A/N: I'm too tired to come up with an author's note. *sweatdrop*

By now, I should've been completely immune to surprise. Becoming a Nobody should've done the trick in the first place.

Still, when I yawned, stretched, and blinked myself awake, I couldn't help being stunned by the new "wallpaper" that completely covered my room. Xigbar and Luxord must've been busy.

Uncountable copies of the photo of me and Demyx kissing had been taped everywhere. Sometimes I regretted being such a deep sleeper. I figured it was only a matter of time before Demyx woke up and found the same problem in his room…

His room.

Oh Kingdom Hearts. R-2.

I threw my coat on over my pajamas, not even bothering to zip it before dashing to Demyx's room and banging on his door.

"Demyx!" I yelled loud enough to wake Axel in the room next door and Roxas down the hall, the only others who'd still been asleep apparently. "DEMYX, GET UP NOW!"

Axel yawned widely, running a hand through his untamed spikes. "Yo, Xenan, will ya keep it down? Saï doesn't yell at us for sleeping in until seven."

Eventually I gave up knocking and picked the lock with my mace. Sure enough, Xigbar had been here: the pictures on the walls (which Axel broke into laughter at and Roxas stared at in confusion) proved it.

"DEMYX!" I practically pounced on him, shaking his shoulders violently. He jerked up with a yell and banged his forehead into mine.

"Ow…" We both moaned. Then I shook my head and went back to yelling at him.

"Where's R-2?!" I demanded, clenching his arm in a death grip. "Did Xigbar kidnap him? Did he turn invisible? Were you awake? Tell me Xigbar didn't take him!"

Demyx looked too stunned to speak. Axel gently put a hand on my shoulder.

"Calm down, Xenan."

"But R-2 might be—"

Axel smiled. "He's fine. He had a sleepover with Roxas and Xion."

"What?" I was still too confused to feel relief.

"I can go get him," Roxas said, and Axel nodded at him to go.

"Why are you freaking out…?" Demyx asked, yawning afterwards.

"Sounds like Xigbar broke into your room and put up a ton of pictures of you and Xenan making out, and she thought he kidnapped R-2 while he was at it." Axel smirked.

"We didn't make out! I barely kissed him!"

Axel only laughed. I moaned, dropping my face into my hands.

"Xigbar, I am going to gouge your eye out…" I muttered. It wasn't exactly blackmail, but Axel's teasing would still be annoying.

"I'd really like to hear the story behind this," Axel said interestedly.

"It really isn't what you think," Demyx explained, sounding embarrassed. "I'll tell you later."

Roxas came back with R-2, who looked perfectly safe but wide-eyed in worry.

"What happened?" He asked, pulling on my sleeve. "Xen-Xen? Are you okay?"

I hugged him tightly, nearly crying in relief.

"Why didn't you tell me you were having a sleepover? " I demanded, but it probably didn't sound too demanding since my voice cracked.

"I-I told Dem-Dem," he sounded like he was about to cry. "You're not mad at me, are you?"

I hesitated. He was always so scared of disappointing me… "Of course not."

"Are you mad at Dem-Dem?" His eyes were wet. I smiled just a little, shaking my head and still crushing him with my hug.

"He's too much of a dork to be mad at." I heard Demyx sigh in relief, and I smiled a little more. I jerked my head to call him over.

Axel laughed as Demyx scrambled out from under the covers and put his arms around me and R-2, still clad in his blue pajamas. I remembered that I was still wearing my red nightshirt and ragged black pants.

"You three really are like some messed-up family," Axel said softly, somehow making it sound more like a compliment than an insult.

I glanced over at him and saw Roxas looking between us and him with a wistful expression. Axel must've noticed it too, because he gave Roxas a brotherly side-hug.

"I guess we are like a family, huh," I said. Demyx and R-2 were like brothers to me. They both smiled delightedly.

"Can we be a family too, Axel?" Roxas asked. "You and me and Xion?"

Axel ruffled his hair. "We'll see what happens, kid."

"Don't call me 'kid'!" Roxas pouted, swatting Axel's hand away.

Axel grinned. "C'mon, we've got missions to do. Don't want Saïx on our case."

I saw him nick one of the blackmail-pictures on his way out, winking at us. Sighing, I wriggled out of Demyx and R-2's embrace.

"It'll take forever to get all these pictures down," I muttered.

"What if I don't want to?" Demyx grinned. "Maybe I want my walls covered in pictures of you kissing me."

"What's kissing?" R-2 asked, but I was too busy rolling my eyes to fill him in on something that would probably save us all a lot of trouble later.

"Stop teasing, Demyx." I nudged him with my shoulder. He was probably just too lazy to want to clean up. The rest of his room – with piles of dirty cloaks and candy wrappers and empty potion bottles – definitely supported that idea.

"But I don't get it!" R-2 pouted.

"We'll talk about it some other time," I said to try and glaze over it.

"Aww." He turned his suit blue in disappointment.

"And I don't want you having sleepovers without my permission," I said. It kind of worried me, not just because I didn't know where he was, but I didn't really want him spending the night with Xion. Just because he was a replica with about a month of life experience didn't mean he wasn't still a teenage boy… that was a weird thought. I treated him like a little kid, even though he was created as a teenager and about as tall as me. And I acted kind of like his mom and sister at the same time.

Yeah, we did have a messed-up "family."

"But I can have a sleepover again, right?" R-2 asked, Puppy Eyes on full blast.

"…We'll talk about this later," I said. "Demyx and I have missions to do. We'll have to find a better place for you to sleep, too, just in case Xigbar pranks Demyx again and finds you."

R-2 pouted again, and Demyx patted his shoulder. "We don't want Xigbar to steal you."

"Well… okay." He sighed, then perked up. "Can I still go with you on missions?"

"It means less work for me." Demyx grinned, and I rolled my eyes.

"I'll go get our mission briefs," I said, but before I opened the door, I stopped and snagged a picture from the wall, just because I hadn't taken the time to look at it closely yet. At least I could see what Demyx's face had looked like.

I snickered at his wide-open eyes, which looked as big as a Shadow's. But then I frowned. Was he… smiling?

"Demyx?" I quirked my eyebrows and pointed to that spot on the picture. He looked confused for a moment, then smiled sheepishly.

"What?"

"You know what, Demyx."

His face turned pink. "…I'd never been kissed before. Might as well enjoy it a little."

I gave him a funny look before shrugging and turning away. It wasn't like I could blame him for making the most of it.

"So what's kissing?" R-2 asked again.

I barely stopped myself from facepalming. "Demyx, you're a guy. You explain it to him."

I left a curious R-2 and an awkward-looking Demyx alone while I went to get our mission briefs. It wasn't until I was halfway to the Grey Area that I remembered I was still in my pajamas.

Sometimes my stupidity really surprises me.

A/N: Technically, this chapter did include a prank. :P Next up will probably be the prank on Roxas (and possibly Xion at the same time), as well as some logistics stuff with where R-2's gonna stay.