Honestly, not much at all has happened this week.

Roxas seems really distant and depressed, and it is royally pissing me off.

We were here in English class, and Roxas was just sitting there, being an emo (not really, but he was being pretty depressing). I decided not to tell him about what happened with Seifer, because it would only make him feel worse, and that was the last thing he needed at this point in time.

I poked his shoulder with my ruler.

He looked at me with sad, tired eyes.

"I think that the teacher has a hickey on her neck" I whispered furiously, trying not to laugh.

"Ew" was his reply.

What the hell.

This is meant to be, like, a major note-passing and inappropriate drawing session.

'EW' DOESN'T CUT IT ROXAS.

I looked at him weirdly. "How many hours did you sleep last night?" I asked skeptically.

"A lot less than I should have" he sighed.

I groaned in frustration. "Listen. I'm tired of you being boring and depressing! You're being stupid about the whole situation that was only made bad by my mom, and you're giving her the satisfaction of being a manipulative bitch" I lectured. "And, you're reminding me of a PMS-ing girl" -That made him smirk- "So seriously, go eat some chocolate or ice cream or something, please!"

"I will if you buy it for me" he tried to hide a smile.

"Jeez, I'll buy you anything just to get you out of this foul mood"

His expression immediately made me regret saying that.

"Under 200 munny" I added quickly.

"Fine. You can buy me an ice cream then" he added smugly, before leaning over in his chair to steal answers off Riku.

While he furiously copied down half of the answers, I could see that Riku was getting pretty pissed off.

"Can you go annoy someone else for a change?" Riku winced, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"No" Roxas leaned back in his chair.

Riku looked like he wanted to stab Roxas' eyes out with his pencils.

I better step in.

"How is Xion, Riku?" I added before Roxas became blind.

"...I'll tell you later" he replied bluntly in an angry choked tone.

And here was sweet little me, trying to make innocent conversation with Riku, and I basically got a death wish in doing so. Roxas raised an eyebrow, but decided to be intelligent (for once) and not comment.

Now Riku probably wants to kill me too.

And I will find out later. Cos something is up.

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"Kairi, stop eating all of the frosting off my cupcake!" I whined.

"But it's so yummyyyy..." she sighed.

DIE!

"No one says 'yummy' anymore Kairi" Sora smirked.

"Yeah? Well I do" she grinned and playfully poked her tongue out at him.

Roxas sat down next to me.

He looked at disdain down at the fluroish orange cake that sat on his lunch tray.

"What the hell is that?" Hayner's eyes widened.

"Well...it's meant to be carrot cake..." Roxas screwed his nose up at it. "Who would ever think of making a cake out of vegetables, anyway?"

Now there's the Roxas I know, questioning the worlds unanswerable questions...

"Probably someone like you" I pointed out.

"Hahaha, true" he laughed.

That was probably the first time that he laughed this week.

Score.

But I could still see some underlying depression in his eyes, which made my stomach feel weird.

"Why did you even buy it? I thought that you hated anything remotely healthy" Sora raised an eyebrow.

"I do, bit it was the least offensive looking thing left...but..." Roxas looked down at it again.

"It looks radioactive" Kairi stared at it.

"Isn't most school food radioactive?" Roxas pointed out.

He never ended up eating his cake (instead he stole Sora's banana when he wasn't looking) but we just made fun of the cake for the rest of our recess brake.

"Hey, where is Riku?" Sora was still glaring at Roxas who just finished his banana.

"I dunno...but he seemed kinda out of it in English today..." I chewed on my bottom lip.

"Is it something to do with Xion?" Kairi asked, her eyebrows pinching together.

"I think so..." Roxas looked worried. "I hope everything is okay with them"

"Yeah me too" I said. "Hey Kairi, can you ask Riku in math class what's up?" Kairi was in math class one, with Riku and Sora. Roxas and I were in 3, because frankly, we don't care for numbers over twenty.

"Sure" Kairi nodded.

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Axel's POV

"Do not ask that again" Larxene growled and punched me in the stomach.

