Ahh, chapter 3! :D I just really love writing this! AkuRoku has defiantly become my OTP. *fangirls* Haha. :] Well, enjoy!

-X-X-X-

A few days had gone by and things had gone pretty much the same. Axel hanging out at Roxas's a lot and the two of them just chatting. Roxas's parents had yet to come home, and it was now Friday.

Roxas took his seat in fourth hour. "Hey'a Lux!" Roxas said, smiling widely.

"Good afternoon, Roxas. How is life treating you? Make some friends?" He asked just as Axel and Demyx stormed their way into the room… loudly.

"As a matter of fact-" Roxas began.

"Hey, kiddo!" Axel smiled and nudged Roxas as he sat down in his seat.

"-yes, I have," he smiled. Luxord nodded and smirked at Roxas who wasn't really paying attention to him anymore. "Hey Ax, Dem. What's up? You coming over later Axel?"

"Yea, of course! I thought we'd grab some food on the way to your place, sound good?" Roxas nodded. "Sweet!"

"Oh hey Demyx do YOU want to hang too? Or should we just ignore your existence?" Demyx said. The sentence was dripping with sarcasm.

"Dem, shut up. You and I both know that you're going to be busy with your new boyfriend," Axel said. "What was his name again..? Zexion?"

"Yes, and he's AMAZING and I want to spend ALL OF MY TIME WITH HIM SO WHATEVER!" Demyx said, irritated. Axel and Roxas just chuckled.

"Calm down, Dem. Sheesh." Axel rolled his eyes. Roxas smiled at his two friends as he got up to go sharpen his pencil. Axel got to see what he was wearing for the first time today. 'Oh god….' Axel blushed. Roxas was wearing a long, loose tank top, really short shorts, and socks that ran all the way up to his thighs. 'So fucking cute…' Roxas returned.

"Hah, you okay Ax?" Roxas asked.

"Yea, he was just imagining you and him-" Demyx started.

"Dem fuck you!" Axel smacked his friend in the arm. "I was just zoned out is all," he told Roxas.

"Ax that hurt!" Demyx whined and rubbed his arm. Axel rolled his eyes.

"Quiet down, class," Luxord said right after the bell rang. "Today we will be learning about water colors."

The bell rang to dismiss fourth hour. Roxas felt his stomach sink a bit. He didn't want to leave Axel. 'What? Stop it! Ugh, I'm so awkward!' he thought. "Well, see you later today Axel! Bye!" Roxas smiled and left, along with Demyx.

Axel sighed as he finished packing up his stuff. "Axel, can I talk to you for a moment?" Luxord came over to the red-head.

"Yea, what is it?"

"Are you in love?" Axel paused.

"W-what?"

"Are you in love? With Roxas?"

"What the fuck are you talking about? No! I'm not!" Axel defended. "Just because you're one of the only people that knows that I'm gay, doesn't mean you can ask shit like that!"

"Clam down. I wasn't trying to be rude or accuse you of something. I can tell by your body language and just the way you treat the boy that you love him. I just wanted to know if you wanted help? Finding out if he's gay or not and such?"

Axel thought about it for a moment. "well… Yea… yes please. I'd like that…" he looked down sadly. "Lux?"

"Hm?"

"I'm scared…"

Luxord frowned and stepped forward to give Axel a small hug. "I know the feeling. It'll be okay." He squeezed him tightly before letting go and looking him in the eyes. "Just follow your heart Axel, it won't lead you astray." Axel nodded. "Now, get to class." Axel gave a weak smile and then headed off to his next class.

It was lunch time for Roxas. He didn't have lunch with Axel nor Demyx, so he usually walked alone to grab some fast food. He put his headphones on, tuning out the rest of the world. He wasn't paying attention to anything around him. He especially didn't notice the three people following him.

"Look at that pathetic piece of trash," said the boy in a beanie hat. "And he's friends with those dip-shits, Axel and Demyx," the boy smirked. "Let's use this little fag as an example of what we'll do to them if they ever fuck with us again, yea?"

"Yea, he'll be easy to beat, y'know?" Said the more muscular boy.

"Indeed," said the shortest of them, a girl.

Roxas suddenly felt like he was being followed and slowed down. He lifted his headphones off of one ear to listen in. After a moment, he shrugged it off and continued walking. A few steps later and he was in front of an alley way. Suddenly, he was dragged by his shirt into the alley where no one could see. The assaulter had pulled so hard on his shirt that he ripped it slightly.

"W-What the fuck?!" Roxas stumbled to stand up and saw before him three teens. "Excuse me? What the fuck do you three want?!"

"I'm Seifer."

"Rai, y'know?"

"Fuu."

"And we're going to kick your fucking ass, faggot," said Seifer, slapping Roxas across the face. Roxas stumbled over and nearly knocked his head into the brick wall.

