DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN KINGDOM HEARTS!

Originally I was going to upload this Monday, but I changed my mind!

And thank you to axelsgurl! For being the first person to review the first chapter of my first story! And thank you sweetnemesis91! For writing my favorite AkuRoku fanfic! And reviewing my story!

(The following chapter is more of an explanation for Axel's human life.)

-Words- Means thoughts or Talking to each other mentally

-X X X- means Point of View has changed

EDIT 2014; So I'm rewriting this cause it was my first published fan fic

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Chapter 2; Time to Pretend:

Axel was born almost 200 years ago.

He was six when doctors told his parents that he had a rare heart disease; and that most people who had it, didn't live past twenty. Axel's mother wept when she found this out; she had three miscarriages before Axel was born, and now to hear her only child ever would have a shortened life, it almost destroyed her.

Axel was too young at the time to understand, but when he got older, it depressed him. It was like his life had a cage around it, telling him his limits and telling him that he unlike most people would die young. His parents, however, promised they'd do whatever it took to give him a fulfilling life. He lived a normally for many years, he had friends, girls loved him, and he was able to laugh without a care in the world. Which is probably why when he was on his death bed at age fifteen hit everyone the way it did.

Axel woke up, it was morning. Tonight, he dreamt about his human mother. Her name was Lexa and she was born in 1809, she had long red hair and bright green eyes with a voice that sang like an angel. She was very loving and always did her best to smile and make everything just a little less sad. But even she couldn't smile when Axel was dying, the last image of her he had was her face drowned in tears.

A vampire's master was all the parent they needed. Even though Axel's master told all his children to forget their past lives, Axel didn't want to. Ven taught him how to remember.

X X X

"I bet I could eat two whole salty ice creams at once!" Pence said happily.

"Alright, Do it" Hayner said, challengingly. Then he just laughed.

"Please don't." Olette said smiling.

"Come on Olette! It's just two!" Hayner complained

Olette frowned.

Pence smiled; "Fine, I won't…For now."

Roxas sat with his friends, not paying attention to what they were saying. His head being held up by one of his hands.

What's happening to me? Roxas wondered. He wasn't the type to just randomly kiss a stranger, so then why did he want to? Roxas was very smart, logical, always planning things before acting on them. So then why did he act like that? Was it because of Axel? Axel was different somehow; maybe it was because he's so handsome. But was that really enough to make Roxas act bizarre? He just didn't understand.

"Roxy, are you okay?" Olette asked, she was concerned

"Huh? Oh… Yeah I'm fine. Just thinking." Roxas replied.

"Not about homework, right? Cause we don't need to worry about that for another month!" Hayner replied.

"What? No…" Roxas said, still thinking about Axel.

"Well, since its summer. Why don't we go to the beach some time?" Olette suggested.

"I'd like that..." Roxas replied with a smile

"Naw. Too boring" Hayner said.

Roxas looked around, he felt like he was being watched again; but this time he couldn't find the source.

X X X

Axel was looking out his window; he could see Roxas and his friends from where he was. He watched Roxas and his friends share a laugh, Roxas was so cute when he smiled. Even Roxas' smile was different from Ventus', Ventus' smile was gorgeous. But Roxas' smile was… oddly warm.

"Damn it" Axel cursed out loud. Why was wasting time thinking about Roxas.

Axel wished that Roxas wasn't in his thoughts and even wished he had never met Roxas. He sat on his bed; he didn't feel like going outside today.

"Don't ever forget your name; it's the only thing that remains of your humanity" Ven once said.

My name? The feeling wanting to remember his humanity suddenly hit Axel. Something about being around humans always brought out humanity in vampires or their hunger. Axel got off his bed and opened his closet that had a cupboard in it; he looked through for his most prized possession.

It took him awhile to remember that he needed to move the cupboard to get to it. So he did, and there stood a box. A little wooden box, painted blue; a box that Ven had given to him. The box had three items in it that meant the world to Axel.

The first was a necklace that his human mother gave to him. The day he became a vampire, he was wearing it, it's the only thing he could keep from his previous life. She had said it was a family heirloom but anyone else would think it was worthless, after all it wasn't made of gold or silver.

