This is for Darkenglishrose as she turned to me one day and said, "At the beginning of fics, Roxas always thinks Axel is an asshole. I'd love to see one where HE has to do the chasing" so, here it is!

Warnings: Language and Akuroku... more just Roku in this chap but I'm working on it.

The one where Roxas does the chasing

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"Tonight on the show we have a special guest singer-"

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"And then we add the salmon to the pan-"

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Bang! "Take that!" –

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"But Tiffany! You said you loved me, why where you at the other frat house?"

"Why is late night TV so crap?" Roxas sighed as he hit the off button on the remote and the screen went black with a small, disappointed sound. It was late, very late. Which meant Sora was late, very late. He had decided to wait up for his twin to return from his 'date' with Riku. Roxas didn't trust the silver-haired boy as far as he could throw him, and although Roxas was quite strong, Riku was a whole lot bigger than him.

Suddenly the he heard keys scratch around the lock, he got up and went to the living room door where he could see the hallway. Sure enough, there was Sora trying to take off his shoes as quiet as he can "You know, the eleven on the clock is the one with the double number one right? Not the one by itself" The blonde said haughtily. Sora looked up, confused for a second as to where the voice was coming from, then came the patented Sora Grin, like he could get away with anything.

"Sorry! I lost track of time"

"Yeah, I bet you did. I'm going to bed" Roxas turned to go up the stairs

"Don't you want to hear about my date?" Sora was trotting after him, far too happy for that early in the morning

"Not particularly, no"

"Aw! Come on, why not?"

"I don't want to hear about your date with Riiiiiikuuuuuu" said Roxas, imitating his brother whilst climbing the stairs

"Stop doing that! I do not sound like that!"

"Well I don't want to hear about your date"

"Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyy?"

"See," Roxas was smugly standing in the doorway to his bedroom, "You do sound like that. Night" then he smiled and shut the door.

"Roxas! You're so annoying!!"

From the other side of the door Roxas heard Sora stomp off to his room and slam his door, no doubt pulling his cell phone out of his pocket and dialling Riku's number before he even got over the threshold. Roxas sighed; at least he knew he was safe. He'd only met Riku a few times and so wasn't sure what the taller boy was capable of. The blonde slumped down onto his bed with his arm over his eyes. Why was his twin so infatuated with the 'bad boy' type? Sora had been very open about his sexuality from the beginning, he was fine with his choice of lifestyle, it was his choice of men he worried about.

Roxas regretted dumping himself on his bed fully clothed as he woke up like that the next morning. After undressing, showering and redressing he went down to the kitchen to make their breakfast. The Twins' parents worked abroad and so they were left to their own devices most of the time, Roxas had taken over the role as parent as he was by far the more mature of the two. This left him open to Sora's teasing as he was "Fifteen going on Fifty" which he annoyingly never had a witty retort to.

"G'Morning!!" Sora cheered as he came down the stairs and launched straight into the cereal that Roxas had poured out for him.

"How are you so happy all the time? Seriously, do you eat pep pills for snacks or something?" Roxas was chugging down his coffee trying to feel human at eight in the morning.

"What's wrong with being happy?" He'd finished his cereal now and was onto his juice, orange, no pulp of course.

"It's annoying this early"

"You say it's annoying all the time"

Roxas grunted in reply, it was then Sora mumbled into his glass "S'better than being all emo like you"

"What?"

"Nothing!" The brunette promptly ran off to get his books for the day, leaving Roxas with the dishes who practically threw them in the dishwasher, grumbling about how can someone so stupid and childish be related to him, let alone his twin.

"That's it," Roxas thought, bad mood looming "I'm getting my grump on today"

Luckily Bastion High was only a short walk from their house, as soon as the two boys entered the gate Sora spotted Riku by some of the older boys and ran over to him. Riku pulled Sora into his arms and planted a firm kiss directly on his lips. Sora looked blissful, Roxas felt slightly ill. Fortunately for him he heard his name being called, when he looked he saw Hayner waving wildly at him with Pence and Olette in tow.

"Hey guys," he said walking over

"Hi Roxas" smiled Olette, Pence nodded his welcome and Hayner just grabbed him from behind.

