DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN KINGDOM HEARTS OR ANY OF THESE CHARACTERS. ALL CREDIT SHOULD GO TO SQUARE ENIX AND DISNEY

"Just look at him," Roxas thought as he peered across the hallway at Ventus. "He is by far the sexiest person at this school." Roxas bit his lip as he continued to glance at the boy who he had lusted over for nearly a year now. Sure Roxas had known that he was gay for some time now, but he never expected himself to be so attracted to someone who resembled himself as much as Ventus did. Some people might even go as far as to call his attraction narcissistic due to the fact that he and Ventus were so similar physically. In fact, many people thought that they were twins; the only noticeable difference between the two is the fact that Ventus's hair is a sandy blonde, while Roxas's is more of a dirty blonde. Where the two's differences truly show is in their personalities Ventus is charming, funny, friendly, and overall fun to be around, whilst most people think that Roxas is a broody, overly reserved kid. However, people respect Roxas because of his social standing, not that he really cares about it though. If it were up to him, he would just have everyone ignore him, but when your best friend is Sora Leonhart, the most popular kid in school, you tend to be held in high esteem.

Roxas is suddenly pulled out of his thoughts of the blonde before him when he hears that god awful nickname of his. "Roxy! Roxy! Come on we're going to be late for first period!" Roxas puts on his best scowl and looks Sora directly in the eyes, before hissing his response to the brunette, "I told you not to call me that." Sora merely rolls his eyes and grabs Roxas's hand dragging him off to class before he can think of anything to say in response. Of course Sora would drag him right in front of Ventus, and Roxas tries to avoid said blonde's eyes. When he is finally able to meet Ventus's eyes he notices something. The sandy blonde's eyes were locked on Sora and Roxas's entwined fingers and a scowl was growing on the previously beautiful face of the guy he liked. Roxas only had a moment to ponder this before Sora dragged him into their first period class.

"Why does math class have to be so boring?" Roxas wondered to himself. Now before you get the wrong idea, Roxas was not bad at math. In fact, that was far from the truth. He was regarded as the top student in the class ever since Zexion graduated last year. Roxas might not have liked the older boy all that much, but he had to admit, the kid is smart. Looking over to his right, less than that could be said about Sora. Roxas doesn't think that the boy is dumb, but he is not exactly the brightest crayon in the box either. He makes good grades, but he has to really fight for them unlike Roxas who has taken his text-book home maybe three times all year.

"Mr. Strife?" Roxas looked up from his desk and met the eyes of the teacher in the front of the room. He answered his teacher quickly, but still as courteous as he could. "Yes sir?" He felt the intense gaze of Mr. Luxord boring into him, but the man simply smiled and waved whatever he had previously said off. "I was just making sure that you weren't sleeping through my class /again/, Roxas. I mean, I would really hate to have to report you to Principal Xemnas for something as silly as refusing to pay attention. You're the top student in this class could you please act like it." And with his small lecture finished he turned his attention back to the white board in front of him, before resuming his work on the large problem before him. Roxas tried to drown out the sound of his best friend's chuckles beside him feeling embarrassed enough without any added teasing from the dopey brunette sitting next to him.

The rest of the period had passed rather slowly as it seemed Mr. Luxord was becoming less and less interested in teaching the class and more and more focused on trying to make Roxas squirm. He caught Roxas staring into space again, but instead of lecturing him this time he decided that it would be more fun to play a game with said blonde. He pulled out a deck of cards and said that if Roxas pulled out a black card that he would be safe and none of this would be mentioned ever again, but if the unthinkable happened and Roxas pulled a red card then he would be handed over to the office. Roxas was faced with no choice but to go along. I mean after all he had a 50/50 shot. The students had always heard that Mr. Luxord had a gambling problem, but this is the first time that he had ever shown signs of it in class. Although there was one thing that the students knew for certain, and that was that Mr. Luxord never played fair. Roxas was becoming increasingly nervous, as he eyed the deck somewhat hesitantly. He found himself counting thirteen over from the left, after all thirteen had always been his favorite number. He let his hand rest on the card for the moment before finally muttering, "Fuck it. I might as well give it a shot." He proceeded to pull out the card and found that surprisingly it was black. Roxas could tell that Mr. Luxord's eyebrow was twitching as he eyed the card in Roxas's hand. "Guess you won this round, Strife. Now get out of my sight before I report you anyway."

