Disclaimer: If I owned anything but my plot line, I'd have shamless boy love written all over the game. On the cover, in the booklet inside, on the disc... hell, it'd even be on the tags of their clothes! XD

Title: The 13th Hour

Authoress: Tysonkaiexperiment

Couplings: RiSo, AkuRoku, Zemyx, LeoClo, and XemSaï

Warnings: Vampires, blood, incest, gore, violence, supernatural, yaoi, cussing, and random stuff

Summary: Organization XIII were strong vampires that used the Strife clan for support. The biggest challenge? The Leonhart Vampire Exterminators. RiSo, AkuRoku, Zemyx, LeoClo, and XemSaï.

Dedication: This one goes to Kida-san, who said something nice about awesome-ness (my mind blacks out after the word awesome-ness XD) and it somehow helped me get through my block for the ending of this chapter. Whee!

Beta'd By: Shrouded-Obsession : 3 Who else? She's awesome and you should defeintly go see some of her awesome work! And you should talk to her too, she's so nice. X3

Song Title: The Drawing Room
Artist: Midnight Syndicate
Album: The 13th Hour
Track Number: 6 of 25
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The 13th Hour

Bite 6:

The Drawing Room

Demyx stirred his oatmeal quickly, the brown sugar quickly fading to give it a light brown coloring, "Do you think he'll say anything to Xemnas?"

"He's going to tell him no, I hope." Roxas answered, arms folded as he glared at his oatmeal that sat in front of him. "This is no time for him to be dependent."

"Especially not with the Savior so close." Demyx nodded in agreement, he picked up a piece of toast and bit into it before humming and focusing on his oatmeal.

"Hey, what's up dudes? You're so quiet over here!" Xigbar slipped between the quarreling Larxene and Xaldin before making his way over. He laughed and placed a hand on Roxas' shoulder, looking down at him as he waited for an answer.

Roxas, however, had given him a glare that challenged Xemnas'. "Get your fucking hand off me before I chop it off, then off comes your dick, and I can gorge out your other eye and make you permanently blind."

It was all Xigbar needed to remove his hand and leave while muttering about how much he hated blonds, especially drunk ones.

"I have an announcement to make." Xemnas rose like a god, layers of clothes moving perfectly around his body like a surreal creature, "It concerns my life, and I would like you all to know."

"Did he answer him?!" Demyx hissed to Roxas, dropping his toast into his oatmeal before turning back to Xemnas.

Roxas said nothing, clenching his fists tightly and biting his lip as he awaited the news.

"As most of you have already been expecting, I have finally asked." Xemnas raised a goblet, smirk prominent on his face, "I have asked and received Sora's hand in marriage."

"Fucking liar…" Roxas muttered darkly, only Demyx had heard him, since they were sitting towards the end of the table, "Sora said he wasn't going to answer him."

"I think he's playing it from a different angle." Demyx replied, "With a wedding on the way, maybe it'll take people's mind off the bigger issue at hand until Xemnas knows our final plan."

Roxas stood, the creaking of his chair getting drowned out by the thunderous applause of the vampires in the room. In a second, as they began to cheer, he was gone.

"I figured you might like this." Lexaeus held out his hand to show the item within, a cross necklace made of white gold on a white gold chain, and in its center a blue topaz.

Sora smiled lightly, fingers brushing the jewelry before he picked it up and held it to the light, "So who'd you kill to get this off of?"

Lexaeus spluttered as Sora giggled, "I did not kill anyone, Master Sora." He was always polite, no matter how much Sora asked him not to be. "It was in a dead man's safe."

"Of course it was." Sora replied, knowing it was the truth. He lowered the item before thanking the man, who bowed and departed. Once he was gone, Sora raised the necklace and eyed it as several birds landed on his shoulders and one on his head. "If I wanted to, I could probably use this as part of my plan with the vampire savior…" A bird cheeped in his ear a couple of times, "Of course Roxas would go with it, he always goes with my plans because they're good. They're my plans." A squawk. "No, that was your plan, we're talking about my plan."

