Disclaimer: I don't... Why am I repeating myself? If I ruled the world, I would own all of the characters mentioned in my story as well as...well you'll find out.
A/N: Okay...I admit it...I am a procrastinator. I suck. I said I would have by the next day and look at this! It's 2009 and I haven't gotten to chapter five yet, which will come out before January ends I promise. I even promised someone who left a review, that I would have it done and up...but I didn't. But I had an awesome holiday break though. I spent time with my grandparents and pretended to be Santa, which is hard to do because I'm a girl. Anyway, this is for the person, girl or boy, who reviewed but didn't get it their story on time. Hope you enjoy it!
How I Made a Friend
"You get to interview him next."
"Excuse me?! Where you not there when I kicked his ass before?!" I yelled at him. I. Am. Pissed. I just got out of a fight with him. TWICE! You would think that these people would keep us apart until we forgot about it, but no! They shove you right back into fire! I looked at Roxas, who was looking at Axel like he just lost his mind, and then at Luxord, who was also looking at Axel like he wanted to say something, then at the cause of the problem: Axel. He just looked so damn cocky, I wanted to slap him.
"Now, now. Your not going to let that little dispute get in the way of your interviews, now are you?" I swear to Kingdom Hearts, he just makes me want to slap him. "Roxas, I heard what you did this morning. You should apologize to her. And Luxord, as your superior, you can't argue with me. Now then! When Roxas apologizes, we'll go to his room." He turned to Roxas, giving him a look. "Now please." Roxas sighed and turned to me. Before he opened his mouth, he rolled his eyes and looked at the floor.
"I'm sorry for kicking your ass twice."
"Actually, it was once."
"Actually, you're wrong."
"Actually, you're an ass."
"Actually, you both need to shut the bloody hell up!" Luxord growled at us. He looked pissed. Axel was barely keeping his laughter contained. Did I mention I how much I wanted to slap him?
"Roxas," Axel choked out, "it was only once." He chuckled, then broke out into a full out laugh. Roxas glared at him for taking my side, I suppose, and I had a smug smile on my face.
"Told ya' so." I grinned and grabbed Luxord's arm in case Roxas was going to try and hit me. He didn't to my surprise. He just looked, defeated. I saw it in his good eye. He looked at me, sighed, and walked in the direction of his room. How did I know? Because of the markings on the door. On Axel's door, there was a roman numeral eight. On the door before his was seven and the one after his was nine. Roxas headed towards the doors ahead of nine. I followed behind him, still dragging and hold Luxord, and Axel followed behind us. As we walked, which wasn't long, I noticed outside the windows in the hallway, the huge heart that floats behind the castle. I stopped for a second, letting go of Luxord, who didn't mind one bit, and grabbed my camera out of my pocket. I turned it on and snapped a shot of the heart.
"Great picture." I jumped and turned around to find Axel standing behind me. He was looking at my camera with a gleam in his eye.
"Oh this? It's the only class I enjoy taking. I take photography. Oddly enough though, I'm passing it. It's fun." I looked around to see which door we were at. We were in front of the eleventh door. I got a bad feeling about this door, or what was behind it. To make up for this bad feeling, I snapped a picture of Axel when he wasn't paying attention. "You look fat now Ax." I joked.
"I'm not skinny! I'm slender." Axel frowned. He blinked at me and then at my camera. I moved the camera one way and his eyes would follow it. I put it in my pocket and waved my hand in front of his face.
"Kingdom Hearts to Axel, do you copy?" I said, "You can't have the camera, so go and get your own." I told him. Roxas looked behind him and saw us playing around. He glared at me and opened his door, then slammed it shut. "What the- how does he expect-." Luxord shushed me and pulled me to the door. I could hear things getting moved around. "Oh, he's cleaning up." I whisper to him. He nodded and pointed to the door knob. I bent down and looked in the keyhole. I saw Roxas picking up stuff off the floor and moving books and clothes into the spot they were suppose to go in. He turned around and straightened his cloak. He was about to open the door! I jerked my head back and hit Luxord and Axel in the head. Axel fell back and Luxord swore, while I grabbed the back of my head casually and smiled when Roxas opened the door.
"You can come in now." He pulled Axel to his feet and threw him in the room, and pushed Luxord and I into to room, slamming the door behind him.
"Interesting room, you designed it yourself?" I looked around and took pictures. The walls were brownish yellow. He had posters on the wall, a huge ceiling light that had an ocean theme going on, his bookshelves where neat and he still had a few clothes scattered around. He had a perfect view of the heart moon. I got pictures of the heart moon as well. Then I took a picture of Roxas.
"Hey! Enough with the camera, alright?!" He waved his hands in front of his face and turned away from me.
"Aw, but the camera loves you, Roxas! It adores you!" I kept taking picture of him, while laughing. Roxas had gotten a pillow and started to hit me with it.
"Ow Roxas! What's in that thing!? Rocks?!" I smiled at him. I grabbed another pillow and hit him with it.
Luxord and Axel were watching, exchanging comments about the scene.
"Well looks like Roxas found a friend, don't you think so Luxord?"
