Hey guys, omg I'm totally scared you won't like this. Just to let you know this is the first fic I've ever written. It wasn't actually meant to start but I wasn't paying attention in chemistry class, oops, and just started doodling with a story and next thing I know I write an okay first chapter. Hope you like it.

Disclaimer: I don't understand why we have to put these since it's obvious I don't own them...I wish I did...

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Roxas never minded school

Roxas never minded school. He was a very bright student, though not very social. In fact he was very antisocial. He didn't have any friends except—well he really didn't have any friends. No exceptions.

He was admired by all the girls for his looks. His small built, blue eyes, and most favored his unruly locks of blond hair. The guys only made fun of him when the girl they wanted was crushing over Roxas and ignoring them. Other than that, no one bothered him. No one dared talk to him for fear of his anger, and quite a temper he had.

It was rumored all around the school that he defeated, not how mind you, but the fact that he defeated Seifer and his gang very badly that Seifer was forced go to the hospital to tend to his wounds. After Seifer was released, he switched schools and no one heard from him again.

This had everyone fearing the blond, but allowed him to keep to himself, avoiding all and any talk of conversation even though they admired him for ridding the school of an unwanted bully. How Roxas, a puny teenager, was able to beat Seifer, not to mention the other four in his gang was still a mystery. All they knew was that it had happened the first day of school after coming back from summer break.

And yet, Roxas was oblivious to all this speculation. He was oblivious to most of everything that went on around him. He did not think about anyone. He couldn't. His brain only allowed him to focus on his studies and his nerves kept him away from people who may mean him harm.

He was in his own little world and it was only the second week of Roxas's sophomore year and he was already causing a stir amongst his classmates. But what he had not counted on, not that he ever noticed how, why or what he stirred up, was that the second week of school was going to interrupt his mind dallying and turn his world upside down. More than it already was.

"Why did I have to be so smart?" was Roxas's first thought as he sat down next to the redhead. He had arrived to school late, being unable to go to sleep after his late night visitor had left until half an hour before it was time for him to get up and get ready for school. Roxas was never one to come late to school, but quite the opposite. His teacher was very worried when he had not shown up, and even more when he did forty-five minutes after the bell had rung.

Mr. Highwind, the health teacher, stopped his lecture and starred at Roxas for a full minute before waving him in. Cid had no patience with late students, but it didn't surprise anyone when Cid made no comment over Roxas's tardy. He took in Roxas's haggard face and acknowledged the fact that Roxas had not been sleeping well this past two weeks. Or last year for that matter. Actually once he thought of it, there wasn't a day he had seen Roxas with a full nights sleep. He had always come to the classroom looking very tired as if he hadn't slept, but today's face exceeded all other days.

"Come here Roxas." Cid motioned him over. Roxas moved to stand next to Cid frowning. Why couldn't his stupid teacher just leave him alone and let him sit down? It's not like he always comes to school late. This was his first time, damnit! "I want you to meet someone new." Roxas was jerked away from his thinking by those words, and stiffened.

"I want you to meet someone new." Those words ran through his head, but in a different voice. A voice much more horrid, a voice that had been haunting him for two years. Roxas's insides began shaking cold. He showed no outward emotion. Many juniors and seniors compared him with a teacher they had once had, Mr. Leonhart. Neither of the two showed any emotion, yet Mr. Leonhart had a cold silence. One that made you eerie if you were anywhere near his vicinity. Roxas, on the other hand, was simply unreadable, or more accurately unreachable, although currently his face was an unnatural pale. His eyes were glassy, but his hands were steady. He silently praised himself for it. Two years of practice—heh, even more, his whole life practically was enough to teach not to let any of his emotions to escape.

"Roxas!" Cid practically had to snap his name out until Roxas finally showed any sign of listening. Then he frowned as he took in the pale face and slightly glassy eyes. "Are you okay? Would you like to visit the nurse—"

"No." He said it a bit too harshly causing Cid's frown to deepen. "I'm fine." He said more softly, his tone dull as ever.

Cid wasn't convinced, but he let it go. "This is Axel, Demyx, and Zexion," he said pointing to three boys already seated in desks at the far right of the room. "They are new to Twilight Town and I would like you to show them around a bit. You are the smartest so I believe that you are the most suited." It was a stupid excuse, but the only one he could think. "Maybe you can even show him around town as well."

