In The Middle of Nowhere

Some of these characters might be a tad bit OOC

DISCLAIMER: I do not own KH, HM, or FF

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"Axel, get up!" Axel's father said, shaking the boy.

Axel slowly opened his eyes to see his father standing over him. His father was almost an exact image of him except for his mocha colored eyes. Axel stared up at the man and then turned to look at the clock next to him, it was 4am.

"Dad! It's four in the morning!" Axel whined, pulling the covers over his head.

"Well we have to hurry up and take care of the animals before the shipping guy comes. Now get up."

Axel peeked out from under the covers, watching his dad walk out of the room. "You've got to be kidding me!" He moaned, pushing the cover's off of him. The cold air swept over him, making him shiver.

Axel walked into the kitchen/dining room/living room; he didn't bother getting changed yet.

"Now eat some breakfast and eat it fast. We have to get everything done by 5." His father was sitting at the table, his legs propped up on a chair.

Axel starred daggers at his father, "We have to do this every morning?"

"You bet." His father replied, he didn't seem the least bit phased by the early hours.

Axel just rolled his eyes and headed over to the fridge. He poured himself a bowl of cereal, "This sucks."

"Glad to know your enjoying your new home." His father said sarcastically, standing up from the table. "I'm going to go ahead and go take care of the chickens. Meet me out in the barn when you're done."

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Axel trudged out to the barn; it was about 4:45 now. He pushed open the large barn doors.

"Nice of you to join me, now hurry up and start milking the cows."

"B…but…I don't know how…"

"Well do your best, here is the milker." His father stated, handing him the object. Axel just looked at it strangely, how was he supposed to know how to use it?

He walked over to one of the three cows they had; it just kind of stood there, staring at him like some sort of alien.

"What are you looking at?" He sneered towards the cow; the cow just turned its head back to the trough and started eating again.

"You know Axel. I know this move was hard on you but I didn't know it was enough to make you go insane. Not even I talk to the cows." His father joked; Axel just rolled his eyes and started trying to figure out how to milk the cow.

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Larxene sat in the classroom, twiddling a pencil between her fingers. She hated this school, if you could even call it that. Most schools at least had over 200 in a grade. This school barely made 30. What was even worse was you had all the same classes with the people in your grade, since they couldn't real split them up into wheels or teams. So if you hated someone, you were stuck.

She started doodling on a piece of math homework, not really paying attention to the teacher as she called morning roll.

"Students," The teacher announced, "We will be having a new student join us today. Please welcome Axel Davis."

"No need for the introduction." Axel muttered looking over the class. Most of the people were staring at him, a few girls whispered between themselves.

"Axel how about you go take next to Roxas over there." She said, pointing to a spiky haired blonde towards the back. "Oh and just call me Mrs. Karen, no need to use my last name." She added.

Larxene continued to play with her pencil; she didn't really care what the teacher had to say. She noticed someone walking down the aisle but she really didn't pay any attention to who it was, "Probably some inspector." She muttered, not looking up from her doodling.

"I'm Roxas." Roxas said as soon as Axel sat down next to him.

"Obviously." Axel retorted, he wasn't really in the mood to be friendly.

"So you live up at that farm on the top of the hill eh?" Roxas said, ignoring his mood, "I live on the farm on the other side of the river. It's a vegetable farm."

"Yeah my dad mentioned something about that." Axel replied a little bit more casual.

"So what's your name again?"

"The name is Axel, A-X-E-L. Got it memorized?"

"Probably not, I might ask you a few more times." Roxas said shrugging, "Well since there aren't many kids in here I guess I'll just introduce you to all of them at lunch. Well the kids I hang out with anyways."

"You have groups at a small school like this?" Axel said, rather surprised. You think in a class with less than thirty students that they would all just be friends.

"Yeah, you'll see later." Roxas said facing forward; the teacher was looking towards them tapping her foot impatiently.

"Larxene! Are you listening to me?" She asked the blonde girl.

"Y…yes." She said, looking up from her doodle. A few students let out snickers and some of the girls giggled. "I'm paying attention."

"Well in since you have been listening, oh so well, you obviously know we have a new student." Mrs. Karen gave a small smirk towards the blonde girl, "So how bout you be helpful to the new student and share a book with him."

"Ok, I will." Larxene looked towards one of her friends, the girl was taking glances in the direction that the new student was. Larxene turned her head, and sure enough, there was the red headed emerald eyed new student sitting right next to her.

"You're the new student I'm guessing."

"No I just appeared out of nowhere." Axel said sarcastically, turning his head towards the girl.

"My sister told me about you." Larxene muttered, pulling out a reading book from her back-pack.

"Your sister?"

"Yeah, Kate."

"The annoying ten year old?"

"Glad to know someone else agrees." Larxene said mono-toned. She placed the book so that it hung between the two desks.

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Axel followed Roxas out of the lunch line, towards the table where all of Roxas's friends sat.

"Hey Axel!" A spiky haired brunette that looked almost exactly Roxas greeted.

"Hold on, I'm going to introduce everyone." Roxas said, shushing the brunette haired boy.

"That is Sora, the one that just greeted you." Roxas said pointing to the boy. Sora just grinned and waved back. He had cobalt blue eyes and unruly brown hair that poked up in many directions.

"That is Kairi, his future girlfriend." Axel looked towards a now bright pink girl with violet-blue eyes and auburn colored hair.

"That his Tidus, the blitzball champion." He pointed towards a blonde haired kid with bright blue eyes.

