Sigh…the last chapter was total crap…
Soraslilangel – Yeah, I wanna be able to jump up real high and throw lots of shuriken!! Hoo hah!!!
pride1289 – Epp! You're sick?? Oh noo!! Please get well soon! Get lots of rest, and sleep, drink lots of water and don't forget your medicine! Lol.
WGreyB – (Nods nods) I knew I was going a bit too fast, but well…this story has strayed on for long enough…The PLOT must come!!
X fuji X – (Snort) I have no friends like that…Ok…maybe some, but I don't hang around them much anymore because my uni study gets in the way…Anyways, about that cutting remark (Lol), you'll find out soon enough.
Erinicole12 – Lol, thank you, thank you. I'm not sick, I just got the odd case of very bad hayfever…
soraXxXriku – Lol, another fast reader. (Epp)
Crazydrawinggirl – Yay! The chapter was good! I'm happier now, because I thought that it was really sucky before…
AnimeDragonofFire – Lol Vampire!! He can suck my blood any day. Lol, hilarious. Ok maybe not…Any night sounds about right.
Shadow of Darkness 22 – Lol…I hate kanji…it's the worst part of studying Japanese. And believe me…I was never good at it in the first place! And they made it ten times worse with kanji!!! Arghhh!!!
Launch shinra – Lol yeah, Roxas is so lovable like that! I'm not revealing anything to do with the story here…Read on my friend, but as for the laughing to yourself part? I do it all the time! In fact, a few people think I'm a lil crazy…Well…SCREW THEM!!! BWAHAHAHAHAA!!!
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Ranchdressing – Lol I know, but apparently Roxas found it was weird. I was complaining about it to him. (Argument with an imaginary character)
Me-What the hell is wrong with Flames of Destiny?
Roxas-It sounds stupid! That's what! Think of something better idiot.
Me-Don't you dare call me an idiot, or else I'll…err…
Roxas-Just change the fucking name…
Me-(Gasp) Roxas…you swear?
Roxas-Shut up and write the damn story!
Me…-Yes sir…
(I got my ass handed to me by a twerp…)
Oh woah dude…When did I get past the 250 reviews mark? Holy shit? Lol.
"Ok, you head over to your stupid computer class and I'll finish whatever I can up here." A red head spoke as he nudged the blond away.
"Ok, I got an assignment to finish and Mr. Valentine isn't exactly one of the most lenient of people." Roxas laughed as he picked up his bag and walked up to the door. "Have fun and don't do anything stupid."
"As if I ever do anything like that." He laughed and waved the blond away.
The blond smiled as he walked down the hallway in a power-walk, trying to gently rub away some paint from his face. He couldn't suppress the smile from his face as he remembered the event that took place not ten minutes ago.
Roxas had been hard at work trying to cut up star shaped pieces from cardboard before poking a miniscule hole in it so that a piece of string could be pulled through it. Of course, while he was working on those stars, Axel had been painting the sign with colors of white, blue and yellow.
The red head casually looked over at the blond who stuck a tongue out when he was trying to make the string go through the tiny hole. "Darn it." Axel couldn't help but smile.
Seizing the opportunity, he hopped over towards the blond with a paintbrush in hand. "Yo Rox, what's that over there?" he asked as he pointed to whatever he was looking at.
"What?" he wondered as he looked away. "What am I looking for?" Roxas asked as he turned back to the red head, only to have a paintbrush graze his cheek.
The red head burst out in laughter as he smacked his leg. "You fell for it!!" he drew the attention of the other students as he continued guffawing like an idiot.
Roxas pouted as he tried to wipe away the paint. He noticed the blue paintbrush that the red head was still holding and took it away. "Hey Axel! What's this?!" he smirked as he brushed a good half of the red head's face before laughing as well.
"Eww, I think I just ate blue paint." He stuck his tongue out, "Ish my tongue bue?" he asked as his eyes went cross-eyed.
The blond laughed harder and fell over backwards at Axel who laughed along with him.
Eventually, their teacher came over and told them to either get out or get back to work. So they stifled their laughter as they continued on with cutting and painting.
