Title: Nobody

By: the critical blow

Genre: General/Romance/AU

Crossovers: not sure at the moment, possible later

Dislcaimer: I don't own KH...

Warnings: AU. m+m. Not MxM. m+m. OOCness. Spelling errors. Did I mention AU?

Summary: Axel was just a normal orphaned high school attending teenager with Moomba hair. He had a job, an adopted family, decent grades... Normal teen. One day while delivering a cake to a customer he find a boy half-dead in the alleyway. And now nothing seems normal. A+S

A/N: My try at something random. Fic based off some pics of Sora I drew and an idea that popped into my head a while ago. Chapters will be relatively short. ; Just an experiment please R&R if you like. XD

Wow.

I got reviews. right eye twitches rapidly

And people seem to like Milo.

Looks like I'm gonna have to continue this thing now. And I said no 'How can you pair Axel and Sora together!'s! Please forgive my lapse in this fic. Enjoy I guess?

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Chapter 2: That is not a cat

Zexion had told them it was nothing to worry about. Axel was usually late coming home from deliveries, especially on rainy days. It was sort of pay back for making him go out in the first place. Yet Vexen had still called Marluxia and asked him to keep an eye out for the teen on his way home from work.

Marluxia was a substitute teacher but he also worked at the bakery to pay for his room. He really didn't need to pay though, Vexen would have let him stay even if he didn't but Marluxia being Marluxia insisted that he work for his keep. Jerk was ruining for the rest of them...

"Where are you going?" Zexion called as he heard someone enter the living room obviously walking toward the front door.

"Out." The voice replied. It belongs to Demyx, one of the younger free labor slaves Vexen had picked up from one of the orphanages in the area. He'd been there in the same one with Zexion and Axel. He was a sophomore now but still acted immature and enjoyed playing pranks with Axel. Axel and Demyx were close.

Very close. He already knew the real answer to the question but he decided to ask anyway to see how well Demyx could try to BS his way out of this.

"Why?" Zexion asked not even bothering to put down his book. He didn't see it but he could just picture Demyx cringe as he froze. The smell of fear was strong in the air. Even since he was little Zexion had had a strangely strong sense of smell. He could smell fear and other emotions as well people.

"Um...to check the mail." The sophomore was a bad liar.

"Strike one." Zexion said. Demyx gulped nervously.

"To the corner store?"

"Are you asking me? Strike two."

"To... To feed the cats!"

"Strike three. Go back upstairs." Zexion said pointing back toward the stairway. He waited for the younger teens scent to fade away and the sound of foot falls but he heard none. And Demyx's scent was as pungent as ever.

"You're not the boss of me." Finally the blue silver haired teen managed to peek over the top of his book and toss his younger sibling a good glare. Demyx bit his lip for a second considering the severity of his words but his face hardened seconds later. Zexion wasn't scary. If it came down to it he could take him. Zexion seemed to read his mind and sighed.

"Don't even think about it. I know you want to make sure Axel's okay but he's a big boy. He can take care of himself. Besides it's only been a couple of hour-"

"5 hours 32 minutes and 13 seconds." Demyx amended.

"..." Zexion raised a brow at this statement unsure of how or why Demyx had been counting the seconds since Axel had left the house. It was a little cre-

"My new watch." Demyx pulled his sleeve back to reveal a watch that not only counted hours and minutes... but seconds as well.

"...Right. Anyway, Milo went with Axel. It's not safe for you to go alone. He'll be home soon." Zexion finished and returned to his book. Demyx frowned defeated before he brightened a moment later.

"But if you came with me..."

"No."

"Zexion!"

"No. Nuh-uh. There's no way I'm going out there into the real world when I don't have to."

"Please!" The puppy dog eyes. Something Demyx had managed to perfect over the past 11 years. And something Zexion had become immune to 5 years ago.

"No."

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Axel had been pacing for quite some time now, so long in fact that Milo had finally given up on following his every move and settled for switching between watching him and taking a nap. At the moment he was watching him but if he didn't do something different soon he'd be asleep in a matter of minutes.

According to old superstitions rainy days were signs that an angel had died or fallen from heaven. Axel didn't believe in those sort of things and yet there was an angel lying on the ground right in front of him. And it was raining.

There wasn't supposed to be any angels.

Rain was just rain.

But there was an angel right in front of him. There was no way he could not be an angel. He had wings for crying out loud!

But superstition was just superstition!

...Or was it? All he knew was all this debating was making his brain hurt.

Badly. He yelled in a mix of frustration and confusion.