Bitch.

"Oww careful! You'll hurt the baby" I stared at her in mock seriousness. She laughed. "And what's wrong with asking your girlfriend to wear short shorts? They're hot" I pointed out.

"Ugh. Honestly, sometimes I want to kill you" she looked away angrily.

"Are you blushing?" I smirked at stood up to hug her.

"The only reason I'm blushing is because I just thought how cute it would be if you DIED NOW" she hissed.

"Can you two shut up?! I'm trying to read here" Zexion grumbled.

"What? Sorry you'll have to speak up. I can't hear you down there" I joked. Zexion got really pissed off if you made fun of his height, and I was in an annoying mood today, so I just went out of my way a little to piss him off.

He just grumbled something unintelligible and stuck his nose back in his book.

Honestly, why would The History Of Russian Literature worry him any way?

Nerd.

"And just where the hell is Demyx?" Larxene huffed, crossing her arms over her chest.

"I haven't seen him all week, he has a lot of...friends to visit" I raised my eyebrows at the term 'friends'.

In other words, Demyx liked girls. A lot.

And that usually came before work and meetings.

"We need his report on that stupid bastard Seifer" Larxene groaned. "It isn't fair. He gets all of the fun violent jobs THAT HE DOESN'T EVEN LIKE, and he doesn't even report back to us cos he's too busy being 'social'" she added icily.

"Yeah, I guess so" I replied half heartedly and got out my lighter. I flipped the top of it, turning the flame on and off. I didn't smoke, I just really liked fire.

"You are such a pyro" Larxene rolled her eyes at me.

"And you are such a bitch" I countered with a smirk and wrapped my arms around her waist.

Zexion shot up from his book.

"DO NOT try anything with me here. I can't afford the counseling this time" he spat.

"Like you ever could to start with. Prude" Larxene smirked and tilted her head up and her nose brushed my jaw line.

"Yeah, why are you even in our apartment again?" I frowned.

"Because Demyx didn't clean out the fridge, and the whole place reeks" Zexion winced.

"Tch. Grow some balls" Larxene rolled her eyes.

Miraculously, the door burst open and Demyx bounded in.

"HI GUYS!" he sang.

"WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU?" Larxene pulled away from me and went to grab him round the neck but I grabbed her hand just in time.

"Good question..." he slumped on the couch and put his feet up on the coffee table.

"Are you still not talking to me Zexy?" he jabbed Zexion in the side.

No reply.

"Aww you suck" he pouted.

"Demyx, why didn't you tell us what happened after your last mission?!" Zexion yelled at him, his irritation breaking through "We didn't even know if you were alive or not! What the hell were you doing?!"

Well, if it wasn't for emo-shortie, half of the time we'd never know where Demyx was or anything. We needed one of those pet tracking device collars on him.

"Weeelll, lets see...oh yeah! I remember now!" He smiled. Larxene looked like she was about to rip his head off. "Seifer was hassling these two girls, and I did that move that you taught me, Axel, and it was so cool! He just dropped to the ground and-"

"Wait, he was doing what?" Demyx really didn't seem to understand the seriousness of the matter.

"Well he grabbed this blonde girl, and was about to grab her friend, and then I hit him on the neck" Demyx announced proudly.

"I think that is the first slightly useful thing that you have ever done" Larxene raised her eyebrows.

"I know right! You guys owe me jellybeans..."

Strange looks from everyone shut him up.

"Well, how about I let you live for another hour as a reward?" Larxene glared at him.

"That sounds great, but before you change your mind, I have something AMAZINGLY AWESOME to tell you" Demyx grinned.

"Did you find your missing sock puppet?" I asked in a monotone.

He cried for 3 whole weeks when he couldn't find Isobel.

How the hell he is 19, I don't think that I'll ever know.

"No..." he said sadly before instantly brightening. "Larxene, you know how you pay Axel to creep kids out at that learning place?"

