Unhooded

"Why doesn't she pull down her hood?" The blond asked himself as he stared out into the sunset. "It's not like something is wrong with her or anything like that."

"Hey Roxas!" Hearing a voice behind him, Roxas turned to look over his shoulder and saw Axel waving at him with two sea-salt popsicles in one hand.

"Hey Axel." He greets with a small smile.

"What's up?" Axel handed his blond haired friend a popsicle as he sat next to him on the edge of the clock tower. "Did you meet the new recruit that came in yesterday?"

"Yeah. Xion." Roxas softly answers as he took a bit of the popsicle. Still thinking of the new recruit.

Axel notices how quiet Roxas was being with the topic, but he just studied his friends posture and blank expression, trying to figure him out.

"You thinking of her?" Roxas didn't listen to Axel as he began to speak. "Do you like her?"

"What?!" Roxas blushed as he tried to deny Axel's false comment. "I don't even know what she looks like."

"Then why not ask her to show you want she looks like? It's not that hard." Axel raises an eyebrow as he bit into his popsicle.

"I've tried." He replies as he looks down at the half eaten popsicle. "But she just tried to make me forget about wanting to see what she looks like."

"If you want I can ask." Axel says casually.

"NO!" Roxas raises his voice, making the redhead raise his thin brow.

"Huh? Don't you want to know what she looks like?"

"I do but…. I want to do it myself." Roxas explained as he scratches the back of his head. Axel just shrugged his shoulders and stood up from the edge.

"Your los."

"Yeah yeah."

"By the way," Axel walked up to him and ruffled Roxas's short blond hair. "Xion was actually asking for you earlier."

"She was?" He looked up at the redhead.

"Yeah. I told her to meet you at your room right about…" Axel looks behind him and up at the large clock. A loud bang came from the bells inside the towers. "Now."

"Thanks Axel!" Roxas excitedly jumped off the edge of the clock tower and summoned a black portal halfway down the tall building.

"Haha. Kids." Axel also summons a portal and steps into it and enters on the other side into his room.

"Xion!" As Roxas jumps down from the portal and onto the white granite flooring of his room, he looked around and searched for a figure in a long trench coat and a hood. But as he saw just the belongings of his room, he sighs and hangs his head.

"Roxas?" But a surprise knock on his door and a quiet call of his name made him zip to the door in a second.

"Hey," Before he continued to greet her, he stopped mid-sentence as the unhooded recruit caught his light blue eyes onto her cornflower orbs.