Chapter Four---Savoir

Cloud slammed the door to his room closed. It didn't really matter to him that the rest of his family might still be sleeping. He was still upset about last night. First Zack, then Axel. Heaving a sigh, the blonde exited the house and started his bike. As the engine roared to life, he saw Zack exit the house, oblivious to his presence, hands shoved down in his pockets and head down. He did look a bit pale…shaking his head, Cloud speed off towards TU. It wasn't his problem.

Axel watched the exchange from the living room window, a coffee cup in his shaking hand. Zack had been distant and clumsy lately. Axel figured it was just from all the fighting he'd been doing with Cloud. Now…now he wasn't so sure. Surely his brother wasn't purposely hurting himself? The sound of Namine's soft steps near the door let Axel know she was ready to leave. Shaking his head, Axel set his untouched coffee down on the table and took the blonde to school.

Sora had gone between his bathroom and bedroom so many times, Zexion wondered how the boy hadn't worn a trail yet. Nervous energy wafted off the boy and Zexion figured it was new school nerves.

"Calm down, you're going to be fine." Sora stopped and smiled at him, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.

"I know, Zex, I…I just hate first days is all. Come on; let's go see Leon before school!" Zexion agreed as Sora and Demyx clambered down the stairs and into their Geo.

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Twilight University appeared to be even bigger than the city of Hollow Bastion. It had huge grounds and three huge buildings, A,B and C and seperate grounds for the dorms. Sora stared at the facility in awe while he followed Zexion to the Art Building, coincidentally located in build A.

"Can I help you three?" The gruff voice belonged to a rather fierce looking blonde and Sora noticed Demyx ease behind Zexion a bit, as if trying to hid from those piercing cobalt orbs. Sora couldn't blame him.

"We're here to see-"

"Sora, why are you here? You should be at school." Leon's voice was tired and Sora jumped a bit, turning to face his brother, smiling brightly.

"I know but I wanted to see this place. Besides THS is just down the road. It's really nice here." Leon nodded, setting his things down in the farthest corner in the back of the room, ignoring the teacher entirely.

"Excuse me, Leon Everheart, is it?" Leon scowled and turned away from his three brothers and to the teacher. A glare as fierce as his own met Leon's gaze.

"As…heartwarming as this little rendezvous has been, they need to leave, Scholarship winner or not." The spiky haired blonde returned to his papers and missed Zexion flipping him off. Leon chuckled quietly and shooed his brothers from the room as the bell rang and he took his seat.

"From now on, Everheart, leave the kiddies at home." Leon ignored him, pulling out his pencils, enjoying the muttered curse from the teacher.

Sora sat in the back of the class, next to Demyx. The teacher was scribbling illegible notes on the black board while the students filed in. Among them were three silver haired teens that looked remarkably like Kadaj. Demyx nudged his brunet brother who nodded.

"I know, crazy right?" The girl heard them whispering as she sat down with her brothers and turned to glare at them, mistaking their whispers for ridicule.

"Shut up." She muttered shortly, causing the taller of the two boys to turn with a nasty glare on his face. Sora had to hush the urge to snicker; that glare was nothing compared to Kadaj's.

"You got a problem new kid? I can fix it for you…"The boy meant it in a menacing what that was lost on Sora, who was so captivated by the boy's aquamarine eyes that he didn't respond, just stared. Demyx fidgeted under the boys harsh gaze and shook his head.

"No problem. Our brother looks just like you, though, that's all." The boy laughed, a deep rich sound from deep in his throat.

"No one looks as good as I do." Sora rolled his eyes. Someone obviously didn't suffer from modesty.

"Where are you from, new kid?"

"Hollow Bastion. I have a name, use it." Even Demyx was surprised by Sora's snappish reply. The boy was so normally friendly and optimistic it could give dentist cavities.

"Well then tell me. I'm Riku." Sora sighed and drummed his fingers on the table top, eyeing Demyx's guitar case on the floor.

"I'm Sora. This is my brother Demyx." Demyx didn't say anything to the boy, simply looked away from him and out the window.

"My sister Fujin and brother Yazoo, we're triplets, in case you didn't figure that out." Yazoo leaned his head back and gave the brunet a wink before settling into his chair to sleep. Sora grinned at Riku and leaned forward in his seat, brown spikes brushing the other teens' forehead.

"So what's there to do in this town?" The wicked grin that spread over Riku's pale lips sent shivers down Sora's spine.

Meanwhile, down the road Leon was fairing much worse under the constant scrutiny of a one Cloud Fair. No matter what he did, the blonde found something wrong with it. Cloud needed to get laid or something because he was seriously tight.

"Don't use such harsh strokes." The voice grated on Leon's one and only nerve, making his already clenched jaw twitch in exasperation.

"Get bent." He muttered as the blonde moved on to another victim. Growling lowly, Leon nearly slammed down his charcoal and pinched the bridge of his nose. He couldn't even make a simply shading sketch with that moron who called himself a teacher.

"Something wrong, Everheart? Don't expect special treatment here." Leon raised a brow and smirked to himself. Let's see how that blonde slave driver liked this sketch…

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