It's true, he does.

And now, to finish an Axel chapter at the very last minute tomorrow. It's a longer one, so... yeah, I'm screwed.

Demyx's chapter will be up the 13th no matter what, though.

Saix, as his colleagues could attest, was an advocate of getting things done. Saix, as most of the Organization could affirm, would give you a job and expect it completed, exactly on the deadline with all accompanying paperwork signed in triplicate (whatever that meant). Saix, as several Nobodies (especially Demyx) complained, could give you a glare that would make your head explode until you did your allotted task along with said paperwork.

Saix was no fan of domestic tasks. Anything that didn't go towards the completion of Kingdom Hearts was worthless to him. Movie nights, dinner together, grocery shopping… especially the shopping. He half suspected Xemnas had lost his mind, the way he kept scheduling these things (or perhaps the Superior's mind had simply never been there to begin with…).

Unfortunately, these opinions of Saix's did not save him from shopping duty. The universe also hated him extra today, because Roxas was his appointed "shopping buddy."

"So, what's on the list first?" Roxas asked, taking a break from looking around the supermarket with the interest of a curious child. Saix had the list, and a very long list it was; if he let it roll out is was almost as long as he was tall.

"Deli-sliced turkey," Saix growled, moving the shopping cart as quickly as possible, just try to get this over with.

"I can go find it," Roxas volunteered. No, bad idea. Roxas would, inevitably, somehow find a way to get lost and it would take even longer to find him. But on the other hand…

"Go for it," Saix said, letting their newest member run off, leaving Saix blissfully free from the boy's idle chatter.

Some would have described Saix's dislike of Roxas as irrational; a by-product of his dismissal of all non-productive things. That was true, and at the same time, it wasn't.

It was true that it was the reason that the boy's questions annoyed him; Roxas was, in his eyes, barely a Nobody and more of a tool; he had, after all, spent his first week of "life" borderline catatonic. What did matter to him what normal kids did all day? Or what a heart was? However, it was when Saix saw No. 13 with Axel that he really felt like flipping a table over. That was the part that could be described as "irrational." When he saw the two together, which occurred more and more often these days, he could almost feel his old friend and possibly his last link to sanity drifting away.

However, as Saix was forbidden from harming No. 13 (in a permanent way, at least), he had to vent his frustration by jamming things like jelly beans (next item on the list, courtesy of Demyx) into the cart in as mean-spirited a way as possible.

Turkey, jelly beans… chocolate. No, it was scribbled out, and "dark chocolate" had been written underneath it. That would be Zexion and Lexaeus's silent debate about chocolate flaring up again.

Roxas, contradictory to Saix's hopes, had found the selected lunch meat and Saix himself rather fast. Saix would've happily sent him off on a quest to find some other thing on the list (possibly something that wasn't even on the list… or in existence to begin with… like headlighter fluid) just to get rid of him again, but Roxas was not very easily sent off.

"I don't get it," Roxas said, thinking out loud, "If turkeys are birds, why is turkey meat all thinly sliced?"

"Because they kill the bird and cut it all off," Saix answered, his tone quite venomous. Roxas, being Roxas, totally missed this little cue.

"Oh. Well, why are there so many… brands?" He said the word like he was truly unfamiliar with it.

"Roxas," Saix said, getting fed up. "Go find headlighter fluid."

Still puzzled, but thankfully obedient, Roxas walked off. Hopefully that would keep him occupied for a while.

Saix sighed to himself. The sooner they could complete Kingdom Hearts, the sooner Isa and Lea could go back to their own lives. And the sooner that happened, the sooner Saix would never have to put up with the idiots again.