Hello all! This random idea just popped into my head after soccer practice and I just couldn't stop thinking about it. I know soccer can get a little repetative sometimes, so when they play the games I'll speed them up for your sakes.(as well as my own and my poor, poor fingers TT)

Rating: T

Pairings: Main- AkuRoku, Minor- SoKai, other ones that I may put in as the story goes along

Summary: As a first-year freshman in highschool trying out and making the soccer team was a huge accomplishment for Roxas, but now their school is faced by their all-time rivals, but this time instead of on the field, this time they're in the school!

Enough of my ramblings now. Ficcy time!

Flashback

"All right! Here's the deal guys, we're gonna go in there and play our best. Have fun! Its a game, that's what we do in games. Here are the positions. Roxas, you're in net. Tidus and Riku, you're our forwards. Sora, Kairi and Olette, defense. Decide the rest amongst yourselves, okay? I want a game to remember against these guys!" barked the trainer and coach for the Paopu Highschool co-ed soccer team, Squall "Leon" Leonhart.

"Lets do this guys!" Encouraged a lunar silver-haired boy near the front of the circle of teens. "We'll start off this season with a win! Lets make the ones, including myself, going into Paopu High something to be proud of!"

Many cheers followed after that along with a "You tell 'em Riku!" and a "Yeah! C'mon, lets get going out there!". Leon looked around at his team with a nod as they all stuck a hand into the middle of the circle.

"C'mon Roxas!" a brunette called over to a spikey haired blonde boy who was pulling his goalie gloves over his hands.

"Coming!" he shouted back and hurriedly made it over sticking his own hand into the mix. Leon then put his in as he nodded over at one of the girls, a red haired girl named Kairi, to start off the cheer for the team.

"Ready? One, two, three," Kairi counted off until everyone then shouted as one.

"COUGARS!"

Something familiar was coming from the other team, except for the cougars being shouted it was a different name.

"Lets go Wolves! Lets go!" chanted the other team which were in black and white uniforms while the Paopu High soccer teams' uniforms were blue and green.

After staring a second Roxas's concentration was broken by Leon's shouting of, "Roxas and Sora, you're captains for this game! Go on up to the ref! Hurry up!"

The blonde teen could only nod at his coach as he ran up to the referee with the spikey haired brunette. The referee looked at both boys once before looking over at the other team as two other boys came over at a fast-walk pace.

Roxas looked over both boys carefully noting things that could probably be used for further use during the game. From what Roxas could tell the first boy had quite the taste in hairstyles as it looked mullet-mohawkish and liked some music as he was humming a tune to himself. He seemed like a goof-off to Roxas, but he reminded himself that looks could be decieving and kept the thought hidden.

It was the second boy who surprised Roxas the most, and it wasn't that he was probably taller than the referee, it was his hair. Even from the other side of the field you could see those spikes jutting out, more even so because of the bright firetruck red color which was tied up in a ponytail-like style.

The two then were facing Roxas and Sora, the red haired guy in front of Roxas( not to mention towering over him) and the dirty blonde haired dude in front of Sora(while still humming the tune). Holding out his hand Roxas felt the other guy grip it tightly as they shook hands and introduced each other and felt a little twinge in his chest. "Roxas." he said quickly, but not too quickly so nobody could understand what he'd said.

"Axel." The name smoothly came out of the redhead's mouth then added a bit cockily," Got it memorized?" He tapped his head with his other hand as if to give emphasis to his words. Roxas could only nod with an annoyed frown before thinking, 'That was annoying. I already got his name, does he have to say that stupid phrase like its his catchphrase or something? God.'

Sora and the blonde haired guy now known as Demyx did the same although Roxas only paid enough attention to them catch the other guy's name as they introduced themselves after Roxas and Axel did and that Sora was much more relaxed.

"Alright, you guys are the Home team so the Away team gets to call it." the ref said with a nod to Roxas and Sora, it was a girl for you could tell from the sweet tone of voice, pulling a coin from her pocket. "Alright. Call it, heads or tails."

Now as if speaking on instinct Axel called out instantly," Heads." before his partner could react to what was just going on since he'd been distracted with his tune.

As luck would have it, the coin ended up on heads. "Alright, Away team has the ball. Which side do you want?" the question was directed at Roxas.

"The side we're on." the blonde teen replied before running over to the goalie box, what had caused him to do that? 'Focus,' he told himself, 'No time for screw-ups today!'

Axel had watched the blonde boy he now knew as Roxas go over to the goal with a smile. "Huh." he said quietly to himself as he walked over to the center of the field as the center forward position.

The right forward then joined him in the center, it was a girl with stunning yellow-blonde hair with two strands on each side of her face that came over her head like antenneas that Axel and his friend Demyx would often tease her about. "'Huh' what Axel? We don't have time for your thinking on other things, we need to crush these kiddies into the grass we walk on. So snap out of it." As if to prove her point she snapped her fingers twice in front of Axel's face making him instictively move back a bit.

"Its nothing like that Larx. Just thinking on the game, that's all." he reassured her with his trademark smirk.

