Another prompt split in two. Oh god was it hard to think up ideas for this one TBH, major time spent staring at an empty word document waiting for inspiration

For the first one: Warnings for another joke about Hojo committing torture in a verse where he actually doesn't.

For the second one: Warning for making fun of high school teacher, also brief joke about having PTSD over something completely innocent (an annoying bell)

Prompt: Bells

"Sora I think this is a bad idea," Roxas said as he watched his brother sew bells onto some Christmas elf outfit he had obtained from gods-knows-where.

"I can't see how it could possibly be one," Sora replied and Roxas actually believed his brother somehow honestly couldn't think of any way that his idea could end badly.

"Should I start going down the family tree or perhaps likelihood of them physically harming?"

Sora laughed as if the thought of people disliking his new outfit was ridiculous. "Why would anyone 'physically harm' me for this?"

"Well depending on how annoying these bells are," Roxas grabbed one of them from the pile yet to be sewed onto the clothing and rang it next to his ear. "Yep, just the sound of these is bound to send any of our brothers murderous."

"Including Ven?"

"Okay, maybe not Ven. He's probably the only other person on the planet that things this is a good idea."

"I know you're wrong there," Sora replied grabbing the bell that Roxas was holding to add to the outfit.

"Don't tell me you got the idea for this from someone else?" Roxas begged, trying to hold onto the belief that only his brother would think of an idea like this.

"Well…" Sora started with a look that told Roxas all he needed to know.

"Oh god, who? No, actually, don't tell me, I don't want to know. I don't want to know about any of this because I think I need plausible deniability in order to avoid being given any responsibility for this from either Cloud or Vanitas."

"I still don't know why you would think any of them would have a problem with this!" Sora said and Roxas was sure of his brother's insanity there.

"Sora, I think the outfit itself would be enough to make Vanitas want to kill you. It is so obnoxiously 'Christmas' I'm pretty sure he'll want to destroy it on sight. The bells will just add to that want. And Cloud? He may have managed to obtain a somewhat superhuman ability to ignore the weirdness that is you, but I'm pretty sure the constant shrill of these bells," Roxas picked up another one of the bells and shook it to give an example of the sound, "will turn even him homicidal."

"Why did Hojo torture him with Christmas music as well?" Sora asked with a grin on his face.

"What?"

"Don't worry, inside joke," Sora replied with a shake of his head and a small giggle.

"Whatever. I still don't want to be held responsible to whoever this drives insane first for your idea. So as far as everyone else is aware I know nothing about this."

"Come on Roxas, don't you want to be involved in spreading Christmas cheer?"

"No Sora, if this is the way of going about it, I really don't. Now if you will excuse me I'm going to try and get as far away from the house as possible before you actually finish that thing and drive our older brothers insane." Roxas didn't even give his brother enough time to reply. He just got up and left the room to try and figure out which of his friends would let him sleep over the night.

"You know I know these bells are supposed to be all Christmasey or something but I cannot shake the association of them with Mrs Greenhill," Zack said.

Zack had come over to help Cloud fix the various broken items that the younger Strife brothers had somehow managed to find in the house within a week. Halfway through fixing one of the bathroom sinks they discovered they needed a new washer and after a quick check of all the other required pieces for the rest of the repairs they had left the house to go purchase the missing items. Of course when the younger Strife brothers found out they were going shopping they quickly decided to tag along.

"I think I remember her?" Cloud replied.

"You mustn't of had her that often. She was the one with that bell that she would ring whenever she wanted the class to pay attention to her."

"Which was constantly," Cloud said with a grimace. "Yeah, I remember her."

"I don't," Sora replied.

"She probably got fired," Cloud said.

"She hopefully got fired," Zack added before gently nudging Ven, "was she still around when you were there?"

Ven had nearly tuned out of the conversation and into his own plans for the next few days but the nudge from Zack brought him back, "Ah, I think so? I only had her as a relief teacher twice in like grade eight so I can't really say for sure?"

"Do you know what happened to her?"

"No. Ask Vanitas he has a better memory for which teachers left and for what reasons," Ven left of the fact that Vanitas was the reason half the teachers left and the reason why he knew was because he kept score of how many he scared away versus how many left because of other reasons.

Zack at least seemed satisfied with the result. Pulling out his phone he quickly typed out a message to the only Strife currently not in his company. Five minutes later he got a reply.

"She left. Because of the Crescent triplets apparently," Zack said, "good riddance I say."

"She can't have been so bad as to deserve the triplets causing her so much grief that she left the school," Sora said and Cloud shrugged.

"She deserved it."

"The constant sound of that bell, every five minutes, 'ting-a-ling-a-ling, attention class, I need your attention, ting-a-ling-a-ling'," Zack mimicked the movement of ringing a bell while pitching his voice upwards to mimic the teacher.

"And then she would make some comment like, 'I'm glad to see you all doing your work' before shutting up again," Cloud added. "Then five minutes later-"

"'ting-a-ling-a-ling, attention class, I need your attention, ting-a-ling-a-ling'."

"Seriously?" Roxas asked.

"Seriously."

"It was the worst!" Zack said, "you three should be glad you weren't exposed to her for long periods of time. It was something that could drive anyone insane and the Christmas bells sound exactly like hers. I swear I have war flashbacks every year!"

"You're just being ridiculous now," Ven said.

"He is," Cloud agreed, "but that women was insane."

"I'm just glad I never have to see her again," Zack said. Five minutes later they ran into Mrs Greenhill three isles down.