No Love Lost…

An unbearable heat spread through the polished building of Kingdom Hearts High School, causing great discomfort to its students and staff alike.

Ventus pulled desperately to loosen his tie sighing as the stubborn knot tightened becoming impossible to unfasten. Nice one Ven. He groaned as the heat seemed to wrap around suffocating him, restricting his chest from heaving up and down as normal making breathing more of a task than an unnoticed instinct. He glanced up from his desk trying to concentrate on Mrs Kisaragi's ramblings about social awareness or something or other, but his mind and concentration had drifted with his gaze to the sadistic spiky haired demon two desks to his right. The young blonde's eyes examined the schools bad boy from head to toe.

The black and white scuffed converse up to the dark denim torn up faded jeans his vision then fell upon the half unbuttoned white shirt almost transparent due to the sweat pouring off him causing Ven to cringe as he saw the skinny torso clearly; his six pack caught the blonde's eye giving him shivers. His eyes travelled further up to that defined strong jawed face, that bored sleepy look in his bright haunting amber eyes, long black lashes framing them perfectly as did his Black, Spiky, gravity defying hair.

Vanitas he was called, the self renowned punk of Kingdom Hearts. His crimes gossiped and retold that it was unlikely you would know whether what was true or not. Any crime that had no witness and no other suspect the finger was obviously pointed at Vanitas. Stories of mysterious fires, missing files, theft even as far as rape and murder at one time, Vanitas was always mentioned. But never had he been confronted. Even the teachers wouldn't dare pull him aside, fearing that deep burning flame flickering in his eyes, fearing the twisted sadistic smirk on his face which so often appeared there. Anyone would think he was an outcast, that he was a loner like most in his situation would be but that was not the case with Vanitas. He was constantly the centre of admiring crowds crediting his bravery at back chatting to Mr Valentine and such (Mr Valentine took no shit I'll tell you that much).

Vanitas also has a lot of female attention even the occasional male couldn't resist that bad boy persona. Ven sighed at this heavily his focus becoming the pen that had been untouched throughout the lesson. Vanitas had everything. He had a filthy rich family, a reputation (maybe not so positive) but a reputation at least. He had a fan base of both girls AND boys. He received praise and was questioned by nobody.

Nobody

Ventus was nobody. He was the schools nobody. He wasn't a bad boy, he wasn't even good. He was just that kid at the back of the class who stuck to his own social circle. Never socialising with anyone outside of it. If such occurrence did happen he became shy and withdrawn keeping his mouth closed as much as possible as not to become a laughing stock if anything embarrassing was to happen to him. He'd never even spoken to Vanitas.

Another sigh escaped him. He and Vanitas were total polar opposites. Ven was an orphan. He couldn't remember anything before the age of 8, but maybe that was for the best. Apparently his parents had died in a car accident him being the only survivor had been taken to Twilight Orphanage. Not the best place to grow up in. Memories of stolen possessions, fear, misery and pain flashed by his eyes, physically shivering at the thought of his childhood, he shook his head lightly, as if to let the memories come tumbling out of his ears. Countless foster families came and went abandoning him again and again. Maybe he actually was unwanted. Everything happened for a reason right. Maybe he was just meant to be alone in this world. No family or relations at all.

The only people he could ever consider family were Terra and Aqua, his two best friends. They knew of his situation. Him living in a one bedroomed flat on his own after giving up all hope of ever being adopted. They knew not to question the faded scars scattering his arms. They knew not to talk of his past or present, only to reassure him that everything would be okay in the end. They understood him like no one else would. Sure he had other friends but they would never come to accept him as much as Terra and Aqua have. They would never be as important as those two were.

A sharp jab at his shoulder caused him to snap out of his daydream.

What he didn't expect however was Mrs Kisaragi to be towering over his desk, arms folded, an eyebrow raised as she glared at Ventus.

"Ventus, would you be so kind as to repeat the question?" Ven froze.

His fingers starting to twitch as he felt all eyes rest on him. One thought alone ran through his mind over and over.

'Nooo what if HE'S looking at me, what a tard I look right now!'

Ventus risked a glance to his right and instantly panicked. Vanitas was staring at him. An amused smirk ghosting his face.

"Come on Ventus, we're all waiting" Mrs Kisaragi was tapping her foot impatiently, eyes still burning into him.

"Miss I don't know" A few of his fellow classmates snickered. Said Miss sighed in disappointment and chose to drop the subject before she worked herself up. Ven issued a sigh of relief when he felt she was no longer in ear shot and quickly eyed his right carefully. Vanitas was still staring but not into his eyes like last but onto Ven's desk and no smirk was to be seen; only a curious almost concerned look graced his features. The blonde narrowed his eyebrows in confusion and looked onto his desk and let out a slight gasp. His heart beat fast as he saw his arm resting across his desk, his shirt sleeve slid up to his elbow, bright pink marks littering the revealing skin. In a flash his arm was hidden again and out of sight under the desk. His eyes stayed down a moment then peeked quickly up to check if he really had seen.

Yes, he had seen alright.

Vanitas was staring into his eyes this time. Holding Ven's gaze it seemed he was trying to convey through his eyes that he was genuinely concerned about the blonde, but also in a sense disappointment showed.

Hey Guys/Gals If the readers who are following this story are looking at this story like Hmm this now readable layout wasn't like that before... well I changed it since I got a few complaints, sorry it took so long guys ^^ I've since been spacing out since then yaaay!

Vanitas: Pay attention to your readers idiot

Me: Vani! Why so mean!

Ventus: Disney made him that way

Sora: No way, that was all down to Square Enix (who the author of this fic owns none of it's creations of products...same with Disney)

Me: Gee thanks for rubbing it in...

Roxas: Well we gotta include a disclaimer somewhere

Me: *sighs* Anyway please read on from this chapter it gets better I promise :) And leave me any suggestions or ideas and I will be sure to write your name as a thank you and present it as your original idea, if you choose to share ^^