The second was a ring, the ring Ven wore to keep from becoming dust against the sun's harmful rays.

The third was just a simple paper, at least that's what it looked like. On one side it had Ven's name written on it; 'Ventus'. On the other side, it had Axel's true name written on it; 'Lea Flynn'.

The mind of a vampire was like a maze, one minute he was acting human, the next he could be this blood thirsty monster. Vampire Master's could bend their children's mind to however they wanted. And no matter how hard Axel tried, he couldn't remember his true name on his own, thank god Ventus was kind enough to tell him.

It was around Lea's fifteen birthday when his heart began to hurt. Then he started having breathing problems. Eventually, he couldn't run without getting tired within a second; he could no longer play with his friends. It wasn't very long after when his body started aching. It hurt to even walk, and then one day, he couldn't stand.

He was a little over fifteen and a half when he had to stay in bed for two weeks, then doctors came to see him; "He'll probably die within the next couple of days" is what they all said. His parents became devastated, his heart was failing and his life was ending.

Then, the day came when Lea couldn't even sit up to look out his window, his chest hurting the whole time. His awful pain was just horrible, he could barely bare it.

A tear fell down Lea's face from his eyes; he had no strength to fight it. He was going to die today, he could feel it. Lea tried closing his eyes, hoping to die in his sleep. But his pain wouldn't let him. He got no rest, he was hot and could barely speak, he was going to die a miserable death.

Lea's parents were always religious folk, they taught they're son how to be a good human being; and even though he lived a good and pure life. He was still dying, if there was a god, why was he doing this to him?

Lea tried to close his eyes again, until he heard something.

"He's over here." Said a familiar voice, then the door to Lea's room opened. There stood a young man, who was Lea's friend when he was younger.

"I—Isa…" Lea said weakly. His old friend probably came to say their goodbyes like the rest of Lea's friends who came earlier.

Lea noticed that Isa looked different; he had a scar on his face. The weirdest thing was that Isa was much older than Lea, but even after all these years, Isa looked as young as he did the last time Lead saw him.

"Here he is, my lord." Isa said. Two men walked into Lea's room, both wearing hooded black coats.

One removed his hood right away, exposing his blond hair and blue eyes. He didn't look a day over 20.

The other remained covered. He walked to Lea's bed; Lea could not see his face.

"So you want me to save him?" The hooded one asked, his voice was haunting.

What? Lea did not understand.

"Yes, he's very smart and a good person; he doesn't deserve to die. He'd make a great addition to your army " Isa said.

The hooded man walked toward Isa; meanwhile, the blond one walked up to Lea. He looked down on him, he had this unusual smirk.

Who are these people? He wondered. "Isa… What's goin—" before he could finish his sentence, he began coughing.

"His name's Saix now" The blond said.

Saix?

"Alright, I'll save him. We'll see if he makes the cut or not" The hooded man said turning toward Lea.

"What?" Lea said still not understanding

"I'm going to cure you." He said, and then the hooded man put his wrist above Lea's head. There was a cut on it, blood drops fell on Lea's face.

"Drink it" He hissed. Lea still did not fully understand.

"Just do it" Saix said. Then Lea looked at the blond, he was nodding with a smile.

And so, Lea began to drink the blood. But what he found out was that it didn't taste like blood at all. Blood was supposed to taste like iron, yet the taste was so unique and droze your senses so crazy that it only made you want it more. After awhile Lea couldn't taste it anymore, he looked at the wrist; the wound was gone!

"Tomorrow you'll feel like you've never felt before, you will be free of disease."

"Lea, you're gonna live a normal life a little longer, we'll come back for you when the time comes." Saix said.

"What do you mean?" Lea said, falling asleep. The last thing he saw before closing his eyes saw the blonde's face, winking, saying "See you later."

X X X

All his life, people told Roxas about how mature he is, even though that wasn't true.. Talking to his normal friends wouldn't help him, he needed someone mature to talk to, the person who he held highest for giving advice. Someone who was smart and older.

"ZEXION!" Roxas yelled out, even though he was only a few feet from him. Roxas laughed when Zexion dropped his book on the floor.