"Hey Roxas! Guess what?"

"Erm.. What?"

"We heard something about Seifer you might like to know!" Hayner sang

"Oh really?" Roxas grinned, Seifer and his gang hadn't got along with Roxas and his friends since they were toddlers, the only change was that their fights were no longer over the sandbox but had escalated to more important things; like who gets to go to their favourite arcade.

Hayner was practically dancing "Seifer got strung up by Cloud!"

"What!" Roxas laughed "Where? When? Why did we miss it?"

Hayner was too busy cackling from amusement so Pence took up the story "He was lurking around Leon's house and Cloud found him"

Roxas stopped laughing, "What was he doing creeping around Leon's?"

Pence shrugged "Nobody knows why. He wont tell anyone either. Everyone knows about it though, you can't practically stalk a senior without it getting spread around"

The bell cut their conversation short and they all went to class, Hayner still chuckling to himself. The teacher had already started when Sora and Riku walked in late, the former looking flustered and the latter, smug. Roxas rolled his eyes and returned to his English. This was until a note rudely hit his ear and dropped itself in the way of his pen. He looked across the aisle and saw Hayner giving him a thumbs up, subtle as always. Roxas looked at the scrap of paper in front of him "Do you want to come to Port Royal tonight?" he eyed his friend and scribbled back

"Got to make dinner" when Hayner read this he clicked his tongue in annoyance.

What Roxas got back was "Let his boyfriend baby-sit him. He can cope without you for one night" he looked over at Riku and Sora. They were across the classroom and Riku was poking the back of Sora's leg with his own every now and again, causing the smaller boy to giggle. Roxas sighed, glanced down to the pen-covered scrap then he wrote on it. "Yeah. Ok."

Port Royal was the local hang out for the teenagers of Radiant Garden; it was an arcade that was conveniently placed next to a fast food hut and a smoothie bar and so fulfilled all adolescent needs. Atop of the large double doors to enter the arcade was a replica treasure chest filled with gold, Roxas could never tell what type of money it was but the skeletal face that over looked the chest seemed to be Aztec. As he and the others walked up to the arcade they could see that it was busy as usual, the owner was standing outside greeting his favourite customers "Ah! Hayner and friends! Hello!"

"Hi Luxord!" Olette beamed. The tall blonde man had always caught her eye, Roxas assumed it was something to do with the immaculately kept goatee and the way he always looked mischievous.

"Why, if it isn't my little lady!" Needless to say, Luxord played up to any crushes he found out about, besotted girls were paying customers after all. "You're favourite game is free" He winked and Olette giggled and scurried inside to her DDR game. The boys followed her in, inside Port Royal was huge and it contained every arcade game under the sun. There was something for everyone, Olette had her DDR, there was an RPG for Pence and Hayner and Roxas enjoyed the racing games. In Port Royal you can race anything, there was a skiing machine, cars, spaceships, you can even race logs down a river but that one wasn't quite as fun. Their favourite of course, was the motorbike race games as you actually got to sit on a model bike and steer by leaning from side to side. Upon entering, the gang split up as they usually did and Roxas and Hayner headed over to the best racing game: 'Ducati World Series', the pair had spent so much money playing this game that together, they probably could have bought the actual motorbike.

However, when they got to the game it was already being played by some older boys "Oh no, we got beat to it" Roxas complained, Hayner also looked put down until suddenly his face lit up "Roxas! Look at that guy's score!" Roxas managed to peer between the heads of the other boys to look at the screen of the one currently playing. It was the best score he'd ever seen. "Woah" The bike was weaving in and out of the others, taking the corners perfectly and all at high speed. The two young boys tried to see who it was driving the bike but all they could see was a thin body in black jeans and a black jacket, his head was blocked by other bodies and that he was lying low on the bike's seat. When the game ended the expected over exuberant music blared and words "High Score!" flashed, all the boys that had gathered around the game cheered and the mob closed in to pat the talented boy on the back. It was only when he straightened up that Roxas finally saw his face.

