Carmine Complex

The BirdFox Hybrid Productions

Disclaimer: On the off chance we owned it, PR would be in it to molest Demyx every five fuckin' minutes... and apparently now Xemnas too... freak...

(Psycho Rooster takes offense to that last comment. Xemnas needs cuddles.)

Final note: click this to hear the song mentioned in the story

http // www . filelodge . com / files / room 17 / 445373 / scotty . mp3

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atramentous; of or pertaining to ink; inky; black

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I DON'T WANNA WAIT. FOR OUR LIVES TO BE OVER-

Roxas's arm snapped out from under the comforter and he punched his alarm clock right off of the nightstand before he rolled back over, curling up into his quilt.

The alarm clock gave a small groan like a diseased animal before going silent.

"Roxas! Wake up!" Sora's voice drifted through his closed door and Roxas sleepily grinned to himself for locking it the night before. He began to drift off into dreamland, the sounds of a jiggling doorknob serenading him back to sleep. It was the Friday of the second week into school, and Roxas had deemed it high-time to become lazy once more.

The jiggling stopped and Roxas breathed in deeply, inhaling the smell of his comforter. He was currently in the land of snuggles, as his pillow began to take the shape of a miniature Axel in Roxas's mind. Roxas rubbed his face against the pillow, a content smile pasted onto his face.

"Roxas, if you don't get up and unlock the door, I'm going to take the doorknob OFF." Cloud was the one who spoke this time, his voice was deeper and more mature than Sora's, given that he was twenty-four and far past those stages of puberty. Roxas let out a tired groan and pulled the covers up to his cheeks, rubbing his face into his pillow once more.

Mhhh- Axel, your face is so squishy and baby soft.

Roxas was asleep in no time, and was oblivious to the fact that Cloud had begun unscrewing his doorknob with a handheld screwdriver on the other side.

Until a cold hand slipped under the covers, grabbed his ankle, and pulled.

Roxas yelped as he was wrenched quite roughly out of the bed, his body being hit with a blast of cold air-conditioning. A sharp pain resonated from where his back and head had oh-so-ungracefully hit the ground and he groggily looked up to see Cloud standing over him, still holding his ankle high in the air. Roxas squirmed, muttering a half-audible "gerrof me." before Cloud released his ankle.

"I'm leaving today. You and Sora will have to take the bus because I promised Leon I'd be back home before two and it's a five hour car drive back. I figured you'd at least be compassionate enough to want to see me for more than five minutes today before school started." Even though Cloud would never show it, Roxas knew he'd be pissed if the blonde boy skipped out on eating breakfast with his brother before he left.

Cloud only visited on holidays. And when 'holidays' was said, it was meant. Cloud visited on every holiday. Even Arbor Day. And the fact that he'd actually left Leon back home was significance enough. Cloud never left Leon anywhere, the older man was always with Roxas's brother when Cloud drove down from Radiant Garden to visit them all. "Awright. I'm up." Roxas grumbled, slowly pulling himself to his feet and shooting a brief glance at the clock.

6:45 twinkled back at him merrily.

"Cloud?" Roxas began, slowly turning to look at his older brother, seeing the smirk on the man's face, even in the dark room that was only lit from the hallway.

"School doesn't start until eight thirty." He stated.

Cloud's grin widened to mocking proportions. "I know."

"So why am I up almost a whole hour early?" Roxas no longer wondered how his alarm could have gone off at six forty instead of seven thirty as per usual.

"It might have been because I set it to do that yesterday while you were at school." Cloud replied.

Damn.

Roxas made a mental note to lock his door during the daytime too.

Cloud smirked at Roxas before turning and leaving the room with the parting words of "don't forget to feed your gerbil!"
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After slowly picking out his outfit for the day (Something Roxas didn't do that often.) Our favorite blonde protagonist bounded down the stairs, and then promply tripped over the obnoxious white plastic ball that his gerbil had somehow steered down the stairs to hide until the opportune tripping-Roxas moment.

Roxas knew that gerbil was out for vengance ever since the tail incident, he just knew it

Upon entering the kitchen, Roxas was slapped in the face with the smell of eggs, coffee, and burrito. The last scent belonged to Sora's disturbing breakfast fetish.

"God- ugh, Sora, can't you at least eat a breakfast burrito? I mean, doesn't Riku get irritated when you talk to him with bean breath or something?" Roxas grumbled, taking his seat and reaching for the box of cheerios to fill his pre-placed bowl with.

He thanked Cloud for little favors.

Sora shrugged, taking another bite of his burrito before gulping down some of his milk.

It was Cloud who broke the silence.

