"Axel?" The redhead heard a soft voice beckon gently.
"M?" The pryo didn't want to wake up, not after a long day and night of hanging out with his best friends within the entire castle of all its thirteen members.
"There's something you should see." The voice said timidly, forcing Axel to sigh as he sat up in bed, rubbing his eyes.
"Roxas? What's going on?" Axel asked, wondering what could have brought his blonde best friend into his room while he slept.
"Do, do you know what today is?" Roxas asked, seemingly nervous.
"Uh, Monday?" Axel guessed; he really did have too much fun last night with Demyx, Luxord, and even Xigbar.
"No, I mean, the date." Roxas clarified while his fingers fidgeted nervously in his hands.
"The thirteenth?" Axel guessed again, wishing the blonde would hurry up to his point so he could catch some sleep.
"Yeah, August thirteenth." Roxas nodded.
"And?" Axel asked, afraid he might be coming off as rude to the delicate blond, but his sleep was very important to him.
"Well, our numbers in the organization are eight and thirteen." Roxas gulped.
"Rox, come on, I'm slow when I'm hung-over." Axel groaned.
"Zexion told me about something he discovered during his research."
"And what might that be?" Axel asked with a sigh, becoming extremely impatient.
"It's a website, and it, it's really quite powerful."
"Powerful? Like hearts?" Axel was slowly gaining interest in the conversation.
"I'm not sure. He showed it to me, saying that I should see it, since it, it, it's about ….us." Roxas swallowed hard, leaving Axel to furrow his eyebrows in confusion.
"Us?"
"Yeah. Apparently, we have….fans."
"Fans? Like, air condition?" Axel didn't understand.
"No, like, girls who really like us."
"Oh, well that's nothing new. I mean, have you seen the way Larxene eyes me?" Axel asked confidently.
"Not like that Axel," Roxas wished he could share what was on his mind without actually having to say it.
"What's going on Rox? Just spill. We've been best friends since you came to Castle Oblivion, so you can tell me anything." Axel shrugged happily.
"I know we're good friends; that's what makes this awkward." Roxas rubbed his arm shyly.
"Makes what awkward?" Axel titled his head.
"Apparently on August Thirteenth, girls draw pictures, and write stories," Roxas started.
"Ok, well, uh, I'm sure people write and draw every single day, so I still don't get the point." Axel coughed.
"They're not just any kind of sotries and drawings Axe!" Roxas finally warmed up enough to be blunt.
"Then why don't you save us time and tell me?" Axel stretched his exhausted body.
"The pictures are of us."
"Of us?" Axel asked, still not sure he completely understood the severity of Roxas' concern.
"Yeah, of us, doing stuff," Roxas blushed as he looked away.
"Stuff?" Axel felt like he was being tortured with the slow rate at which he gained the vague information Roxas fed him.
"You know," Roxas motioned helplessly with his hands. "Stuff!"
"Rox, I'm going to say this once: I got wasted last night with Xigbar before losing all my cigarretes in a poker match with Luxord before skinny dipping with Demyx. How I remember all of that is still a mystery. My point is: I'm not in the mood to play the guessing game!" Axel shouted, fond of the blonde boy he knew as his best friend, but he had always wished that Roxas was more upfront about things that were on his mind.
"Girls draw pictures and write stories about us having gay sex because August Thirteenth is our pair day!" Roxas yelled with closed eyes, bracing for impact as he stood trembling.
"Huh?" Axel's eyes widened.
"Zexion found these websites where girls, and some guys, upload that shit online, and they share it with each other."
"How did Zexion stumble upon that?" Axel thought with a finger to his chin.
"I don't know. He said he was looking for research about what our bodies are capable of without hearts, and somehow he found stuff about the Superior and Saix. Then, out of curiousity, he said that there's stuff for him and Demyx too. Apparently we all have some sort of fan base where girls pair us with each other."
"Hah! Superior and Saix!?" Axel laughed hysterically.
"You're missing the point!" Roxas stomped his foot.
"So let me get this straight, there are girls out there who want to see us gay, for each other?" Axel bit his lip, holding in his boisterous laughter as Roxas nodded. "Ahahahaha! Oh man," Axel wipped a tear from his smiling eyes.
"Ugh, go back to bed," Roxas turned around, giving up on his mission.
"Wait, wait, wait!" Axel jumped out of bed in his red flame boxers.
"What?" Roxas asked irritably with a roll of his eyes.
"You mad?" Axel asked shocked, wondering why the blonde was really that frustrated.
"No," Roxas lied unconvincingly as he gulped.
"Rox, spit it out," Axel put his hands on his pale hips.
"Well, Demyx and Zexion make a great pair, just like the stories, and the drawings. I've even overheard the rumors about the Superior and Saix too, so I, I wonder if these girls know something we don't."
"What do you mean?" Axel asked curiously.
