[. The Hitachiin and the Nobody.](OPEN)

[Kaoru Hitachiin]

Kaoru Hitachiin was in the art room after classes had ended for the day. He was working on a painting of him and his twin brother Hikaru. He missed Hikaru..but, being slightly more idependent than his more childish twin, Kaoru could go for certain amounts of time without him. But it had been too long already, and Kaoru was beginning to miss the embrace of his older brother. A sigh escaped him and he put the paintbrush he was using down.

"..Hikaru..where are you.." Kaoru murmured quietly to himself. He shook his head, and stared at the painting, a saddened look appeared on his features, but he began painting again, trying to focus.

[Roxas]

Roxas hated Art.

Well, alright--so he didn't hate it. The concept of art was fine, and being a Nobody he didn't legitimately hate anything, but he'd never been good with a paintbrush or pencil.

He blamed Sora.

This apple looks more like a stupid heart than anything else, what the hell... He growled at his own hand. How could he have the dexterity to wield two Keyblades but lack the coordination to replicate the fruit he was supposed to be drawing? And why was it always fruit? Guess it's better than Axel volunteering to be a nude model... And Roxas made a mental note not to mention it to his redheaded best friend because he would pull something like that, wouldn't he. Stupid Axel.

He looked up for a moment, noticing the class filtering out, but he wasn't anywhere near done with this thing and he could afford to stick around a while and try to finish. At least there were plenty of colored pencils here and he wouldn't be stuck trying to borrow one like earlier. Apparently no one on his dorm hall had the foresight to bring art supplies. He dimly wished Naminé were around...

Roxas managed to get absorbed in the grapes he was working on, actually--he seemed to be doing pretty well--to the point that when he looked up and saw someone else in the room he nearly dropped the sketchpad. It was a redheaded someone, too, and for a second he thought it was Axel but then he realized it wasn't his style. The stranger was working on a painting of what looked like a pair of himself, and Roxas was struck by a sense of deja vu.

Is this person...a Nobody? Maybe that's his other... He moved a little closer, not exactly trying to peek over the stranger's shoulder but almost too interested not to.

[Kaoru Hitachiin]

Feeling eyes upon him, Kaoru stopped for a moment, and dipped the paintbrush in the glass container of water. Partially turning he blinked at a blonde haired-blue eyed kid watching him. Well, this was odd,unused to attention, unless Hikaru around, Kaoru's golden eyes looked at Roxas almost curiously. "Can I help you?" He asked in his soft voice. This kid, almost looked like Hunny-sempai in a way, but was taller, and didn't have the big brown eyes that Hunny had. Kaoru's left eyebrow rose for a moment, but then returned to it's natural state. "..I'm painting my twin and myself" He explained, seeing the blonde's blue eyes on his painting.

[kaede]

Kaede had chosen a seat in the back corner of the room. Some students were leaving but she had to finish up some things. But Kaede needed a certain color that was not near her table. She noticed a couple of other students still in the room as well and decided to ask one of them. One was blond and the other a red-head. Kaede went with the blond. She pointed at a pale blue colored pencil that was rolling around the area. "Excuse me, but may I use this?"

She flashed her eyes down at the blond's artwork and noticed the apple/heart. "If you want it to look less like a heart, you could be lazy and cover it with another fruit or make more of a rounded square shape."

Ah... Kaede drew back quickly realizing what she said. "Sorry..."

[Roxas]

The redhead noticed him anyway, as Roxas probably should have figured, and he shrank back a bit. "Uh, oh. Sorry. I thought..." Better not to say what he thought. "That's really good, though," he admitted, shoving his hands in his pockets and idly toying with the blue bauble in his left one. "How long've you been drawing?"

The question from his side distracted him. "Oh--sure," he said right away, even though he knew he'd planned to use that one for the bowl. He could make it green instead, though, and to be honest he didn't care as long as he got the grade.

If you want it to look less like a heart, you could be lazy and cover it with another fruit or make more of a rounded square shape."

Even though she apologized for that one, Roxas's expression became a bit fixed. Great. I knew it sucked, but... "Yeah it's...no big deal. I'll try that, though. Thanks."

[kaede]

Kaede watched his face. "I'm sorry if you took that in a bad way." She only meant to say that in case it might boost his grade. "Ah, thank you," she said and took the colored pencil. "I'll only need it for a few seconds."

She took it back to her seat and drew what she needed to. To fill in the lines, Kaede would use a light gray. With the borrowed pencil no longer necessary, she returned it. "Thank you again."

Her picture was nothing short of boring, at least in her opinion. It was a simple piece of work. The artwork was basically comprised of many puffballs that looked somewhat like clouds or cotton balls. Kaede took the the gray pencil and held it near the tip and filled in the newly drawn pale blue lines. She darkened the undersides and put the pencil down. How boring... Kaede commented on her work in her head as she reviewed it. What could she add?

[loopy]

It was the first few days the two had come here. Today was devoted to exploring the school and adapt to new surroundings. First up was the Art Class. The classes had ended for the day, but that was fine with them. Red and Blue appeared in the doorway and stepped in, right leg lifted with the other's left and vise versa. Red and blue eyes blinked at the same time as they took the room in.

"This room is-"
"Stangely unstrange."

The twins swirled around slowly back-to-back and observed some other students still here. Remembering where they were, the two bowed.

"Forgive us-"
"For disturbing you." Red and Blue straightened up from their previous position. "Please accept our apologies." They placed their palms together as they stood side-by-side.