Feminine Boys are Deceitful
Chapter 2: Replay Part 1
By Cookee
Disclaimer: We don't own Kingdom Hearts I, II, Re: nor ...whatever the hell that new one's called.
Roxas shivered in the dark movie theater, but it wasn't because of the blaring air conditioner that felt like it was hurling out a damn snow storm. No, it was the awkward feeling of trying to mind your own business while some horny teenagers were quite literally having a live porn show in the seat behind you. What was even more disturbing about it though was the little fact about who those people were.
'Why did I come?' Roxas questioned as he could hear sounds coming from his once innocent brother that he could have lived without hearing. He shivered again as mental images popped up from all four corners of his mind like unrelenting spam. 'Why the hell did I come?' He thought bitterly one last time as he sank in his seat, feeling even worse for the people sitting beside the hormonal couple.
The ending credits filled the screen with a bright white light as many in the audience began to rush out of the dim room, trying to escape the crowd. Roxas stood up, not at all remembering what the movie was about. What good was a horror movie when you're hearing some XXX-material behind you? None, that's what! The blonde cursed his brother to no end as they left the theater.
"That was a good movie!" Sora exclaimed with a cheery grin.
"Did you even watch it or were you too busy giving Riku a-," Roxas' grumbling was cut off as a loud greeting came from behind them. A tall, lanky boy with crazy red hair came running after them holding the extra-large bucket of fresh popcorn. He stopped directly in front of them and smirked casually.
The three boys turned around and only one seemed to recognize the voice. "Axel," Riku said with a nod, "What're you doing here?" He asked with his usual 'I'm-the-boss' tone. The silver-haired boy let go of his hold around Sora's hand, immediately switching from caring lover to fearsome gang leader.
"Just about to watch a movie." Axel replied with a smile. "So hey... about what you said yesterday, were you serious?" The redhead frowned a bit, as if fearful of the outcome. "I mean do you really want to, y'know..."
Sora and Roxas gave each other puzzled looks, unsure of what was going on between the two Twilight boys. "Mind taking me out of the dark, Riku?" Sora asked, narrowing his eyes at him. "Tell me what he's talking about."
"You didn't tell him yet?" Axel asked with surprise. He glanced at Roxas briefly before dropping his bucket of buttery fat goodness not even a minute later. "Aren't you...?" He asked with dilated eyes. "You can't be serious... You're..." He continued to stare at Roxas, unbelievingly.
"Are all Twilight kids freaks?" Roxas questioned as he stared unamusedly at Axel. He tilted his head to the side and gave Riku an annoyed look. "What's his problem?"
Riku smirked a bit. "That actually has to do with the situation. I'm resigning as Twilight High's Boss. This is Axel, my successor." He introduced the two new rival bosses to each other with an amused glint in his eye.
"This freak?" Roxas gave the redhead a strange look. "Is this the best your school can do?"
"Just wait 'till you see him in action." Riku laughed as he patted Axel's shoulder. "He can break some bones when he wants to."
"Yeah, his own." Roxas scoffed with a roll of his eyes. The blonde looked back at the tall boy. "I know I'm interesting to look at, but it's kinda creepy coming from a guy. Besides, you dropped your popcorn." Roxas shoved his hands in his hoodie pocket and began to walk away casually, wanting nothing more than to escape the idiocy of the human race.
"Roxas!" Sora whined as his younger brother left their little happy group of trouble prone children. "Sorry about that. Roxas is just really grumpy today." He bowed his head a bit to Axel in apology for his brother. "He's normally just grumpy." He smiled a bit at Axel, earning him a small glare from Riku, though he hardly noticed it.
Axel shook his head, as if coming back to reality. "...You two look alike, but at the same time... not." He stated, meaning for it to be directed at Sora, but his eyes were on the other twin.
"Yeah I know," Sora grinned as he scratched the back of his head. "Even though I'm older, he's the one who always takes care of me. He's kinda like a mom to me, I guess." His blue eyes searched the heavens as if looking up would help him remember just how much that was true. "Hey... are you okay?" Sora asked as he waved a hand in front of Axel, cutting off his vision of Roxas.