"Roxas! Don't bother me when I'm reading!" Zexion snapped.

"But you're always reading!" Roxas said laughing.

"Good point." Zexion said smiling, taking his glasses off. "So what's up? You never bother me unless something's wrong" Zexion was no idiot; he was going to be a senior, a year ahead of Roxas.

"Not true!" Roxas said; "How do you know I didn't come to say hi"

"Hi" Zexion made a small wave; "Now I can go"

"Where are you going!?" Roxas yelled

Zexion smiled; "What's wrong?"

"I'm having some…guy issues…" Roxas said to embarrassed to look Zexion in the eye.

"Alright, what happened?" Zexion asked.

It didn't take Roxas too long to explain the events that happened with Axel.

"And then, he just walked away!" Roxas yelled; "Like nothing!"

"Roxas I th-" Zexion said before being cut off.

"I mean we almost kissed!" Roxas yelled again. "Who does that!?"

"Roxas-"

"Now I don't know what to do!" Roxas said rubbing his face. "Do I try and talk to him again-"

"Roxas!" Zexion interrupted.

"Huh?" Roxas said looking at Zexion now.

"Listen, I think your main problem is; well, that this seems a 'love at first sight' scenario, those often don't turn out well." Zexion said.

"Oh…" Roxas said a little disappointed. "But I really like him."

"Do you Roxas? I mean what do you really know about him? Nothing right? How can you have a healthy relationship, when you guys don't know each other?" Zexion asked.

"Yeah!..." Roxas said in sudden realization.

"My advice to you is-" Zexion was interrupted, again.

"I totally understand what you're saying!" Roxas said, standing up.

"You do?" Zexion asked surprised.

"Yeah! You think that I should hang out with him more! And we should get to know each other!" Roxas said happily.

"That's not wha-" Zexion tried to speak.

"Thank Zexion! I'll see you later!" Roxas said, running toward home. "You're right! I'll be dating him in no time!"

"I never said that!"

X X X

5 years pasted since the day Lea was saved. During those years, Lea grew up; then he began to go college. Then one day, when he was 21, he had a visitor.

"A visitor? Did they say who they were?" Lea asked.

"Nope, they're waiting for you outside." A student told him.

Lea walked outside, and was surprised to see the person who had come to visit him.

"My, you've gotten pretty handsome." A hooded figure said.

"Who are you?" Lea asked, remembering the day Isa, or 'Saix' came with two strangers.

"Don't you remember? It's me… Ventus, but you can call me 'Ven'." The hooded figure said taking off his hood, showing his cheery face.

"I don't think we've formally met." Lea said, "Are you the one who came that day?"

"You say that like that day was a bad day, but yes, that was me." He said with a mischievous smile, his eyes glowing chillingly, as if trying to intimidate Lea's.

Something was wrong, Lea was barely 15 when he last saw this guy, and this guy looked under 20. Now Lea is 21, he was taller, muscular and mature. One would think that this 'Ventus' would be at least 24 by now. But instead, he hadn't aged a day since Lea last saw him.

"What are you doing here?" Lea asked intensely, this was becoming frightening.

"Why, my dear Lea, I've come to take your life." Ventus said walking toward Lea with a sword in hand.

Axel woke up at the sound of someone knocking on his door; after a pause, they knocked again.

"Mm...Coming! Axel yelled he getting up; He opened his door.

"Axel!" Demyx said jumping on Axel, hugging him tightly.

"Demyx?" Axel said, surprised.

The both fell on the floor. Demyx grabbed Axel's arm and bit down on his wrist. His eyes glowing red, Axel felt his blood dripping from his arm; and he could feel Demyx's fangs biting down, deeper and deeper.

"Demyx! What the hell!" Axel said trying to push Demyx off him. "Get off! You mullet haired piranha!" He yelled when Demyx finally let go.

Axel got up and closed the door to his apartment, Demyx sitting on the floor. Axel felt his red eyes watching Axel as he cleaned his wrist.

"What's wrong with you?" Axel asked, he was pissed.