Flame red hair emerged from the crowd, it had been spiked as far upwards as it would allow and framed a handsome, smiling face with two small upturned tear tattoos. The face turned towards Roxas and he found two shocking green eyes staring back into his own. The older boy was tall and lean, his clothes hugged him in all the right places and he practically glowed with an aura of confidence. Roxas said the only thing that was in his head "Wow"

"Yeah! Wow! You said it Roxas!" yelled Hayner.

Roxas was jolted out of his stupor "W-What?"

"His score! It was amazing! I bet even Luxord has never scored that high on anything before!"

"Y-yeah," Roxas blushed "The score." He couldn't take his eyes of the redhead "Who is he?"

Hayner shrugged "I've no clue, oh hey!" Pence and Olette had joined them.

"What's all the fuss?" The girl asked, Hayner pointed at the game screen, which was still happily singing out about its new winner. Olette rolled her eyes "Boys"

Pence looked over to the boy who was being handed a victory smoothie by one of his friends "Oh, I've seen that guy before"

"You have? Who is he?" Roxas tried not to sound as eager as he felt

"I think his name's Axel, he keeps beating all the top scores on the games. Luxord doesn't usually let him in here, he must have slipped past him" It would seem that Luxord wasn't greeting all his favourite customers at the entrance; he was keeping all the players that could defeat his scores, out. "He goes to our school"

"Really? I've never seen him" Hayner was putting his coins into the machine to have a go himself.

"He stays round the back of the school, when he actually shows up, other than that I heard everyone knows him because he shows up to all the parties the seniors have" Pence said as Hayner threw him his jacket to hold.

He steadied himself on the bike "I'm sure I can beat that score" Fifteen tries and one empty wallet later they decided to go home.

When Roxas got home Sora was sitting on the sofa watching TV, snuggled up to Riku with a content look on his face. Upon hearing the door the couple turned to face him "Hi Roxas! How was your evening?" Sora grinned

Riku just said "Hey"

Roxas dumped his jacket on the nearby chair and sat down in it "Was cool. Some guy got an awesome score on Ducati World Series and Hayner spent the rest of the night trying to beat it."

Riku laughed, "I'm sure he was successful. Who was the guy with the score?" the silver haired boy knew everyone that was worth knowing and so a feat of arcade amazement interested him

Roxas remembered the striking boy with the green eyes and his mouth went dry "Erm, Axel or something. Face tattoos, red hair."

"Yeah sure, I know him. He's friends with Cloud, they both work in that bike shop on weekends"

Sora faced his boyfriend "He really had tattoos on his face?"

"Yeah" The two then struck up a conversation about tattoos and where it's cool to have them. Roxas left them to it and went up to bed.

He remembered to get undressed before falling into bed this time. As his head hit the pillow he found that he couldn't sleep. Flashes of crimson kept appearing behind his eyes. Then just as Roxas was about to fall asleep he saw his face again. The ivory, unblemished skin, the red wisps dancing about his cheekbones, dazzling eyes and that smile, one side quirking upwards towards his cheek; promising mischief. Roxas's eyes flew open. "What on earth am I thinking? Why can't I get this guy out of my head? Sure, he's good looking but he's just some random guy, I know nothing about him, he could be one of those gloriously pretty people who are rotten on the inside" He angrily turned himself over, tangling up in the duvet he tried to force all thoughts of the older boy out of his mind. Eventually Roxas fell asleep but his subconscious still got the better of him.

Roxas was familiar with his 'Dream World' his dreams where frequently in the same place. A psychologist would probably have something to say about that but Roxas had grown to take comfort in it. There were never any nasty surprises, just a good night's sleep after an unconscious adventure. Tonight, however, was slightly different. Off to the side of his usual village-esque dream world was a patch of woodland, Dream Roxas wandered over to it, intrigued. He entered into the woods and after a short time he had managed to get well and truly lost. Dream Roxas, obviously unaware that he was a figment of the imagination, thought, "How am I going to get home? Mom's waiting for me" Then, as always when something starts to go wrong in dreams or dramas, it started to rain. The rain turned heavy and Roxas could hear thunder in the distance, he started to run. He had no idea where he was going and ultimately the wet ground caused him to lose his footing and tumble into a ditch. It wasn't that deep but the rain made the walls of the ditch far to slippery to climb, Roxas was distraught, if the rain carried on he may drown. He tried to use sticks he found to climb up the side but to no avail, it was then, just when he was giving up hope that he heard a horse whinny. He looked up and saw a white stallion, the rider in a black cloak with silver around the neck, extended his ivory hand to Roxas. The boy took it, it felt warm against his cold skin and he was pulled up into strong arms. His blue eyes looked up into the face of the rider that was obscured by the cloak's hood "Thank you" He said. The rider moved to pull his hood down, the black material moved off his forehead and-

