The Great Adventures of 207

by Mind's Odyssey

(AU) Characters are in the real world. Guess what, the main characters are school detectives! With Nemix (OC), Zexion, Roxas, Axel, Demyx and Xion, they're going to solve mysteries and cases with adventures. Rated T for minor language, minor violence. May contain some social issues you would feel offended when discussed, some very mild suggestive themes. View full picture at dA!

14. Chapter 14: Old Friends, New Enemies

Authoress' note: OK, before the story, I would like to emphasize something. This story is COMPLETELY fictional. Nothing in this story (all chapters) should be carried out in the real world, as it may be a little violent and whatnot. Please be a wise reader and do not imitate the plot, especially the pranks. Thank you for your patience for reading this. Now, on with the story! ^_^

DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING EXCEPT A PART OF THE PLOT!

Chapter 14 – OLD FRIENDS, NEW ENEMIES

By now, we still had two weeks before our departure to our respective original countries, but… *sigh* we exchange students had to perform something for Matsuaki Academy's annual "Spring Celebration" and it was on the same day on a weekly meeting in March. And we were told to prepare for the performance soon after we got back to the school! Crap! So, we had to hold an urgent meeting, and they decided to let me, the poor main character of this story, to produce a drama script in one day, because we all agreed to perform a drama and an orchestra. So I had no choice but to give it all I got and squeeze out any random ideas that didn't make any sense and put them into that freaking script!

After I had done writing, the classmates presented no objections after they read through it. And then we practiced the drama and the orchestra hard (By the way, Demyx was the one in charge of this orchestra and he made a medley of various songs). And we almost tired ourselves out from training until that epic day of fate!

Meanwhile at the backstage, everyone was very, very busy, although our performance clothing weren't too extravagant or vibrant with colors, we still have to put in more effort in the make-up to prevent the sweat secreted later to smear them off besides installing the wireless microphones securely. The drama later involved much exaggerated movements and we wouldn't be able to hold microphones. "Hey, time to go!" The backstage workers, which were students as well, prompted us to be prepared. OK… Let's do this!

[Authoress' Note: The below drama script was inspired by a comic by ladychimera in deviantArt, so the credits goes to her for most part of the plot in the drama! I suck at writing this drama stuff… Sorry!] Firstly our main character on stage for today - Antonio was waiting behind the curtains, and when the curtains were pulled up, the show begins! Applause came in waves and died down soon. The hall entered the darkness… (By the way the background music was purely my idea, but I don't own the songs, and if you had never heard of the songs, you can look it up in YouTube. Thanks.) A light shone on Antonio as he walked out, whistling a tune called "Oh When the Saints Go Marching In", the background music was "A Walk In Andante" (Kingdom Hearts I).

Antonio whistled while skipping from the left of the stage to the right slowly, with the light following him. Suddenly another light shone at the right of the stage - A public toilet. *Cue "Don of the Slums" (Final Fantasy VII)* He didn't stop; still bouncing in his tracks, then he accidentally crashed into a tree outside that "toilet" and fell down on his butt. He pressed a palm on the aching spot on the head and whined: "Oh mamamia~ Why is there a tree here… Huh? Toilet? Looks like it's the gents… Guess I'll go in and wash off the dirt… *Sigh*" Suddenly he stopped, and blurted: "The ladies'?! Umm… But there are no any other toilets around… Then I'll make it quick…"

He stood up once again, patted off some "dirt" on him and continued whistling his tune before and bounced into that place where the boys would never enter unless they have a death wish! In not even three seconds… *Cue "No Time to Think" (Kingdom Hearts I)* "AAAAAH~~!" "Pervert!" "Take that! And that!" "OW!" "Get Lost!" etc. etc. etc. The war cry and screams of female pupils and female teachers were nothing short compared to a bunch of angry monkeys… (Actually the "toilet" was formed by draping a piece of black cloth in a circle to form a "cylinder", and then we stuck a sign that read "Ladies'" on it. As for the cries, the girls from my class were screaming random things at the backstage via microphones…)

The whole "Ladies'" almost collapsed, and a nearly half-dead Antonio scrambled out like no tomorrow. *Cue "Broken Reality" (Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance)* Only a light shone on him, while the rest was engulfed in darkness… He was panting heavily, while patting his chest, he whimpered: "Oh mamamia! Holy macaroni! What was that?!" Suddenly a bottle flew out from a random direction and hit his head straightly! "TOI!" I added a sound effect, he cried: "OWIE!"

The bottle dropped to the floor, Antonio picked it up after scratching his head, he said to himself: "Huh? A message?" He quickly opened the cap of the bottle and threw it to a random direction. I played that "TOI" sound effect again. After he dug out the strip of paper from the bottle, I added a "PLANK~!" as a sound effect when he threw the bottle to the back (It was a sound of breaking glass, but actually the bottle was made of plastic…) He read out the message on the paper strip: "'See you in the court, dude'… What?" When he finished, suddenly three lights shone at his left, right and back, Lawrence, Yuanfang and William appeared simultaneously under the spotlight. They put on an "Epic Point" pose at the same time and yelled: "YOU GOT SERVED!"

I then used the microphone to speak from the backstage: "In the fateful court…" And the BGM was a short intro of "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" in organ! Now I was doubting whether we were acting out a drama or a horror film… -_-' After three seconds… *Cue "The Oppressed" (Final Fantasy VII)* Brant wore a smart suit and draped an arm on a kind of depressed Antonio's shoulder while walking together to the center of the stage. A stage light was following them. Brant boasted with overflowing confidence: "No worries, señor, with me on your side, there's no way we'll lose! *Hiccup*" Antonio stared at him with doubt, and asked: "Dude, are you… drunk?" Brant looked like he wasn't paying attention at all, and swaying like he was really drunk, with a smug smile on his face, he asked: "Who drunk, me?" Antonio slapped a palm on his face and muttered: "Oh great… -_-" Brant didn't heard that, but he was singing off-key: "Maiahi~ Maiahoo~ Maiaha~ MaiaHAHA~~"

Just then the lights on them went out, and another one was switched on, shining on two people - Xion and John. "OBJECTION!" John suddenly stood up and pointed at a random direction and screamed out of the blue! *cricket noise* … No one gives a damn to him. John then sat down, scratched his head sheepishly and said: "Ha ha, sorry, I was rehearsing what is going to happen later, and we haven't started the whole court thing yet… But hey, why didn't you remind me that?" Xion just stared at him, speechless… Just then!

"'Ello! John~!" A voice came in. John and Xion were sitting behind a table on the left side of the stage, while Brant and Antonio were at the other side. Brant waved at them, Antonio just screamed "OH CRAP!" when he saw John beside Xion. But John also screamed "OH CRAP!" for no apparent reason and stood up abruptly, with disbelief all over his shocked face, he stared at them. *Cue "Innocent Times" (Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep)* "Oh my GOD!" Only then John sat down, faced the table, and slammed his face onto the table surface, with his hands grabbing his hair. Xion was startled by his sudden outburst, and went close to him and asked: "Hey, are you OK?"

Brant was totally oblivious to his surroundings, still singing "Maiahi" and he sat down contently behind his table opposite John's, Antonio also sat down beside him. John then lifted his head abruptly and turned to look at Xion, explaining to her: "Look at him! That cocky Spaniard, with those sparkling sky blue eyes, that platinum blonde hair, and that well-trimmed appearance… GAHH! Every, if not, most people love his CHARM!" (With exaggeration) Brant burped, without changing his facial expression, he declared: "Oh! Teatime!"

Brant pulled out a thermos flask *Cue "Just an Itty Bitty Too Much" (Kingdom Hearts I)* and put it aside on the table, he took out a teacup, and started to make tea. After five seconds he pulled out another bottle and poured its content into the teacup. Antonio was watching the whole progress, he asked: "Say Mr. Brant, is that Whiskey you put in your tea?!" Brant laughed and answered like a drunkard: "No, darling, it's XO and rum together~"

John faced the ceiling suddenly and yelled: "My first loss! And it'll be to that Spaniard!" Xion retorted loudly, but with prominent anxiety: "WHAT LOSS?! You can't lose!" John faced Xion and said: "Brant ALWAYS WINS!"

The third light was switched on, shining at the center of the stage, a man in an officer's uniform - Demyx, stood there. He coughed a few times intentionally and everyone shut up at once. He then announced: "All rise, court is now in session. The honorable judge…" At the same time, a series of drum roll started, and the BGM stopped. Meanwhile a new series of footsteps echoed, and it sounded like high heels… It was getting louder. "… Laura presiding." "PAK!" Another light was switched on, shining at a high lectern behind Demyx, a lady who dressed up overly gorgeously - Laura stood behind the lectern, with a devious smile she said: "He he heh! Hey people~" *Gong smash! And still no BGM yet* The four people below all turned to her and… "LAURA?!" The two lawyers, one defendant and a plaintiff screamed in unison; Xion almost got her jaw hit the floor, John's expression: 0.0, Brant accidentally spitted out whatever he just drank (Actually it's only plain water… or else the cleaning job would be troublesome), only Antonio, the way he screamed was like a crazed fan had just met his idol! "Hey Laura~" He smiled like a big idiot and waved enthusiastically, Laura returned: "Hey Antonio~" John sprang up from his sitting position and unleashed his epic point while yelling: "OBJECTION!" Xion facepalmed beside him, muttering: "Aw crap…!"

"SILENCE AND OVERRULED! DID I SAY YOU COULD SPEAK?!" Laura used the epic point to shoot back at John and screamed as well! "… No, ma'am…" John turned to a zero from a hero and stuttered. "SIT YOUR A** DOWN!" boomed Laura, John also mumbled: "Yes ma'am… T_T" Demyx was snickering, and muttered: "Ha! Pawned!"

"OK, boys, so what's the big deal?" Laura's face reverted to a rather innocent one [Authoress: *Cough**Cough*], she crossed her arms in front of her chest and said. *Cue "Riders of Doom" (The epic part) (Conan the Barbarian) (Attention: The Conan here doesn't mean the Conan from "Detective Conan" or "Case Closed"!)* John stood up with much agitation, pointed at Antonio with the "epic point" pose and yelled at Laura: "That dude's a pervert!" Xion backed up: "I am now suing him for entering the ladies' on purpose!" *Thunderstruck sound* I must say, Laura's change of facial expressions was really of a master's, she pressed both her palms on both sides of her cheek and exclaimed unbelievably: "OH my GOODNESS! IS THAT TRUE, ANDY?!" [P.S. Andy is Antonio's nickname apparently.]

Antonio put on an innocent, pitiful-looking face, very much like this: T_T, and even squeezed out some brimming tears and some sobs. Brant stood up and walked to Antonio's back, putting both his hands on Antonio's shoulders, he said: "Your Honor, clearly my client is being falsely accused by these liars, someone as beautiful and intelligent as you could see that… ^_^" Once Laura heard that, she put on a narcissist's expression, and even did a hair-flip. She said: "Yeah, I'm beautiful and intelligent, good one…" *Cue "Electric de Chocobo" (Final Fantasy VII)* And then she returned to her mighty stance, and sneered: "Alright, Johnny Bravo, call your first witness!"

*Crow squawking* Both John and Xion were dumbfounded, and they let out an "Uhh…" sound. John said awkwardly: "For my first witness, I call Axel to the stand…" Once his words left his mouth, there was a sound of a door being kicked open, a light shone on Axel, wearing a smart and casual suit. Axel had his arms wide open, both of his hands on the "doors", which were made by simply using two pieces of wood boards. He also had a narcissist's stance, and announced: "Watch out people, epic is finally back!"

Xion's face suddenly turned pale and fear was written all over it, she clutched onto John's sleeve like no tomorrow and scowled: "Why did you call him?! He's male for god's sake!" John also realized his mistake all of a sudden and he blurted: "Oh crap, seriously?!" Xion continued, shaking his arm violently: "He couldn't possibly be in the ladies' to witness such a thing, you dumb ass!" Axel stood before Demyx, putting one of his palms on a thick book on Demyx's hand. Demyx said: "You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, or Laura will maim you?" Axel snapped his fingers, winked his eyes and said: "I do."