Axel blinked a couple of times before staring at his empty hands. "...Ah shit! My popcorn!"
There was a loud uproar in the streets of Twilight Town that morning. On every street, at every corner, there was a mass of growling, furious boys, each one with their own intensity. The ones who dared to stand in the middle of this were the "traitors." Sora and Riku stood in the middle of the street, standing side by side, looking from one side of the street to the other. On Sora's side was Radiant Garden and on Riku's were Twilight High students.
"Wh-What's going on?" Sora asked nervously as he glanced at Riku.
Riku looked down at the trembling brunette, unable to give him an answer. "Something probably happened again. Something big." He scanned Twilight's side, looking for Axel and wanting an explanation. Just like a devil, Axel appeared before them, panting as he came.
"R-Riku, there was a fight last night." Axel explained, drooping down and grasping his legs as he did so.
"Who started it?"
"Not sure. Both sides are saying the other side did it."
"Why'd they fight?"
"Neither side will say."
"Have you seen Roxas?" Sora chimed in, trying to put in a bit of hope for some sort of reason behind the bloody mess scattered around their little town.
The taller boys looked at each other and both shook their heads. "Where is the little guy anyway?" Axel asked, turning around to see if he had simply missed him among the crowd. "Can't be too hard to miss right? He is their leader afterall."
"It seems both you and Roxas share a similar trait, Axel," Riku commented, "He, too, appears at times when he's spoken about." He pointed behind him to signal that he had already spotted the blond version of his beloved. "Just like devils."
Roxas yawned, practically oblivious to the situation around him. His only concern at the moment was getting to school and continuing his sleeping time. It was only when he saw Axel did he decide to assess the situation. "What the hell did you do?" The blonde asked, directing it toward Axel. "Two days into your title and there's already a war between the schools!"
"Hey, shorty, let me put it straight, this is not my fault!" Axel glared, stooping down a bit so he was eye level to Roxas. "For all I know, it could be your fault!"
Roxas rolled his eyes. "I'm not stupid enough to cause a mass disruption for Twilight Town." He strided over to his boys nonchalantly, asking for an explanation. "Tell me what happened, or God help me, I will crush you to the ground so that not even the mother that gave birth to you will claim you as her son."
The boy started to tremble, wondering why it had to be him. "L-Last night. F-Fight. Insulted you and S-Sora-sama."
"About what?" Roxas narrowed his eyes. "I won't hurt you, just tell me."
"They said that S-Sora-sama was a wimp and a pansy, and that you would end up like him." The scared boy stated, proud that he only stuttered once in his whole sentence.
"And that would be...?"
"Uhm... W-Weak and... uh... g-gay..." The boy hid his face behind his hands on reflex, shutting his eyes tightly to lessen the pain that he expected to come, but when he opened his eyes, the ominous force had already left his side. He let out a large sigh of relief. "Thank you, God! Thank you so much! I came face to face with Roxas-sama and lived to tell the tale!"
Roxas retreated back to the group. He glared at Riku and Sora briefly before walking over to Axel, looking up to him as he did so. "I'm not up for a war," Roxas said with an aggravated voice. "Let's just deal with this in one fight, ok?" He narrowed his eyes at Axel. "This'll be to settle the situation but also to see if you're worthy of being my rival. If you're not good enough, I'm calling Riku back out." Roxas turned his head to Riku. "Hear that, Riku?"
"I heard it. I'll take you up on that, but I don't think Axel will be a disappointment." Riku said with a nod toward Axel. "Don't underestimate him too much. There's more to him than what you see."
Roxas shrugged and turned his attention back to Axel. "Better live up to expectations." His clear blue eyes stared into blank green ones, a clear threat in the way he continued to glare at the redhead.
