A/N: Yeah. It's the official first chapter!

-ahem- Last time, twilighttries brought it to my attention that I shouldn't assume that you readers all know the Japanese honorific suffixes and basic Japanese used in this. (She didn't exactly say that, but I pretty much got the picture because she didn't know any of it back before I began to rewrite this.)

SO.

-san – normal way of addressing an average person you don't know; in Kyoto-ben (the language spoken in the prefecture of Kyoto), -san can also be used to address inanimate buildings, etc.

-chan – a way of addressing someone you know very closely; usually used among and towards girls, but boys can be addressed by –chan too.

-kun – like –chan, it is used to address someone you know closely. Usually used among males, but females have been addressed by –kun before.

-sensei – used to address teachers, doctors, etc.

Okaa-san/okaa-chan/kaa-san/kaa-chan – "mother"; okaa-san is most formal because it uses both 'o' and –san.

Onii-san/onii-chan/nii-san/nii-chan – "big brother"; can be used as a suffix. To use this, you do not necessarily have to be related, or siblings. Por ejemplar (correct me if my Spanish is wrong XD), Kairi refers to Axel as 'Axel-nii-chan', even though she is an only child and Axel is her cousin.

Oba-san/ba-san/oba-chan/ba-chan – "auntie"; not to be confused with obaa-san and its variables (grandmother). Axel refers to Kairi's mother as Oba-san.

Oji-san/ji-san/oji-chan/ji-chan – "uncle"; not to be confused with ojii-san and its variables (grandfather). Axel also refers to Kairi's father as Oji-san.

Moshi moshi – what Japanese say when answering the phone.

Tadaima – "I'm home"; people say this when they come back home.

Okaeri nasai/okaeri – "Welcome back"; what people say to people who say "tadaima". (The first is formal and the second is informal.)

Ja ne – "see you later"; a more informal way of saying "sayonara".

Hope I cleared stuff up now.

…and don't ask about the chapter title. XD

Reincarnation

By Kyoto-chan

c h a p t e r o n e :

no place like home except when your worst nightmare lives on your block

r o x a s

I impatiently sat on the bus stop bench, waiting for that damn bus to just come already! It was already 3:45, and the bus was running fifteen minutes late.

I was glancing every now and again at the watch that hung off of my wrist, finding that time seemed to slow down. A lot.

I frowned. Dammit, when was that bus getting here? I have the cinema to go to with Nii-san and the others, for crying out loud!

My thoughts were quickly interrupted when a shy female voice drifted into my ears.

"Roxas-kun?"

I looked around at who had called me, and saw a familiar girl looking at me. Her medium-length blond hair was swung over one shoulder, and her attire composed of a white t-shirt, a long light gray skirt, and below said skirt was a pair of feet with tennis shoes on them. In her arms, she held a sketchpad and an average-sized pencil case.

"Naminé-chan!" I exclaimed with a smile.

I could swear I saw her cheeks tint slightly pink for a brief moment once I smiled, but she merely smiled back and walked over to me and sat next to me on the bench.

I asked curiously, "What are you doing here?"

Naminé responded, "Taking Fine Arts because you know, our high school doesn't offer enough art classes…you?"

"Taking Cosmology and Latin for now," I answered.

"Ah…"

She then looked up towards the approaching bus that roared slightly as it screeched to a halt in front of the bus stop.

"Roxas-kun, it's our bus!" Naminé pointed out, and we both stood up, I grabbing my backpack and swinging a strap over my shoulder.

We boarded the large vehicle that would drop us off right in front of Naminé's (and Kairi's) apartment building, to which then I would have to walk a few minutes down and waltz into my own home.

a x e l

"Dammit Kairi, where's all the food?" I grumbled angrily, finding the fridge almost empty when I had decided to get hungry.

A voice responded from another room, "In your stomach, Axel-nii-chan! I swear; I find it hard to believe how you look almost anorexic when you eat that much!"

I scowled; it's not my fault I had an insanely fast metabolism.

My younger cousin entered the room in a robe and her hair wrapped in a towel. She held a pink miniskirt, a pair of jeans, and a t-shirt that was striped white and red.

"Now, which would look the best with this shirt? The miniskirt, the jeans, or should I put the miniskirt over the jeans?"

I glared, "To hell I care."

