Chapter 2

Someone Else's Shadow

A/N: Okay, okay. I couldn't help to upload a new chapter this soon! God, I even thought about uploading it straight after the first chapter. But nuh-uh. I am gonna take it a bit cool now. This is a little bonus to all of you cause I am feeling nice today! And that might change very fast since I am on my damn period right now, mood swings and crap like that. So I've spent my day in bed, wallowing in pain and self despair, and played KH2. Yesh, I am replaying the game cause I love it. Especially Axel, Rox and Demyx. All my favorite little Org XIII members. -sigh-
Uh, I am ranting again, right? Well, I wanted to tell you that some things in this story might not really make sense all the time, there will be answers later though. Just the title Someone Else's Shadow doesn't make sense right now, but that will also get explaining. Later. I am still figuring some stuff out as well. Damn it's complicated XD

Thanks: To Sarie Bear, Ally Montgomery, XxPretty-OddxX, genocide-bloodshed, Plain Jane Is A Vampire, MadeInHolland, Melodious Authoress, Mord Sith Matt, LawlietxRinoa and Jayrin Paige. For reviewing the 1st chapter

Warnings: AU (high school fic), boy x boy relationships (AkuRoku + sidepairings: Zemyx/Dexion, ZackCloud(?) and perhaps RiSo), swearing, future lemons, future violence.

Disclaimer: Since Zexion, -glare-, so nicely told you last time I guess Roxas could tell you today!
Roxas: Uh... We are property of Square Enix and Disney... If you excuse me now, I am on my way to fall down a tree because of you, dear authress. -glare-

!!!EDIT (2 February 2009)!!!
Thanks a lot to Trainra for beta reading this chapter and correcting a lot of things!

Chapter 2
Roxas had such a nice dream once he had fallen asleep, he dreamt that he was home in his own bed and he loved it. The soft mattress. The many soft and fluffy pillows. The warm blankets. Ah... According to Roxas it was heaven to be allowed to just lie down and sleep or even just rest in bed. He truly loved his bed and sleeping. But he hated being ripped away from them. Cloud always used to wake him up by yelling since his alarm clock didn't get him up most of the time. And Roxas was used to get startled by Cloud to the point he fell out of the bed, but he always used to catch himself before he hit the floor, it had become a reflex for him. Hear a shout, wake up, tumble out of bed, catch himself.

Roxas grimaced slightly as he thought he heard faint voices. No... Not time to wake up yet. He didn't want to go up to school. Better shut the voices out... Just 5 more minutes of sleep...

Roxas was once more content with his sleep in his far too comfortable 'bed'. He could sleep forever and he'd love it as much. He didn't have to worry then. But everyone knows that dreams don't last forever and this was for sure one of them.

"HEY! KID!"

Roxas's eyes immediately opened up in surprise as he turned over. Shit. He felt how he, like in his usual morning routine, tried to push his hands against something hard and solid, like the floor. But there was just air beneath his hands this time. It felt like everything happened in slow motion as he felt the rest of his body fall down the branch with him. He heard a girlish shriek and some loud swearing in the back of his head. He blinked as he watched how he fell past more branches. He moved so slowly he could almost have grabbed hold on a branch... But then reality kicked in as Roxas hit the ground with a loud thud, sure it was grass but he had been up high in the tree. And hell it hurt.

"Shit, shit, shit!" a panicked voice repeated over and over again as it got closer.

"Oh my God, tell me he's alive!" a female voice said in worry, also coming closer.

Roxas let out a groan as he opened his eyes and immediately regretted it when he felt how the dull aching in his head increased. Maybe caused by the sun in his eyes, or more likely by the hard impact with the ground, it hadn't been a very nice fall. He immediately shut his eyes again.

"Well, it's not everyday blonde's starts falling from the sky," another male voice said with some attempted humour which miserably failed.

"Zack, don't joke about that!" another unknown male voice said with a hint of irritation and panic, "Shit, he could have died!"

"Hey, kid, are you all right?" a slightly familiar voice asked as Roxas once more forced his eyes open as realized that something was looming over him. After a while when he finally managed to focus he realized that the one talking to him and looming over him was the same redhead he almost had run into earlier this morning. He was kneeling by Roxas with quite a worried look on his face, "Please say I didn't cause you any brain damage!" he pleaded and Roxas just blinked a few more times, trying to focus on what was happening around him, "Guys, I think I just mentally killed the new kid!" the redhead then cried as he grabbed his red hair in some kind of panic.