"So- Roxas, how was school yesterday?" Well if that wasn't the gayest most systematic question Cloud had ever asked in his life.

"We changed out yesterday in LMS- it was kind of annoying since Demyx kept trying to pull down everyone's pants right after we put them on." Well, it was true- the psycho had whipped Roxas's pants down a good three times before he had a chance to kick the bastard in the face.

Cloud raised an eyebrow and Sora let out a bark of laughter.

"I didn't hear you complaining, considering how much you stared at Axel's ass each time he bent down to pull his pants back up." The evil glint in his brother's eyes was back again- giving Roxas the urge to gouge them out with his spoon- which he might have, had he not been preoccupied with turning bright red and hissing at Sora to shut the fuck up.

Sora released a small sigh, waving his burrito about and causing a bean to smack Roxas in the cheek. Roxas wiped it off with only mild disgust.

"Well- it wasn't like Axel didn't stare right back at yours either- I think he was trying to X-Ray your boxers or somethin'..." As he spoke, Roxas became the color of said pervert's hair, embarassment and a sliver of glee dancing an irish jig on his head. Cloud paused in mid-sip of his coffee, eyebrows shooting up into his hairline and regarding both boys cooly. A moment of silence passed before Cloud continued drinking.

Roxas finished his cereal and bounded back upstairs and into his room to wallow in self-pity for the next fifteen minutes.

He detoured, instead continuing down the hall and into Sora's room to find something to sabotage as an act of revenge.

His eyes caught sight of Sora's GameStation 2, and he grinned. Sora was obsessed with playing Castle Soul- and swooned over the protagonist's bishounen best friend, Kiru. He spotted the game's cover and cackled evilly, snatching it up and slinking back into his room to find a magic marker.

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"Roxas! Why the fuck does Aros have a giant penis!?" Sora screeched exactly thirty minutes later, the sound of feet thundering to Roxas's door as the enraged brunette burst into his little brother's room.

Roxas- who had been scribbling in his notebook, tried not to burst into another round of evil laughter as he turned as calmly as he could to face Sora.

"What are you talking about?"

Sora smacked Roxas in the face with the game cover. "Aros! He's sporting a masssive erection and has googly eyes drawn to look at Kiru! You bitch! This game was forty dollars! You are scandalizing true love by defiling it through the satanism of a black sharpie!" Roxas's eyes clenched shut as the small box was smeared across his face before it slapped him to accentuate the last two words.

Carnage most likely would have broken out if it weren't for Cloud bellowing at the two to get the fuck downstairs before their sorry asses missed the bus. Sora shot Roxas a look that declared VENGANCE, and stormed off to retrieve his backpack.

Roxas's lip twitched in the slightest of evil grins as he grabbed his own backpack and left his room, vaguely taking note of the fact that his doorknob had yet to be returned.

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Upon his arrival to the front of the Trigonometry room, Roxas was greeted by Marluxia, who ruffled his hair in greeting. (and had his hand slapped away by said blonde boy in return) Zexion, Saix, and Larxene were seated on the ground, leaning up against the walls. Xigbar was lying spread eagle in the center of the hallway, staring at his outstretched hand blankly. Axel and Demyx were nowhere in sight.

"Axel's here, just not here, so he'll be to class on time, no worries." Marluxia informed, reaching to mess with Roxas's hair again. Roxas dodged under the hand and moved to take refuge by Xigbar.

Xigbar stared at him, his eye dialated and his right arm still held straight out in the air. Roxas decided that Zexion was looking quite friendly at the moment.

Roxas took a seat on the free side of the violet-haired teen, peering over his shoulder to catch sight of some of the text in his companion's newest reading material.

"What are you reading?" He asked softly, Zexion's eyes flickered up to him for a second before looking back down at the book.

"Surgeon General's Warning."

Roxas paused, and then fidgeted. "Sounds interesting." Okay, so maybe it sounded a bit more morbid than it did interesting, but people always did say not to judge a book by it's cover. Zexion lifted a thumb, pressing it to his tongue and reaching down to flip the page again.

"I like it. It makes me smile."

Roxas scrunched his eyebrows together and used the majority of his free will not to scoot away from Zexion. He instead, peered over Zexion's slighly broad shoulder once more, eyes skimming the text and realizing that the story seemed to revolve around two neighboring families. His eyes squinted after a moment, reading one of the lines over again before they grew large and he spoke up.

"Is this a.. a gay romance story?" Zexion's shoulders went taut and he slowly turned to Roxas. The blonde boy hadn't meant to give any offence, but the way Zexion's eyes were wary, he realized that maybe he shouldn't have spoken out.

