08/05/2009 05:43:00

Ok here goes on another new story. Pleas don't kill me! I just want to say that I do not own kingdom hearts and all the rights go to Disney and square and so on and so forth. Here's my new story, which I thought of when I played the games and the line, "See you in the next life". Here's my story.

This is the next life, what now?

Chapter 1 – What's new?

Darkness surrounded him, almost smothering.

Sad blue eyes looked at him, seeming to bore down into his very soul, he could feel the darkness around him.

"I'll see you in the next life…"

Axel bolted up from the bed. He'd had this dream before, always the same. He ran his hand over his face and checked the clock beside his bed, 7:00am flashed angrily at him. Then his senses rushed back to him, he could see the time more clearly, hear the harsh beeping from his alarm, felt his hands shake and then smelt a burning smell. He checked to make sure he hadn't set himself on fire again, all the times he woken up with a lighter in his hand, he shook his head trying to think. The acrid smell of something burning filled his nose, 'wait a minute', his eyes shot open and he leapt, clad only in his boxers from the bed to the door, wrenched it open and was faced with a miserable looking blonde and a pile of burnt toast on the kitchen table. The blonde looked around to see Axel and smiled sheepishly, running his hand through his dishevelled Mohawk/mullet.

"I was trying to make breakfast for a change cause you were fast asleep, I didn't want to wake you."

Axel laughed, "Dude, I thought the dorm was burning down, any way that's my job."

Demyx stood back from the counter and sighed as he swept the carbonised bread from the table to the bin, a mischievous grin came over his face, "What's your job, burning the dorm down or making breakfast?" He stumbled back; a pair of tongs was pointed at his face menacingly by the red head. "Both now either sit or go wake the others up." Demyx groaned, "Fine, but its your fault if they try to kill me."

"No, it will be their own fault if they kill you."

"Shut up and cook."

"Oi!"

Axel proceeded to chase Demyx, who was giggling excitedly, around the room armed with the tongs. Demyx had managed to dodge Axel for the fifth time when a heavy textbook hit him on the side of the head. He fell over, out cold. Axel stood and watched as a second blonde entered the room, walked over to the passed out Demyx, picked up the text book and sat at the table, she smiled at Axel, he flinched and scurried back to the stove.

"Nice and quiet, like a morning should be."

"I think you over did it Larx, if he doesn't come round soon you're helping me carry him to class."

"Pfft, first class of the new term, know what that means?"

"Another teacher to add to the many you've slept with?" He dodged the textbook and flipped the pancake he was working on.

"No, idiot, it means new freshmen…"

"For you to sleep with?" A pocket- knife barely missed his head; it trembled from its new home in the wall. Axel quickly served up the huge plate of pancakes to the table.

"Sorry did I say that aloud?" He tried to look innocent, "Silly me." Larxene looked ready to suffocate him with one of the pancakes when a sleepy voice spoke up.

"You know Larxy, you should be a little less noisy yourself in the morning." A pink haired man flopped into the seat next to the murderous blonde and wrapped an arm round her shoulder, he grabbed a pancake and started to chew, "I see Demyx is going to be late for his first class," he eyed the motionless mullet on the floor, "again, did you have to throw it so hard, we're already worried by his mental state."

"Humph" she crossed her arms, "Can't possibly get any worse than it already is." The pink haired teen leaned over and kissed her cheek lightly, he chuckled as she calmed down.

"Nnngh" The three at the table watched as Demyx stood up groaning using the table as support, he shook his head and blinked, "…OW!"

The trio laughed, "Talk about delayed reaction," chortled Axel.

"So not funny Larxene, why are you here anyway?"

"I came to pick up Marly, stupid, why else would I come near this pig sty."

"Ah, the harpy has returned, I see she hasn't stolen your soul yet Marluxia." The fourth habitant of the dorm had made his way to the table, a book in hand. Larxene snarled at him.

"Zexy!!" Demyx grabbed onto Zexion and hugged him, "Good morning to you too Demyx, did Larxene throw a textbook at you again?"

"U huh, kiss it better!" Demyx pouted. Zexion rolled his eyes as Demyx crouched slightly so Zexion could kiss the swelling in his head. Axel watched as Zexion continued to make sly comments about Larxene and how Demyx and Marluxia laughed. Axel suddenly felt lonely, everyone else had the person they loved most, and hell even Saix and Xenmas were together. Axel walked back to his room to change. He thought about his dream that was more like a memory, those sad blue eyes, and the golden hair. He never imagined that there would be a next life for him, but he had born to Sarah and Edward Sinclair, younger brother to Reno, it felt so weird, here he was in a new life but surrounded by old faces and more painfully, old memories that had come back to him steadily after he had joined college and met Demyx and Zexion again, then the others in time. Even Riku was here at this college, though they never spoke, old habits and all. He remembered the boy from his dream again, Roxas, who he had yet to find again, to be friends and more again. It felt as if life was against him, again. What he would give to see Roxas right now, he would give up his heart to do so. He was interrupted from his daydreaming when he felt a hand on his arm, he looked round to see Demyxs' worried face.