"Ugh... Damn it..." Roxas mumbled and moaned lightly at the dull pain in his head and back. That wouldn't feel any nicer tomorrow. Shit happens.

"He's talking!" a blonde boy with a pretty weird hairstyle squealed as he bounced up and down, hugging a blue haired boy at the same time, "You didn't mentally kill him!"

Roxas shut his eyes for a short moment before grimacing and using his arms to push himself up in sitting position. He opened his eyes and well... the world was practically spinning, "Oh shit..." he muttered as he rested his head against his knees and brought a hand to the back of his head where it hurt mostly. He immediately withdrew it when he felt something warm and sticky against his fingers. Oh fan-fucking-tastic, he was bleeding from the back of his head.

"Oh fuck..." the redhead said nervously, "I might have killed him in the end."

Suddenly Roxas felt a small and soft hand lift his face up and he looked straight back into the blue eyes of a blonde and pretty girl, "Hello, Roxas," she said softly with a worried smile on her face, "Do you... understand me?" she asked as she looked straight into his dazed eyes.

"Yeah..." Roxas said as he wiped the blood on his hands of on his pants, "What just happen-... Wait... I was sleeping and... Uh..." Roxas trailed of as he desperately tried to think of what had happened. All of a sudden he was just... sitting there on the ground, and how had he gotten there?

A chuckle was heard and Roxas looked up at a raven-haired boy, he had also quite a spiky hairstyle. Not nearly as spiky as the redheads hair though, "You were sleeping in the tree and then your bag decided it wanted to try and knock Axel out, so he woke you up a little bit too harshly."

Roxas blinked as he looked at the redhead who apparently was named Axel, he still had wide eyes and looked worried, not taking away his gaze from Roxas.

"Uh... Sorry about the bag...?" Roxas said insecurely as he scratched his head but winced when he came in contact with the wound.

Demyx had to turn around and try to not laugh at the blank face expression on Axel's face and the fact that Roxas genuinely looked sorry was too much. Was the kid for real? Apologizing for something he even hadn't done and didn't even react at Axel making him fall down a tree! It was all just priceless; he so wished he had had his camera with him.

"Uh... You know, I think I am the one to who should apologize," Axel said after a while and still looked at Roxas, still with a blank look on his face, then once more seeing the blood in the blonde's hair he panicked, "Shit! We have to get you to the nurse's office!" he said as he stood up and even pulled Roxas up with him.

Roxas opened his mouth and his eyes widened as he found himself standing up, it had been a little bit too sudden. He shook off Axel's hands from his arm, "I'm fine, really," he said, "I'll just... Uh... Go home and wash up or something..." he stated as he blinked a few times and was about to take a step when the world went spinning again but he found himself being steadied up by Axel so he wouldn't hit the ground again.

"Don't think so, kid," Axel said warily as he threw a look at his friends, "Demyx, could you take his bag? And... uh... Zexion, would you mind telling his teachers that there was a little accident and try to not make it sound like I pushed him down the tree, kay? And Naminé... You..."

"I'll come with you, seeing as you're pretty shocked yourself," she stated with a small smile on her face.

Roxas just blinked as he took in the names of the people. Were these the people Sora had warned him about? He didn't think they seemed so bad, really nice actually since they were helping him and all. Or well, apparently they were the reason he had fallen down the tree in the first place but still... He could almost bet that the preps wouldn't have helped him at all if anything happened. Well, Sora would have. But Sora didn't count into the preps really, because Sora was one of a kind.

"What about me?" Zack whined, feeling left out.

"You call his bro; you said you knew him, right?" Axel asked with a raised eyebrow.

Roxas opened his mouth and shook his head when he realized what they were talking about, "Dear God, no! No one is calling Cloud!" he said in slight panic, knowing that Cloud never would let him even go outside again if he got to know that he had fallen down a tree. It was better just pulling a lie at home about his head. Cloud was so overprotective since... that happened.

"Sure about that?" Axel asked with a frown on his face.

"Y-yeah," Roxas said with a slight stutter, still very lost about the situation, "I'll just... get home. I think that'll be all right," he stated with a nod, but didn't sound so convincing. Not even to himself.