"I don't see why the sexuality of the characters in the book should have any affect on the quality of the book or whether or not the novel itself is pleasant to read. Why does it matter to you? Have you a thing against homosexuals?" His voice was low, daring Roxas to agree with his last sentence. Roxas, on the other hand, would have found the situation ironically amusing if it weren't for the heated glare he was recieving from both Marluxia and Saix. Xigbar was far too out of it to even tune into the conversation and Larxene was stabbing her notebook with a pencil.

Roxas's gaze shifted to where his legs were stretched out in front of him, fingers intertwined lazily.

"Kinda hard to be against them when you're one of them." He muttered after realizing that his confession would bring no judgement from anyone in the group. Marluxia nearly squealed, his teeth displayed in a shit-eating grin.

"Axel's gonna be so happy to-"

Saix flew from his sitting position and tackled Marluxia sideways, knocking them both completely to the ground, one hand clasped over the rosy-haired boy's mouth. He'd caught sight of Axel down the hall, and had rightfully shut Marluxia up before anything blackmailey could slip forth.

"I'm gonna be happy to what?" Axel entered Roxas's vision with his ever-present cocky smirk, his backpack slung over his left shoulder. Marluxia pushed Saix away and fixed his hair, his plethora of bracelets jingling as per-usual. The bell rang before he could even open his mouth to explain the situation.

Roxas had never noticed Zexion get up to leave- the older teen had been silent and inconspicuous in the act. Larxene was gone too, having apparently followed the boy. Marluxia shrieked a death threat to the two teens who were no longer present as he snatched up his pink bookbag and rocketed down the hall, running into people and causing a riot in his wake. People brushed past Axel and Roxas, and Saix dragged Xigbar into the class.

Axel raised an eyebrow at Roxas, a hint of a smirk on his lips as he extended his elbow to the boy.

"Shall we?"

"I'm not skipping into class with you." Roxas replied flatly. Even if it was true that he was about as straight as a circle, there was a limit to how gay he would voluntarily be. Roxas entered the classroom by himself with Axel's laughter following behind him. They took their seats with relative calm and Roxas shot a curious glance to Demyx's empty chair before looking back at Axel, who'd grown solemn.

"Hey Axel- Where's Demyx at?" The late bell rang shrilly and Axel gave Roxa s a silent half-hearted shrug, his arms crossed. If Roxas wasn't suddenly pre-occupied with their psychotic music-loving whore of a friend's absence, he'd have given into the urge to reach over and hug Axel's head.

"Fuck!" Xigbar screeched, causing a few students to jump in their seats. The golden-eyed teen smacked his forehead and turned to Saix. "I forgot to tie the swingset to the roof!"

Saix replied to Xigbar's exclamation with a raised eyebrow. Xigbar sighed and crossed his arms, looking back at the front of the class.

Axel tilted his chair onto it's back legs, rocking gently. It was a habit that Roxas has seen the redhead do only on two occasions. The first was when they'd recieved the results of their first test in the class, and Axel had begun rocking his chair whilst awaiting for his own test to be placed in front of him. The second time was now.

Xemnas called out to the class to settle down as he began calling out the names listed on his attendance sheet. Axel's rocking began to become more prominent until Xemnas had reached the seventh name and the door burst open, Demyx's disheveled form all-but falling into the room, his clothes rumpled and hair sticking every-which-way. (more so than usual... if that was possible)

Demyx smiled akwardly at the dark glare that Xemnas sent his way, handing the man his tardy pass and flinching when it was ripped from his grasp. He hurriedly wandered into the back to claim his usual seat.

It was then that Roxas noticed the bright red mark marring a good portion of Demyx's right cheek-- a mark that was slowly darkening into an eventual bruise. In the background, Xemnas continued to call out role. When the older blonde took his seat, Roxas leaned closer to Demyx, who's eyes were trained straight ahead, arms crossed.

"Why were you late? Did you get in a fight?" He whispered. Roxas felt nosy for asking, but to him, the best way to find out what you wanted was to be blunt and ask.

Demyx's gaze flickered to Roxas momentarily before he shifted his focus back to the front of the class, "Somethin' like that." the blonde murmured uncomfortably, and fell silent. Roxas let out a huff of aggravation and sat back in his seat, realizing that he wouldn't be able to extract any more information from his friend.

There was a silence that descended the group, broken only by the chiming of 'here!' when their names were called.

It wasn't long after Xemnas began to teach that Roxas should have known something bad was going to happen. When Demyx began to tap his foot softly, it should have been an omen to Roxas that the peace was about to be horribly disturbed, and in more ways than one.

