I don't own Kingdom Hearts… but I do own this crappy piece of two-shot and well here it is!

I laughed at your bleeding…

Roxas lay on the ground every inch of his body aching the laughs of the entire football team echoed in his head, as blood drained from his body. The laughing face that hurt him the most, the only one that ever stuck with him, was that of Axel. The tall slender redhead had laughed while his friends kicked him and that rejection hurt the most. Upon hearing a worried gasp he struggled to sit up his gaze leaving the retreating back of the redhead that was still kind of visible.

"Roxas, what happened?" Roxas rolled his eyes honestly his brother could be a bit dense.

"Nothing, I'm just fine but I think something may have snapped earlier." Sora's eyes widened when he heard something snapped.

"Do you need a nurse, possibly an ambulance? Should I call the morgue? Who did it I'll kill them!" Roxas winced at the impossibly loud his brother had managed to get before the end of his speech.

"Sora calm down I think it's a little too early to call the morgue. Can you help me to Aerith?" Sora nodded not liking that his brother wouldn't accept the ambulance, he thought it was an excellent idea.

"Can you walk?"

"I don't think I can even sit up." He propped himself up on his elbows before working to get his top half up off the ground, every tiny movement he made sent all sorts of unhappy feelings all over his body.

"Roxas why won't you ever tell me what happened? Do you think I like driving you home at least twice a week, writing off and explaining away your injuries as some sort of freak accident? You know last week the counselor pulled me out of class and questioned me about how things were going at home."

"I'm sorry." Roxas mumbled not meeting his brother's prodding gaze.

"I don't want our life taken away from us and if they see our conditions at home they'll place us in a foster home, do you really want that?"

"Sometimes I think it would be better." Sora sighed and pulled his brother up ignoring the cry of pain his brother gave at the rough treatment.

"Let's take you to the nurse, Aerith will fix you then I can take you home." Roxas just moaned the pain still coursing through his body. Roxas helped his brother as much as he could but a few feet from entering the building he almost collapsed, and would have had his brother not been they're holding him up. Sora threw open the door to Aerith's office with his one usable hand.

"What have I told you about throwing the door open So…" She took a look at Roxas and all words were cut off, "Go put him a room, they're all open."

"Nice to see you too."

"What happened?" She demanded angrily while Sora sat his brother down on a bed in the room farthest from the door.

"I'm not sure, he won't tell me I walked in on him bleeding outside. I think it's someone on the football team seeing as they're all a bunch of pretentious whores. I think he has a few broken ribs or something he says something went crack."

"Language Sora." Aerith hissed, "Sora go to class now, I'll call for you when he's ready to leave."

"Aerith, come on! Don't make me leave that's so rude."

"Go to class can't have you missing that test." Sora left the room the smile on his lips quickly turned to a snarl when he seen the silver haired boy standing outside.

"I know you and your fucking friends had something to do with it and I won't let you get away with it."

"Sora, go to class." Sora stormed away leaving Aerith there rubbing her temples for a moment before looking at the other boy, "What is it Riku?"

"I need some band-aids for Tifa's room, she says she's out." Aerith sighed.

"She's always out, how do all of her student get so wounded?" Aerith asked holding out a box of band-aids. Riku just shrugged taking the box from her saying a quick thank you and leaving. She grabbed alcohol and gauze and took it to the room where Roxas was laying down.

"What did they do this time?"

"Just kicked me a little, why do I always tell you?"

"Cause bad things will happen if you don't, like security camera's going up and fun stuff like that. You don't want to be the cause of that do you?" Roxas shook his head while Aerith gave a smile, "So, other than being pounded into the ground how have things been going this week?"

"Tirelessly boring and all together depressing."

"Why depressing?"

"How would you feel if your crush watched and laughed as his friends kicked the crap out of you?" Aerith offered a small pained smile.

"Okay, then how is your situation at home?"

"Father's a drunk and mother's in the hospital, still same as when I seen you last week."

"You make me sound like a counselor."

"You may as well be the way you can some how mercilessly drag information out of people cause you're a sadistic evil…" Aerith poked him in the side making him give a small moan of discomfort, "Witch." He hissed wiggling away from her. She smiled innocently and walked out the door leaving a promise of being back shortly.

"Axel, what do you need?" Roxas heard her ask, his breath hitched.

"I blew up another container and sliced my hand open."