Axel groaned, "Not before the nurse, kid, I don't want to be the one held responsible if you die."

"But-,"

"Just for a check up, is that okay?" the blonde girl, Naminé, asked, "We'll give you a ride to your home then, does that sound good?" she looked him straight into his eyes with a warm smile on her face, almost motherly. Roxas concluded that he liked this girl... She had a nice smile.

Roxas simply nodded and with that Axel hauled him away towards the school again. Zexion split from the group once they got inside and headed to tell the teachers that Roxas had been in a little accident caused by... a mistake. Zexion forced himself to hold back a smirk. Maybe he could make it sound a little worse than it actually was... It could be so fun getting Axel in trouble sometimes...

Roxas was in a cloud of mist the whole way to the nurse. He simply followed the way Axel pulled him and looked at random stuff the whole way there. Feeling like he just floated by with Axel's movements. Once they entered, what Roxas guessed was the nurse's office, a soft sigh was heard.

"Zachary, who is it this time and what happened? Is it Axel?" A soft and nice female voice asked.

Zack grinned as he let Axel and Roxas past him, "Believe me or not, this time it isn't one of us who's hurt, Aerith."

The nurse, Aerith, opened her mouth and immediately jumped up from her seat when she saw the blonde teenager who looked slightly disoriented, "God what happened? Axel, set him down here," she said and Axel was fast to put him down on an examination table.

"He fell down a tree, 4-5 meters up or something," Axel said and scratched his head, "I think-,"

"Your hair is pretty," Roxas suddenly said, cutting Axel off mid sentence, very fascinated by Axel's red spikes. He was even tugging at one of them with clear interest.

Axel simply opened his mouth in pure confusion, "Uh... Thanks, I guess..." he said and at that Zack cracked and started to hysterically laugh. He apologized himself when Aerith glared at him and he hurried outside, still laughing so much that he was on the verge of crying. It had just been so random. Of all things Roxas could say he said that Axel's hair was pretty? Now that was just too funny.

"Oh my, he must for sure have hit his head pretty hard," Aerith said and sighed when Zack was out of the room, "Not much I can do about this, but I can clean it up." She said as she looked at the hack in Roxas's head with a slight frown on her face.

"He'll be fine?" Axel asked with slight nervousness in his voice, "I... Uh... It's kind of my fault that he fell and-,"

"Yes he'll be just fine, it would be best for him to just get home and rest for today and tomorrow," she said as she grabbed a bottle with some liquid that she poured on a ball of cotton, "And who are you? I haven't seen you here before," she then asked Roxas softly with a smile on her face.

"Roxas," Roxas said as he tilted his head slightly, "Roxas Strife," he then repeated with a slight nod.

Aerith opened her mouth slightly ajar, "Cloud Strife's younger brother?" she asked and Roxas nodded with a small smile on his lips.

"Oh dear, then you really really hit your head hard," she said with a slight giggle which made Axel and Naminé look confused. With that Aerith started to clean the wound which made Roxas yelp slightly but he kept still, "Sorry," Aerith said as she wiped the wound free of blood until it was dry and not bleeding so much any more. Roxas didn't make many sounds, just wincing a bit every now and then. It was for sure stinging.

"So, do you have someone who can get you home?" she asked softly.

"Uhm..." Roxas said thoughtfully. He didn't want to call Cloud like this. It would just be embarrassing and aside from that he knew Cloud was working.

"I'll give him a ride," Axel said before Roxas had time to come up with a plan, "I've already said that I would."

"Yay," Roxas said with a goofy smile on his face, 'What the hell are you doing, Roxas? Shit, your head is more knocked up than it seemed to be...', "I can go with the pretty hair," he then said with a giggle which made Axel look at Roxas and chuckle.

"Yeah, you get to go with pretty hair," Axel repeated with a smirk on his face. The kid was so totally out of it.

Aerith smiled slightly as she turned around and took out a small bottle of pills and handed them to Axel, "Just make sure he gets home and that he takes this bottle with him," she then turned around, wrote a note and gave it to Axel as well, "Just a note to leave with the bottle as well, it's to his brother," she explained as Axel grabbed Roxas's hand and helped him up from the table.

"Sure, sure," Axel said before giving a wave, "Thanks Aerith."