Once Axel got to the "witness' stand", John approached him and asked: "So Axel…" "Yup?" asked Axel, propping his hands under his chin. John put his hands into his pocket and continued: "Isn't it true, that Antonio is a freaking… pervert?" Without even giving a thought, Axel looked away and said disdainfully: "Well, he hasn't touched me inappropriately." John's and Xion's faces: O.o John exclaimed: "What?!" *Cue "To Our Surprise" (Kingdom Hearts I)* Axel was like telling a story of another person: "Well, I just happened to pass by the back of the ladies', and I saw people hitting him, so I merely lent a helping hand and kicked his butt!" Now, John smacked his face with his palm and muttered: "No more questions… -_-III"

Laura asked: "Mr. Brant, any questions you want to ask?" Brant answered: "No, senorita~ ^_^" Laura nodded once and announced: "Alrighty then, witness may step down and rest. Bye Ax!" Axel turned to leave, and walked to the other side of the stage to the backstage, without looking back, he waved and said: "See ya, Laura!" Laura said while rearranging the documents before her: "OK! Next witness!" *Cue "Electric de Chocobo" (Final Fantasy VII)* John stood up, quickly disregarded his depressed stance earlier and said: "I call Nemix to the stand…" Xion gave him two thumbs up while still seated beside him and cheered in a low tone: "Good! Nemix will back me up!" I tugged at my suit gently before going out on stage. Well, one thing that was dissatisfying was I looked short among all these fellow foreigners, and this was used as one of the plots… making fun of myself, that is. I did what Axel did just now, standing before Demyx and put my left palm on that thick book. Demyx talked to me like talking to a five year-old: "You swear to tell da twooth, da whole twooth and nutting bat da twooth -" "I'm not five, you barnacle head!" I cut off his sentence, with a face that clearly wrote "I'm pissed". Demyx shook his head and said: "Sigh, such bad language…" "Ugh, I do!" I got impatient, so I quickly terminated the conversation.

*Cue "Captain Hook's Pirate Ship" (Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories)* I made my way to the "witness' stand", but… unlike Axel, only my head was visible from the stand's table. Laura jeered: "Hey shortcake, do you need a book or something to sit on?" And that Demyx was snickering nearby. "… Thanks, but no thanks!" I said, pulling out a chair hidden under the table at the "witness' stand". I sat on it, and everything went back to normal. John had just finished snickering, and walked over to me. He asked: "So… Nemix, you agree that Antonio totally walked into the ladies' on purpose, right?" I *acted* agitated and slammed a palm on the table and said: "Of course! Antonio is CONSTANTLY up to no good, figuratively and literally speaking!" John put on a smug face, and his walk back to his "plaintiff's stand" was full of smug as well, he jumped onto his seat, placed both his feet on the table and said with content: "No. Further. Questions." Antonio pouted and muttered under his breath: "Stupid shrimp…" Taking his own sweet time, Brant stood up and asked: "Cross-examine, may I request?" Laura shrugged and said: "OK."

Brant came up to me and asked: "So you say my client is up to no good constantly?" He was like playing the fool, but I still said with much anger: "Yes! He's a freaking pervert!" "Is he up to no good at this moment?" *BGM stops abruptly* The whole stage entered an awkward silence… "…!" I never expected this drunkard to pull this off! [Authoress: Pfft! Wasn't all of this in the drama script? Cut the act… -_-'] Brant could see that I was speechless, so he pressed on the topic, while putting on an innocent calm face: "Answer the question, senorita…" I could not say anything but this: "No… No, he's not…" Upon hearing my words, Brant did a spin on the same spot, signaling victory. *Cue "Jackpot!" (Final Fantasy VII)* And when he stopped, he pointed an accusing finger at me and said: "So you lied to the court?!" John couldn't take it anymore and sprang up from his seat once again, unleashing his "epic point", he yelled: "OBJECTION!" Laura counterattacked him with a louder boom: "Withdrawn!"

*Cue "Tension Rising" (Kingdom Hearts II)* Brant came a bit closer to me and questioned like a fevered interrogator: "Isn't it bloody true you're so bloody short you need to bloody sit on that bloody chair to bloody peek above the bloody bench?!" … Due to astonishment and fury, I could not bring myself to answer his "bloody" question. He straightened himself and asked: "Your honor? ;)" Laura joined in the turmoil: "Hey, answer the question!" Ugh… *Anime vein bulging*

No way, I couldn't take this anymore, since I wasn't able to take it anymore, there's no need to take it anymore! In a swift movement, I jumped onto the table and stuck my hands right on Brant's throat to "strangle" him like dead. I screamed: "I'm gonna bloody kill you, I bloody swear!" Brant's facial expression: O_O He screamed like a little girl: "This person's unstable!" Antonio: O.o John: "*facepalm* Aw shoot… -_-" Xion: 0o0III

Laura finally interrupted, she had a small wooden hammer in her right hand, she used it to hit her table forcefully (But the noise came out was "Doink doink"…), she screamed: "ORDER! Bailiff! Get this kook OUTTA my courtroom!*Anime vein bulging*" Demyx hurriedly came over and wasted half of his strength to drag a crazed me to the backstage… *BGM fades out* *Cue "Disquieting" (Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories)* Once Laura saw Demyx returned, she put on a face of dissatisfaction towards what happened and complained: "Geez, John, your witnesses SUCK!"

John was stunned for a few seconds, and then he pulled out his last triumph card to defend himself: "I-I have one more! My star witness, Soo Jyoo!" *Cue "Dream Eaters" (Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance)* When Laura heard this, she leaned back to lean on her chair. She commented sarcastically: "Oh, this should be good…" Once the words left her mouth, a rapid string of footsteps rang, and it was getting louder. It seemed the person was running. "Tap tap tap -!"

"Am I a pretty star?!" Soo Jyoo ran out from the backstage, and she jumped and exclaimed with both her arms punching the air. Once she landed she returned to her normal standing pose. Her appearance was totally Harayuki's idea: She wore a Japanese high school girl's school uniform, but her hairstyle, behavior, movements, make-up etc. were all of the "Kawaii" style; she looked like a female character alive from the anime! We could hear some of the boys below the stage had gone crazy… Anyways, let's continue. But be warned, her voice was also modified by herself to make it sound "kawaii" too…

She glanced around her, and all the boys on stage were stunned. Just then, the prepared cherry blossom petals descended from the ceiling slowly (Not too much, just about forty petals or so…) to add to the atmosphere. She looked at Demyx's direction and winked her left eye to him. Demyx then put on a rather silly, goofy smile and he fell down backwards. Both of his legs remained in the air for one second after his fall… *Cue "It's Hard to Stand on Both Feet!" (Final Fantasy VII)* Some of the color drained from Soo Jyoo's face and she exclaimed: "Oh my god! Are you OK?!" Laura then announced: "Hello? What the fried chicken is going on?! Can someone get me a new bailiff?!"

After that, all the lights shining at the stage went off for ten seconds, we took this chance to carry Demyx away to the backstage, making a lot of noises intentionally for the drama. And it's time for Anne to show up. Exactly after ten seconds, all the lights were switched on, except there was one more light shining on Anne. "Bailiff Anne Schneider, reporting for duty!" said Anne. Laura nodded, and the new bailiff took the thick book earlier ago. Soo Jyoo repeated what the "witnesses" did before, putting on of her palm on the book. "Um… You swear to tell the truth?" Soo Jyoo nodded vigorously and said: "Sure do, Anny, cross my heart!" *Cue "Bounce-O-Rama" (Kingdom Hearts II)*

At the "witness' stand", John stifled his laughter and asked: "So, Miss Geum… You've seen Antonio over there going into the ladies', right?" Soo Jyoo giggled and replied: "Yup and there are two more people who acted like him too! ^_^" John laughed awkwardly and said: "Ha ha… Two more?" Soo Jyoo nodded vigorously again and said: "Yeah! Like that blonde guy Brandy and you Johnny!" *Cue "Dash-A-Long" (Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories)* *Also with a timpani being hit four times* John was shocked to no end, but he said: "Oh REALLY…" And he tried to change the subject by glaring at Brant. Once Brant heard Soo Jyoo's statement, he spitted out whatever he just drank completely! Antonio used "epic point" back at Brant and yelled: "You…!"

Brant immediately sang his off-key "Maiahi" again to divert the others' attention, John took this chance to take his sweet, sweet revenge by shooting random comments: "Ha! You sir, went into the ladies' too! Objection to all your statements! Ha! Ha!" Anne pulled up her sleeves like she wanted to beat the crap out of them, she gritted her teeth and growled: "You hypocrites…" Laura pulled out a box of popcorn out of nowhere and said while popping them into her mouth: "Oooh~ Drama…" Soo Jyoo could see that the atmosphere's not right, so she said in a small voice: "I know I wasn't supposed to tell, but I swore to tell the truth to Anny!"

"Ugh…" John couldn't take it anymore, so he spun around to face Soo Jyoo and slammed his fist on the table forcefully and yelled: "ISN'T IT TRUE THAT ANTONIO IS IN THE LADIES', HUH?!" *Thunderstruck noise* *BGM stops abruptly* Soo Jyoo was very terrified, her watery big eyes were now brimming with tears, she trembled while choked on her sobs: "Y-yes, but I didn't get a clear view to make sure it was him! T_T" *Cue "Scent of Silence" (Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories)* "Why are you yelling at me, Johnny?! It's not nice! I don't wanna play with you no more! ToT" Once she finished, she buried her face in her arms and leaned on the table's surface. She made those sobbing noises and even trembled. Well, now John was at a wit's end, even Anne was glaring at him with dripping venom, like she was planning to eat him alive. The lights started to become dim, just then Soo Jyoo stood up abruptly, and sent a slap across John's face! "SMACK!" By now, all the lights had gone out. Amidst darkness, only a series of angry footsteps was heard, and also a yell: "MEANIE FACE!" *BGM fades out* Whoa… Everyone was taken aback. After five seconds… All lights went on, everything was back to normal. Laura could see the two lawyers, one plaintiff and one defendant couldn't speak a word, so she took the initiative: "Your first witness turned on you, your second was a psycho, and your third just ran out of the courtroom, calling you a meanie face… WOW! Approach the bench, the BOTH of you! *Anime vein bulging*" Brant and John stared at each other for three seconds, and then they approached to Laura's lectern. Laura dug out an amplifier, and roared at their faces: "YOU FAIL!" They cringed and winced at her volume. Then Laura said in her normal tone: "Now go away…"

Once everyone got back to their position, Laura cleared her throat and asked: "Anybody you want to question, Mr. Brant?" "Y-yes, ma'am… :x" Brant mumbled. He stood up and coughed. And suddenly he shot out a finger to attempt an "epic point" to Antonio, but since Antonio was beside him, his finger jabbed into Antonio's face, and Antonio was hit and fell to the floor sideways. Brant didn't notice this and he announced: "I call my client Antonio to the stand!" Antonio, who was now on the floor, yelped: "How much 'tea' do YOU have?!" … How could a lawyer interrogate his client?! When Antonio stood before Anne to say the oath, Anne gripped his suit collar, with her fist beside her, ready to unleash her attack. He stuttered: "I-I s-s-s-swear t-to tell t-the truth!"… Whatever, at the "witness' stand"… Brant asked him: "So, the girl over there says you went into the ladies' intentionally?" "Uh… yes?" Antonio answered awkwardly. Brant asked again: "Is that true?" Antonio denied it almost immediately: "No way!" He shook his head vigorously. He then explained: "I didn't even see the sign, how could I enter intentionally?" At that moment, the spectators somehow cooperated with us and yelled: "Uso! [Translate (うそ): Liar!]" All the actors on stage looked at them, Antonio then said: "… Shut up… -_-'" And he continued: "Correction! I did enter, but I only entered not more than three steps from the door!" Brant put his hand under his chin and said: "Is that so…"

On the other side… Xion could see that Antonio gained the upper hand, so she gritted her teeth furiously, sputtering a string of incoherent words. John was staring at her, but didn't dare to let out a sound. Brant said: "So this is all a misunderstanding?" Antonio replied: 'Why yes of course!" Xion couldn't take it anymore: "Why you…!" John tried to pull back Xion who was about to fly to Antonio to beat the crap out of him, and he said: "Whoa there, man, calm down… :x"

Brant turned to Laura and said: "A misunderstanding he says…" John decided to launch one of his "greatest hits" once again; he jumped up and unleashed his epic point, screaming: "OBJECTION!" Laura and Brant were startled by his sudden outburst, Laura threw her "Doink Doink" wooden hammer at John, and it hit his head with a "Doink". It fell to the floor. Laura said: "Ugh, don't interrupt when people are talking! What do you want to say?!" John touched the pain spot and continued: "I want to object every statement this Spaniard said, because he can't even speak good enough!" Brant retorted: "No can do, señor!" John also retorted: "You see?! 'Señor' is not English!" *Cue "Hero or Heel" (Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep)*

Laura then said: "Then do you have any proofs? Mr. John?" "Yes! And now I will give him a simple test!" After that, he grabbed two pieces or paper that had pictures on them. The first one was lemonade, and the other one was milk, both with Japanese translation below the picture. Both pictures only depicted a glass filled with liquid, no other additional hints. He let the spectators to see then first, then he asked Brant: "Alright, dude, what do you call this is English?" Brant glanced at it and then clapped his hands and said: "Ah! Yellow water!" John pretended to slip, and then he said: "Of course I know it's yellow, but what is the name of this liquid?!" Brant retorted immediately: "Objection! I already told you the answer, yet you still annoy me! It's yellow, or is it red?! Are you kalabrind [colorblind]?!" John said: "OBJECTION! He even pronounced 'colorblind' wrongly!" Laura interrupted: "Of course I would say it's yellow water, since you didn't clarify your test…" John facepalmed and said: "OK OK fine, on with the next question…" This time he drew a cow's head beside the glass of milk, and turned to them and said: "OK, before we start, let me tell you the previous answer to CLARIFY myself. It's lemonade, or lemon juice… Now what's this in English?!" He pointed at the milk. Brant didn't even give a thought about it and answered happily: "Ah! Moo moo juice!" At that moment, everyone cracked up. Laura laughed like a witch… O.O Brant even did the chicken dance as if he was the champion! *Cue "Victory Fanfare* (Final Fantasy VII)* John fell to the floor on his butt, when he got up he used his "epic point" again: "Objection! Your honor! He doesn't even know what this is!"