It has become the teacher's personal project to get Roxas to open up to someone. The boy was usually pale and his eyes always had dark circles beneath them from obvious lack of sleep. They wanted to help the boy that had do wholeheartedly stolen their hearts unknowingly with his innocence and dedication to all his school work. Something that they did not understand and tried multiple times to find was why Roxas had failed to show up to take his exams his eighth grade year causing him to repeat that year over. He was not a grade behind, mind you; he was in fact a year ahead. He had skipped fourth and fifth grade because of how high his scores were. It would always be a mystery to them as to what had happened that year. The principal had also tried to extract this information from the boy, but Roxas always distanced himself, even more, if that was in any way possible and would not say a word of his past. They found out that he would not even speak the name of his middle school when they had asked him about it.

Roxas walked over to the trio. The only seat left was the one next to a certain redhead Cid had pointed out to be Axel, not that Roxas was listening. The redhead leaned back in his chair and smirked at Roxas.

"I'm Axel, got it memorized?"

"Sure." Replied Roxas not sparring said redhead another glance, and turned his gaze towards the two boys sitting behind him nodded at them and turned to face the teacher.

Axel's eyebrow shot up. On one had ever ignored him like that. Not after getting a chance to talk to him. Hell, everyone wanted to talk to him. He was fucking rich, but then Roxas didn't know that, did he? He'd be a changed man when he finds out. No one ever stayed the same after finding out that Axel was probably the richest kid in this country. His father was part of the country's government agency and had a lot of influence. Axel Hikari was never ignored.

Axel perked up. "Hey why don't we meet at my house tomorrow morning?" said the redhead trying to sound really enthusiastic. Demyx and Zexion only exchanged glances, knowing what this was all about. "It's a Saturday, right? You can show us around town," continued Axel.

"Uh…" the blond tired to conjure up an excuse but he couldn't think of any. It wasn't like he did anything but drive out of town for a little bit then go back to his cold and empty home. "Sure." He finally said looking depressed.

Axel smirked. He took out a small sheet of paper, wrote his address, and gave it to Roxas. Roxas sighed again as he looked at the address. Great he was with a trio of snobby rich kids. This was sure to be fun.

As Cid began his lesson again, Axel kept steeling glances at Roxas. He was very surprised again at his lack of reaction when he looked at the address. Axel narrowed his eyes. The kid had to be rich for him not to care. There was no other explanation. That has to be it…

The next morning Roxas woke up at ten. "Ugh, another shit fucking day." He mumbled to himself and went back to sleep.

Axel woke up at eleven and grinned to himself. The cute blondie was going to take them out today. His voice was so sweet, even if it did have a dull ring to it. He replayed their conversation in his head hearing the blond's voice perfectly.

"What time do you want to meet?" Axel asked smirking.

"Whenever," sighed Roxas. He really didn't want to take the redhead and his friends anywhere. No matter how cute the redhead was. He wasn't going to allow himself to fall into that trap again.

"Meet us at twelve thirty, my house." Roxas nodded and was turning to walk home when Axel stopped him again. "Would you like a ride home." Demyx and Zexion just sighed. Roxas shook his head and muttered something that resembled a "thanks" and continued walking home. "Don't get run over." Axel called out and snickered. Roxas turned around to stare at him. He let out a bitter laugh and started walking away again.

Axel frowned. He had awoken two hours ago, unable to sleep much that night, so he decided to get up take a shower, eat breakfast and get ready for his friends and Roxas to come over. Why did Roxas not drive a car? Why did he choose to walk home instead of drive a car? Every rich kid drove a car, unless it was in maintenance. Axel remembered his car was in maintenance just a week ago. It drove him crazy not to be able to drive his beloved Ferrari. He wouldn't believe that Roxas was poor. It just didn't make sense. His clothes seemed really nice and expensive, but Axel couldn't really say that because he had only known the kid for a day.

Either way, Axel was still not over the fact that there was no reaction whatsoever from Roxas when he saw his address. Even if the kid was rich, some reaction would have been called for. Oh well, he would find out for sure when the blond came over.

It was quarter after one and the blond had yet to show. Demyx and Zexion looked at each other worriedly as Axel thrashed around the place enraged. He hated it when people were late. "If he didn't want to come with us, he could have fucking called and said so."

"Did you give him your number?" asked Zexion.