"Just tell me the date and time and I promise not to be late, dear." Axel smirked as he crossed his arms, towering over Roxas with his height. If nothing else, he would protect his pride as a delinquent. There was absolutely no way a shorty that cooks adorable lunches can take him down. Yes, he'd seen it. Sora's daily lunches were like free lunch for those who couldn't afford buying from the cafeteria, not that those were the only students that wanted some. Though the cute look of the lunch normally just attracted the girls, the exquisite taste and delicious smell drew in the boys, even Axel himself. If not for Riku, Sora would have been trampled by the number of teenagers just waiting to get a piece of his lunch. It was almost like feeding time at the zoo if one didn't know any better.
"Today afterschool over on the outskirts of town, at the hill where you can see the train." Roxas decided, leaving before he made the decision to bust Axel's head in for calling him 'dear.' The blonde once again carried himself about the streets of Twilight Town, taking his boys along with him, to the gates of Radiant Garden Boys' School.
"You have got to stop doing that!" Axel cursed as Roxas ignored him for the second time in the two instances they've crossed paths. "Cheeky and rude... cute kid." He laughed while shaking his head. "Gotta love the stubborn ones."
No student could sit still during class after word got out about the death match between Roxas and Axel. More specifically, no person associated with Twilight High or Radiant Garden could concentrate that afternoon; even teachers and administrators kept a steady look at the clock, watching the second hand circle again and again until it reached the 12 on its last revolution for the day.
"Class is over!" Sora's teacher screamed as he was already halfway down the hall, heading for the staircases and desperate to beat the mass of youths to the specified area in hopes of a seat where he could see the blood and sweat.
"Sheesh, is it really going to be that interesting?" Sora asked skeptically toward his aqua-eyed lover. "It's just two guys exchanging punches, shedding blood, hurting each others' pride... gaining power... solidifying his name... raising his title..." The innocent brunette trailed off as an uncharacteristic grin started to pull at the edges of his mouth and a power induced haze glossed over his eyes.
Riku, noticing the switch from teddy bear to demon, lifted the smaller boy's face to meet his and captured him in a kiss, removing the killing intent that was rising within the boy. When they separated, the supposed demon glowed bright red as he stared into his lover's eyes.
"I'd have thought that you'd be used to this by now, Sora," Riku smirked, snaking an arm around Sora's waist skillfully. "No worries though, we have all the time in the world to repeat this again," the silver-haired boy dropped a light kiss on the boy's forehead, "and again," another kiss to the cheek, "and again," yet another sweet contact on the tip of Sora's nose, "until you get used to me."
The brunette's face flushed, his temperature probably reaching a three digit number in celsius, and just like that, Sora spontaneously combusted. No, not really, but the boy was so utterly embarrassed that his legs gave out and his mind could no longer function, sending him to a nice little nap with Riku holding him. Although, why did it feel as though Riku was falling with him rather than holding him up. No wait... Where was Riku?
"Alright, I've got him. Get the van outside before Riku wakes up. Hurry, damn it!" A high pitched voice shouted as all else began to fade away for Sora. He could only utter a soft grunt toward this new person. "Is he still awake? What the hell, Larxene? Tranq him again!"
"Ugh! Larxene this, Larxene that! Do your own dirty work once in a while why don't you? Ugh, why'd I have to be the younger sister? What I'd do in a past life to deserve this?" Sora felt a light sting against the skin on his neck, causing the darkness to overcome his surroundings at an even faster rate than before.
"Larxene, hurry up! Carry him to the van! Now!"
"I got it already! Geez, Kairi, lighten up! Y'know, if it weren't..." The rest was just incomprehensible sounds for Sora. There were no words or meanings just sounds. Yeah, just nice little birds soaring in the sky and butterflies fleeting across the meadow. Ah yes, this was what it meant. Ooohh, pretty flowers. Let's go pick some for Riku! Riku will like the flowers, right? Where were we again? At school? Hm... nahhh, we're in the meadow, prancing in the meadow, picking flowers and having a picnic. Yup, having a picnic with Mr. and Mrs. Fox and their child Roxas. No wait, wasn't that my brother? ...Nahhhhhh, my brother isn't the offspring of some wild foxes! Psh, Sora was human, so his brother was human. Everything made sense. Yup, absolutely. Oh look, it's Mother Bear Axel!