She grinned devilishly, "Everyone knows you're gay…"

"I'm not gay, dammit! Jeez, just because of Marluxia's stupid dare to kiss Demyx…and I still got my ass handed to me on a platter thanks to insanely-jealous-prick-Zexion," I growled.

Kairi began to snicker.

I leered at her more, and merely replied to her question, "And if it makes you happy, wear both the skirt and the jeans."

Kairi gave me a hug and said, "Thanks Axel-nii-chan! I knew your gayness would come in handy one day!"

She quickly ran off to her room to change.

"I'm not gay!" I yelled at her retreating figure.

My grimace was still on my face as I opened the fridge and took two eggs out to fry an omelet. Yes. It's possible to eat an omelet past breakfast.

Just as I took out the frying pan, the phone began to ring.

I walked over to the counter where the phone hang over it, and pressed 'talk', the phone then emitting a small 'beep'.

"Moshi moshi," I said, waiting for someone to talk on the other line.

A boyish voice, not even changing yet, replied, "Is Kairi-san there? Tell her Pence is calling."

"One moment…"

I put a hand over the microphone of the phone and yelled, "KAIRI! PICK UP THE PHONE! IT'S SOME KID NAMED PENCE."

After that, I put my ear back on the phone's speaker, and heard another beep, as Kairi picked up the phone. I then hung up. I wouldn't invade her privacy, you know. Although, there were those times when we were little…that I snuck into her room every now and again and read her diary…yep, she pretty much exploded when she found out. She packed a punch for someone so small.

Five minutes after Kairi had begun to talk on the phone, she came out of the room fully dressed in the outfit I had told her to wear, and looked at me.

"You wanna go to the movies with some of my friends and I? They said you can bring some friends if you want. Everyone has to bring their own munny, though."

I shrugged, "Fine, I guess."

Fuck no was I going to be hanging out for the whole evening with some idiotic high schoolers, so I decided to walk a few apartments down to go visit the only people who would come with me under such short notice.

To Demyx and Zexion's apartment! …cue the tacky superhero theme music.

I exited the apartment of Kairi's and her parents' and juggled through my keychain for the apartment key that Demyx gave me just in case I needed to stay somewhere for the night in case I got kicked out by Oji-san and Oba-san or something.

I inserted said key into the lock on their apartment door and opened it.

"Demyx, Zexion, you guys wanna go out to a movie with my cousin and her friends?" I asked, before opening the door all the way.

I should've been quieter, especially with the scene I had stumbled on.

Demyx was sprawled out on the couch with his head on Zexion's lap, taking a peaceful nap. Zexion was studying (or at least trying to).

I chuckled at the scene once Zexion looked up from the textbook he held in his hands, and glared that "shut up or else I'll stick this up your ass" glare I knew so much at me. I couldn't help but feel sorry for Zexion sometimes. Little faggot had a crush on Demyx, but Demyx, being the oblivious retard that he is, didn't notice it. I still remember how Zexion had ended up being Demyx's roommate quite well. The gang was snickering like mad when Demyx innocently asked Zexion to live with him in our third and last year of high school because all of us were going to the same university, but Zexion was the only person who didn't have a place to live yet.

"I'll take that as a no," I responded, and walked out of the apartment, closing the door and returning to my own place of residence.

r o x a s

I sighed while opening the front door to my house, saying loudly, "Tadaima!"

I could hear my kaa-san in the kitchen, responding, "Okaeri, Roxas!"

I took off my backpack and put it on the couch and walked into the kitchen.

Kaa-san was in her usual beige apron, wearing it over a brown skirt and white dress shirt, her feet in some small sandals. She was hovering over the stove, watching the soup as it cooked.

"How was your day?" she said, not taking her eyes off of the pot.

"It was okay, except I met this real jerk named Axel, and I don't like him one bit," I answered bitterly.

Not paying attention, she commented, "That's nice to hear…"

She then looked up at the kitchen clock and grumbled.

"Roxas, go wake up your nii-san, he's still in bed."

I was shocked.

"S-Still?" I sputtered.

She nodded gravely, and I sighed, running up the stairs into Nii-san's and my room.

And there he was, on his bed in his half of the room, sleeping like a log underneath his large comforter.

"Nii-saaaaaaaaan…" I groaned, nudging him slightly.

The nudges then grew into shakes, and I only ended up getting my hands swatted away by my irritable twin.

"Five…more days, Kaa-chan…" he mumbled.