Roxas didn't realize it until it was too late. Demyx's lips parted, and he began to sing under his breath softly, but loud enough for the entire row to hear.

"Scotty doesn't know, that Fiona and me, do it in my van every Sunday." In the two second pause between the first verse and the second verse, Axel's voice had joined in. The redhead's face had split into a grin after the first three words had been uttered from Demyx's mouth.

Axel slammed his hand on the desk as he belted the lyrics with Demyx. "She tells him she's at church, but she doesn't go. Still she's on her knees and Scotty doesn't know! Oh- Scotty doesn't know-oh. So don't tell Scotty, Scotty doesn't know, Scotty doesn't know-!"

Roxas nearly cracked his head against the desk when Xigbar's deeper voice leapt into the fray, now granting the sophomore access to a surround sound porno song in the making.

"Fiona says she's out shoppin'." As he sang, Axel leaned close to Roxas, lips brushing along the blonde's ear as his voice became a decible lower. "Mmmbut she's under me and I'm not stoppin'." Axel pulled away and began to air guitar.

Saix's had joined in with them at some point, and Roxas could swear that an entire other row of students had joined in as Demyx led the group, his voice standing out above all others.

Roxas wasn't sure if it was Demyx's singing, or the atmosphere, but he began to feel uncomfortably hot, something stirring low in his gut as Axel slung an arm around his shoulder after he'd finished belting out the chorus with the others.

"Scotty's got her on the phone- and she's tryin' not to moan... It's a three way call and he knows nothing-" Axel had become extremely close during his singing, and Roxas licked his lips, mouth only inches away from the older teen's. Roxas could feel Axel's breath rush across his face with each word sung and Roxas gave into temptation and leaned forward.

"Alright! That's enough!" Roxas jerked back second before his lips made contact with Axel's, eyes wide and a blush prominent as he whipped his head to stare at one very furious Xemnas, who now stood only ten feet from their row.

Demyx flopped back down in his seat, whereas Saix stood, looking cooly at their teacher. "It was my idea sir."

An odd look flickered along Xemnas's face before he cleared his throat, calming considerably from that one sentence.

"Well then- Saix, stop by my classroom during lunch to.. discuss your punishment." Saix nodded and there was a long silence that descended upon them all as Xemnas left, broken only when the man was out of hearing distance and Demyx's let out a long 'ewwwww.'

Seifer, who sat in front of Axel, leaned over to Raijin and muttered the word 'fag' quietly to his friend. He hissed in pain when Axel vaulted Roxas's planner at the back of his head. Roxas shot Axel a glare for improper use of his planner, slipping down in his seat to use his foot to retrieve the abused school-based object.

Axel's hand patted his knee in gratitude and Roxas realized that maybe letting Axel chuck his planner at people wasn't so bad after all. The blonde boy gave his friend a small smile, feeling his face warm up just slightly when his grin was returned.

"Teen Titans! Go!" Xigbar shrieked.

Roxas caved and cracked his head into his desk.

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The rest of the morning passed with little significance, save for Xigbar's spontaneous outbursts and Demyx's knack for avoiding certain topics regarding the injury on his face.

Lunch came soon enough, and Roxas found himself squished between Demyx and Axel, which had become routine. There was a small uproar of surprise when Sora sat down, quite Riku-less. Demyx had nearly strangled the brunette boy for information, but hand been beaten over the head with a very thick textbook by the newly arrived Riku.

Demyx sniffled, clutching tightly to his head and giving Riku a wounded puppy look.

Riku sat down next to Sora, rolling his eyes at Demyx and discreetly sliding his hand around Sora's back to rest it against the boy's hip. Roxas didn't notice the action, preoccupied with Axel's thigh brushing against his own as a result of Demyx's wild movements.

"Demyx, how can you give me a kicked puppy look when you've never seen the expression of a puppy when it's kicked?" Riku asked, taking an offered chip out of the opened bag that Sora extended to him.

"I have." Larxene cut in from three seats down. Sora scowled.

"That's because you're a horrible person and you kick your dog."

"It pisses on my floor." Larxene shot back, making stabbing motions at Sora's face with her pen. Sora gave her an evil glare-pout and turned his head away, arms crossing.

"You have a dog?" Roxas paused in the eating of his own potato-chips to peer down the table and at the blonde girl. Larxene momentarily stopped in her stabbity motions and turned to nod at Roxas. Demyx slapped his forehead. Larxene stabbed Xigbar in the shoulder.

Xigbar shrieked and jerked away, losing balance and falling out of his seat.