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Roxas groaned and shut his alarm clock off. Still tangled in his duvet he mentally cursed himself "Stupid girly dreams" then he got up to get ready for school.

At lunch Roxas was sitting alone at his usual table, Pence and Olette had club activities and Hayner had to stay late to clean the classroom as punishment for falling asleep during a history lesson. Munching on his 'nutritious' school meal he idly let his eyes wander the room; it was then that another flash of crimson appeared in the corner of his eye. Roxas started and turned his head, sure enough, Axel was sauntering across the lunch hall, the blonde boy couldn't help but notice the badges that he had pinned to the back of his jeans. As if Axel wanted everyone to look at his rear. "Why wouldn't he? It's nice" thought Roxas, still unable to remove his gaze from the decorated behind "Wait, What?" he felt himself blush horrifically. Unfortunately for Roxas, Hayner chose that moment to finish his class duties and join him. He did the only thing he could think of and shoved a large spoonful of mashed potato into his mouth. As Roxas thought, it was scolding hot and he flailed around as his tongue burned, turning his face even redder than it was previously and successfully covering his blush.

Hayner sat down next to Roxas as he finally swallowed the molten potato "Hey, sorry I'm late" he grinned.

"No worries," Roxas gasped, he then took a drink from his milkshake "you'd better go and get some food whilst there's still some left"

"Oh yeah, thanks" with that Hayner ran off to join the line to the lunch lady's window. Roxas found himself searching for Axel in the crowded room. He was confused as to why he was so willing to seek out the handsome boy but his body seemed to be doing whatever it wanted and Roxas didn't complain. Axel had invited himself onto Cloud and Leon's table; the two seniors moved up to let him in. Their friend Yuffie was ecstatically acting out some form of elaborate tale and whilst Cloud looked disinterested, Axel was listening intently. His focus was completely on the girl whereas Roxas's focus was completely on Axel. He couldn't stop staring at him, how his slender arm lifted his drink to his lips, all the time his emerald eyes never leaving Yuffie as she told her story. Roxas was jolted out of his daze by Hayner's tray hitting the table "Hey, what'cha staring at?"

"Huh? Oh, nothing. Just spaced out" What on earth had he been thinking?

Roxas was mentally scolding himself as Seifer strode over angrily "what do you think you're doing?"

"What?" Roxas looked at the angry boy's face, bewildered

"What are you doing just sitting there staring at Leon?"

"I wasn't. I-" What would he tell Seifer exactly? That he wasn't staring at Leon but Axel instead? "I-"

"Oh shut up Stalker, do you want to get beat up by Cloud again?" Hayner sneered. Seifer's eyes widened and he turned pink. He mumbled something about getting Hayner back and rushed back to his table.

Hayner stuffed himself with his chocolate brownie "What was all that about?"

Roxas could feel a blush coming on again but Hayner jumped in before he could answer "I mean, going all crazy on you just because he thought you were looking at Leon. You'd spaced out, like you knew where you were looking and like it's his problem who looks at Leon. Freak" Roxas was thankful his best friend wasn't the brightest crayon in the box and didn't think that Roxas could have been ogling someone else.

When they finished their lunch and stacked their trays Roxas and Hayner walked around the school grounds for a while, not long later, Olette and Pence joined them. The group killed time by talking about random things like TV, siblings and games. The problem about having such a small school was that it didn't take very long to walk around it and it also meant that no matter how hard you tried; you were going to run into people along the way. On their third trip around the grounds they came across Cloud fiddling with his motorbike. "Hey Cloud," said Hayner, "Where's Leon?"

