Another story from me! Yayz!(I guess?) Actually, it's my first(as of now, when I'm writing this author's note, it's technically the second, but it might get published as the first) Kingdom Hearts chaptered story! Yay! Oh, and, everyone lives on Destiny Island, just so you know.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything. I don't even own the title. I got the idea from 'It's ok, I'm with the band!' from an Xenosaga category. I don't own '100 Years' by Five for Fighting or 'Breakaway' by Kelly Clarkson, either.
Wait, I'm With Which Band?
Chapter 1: My Dream Band
"How about...the Destiny Islanders?" Suggested a sandy-haired kid with all his friends. It was in the middle of the school year, and almost everyone's favorite subject was up-lunch.
"Tidus, that's too...normal of a name! We gotta make it, like..The People Who Rock More Than Anyone Else in the Entire World or something cool like that." Said a blonde-haired kid to his friend.
"Well, Hayner, that's not a cool name, either! People'll think we're conceited!" Tidus said. "Why don't we ask the singer of our band? So, Roxas, what do you think we should name our band?" He asked, turning to a ocean-eyed kid.
"Hmmm...I can't think of any good names. What about you, Sora? You have any suggestions?" Roxas asked his older twin brother with brown hair, Sora.
"How about 'The Keybladers'?" Sora suggested. Hayner and Tidus 'booed' and threw paper balls at him.
"FYI Tidus and I don't wield keyblades. The only reason you guys do is because you went on vacation to that Twilight City-"
"Twilight TOWN, for the last time, Hayner! It's Twilight Town." Roxas corrected his friend. Hayner rolled his eyes.
"Anyway, you guys went to Twilight Town and you just so happened to go to a garage sale with weirdo-things and you guys picked out the weirdest things of them all. I mean, come on, how many people in video games do you see wielding key-shaped swords?" Hayner said.
"You're just jealous because only Roxas and I can wield them." Sora said, smiling proudly.
"Whatever. Oh, great, look who it is. The self-appointed Disciplinary Committee." Hayner said, giving a glare to three people who came over to their table.
"You guys aren't going to try out for that contest, are you? The one that if you win you get to get a contract with that famous record company, Hollow Bastion Records." Seifer, the leader of his sel-appointed three-man(including him) crew, said.
"Well, we're going to win, Seifer! We're so totally going to beat you! And don't tell me you're going to sing, because I know for a fact you can't!" Hayner shouted at him. Hayner and Seifer never saw eye-to-eye. They all knew why, but they never liked to say anything about it or intervene in their arguments.
"Fuu's the lead singer. That mean we're not competing against you guys. You know that two bands will win the competition, right? One with a boy lead singer and the other as a girl lead singer." Seifer said. Tidus, Hayner, Roxas and Sora burst out laughing.
"A-Are you kidding me? Fuu doesn't even talk, much less sing!" Tidus said in-between laughs. Once they all calmed down and got their breath back, they looked at the white-haired girl who barely spoke a word.
"Even if Seifer was singing, we'd totally beat you, y'know? Just be glad we're not going against you or else you'd get embarrassed, y'know?" Rai, the last member of the Disciplinary Committee, said. Fuu said nothing, just kept on staring at them with her visible red-eye.
"That's not fair! There aren't many girls(in DestinyIslands)that are willing to be the lead singer. Where's your competition? That's totally not fair if they just hand the contract to you guys!" Roxas said. Seifer pointed to a table a couple of tables away.
"You see those girls at that table? They're our competition." Seifer said, walking away with his two friends.
"They'll be our music rivals! I can't be in a competition of music against Yuna!" Tidus wailed, holding his head with what looked like agony.
"That's if we win and they win." Sora said. "She might not even be in the band, she might just be their cheerleader or something like that. Why don't you go over and ask?" Sora asked. Tidus shook his head.
"Guys, you can't do that to me! You know I've had a crush on her since the second grade! We're in Tenth Grade, now!" Tidus said.
"We'll go over with you. Does that make you feel better, Tidus?" Roxas asked. Tidus nodded as they all got up and started walking towards the girls' table. Once they arrived, the girls at the table all sort of stared at the guys.
"Hey, guys, what's up?" Yuna asked cheerfully. Tidus make a little squeaking noise. "Tidus, are you ok?" She then asked. Tidus nodded his head.