Coming out of his thoughts, he noticed the same blonde girl from before giving him a weird look. "Err…" he laughed nervously, his cheeks reddening in embarrassment. "Yeah, sorry." He tried to look casual as he walked away.
"Um…I'm sorry about before…" she spoke timidly. Her voice so soft, he had to strain his ears to hear it.
"Oh it's fine. Don't worry about it. Are you ok though?" he asked as he turned around to face her.
"Oh yes, I'm very fine, thank you." She smiled and played with her hair anxiously. "You…are you an art student?" she asked as he looked down at her shoes.
"Nah, I was just helping a friend out for the fair."
"Oh I see. The fair is tomorrow, so everybody is in a rush." She giggled quietly.
"Yeah, I noticed that." He laughed.
She rubbed her fingers together to try and get rid of the dried up paint. He noticed that her dress was no longer of one color. "Er…you better get your dress cleaned up soon." He pointed at her clothes.
"I will, the class uses water-based paint so it'll come off easy." She smiled as she looked from her blotched up dress to Roxas.
"Right, right. I gotta get to class. My teacher doesn't like it when people come in late." He reasoned as he started to walk away. "See you later."
"Ok." She waved and headed back to the art classroom. "Thanks for helping." She waved her hand before turning around to get back to her own class.
Roxas checked his watched and noticed that he was over five minutes late. His eyes widened and he started in a sprint, hoping that Vincent would be late for once.
Of course, it doesn't turn out that way for the blond.
"You're late…" he spoke calmly, not turning his eyes away from the whiteboard as he continued to write down a few tips and advice for the class.
"Sorry, Mr. Valentine…I was-"
"It's fine." He interrupted. "Get on with your assignment…"
"Yes sir…" he tried to hide his furious blush as he scrambled to his desk and switched on his computer. 'Darn…this is starting to become a bad habit…' he thought to himself as he quickly took out his visual diary and pens. 'I blame Axel.' He concluded as he waited for the start-up to finish.
Flipping over to the current pages he was working on, he frowned at the little progress he's made so far. 'There's still a week left…Maybe I can get a majority of it done over the weekend.' He thought optimistically.
"Like, oh my gosh…Have you heard of Avril's new song?" a girl not two seats away spoke excitedly as she feigned working.
"Totally! It's so cool! I never thought she'll sing something like that." The girl beside her shook her head animatedly as she twiddled with her pencil.
The first girl played with her jet black hair as she giggled. "I so wanna sing it to this guy I like." She sighed dreamily.
"Oh my gosh! Me too!!" they both giggled behind their hands.
Roxas stared with mild interest at the bubbly girls and raised an eyebrow whenever one of them made a shrill laugh. 'I don't think I'll ever like girls…' he thought to himself. 'Not that I'd turn gay or anything.' He added quickly.
"Hey, hey, you, you.
I don't like your girlfriend." One of them sang as they shook their heads side to side with the music.
"No way, no way.
I think you need a new one." The other girl with the brunette hair joined in.
"Hey, hey, you, you.
I could be your girlfriend!" they both sang together.
At the end of the chorus, they started giggling and laughing like school kids who were given a hamster for a class pet.
"Excuse me…" Vincent stood behind them, watching them through placid red eyes. The girls gasped and turned around quickly, almost slipping out of their wheelie chair. "This is a computer class…Not the choir…"
"Yes sir." They replied in a squeak and huddled together.
He raised a delicate eyebrow at their reaction, "If you want to sing, join the chorus or get out of my class…"
"Sorry sir, we'll get back to work sir." They replied quickly and turned their heads back to the computer.
Vincent gave a curt nod and returned to observing the work that the rest of the students were doing. Occasionally stopping to give a comment or offer better advice.
"Oh my gosh…Mr. Valentine is so scary…" the girl with the black hair whispered to the other.
"I know." She sniffed. "I got so scared." She whispered, sniffing and holding back the tears that threatened to fall.
"Don't worry." She rubbed her back in comfort.
'…' Roxas remained silent as he raised both eyebrows at the display of friendship from the girls and briefly wondered why they're so emotional. 'The opposite gender is a definite mystery.' He concluded with a shake of his head and then returned to his work.
