So this is my first fic I've written in… well, years! I hope you guys love it :] It's AkuRoku and AU. Rated M for language and later chapters. I do not own Kingdom Hearts.

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"I'll miss you!" she screamed as he drove away. He turned around from his seat in the back of the car and looked out the back of the window. A frown grew on his face. Quickly he rolled down his window.

"Xion! I'll come visit! I promise!" he yelled back at her.

"I'll be counting on it, Roxas!" She smiled as he faded into the distance. She sighed and turned to walk home.

Roxas slumped down into the cool leather seat of the car that was now speeding away from his hometown of Travers Town. "Cheer up Roxas.." his mom said from the passenger seat. "You'll love Twilight Town, I promise."

He sighed heavily. "But Xion.."

"You can visit her over breaks sweetie. It's not too far away." she tried to reassure him.

"A hundred miles or so and over the mountains, yea it's not THAT far." he turned to stare out the window. 'Xion..' he thought 'you're my best friend..'

-2 Weeks Later-

"Well Roxas, we're finally all settled in! And just in time for school to start." his dad smiled and patted Roxas on the back.

"Yea, I really like how everything came out," Roxas smiled up at his father. "Especially my room. I love that it's on the perfect side to see the sunset. Thanks for letting me have that room Dad."

"Of course. It's the least we could do since you're being such a trooper," his dad left into the kitchen. Roxas headed up to his new room just in time to see the sun setting.

'I hope I can make friends at my new school. I'm honestly pretty nervous. And being a freshman and all, I hope no one picks on me too much..' he sighed and laid down in his bed. 'New room but same blankets.. It's a nice comforting feeling.' he snuggled up into his blankets. The nice familiar smell hadn't gone away just because he had moved. He liked that it reminded him of his old life, his life in Travers Town, his life with Xion.

He slowly faded off to sleep, thinking about and remembering his old town. He was asleep soundly until his alarm awoke him at 7 A.M. sharp the next morning.

Groggily, he sat up and rubbed his eyes. "Ugnh… Time for school already?" he sighed and kicked his legs over the edge of his bed. He grabbed some clothes and slugged his way into the bathroom. 'Just cause you move, I guess that doesn't mean school starts any later… ugggh' he hurriedly but still quite slowly got ready for the day.

"Bye mom! I'll see you later!"

"Okay sweetie! Good luck at school! Dad and I have to work late, so I'll leave dinner in the fridge. You'll probably be in bed by the time we're back so I'll see you in the morning. Bye!" she blew a kiss at her son as he left the house.

"Pft, I guess just cause you move, you're parents still work a lot too. Nothing changes but places and the faces," he said under his breath.

There it was. Twilight Town High School. Roxas took one deep breath and then walked into the large building with as much confidence as he could muster. "Here I go." Inside the building, there were student all over the place. Girls were squealing about their summers, seniors were chatting about how excited they were about their last year, and then there were the many, and much shorter, freshman. Among them was Roxas. He was staring down at his schedule and school map when he accidentally ran into a tall figure.

"Unf!" he stumbled back. "Oh I'm s-so sorry.." he slightly blushed and turned away.

The taller figure chuckled and turned around. "Hah, don't sweat it, newbie." Roxas looked up at the taller person. He was very slim with a blonde sort of mullet haircut. Roxas nodded and started to walk away. "Good luck!" the guy yelled after him.

'Well at least people don't seem too bad here..' he was no longer visible to the blonde.

"Demyx.."

"Hm?" Answered Demyx.

"That… that boy…"

"Axel really? A freshman?" Demyx rolled his eyes.

"He was so… pretty. His blonde hair and blue eyes. So perfect." Axel's jaw was practically dropped to the floor.

"Well? Go after him then," Demyx said simply.

"Dem, I don't even know if he's gay. I can't just run up to him and grope him" Demyx laughed.

"Why not! I've done it."

"What! God Dem what the fuck?" Axel couldn't help but laugh. "No, I think I'll take my time with this one.. He's different than any of the other guys I've liked."