"Any time," she said with a smile on her face and waved as Axel, Roxas and Naminé headed out from the office, meeting Zack who was still smiling. Demyx and Zexion were there by now as well.

Demyx looked a bit concerned, "So... He gets to go? Nothing wrong?"

"Depends on what you mean with wrong..." Axel said and looked at Roxas who still poked at the redhead's hair, "He hit his head pretty hard and uh... I'm just gonna get him home so he can rest for a few days, I think I owe him that," Axel then said and grimaced as Roxas yanked at a spike of his hair, it made Demyx grin and then chuckle.

"Well, Roxas, is that right?" Demyx asked and Roxas looked at him and nodded, "Get better so you can come back to school soon, it'd be fun if you wanted to hang out with us," he then said with a wide grin as he ruffled Roxas's hair and handed Axel Roxas's bag. Roxas just smiled and nodded which made Demyx chuckle again, it was adorable. The kid seemed to be in another world.

With that he and Zexion started heading out, "Just give a call later, Ax!" Demyx called before they disappeared, Axel giving a short wave.

"Er... What about you two?" Axel then asked his other two friends.

"I could give you directions," Zack said with a shrug, "I think he lives where Cloud lived. Since he never sold the house, I mean," he then added and smiled, hoping to meet Cloud again. Oh so hot Cloud... He'd almost do anything to see the older teen again. He just looked so... Ugh, he wasn't even able to put it into words. And even though Zack was younger he was still bigger and taller than Cloud. After all there were only two years between them. He'd so want to show Cloud what real passion meant.

"I'll head home for a while," Naminé said with a smile, "I guess we will all see each other soon, just take him home and make sure that he lies down before you leave, it would be bad if it got worse," she said warningly as she looked at Axel.

"Of course, I don't need to kill the kid," Axel said with a nod as he looked at Roxas who was busy examining Axel's hair again. He smirked as he looked at Roxas's concentrated blue eyes. The kid was too cute for his own good really. Pity he seemed to know Sora's kind... Axel hadn't much against Sora. The brunette was just a bit too stupid to see what kind of jerks he ran around with. It was people like Riku and Tidus that pissed him of.

With that Naminé gave Roxas a final smile, "Take care," she said before heading out of the building, leaving Axel with Roxas and Zack.

"Er... Should we get going?" Roxas asked, a little bit out of his haze.

"Uh, yeah, of course!" Axel said and started walking, pulling Roxas along with him, looking around to avoid any preps. There weren't many people out in the corridors; pretty much everyone had lessons at this time.

With that they headed out of the school yard and then to the parking lot where Axel immediately walked up to a red car. This was his baby; he loved his car to death... At least, almost.

"Well, Roxas, do you know the way to your home?" Axel asked as he picked up the keys to the car, looking at Roxas.

Roxas gave a nod, "Yeah, it's... down that... Eh... I could have sworn... Maybe it's that way..." Roxas frowned as he confusedly looked around at the roads. He had been too busy praying that he'd survive the ride to school with Cloud so he hadn't concentrated on the way there.

Zack chuckled as he sat down in the passenger's seat, "Guess I'll give directions then."

Axel smirked slightly, "Yeah," he simply said and opened the door for Roxas who jumped in. Getting his bag handed to him as well, "Put on the seatbelt," Axel then added as he shut the door and got into the drivers seat of the car. He didn't have to be the reason of Roxas's death if they crashed.

"Aw, you never tell us to put on the seatbelts," Zack said with a pout as he fastened his seatbelt none the less, "You want me to die?"

Axel snorted as he started the engine, "Just shut up and gimme the directions," he said and then sighed as he backed out of the parking lot to get out onto the road.

Zack sighed as they drove out onto the road and from then on he was busy giving directions for a time of twenty minutes, since he had been giving the wrong directions several times, accidently albeit though. During this time Roxas went in and out of some kind of slumber, it was slightly straining to hit your head like that. In the end he ended up gazing through the car window.

'Shit... Everything is like a thick mist...' he thought for himself with a frown on his face, 'I... ugh... I have really embarrassed myself, haven't I?' he then thought and closed his eyes with a slight grimace on his face.

Well, blame it on the fall.

Yeah. Right, he could blame it all on that.

