Someone Else's Shadow
A/N: -sigh- I really must stop being this nice. But I can't help myself to upload this chapter now, cause I feel like doing something and I don't have a single thing to do at home. I am so damned bored right now! So here you go, but next chapter will be on a hold for a week, or until I finish chapter 7. Which actually should be soon since my writing is moving on pretty fast. And it's fun to see that there's such a great interest in my story this soon, it has only been up for a few days but it already got more views and reviews than some of my older stories :D
And uh, this chapter is a bit jumpy. Or not really but I change view from Axel to Roxas and then I skip or rewind some time. So don't be too confused, okay? XD
Thanks to: XxPretty-OddxX, Plain Jane Is A Vampire, HarrylovesDraco, Mantineus, genocide-bloodshed, Guzophela, The Infamous Me, Ally Montgomery, Suna's Assassin, Mord Sith Matt, LawlietxRinoa and Jayrin Paige. Thanks for reviewing chapter 2!
Warnings: AU (high school fic), boy x boy relationships (AkuRoku + sidepairings: Zemyx/Dexion, ZackCloud(?) and perhaps RiSo), swearing, future lemons, future violence.
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts. If I did the game would for sure have a much higher rating. (Square Enix and Disney own KH, sadly)
!!!EDIT (2 February 2009)!!!
A huge thanks to Trainra for beta reading and correcting misstakes in this chapter!
Chapter 3
As soon as Axel had driven away and left Roxas home alone, the blonde had decided to lie down on the couch with an enormous pile of blankets and pillows. He stayed there, in his pile of cozyness, for hours. His head was hurting badly and his back and neck wasn't giving him a good time either. Earlier he had been too shocked and surprised to really realize how much everything hurt, but now when he wasn't distracted by anything... Ugh. It hurt really badly.
A weak whimper escaped his lips as he woke up from his very light slumber. The pain couldn't even allow him to get some well deserved sleep. How mean of the pain.
"Hurts..." he mumbled for himself. But why did it hurt now again...? Ah, right. Axel had woken him up so he had fallen down that tree. What a smart redhead, indeed.
'But really... He didn't mean it and he was kind of concerned. But still, my head is killing me!'
Roxas let out a slight moan as he turned to face the couch and not five minutes later he heard the door open up only to be slammed shut. He winced at the sharp sound and prepared for scolding.
"Roxas?! Rox!" Cloud's slightly panicked voice was heard from the hall.
Roxas blinked a few times as he pulled the blanket down, "I'm here..." he called weakly, just peeking up from the blankets.
Hurried footsteps were immediately heard and soon Cloud appeared with a worried and pretty angry face expression, "You better explain yourself, Roxas! Do you have any freaking idea how damn worried I've bee-," Cloud cut himself off when he saw how troubled and tired Roxas looked, "Did... Did something happen?" he then asked in full concern. His brother didn't usually lie in a pile of blankets and pillows at this time of the day.
"Mm..." Roxas let out as he pushed himself up in sitting position and then leant against the pile of pillows, "I kinda... Fell down a tree," he said as he got a slight blush on his cheeks, he knew there was no point lying about it, "I fell asleep and someone attempted to wake me up and I kinda... flipped over, I forgot where I was."
Cloud opened his mouth and then looked at Roxas with wide eyes before striding up to him and taking a slight grab on his face, looking him all over and in the end finding the cut in the back of his head, "Shit... Roxas, are you okay?" he worryingly asked.
Roxas nodded, "My back and my head hurts... But the nurse said I should stay home and rest for today and tomorrow... I also got that," Roxas then said and pointed at the small bottle of pills.
Cloud looked at the bottle and the unfolded the note that had been attached to it.
Just make sure he takes three a day. One in the morning, one at lunch and one in the evening.
Take care of him and yourself, Cloud.
/Aerith
"Aerith..." Cloud said softly as he looked at the note. He had recognised the handwriting as soon as he had seen it.
Roxas blinked a few times and looked at Cloud who had a small sad smile on his face for a while. He decided to not ask what was on his brother's mind. Cloud deserved the privacy after everything he had gone through for Roxas.
After a short while Cloud sighed and then looked at Roxas, "Sure you're fine?"
"Just a bit disoriented," Roxas muttered as he closed his eyes again.
Cloud sighed and ruffled Roxas's hair carefully, "Well, how was your day before you almost cracked your skull open?" he asked with a raised eyebrow as Roxas sent a slight glare at him.