Cloud didn't look up from his bike chasse "Seeing a teacher about an essay"

It was then that an engine revving was heard and another bike sped into view, skidding to a halt near the group "Hey Cloud! You fixed her up great!" the helmeted rider yelled, readjusting the silver pendent around his black leather jacket.

"I know that voice" Roxas thought

"You barely did anything to her either" The rider dismounted, Roxas could see jeans with badges on the rear pocket, the helmet was removed and sure enough, it was Axel that had been straddling the bike. Roxas looked at the machine, across the body where the words 'White Stallion' with a rearing white horse emblazoned on the side.

"Oh you have got to be shitting me"

As usual classes were uneventful. Although Roxas couldn't stop thinking about his dream nor the disturbing parallels that occurred through the day, which meant he had been quite distracted. So much so that when he started to walk home after school he didn't even notice that his brother had appeared until Sora practically jumped on him. "Wow, you sure were spaced then"

Roxas grumbled something about a long day

Sora fell instep with him "Hey! Did you hear about Seifer?" Roxas nodded and his brother laughed, "Riku thought it was the funniest thing! He was pretending to stalk Leon in the lunch line, it was brilliant!"

"Riku, Riku, Riku. Is that all he thinks about now?" Roxas thought "And I bet Cloud didn't think it was that funny" Roxas's mind had a horrible habit of making him think things by association because he thought of Leon, he thought of Cloud and thus he thought of motorbikes which brought him back to Axel. Upon thinking of Axel, Roxas blushed remembering his dream and how Axel's leather jacket clung to his chest and shoulders. "Come to think of it he likes clingy clothes"

"What's that Roxas?"

"Huh?" Sora was looking at him quizzically

"You said something about clingy clothes"

"I did?" He was definitely red now. Roxas tried to save face by laughing it off, running his hand through his hair "Sorry, asleep on my feet!"

They arrived home and Roxas went to the bathroom to wash his burning face. "Why do I keep thinking these things?" He asked his mirror self. He figured if his reflection could move of it's own accord then it would just shrug at him, clueless. He walked back down to the kitchen where Sora was raiding the freezer. Roxas was pleasantly surprised with a sea-salt ice cream "Oh, thanks"

"So," Sora lent back on the kitchen counter "What it is?"

Roxas had been devouring his ice cream and looked up "What's what?"

"Something's been bugging you"

"What makes you say that?"

Sora grinned, "It's a twin thing" Roxas rolled his eyes. It was only ever his brother that got the 'twin thing' and never himself. Not that he ever really needed it since Sora wore his heart on his sleeve and happily showed it to anyone he came across.

Roxas sighed and staring at his starting-to-melt-ice-cream "Can I ask you something? And I don't want you to read anything into it ok?"

Sora seemed to realise that Roxas was being serious and sat himself down on the chair by the table "Sure"

He couldn't quite believe that he was going to ask his brother this. He didn't want to admit it, but all the signs were there. He needed to make sure "How did you know that you liked Riku?"

Sora immediately perked up "You're taking an interest in my relationship? That's great!"

"Sora, I-"

"I have to tell Riku! You actually see us as a couple now!"

"Sora"

"I'm so happy!"

"Sora, you're an idiot" Roxas turned and left the kitchen, grumpily stomping up the stairs to his room and slamming the door.

A little while later there was a knock and Sora crept around the doorframe "Roxas?" Roxas was facedown on his bed but managed a muffled 'what?' His twin sat himself on the edge of the bed "Sorry I got so excited earlier."

This caused Roxas to roll over "It's ok"

"So you want to know how I knew I liked Riku?"

"Yes please."

"You'll tell me why when you're ready wont you?" Although Sora was a bit of a dork most of the time, Roxas had to applaud him on being a good brother. He knew when something important was going on and knew exactly how to handle Roxas in the situation, never pushing him to tell him anything.