"And here it is!" Zack suddenly said and Axel slowed down as he drove up on the garage drive by the small house. He gave a slight nod; it was a small but nice house.

"Roxas, this is where you live, right?" Axel asked as he looked back at the blonde who looked a bit tired, like he was about to fall asleep.

Roxas lifted his face from the window surface and looked at the house before nodding, "Yeah... I live here," he said quietly as he yawned and opened the door.

Axel followed Roxas's example and got out of the car and followed him up to the door, ready to catch the wobbly blonde again if he had to. Roxas started to look through his bag for keys and soon found them, unlocking the door and stepping inside; he looked at Axel with a questioning look on his face, "Uh..."

Axel grinned as he held up a bottle, "Just making sure you get all your stuff, you don't have to let me in or anything," he said with a shrug, "Aerith told me to give you this, and a note to your bro," he then added, frowning slightly about why it wasn't to his parents. But he didn't ask, it was none of his business after all.

"Pills?" Roxas asked slightly as he looked at the bottle with a confused face expression, "Wha?"

"For your pretty little head," Axel said with a wink as he handed the bottle to Roxas along with the note, "You should get some rest and sleep, Zexion told your teachers what happened and you should stay home tomorrow, just go and lie down or something," he then said softly.

Roxas blinked. Pretty little head? Uh, right... He took the bottle from Axel's hand, "Thanks, I will... Axel, right?" he said shyly, reality kicking in.

Axel simply gave a smile, "Heh. Sorry about all this," he then said and ran a hand through his spiky hair, "I shouldn't have woken you up like that. Make sure to get better, kid. And yeah, the name is Axel, got it memorized?" he asked with a smirk on his face.

"O-oh... No, it's fine. You didn't exactly push me down. I shouldn't have fallen asleep in a tree..." Roxas stuttered out with a heated blush on his face before he smiled a bit, "Right, I got it."

Axel chuckled as he shoved his hands down into his pockets, "Well, see you around in a few days, feel free to join us at lunch sometime, you're cool for hanging with Sora and the preps though," he said, not really meaning to say the last part out loud with such disgust evident in his voice.

Roxas scratched his head, "I don't really like them..." He then said drowsily, "They're weird and fake."

Axel laughed out loud at that which earned him a smile from Roxas, "True, kid. It's so true," he said as he started back towards his car again, "See you!" he called before jumping into his car, leaving Roxas with a goofy smile on his face before the door closed.

Axel still had a smile on his face as he got into the car again and started the engine.

"Did he say something funny?" Zack asked with a smirk on his face.

Axel shook his head slightly, "Not really, the kid's just adorable and totally out of it. Well, some good news is that he don't like preps," he said with a grin on his face, "Maybe it's good I knocked him out of the tree, right?" he asked with a wide grin on his face.

Zack chuckled as he shook his head slightly, "Sure about that?" he asked.

Axel shrugged, "Did you see how Sora's friends glared at him in the cafeteria? I bet even Roxas felt those glares. They don't like different," once more his bitter voice was there.

"Guess you're right on that one," Zack said as he gave a nod, "Damn those preps."

Axel simply sighed as they drove on towards their hanging out spot at the Station Height. It was a great place to skate or chill and it was pretty close to his apartment anyway.

When they jumped out of the car they immediately saw that Demyx and Zexion were sitting at the stairs of the clock tower, talking and laughing.

"Yo!" Axel called and waved as they closed in on the two teens.

"Ah, Ax, so you got the kid home all safe and sound, eh?" Demyx asked with a grin on his face which made Axel chuckle and scratch the back of his head in slight shame.

"I got him home all right, but I am not so sure his mind is what it should be. Hard to tell since I don't know him," he then said and smirked at just thinking of the blonde's confused look.

Zack rolled his eyes and then laughed as well, "Yeah, he must be a bit up in the blue. He said he thought your hair was pretty, Axel." Zack said and laughed some more.

"Whaat? That's hilarious!" Demyx said and laughed loudly.

Axel just smirked and shook his head, "You know, he was all 'Yay, I get to go with pretty hair!' when I said I'd give him a ride home," Axel said and grinned evilly, "Too bad I don't have that on tape... It would be some nice blackmail material."

Zack just chuckled as Demyx laughed loudly, Zexion smirked.

