Title: Nobody

By: the critical blow

Genre: General/Romance/AU

Crossovers: not sure at the moment, possible later

Dislcaimer: I don't own KH... ;

Warnings: AU. m+m. Not MxM. m+m. OOCness. Spelling errors. Did I mention AU?

Summary: Axel was just a normal orphaned high school attending teenager with Moomba hair. He had a job, an adopted family, decent grades... Normal teen. One day while delivering a cake to a customer he find a boy half-dead in the alleyway. And now nothing seems normal. A+S

A/N: My try at something random. Fic based off some pics of Sora I drew and an idea that popped into my head a while ago. Chapters will be relatively short. ; Just an experiment please R&R if you like. XD

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Chapter 1: Rainy Day Blues

It was cold.

The pavement was slick and damp that depressing evening. Everyone was indoors and those that weren't with the privekedge of owning a car were in said automobile. And those that didn't have an automobile had an umbrella.

But he didn't.

Days like these usually merited holidays to those working, it was a custom in Twilight Town, seeing as the rainy days were thought to be by some days of mourning. Rain was once considered to be tears fallen from heaven. A sign an angel had fallen or died. Or at least that was what some people said. Namine was one of those people. Zexion believed it as well much to everyone elses surprise as he didn't seem like the religious sort. Axel might have said he believed it to if it would get him the day off.

But since it didn't he could have cared less about the silly superstition. He'd never seen any proof that it was true. The only other reason he could think of to get rainy days off was because it drew them out. And they were dangerous. The heartless had always been a problem here in Twilight Town, feeding off the hearts of those around them, and would attack without warning. Young and old. Popular and nerd. Man, woman or child. It didn't matter to them. They tended to stay away in the day time when the sun was out, Axel figured they sun burned easily, but as soon as the sun sank or dissapeared behind dark clouds they would surface. Not all heartless were dangerous but most were so he had to be extremely careful. That's why he had the 'family pet' tagging along.

"Milo, get back here!" The red head yelled after the retreating form of the odd looking white creature Lexaeus had saved from the pound and so lovingly named Milo. At first glance it looked like some sort of white, grey, and blue heartless but Vexen had proven it to be a close relative of the heartless: a dusk. Heartless and Dusk repelled eachother and often got into terriroty fights. Dusk had a better chance of coming out on top. So Lexaeus had been allowed to keep his beloved pet so long as he lent it to the other members of the household when they went out at night or on rainy days.

It could speak garbled english but never hand anything intellegent to say. The thing was about as smart as a dog, though Zexion suspected it of knowing more than it let on. But at the moment it was running around on it's two legs splashing around in the puddles, taking pleasure in tossing water everywhere. Especialy all over Axel's new rain coat. The dusk continued to run a muck despite Axel's attempt to call it back. Meh. It would come back when it was ready to. Or at least when it got hungry enough.

He was supposed to be delivering a cake for his boss and guardian, Vexen, who ran a bakery/cafe at the other end of town. Axel was an orphan you see, his parent's had died when he was 6. They'd been killed in a major car accident along with the parents of several other children. Zexion was one of those children. They'd been shipped off to an orphanage the next day where they stayed for about 2 months trying to keep from getting pummled and picked on by the other occupants before Vexen came and adopted them and another boy called Demyx. Marluxia had already been staying at Vexen's before they'd come to live with him and Larxene and Namine came later. Lexaeus was just rented a room in their house and happened to help Vexen run the shop. Namine said Vexen save them...

Axel just said he adopted them to keep from hiring workers.

He was your average teenager. He went to high school, kept a B average, and a job. He had sea greenish hued eyes and a tattoo on his left cheek right beneath his eye. He had firey red hair and he was very slim. Marluxia liked to joke and call him an anerexic moomba. He wore mainly black. Not too popular but popular enough to get by.

Yes.

Average 18 year old senior in high school.

Or at least he liked to think so.

An omnious rumble of thunder snapped his attention to the here and now, away from Milo, and back on to his job. He needed to deliver this cake before the rain started up again. Customers didn't feel obligated to pay for a soggy cake. Not to mention he didn't want a heartless to show up when that worthless dusk was off playing in the puddles. Wait. No it wasn't. Oh well, it'd come when he started up the van.

'718. 719. 720. 721. 722... Here we are. 723.' Axel was thankful when he finally came across the correct house number and stepped up to the door ringing the bell once. Waiting patiently for some one to answer he took a look around. This place... looked strangely familiar but he couldn't quite put his finger on where he'd seem it from. It had officially started drizziling. After a moment or so Axel realized that no one was coming to answer it. Groaning to himself he tucked the white cake box beneath his coat and rang the doorbell again. Still no one came to the door.

By his seventh ring some one finally answered the door. And when he saw who it was he had to fight to supress a groan.

A familiar spikey haired blonde opened the door looking as if he had just gotten out of bed. He stared at Axel with a raised brow for a minute or two before he put two and two together and a look of realization crossed his face. Or something along those lines anyway.

