Author's Rambles: Welcome everyone to my first KH fic! Hee… I decided to write KH fics as a proof of my love to the most wonderful game ever created! Yesh, yesh… Me is obsess but nothing to worry about! We all love this game, right? ((laughs))

Sadly, I don't own Kingdom Hearts… But if I did, YAOI for everyone!!

Ok, on to the fic! ((sits and eats popcorn then suddenly remembers something))

Ah, before that, I would like to acknowledge my great friend, Yaoi-chan (XD) for helping me "meating" up the story!

And this is an AU so prolly expect some OOC's… ((grins nervously)) Ok, seriously people! On to the fic!

"Hey, Roxas! Morning!" a brunette girl that goes by the name Olette greeted from behind the said teen and asked, "Did you finish your Math homework?"

Roxas sighed as he walked towards his silver-colored-yet-look-so-run-down locker and grabbed a lot of books. "Barely…" he admitted. Math was not his thing unlike his friend, who was in front of him at the very moment, smiling to the world; Roxas simply did not like the subject.

The two started to walk for their first period. The dirty blonde haired Roxas was having a hard time carrying his load but continued to toddle. He then turned his head to face his friend and asked, "Where's Hayner and Pence?"

"Oh you know those two…" Olette shrugged her shoulders and continued, "…they found out that their first period teacher was not around so they ran to the cafeteria. Probably buying Sea-Salt ice cream again."

Roxas could only smile at the thought. Those two were addicted to that treat and he even remembered how many times they could eat that thing for a day.

The teen was about to say something but the brunette girl dashed suddenly and shouted, "I'll be going ahead! See you after 3 periods!" She then turned to one corner and disappeared, leaving the boy.

"Sure…" Roxas murmured as he shifted his arms to prevent the books from falling. He started to walk but this time, had a hard time a lot more because some of the books were blocking his view. "Dammit… I should've brought what I only need…" He was about to make a turn and—

BUMP!

The young teen suddenly fell on the floor hard with a loud THUMP and said books fell and were scattered everywhere.

"Are you ok…?" A mysterious male voice asked and a hand was extended in front of Roxas to help him stand up. "Sorry, I wasn't looking…"

The said boy wondered who that was and looked up to see a pair of dark blue eyes looking down at him. The owner of the eyes had long yet messy pink-ish hair that ran about his shoulder. He roughly looked about 19 years old but perhaps older. The said man wore nothing but black everything with unusual silveries that will surely make anyone look and stare.

"Uh…" the blonde made out. He couldn't talk properly because he was staring in amazement of how the man presented himself. He looked cool and good-looking and added to that, the man's mystifying personality.

"P-please… You don't have to…!" Roxas suddenly blurted out when he saw the man started picking up his books.

"Do you need help? I'll carry them for you…" Before the teen could protest, the man stood up, turned on his back with his books and forwarded. "Shall we?"

While on their way, Roxas' cheek started to have a little bit shades of red. It actually made him smile. A stranger was nice enough to help him! And the man looked amazingly cool and much to Roxas awareness, admiration was starting to kick in.

"Here we are…"

The younger teen almost whined when he saw his classroom from the distance. He wanted to stick around with the mysterious man a bit more! Sadly, time was up. He slowly looked up and saw the older teen smiled at him as he gave back his books.

"See you around…" Then pink-haired man walked away, leaving the stunned Roxas behind.

Then out of the blue, Roxas suddenly shouted in frustration:

"Shit! I forgot to ask his name!!"

"Fucking Heartless…." Larxene cursed loudly as she filed her nails against the wall right beside two older men. The said men were Luxord, the Arts teacher and Xigbar, the PE moderator. The two men were playing a game of poker outside the Faculty room, listening to the blonde girl as she continued to fume. "Would you believe what the so-called 'insult' they threatened earlier was stuffing my locker with insects? How lame…"

"Here…" Xigbar dropped his cards, showing his hand a Full House. He then smirked as he saw his co-worker furrowed his eye-brow when the latter stared at the cards. "It looks like I win."

Then Luxord turned to the blonde angry girl and casually said, "Best thing to do is to leave them alone… You know how we, Organization XIII, deal with this kind of punks, who clearly don't know who they're picking a fight with, don't we?" He then stood up, placed the cards facing down and took his work bag. "I'm off to see my next class… See ya."