"School" I replied bitterly. Honestly, I'm not even a qualified teacher, not that I'd want to be one, but Xemnas (our boss) paid the school a lot of money for me to work there, so that I could maybe get some info on Seifer (Hell, I wasn't even that much older than the students, I'm only 20), but Larxene paid me to creep out the kids so she got a cheap laugh...very pathetic? You bet. But it is nice to have some disposable cash now and then.

"Yeah! That place!" Demyx grinned, even though he only left last year.

Larxene burst out laughing and I gave her the hairy eyeball.

"Well, the red haired girl I saved said that she hates you" Demyx announced proudly.

Kairi probably.

Larxene doubled over with hysterical laughing and I just facepalmed.

Nice reputation to have, isn't it?

"Larxene, I don't want half of the general population hating my guts! I quit your stupid job" I frowned.

She shot up and poked one of my tattoos. "This job isn't quittable"

"Well, I don't care, I quit" I replied lamely, not in the mood to fight.

"Shouldn't you guys be worrying about Seifer, rather than Axel's...erm...hobby?" Zexion added.

"IT ISN'T A HOBBY!" I yelled at him.

Larxene looked like she was going to piss herself laughing. I considered setting her hair alight, but when it really came down to it, I would be the one worse off.

Demyx spoke up again. "Well his gang wasn't with him at the time, but I didn't hang around to find out..." he smiled meekly.

"Why, cos standing up for longer than five consecutive minutes is virtually impossible for you?" I asked.

"Pretty much. Anyway, I get the feeling that Larxene wants to punch me again...so I'm gonna go" Demyx smiled and half fell off the lounge.

"You leave too freak, it reeks of short, blue haired emo on here" Larxene spat at Zexion.

"I'm not emo" he grumbled and reluctantly got up off the lounge and stalked out after Demyx.

"Well that was pretty unexciting" I slammed the door behind him and rolled my eyes. "What the hell are we going to do about Seifer?"


Namine's POV

Kairi never got the chance to tell me what was up with Riku and Xion, so as soon as I got home, I just waited by the phone. Unmoving pretty much.

I waited for five minutes in absolute stillness and silence.

When the phone did ring however, I almost had a heart attack and fell off my chair.

"Hello?" I breathed raggedly, answering the phone.

"Namine! Jeez did you just run a marathon or something? You sound like you've nearly been drowned" Kairi laughed.

"No, you just scared the crap outta me. I can't be bothered explaining...WHAT HAPPENED?!" I demanded.

I heard Kairi sigh.

Uh oh.

"Seifer has been hassling Xion recently, but she didn't tell Riku" Kairi said in a sad tone.

Oh shit that's bad.

"And the last time Riku saw her, she had this massive bruise on her arm and a blackish eye, and she wasn't being herself and Riku was really worried about her...and when he finally got the truth out of her, Riku was going to go and bash Seifer up, but she started crying and crying and told him not to, because it would only make things worse if he got involved with gangs like that...but she wouldn't give any details"

"Gangs?" I asked. I had no idea that we even had gangs around here. But then again, I'm not really interested in the social scheme of things.

"Yeah, there's Seifer's gang, and this other one, and they always fight...but that is beside the point. Anyway, Riku is really cut up by what happened to Xion, and it is driving him crazy not being able to do anything, and seeing his girlfriend all bashed up" Kairi said.

"God I hate Seifer, just who the hell does he think he is, going round abusing girls? Poor Xion..." I said sadly.

"I know. Riku said that she won't go out any more, because she is scared of Seifer, and she declined Riku when he was going to take her out, because it was 'The Gang's Night' or something, so Riku is really upset"

I inwardly cringed. Riku could be really sensitive, so this was really going to take it's toll on him...

Author Note:

Now stuff is finally happening :3

Switching the Axel's POV probably made people go 'What the hell?' but I needed to build more on all this Seifer stuff, and I wanted to explain a little more about Axel too. You'll find out more about him in future chapters :D And Ven too...

Review, cos that is what keeps the chapters coming :D

~Claudii