I hope you like the new story!

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yaoi (manxman)-language-smex? lol

It was around lunch and Roxas was up in his room waiting for his three best friends to show up at his doorstep so they could go to the movies. Roxas was really hoping that Pence or Hayner would stand up against Olette and disagree if she planned on going to the mall. Every time he was dragged there, yes, literally dragged, they would spend hours looking at just two pair of shirts deciding on which one would go better with Olette's skirt and shoes. Pence would usually step in and tell Olette that she looked great in anything so that they could get the hell out of there. It usually cost Roxas something in return for saving his life.

Roxas' brother was out with his best friend Riku and a couple of other guys, which was definitely a good thing because Roxas assumed that his brother would want to tag along with him to the movies. Roxas did not like Sora's company whenever his friends were around. He was just to embarrassing. He honestly didn't understand how that crazy brunette was even related to him. A knock from down stairs sent Roxas tumbling off his bed in fear. Scrambling back up to his feet, he hurried to shut his bedroom door and missed about twelve out of twenty steps going down the flight of stairs to make it to the front door in time before…

"Hello, you must be some of Roxas' friends! Come on in and have a seat on the couch while I make something for you all to eat. Do you all like leftover pizza? It will only take a min" Roxas cut her off by coughing very loudly into his fist so everyone noticed that he was standing there listening to his so called 'mother' ramble on about nonsense.

"Actually Namine, we were just leaving to go see a movie. Right guys?" Pence seemed to have second thoughts about seeing a movie when Namine pulled out a box containing leftover pizza from about two nights ago. Pence had his eyes on the box the whole time and kept licking his lips until Olette nudged him with her elbow.

"Oh…" Pence mumbled as he watched the box glide across the room as Namine planned to put it away. Hayner kept his arms crossed in front of his chest and kept his body in a very nonchalant manner as he watched Pence with amusement. Hayner was laughing on the inside that Pence couldn't finish his sentence because of his hunger, Namine was talking to her brother Roxas about how late he gets up every morning and doesn't have time to cook him breakfast and Olette just watched in amusement.

Olette, a curly haired brunette who dresses up in colorful clothing all the time, even on rainy days, sweet to anyone, and is the type of girl who isn't much of a talker unless it is about shopping, jewelry and other stuff that boys didn't want to hear about. Most of her friends are guys so nobody wants to listen about these types of things. When her and Roxas are alone though, she rambles on and on since he's the only one who listens.

Roxas, a young boy with blonde hair, blue eyes, short for his age, and a small, pudgy cute nose, will always listen to what Olette has to say. You could say Roxas is the closest to Olette but they are neither boyfriend nor girlfriend, and Olette is the only one who knows Roxas' biggest secret. Not even his brother or sister knows, and he plans to keep it that way for a while. He thinks that they wont even except him anymore and Namine will kick him out of the house onto the streets and tell him to never come home because he's a filthy disgusting animal. Of course Olette did not think of him this way at all and she is sure that his family wouldn't care about his secret either. Roxas couldn't take that chance though. Being gay was a sin to them.

Pence grabbed a piece of cold pizza from the box right before Namine put it away. Roxas was deep in thought about something until Hayner broke his thoughts.

"So, are we going or what? My mom will have my head if I stay out all night, so lets get a move on." Hayner got up from the kitchen chair that he was currently lounging in for only about five seconds and was in a hurry to get going.

"Hold on a second, I need to get shoes." Roxas yelled to his friends as they said their goodbyes to Namine and was heading out the door.

Roxas stumbled up the stairs and when he got to the top he heard faint footsteps lurking around in his room. Roxas knew that no one was home besides him and his sister, but his sister was down in the kitchen probably cleaning up the mess Pence made. Roxas was going to call down to Namine about a rat problem again until he heard a loud crash of glass hitting the floor and shattering. Roxas clenched his teeth shut as he waited for Namine to come up and murder him but surprisingly, she didn't.

Slowy and carefully, Roxas creaked the door open so that he could just peak in with out disturbing what or who was in there. Trying not to make any sound at all, not even breathing, he scanned the room for his intruder.

He was shocked to see no one there. The only thing he did see was paper of books torn and scattered about on the floor. He also saw the source that made the loud noise. Lying next to his bed was a broken picture frame containing a picture of Sora, Riku and him at the park. They had asked Namine to take a picture of them all hanging upside down on the monkey bars. It was quite funny in Roxas' opinion. Sora's face was priceless.