"Did you dream about him again?"

"Yeah." Axel looked down at his black boots and sighed.

"Don't worry Ax, you'll find him, like we all found each other."

"I love that optimistic thinking you have Dem, but I can't help and worry I'm never going to."

"He'll turn up when you least expect it, he always did the things we least expected him to do." Axel stared into the blondes' face his optimism was catching on.

Axel smiled crookedly at the blonde. "Well let's go get the first day over with then."

He strode out his room after Demyx and to the door where everyone else was waiting.

"Jeez take your sweet time Axel, no one else wants to get to class on time." Larxene rolled her eyes. It was quite normal for her to get irritated so early in the day. They walked down the hallway and into the light, Axel squinted as they walked across the lawn to the main building to gather their new timetables and check out team listings for the new term. Demyx checked the swim team notice and whooped in excitement, "YAS! I made it again third year in a row!"

"Well done Dem." Axel patted him on the back and wandered over to the timetables to look for his name. As he was looking over the names he spotted one that made his heart jump to his throat. 'Roxas Strife" His whole world froze, he saw the name, he read it again, it didn't change or disappear, it just sat, unhelpfully on the page. At that moment a bouncing mass on brown hair collided with him,

"Ah sorry, I didn't mean to do that, lost my balance, are you ok, hey Ax-?" The kid talked so fast, Axel looked up to glare at him. He felt his face go white, he was staring into familiar blue eye, but the hair was wrong, "So-" He was cut off when the boy was pulled upright and Axel looked into Rikus face.

"Sora watch where you bounce!"

"Sorry!"

Riku rolled his eyes, ignored the redhead still on the floor and grabbed his timetable. Sora searched for his name, found it, grabbed another 3 timetables from the table and ran after Riku.

Axel suddenly felt himself being pulled upright and Demyx shook him gently,

"Hey Ax, you ok?"

Axel couldn't speak; he just gaped at the space Sora had vacated.

"You look like you've seen a ghost, oh and that time you walked in on Larxene getting out the shower and the time you-" Axel placed his hand over Demyxs mouth, he collected himself and looked back to the table, Roxas's time table was gone. Demyx was still talking behind Axel's hand, "Dem shut up." He felt the movement stop and he turned wide-eyed to Demyx.

"Dem, I found Roxas's name on one of the timetables and just got knocked over by a very real Sora, I think I'm in shock."

Demyxs eyes went wide too, he pulled Axel's hand away from his mouth, a huge grin on his face.

"Dude, that means Roxas is here! Like here, he's not anywhere else! I told you you'd find him!"

Axel didn't answer; her grabbed his timetable and ran from the room to outside, barely aware of Demyx right behind him. He searched the courtyard looking for the blonde boy. His eyes zeroed in on Riku who was with Sora who was with an auburn haired girl who was with a blonde girl who to Axel's displeasure was holding a blonde boys hand, his blonde's hand. He stared at Roxas, his heart was in his mouth, and he just kept staring. Roxas was staring round the courtyard, not really interested, he frowned slightly at the 'Welcome To Twilight Town College!" banner. He looked away and straight into Axels eyes. Again Time stopped; Blue stared into green, sapphire and emerald, cerulean and jade. They would have stared for longer, maybe Axel might have run over and hugged the blonde if it hadn't been for Sora grabbing Roxas's other hand and dragging him off towards the freshman dorms, as soon as the eye contact had broken time started again, all the noise and colours that had disappeared returned, blinding and deafening Axel. He blinked. Roxas was gone, again. Demyx waved his hand in front of Axels face and laughed when Axel jumped and looked around to him his eyes full of alarm and confusion.

"Axel, you ok dude?"

Axel stared at him then a grin spread over his face, Demyx stepped back, he knew that smile ment trouble for someone, "Oh yeah Dem I'm ok, in fact I'm swell." Axel walked off towards his class not looking back at the terrified blonde. He laughed causing people to stare at him.

He felt like light had returned to his world, he felt lighter than he had in two years.

Roxas looked around his room as he dumped his bag on the bed. He'd unpack later, freshmen got the first day off to look around and get acquainted with the college atmosphere. He walked into the dorm rooms living area to see his three other roommates getting to know each other.

"And this is my best friend Roxas, who also happens to be my cousin!"

Roxas raised a hand in greeting, "Nice to meet you."

"Rox this is Hayner and Pence, they've lived in Twilight town their whole life."

