Juukai says: Hey y'all! Nice to see you again! I'm trying to get a little better in my update schedule. As I am writing this new chapter, the last one is just now being uploaded. How's that for trying to be productive? No telling how long it'll actually take me to write it, though. Hopefully I'll get this beast shaped out and posted before I start working. Got me a job at my favorite theme park in the world, for those of you who don't know my deviantart account and haven't read the journal. Part time, though, so I should be able to still write without issue. The main problem might be internet, but we'll jump that hurtle when we come to it. And I will be sure to let you all in on it if I won't be able to get internet without going somewhere temporary and paying for it every once in a while when I can afford it. Now, let's say we dump the glum updates and get on with what you are here for? ON WITH THE STORY!
Disclaimer: I OWN NOT THE CHARACTERS YOU SEE, ONLY THE ORDER THE WORDS ARE IN AND THE IDEA BEHIND THEM. Thanks.
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Chapter 7
It was hard to motivate himself to actually get up the next morning. While it was true that classes were set to start later than they normally would that day, that didn't make the fact that he couldn't just roll back over and start snoozing again any easier. But the alarm clock was buzzing a static ridden and annoying tune, and he just couldn't manage to fall back asleep with the noise. The worst part was that it wasn't even his own clock that was making the disgruntling sound.
"Axel," Riku groaned, not lifting his head from his pillow, choosing instead to speak into it while he was sprawled out on his stomach. He never claimed to make sense in the morning, so he really didn't care.
The soft, breathy snores on the other side of the room stuttered for a moment before evening back out, making Riku moan again and finally pull himself up a little. But that was only so he could grab a shoe and throw it at his roommate. "Axel, get your lazy ass up and turn that thing off!"
The shoe hit the wall, making the snores stop, though there wasn't any movement from the bird's nest of blankets and sheets until that same shoe fell heavily into the mass. There was a whimper when it hit, obviously managing to find a less padded area on the sleeper buried inside via some homing beacon of karma that Riku was eternally grateful for.
"Wh't'imeizzit," the garbled and sleep-deepened voice of the redhead asked, one arm stretching out from his warm cocoon to slap the droning machine into silence.
"Whatever time you set it to go off, you moron," Riku growled, sitting up and rubbing his eyes before trying to get his hair into some kind of decent tangled mess until he could get a brush through it. It liked to stick up at odd angles after sleep, and he hated the looks he always got from Axel for it. He really needed to remember to tie it back whenever he was getting ready for bed. Though knowing him he'd only get it stuck permanently when he tossed and turned in his slumber.
A muffled answer, something sounding close to "name calling is unbecoming", though that was a big word for so soon after waking up, was his only reward, and he was tempted to actually find something with some real weight behind it to throw next. He forced his eyes to finally open, and cast them his clocks way. 10:30. In the AM. Axel was dead.
"Why did you decide that we needed to be up now when we only got to bed at almost 2?!" The mystery heavy object was sounding better by the second.
"Hey. I didn't know we'd be out that late," Axel snorted, heaving himself out of his bed in one fluid motion, only bothering to untangle himself from his sheets once he was standing. He threw them back on the mattress to be sorted out later and sat himself back down in his computer chair instead. "I set it before I even went to go get Demyx for the party."
"How can you even be this coherent," Riku whined, flopping back on his bed and snuggling his head back under the pillow.
"Nuh-uh, sleeping beauty!" His comforter and pillow were snatched away from his body, leaving a chill and a blast of light. "You take a while to wake up all the way, and we need to leave for our first class in less than an hour."
"I'm going to fucking kill you if you don't leave me the hell alone," he glared menacingly, grabbing for his things.
Axel just whistled lowly, green eyes burning with mischief. "You sure got a dirty mouth when you're waking up, you know that?"
"My mouth is going to be the least of your problems!" The silverette snarled, launching out of the bed to pummel his tormentor.
He was easily dodged and quickly shoved down into his chair. "Now, now. It's not good to go flinging your nearly naked self at your gay roommate. Unless you want to get raped, that is," Axel added with a dramatic wink. Riku inwardly groaned, wishing he had a gun. "But then we'd never make it to class and Demyx would come in with the cavalry, and it just wouldn't be pretty."