I sighed, then went to my back-up plan.

"Nii-san, Riku-san is having a pool party at his house and you, Kairi-chan, Naminé-chan, and I are all invited…and we have to leave like, right now."

My brunette fraternal twin quickly shot up from bed.

"WHAT?"

I chuckled to myself; no matter how many variations I did of that joke, Nii-san still fell for it every time.

"Just kidding, Nii-san…"

He glared gravely at me, and I gulped as his arms outstretched and his hands were prepared to strangle me.

"KAA-SAN, NII-SAN'S TRYING TO KILL ME AGAIN!" I exclaimed.

Kaa-san shouted back from downstairs, "SORA! NO KILLING YOUR BROTHER!"

Nii-san frowned and crossed his arms. He then plopped back down into bed.

I groaned and pulled him up by an arm, "Nii-san, we have the movies to go to at five, remember?"

"Wake me up at four then…"

"Nii-san, it's four-fifteen."

Again he shot up from bed.

"I've been asleep that long!" he exclaimed.

I nodded.

"Fuck. FUCK. FUCK!" he panicked. "Dammit, my fucking alarm clock doesn't fucking work, I swear! Ah fuuuuuck."

I stared as Nii-san began his long string of colorful vocabulary, as he rummaged around his dresser for clothes to change into. I was about to criticize him for cussing so much – but then again, who was I to tell him that? I cuss on an hourly basis!

I had a smug grin as I exited our room and began to wait in the living room for Nii-san to finish changing and doing his morning duties.

The phone in the living room began to ring, so I reached for it.

"Moshi moshi?"

"Roxas-kun!" a familiar voice rang in the phone.

"Pence-kun, you calling to make sure Nii-san and I are still up for the movies?"

"Yep. Kairi-san is coming with her cousin and possibly some of his friends, if that's okay with you."

"Fine by me; the more the merrier!"

"So um, when you guys are heading out in…about five minutes, go pick up Naminé-san and Kairi-san and her cousin for us – you guys are taking the bus and I'd prefer we don't get split up. And come soon – Olette-chan and Hayner-kun are about ready to kill each other."

I sweatdropped, "O-okay…"

I swear, for two people who are supposed to be basically infatuated with each other, but too oblivious to notice each other's feelings, Olette-chan and Hayner-kun were at each other's throats a lot. Everyone knew they liked (in the more-than-just-friends sense) – maybe even loved – each other, but they never noticed the other's feelings. Ah, what a fine, insane bunch of friends I had.

"See you there, Roxas-kun!"

Beep.

I put the white phone back in its matching cradle and watched Nii-san storm down the stairs in a navy blue jacket, orange t-shirt, and baggy jeans. He stared at me and my clothing.

"You're going in that?"

I looked down at my own black hoodie and baggy light tan skater pants.

"Yeah, what's it to you?"

He gaped, "Are you completely oblivious to the Tokyo weather? Summer's almost here, for crying out loud!"

I shrugged, "Don't care."

Nii-san sighed, "Fine then. Who just called?"

"Pence-kun. He wants us to go with Naminé-chan, Kairi-chan, and Kairi-chan's cousin. And he wants us to come now. Apparently Olette-chan and Hayner-kun are about to murder each other again."

He chuckled lightly.

"All right then…KAA-CHAN! JA NE!"

"Ja ne, Kaa-san!" I called out with him.

Kaa-san replied, "Ja ne, Sora, Roxas!"

And we left the house, bringing all the necessities – money and keys.

x

Sora knocked on the apartment door, impatiently waiting for it to be answered.

Once it swung open, it revealed two girls in the doorway – Kairi and Naminé.

"Sora-kun? Roxas-kun? What are you doing here?" Kairi asked, looking back and forth from the two twins.

"Pence-kun. He wants us to make sure we go together," Roxas merely replied. "And he said something about your cousin and some of his friends?"

"Yeah, he said that he couldn't bring any of them – they're a bit busy right now. But he'll come with us as a chaperone."

"I see, I see…"

It was then that a voice came from the insides of the apartment, "Kairi, who's at the door?"

"My friends! They're here to pick us up!" Kairi answered.

Roxas gaped in horror as an all-too-familiar redhead walked out of one of the rooms and headed for the door.

Once both of them caught sight of each other, they groaned in unison.

"Oh hell no."

A/N: I just love chapter endings like that. XD

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