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3am Challenge Day 10
Prompt: #188 - A Circle (500 words)
Song: Ellie Goulding - Figure 8
Characters: Isa/Saix, Lea/Axel, mentions of Roxas and Xion
They were enemies.
Isa had never really liked loud, vibrant people. He much preferred the quieter type, the kind that could hold a conversation that didn't include childish distractions. He held his standards of friendship far above the reach of most everyone else his age in Radiant Garden. It was the way he liked it – only the worthiest would gain his respect. He would never admit to himself he was lonely.
Lea had never really liked being snubbed for no reason. If someone had an issue with his personality he would much rather they tell him to his face and give him a valid reason rather than just a cold shoulder. He was loud, boisterous, so he tended to annoy or intimidate other kids his age, especially the ones that were less outgoing than he was. He didn't really mind, though he had to admit it made finding lasting friends a bit difficult.
They'd hated each other the first time they'd met; Isa taking an instant dislike of the vivacious redhead, and Lea's hackles immediately raising at the disdainful sneer Isa had given him. Lea challenged him to a street fight right then, which Isa condescendingly declined.
After that, every time they ran into each other Lea would purposefully goad Isa just to irritate him and Isa would rise to the baiting – though he never did anything more than speak down at Lea. Still, it was interaction, and Lea could proudly state that he at least got the "blue-haired snob" to acknowledge him.
It was unclear when they grew to like each other in the midst of all the bickering. They were both taken by surprise when they finally realized their mutual loathing had become an odd sort of aliment. They banded together against those speaking ill of them, and in doing so forged a bizarre respect for one another that soon grew to the strangest partnership ever to exist. They could pick and pull and prod each other, could fight like hissing cats, but no one else could. Only Isa could insult Lea, and only Lea could insult Isa.
And then came the fall of Radiant Garden.
Isa and Lea became Saix and Axel, two beings with nothing left but one another because they didn't even have themselves. They were the first Organization members that weren't part of the original six apprentices, so through the monotony of a heartless existence they stuck fast to each other's sides - though with the new heaviness of Organization responsibilities the lightweight friendship soon became a pantomime made of old habits. They forgot the way they used to laugh together, forgot the innocent teasing when they threw around their harsh words, forgot what it meant to enjoy the other's company while pretending not to.
The Organization grew and so did the rift between them. Gold leeched into Saix's once-blue eyes and Axel found himself turning away from their unfamiliarity, towards the blue of Roxas and Xion instead.
And once again, they were enemies.