"Hold it! You can't just leave the game like that!"

"Oh yes I can…"

The Arts teacher just smirked as he walked down the hall. When he was already out of sight, the PE moderator hastily snatched the cards to see what hand Luxord was holding. "I lost! That ass had a Royal Flush!"

Larxene just shook her head as she continued filing. That was the 14th time Xigbar lost to Luxord and it seemed that the former was determined to beat the master.

"Ha ha ha! Xiggie lost again?" A genki voice came from the distance and Larxene turned her head to see the smiling Demyx waving at her and his best friend, Axel looking emotionless as usual. "No one can really beat Luxy!"

Demyx had a tomahawk hairstyle. He wore faded brown baggy shorts that reached below his knees. His top was a black, long sleeved, round collar with a hood behind and had a word print at the back of his outfit - "SITAR". While on his best friend, Axel, with fiery red untamed spiky hair, wore black leather pants with chains and belts as designs. His top was also black and fitted but in a V-neck style. Around his neck was a silver choker with a Nobody symbol. Instantly, the two looked like some hard rocker in a band.

"Why does he even bother?" Red-head Axel grunted and crossed his arms. "He'll just lose and lose and lose some mor—"

Xigbar suddenly sent death glares to shut the obnoxious Axel up. He knew well he was no match for the master but playing a simple game of poker entertained him. Oh, did he mention that poker relaxed him too?

"Where are the others?"

"I'm not sure…" Demyx answered the PE teacher as he looked around to see any of his members. Their leader, Xemnas, the school principal, ordered to have an Organization XIII meeting but as always, 2 or more didn't show up. It was always Marluxia because it was obvious he disliked the leader for some unknown reasons. Sometimes it would be Axel himself because he was too busy sleeping on the school's rooftop (actually, he was just lazy but today, Demyx managed to drag him along) and occasionally, Larxene or Zexion.

After some minutes of waiting…

"This is useless…" The blonde girl finally said as she got on her heels and started to walk away from the others. "I knew I shouldn't have come here…"

"Bye, Larxy!" Cheerfully said Demyx but after some seconds, received an incoming crumpled paper and hit his head from the said girl.

"Don't call me that!"

Tomahawk boy just laughed.

"Demyx, you're irritating people again…" His best friend pin pointed in a serious tone. Axel knew that Demyx was good at heart (?) but sometimes, the latter had a fancy of teasing people and making names but despite that, Demyx was still nice to everyone.

Demyx just grinned and said cutely, "B-b-but…! Her face looks priceless when she gets angry! I couldn't finish the day without seeing it!"

"Whatever…."

Suddenly, someone with pink, messy and long hair showed up, walking from the end of the corridor to their direction. He was looking pissed off and even looked more pissed off when he saw a certain someone with untamed red hair with two "stupid" males.

Or so that was how the man with pink hair put it.

"Marluxia! Whoa, man… You actually came?" Xigbar, who was unusually silent throughout the whole conversation, exclaimed when he saw the man. "Don't tell me you had a sudden heart change?"

Marluxia, who at first seemed to have a nice and polite mannerism that would make anyone swoon in an instant, actually had the opposite. His earlier dazzling smile changed to an emotionless expression. His earlier sparkling dark blue eyes were now lifeless and seemed distant. And his amazing and cool aura turned dark and gloomy.

He looked very different from before. Very much different.

"Fuck it, Xigbar. It just so happen I needed to pass here." He mockingly said and continued, "…and shouldn't you be blowing your whistles or something? You ARE the PE teacher, are you not?"

Demyx and somehow Axel too were surprised to hear the member of their group speaking with no respect whatsoever. Marluxia was more horrible than ever. The tomahawk boy then noticed Xigbar almost near his angry peak.

"I'll stop talking like an ass if I were you…" Axel suddenly said as he stepped up and came face to face with the pink-haired man.

Said man scoffed and retorted back.

"Like an ass? Like you're the one to talk!" Marluxia laughed as he crossed his arms and placed a smirk on his face, staring at the red-head teen. "Little boys shouldn't butt in an ADULT conversation. So if I WERE you, I'd SHUT UP."