"So he's saying you said yes."

Sora jumped a foot in the air before turning to his brother, "Don't scare me like that! God, Roxas!"

Roxas rolled his eyes, "Did Xemnas ask you today?"

"No." Sora replied, setting down the necklace on the bench a couple steps away, "I had a feeling he would say something to everyone though."

"Then are you really going to marry him?"

Sora pursed his lips, "I can try and hold it off."

The blond sighed, "We'll have to find a way out, I guess…" A bird flew to him, it pecked his ear lightly before squawking something, "Uh, no, we're not burning Xemnas at a stake. That is from the 60's and wasn't even true."

"It's not that easy to get rid of vampires." Sora replied, he slowly turned to his twin, a lazy drawl coming onto his face, "I'm going to meet up with Naminé, watch my things will you?" It was no secret that anyone could go into his room, even if it was someone like Saïx.

And when Roxas nodded, the brunet boy went out the door and towards the room of white.

"You know, I had this random thought." Demyx opened his mouth before placing the potato chip inside, "We know you don't like Xemnas, obvious enough, but he seems to have everything necessary for Sora."

Roxas, in turn, raised an eyebrow and narrowed his eyes at him but said nothing more and awaited his answer.

"I just, I mean…" Demyx paused before speaking again. "He's rich, he's obviously well off, he's not too bad looking, he's polite and a great leader, and for the most part he loves Sora, isn't that enough?" When Roxas' eyes narrowed further he added an afterthought. "It's just kinda weird, ya know? Most people idolize that kind of relationship, and here Sora has it but we don't want him to have it…"

"Well, from someone else's perspective I guess it does seem like the perfect couple, but when you're in the middle of it, dealing with it, it isn't." Roxas leaned back, "Sure, Xemnas is rich, and polite, and a leader, and I guess he's not bad looking, and it's true he loves Sora a lot more than one expects… But at the same time, Sora's unhappy, he's not treated like a person, just an object, and his only friends besides animals are Xemnas' friends, and if we never started to sneak him out then Sora would have never stepped foot outside the mansion for more than two to three times a year." He closed his book and let out a sigh, "I don't mind Sora getting married, and I don't mind him following his heart or what he believes is right, I just want him to be happy, I want him to fall in love because of his heart, not just because it's the only person who has ever told him he loved him."

"Besides Ryuya." Demyx shrugged, expecting to be hit for interrupting the moment.

Instead, Roxas sighed again, glancing towards the light above him before raising an arm over his face to cover most of it. "When our parents died, I always thought I would be taking over for dad, ya know? Bringing in the income, finding a house, even walking Sora down the isle at his wedding." There was a bitter smile on his face, "And then we found Xemnas, and while Sora's smiles and laughs, from anyone else's view looks completely glowing, you can tell in his eyes that he hates it here and he wants to get out and he wants to be free." His book dropped from his lap but he paid it no mind. "I want to give Sora that happiness, not because I can see it, not because our dead parents can't, but because he's my brother and I care about him. He's my twin, my only surviving sanity."

Demyx's lips turned into a soft smile, "You've been trying for 124 years, I'm sure you'll get it right one day."

"That's why I'm dead set on this vampire savior." Roxas answered, standing and stretching before softly smiling, "If anyone can get rid of Xemnas, Riku can. He may not know it yet, but Riku holds a lot of power, and if I can turn it against Xemnas and use it against him, the better."

"Mmm. You really can't judge anything yet." Demyx sat up, closing his own book, "We've got to unlock Riku's hidden memories, that's probably going to take a while."

"We can get Sora to do it, I'm sure it'll be somewhat easier for him." Roxas turned towards the bedroom door, "If we have Sora meet Riku I'm sure we can make it easier on the rest of us."

"But we'll have to get him out of Xemnas' sight, he's been surveying Riku and his family for a while now, one false move and it's against us."

"So?" Roxas smirked, looking straight into the door like it would reveal every plan he would ever need, "If we convince Riku to come to us, it'll be easier."

