The Next Day

"Larxene, there's no food in the fridge or pantry and there's a long shopping list," Xemnas said. He had summoned the girl who now stood before him with her arms crossed and green eyes blazing with boredom. She was never comfortable around the Superior and rarely made eye contact with him. Even right now, her head was turned away. "The others are extremely hungry and we're not going for pizza again."

"Alright! I get it! I'll go," Larxene snapped. "Just don't send Xigbar with me again."

"And why not? He's a fabulous sniper should anything happen," Xemnas said. Larxene jabbed her finger at Xemnas's chest.

"Because, your Majesty, the store YOU insist that we shop at has an arcade primarily made of shooting and hunting games. I can never peel him away unless I force him into a corridor!" the Savage Nymph explained.

"I see. I'll send Saïx and Axel with you," Xemnas said. Larxene still was not satisfied.

"Saïx, okay, but Axel, no way! He talks too much and he fights with Saïx a lot. How about Marluxia?"

"You'll get nothing done."

"EXCUSE ME?"

"I'm sending Vexen and Saïx and that's final," Xemnas said. Larxene's eyes widened and her face turned red. He was sending her worst nightmare with her…Vexen. Out of all the members, she loathed, if nobodies could hate, him the most for his dry humor and stupid pranks that Larxene never understood. There was also that issue of Vexen constantly moving his eyelids while he talked. Let me explain; Vexen rarely moves his eyebrows for when he "raises one", he's actually raising one eyelid and not the brow.

Anyways, so here we are at Wally-World (aka Super Walmart) with three Organization XIII members strolling down the aisles, getting things like rice, rice vinegar, miso, vegetables, fruits, ice-cream (for Vexen), Oreos, shrimp, meat, LOTS of chicken, beans, soups, Cocoa Puffs, Fruit Loops, oatmeal, Easymac (which they all have a tendency to burn for some strange reason), pastas, tomato and alfredo sauce, and much more.

Larxene was fuming mad by the end of the trip for Vexen had not shut up about sea cucumbers and the strange way they mate. She was almost ready to ask Saïx to go berserk and kill Vexen, but Saïx wouldn't go berserk in such a public place. Come to think of it, Saïx hadn't spoken much at all the entire trip. He was pretty quiet and simply helped gather items to put in the carts (yes, that's plural. Feeding 13 people for an entire week with most of them being college-age males, you need A LOT of food!).

"Saïx, can you help with laundry?" Demyx asked as he passed by. Saïx was in the middle of reading an astronomy textbook he found at Borders in the bargain section. He glanced up.

"It's not my fault you forgot to do it the past week!" Saïx snapped. Demyx's eyebrows creased.

"Please, Saïx?" Demyx whined. Saïx glared at him from the couch. The young member would need to learn sometime that chores were chores.

Meanwhile, Xemnas, who had been devising schemes to obtain Kingdom Hearts, looked up from his work at the sound of Saïx's cool voice. "Saïx, you were supposed to go with Larxene, shopping. Have you returned already?"

Saïx grunted and rose from his comfy position on the couch and sauntered into the computer room where Xemnas had kicked Lexaeus and Zexion off their game of Halo II and was working on the main computer. He bowed briefly and then straightened up. "I don't know what you're talking about. You never said that."

Xemnas's eye narrowed. "Don't play games with me, Saïx. I saw you go with them. Now, why did you come back without them?"

"I told you. You never said anything about me going to help Larxene with shopping. If you did…" Saïx said and trailed off. Just then, Vexen sauntered in with a receipt at long as he was tall. He was glancing over it.

"Sir, the bill this week was 1,567 munny. Less than usual especially with the sales and it being total tax free weekend, and we were able to get lots...more…" he said and glanced at Saix. His left eyelid rose and his green eyes were more grass colored than normal. "Saïx? I thought you were helping Larxene put groceries away?"

Saïx and Xemnas glanced at each other and then back at Vexen. "What?"

With no hesitation, Saїx bolted from the room, nearly knocking straight into Vexen.