Best Friends... right?
Roxas was walking to school with his friends Hayner, Pence and Olette. Today he was slightly depressed. After an amazing vacation they all had to come back to school. What normal teenager wouldn't be depressed? Apparently his friends.
"It's so amazing! We're finally in high school! Aw, baby!" Hayner cried joyously as he practically jumped to school.
"I know! We'll be able to do so many more things like..."
Roxas tuned out the conversation. It was too early in the morning to pay attention. Instead he decided to dwell in his memories.
A 4-year-old Roxas was pushed roughly to the ground. Seifer, Fuu and Rai were looming over him.
"Well, chickenwuss? Not fighting back?" Seifer taunted. His two friends/cronies laughed with him. More like Rai laughed. Fuu was silent... as usual.
Roxas ignored the insults and mocking laughter. Seifer annoyed him to no end. Seifer, Fuu and Rai were 7 years old so they thought they ruled the playground. It was a small playground down the street from the primary school. Roxas was there because his big brother, Sora, was spending the day with Riku. Riku and Sora were best friends and spent all day Saturday at the playground.
"Don't ignore me, runt!" Seifer yelled suddenly raising his leg to kick Roxas.
Roxas braced himself for the impact. But it never came, he sat with his eyes screwed shut for a few moments until he dared to crack open one eye. Seifer was no longer standing over him. He opened both eyes and saw Seifer lying on the ground a couple feet back.
But he didn't look at that. Someone was standing above him. He had fire red hair that spiked from the back of his head. It was long for boy's hair and just reached his shoulders. He had the most amazing green eyes that were swirling with anger. But his posture was so casual you couldn't tell the difference.
Fuu and Rai were staring wide-eyed at the newcomer, and Seifer was beginning to sit up on his elbows, rubbing at his now red cheek.
"You punched me!" Seifer yelled.
"Don't you dare talk. You were about to beat this poor blond without batting an eyelid. So I decided to help him," the redhead replied, so laid-back it was scary.
"What's it any of your business?" Seifer argued angrily. He was getting more confident now that his friends were back behind him.
"I will protect this kid. I don't know why I care, but I will. You don't get to beat up whoever you want. Got it Memorized?" the red head answered.
Roxas stared up at the scene in wonder. Who was this kid? And why did he swear he would protect Roxas? As he thought about that a blush spread on Roxas' cheeks.
In a matter of minutes Siefer, Fuu and Rai were running like mad with embers on the ends of their clothes.
Roxas gaped in amazement. Why were they on fire? Then he focused on the hand that was being held in front of his face. He looked up to see the same redhead looking anywhere but at Roxas.
Roxas was confused but took the hand anyway. It was warm, soft and huge compared to the blonde's hand. When he was hauled to his feet he took his time to look at his saviour. The kid was no more than seven years old, probably in the same class as Seifer. He had cat-like eyes that were amazingly green and looked much more beautiful when they weren't clouded by anger. But the eyes were focused on something to the left of him. Roxas looked that way but saw nothing of interest, so he turned his eyes back to the redhead in front of him.
The other child finally looked at Roxas, with a blush covering his cheeks. They both gave each other a small smile.
"My name's Axel, got it memorized?"
"Roxas, Roxas, ROXAS!" Hayner yelled to his friend. Blinking, Roxas turned towards him.
"Yeah, what?" he asked.
"You were in la-la land again," Hayner said while shaking his head.
"Oh, sorry," Roxas apologised.
"It's alright man, but c'mon we're here!" he shouted.
And before them, in all its glory stood Oblivion high school. The white washed walls gave no inkling of the torture that students endured behind those doors. Class after boring class, insane teachers and unruly classmates combined to drive an unsuspecting student insane.
Roxas sighed as he ascended the stairs to his new school. Hayner, Pence, Olette and he were all starting high school for the first time today. Finally out of middle school, they all applied to attend to the same high school. And luckily they all got in. Roxas looked up at the school doors and pushed them open.
They walked through the white hallways, the white tile floors passing beneath their feet. The only spot of colour were the cobalt blue lockers that lined the walls at random intervals. The four friends stood a few feet in from the doorway taking in their surroundings.
Pence let out a low whistle. High school... who knew it would be this... white? They stood in silence for a few moments before they all turned towards each other.
Hayner was the one to break the silence. "Well I have to go to the office. There were some problems with me getting my locker."
With that he waved to his friends and started down one of the hallways. Who knew if it was the right one? Regardless, his friends waved back.
"Okay time to go to homeroom," Pence told his two dumbstruck friends. They turned to head down one of the other hallways when Roxas noticed someone. And that someone noticed Roxas as well.
They both yelled the others name simultaneously.
"ROXAS!"
"AXEL!"
And with that Roxas ran the 15 feet separating him from his new target and tackled-hugged him to the ground. That's right, a fifteen year old boy GLOMPED his 17-year-old best friend...
"AxelImissedyousomuch!'!" Roxas yelled at his best friend in one breath and under 10 seconds. Roxas was laying on top of Axel with his arms wrapped securely around the others chest and back. Axel, on the other hand, was not at all surprised that he was tackled to the ground by an over energetic blond. He was expecting it as soon as he saw Roxas. So he simply wrapped his arms around Roxas body. It was their own sort of hug.
"RoxyI'msorryIdidn'ttellyoubutididn'tknowmyselfbutIdon'tcareifwesaweachothereveryday!" Axel yelled back just as fast as the blond had.
