I was sure, but she said nothing. "You've never been to high school before, Xao?"
"Nope. My other was home schooled," she replied flatly. "Ah- there we go!"
Xao eyes shined proudly, and she waved her newly finished sketch of my room. I shrugged and went back to thinking.
About that Roxas boy.
I had first met him in my band class earlier today. Sora had been there too, but Roxas had been the one to catch my eye in that class. He had been talking quite animatedly to another spikey haired, blonde boy (though he was no where near as attractive as Roxas.
I remembered Sora looking quite slyly at the hot blonde next to him. And he poked Roxas in the side. Roxas had been stunned by this, to say the least. He had given a shriek of surprise and fallen off his chair.
I hadn't been able to keep my laughter in. Roxas sat up in a huff. He cheeks were the pink and his mouth was set in a cute pout. He walked over to me and poked me in the ribs. Probably trying to get revenge for laughing at him. He had been to do it in serious manner. But I had been so surprised, that I had given my own scream and fallen out of my chair. Next thing I know, Roxas was on the floor next to me, laughing furiously, just like the brunette that had started the poking war. Roxas hadn't been able to get up for a full two minutes because of his inability to stop laughing.
I've seen him in a few of my other classes. At least one other, but I had been busy copying down rules in my other classes, so I can't be too sure.
I wondered how Xao felt about Sora at the moment. I did know her well enough, however, to know that even in she knew, she wasn't going to spill yet. So I wouldn't say anything yet.
Xtrei stood up, careful not to damage her newly painted toenails, and walked to the couch in the living room, and sat down. She began to look for the remote. I followed her, but instead of sitting down on the couch with her, I went into the small circular kitchen. I passed the empty fish tank that was sitting on the counter. It had been moved in here just yesterday with everything else. It had once belonged to my other, and it was rather devoid of water, never mind fish. Our fridge hadn't plugged in yet, either.
I had just opened one of the top cabinets, when I heard Xtrei cry frustrated, "Where the hell is that damn remote?!" I simply blinked, reached in the cabinet and chucked the 'damn remote' at her, then pulled out some chps.
"Ow! Who in their right mind would put a remote in the--" Xtrei looked as though she remembered something and gave a sheepish smile. I rolled my eyes at silliness and went back to my room where Xao was still sitting, drawing of course. I collapsed on to the bed, startling Xao. She glared up at me.
"I was inking!"
"Sorry, sorry," I replied lazily. My head perked up as I heard the door bell.
"I'll get it!" I heard Xtrei call.
"Not if I can help it," I muttered., jumping up as Xao rolled her eyes at my competitiveness.
Luckily, Xtrei was only walking and was only half way when she saw me rushing towards the door. She broke out in a run. I was farther from the door, but I managed to get my hand on the handle first. But we both opened the door at the same time.
However, we hadn't thought nor had we taken the time to consider how this would look to our visitors. At the door was Xyka, our superior, with his hand up, ready to ring the door bell again, and his mouth agape. We fell forward onto him and poor Xtrei got a mouthful of Xyka crotch. Don't get me wrong; Xyka's hot. But he's a total prick! No one would want a guy like him. And he was the guy that sent us here in the first place.
Anyhow, the present position had us all red in the face. Xao had peered out of my room to see who it was at the door.
We were all on the ground and had a very good view (and in Xtrei's case, feel) of the bulge growing under our superior's cloak-like jacket. Now, Xtrei was a very timid, naïve girl who you would never imagine in a position like this. In fact, she looked as though she was on the point of passing out. Poor, unsuspecting Superior Xyka was frozen with his legs splayed, laying on the ground where we had pushed him. And he had unwillingly let out a very lustful and extremely embarrassing groan.
Second in command stood behind him looking very nervous and not at all sure what to do, having averted his eyes, apparently deciding it was much better to pretend nothing was happening.
I was getting up when a flash came from behind me. I turned to see Xao standing behind us with camera in hand, face red but eyes very smug. And I realized the horrendous act Xao had committed. Xtrei had officially gone into shock. It took both me and Second in Command to get her off Xyka, and by that time Xao had a full blown out picture of Xtrei on top of a red faced Xyka.
Xyka sat up looking very flustered and ticked off. He got up and lunged at Xao who simply teleported to the top of the fridge, picture still in hand. Her face was very smug, and I had very sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.