"I heard you guys were gonna try out in that band competition." Hayner said casually. Olette, the girl who had a major crush on Hayner(they all knew it besides him, it was so obvious) nodded her head.
"Yeah, we are. Are you guys trying out, too?" She asked. The guys nodded.
"You're all gonna be in the band?" Sora asked. It was the girls' turn to nod.
"Who's going to be your singer?" Asked Kairi, the red-haired girl, smiling at them.
"I am. What about you?" Roxas asked. Sora elbowed him in the side. He glared at his twin. Sora glared back. They were always in some sort of competition, though Roxas couldn't really care less about Kairi. However, since they shared a room(unfortunately, in Roxas' opinion) Roxas knew all too well that the feeling was exactly the opposite for Sora.
"Roxas, you have a very nice voice. I hope you win." The blonde-haired twin of Kairi, Naminé, said, smiling one of those shy smiles of hers. Roxas felt his face heat up. He froze.
"Roxas, say thank you before Naminé thinks you're an inconsiderate idiot!" Sora whispered, elbowing him again. Roxas snapped back into reality.
"Oh, um, thanks a lot, Naminé!" He said, laughing a bit nervously. Naminé smiled and looked back down at her sketch-pad she took everywhere and continued to draw on it.
"I'm going to be the main singer! It looks like when we both win we'll be in some competition, right, Sora?" Kairi said, pointing to herself and smiling. The guys had an exasperated look on their faces. That's what Sora just said over at their table...
"You guys are gonna win, I know you are! What did you name your band?" Sora asked. The girls looked at each other. It looked like they had completely forgotten about naming their band!
"We're going to let the company decide." Olette said, after conversing with each other in low tones so the boys couldn't hear. The others nodded. Sora rubbed the back of his head.
"That's a good idea, guys. Why don't we let the company decide the name for us?" Sora asked. Hayner looked at him like thunder and lightning just struck Sora and he lived.
"No way! What if they give us a stupid name like 'The Worst People Ever'!" Hayner shouted. Olette giggled, and the other people quirked an eyebrow at the suggestion.
"Hayner, I don't think they would name your band that. Who would buy music from a band called 'The Worst People Ever'?" Olette asked.
"Well I doubt they'll give us a cool name like 'The Coolest, Hottest and Overall Best Band Ever'!" Hayner shouted. Olette laughed again.
"But, Hayner, I think you are the coolest, hottest and overall best!" As soon as those words slipped out of her mouth, she covered her mouth with her hands. "I-I'm sorry, I thought I was thinking that..." She said, looking down at her table.
"Um, nice talking to you guys! See you later! Bye!" Yuna shouted, looking at her green-eyed friend as her and Kairi pushing the boys back to their table.
"Wow, did you hear that? Olette thinks I'm the best!" Hayner said, in an awed tone. He looked absolutely shocked, but he looked proud of himself.
"Oh, great. Just another reason to make Hayner more conceited." Tidus mumbled. Hayner stood up.
"What was that? I'm not the conceited one, it's Seifer!" He yelled, pounding his fist on the table. He didn't like to be told he had a trait that Seifer also had.
"Ok, ok, ok. I take back what I said. Geez, take a chill pill once in a while." Tidus said, Hayner sitting back down.Roxas cleared his throat, getting back to the Hayner-is-the-best-in-Olette's-opinion topic.
"Hayner, you dope! She just said in an indirect way that she has a crush on you! You gotta go say something to her or else she'll never talk to you again!" Roxas said. Out of the group, he was the one who had more 'girl sense' than the guys, although around Naminé that girl sense went down the drain. It was probably because Roxas was attracted to the quiet, shy type like Naminé. Only Sora and Roxas knew their twins' feelings.(after all, they do live with each other)
"But she has a crush on me so she'll surely talk to me again, right?" Hayner asked, hope shining in his eyes. He'd never admit it, but he kinda liked her too, but he could hide his feelings real well from his best friends, so they didn't know...at least, not yet.
"She'd be too embarrassed to talk to you again!" Tidus explained. Hayner's mouth was an 'o'.
"Well, I've got to talk to her! Be right back, guys!" He said, running off to Olette's table. Roxas sighed and shook his head.
