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In the last chapter: " He could have just made a portal." Smirked Vexen.

The Flawed Land. A world unlike any other; unique among the unique.

It was a trading post for all other worlds which made for an interesting blend of cultures and problems. On the surface, it looked like a prosperous land where one could walk freely. True, discrimination was outlawed on The Flawed Land, but dig a little deeper and you'd find a cesspool of vagabonds, murderers, and worse. There was a reason that the world was called The Flawed Land.

Look a little closer and you'd fall into its cracks of darkness.

Roxas and Larxene were headed there now, their gummi ship approximately two hours from its destination. Neither of them would know that once they reached their destination, neither would ever be the same.

Roxas P.O.V.

Tap. Tap.

THUNK.

Tap. Tap.

THUNK.

Tap. Ta-

"Stop it Larxene." Muttered Roxas who was leaning absently on his seat in their gummi ship. In his hand, he clasped a manila folder which contained several notes and a few pictures. He glanced to his left to see Larxene frown slightly, her small hands clutching the daggers that she'd been stabbing into the armrest of her seat for the past several hours. "The Superior will not be pleased to have to replace that armrest. Again."

"Tch. Shut up brat." She hissed, green eyes narrowing into slits. There was no real threat behind her actions, just habit from the constant arguments the organization members faced near constantly. "I'd be more focused on seeing who the hell we're looking for rather than what Mansex will and won't have to replace." She leaned back in her seat once more, turning her head to pointedly ignore the other blond and resumed twirling her daggers and stabbing it back into the splintering armrest.

Tap. Tap.

THUNK.

Tap. Tap.

THU-SNAP!

"There now, silence at last." Said Roxas, a broken dagger laying in his hand. He'd snapped it with a flick of his wrist. 'Ah… I hope these few seconds of blissful silence are going to be worth the hell Larxene is going to give me in three… two… one…'

"BRAT! I will KILL you! Do you not know how long it takes to make those? Hours!" Larxene was now standing over Roxas, her eyes blazing.

'Totally worth it.'

"You better be greatful that Mansex needs us both back after this mission or I'd kill you where you sit." She growled as she grabbed on to the front of his cloak, lifting him from his seat and bringing him to eye level. "Do that again, and I'll shove a dagger where the sun don't shine, kid. Add a bit of lightning and you'll be shittin' nothing but smoke for the next few weeks." She dropped him and stomped to the back of the gummi, muttering to herself darkly.

Roxas gulped. 'O-oh sheez. At least she's quiet now, right?'

Tap. Tap.

WHAP.

Tap. Tap.

WHAP.

Whirling around to look, Roxas saw that Larxene had sat in the back of the gummi and had proceeded to resume the twirling of her remaining daggers and ending with throwing them at a bag. Roxas's bag that contained spare cloaks and supplies.

Roxas groaned.

Larxene's expression broke out into a demonic grin.

Demyx P.O.V.

They'd been swimming for hours and now everything had begun to look the same.

Seaweed, corals, large undersea mountains, and the occasional mervillage that they came across.

Word had gotten around fast that two strange foreigners had begun to go around from mervillage to mervillage, asking strange questions and showing odd pictures of symbols, asking if anyone had seen someone that looked like they had that. Due to his questioning methods, they were often chased out of the villages before they could get around to asking much.

That didn't last long.

Five raided villages later and still nothing.

Demyx sighed.

"Whats up, kiddo?" he heard a gruff voice ask from behind him.

Demyx looked back at Xigbar, noting how despite them being underwater, his eye patch and hair had remained perfectly in place.

"Nothing much, just bored. When are we gonna be done with this mission, Xiggy?" he whined, turning on his back and using an oncoming current to propel him lazily forward. His tail, which glinted a beautiful sapphire blue waved to and fro behind him.

Xigbar frowned, "Well, we've only been at it for a half a day at most. Missions DO take time to complete y'know."

"But still!~" Demyx continued to whine. "Im dying of booorrreeedommm!" He dragged out the word in a way that earned him a deeper frown from his partner.

"That's not very mature of you now i-" Xigbar ceased speaking suddenly, throwing himself into a crevice they had been passing by and grabbing Demyx along the way, shoving him into a wall and covering his mouth with his hand.

'What the hell!' Demyx thought.

What came out was more like, "Mrrh wff nuugg!" his muffled voice echoing on the walls of the crevas.

"Shhh!" hissed Xigbar, flattening himself on top of Demyx, his gold eyes scanning the clearing they'd been swimming through. " I heard someone coming towards us."

'Wait, what?' Demyx thought, his eyes moving from the clearing to Xigbar's face which was inches from his own. 'That's why he shoved me in here? Douche.' Demyx struggled against Xigbar's hold, wanting to see who was coming towards them for himself.

"Stop it! You'll get us caught with all the noise your making, damn it!" Growled Xigbar, his golden eyes glaring into Demyx's own blue ones. He used his tail, that shown a pale gold in the mottled sunlight that streamed through the cracks in the crevice the hid in, to wrap around Demyx's blue one and held the smaller man immobile. "Quit you're squirming and I'll let you go. Got it?"

Demyx nodded enthusiastically.

'Too close, too close! Stranger danger!' was all he thought as Xigbar unwrapped their tangled limbs from one another.

Looking into each other's eyes, they came to an agreement.

No noise. None. The sooner the mission was over, the sooner they could return to the castle.

The sooner Demyx could bash Xigbar's head for getting in his personal bubble.

*Author's Note*

Wooo! Halfway decent chapter, a bit shorter than I wanted it but eh!

I've decided to change the pairings up a bit. I wont tell you guys who but… ;) I'll let you guys read for yourselves in the chapters that come.

Please rate and review. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside when you do. :D

Cheers!

Andreios