"Different? How the fuck can you even tell? You didn't even talk to him!"

"I don't know exactly, but… he's different," a smile grew on Axel's lips and he softly bit his bottom one. "You'll help me right Dem?" Demyx sighed. "Demy please!" Axel whined with a pout on his face.

"Ugh fine! Just stop with the pouting!" He rolled his eyes.

"I thought you'd come around," he smirked and Demyx pushed his hand against Axel's face and pushed him away.

"Okay this is it. Room 230," Roxas entered the room of his fourth hour class. It was painting, the only class he was actually excited about. He had found all his other classes successfully and sat quietly through all of the syllabuses and intro crap that has to be done on the first day of school.

"Hello!" said a voice from behind him. There were only a few other people in the room. "You might be Roxas? I haven't seen you around so I'm assuming you're the student that just moved here." Roxas turned to see a muscular man with frosty blonde hair and a thin goatee and mustache.

"Uh, yes sir that's me," Roxas nodded politely.

"Ah, it's nice to see a fresh face," the man smiled kindly. He had a British accent too. "I'm Luxord, your art teacher," he smiled.

"Nice to meet you sir,"

"Please, so formal. Call me Luxord!"

"Hah, Luxord," Roxas smiled. This had been nicest person he had met all day, even including his other teachers. "Thanks. It IS nice to see a fresh face… that isn't so grumpy."

"I'm the cool teacher." he chuckled. "Roxas if you ever need anything, I'll always be here to help. That's what teachers do for their students," Roxas nodded. "I'll see you around, Roxas."

Meeting Luxord made Roxas happier. Even if he was a teacher, it was still nice to see a friendly face and sort of make a new friend.

Just outside the door, Axel and Demyx had been listening in. "So he's new in town? Wonder where he's from," said Axel.

"Well gee, I don't know, maybe you should go ask him," Demyx said bluntly. Axel just rolled his eyes. "C'mon, we have this class. Lucky you, maybe you'll even get a seat by him."

Axel gasped and with no further notice burst into the room. "Hello!" He said loudly to the whole class.

"Oh good, Axel. You're in my class again," said Luxord, slightly sarcastically.

"Of course, bro," tuned in Demyx. "Art's an easy-ass credit!"

"And Demyx," Luxord laughed. "You think you're just here for the easy credit but you have potential. Especially you Axel."

"Picking favorites already Lux? What the fuck?" Said Demyx, putting a hand on his hip.

Roxas just watched the three men rant back and forth. 'it's that senior I bumped into.' Roxas thought.

"Take a seat you two," Luxord said rolling his eyes in a joking manner.

"Where to sit, where to sit," Demyx said in a loud voice with sarcasm that only Axel could catch onto. At which, Axel rolled his eyes. "Oh lookie here. A little freshy! How cuuute!" Demyx said in an overly cutesy voice. "We'll take this one, Luxy!" He laughed and touched Roxas on the shoulder.

"Shut up Dem and sit down." Luxord replied. "And don't break the freshman!" Roxas gulped as Demyx and Axel sat at the table with him. Demyx slightly let Axel have the seat next to his crush, as he took the seat across from them.

"So, what's your name?" Axel asked.

"Uhm.. It's Roxas," he said nervously.

'Roxas… He's perfect.' Axel thought. "So, how's high school treating you so far?" He smiled.

"Blah, blah, blaaaah." Tuned in Demyx. "Axel you're so stupid. Of course it's not going good! He's a little freshman. Get beat up yet?"

"Dem, shut the fuck up." Axel rolled his eyes. "Don't mind him. He's a good guy I promise."

"Um, it's okay, I guess." Roxas said while he fiddled with the hem of his shirt. Axel noticed this cute little habit. "You're a senior?" Axel nodded. "Is this school alright?"

"Yea, it's alright I guess. I mean school sucks in general," he laughed.

"Hah, yea pretty much," Roxas chuckled and looked down at his shirt as he continued to fiddle with it.

"Well, don't be too worried. You have two new friends right here." Axel smiled. At that statement, Roxas's head shot up and he looked at Axel.

