"EVERYBODY UP!" yelled a voice that burst through the door, Riku and Sora fell out of their top bunks, Hayner jumped four feet straight up… into the bunk above him, Wakka and Tidus almost pissed themselves, Roxas screamed like a little girl, and Pence… remained asleep.
"WHAT THE HELL YUFFIE!" Riku yelled, holding the Way to Dawn. Yuffie tried to keep her eyes of Riku and smirked.
"Looks like somebody's been having 'pleasant' dreams." Yuffie said, trying to hold back laughter.
"What are you talking about?" Riku said before looking down, grabbing the nearest pillow, and covering the front of his boxers.
"Anyway… the rest of the girls are outside and we're all just gonna hang out today! And is the one on the chair-couch thing still asleep?" Yuffie turned her head to the front door and yelled to Olette. "OLETTE! HOW DO I WAKE YOUR BROTHER UP?"
"TRY ROLLING HIS FAT ASS OFF THE MATRESS!" Olette yelled back.
"ON IT!" Wakka and Tidus said in unison, rolling Pence off the mattress, he woke up and took earplugs out of his ears.
"What is your problem? And Riku, why are you holding a pillow to your balls?" Pence asked.
"Okay, you boys have ten minutes to get dressed, if you are not out by then I will drag you out personally no matter what you are… or aren't wearing." Yuffie said, walking out.
"Wow, your cousin is pretty F'd up." Hayner said, just changing his shirt and walking out the door, Sora and Roxas changed in under a minute and Wakka and Tidus went out afterwards, followed by Pence and Riku. Yuffie had a stopwatch in her hand.
"Nine minutes, fifty-eight seconds." Yuffie said before putting the aforementioned stopwatch in her pocket.
"You boys are lucky, she wakes us up at the crack of dawn. I don't know what she gets the energy from but she needs less of it… about nine times less." Selphie complained.
"Yuffie why don't we start our day off by playing the school arcade, we have more than enough time and I have enough cash for everyone." Roxas piped up.
"ARCADE!" Hayner yelled. Everybody just looked at him.
"I'll go on one condition… he never does that again… ever." Namine said quietly.
"Agreed." Hayner said with embarrassment.
"Okay then, Roxas, assuming you're one of the few here who doesn't get lost in their own back yard, you can lead the way." Yuffie said, throwing him the map.
"Guys… maybe we should get prepared just in case some of the seniors wanna make some noise." Riku suggested.
"You have two minutes." Yuffie warned, all the boys except pence ran into the room.
Riku situated the Way To Dawn on his hip, Sora and Roxas put their weapons on their backs, Hayner did the same to a baseball bat painted blue, Wakka put on a glove made of chainmail and got a spiked ball and put it in a bowling ball bag, and the most impressive of all was Tidus' weapon. "Dude, wicked sword!" Wakka yelled.
"Thanks. Ever since a member of my family started attending this school they've used this sword, since the days of Headmaster Ansem! I guess it's my job to keep it safe, it's like my lucky charm." Tidus said with a huge smile.
"Nice!" Wakka yelled.
"Okay, if everybody is done looking at the shiny-pointy-slicy-stabby object, your time is up. Let's go." Yuffie said, standing in the doorway. In a half hour walk, they were in the town area. The Kingdom Hearts school grounds were about thirty miles from one side to the other, the main school building in the dead center with a town area all around it, which was about fifteen miles side to side, leaving the rest of it as a large wooded area with thirty cabins and fifty shacks littering it.
"You again?" asked a voice. The group turned to see the guy named Pete, hanging around with the guy with the gun/sword thing and the guy with long silver hair and the leather jacket, all of them sitting on the sidewalk.
"Looks like the children are getting a lay of the land." Said the guy with long silver hair.
"Squall, show them what happens when you cross us." Pete yelled.
"My name is Leon." The sword/gun guy yelled.
"I'll take care of him." Riku said, gripping the weapon on his side.
"No, I'll fight… the brunette." Leon said, pointing to Sora, who shifted his hand to the Oathkeeper's handle.
"I wish to have some fun as well." The silver haired guy said.