The class continued to work silently and with little distraction. Vincent was happy (although he didn't look the part) with the over-all work and even wanted to (although not very enthusiastically) have a presentation day on the last day of the assignment. Most of them groaned while some others don't seem to mind so much. Roxas was neither for or against the suggestion.
So being the teacher of the class, it was decided that Friday next week would be presentation day for the assignment.
"Class is only for an hour, so not everybody would be able to show their work…" he spoke calmly, noticing the sigh of relief from his students and the tension lift. "But those who do present their work might get extra credit…depending on their effort."
There were a few head's up at the mention of 'extra credit' while others seem a little incredulous about it.
"That's unfair to the other students who don't present their assignment though." A freckled face boy spoke with a frown.
"I said might…" he replied coolly.
"In other words, no." the boy murmured as he sunk into his seat.
"Would you prefer free period instead…?" he offered lamely, after weighing the work that was done so far and how much time was left.
The students nodded and agreed enthusiastically.
Vincent closed his eyes and sighed silently. "Fine, I'll allow free period on Wednesday, but your work must be up to an exceptional standard." Some of the boys whooped in delight while the girls gave a squeal of happiness. "I will not tolerate poor effort."
"Sweet!!!" a boy gave a high five to another. "Who know Mr. Valentine could be so nice?" he laughed as the bell rang, gathering his items before getting up to leave.
'Free period huh? Maybe I could ditch…' he thought to himself as he packed his bag. He shook his head at the thought. 'Darn, Axel is influencing me a lot more than I expected.' He groaned before zipping up his bag and heading out to meet with the red head.
Expecting to meet him later at the art room, he was more than surprise to see him waiting obediently by his locker when he turned the corner. He couldn't fend off the smile as he walked up to the red head.
"What're you doing here? I thought I'd meet you at the art room." He spoke as he turned the dial of his combination lock.
"Yeah well, I thought I'd be polite and meet you halfway." He smirked, idly scratching off dried up blue paint from his arm.
"Aren't you just a gentleman." He scoffed, taking out his homework for the day and putting in books that he didn't need.
"I'm a good guy that way." He smirked as he shrugged.
As soon as Roxas closed the door to his locker, Axel took a step towards the art room. "Ready to go?"
"As ready as I'll ever be." He smirked as he walked at the same speed at the red head, sometimes waving to a couple of classmates goodbye.
"Gee, you sure do know a lotta people." He turned his head the other way and scratched his cheek.
"I'm approachable, unlike you." He joked.
"Hey, hey. That's just rude." He scowled half-heartedly, landing a soft punch on the blonds' shoulder.
"I'm just sayin'." He laughed as he shrugged and continued down the hallway.
As soon as they turned into the corridor, the place was buzzing like a mad beehive. Everybody was doing something or running off to do an errand. Not one person was idle or not stressed.
"Wow…is it doom's day or something?" Roxas commented as he avoided being thrashed and thrown around the place while trying to get inside Axel's classroom.
"You don't know the half of it." He replied with a smirk as he made his way without much effort on his part.
Finally, after only being scraped on the elbow once, bumped on the knee twice and getting pushed around four times, "This place is a total mad-house!" the blond commented after avoiding a hit on the head with a ladder, Roxas jumped inside Axel's classroom and looked around for a good, safe spot to rest.
After having done that, he dropped his bag on the floor and looked up at the red head expectantly. "Ok…so now what?"
"Get on with those stars or whatever." He spoke as he made a move to leave the room. "I gotta go find me some candles and table cloths."
"You're leaving?" he hoped he didn't sound too desperate about being left alone. "What about the sign?"
"It's already done. I finished it while you were playing on the computer." He laughed after seeing the pout on Roxas' face.
"Fine." He turned away and stomped off.
He laughed even harder and came up to ruffle the blonds' hair. "Don't worry, I won't be gone too long."
"Yeah, yeah. Just go and get on with it." He waved him away.
"Will do. Just don't miss me too much Roxy." He chuckled and avoided the ball of string that was tossed in his direction as he retreated.
What's with the new doo-dads with Fanfiction eh bro? I'm trying to read a fic and the url is totally different from before! Crickey…
