Chapter 7 everyone. Don't freak out too much. Enjoy! ^^

Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own any of the characters from Kingdom Hearts and, unless there's been a will with my name on it, I probably never will.

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Chapter Seven: Secrets Revealed

Zexion pulled to a screeching halt in Jade's driveway. He could feel his rage building within himself as he bounded up the few steps to her front door. After a few knocks Victoria opened the door. "Where's Jade?" he asked before she could speak.

Victoria crossed her arms and glared at the boy in front of her. "I told you not to bother. Why do you insist on tearing her away from me?"

Zexion could tell the flames were disappearing, which could only mean she'd already taken her anger out on her daughter. "Jade," he breathed.

Without a second thought, Zexion rushed past Victoria and into the house. Profanities grew further away as he made his way through an empty living room and just as empty kitchen. "Where is she!" he screamed at the woman following him.

"Why do you care? You have no right to be here, so just leave."

Zexion's blood was boiling. He was barely containing his anger. "You're the one who doesn't belong here," he shot back. "Last time you were you almost killed her!"

"Who's to say I didn't this time!" Victoria's anger was once again building. "Maybe I did kill her this time! What are you going to do about it?" The woman then pulled a knife from the nearby dish rack and pointed it at him.

That was it for the slate-haired teen. His wrath was unleashed as he lunged at the woman with the knife.

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The dance floor was packed with bodies swaying and bouncing and rubbing against each other. Music played loud throughout the entire club. Techno and trance echoed off the walls amplifying every sound and beat. Normally the small, up-for-anything, redheaded girl in the middle of the crowd would avoid such places. However, when a certain new pink-haired boy in her politics class asked her to go with him, she just couldn't refuse.

To be honest, Maya had found herself attracted to Marluxia since the first day of his transfer, and with the invite to go clubbing with him; she had the perfect opportunity to find out if the attraction happened to be mutual.

Maya spotted the pink-haired teen a little distance away, dancing with the pretty blonde girl who came with them; Larxene. She could tell the two were close. Even at school they were always together. They were cousins, however, and there was most likely little to that relationship that would put Marluxia off when it came to the redhead.

Maya walked over to the bar area where Axel and Roxas were sitting. Marluxia had told the redheaded pyro to watch out for the small blonde, it being his first time at a club and all, so no guys tried to hit on him. There seemed to be an abundance of people claiming to be openly gay or bi. In effort to keep the lingering eyes away from Roxas, Axel decided to kiss him and warned everyone that the blonde was with him. It got a few good laughs from the rest of the group, but did a great job at keeping people away.

"Getting bored already?" Axel asked as Maya approached the bar. A red mark was just fading on Axel's left cheek from the slap he received from Roxas.

"Marly and Larxene are dancing," she told him. "I'm waiting for them to finish."

"Want a drink while you wait?'

Maya nodded. "Sure." Axel gave the bartender a ten and handed a pretty pink drink to her. Maya eyed it questioning its contents.

"It's more juice that anything," Roxas confirmed. "I've had like five of them."

"True," Axel agreed. "There's only about two percent alcohol in them."

Roxas looked at him stunned. "You told me it was half a percent."

"You wouldn't have tasted it otherwise."

Roxas crossed his arms and slumped back into his seat and Axel placed an arm around him trying to cheer him back up.

Maya nodded and took a sip from the drink; strawberry juice. She looked over toward the crowd again, back toward Marluxia. Larxene had picked up dancing with a few other guys and he was making his way back over to the bar. The way he carried himself was something to be envied by girls everywhere.

"So when are you going to tell my brother you have a thing for him and that pink hair of his?" Axel said suddenly. Maya was so shocked by the question that she accidentally dropped her glass. It shattered loud but the music was loud enough to drown even that out.

"What happened?" Marluxia asked having arrived in time to see what a klutz Maya actually was.

"Nothing," Maya said and bent down to pick up the broken glass. "The glass just slipped."

"Okay," he said and bent down next to her to help with the shards. Axel grinned and paid for the glass. "You should be more careful,"

"I know." A sharp pain suddenly shot up the girl's hand. Marluxia stiffened next to her. "Ow!" Maya exclaimed having cut her index finger on a sharp shard. She dropped the shard and stuck her bloodied finger in her mouth.

"I'm gonna take Roxy here, to go dance," Axel said quickly before dashing away with a tense Roxas in tow.

Marluxia took Maya's hand away from her mouth to examine the cut. "I just told you to be more careful." He stood and pulled Maya up with him. "Come with me." Obediently she followed.

The pink-haired man led the girl to an empty room towards the back of the club. Everyone at the club was either at the bar, on the dance floor, or passed out somewhere along the back alley. "What are we doing here?" Maya asked once again sucking on her finger, trying to stop the blood from flowing.

"I just wanted to be alone with you for a little while." The way Marluxia spoke had Maya's heart beating a million miles a minute. He shut and looked the door behind them.

"W-why's that?" Maya stuttered. She walked backwards until her back hit a wall.

Marluxia walked with her not letting the space between them widen the slightest. He pressed himself to her and spoke again in her ear. "I just want to."

Maya melted, leaning forward to kiss him.

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Jade could hear the commotion coming from the kitchen. Zexion was there, arguing with her mother. Her beautiful, golden haired mother, who could give her daughter a busted lip and swollen cheek less than five minutes after walking though the front door.

The small brunette could hear the shouts coming from her mother and best friend. "Last time you were you almost killed her!" Zexion shouted. Jade felt a pang of guilt course though her. It should have been her out there confronting her mother not him. Instead she was hiding down the hall in a small bathroom.

"Who's to say I didn't this time!" her mother shot back. Jade's chest tightened. How could her mother say things like that about her own daughter? "Maybe I did kill her this time! What are you going to do about it?"

Jade was on the verge of tears when a high pitched scream sounded from the kitchen; her mother's scream. As fast as she could, Jade ran out the bathroom and to the sound. She entered the kitchen to see Zexion wrestling a large kitchen knife out of her mother's hands.

"Zexion!" she screamed.

Zexion looked up at jade who was no more than ten feet away. He lost his grip on the knife at the sight of her letting Victoria snatch it away. She swiped at him, slicing the blade along his arm, opening a long, deep gash. He cried out in pain.

"Zexion!" Jade cried again. The small brunette rushed forward to help her injured friend. Before she could make it even two feet though, her mother spun on her.

"Stay away from him!" she demanded, brandishing the knife. It cut jade on her already bruised cheek. A small stream of blood trickled down her face.

The next thing she knew Zexion was on her mother's back. He held her hand with the knife off to the side so she couldn't use it and tilted her head to the side with his free hand. Two long, sharp teeth pierced the vein protruding from the woman's neck. Within seconds, she went limp and dropped to the floor. Dead.

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And it's done!

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