"Suit yourself Sephiroth." Leon smirked, the man named Sephiroth picked up a sword with a five-foot blade. He nodded towards Riku, who drew his weapon.
"You're that gang boss back on the east side of twilight town, the one winged angel." Riku said darkly.
"Riku, concentrate on the fight." Sora scolded as he blocked Leon's attack. Sephiroth swung his blade around and was beating Riku, but had yet to stand up from his sidewalk seat. Sora wasn't doing well either, whenever he got out of his opponent's range for a strike he pulled the trigger to his weapon and he was hit by a small explosion. The two were beat within minutes.
"Let's go, before the nobodies show up." Sephiroth said, the other two nodded and followed.
"Nobodies… what are those?" Namine quietly asked.
"Slang for school security." Roxas answered, he grabbed his twin and the brunette leaned against the blonde for support, Tidus and Wakka picked Riku off the ground as well.
"Where did they go?" asked a voice. "Damn those XII's! this is the third year they've been messing this place up! I don't see why Xemnas hasn't expelled them!" The group turned to se a man in a white hoodie, two others were with him, a young woman and a large man with a deck of playing cards in his shirt pocket. "Dancer, you get these two to the infirmary, Gambler, you go send the report to Twilight Thorn."
"Yes Dusk." They said in unison. The man with the cards went off in one place as the woman had Roxas, Tidus, and Wakka get the injured to the infirmary as the others followed closely behind. The woman, Nurse Dancer, was the only person there other than the teens.
"Damn that Sephiroth, picking on my cousins like that." Yuffie yelled.
"Yuffie, keep it down! Nurse Dancer said they needed rest!" Kairi scolded.
"Nah guys, keep talking. It really helps." Said a voice. They looked to a now awake Sora.
"BRO!" Roxas yelled.
"What about Riku?" Selphie asked.
"He's probably awake too, I can't see because PENCE IS IN THE WAY! But anyway, Riku's tougher than me, he's probably awake and his stupid pride is keeping him from talking." Sora smiled.
"Wow little sister, I heard your friends were roughed up by Sephiroth and Leon, but they haven't died, not bad for first years." Said a voice. A girl who looked like Kairi but taller with blue hair came in the room, accompanied by a brown haired man about her age.
"Aqua!" Kairi yelled, she ran towards the girl and hugged her tightly. "It's been so long! Why didn't you tell me you were moving in with Terra?"
"I'm sorry little sis, but it was a limited time offer that I just had to take." Said Kairi's sister Aqua.
"Did everybody forget about the brutally beaten children?" Sora asked.
"Shut up Sora." Roxas said happily.
Sora and Riku healed quickly, so they were aloud to go back to their rooms. "I can't believe you boys got beat like that!" Yuffie yelled.
"Hey that Sephiroth was probably a monster! There was a weird feeling about him… and did anybody else hear theme music?" Sora asked, making the rest of them laugh. Sora continued cleaning his weapon.
At this point the concept of ownership went through Roxas and Sora's mind, meaning Sora owned Oathkeeper and Roxas Oblivion, where they usually jut used the one they wanted at the time. "Sora, Riku, it was really brave, and really stupid to stand up to those guys."
"Classes haven't even started and we got our asses handed to us. I'm going with 'really stupid' personally." Riku said darkly.
"Cheer up emo." Yuffie said, giving him a soda.
"Where are Selphie and Tidus?" Roxas asked.
"I haven't seen them since we left the infirmary." Namine replied.
"They went back to our cabin, I guess they've taken a shine to eachother. Anyway, it's getting late." Olette said with a yawn.
"Come on Wakka, Hayner, let's take the girls back." Sora said, the other two got their weapons for protection.
"Bye Roxas." Namine said before the group left. About halfway through the walk an interesting conversation sprung up.
"When did we start using the buddy system, you boys are always working in groups." Yuffie asked in he sub-sugar high tone.
"After what happened to spikey and emo it's a good idea." Wakka said with a smirk.
"It really is." Olette agreed, moving closer to Hayner. After a few more minutes they got to the cabin and Sora, being a bit of a gentleman under fear of death from his mother, went ahead to open the door but as soon as he heard a few seconds of noise, closed the door.
