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Chapter Two: Full House

Marluxia put a hand to his chin and scanned Kairi from head to toe and averted his eyes to the pink, worn out back pack that she had left in the corner of the living room. "Say Kairi," he mumbled, rubbing his chin with an air of intelligence. "Did you bring a lot of clothes with you?" he questioned out of curiosity.

"I brought lots of my underwear!" Kairi exclaimed, grinning proudly. "Oh, and four sets of outfits." she quickly added. Naminé suddenly appeared from behind the strawberry blondie and wrinkled her nose. "Daddy!" she shrieked. "Can we go shopping for Kairi's clothes tomorrow?" she called out.

"We will, dear. Don't worry about it." Xemnas replied, slowly stirring the boiling curry with a large spoon. Kairi cocked her head to one side and sniffed the collar of her dress. "Am I stinky?" she asked to no one in particular. "Not yet," Axel popped up from behind her and planted his palms on his waist. "But you will be in no time."

Suddenly, two loud knocks emitted from the front door. "We're here, sir." a strong but a slightly timid voice called out from behind the door. "Bring yourselves in, dear." Xemnas replied, polishing a bowl of rice in the sink.

The door slowly opened, revealing an older girl with long black hair and warm ruby eyes, in front of her, a little girl with short black hair and pale blue eyes. "Hello, Mister!" the child with short hair greeted him with a smile and dashed quickly into the living room. "Naminé, where's your new baby sister?" she shrieked, bounding up and down uncontrollably.

"Sorry," said the older girl and approached the younger children. "She stole a bunch of cookies from the cookie jar, so she's hyper on sugar right now." she stated, chuckling under her breath. Marluxia nodded, trying to look mature. "Interesting..." he said, his voice trailing. Axel glanced at his older brother and nodded as well. "Indeed..."

"Stop copying me, you idiot!" Marluxia quickly snapped, growling at his younger brother. Axel, who was intimidated by his sibling's teeth, wailed. "Papa! PAPA!" he called out, generically sobbing. "Papa's at home, stupid." Marluxia scoffed and stalked off angrily. Axel quietly glanced up and sheepishly grinned. "Success!" he whispered. "I finally got him to leave me alone!"

The older girl arched a brow and quietly laughed. Then her eyes darted to the red headed child in the room. "So are you the child that Naminé's dad adopted?" she asked, in a polite voice. Kairi nodded, nervously.

"My name's Tifa." she said, holding her hand out. Kairi shook it for a brief moment and brought her hand back to her side. "My name's Kairi." she replied, softly. "Lucky," Tifa sighed. "Your father's not an uptight lunkhead."

Kairi giggled and glanced at the younger child with short hair. "What's her name?" she asked, pointing at the girl. The short-haired child looked up and quickly approached the two. "Hi! I'm Xion!" she grinned, waving her hand in the air with great pace. Kairi grinned back with the same intensity. "I'm Kairi! Nice to meet you!"

Naminé tugged on Tifa's arm, trying to gain her attention. "Tifa, Tifaaa~" she said, shaking her arm violently. "Huh?" Tifa looked down to be greeted with the top of Naminé's head. "Are Roxas, Larxene and Cloud coming too?" she asked. "Yuck!" Marluxia stuck his tongue out in disgust. "I hate Larxene! She plays with dirt and bugs!" he quivered.

"Not to mention her evil intelligence!" Axel added, and he too, quivered in fear. "What's wrong with Larxene?" Kairi questioned, out of curiosity. "Everyone hates her." Axel exclaimed, but glanced at everyone. "Right, everyone?"

They all nodded. "Roxas even hates her." Xion exclaimed. "Cloud does too." Tifa added. "I bet if Uncle Vexen knew how horrible she'd be, he would have purposely killed her while she was still in the womb!" Marluxia exclaimed, smashing his fist into the palm of his other hand. "She even made me cry on my birthday last year." Naminé stated, dryly. "She gave me a bucket of yucky worms." she stuck her tongue out and gagged.

"And what's worse," Axel said, his lips quivering. "is that she has a big, fat, ugly, crush on me." his lips twisted into a frown. Kairi arched a brow. "She sounds like a boy to me."

"Well she kinda looks like one." Tifa exclaimed. A loud ringing sound was heard throughout the living room, and immodestly, Naminé pushed a chair against the wall and climb up to retrieve the phone. "Hello?" she answered, rather too loudly.

"Hello?" the voice answered.

"Hello?" Naminé answered back.

"Hello??"

"Hello???"