"What if they can feel the love that we can't, cause we don't have hearts?" Roxas felt stupid for asking such a question, but that didn't stop him.
"Rox, that's ridiculous." Axel chuckled.
"Shut up, it's not funny!" Roxas yelled, hating the mockery that he sensed. The blonde lashed around to leave before Axel grabbed his wrist.
"You going to let me finish?" Axel asked as he turned Roxas around. Roxas nodded reluctantly. "I was going to say, that's ridiculous, since, first of all, those arent rumors. Saix and Xemnas have been hooking up for a long time now. But what's makes your theory even more ridiculous is that, I don't need a heart to know that if I did, I'd give it to you," Axel smiled before Roxas' body froze in shock.
"Wh-wha-what?" Roxas couldn't even swallow as his nerves intensified with every second that Axel stared into his shaking eyes.
"I love you Roxas. I always have. I always will." Axel leaned down to plant the softest of kisses on trembling pink lips.
"You do?" Roxas felt like he was stuck in some alternate universe. First he found out about the drawings and stories, and then it turns out that Axel had feelings for him? It was too much to take in at once.
"Of course I do. Why else would I pay Zexion a couple nights ago to show you that website? You think it's a coincidence?" Axel winked.
"Huh?!" Roxas took a step back.
"I've known about it for a while, and I got to say, I love it." Axel shrugged in his confession.
"You do?" Roxas asked in disbelief.
"Yeah; thousands of girls idolize me and draw me as this sexy god making love with this incredibly hot blonde boy. I mean, wouldn't you enjoy it too?" Axel asked with a smirk.
Roxas blushed as he looked down, a shy smile on his face. "I'm glad you like it too."
"Oh, so you do like it? That's good to hear." Axel put his hands on the blonde boy's hips.
"Axel?" Roxas asked nervously.
"Yeah?" Axel gazed deeply into sea blue orbs.
"How long have you had feelings for me?" Roxas felt silly for using the word 'feel' in relation to their heartless bodies, but he amongst many others in the Organization refused to believe that they truly were incapable of feeling.
"Since the first time we shared sea salt ice cream on the clock tower." Axel smiled.
"That was soon after I started training here." Roxas smiled back.
"Yeah. I have to say, it's really nice to know that I don't have to hide the way I feel about you." Axel kissed Roxas' temple.
"You've never been one to have secrets." Roxas said.
"True, but I didn't want to make things awkward between us. I mean, pretty much all of us here are gay, so I guess those girls are onto us, but still, you never showed any signs of what your preference was, so I figured I should wait till I had a clue."
"What gave me away?" Roxas asked curiously.
"The way you stared at me while I was skinny dipping." Axel whispered seductively into Roxas' ear, forcing the blonde to whimper in his raw desire.
"Mmmph, Axe," Roxas moaned, his hands rushing to Axel's biceps, squeezing as the redhead lavished his ear with his determined tongue. It dove and pushed as far in as it could, leaving the blonde to pant through a wide open mouth, eyes forced closed, all while his legs quaked.
"Originally I was going to sleep in to have the energy to do this later, but seeing you react so strongly is giving me more than enough energy." Axel pulled back with a satisfied grin.
"Do what?" Roxas asked, his voice weak as his body tried to regain a calm composure.
"I want to go on that website and look at all the pictures, and read the stories, with you. And then, for the ones we really like," Axel leaned back in, his breath hot and heavy as it suffocated Roxas' ear, "I want to imitate them."
"Im-im-imitate?" Roxas' knees buckled as he held onto Axel's shoulders.
"Let's see just how much these girls know about gay sex," Axel snickered, slowly tracing his hands up the back of Roxas' shirt.
The blonde loved the attention, but he knew he could really get Axel going if he tried.
"Oh trust me, they do," Roxas winked as he stepped back, gulping hard, attempting to look confident the way that the redhead always seemed to do.
"And how do you know?" Axel asked with an impressed smile.
"Cause I spent all night reading them." Roxas rubbed the back of his neck.
"And?" Axel asked, genuinely curious and excited.
"And if we're going to attempt the stuff they're writing, we better get started." Roxas crossed his arms, giving a playfully indifferent shrug.
Axel licked his lips before he let out a low growl.
"This is going to be the best August the Thirteenth ever."
Authors Note: As much as i'd LOVE to write a lemon for this, i have a final exam worth half of my grade tomorrow, so sadly i have to study. BUT i promise there will be a lemon for this SOON, so please follow/favorite to get the update! I really wish i didnt have an exam so i could spend all day writing AkuRoku-y goodness, but alas my textbook calls. Thank you for reading! (Also, i apologize for any spelling/grammar mistakes. I spent a total of 40 minutes on this story which includes coming up with the storyline, typing it up, and opening this website! No time to edit, must study!)
Love, Sarabellum