Axel walked to the little fridge in his room, full a little bottles and containers of blood. Then he poured a cup of blood, and returned to the room where Demyx still sat on the floor.

"Here…It's not fresh, but it should due."

"Okay…thanks" Demyx said, he was frowning. Then he drank it all, not leaving a single drop; "Mm…AB Positive!" Demyx said, his eyes returning to green.

Axel went to his kitchen, the smell of blood made him hungry too. But he decided to have coffee instead.

"Coffee! Seriously man!?" Demyx shook his head; "Tsk, tsk, I don't know how you can live with so many humans around you! Especially with a lot of teenagers!" Demyx said, trying to make a point. Humans were kind of like delicious fruit to vampires, it was better to have them ripe. The best time to feed on them was when they're in their teen to young adult years, not too young and not too old.

"Axel…Can I ask you something?" Demyx said, surprisingly serious.

"Sure."

"Have…Have you ever liked a human?" Demyx asked shyly.

Axel stopped what he was doing. As soon as Demyx said those words, Axel couldn't understand; Roxas' smiling face came to his mind.

Demyx coughed; "I mean, I know you and Ventus were together a long time, and I know sometimes you sleep with-"

"Why?" Axel asked dryly.

"Well! It's just that…that…I heard that when a vampire meets a human they want to be with…To them… That human's blood smells different…" Demyx said.

It's kind of true; most vampires believe that the taste of human blood can taste better based on a vampire's own feelings. But that was a myth or excuse for vampires to sleep with their prey.

"Yeah?" Axel asked. For a moment, Axel's mind was lost in thought. Roxas' blood didn't smell different, he had a similar smell like all humans; but…Roxas felt different. What does this mean? Axel thought.

"I know…Master said we're not allowed to feel for humans, but today, I met one. And I've never felt like this before! His blood smelled unlike any other human!" Demyx said, not wanting to look Axel in the eye.

Axel was not that surprised, Demyx had never actually been with anyone, longer than one night... Axel suddenly felt conflicted with himself, should I tell Demyx about Roxas?

"Well, I just wanted to tell someone... I mean this is big right? I actually feel something..." Demyx said, sounding depressed.

"Do you know where they live?" Axel asked.

"Nope" Demyx replied

"Well, are meeting them again?"

"I don't think so." Demyx said.

"Oh… What are they like?" Axel asked.

"I'm not sure."

"What's their name?"

"I don't know."

"…Demyx…How'd you meet them when you know nothing about them?" Axel asked, he couldn't believe how dumb Demyx was sometimes.

"Well, we bumped into each other while I was on the way here. He said 'sorry' and continued walking." Demyx said with an unusually happy grin

"And you consider that meeting someone?" Axel asked, tempted to hit him.

"Yeah! Kinda!... I don't know… His blood caught my attention, that means I like him right?"

"Listen Demyx, you don't want to get involved with humans… their nothing but trouble." Axel said, trailing off; thinking of his situation with the human named Roxas.

"Fine... If that's what you think..." Demyx stood up; I think I should be going, See ya bro..." Demyx said, his smile gone.

X X X

Roxas was still walking; but now he could see his apartment complex.

Then he heard someone yell his name "Roxas!"

"Olette?" he said, turning around.

Then Hayner, Pence and Olette ran up to him.

"What's up guys?" Roxas asked, sensing something was wrong.

"Haven't you heard! About Seifer!"

"What's wrong with Seifer?"

"He's in the hospital!" Olette said.

"Why? What happened?" Roxas asked worriedly.

"No one knows." Olette said, looking down.

"All we know is that someone found him unconscious, covered on blood!" Hayner said.

"They said that he had a bunch of cuts all over his body!" Pence said yelling.

Roxas just blinked; "What?"

So I know there was a lot of exposition in this chapter, sorry! It had to be told sometime!

The reason I submitted this early because nothing really happens, however I plan for someone very interesting to come in chapter 3.

I mostly like how this is coming out so far, but personally, I don't like the name "Lea" for Axel's previous name, but I used it because that was his name before becoming a nobody (it tells you in KH: Birth by sleep)

Please review! I love to hear people's opinions!

Anyway, I hope you guys liked it!

xoxo

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