Welcome to the story. Please understand that part of this story is a gift, and written to a little bit of a plot of Acrana. Though the plot will drastically change, I am sorry.

Rated M for a reason. And sorry about the grammar, I needed to get this up today. Because it is the thirteenth.

So please review! Please. Not horrible reviews about my writting though, because its half an hour till Valentines day and I am a lazy ass. Okay?

AkuRoku, SoKu, Zemyx. Yadda Yadda Yadda =3

The blond yawned as he walked down the near empty street. Rubbing his eyes, he paused in front of an old pet store. Roxas was his name, and this was where he and his older brother worked after school. The sidewalks were clean; the store itself looked wonderful and brand-new (Though it was twenty years old). And as the blond pushed the door open, he heard Cloud yell and yell. No customer would be within a mile of this place with his brother screaming at… something in the back.

"Cloud! What's wrong?" He shouted, little concern shown anymore.

"This bird just freaking bit me on the ear!"

And Roxas responded by laughing, giggling, and showing just how hilarious his older brother seemed.

-Roxas POV-

Wow, my brother has no talent with animals; which is funny because we work at a pet store close to the College we both attend. Well, we share a dorm room and all that. But back to the topic of my brother's lacking talent with animals, Cloud has a large fear of dogs. Though the all powerful older Strife may seem perfect, the phobia had taken full control of him a few years ago after being attacked by a freakishly huge dog. And I mean huge.

I walked into the back room, where many pets were kept. My brother was holding a bird, and almost threatening to eat it. But the moment he saw me he stuffed the creature back in its cage.

"It bit me so I was going to bite back."

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever" He was always calm, and it bothered me.

But I saw the beautiful kitten in his arms not even a second after that. Her fur was soft and white, with dark grey and brown markings on her ears and paws. Her bright blue eyes looked at me.

"Kitten!" I cried out and ran over, hugging her lightly after I pulled her from Cloud's grasp. After all, that boy must scare all the animals in view with the way they attack him.

"Yeah, but you see… we have to head over to Olette's house... and yeah..." The way Cloud was talking made me freeze.

"What about?" I mumbled, I didn't want to go.

"You see... She got... and yeah... It's sick…" And I knew she got a pet dog that instant. Cloud looked into my Ice blue eyes, mentally pleading me to go along.

"Fine, but you owe me!"

And with that, we left. Walking down the pure white sidewalk, crossing the streets; the world seemed so empty, but that was probably because most people were out of town right now. The warm air and cool breeze made everyone skip town, or at least until tomorrow. That was the day of the dance, and every student who goes to Twilight College will be there. After all, new classes start tomorrow as well.

We soon reached the lovely house of my great friend, Olette. It was a lightly yellow with white trims. She even had orange flowers painted beside the door. Cloud and I went up to the door, my hand paused right before pressing the doorbell.

"Scaredy-cat" Cloud murmured as he pushed me out of the way. He pressed the button and the barks started coming from the door. Almost instantly he was behind me.

"Coming!" Olette shouted from inside. She probably was upstairs and had to get down and to the door quickly. Bursting threw the front door a couple seconds later with a puppy in hand she invited us all it.

"But your puppy doesn't look sick…" I mumbled. Then suddenly I clued in, Just as Olette hugged me, "You tricked my into coming here"

"Happy Birthday Roxas!" They both shouted.

"Now get your cat out of my shirt!" Cloud shouted. I saw her blue eyes and she hopped right out.

And I was tortured. Gift after gift from everyone. Hayner and Pence had left town for some test they had to do and couldn't be here. But they had left gifts, and plenty of them. But finally I got a gift from my mother and younger brother; A photo album, with all our old pictures.

Olette giggled as we looked threw them, with Cloud's constant mumble of 'We looked like dorks' and her reply of 'You still do'. But I noticed a certain picture falling out, a picture of me sleeping with a familiar red head holding me close.

"Oh, what's this picture?" Cloud asked and reached for it.

I grabbed it and smiled, however it was still fake, "Sorry, private picture. Hey! This is a party right? Where is the cake? I'll wait outside for you to get it" I walked out quickly.

I sat out there, but I could still hear Olette commanding Cloud to go buy a cake or he would have to stay here with the dog. I knew he left threw the back door. Olette walk out the front door and sat beside me, looking straight forward like me.

"So what are you going to name your Kitten?" She asked, smiling.

I remembered a name the he had told me once. He had told me once that Mana was a harpy god, and vampires hate Harpies. That was good enough for me.

"Maybe Mana?"

"Trying to hide from the memory of Axel?"

"How did you guess?" I sighed; she patted my shoulder and smiled.

"You will always have us, remember that"

- 3rd Person POV-

The red haired teen watched from behind the trees. His hair spiked and beautiful, while his were teeth pointed. Smiling, he whispered something.

"Keep away from him"

He turned to see brunette staring at him, fire glowing in her eyes, "Why Kairi! What a... pleasant surprise." He glared.

"Stay away from him, Axel. You hurt him, but he is happy now"

"Your about four years too late. He is M-I-N-E"