Okay this idea popped into my head while playing guitar hero and then going to listen to 'This Is Halloween' and 'Passion' (since those songs remind me of Kingdom Hearts for some reason. I wonder why??)

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingom Hearts, Dragon Force or Utada Hikaru (Oh, that's going on my wishlist...)

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Jack of Hearts

"Demyx get your stupid snacks off my bunk!" Riku yelled from the bunk room of the bus.

"Hey! I thought we made the rule of no food in the bunk rooms!" Axel yelled from his own bunk. "Then why are you eating a burrito in here?" Riku asked. Axel finished it and sat up, "Where's old buddy Roxas at?"

"He went out to get some candy from the gas station, and Cloud wanted to get one of those Rockstar Juiced he's always drinking..." Riku told him.

The famous five piece band "Ars Arcanum" had stopped their tour bus at this gas station in the middle of no where to fill up. Their bus was all black (band color, original huh?) and stood out well in the deserts that surrounded Olympus Colosium or, their concert area for that night.

Riku left the room to sit down next to Demyx on a bus couch. "How does this sound?" Demyx, the bands guitarist said and strummed a few chords on his acoustic.

Riku, the bands singer thought they sounded good and gave him a thumbs up.

"You guys writing songs without me again?" Axel yelled from the bunk room.

"No, Demyx was just showing me some chor-" but Riku stopped talking and frowned when Axel ran out of the room to them with his acoustic bass.

"He was just showing me a chord progression" Riku muttered.

"Alright! Jam Session!" Demyx shouted and started playing again. "Come on Riku, start making lyrics for this!" Demyx persisted when Riku got up to go and take a nap. Demyx was the only openly gay member of the band. The rest of the band didn't care because they had no problem with it and were friends with Demyx anyways.

Riku was annoyed sometimes though when Demyx would try to get on his nervs by flirting with him.

"Man, you guys always have stupid acoustic practices so that I can't join in! Do guys hate me?" Roxas , the bands drummer stepped onto the bus holding a bag filled to the top with candy.

"You're gonna rot your teeth bro" Axel said to the youngest member of the band.

"Hey, that's a cool song! What is it?" Roxas asked while he opened a big bag of Twizzlers. "I call it 'Raining Moogles'!" Demyx said.

"Hang on, I got a good bass line" Axel said and started playing an intricate bass line that was catchy.

"Nice!" Demyx said.

Most people would think that the bass player is the least important part of the band, but not Axel. He was known for coming up with catchy and intricate bass lines.

"Do you like it Riku?" Roxas asked. "Yeah, we can work on it tomorrow all together, but I really need to see the setlist for tonight" Riku told him.

Roxas gave him one of the many copies.

Riku retreated to his bunk and looked down at the 13 song setlist.

OLYMPUS COLOSIUM SETLIST

01) Oblivion

02) H.E.A.R.T.L.E.S.S.

03) Malificent

04) One Sky, One Destiny

05) The Song That Never Was

06) This is Halloween

07) Nobodies Are Nobodies

08) Thundaga!

09) Passion

10) Air Raid

11) Omnislash (Cloud guitar solo)

12) Twilight Town

13) 13

He smiled. Ars Arcanum had released only one CD but was instantly risen to fame. They were touring for the CD called 'Oathkeeper' right now and loved playing their 11 songs every night for sold out venues.

Their big hit 'Oblivion' was first on the list and was also Riku's favorite to sing.

Tonight though the crowd was in for a surprise... They were doing two cover songs that were slightly altered to sound like thier own. That is, they took the song and made it heavier with some of the backup lyrics screamed by Axel. 'This Is Halloween' was Roxas' favorite song in the world so they decided they would cover it. Also, the band all liked the song 'Passion' by Utada Hikaru, so that was getting covered too.

Finally the other guitarist of the band, Cloud, got back on the bus with a bag of Rockstars.

"Hey Cloud! We're making a new song!" Demyx said but Cloud just kept filling his personal minifridge with Rockstars and ignored him.