"It was fine..." Roxas mumbled before getting a frown on his face, "There was... Sora... You remember him?" he then questioningly asked and Cloud nodded with a deep frown on his face, "He's in my class and got all overly excited."
Cloud sighed and scratched his head, "How was he then?"
"Uh... Annoying?" Roxas suggested with a shrug, "But okay, I guess."
Cloud gave a sigh of relief and headed to the kitchen, "I'm gonna do some dinner, want something specific?" he then asked.
Roxas shook his head slowly, "Anything but fish is fine," he murmured as he once more closed his eyes to rest before dinner would be ready.
"Sure," Cloud said softly before leaving Roxas alone in the living room.
Well, he didn't ground you like you thought he would.
'Like he could ground his poor wounded brother...' Roxas thought and mentally rolled his eyes at hearing his inner voice tease him. Sometimes he wondered if he was the only one who had that taunting voice in his mind. Maybe it only was his conscience or something like that. Either way it liked to make fun of him.
Roxas sighed as he looked up at the ceiling. He had decided to leave out the part about Sora's friends. Cloud had looked concerned at the mention of Sora. Apparently Cloud had memories of the brunette, Roxas didn't really know what he was going to do about it, should he ask Cloud about it? Did he really want to know?
Frustrated about it? Just be patient, maybe it will come back to you one day.
'Oh just shut up!' Roxas hissed in his mind and only heard a faint snicker before he got his head to himself once more. Which was much more peaceful than having an argument which made his head hurt even more. Ugh, he didn't think the days at home would be so great after all. Not if he had to share his head with his inner voice.
Axel sighed as he looked at the clock in the cafeteria. It was lunch time and he and his friends sat at their usual place. It had been three days since the little accident he had put Roxas through, and he hadn't seen the blonde yet. He had been supposed to be there the day before, hadn't he? What if he had been more wounded than they had thought?
Come on, stop worrying you big baby! What's up with you all of a sudden? It's just a damn kid. Just like all else of them, why would this kid make such a difference in the world, Axel?
Axel grimaced slightly and felt that it was kind of right. He never used to care so much about someone he just had met. Not even persons he had hurt by mistake. Usually he would just have let the person's friends take care of him/her or take him/her to the nurse and then leave. Never worry like he did now. What if the kid had gotten much worse? He sighed sadly to himself, everything around him felt like a distant buzzing.
"Great. Axel is still spaced out," Demyx stated and sighed before he pushed some fries into his mouth and looked at his friend who just distantly stared out into nothingness, "If I didn't know better I'd think he had brain damage or something."
Zack grinned as he threw a look at Axel, "Maybe he's still thinking about that Roxas kid, he's been acting kinda weird since that incident."
Demyx shrugged and then looked at Naminé, "The kid was supposed to show up yesterday, right?" he asked with tilted head.
"Yes... Aerith said so but maybe he wasn't feeling well enough to come?" Naminé suggested before turning her attention to her food again.
Then Axel snapped out of his thoughts, "What if I really did kill him?!" he asked with wide eyes as Naminé stated this, "Maybe he got some fucked up internal bleeding and died when no one was home with him!"
Demyx let out a chuckle and shook his head, "Ax, you're so overreacting. And what's with the worry? You are acting kind of weird," he said with an amused smile at seeing his friend in such a state of panic and worry.
Axel frowned and crossed his arms in a defensive way, "I am not acting weird," he stated with a glare.
They're so seeing through your lies, and you know it.
Axel cursed himself as his friends chuckled at his face expression, "Okay, okay! Maybe I am overreacting and acting a little bit weird, but-,"
"Lookie, there he is!" Demyx said and pointed at a mop of blonde hair in the line of the cafeteria.
Axel immediately jumped up from his seat and frantically scanned the line to get a look of the blonde kid he had wanted to see since he had driven away from his house. Leaving him with a goofy smile on his face. Ah! There, he saw the blonde!
"Yes! He's back!" Axel did a small victory dance from the place he stood at which just made people nearby turn and look at him as if he was crazy, but the redhead didn't care about that. He was different, so what? His friends couldn't help laughing at Axel, but covered it up pretty good.
But as soon as Axel had stopped his internal and outer cheering he looked for the blonde again only to see his retreating back, heading away from the cafeteria. But no way was he letting the blonde get away now. With determination Axel threw a look at his friends before he sprinted after Roxas. He was so not getting away, not after having Axel worry for days and nights!