Cleaning up the remains of glass on the floor, Roxas set the picture on his desk and turned to leave until he heard a faint bump just like last time.

"Hey! Blondie!" a very small faint voice called out. Roxas barely heard it and thought he was hearing voices in his head. His heart was pounding so loud that he thought it was going to leap out of his chest. Having his hand on the doorknob, he looked around his room quickly and saw absolutely nothing or anybody besides him across the room in his mirror. He was going insane. He needed fresh air so he took a step to head out the door.

"Hey, Hey! Watch where you're stepping!" the voice called out again. 'Watch where you're stepping?' Roxas thought to himself right before he decided to look down.

It was absolutely amazing! Roxas could not believe his eyes. His ears and his eyes were definitely playing tricks on him. How was it even possible? Roxas decided to scream since there was nothing else he could do at a situation like this.

"W-what…how…can-n" Roxas was lost for words.

"Roxas? Is every thing all right up there? I heard a loud crash and you screaming…" 'Great' Roxas thought to himself. Namine was coming up the steps.

"Are you alright Rox" She paused. Roxas heart almost stopped beating all together. Had she seem him? What would she think if she had?

"Wow Roxas, your room is a complete disaster! Hurry and clean this up before heading out. Oh, and pick up that bag of potato chips off you bed too and put them away! Honestly." Namine rambled on about how messy and uncivilized he was as she closed his door and headed back down the stairs. Listening to see if she was gone, he fell back onto his bed and took the breath he was holding in for a very long amount of time.

"Who was that? Your mother for Pete's sake! Jeez, she's annoying. I'm glad she isn't my mother." Roxas opened his hand that was behind his back so Namine would not see and was completely speechless once again. A very small man that was about two inches tall lay in Roxas' right palm. Roxas could see that he had unbelievably red hair and bright green eyes that stared back at his blue ones. They were very majestic looking along with the tattoos that lay just beneath them. To Roxas, they looked like black upside down teardrops, one under each eye. He hadn't noticed the clothing earlier considering he didn't have much time but they were plain, just like the clothes he had been wearing. Like any other teenage boy would wear, the small man was wearing a plain white t-shirt and jeans with the knees torn and scraped. He happened to be bare foot though.

"What are you?" Roxas managed to spit out since it was the first thing that came to mind followed by a lot of other questions.

The man just laughed and took a seat on the palm of Roxas' hand and rested his back against his pinky finger. "I think I'm a boy, but I could check if you want me too." He smirked and let out a low laugh, barely audible to Roxas. Roxas blushed at the thoughts that rushed through his mind because of that comment.

"H-how are you so…" Roxas couldn't finish his sentence thinking that this whole conversation was a bit rude. But he was curious and he was positive that anybody who was in the same situation as he was, they would be asking the same things.

"Small?" The red headed man finished for Roxas. "Well." He started and stopped, concentrating on something else. "Say, what's your name anyway blondie?"

"Roxas. What's yours?" Roxas said reassuringly.

"The names Axel." Axel crossed his arms behind his head to get a little more comfortable. "Well, I wasn't born this way. This may sound weird to you but I was just as tall as you are now and lived a normal teenage life. I was the type of kid who liked to get into trouble too."

"What?" Roxas questioned. "Like…drugs and alcohol?"

Axel smirked and shook his head and put his hand up to signal Roxas to stop interrupting. Of course Roxas got the hint.

"The thing is, I didn't grow up with the nicest family. My father left my older brother, Reno, and me alone as soon as he found out that our mother died from a terrible car accident. Before our mother died, while she was in the hospital after the accident, our father would come home from work everyday and would tell us that we were no good and that we shouldn't be living at all. He would sometimes beat me telling me that this whole thing was my fault. My mother was a very heavy drinker. She was the type who would get into a car while she was drunk, so I would have to hide her keys. One night though, I was out with my friends and couldn't stop her. The next day she was in the hospital with tubes and needles hooked into her. It was so horrible to look at."