"It better be." she muttered dangerously at the same time the whistle blew to start the game, making the threat go unheard.

The game then continued onwards with a series of fakes, sprints and finally a breakaway. All the forwards had been passed and were desperately trying to keep up with the long-legged redhead who was eating up the turf in large strides. There was only one defender left, the red-haired center defender Kairi, and Axel smirked as she came at him.

Time seemed to slow down for a second before the ball was suddenly past Kairi and headed towards the goal where Roxas was. The blonde teen blinked and then processed that Axel had used a croif manuver to pull the ball backwards then skim around Kairi through his mind.

Bracing himself the blonde teen watched Axel come towards him as he saw the redhead move over to one side then the other as if tempting Roxas to come out of the net and kick the ball away. He was smarter than that and stayed put, knowing that the forward could fake a move around him easily enough if he was given the right conditions. His cobalt colored eyes darted from one end of the goal to the next judging the distance it would take to leap to one side and the other.

Turning his attention back to Axel he found that the redhead had kicked the ball and was following it up at a rapid pace with a blonde girl behind him in hot pursuit. Jumping to the left with both hands outstretched Roxas felt the ball and seized it while pulling it to his chest as he fell down to the ground. Axel saw that the keeper, or Roxas had caught it and smiled a bit thinking to himself, 'He's got some quick reflexes on 'em.' It was after that thought he found he was too close to the goal to stop himself and go the other way and managed only to trip over Roxas and stumble on the other side of him a second after the blonde teen had landed.

Feeling something run into him and land behind him Roxas figured someone had tripped as an immediate thought. Turning his head to look he found he was correct and saw Axel in the goal stumbling for balance, but then regained it smoothly. Taking the opportunity the teen leaped to his feet and running to the edge of the goal box threw the ball to Riku who was at the center line and open, waiting for the ball. He felt a swoosh of air next to him and found the redhead had now started to run back towards the center line.

After a few more changing of people from both teams it was past half-time and into the last two minutes of the second half. The Wolves had scored one goal while the Cougars had none. Roxas had been trying to deflect the goal off his hand with a punch, but had missed and it bounced off the goal post and into the goal although if it had been a little off to the side it would've either gone out or across the goal.

As the clock was running near the scoreboard on the outdoor field the teen couldn't help, but feel a tension between himself and all of his teammates. They needed to score, and they needed to do it in the next minute and a half. "Go guys! Pressure them! Turn Sora, you've got Tidus up front!" Roxas yelled from back by the goal to up front.

Sora had followed Roxas's instuctions passing the ball to Tidus who faked out the defender there who had an eyepatch, of all things that could be strange, and headed towards the open goal. Pulling back his foot he shot at the far lower left corner from his side on the right.

It bounced off the post just as the buzzer for the game to end went off. The Cougars drooped as the spectators from the Wolves's side cheered in an uproar. The Cougar fans clapped politely, but exited without another thought as parents of some of the Cougar players stepped out from the stands to pick up their kids.

Both teams lined up at the center line then, with the goal keepers at front, and stepped towards each other slapping the other teams's hands while saying "Good Game" to each other as they walked by.

Afterwards Leon gave a short meeting of how 'don't take the loss too seriously' and 'there'll be other games' and 'It was really close! You guys should be proud of yourselves'. Then there was him saying that practice would start the day after tomorrow right after the first day of school. After that the team broke up the meeting and went to their parents or cars to go home except for Roxas, Sora and Riku since they lived close to the soccer field and the school.

Walking back to his soccer bag Roxas found there was a note pinned to it of paper that looked to be from an agenda book of some sort. "A note?" he said to himself un-pinning it he read it to himself carefully.

Dear Roxy,

That was some game you played, I'm impressed, seriously. I'll be sure to catch you around sometime.

The writing was hurried and Roxas could barely make out the curly cursive scrawl, but did it anyway. Scowling as he read the note once more he said harshly," Roxy?"

Rolling his eyes a bit folded up the paper and sighed sticking it in his bag side pocket before getting up and leaving the field before wondering who wrote the note.

'Maybe it was some girl from the stands or something. From being around Kairi she usually tends to make up weird (and sometimes stupid) and annoying nicknames.' he thought before walking up to his door and closing it behind him before he noticed that the bus that was taking the other highschool, their their rivals from Hollow Bastion Highschool, had just gone by his house.

But the one thing he didn't notice was that there was one particular person on that bus watching him as he went inside.

A-N

Okay time to run off the things I do not own. I don't own any of the characters, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, the game of soccer, the kewl soccer ball used in this fic, Roxas's goalie gloves, the uniforms, or...wait, I've lost track now. Great... -sighs- I don't own anything okay! -sniffs-

Next chapter is when the story really starts, kaykay? This is more of a flashback to a past event type-thing. Stay tuned for more as the randomness is about to unfold. Yay.

Also, just cause I'm starting this one too doesn't mean I'll neglect from my other stories. Those'll still be in progress with this one, I swear!

Well that's it. Au revoir! ( yay, I take french! )

Kiesha & Kiaxshe (otherwise known as Aly-Cooper)