Axel turned to glare at the blue haired boy then stopped. It was true, the blond couldn't call him because he didn't fucking have his number. Axel slapped himself mentally for not thinking of that before. "Fin. Let's go to his house then." He turned and walked out. Demyx and Zexion scurried after him. Axel's long limbs had taken him very far by the time Demyx and Zexion had gotten outside.

"Axel, Wait!" yelled Demyx. Axel whirled around, put his hands on his girly hips and cocked his head.

"What?" he spat out.

They panted when they reached him trying to catch their breaths. "Do…you…have…his address?"

"Of course. It's right here." Axel pulled out a small sheet of paper on which an address was scrawled on.

Zexion raised an eyebrow. "Fine let's go." He sighed. Axel turned and marched on limbs taking longer steps than usual making the couple jog to keep up. Ten minutes of walking in silence, but for Axel's singing, brought them to a park.

"Ice cream!" yelled Demyx. "Please Zexy. Can we get ice cream? Please!"

"Demyx you just had some pancakes at Axel's." sighed Zexion. He didn't look at Demyx because he knew he wouldn't be to say no to his puppy dog look. There would be no use arguing with Demyx's puppy eyes because he knew he was going to lose anyways. So instead he said, "Ask Axel, he's the one anxious to get to Roxas's house."

Demyx pouted but turned his full fledged puppy face to Axel. Axel made the mistake of looking at him. Demyx was ready to shout for joy when he saw Axel looking, almost positive he was going to have his way. He had Axel cornered. No one can resist his eyes.

"No."

Demyx's face fell into one of utter surprise. Even Zexion lifted an eyebrow. He let out a slight chuckle. "My, my, you must be very anxious to reject Demyx like that."

Axel paid no attention to him, but Demyx glared at his lover and huffed after Axel. Zexion frowned at Axel. This wasn't normal behavior for the redhead. Axel never allowed anything to be the soul purpose of what he went out to do. He often made random visits to places just for the hell of it. This deffenantly wasn't normal.

Axe was paying no attention to the two behind him. He was busy trying to make sense of the streets and where he was supposed to go. Finally, after a lot of asking around and getting lost, he reached the house Roxas was supposedly living in. It wasn't a very big or expensive looking house. It was an average normal person's type of house. There were plants sitting on a window sill that were dead from obvious lack of care, and the lawn looked like it hadn't been mown in weeks.

Axel went up to the door and knocked. He listened for some sign of movement, but heard none. After knocking a few more times, he gave up dejectedly. Where was he? He was supposed to show them around, not go out by himself somewhere. Annoying son of a bitch, thought Axel, why'd we get stuck with him anyway?

"Come on guys," he said suddenly. "Let's go get that ice cream."

"Yay!" Demyx cheered.

Zexion studied Axel's face. Something wasn't right here. He would find out what it was sooner or later.

As they walked back to the park where they saw the ice cream stand, Axel was musing in his head. Roxas's house didn't seem to show that he was rich. But neither did it show that he was poor. He wondered what his parents worked. That would somehow help him figure out what Roxas's status was. Axel frowned suddenly. Why was he worrying so much about whether Roxas was a rich kid or not? It didn't matter right? He hated it when people thought about if he was rich or not. It shouldn't be that that decides your friendship with a person. And yet Axel knew why he was wondering. He really wanted to know if Roxas was like all the others. If he would start sucking up to him just to get something he wanted. He sighed. Guess it would have to wait.

The trio waited in line for their ice cream. "Three sea salt ice cream please," said Demyx happily.

They sat down to eat their ice cream and wondered what they should do today. Since they really didn't know the place much, they decided to just grab a movie and go to Axel's place and watch it. Now all they had to do was find out where they could find a movie store and they were all set.

Axel was moving to throw away his stick in the trash when he heard something from a table where four silver haired boys sat.

"…where do you think Roxas had gone this time?" asked one boy.

"I don't know, but I'm kinda enjoying this hide and seek game every weekend," giggled another.

"Shut up Sephiroth. We need to find him. We lost him over the summer break, and now school has started. It would be suspicious if he disappears again," he grumbled. "Now we're forced to wait till he gets some kind of long break. Oh we'll return him to school once its time, but we have to be careful how much fun we have with him and where. Don't want anyone getting suspicious about the boy's life."

"I think it's a little too late for that," said Axel stepping in.

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So that's the end of chapter one. Reviews pwease, let me know what you think