"What kinda dog is it?" Roxas asked, looking genuinely interested- sorta. Demyx smacked his head again, but the younger boy was ignoring him. Axel sighed, muttering "oh jesus. Here we go."

"A mutt." Larxene turned to her tray of food, picking up her fork. She stabbed her mashed potatoes.

"Oh..what's it's name?"

"Mutt." Came Larxene's curt and mildly disinterested reply, as she was now absorbed into stabbing her empty milk carton.

"..."

Axel gave Roxas a soothing back-rub while the boy vainly tried to think of something to reply to Larxene's latest confession. His brain, however, had commited mutiny, and was currently nailing a 'back in five minutes' sign to the inner portion of Roxas's skull.

"I have a de-venemized cobra named Professor Membrane." Zexion said softly, not once lifting his gaze from his book. The information was taken in stride, but no man ever dared to mock Zexion's pet choice- nor it's name.

"Do you have a pet, Roxas?" Demyx turned to peer at his friend, hoping to help their newest friend achieve a full mental recovery. Axel's hand left Roxas's back and the boy nodded. Demyx perked up, eyebrows raising and giving him a look that urged him to continue.

"I have a gerbi-"

"With a crooked tail!" Sora put in, thrusting a finger forward to accentuate that he was stating a fact. Roxas shot him a glare.

"With a crooked ta-"

"Why's he got a crooked tail?" Demyx interrupted- but backed away when an icy wind brushed past his shoulders. The sudden gust of cold may have come from a door opening, or possibly the violent glare that Roxas shot in Demyx's direction.

"We don't speak of that."

"You shut the door on his tail!" Sora squawked indignantly, throwing his bag of chips at Roxas. Apparently, Sora thought it important that the entire group know the truths of Roxas's horrible and cruel abuse of animals. There was a dissaproving look from Demyx and the others, and Roxas narowed his eyes at his big brother. Sora returned the glare with an expression that rightfully was labeled 'VENGANCE IS MINE.'

"It was an accident!" Roxas hissed. Sora shrugged, waving his hand flippantly. The younger sibling sighed in aggravation, turning back to Demyx. "What I was trying to say, before Sora interrupted me, was that I have a gerbil, with a crooked tail, yes, we know. He's almost pure white."

"What's his name?" Axel asked from over Roxas's shoulder.

"Oathkeeper."

Yet another akward silence befell them all, each of the teens looking at one another. Sora seemed quite triumphant and Riku had smacked his head into his palm, mimicking Demyx's previous actions.

"... wow..." Demyx said gently, but his voice became bolder with his next statement. "And you guys call me a fag."

Sora flipped his hand once in a dismissive manner. "I had nothing to do with it."

"Shut up, Sora! You're the one that named your cat Decisive Pumpkin!" Roxas squeaked out, whipping his arm out to point an accusing finger to his brother. Sora's face took on his (now trademark) VENGANCE look.

Roxas had shouted at the same time Axel had been taking a rather large drink from his soda, and unluckily for Axel, the boy had started laughing, clasping a hand over his mouth to stop the carbonated drink from spraying over everyone.

Demyx had begun cracking up when he looked over at Axel. Soda was dripping through his fingers, and had somehow gotten onto his face and chin. A few droplets of the dark liquid were sliding down Axel's pale neck and into his shirt, getting the collar slightly redhead was too busy trying to breathe to wipe off any of the cola product.

The entire table soon burst out into giggles, chuckles, and spontaneous laughter when they caught sight of poor Axel, who had yet to regain his breath and was now making strange, hyena-esque squeaking noises as he inhaled with each laugh.

Even Roxas could help but grin wildly.

It didn't help the situation when Xigbar leapt up and declared that there was a deranged bird in the lunch room that was beckoning the one-eyed boy with it's sick and twisted mating calls.

"Oh God- my kidney just ruptured." Demyx moaned between chuckles, clutching his sides. Axel gasped for breath, wiping at his face with the back of his jacket sleeve.

"I hate you all so fucking much." He laughed out, stealing napkins off of Marluxia's lunch tray and stuffing them down his shirt to dry it off.

As everyone calmed down, Demyx decided to bring up the pet conversation once more.

"What kind of pet do you have, Riku?”

There was a pause before the silver-haired teen decided to respond, having calmed down considerably. “A green parrot.” he muttered, resting his elbow on the table.

“A parrot? Kickass. I've only got like, ten hummingbirds...” Marluxia commented idly, giving them a small hand wave that insisted the end of that discussion. Riku shook his head, growing somber quite quickly.

“Not kickass. I hate the damn thing.” He explained, looking serious in every meaning of the word. An odd look crossed Marluxia's face, but he shrugged. Demyx, however, scowled.

