Ai: Here comes the third chapter! I didn't get a lot of reviews the previous chapter, but please don't stop reviewing! I feast on reviews!

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, because if I did, Roxas would never have been beaten by Riku and none of the 'kill Roxas' mess would have happened.

Xemnas, our new 'Superior', smiled. "Then, put these on," he said, holding out 2 cloaks identical to what everybody else wore in the Organization. As of one accord, Ray and I stretched out our hands and took a cloak each.

Now, there was no turning back. Our life in Organization XIII would begin.

It wasn't more than a few days after we had joined Organization XIII. The first few days, we had spent in training of our newly-gained abilities that came with being a Nobody. Opening dark portals, and the like. That, and our combat skills. We didn't do that badly for either. We had picked up the skills fairly quickly, and once we had mastered that, the rest came easy to us.

But Ray and I had decided that today would be different. Since we had both completed our trainings, we would spend the day exploring the place and getting to know the other members, seeing as we had not seen much of any of them around during our trainings.

We had plans for the day, that much was right. Except…

"Get up!!!" my brother screamed.

I groaned. "But, Ray-nii, I wanna sleep in a bit more."

"Get up now or I'll wrap you up in that damn blanket!!"

I ignored him and curled up deeper in my bed. I think I could actually hear the sound of my twin's patience snapping. And all I can say was that he fulfilled his threat. It took me a while after that to untangle myself from my wonderfully comfortable blanket. Sighing, I forced myself off my bed and started to pull on my Organization XIII uniform. It consisted of a pair of dark pants and a long black cloak over a plain top I wore underneath, complete with a pair of black gloves and boots. I looked at my white sleeveless top, orange vest, blue mini-skirt and sky-blue scarf hanging on the hook on the wall, then at my black shoes and white knee-high socks lying in a corner. Those were the clothes I had worn the day I had joined the Organization. I pouted. Why couldn't I wear those instead of this cloak?! I mean, the cloak wasn't bad, but I would have preferred to be able to choose what I would have wanted to wear.

Once I had finished changing, I dragged my heavy body over to the mirror and started to comb my slightly longer than shoulder length rust-colored hair down. My hair had two long pale purple streaks on either side of my face in it as well, and I was proud of it. Picking up a green ribbon from the table, I started to tie my hair in a small upper-left ponytail with it, all the while looking at my eyes. My left eye was green and my right eye was purple in color, exactly opposite from my brother. Checking my reflection in the mirror and satisfied with how the twelve-year-old girl who stared back looked, I ran over to the doorway of my brother's and my shared room, where Ray was already there, ready and waiting for me. At first, we were supposed to have separate rooms just next to each other, but a few hours of protests and the weighing of pros and cons of which 'pros' won did the trick, and we now had a shared room. Ray and I had always slept in the same room for as long as we could remember, keeping each other company at night, and there was no way we were going to break that habit just because we had joined the Organization. Ray-nii pushed the door open and started to walk out slowly, and I fell into step beside him. He sighed. "I can't believe I still have to wake you up in such as violent manner everyday, and we've been doing this for years now."

"Just think of it as being part of your necessary daily schedule."

"It IS part of my necessary daily schedule, because if I don't wake you up, you'd continue sleeping and never wake up, you lazy pig. Y'know, we could have just used a dark portal to get to the breakfast table. We've been doing that for the past few days…"

I waved his words away. "Nahh… We won't learn to navigate our way around the castle that way. Besides, we have more than enough time to get to the kitchen before breakfast. We get up a full hour before everyone else does, so let's just take our time to find the kitchen. It can't be all that hard…"

-One hour later-

"You were saying what about this being easy again?! We're now lost and very, very late!!"

