Yay second chapter! I'm personally digging this. Review and let me know if you are!


Axel ran his fingers through his hair, pausing at the nape of his neck to nervously scratch as he walked further into the kitchen, eventually sitting right across from the significantly smaller boy who still watched him with a smile, sipping from his cup. The redhead tried to smile, but it came out awkward and unwarranted and he retreated, staring at his sister who smirked into her coffee.

"I had to see it with my own eyes before I'd believe it." Roxas said as he set his mug down, draped his arm over the back of his chair and casually leaned back. "The prodigal child returns." He finished as he cocked his head to the side, forcing eye contact with the emerald green across the table. But Axel only rolled his eyes as he laid his arms down on the table, hunching his shoulders and breaking the line of vision that Roxas had worked to make.

"Thanks." Axel said with a scowl at his father when he sat a mug down in front of him. His father only chuckled as he took his own seat across from his daughter. "So um...Roxas, what have you been up to?"

"Oh nothing interesting. I wanna know what you've been up to." The sandy haired kid answered with a smirk as he rested his elbow on the table and cradled his chin in his palm, his eyes shimmering at the redhead.

"Yea Axel. What have you been up to the past five years?" Kairi asked with pursed lips and an arched brow. Nothing had changed since they were teenagers, she still loved to make him miserable.

"I've been up to a lot of things..." Axel murmured and stared back down into his cup, sloshing it from side to side as he sighed gently.

"Come on Ax! You've been all over the world! You have to have some interesting stories." Roxas argued with him, still smiling confidently.

"I really don't." The redhead said firmly and scowled at the boy across from him who merely rolled his eyes.

"Nothings changed I see." Roxas said smugly as he and Axel glared at one another, leaving Kairi and her father awkwardly shifting in their seats.

"Well I think I should head to bed." The gigantic blonde man said as he thrust his arms out in front of him in a stretching motion. "And don't you have work in the morning dear?"

"Yea, but..." Kairi mumbled and looked between the two boys watching each other with aggression and then back at her father with a slightly pouting lip.

"Kairi." He said firmly and darted his eyes to the stairs, signaling her to leave. The girl rolled her eyes as she finished off her coffee and stood, cocking her hip to the side as she leaned against her chair.

"Yea, it's gonna be really effective to go to bed after coffee." She said with a gentle sigh after placing her cup in the sink and starting up the stairs. "God, treat me like I'm sixteen."

"Only because you act like it darling." Her father said sarcastically as he began to follow her.

"I'm twenty four!" She whined as she disappeared into the darkness of the second level of the house. The older man sighed gently and turned with a kind smile to bid the two boys good night.

"Good night Mr Nagy." Roxas said, finally breaking his eye contact with Axel to turn his face and smile back at the man who was like a second father to him.

"Roxas, I've told you before--"

"Good night Ansem." He interrupted with a slightly widened smile, making the enormous blonde nod and chuckle good naturedly.

"Good night boys." He said as he followed his daughter's foot steps.

And once again, emerald green met deep blue in a fit, two determined stares watching each other with a gentle, familiar caution. But it was Axel who lost, letting a smile softly curl into his face, looking down at his hands and shaking his head lightly.

"Dammit, you always win." He said quietly as Roxas sat back in his chair and laughed silently, covering his mouth and watching the redhead damn himself for the defeat. Axel lifted his head once and their eyes met again, but now they smiled graciously at one another, seemingly satisfied with the current situation they were in. "No one ever got us did they?" Axel said with a small tilt of his head towards the stairs.

"No one ever will." Roxas replied, shaking his head from side to side slightly. They stared at each other in silence for what seemed forever, it seemed like forever ago that they had been able to look at each other. "I missed you." Roxas said quietly in a somewhat coy tone.

"I missed you too." Axel replied, feeling his words reverberate back to him, bouncing off the empty room. Those words filled the kitchen, up to the brim with nothing but imaginary echoes. Roxas smiled sadly and looked down at his now empty coffee cup again.

"I should get home." He said and rose slowly, unwilling to watch the redhead's eyes that he knew would follow him straight out the door. "I'll see you sunday." He added without bothering to turn away from the street outside. It wasn't necessary, Axel hadn't bothered to leave his seat, he had only allowed his eyes to wander where the other boy dared to go. "And I'm sorry...um about your mom Axel." The redhead nodded and listened to the door click.

"Really? You're just gonna let him leave again?" Kairi emerged silently from the darkened stairway, her arms over her chest as usual as she walked over to her brother. Axel only rolled his eyes as he picked up the two cups, put them in the sink and started up the stairs towards his own room, the room he had almost forgotten about. "You're an idiot..." She mumbled quietly in a saddened tone, holding her arms tighter.