Laura threw another "Doink Doink" wooden hammer at him and scoffed: "Oh puh-lease, he doesn't have to know it's milk to help with this case! Your objection is irrelevant in the first place!" Xion headdeskked, like an ostrich. "Hopeless lot…" muttered Xion. John didn't want to give up just yet, so he announced: "Don't worry, I got an idea! An idea so smart my head would explode if I even begin to know what I was talking about!" Just before he could perfectly finish his words, Laura's "Doink Doink" wooden hammer found its way to his head once again. Laura yelled impatiently: "What the fruitcake, John, hurry up!" "OW… T_T" *Cue "What Lies Beneath" (Kingdom Hearts II)*

"OK, I think I got this…" said John, while approaching Antonio. He pulled out some photos from his pocket and slammed them onto Antonio's table. He said: "Misunderstanding eh? Explain these!" Fear flashed on Antonio's face. John saw his opportunity and interrogated: "I've taken these photos of you going into the ladies'! Well?!" Antonio panicked for a while, but for no reason he turned the tables: "What were you doing in the ladies'?! Are you stalking me?!" "…!" He didn't know what to say.

Brant interrupted: "Objection! Permission to speak? *Hic*" (Obviously, he's "drunk"…) Laura yawned and said: "Yeah, whatever… What do you want, Brant?" "Your honor, that John obtained those images, that means he WAS in the ladies' too. He should be ASHAMED!" Laura agreed with him: "I see that you had committed a crime before suing the current defendant. The pictures are out!" *Cue "Riders of Doom" (Conan the Barbarian)* *Thunderstruck noise!* "YOU FAIL!" Brant returned the "epic point" back to John! Xion muttered: "You idiot… -_-"

Laura coughed a few times and continued: "Ugh, this is dragging on… OK people, any questions before my final ruling? ^_^" Xion decided not to take it all in silently anymore, so she slammed a fist on the table and stood up, shouting: "YES! I have a freaking question!" Everyone went silent. *BGM stops* she continued: "Yes, well, why didn't I gotten a chance to speak?!" Laura glanced at her, and turned over to shout at Anne: "You! Bailiff! Get me my 'Doink Doink'!" Everyone cracked up… Anne was stunned, then she handed over another wooden hammer without saying anything. "Thank you." "No prob…"

Laura faced Xion and said: "Oh I'll tell you why, because apparently…" Uh-oh! Laura hauled the hammer at Xion and it hit Xion face first on the nose, and I let out a "BOOM!" sound effect. She fell down on her back! Laura screeched: "No one gives a damn for what you say!" John was startled, but after three seconds he cheered: "WHOO! Not me! D"

Laura was getting irritated, so she said disdainfully: "Ugh! What the… Whatever… I'll make my judgment now!"

After that, she picked up the papers on her lectern and declared: "Alrighty, in this case of 'Antonio's a freaking pervert'… Nice topic, huh, John? … I find the defendant…" *Drum roll* "… Guilty!" *Cymbal clash!*

Everything happened at once: John slammed his face right onto the table, Brant picked up his "tea" cup and raised it to the air, yelling: "Let's ssleh-bleh with rum~!" Antonio sprang up from his chair, causing it to fell. He punched the air with both his hands, screaming: "YES!" *Cue "Victory Fanfare" (Final Fantasy VII)* After merely three seconds! "… Wait, you just said… guilty?" Antonio paused in his victory pose and blurted. *Sound of a car's emergency brake, BGM stops abruptly* John looked up abruptly, saying unbelievably: "I WON?!" Even Xion was "revived", she pushed herself up, saying: "Wait, what?!" Brant didn't even notice his surroundings, he slurred: "Let's ssleh-bleh wif rum anywehs! *Hic*" Antonio squeezed out an awkward smile and asked timidly: "D-don't you mean… innocent?"

Laura retorted at him sarcastically: "What, are you serious? You? Innocent? HAH! No, no, Andy, I went through all this crap simply just to rub salt in your wounds! Do you wanna know why?" Antonio was already speechless due to astonishment, while John was very excited, raising and waving his hand enthusiastically and yelled: "OH! OH! Me! I do!" Laura had a sinister smile on her face and said: "I'll tell you why, Antonio… Just before this trial, I was looking for my favorite PSP, it wasn't where I left it… NO… So someone has to have taken it! I suspected you all along! So I went to your room, and GUESS what I found?!" *Cue "The 13th Struggle" (Kingdom Hearts II)*

Antonio could only let out an "Uh…" sound, with his face pale as heck. Laura continued: "THAT'S right… I found my PSP! IN your room!" She paused and then said: "So when the original judge came to me and said…" Then, all the actors on stage stopped at where they were at, as if being paused by a remote control. At the right of the stage, a person appeared, with a light shining on her: Harayuki. She was also dressed up smart and casual and she said: "Laura, you are far more gorgeous and intelligent than me. You'll be the judge this time." After that, the light went off, and she left secretly back to the backstage. And when the original lights came on, the five actors continued their drama. Laura leaned forward slightly and said with menace: "I couldn't resist this great opportunity to rise up your hopes and SHOOT YOU DOWN, YOU THIEF!"

John held his hands to his chest and said: "Oh my god, I LOVE YOU!" Xion also yelled: "Antonio! YOU FAIL!" *Cue "One-Winged Angel" (Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children)* Laura rubbed her hands, with a sinister smile she said: "Now, for my FAVORITE part of the trial… D" John ran to Antonio immediately, pushed a drunken Brant away and grabbed Antonio's right arm. He shook it non-stop and said with much excitement: "Oh! This is the part where you get punished! :D" Laura continued: "For the intentional break-in into the ladies', you get… *beats around the bush*" Now everyone on stage was nervous to no end!

"… Get your butt kicked by the victims! Right here, right now!" announced Laura, and I hit a gong at the backstage forcefully once, then all of my female classmates (except for Laura and Xion) came out, some with knifes, guns, sticks etc. It seemed they were ready for some kick-butt! *Cue "Mortal Kombat Theme" (Mortal Kombat ~ The Immortals)* Everyone rushed to the center, with Katra as the leader, Antonio was about to be squashed -

"MORTAL KOMBAT!" Antonio screamed with the audio of the BGM synchronically, and he seemed like obtained some sort of power from god-knows-where, and transformed into a battle master. He fought endlessly with the "victims"! And after 20 seconds of battling, only Katra was left! Suddenly Zexion charged out and threw her a weapon: A stick. And then he walked back calmly to the backstage. Antonio and Katra fought for nearly 30 seconds, but Katra was also KO'ed! *BGM fades out* Laura sensed that things weren't going quite smooth as she thought, she commanded: "ORDER! Bailiff! Ge- Oops, she's down… Guards! Take him out!" *Cue "Turk's Theme" (Final Fantasy VII)*

Just then, another light shone at the right side of the stage, Lawrence, William and Yuanfang walked out (Or should I put "waltzed out"?) with swagger (You will know why "swagger" was used here if you listen to "Turk's Theme" that was mentioned above). One of them was playing a three-section cudgel, one was playing a large knife and one was playing a pistol (obviously a toy)! They were really… pretending to be cool, that is, ahem! Antonio was firstly taken aback by the number of people that emerged, but then regained his composure, and searched for something on the floor. But these three "guards" were not decent enough, and they were acting like models to go with the BGM… Well, that was understandable, they were wearing a suit resembling James Bond's, could they not show off for once? Just then! "Doink~ Doink~ Doink!" Three weird noises came out! The BGM stopped, and the three guards fell down to the noise! The truth was Antonio found a "Doink Doink" wooden hammer on the floor, he aimed for the trio's heads and threw it at them, in the end the hammer hit the targets like skipping stones, like the "Angry Birds"! (I don't own it!) Now even the trio's down… "What the fish I'm paying you guys for?!" screamed Laura, and was about to throw - "Crap! I'm out of 'Doink Doink's' …" Laura was scared once she found out she was out of ammo. *Cue "Forze Del Male" (Kingdom Hearts I)* Antonio laughed maniacally facing the ceiling like a demon that had just revived… *Sweat drop* And at that fateful moment -

"DOINK!" Suddenly another noise came in! "OW!" Antonio held his head in his hands and squatted down. And then he turned to Laura and screamed, with his hands on his head: "Aren't you out of 'Doink Doink's' ?!" "W-what are you screaming at me for?! I didn't do it!" "Huh?" He was confused, but he mumbled: "B-but then that means -!" As if sensing something wrong, he suddenly gasped loudly! At the other side of the stage… Xion was fuming as if wanting to beat the crap out of someone: "That's right! IT was me… I'm SICK of EVERYTHING you put me through! Now I'm gonna teach you a lesson… *Anime vein bulging*" "Oh dear, this is going to be EPIC!" said Laura, with anticipation. *Pressing down some random keys on an organ with force and sustain for three seconds!* The lights turned dim, and then went out…

Silence… 1… 2… 3! *Cue "Fiddle de Chocobo" (Final Fantasy VII)* Only one light was on, shining on Xion and Antonio. Xion used the ultimate weapon - "POKE POKE of Doom", and Antonio was "assaulted" to the extent of running around like a madman, crying for his father and mother! Even the lights followed them everywhere… "Ah! No… No! What are you… AAH! I'm so sorry! I'M SORRY~~~~!" The stage curtains were closing, from both sides of the stage to the center. "The end," I said via the microphone from the backstage, but when I finished, Axel snatched the microphone and spoke into it: "Got it memorized?"

The spectators were laughing so hard, and the applause was thunderous. Ha! Never expected I would be so successful! Yes~! [Authoress: Hey hey, 207, I only wrote a few compliments on you, and you're starting to get cocky? 207: Geez, Authoress, I never get to be so cocky before in my life, so maybe once in a while won't hurt! Authoress: … Whatever floats your boat, because I agree with you… *Sweat drop*] All the actors of the drama appeared from both sides of the stage and we bowed to the spectators together. Our random drama ended here! Koko de owarimasu [Japanese (ここ で おわります)]. Now, the orchestra was about to begin…

While all of us were preparing at the backstage, Xion and Roxas were entertaining the crowd with a piano and violin performance of "Musique pour la tristesse de Xion" (Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days). And when we finally put everything we need on stage, we started the orchestra right away. The conductor was Ryuutaro since he wasn't very good with the instruments. I was in charge of the timpani (I can't play the others well… so, yeah). The rest of the members: Zexion: Piano; Roxas: Piano; Xion: Contrabass; Demyx: Flute (The sitar wasn't used… Sorry people, can't find one song that had the sitar); Axel: Drum set. We performed a string of medley from the Kingdom Hearts series: I, II, Re: Chain of Memories, Birth by Sleep, Final Mix etc. (Mind you, I don't own any of them! All credits go to their respective composers and rightful owners) and it was quite long, about 30 minutes… Deal with it, at least what Demyx planned was EPIC. I dare to say that even my finest hair on my neck stood up on its end to the medley, it was so epic!

Here's the list of music he put in the performance, but only a part from each song was added in the medley: (In order)

1) Dearly Beloved (Kingdom Hearts II);

2) Traverse Town (kingdom Hearts I);

3) Mickey Mouse Club March (Kingdom Hearts II);

4) Lazy Afternoons (Kingdom Hearts II);

5) Sinister Sundown (Kingdom Hearts II);

6) Roxas (Kingdom Hearts II);

7) The Other Promise (Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix);

8) Rage Awakened (Kingdom Hearts Final Mix);

9) Fate of the Unknown (Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix);

10) Enter the Darkness (Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep);

11) Ventus (Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep);

12) He's a Pirate (Kingdom Hearts II);

13) Monochrome Dreams (Kingdom Hearts II);

14) The Promised Beginning (Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep);

15) Risky Romp (Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep);

16) The Silent Forest (Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep);

17) Enter the Void (Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep);

18) Dark Impetus (Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix);

19) Tension Rising (Kingdom Hearts II);

20) Sora (Kingdom Hearts II);

21) Desire for All That is Lost (Kingdom Hearts II);

22) Dance to the Death (Kingdom Hearts II);

23) Rowdy Rumble (Kingdom Hearts II);

24) Old Friends, Old Rivals (Kingdom Hearts II);

25) A Fight to the Death (Kingdom Hearts II);

26) Darkness of the Unknown (Kingdom Hearts II);

27) Spooks of Halloween Town (Kingdom Hearts II);

28) Musique pour la tristesse de Xion (Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days);

29) Vector to the Heavens (Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days);

30) Sacred Moon (Kingdom Hearts II);

31) Hikari (Kingdom Hearts I);

32) Hollow Bastion (Kingdom Hearts I);

33) Riku (Kingdom Hearts II);

34) Lord of the Castle (Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories);

35) Organization XIII (Kingdom Hearts II);

36) The 13th Struggle (Kingdom Hearts II)

37) The 13th Dilemma (Kingdom Hearts II);

38) Scent of Silence (Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories);

39) Passion (Kingdom Hearts II);

40) Pirate's Gigue (Kingdom Hearts I);

41) Forze Del Male (Kingdom Hearts I);

42) Dearly Beloved (Compilation of all the series together).