"He seemed to be all right, too bad he's hanging with the preps," Demyx said with a sigh.

Axel shrugged, "I think that might not be really true. Think about it, you said that it seemed he knew Sora from earlier, right?" Axel asked and Demyx nodded, "Well, everyone knows that Sora is kind of special... Plus the fact that the prep gang tried to glare holes in his skull in the cafeteria, and he actually said he thought the preps were fake and weird," Axel then stated with a smug expression on his face.

"Wooho, one point for the different!" Demyx cheered, "I love stealing people to our kind," he said with a grin on his face, "And Roxas seemed to be okay in class. Just a bit shy."

Axel smirked, "I bet we could change that, I mean... Look at you," he then said teasingly as he poked at Demyx who pouted and flapped Axel's hand away.

"Well, sorry but I gotta go," Zack said and sighed as he pushed himself up, "Got to make my share of work today, need to pay some bills!" he said and grinned as he waved at them.

"Ah, okay, see you tomorrow!" Axel yelled and waved him off along with Demyx.

With this Zexion stood up as well and sighed, bending down and giving Demyx a quick kiss, "Sorry Dem, but I have to go as well. Got some things to attend to," he said and looked at the blonde.

"Oh! Uh... Sure, can I call you later?" Demyx asked with tilted head.

"Sure you can," Zexion said with a nod as he walked away.

Once Zack and Zexion were out of sight Axel sighed and leant back on the staircase, looking up into the bright sky. It was really nice weather now, sun shining, no strong winds. It was simply perfect for relaxing outside. Not too cold, and not too warm.

Demyx threw a look at his relaxed friend and smiled slightly. He had a feeling that Axel had taken a small liking to the other blonde boy, Roxas. Axel didn't use to fuss over anyone that easily. But Demyx didn't really think Axel knew about it himself. Sure, Demyx knew that Axel swung both ways. There were more boys than girls in Axel's life though, but nothing had been serious. Demyx had been playing around before as well. Until he met Zexion. He was really happy with Zexion, even though the "emo" usually was acting more or less ignorant of things. Demyx wasn't really sure if Zexion was into the relationship as much as he was, what did he see in Demyx after all?

Demyx sighed sadly and shook his head, "Hey, Ax?" he said softly as he also leant back, looking up into the sky.

"Yeah?" Axel said questioningly as he threw a look at Demyx and his thoughtful facial expression.

"What do you think Zexion sees in me?" Demyx asked with a grimace on his face, "Do you... Do you think he thinks I am annoying?" he then asked, looking like a kicked puppy.

Axel blinked in confusion as he looked at Demyx, "What the...? Hey, you're great Demyx. You're nice, caring and fun; sure you can get a bit annoying from time to time but not enough to complain about it."

"Sure about that?" Demyx asked hopefully.

"Of course. I promise you that, Dem," Axel said softly, "And I don't think Zexion would be with someone he didn't care for," he then added. He knew that the blue haired emo kid wouldn't waste his time on someone unimportant.

Demyx gave a nod and then grinned, "Yeah, you're right," he said and sighed in contentment as he looked at the sky again, "This day has been great!"

Axel gave a slight snort and smirked, "Guess so, just like any other ordinary day," he said.

Demyx chuckled and looked at Axel, "So you're saying that you usually scare small blonde's to make them fall down trees, huh?" he asked with a small grin on his face.

The redhead couldn't help smiling sheepishly, "Okay then, not so ordinary maybe. But hell, it was kind of worth it!"

The blonde beside Axel smirked to himself as he glanced at Axel, "You only think that cause you liiike hiiim!" he then said teasingly which earned him a slight glare from Axel.

"I just... Think he's interesting. He's not like the other preps," he said in a slight mutter as he frowned, "But he seems too nice to be emo or something like that," he stated, "Not cool enough to be a jock and..."

"He's different, like us," Demyx said with a slight nod, "I hope we get to see more of the kid, he greatly amuses me," he added with a wide grin on his face.

Axel simply rolled his eyes and then smirked, "For all we know he might be an asshole when he isn't totally out of it, I mean, I did recently bust up his brain."

"Come on, didn't you say he was nice enough to apologize, would an asshole do that?" Demyx asked, "And he seemed to be shy, not many assholes are so shy like he seemed to be."