Roxas was shocked to hear such a story like this. Roxas' life was completely perfect compared to Axel's. "Axel…"

"Stop. I don't need your sympathy." Axel turned away with watered eyes. He wouldn't cry in front of Roxas. He didn't know how Roxas took situations like this anyway. They just met! Axel inhaled deeply and was determined to finish his story.

"I liked torturing other kids, thinking I was this big bad teenager or something. Its kind of funny…I mean look at me now. Not so big and bad anymore. I went to far one day. A girl who was very petite and quiet was walking all by herself after school down the hallways. There was no one to witness what I could have done to her, so I ended up pushing her hard against a locker and kissed the fucking shit out of her. I guess you could say I was desperate for love. No one loved a freak like me anyway. Especially when you're questioning your sexuality and you look different. Red hair, green eyes, tattoos on my face? Of course I was different from others, but that's just who I was.

Of course she fought back against me but she was so small. She kicked me in the one place that the sun doesn't shine and I fell writhing in pain. She ran as fast as she could down the halls but I was too quick for her and caught up before she turned the corner where there could be witnesses.

She cried and she just wouldn't stop. I slapped her hard across the face making her turn quiet as she choked on her tears. I feel so bad about this terrible thing I did to her. I still hear that horrible cry in my head. Now all I want to do is apologize in hopes that she could forgive me."

"I'm sure she would have forgiven you Axel. I think you are just confused."

Axel just gave a fake smile and continued.

"Later that day in school, I felt sick to my stomach and my head was spinning. It felt like I was going to puke so I ran to the bathroom to splash water on my face and there she was, in the men's bathroom sulking again in one of the stalls. I told her that I didn't mean to and that this was the men's bathroom but all she did was cry even harder and she looked up at me with those big blue eyes of hers. They were so fierce looking, like looks could kill type of thing." Axel chuckled and took a breath to continue. " The thing is, my stomach was aching even more and my head was hurting even worse then before. I think I ended up passing out because I don't really remember anything but her eyes glaring down at me.

When I woke up, I was in a room I didn't recognize at first. I was lying on a couch that looked like my own but everything seemed so much bigger then before. Everything was enormous! It was me instead who shrunk and my brother was coming through the door calling for me."

Roxas was so into Axel's story that he hadn't realized the time. His friends were waiting outside for at least ten minutes now.

"Oh crap Axel! My friend are waiting outside for me, my sister downstairs knows that I'm acting suspicious about something, and I have a small man in my room telling me his whole life story! What the hell am I supposed to do?" Roxas was on the edge of crying.

Axel got up and pointed at me with his tiny index finger. "I would say that you, my friend, are screwed."

"Some help you are…so why are you here in the first place? Stealing things of mine?" Roxas folded his arms in disappointment knowing that this so called 'Axel' was up to no good if he was in his room.

"Of course not. I would never do anything like that. It started pouring cats and dogs outside so I got curious and climbed up here into this nice cozy room." Axel jumped off of my hand onto my bed and took the huge bag of chips in his hands and pulled out a chip that was twice as big as he was. He took a big bite and waved me off.

"Go have fun with your friends. Don't worry about me; I can take care of myself. Besides, when you come back, I'll finish up the story for you." Roxas' heart skipped a bit as Axel said this. 'Axel will be waiting for me to come back?' Roxas thought. 'What the hell am I thinking. I don't care if he stays here or not.'

"Alright. I guess…I'll be seeing you later on then. I'll probably be awhile though so…try not to get into trouble. I have sna-," Axel put his hand up to stop Roxas from babbling.

"Don't worry Roxas, I can make myself at home with out your help." Axel took a big chomp out of another potato chip and patted his belly before turning over on his side, leaving his back towards him.

"Yeah well, don't get to comfortable. By tomorrow, I'm taking you home." Roxas told him as he closed the door to leave him hidden from Namine. 'Oh crap! Namine!'

Roxas reopened the door and saw that Axel had not moved from where he was laying. "I forgot, don't go making to much noise either. If my sister hears you I will get so" Axel got up from his laying position.

"Sister?" Axel's eyes perked up hearing this information. The fair-haired one just rolled his eyes.

"Don't get any ideas. If she sees you, she'll probably end up beating you over the head with a broom stick thinking you're a rat." Roxas chuckled at the thought of that. Axel didn't find it at all funny and rolled back over once again as Roxas closed the door quickly heading for the front door and saying his goodbyes to Namine.