Sora giggled a bit, insanity creeping into his giggle every second. The two girls looked at each other and back at Sora.
"Geez Larxene, how much tranquilizer did you use?"
"Don't blame me, I just did what you told me to do!"
At the very center of the gathered masses was a circular clearing with only one contender standing tall and rather irritated at that. He stood impatiently with his arms crossed, his foot tapping and a large crossvein at his temple. His eyes stared at one area as if knowing that his opponent would appear in that exact location. He was already twenty minutes late! What kind of self-respecting delinquent makes their opponent wait twenty minutes for a death match?
Although the crowd rustled about, shouting insults and threats to the other school, no one dared to yell at the lone person at the center. An evil aura lingered about his person, and many avoided even looking at him for fear of suddenly bursting into flames from the glare of his eyes. Right now, there was nothing to be afraid of except that person.
"B-Boss... calm down," a student began in a timid voice, "if he doesn't show up, that just means he's afraid of you and not worthy of being your opponent."
The student was suddenly kicked to the sidelines without a moment's hesitation. "Shut your mouth. He better show up or else I will hunt him down and slaughter him mercilessly." His eyes narrowed dangerously as the student wimpered and struggled to get up, no longer willing to put up a fight. He limped away, yet his leader showed no remorse, only an even more fearful air that thickened around him.
He returned his eyes to their previous location though not even sure that this would be the area he would appear from. He could only wait so much longer. He cracked his knuckles, hoping to waste just a little bit of time until the arrival of his opponent.
"Huh, y'know, if I didn't know better, I'd have thought you were my Roxas from way back there."
Axel whirled around, not sure how someone had been able to get past his guard. He came face to face with a taller version of his opponent, Cloud Strife. Although he was the rival school's previous leader, he was no longer a threat to him. Rather, he was more of an idol, but if that was the reason why Axel's face went as red as his hair, he couldn't tell. Was it his admiration for this Strife that made his face change its shade... or was it perhaps the image of the other Strife's face within his?
"You are... Cloud Strife." Axel stated once he managed to finally alter the hue of his face into a normal tone.
"That I am," Cloud grinned. "Sorry about Roxy being late. I called him during school to help me out with something; I didn't know there was a big match today." His blue eyes searched the skies as he tried to recall something. "From back there," Cloud pointed behind him about a mile away where the crowd began to cease, "I almost thought that you were Roxas, though that wouldn't make sense at all." He chuckled a bit before turning his eyes back to Axel. "Not just anyone could make me think that; it's a compliment," he added after receiving a skeptical look from the teenager. "Sora lacks the ominous aura bit, so I think Roxas hogged it all up when they were born." He let out another laugh when the younger boy still could not understand him. "Sorry, sorry, just a father rambling about his sons. I'm just saying that you might just be on par with my Roxy."
"Th-Thank you...?" Axel responded hesitantly. Though that should give him confidence, it just put him at a loss. "Where is Roxas anyway?" Though it didn't happen very often, Axel had to look up at Cloud. He was just a few inches taller than Axel and had a much bigger build that Axel couldn't help but feel a sense of awe run through his body.
"Sorry to interrupt the moment." Roxas grunted as his annoyed eyes glared holes through Axel's skull.
"Oh, how long have you been there?" Axel asked in surprise, taking a step back as he did so.
Roxas' eye twitched as he brushed past Axel, smacking his shoulder against the other boy intentionally. "I was there the whole time." He said through gritted teeth. "Sorry if I'm not tall enough to even reach eye level for you."
Ah, come to think of it, when Axel turned around, he did see a little bit of blonde hair before he met Cloud's blue eyes... Oops. Axel turned his gaze away in embarrassment as Cloud chuckled once again. "You could have said something," Axel murmured, suddenly remembering his reaction to Cloud. Ahh... That might not have been good.
