Chapter 6

The Graceful Assassin

"So, Axel, who should our next victim be?" the vertically challenged boy asked.

"Well, I was leaning towards Saix this time," Axel replied. "What do you think?"

"Me? Hmm, I think Demyx would be more fun," Roxas said distractedly.

"What? No! We should pick Saix! I already have an awesome plan!" Axel said.

"No, we should pick Demyx! He's way more fun to play pranks on!" Roxas hissed.

"Well maybe we should pick someone else!" Axel said heatedly.

"Fine! Maybe we should!" Roxas shot back. Both friends sat there for a while, thinking. After a couple minutes, both teenagers looked at each other and grinned evilly. This, of course, is never a good thing.

Simultaneously, they both shouted, "Marluxia!!!" and slapped hands. They grinned, arguments forgotten, and started planning.

3 hours later…

"We are geniuses!" Axel cackled. "He'll never see it coming!"

"I know! And the look on his face, oh, it'll be priceless!" Roxas hooted.

"To bad we don't have enough time and money to put a video camera in," Axel mused.

"Yeah, that'd be cool, if it wasn't his bathroom," Roxas scoffed. Axel's face fell in disappointment. "Hey, hand me the stuff." Axel handed over the bottle, which Roxas promptly poured into Marluxia's shampoo. He gave Axel a thumbs up, and the 2 ran out of the room.

The next morning…

Marluxia walked into his bathroom, humming happily. He undressed, turned on the water, and got into the shower.

When he got out, he got dressed again, and started drying his hair. After doing this for a few minutes, he realized that his towel was turning black. Marluxia rubbed away some of the fog that was covering the mirror and screamed.

Now, this wasn't just any scream. This was a blood-curdling, spine-jarring, brain-piercing, unintelligible scream of pure pain and misery.

2 minutes prior…

Xemnas was walking past the bathroom when he heard a blood-curdling scream. Soon after he heard someone wailing, "My hair! My beautiful, beautiful hair! In the name of all that is pink and pure, what happened to my hair?!?!" and then there was some uncontrollable sobbing. The scream alone had been enough to give Xemnas a heart- attack, if he had had a heart. He ran away quickly, coming to the conclusion that someone had done something to Marluxia's hair.

Marluxia's POV

I can't believe it!!! Someone dyed my hair black! My beautiful, pink hair is ruined! Whoever did this is going to die! I can't even face the Organization, not looking like this. Why, why did it have to be my hair?!?!?!