"Hello?"

"HELLO?!" Naminé snapped, irritated by the constant trading of greetings.

"Oh, yes, Hello?" the voice answered back. Naminé huffed and slammed the phone against the wall, knowing all too well who it was. "Papa!" Naminé called out. "Cloud's coming over, and Roxas too!" she shouted. "Maybe Larxene too, I think!" she quickly added and jumped off of the chair, landing on the ground with a thump.

Shortly after, a knock came from the door. "Open up! It's the police! We're here to arrest the young lady with the attitude problem!" a low, muffled voice called out. Axel and Marluxia snickered, while Tifa and Xion grinned widely. Kairi arched a brow in confusion. Naminé sneered. "You've got the wrong house! GO AWAY!" she shouted loudly, with a noticeable crack in the end.

Kairi could hear someone clearing their throat and finally the person replied back. "We're here to arrest the young lady with the attitude problem... named Naminé!"

"Come in, kids." Xemnas shouted, over his shoulder. "Ok!" A high-pitched, slightly raspy voice answered and the door busted open. A girl with short pale blonde hair bolted inside. Her hair pushed back with a pink hair band. There were traces of small brown hand prints all over her wrinkled white shirt. Another boy walked in, slightly older looking and taller than Tifa. His hair wildly spiked up in different directions. He approached the others with a wide grin and a shiny, rectangular object in his hand.

The last one to walk through the door entered timidly and shut the door behind him. His hair was slightly unkempt and his cheeks were a rosy pink, but his eyes lit up when he spotted the others. "Naminé!" he shrieked. "Where's your baby sister?"

Naminé giggled. "She's not a baby, Roxas!" she exclaimed and pointed at Kairi. "Cloud, Roxas... Larxene." she pursed her lips out bitterly at the mention of Larxene's name. "This is Kairi. My new adapted sister." she smiled, proudly. Roxas waved shyly. "Hi, Kairi."

Cloud nodded and smiled, faintly. "Hey." was all he said. Larxene stood in front of her and scanned her from head to toe and back again. "Hm..." she rubbed her chin and leaned in, taking two sniffs. Kairi froze, the boys chuckled while the girls winced in disgust. Larxene took something out of her pocket and handed it over to Kairi. "You want this bug?"

Kairi quickly backed away and screamed, shaking her head in increasing panic. "You're disgusting, Larxene." Marluxia shook his head, still snickering under his breath. "Did I scare her?" Larxene arched a brow and placed the bug back into her pocket, patting it graciously after she put it inside. "Whoops, sorry, Kairi." she chuckled and placed her hands behind her head, whistling innocently.

Cloud brought his cell phone out and held his chin up high, smirking with an air of arrogance. "My dad bought me a cell phone because I'm a teenager now." he said, emphasizing the word 'teenager'. Tifa frowned. "I'm going be one too, in a few months!" she reminded. "My dad might buy me a better looking one than yours!"

"Might." Cloud repeated. "But I'm still older you, so you have to respect me!" he stated, towering himself above Tifa's head. Tifa fumed. "By only a few months!" she stammered. The phone rang once again. Axel huffed and turned to Marluxia. "Why don't people ever call us as often as they call Naminé?" he asked, with a hint of jealousy. Marluxia shrugged. "Because papa doesn't talk as much as the other papas do."

Axel nodded. He knew Marluxia had the answer for everything.

"Hello?" Naminé answered, pressing the phone tightly against her ear. "Hello?!" A voice shrieked back. "Naminé?! Hey, can we come see the new baby?!" the person on the other end of the line asked, rudely. "Ok, Riku." Naminé nodded, leaning back and nearly fell off the chair. "Is your brother coming too?"

"OF COURSE!" he shouted. "Ok, Naminé. We're coming..." he paused. "NOW!" and all Naminé heard after that was silence and a beeping sound. Naminé shrugged and placed the phone back on the receiver. "DADDY!" she shouted, jumping off the chair. "Riku and Zexion are coming," she paused and quickly added. "NOW!"

"Yes dear, don't shout." Xemnas said, wiping the sweat drop traveling down his cheek with the sleeve of his shirt. Xion frowned. "I don't like Riku and Zexion!" she whined, bunching the ends of her dress in her hands. "Riku is a mean bossy bully boy!" she wrinkled her nose as well as her dress. "Zexion and a boring old grampa man!"

"Grandpa man?" Tifa arched a brow and exchanged a secret glance with Cloud.

"Yeah!" Xion nodded, as if her head were about to fall of her shoulders. "A grampa man!"