"Okay! Okay!" Demyx couldn't take any longer and jumped right between the two. He perfectly knew that both Axel and Marluxia hated each other's guts and couldn't simply get along even though they belonged to the same group. What was needed now was to tear the two apart to avoid further destruction, like the last time. "It'd be best to go on your way, Marluxia! See you around!"

The mentioned man just shrugged and turned around, leaving the three men at their area. Demyx then heaved in relief. Marluxia actually cooperated with him for the first time!

The Axel shook his head and asked, "Why's he in the ORG XIII again? I still couldn't understand why Superior took him in…"

"I'm not sure… Maybe Superior thought Marluxia is nice or something…"

"Whatever…"

"Roxas! Hurry!" One of the mentioned teen's classmates shouted back as they ran across the corridor. Due to some insects and roaches running around that came from an unknown locker and held the two back, Roxas and his classmate needed to ran to their next period or they would be marked late.

"Man, can this day can't get any worse?" The owner of a dirty-blonde hair whined inside himself. First was his books and now this? Running like there was fire chasing him? Perhaps today was not a good day and not what the boy hoped for to be. And probably what happened earlier with the mysterious man was just a simple coincidence.

Roxas got out from his thought and saw his classmate making a turn when there was a group of people flocking near the stairs. He knew that they were going down the said stairs and so, he followed.

"President, incoming…" One whispered almost faintly but was enough to be heard by everyone in the group. They all looked at the running Roxas and smirked evilly. And when Roxas was about to make a haste step on the stairs, one placed his foot near Roxas' ones and tripped him.

"AHH!!"

Truly… this day can get any worse…

The poor boy almost fell on the stair when his body was suddenly caught by unknown arms. His face instantly buried on the unknown's chest and the former tensed up a bit. Still wrapped up in the arms of who ever saved him, Roxas slowly looked up and his eyes met up with blue ones…

Dark blue that was…

"Huh? It's you again…" Marluxia said nonchalantly as he stared down at the blushing boy. "Better watch your step or you might end up breaking a bone or two…"

Where was the Marluxia who was just speaking horribly a while ago? No one knew… It looked like he returned or turned again to someone different.

"I-uh…" Roxas stuttered for a while but immediately turned his head to see who the damn one who tripped him was.

Marluxia also looked up to see who the perpetrators were. After that, he suddenly leaned down near Roxas' small ear and whispered softly, "Better yet…watch out for those people. Heartless can be annoying…"

The teen was too shocked to say anything. He couldn't even blink. The mysterious man was too close to him and by the way he whispered made the boy's heart jump in surprise. Oh, did he even mention that he didn't hear whatever the mysterious man said?

"Ha ha ha! If it isn't Marluxia of Organization XIII! Fancy meeting the so-called 'Graceful Assassin'!" One of the members of the Heartless scoffed. "This is OUR territory so know one is allowed to enter! Not even puny students like him." He then pointed the still speechless Roxas.

The 'Graceful Assassin' removed his arms around the teen, placed him behind his frame and whispered again, "Go. Now."

"Wh-what…? What about you?" Roxas finally mustered enough strength to say something to the mysterious man, who now he learned his name was Marluxia.

"I can take them on alone." He then pushed Roxas away, towards the stairs and flashed an evil smirk at him. Poor little boy. He didn't know what was behind that smile. He didn't even know what Marluxia was thinking.

Better yet, who REALLY was Marluxia?

"Buddy! Over here!" Hayner waved at Roxas, signaling where they would sit down. The four sat down on an empty table and chair near the counter of the cafeteria lady. It was break time so Roxas, Hayner, Pence and Olette decided to take their meals together.

Pence brought out another Sea-Salt ice cream, removing the wrapper as he started telling how his day was. "Mr. Strife was not around and we ended up here! Sea-salt ice creams are the best when that is what you eat first thing in the morning!"

Hayner then laughed as he stuffed his mouth with food. "Pence couldn't wait another period! Really! He can eat a lot of those!"