"Heh, it looked like you were having a moment with my father so I didn't think I should," Roxas snickered as Cloud only rolled his eyes. Oh what a son he had. Roxas approached the opposite side of the circle, reaching his school's side of it. He stood with his head cocked to one side in a confident manner, clearly trying to intimidate his opponent.
Just as Axel opened his mouth to shout a protest, Cloud's voice overpowered all others. "Alright, alright. It's been a long wait and since I'm the reason for it, I'll judge the match." Cloud announced, but once he did, many of Twilight High's supporters began to shout and yell at his decision. "I'll be fair, I promise. Now then, on this side, Twilight High's AXEL! And on this side, my ROXY!"
Before he could speak anymore, a stray shoe was kissing his cheek and leaving a nice red imprint on his face. "Ah... sorry... I meant Radiant Garden's Roxas..." Cloud sighed in defeat. "Let the battle begin!"
Both boys vanished at the statement and were only seen in a few instances to the untrained eye. Occassionally, a few drops of blood could be seen splatting onto the green grass, that being the only sign that the fight continued on. Only those with devil-status could watch the entire fight from beginning to end for others were too slow to see the movement of the two beings.
Each fighter moved with grace and light footing, though their punches and attacks could not be considered graceful nor light. After several unsuccessful attacks from both ends, the two pulled apart, each panting and out of breath. Neither would give way to the other, yet neither had the power to overcome their opponent. This could end up as...
"Tired already?" Axel teased as he noticed the scattered breaths the blond took. "Here I was thinking I had to prove myself to you. I didn't think it'd be the other way around." He laughed lightly as Roxas' face turned to stone.
"Don't get too cocky." Roxas smirked, honing down his breathing. "We're just getting started."
By now, their movement had slowed down so that even powerless teachers could watch the fight. An hour passed and neither boy was willing to go down just yet. Though blood flowed from areas they couldn't even see and bruises began to appear, they continued to stand on their own two feet without help. They no longer held killing intent in their eyes but a look of amusement and a hint of respect for each other.
"I guess I underestimated you shorty," Axel laughed though his legs had already begun to shake at the weight of his wounds. "I've taken more damage than what I can count."
Roxas didn't reply, he could only laugh, but even that burned his lungs. He, too, could feel the shaking in his bones and the pain from the fight, but would not admit to it. He took a heavy step forward, his opponent mimicking his action. The only thing moving these two warriors now was sheer will, the will to prevail the battle and the wish to prove themselves worthy.
The two finally met at the center of their circle, only to grapple at each other weakly. Roxas cursed as he could feel his strength fail him, but he knew that his opponent was the same. Then, as if both had come to a truce, collapsed together, one on top of the other, though still holding onto their opponent in some way. Neither person moved, though whether they were conscious or not, only Cloud could tell.
The older blond approached the crime scene, a tissue already in his hands. He blew his nose into it as a fake tear came rolling down his face. "Rest in peace, both of you." Yet another shoe came flying into his face, knocking him down almost instantly. "Agh! Sorry sorry... I meant, they're both unconscious. Draw."
The whole crowd was in an uproar, yelling at their respective warrior to get up and show them what their school was made of, but neither boy moved. That is, until a single silver-haired teenager came rushing blindly into the clearing, yelling out news of the apocalypse.
"Sora's been kidnapped!" It came again like a tidal wave to the unconscious boys. "Sora's been kidnapped!"
Only Axel rose at the sound of his superior's voice. "Riku? What are you..." He struggled to rise to his feet, but it was to no avail. He fell once more, only to land on the smaller boy with a large grunt from both worn out fighters.
Roxas grumbled as his eyes began to open from the massive impact he had just undergone. "Ugh, what is this red thing on top of me?"
"It's your lover." Cloud replied with a blank expression, wondering if Roxas had gotten memory loss from the fight.