"Sure I will"

Sora smiled as he remembered, "Whenever I saw Riku I felt all warm, but not uncomfortable warm, kinda like when it's been raining and cold and you sit on the radiator, that kind of nice warm. My head went all light and my vision was like I was dreaming. Then I could hear my heartbeat. De Dum, De Dum, De Dum. That's when I knew I was in love"

Roxas stared at his twin with slight wonder "That… was the cheesiest thing I have ever heard" Sora squeaked and hit him with a pillow. Roxas laughed and found another to counterattack. The pillow fight went on for so long that Riku had been ringing the doorbell for ten minutes before either of the boys noticed and let him inside.

Roxas woke up the next day in a far better mood, this good mood stayed with him when he, Hayner and Pence met up for their Saturday ritual of being dragged to go shopping with Olette. Since she was the only girl in the group and she spent nearly all her free time with the boys they allowed her two or three hours on a Saturday to be as girly as she wanted. Meaning their role as big strong men was to carry the shopping bags. They were in their fifth store of the day and each boy already had a shopping bag each. Olette had not long had a birthday and so, unfortunately for the boys, this meant she had a lot of money to spend. "It's going to be a heavy day" Hayner groaned

"Oh! Look at this Hello Kitty phone charm! It's so cute! Isn't it cute?"

"Yeah" the three mumbled even though they weren't remotely interested in the object.

As Olette skipped up to the cashier they suddenly heard a voice "Hi Pence"

Leon walked over to the trio, a carrier bag from the store in his hand "Hi Leon" Pence chirped, "What are you doing in here?" The shop was filled with pink things with sparkles and fluff. Roxas felt slightly nauseous just standing there, it wasn't exactly somewhere you'd expect Leon to be. "Oh, it's for Yuffie She passed a new level of Ninjitsu and it's my job to go and buy the present"

"Ooh! What did you get her?" Olette had just returned clutching the same type of bag as the senior. Leon was showing the young girl the pink flowery scarf as Hayner turned to Pence "How do you know Leon?"

"I take a Math class with the year above. Leon tutors me when I need some help"

Said brunette was shuffling his present back into his bag "Oh, I'm meeting Cloud and the others from something to eat. Do you want to come?"

Pence looked shocked "Me?"

"All of you"

Hayner chuckled, "Seifer's not going to be following you is he?"

Leon's eyes narrowed "I hope not"

Roxas felt the tension and tried to break it "So! Where are we eating then!" he said shoving Hayner out of the door in front of him.

As they were walking with Leon, Roxas noticed that the older boy checked his surroundings every now and again. He was about to mention something to Hayner when they stopped. They were outside a small store that sold fried chicken, Cloud walked over to Leon, took the shopping bag from him and stealthily tucked it away in his rucksack, Roxas could see why as Yuffie was waving madly at them from the seating area, next to her was a boy with long black hair wearing a long red coat who surprisingly didn't look hot, despite the weather. Leon gently pushed Roxas and Hayner's shoulders "Come on, I'll introduce you to everyone. This is Yuffie Kisaragi"

Although Roxas already knew who most of the seniors were he'd never actually met any of them other than Cloud and Leon. "Hi Pence!" Yuffie had a very sing-song voice and shook all their hands enthusiastically "Glad to see you're doin' ok in math! We haven't seen you in our little tutor group in ages! Have we Vince?" She elbowed the guy next to her but only received a "Ngh" and a nod in reply.

Leon rolled his eyes "That's Vincent Valentine. Don't worry, he doesn't talk that much, not even to us" The near mute gave another nod. "And this is Axel" Roxas felt his heart falter as the Redhead walked out from inside the store; placing the drinks he was carrying on the table. He smiled as he saw the younger group and heard himself introduced. Roxas found himself staring at his perfectly white teeth. Axel wiped his hands on his ever-tight jean and walked forward, extending it to Roxas "Hey, I'm Axel"

As Axel stood in front of him, those shockingly green eyes roaming all over him. Roxas felt all warm and light headed. His thoughts stopped for a second "Warm? Light headed?" He could see Axel's face, but the edges were blurred, like Roxas was dreaming. Then Roxas heard what he feared. De Dum, De Dum, De Dum.

Shit

Thank you for reading! Reviews are love! I shall continue this soon hopefully as I have many more ideas and Darkenglishrose will poke me and make me update to make her and you happy.