OK, that was long, but I think it was worth it! Ha! Demyx really pulled off a good show. We all trained like mad for this, 42 songs in one go wasn't all that simple, luckily I only had to hit the timpani, not the piano or something like it… ha ha! There were strings like contrabasses, violins, acoustic grand pianos, flutes, harps, drums and even brass like trumpets, horns. Thank goodness it was all done smoothly. Again, we all bowed to the crowd after our performance.

Now, only one week was left before departure, but guess what: The school gave us, Class 3-13, a six-day vacation and formed a tour in Japan! The destinations mainly focused on Tokyo, but we also went to Kyoto, Nara and Osaka! Holy Bananas, we were SSSOOO lucky~ Sure, the tourist attractions were fun, but the delicacies alone tasted so great, that feeling was like in heaven… ^_^ But when we paid for the bills, we dropped from heaven to hell: They were all calculated in thousands and ten thousands Japanese Yen, which made our eyes popped out with springs and our jaws almost hit the floor! Although there's a saying "There is no such thing as free lunch", even though there's no free… wasn't it a little too expensive?! Fortunately, our fees and expenses were all paid by the school, or else we would be feeding on cherry blossom petals in not even one day… -_-'

The last stop at the last night was Tokyo Tower, we stood high above all grounds and took in all the night scene of Tokyo from above. Even though the sun had long set into the unknown depths, and night had visited this "Country of Sunrise", the streetlights, lights from buildings, vehicle lights etc. were still shining brightly, the bustling busyness was nothing short than that in the day. It's like Japan never rests… as if it was striving every time. I haven't been to South Korea before, but it would be similar to China or Japan, I guess? So there's no doubt why the leader of my country encouraged us to "Learn from the East"; the people of these countries portrayed assiduousness, perseverance (bearing hardship without complaints and all that), professionalism and dedication in work, and willing to learn something to improve lives.

Then another thought came to me: Although Japan had been entitled as one of the countries with advanced technology, it did have some hidden crisis and worries, with earthquakes as the one that posed the most threat, the next would be tsunami. Many years ago till now, the Japanese held annual drills to let them grow accustomed to living with the presence of earthquakes, it did decreased the number of casualties, but when the real disaster took its toll, loss of property will be inevitable. And this would contribute some negative impacts to the economic growth, be it a small disaster or not. Once a few years when natural disasters attacked, the government would have to withdraw a large sum of money for disaster relief and reconstruction purposes, without this sum of money to aid in the development of the country, the long-term effect wouldn't be very beneficial. Even so, no one was to be blamed: the location of Japan on the Earth was too strategic; on the boundaries of the Eurasian plate and Pacific plate. The constant crustal and sliding movement of these two plates, which involves grinding against each other, causes a lot of friction, and this brings about the earthquakes and tsunamis. Therefore, the seismic activities in Japan are frequent. So, I take it the gods are fair?

Despite all of these, the Japanese never gave up on themselves. They still endured the hardship with no complaints. This quality was what makes me admire them. Yeah, even if there's a natural disaster going on, there were still meals to be taken, and a life to live. Since you were not dead in the ordeal, this means, as in a Chinese saying "If you survived a great ordeal, you will have a great deal of fortune afterwards". And if you simply gave up on yourself then, not wanting to go on and be like an ostrich and stuck its head into the ground, you were pretty much waiting to die, and where will the "fortune" supposed to be? Just add a "mis" in front to make it "misfortune" if that's the case. (Sorry, due to the too overwhelming and epic night scenery, I had all of these random reflections going on in my head. He he… deal with it)

After so many days of being crazy, finally the last day in Matsuaki Academy arrived… We were not having any classes today, instead we chatted with the teachers in our classroom. And then we went to the canteen to have lunch together as a class. Occasionally, we would meet some Japanese students who came up to say hi, most of them talked to us about the silly drama we performed. According to them, John, Brant, Antonio and Laura were the "Famous Four" in the drama. The next were Xion, Axel, and the "Guards". Although my role in the drama wasn't a major one, but I was at least complimented for choosing those background music. Ha! Instrumental music pawns! And there some school reporters of Matsuaki Academy came to interview all students of Class 3-13, about our life here, the drama and also the two cases Organization XIII solved in Japan. I guess I wouldn't have the time to let my thought wander silently today, huh?

At 11 o'clock sharp (Malaysian Time: 10 o'clock), all of us would be gone. We were told to gather at the school foyer at 8 o'clock. Before we left our dorm room, we took loads of pictures, and we still kept taking pictures as we headed our way to the foyer. Some of us were already there. Harayuki, Ryuutaro and Ienzo had the option of not coming, yet they arrived anyway. As the members of Class 3-13 showed up one by one, even the principal, Miss Aerith and our form teacher, Miss Aqua came as well.

About 8:20 p.m. we got on the school bus and headed to the Shinkansen bullet train station. And from there we went to Tokyo Haneda International Airport via bullet train. The ones living in the countries due south of Japan would have to take a flight to the transit city, Singapore. As for the rest, they would leave according to their boarding time. Coincidentally, we the "Malaysian Gang" (Not gangsters, mind you) were the last batch… Again, we were the last. The first two to leave were Yuanfang and Soo Jyoo (South Korea and China are very close to Japan), before their departure, our hands were quite busy: 1) Taking out papers, notebooks etc.; 2) Jotting down everyone's phone number, Facebook accounts, e-mail addresses etc.; 3) Group hug; 4) … I seriously didn't want to admit this… Wipe the tears. Hey, let me tell you, I didn't cry, I really didn't shed a single tear! It's just my nose felt very sour, that's all… -_-III

Soo Jyoo's rain-like sobs could really mess up all our barely-under-control emotions, once she cried, we couldn't take it any longer… Luckily Laura and Harayuki were there to calm her down, or else there would be a flood in Haneda Airport. After seeing them both off, next up were John, Antonio and Brant, they were taking the same plane, and would got off at their respective stations along the way. John and Brant even sworn to be brothers! They did their best by not letting the atmosphere to get too heavy with sadness, via joking around. Sigh… These two…

After half an hour, Laura and Ian had to leave too. Laura, who had just consoled Soo Jyoo not too long ago, suddenly fell apart and cried so hard. Harayuki's eyes reddened while she tried to calm her down, and she could finally get a hold of herself. Ian still maintained his gentleman appearance, at least he could bid his farewell to us normally but when he spun around, I could hear a soft sob escaping from him. Anne, the last person living in Europe, also left us ten minutes later. She said she was really grateful to attend classes in Class 3-13, and even befriended so many random people whose behaviors didn't make any sense. Although she, a rather well-disciplined and reserved person, found it hard to get used to it initially, after being together for so long, she didn't mind it at all. Sigh, you miss, were too serious… But anyway, I was really happy to be her classmate for 3 to 4 months.

Now, only me, Zexion, Roxas, Axel, Demyx, Lawrence, Xion, William and Katra were left. Half of Class 3-13 was gone… Katra, who looked strong on the exterior, did something out of her character that made our eyes popped out: She was hugging Miss Aqua, crying. I stifled a facepalm, and stifled a bubbling emotion that I only managed to control not long ago. We were supposed to get on the same plane, and when we arrived at Singapore for transit, William (Singaporean) and Katra (Thai) would separate with us. Lawrence wouldn't be leaving for Australia soon, he would take a short holiday break at my house in Penang and then he would return.

There was still 45 minutes before 11 o'clock, our mood were getting tense. Since there was still time, I told them I was going to watch the stars outside, and would return at half past ten. It only took me a while to get outside. The sky was painted a pitch black, as if it had just came out from a jar of black ink. I took in a deep breath, the cold air flushed into my lungs and then warm air came out slowly. "Say, 207… you weren't here to see the stars, right?" Another voice interrupted me. I turned my head slightly and saw Ienzo behind me. "… Good guess…" I said, turning my head back to its original position. Ienzo said: "The light pollution here is quite worse, what can you see anyway…" "Hey, imitating me?" "Ha, thanks to you, after being with you guys for so long it's hard not to imitate." He walked to my left, and we sat down.

And then, I let the silence to descend. Ten seconds went past us just like that…

I took a peek at him, but he was peeking as well, big eyes versus smaller eyes… "You go first then," we blurted in unison. I paused at our situation, and I laughed lightly and said: "Alright, you go first." He didn't respond at once, after 1 second he replied: "Ah? Oh… Sorry." [P.S. If you listen to "One Night" from "Fantasy Railroad in the Stars", it suits the mood quite well in my opinion. I don't own this. Look it up in YouTube.]

He started: "… For these months, I really… really want to thank you and Organization XIII. You helped me to solve so many problems… I… *Paused for a short while, and sniffed once* …I know I'm weak and a coward, never want to… to face the truth, about Satou, I actually never took a positive action… Luckily I have you guys…" Why did I get such an uncomfortable feeling when I continued to listen? I then said: "Actually, during that time… I was very hotheaded and impulsive, only wanted to solve the problems quick… So… if there's anything I offended you… I'm sorry about that." Once he heard my words, he shook his head immediately and said: "No no no! You don't have to be sorry. It was me… being so procrastinating and sentimental… And I even gave you so much trouble. I got you kidnapped, and even almost got you k-" "Eh… erm, wasn't I… alive and kicking in front of you?" Quickly before he could finish his words, I grabbed his scarf and blocked his mouth. Eh… as I said earlier, if you survived a great ordeal, you will have a great deal of fortune afterwards! Let's just ignore the fact that I fell into the sea… :x

"…" Only then I realized what I just did, I moved my hand away abruptly and apologized like no tomorrow: "S-sorry! The last time was a thick dictionary, and this time is a scarf! I'm really sorry!" Ienzo was taken aback by me at first, and then he said: "No, I'm the one who should apologize! I shouldn't have mentioned that incident!" I sighed and said; "… If that's the case, we're even?" "Ah? Ah, yes. :o"

We then tore our eyes away from each other and looked at the dark departure site of the airport in front of us. Once again, an uncomfortable silence reigned… I took a glimpse at my watch, fifteen minutes whizzed past faster than I thought. Holy Bananas, it's already half past ten! I didn't look at Ienzo, and blurted: "We would still keep in touch, right?" "… Huh? Oh, yes, right…" He didn't seem to expect me to ask him this question. I bit my lower lip, and said: "… That's good. *Sigh* … I'll leave first." Once the words left my mouth, I stood up abruptly and was about to turn and run straight into the airport. In that split second - Someone grabbed my right wrist.

At the same time… "207! Wait for m-" He didn't finish the "me", and he was about to fall again. Out of pure instinct, I pulled him forcefully, saving him once again. Once he stabilized himself, I let go of his right hand and let my hand drop to my side. I didn't dare to look at him in the eyes, so I stared at the floor. I said first: "It's half past ten… it's time to go." Even if I had done talking, I still stared at the floor. What have I done?

… His response was a bit delayed. I carefully, anxiously and slowly lifted my head, when I could see his chin, he was already trembling. Oh NO… Don't tell me…! I gulped, and continued to lift my gaze until I could see his face. He was frowning, his lips shut tightly and his visible left eye was slightly red. Oh SHOOT… One of the things I feared the most was someone crying in front of me, I fear girls crying, but I'm more scared of boys crying before me! Holy Bananas! What was I thinking?! Why did I have to throw him a word and leave all of a sudden and out of the blue?! Great, in order to make myself less uncomfortable, I had saddened someone else!

Guilt pressurized me in a blink of an eye, my nose felt sour again, I said first: "… I'm sor-" Not waiting for me to complete my sentence, he closed in quickly and hugged me real tight, with his chin resting on my left shoulder. I was shocked yet again… My mind totally blanked out… He then started to bawl, bursting into tears. Crap… "*Weeps*… 207… H-how could you j-just simply throw a w-word to me and run away…?! *Weeps*… How could you?! Waah… Am I not your friend…?" He was trembling, so was I. I desperately held back the surfacing tears and the choking sobs, after so much effort, I could finally squeeze out a much delayed sentence: "… S… Sorry… *Holding back…* I-it's my f-fault… It's… my… fault…" And this time, I couldn't care that much, and returned the hug. His frame was already slightly smaller than mine, and at that moment, he looked much more helpless and weak. The environment outside of the airport was naturally very noisy, but at that time, I could only hear his cries, heard by the ear, pricked in the heart…

After 3 to 4 minutes, his conditions were more stable. The rock hanging onto my heart dropped, but I was also very tired and exhausted. He let go, and pulled away, returning to his original position. Although he still had some silent sobs, at least it was better than before. "I-I'm really sorry about that…" I said first. "*Sob* I-I forgive you… Don't *Sob* don't ever do t-this again…" "… Yes, I remembered that. We… go in… Let's return then?" "… Alright…" I went in first, with him following me.