Roxas stared at his father a bit longer, then turned his face to Axel, who was still sprawled on his lap, and back to his father. The blond amused his father a bit, making himself look as if he truly wasn't sure if it was the truth. "Like hell he is!" Roxas growled as he literally threw the redhead off of his lap and into the crowd with inhuman strength. He slowly brought himself to his feet and glared at Cloud momentarily with burning eyes, "I would never fall for a lie that idiotic!"
"Well it was worth a try," Cloud shrugged as he gave his irritated son a sheepish grin.
"Please focus," Riku requested as he restrained himself from wringing the necks of both Strife's. "I just told you that your son," Riku pointed an accusing finger toward Cloud then to Roxas, "and your brother has been kidnapped and you're not doing anything about it?"
The two blonds shared a quick glance before ignoring Riku once more. "If it's Sora, he'll be fine," Roxas muttered. "He'll come back before midnight crying and asking for a cookie... Or he'd have been set free because he was too cute and given a strawberry-flavored lollipop as a souvenir." Roxas uneasily limped from the center of the clearing towards the raging crowd.
"Wh-What?" Riku shook his head as he turned his attention to the more sane of the two, Cloud. "Surely you don't think the same, right?"
Cloud hesitated before answering, remembering a similar incident when Sora was 5 and had that exact outcome, "Well... Do you have any idea who it was?"
"I... I remember two names," Riku began to make nonsensical noises under his breath and variations of names starting with L and K, "AH! Kairi and Larxene. Sisters, I think." The silver-haired delinquent slammed a fist into his hand as the memories began to come back to him in bits and pieces. "They took him right after school."
Cloud paled.
"Kairi and Larxene you say?" The irresponsible father questioned, his face as white as a sheet of paper. "H-How about this? Why don't you, Roxas and Axel go to our house and stay there until I get Sora back? When they realize it isn't Sora they want, you three might be the next targets." Cloud laughed so nervously and obviously at his suggestion that he earnied a few strange glances from the three aforementioned boys.
"If they didn't want Sora, why would they take him?" Axel asked as he was finally brought to a vertical, upright position. He wobbled unsteadily toward the stronger men and scratched the back of his bleeding head.
"I'll explain later, for now, have a sleepover with Roxas!" Cloud exclaimed as he captured Roxas in one scoop and tossed him over his shoulder, gaining an obnoxious complaint in return. In the same swift motion, the aged boss took both boss and former boss of Twilight High in either arm and made a speedy escape toward his blue car parked behind the thousands of disappointed spectators. Though barraged with a mountain of protests from the younger generation, Cloud continued to stuff the boys into his car and drove like a madman on steroids toward his house without a moment to spare.
"Riku," Roxas began as he was unable to flip through the TV channels thanks to an ever busy Riku making constant trips from one end of the couch to another, "either pace somewhere else or don't pace at all." The threat hardly registered into the worried Riku, much to Roxas' annoyance. He laid himself out lazily across the couch, taking up the whole area and continuously tried to smack the small buttons on the remote to get the channel to change at least once.
Axel wandered over to Roxas and plopped himself onto the the middle of the couch, right smack down onto Roxas' unsuspecting legs. The redhead grinned as he watched the remote miss his head by a mere 2 centimeters. "Careful there, I could have gotten hurt."
"That was the idea!" Roxas cursed as he retracted his legs to give Axel the second half of the small couch, though his upper half remained in its spread out position. "RIKU! I'M SERIOUS! MOVE IT!" He threw his fist into the air, but realized his hands were now weaponless thanks to this cozy, redheaded porcupine snuggled at the end of the couch. Roxas nudged Axel with the sole of his foot, his facial expression saying, "Make your boss move now, or I'll use the security system to shoot this mother hen out the window."
Getting the clue, Axel instantly shot up in his seat and ushered Riku to the back of the couch. Being the kind gentleman that he was, Axel even bothered to fetch Roxas his remote/weapon of death. "Doesn't your dad think we're strong enough to take care of ourselves? Why do we have to be here while he goes and rescues Sora?"