"Most definitely." He agreed. "He's even smiling! I think you might have a bit of competition Axel." He chuckled.
"Ah maybe. She was found interesting Luxord."
"You think he's going to-." Axel cut him off.
"Not right now."
"Roxas!! You owe me a new camera if you break this!" I yelled at him, faking irritation with him. It's weird, one second I was pissed that I was being forced to talk to him, and now I don't mind as much. I won't say that out loud though because I know Axel is going to make fun of me. I glanced at Axel and Luxord mumbling about something, both changing facial expressions. While paying attention the latter, Roxas took this opportunity to clobber me with his pillow and declare victory.
"And that, my heart-felt friend, is a second victory for me!" Roxas exclaimed, helping me up. Feathers were in his hair, as well as mine, and the place looked odd, covered in feathers. Axel and Luxord were the first to notice this out loud.
"And you both can clean this up while we find other members for you to interview." And with that, they fled the white scene.
"Lazy bums… Hey, you start to clean up and I'll get your questions ready." I told him. Roxas looked at me, then his room.
"I'll clean up later. Just give me whatever question you have." He replied. He grabbed a chair and gave it to me while he took the edge of the bed. "So…Shoot."
"Well, do you remember how you came to be part of Organization Thirteen?"
Roxas chewed his bottom lip and looked around the room. "Not really. I remember living in darkness, then waking up, I found myself in Twilight Town. I was confused, people were there, nice people, but I had questions. How would you feel if you lived in darkness one day, then lived in the world of light the next?"
I nodded and he kept going.
"I wandered around, and got bullied by a group of people. Seifer, Fuu, Rai, and Vivi, I think their names were. Anyway, I found this old mansion, and something about it called out to me. The farthest I got up to was the gate, which was locked. Then all of the sudden, Xemnas, though I didn't know at the time, appeared out of the portal to darkness. He asked me 'Would I like to know?' and showed me the name 'Sora'. He told me that I couldn't feel anything, though I think I felt confused. Then he asked me 'Do you want a meaning?' showing me my name, 'Roxas'. It was pretty cool now that I think about it. He had my name in thin air. Then after that, he took me in, gave me a coat, introduced me to the rest of the Organization and that's how I ended up here." All the while, will he was telling me his story, he was fidgeting. He stopped when I cleared my throat to ask my next question.
"You know how Axel and Luxord have an unusual power? I was wondering what yours is." He shrugged and two huge key-shaped swords appeared: One light with a paopu fruit charm and the other dark with a black crown charm on it. Both had intricate designs on them. And I felt a slight tug on my heart.
"This one," holding up the lighter key, "is Oathkeeper. And this one is," holding up the dark key, "Oblivion." He dropped one arm, the one with Oathkeeper, and raised Oblivion to me. "These are my weapons, Keyblades. They free the hearts captured by the Heartless, and can unlock or lock any type of door. 'Wanna to try her out?" He smirked. I frowned and grabbed at the Keyblade. He let me have it, holding Oathkeeper patiently. It didn't weigh as heavy as I thought it, in fact, it was light. I held the handle and raised it at the door. I thought 'Lock' and nothing happened. I frowned and lowered it. I still felt the tug in my heart, and when I went to try again, the key shined and disappeared back into Roxas' other hand. He still had that smirk on his face. "They only work for those who can stand the light. I probably should have told you that earlier though…Hey? What's your name? You never said it before." He questioned.
"Well, I'll answer yours when you answer my last question." I evaded. I was going to answer, but not till I finished my questions. "Do you have any regrets? Like, do you regret not knowing who you formerly were?" Roxas pursed his lips in a mixture of irritation and anger.
"Of course I feel regret! But there's nothing I can do about it, now is there? It's not like I can leave and find out who exactly this Sora was and why I have the Keyblades!" He yelled in frustration at me. "I can't because I have a job. A role in making the dream of all Nobodies possible. I can't just leave." Roxas shook his head and sighed, sitting down on the edge of the bed again. I got up and sat next to him, patting his shoulder.
"Obviously I can't do anything to help, and it would be a blatant lie if I said I knew what you were going through," A chuckle, "But, I hope you can figure something out." He looked up, curious and a little bit surprised. "Now I guess I can give you my name, sense we had this touchy, feely moment. It's Relia." I held my hand out for him to shake, but he refused. I took it back and rubbed my side with it casually. I grabbed my stuff off of the chair I was sitting on and started for the door.
"Wait. I have a favor to ask."
"Yeah, what is it?"
"Can you keep what we said between us?"
I smiled at him, a genuine smile as a matter of fact, and nodded. Roxas got up and opened the door for me, Axel tumbling in on the floor.
"And look Roxas. A sneak who doesn't know how to sneak." I sneered at Axel. Axel just rolled his eyes and got up, looking all sorts of miffed. I glanced over at Roxas, who was rolling his eyes, and looked around. Luxord wasn't there.
"Hey, Axel? Where's Luxord?"
Rev: Well, she has a name and it's Relia. Lovely right? I was listening to...I think the Gazette? And they had this song. I thought the name was cool. So yep, inspiration from music. I'm working on the next chapter now! Then you get to find out what happened to Luxord!