"Hayner should really talk to Axel...Axel has girl tips for everyone." Roxas said. Sora smacked Roxas across the back of his head. "Owch! What was that for?" He said, rubbing his head and glaring at Sora.
"Axel's a senior! And a player, too! We all know he's dating like five girls at the same time! I can't believe you guys are even friends!" Sora shouted. Roxas shrugged.
"Axel's a nice guy once you get to know him. So what if he got jailed for thinking he could control fire and burned down his apartment? It could've happened to anyone!" Roxas said huffily, crossing his arms.
"Guys, now look who's coming. Selphie and Yuffie!" Tidus whispered to them across the table. Sora and Roxas' heads snapped up.
"Selphie and Yuffie!" They asked worriedly. Tidus nodded and pointed to her, although someone could've easily mistaken it for him trying to poke his hamburger. The hyper duet was bounding towards them.
"Hiya guys! Just thought we would let you know we'll be cheering for you all the way! Ok?" Selphie said. Yuffie nodded. Selphie Tilmittand Yuffie Kisaragi. Sora and Roxas once made a joke about them being the 'hyper' version of Kairi and Naminé. After Yuffie got her out over-sized shuriken they realized never to joke about the step-sisters again. They had learned(involuntarily) that Selphie's dad had died when she was young, and Yuffie's parents had divorced at that time, so Selphie's mom and Yuffie's dad got together.
"I know we'll win if you two cheer for us!" Roxas said, smiling at them. That smile made Selphie swoon. She ran up to him and hugged him.
"Oh, Roxas! You're just the best! I just love you so much! See ya later!" She said, bounding back towards her table, her and Yuffie giggling like maniacs. Everyone stared at Selphie in the lunchroom. They had all heard her remark about 'loving' Roxas.
"Roxas, why'd you say that for?" Sora whispered to him, leaning over like he was trying to steal the food left over on his twin's plate so no one would suspect. Half of the lunchroom was staring at Selphie, and the other half was staring at Roxas.
"They would've cried if we just told them to go away, right? I can't stand to see girls cry, and I know for a fact no one else can't, either." Roxas whispered back. Sora stopping leaning over, but grabbed a french fry on his way back to his original position so no one would think anything strange.
The silence continued for eight seemingly interminable minutes, before one person started to talk, then chaos burst into the lunchroom by the form of noise.
"Maybe I should go to Selphie and tell her I don't feel the same way...?" Roxas suggested to himself out loud.
"She'd probably burst out crying." Sora said. Hayner came back to their table. "So? How'd it go?" Sora asked. Hayner had an unridable smile on his face.
"Well, we talked..."He said. The guys prodded him on.
"And...?"
"I also told Olette that I thought she was the overall best, too..."Hayner said, taking a deep breath for the next part.
"Wait, Hayner, you're not supposed to lie to Olette! That'll just make her more mad! Haven't you ever seen one of those soaps where the guys lies to the girl because he actually likes her sister but the sister doesn't want to see that girl get hurt, and then the girl finds out he was lying and smacks him across the face? You need to watch more romantic movies." Roxas said, shaking his head and sighing.
"But it was the truth. I really, really like her. You guys are just to dense to notice anything!" Hayner said, and laughed. When he realized no one else was laughing, he continued, "Then, she said 'Daisuki' to me and gave me a kiss on the cheek and that's when I came over." tidus looked at Sora and Roxas with a suspicious glint in his eyes.
Suddenly, all three bust out in song. "Hayner and Olette, sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G! First come love, then comes-" Hayner gave the trio a death glare. The bell rang.
"Well, see you guys after school! Meet up in the usual spot, ok?" Hayner yelled over the stampeding of kids. Unbeknownst to them, the girls were also planning to hang out in the usual spot, too. Usually the girls and the boys talk to each other there, but most of the time some guys didn't show up because they'd get too nervous around some girls.
"Yeah, Hayner! See ya after school!" Roxas yelled, everyone going to their next class.
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"Kami, why are you girls here! I thought you'd be playing dolls or whatever girls do!" Hayner said. He was always the first one at the usual spot. The usual spot was a place under the docks. If you jumped off the docks and swam a few feet down you'd see a giant beach-ball size hole. Like one of those beach balls you can barely put your arms around. If you swam inside of it, there was a tunnel that came up.