Lazy eyes met curious green ones as Roxas shifted his position ever so slightly to allow Axel his position back onto the couch, though one leg remained behind the taller boy. Determined to keep most of the couch space to himself, Roxas stealthily sneaked his other leg onto on Axel's lap and reaching the armrest with his heel, thus putting Axel at an awkward position between the smaller boy's legs, but neither seemed to pay much attention to it.
"Our security system," Roxas replied, his eyes refocusing on the TV screen once more. "We have a security system installed, so if anything that's a possible threat comes around, it'll react; if modified, it can also keep people locked in, much like it's doing now. A Strife can make over 200 powerful enemies in his lifetime; we have to be prepared for the worst. Besides, do you think those bandages on your head are the new fashion style?" Sarcastic as always, Roxas rolled his eyes as Axel blew up his cheeks rather cutely and gave the other boy a defiant look. The lanky teenager suddenly took on the image of a pouting 3-year old as his cheeks glowed red from turning his cheeks into reddish puffs on his face.
"What if it doesn't work?"
"The only way for that to happen, is if the power suddenly decided to shut off," Roxas muttered in a low voice, a sign that something was beginning to bother him. Riku's pacing had become even more frequent now that his pacing area had decreased and became much louder as more anxiety piled up into each step. With a low, animal-like growl, Roxas crushed the TV remote in his bare hands, though not a scratch was received on his part. "Okay, that's it... I was saving this for Christmas, but I'm desperate."
Axel gave Roxas a confused glance as the blond dug under the couch for a black box with a chibi drawing of a stern Roxas on the lid yelling, "Look and die in less than 2 hours." Now that's a warning sign, Axel mused as he continued to observe his rival rip open the box, throwing the lid into the kitchen by mistake. "What are you looking for?"
The determined teenager rifled through the many objects within the box until his hand came across a soft, squishy fabric. "Here it is." Roxas pulled out an almost identical Sora plushie, complete with big blue eyes and candy accessories. "Merry Christmas, Riku!" The very talented craftsman yelled as he tossed the mini Sora into a corner. Neither Roxas nor Axel heard the light thump of the plushie, but instead heard a deafening "SOOORRAAAA!" and an extreme crash behind him.
"...What did those drugs do to that poor man?" Roxas asked in disbelief as he peeked over the couch and observed a psychotic Riku rocking back and forth while patting his Sora doll.
Axel, making the same observation, took it on with a different angle, "More like, what did your brother do to my boss?" The two exchanged glances before shivering at all the possible answers to both questions. "Anyway... About your security system."
"It's flawless," Roxas responded immediately, taking no time to pause for further questions, but just as the words escaped his lips, everything turned pitch black. "...When it's on."
The two boys stood at a seemingly normal door in the hallway. Roxas' face could have probably explained what real terror looked like in great detail if one had enough light to really take a glimpse of his face. The small boy trembled as he held the flashlight for both he and Axel. "Th-The... system has to be restarted, but the control panel is in the basement..."
"Then let's go," Axel responded as he took the flashlight from Roxas, brushing his hand against Roxas' shaking fingers. "...Roxas?" The taller boy's lips angled themselves into a worried line across his face as he tilted his head slightly to take a closer look at the person in question.
"S-Sorry." For a moment, Roxas' usual at-ease voice shook and reverberated in a high pitched tone in Axel's head. Frightening Axel beyond measure unknowingly, the blond cleared his throat, trying to regain his composure. "Let's go." Roxas took the initiative to grasp the doorknob shakily and began to open the door that would send them to his childhood nightmare: the Devil's Labyrinth.
Cookee: You figured it out yet?
Monkey: ...So that's why you asked me what kind of traps would be in a basement!
Cookee: I did say it would be in your area of expertise. Y'know, I think this "oneshot" really shows just how much I favor Akuroku... I should have put this story on my own account. I'd have gotten more reviews... Just kidding! ...Well actually... Oh, second part probably won't be as long by the way.