"I have you for homeroom... Axel right?" He asked still a little unsure of who he was talking to.

"Yep." Axel replied in a courtiously lazy drawl. They had homeroom together but didn't really talk. Two totally different social groups. He was surprised the blonde had even remembered his name.

"What are you doing here?" Cloud asked suspiciously. Axel removed the box from his coat. Cloud read the lettering from where he stood and whirled around beaming.

"Hey Squall! The Chocolate Cake I ordered is here!" Cloud yelled. A grunt was his only response as a shaggy brown haired teen appeared next to him moments later.

"My name is Leon, Cloud. Leon. Not Squall." He grumbled. Then he noticed Axel and gave him a good natured glare. Now Leon knew Axel, they'd been partnered together for a science project back in junior year. They'd made an A on the project but really hadn't been on the most friendly terms. More like nuetral.

"You the guy from the bakery?" He asked in a less than amiable tone. Axel nodded as Cloud snatched the box away from him and rushed inside the house. Axel and Leon watched him with amused expression before Axel handed him the signature form. Leon signed it quickly and the money owed for the cake. Axel took both and bowed.

"Thank you for choosing Oblivion Bakery." He said. Leon smirked and shook his head before closing the door. Axel groaned. Leon knew where he worked now. Soon the whole school would. Meaning the bakery would be getting more buisness, a good thing, but bad for him as he'd have to see more of his class mates now.

And more home deliveries.

Not his idea of fun.

Wait... Since whne did Cloud stay over at Leon's? Maybe they were having a sleep over? Yeah right. And maybe Zexion played with dolls. He chuckled at the thought of Zexion having a tea party with Namine and some of her old dolls but frowned when he saw Milo standing in front of him... covered in mud. Mud the damned thing would probably drag all throughout the interior of the van and all over the carpet.

Messes he'd have to clean up.

"Milo... What the bloody hell have you been doing?" Axel hissed. The dusk seemed to notice his building rage as it backed up a few steps but quickly forgot it and grinned, grabbing the front of his coat.

"Xle! Xle!" It spoke it it's garbled tones. It still couldn't pronounce his name worthless thing. Axle removed it's muddy hand from his coat and did his best to ignore it walking back toward the delivery truck. But a few steps later it was clutching his coat tighter than before attempting to drag him backwards. Axel gave him a good glare and it let go. The drizzle had turned into a light rain.

"Xle! Xle! Come. Oy!" Milo said. Axel raised a brow, un able to truly comprehend what it was saying. Milo growled in frustration and jumped at the human knocking them both into the muddy freezing ground. Axel yelped as he connected with the freezing pavement and it took him a few moment to realize what had just happened.

"Milo..." Axel almost seemed to pur.

"Yes?" It asked looking at him from it's spot on his chest. At least it could say that right.

"You."

"Yes?"

"Are."

"Yes?"

"DEAD!"Axel yelled reaching for it hoping to strangle it with his bare hands. Milo was obviously smarter than he looked and dodged his grasp and ran toward the alley yelping all the way. Axel leaped to his feet just thankful to have the weight off his chest but fury burned at the edges of his mind clouding his common sense to just leave the damned dusk here to die.

"I'm gonna kill you!" Axel yelled and chased after it.

'It was here just a moment ago... Where could that damned dusk have gotten to?' He wondered to himself as he entered the alley way.

"Xle! Xle! Come! Oy! Oy!" Milo called over to him from the dead end of the alley way. Axel walked over at a rapid trot ready to strangle the beast.

"Ai! Ai! Xle! Hurts!" Milo screeched as Axel grabbed it by the scruff of its neck.

"It damn well better hurt!" Axel snapped but his glare turned to a look of confussion as Milo started grinning at him.

"What? I chase you with the threat of death and all you can do is say ouch once before you start grinning at me?" Axel could feel his eye twitching. Milo nodded and pointed toward a cluster of trash cans and a dumpster. Axel's brow never lowered itself.

"Ook. Oy." It said. He still didn't understand what the hell it was talking about, probably a dead rat it had found, and sighed in resignation.

'Might as well humor it.' He sighed mentally and peeked around the trash cans. What he saw however was not a dead rat and shocked him so deeply that he dropped the dusk.

"Ch." It said in pain before standing and walked over grinning. There, laying in a heap on the floor, was a young brunette boy probably no older than 14.

Naked.

But that wasn't what held Axel's attention, it was the large pair of wings jutting from his back. Axel didn't think he could stop his eye from twitching now even if he wanted to.

There was a bloody angel in the alley way.

"Xle." Milo said tugging on the teen sleeve.

"Hn?" Axel asked still in shock.

"I say ch 2 times efor I grinned."

Seconds later there was a loud screech of pain which was then muffled by the now pouring rain.

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Closing notes: I'll end it there. Please tell me what you think but no flames. No 'How can you pair Axel and Sora together!'s either. XD I'll try to finish chapter two in a timely order. X3

-the critical blow