From the outside to the place we waited for the boarding gate to open was about 1 to 2 minutes by foot. Once we got in, a drizzle came about outside. (Cue "Melodic Sad Piano ~ Sound of Falling Rain", I stumbled across this song on YouTube, quite nice, I must say, and I don't own this one too) We kept silent as we walked back, even so, I still had the aftermath of the guilt from before, and it's uncomfortable. I dug out a piece of tissue paper and handed it to him, saying: "Here, use this. Wipe your tears." "Eh? Oh… Thanks." He took it and pressed gently around his eyes. I said quietly: "I apologize; I had no idea what I was doing back there… It's not that I don't see you as a friend…" By then he finished wiping, and he shook his head softly and said: "… It's OK. Actually I can understand your actions just now… You must have thought that… by that way, maybe it wouldn't feel so bad?" … Since when this guy became an expert in reading and analyzing human thoughts and actions?! Nevertheless, he did hit a core point: Sometimes, no emotional attachments means no bad feelings. Yes, I know this sounds kind of cruel, and a little bit of selfish, but it did have the same nature like quitting an addiction; if you wade deeper into it, the more suffer you experience when you decide to quit. "… Yeah, it's about like that."

After we finished the conversation, we also arrived at where we were waiting for the boarding gate to be opened. Since our boarding time had come, the nine of us said goodbye to Harayuki, Ryuutaro, Miss Aerith, Miss Aqua and Ienzo. Once we gathered our baggage, we headed towards the international departure gate, ready to emigrate from Japan. Before I went in, I turned around once again to look at them, but I never expect that Ienzo was not too far behind me, he seemed like he still had something to say: "207, just wait a moment…" "What's wrong?" "… Remember to keep in touch." "… Why yes of course, silly. Oh right, the same quote as before: Don't miss me too much, OK?" "… Oh."

After I listened to him, I spun around and before I walked into the gate, I added another sentence: "But don't forget there is a person with the codename 207." After I said the words, I quickly walked in to catch up with the others. This time, Ienzo stood there at the same spot, not catching up. I could hear him say this since I wasn't too far from him: "I will never forget. Sayounara."

Okay, sayounara.

OK… So now all of us didn't feel so sad and bad anymore, but as for the more or less 6 hour flight later… Ahem, I spent all those hours sleeping my head off! Usually 11 o'clock wasn't my sleeping time, but after having been through all those way too sentimental stuff earlier, I was so freaking tired and exhausted, and I was not made of iron anyway. Although the environment wasn't as quiet and comfortable as my bedroom, I still fell into the middle of nowhere in the land of sleepiness.

When I finally woke up, I was woken up by Roxas. By that time we were 1 hour due to our transit city, Singapore. The air steward crew was rushing in and out serving drinks, and I requested a cup of apple juice to wake up my sleepy mind. Once 1 hour was over, the airplane we're on finally landed in Singapore Changi International Airport. Our next flight to Malaysia was half past seven in the morning (Malaysian time), but it was only 4 o'clock or something now… But since we're hungry, we went to a restaurant in the airport to have a very early breakfast. When one's hungry, everything tastes nice; in the end I ate too much and used up 10 Singaporean Dollars or something! Holy Bananas! Nearly 20 Malaysian Ringgit were "eaten" by me… So I have to finish up everything and leave no food behind, and that's what I call "worth each cent". After the nine of us filled our stomachs, we joked among ourselves. I underestimated William all along; despite his decent appearance, his jokes were so funny your reactions range from laughing until your stomach bursts to speechless! Never judge any book by its cover… yes indeed.

The ones returning to Malaysia had to leave earlier this time. Katra's flight was an hour later than ours, and William was very tired, so he went straight home. When the time was up, the members of Organization XIII boarded the airplane that would fly straight to Penang, but after I found my seat, I settled down and fell asleep once again. Hey, it's about an hour's flight, I will have to grab whatever chance I get to sleep! Hmm, and when I reach home, I could sleep for another few hours… Holy Bananas! I feel so HAPPY~ :D [Authoress: Although I don't want to admit this, it really is happy to get to sleep like that… Like what Axel said in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days: … Sleep. After done with that, roll over and sleep some more!]

Soon (much to my displeasure), we reached Penang International Airport. Our respective parents were waiting for us at the Arrival Hall. Even my mum and dad came to pick me and 443 up, but the first thing my mum said to me was: "You got fatter…" … An arrow hit me! I guess I ate too much back there in Japan… We threw our luggage into the rear compartment and we slept on the car. When we hit my home, I threw the baggage downstairs, brushed my teeth and collapsed onto the bed and continued my slumber! Gosh… Just let me die on my bed~!

The date when all of us returned to our respective countries was 1st of April, and we were informed by Kairi that we, the members of Organization XIII (except Lawrence), were to report ourselves at the principal's office at 6 o'clock sharp in the morning on 5th of April. We were told that we may start to take lessons straight away that day, so we should be fully prepared, with the school bags, uniforms, stationery together with us. As for the textbooks, she said we would receive them from the principal on that day as well. Therefore, we would return to a Malaysian 9th Grade (Form 3) student's life, and will be taking the PMR (A crucial exam for lower secondary students) exam in October… Sigh! I didn't know whether this was a good thing or not. But I couldn't blame anyone; I was the one to throw that stone to decide what I should do… -_-

But, there was definitely one thing to be happy about; I could stick together with my old friends from last year! And I do hope they didn't throw me away into oblivion. And of course, one of the benefits was I could get to taste the local delicacies of Penang! Ha ha ha~! There's "char koay teow" (fried flat noodles, 炒粿条), "Hokkien Mee" (Hokkien style spicy prawn noodles, 福建面), "nasi lemak" (rice mixed with coconut milk, 椰浆饭)… Holy Bananas! I didn't know whether it's been a while since I ate these food or other reasons, I was eating these local delights these days, I seriously didn't care if I was going to be fat like a pig, because they were simply delicious! Actually Japanese food wasn't too bad either, but most of them were too expensive… Sigh. I was like a hungry ghost that had just revived! -_-III

We were lazing around in our homes for a few days, and finally the morning of 5th of April arrived…

I woke up at 5 in the morning, but I didn't feel like "bed sick" or something, in fact, I feel energized somehow. I changed into the old helper prefect school uniform which was being shut away in the closet for more than three months. Since it wasn't all crumpled up, I didn't iron it. Once I adjusted my necktie, I went downstairs to take my breakfast. When everything was all set, my mum drove me to somewhere I thought I wasn't being able to return forever - Kingdom Hearts Campus.

Since it was still very early, there weren't traffic jams on the roads, so we took only ten minutes to arrive at the school. I got off, said goodbye to my mum, and I walked slowly to the school gate. Now it was only 5:40 a.m., the school's main gate hadn't opened yet. Instead, the side gate was. Before I set foot into the school, I stood outside and watched at this still-asleep high school. Nothing changed at all, the grass in the field still bore the same green, the roofs were still the usual red, and the wall was still as white as before. The scene remained, so I hope the people here followed the footsteps of this scene.

When I had enough of watching it, I started to speed up my steps and entered Kingdom Hearts High School, in which my footsteps had long been absent. The sky still hadn't turned brighter, so the lights at the corridors were on. Even though it's been too long a time since I walked around here, I still remembered my way in here, each and every corridor was still fresh in my memory, they couldn't be forgotten even if I tried to. Still, it was too early, besides the security guards, I guess I was the only student in this huge quiet building. Everything was in dead silence… I reached the foyer, and I stopped there. I still had ten minutes before the appointed time, and the principal's office was nearby, so I sat down on a bench and waited for the other five members of Organization XIII.

In not even five minutes, Zexion, Demyx, Roxas, Axel and Xion arrived one by one to the foyer. I didn't know whether their feelings were as complicated as mine. Although we're chatting, from time to time, I still glanced at that particular corner of the notice board - that particular corner that penalized us without giving us a chance to defend ourselves. People say you would think of someone when looking at a particular object, or some emotions would surface when you were in a particular scene. As for me, I looked at a particular object and I thought of some people and felt some emotions, but let's not get happy; what I thought of was the people that would evoke indignation and bad memories.

That time, the evidences on our hands were either being overruled, or being destroyed without our knowledge. Forget about proving the opposition guilty, instead we got ourselves falsely accused, and we couldn't whitewash ourselves - no, correction: we really wanted to whitewash ourselves, but they wouldn't let us to do that! And so with the false accusation, we were expelled. Luckily we managed to hide the truth from our parents and the school didn't seem to know we were rescued by Matsuaki Academy in Tokyo. But, the more I thought about it, the weirder I felt; why did the school want us to return? What for? Although the reason given was there's something for us to settle, I still thought this move was driven by other intentions. Was the motive was as simple as stated?

Don't tell me it's like this: They called us to come here, by rewarding or punishing, beg or force us to destroy whatever evidences we left with us; Or they were going to bribe us, telling us to hand over the evidences, and don't ever return here; Or else it's to… *Gulp* Kill. The. Witness?! O.O [Authoress: Hey, hey… *sweat drop* Are you being too imaginative?! Stop where necessary! Geez, you watched too much ancient dramas…] … Fine, I couldn't care that much, either I would let all hell broke loose, or I would just escape, or I would take what they gave me, and still capture them if they commit crimes! Get a grip, it's not like there's no any law here, and I suppose they were not so outrageous… right…?!

"207? Hey 207!" Somebody shook my shoulder. I pulled myself out of my tangled up thoughts, and I returned to the reality. I turned to see Roxas beside me, with his left hand on my right shoulder. "What's gotten into you? You never answered when I called you for a few times. What were you thinking?" he asked. I spaced out a while and then replied: "Ah? Nothing, I was just thinking about… which class I would be in! Ha ha! Nothing…" "… Speaking of which, would we be in the same class?" I didn't get to respond, because Axel was calling in front of us: "Hey! What were you guys doing back there? We were going in, so hurry up!" "Yes, we're going!" After I replied, I pulled Roxas along with me and caught up with them.

Exactly at 6 o'clock, we entered the principal's office. After we turned right once and passed by the vice principal's desk, we saw three persons - Mr. Xemnas the Principal, Mr. Saix the Head of Discipline and… Devilish Director. Well, Mr. Xemnas' face was as neutral as before - emotionless; although Mr. Saix's facial expression was close to Mr. Xemnas', but I still could tell he's somewhat glad we're finally back; as for Devilish Director, she didn't look very happy we're back, but her face told us she couldn't do anything against our return. The "not amused" expression on her face was just as the same as the one when we refuted to defend ourselves last years. Ugh, my mood instantly turned bad once I saw her face! Guess I'd have to look somewhere else except her face then…

Nonetheless, Devilish Director took the initiative to speak: "Not bad, you all are early indeed. You six will be in Class K3B, you may receive your textbooks from the Head of Discipline along with your schedules and other relevant documents," she said, scanning us with her sharp eyes, as if with one sentence she spoke to us would cost her one piece of her flesh. Once she paused, Mr. Xemnas took the opportunity and said: "OK, since every important person is here, I now announce that Counter Crime Group Number 13 is reinstated, as for the other member from Counter Crime Group Number 24, she will be recruited into Counter Crime Group Number 13, making the group consists of 6 members. All the posts of the members remain the same. No objections?" "No," Mr. Saix was the first one to agree. Devilish Director said shortly after hesitation: "Sure, but with one condition."

Crap Crap CRAP! Could my overly vast imagination just now turn real?!

"That is, everything happened in the past should be written off, no one should bring up the matter ever again, and that includes their last case here, they are not to bring it up or held a retrial." … What sort of a crap was that?! Hey! You're the one who was covering up for the criminal, and now you were asking me to just sit there and watch this scum (who could be still in this school) on the loose and let him do what he wants?! It's only been a few months, and you seemed to have a cuckoo in your mind! I was about to give her a piece of my mind, suddenly a hand shot out and grabbed my right arm. Instinctively I turned my head to see who did it, it's Zexion. He shook his head slowly, hinting me not to get hotheaded. Fine, where there is life, there is hope; a gentleman never make a fuss over how soon he would be taking his revenge; back away doesn't mean weak most of the time; and - [Authoress: *Slaps Nemix on the head with Zexion's Lexicon* The main point, please!] (OW…) Let's not get impulsive now or we were finished… again.