Axel, Marluxia, and Roxas snickered. "Nasal condition." Axel teased, pinching his nose between his fingers. Xion frowned. "BE QUIET!" she shrieked, and pounded her fists onto his back, following him as he tried to run away.

Then a knock on the door was heard. "Uncle Xemnas!" a voice called out. "We're coming in!" Xemnas nodded. "Please do." he replied, setting the table with plates and eating utensils. The door swung open, a boy with silver hair stomped into the house, swinging his arms wildly. Behind him, a boy with dark-velvet colored hair quietly walked in. Part of his hair nearly covered one eye. In his hand, he held a thick paper-back book. "Uncle Xemnas." the boy with the book said, stopping to close the door behind him.

"Yes, dear?" Xemnas replied, standing up straight to give him his full attention. "Our father's going to come soon. He's going to pick up our other uncles and bring them all here in just a moment." he exclaimed. Xemnas nodded. "Thank you for informing me, Zexion." he smiled and continued setting up the dinner table.

Riku growled. "Who brought THAT thing in here?!" he rudely pointed at Larxene. Larxene, who was too busy scratching her head to notice, simply groaned, and picked out the bits of cookie crumbs stuck in her hair. "Cloud, did you eat cookies on my bed again?" she grumbled. Cloud shook his head and pointed at Roxas. "He did it, Larxene." he stated, blaming his younger brother.

Roxas whimpered and shook his head nervously. "I can't eat sugar, remember? Daddy said that I have diet-betes!" Larxene had already begun narrowing her eyes. She slowly removed her shoes and dragged her socks across the carpet, collecting static as she approached the youngest sibling.

"ATTACK!" she shrieked and jabbed her brother in the chest with her index finger. Roxas gasped and placed a hand over his chest. "AHHHH!" he screamed in pain and began jumping in the same spot. His face flushed red as he threw a tantrum. "I HATE YOU!" he said, through tears and slapped Larxene across the cheek.

Finally satisfied that he hurt her back, Roxas stopped crying and grinned. Shocked, Larxene gingerly held her cheek in the palm of her hand and slowly averted her eyes to her younger brother. The others held their breath as the tension in the air rose. "AHHH!" She cried out and began crying, her cheeks shading into a deep red. Surprised by this, Roxas began to breath heavily, and after a few seconds, he had begun to cry as well.

Kairi arched a brow and tugged on Cloud's sleeve. "Now why is he crying?" she whispered. Cloud chuckled under his breath. "Cause he made Larxene cry." Kairi couldn't help but laugh. Roxas and Larxene reminded her of her two older friends back in the orphanage. She remembered how much they would always bicker and fight -- just like Roxas and Larxene.

The door swung open, and everyone turned to look. Kairi saw a man with pale skin and pale blonde hair to match. He had several "dangly" things coming from his ears. "May I pull up a chair and join?" the man said, in a polite and smooth voice. Xemnas grinned. "As long as you've brought the cards." and he removed the apron from his waist then quickly hung it from the handle of the oven.

Then he made his way swiftly into the living room and stopped to kneel in front of the new child. "Hello, child." he smiled and brought a hand up to her. Kairi proceeded to shake it until he flicked his hand and a card appeared. Surprised, Kairi jumped back a little and gasped. "Take it, Kairi!" Naminé gave her an encouraging push. Kairi furrowed her eye brows and brought the card up to her face, closely examining it.

"It's Princess Alice!" she shrieked, excitedly. Alice Liddell was her favorite heroin Princess -- aside from Cinderella. The man chuckled. "A gift from me. Please call me 'Uncle Luxord'" he exclaimed. "I'm Kairi!" she replied and nodded. "Thanks, Uncle Luxord!"

"May I examine the specimen, as well?" a creepy voice spoke up. Everyone turned to look. Standing in the doorway, a man with long golden brown hair and mis-matched eyes slowly walked in. He gasped and quickly walked over to Kairi. "What a rare specimen." he said, plucking a hair from Kairi's head.

Kairi gasped and laid a hand on the spot where he had pulled a strand of her hair out. "Uh-oh." Roxas whispered. Kairi began to cry. "Don't cry, Kairi!" Xion said, patting her back. "He plucked a hair from all of us." she exclaimed. Kairi sniffled. "W-why?"

Tifa shrugged. "Something about -- 'If you kids go missing, I can use this hair to track you down!'" she said, imitating the same sinister voice the man had. "Daddy," Roxas jumped up and down trying to grab his dad's attention. The man with long hair looked down at his son with dull eyes.