"Shut up Kairi." He said only loud enough for her to hear before coming to his door. He stood for a minute, preparing himself for an unbelievable voyage, an expedition back in time. As he slowly opened the door, it came back in like a tidal wave, crushing him beneath the weight of it. His bed attracted him immediately, enticingly irresistible, he crashed onto it with a smile of euphoria, his eyes already half lidded as he wriggled about, turning to finally lay flat on his back, his eyes gazing up at the ceiling. He couldn't help but smirk when he looked and saw it just the way he had left it. A massive collage of photographs and advertisements, quotes and random words, anything that he had fancied to plaster his ceiling with. Essentially, it was him. At anytime, he could look up and see what he was just by looking at what he had managed to create. He loved that it was still there, he loved that no one had dared to touch it, not his room at all. But as he turned his head to look at the right wall, he saw the pictures. The personal ones that he now couldn't look at without slight guilt. Axel sighed gently as he turned on his side, giving his full attention to one picture in particular. A young, smirking redhead, still tall and lanky, with his arms wrapped around an obnoxiously grinning Roxas, his eyes squeezed shut, baring all his teeth.

"So that's it then." Roxas said bitterly, though he was trying not to be. It proved to be too hard for him.

"Roxas, this isn't it, it's just--"

"Don't you dare fucking try and make me feel better!" He insisted as his boyfriend groaned loudly, letting it escalate into a scream. Axel stood and hovered above him.

"What is wrong with you?!" Axel yelled, clenching his fists as he threw them back in a fit of annoyance.

"NOTHING! Why is there automatically something wrong with me just because I don't want the same things as you?!"

"I didn't mean it like--why do you always do that?! You always fucking twist my words around and make it seem like I'm saying something I'm not!"

"Well fuck I'm sorry I'm such a total dick." Roxas said with a scowl at the redhead as he rose from the bed and started to walk towards the door.

"No way. You're not just fucking leaving until--"

"Until what? Huh? What?!" He cried out, immediately feeling exhausted once he had let it loose. He sank back down on the bed, running both hands through his short hair as he sighed heavily. He couldn't do it anymore.

"Roxas..." Axel said quietly, almost begging, and sat down next to him, trying to rest his hand on the boy's shoulder only to be shrugged off. "This is just...I can't stay here. I just can't. I love you Roxas but I can't stay here the rest of my life."

"I'm not asking you too." He wiped the tears away from his eyes as he mumbled, still somewhat angry, but now too tired to try and argue any further. "If you wanna leave, leave."

"Can you not say it like that? I'm not leaving to hurt you Roxas, but I have to get out of here." He said, forcing his hand into the reluctant blonde's. "I mean...I'll be back. I'm not leaving forever." Roxas shook his head and felt himself start to cry, shaking gently as he weeped.

"No I know you won't come back. This is too tiring Axel. I can't do--"

"Roxas, please just--"

"No." He said firmly, taking back his hand and standing. "Axel, I love but I am so tired." Roxas didn't look over at him still sitting on the bed. He wouldn't look in his eyes. He didn't turn back before walking through the bedroom door. And Axel didn't get up.

"Axel?" He heard knocking on his door and suddenly the light was pouring in.

"What the fuck? I fell asleep." He said with a gentle frustration but he had had a busy day. Flights from Japan and trains to the middle of nowhere weren't exactly restful.

"Ax? You want breakfast?" Kairi poked her head inside, praying that he didn't still sleep completely naked. She was relieved to see him sit up, still fully clothed in the same jeans, tee shirt and old worn leather jacket from the night before.

"That's...shockingly nice of you. Is it poisoned?" He asked with a tired smirk as he laid his arms over his knees. Kairi only rolled her eyes as she always did but smiled nonetheless.

"I always make Denzel chocolate chip pancakes on Saturdays. I thought I would offer since I was..."

"A total bitch last night?"

"I wouldn't say it exactly like that." She said with narrowed eyes.

"No but I would." He replied with a yawn and a scratch of his head.

"Fine, a total bitch." She admitted quietly. Axel nodded as he gazed around his room, taking it all in with the sunlight.

"You could have told me he was here."

"I know." She dragged her toes across the carpet and stared down at them. "He helped dad with Denzel last night and I just didn't think about it." She mumbled but when she saw Axel's arched eyebrow she groaned softly and rolled her eyes again. "Ok fine. I thought it would be..." She struggled to find the right word.

"Funny."

"Yea..." She admitted with slight shame.

"And was it?"

"No..." Kairi sighed again and looked at her older brother. "I'm sorry ok? Do you want pancakes or not?" Axel thought for a moment.

"Is it mom's recipe?"

"The exact one." He smirked and pressed his lips together.

"Alright."


haha yea, Ansem is the dad cuz let's be honest. Can you think of an older male redhead? No? Didn't think so. No no don't say Lex, cuz that would have been creepy. Also, nagy means great in Hungarian. Clever right? XD ummm yea I don't think I had anything else to say for this chapter! Hope you liked! Reviews greatly appreciated as always :)