"So, this is a very interesting pic, don't you think…?"
"Give me that picture Xaotv!" Xyka demanded.
"Not unless you tell what the hell is going on, first."
"That. Is. Black mail."
"Well I wouldn't have to resort to this if you'd just tell me what we're here for, would I?"
"THAT'S WHAT WE ARE HERE FOR, YOU MORON!"
Xao's eyebrows shot up in surprise, but I noticed she didn't look guilty. She tore up the photo, put it in her pocket, and hopped off the fridge. "Alright then. So why're we here?"
Xyka looked too livid to speak, so Second in Command spoke for him.
"You have heard the reports that more and more nobodies have been getting killed, right?"
"Yeah, I've heard that," I said.
"Since when do you read the paper?" Xao asked indignantly.
"I don't. I listen to rumors." I retorted.
Xao snorted with disbelief. "Well, anyways, we don't know who's been doing this, but we think that whoever is killing our people is going to Shirogane High."
"Okay, and who do you think is killing nobodies?" Xao asked.
"The key blade master. He's done it before." Xyka told us in a tense voice.
"The unfortunate thing, though, is that our records of the key blade master have been destroyed, and he hasn't been at large for three years." Second in Command said.
"Wow, we forget things quickly, don't we?" I whispered to Xao, who just gave a small "hmm."
"So you want to kill a guy when we don't even know who he is?!"
"No. For now, we just want you to spy. Poke around; see what you can find."
"And when we find him, then you want us to kill him?"
"Correct."
"Alright, but tell us why the numbers are at the high school." Xao demanded.
I glanced at her, thinking that she really shouldn't be making demands. When I looked back at our superiors, they looked simply…
Confused.
"The numbers? From org. 13?"
"Are there any others?"
"But they're all dead. The key blade master killed them all. You must have been seeing things or something."
"But I wasn't!" Xao insisted.
"She's not lying, sir. They're in our last period," I vouched for Xao.
Both superiors traded confused looks. They apparently had no idea what we were talking about. I glanced over at Xao; she was looking at the ground looking both flustered and determined. "Well…uh…we understand what you want us to do, so…uh…if you'll just leave us to finish furnishing the apartment…"
"Are you trying to get rid of us, Plarix?"
"Well, I figure that when Xtrei comes to, it would be best if she didn't see you sir."
Xyka's face went bright red. He gave a curt nod and almost ran out the door. Second in Command told us that more nobodies would be moving in next door in about a month and ran after Xyka.
"I can't believe you were about to black mail our head commander, Xao."
"There wasn't any film in the camera," Xao said matter-of-factly.
"Huh?"
"I just turned on the flash. There was never any film in the camera."
"But…then how…did you get a picture?"
Xao pulled the ripped out picture out of her pocket. An inky black fire surrounded the picture, revealing plain, white, ripped up computer paper. My mouth fell open. Her illusions are getting better…
"You--you sly fox!"
Xao merely shrugged. "On another note, we don't have anything for dinner, do we?"
"Since the fridge isn't plugged in, no."
"Well we can munch for dinner tonight, I suppose. What do you want me to get?" Xao asked.
"You're gonna go get us super?" I asked her incredulously.
"Just tell me what you want, before I get pissed."
"Okay, okay! …I want ramen."
"Fine. I look for something for me. What about Xtrei?"
"Uhhh…"
We looked over at the couch were Xtrei sat up in a daze. "Wh-what…? What happened?"
I opened my mouth to say something, when Xao grabbed my arm. I looked at her; she shook her head. I realized I had been about to make a very stupid move. One thing you never want to do is upset Xtrei. She will honestly bite your head off.
"Nothing. Listen, Xao is going to get us dinner. You want ramen?"
"Yeah!"
"Alright, what flavors?"
"Chicken."
"Oriental."
"Okay, I'll be right back. Don't break anything while I'm gone." Xao told us.
"Jeez. Where's the love?"
"It's in my other jacket. Later!"
"Be safe, and no flirting," I called.
"Hah! Yeah Right!"
If anyone was wondering how to pronounce anybody's names, then here you go:
Xaotv (zow-dv…?) --I'm not clear on this one, myself, but she thinks it makes sense, so I call her Xao--
Plarix (play-REEZ)
Ashyx(ash-ee-x)
Xtrei (stray)