"Daddy, do you love me?"

"Sure I do, child." he said, his hand waving lazily in the air. Roxas grinned and ran to hug his older brother. "He finally said it!" he cried out, squeezing his brother's hips. Cloud rolled his eyes. "Did he actually say the words 'I love you', Roxas?" Roxas paused and shook his head sadly.

"Uncle Vexen!" Axel shouted and tried to latch his hands onto the end of his hair by jumping. Vexen flipped his hair away from the spiky haired red-head and shook his head disapprovingly. "Control your child, Lexeuas." he said, loudly. The door opened again, revealing a large man with a serious expression his face. His hair, slightly unkempt.

"Axel, behave." he said, walking into the house. Xemnas grinned. "Nice to have you here, Lexeuas." Lexeuas simply nodded and carried his youngest son, his large hand wrapped around Axel's tiny waist, and gently placed him on the couch. "Don't bother the adults."

"But we wanna play 'Doctor, Surgery' with Uncle Vexen!" Marluxia complained. Vexen cringed. "I have no brothers, therefore, I am not an uncle!" he sneered. Naminé frowned. "But we're one big family!" she retorted, loudly. Kairi didn't quite understand.

Weren't families supposed be all related? And if Uncle Vexen really wasn't anyone's uncle, then how were they family? "Does that mean you're my uncle too?" Kairi asked, tugging at Vexen's hand. Vexen groaned, rubbing his temples. "You, nor anyone else in this room is related to me by any means of being my niece or nephew!" he snapped. But Kairi was only more confused.

"Greetings to all." a low voice called out. Everyone turned to the door, and Kairi screamed. A tall man, with wild braids and a gorilla looking face walked in, with both hands behind his back. "It's only my papa!" Xion said in a reassuring voice and ran to hug her father. Tifa chuckled under breath. "He's kinda scary looking though, huh?" she whispered and waved to her dad.

Naminé waved at him as he approached the kids. "Hi, Uncle Xaldin!" she shouted, with a wide grin. Xaldin's eyes dulled for a moment, then his attention went to Kairi. "Hello, child. You must be Kairi?" he said, stretching his hand down to her. Kairi shook it and grinned. "Hello, Uncle Xaldin!"

Xaldin's expression turned grim. "So Naminé has taught you to call me 'uncle' now." he said, eyeing Naminé bitterly. "Yup!" Naminé stated, proudly. Then Luxord snapped his hands. All the uncles looked up. "Shall I set up a game of poker?" he said, with a charming smile. Vexen nodded and walked towards the round table. Xaldin chuckled under his breath and sat across from Vexen. "Prepare to lose, old friend." he said, his words directed at Vexen.

"We shall see, old foe." Vexen replied, calmly. Xemnas shook his head and pulled up a chair. "Let's not be rash, now." he warned, and secretly pointed at the kids. "We've got little ones in the room." he reminded. "Which means no fowl language, by all means." Lexeaus added, sitting down next to Xemnas. Luxord chuckled. "The only language I speak, is the language of the cards." he exclaimed, shuffling the deck of cards.

A few minutes into the game, Xemnas looked over his shoulder. The kids were all gathered in a circle. He heard Kairi talking majority of the time, and a few side comments from Axel, complaining every other minute about how he had to sit next to Larxene, and he had also heard Naminé asking 'why?' about twelve times. Quite often, he'd even hear Tifa and Cloud whisper to each other, just barely. He heard Roxas say 'I've gotta potty!' once and Xion complained in a whiny voice about her legs falling asleep - due to her nasal condition, her voice seemed even more whiny. Riku would often make rude remarks about whatever Kairi was talking about, and Marluxia would tell him off and they'd get into a big argument. Zexion would tell them politely to 'shut up' which was still pretty rude.

What really made him laugh was how everyone would say 'ew' -- and he knew all too well that Larxene had done something disgusting. It pretty obvious, Larxene was pretty disgusting.

"Man," Xemnas sighed. "This place is a..." he hesitated, trying to find the best words to describe it.

"Full house." Luxord remarked, with a big grin. Xemnas snapped his fingers and chuckled under his breath. "Those were the words I was looking for!" he exclaimed, excitedly. Luxord arched a brow. "What are you saying, Xemnas?" he had a puzzled look on his face and revealed the cards in his hand. It was a full house.

Luxord had won the game of poker.

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a/n: Review please. It doesn't have to be long, anything is appreaciated! ^^