Roxas groaned loudly as he got his clothes on and hurried out to the kitchen where Cloud sat at the table, drinking his coffee. He looked up at Roxas in surprise.
"What are you doing up?" he asked with a raised eyebrow and put down his cup of coffee.
Roxas glared at his brother as he was inwardly screaming at Cloud, "School. It's past 11 am! Why didn't you wake me up?" he asked in irritation as he hurried out to the hall to get his shoes on.
Cloud opened his mouth as he saw Roxas move out to the hall in just a matter of a few seconds, "Uh, you could have cracked your skull open, you know!" he said as he hurried after, attempting to stop Roxas, "And you haven't eaten yet!"
Roxas rolled his eyes as he looked at Cloud, "You made me stay home yesterday when I was supposed to go to school. I am going today! And it's lunch time in school," he said with determination, "Do me a favour and give me a ride, would you?" he then asked weakly as he looked at Cloud with pleading eyes.
Cloud sighed but put on his helmet and then handed Roxas the other helmet. It seemed that Roxas would make his way to school even if he'd refuse to drive him there. But better make sure he'd get to school unharmed.
Soon they were out and Cloud got up on the bike with ease, and as usual, while Roxas had some troubles and gripped at Cloud as soon as they started moving.
'I can't believe he wants to keep me home like this...' he thought sourly but then his expression softened slightly. After all Cloud had a good reason to care as much as he did. Roxas couldn't really blame him for caring.
After 10 minutes they were settled at school and Roxas were fast to jump of the bike, waving at Cloud and cut him of before he could say anything at all, "Yeah, I'll make sure to be careful and call if something happens, have a great day!" he said and with that he pretty much ran into the school. He wasn't going to listen to Cloud's worried ranting. He hated to be treated like a seven-year-old when he actually was 16, soon 17.
He sighed as he walked into the cafeteria. It was filled with people, both at the tables and in the line. But he didn't see anyone at the preps table. Maybe they had eaten already or were on their way to eat. Not that Roxas cared; he wasn't going to eat with them. Ever. Next sight he caught was the table where the redhead, Axel, and his friends sat. He could see that Axel seemed to be staring at nothing while his friends talked around him.
As he moved in line he contemplated going up to them since they had seemed to be nice. But he didn't really want to just barge in on them and their talking. Maybe they had just been nice to him because he had been hurt last time they talked?
With a sigh Roxas bought himself a sandwich and a bottle of orange juice before he decided to head out of the cafeteria. He didn't have the guts to get up to Axel and his friends. Yes, Roxas was a coward when it came to being social and taking the first step. He could admit that.
"Yo!" a loud voice suddenly said next to Roxas ear and a hand grabbed a hold of his elbow which made the blonde almost jump out of his skin as he whipped around with wide eyes.
He met a pair of green eyes and a wide and white grin, "Heh, I seem to be good at scaring you," Axel said and grinned as he, without warning, pulled Roxas toward his table.
Roxas opened up his mouth just to manage to stutter out an incoherent answer that made no sense at all, suddenly he was pulled down beside Axel and quickly looked around and saw the smiling and grinning faces of Axel's friends.
"Can you talk or did I really break you?" Axel asked jokingly after a while as he poked Roxas's forehead which made the blonde open his mouth again before blushing. Axel smirked at this, realizing that Demyx had been right about Roxas being really shy... This could prove to be pretty fun.
"N-no, I am perfectly fine," Roxas managed to stutter out as he fought back the blush that threatened to take over his whole face.
Axel chuckled and some of his friends joined in, "Good to hear!"
"Yeah, Axel was all worked up since you didn't come yesterday," Demyx said and laughed, "He thought he had killed you."
"Was not," Axel said with a glare at Demyx, daring him to say anything more.
Naminé giggled as she looked at her annoyed friend, "Oh please, you went really excited when you saw him in the line."
"Uh... Well... I am alive and all," Roxas mumbled before looking up, "My brother didn't let me go yesterday, he's kind of... overprotective."
Zack let out a laugh and looked at Roxas, "Cloud being overprotective? That's something new," he said and took a bite of his burger.
Roxas blinked as he looked back at the raven haired man, "Uh... You know Cloud?" he then asked carefully.
"Of course, didn't I say that three days ago, Monday you know?" Zack asked after he had swallowed the food in his mouth.
Roxas frowned as he looked down at the table surface for a while, being in deep thought. He could barely remember what had happened that day. He knew that he had been taken to the nurse with the help of Axel and his friends. And that they had talked some but it was really fuzzy, and somehow it scared Roxas a bit. He didn't like it when parts of his memory were kind of blank.