"Have you seen your brother?"

Sora glanced up to the silver-haired man sitting next to him, he then looked back down to the ancient Latin text on his lap, "No, should I have?"

Xemnas chuckled, "No, I'm just wondering where he is, he's usually here at this time of day."

"Well then if he's not here, I don't know where he is." Sora replied simply, flipping a page before humming.

"I recognize that song." Xemnas answered softly, pulling one of Sora's hands from where it rested on the book and trailing his lips over the back of it, "Though you only sing it in English, what's the Japanese version?"

"Wake, wake, there's an angel in the snow. Look up, look up, it's a frightened dead boy with so much hate, such bad dreams. He could have seen, the toy's the key, but no one saw, no one saw." Suddenly Sora was glad that Xemnas never knew English, "It's a romance song." He lied simply, a plan set in his mind that he would start without telling Roxas. "About a woman who is happy to get married."

"Is that a yes, then?" Xemnas breathed, lips paused across two of knuckles.

"After the vampire savior would be a better time."

The smile that lit up Xemnas' face was bright and Sora did feel bad for leading the man around, "What about the day we kill Riku, we get married?"

The brunet blinked, looking around for a second, before giving a soft smile, "Sure."

Naminé was sure Roxas was going to get a concussion, she and Sora watched him bang his head against the table. "Uh, Roxas... maybe you should, uh, stop... don't want you to have a headache."

"But I want one!" He wailed, he glared darkly at his brother, "I thought you said you wouldn't say yes! I thought you said that you didn't love him!"

"I don't." Sora replied calmly, "I said I would try to hold it off, but I'll have to hold it off after this. The sooner we end this, the sooner we have of leaving."

"He has a point." Naminé muttered, her fingers brushing back a page of her sketchbook before she started to draw again. "Cloud is always waiting for a signal and Tidus calls every day to want to know when the plan is going to start."

Roxas sighed, straining before placing his hands on his hips, "I'm going to talk with Xemnas, have some type plan to get you to meet Riku. All you have to do is touch him, even if it's on the head, and you should be able to reach his memories."

Sora rolled his eyes, "That's fine, if you want to worry that badly of me touching him, I'll poke his jacket or something."

"Whatever, just make sure you do it during an oblivious time."

"I've got it, mother, anything else?" And when Roxas walked away and with a 'no', Sora turned back to Naminé, "Shall we get this over with then?"

"You do hate me drawing your visions." Naminé chuckled, allowing him to lay down before she gripped her pencil tightly.

"Because you see more than me." Sora muttered with a pout, after she laughed he grabbed her hand and his world faded to black.

"He... he looks like a porn star..."

"SORA!!"

Sora blushed lightly, smile soft and shoulders up in a light protection, "I-I'm sorry!" He looked at the picture in his hand again, eyes of blue-green half-lidded, silver hair wind-blown and bunched up, lips partly open to take in air, either Naminé did a picture of him running track or he did, in fact, look as Sora had mentioned.

Naminé, who's face was completely red, snatched the picture away and shuffled it into things to debate to keep while she readied her folder to give to Xemnas. "I'm going to pretend that comment never happened." She replied, scoffing and walking away from the shrugging boy with the folder tucked under her arm. As soon as she reached his doorway, she knocked softly and slowly.

"Come in." Xemnas' voice was quiet, and when she pulled open the door, she could see the book on his lap and random set of glasses perched on his nose. He never wore those unless he just felt like it, which meant he was apparently in a good mood, "Naminé?"

"These were the basic profiles of him, sir." Naminé set the folder down, opening it to slid several detailed drawing of Riku across the desk, "From the outside, it looks like Riku Umino is nothing more than a teenager."

"It's odd to see him as a teenager." Xemnas muttered, "When I was a child, he was an adult." When she said nothing, he picked up a picture and glanced it over, it was simple, a full-body shot of him in jeans, a pair of sneakers, and an old school jacket, "And what does Sora say about it?"