"Axel, seriously. Until you give me coffee, lots and lots of coffee, just shut the hell up," Riku put his head in his hands, praying to anyone who would be listening that his roommate would either spontaneously combust or get struck by lightning. Whichever would be the most grisly and painful. "I ask again, how the hell can you be this awake? You were the one doing most of the work last night."
Axel just shrugged, running a hand through his sleep tousled hair and looking out the window. "Dunno. Just am." He looked down at the hand that had just been through his red mane and made a face. "I'm going to go take a shower. I still have all the crap Demyx put in my hair last night sticking to me. See ya in ten." He grabbed his towel from his closet and disappeared out their door.
Their dorm hall had communal bathrooms, showers included. And Riku had learned that while he had a few ounces of modesty left despite his knowing that he was pretty damn hot (though some just accounted that to his ego), Axel had none. He would take the shower that was out in the open baring himself for anyone to see. And he was the typical male in that he would walk back to the room, which was a fairly long walk, in nothing but his towel. It was one instance where Axel was still dripping but had bothered to come back to their room to dry off that Riku noticed how long his tattooed roommate's hair really was. It was a little easy to forget since he always had it spiked. But when it was wet or damp it hung loosely to his shoulder blades at its longest.
Shaking off the images of a wet redhead that would soon return to bother him, Riku turned back to his desk and opened his laptop, checking his email and generally poking about a few of his favorite websites to wake himself up. When Axel finally returned he found the sea-eyed grump immersed in something he was reading on the internet with his headphones on and turned up loud enough so that he knew he wouldn't be heard if he tried to talk to him.
"Crank," Axel muttered, throwing on a pair of boxers before he started trying to towel dry his hair again. It always clung to water like it was a man dying of thirst in the desert, and sometimes took forever to dry if he didn't go at it more than once. Since he had waited so long to wash it, he knew that he didn't have a chance of getting it dry enough for gel to make it stick in his usual spiked style, and so he just reached over onto Riku's desk and stole one of the hair ties that were stuck around some of his pens. Riku sent him a scathing glare but he just shrugged and mouthed "you ain't using it" before tying most of his unruly red locks back. A few escaped the tie and framed his face and gave him bangs, but he was used to that happening when it wasn't full of gel so it didn't bother him that much. He went to his dresser and pulled out a pair of snug fitting jeans that were comfortable enough and a shirt that hung off his bony frame just right that read "glue a mirror to your chest, I might look at you then." When Riku finally got up to start getting dressed himself he looked at the shirt and then rose a silent eyebrow at Axel for it.
"Gift from my father," he explained smoothly. "He gets some big kick outta giving me shirts like this. Might as well wear 'em, though. A shirt's a shirt."
Right as Riku was tying his last shoe a loud knock echoed on their door. Axel shouted the okay to whoever was knocking that it was safe to come in, and a bouncing brunette awaited them.
"You aren't ready yet? We need to leave," he whined, even when Zexion put a restraining hand on his shoulder.
"Hold your horses, Dem, we're almost done," Axel waved off the complaint and grabbed a black backpack that was covered from top to bottom in sarcastic patches sowed on over fabric painted on flames. "Just let Ri get his stuff and we're outta here."
"Axel," Riku growled, elbowing him harshly, "stop calling me that."
Axel 'oof'ed softly, though it didn't stop his grin. "You like it. Anyway, hurry up. Luxord, that bastard, will make class a living hell if we don't get there on time, so it's usually best to get there a bit early, and you're eating away all that early time."
Riku grabbed his cell phone and book bag, checked to make sure that his wallet and keys were safely tucked away, and then walked out before Axel, leaving his roommate to lock the door. "Do we all have the same class?"
"Nope," Xigbar answered from his spot behind Zexion. "But I'm going to be close to you little dudes, so I figured I'd walk with ya."
"I am going to my advanced art class," the grey eyed male supplied in his quiet voice.
"I'm with you guys though!" Demyx was extremely enthusiastic in his answer. Riku wanted to shoot him for being so perky this early after the previous night. He was acting a lot like Axel, which warranted anyone getting shot. "But I think that's the only one of the day that I have with you, Riku. On regular days me and Axy will have the class before this one together, too."