"His headphones are in..." Roxas told them, watching the wall mounted plasma t.v.. Cloud usually tuned everyone and everything out with his Zune that was always cranked up. It was almost always playing his favorite band Dir En Grey (D).

Cloud looked up at Demyx, Axel and Roxas and yelled "I'm listening to Dragon Force! Through the Fire and Flames! I'm studying guitar solos, but I had to use my computer to speed it up because they were playing too slow!" (hahahahahahahaha that's funny...).

The driver, Cid, got onto the bus and took his seat. "To Olympus!" he flicked his cigarette out the door and closed it.

They were going to meet their manager, Mickey, there like they always did. That little mouse always rode in style and Gummi Shipped everywhere.

Axel looked at his cellphone and started texting away, "When are we gonna be there?"

Cid lit a cigarette, "About twenty minutes"

"Texting Larxene again? I swear, that's all you do anymore" Roxas told Axel. Axel kept texting but smiled, "she is my girlfriend after all, do you know what that is Roxy?"

"Ewwwww!" Demyx said and stuck his tongue out.

Axel and Roxas laughed and shook thier heads.

Roxas was bored from spending the last two weeks on the bus. Why couldn't they just rent hotel rooms for once?

He looked at his band mates:

Demyx was fully focused on his guitar and finding the right sounding chords, Axel was rapidly texting, Riku was napping in the bunks and Cloud was at the back seat staring out the window and bobbing his head to the music.

Roxas thought about what Axel had said about having a girlfriend.

Axel had just met this girl Larxene last week at one of their concerts and started dating her.

Riku had a girlfriend back home named Yuffie. Roxas thought she was hilarious and found it funny that the two were a couple because of their polar opposite personalities.

Demyx had all kinds of on and off boyfriends now that he was part of a famous band.

Cloud, the king of one night stands had legions of fangirls. he would treat one to dinner or a movie after every venue and was known in the musician/celebrity world as a 'Stoic Gentelman'.

Roxas was so happy when people on the streets would recognize him as a member of Ars Arcanum, but then he had realized that at least one bandmate was with him when these fan meetings happened...

No one recognized the drummer who was always behind the set unless he was with a sex icon like Cloud or Riku.

Roxas had been hopeful when the band had started to gain popularity that he would meet someone special, but that never happened.

The rest of the band had always said that Roxas was one of, if not the most important member(s) of the band, but it killed him to see all of his friends happy when he was so... lonely.

Roxas was the co-lyric writer of the band (about half the songs were written by him) and tried not to let too much of his recent depression leak into his lyrics. Instead of withdrawing into his angst, he asserted himself to his drums and had been practicing a minimum of 5 hours a day.

Riku tried to get him to take a rest, but Roxas needed to focus on drumming.

"We're here!" Cid announced. "Ay, finaly!" Axel jumped up and put his cell away, "I gotta go uh, check into my room"

"Meet us in the dressing rooms at six" Riku told him, emerging from his nap with a yawn.

"Larxene can come too if she wants" Demyx told him.

Axel flinched a little, "I didn't say anything about Larxene.. I'm not going to meet her!" they just smiled at him.

Cloud got up and turned his music down (he rarely ever turned it off), " Cid you can go chill in our dressing room and help yourself to the fridge if they have one". Cid smiled and rubbed his hands together, "No more driving till tomorrow, I'm gettin ripped..." he ran off the bus.

Roxas put on his own music and stuffed his pocket with candy, "I'm going to wander around, I'll meet you guys at six" Axel was going to offer to go with him but thought about Larxene and decided to leave the opposite way.

He hated seeing his best friend look so sad.

He wanted to know what had been wrong with Roxas these past few days.

After Axel, Roxas and Cid had left Riku looked at Cloud and Demyx, "what are you guys going to do?"

Demyx looked up in thought and Cloud threw a towel onto his shoulder, "I'm taking a shower before the show".