"And that is his girlfriend, Yuna." Axel looked at Yuna, noticing that her eyes were two different colors, Blue and Green. She had shoulder length light brown hair.

"That hot blonde babe right there is my girlfriend, Namine." Roxas said winking at the girl. You could tell she was shy, even around her boyfriend. Her face turned a hot red color, making her surreal blue eyes look even brighter. She had pale blonde hair which seemed to go perfect with her light skin tone.

"That's Wakka and Lulu right there." He said, pointing towards a redhead. He had his arms around a girl that seemed to be on the goth side. She had black hair and dark make-up on.

"Selphie is the over-hyper-active brunette with flipped out hair. Irvine is her boyfriend; he's kind of like a cowboy." Axel looked at the strange pair, they both seemed pretty weird.

"Those two right there are Hayner and Olette. They both moved hear from Twilight Town about 8 years ago." Axel looked in the direction of A blonde haired boy, he didn't look as 'happy' as the rest of the group, and a girl that sat next to him sort of looked like Selphie only with longer brown hair and a lighter shade of green eyes.

"Last but not least, this is Garnet. Her boyfriend, Zidane is a year older than us. He and a few other people were also part of the group but they graduated late year."

Axel studied all the faces that looked at him, they all seemed to be pleased with the new comer, "You never explained the groups." Axel said, taking glances over at Roxas who now sat next to Namine.

"Oh yes. We are the cool kids." Roxas said, directing towards the group that sat with them.

"They are the kids who just don't fit in." Roxas said, looking towards the group behind them. "In that group is Gray, Mary, Stu, May, Demyx, Popuri, Elli, Steven, and Larxene." (A/N- Steven is the doctor from HM, I just made up a name for him)

"Do they have pairings too?" Axel asked, rather amused by how this school seemed to be 'run'.

"Yeah, Gray and Mary, Stu and May, Demyx and Popuri, and Elli and Steven. They have some older people in their group to though."

"What about Larxene?" Axel asked, wondering about the lone girl who didn't seem to be sitting by any particular guy.

"Nah, she's to high maintenance for a guy." Sora said, playing with the food on his tray, "Demyx once took a liking to her but she just slapped him across the face."

"Why are you so interested in Larxene?" Namine said. The whole group looked at him curiously.

"I'm not." Axel stated coldly, "If I was interested about her I would be like 'OMG that is so crazy that she doesn't have a boyfriend because she is SO hot.'"

Everyone laughed at Axel's comment, "Yeah, who would be interested in anyone in that group anyways?" Hayner said, looking over to the other table.

RING RING RING RING RING

"Dang it, we didn't get to talk much this lunch." Irvine said, standing up with his tray in his hands, "Want me to take yours Selph?" The girl nodded and placed her tray on top of his. They all headed over to a little lunch area where you dumped what was left of your tray and then placed it on a counter so the lunch lady could wash it.

"You'll like it here." Sora said, giving Axel a hard pat on the back, "We'll make your last year of high school the best."

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Axel pushed open the door to his home and headed over to an over plush leather sofa.

"So how was your first day of school?" His father asked, he was cooking something in the kitchen.

"You sound like a mother." Axel mumbled, his face was stuffed in the couch cushions.

"No, your mother would probably be drunk. Therefore it would've been on the lines of 'Hey baby did you bang any girls in the locker room today? I heard they're best when…'" His father said, mimicking his x-wife.

"That is why I said A mother not my mother." Axel interrupted before his father could finish.

"That's not the point Axel. You're avoiding my question." His father said. The older man flipped over what seemed to be a steak and then turned back towards Axel.

"It was ok. They only have one classroom for each grade."

"Well what do you expect for a small town like this?" His father sighed, turning back towards his food. "Well since you seem to have so much time on your hands, why don't you go get the scythe and cut some of the grass in the pasture."

"Dad…"

"The scythe is in the tool-shed next to the barn." His father commented before Axel could complain.

Axel mumbled some incoherent words before heading outside to the tool shed.

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He slowly cut the grass, almost perfectly even with each swipe. After he had enough grass, he bundled it up and carried it into the barn, then he'd repeat the process.

During about the 5th time a familiar voice sounded across the river, "Looks like your having fun over there!" A voice yelled. Axel looked up to see Roxas, he seemed to be doing some type of labor also.

"Watcha workin on?" Axel said, looking over to see what Roxas was doing.

"Have to pick some vegetables." He responded, just loud enough for Axel to hear.

"Oh, I have to cut grass for fodder." Axel said, holding up the scythe for Roxas to see. They both let out a small laugh before someone yelled.

"Roxas Johnson get your ass back in gear!" A brunette woman yelled from a small log cabin that looked to be a good distance away.

"I'm working mom I'm working!" He shouted, all she did was shake her head and go back into the building.

"I'll see you tomorrow Roxas, I have to go in now." Axel said, wrapping up the last bundle.

Roxas just nodded and continued to work.

After carrying the bundle into the barn, Axel treaded over to the house.

"You came just in time." Axel's father announced, placing two large steaks onto the dinner table. His father sat down, rather pleased with his 'creation'.

Axel plopped down into the chair, not overly excited about the steak. He gobbled it down quickly; quite hungry from all the work he had to do that day.

"I'm going to take a shower than I'm off to bed." Axel stated, standing up from his seat and heading towards the back. His father just smiled and nodded his head. He picked up his son's plate and his own and brought it into the kitchen, "They grow up fast…" His father said, scraping off the extra meat. "Way to fast."

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I finished! That's the longest chapter I've ever written for a fanfic :)

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