Olette sighed as he took and small bite at her home-made sandwich. "At least eat some REAL food, Pence…" She advised when she looked at her friend. "You might get sick or something…"

"Nah… I'll be good!" He smiled at the two as he waved his ice cream. He then turned to Roxas who he noticed was unusually silent. "Yo, you okay?"

"Y-yeah… Just thinking about stuffs." Roxas said as his mind continued to wander about what happened earlier. He wondered how Marluxia took those guys. Or could he even take them alone? It made him think that perhaps the said man was strong and that the latter wasn't bluffing. He did look that he had some strength or something.

Strong AND good-looking. What more could anyone ask for an idol?

"Well, you gotta hurry up in your thinking or else you'll run out of food." Hayner then pointed the counter to see the available foods were disappearing one by one. Immediately, Roxas stood and ran a little. When he was near the counter, someone again stuck their foot out and tripped the teen.

The young teen collided instantly with another teen in front of him. And the said another teen dropped his food on his clothes.

Roxas turned his head and looked at the second damn one who tripped him but was shocked to see the Heartless again, smirking at him.

"Who. The. Fuck. Bumped. Me?" Roxas turned back his head and stared at the growling teen. The teen turned right in front of him and revealed his red spiky hair, fitted shirt that now had stains and messy leather black pants. Roxas gulped.

This man was seriously angry.

"A-axel... Buddy, c'mon… Take it easy?" The one with a tomahawk hairstyle and bit smaller and also seemed to be friends with the angry man started trying to calm him down. Sadly, it was too late.

Axel grabbed Roxas by the collar and shouted, "Watch where you're going, kid! Don't you dare mess with me or else I'll burn you alive!"

The teen squirmed a little then swiped his hands against Axel's ones. Immediately, the red head dropped the boy and was taken a back at the sudden movement. Roxas immediately stood and stared the teen, which he learned his name was Axel.

"Don't shout at me!" The boy angrily said as he pointed at the direction of the Heartless. "They tripped me, if you must know!!"

Axel blinked for a while… This boy actually had the strength to fight back? Normally, when Axel threatened anyone, they would be scared enough that Axel didn't see them ever again.

Or worst, they even changed schools.

"Are you even listening?! Heartless were the ones who tripped me!" Roxas once again said to remove Axel from his sudden daze. People then started to flock near them and whispered to each other.

Demyx then popped his head above his best friend's shoulder and squealed, "Wow! You're brave, kid! No one ever stood up against Axel!"

Roxas finally twitched… None of them were listening to him! Especially the one who had red hair! At once, the young teen turned around and stormed off towards the exit, leaving his group of friends with an empty stomach.

"Did you just see that? The kid's actually cool!" Demyx remarked once again at the frowning Axel who both were now on the school's rooftop, skipping class again. The loud teen still remembered every detail of what just happened earlier at break time because he found it amazing and it wasn't something he usually see everyday. "We both know that no one ever stood up against you, Axel! We should at least give him credit!"

"…"

"But then again, you shouldn't have said that, you know? You practically embarrassed him to kingdom come!"

"….."

"He did say it was the Heartless's fault and you know how those punks are. I don't know but the ways Heartless pull some things off are amateur stuffs! Really!"

"…….."

"Well, you can at least apologize to the kid and—"

"What?!" The red-head suddenly exclaimed in disbelief. "Me?! Axel? The Organization XIII's 'Flurry Dancing of Flames' will apologize?! Are you fucking kidding me, Demyx?" Axel obviously disliked apologizing and admitting his mistakes, especially if he knew what he had done was REALLY a mistake.

Call it ego and probably pride.

"C'mon, it isn't that hard…" Demyx lectured. "All you have to do is go to the kid, say "I'm sorry…" and that's it! Easy, right?"

"Whate—"

His best friend immediately grabbed him by the arm and ushered the red head inside before the latter could finish his sentence. "Don't you give me that!" He shouted when he saw Axel started walking down the stairs, grumbling small curses about kids these generation are now brave and all. "Make sure you don't say something stupid like you always do!"

"Alright already!" Axel finally agreed and was now off to look for the so-called 'kid'.

Hayner, Pence and Olette stood against the wall outside Roxas' classroom, waiting for him to be dismissed. The time was almost 5 pm and the sun was starting to set. Some of the students already left to go home but the three stayed behind. They all knew their friend was still pissed off about the whole cafeteria incident and decided to go home together to cheer him up.

