For a moment the figure stood in the sunlight at the top of the hill looking strangely heroic-

"Maybe it's not him…"

-Then he fell flat on his face-

"Nevermind that's gotta be Axel."

-When he got up he started down the hill and for about five seconds-

"Are you sure? He looks pretty good now…"

-And promptly tripped on what appeared to be air-

"Nevermind that's definetly him."

-Then he began rolling down the hill on his side-

"That's definetly Axel."

"Riku are you okay?"

Everyone turned to Riku whose eye was twitching horribly. Kairi patted him on the shoulder sympathetically, "Don't worry about it Riku, I know what you're going through… My boyfriend is just as incompetent at yours…"

Sora, Kairi, Roxas, Axel and Riku had decided to spend the day at a ski resort. At the moment Sora, Kairi, Roxas and Riku were sipping hot chocolate inside.

"You know I'm right here," mumbled Sora looking slightly put out.

"Sorry Sora-kins but it's true."

"…Whatever."

"You've been hanging around Leon way too much," said Riku, then, "Oh God! What's he doing now?!"

After trying valiantly to stand up Axel had wobbled for a moment before…

THUMP!!!

And then he began falling head over heels down the hill.

The four friends sitting inside the lodge watched his progress emotionlessly, every now and then wincing whenever Axel made a particularly stupendous fall. By the time Axel reached the bottom of the hill battered and bruised, Kairi was outside recording the whole thing on her camera phone and cackling madly. Inside the café Roxas and Sora were banging their fists on the table, laughing so hard they threatened to topple over.

Riku on the other hand had long since stopped laughing when the idea that Axel could possibly get hurt (no duh) from falling down the hill occurred to him. Instead he was standing next to Kairi outside wringing his hands in worry having long since reduced his nails to chewed stubs.

Axel made his spectacular finish by seemingly flying headfirst into a rack of poles used for skiers. Kairi's laughter reached the point of howling and Riku hurried forward to disentangle his boyfriend from the mess of ski sticks.

Inside Roxas and Sora were talking animatedly about what they'd just seen when the door to the cabin opened…

And in stepped Axel followed by a nervous Riku ("Are you sure you haven't broken anything?") and a crying Kairi ("Oh God Axel… You made my year! I-… It's killing me! I can't breathe!").

For a moment there was silence; during which everyone stared at Axel whose hair was oddly bent and deformed, which had the effect of making him look strangely mad and insane.

"That…" the red head stopped and took a deep breathe, "That was… That was so FREAKING AWESOME!"

Roxas and Sora choked on their drinks and Kairi doubled over laughing. Riku just fainted on the spot.

"Uh, Riku? What's wrong with him?" asked Axel eyeing his lover strangely.

"I think you just gave him an anxiety attack," said Kairi taking Riku's rapid pulse, "he should wake up soon…"

"Y'know Axel," said Sora thoughtfully, "I've noticed an increase in Riku's anxiety attacks lately… I think it's because you two are going out."

"Nah, he's always been this stressed," said Axel nudging Riku's lifeless body with his foot a little.

"Then why do you date him?" asked Roxas with raised brows.

"Cause he's funny that way," said Axel cheerfully, "I like messing with him just to seem him freak out like this… And all that extra tension he has calls for a lot of … release… at night."

"Just don't give him a heart attack," said Kairi dryly.

Down on the floor Riku stirred a little before his eyes fluttered to life. Jumping to his feet he wordlessly began patting Axel down and checking for broken bones. The rest of them watched his progress, each with their own amused faces.

"Hm…" said Riku thoughtfully as he hastily began straightening Axel's clothing, "nothing's broken, but we'll have to check for cuts and bruises."

"You wake up and the first thing you do is start pampering him?" asked Sora in disbelief at his best friend's treatment towards his boyfriend, "I wish I had you as a girlfriend…" He cast a wary glance to Kairi who thumped him on the arm roughly, "Ouch!"

"Well," said Axel stretching, and completely ignoring Riku who was still flittering around him checking for injuries and every now and then muttering to himself, "I'm gonna head back out to the lifts now!"

Riku looked up at Axel and narrowed his eyes, "Oh no you're not mister! You're going to kill yourself!"

"Then how 'bout you come up with me?" asked Axel grabbing Riku's arm.

"No way no how," said Riku pulling his arm out of Axel's grip and shaking his head fervently, "you're not leaving this cabin! Not if I can help it!"

"Is that so?" asked Axel, raising one of his eyebrows, "Well… I always have liked a challenge…"

Riku spent the rest of that afternoon, following Axel down all of the slopes while preaching the redhead on the snowboarding laws of safety. Axel, of course, ignored all of them claiming that it was much more fun just going down without worrying about "life and limb and all that crap."

By the time the five friends were piled into Roxas's van Riku was leaning against Axel sound asleep. Obviously worn out from his little day's adventure.

Author's Note: So about a few months ago my class went on a ski trip. During the trip a lot of stuff happened. Anyways this story is just going to be a collection of one-shots based on my time at the ski resort. I'll write them when I'm bored in MY SPARE TIME. Note: That means I won't actually make an effort to update super-fast 'kay? I'm just doing it for fun. And besides this is a collection of one-shots so it's not like you'll all be dying to see what happens next.

Please review, it's only polite.

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