Chapter One
A Tutor?!
Alright here's another story I'm writing with another friend. We decided to go against the typical AkuRoku story by having Roxas go after Axel for once instead of Axel being the perverted old man. Enjoy. Oh and DISCLAIMER: I do not own kingdom hearts. If I did you would have to be 18 to buy it.
It was early April and the students of Kyoto High School were anxiously awaiting the summer break. And as for the seniors, they were busy making plans for graduation and college. But a few were dreading the finals the escorted the end of the year.
Roxas was sitting in his seat watching the clock waiting for the bell to ring. He turned his head as his teachers chair made a noise as it was pushed away from the desk.
"Alright. Listen up. I'm passing back the quizzes from last week." The man started to walk through the classroom passing out papers. "Quite a few of you did well but others." He set a paper down on Roxas's desk. "Others did not."
Roxas was afraid to peer down at his quiz. He slowly tilted his head down to see his score he groaned and he saw the big zero at the top.
"I want to see you after class." he said and continued to walk around and pass out the papers.
Roxas sighed and softly banged his head on the desk. "Stupid quiz!"
The man went back to his desk and sat down. "Those of you who got a C or lower can retake the quiz next Tuesday after school if you want a better grade."
Roxas sighed, "I'll fail that one too." He didn't raise his head from his desk for the rest of class. The bell rang and he sat motionless waiting for the class to clear.
The teacher cleared his throat. "Roxas? Have you ever thought of getting a tutor?
"No, I've never needed one before. I've always done okay in my classes."
"Well not in my class you're not." he said as he stood up. "The school can assign you a tutor to help with your work."
"Fine that's great but I can't afford it. My family doesn't have money to pay someone thirty dollars an hour to teach me the same thing you are."
"The school pays for the tutor Roxas. I'll give him your address and he'll be over tomorrow at 6." The teacher said and leaned back in his chair.
"Tomorrow? But I have plans to go to the movies. Can't I do it some other time?"
"Education waits for no one Roxas. Do you want to pass this quiz, let alone this class?" he asked.
"Yeah duh Xigbar. I do want to pass this class. But I already made plans." he whined and added a little pout, hoping to make the professional waver in his plan.
He started at Roxas. "He'll be there at six." he said.
Dammit, plan A backfired, time to bring out the guilt trip maneuver. "Oh, Come on Xigbar weren't you a teenager once? You must remember how hard it is to have a social life."
"That was a while ago. Grades before life." Xigbar said.
"You must not have had any friends or at least not any cool ones."
"Get out of my room before I send you to Sephiroth." he said with a glare.
Roxas sighed and stood up. He gathered his stuff and walked out of the room. "Stupid tutor."
A blond boy was waiting outside of the room and put an arm around Roxas's shoulders. "What's going on Rox? You look like Xig just cut out your soul."
"He might as well have. Stupid Xigbar, he's making me get a stupid tutor and he's making me miss the movie tomorrow."
"Man that sucks. I'll wait and go see it with you later."
"Thanks, I appreciate it. You are the man."
"Sure. I'll see if anyone else can reschedule too." he said while pulling out his cell phone and sending a mass text message to several different people, and continuing to walk and talk at the same time. It was amazing what some kids could do. Talented multitasking skills, not put to a very good use.
"Thanks, I don't know what is with that class I just don't remember any of this crap." Roxas groaned and opened his locker after debating on weather or not he should bang his head into the metal door. He debated against the concussion, deciding that being conscious and failing a class was better than being in a coma and failing a class.
"Xigbar's class is hard; lots of people have trouble with it." Hayner said.
"Yeah but I'm sure most of them have more than a thirty percent in his class."
Hayner winced and let out a little hiss. "Ok well… think about it this way... the tutor might be hot." The blond opened his own locker and traded out some books that he didn't need for those that he did.
"If it's a guy. If I get a girl, I'm switching tutors. Hey so what about the guy you were going to try to hook me up with."
"We can change times or you can try to go for the hot tutor." he said.
"Once again you are assuming its going to be a guy." Roxas said and stabbed Hayner in the chest with his index finger.
"Oh please. It's so going to be a guy!" a girl said as she walked up to the two boys with a flick of her hair over her shoulder. "They don't pair girl tutors with guys."
"Really? So there is hope. Even if he isn't gay no guy can resist this." he posed cutely and then giggled.
Hayner laughed as he zipped up his backpack and closed his locker door with a quiet bang. "I guess that is true. You've been hit on by every guy in town."