"Um girls… I don't think you should go in there." Sora said with a light chuckle, but the look on his face was of horrible trauma.
"Why not? Is Selphie and Tidus in there." Namine asked.
"Unless there's a couple of cats or something moaning in there." Sora said quietly.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Yuffie asked, walking up to the door.
"Trust me Yuffie, you DON'T want to go in there, I heart two words and a moan and I'm pretty sure from those that this is a hazmat zone." Sora said with a bit of a shudder.
"What words?" Olette asked.
"Oh god, I think I know what's going on." Kairi said, burying her face into her palm.
"Oh screw this, I'm going in." Yuffie said, opening the door wide open just so the words 'oh Tidus' would be heard from the room. Yuffie at this point shut the door loudly, making a muffled scream come from Selphie on the other side.
"OH MY GOD MAN! TELL ME TIDUS IS NOT DOIN' WHAT I THINK HE'S DOIN'!" Wakka yelled.
"All I know is Pence owes me fifty munny now." Hayner said with a shudder. "I don't want to know ANY more than THAT." After a few minutes Tidus showed up (now with his pants on) with Selphie wearing a blanket around her body.
"Wait, I can explain!" Tidus yelled.
"Please don't!" Olette, Namine, and Kairi yelled in unison. Selphie just cried. Yuffie went behind her and put a hand to her shoulder.
"Stop crying Selphie, I saw that spark between you yesterday" she said in a quieter tone than usual. "I love that love at first sight thing but… wow, this surprises me."
"Dude Tidus, at least tell me you used a-" Hayner started.
"Okay first, shut up Hayner I'm not stupid, second, I'm sorry you guys had to see that." Tidus started.
"Don't be, just slow it down between you two, the LAST thing we need is a pregnant roommate." Olette interjected.
"And we didn't see anything, it's what we heard that set us off… well YUFFIE saw it." Sora said before being tackled.
"BLASPHEMY!" Yuffie yelled, punching Sora around the head.
"Okay, everybody STOP! Sora, you and the boys take Tidus back, we'll all talk about this in the morning." Kairi yelled. All afraid of Kairi in her present state followed orders, and about halfway back to their shack was when any of the boys talked again.
"Please don't tell the others, I'd never hear the end of it." Tidus half-whispered.
"Don't worry man, we weren't gonna tell anyway." Wakka smiled. Hayner nodded in agreement.
"They're gonna hear about it tomorrow from Yuffie anyway, but we'll keep it under wraps tonight." Sora agreed. Tidus was still looking to the ground.
"Dude, cheer up. You didn't do anything too wrong, I mean two days is a short amount of time but hey you two mush have really clicked." Hayner said, trying to make him feel better. "If it helps, I kinda have a crush on Olette."
"Guy's, let's just go to bed." Sora said as the shack appeared in view. They tried to sleep, but Tidus was up all night, and the others had dreams that could qualify as madness.
"THEY WHAT?" Riku, Pence, and Roxas yelled in unison.
"Like rabbits." Yuffie finished. It was morning and the girls brought coffee and doughnuts.
"YUFFIE!" yelled a voice. Selphie, who was late for the little meeting only heard bits of the conversation, but just enough to put her in tears.
"Wait, Selphie!" Kairi said, before the girl ran off. After twenty minutes of searching they decided to meet back at the cabin to break into little teams.
"Pence and Olette, Riku and Wakka, Roxas and Namine, and I'm with Sora." Kairi said, finishing pulling names out of a hat.
"What about us?" Hayner yelled.
"Hayner, you can join us." Olette said, Hayner didn't hesitate to take up the offer. This left… Yuffie and Tidus.
"This is your fault Yuffie. If you had any respect for people you call a friend a lot of people would be ten times happier." Tidus spat. "I'm going alone, I don't need help."
"Wait, Tidus! I'm sorry!" Yuffie said sadly.
"NO YOU'RE NOT!" Tidus said, a force in his voice powerful enough to shatter glass. "All you've done is make everything worse."
(A/N oooh, Tidus is piiiissed. The main plot shows up next chapter, I don't own kingdom hearts and all other copyrighted material.)