Author's Note: Yay! My first fanfic! I'm just so excited to be writing my idea down, finally. But, first, I have to make sure of some stuff…

Warning: This Fanfic may possibly contain, or end up containing: Yaoi, bad language, minor violence, and conflict. For now, it is meant for T. It may become M later, but not right now. I'll make sure to warn you all if anything happens.

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, or anything related to Kingdom Hearts. If I did, the world would be a much happier place. And Axel wouldn't have died. (

Summary: Some things seem like they were just meant to happen. It was an average day that Axel found the boy in the dress. Things, it seemed, would never be the same.

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A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory

A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream

I want to line the pieces up,

Yours and mine.

Axel had been having a very, very bad day. First, his damn water heater was still broken, after his little… episode with it. But, hey! It was the damn thing's own fault for not being hot enough! Jeez, if Demyx didn't want things broken, he shouldn't leave steel rods around when Axel was angry at something! In Axle's mind, it wasn't his fault at all.

So, his shower had been cold. Axel didn't really like taking showers, seeing as it was being covered in his least favorite element. He'd take them; a lot actually for hygiene, but only if they were hot. This morning, he'd stumbled into the shower, still a little sick from his hangover, and turned on the shower to find it cold. He'd yelled so loudly, even Demyx had woken up. Dem ran down the hall way and decided punching Axel would make him shut up. Of course, then Axel had gotten really pissed. Jesus, it wasn't his fault he'd broken the kid's nose! It was practically self defense!

So, not only did he have to throw on some clothes, while soaking wet, and take Demyx to the hospital. Oh, oh, it didn't end there. Demyx was making him pay the medical bills! Him! The Victim of this situation! Axel had gotten so mad; he'd stormed out of there, taking the car. Demyx could catch a bus for all he cared, the no good, rotten backstabber.

Axel needed a break. He seriously just needed to get away, or he was gonna kick the first damn ass of some unlucky stranger. He started driving, with only his cell phone and credit card. He didn't know where he was going, but he wasn't going to come back until things started going right. That had been two days ago, and Demyx hadn't even called. No one had called, not really.

It's like no one even cares I'm missing, Axel thought, feeling a little dejected. Aren't people supposed to come after you when you run away? Isn't that… the point?

I mean, no one would run away if it meant being so… alone.

Somehow, being alone seemed very familiar to Axel, in ways he couldn't say he understood. Growing up, he'd always been completely surrounded by people. His mom used to joke that she 'didn't trust him to be alone.' Then he'd gone to college and gotten a room mate, Demyx, although really, he'd known Demxy most of his life. The mullet haired idiot would never leave 'em alone either. Though, even when he was surrounded by people, he was never… the people. He stood out. He normally acted 'real proud of it, but it was hard to be so alone, around so many people.

Sighing, Axel looked out the window of the cheap hotel room he'd rented. He wasn't probably going to stay much longer. He'd leave soon; he just needed to heal his sore ego first. Axel stretched his long legs, groaning a little bit. The tall, almost skeletal man (He'd often been described as a stick at best, anorexic at worst) watched the sea. His hotel was seaside, but cheap, with a lot of cockroaches.

It wasn't actually even that far from his town, Twilight Town. Really, he was only about…3ish hours from the town. He was staying in a small fishing town, Sunrise Shores, a town that was much like its name. Being on a peninsula, they saw both they sunrise and the sunset over the water. Axel thought the sunset was probably the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen, at least over the water.

The town, though it was small, also got a lot of tourists. Axel really didn't go out on the beach that much during the day because of his incredibly fair skin. For the last two days, though, he always came out for the sunset. Stretching once again, the temperamental man sauntered down towards the beach.

What he saw, when he got closer to the beach, was not the same as what he'd been seeing for the last two days.

Now, the sunset was just as beautiful and brilliant as it always was. The clouds radiantly hung around the sky, like scarves over a beautiful golden queen. The dying sun seemed to have the whole sky flaming and bright. However, Axel had looked down. On the shore was a roughly built canoe, if you could even call it that. In the canoe, a girl lay, with golden hair like the dying sky. She wore a light pink slip of a dress. One hand rested in the water, dragging and creating small ripples in the ocean water.

On the back of her dress, were blood stains.

Short, but it was a bit more like a prolog. I actually want to do most of it in 1st person, just switching views. Cliffy!