"Rox, you ready?" Hayner asked when he saw the dirty-blonde haired teen stepped out of the classroom still looking a bit gloomy. The other two looked hopefully.

The said teen shook his head and said, "Nah, you guys go on ahead… I need to finish some stuff here…"

"You sure?" Olette asked as she squeezed the handle of her bag in worried. She then glanced up to her friend, only to be flashed by a smile.

"Yeah…" Roxas affirmed once more and continued to smile. He didn't want to make his friends worry so much about him so he had to relax and take things easily and not mind too much about the incident. "See you tomorrow…"

The three nodded then waved their bye's with a grin, headed off to their respective homes. Roxas just stared as their figures disappear from the distance.

He sighed for a while and noticed something…

The school sounded so silent with no students around. Everything looked still and peaceful. The windows were shut. Chairs and tables were arranged for tomorrow. And the surroundings looked clean.

He went near the window and looked outside to see students going home. He also saw the sunset from the horizon and stared at it for a while to contemplate of what just happened earlier.

Today had gone horribly wrong. Starting off his loads, next the insect thing-y, then the jackasses who kept on picking on him and his day ended up with red-head man who was hot-headed all the same. Was Kami-sama punishing him today? Roxas didn't know…

He sighed once more in displease. These high school stuffs were really a pain to boot. Decided to finish his final work and go home to get some rest, Roxas shook his head from thinking and turned only to hear foot steps coming from somewhere.

"Hey…"

The voice sounded so familiar that Roxas had to look behind only to find a tall man with fiery red mane sticking up in different direction. Roxas blinked several times. What was Mr. Anger management doing here?

"Uh, you know… About what happened earlier… Um, you see…" Axel some-what stuttered as he rubbed his hand behind his head. He knew perfectly that he wasn't good at this but his best friend was right… Axel did owe the kid an apology for embarrassing him like that.

"Make sure you don't say something stupid like you always do!" Axel suddenly remembered and cursed Demyx for his goddamn lectures.

While on the boy, he still continued to blink and stare. "I-Is there something I can do for you…?" Roxas finally asked hesitantly when the silence was starting to fall. "When there's none, I'll be going now…"

Axel immediately grabbed Roxas arm to stop him. Axel then hung his head low and muttered something but unfortunately the younger one didn't hear it.

"What was that…?

More mumbles…

"Pardon?"

"I said… I'm sorry… For, you know… Shouting at you like shit, err, I mean, like that.…"

The younger one blinked and half-heartedly smiled, looking away from Axel, "S'okay… I think I would've gone like that if something similar happened to me…"

Axel then looked up and suddenly and unconsciously studied the one who was in front of him. Roxas was as tall as Demyx. His hair stuck up everywhere but was shorter than his and it was dark-ish blonde. Roxas' frame was rather petite and looked like to have been skipping a lot of meals. And when the rays of the sunset hit Roxas' eyes, it revealed a beautiful cerulean blue color.

Axel was suddenly shot with the thought, "Hey, he's actually cute when up clos— Wait a minute! What the hell am I saying?!"

Roxas faced Axel, who he found shaking his head weirdly. The former removed his arm slowly from the latter's grasp and said, "I forgive you, okay? I'll be going now…"

"Wait! Eto, your name is…?"

A sudden pause…

"Roxas…"

Axel, who at first to Roxas was as a hot-headed teen with zero temper and bad attitude turned out to be nice. The owner of the untamed hair smiled and said, "Axel's the name. Got it memorized?"

"…Uh, yeah."

The teen bowed and turned around, leaving the Flurry of Dancing Flames alone, staring at him as he went away.

As for older teen, he smiled while looking at the young one. It was a good thing he listened to Demyx for the first time!

There you have it! The first part! So, any suggestion to make it more unusual? Feel free to express! Please, no flaming ok? ((hides)) This is my first KH fic and 'lil 'ol me is trying to make it as great as my previous ones! ((is sad)) Argh! To hell with it! Setsuna can do this! I just need more inspiration!

Read and review… Much appreciated… ((grins))