“Aw, why? It would be so cool to have a parrot! You could teach it to say a bunch of funny shit.” He exclaimed, snatching Axel’s previously discarded soda bottle, peering at it to check for backwash. He shrugged, apparently realizing he didn't care either way, and took a swig of it.

Riku sighed. “That’s exactly why I hate it. It's all because my Uncle Ansem had to watch it last summer when we went on vacation, and now it always goes around squawking ‘Kingdom Hearts! Fill me with the Power of Darkness!’ It's seriously fuckin' annoying when you hear it at three o'clock in the morning.”

Roxas thought back to the various times he had been over to Riku’s house when that bird wouldn’t shut the fuck up, and decided that the thing was, indeed, annoying as all hell. (and it always stared at him like he was a frikin piece of paopu fruit or somethin.' )

“I think it’s funny.” Sora threw in offhandedly, to which Riku returned with a scowl.

"Funny? You want to know what's funny?" Axel shot in, still wiping at his face with spare napkins. The group turned to look at him, curious expressions on there faces.

"Xigbar has a Liger."

Xigbar whipped his head around so fast at the mention of his name that he fell out of his seat again. The rest of the group, save for Zexion and Demyx, stared at Axel like he'd just stripped down to nothing but a thong and started dance humping Roxas's shoulder.

Axel leaned back to peer at Xigbar, who was lying on the floor with his legs propped on the bench. "Xiggy, don't you have a Liger?"

Xigbar stared at Axel. Ever-so-slowly, he began to nod, his eye wide and mouth slightly parted. "Red XIII."

Axel grinned triumphantly and looked back to the rest of the group, shocked expressions all-around. "He got it two years ago in a stoner-trade off that he doesn't quite remember. Me, Demyx and Zexy got called over to his house at about two in the morning to him shrieking about a giant, deranged, man-eating cat." As Axel spoke, Xigbar pulled himself back up into a sitting position with a grunt.

"We went over there, and it was about a year old, back then, anyway, we went over there and the thing was just lyin' on his bed, chewin' on a pillow. Xigbar's had the thing ever since. I guess it was tame even before he got it, 'cause it's cuddlier than a cat." Axel finished his tale with a smile, resting his chin on his upturned palm. He drummed the fingers of his other hand against the table, awaiting the information to take effect.

"... holy shit dude." Marluxia muttered.

"Speaking of cats- Didn't you have a cat once, Axel?" The aforementioned redhead narrowed his eyes at the mentioning of his cat, and Demyx began to regret ever mentioning the poor feline.

"Yes, Demyx. I had a cat. Until you murdered it." He hissed. Demyx looked quite scandalized, slapping an open palm against his chest.

"I did not!" He yelped, "That cat commited suicide! It jumped out a window!" Now that got Roxas's attention. Axel huffed through his nose and crossed his arms, looking away from the group. Demyx took it as permission to explain, seeing as they were already in the process of a Tarentino moment.

"The cat was a blackish-blue thing. He was an emo cat. His name was Sasuke." At this point, Marluxia cut in with a series of ' ooh ooh's!' and leaned forward, waving his hand wildly about to grab their attention. Demyx paused in his story-telling to allow Marluxia to interrupt.

"Is this the same cat that swore revenge on his brother cat that lived in the apartment complex across the street, and looked more like a weasel than a cat?" The rosy-haired boy asked excitedly, eyes wide and gleeful at actually knowing something pertaining to the conversation at hand. Demyx nodded with a loud 'uh huh.' in reply.

"As I was saying- he was an emo cat. But that is not all. For this emo cat was in love with Axel's neighbor's moomba-"

"Named Naruto!" Marluxia cut in again. Demyx shot the other male a glare that clearly explained, 'this is my story, bitch! So back the fuck off and let me tell it! grr!' Marluxia shut up, and leaned back into his seat next to Axel, who still looked as if he didn't want to be a part of the conversation at-hand.

Demyx cleared his throat. "Yes- Sasuke the Emo Cat was in love with Naruto the Moomba. It was a love doomed to fail, because Naruto happened to believe them to be rivals, and often tried to harass Sasuke the Emo Cat- leaving it an unrequieted love. This was why Sasuke was an Emo Cat. The fact that Axel's landlord's pink pet Chocobo named Sakura seemed to stalk Sasuke the Emo Cat didn't really help the situation."

Roxas's head had begun to throb dully by the end of Demyx's tale. It was a soap opera waiting to happen. He rubbed idly at his temple. "So- how did he die?"

"He commited suicide."

