Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts.
a/n: It's been a while since I did anything for this fandom and pairing, and this popped into my head while I was looking at fanart I'd saved to my computer a while ago. It's short, but meh.
"Hey, Roxas?"
He glanced over, irises fixed in the upturned corners of his red-rimmed eyes, head tilted just so, chin jutting towards the sky. The wind ran harsh fingers through his hair, making the spikes bounce and sway. He looked inquisitive, mouth forming an indeterminate line, as though he was considering feeling something—something like curiosity, or interest.
Roxas observed it all, taking it in with impassive, blue eyes, and when he blinked, he felt something deep down move, way down in the dark of him, in places he was scared to explore, because to explore them would to be proving his current existence wrong, because he wasn't supposed to have things like that still. That's what being a Nobody was about.
"What?"
Axel watched him for a bit longer, with eyes so acidly green that Roxas felt the edges of himself corroding, being eaten way by that gaze. Not that he minded. He rarely minded anything these days. Except when he did.
And then Axel turned away, looking out on Twilight Town from their perch on high, and Roxas couldn't see the smile curling the man's lips, but even so, Axel was smiling.
"You're pretty cool," Axel said, and Roxas dredged up some hope from that place that didn't exist.