"Uhm.. Really? Even though I'm a freshman?"

"I don't believe that freshman are some sort of freaks or whatever it is that people think. I just think like, well we were all freshman at some point y'know?"

"Yea, I know." added some random guy at the next table over.

"Shut up, Rai." said Demyx.

Axel chuckled. "Anyway, yes. Even though you're a freshman. We'd love for you to be friends with us," Axel smiled.

"Yeppers." Added Demyx. "Sorry, I come off strong, but unlike Axel, I still like to tease freshmen just a bit," he stuck his tongue out at Roxas.

"Hah, thanks guys," Roxas smiled happily. 'I made friends and I didn't even do much of anything. Maybe this won't be such a bad town after all.'

Luxord sat at his desk as the rest of the students filled the room. He smiled to see Roxas chatting and laughing along with Axel and Demyx. "I've got hopes for you, kid," he said under his breath.

"So you have our numbers and we have yours. Just hit either of us up if you ever need help or wanna hang, and we'll do the same," said Axel as painting ended and the three of them were leaving the room. Demyx nodded in agreement.

"Hah thanks guys. Well, I see you tomorrow ya?" Asked Roxas.

"Of course, little buddy!" Demyx said as he scruffled Roxas's hair. And with that, they all headed into different directions. Roxas smiling and brimming with new confidence as he proceeded through the rest of his first day.

"Mom! I'm ho-" Roxas hollered but then remembered that nobody was home. "Or never mind.." he threw his backpack to the floor and went to the kitchen to see what she left for dinner. Spaghetti. Well, at least it was his favorite.

He noticed a note on the counter that read:

Roxas,

Your father and I will be gone until Wednesday. I hope your first day at school went great! We love you very much.

-Love,
Mom and Dad

PS. We bought you some sea-salt ice cream

XOXO

"Gone til Wednesday? Of course. Like I said, nothing changes…" He sighed and warmed him some of the dinner his mom had left him. He ate it quickly because he didn't have lunch. The food at the school was too gross looking.

Later, he sat on his bed, watching the sunset. He had a popsicle of sea-salt ice cream. His favorite. "Well, all in all, it wasn't such a bad day." he shrugged. Soon it was dark and he heard thunder in the distance. He smiled as he was starting to doze off. He loved rain.

"Huh? Wha?" He heard his phone ring with a new text message. His hands fumbled around trying to find his small flip phone. It said that it was 1 A.M.

1 New Message - Axel

"Axel?" He hurriedly flipped the phone open and read the message:

Hey sorry it's late.. Um can I come by? If not, that's cool. You're probably sleeping and junk anyway… -Axx

"What? How strange. Well, I should call him." Roxas clicked a few buttons and waited for a ring. "Hey, um Axel?"

"Oh hey Rox." Axel sounded… quiet. "Sorry if I woke you.."

"Nah, it's fine. So, you wanna come over? That's fine. No one's here." Roxas listened closer to the other end of the line. He heard… rain? Was Axel out in this storm? "I'll text you my address."

"Thanks, I'll be over in a few." they hung up. Roxas slid out of bed and slipped on some sweat pants before heading downstairs. 'What could he want so late at night?' Roxas thought. Many thoughts ran through his head as he waited for Axel. Was he okay?

It was cold in the house. The storm brought a chill with it. He ran back up stairs and a grabbed a blanket to wrap himself up in. Sitting on the couch, he wrapped the blankets snug around his body. He loved this blanket. It was so soft. The worn out kind of soft that material gets after a while.

Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. "Axel."

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Sooo yes :] Here's the first chapter! I hope you like it! Sorry if it's a bit slow, but I promise it's about to become a very, very bumpy ride for these two :] Yay for drama! Dun dun dun! :D

As I said before, it's my first fic in years. I've written next to nothing since 2008! Omg. I missed my fangirl obsessions so much! What better way to get back in the game than with some AkuRoku? ;D

Anyway, reviews are a lovely thing and I will give you sea-salt ice cream in return :3 And loves. Lots and lots of loves!

Mwa!