Axel huffed at this point, deciding it was high time to enter back into the conversation. "Demyx murdered it because he grabbed him off of my bed and swung him around, forgot to hold on to him, and Sasuke went flying into the wall. I would have jumped out the window too, if I had to suffer through that shit." The redhead said heatedly, eyes narrowed at Demyx in a very accusatory fashion.

Demyx jutted his bottom lip out in the best semblance of a pout that he could muster. "It was an accident! I thought it was a stuffed animal!” He protested.

It was then that Roxas shifted his gaze as something out of the corner of his eye caught his attention. Someone was making a beeline for their table, moving casually but steadily. From what Roxas could see, this guy had long, dark hair that covered his right eye, and was sporting a peculiar magenta-ish colored long-sleeved shirt with the word Boo scrawled across the chest.

As the guy drew closer, Roxas could clearly make out the grin etched onto his face. It was a look Roxas had seen many times on Riku as the silver-haired boy dragged Sora off to the bathrooms.

Everyone turned their attention to the head of the table as the guy came to a halt directly in front of Demyx. The blond quickly turned, smiling widely. “Hey Sai!” he greeted cheerfully, waving at the other male.

Sai’s grin widened and a sly look crossed over the teen's face. “Hey Demyx. Look at what I got you.” The male held up a small plastic package, and Demyx squealed in delight, clapping his hands together before snatching the honeybun package from the other's grasp.

“Eeeh! You’re awesome, Sai! Thanks!” The mohawked boy exclaimed, leaning out of his seat to wrap his arms around Sai's stomach, a wide grin on his face. Sai's face took on a dopey expression and he patted Demyx on the head before the blonde boy pulled back.

Sai waved his hand nonchalantly. “Eh, no problem, no prob-” the teen halted in mid-word as a foreboding sense of dread washed over him. He knew that feeling. Fate-sealingly slow, Sai raised his eyes to meet the gaze of Zexion, who was seated beside Demyx. It was a familiar look; a look that clearly stated, “I will fucking cut you.”

Sai chuckled nervously, backing away from the table. “I…uh…must go now. Business to attend to, and all. Enjoy your honeybun! Bye Demyx.” He said hastily, giving the teen a quick hand wave before spinning on his heel with the intention to haul ass far, far away from that table.

Demyx paused from the mauling of his honeybun wrapper. “G'bye Sai!” He called out to the retreating form, lifting the honeybun package to wave it back and forth, even though Sai couldn't see it, for he was pre-occupied with saving his own skin.

Marluxia rolled his eyes and resumed his conversation with Sora and Larxene, serenaded by the crinkling of Demyx’s wrapper. Roxas raised an eyebrow. Well, that had been…interesting, to say the least.

Xigbar sighed, making a point of turning away from Demyx to face Marluxia, Zexion, and Larxene. “You know you’re a ho when you suck dick for a honeybun.” The stoner commented, loudly enough for the entire table to hear.

Sora snorted into his soda, inducing a hacking fit accompanied by the snickering of Riku whilst the silver-haired teen attempted to pat the boy on the back and help him regain breath after choking on the bubbly carbonated drink from Hell. (it was nothing compared to the choking fit that had occured with Axel earlier, however)

Roxas let out a strange wheezing noise as a potato chip got lodged in his throat.

Demyx’s merciless attack on his treat came to a screeching halt as he froze, slamming his fists onto the table a moment later, the poor honeybun clenched and squished inside of it's package. “Fuck you! I got this for free!” The blond snarled at Xigbar, his eyes alit with rage and embarassment, as was evident by the bright blush on his cheeks. Demyx then looked down to see his utterly mutilated (and still packaged) honeybun, and let out a wail of depression.

The older male seemed unaffected by this, responding without missing a beat. “You really know you’re a ho when you don’t even consider sucking dick as a method of payment anymore.”

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Meanwhile

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A sly grin spread itself across Sai's face as he slinked over to a red-haired boy dressed in a trenchcoat with black eyeliner thickly coated under each eye, a scowl evident on his face as he tinkered with what looked like a miniature robot.

"Jack Spicer, right?" Sai cooed, leaning forward and pressing a gentle hand to the boy's bicep. Jack paused in his tinkering to look up and raise an eyebrow at him.

"Jack Spicer, Evil Boy Genius-- who wants to know?"

Sai grinned, a perverted glint in his eyes.

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"Hey- it's part of the fag-brigade." Roxas felt Axel's hand on his shoulder tighten as they turned around. Demyx stood a few feet behind him, his path being blocked by one Seifer Almasy, complete with his beanie and homo-erotic belly shirt. Demyx scowled at Seifer, who almost reached Axel's height of six foot two. Demyx wasn't short, he was five nine and damn proud- but Seifer's toweing didn't help the situation.

