Organizational Flaws

Ch. 3

You Want Me to Work with WHO?

Pairings: RoxasXOc

Author: Wishful Galaxy

Disclaimer: I obviously don't own KH if im writing about it.

Hard to believe that with all the chaos that happened in the stairway, things were still genetically calm in all other areas in the castle. Of course, people who were out on missions at the moment would come back to a total mess, and I really couldn't say it was my fault. It was Roxas's, because I don't have an element yet. And since his element is light, it's only logical that it was his fault. I just…accidentally made him summon his element in defense. Yeah, that was it!

I stood, at the moment, in front of the Superiors meeting room, the big, pointlessly round room. I sighed and summoned a portal, heading straight for my seat in the room.

I was number fifteen, which ticked me off because I was supposed to be thirteen, but they saved it, and fourteen was somehow off limits. But oh well, that wasn't the main problem at the moment. My main problem, was that I was about to get my skinny self laser-ed for messing an area of the castle.

I appeared a second later, sitting in my seat as the babble that went on in my head subsided.

"Am I about to be turned into a Dusk?" I asked.

The Superior looked over at me and stared me down with his creepy tan-orange eyes.

"No, Max, you're not." He answered my question, and then laughed.

No, I'm serious, he actually laughed.

I glared at him.

"What's so funny?" I asked.

"The fact that such an important member of the Organization would be turned into a Dusk, of all things." He sobered, looking at me fully.

If you looked at it one way, it was a bit funny, but not really by much. My next comment might have been hilarious, but I don't have a true heart so I wouldn't know.

"Hey, I'm speaking from mind here, but really. What else is there to be turned into? A candelabra? A clock? A Wardrobe!"

I couldn't help mentioning those three things. One of my first missions had been to Beasts Castle, and the idea sort of stuck to me.

He shoke his head.

"Your imagination runs too far sometimes." He commented.

I shrugged my shoulders.

"You said that you wouldn't turn an important member into a dusk." I changed the subject. "What makes me so special?"

He looked me dead in the eyes.

"You mean that you haven't discovered the reason why the impact you and Roxas had made the surrounding area explode?" He asked, a small smirk playing on his face.

I shoke my head.

"Nope. I don't have a clue."

He paused, as if thinking.

"The reason that you and Roxas looked alike is because you, as a Nobody, were created from him."

Roxas was still coughing dust as he continued ranting about both the hyperactive Nobody girl and the lengthy stairways.

'My legs freaking hurt!' He complained.

"And what is with that girl, anyways?" He thought aloud.

"Who, Max on your mind, Roxas?" The pyro, Axel, walked up to him and slapped a hand on the blondes shoulder.

"She's on my mind, but not in that way!" The blonde replied hastily.

"Shame. The girl needs a little guidance." Axel and Roxas continued to walk

"Why does she?" Roxas asked.

"Because when she first came here, she was lost, alone, and beaten up."

Roxas looked up at Axel with renewed interest. Axel looked back for a few minutes, then remembered that Roxas was fairly new and had no idea of what bad condition the girl was in when she first came to the castle.

"She wasn't born like other Nobodies. She didn't just appear one day out of the blue and join the Organization from there. She was born like any other human would have been, and that is what makes her so sugar hyped or emotional. The weird thing is, even though she was born a normal way, no one knows who her parents would have been. She grew up without parents, just the fact that people shied away from her as a kid. Zexion was in the middle of a mission a week ago, and he came across the scent of a 'new' Nobody. He found Max, half conscious and almost dead. She had been bullied by a neighborhood gang. After Zexion brought her back to the castle, they revived her. We gave her the name Max, and since she couldn't remember a dang thing before the accident, we told her she was a new Nobody created from a girl who was taken by the darkness named Amy. Max was smart, and she asked what had happened to the 'y' and we said you had wanted to drop it. We told her that Amy lived in Twilight Town, but Zexion had actually found her in Hallow Bastion. Xenmas said that at the right time, we would tell her truth." Axel explained, not even out of breath at the end.

"Wow." Roxas toke a few minutes to take this information. That explained so much about her, it was almost unreal. He almost felt bad for her.

"If she comes anywhere near you after her current meeting with Xenmas, run for your life. She will most likely be ticked off." Axel said suddenly.

"Why?"

"Because at this moment, he is telling her the truth about her existence."

"WHAT!" I shrieked. "You mean you jerks lied to me!"

I was infuriated, and I felt a power inside me spark that never had before. The air between us crackled as I stood from my chair, almost seeming to float in mid-air.

"Yes, we did." He replied. "And now sit, because I have to tell you the reasons for you and Roxas's connection."

I huffed, sitting down again. The raw energy flowing through my veins was enough to fit into the description of eating an entire two packs of 6-pack chocolate and a bottle and a half of Mt. Dew, plus an explosion of pop rocks and Pepsi.

"Roxas has the power over light, but in the same way he does, you do as well. You hold half of his power, which is why when you two made contact, everything around you exploded." Xenmas explained.

"And what about my weapon?" I asked.

"If you concentrated, you could wield the Keyblade. I have informed Zexion to let you be, but you are to go the training room to practice. Dismissed." I didn't even say goodbye, but I merrily portaled from the room, ending up outside the door that led to the Round-Room.

"Hey there, Max!" I heard Axel say, sounding cheerful

"Buzz off." I muttered.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"Like you don't know." I pushed him aside, continued down the hall. I didn't get far, because he ran forward and grabbed my hand.

"Max, talk to me."

As if it were natural, I channeled my energy into my hand, sending a light surge through my hand to his arm. It shocked him, and he pulled back, letting me go.