You could pop up out of it and you would be able to see rock-like land with shallow water covering it. There were chairs(the guyshad brought them here with much difficulty one day) arranged in a circle. There were eight chairs, one for every person. They had also decorated their usual spot with things that both genders liked. The girls were already in their chairs, and quietly talking amongst themselves.
"Surprised we beat you to it?" Yuna asked, smiling. Hayner shook his head and waved his hands in front of him.
"No, I just don't like it when you girls come here!" He said, sitting in his seat. Luckily, he sat right across from Olette.
"Why? You don't like us?" Olette asked, obviously kidding around. Hayner looked away and rubbed the back of his head(the girls all noticed it was a bad habit for all the guys when they got nervous) as his face got a brilliant red.
"It's 'cause you girls are all in your bikinis!" He said. The girls laughed.
"Hayner, if it bothered you that much, you should've just said something. We brought shirts for cover-ups...although, they're wet." Olette said. Hayner covered his eyes with his hands.
"Tell me when you're done!"He said. Olette sighed. Hayner could be such a drama queen when he wanted to.
"We're not taking anything off, Hayner, but we're done." Olette said, her voice holding a cheerfulness. As soon as he took his hands off his eyes, he saw Sora, Roxas and Tidus walking towards them. They took their seats.
"Hayner, you didn't tell us the girls would be here!" Roxas said, giving him a glare. Hayner shrugged.
"I knew about it as much as you did!" Hayner replied. He then cleared his throat. "I don't know why you girls are here, but us guys are talking about our band, so, whatever."
There was a long silence. So much for talking about their band.Finally, Kairi broke the long silence.
"What song are you guys going to play first?" She asked. They all knew why there was silence. It was because the guys were too captivated by the girls' looks. Or, at least, that's what the girls would like to think the reason was.
"We call the song '100 Years' because it's about how 'I' want this girl in the 100 years of my life. Well, not technically that, but you get the point." Roxas said. "What about you?"
"I call the song I'm singing 'Breakaway'. I won't tell you what it's about, you'll get to see for yourself!" Kairi said, happily, placing her hands in her lap.
"Who are the judges? Do you know?" Tidus asked out of the blue, looking at Yuna. He really didn't mean to direct the question at her, but she was just sitting right across from him so it seemed like he was.
"Um, four people from Hollow Bastion records, I think. Why?" Yuna said, slightly shrugging her shoulders.
"No reason." Tidus said. Silence followed once more. This time, Roxas decided to break the silence by asking Naminé what she was drawing. (She had a water-proof case; I told you, she takes her sketch-pad everywhere)
"Naminé, can I see your drawing?" Roxas asked. Naminé looked up. She turned the pages back a couple of times and handed it to him. She stood over him to make sure he didn't turn the pages forward. "Can I see what you were drawing?" He asked, looking up at her. She shook her head. He frowned and gave it back to her.
Naminé held the sketch-pad to her chest and looked at him with sad eyes. She couldn't stand to see himfrown, or expressing any other emotion besides from happiness. She didn't know why, that was just the way it was."Um, Roxas, if you want to see it that bad you can." She said, giving it back to him.
"Thanks, Naminé!" Roxas said, smiling as he flipped the pages forward only to reveal...
"Give me that! Thank you very much!" Kairi had gotten up and snatched the sketch-pad out of Roxas' hands before his brain registered what the picture was of. "I can't believe you'd take advantage of my sister like that! Jerk!" She muttered, going back to her seat and handing the sketch-pad back to it's rightful owner. During the rest of the'meeting' Kairi was glaring daggers at him.
"Next week's the contest! Can you believe it?" Olette asked, trying to break the tension between her friends. They were all friends with each other, it's just that the guys were more friends with the guys and the girls were more friends with the girls.
"Yeah, I can. After all the practicing we've been doing! It's been taking so much time out of my schedule!" Hayner said. "I'll be so mad if all that work is for nothing..."
"All the practicing? What do you mean? We've barely practice-" Sora said, but was cut off by a look from Hayner that said it all, "Oh, yeah, that practicing! I-I forgot." He said laughing nervously. Roxas laughed with him.
"Yeah, that's my brother for you! Always forgetting everything!" Roxas said. Sora stopped laughing immediately to give a glare to Roxas.