"Get out of my way, Seifer." The blonde snarled, his grip on his messenger bag tightening fractionally. Seifer laughed, lifting a hand from his hip to flick Demyx in the forehead.

"Make me- mullet-head."

"How about I make you, fuckass?" Roxas's eyes widened as Axel pushed up the sleeves to his black band jacket and took a step towards Seifer. Fuujin and Raijin blocked Axel's approach, smirks evident on their faces.

Roxas's brows furrowed, and he opened his mouth to protest a fight when Zexion approached, Marluxia and Xigbar in tow, their pace moderately fast. The violet-haired teen, who barely reached an inch below Seifer, seemed to create a deadly vibe about the trio that sent the blonde bully stepping away from Demyx, who clutched to his backpack strap like a lifeline.

"I suggest you fuck off an go harrass some poor sap who will actually deal with your pathetic bullshit that you call superiority." Zexion hissed, his lithe frame somehow towering over Seifer's, eyes narrowed and deadly, even if one was partially obscured by his hair. Seifer's eyes flickered from Zexion, to where Xigbar and Marluxia stood, before backing away.

"I don't have time for this." He sneered and whirled around, motioning for Rai and Fuu to follow as he stormed off campus.

Zexion turned to Demyx, gaze softening. He gently ruffled the blonde boy's mohawk and left, Marluxia following him close behind, both of them heading for the bus area.

Xigbar slapped Axel.

"What the fuck was that for!" Axel shrieked, holding tightly to his abused cheek. Xigbar glared at him and Demyx began to laugh, reaching out to pull the two taller teens into a large hug. Roxas's gaze wandered over to his brother and Sora gave him a half-hearted shrug whilst Riku shook his head.

Axel cleared his throat and Demyx released them, patting Xigbar on the head and getting slapped for his efforts.

The group slowly made their way out the doors, Demyx chattering to Sora and Riku about band class and Axel guiding Roxas with an arm around his shoulders.

"Well, Zexion's gonna show up at my place in about two hours- Demyx, you and Xiggy coming over?" Axel asked, tilting his head to peer behind him. Demyx paused in his conversation to give Axel confirmation before continuing- only to be shushed by Sora.

"Have you got any new games?" Sora bounced over to Axel, fingers clasped in front of him. Axel laughed, eyes taking on a mocking look.

"Is Castle Soul TWO- good enough?"

Sora let loose a deranged inhaling sound that resembled the strangling of a bird.

"You got number twoooo? Oh jesus on rye bread with wheat crackers on the side!" Sora's arms shot out to grab Roxas's biceps, shaking his little brother furiously. "We are going over to Axel's place- you have no say in this! None!"

Roxas wasn't sure if he even managed a nod between the snapping of his neck back and forth from the exuberance of Sora's rabid shaking.

Sora remained latched to Roxas's arm as the brunette swung them around to face the parking lot. "To the Axelmobile!" Sora cried, jabbing a finger into the air.

"The Axelmobile!" Demyx echoed, jumping to stand beside his friend and placing his hands on his hips. The two then crossed their arms together and began skipping out to the parking lot. Axel scratched at his head, shooting Riku an apologetic glance and then leading the rest of the group to his car. Xigbar patted Roxas on the shoulder and then walked past him.

Roxas was surprised and completely unexpectant to find Axel's vehicle of choice to be a black SUV. Sora and Riku sat in the very back, and Xigbar and Demyx had already buckled themselves into the middle seats of the car. Axel nudged Roxas towards the passenger side and Roxas opened the door while the redhead walked around to the driver's side, entering the car right after the blonde.

"So- who's ready to go?" Axel asked, adjusting his rearview mirror and sticking the keys in the ignition. Roxas buckled his seatbelt as Demyx cheered gleefully. Axel turned to face the blonde boy next to him.

"Ready to see where I live?"

Roxas gulped, and then nodded. Axel gave a short laugh and then started the car.

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Author's Notes: Psycho Rooster here. I wrote the majority of this chapter, this time around- yeah. Surprised to find out that there's some underlying drama here? It's not your stereotypical drama, so don't click the back button just yet.

The cameo in the story that gave Demyx the honeybun was The Boomerang- because he is full of win and awesome, and I 'm not sure why we really stuck him in.. and we aren't even sure if we got his character right because we couldn't ask because it was a surprise.

All the books that Zexion reads are actually fanfic reccomendations of ours, there will be at least one every chapter.

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