School Life
Buzz, buzz, buzz, Roxas felt around for his phone, buzz, buzz, buzz, his fingers curled round the small plastic device under his pillow, he was cursing when he checked the digital clock, six thirty. As he turned his phones alarm off, he sat up and stretched, being as quiet as possible, he grabbed his clothes he'd set out the night before and crept out his room, he headed downstairs and walked out onto the porch. He looked around then slid off his pjs and boxers and got down on all fours getting ready to change. He felt the warm ball of energy inside him expanding and retracting, he felt his bones and muscle stretch, feeling them slide into place as he changed, the warmness was spreading throughout him, he looked down at his half formed paws, watching as skin disappeared under platinum fur and his finger nails grew as his hands turned to paws. His back cracked a bit from the change but in a matter of 5 minutes his changed had finished and Roxas flexed his new muscles feeling how they slid over bone being pulled and pushed by tendons. He launched himself from the porch, hit the ground with a dull thud and started to run. He felt the way his claws dug into the earth to give him momentum, he pushed on going faster and faster the wind whooshing past his head, panting as he ran. He slowed as he came to the crest of a hill, coming down from his run to a slow walk, he stopped at the top of the hill and sniffed the air, trees, soil, flowers, grass, air, water, near by animals waking up to start their day, all these smells ran through Roxas memory. He shook his great head and looked back in the houses direction, the sun higher in the sky now, he guessed he'd been out for about half an hour now. As he turned and hunched down to start running back to the house he herd some branches snapping in the forest about 15 meters behind him, his ears twitched and his senses told him to run back to the house. He pushed off, making his return journey to the house. When he had reached the porch Cloud was there leaning against the railing with a cup of coffee in his hand,
"Morning Rox."
Roxas shook his head in reply, walking up the porch steps and nuzzled his fathers' hand in greeting,
"Zexion called about 5 minutes, he says you have to get to school early to help show the new kids around."
Roxas nodded, then crouched down, beginning he change back, after 5 minutes the warmness wore off a little and Roxas stood up, his back to his dad and grabbed his pjs,
"I'll drive you in, I've gotta be at the hospital early today anyway." Cloud smiled at his son, as Roxas turned, now donned in his boxers and grinned, "Thanks dad, any chance to ride Fenrir." Cloud chuckled,
"Go get ready." He nudged his son through the door with his foot,
"Ah dad wait, I heard something out in the woods, and it didn't sound like wildlife to me."
Cloud nodded and said "I'll get Leon the check it out."
Roxas turned and went into the house, he turned up the stairs to the bathroom, grabbed his clothes he'd left outside the door and went in, he needed a shower badly having worked up a sweat from his run.
30 minutes later after washing and eating his large breakfast, it was 7:30 and Roxas was ready to get to school, his family were just waking up, as school normally started at half eight this was normal for them, Cloud shouted from the door, "Guys get up! It's half seven and it's a Monday, which means school." As he shut the door he heard groans coming from his kids, he shook his head and walked over to his motorbike, Roxas was already waiting for him bag and helmet in hand.
"Ready to go?"
Roxas rolled his eyes and got on the back of the bike after his dad, waving at Sora who was on the porch, they roared off down the dirt lane.
Roxas arrived at school at 7:50; he waved his dad off as he walked towards the school. Zexion met Roxas in the doorway to the office and smiled slightly at the blonde,
"You look awake, which is more than I can say for out new students here" Zexion gestured to the silver and red mass sleeping on the office waiting rooms couch, Roxas could hear snoring coming from the two bodies on the couch. Roxas looked to Zexion who rolled his eyes, "As you can guess they aren't morning people." He unceremoniously dumped the snoring duo onto the floor and they woke with a yelp of pain as they met the cold hard floor, Riku rubbed his ass hissing in pain and Axel glared at Zexion,
"Jeeze Zex you didn't have to do that." He then turned his green eyes on Roxas, as his green eyes met the cerulean blue he got a weird sense of de ja vu, Roxas extended a hand to Axel, who shook it, a small smile worked its way onto Roxas face then pulled Axel up off the floor as easily as if lifted a soft toy,
"Wow that's some muscle you got there," Axel grinned down at Roxas, "The names Axel Silverton, got it memorised."
Roxas smirked back, "Easily done with a weird name like that dude, Im Roxas Strife."
"Your Roxas as in Soras' twin?" he looked Roxas over, "Not identical then."
"Looks that way doesn't it" Roxas smirked again, Axel decided in that moment that he and Roxas were going to 'get along' just fine.
"And this is Riku, Roxas, Riku." Zexion then turned to Roxas, "Roxas you'll be helping Axel around with classes and whatever else he needs help with, ok?" He said it in such a way that Roxas felt he had no say in the matter, his eyebrow twitched, Zexion saw this then added, "As long as that's alright with you Rox." He nodded, werewolves had a inbuilt sense about authority and being the dominant male, it wasn't like Roxas ment it to get in the way but he didn't take orders well from people who weren't his dads, Demyx or Larxene, in the pack it was the older you were the more authority you had, Roxas respected that.
"Well they both have their timetables and school maps, and we have like twenty minutes before school starts so lets start the tour."
Roxas and Zexion led the way, showing them the playing fields and outside grounds. At about twenty past eight people started to arrive and head to their homerooms,
"Axel your in Roxas homeroom."
"I thought he was like a year younger." Axel looked puzzled.
"At this school people are put in classes due to their level of learning and not age," explained Roxas, the two sets parted ways as Zexion took Riku to their homeroom and Axel followed Roxas,
"I thought me and Riku would be in the same class, with the way this place is run, we're about the same knowledge level," Roxas looked back at Axel and expertly dodging a leaping Demyx as he entered their homeroom and watched as Demyx crashed to the floor,
"There are two classes of each level and a lot of people come here, so the classes are split, by random choice."