"Guess you're right." Axel said and shrugged, "Whatever, either way we'll find out about that soon enough." But it isn't really soon enough... I wanna know more about the kid now. Damn him and his big blue eyes, lined with eyeliner... And that blonde messy hair... that small body... Those nice legs... His lip-

"HELLO?! Demyx to Axel, do you hear me?" Demyx asked as he shook Axel slightly.

"What?" Axel asked and blinked as he looked into Demyx's blue eyes who were staring back into Axel's emerald green eyes.

"You totally spaced out on me, man," Demyx said and chuckled, "I said your name like five times, plus some rather obscene nicknames that I don't dare to repeat," he then said with a wink and grinned, "What was on your mind?"

"Oh, sorry," Axel said with a chuckle, "Didn't mean to leave you here in the land of mortals all alone, how horrible of me. And... I didn't really think of anything that matters," he then said and frowned. His thoughts had been starting to run away from him. And it wasn't so good. He didn't even know the blonde kid for God's sake. But he was very cute... Think about it, Axel, wouldn't you want to just ravish someone as innocent as him? All unknowing about everything. He's probably a virgin as well. Oh yeah, Axel... You could teach him everything.

Demyx raised an eyebrow but didn't question Axel, if the redhead didn't want to say it, then he had the right to keep it for himself. But somehow Demyx thought that it had something to do with the kid, Roxas. And now the redhead looked spaced out again.

"So, gonna skip more class tomorrow?" Demyx asked to change the subject to something normal, and to make Axel snap out from wherever he was.

Axel simply shrugged as he was once more snapped out from his deep thoughts about Roxas, "Don't think so. I have skipped waaay too much lately; I'm not so fond of getting warnings all the time. Reno is going crazy over it, not that I am skipping but that he gets the phone calls from the school," he said and grinned widely, it was for sure fun pissing people of.

"Ha, your brother must be pretty pissed at you then, huh?" he asked with a grin on his face, "But otherwise Reno's cool, right?"

Axel smirked and nodded, "Pissed yeah, but as you say he's cool," he said with a sigh, "But he's all lovey dovey right now..."

Demyx blinked and then sat up and looked at Axel with wide eyes, "Who? When? Where?" He asked, this was for sure something new!

"Rude, about two months ago, at Shinra," Axel simply answered, "He's practically floating on clouds from time to time. I haven't seen Reno like this before."

The blonde laughed and grinned widely, "I can't imagine him in love. Rude... So he, Reno... Swings that way as well?"

Axel snorted and smirked, "What other way could he swing? Just look at him, he's so damn feminine from time to time." Wasn't Roxas a bit feminine as well? Well, love that face either way... His eyes were so adorable... Axel shook his head slightly to clear it.

Demyx rolled his eyes, "And you're the one to talk?"

"Come on, admit it... I am not that feminine, right?"

"Yeah, guess you're right," Demyx said and sighed as he watched Axel push himself up from the grass before he stretched out and yawned.

Said redhead then let out a deep sigh as he scratched his head, "Well Dem, I am kind of tired. Gonna head home and just get some rest on the couch. Will be sooo nice," Ugh, can't get that Roxas kid out of my head.

Demyx laughed as he also got up from the ground and brushed some dirt off from his pants, "Sure, do that. But I'll see you tomorrow, huh?" he asked, eyeing Axel suspiciously.

"Yeah, as I said, I've skipped too much lately," Axel said as he got up his car keys, "See ya, Dem!" he said as he retreated quickly to his car and as soon as he got inside, started it and drove away, leaving Demyx looking quite confused but eventually he let out a slight sigh and headed home as well. He could always bug Zexion over the phone.

AN: And that was the 2nd chapter. Even a little bit longer than the first one, and what's strange is that they seem to get longer for every chapter. I believe chapter 4 is about 15 pages or something like that... oo'
Well, what did you think? Personally I love the confused Roxas XD I do have a hard time believing they'd simply send him home like that though. But it's fiction so bear with me, kay? -hands out lemons-

Demyx: I didn't mean that kind of lemons... ZEXY! Let's show her a real lemon! -starts undressing-

NO! PUT YOUR SHIRT ON THIS INSTANT! -tackles Dem- Review please! And see you next time! ... NO DEMYX! KEEP YOUR PANTS ON! Zeeexiiiooon! HELP ME!