"I don't think you heard me. Buzz. Off." I sounded as ticked as I was inside, and I summoned a portal and ran through it, ending up in the Training Room.

Siax was there, and he summoned different lower class nobodies for me to blow to bits.

"Have fun." He said before disappearing through his own portal.

I instantly released everything I had, every bit of anger I felt inside, and light shot from my hands in quick beats as Nobodies came at me. I jumped back and back flipped away from them, shooting them with light. I turned in circles; my hands shooting out lights in motions that made the beams of light almost seem like very long, dangerous swords.

One last unleash of pure light energy that came from myself in ripples that tossed everything backwards, and a cold metallic weight rested in my hand.

I looked down to see what it was, and to my sheer shock, a Keyblade sat there.

I had done it.

Summoned my weapon.

And now I was tired. Very, very tired.

"Using energy like that can take everything out of you." Someone behind me said.

I turned to see Roxas standing there, looking at me thoughtfully.

"Im guessing someone told you all about me, huh?" I asked, not even caring that the person in front of me was a butt-head.

"Axel did. He did also said to run, because you would be really ticked." He replied.

I nodded.

"I was ticked, but now I'm tired." I paused for a moment. "I have registered something very ultra important."

"What's that?" He asked.

"I need a Mountain Dew." I closed my eyes and fell, the Keyblade disappearing from my hand.

Roxas ran forward and caught the unconscious girl.

"Mountain Dew?" He said to her, though she couldn't hear him.

"Come on, I'll see where I can get you some."

"Her room is the best spot. There's a locked refrigerator in there with a stash of it." Xaldin, who appeared out of know where, stated.

Roxas nodded at the older male, and picked the girl up.

Xaldin's next comment stopped Roxas dead in his tracks.

"Be nice to her, Roxas. It's the only way you can get her to be your friend, or to even get her to like you. She will warm up to you." Roxas didn't turn back but simply exited the room, trying not to think about how the older guy had read both his mind and his feelings.

"Owww!" I ran down the hall, jumping about frantically. Axel was in the kitchen, and when I saw him, I pounced him.

"Axel! Axel, Axel, Axel, Axel, Axel!" I was freaking out at the moment.

"Max! Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow!" He grabbed my wrists, forcing me to let go of his jacket.

"What is it?" He asked me.

"I was chewing on a Jawbreaker, right, and now I know why they call them Jawbreakers, and as I was chewing it, or at least attempting to, and I felt a crunch, and, well, _" My words were all jumbled up as I tried to fit a full paragraph into a simple sentence.

"Max, just tell me what happened." He said calmly.

"I tried to eat a Jawbreaker and my tooth shattered!" I felt like crying, but I knew that would have been pathetic of me.

He looked at me for a moment.

Two moments.

Three moments.

And right when I thought he had gone death and was about ask me again, called down the hall.

"Roxas!"

"What?" Another voice called back, and everyone's favorite blonde (Except for mine) appeared around the corner.

Roxas gave us a look that said 'What are you two crack heads doing?'.

"Toothache, your case." Axel shoved me towards Roxas a bit to hard, and I tripped. Roxas caught me and shot a questioned look at Axel.

"Hey, I'm not baby-sitting the girl. I already baby sit you! Talk to Xenmas, then take her to the dentist." Axel told him.

My head turned in surprise and shock.

"What? No! Im Dental-Phobic!" I struggled as Roxas pulled me up effortlessly and began leading me towards the Superiors room.

I turned and shot a glare at Axel.

"You'll pay for this, you stupid, unhelpful pyro!"

He smirked at my insult, clearly not offended.

I sat in an unfamiliar office, waiting for an unfamiliar dentist.

"I can't believe Axel did this to me!" I grumbled.

Roxas's laugh was so sudden; I looked up at him in shock.

"I can't believe you were dumb enough to try to chew a Jaw-Break-Er." He paused between the words syllables, making it sound more like three.

"Max?" An old lady with a nurse robe called through the almost empty lobby.

I gave Roxas a glare before standing up. Roxas followed, giving me a goofy grin.

"You mat just be joking, but your still not on my buddy, your just number two on my hit list. You were number one." I told him, receiving another cocky grin.

"Your boyfriend needs to stay in the lobby." The old lady told me.

I gave her a wide eyed look and turned it to Roxas.

"He is SO not my boyfriend!" I exclaimed. The lady smiled knowingly, before disappearing behind a doorway in which I was to follow.

"Bye, sweetie!" He said in a mock tone. I had at first ignored him, but realization hit me like a ton of bricks and I turned on him, ready to tell him to shove something some where unpleasant.

I hadn't realized we were incredibly close until I had fully turned and our lips met on accident.

We both stared at each other wide eyed, neither of us moving. What was happening finally clicked, and I shoved my self away from him before I did anything totally stupid, reckless, or…or …holy crap, I had liked that! I felt my face heat up as I ran through the door.

Twenty minutes later, I paid the dentist, Dr. Gus, and I ran right past Roxas and out the door. He ran to catch up, and neither of us said anything as we portaled back to the castle.

We walked into the kitchen so I could tell Axel we were back, and it felt like every eye was on us. Like Roxas and I were two school kids who were just caught making out by the principal.

And let me tell you, that though made my face heat up almost as red as Axel's hair.

"You okay, Max?" Demyx asked from his spot at the table.

"I need a Mountain Dew!" I ran from the room, shoved past Larxene and continued down the hall.

"What's her dang problem?" Larxene asked.

Roxas sighed.

"More than you can imagine." Be for he, too, left the room.