"Hang on a bit, bro! We're near to it now, I just know it! I'll find it in a few mintues from now. And I didn't say it would be easy, I said that it couldn't be all that hard. Besides, we're not 'lost'… we're merely in a place we don't want to be." Alas, my wise words fell on deaf ears for my dear twin brother proceeded to open a dark portal and forcefully pull me into it by grabbing ahold of my hood, muttering something like, "Based on all my past experiences, your 'few minutes' is the equivalent of 'a few years', and we're lost when I darned well say we are!"

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At the breakfast table, it wouldn't take much of an idiot to realize that most of the other thirteen members were either conversing with someone else they got along well with, or just remaining very silent and concentrating on their food. Ray and I could only sit at our respective places beside each other, him to my right, awkwardly. The previous few days were so jammed packed with so many various trainings that we hadn't even been able to sit down and eat our meals slowly, never mind talking to anyone else, so the current situation's awkwardness hit us like two brick walls to the face. I mean, yeah, knew everyone's names and ranks, and vice versa, but other than that, we didn't know much else about them and they knew even less about us!

"Uhh… hey…?"

At the sound of that, my head whipped around to face the direction of the voice, my right, my eyes sparkling with gratitude toward the person who had spoken to us.

"Good morning, Demyx-senpai!" Ray-nii and I greeted merrily in unison.

"Um, good morning to you to, I guess. You're twins, right?"

"Yeah, I'm the elder twin brother, Xyra, but I prefer to be called 'Ray'. That's my sister, and she's Calixre, but she would rather be called 'Calix'. Nice to meet you."

To our extreme pleasure, our conversations continued throughout the rest of our breakfast. I mentally cheered. Yeah! One step closer to our goal of getting to know everyone! Demyx very kindly offered to introduce some of the other members to us, so we agreed with enthusiasm and allowed him to take us to the lounge. There were only two people there, and I couldn't see very well due to my height, but they looked very familiar to me.

"Okay, guys, these are Ray and Calix. Ray and Calix, these are Axel and Roxas. Say hi."

I stared at Axel's face, and he did the same. Yep, all too familiar people. With surprising calmness, I walked over to Axel, jumped as high as I could and delivered a powerful kick to his head. Calix-chan's super awesome kick attack, right to the face!! To be honest, I found it amazing that he even survived. I highly doubted that he would be able to avoid a massive headache for the next few days, though. Thumbs-up! Everyone else's jaw dropped open.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR, YOU DAMN BRAT?!!" Axel roared.

I dusted my hands. "Take that as thanks for throwing me into a prison, yeah. You want s'more of that?" A large book appeared in my hand. "Look: 'A Hundred and One ways to Completely Annihilate Your Enemy'. I'm gonna follow every single suggestion in here, one for every day, got it? Let's see how long you can survive."

"HOW LONG ARE YOU EVEN GONNA HARBOUR A SINGLE GRUDGE?!!"

"Big words coming from the person who was throwing someone in a prison, and not the one being thrown in. And may I add, for no reason whatsoever."

A dark portal suddenly appeared between the two of us, and I leapt backwards in surprise. Someone stepped out of it and removed his hood.

"Xigbar-senpai," Ray said respectfully. I blinked once, then followed my brother.

"So you guys know each other? I guess that makes things easier. Axel, you and the new recruits are going on a mission to Pride Lands together. The Superior wants you three to leave as soon as possible."

"Why am I going on a mission with this fool here?!" Axel and I shouted at the same time and pointed at each other, glaring.

Ray sighed. "If looks could kill, the both of you would be lying dead on the ground right now, foaming at the mouth."

I flinched slightly. "Not a very pleasant image," I muttered.

"C'mon dudes, you're still too inexperienced to go on a mission by yourself, so Axel is going along to show you the ropes and how to do a mission properly."

I crossed my arms and fumed silently. Looks like I don't have much of a say in it, huh?

Ray looked at me and nodded, as if reading my thoughts. Okay… so he was, but that was because I was projecting my thoughts to him.

"Fine," I said reluctantly, "but only this time!"

Author's Notes:

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