"Get the fuck away from me!" Roxas yelled as he tried to take a swing at Seifer. Unfortunately, Seifer simply grabbed his wrist and twisted his arm backwards, causing the blonde boy to scream out in pain. "Agh! Stop it!" He squirmed in his grasp.

"Shut up, fag!" Seifer slammed Roxas to the ground and started to full on punch him, not holding back one bit. Roxas's lip split open and was bleeding intensely. Dark blue circles were bound to form around his eyes quickly. Seifer smirked and he then stood up and began to kick Roxas's poor, weak body. He couldn't do anything but take it. He was nearly unconscious as the boy in the beanie continued to kick him over and over.

Lastly, Seifer stood in front of Roxas's spread legs. He smirked with a look of pure hatred. "Fucking rot, twerp," and with that, he gave one last harsh blow to Roxas's groin, causing a pain so horrible and unbearable for him, he passed out cold. Seifer and his gang left him lying there, not caring what would happen to him.

"Where is he? I told him to meet me out front," Axel said, irritated but more worried.

"Well I'm outta here, bro," Demyx said as Zexion walked up to him. "hey babe, ready to go?" the other male nodded. "We're out, Ax. I'm sure he'll show up." and then Demyx and Zexion disappeared from Axel's sight.

"I'll wait a bit longer, then go look for him," Axel decided.

It was getting a bit dark, so Axel decided he had better go look for him. 'Maybe he just went home early…' he was starting to get really worried. He strolled through the many streets of Twilight Town, hollering for Roxas.

"Roxas? Hello?" He sighed. He couldn't find him. Not only was it getting darker, now it was starting to rain. Hard. "Well, shit." he sighed again. "C'mon Roxas!" He started running now, covering every inch of town he could.

The time was now about 8 o'clock. Axel noticed an alleyway and figured he might as well check it. "Rox? Rox you in here?" he heard a low groan. "Hello?" he stated to look through the trash that was scattered around and sure enough, there was Roxas. His shirt torn down, his thigh high socks ripped and scuffed, and his skin bleeding and bruised everywhere.

"Roxas! Holy shit no!" Axel quickly sat him up. "Roxas, man come on, you gotta wake up!" he lightly shook him.

"A…. Axel…?" The words came out painfully and quietly.

"Oh god, Roxas what happened?!"

"I…. Got…. Jumped," he managed to get out.

"Shit man! C'mon, let's get you home!" Axel lifted Roxas up into a fireman carrying position and hurried as quickly as he could back to Roxas's house. He prayed his parents weren't home today, this would look really bad and probably make a terrible first impression. After all, he wanted his future in-laws to like him. Wait, what?

Axel was relieved to see that no one was home yet. He carried Roxas up to his room and gently laid him down. Roxas was now fully conscious. He gave a small chuckle. "Sorry, I caused you all of this trouble."

"Shut up." Axel said seriously. Roxas was kind of taken back by his sudden toughness. "You do not cause me any trouble. Don't ever say that again. I-" Axel stopped himself for a moment. "I want to protect you, dammit!" Roxas's eyes were open wide. There was a moment of awkward silence and Axel turned away.

"Thank you," Roxas said and placed a hand on Axels.

"Of course," they gave each other small smiles. "You need to rest, mister," Roxas smiled.

"yea, I know. I'm sore as hell."

"Here, I grabbed you some aspirin," he handed it to Roxas and quickly grabbed him a glass of water. "Be more careful, please?" Axel said, taking the water back from him when he was done taking the pills.

"You're still staying here though, right?" Roxas asked.

"Well duh. I especially am now, to look after you," they smiled at each other. "Now, rest." Roxas nodded and Axel pulled the blankets up to tuck him in. Axel turned to leave to use the restroom.

"Axel wait-" Roxas held an arm out and Axel stopped in his tracks.

"Hm?"

"Would you… lay with me?" Roxas felt awkward asking the question.

'Oh my god… is he serious?' Axel blushed a bit. "Um, yea if you really want. I don't mind at all," he smiled. 'Oh my god, I'm going to be so close to him…'

"Sorry if that's weird… I understand if it is and you don't want to…"

"No, no, I don't mind. I would want the same comfort if I had just been beaten up. Let me just run to the restroom and I'll be right back." Roxas nodded.

'Am I weird to ask him that? Will he think I'm weird? Why am I so awkward? Why do I want to lay with my best GUY friend? God Roxas what the fuck?' he thought. Soon Axel came back into the room and smiled down at Roxas.

"Well?"

"Huh?"

Axel chuckled. "Scoot over, dumbass." He laughed. Roxas blushed and made room for his friend. Axel pulled the blankets up and tucked himself in next to the blonde. He was so warm. They both blushed harshly. There was a period of awkward silence. "Well, anyway. I'm not going to leave you. Just rest, I'll be here when you wake up," he smiled.