'He looks like a porn star...' Naminé thought to herself, biting her lip to keep from giggling, "Sora is still being Sora, but as he reminded me, although Riku is our primary target, there are still two others we should watch out for."

"I know." Xemnas replied, thumbing through several images until he came across a tall man with short brown hair. "Squall Leonhart wasn't it? And what does Sora say of him?"

"He... Sora says any time during this month Squall could regain all his memories, so it's best to get rid of him now while we have the chance. The other one, Reno Nakango, he's just a bit of a snoop, nothing more than a photographer. Axel and Kairi have no power between their family, and are virtually harmless, we can get Sora to adjust their memories. However, they do have a family friend, Rinoa Heartily... she... she's a Lamia."

Xemnas paused, "We have a lamia in our generation?" When she nodded he sat back and muttered 'very interesting'. Reaching into his desk, he pulled out a paper and slid it across the table.

It was a simple sketch, nothing but a white mass of arms and legs with gray lines and a random symbol, Naminé had never seen anything like it.

"I was wondering if you could create some of these creatures for me, as a test for this to work."

"If I may ask, what are they sir? And what are they for?"

Xemnas' lips tugged upwards, "They're Nobodies Naminé, my own personal creation, and they may help us get rid of Riku Umino quite easily."

"And so, it's begun." His fingers laced across the railing of the balcony, gaze fuzzy against the buildings and ocean.

"Hmm?" Roxas muttered, glancing up from his text book, "What'd you say?"

"The ending of this story has begun." Sora repeated, turning to look at his brother, "It's either the end of Riku Umino, or the ending of Xemnas."

"Wasn't that obvious from the start?" Roxas asked, propping himself up on his elbows.

"That was before Umino had a chance to regain his memories."

Shrugging, Roxas went back to his work.

Sora turned back to stare out into the ocean, gaze narrowed and dark before he whispered, "And also before Ansem decided to involve himself in this."

The creature spasmed, twisting it's head hallway before it wiggled it's arms and legs. It let out a small mewl before it began to move with the shadows, twisting to glance up at it's new master.

"Hello." The man answered softly, he brushed a lock of silver hair out of his face before leaning down to the small twitching creature, "I haven't given you a name, have I?"

"Must you name it?" The woman snapped, skin a light gray and eyes as black as the night, "It will just die in the end."

"But every living thing contains a name." He muttered, "You are Key." His arm raised, white glove coming in contact with the squeaking creature's black head, "And you are a Heartless."

"Would you hurry!" The woman cried out in rage, her eyes narrowing in distaste. She would never be caught acting so caring to something that was obviously lower than her.

"My name is Ansem," The man answered slowly, seeing that the creature was obviously paying attention. "This is my home." And the shadows raised, golden eyes opening and movements jerky and tricky. "And this is your family."

Tke: LULZ, WTF?? Ansem was so OC there, sorry. But I honestly think he did care about the heartless, he respected them and cherished them, and in turn they would do anything for him. Tis what I think anyways. And OMG, she was being so mean! I was like T_T I love those Heartless! Can she be any more mean to the poor things?! I want one, they're so cute... I have an obsession with those cute beings.

Sora: This chapter... was it a filler again?

Tke: … pretty much, yeah...

Sora: Just wondering...

Tke: I'm sorry! Until you meet Riku (chapter 8!) then there's nothing really else for me to do! I didn't plan for it to be filled so crappily. Sorry... oh, and nobody seemed to get the trivia, I guess I've got to explain further... again...

The question was not meant to confuse you, or to make you think too much. Dracula drew power from something, and if you can't figure it out, that means (more often than not) it's an item. XD So many people over-thought that and were coming up with things like 'people's souls!' and stuff. I was like, "whoa...". I'm just saying to help ya.

Also, the song Sora was singing, where he was lying to Xemnas, was called Boy And The Ghost by Tarja Turunen. It's slight implication to my new one-shot, which should be out soon. It's my favorite song on her album My Winter Storm.

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