"You should already know that, Riku," Axel interjected as the group began to move on to the stairs and ultimately towards their class. "We compared schedules and stuff when we got them."
Riku gave him a withering look. "I'm not fully awake yet, shut up."
Everyone but Riku and Zexion laughed. On their way to the academic buildings they picked up Naminé, who smiled shyly at everyone and wished them all a good morning, and Lexeaus, who was apparently going to be sharing a class with Xigbar. He was in higher classes because he planned to graduate early, Riku was later told. They saw a couple other people that the rest of the group seemed to know on the way there, but no one that made a point of coming to walk with them. Once they were inside the building, Zexion and Naminé broke away from the group, the latter waving goodbye as they walked off to their art class. Xigbar and Lex left them after that, disappearing through a doorway on their left with little more than a goodbye between them.
"And this is us," Axel declared, pointing to a room that was quickly filling up in seats. Mathematic babble was already scribbled on the chalk board when Axel, Riku, and Demyx took the only remaining three seats in a row open. Riku made sure to sit between then to keep the noise down to a minimal level, especially since this was their math class and not exactly his best subject. Those were the science based subjects.
Just a minute before class was to start a short haired blonde with a good few piercings to his name, though all in his ears, stalked into the room. He had a few books and binders tucked under one arm, which he set on the front table before scanning the room. Riku was surprised to notice that it was the same man that Axel had yelled at the one night in the bar, the one next to Cid and Vincent. And suddenly things made a little bit more sense in his head. "This is that Luxord," he asked Axel in a low voice.
"That would be Professor Downes to you," the blonde in the front of the room cut in, a definite accent from one of the British Isles that flowed into Never Land on one side.
"Sorry, sir," Riku muttered, contrite. He tried his hardest to always be some semblance of polite to his professors unless they were complete assholes for no reason. A couple chuckles went on around the room, mostly from Demyx and Axel, but everyone else was concentrating on the bearded blonde in the front of the room.
"Alright, I see a few new faces," the bearded man said, eyeing said new students. "My name is Luxord Downes, and I will be your mathematics, and for some of you logistics, professor. Be on time to my class every day, or I will lock you out. No exceptions. Phones best be turned off in my class, or I will answer them for you. If you have questions, ask." He grinned, the twisting of his lips looking more cynical than anything. "I'm only here to teach you, after all. It's my pleasure to help."
Among all of the new students, Riku wasn't the only one who either swallowed deeply or shifted uncomfortably. The others who knew better just chuckled and got ready for the lesson. Riku was a little hard-pressed to keep up with Luxord- Professor Downes in that first class, but as Luxord- Professor Downes told the newer students who didn't know better, "time is money, so if you waste mine you're a crook." It wasn't that Riku was stupid, he actually kept up alright with Axel and Demyx, it was just that math was one of his weaker subjects.
After Luxord's class, he found out that when class wasn't in session he was allowed to call him Luxord just as Axel and Demyx normally did, he and his redheaded roommate split from Demyx when he went to go to his music class and wandered off with Axel in the lead towards the theater that their acting class was in. Since Riku had taken a few rudimentary acting classes in his high school and his first year in college, he was allowed to join the same level class as it turned out Axel was in. Surprisingly enough Naminé was even in their class. A couple other people that Riku recognized from just being on campus and from the party the previous night were lounging on the stage and a few of the front seats. Naminé, ever the shy girl, joined their sides immediately, greeting Riku with a cheerful hello and giving Axel a brief but happy hug.
"Okay, so who is our professor here, and what do I call him?" Riku was attempting to keep out of the trouble that he'd had with Luxord.
"That would be Squall," Naminé answered with her clear voice.
"Yeah, Squall Leonheart," Axel confirmed. "But only she," he hooked a thumb at Naminé, "can ever get away with calling him Squall. Everyone else has to call him Leon. And he doesn't care about formalities. He'll tell you to call him Leon no matter what, so you might as well just do it."
A pink haired man, looking young but at the same time too old to be a student in this Leon's class entered. For a moment Riku was afraid that this was Leon. Though the name sounded a little tough for a man as… effeminate as this.