He took a seat at the back of the room with Demyxs chair to the left of his leaving the one to the right free, which Axel dropped into.
"Yeah you got me and Rox to keep you company, the teachers move around to get to us except for sciences and practical classes like P.E, Home Economics studies, Art, Craft and Design, oh and the computer classes have separate rooms too." Demyx beamed at Axel,
"Sweet", they high fived each other.
"Sora and Zexion are in the other class in this level and Namine and Kairi are in the level below us."
Axel counted the names off his fingers, "what about you oldest sister? Larx-whatever."
"She's at Uni, studying the history of women in combat on a Jujutsu scholarship, also taking Art as her major."
Axel stared wide-eyed at Roxas, "Remind me not to get on her bad side."
Demyx and Roxas laughed,
"All right class, lets start," the teacher started to call out the register. She made no move to get Axel up in front of the class to introduce himself and started their first class of the day that was, Geography.
Break time - Axel followed Demyx and Roxas out of the school and over to the part of the field that had benches and trees, there they met up with Zexion whom was glomped by Demyx, Kairi, Namine, Sora and Riku. The two of them talking separately from the rest, Sora had the biggest smile on his face as he waved to Roxas, who waved back lazily at Sora who retuned to talking to Riku, who nodded at them in greeting. Roxas sat down on one of the benched and Axel sat next to him. Axel was about to talk to Roxas when Namine walked over and hugged Roxas and curled up next to him on the bench, she pulled he sketch pad out of her bag and started to draw. Axel looked around and that the Strife family were all in contact with each other in some way, Namine leaning on Roxas, Sora though talking to Riku had Kairi leaning on his back who had her legs across Demyxs lap texting on her phone, they were all preoccupied with something else, Roxas noticed that Axel had seen this, he whispered, "We're a close family," Axel looked at him, "Not in that way, dude that's disgusting, it just ever since our mom died, well you know, we were all shocked, made us all think about what was important you know." Namine squeezed his hand and smiled at Roxas and Axel, being the only other person to hear what Roxas said, she then moved to sit next to Kairi to show her what she'd drawn, Roxas shifted a bit.
"Sorry bout that man," Axel scratched the back of his head.
"Don't worry about it" Roxas smiled out over the field. After a minute of silence Axel got Roxas talking and they'd been chatting away merrily for about 15 minutes when a foot ball came out of nowhere, Kairi leapt up and high kicked it back at the offender, a huff of air being pushed out of lungs was heard when it hit the teens chest. The teen got up and walked over, two others flanked him,
"Think that was smart doing that?" he asked Kairi,
"Yeah but I'm disappointed, my aim was off I ment to hit that thing you call a face and maybe knock some of the ugly off of it."
"You dead girlie" said the girl.
"Seifer, back off and take you little cronies with you" Demyx had stood up and was towering over Seifer, who stepped back a bit and said "Watch yourselves freaks, c'mon Rai, Fuu." With that he left, Roxas shouted after him, "And work on your aim dumb shit the goal was the other way."
Seifer stopped for a second and looked back, he saw Roxas and Demyx standing, looking quit intimidating, and he kept walking.
"Seifer, he's bad news and still sore after loosing a game of football to Kairi" Roxas smirked, the others chuckled, then the bell went. The rest of the day went by pretty quickly and soon it was time to go home. They all met up outside in the parking lot,
"Well see you guys tomorrow then," the goodbyes were said, Roxas and Zexion bumped fists, he nodded at Riku, who was promptly glomped by Sora, everyone laughed, as they were piling into Demyxs Pick up truck Axel caught Roxas,
"Today was fun yanno," he fiddled with his hair, "Thanks", Roxas smiled and nodded, "My pleasure" then he hoped up into the bed of the truck with Sora and waved as they drove off home, Roxas watched as Axels red hair disappeared as the drove out the lot. He turned and saw Sora smiling knowingly at him; he punched Sora on the shoulder and lay back for the ride.
Once they had all piled into Zexion's car, they took off down an opposite road. Axel poked Riku in the back of the head,
"I saw you!" he teased.
"Saw me what?" asked Riku.
"You like Sora, you barely looked at anyone else, don't tell me you've been whipped already man, that's just, there isn't even a word for it" Axel laughed.
"I like Sora just as much as you like Roxas" Riku said between his teeth.
"Quite a lot then." Axel leaned back and smirked at the back of Rikus' head. Riku had a slight blush on his face, Axel continued, "Now all we gotta do is get them to like us back too! I am a genius!" Zexion smiled slightly, "That's only part of the problem Axel, the second part is getting Cloud and Leon to approve of you guys."
Riku turned wide-eyed to Zexion and Axels face fell, "Well Zexy, how did you get their approval?" The slate haired man looked at Axel in the rear view mirror, "Now that you've got to either work out yourself or ask for Roxas and Soras help."
Loud cursing could be herd from inside to car as it drove through town towards its destination.
As Demyx drove up the drive way to the house, Roxas caught sight of a purple sports car, his eyes widened and he nudged Sora who got up and did a double take at the car, They grinned identical grins at each other. They had leapt from the car before Demyx had even started to park it and they raced for the house. The door barely managed to stay on its hinges and groaned in protest as the twins burst through the door and promptly leapt on the guest on the couch. Leon and Cloud chuckled.
Who's the mystery guest? And what are Riku and Axel going to do? Find out in the next chapter!!! (Please don't kill me for leaving a cliffhanger .)