So the two continued to lay on the ground hugging, yelling at each other happily and at breakneck speeds. The duo didn't even notice the strange looks that were coming from Roxas' friends, who had now moved over to see Roxas lying on top of someone they had never met.
Two of Axel's friends were also watching in disbelief. Axel NEVER hugged anyone. You would probably get hurt if you even thought of entering his 2-foot-bubble of personal space.
Olette and Pence's thoughts were running along the same lines. Roxas was a VERY reserved person. He didn't touch you unless it was necessary and he hardly ever showed emotion. The most you would get out of him was some laughter. Now he was glomping someone and yelling happily to them. The conversation was so fast only the duo on the floor could understand it.
Something was up...
"AnywaysonnowI''mhere!" Roxas finished his yelling match with Axel and simply lay in his arms. Axel smiled contentedly and nuzzled into Roxas' blond hair. They stayed on the floor for at least a minute, completely oblivious to the stares they were receiving.
One of Axel's friends cleared his throat. Once ... twice... three times ... He was shorter than average and had dark-blue hair covering one of his eyes. Axel's other friend had a blond mullet-Mohawk combination and just stared at his friend on the ground.
The two best friends finally became aware of the world around them. Roxas stood up awkwardly and offered his hand to help the redhead up. Axel took his hand and tried to get up as well. But he ended up tripping and bringing Roxas to the floor with him. Now Axel was lying on top of Roxas. The pair began to crack up laughing before finally hauling themselves up.
They were still smiling even when they were greeted with the wide-eyed stares from their friends.
Roxas looked at his friends then realised why they looked like goldfish out of water.
"Olette, Pence, this is Axel. We went to the same day-care when I was 4 and he was 6. We've been best friends ever since." Roxas introduced Axel.
"It's a dramatic story of how we first met... but I'm not going to tell you," Axel smiled at Olette and Pence before turning to his friends.
"Roxas, the emo one here is Zexion and the mullet boy here is Demyx. Got it Memorized?" Axel said pointing at his friends respectively.
Roxas smiled at his friend's catchphrase.
"And," Axel continued grinning devilishly "Demyx and Zexion this is my Roxy." At this Axel picked Roxas up bridal style, with one hand on his back and the other beneath his knees, and showed him to Demyx and Zexion like a child might show his parents something he is very proud of.
"Oooh Can I hold him?" Demyx asked excitedly.
"No! He's mine," Axel said, bringing Roxas closer defensively.
"Awww c'mon. He's so cute!" Demyx whined.
"Share, Axel," Zexion scolded.
"Fine! But only for a little while," Axel pouted before handing Roxas over to Demyx. During this whole exchange Roxas was just glaring at his supposed best friend. Demyx handed Roxas back to Axel and Axel reluctantly set him down on his feet.
"..." Olette said, still in a state of shock. Pence and Zexion just watched on silently.
"Why haven't we met him sooner?" Demyx and Olette asked simultaneously.
"Oh, right... Well I was going to introduce you guys first year of middle school but Axel was attending a different school. He was held back 2 grades so he still in the same grade as us though he is two years older. Whenever we planned to introduce each other something would happen. By the end of the year we both just gave up." Roxas explained sheepishly.
"Well, Axel, we have to go. Demyx has band," Zexion said to his friend. "Nice to meet you Roxas, Pence, Olette."
"Laters!" Demyx yelled happily as he and Zexion walked down one of the many hallways.
"Ah, joyous introductions," Axel laughed slightly before turning to Roxas and co.
"Um... so you guys are best friends?" Pence asked nervously.
Both boys nodded.
"Nothing else?" he continued. Roxas and Axel stared at him confused. "It's just you guys were hugging and on the floor and yelling at each other so crazily back there so I thought..." Pence trailed off.
The other two boys finally caught on and blushed. Pence thought they were dating! They looked at each other then quickly looked away again.
Olette and Pence both noticed the awkwardness after the question.
"Uhh... no we're not d-dating," Roxas stuttered.
"Oh, sorry then... But you know he has to go through the questioning," Pence replied.
"Questioning?" Axel asked, confused.
"I know but I figured Hayner would want to do that since you guys got first introductions," Roxas ignored his best friends confused stare.
"Huh?" interjected Axel.
"Good point, you should see him at his locker. If they finally gave him a locker," Olette laughed.
"I will burn something if you don't tell me what is going on," Axel threatened.
His threats were ignored by Roxas. Pence and Olette were startled, but when they saw that Roxas hadn't reacted, they thought Axel was joking. How wrong they were... Roxas was used to Axel's threats by now... and had mastered the use of the fire extinguisher. What can I say? 11 years spent with a pyromaniac best friend. You learn things.
"We'll see you guys at lunch," Roxas said to Olette and Pence before starting down the hallway Hayner had gone earlier.
Axel stood there dumbly staring. He was still confused! Give him a break.
"Axel! C'mon," Roxas whined before marching over and grabbing the redhead's arm and dragging him off. Axel almost tripped but regained balance and followed Roxas, who was still holding his arm.
Olette and Pence gave each other confused looks before breaking out in identical grins. They then turned and headed to their lockers.
Author's Note: Wow, I just realised how girly I made them... ah, well xD I wrote this a while back and now that I re-read it I kinda realize how stupid it is. There's no real plot, it's just me being an idiot. ^_^
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