Crossover Part One
Chapter One: Fateful First Encounter?
Today was another day. Yup. Another original day with nothing to do for the teen Akira Nikaido.
He woke up staring at the ceiling as usual. Come to think of it, everything else around the room seemed usual…except for one thing. The bed wasn't occupied by just him.
There was an arm wrapped around his waist. Someone was breathing on his neck.
Oh crap. Not again.
"SHIROGANE, GET THE HELL OUT OF MY BED!" Akira yelled as he jolted up, startling the shadow.
The shin sat up, rubbing his head. "Owww…your elbow is very sharp, Akira-kun." He groaned and smiled. "You're not going to sleep in?"
"Not with you there!" Akira grabbed some new clothes and went into the bathroom to change. "You're always in my bed!" He complained from behind the door as Shirogane proceeded to braid his hair.
"It's only NATURAL that I don't want to wake up there anymore!" Akira poked his head out. "Why can't you just sleep on the floor?"
"Because the floor is uncomfortable."
"Then I'll lay a futon out for you."
"But then I'll get cold easily."
"I'll just give you a thicker blanket!" Akira slammed the door closed. "Jeez…"
Shirogane yawned, tying his hair together. "Akira-kun, what are we going to do today? Isn't your school cancelled today because of the snow?"
"Yeah, but I don't think Aya's going to let me get off so easy even though there ISN'T any school." Akira came out of the bathroom with some new casual clothing. "Why don't we go shopping? We need some more food anyway."
"Are you sure Aya won't be there to throw eggs at you?"
"I'd rather take my chances than starve." Akira sighed. "Well, what are you waiting for? Get up and come on." He felt arms around his shoulders.
"How about we go out on a date tonight, Akira-kun…?" Shirogane whined. "There's a festival isn't there? I wanna ride the Ferris Wheel."
Akira sighed, leaning into the embrace. "And what? Rape me?"
"You know I would never do such a thing!" Shirogane said, showing some surprise and hurt.
Akira smiled. "Liar."
Shirogane smiled too. "A lie would be me chasing a person other than you." He buried his face into Akira's shoulder. "I could never-would never do that."
Akira held the shadow's hand tenderly. "Neither would I."
There was a silence. "…You really mean that?" Shirogane asked.
Akira turned his head to face him. "You don't believe me? Fine." He put his hand up. "Hook your pinky around mine."
Shirogane did so with a big question mark above his head.
" 'Needle in my eye, I won't lie.' " Akira recited. "There. It's a promise. You won't cheat on me and I won't cheat on you."
Shirogane stared at his little uke for a moment and buried his face into Akira's shoulder again, smiling. "You tease me way too much, Akira-kun."
Akira smiled too. "You can deal with it."
xXx
"So what kind of world is this?" Roxas asked, looking at his red-headed best friend. "Axel, did you hear me?"
"This world's called 'Monochrome Factor.'" Axel answered, sighing.
"You seem really out of it today." Roxas said, looking concerned for his seme. "You okay?"
"Nah." Axel replied. "Just tired. Had a tougher mission last night…I think I overworked myself."
"Was your mission called 'Sexually Harassing Roxas?'"
Axel chuckled. "It didn't seem like sexual harassment. You were enjoying it, you prick." He poked the boy.
Roxas turned his face to hide a blush. "F-Forget it! What's our mission today, you overheated oven?"
"We're supposed to explore this world for anything suspicious."
Roxas let out a grunt. "I see. Then let's get to it."
"So we can get to what's after it?"
"…"
Axel walked on ahead of his blushing uke, laughing. "Anyway, it's amazing that Siax hasn't realized anything that's going on between us."
"T-True…but don't jinx it."
"I won't. They'll never notice."
"I sure hope so." Roxas sighed and smiled. "I also really hope we don't have to go on separate missions anytime soon."
Axel shrugged. "Well, I don't think so. Siax did say he was going to let us be partners for a while."
Roxas caught up to him and smirked. "I also really hope you don't go chasing anyone else around here."
Axel looked at the boy, surprised.
"Well, knowing you and your personality, it's something you'd do." Roxas explained. "…Don't look at me like that!"
Axel suddenly head locked him. "Same goes to you, prick!"
They laughed. Axel sighed, straitening. "Hey, we both know I'd never go after anyone but you." He said, scratching his head.
Roxas smiled. "Oh, really?"
"Yes really." Then very slowly, Axel said, "I. Would. Never. Chase. Anyone. But. You. Got it memorized?"
Roxas looked at the floor. "…Okay." Although it seems a little too good to be true…
"Good." Axel began walking ahead, grabbing Roxas's hand. "Then let's start exploring over there. Hurry so we can have some in-between time for some ice cream!"
"What are you, a kid?"
xXx
"Akira-kun, do we need this type of spice?"
"I already said no to that! Put it back." Akira continued pushing the cart. "I can't get anything right with you around. I can't even concentrate on this shopping list!"
A bunch of people within the aisle looked at the chocolate haired teen talking to himself and thought all at the same time: What a weirdo.