Roxas headed his advice and left the classroom without looking back or waiting on Sora much to the brunette's dismay. "Roxy! Wait for me, Roxas!" The blonde in question initially sped up when he heard his pet name, but once Sora decided to say his real name he stopped and waited for him. The brunette still had to sprint to catch up with the blonde, so when he was finally able to arrive he was out of breath. "Roxas, you should really run track, if you sprint anywhere near as fast as you walk no one will ever be able to catch you." Sora said with a light chuckle as he continued to catch his breath. Roxas rolled his eyes, but couldn't help the laugh that escaped his lips. "Sora you really are an idiot sometimes," said Roxas wearing that famous smirk of his.

Roxas's smirk quickly faded away, though, as he suddenly felt like someone was watching Sora and him. He allowed his eyes to flick around the hallway for a moment before they came to rest on a pair that were nearly identical to his. Ventus was watching the two of them again, but why? Roxas could see something different behind the normally light and playful expression Ventus was wearing. Once the sandy blonde realized that Roxas had caught his gaze his cheeks tinted a light shade of pink, and he almost immediately looked away. Roxas considered his reaction for just a moment before Sora spoke up, "Roxas are you even listening to me?" Roxas just blinks at him for a moment, "Huh? Did you say something, Sora?" Sora feigned hurt as he responded, "Oh Roxas, you never listen to me anymore! Have you found someone to take my place?" Roxas almost winced at how loud Sora had just said all of that. "No! No! Of course I didn't, Sor! You know that I love you!" he exclaimed just as loudly and pulled Sora into a tight hug.

Out of the corner of my eye I noticed that Ventus's hands were balled up in fists, and I tried to consider why. Oh, he was probably just embarrassed by the best friend's display of affection in front of him. Roxas could understand why that might make him uncomfortable, so he backed away from Sora, who was smiling like a goober just like always. Ventus seemed more visibly relaxed though with Roxas and Sora not wrapped around each other. Roxas sent him a smile and watched as the boy blushed and stared at his feet. "What was getting into Ventus today?" Roxas wondered, "He never acts like this around me."

Sora after seeing the exchange between Roxas and Ventus shifted awkwardly on his feet catching his best friend's attention almost instantly. Said friend then pried his eyes away from Ventus and looked at Sora almost expectantly, wanting to know why he wants his attention. Sora put on a shy smile for just a moment before he answered hesitantly, "w-well we have gym, so we need to hurry up and go so that we have time to change." Roxas stared at Sora for a moment considering his reason before finally submitting to the brunette's idea, but not before he snuck one more look at the now sad-looking Ventus. He really wanted to go over and talk to him, but for some reason he knew that his wishes would not go over too well with Sora, so he decided to bite his tongue and hold it in.

Roxas and Sora arrived at the changing room before their other classmates, but began to change anyway since they knew that Coach Larxene would show them no mercy if they were late. Roxas was in the middle of unbuttoning his shirt when he heard the door open again and turned around to see who it was. His ears turned a light shade of red when he realized that it was Ventus. However, said blonde was not alone. His friends Terra, Herc, and Zack were accompanying him. Ventus's heart nearly stopped when he saw the bare skin of Roxas's chest showing through his shirt, and his face turned beet red before he quickly walked to his own locker looking nowhere other than the ground. Roxas once again took note of the strange behavior and was beginning to form a theory about why Ventus was acting this way. Ventus hated him. Roxas once again took note of the strange behavior and was beginning to form a theory about why Ventus was acting this way. Ventus hated him.

Roxas took this sudden realization hard and became almost immediately depressed. The smile that he was wearing when he first saw Ventus was long gone, and now he was wishing that he was anywhere but there at school. He finished changing without saying another word and headed out to class without waiting on Sora again. He sat alone at the far end of the gym trying to avoid everyone else's attention. The other's in the class seemed to notice this change in Roxas though, but every time one of them tried to go cheer the boy up he would just brush them off and go somewhere else. Sora had managed to hold his attention for a little while, once he went over to him, and managed to get him to join the class even if he refused to talk to the rest of them.