"What the hell took you so long?" Hayner asked as he stepped out of the house. Roxas was lost for words and had to come up with something fast.

"I-uh… forgot to turn my laptop off. You know those t-things can catch fire if you don't." Roxas fiddled with the hem of his shirt and decided to look up at his friends to see if they fell for his lie.

"Oh. Okay." Olette and Hayner said in unison as Pence just looked at Roxas skeptically. He swallowed hard and just turned to look at anything but Pence. They decided to ride their bikes to the movie theatres to go see this new movie that came out about a week ago.

"That was the sickest movie ever! Dude, we have to go see that again sometime," Hayner stated.

"It was okay I guess," Olette said as they walked back to the bike rack grabbing their bikes.

"Are you kidding me?" Hayner shouted. "That was such an awesome ending! Can you believe that Matt died at the end? I bet you weren't expecting that now, were you?"

"It was obvious Hayner, that Matt was going to die," Pence added to the conversation. Roxas wasn't really thinking about the movie at all right now. All he could really think about was what happened before the movies and the guy in his room. He didn't even think it was real now. 'It was probably all a messed up dream.' It was like Roxas' own little fairytale and this so called 'Axel', was he really real? Or was Roxas' imagining?

"See you guys tomorrow I guess." Roxas told them as he made it up the steps and into his plain tan house of his. As soon as his friends were down the street, he rushed up the steps and flew open the door to his bedroom. To his surprise, Axel was still there sitting up from Roxas' bed just looking bored out of his mind.

"Well there you are beautiful! I was waiting this whole time for you to come back. I'm so glad you are back though Roxas!" Axel looked a little fidgety now, like something had gone wrong while Roxas was away.

"Are you…alright? You seem a bit nervous." Roxas just stared at Axel skeptically waiting for an answer from Axel.

"N-no everything is…is okay. I just didn't know you had a cat, that's all. I'm a little nervous around cats since, well you know." Axel was signaling about his size and how big a cat was compared to him. It made Roxas chuckle feeling much relief thinking it was something much worse then his cat. That's when Roxas had a brilliant idea.

"Hold on Axel, I'll be right back."

"Oh! Roxas has a surprise for his Axel!" Roxas started feeling dizzy and blushed. 'Bad thoughts Roxas. very bad'. Roxas headed down stairs while Axel just stayed in the same position, pushing the cuticles back on his fingernails while singing some of his favorite songs. Axel thought that maybe one day that him and Roxas could share music with each other. Thinking about the future made Axel smile because he had mentioned Roxas' name. They would still see each other then right? 'Wrong!' Axel thought staring wide eyed at the thing Roxas was holding in his hands.

"Axel, this is Snowbell. Snowbell, this is Axel." Roxas introduced the white fuzz ball to Axel as Axel just ducked under the blankets, trying to stay as far away from the beast as he possibly could. Axel HATED anything that was bigger then him, besides his Roxas of course, and possibly his brother.

"What the hell are you doing? Are you insane? That thing will tear me apart! Get it away from me!" The two blue-eyed creatures just stared at Axel with amusement. Roxas brought the cat over to the bedside and set her down carefully next to Axel. Axel peeked just over the rim afraid to move or breathe in case the cat decided to pounce on him like a mouse.

"Relax Axel, she's really friendly and since I'm here, she wont try anything funny, right 'bells?"

The cat crept closer to the red head little by little. She then stared into Axel's eyes, then to Roxas, then back to Axel's, and purred. She purred so loud that Axel could have sworn he was going crazy. The cat nuzzled Axel's head as she closed her eyes passionately. She then laid herself next to him as Axel got more comfortable being around her. He then pet Snowbell as he started to finish the story he started telling Roxas before he had to leave.

"Right…so where was I?" Axel asked me as he tapped his chin trying to think of where he left off with his story.

"I think you were at the part where your brother walked in."

"Oh yeah. Right. My brother Reno was coming in the door and I didn't know wether or not to hide or to face him in this condition."

"What did you do?" Roxas asked while he was on the edge of his seat. Axel stared down at Snowbell, then back at Roxas.

"I hid of course. For about six months I hid from my brother in the same house. I was surprised he didn't catch me yet." Axel laughed. "I didn't leave the house for six months. I just lived off of food that didn't need to be refrigerated since I couldn't open it myself without someone bigger to help me."