"And I'm going to scope out the guys!" Demyx grinned and pranced off the bus.

"Sometimes his flambouyance is scary" Riku muttered, "I'm going to talk to Mickey and the sound guy" he told Cloud.

The band mates all seperated to do their own things before the show like always.

Sometimes Axel and Cid would go to a bar and drink before a show and Axel would come to play tipsy. That kind of pissed Riku off, but it had never been detrimental to the show.

Roxas never knew what Cloud did as a pre-show ritual, and no one bothered to ask. The guy was always so mysterious.

Demyx was ALWAYS spending time on his stage costume and hair/makeup before shows.

Roxas would usually drift around like a lost puppy. Most of the time he would find something like a bridge or tree to sit on and watch the sunset, since their concerts were always at the same time.

But sometimes he would go and talk to people that were attending the concert. He would wear sunglasses and a scarf so people wouldn't recogize him. Not that they would without them...

"Hello" he said to two girls he approched in the long (very long) line to the colosium. They looked like sisters except one had red hair and the other had blonde. "Hi!" the red haired girl replied cheerfuly.

The only reason these girls weren't creeped out by this stranger talking to them was that Roxas had a tape recorder, so they knew they were bing interviewed.

Roxas loved asking questions about the band to unsuspecting fans to see what they truly thought.

He would never reveal that he was in the band, but these girls caught his attention... Especially the blonde one.

Maybe he would cast the disguise aside.

"Can I ask your names? And what do you girls expect out of the show tonight?" Roxas asked and held the tape recorder up to them. " I'm Kairi and this is my sister Namine!" the red head, Kairi, gave a big grin. Namine was shy Roxas noticed, she hadn't said a word and looked at the ground.

"I came to see the show with my sister because I recently got her into Ars Arcanum!" Kairi chirped. "You like their music? Or just the members??" Roxas asked Namine with a smile and held the tape recorder closer to her.

She blushed and looked down then mumbled something incoherant. "Excuse me?" Roxas asked. Kairi slapped her sister on the back, "Come on Namine! Tell him about how you absolutly ADORE one member of the band!" Namine turned redder.

"Uh, you don't have to answer if you don't want to..." Roxas told her feeling a little like a jerk.

Namine looked up, but not at Roxas, "No it's okay... I like the band's music and the members as well. But mostly the music..." she went back to her stare at the ground. Kairi rolled her eyes, "Yeah right, she's obsessed with the drummer of Ars Arcanum, Ricky!" Roxas almost dropped his tape recorder and jaw.

"His name is Roxas and he's my favorite drummer... I'm not obsessed i'm just a fan" she blushed again.

Roxas smiled and tuned out Kairi, who was loudly ranting about all of the drawings Namine did of Roxas (or 'Ricky' in her case).

He was amazed that he had found a fan of... him!

"Well, uh... You guys are in for a surprise!" Roxas told them.

Kairi looked around, "We're on 'Candid Camera'?!". Roxas and Namine sweatdropped, "Um, no. I'm giving you girls these backstage passes! I'm only allowed to give out two" Kairi looked like she was about to have an anyrism and the concert goers nearby glared at the two girls.

Roxas handed them the passes and put the tape recorder in his pocket.

"Also..." he said and removed the scarf then sunglasses, "Hi, my name's Roxas" he smiled.

The crowd started mumbling.

"THE DRUMMER FROM ARS ARCANUM THATS HIM!!" a guy in the crowd yelled. The line broke up as everyone ran at him with pens, paper, shirts and even bare chests to sign.

"Oh no..." Roxas said and quickly grabbed Kairi's hand to shake, "It was nice meeting you girls", he grabbed Namine's and kissed it.

"Security will escort you back stage after the show if you wanna meet the band"

He let go and started to run away from the swarm of hungry fans.

Namine held out her hand, "Wait! I want to meet YOU!"

Kairi was jumping up and down in joy.

Roxas smiled the whole way back to meet Axel.

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yeah! rock band! Go Roxas!

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