"Course you did, what else would you do? Go find a room I'll be there in just a moment." Roxas heard footsteps and noticed his door being open he was met with the shocked face of Axel. No smug expression, no dirty smirk, nothing in fact he looked almost panicked. Roxas looked away and was very soon greeted with the sound of his door shutting. Roxas reached into the messenger bag Sora had set beside his bed and pulled out a pencil and a sketchbook. He started an outline that immediately became a sketch of Axel's face.

"I hate you cause I love you too much for words." Roxas said quietly as he wrote the words down at the bottom of the page underneath the finished version of Axel's perfectly sketched face. Aerith walked back into the room wiping her hands on a towel in her hand, the towel was tinged a slight red.

"Sorry Roxas, he cut his hand open."

"Is he okay?"

"Yeah Roxas he's okay." Aerith said sadly shaking her head and walking back to where Roxas was laying.

"What, I didn't say anything too stupid yet."

"No, you're just the only person I know who can still be so caring towards someone who's hurt you." Roxas shrugged and slid the sketchbook back into his backpack.

"It's not like you can help who you love."

"True, but even love can be forgotten after being hurt."

"It doesn't matter, when can I leave?" Aerith shook her head.

"As soon as I get you bandaged up and get Sora back. I'm also going to ask that you go to a hospital and get proper treatment for these as soon as possible. Now take off your shirt." Roxas paled, his eyes scanned her face for any sign that she might be joking. He slowly pulled off his shirt reveal a bruised and incredibly scarred up torso and, almost immediately, was followed by a gasp from outside the door.

Aerith and Roxas both turned towards the door to see Sora standing there both hands covering his mouth, his eyes wide at the state his brother was in.

"Sora, why are you back so early?" Aerith demanded watching as Sora lowered his hands an angry look taking the place of worry in his eyes.

"I finished my test early… Why the hell don't either of you look more worried about this?"

"God Sora never knew you could get this angry. Especially not all in one day." Roxas teased sticking his tongue out at Sora who only started looking angrier.

"Aerith I'm going back to class now." Sora turned away from his brother the angry look turned absolutely murderous as he jumped at the redhead punching him in the face as he did. Roxas jumped up ignoring the sharp pain shooting through his body at any movement he made. He left the small room grabbing his brother's arm and pulling roughly making the brunette fall backwards onto him.

Roxas gave a short cry while his brother hurried to get off him. Roxas turned over and coughed giving an annoyed whine when blood came up. Aerith rushed over to him and helped him up giving him a stern, angry look.

"Roxas, I'm calling an ambulance now." She helped him back into the room while Axel watched with a look of shock on his face while both Sora and Aerith fussed over the fallen blond.

"Whatever." He scoffed kicking the ground a little and walking out of the room a bruise forming on his cheek. Roxas covered his mouth he had yet to stop coughing and even worse he hadn't been able to stop the blood from coming up. Outside the Axel met up with Riku who was standing outside the door waiting.

"Whatever you guys keep doing, you need to stop. I can't have Sora mad at me for something I didn't do or even fucking endorse." Axel puffed out his cheeks like he was a child about to throw a tantrum before blowing out a long breath of air.

"I know I'll make them stop. I don't want it to happen anymore either, but I've told them to stop and well they don't see eye to eye with me."

"Wait, you actually tried to stop them?"

"Well yeah, I mean I may have hung back laughing but only because nothing can really stop them."

"Kick their asses next time, make them know you're serious and that you'll kill them if they hurt him again."

"Fine, I didn't like being on the football team anyway."

"I turned in my resignation yesterday." Riku said with a shrug. Sora walked out from just behind the door glaring at the two of them.

"I knew you had something to do with it." Sora said his voice low he turned a glare on Axel and the other boy shivered, who knew Sora could actually glare.

"I didn't do anything." Axel said putting his hands up defensively.

"But you watched that makes you just as guilty and you," He growled turning his glare on Riku, the silver haired boy pointed at himself innocently, "And you knew and didn't do anything that makes you guilty as well."

"Now that's not fair," The small group stepped to the side as a bunch of paramedics came in, "I tried to get them to stop and I never joined in."

"Oh my hero." Sora snarled sarcasm dripping from every word. Roxas was rushed out an oxygen mask strapped to his face they had cut off the bandages to reveal a bruised chest.

"Sora, aren't you going with them?" Aerith poked her head out the door, "Oh, well come in there's an empty room for you guys to talk in so shut up and get in here."

"You knew it was them."

"Roxas told me the third time he was brought in here."