"Oh," Naminé saw him looking at this stranger and jumped to explain, "that's Marluxia. Well, Professor Ikeda, really. He's a voice coach, and he likes to come in during his free periods to come and see the how things are going."
Riku looked at her for a moment, wondering how exactly she was such a fountain of knowledge on their professors and how she apparently got away with calling each of them by their first names.
She just saw him staring and must have figured he was trying to figure out how she knew so much about this particular professor and smiled sweetly. "He's the professor in charge of the Gardening Club."
"I never would have pictured you in little apron and gloves out in the dirt," Riku murmured, looking her over.
"One of my members with the greenest thumb, actually," the pink haired man, Marluxia Ikeda, answered. Apparently Riku hadn't been paying enough attention and he hadn't even noticed when he was getting closer to their little group.
Naminé's smile widened and there was a soft dust of color to her cheeks. "Marluxia, you know that's not true."
Marluxia seemed perfectly intent on talking only to Naminé, not that Axel seemed to mind. Axel really didn't seem that happy that Marluxia was that close, truth be told. He kept shifting uncomfortably, like being around the voice coach just bothered him a bit. And Marluxia showed no apparent interest in Riku other than the initial bragging over Naminé's skill.
A door in the back of the theater shut loudly, and it finally drew Riku's attention away. And, thankfully, it made the older gentleman move back from the students to stand closer to the stage. It took a moment for the person who entered to become visible from the ascending rows of seats, but when he finally did Riku knew immediately that this was Leon. His dark brown hair was a little shaggy, but it suited him, nearly covering the scar that ran between his eyes. They looked kind enough, but he could just feel from the leather-clad man's presence that he did not deal well with nonsense.
"Alright, settle down," his deep voice ordered for those who hadn't taken the sharp sound of the door as their hint to be quiet. "I need to do an attendance call, and then we all need to sit down and talk."
He began calling names, checking most of them off before he even got answers. Acting was a year-long class, Axel informed him out of the corner of his mouth during the call right before his own name was called, so Leon had known them all for a year and had gotten everyone's faces down.
"And I'm a quick learner, Axel. Now stop wasting time and say 'here' already." Leon was giving him a dry look.
Axel just grinned like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar and put a hand behind his head. "Ya caught me! Here."
And down on the list it moved. Naminé was called with the L's (Riku was surprised to hear her last name, which was Laverock. It fit her, oddly enough.) There were no more names that Riku really knew until it was his own. Leon's hand hesitated over the clipboard that the attendance sheet was on, and he looked up when Riku uttered a low but confident "here" as ordered. For a second Leon's eyes drifted on him, and then he shrugged ever-so-slightly, as if to himself, and moved on.
"Now that we're done with that," he said, emptying his hands so that he could cross his arms over his chest, "it's time to talk about the fall play."
A few groans went up through the students, but there were also a few excited murmurs.
"I want your opinions on what we should do. The decision will also be put before my other Acting II class, but the Freshmen won't get to vote on the choices."
Riku's eyebrows furrowed. "Aren't there any higher classes?" The question was directed in a near stage whisper to Axel.
He wasn't so quiet about answering, but Leon didn't seem to have noticed the interruption. "Yeah, but they do their own assignments and usually leave the fall and spring plays for us and the Freshies. At least, that's how it was last year, and how it sounds it's going to be this year since they don't get to vote."
Axel was quick to fall silent again when Leon started talking again, not wanting to be subject to more polite snipes. "Now I don't want each and every one of you to come to me during or after class just to tell me what you think we should do. So here are the guidelines." He picked his clipboard back up and lifted up a couple pieces of paper until he found what he was searching for.
"Marluxia and I decided on these, so I don't want to hear any complaints. First off, we're going for a movie turned play. Keep in mind that we don't have all sorts of extreme special effects when you're trying to think of something. Older movies are preferred just so that we can keep you little punks from trying to get too special effect's excited. Depending on what the ultimate choice is and how large of a cast it calls for, we might be doing some open calls to fill in characters, but it's mandatory that all of you audition, even if my regulars back there are just manning the behind the scenes work. Practice might be long and brutal, so keep that in mind. There will be a lot of working with Marluxia, and I'm only warning you now so that I don't have to hear you whine later," he eyed Axel at that exact moment. "Any questions?"
