Authors note: Ladies and Gentlemen, but mostly ladies, I am proud to present the newest piece of fanfiction to come out of MY head. Just kidding! This is a writing collaboration between Aryll and Me, Lady of the Cards. We've been working on this for a while. I think we have about three or four chapters right now, and we were planning on not posting it until we have finished. But, I wanted one chapter out to see how many eyes it would catch.

Warning: I'm rating this M because of future chapters.

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Demyx:

My Best Friend and Me

The first time I heard Axel's voice coupled with the magnificence of his guitar playing was the first time I ever heard music that I knew I would appreciate for a lifetime. It didn't make much sense, but I could listen to it forever and never get bored. Axel was a god who could make my heart ache, and sing in tune to the tides of his mood.

He was my best friend.

"Hey, kid!"

I jumped from my hideout behind a hulking bush of red azaleas that lined the driveway of my mysterious neighbor's house.

"Hey! I can see you..." there was a pause, "I'm serious, I can really see you. Are you okay? It looks like something is attacking your head."

I frowned and stood. "That's my hair..."

Fourteen-year-old Axel stood there in the opening of his garage, staring at me in a nonchalantly curious way, his hand holding limply onto his bright red guitar. "That's too bad," he smirked

I stepped from my hideout and crossed my arms, pouting, standing self-consciously at the edge of his driveway. "I'd say the same for you."

Axel just laughed at me. "Hey, come over here."

I shifted my weight from foot to foot before slowly edging over to him. Once I was standing in front of him he suddenly lashed out and socked my right shoulder with a curled fist. Stars burst before my eyes, and I lost my balance and fell onto my rear. He smiled down at me like nothing had happened as I gazed up at him in wide-eyed shock.

"Name's Axel. A-X-E-L, got it memorized?"

And that was how Axel and I met.

"A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative...

Blah, blah, blah..."

"Man, I wish he could at least try to make English exciting..." I stated, tuning out the teacher's droning voice with my mp3 player and focusing on Axel seated beside me. He was rolling a piece of paper in preparation for another spit ball. His victim, Zexion, was eyeing him in a very unhappy manner.

I looked away from Zexion's ugly scowl and back to Axel. Rolling my eyes, I turned away and stared at my empty notebook. "I wonder what Marluxia would want for lunch…burgers, maybe?"

"Dude, just ask him when you see him." Axel replied, slightly annoyed. He sharply before he sent his next spit ball on its way.

Zexion managed to dodge this one with his English book and Axel cursed. He was about to rip another bit of paper, but the bell rang.

I stood happily, as did Axel, but Zexion chose to voice his irritation by hissing "asshole!" across the classroom as he exited. Axel flipped him the bird and the blue-haired grump sneered over his shoulder as he left out the door. Don't get me wrong, they were friends, but most of our friend time consisted of teasing and picking on each other. Not to leave out our most favorite past-time of who could cuss the other out more flavorfully.

Axel flung his arm around my shoulders as we moseyed over to Mr. Ansem with casual comfort.

"Hey, Teach, pretty interesting lesson you gave today." Axel replied cheerily.

Xemnas, we liked to call him by his first name, rolled his eyes at Axel as he shuffled a stack of papers together. "Like you were listening."

"That's right!" Axel chirped, and I laughed.

"Don't you have to go stuff your gaping face hole with something?" Xemnas replied in good nature as he turned his back to us and started erasing his notes on the board.

Axel grinned and steered me toward the door. "See ya' later, Xemnas. Don't drone too hard." A grunt of indifference followed us out of the classroom.

We were barely down the hall when a poster jumped out at me from its spot on the wall, the amazing array of colors on it screaming "Look at me!!" Scanning it lazily, I read the large words: Duel of Dynamics.

Axel stopped just as I did, both of us staring at the poster in awe. Our eyes moved in sync as we read over the details of the poster. When we reached the very last period, there was a second of silence before we turned to each other and high-fived.

"We're going to own that contest!"

"Fuck yeah!" Axel hooted.

"Axel!"

"Sorry, Mrs. Lockheart!"

Both of us ducked out of the hallway and hurried outside where we could freely express our way of the English language. "This rocks! I didn't think they'd ever do something like this."

"I know, usually this school is a real stick in the mud." Axel replied as he glared at the exterior wall of said 'Institute of Learning.'

I nodded, grinning widely. "Okay, okay, so who are we going to include in on this? Zexion, for sure…"

"Xaldin, too! He kicks ass on drums." Axel interrupted with as much excitement as me.

"Oh, that's right! Wait, what about Lexaeus? Won't he want a part?"

"Man, you remember the last time he tried to play his bass guitar? It was like a-a-moose and a cow dying in unison," he stuttered, thinking of the right 'analogy.' Damn that English…

"True..."

"Besides, Mr. Chunky Fingers is tone-deaf, too."

"Okay, okay, no Lexaeus. I was just trying to be thoughtful."

"Well, think before you're thoughtful." He told me, touching his temple lightly.

"Dude!" I growled, pushing him roughly. As usual, he barely moved. Though our body types were nearly identical, Axel somehow had the strength of a running bull. Probably because of being in track…

Said red-head rolled his eyes and looked up in thought. "Zexion and Xaldin should be enough. Now for the music."

"It has to be profound."

"And kick ass," he added with his trade-mark grin.

"Right, well, that shouldn't be too hard." I ticked off on my fingers. "Profound and kick ass: check. Now we have to write it."

Axel hopped on the spot. "I just want to say fuck the rest of the school day. We gotta' go home and start writing."

I laughed, about to say something when I heard a very familiar voice. I whirled around to see my handsome, magenta lover walking up. He waved at me and I ran to him, diving into his open arms.

First chapter, I want to see how this does. Did you like it? Hope so. Aryll wrote this segment. :D

Just to let you know: it goes Demyx, Axel, Demyx, Axel; their point of views, back and forth. She writes the Demyx parts, I write the Axel parts.

Well hope you enjoyed, more will follow as soon as someone sends me their segment! –narrows eyes- Just kidding!

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-Lady of the Cards-