I was not the only one who got hotheaded; Axel was being held back by Roxas, Demyx extended an arm to block Xion before she could act rashly. Mr. Xemnas noticed our weird actions, so he asked: "What's wrong? Do you have any opinions?" Zexion replied immediately: "No, sir. Not at all." "Then good. I still have some matters to attend to, now if you'll please excuse me I have to go," said Devilish Director, and then she went for the door to her office. After she walked out of Mr. Xemnas' office, Mr. Saix said: "The class you all are assigned to was determined by your end-of-year exam in 8th Grade, although you all weren't able to sit for the 9th Grade first test in March, we substituted the results with the same end-of-year 8th Grade exam as well. But, the midyear exam will be held in mid-May. I heard that you all had lessons in a foreign country all this while, so it should be quite hard for you to get used to the curriculum syllabus here again. Be prepared by then."

… OK… I'll try.

After that, we followed Mr. Saix to the Discipline Room to receive our textbooks, schedules, name tags etc. and then we walked to K3B ourselves. Axel was dragged away by Roxas for a while, he broke free of Roxas' grip after some time, but he merely remained at the same position, he said angrily: "What the crap… The crap was she doing?! What did she mean 'no retrial and no bringing up the matter'… Are we going to let things be at this rate?!" Xion also chimed in: "Exactly! Obviously she was afraid of us digging up the truth and bringing her trouble! What the fish!"

Roxas could see the fire on these two weren't about to cease at any moment, so he tried to calm them down: "Eh… Calm down you two… Now it's not the time argue with her." Zexion nodded once and said: "Roxas is right. The time is not right yet, also we do not have any evidences with us, we have not even a bit of ability to fight back, if we decide to retaliate now, we were pretty much asking for trouble. Since we get to return here once again, why not save our strength and start all over again? Once we gathered all the solid evidences, it is still not too late we have another bone to pick with her." After I cool off my hotheadedness and thought about it, what Zexion said did make sense after all: I dare to say we didn't possess any vital witnesses or evidences now, we should just settle down like it is, and while they thought we all forgotten about it, we could land a surprise attack! Now that's what I call sweet revenge. Demyx also said: "Yes, we put in so much effort to come back, we are not stable in terms of position, if we all messed it up and let the history replay, we were finished by then."

We talked while walking down the corridors, finally we reached K3B in the third floor. I stood before the door, staring at the sign written "K3B". Heh, a couple of months ago, I took a bet with Fayra Joann and the one who didn't manage to enter class K3B have to leave and enroll into another school immediately. I came up with my 8th Grade end-of-year results, with my own abilities, all the way from K2D by hopping over two classes. She'd better not let me see her in this class, so I could turn the tables and watch her reaction! Ho ho! And what's happier, the six of us were in the same class again! YES!

I saw that no one was in the classroom, so I entered the vacant classroom and switched on the fans and lights, searched for a lucky place and sat down. We sat close to each other, and once we settled down, we started to chat away. Demyx asked: "Say Nemix, we weren't occupying some other people's seats, right?" I patted his arm playfully and said: "Geez, you could always get up by then and look for another seat! Anyways, it's still a quarter past six, no one's going to argue with you over a seat so early in the morning." Roxas commented: "I am so not used to the chairs here… the ones in Tokyo were more comfortable." "Wow, why is it so hot here?" asked Axel, using a book as a fan. "Axel, don't forget Tokyo is colder, comparing with the weather here, now every morning doesn't seem so cold anymore," explained Xion. "Hmm, I do wonder who else is in the same class as ours…" Zexion propped his hand under his chin and said.

Sometimes, answers are that impatient after all.

"AHH!"

A girl's voice came in from the outside, the six of us looked at the classroom door in unison, but we're shocked at what we saw: Kairi, Naminé and Ventus were outside! "NO WAY… You guys… K3B?!" screamed Kairi unbelievably. "No, we just happened to enter the wrong classroom and now we sat down and chatted 'cause we're tired!" said Axel with a rather bored face, and then he continued: "Of course we are in K3B!" Naminé was so shocked she dropped her sketchbook files right onto Ven's foot. "OW!" screamed Ven, hopping on one foot while the other was held in his hands, but Naminé was in such a trance she took no notice of what happened beside her, instead she mumbled: "You… you guys… were finally… back…"

Kairi rushed in first, she threw her bag onto some random desk and ran towards us to give us a group hug! Oof! Couldn't breathe… "OMG! The three of us are in the same class as you guys! OMG! OMG! I never expected you guys to return here successfully! Oh my gosh!" Ven called from the outside: "Hey! Kairi! Wait for us!" And then he dragged a still-shocked Naminé to us. Let's have a happy reunion then~

Kairi: "What did they say back in the principal's office?"

006: "Everything should be back to normal, but we are not supposed to bring up what happened in the past or do a retrial."

Nami: "What? No way?!"

Ven: "Wow, what a relentless one, they really won't let you guys return without some price."

207: "But who gives a damn? They won't even know even if we conduct an underground investigation! )"

135: "Eh Nemix, I think it's the best if we be more cautious, if they are so rest assured to let us return, then they should have full confidence that we won't be able to reinvestigate the past events, they may even have hired a secret organization to spy on us for all we know…"

Kairi: "O.o"

006: "… *Sweat drop* But whatever it may be, it is still good that we are able to be in the same class."

013: "*Nod nod* Yes yes yes! Oh, yeah, right, who else is in K3B as well?"

Ven: "Um… let's see… There's Sora, Riku, Hayner, Pence, Olette, and some old friends I am sure you all know. Other than that, the rest are pretty much new faces that we don't recognize, this time this class is comprised of students from the classes behind and from the first class as well."

006: "Then that means some students scored fairly well and some scored lower than expected to have come to this class. Interesting…"

207: "Let's just ignore the rest, I have only one question: Is Fayra Joann in this class?"

Nami: "I'm pretty sure about this; NO. She stayed in Class K3C instead."

207: "OoO Zhen de?! [Chinese (真的). Translation: Really?!] Awak seriuskah?! [Malay. Translation: Are you serious?!] Seriously?! Hontouni desuka?! [Japanese (ほんとうに ですか). Translation: Is it true?!]"

222: "… Hey Nemix, calm down… Why did you always speaking in 4 or more languages when you're agitated?!"

383: "YES! Served her right! She was being such a pain in the neck!"

Kairi: "I take it you all hate her guts…"

All except her: "You don't say?"

207: "*Just finished laughing maniacally* I so want to know how she failed… didn't she study oh-so-well?"

Nami: "As for this one I have some insider information; I was the one who helped her to check her 8th Grade end-of-year-exam paper, because she happened to go for her vacation overseas right after the exam and declared herself on holiday earlier than all of us. And let me tell you, from her answers and all that, I could tell she was studying without thinking, whichever question regarding general knowledge (not from textbooks), she either got them all wrong, or she left them blank! And for some reason, that end-of-year exam consisted about 30% of general knowledge questions, although her studying without thinking did help her in some particular subjects, all of this contributed to her poor overall performance in her final exam, even worse than her midyear exam last year!"

383 & 013: "… Wow…"

207: "*Snaps finger* AWESOME~! HA HA HA!"

006: "I could see that you will not be more excited than now for the rest of the day."

135: "It's the limit, duh… O.o"

222: "But thankfully, you still won this bet, or else you still have to transfer to another school."

Ven: "Huh? Transfer?"

013: "Last year, Nemix and Fayra made a bet to see who will make it to Class K3B, whoever lost must transfer to another school immediately. Since Nemix won and Fayra wasn't in this class…"

Ven, Nami & Kairi: "Oh~ I see…"

207: "Ha! I will go and troll her later… Of course I won't force her to the extent of transferring schools, I just want to see her 'WTF' face! Ho ho~"

383: "Hey! Don't go without me! I want to troll her too!"

207: "Why don't we go now?"

383: "Oh yeah! Let's go!"

After we had done talking, we were about to get up and rush to Class K3C, but Zexion stopped us: "Wait! Nemix! Now it is 7:15 a.m. and the prefect would arrive soon to mark our attendance, and there is only five minutes before classes commence, so maybe you two should go during recess?" I was about to say something when a prefect came in, I then said: "OK fine… I will let her be for the moment, ha ha!"

After our attendances were marked, we were sitting on the seat before, while looking at the students milling into the classroom to their respective seats. Sora and Riku noticed us right away and they came over to say hi. We talked for a while and then Hayner and company joined in. It was indeed a pleasure to meet old friends after such a long separation. Even so, there were still some brand new faces staring at us from time to time. Maybe they thought we were new students or something? And there were also some students who never looked around, as if they could care less even if strangers appeared among them. Well, that's still good; I didn't need the extra attention at the moment. And I do hope the teacher that would come in later wouldn't want to ask us to introduce ourselves. I seriously didn't like it.

It's 7:20 a.m. now but the teacher wasn't here yet, the prefect that marked our attendance earlier was still in the classroom, checking through the data she collected earlier one more time before she took them to Mr. Saix. And then she was about to leave. The bell rang, so now the students who were not present in the classroom would be classified as late, unless they have a very good reason. I was observing the surroundings and I saw the seats in the classroom were almost fully occupied, except for… three seats by the window. The seats were in the same column, and they were the third to fifth seats counting from the first seat on that column. My seat was far away from those seats, I sat with Organization XIII, Kairi, Ven and Naminé, occupying the seats at the back of the classroom. The prefect walked towards the door, I was going to take a look at my timetable, just then -

"BONG!" "OW!" "Ah!"

A bumping noise came from the door.

I looked to the outside of the door, the prefect was on the floor, so was another girl. There were two other girls behind the aforementioned girl. The prefect got up immediately and said: "Sorry!" And then she extended a hand, wanting to pull the girl up. I thought things would end with this "I help you, you help me" scenario, but who would've known… "Get lost!" The girl swatted the prefect's helping hand away and got up herself. Not only she didn't thank the prefect (Or in this case, apologize), she reprimanded instead: "What do you think you're doing? Don't you have eyes when you walk?! You see, my brand new school bag is dirtied all thanks to you! This bag is expensive, you know?! Now pay up!"

I must say this prefect was really deserved to be one, as the role model of the students, she decided to be polite and was still apologizing. "I am terribly sorry, I didn't do it on purpose! But, I want to ask you… are you a student of Class K3B?" "Hmph! Of course! I was going to come in, and why did you block my way?!" Her temper and arrogance was too great, and now, she grabbed all the attention of Class K3B.

The prefect said: "If that's the case, can you kindly explain why you're late?" And that triggered something disastrous; that girl screamed angrily: "Hey now! I was only late for about a few minutes, and you still want to annoy me with that?! Couldn't you see there was a traffic jam outside?! Speaking of which, I still haven't finished with you about you running into me! And now you dare to question me?! I'm warning you, you'd better pay up now! Pay me 200 Ringgits!" (The hell? A school bag that worth 200 Malaysian Ringgits?! Are you kidding me?)

By now, I couldn't take it anymore, so I stood up, pulling my chair backwards so I could walk towards them. The prefect wanted to avoid more trouble, so she said: "… I don't have that much money." That girl scoffed upon hearing this, and she jeered: "Ha! Yeah, maybe you're right, judging your appearance, it was easy to guess you don't have that much. Alright then… I want to be generous, you just have to record I'm not late, and I'll pretend nothing had ever happened before, how's that?" "W… What? You are late in the first place…" said the prefect, confused.

"Hey! You don't know what's good for you, huh?!" she screamed. I interrupted: "I say, you too don't know what's good for you." Now I was between them, but beside the prefect. Another short girl behind the first girl yelled: "OI! Who are you? Stop prying into other people's business!" I completely ignored her and said to the first girl straight away: "You're the one that is late in the first place, this prefect here is just doing her job, furthermore, since you already bought the school bag to use it, dirtying it would be a matter of time, is there a need to push the fault to somebody else?"

The girl glared at me, and after she "measured" me by staring at me, she said: "Who are you? Why are you prying into my business for no reason? I had already said that there was a traffic jam outside, a traffic jam, can't you hear me?! I even ran all the way up here!" I snickered and continued: "Don't tell me it's your first time in Kingdom Hearts High School? There is traffic jam everyday here in Penang, especially working and campus areas, won't the problem be solved if you could just wake up, be prepared and come here earlier? Also, you walked to this classroom, because you are not exhausted, not even a drop of sweat on you. The distance from the school gate to here, all the way to the third floor… it's nearly 1 km, aren't you exhausted by running?"

"Hey hey hey! Who do you think you are?! How dare you act so presumptuous before her?!" yelled the short one again. The girl glared at me even more venomously, she growled: "Yeah! Who the heck are you?!" By now, Organization XIII and Kairi, Naminé and Ven couldn't just sit there anymore, so they immediately walked towards us as well. I pretended to be surprised and said: "Oh, I'm so sorry, it seems like I forgot to introduce myself…" I took out the name tag I haven't put on, and with another free hand I flipped the necktie that she had seemed to ignore. I said: "Kingdom Hearts High School Counter Crime Organization's helper prefect. So now, can I say you are late for school and threatened the prefects?"