A few hands flew in the air, but Riku wasn't really paying attention. He already had a movie in mind that he wanted to suggest. Axel was looking at him while Naminé was talking softly with Marluxia. As soon as he was done with the questions, Leon realized that he had already lost the attention of most of his class, so he told them to talk it over and at least wait in the theater until ten minutes before the class was supposed to let out and then they could leave if they wanted. He nodded once to Marluxia himself, said a couple of low words to the man that no one caught, and disappeared out of the same door in the back that he had come in through.
Axel was chatting excitedly with a few people in the class, and Naminé was throwing in her thoughts every once in a while. It only took about fifteen minutes before many conversations strayed from the topic they were supposed to be concentrating on, but with Leon gone everyone was relaxed and uncaring of his fact. But Riku was still thinking on it. More like he was imagining what his choice would look like on opening night with those he had cast in his head in their perfect roles.
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The first day of normal class hours was a little rocky, especially when Axel tried to wake Riku up that early. It wasn't all that bad, Axel still have all ten fingers and toes after the experience, but he would be sporting a bruise on his side for a couple days. They made a store run that night and got a twelve pack of the cappuccinos that came in glass bottles, just so that Axel would have something to throw at him before things got messy from then on. Riku's favorite class besides acting, oddly enough, would have to be the chemistry class that he had with Professor Vexen Calder. He was more into the biological sciences, but even with Professor Calder's tendency to be a little finicky and seem a bit like an insane scientist, he taught his class well and attempted to keep it interesting for those that were paying attention.
The schedule of classes, homework, and dealing with Axel and Demyx was actually falling easily into place. He even found himself enjoying it and missing his time with the latter two if they disappeared after dinner for some music time. It made Riku almost wish that he knew how to play an instrument other than the recorder he'd been forced to learn to play in the third grade. But Axel always came back in a happy mood and he tended to cheerfully pick on Riku even if he looked a little worn out. They spent a lot of time each on the computer. Riku was constantly talking to Kairi over some instant messenger server or another, and sometimes Axel would pester him until he let him in on the conversation. Kairi didn't seem to mind after the first time. She held her own against Axel's teasing quite well, even though she always complained about being at a disadvantage since Axel had seen pictures of her up on Riku's wall and she had no idea what he looked like. But Axel always countered by telling her that if she knew, she'd just fall in love with him and he didn't have the heart for long distance relationships. About then Riku always declared himself in neutral territory because they would start bickering like siblings and one would try to use him against the other. He was always smart enough to pull out just in the nick of time.
As their patterns of life fell together, Riku was starting to consider a part time job.
"Where you thinking of applying?" Axel asked over dinner one night. No one had really arrived yet since they were running a little earlier than normal.
"My uncle owns a business around here," he replied between bites of the chicken pasta that he had bravely proclaimed he would try. "The place my father manages is actually a branch of it."
Axel looked at him for a moment, then leaned in a little closer and rose one eyebrow. "Hey, I know you said that your dad ain't the cheeriest guy. Is your uncle any better?"
Riku waved off his concern with a slight twinge of annoyance on the inside. On one hand it was nice to have someone actually worrying about that, but on the other it was a little irritating that Axel thought he couldn't handle himself if the situation was too bad. "He's a lot better than Kadaj. Uncle Sephiroth's actually the one that is helping me the most right now anyway. It's not Dad putting the money for groceries in my account, I'll tell you that. And since Sephiroth is already giving me money, I might as well work for him. A part time job will give me something to do with all my extra time until the play is starting anyway."
Axel looked a little doubtful, but there wasn't much he could say, especially since he was going to be working part time on campus himself in one of the café's they had in the academic buildings in case students couldn't make it over to the cafeteria between classes. "Just don't pile too much on your plate, okay? I know that right now you get kinda bored, 'specially when me and Dem decide to go practice instead of entertaining you, but believe me, it'll pick up around here. Leon really makes us work on those plays, so it'll step up a lot when we get to that point, too."
Riku just rolled his eyes and tossed some of his hair out of his face so that he could see and eat without it hindering him. "Sephiroth isn't going to be an ass and tell me that I have set hours. He'll probably work with me just like the school works with you about your hours."