"Don't push it." He mouthed.
"Well, if you guys don't practice, how do you expect to win?" Olette asked.
"Roxas has a naturally good voice!" Tidus said. Well, they all knew that. After getting 'Best Vocals' five years in a row and getting all the chorus solos, Roxas did have a naturally good voice. (Jesse McCartney's not that bad of a singer, though I know a lot of people hate him)
"But if you guys aren't that good at playing the instrument you're playing, then what's the point of having a good singer?" Yuna asked.
"I don't know about everyone else, but I ROCK at the drums." Tidus said. Sora stifled a laugh. "What? Is there something on my face?" Tidus asked, feeling his face to make sure there wasn't anything on it.
"No, but the way you bang that stick in the air every single second of your life makes your statement true!" Sora said. Tidus got ready to tackle Sora, but Yuna stood up and walked over to him.
"Please don't fight. If you break your arm, how will you play the drums next week? I know you can play them magnificently, and it's be a shame if you couldn't play for the judges. I know they'd love to hearyou." Shesaid. Tidus sighed and sat back down. Finally, Roxas couldn't take it anymore. All Kairi was doing was glaring at him! Not even partaking in any of the conversations or anything! Just glaring at him! And it was unnerving like you wouldn't believe.
"Kairi, could you please stop trying to murder me with your eyes! Looks can't kill, ok? That's just an expression!" Roxas said. Kairi blinked before glaring at him some more.
"I still can't believe you would do that! If Naminé...wasn't friends with you, I'd smack you across the face!" Kairi yelled. She had hesitated before completing the last sentence.
"What did I do that was so horrible, huh?" Roxas asked, leaning forward in his seat in a menacing way.
"You frowned so she would feel sorry for you and give the sketch-pad back! That's taking advantage!" Kairi yelled. Sora sighed.
"Guys, do we really need the fighting? Roxas, just say you're sorry to Naminé." Sora said. Roxas looked at him like he just got his head sliced off and lived.
"What? But I didn't do anything!" Roxas argued.
"Just say you're sorry! Kairi's upset and it's because of your actions." Sora said angrily. Roxas shook his head. Sometimes he hated having an older twin brother. He was only older by fourteen minutes!
"Fine! I'm sorry, Naminé." Roxas mumbled.
"I should be the one who's sorry. I caused all this trouble. Roxas, do you forgive me for getting you in so much trouble?" Naminé asked. Roxas sighed.
"Yeah, I do." He said. Hayner stood up and stretched.
"Guys, let's get going! We need to practice for the big day!" He yelled, running to the hole and climbed through it. He hated doing that part, and he knew the others didn't like it, too. You had to pull yourself head-first into the tunnel, and swim through the tunnel(it was pretty wide) but they just didn't like it.
"Bye! See you tomorrow in school!" Tidus said, and waved as he climbed into the tunnel. Once all the girls were alone, they all looked at Naminé.
"Naminé, what drawing didn't you want to Roxas to see?" Olette asked. "It's ok if you don't want me to see it, either." Naminé shook her head and flipped to the page. Olette, Kairi and Yuna looked at the drawing.
"Oh...you're really upset about what Selphie said, I can see." Yuna said. Naminé nodded, then closed her sketch-pad. "Well, done with break-time! We need to get practicing, too, girls!"
Since today's Canada Day (GO CANADA!) I'm hoping for some very nice reviews and no flames. After all, I'm from Canada and what better way to appreciate Canada than to give a Canadian a pleasant review? No, I didn't do this on purpose, it just turned out that way. :P Anyways, I bet you guys can't figure out why Sora and Roxas are 14 minutes apart!I know it's a long time for twins to be born apart, but there's a reason! Sorry I had to make everyone siblings. -shrugs-
And, sorry for all you Axel fans out there. Axel's not even in this story...that much, anyways. I hope you all review, and thank you very much for reading!
P.S. I know I kinda lost sight of the band thing during the Usual Spot scene. But...the things that take place there are VERY important later on...and, sorry Selphie was out of character...and, NO, this is NOT a Rophie fic! It is(and I will repeat) a Namixas, Kaiora, Haylette and Tuna fic! Although Tuna is a side dish. ;) Now that I'm done rambling, REVIEW, please!