"Right!" and with that, Roxas fell asleep instantly. Axel simply stared at the mass of warmth lying next to him. He couldn't believe he was here. Right now. With Roxas. Under the same blankets. He would have squealed if he wasn't afraid to wake the boy.

After a few moments, Axel found that his own eyelids were becoming heavy with sleep. He figured he might as well catch some z's as well. Just as he was beginning to doze off, he felt Roxas's arm droop over his waist and blonde hair tickle his chin. 'Oh shit…' Axel knew he would have a hard time controlling himself. A little moaning sound escaped Roxas's lips. Axel gulped. 'Man, this is gonna be a long night."

"Ugh…" Axel groaned as sunlight started to seep into the room. He never did fall asleep after Roxas started to cuddle him. He got maybe, thirty minutes of sleep. He felt the boy next to him start to stir. Quickly, he slipped out from under his grasp, so Roxas wouldn't be embarrassed when he woke up. "Mmm, morning!" Axel said as he started stretching his arms.

Roxas smiled up at him. "Hey," he had no idea that moments ago he was cuddling his best friend. "mmm, Saturday," he chuckled.

"Oh yea! It is the weekend! What do you want to do today? Anything you want," Axel smiled. "How are your bruises and cuts, by the way?"

"Actually, they're a lot better. I didn't notice them really until you said something."

"Good!"

"Ow, except this cut on my leg… it hurts a lot," Roxas had on the most adorable pouty face.

"Oh? Here let me see it," Axel gently pulled up Roxas's leg and lifted his pajama pants up. "Well that's why it hurts. It's a rather big gash. We really need to clean it out. Do you have a first aid kit?"

"Yea, in the bathroom, top cupboard," Roxas said. Axel returned quickly with the kit.

"okay, this might burn, but it'll make it feel better," Roxas nodded. Axel gulped lightly. The cut was on Roxas's inner thigh. "Alright hold still," Axel began to put some antibacterial liquid onto the gash.

"Ow! Owwie ow!" Roxas flinched in pain. "Axel, that hurts! Stop please!" He pouted.

"I know it hurts, but hang on, it's almost done," Axel looked up at Roxas's face. 'You're so cute… stop that!' he just wanted to pull him into his arms and never let go. "Alright, all done. Sorry that it hurt," he stood up and ruffled the blonde locks. "You were good, so I'll give you a cookie." They laughed.

"I'm not a baby!" Roxas laughed and pushed Axel in the arm. "I was thinking maybe we'd go to the other side of town and go to the mall? I need some new clothes. If that sounds like fun?"

'Helping Roxas pick out clothes? Fuck yes!' Axel was going crazy in his head but on the outside he was just like "yea, sounds fun to me" all kinds of clam.

"Sweet! Let's get ready!" Roxas smiled up at Axel and jumped up to get ready. Axel's eyes started to follow Roxas around the room. He didn't realize he was just blatantly staring at him. He watched as Roxas stripped his shirt off and replaced it with a tank top that had Alice on it, from Alice in Wonderland. The shirt had no sleeves, so it showed off all of his arms. 'How cute he is…' Next, he pulled his pajama pants off and pulled on a pair of black shorts, very short shorts. Again he put on another pair of thigh-high socks, this time striped light blue and white, to match the Alice shirt. Lastly, he pulled on some black fingerless gloves.

"You look cute," Axel said. 'Wait what did I just say?' he felt so embarrassed. "I mean, I like the Alice shirt and all," he said, trying to save himself.

Roxas seemed to shrug off the first complement, or maybe he didn't even hear it. "Heh, thanks!" he said smiling. "You still need to get ready!" he threw Axel's backpack at him. "Hurry up, buttface!"

"Okay, okay!" Axel laughed and pulled out a fresh set of clothes. He slipped into a tight pair of black skinny jeans, a red shirt, and a pair of low-top white Converse. Oh, and of course he wore the vest Roxas had given him, days before. "I'm ready if you are," Axel turned to face Roxas and smiled.

Roxas chuckled. "You really do love that vest, don't you?" he smiled as Axel blushed just a bit. "I'm very glad. It looks good on you," Axel blushed harder, but the other male didn't seem to notice. "well, let's head out!" and with that, the two boys headed out of the house to enjoy their relaxing Saturday together.

-X-X-X-

Chapter 3 yay! :D So my update day with be every Friday (morning hopefully). I have a lot of the story written so there shouldn't be any delay :) I just like to spread my fics out a bit. But do not worry! I have a bunch of AkuRoku one-shots that I want to write, so between Fridays I'll post some of those :)

Hahaha, if you can't tell, I love putting Roxas in cute little outfits :3 I just think he's look cute in little tanks, shorts, and *mmmm* Thigh high stockings ;3 teehee. I draw him in outfits like that a lot XD

OH. By the way, speaking of drawing, find me on deviant art under the same name, Neon-Zombie. And Tumblr under: Lifebeforetheapocalypse! I love drawing me some AkuRoku ;3

Love you guys! MWA!