"I didn't do anything." Axel whined

"But you watched, and that possibly hurt worse than any beating ever could." Axel just stared at her, his nose twitching in confusion. Riku smacked him over the head and turned to look at Sora.

"I'm sorry Sora, I should have done more to try and stop them."

"You're damn right you should have. I'm going to the hospital Aerith, I'll see you tomorrow." Sora said before exiting.

"You better not!" Aerith called after him. Sora pulled in at the hospital, he quickly parked the car and ran inside the building.

"So, what did you mean?"

"About what?"

"When you said my watching hurt worse."

"I don't know what you're talking about, now go back to class I sent both of you back a long time ago." Axel gave her a look before leaving Riku standing there with Aerith,

"Roxas likes him doesn't he?" Aerith gave him a sharp look before pointing towards the door. Riku left wearing a look that obviously told everyone he knew a secret.

Roxas exited the hospital the next day, his body ached and they not only had him all messed up on morphine but were sending him home with an assortment of painkillers to keep him happy during the week he was going to be off school. But the whole time he was off his thoughts just kept drifting off to Axel, he couldn't even imagine why the boy had looked so shocked he'd been right there while they beat the crap out of him. Roxas buried his face in the pillow the cast on his leg and the one on his arm, they found out at the hospital that the reason he hurt so much was because he had indeed broken more than just his ribs.

"Hey Roxas I'm home!" Sora called from the other room his voice carrying from the room.

"I'm on the bed Sora!" Roxas called from him and his brothers shared bedroom. Sora opened the door and smiled at Roxas, Roxas looked away from his book to stare at his brother.

"So, have you seriously been sitting there reading all day?" Sora asked giving his brother an annoyed look, Roxas just grinned.

"It's defiantly a possibility." Sora rolled his eyes before looking Roxas in the eye.

"What do you want for food, oh brother of mine?"

"I want rice."

"Just rice?"

"Yeah, just rice."

"You have got to be the weirdest person ever in the history of weird people."

"I know, now go make me food."

"Fine, by the way… you're going back to school tomorrow. I have a feeling you forgot so I had to remind you. I've already had it arranged so that you can still take your many medications from Aerith."

"You suck." Roxas dropped his head back onto the bed with a sigh and soft thump. Sora just stuck out his tongue before leaving the room the door swung shut softly behind him. Sora shut the door behind him his mind was on tomorrow. Lately he'd been spending his all his time with Riku and Axel, both were fresh off the team and had been devising a plan to keep his baby brother safe from all the evil school dumb asses. Apparently, to Sora at least, Axel had a huge crush on Roxas, which is the main reason he never took part in any beatings the dick-weed gave him. Sora gave an irritated sigh when his phone rang for the fifteenth time that day.

"Yes Axel… Yeah, I'm still one-hundred and twenty percent positive that he will be at school… no and if you ask me again I'm going to make him stay home… fine… yeah, see you tomorrow." He closed his phone and tucked it safely into his pocket he continued to the kitchen to do his cooking of rice.

Roxas lay on his bed; the position was switched so that he was on his back the book held above him so that he could read. His door was pushed open and his brother walked in carrying a bowl of rice.

"Here is your food, you incredible pain in my ass."

"You know you love me." Sora smiled handing him the door the before leaving the room and shutting the door quietly behind him.

"I'm not the only one, I just hope you can forgive him." Sora said softly leaning against Roxas's door.

The following morning Sora got up bright and early to his alarm and went downstairs to start cooking while Roxas lay upstairs asleep, Sora sighed and began to cook biscuits, sausage gravy, and hash browns. Roxas, who had went undisturbed so far sat up in bed wincing at the slight pain it caused and got out of bed with the help of a wheel chair. He collapsed into the chair and rolled himself forward and down the hall, stopping just short of entering the kitchen and watched as his brother sang while dancing around the kitchen.

"Oh Roxas you're awake!" Sora sang out happily placing the bowl he was mixing on the sink.

"Hey Sora. Go cook food."

"Right away sir, would you like choco-chips in your waffles?"

"Nummies, I like waffles." Roxas said dreamily rolling over to the table and laying his head down on the table barely able to reach.

"I know you do, everyone does!"

"Nobody likes them as much as I do." Roxas muttered darkly into his sleeve. Sora chuckled and set two giant waffles in front of him.

"Eat up darlin' brother, we have a big day ahead of us." Roxas gave him a look to which Sora only responded to by smiling back secretively.

So… it's over! Woot, I'll put the end in a week or two something like that.