"Dose not compute?" Milo asked from his spot on the garbage littered ground.

"Does. Not dose." Axel corrected him. Milo smiled toothily at him and the dusk was pleased when Axel smirked back. But seconds later Axel went back to pacing leaving the dusk to its boredom. Milo would have rather have been home, eating the week old unsold bread from the bakery or playing with his Darkside chew toy, getting pet by Lexaeus... Anything but this.

The Dusk stood shakily before walking over to his earlier find who was still sleeping. He was worse than Lexaeus before breakfast! The little dusk gave him a good shake, just like it would Lexaeus, hoping to wake him up. He didn't stir. Milo frowned.

Yes. He was just like Lexaeus. But... he was so cold. Maybe if it and Axel could get him home Marluxia could give him some hot chocolate. That always warmed Milo up when it was cold. But Axel was still pacing.

"Xle... E o ome oon?" Milo asked. Axel paused and glanced toward him.

"Go home? We can't leave him here!" Axel hissed obviously agitated. Milo cocked its head to the side putting a finger to its face thoughtfully.

"E ake oy ome ith s!" It said brightly. Axel stared at it as if it was the stupidest thing ever. Milo looked confused.

"Wat?" It asked.

"Take him home? I can't take him home! What am I supposed to say to the others when I drag a naked angel into the house? 'Hey guys, look what I found in the alley!'!" Axel hissed. Milo just shrugged. Axel sighed and glanced at the angel. What the hell was he going to do? He couldn't just take him home the others would freak out. Horror of all horrors if Namine was down stairs when he happened to lug him in and if Zexion was there? More comments about his questionable sexuality.

"I like girls dammit! GIRLS!" Axel yelled. He was straight dammit! STRAIGHT! Saddly enough the only ones around to hear him were the alley rats, a dog minded Dusk and an unconsious angel boy.

"Xle. Xle?"

"What useless?"

"Oy es cold nd shaking. Get sick?" Milo asked.

"...Yeah. He might be getting sick." Axel answered. That settled it, he needed to get this kid home. Or at least out of the rain. Yes. That was what he'd do. He'd think of what to tell the others later.

Now all he had to do was get him to the van and all would be well.

Hopefully...

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"I can't believe you dragged me out of the house." Zexion grumbled from beneath the hood of his rain coat. Demyx smiled widely as he whistled a happy little tune. They'd barely stepped out of the house two minutes ago and all the while Zexion wouldn't stop complaining. It was a miracle he'd been able to drag him out. Or maybe Zexion had let him? He couldn't be sure at the moment but decided on the first.

"A little fresh air won't kill you, might do you a little good Mr. Bookworm!" Demyx said. Zexion shot him a poisonous look from beneath his hood that Demyx didn't need to see to feel it intensity. He was sure he would pay for this later but savored his victory.

"I wonder could be keeping Axel-kun..." Demyx wondered aloud. Zexion smirked from beneath his hood.

"He's probably feeding those cats you mentioned earlier."

Demyx opened his mouth to yell at him but never got the chance because just as he was about to the Bakery van drove up in front of the house. The two glanced at each other before racing back the way they came. Axel stepped out of the van calmly and went to open the side door to get to something in the back. Milo hopped out of the drivers side and closed the front door behind it walking over to aide Axel. But then it noticed Zexion and Demyx approaching and ran over to them.

"Exion! Myx!" It squealed as it launched itself at the closest and slowest moving living being. That being being Demyx. So naturally Zexion reached Axel first. And what he saw in the back of the van made his jaw drop.

"Gah! Milo! Off. Now!" He said briedly returning the hug the dusk gave him before gently pushing it off. Demyx noticed Zexion's shocked expression or at least from what he could tell, Zexion still had his hood on, and lack of speech and figured it must have been something interesting. Not much got to Zexion.

"Hey, what's up? What's in the va-OH MY GOD!" Demyx shrieked when he saw the prone winged figure lying amonst the various cake boxes. Demyx was too busy blushing like a mad man and flailing in a corner to say much of anything. Milo grinned while Axel laughed sheepisly. What could he say? Zexion pulled back his hood and stared long and hard at the wings, his right eye twitching the entire time.

"That... is not a cat." Was all he said.

Leaving a very confused Axel, a spaztastic Demyx, and a grinning Milo staring at him.

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Closing notes: I'll end it there. Got the cat line idea from several FMA fics I've read involving Ed, Al, and Scar. o.o Sorry for the crapness. Please tell me what you think but no flames. XD I'll try to finish chapter three in a timely manner.

-the critical blow