"That looks like all we need." Shirogane said, hovering over the boy. "Oh wait a minute, you didn't write any milk down. I think the milk is spoiled though…"
"It's not. I checked it this morning." Akira said, buying his things.
Holding the bags and starting on their way home, Shirogane proceeded to whining again. "Akira-kun, let's go to the festival today. Please?"
"I don't know if I want to. I might get lost in those crowds."
"No you won't. I'll be there with you!" Shirogane wrapped his arms around Akira's waist, making the boy visibly blush. "I wouldn't leave you to get lost! I wanna ride the Ferris Wheel with you!"
"I do not think…"
"Fine." Shirogane's grip tightened. "Then I guess I'll just have to spend tonight screwing your brains out." A hand trailed down to Akira's hip.
Akira blushed darker. "Shirogane, get off me!"
"It's not like anyone's around here to see us." Shirogane purred sending an alarm blaring in Akira head saying to get away from the shadow immediately.
"IT DOESN'T MATTER, NOW LET GO!"
Akira never noticed two figures walking down on the opposite side of the road. "Hey Axel," Roxas began, "Something looks like it's attacking that person! Is it a heartless?"
Axel looked to see a transparent thing harassing a boy. "I don't know but it is all dressed in black. It looks like it has some silver and is the shape of…a human? Maybe it's a dusk." He thought a minute. "Why would a dusk take the time to harass a human?"
"Never mind that, we should help him!" Roxas yelled, taking out his keyblade and rushed forward.
Axel blinked, surprised at how fast Roxas had reacted. "Ah, wait a minute, Rox! It might not even be what we think it is!" Roxas didn't hear him. "Ugh, shoot." Axel grabbed his weapons and charged forward as well.
"Ah, ugh…Sh-Shirogane…stop probing me, you perv!" Akira somehow pushed the shadow away from him.
"Seriously…of all the things to do in public-" Akira turned around to see someone ready to slice Shirogane in half with a strange looking, oversized key. He dropped the groceries. "Shirogane!"
Shirogane turned around to see a boy in a black coat slicing down at him. "Whoa!" The shadow leapt backwards and right into Akira.
Roxas's keyblade hit the ground with a loud noise. "Darn, missed."
"Hey!" Akira yelled from underneath the shadow, "Just who do you think you are, randomly swinging that thing around?" He yelled pushing Shirogane off.
Roxas blinked. "What do you mean? I'm saving you! From him!" He pointed at the shadow with his key.
Akira and Shirogane looked at each other.
"You can see me?" Shirogane asked.
"Yes I can! I'm not blind, you know." Roxas snorted.
Suddenly, a taller man also wearing a black coat and had red hair came into view. "What's going on, did you get the dusk?"
Roxas looked at Shirogane. "No. But I'm about to."
"Wait a minute!" Akira yelled. "What the hell is this about? First off how can you two see him and second off, who the hell are you people? It doesn't look like you're from around here!"
It was Axel and Roxas's turn to look at each other.
Shirogane blinked at all of this. "It seems…you two are not of this world." He said.
"Huh?" Axel and Roxas jumped. "Wh-Wh-What do you mean?" Axel yelled. "It's not like there are any other worlds around here are there? Of course not! There's no such thing!"
"Maybe taking them to Master would help." Shirogane said to Akira as Axel and Roxas both tried to discuss some other subject.
Akira nodded and stood. "Hey." He said to them. It turned out the yellow haired boy was smaller than him, but the redhead was taller. Dammit, another tall one. "I'm Akira Nikaido. And that person over there is Shirogane."
Axel and Roxas looked at each other again. "One momento, please." Axel said, grabbing Roxas and turning around.
"What should we do, Axel?" Roxas asked, whisper mode.
"I say we go with them."
"WHAT?"
"Siax wants us to collect info about this place, right? This is the perfect opportunity! We're being invited to learn more about them!"
As the two continued whispering madly to each other, Akira turned to Shirogane. "Hey. What made you say they're not from here?" He asked.
Shirogane sighed. "Look at them. They don't fit in here. They're dressed differently and they act differently. Their weapons are also different. They are not from here." He explained. "(Not to mention that the way they're drawn is completely different from how we are drawn…)"
"What was that last part you mumbled? I didn't hear you."
"Ah, it was nothing." Shirogane smiled. "Are you coming?"
The two turned around, the redhead looking smug and the blonde pouting. "Yes we are."
Shirogane tipped his hat. "Well then, it's this way. Oh, Akira-kun," The shadow looked down at the groceries. "Everything is spoiled."
"That's okay." Akira said, waving his hand. "We'll just go shopping tomorrow." He said. "But for now, it seems like we have a bigger ordeal on our hands."
Axel and Roxas frowned and all four of the characters thought:
This seems like the start of a very big problem-!
Author's Note:
Ending to chapter one! It took a lot of time to think this up, ha ha ha… anyway…this is the first crossover fic that I've ever written. I've just recently bought Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and my fandom for AkuRoku has grown from it. I've had Monochrome Factor for quite a while and I've liked ShiroAki even before I watched the anime. All of it resulted in this crossover story. Reviews and critiques are greatly appreciated.
So yeah…