As expected, they were taken aback, the Shorty shut up immediately, as for the third one… Well, she didn't say anything from the beginning, so there's no difference. And for the fiery tempered one, she had a calm face, but I could see from her gaze that she never expected who I really was. I initially thought she would watch her words a little, but she sneered: "Pfft! So it's only a helper prefect! I'm not scared of the real one, not to mention you!" "Y-yeah! That's what she said! Do you know who the one standing before you is?!" said Shorty, I crossed my arms in front of my chest and said: "A student from Class K3B of Kingdom Hearts High School, who was late, and also a student who rebel against the rules." "… You…!" She stuttered, and due to anger she lifted her fist, just then… "Stop right there!" Hey, that's Axel's voice, I turned around and saw Organization XIII along with Kairi, Naminé and Ven were behind me. And this time, Ven spoke in a serious tone, the one that made him quite distinctive from his normal behavior: "You're already late, not only this time, from the first day of this school year you were not punctual at all, do you want us to penalize you with your frequent violation of school rules of being late and threatening prefects?" A total of 6 prefects and 3 helper prefects (including me) were now backing up that poor prefect, would she dare to mess with us anymore? Teamwork yeah!

"Damn… You lot… Fine! Ventus Lychnus, I'll let you guys be this time! We shall see what befalls you for being so bossy!" After that, the three girls waltzed in like nothing actually happened to the aforementioned empty seats. The whole class was disrupted by the commotion, but they went back to their respective seats eventually. After I sat down, the girl earlier spoke loudly enough for me to hear: "Hmph, what's so amazing about that… Hey, accompany me to the toilet." She then said to Shorty to accompany her. And then, both of them stood up, after she sent me a final glare, they waltzed out of the classroom again, as if they're fashion models. Once I saw them walked far enough, I stuck my tongue out at their backs and teased: "What's with the glaring? Are your eyes too big? One more glaring and I would squeeze your eyes out for all I care!"

Roxas said: "Wow Nemix, you hadn't changed at all, you would still go against that type of people and offend them." Axel commented: "Yeah, and I thought I was the most daredevil to rebel against them, so it seems Nemix's the one after all." "If Axel was the most daredevil surpassing Nemix, I afraid that we will not be able to sit here and talk anymore…" said Zexion, and then he took a sip of water from his water bottle. "Hey!" said Axel. Xion laughed and nodded, saying: "I totally agree with Zexion! But that girl was way too arrogant just now, still defending herself even though she was already late and threaten prefects like that." "So that's why I just had to go up and give her a piece of my mind! I couldn't stand her at all. Also, I didn't do anything wrong, so what's there to be afraid of her? Or are you going to tell me she's the Prime Minister's daughter or something?!"

"But seriously, Nemix, you really don't know who she is?" asked Naminé, a little worried. I said: "As long as she's not my mum or my dad, I could care less who she is. But speaking of which, she didn't seem to look like the locals… *Gasp* Don't tell me…!" "Sorry Nemix, I know what you're thinking, and the answer is yes; she is a Eurasian." … Oh GOD! Why do I have to be enemies with each and every hybrid or mix-raced people in the world?! Did I offend them in a spectacular way in my previous life or something?! (Well, save Ienzo, he's not an enemy…)

Kairi said: "Everyone says she lives in a super duper wealthy family! She even uses branded stuff every day, most of her accessories were made of gold, silver, you name it, and she NEVER eats anything not from fancy restaurants! She never eats popular street snacks!" (Obviously she doesn't know the real pleasure of being a Penang citizen… What a pity) "Also, she -" Naminé wanted to say something, but she was stopped by Demyx: "Hey… The teacher's here! And they're back, so let's talk about this later."

Well, the teacher came in. Guess who was it - it's Mr. Cloud! Oh for the love of Kingdom Hearts, the best teacher ever! Ha ha ha ha! Even so, the duo entered later acted as if the teacher was transparent, luckily he didn't notice them as well, so there wasn't a major lecture on paying respect. (If the teacher was Mr. Vexen, that would be a different story…) And of course, Mr. Cloud did know there were 6 "new students" in the classroom, but he didn't ask us to do the self introduction crap in front of the class. That's another reason he's the best teacher in my opinion. So he assumed the students of this class knew us very well, since we weren't exactly new comers. Good. He didn't seem to be teaching in this lesson, because he got a stack of files that terrified students on his hands - Report books.

"OK, class, today I'm giving out your result reports regarding the recent March first exam. After your parents put down their signature, hand it in within three days time. Clear?" "Yes…" And then, the class monitor distributed the reports to us. I received the paper file and said thanks, but I didn't flip it open to see my results, instead I observed my friends sitting around me.

Zexion looked slightly bewildered, but after a split second, his face turned into a content one. Maybe he aced the exam. [Authoress: Hey, don't forget you guys didn't sit for the first test! The marks were substituted with the last year's final exam, geez.] Axel was known for his straightforwardness and he couldn't seem to hide his emotions quite well, but today his behavior thwarted this theory from its way to victory; he had this total poker face with him, and I seriously couldn't tell whether he aced or flunked. Well, I hoped it's the former. Roxas slapped his palm on his face and he muttered: "How great, I just had to miss that one mark to get an A for Geography… -_-" While on the other hand Demyx was pretty happy as if he just won the lottery first prize: "YESH~~! My Math improved! Ha ha ha!" Xion mumbled with her eyes glazed: "Can I just drop History?! I wasted so much energy on Chinese and when I managed to get 80 marks for that, this stupid History just had to betray me… -_-III"

On the other side, Naminé, Kairi and Ven looked enlightened, so I took it they achieved good results as well. Just then, Demyx turned to me and asked curiously: "Hey, Nemix, how is your results?" I wasn't able to respond in time, instead of a proper verbal response, I said: "Huh?" The blonde didn't care whether I was unresponsive or reacting slowly, he just grabbed my result report from my hands. And then I snapped back to reality, and blurted while trying to stop him: "Hey hey! Dem! I still haven't -" "*GASP*" Suddenly the boy let out a surprised gasp, no, correction: a nearly terrified gasp you often heard in horror movies.

Great, now everyone in the classroom had their head turned to stare at us.

"- look at it myself…"

OK, it's going to be hard if I was going to avoid being "well-known" today, so much for my effort for trying to be low-keyed. Why thank you, Demyx…

"What's up?" asked Roxas, pulling the opened report book in Demyx's hands a little to himself to give himself a better view. What I didn't expect was Roxas' eyes widened, as if they're going to bounce off his eye sockets anytime. He merely said: "Oh my god…" Axel also couldn't suppress his curiosity and walk over to see the report as well. Once his eyes scanned the report real quick, his face portrayed a dead serious expression, just like the one he had during our very first encounter. OK, this is bad… Whenever Axel gets serious, he is foretelling you: It's either the best or the worst for you.

I was, sadly, somewhat horrified by their reactions. I tried to get a grip and asked: "Hello…? Don't scare me like that, guys… Did I flunk the exam?" They were still staring at the report book; no verbal response came at all. And then they averted their gaze at me simultaneously. Hey! Stop creeping me out! Zexion was watching us the whole time, he could tell this wasn't going anywhere, and of course his curiosity also got the better of him, so he got up from his seat beside me and walked over to the trio. He pulled out the report book effortlessly from Demyx's hands and scanned through the report with his usual calculating gaze. After he finished, he also had a surprised expression on his usually calm face, but he regained his composure very soon, and said: "Maybe it is because of this one: Placing in class: 1, Placing in form (whole grade): 41, Mathematics: 100. That is all…" A few seconds later, he added: "Splendid."

… Say that again?!

OK, analysis! This report was based on my final exam last year when I was in Class K2D, and after being through all those exam crap I got first placing in K2D, 41st placing in whole 8th Grade and 100 marks for Math?! I wasn't dreaming, right…? *Pinches arm* OW! That hurt… Not a dream at all.

I was not the only one who was shocked to the core, even now everyone was discussing among themselves. "41st in the whole grade?" "Wait a minute, there's 40 students in Class K3A, right?" "Well, yeah, then that means she is the 1st in K3B (Classes are determined by grade placing)?!" "Who is she anyway?" "I don't know, but I think she went out just now to stop that fight…" "A helper prefect… A newcomer?" "Wow…" Now, however, I just wished this was a dream after all… It's only the first day and I had become the hot topic of the class… Oh great… -_- Even Naminé, Kairi and Ven were sitting there, speechless.

"207 YOU'RE AWESOME!" Demyx and Roxas cheered in unison, grabbing my arms and shaking them with all their might. It's going to dislocate anytime! Axel said: "When are you going to treat us?" Zexion looked kind of delighted and commented: "It is alright, I share the same placing as you did in class and grade, if you have a tight budget, we can pay the treat together." Kairi couldn't utter a word, Naminé just said: "Wow…" Ven nodded happily and said: "Not bad, man!"

"Ahem!" Suddenly a cough came from the front side of the classroom, all of us were startled and turned our heads to stare at Mr. Cloud, who was still in the classroom, but being ignored all this while. We shut up immediately. "Um, I did not feed on glass when growing up, OK?" (Meaning he is not transparent) he said awkwardly, scanning all 39 students in the classroom. "… Sorry, teacher… *sweat drop*" After we apologized, we went back to our respective seats and didn't discuss loudly anymore. Back to normal.

Now that the atmosphere reverted to normal, Mr. Cloud decided to let us do our own work, provided we remain silent (What an overused scenario…) Demyx saw the opportunity coming to him, so he turned his head to me again and said quietly: "Nemix! Never expect you to score that high! Congratulations!" I whispered sheepishly: "Nah… I had no idea how did I score… :P" "He he… Nemix, you are so going to treat us a meal~ )" said Axel, with a sly grin and a wink. How nice of you Axel, "robbing" me at this moment? You'd better not let me discover a 100 marks in your report book… I said: "As long as the price was reasonable and not too high, I will pay for it." Roxas joined in: "Speaking of which, Zexion had been doing well too! He also got 1st in class and 41st in the grade! Not bad!" A faint blush appeared on the slate-haired boy, he shook his head to get rid of the tint of red and he mumbled: "No, not really…"

"Hey, don't forget about the three of us!" chirped Kairi. Oh, yeah, right, if it weren't for them, we would have been finished last year, let alone going to Tokyo and all that. They were indeed saviors! I smiled and said: "Sure, I'll let you know when that time comes."

And then, the bell rang once again, signaling the end of the current lesson. After saying our thanks, the whole class went back to chatting among themselves. The 9 of us were in the middle of chatting, and at that moment - "Hey! You!"

- Someone just had to barge in and ruin our moods. I turned to look at my right, well, no one else other than the arrogant girl and her gang. She had a foul-mood look on her face, as if the whole planet just offended her. Using her self-proclaimed mighty glare, she scanned at the nine of us, especially stopping her sight on Organization XIII. She then said disdainfully: "Who were the ones who got the 41st placing in the grade?" Without much contemplation, I stood up calmly and replied: "It was me, and is there anything you want from me?"

She casted a glance sideways at me, and exclaimed with apparent sarcasm: "Ah? You?! Oh dear god, this world surely is nuts, even you could get that placing?" And then she cackled as if she had just completed a Frankenstein experiment, so noisy. I didn't turn backwards, but I could vaguely feel Axel's fury radiating behind me. After she had done cackling, she glared at me scornfully and continued: "I was just feeling weird, how could you, a wimp, get into Class K3B, and even got the 41st placing in the grade? You must have been cheating, alright!" "Hey! That's enough!" warned Axel, standing up. Well, I could bear with the "wimp", but she had the nerve to defame me with "cheating"?! In your dreams! I tried to stifle my urge to release my rage, and said: "There's no solid evidence to back you up, if you have, present them, or else you just need to shut the hell up and go back to your seat!"

She was slightly taken aback upon hearing my words, but then she retaliated: "I knew that you were in Class K2D last year. Hmph, how could a student from that class get here with that result?" Roxas had had enough of her and "shot": "Being in K2D doesn't mean one is stupid! Quit acting like a snob!" The girl glared at Roxas, and then pretended to be innocent and said: "Oh, I didn't say you guys are stupid, you said it yourself!" "Why you…!" Roxas was at a loss of words due to rage, if it weren't for Demyx who held him back, he would've flew over and slapped her or something.

"Dear classmate, you should know that cheating is a serious offense in this school, I am curious about how you would prove your theory with the evidences," Zexion stated, surprisingly calm as if telling a tale of someone else. Sometimes I really wonder was he too courteous, or too impassive to be provoked, or he really was… emotionless? Until now she didn't falter her sarcasm and said: "Oh right, I almost forgot that you share the same placing as hers… That's it! It should be like this: Since all of you are prefects, you could've hide the truth among you guys, and cheated in the exam, if no one spilled the beans, then you assumed no one knew about it! Gosh, why am I so cleve-"

"BAM!"

All of a sudden, not a sound slipped out from anyone's mouth.