The one Roxas assumed was Hayner stood up and offered his hand to Roxas, "Me and Pence will show you guys round town if you like" they shook hands, "Yeah that would be cool, though we should stop off the get Kairi and Namine too."

Sora bounced on his seat, "Yeah, oh apparently they're sharing a room with two girls Hayner and Pence know! Its so cool isn't it Rox!"

"Yeah I guess." He chuckled tiredly.

"They're sharing with our friend Olette and a girl called Fuu." After more discussions the boys set off and met with the girl called Olette and walked around the town, it wasn't as small as Destiny Islands had been but it was way nicer than Hollow Bastion had been when Roxas had visited his brother Cloud for a holiday.

They all walked back to the campus after having dinner in a small café that Olette had insisted on going to, it hadn't been that bad actually. Now full and tired out, the group wandered back across the front lawns back to the dorms. Roxas spotted the red haired boy he'd seen earlier that day, lazing on the grass with a blonde boy, a pink haired guy, one guy whose hair was silverfish like Rikus, a guy with an eye patch and a blonde girl with the weirdest hair cut Roxas had ever seen. He saw the red head was smoking and wrinkled his nose slightly as the wind blew the smoke in their direction. The blonde leaned over and whispered something in the red heads ear. Again they locked eye contact, but this time the red head got up and walked over to Roxas, smiling creepily, cigarette still hanging out his mouth. Roxas felt the niggling in his brain telling him this guy was familiar to him. The red head stopped two feet way from him; he took a drag and blew the smoke away from Roxas,

"Hey blondie, I'm just wondering if you happen to like what you see, cause you stare at me an awful lot." He winked. Roxas raised an eyebrow; "I hardly think catching eye contact twice constitutes as staring."

"Ah but you don't deny you were staring then." Axel countered.

"No, I wouldn't deny it when I was caught, I just thought you looked familiar."

Axel felt a happy glow coming from his heart, 'play it cool' he thought, he felt hopeful. "Do I still seem familiar?" Roxas raised both his eyebrows now and said, "Not so much close up, sorry for wasting you time." He turned to catch up to his friends who had stopped a little way away, he didn't turn when he herd the red head speak again, "The names Axel, got it memorised, blondie?" Roxas almost froze but kept walking, the name made his head hurt slightly. "Don't call me blondie." He half turned to glare at Axel,

"What is your name then blondie?" Axel grinned cheekily.

"Roxas," he turned around and continued walking, "Bye Axel". Axel couldn't help but feel a slight twinge of panic as Roxas walked away, the memory almost replaying it's self, until Roxas turned and smiled at him. Axel grinned and waved. He watched the boy catch up to his friends. He walked back over and flopped down next to Demyx on the grass, smiling dreamily up at the pink tinged sky.

"What was that about, chatting up freshmen Axel, that's a new low." Larxene smirked at him.

"I was just checking up on number thirteen over there." He grinned at her and watched as her eyes and everyone else's grew wide and snapped round to follow the retreating blonde. Demyx clapped his hands together and whooped, Zexion looking mildly interested looked back to Axel, "That was Roxas?" Axel nodded.

"He's taller than I remember, not by much though." Said Xigbar. What Marluxia said next almost burst Axels bubble of joy, "Well that's great you found him, but he wont remember anything will he, none of us did for a while, even after meeting up again, took like four months to remember didn't it." Axels face fell at this, he sat up and looked worried, Demyx put a hand n his shoulder and squeezed gently, "Well then here's a 'mission' for us! Operation get Roxas to remember so Axel can stop being all emo and mopy!" Axel growled at Demyx who scooted behind Zexion.

"I am not all emo and mopy!"

"Sure keep telling yourself that." Smirked Larxene. The group continued to pick on Axel till he threatened to burn them all to oblivion, they subtly changed subject and Axel cooled down.

Roxas was tossing in his sleep; his dreams were dark and confusing. The cloaked figure was breathing like he'd run a marathon, staring at Roxas as his round spiky weapons disappeared in a flurry of darkness, Roxas said something but he didn't hear himself. The cloaked figure started to dissolve into darkness as he said 'Silly, just because you have a next life." Roxas sat bolt upright, sweating, that dream just wouldn't go away, it confused him, but this time he swore he saw something red under the hood. He lay back on his bed and tried to calm down, he began to slip into a dreamless sleep, he stared at the broken alarm stuck at 8:13pm. 'I'll have to get that fixed' he thought lazily as sleep claimed him.

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Ahhhhh my god, why, why!!!!

Anyhoo, new story, I promise to update my other ones soon, RxR as usual, no pressure!

This story first came to me when I was playing the game then I listened to New Found Glory's version of Kiss me, it set the ball rolling.