Roxas awoke to the sound of whimpering and whining coming from outside his back door. Why! Always when I just get to sleep does something have to wake me up! The whimpering grew louder and Roxas sat up. He laid his ears back against his head to try to shut the noise out but it didn't help any. He finally got up out of bed and slipped on a pair of pants, being careful to pull his tail through the hole in the back.

A loud scratching sound began coming from the back door. Roxas approached slowly, picking up a frying pan off the counter where it had been drying. He moved to the door and held up the frying pan. He quickly opened it and raised the frying pan over his head.

"AHHHH!" he screamed, hoping that whoever it was would be frightened off, but no one was there. He lowered his frying pan and laid his ears back. "What in the world?" something wet rubbed up against his foot and a shiver ran through him, causing his tail and hair to poof up.

"HISSS!" he jumped up and landed on his table. He looked down to see a little puppy wagging its tail by his open door.

"Ewwww, a dog?" he stepped down off his table and walked over to the dog. Well now that he saw it, he couldn't really call it a dog, more like a puppy. He pushed the puppy out the door with his foot, getting his foot all muddy.

"I. Hate. Dogs!" he hissed as the little puppy started to whimper and whine. He was going to shut the door when he noticed the puppy was walking on one of its front paws funny.

"Why oh why does it have to be injured?" he laid his ears back and stopped shutting the door. The puppy limped in and jumped up onto one of his legs, looking up at Roxas with puppy dog eyes, its tail wagging and its tongue hanging out of one side of his face. Roxas looked up at the ceiling and sighed.

"Fine. You can stay for the night. I guess. But if you're staying you get to have a bath." The puppy leaned its ears back against its head and whimpered.

"I know. Baths suck but I'm not letting a muddy dog run around my house." he went to the bath room and picked up an old towel. He came back out to see the puppy in the same spot, wagging his tail with his tongue still out the side of his mouth.

"Well don't just sit there and stare at me. Come over here!" the puppy reluctantly limped over to Roxas. Roxas filled up the bath tub and wiped his foot o with the towel. He laid the towel down by the edge of the tub and called the dog over. He lifted the dog up placed him in the tub. The mud and gunk almost immediately started to wash off into the water.

"Ick. This is why I hate dogs." Roxas started rubbing shampoo into the puppy's fur. When the puppy was all clean, he saw that it was a brown color with red streaks here and there and lots of red fur on his head. I was rubbing him down with the towel trying to get hi dry, but he kept licking my hand with his tongue. Roxas finally gave up and threw the towel down on the floor.

"I give up! Go ahead and be a pain in the ass?" He walked over to his room and slipped into his blankets. He was falling asleep when the puppy walked into his room. He sat up in his bed and watched the puppy walk over and plop down on the end of his bed.

"Uhhh no. nope nope I don't think so. No puppies allowed! I will not have you rolling your filth all over my nice clean sheets that I washed this morning!" Roxas was yelling and hissing at the puppy but the puppy just curled up in a ball and fell promptly asleep. Roxas rolled over and soon fell asleep himself, the puppy curled at his feet.

Roxas awoke to a loud bang from inside his room. He opened one eye to see it was still night out. Great. The puppies making a mess already.

"Alright stupid dog. Outside you go." Without warning a man was on top of him, pinning him down by his arms. Roxas looked up in fear into a pair of green eyes.

"Know who you calling a stupid dog?" the man said with a sexy voice, leaning down towards Roxas and smiling a very toothy grin. The man's teeth glistened in the moon light and Roxas say a pair of fangs. His heart thudded away in his chest.

"You're a well you've got."

"Fangs yes. And yes I'm a vampire. Do you like them? There good for biting into the necks of frightened little kittens." Roxas's eyes grew wide in fright and his heart pounded even faster, giving him a headache. The vampire began to drool a little bit.

"Oh little kitty." He moaned. "Your heart sounds so tasty..." this just caused his heart to beat even faster and the man to moan again. The man leaned down further, burring his face in Roxas's neck. He gently kissed it, sending a shiver through Roxas's spine. He gently licked his neck, causing Roxas's heart to beat even faster and his hair to poof up.

The man giggled in delight and kissed his neck again, this time pressing his fangs into his neck. Roxas flinched away ever so slightly but the vampire held him there. He moved away and looked into Roxas's eyes.

"Your much to frightened now little kitten. I don't much care for frightened blood. Too much adrenaline for me." The vampire smiled in delight. "Maybe tomorrow night you won't be so frightened of me?" The vampire got up off of Roxas and moved to the door.

"Wait!" the vampire turned around and looked down at Roxas. "Umm well what's your name?"

He giggled a little bit. "Axel. Got it memorized?" and he left without another word.

Roxas woke up the next morning in sheen of sweat. He reached up and touched his neck, but there was nothing there. He sighed and sat up to see the puppy still asleep on the end of his bed.

"Axel?" Roxas asked tensely. The puppy perked its ears up and lifted its head. It started wagging his tail with his tongue out the side of his mouth.

"Nahh can't be. But if you like it then you can keep the name. Axel puppy. I kinda like that."