Axel opened his mouth to say something else, but Demyx and Xigbar interrupted them. Xigbar had taken a certain shine to them all, and he often convinced Xaldin to join their group instead of sitting off by themselves in hopes some of their other friends might join them.
Riku did listen to Axel a little, though. He decided to wait until Leon announced all the information on the fall play before he called his uncle. Leon had counter balanced Axel's advice the day in class when they spoke about it for his was quick to inform that the series practices were still a month or so off, and so each student that worked still had time to do so and wouldn't have to worry about rescheduling their working hours just yet.
"It's come down to two titles. There were about four that got repeated with everyone's suggestions, and Marluxia and I picked the top two." Leon's voice didn't really sound like he'd had much of a choice at all. His expression said that he'd let his production partner have most of the say just to get him off his back. Marluxia's smug expression confirmed that small suspicion, at least in Riku's mind.
"I already had yesterday's class take a vote on these two finalists, so now it's up to you," he was handing out small slips of paper now. "Write down the name of the one you want and turn them in. I've already counted yesterday's votes, so I'll just count these, tell you the results, and give you guys your exercise and you can be off."
That is where Marluxia stepped in. "Your two choices are between the musical Labyrinth and," his expression turned a little, like he was less pleased about the last choice, "Drop Dead Fred which will be have a few songs thrown in to mix it up." A few groans echoed through the theater. "That's right, you will most likely have to sing! Get over it. If it wasn't for that fact, I'd be off looking after the building of the new green house, not here. But I am going to have to work with all of you no matter which you pick."
Riku grinned slightly. His choice had made it to the finals. He scribbled his vote down quickly but legibly and handed it to Leon. Axel had his face twisted in dismay, but he wrote his own down after a moment. Naminé smiled happily, apparently pleased with both of the choices. She took her time writing hers down and turning it in, and then they all waited in the middle of the sea of seats. Once everyone finally made up their minds and handed in their tiny slips of paper, Leon and Marluxia moved to the back of the theater to the light and sound control room where they presumably counted the votes and talked over the options opened up by the winner.
"Which one did you pick, Nam?" Axel stuffed his hands into the pockets of his black shorts, eyeing the petite blonde curiously.
She tsked at Axel playfully. "Curiosity killed the cat, Axel."
"I'm not a cat, and even if I were I'd still have about six lives left anyway, so lay it on me cutie," he winked at her, a wicked grin crossing his face.
She smacked him softly on the arm. "Smart mouth. I picked Drop Dead Fred."
Axel made a face. "Why that one?"
"Because I wouldn't really get a role in Labyrinth, I thought. And I can totally see you as Fred," she giggled at the indignant sound he made.
"She has a point, Axel." Riku smirked and ticked off fingers, "you both have crazy red hair, you're both rude, you both do more harm than help, you're both obnoxious, and you're both clueless and crash. Need I say more?"
"Not unless you want me to dump out all your coffee on you tomorrow morning to wake you up," the redhead growled, green eyes ablaze.
Naminé distracted them before they could even start squabbling. "Here they come."
Leon lead the way, his head down with his brown hair falling in the way of his face. Marluxia was frowning just slightly, and as the two passed Riku could see that Leon had his head down specifically so that his hair would hide the grin on his face. Axel sighed heavily. He already knew which one had won.
Coughing once to get everyone's attention, or to just hide his grin before he got control of his expression, Leon signaled everyone to move in closer so he wouldn't have to speak too loud. "Gather 'round, kiddies." He barely paused before he held up a character list and script. "Looks like we have a winner. This fall's play, and your mandatory assignment, is Drop Dead Fred."
Riku grinned, giving Naminé a high five since they had both picked a winner.
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Well, there ya are. All done and pretty for you, and barely even four days after I uploaded the other chapter, too! I didn't get many reviews over the last chapter, so there aren't going to really be any responses… and I don't have much to say. So thank you for reading, and please remember to review! I will try my bestest to keep uploading in a somewhat timely fashion. I love each and every one of you. w And a big thanks to Ellipsis the Great down there; she's my beta everyone! XD
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