We were startled, and I shivered involuntarily, although I managed to suppress it to a mere tremble. I averted my gaze to the source of the noise. Xion had her head lowered, with a tightly clenched fist on her desk, and she was trembling slightly, her breathing quickened, as if she had just let her hatred that was stifled in her heart exploded in one go. She slowly looked up, and what came into my view first were two blue orbs filled with raging flames, they had lost the merriness and laughter I had grew accustomed to. At that split moment I felt like I didn't even recognize Xion anymore, she had always been a cheerful, playful and adventurous girl. But now her furious eyes directed at the girl who was being sarcastic - no, slanderous. Although it wasn't directed at us, but she looked so scary, and that made a chill shot down my spine.

Xion finally stopped gritting her teeth, and growled lowly: "Are you done talking over there?!" "So what if it's yes? Or no?" she glanced at Xion shortly and scoffed scornfully. When Axel got angry, he wasn't as scary as Xion right now, but maybe it was because she never showed this side to us. I was about to say something, but I was stopped by Zexion. He grabbed my hand and shook his head slightly, hinting me to not get mad, yet. Well it was wise to heed his warning, because someone was mad now. "I was sitting here, tolerating you, and yet you keep picking on my friends! You keep accusing them of cheating to get into this class, and it's without solid proof! What do you really want?!" Xion was getting more and more agitated, her low growl experienced an eventually rising tone, and she yelled at her last sentence, with an evident smell of "gunpowder".

Kairi also couldn't take it anymore, and participated in the "battle": "Hey, you, seriously, what's wrong with you to falsely accuse anyone like this? Did everyone from K2D offend you in some spectacular way? And Naminé and I here were from Class K2C, and you didn't pick on us?" "She's right. This class is not yours alone, so what are you barking away like that when this is not your house? Don't forget, you were from K2A, and since you came to this class, not some other from behind, don't you know what thankful is?" added Ven.

And then it happened, she "transformed" into a porcupine and shot out her "spikes" at us: "You… you people! How could you say this to me?!" "And how could YOU say that to us?!" Xion and I retaliated immediately, catching her off guard. Suddenly Axel let out a sneer, which startled us once again, and then he said: "So it's a person who 'fell' from K2A because of her bad results, no wonder she became so jealous when she saw other people getting to here with good ones." I swear, I saw some arrows hit her simultaneously (metaphorically). Wow, Axel, your words… they were really barbed. And I thought you were straightforward, hotheaded, impulsive and whatnot, I never expected you had this side to you.

"You…!" This time, she was the one who was speechless. Zexion took the opportunity to end this meaningless fight: "In conclusion, should you have any evidences to proof your accusation, I would always welcome you to step forward and tell on us, if not, please return to your seat and stop shaming yourself." So it seemed her "desperate fight" was coming to an end; she used a final unwilling-to-give-up glare at all 9 of us, and then she turned on her heel and left.

"Phew! Thank goodness it's over!" Demyx finally let out a breath he subconsciously held all along. Xion also calmed down as well, all her anger vanished. But her eyes still stared at the desk before her, as if she wanted to drill two holes onto the desk. Even though the flames of rage didn't flash in her eyes anymore, but they manifested a kind of inopportune emotion instead - upset, and if you observed some more, you could also see a little bit remorse. What was wrong with her? Firstly it's the exceptional fury, and now remorse?

So, I walked to her, and asked in a small voice: "Are you OK? Your face doesn't look good…" At first she stiffened, but then she let out a deep sigh, shook her head and said: "It's nothing… It's just that I haven't been so angry in quite a while." Just then, Zexion also came over, he said: "Is there anything you want to tell us to vent your feelings?" "That's right! We will be your emotion trashcan! ^_^" said Demyx, dragging Axel and Roxas along to us. Naminé also turned to us and reassured: "Say anything you feel like to, and don't care about anyone." "Yeah, even principal Mans- Xemnas! Got it memorized?" said Axel with a wink. "Axel!" exclaimed Roxas and Demyx.

At last, Xion smiled and giggled. And then she said: "Okay! You guys… Geez, give me a break. Especially you, Zexion, you are acting more and more like a psychologist… OK then, here goes…"

[Authoress came right in] Halt! Ha ha! It's been a while, guys, and let me cut the long story short for you! The story began one year ago, when Xion successfully got into Class K2A, where all the top notch 8th Grade students in Kingdom Hearts High School gather. At that time, she was from the other class, which made up not even 10% of the class (Not from the dominant class), so she felt uneasy about the other 30 or so new faces. In the end, she sat with a girl whom she felt slightly comfortable with, although that girl too was not one of her classmate last year. She somehow felt the others weren't so friendly… That girl was the arrogant one just now. They were good friends during the beginning, they seemed to be inseparable, and everything went along well, until the Mid-Year Exam.

Xion was having her History exam, when suddenly the invigilator came over to her and asked her to stand up and step aside. Just when Xion was wondering why the invigilator was searching her drawer and desk, the invigilator found a paper in her drawer, and it was some notes on History! She received her punishment on the spot; 30 marks being deducted from every subject. After the exam, she was wanted by the principal to confirm her "offense" with the witness. She simply didn't understand; that paper was her personal short notes when she and her only friend did their revision, and then Xion gave it to her as a present to help her. Furthermore, she had confirmed no papers were in her drawer before the exam began, so what exactly happened? And at that moment, the witness appeared - It's her! The witness claimed she saw Xion sneakily put that paper into her drawer with her own eyes, and was planning to cheat! Xion was almost dismissed from her prefect job, but luckily Mr. Saix somehow sided her (just… lucky enough), she ended up safe, though she was demoted to helper prefect. Later, Xion confronted her personally, and that was when she admitted scornfully; before the exam and just right after Xion double checked her desk drawer, she purposely went over and chatted with Xion, while she secretly slipped the notes into her drawer. Reason: Xion's gradually improving results was narrowing down her chance of getting into Class K3A, the first class in 9th Grade. From that time onwards, they parted ways, signaling the end of their "friendship".

And much later, soon after Organization XIII was falsely accused by Fayra Joann, Xion and her teammates sneaked into the Disciplinary Information Room, which during that time, was forbidden except for the teachers. Even prefects were not permitted to enter. She and her allies worked together to restore Roxas' formatted laptop. A lot of evidences were terminated after the format process, but to their luck, the only vital evidence was preserved somehow. They made a copy, and after destroying every trace they made, they attempted escape, but who would've thought Fayra was already waiting for them at the door, with some Devilish Director's men with her. They were caught just like that, and were disbanded on the spot. While they were taken away by force to the director's office, Xion looked around frantically, and there she saw her so-called friend standing by the wall, staring at her, disgusted somehow. From the sinister glint of her eyes, Xion finally understood as if being forcefully awakened from a nightmare; she spied on them and then told on them… OK then, I will be going! I will be back! [Authoress took her leave] [207: Yeah, back after the end of the world…]

So now, we knew of the grudges between the raven-haired girl and her ex-friend. I said thoughtfully: "So that's how… But, I feel sorry for you; you tried to help us, but ended up taking the brunt yourselves." Xion shook her head slowly and said: "Geez 207, why are you feeling guilty for? True friends help each other out, don't they?" "Seriously, I so want to reinvestigate that case…" Axel mumbled, while fiddling a mechanical pencil with his right hand. Zexion sighed softly and commented: "We would have to start from scratch, without evidence, we could not do anything." "*Scoffs* It's not 'we could not do anything', but 'someone doesn't want us to do anything'," said Roxas, pouting slightly.

Throughout the conversation, I was suppressing my impulse: I did have that vital evidence. I really want to tell them that their worries had no basis to begin with, and now we had a ready-made proof (Although I still hadn't see what the heck was inside that pen-drive). But I couldn't tell them, no way I could tell… If I did, there would be a great uproar, if we achieved success in one go, that'd be the greatest thing; but if we failed, we were going to be finished once again, and all the effort we made long ago would be nothing but a waste, all the way down to the drain of oblivion.

Conclusion: Shut up and wait.

Soon, it was recess time, everyone went out to the canteen to rescue their stomach while I had to stay back and fulfill my cleaning duty: Sweep the floor. Thanks to whatever Holy Bananas of Kingdom Hearts, I was not the Head of Cleanliness this year, or else I would have to suffer for nothing for one more year. Such a thankless job… I didn't even care about it! Not worth being one anyway! ( Therefore, I was very satisfied of my duty now, a lot.

I kept sweeping and sweeping, and while having fun, I occasionally took a look in the vacant classroom - Well, not technically vacant, since apart from me, there was still a sleeping Demyx. I guess he stayed up all night playing "Guitar Hero" with Axel, and he was dozing off as if "fishing" during the lessons earlier, so he decided to take a short nap during recess. I was almost done with my work, now I just have to sweep all the rubbish gathered into the dustpan and then dispose of them into the trashcan. Soon, the floor at least looked a lot cleaner. I went to the washroom to wash my hands and when I returned, not many people were in the classroom, but those three girls were back. I entered the classroom via the backdoor, so none of them noticed me. They were snickering while looking at somewhere, so I guess they were up to no good again. I decided not to divulge my presence yet, and followed their gaze to said direction.

Well, guess what: Demyx was still snoozing away alright, but there was a paper stuck onto his back, a phrase "Kick Me" was written on it! I felt my anger rose just a tiny bit, but I averted my gaze back to the trio. One of them had something in her hands… a cell phone! And it's a smart phone, to be exact! I get it; they were filming Demyx, the victim of their prank! That's it… *Plotting* It would be too hasty if I went over and pointed everything out just like that, I need a partner-in-"crime"… "Nemix? So you were here after all?" Whoa! I spun around only to see Xion behind me. I quickly made a "Quiet" hand gesture at her and whispered: "Shh! Keep it down! I'm trying to lay low here! I need your assistance…"

I cocked my head slightly to the trio's general direction, and after Xion observed the situation quickly, she nodded her head, meaning she had understood. Good, we went to our seats and sat down, which were right behind Demyx. We started to talk more nonsense: "Say, Xion, about the Math question you showed me a while ago, I had forgotten what it was. How should I show you the solution?" "It's OK, it's still fresh in my mind… Let's look for a paper and let me write it out," said Xion, totally cooperating. I started to fumble for a "paper" in my drawer, saying: "Paper, huh… paper… I can't find - Wait, what was that?" I pointed at the "Kick Me" paper on Demyx's back. Xion answered: "… I have no idea… Anyways, just use it." "OK then." After I said that, I pulled the paper off without even giving a slightest thought.

And then, I could hear their silent gasps, soon, I felt their deadly glare on me. Well, like I care! If they like to glare, then so be it! It's their own business if they turned into goggle-eyed goldfishes, or their eyeballs jump out of their eye sockets with springs behind them for all I care! Who gives a damn anyway?

I pretended to be calm and said: "Eh? Why is there a 'Kick Me' on this paper?" I flipped the paper to its back a few times. Xion commented: "'Kick Me'? Hmm… Oh! I get it! I saw some students did this when they wanted to prank people. They like to write this on a piece of paper and stick it to someone's back. And normally they would record it in a video!" I tilted my head to the side and mumbled: "Video recording, huh?" And I immediately spun around to face the trio. They were pretending to be calm as well, as if nothing happened. I was about to walk over to them, but then I saw Axel coming into the classroom, so I faked curiosity and exclaimed: "A re re~?! [An exclamation I learned from the Japanese] What's that on the hand?!" The Shorty tensed up, Axel stared at his hands and said: "There's nothing on my hands…"

I was about to slap my hand on my forehead, and that's when a miracle happened: "Beep beep beep beep! Beep beep beep beep! …"A noise that resembled an alarm clock's digital tone came out of nowhere, the girl who quarreled with us a while ago snatched her smart phone from Shorty's hands abruptly and yelled: "Didn't I turn off the alarm?!"

She said it herself! Ha ha!

"Dude… It's my watch!" said Xion, turning off the alarm of her digital watch. Oh, okay… It was really pure dumb luck this time… Axel finally noticed: "Huh? Cell phone? Hey, you, hand over the contraband and come with me." Caught in the act! She could only hand over her phone reluctantly and follow Axel to the Discipline Room to meet Mr. Saix. Before she left, she threw a deadly glare at us. If looks could kill, I would've been half dead by now.

By then, Demyx finally woke up: "Huh? I thought I heard alarm blaring… what happened…?" Me and Xion looked at each other, and then we looked at a sleepy Demyx, we smiled and said together: "It's a long story, we will tell you some other time." "Oh…" After that, he went back to sleep again.

Right, it's only the first day here, and I had already encountered some new enemies besides reunited with old friends. I really had to be careful, god knows what's going to happen next…

~ CHAPTER 14 FIN ~

TO BE CONTINUED

A/N: Oh YEAH! Finally Chapter 14 is done! Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go have my slumber and maybe some food… I'm starving at the moment. And I have to take a break from writing, because I'm still gathering ideas for Chapter 15. So, um… please comment if you have the time? I extremely appreciate the feedbacks. Until next time, then!