Coach Larxene walked into the class about twenty minutes late, but that did not mean that the boys were going to get off easy. That would have been too easy, and Larxene takes pride in being the most difficult teacher in the entire school. "Come on, maggots. You boys have some laps to run." She, that's right Larxene was a woman, didn't like how long it took the boys to get on their feet, "Did I say that you could dilly dally? NO! That will be double the laps now MOVE!" Once she doubled the laps the boys really did hurry. That was twenty laps they had to run, and the sooner they got done the sooner they could go to lunch.

Roxas heard Sora's stomach growl, but he knew that the boy would be far too lazy to do all the laps at the pace that he was about to. All that Roxas really wanted to do was get away from the others in the class anyway (especially Ventus), so maybe he should just blow through these laps full speed. "Yeah that's what I will do." Roxas said slyly as he looked over at Sora. "Hey, Sora, I think that I am going to go all out today." Sora looked at his friend dumbstruck, normally their positions are reversed Sora wants to do his best and Roxas just wants to slack off, but not today. After a moment of considering this Sora nodded and submitted to his friend's idea, "Okay. Just promise that you will save me a seat at lunch." Roxas nodded at his friend before putting on a light smile and running to the track, so that he would be ready when Coach Larxene says go.

It seemed however that Roxas was not going to be alone in this task because as soon as he gets into place he sees the familiar shuffle of blond hair next to him. "Ventus?" The boy smiled and nodded, "Hey, Roxas. You trying to get your laps over with too?" He nodded his head lightly to answer Ventus's question before adding, "yeah I just can't seem to get out of this class fast enough today." Roxas was suddenly remembering that his bad mood was due to the dopey blonde standing next to him, but tried to keep a smile on his face anyway. Ventus seemed to notice that they boy was stressed and wanted to help him if he could. "After all," Ventus began mentally, "I'm starting to fall for you." Ventus was genuinely curious about what was wrong with the boy, though and didn't know what was bothering him so he decided to ask, "Hey what's wrong?"

Roxas stared at the boy blankly for a moment trying to figure out if he really cared or if he was asking just because it was the polite thing to do. "Wait, what does that matter?" Roxas asked himself mentally, "I can't tell Ventus what's wrong because it involves him." Ventus seemed to notice Roxas's apprehension, "You don't have to tell me what's wrong if you don't want to, Roxas." The boy quickly smiled and answered, "Thanks, Ventus." Ventus frowned for a second, "you can call me Ven by the way, Roxas. Ventus just sounds too formal." Roxas just smiled and nodded, "Okay, Ven."

The moment between the two boys was quickly cut off though as Coach Larxene arrived, Roxas and Ven watched her approach in what seemed to be slow motion. Sure, the boys couldn't take their time, but God forbid anyone rush Larxene. Ven was beginning to enjoy Roxas's company and didn't want it to end right after gym, so he decided to try to make a bet with him. "Hey, Roxas?" The dirty blond looked over at him with a curious twinkle in his eye. "Yeah, Ven?" Ventus put on a playful smirk and whispered, "What do you say we make these laps more interesting? Roxas raised an eyebrow at his doppelganger's proposal, "More interesting, how?" Ventus kept smiling, "Well lunch is right after this class, so how about we make this a race, loser buys winner's lunch." Roxas gave Ven a devilish smirk, "It's a bet. I hope you brought enough money."

Ven couldn't help but laugh at Roxas's confidence. This day was going perfectly. He was finally getting closer to Roxas. There was one small drawback, though. Ventus couldn't help but notice the stink eye that he was receiving from his crush's best friend. Sora obviously doesn't trust him, but why? "I guess I will try to find out later," began Ventus in his head, "but for now, I have to focus on beating Roxas." Larxene pulled out her starting gun and pointed it directly above her head. "Runner's on your marks! Ready! Set!" a few long antagonizing seconds passed before Ventus heard the pop of that gun, but once he heard it he was going to run for his life.

What he had neglected to tell Roxas was that he did not have enough money to feed them both, so he had to win. "The only other option was to die of embarrassment, and let's face it I am much too sexy to die over that," Ven laughed mentally as he sprinted to the head of the pack.

AN: This is my first Kingdom Hearts fic and I would love some feedback. If I don't get any I will probably just make this a one shot, but if I get some good reviews I will continue to update this and hopefully make a larger story line.

I know that this is an unpopular pairing as well, but I find that I enjoy the contrast between the Roxas and Ven. They make a cute couple in my opinion.

Anyway, Please Review :)