Roxas nodded and stopped as soon as he realized the big problem here. His eyes widened. "W-where does your brother think you went?"

"Axel just stared back at him keeping a straight face as he told him the answer. "He thinks I'm dead, Roxas. Just like everyone else back at school. They all think I went fucking suicide. How could they think that about me? I mean my best friend Demyx thinks I fucking killed myself!" Axel just got really pissed off at that thought. Roxas just wished he didn't bring that question up.

"So…how did this really happen?" Roxas asked.

"What do you mean? This whole 'I'm shorter then a fucking pencil! Yay!' deal?" Roxas nodded. "Well I think…nah it's dumb. Never mind."

"Aww come on Axel, tell me what you were gonna say!" Roxas pleaded.

"Well, you know that girl I was talking about earlier? This is going to sound crazy but," Roxas butted in.

"Seriously, what could be more crazier then a man smaller then this pencil," Roxas picked up a pencil from his desk. "And is real inside my room this very moment!" Roxas finished as Axel just laughed his head off.

"I guess your right." Axel ran his fingers through his silky red hair nervously. Roxas realized that this is what Axel did when he gets nervous. He runs his right hand slowly through his hair twice. "Well I think that the girl had something to do with this because she got pissed off at me for hurting her. Of course I don't blame her, I mean, look at me! I'm a freak who basically molested her. I deserve this. Who would like some fucking gay ass, red haired freak like me? This smallness thing just adds to it. It fits me."

"Stop talking like that Axel! That isn't true. No one deserves this no matter what his or her deal is. Besides, that isn't true at all. I'm mean sure you're a little weird but that just who you are, you can't help that. It was very wrong of you to touch her the way you did but I believe people can change. I think people can learn through their mistakes. I'm sure Demyx and your brother miss you so much right now."

"Yeah! Well how come they're both living there fucking lives without me and acting as if nothing is wrong! Huh? Tell me that Roxas! Tell me?" Axel lost it. He cried and cried as Roxas carefully held him in his arms like holding a puppy dog. Axel sobbed and left a very small spot of teardrops on Roxas' shirt. Of course Axel did a lot of crying though for his size. Once Axel calmed down, Roxas held him in his hands.

"Don't act like no one cares about you Axel. Please, it's breaking my heart." Roxas looked at him with much concern for him.

"Why s-should I? N-no one c-cares about a freak like me." Axel was getting teary eyed again.

"That's not true Axel! I care!" Roxas blurted out but grew red in the face as he realized what he said.

"Is that true Roxas?" Pause….

"Well…is it?" Axel asked again.

Roxas huffed and gave the small man a nice warm hug again. "Yes. It is. We'll find a way to get you back to the way you were. I promise."

"Thanks Roxas." Axel said as Roxas lifted Axel from his hug and laid him down on his bed and tucked him in.

"Where are you going?" Axel questioned as Roxas opened his door to head down stairs.

"I'll be right back. I need to get something really quick." Roxas closed the door softly behind him, careful not to wake Namine up knowing that she was probably already in bed considering what time it was. Getting a nice cold cup of water and some grapes from the fridge, Roxas headed back up stairs.

"Here, I got you some grapes." Roxas said as he set it down on his bed next to Axel and him. Roxas watched Axel as he plucked one from the stem and held it in his tiny hands. He took a big bite from one and chewed slowly as he savored the taste.

Axel ate about a total of three and a half grapes so Roxas finished the rest ad drank most of the water, but giving Axel some to drink also.

"I guess we should get to bed then." Roxas said.

"You mean I can stay here?" Axel asked excitingly.

"Of course you can idiot. What? You think I'm gonna kick you out? Yeah right. Tomorrow thought, I'm taking you home."Axel looked bothered by this.

"Good night Axel." Roxas said as he put the dish and glass aside and climbed into his bed. Roxas pulled the cover over top of Axel and him and tried to get warmer. Axel then leaned closer to Roxas and gave him a small kiss to his right cheek. Roxas's face got bright red from the contact so he had to roll over to the right to hide the fact that he was blushing. Roxas' acted like he was just rolling over so he could turn the light off on his side table but Axel wasn't fooled.

"Good night Roxas." Axel whispered back as they drifted off to sleep with Snowbell by their feet.