"I know I'm just so irresistible. I could have any man but my standards are high. They have to be hot, a good kisser and great in bed." After Roxas organized his own book bag and slammed his locker shut.
Hayner and Olette rolled their eyes. "Of course they do. Can we head home now?" Olette asked.
"Yeah we can. Do you guys want to hang out? My family won't mind."
"Sure." Hayner said and looked to Olette.
"Can't. I want to get my homework done before the weekend officially starts."
"Oh okay that's cool. Maybe next time." Roxas started walking down the hall. "Any one know where Pence is?"
"He has detention for blowing up a beaker in Vexen's class." Hayner replied. "That boy should not be allowed to take classes that have anything to do with mixing dangerous chemicals."
Roxas laughed as he shouldered his backpack. "I which I could have seen that. Let's head out."
They all filed out of the school building laughing and talking about their weekend plans.
* * *
Roxas was lying on the bed watching the clock as the numbers flashed as the numbers changed, ticking away the minutes that should have been spent at the mall watching a movie with friends. "Stupid history. Stupid Xigbar. Stupid tutor. Making me miss the movie and ruining my life and…" he sighed when he realized that not only was he rambling, he was rambling to himself.
"Roxas! Your tutor is here!" his mother called up the stairs."
Roxas sighed and stood up he slowly walked down the steps. He froze when he caught sight of a tall man with long red hair that spiked out every which way and the deepest emerald colored eyes he had ever seen.
The man smiled and placed a hand on his petite hip. He was skinny too, Roxas noticed. Geez was this guy anorexic or just naturally that freaking thin? "Hey. My name's Axel, got it memorized?"
Just like in a bad cartoon, Roxas' jaw dropped, to what felt like the floor. He nodded slowly as he stared at Axel.
"Shall we get started then?" he asked and shifted his backpack higher onto his shoulder.
"Um... Yeah sure. My room is upstairs. Follow me." He turned around and started walking up the stairs
Axel shrugged and headed up the stairs. "So what do you seem to be having problems with?"
"Everything. I haven't understood a word that has come out of my teachers' mouth all year."
"Alright let's just start with what was on the test." Axel said and followed Roxas in his room.
Roxas sat down on his bed and grabbed in book bag pulling out the quiz "Here I don't know any of this stuff."
"Ok well then we have a long way to go don't we?" he chuckled and went over to sit down on the bed, after removing his messenger bag from his shoulders. He took the piece of paper and looked at it, frowning when her say the low grade. "A long long way to go." he muttered.
"Yeah…" Roxas rubbed the back of his neck and looked at Axel sheepishly. "Can you help me?" he asked with a laugh.
"Others might call you a lost cause but… I think I'll be able to help you." he lowered the paper and smiled at the blond.
Roxas blushed and lowered his eyes.
Axel raised an eyebrow in confusion at Roxas' blush, then shook his head. "Ok so lets get started." he moved closer to the younger boy, and reached over his lap to grab the textbook. He looked at the first question and opened the book to the index. "Ok American history. What year did the Civil War take place Roxas?" he turned to the Civil War section in the book and looked up at Roxas.
The blond boy's blush deepened when the tutor said his name. "Um….U-uh…" he stuttered and gulped. Axel green eyes seemed to steal his breath and captivate his soul. "1907...?" he said, taking a wild guess. Even if he knew the answer to the question that Axel asked he wouldn't have been able to remember it while staring into his eyes.
Axel sighed and shook his head. "No Roxas. Do you even do the reading for your class?"
"1907?"
Axel raised and eyebrow again. "What's wrong with you? Are you ok?" he placed a hand on Roxas' forehead to feel for a fever. "You feel a little warm."
Roxas gasped slightly when the hand touched his head, and the redness on his face seemed as though it was trying to compete with Axel's hair.
Axel took back his hand and stared at Roxas. "Maybe you should take some medicine." he suggested.
There was only one thing that Roxas' needed or wanted at that point in time and he decided to go after it. Without thinking of the consequences he leaned over quickly and closed the space between their lips with a kiss.
Axel eyes widened and he pulled out of the kiss quickly and stood up with a stunned expression on his face. "W-what the…?" he blinked then grabbed his bag and quickly headed to the door of the room. "I think I should go." he rushed out of the room and down the stairs, then out of the house.
All Roxas could do was raise a hand to his lips and wonder what the hell he had just done. He let out his breath then hung his head. "Dammit…" he muttered. "I let him get away."