"...I don't really recall much from Monday," Roxas stated after a while, with a shrug, "But I am not the one to blame, right?" he then said and threw a look at Axel.
Axel scratched his head and grinned sheepishly, "Sorry about that... Guess I didn't really apologize appropriately. Sorry Roxas, never meant for you to fall down."
Demyx snorted and then said something that he covered with a cough. To Roxas it sounded something like idiot. And judging by Zexion's smirk it definitely was something along that way.
"Nah," Roxas then mumbled as he took a bite of his sandwich, "I guess I shouldn't have fallen asleep up in that tree... It just happened," he said with a shrug.
"So... Is your head fine?" the blonde girl named Naminé asked with a soft and caring voice, "You seemed so confused after the fall..." she then said and trailed of.
Roxas smiled somewhat and nodded, "Yeah... Just a little bit dizzy, but I guess that's normal since I hit my head pretty hard."
"Good to hear that, then I wont have to worry," she said with relief in her voice, Roxas was quite surprised to hear that she had been that worried about him. They didn't even know him and yet they had all seemed to be pretty worried. Uh well... Everyone except Zexion... But he seemed to not show off many emotions.
Sure they worry, but just because they didn't want the blame if you had been hurt worse than that.
Roxas sighed very lightly at the voice in the back of his head. That might be true as well. Maybe they would ignore him from now on; it would be for the best to not have any hopes up high.
"So what in hell did you do in the tree?" Axel then asked as he stuffed some fries into his mouth, looking at Roxas with an interested look.
"I ate lunch," Roxas said and sighed, "Then I just got kind of tired and climbed higher up."
"Don't you know Sora and his gang? Why didn't you eat with them?" Zack asked with a raised eyebrow. And at their mention they actually walked into the cafeteria, everyone looking as preppy as usual. Ugh... All of 'the different' hated their way. They tolerated Sora because he was friendly with pretty much everyone and did no harm. He was simply running everywhere Riku went.
Roxas sighed deeply and looked up from the table and met Riku's eyes. And God did he give Roxas a killer glare or what? Even Sora looked over at him, but more with uncertainty and a little bit of hurt in his eyes.
"I think it's enough getting glared at from a distance," Roxas said, still not letting his eye contact with Riku break, daring the other one to break it before him, "Sora's all right but I... I can't say I like his friends," he then said with a sigh as he gave up and looked away from Riku, still feeling his glare burn into his skull, making his head ache once more.
Axel gave a slight nod as he looked Riku's way and then glared at the silver haired teen who rolled his eyes and angrily strode off to the table he and the rest of their gang sat.
"Well, sorry to say it but we have ruined your chances of befriending them," Demyx stated and gave a slight sympathetic look but smiled a small smile either way.
Roxas simply shrugged, "Doesn't matter. If I'd sit with them they'd just fake being nice and all and I hate people faking like that. The only one who'd be honest is Sora. The rest of them... I'd never share a table with anyone of them."
"Well said, Roxas, well said," Demyx said with a nod as he took a big gulp of his coke and then relaxed in the chair, "Those preps think they own the place."
Axel snorted and rolled his eyes, "Some of them almost do, many of their oh so rich parents own parts of the company that runs the school. Then they think they rule this place and that's not cool," he stated and shook his head.
The other mumbled their agreements as they concentrated on the food they ate. Roxas just gave a slight nod even though he had had no idea about the rich parents' part.
After a while the silence was broken by a certain redhead, why wasn't Roxas surprised over the fact that Axel was the one to break the silence?
"So Roxas, how come you moved here of all places in the world? I heard you lived in Hollow Bastion before," Axel asked as he looked at Roxas, once more with interest in his eyes, "I mean... This is like... A pretty small place."
Roxas opened his mouth and then blinked. What was he supposed to say? Should he pull a lie or tell the truth?
Come on Rox, you shouldn't make yourself into a liar just like this. You can just... Leave out some parts about the truth. There, no harm done?
"I... There was some problems in my last school," Roxas said as he looked down at the table, suddenly really interested in all the spots he could find. He didn't like talking about it but he didn't want to end up all alone again, and honesty was good if you wanted friends, right?
Axel raised an eyebrow as he listened and waited for more. His friends were also listening from their own talking, "Problems?" Axel repeated with slightly tilted head.
"Y-yeah," Roxas mumbled, "Some people didn't really like me and..." he trailed of and rubbed his left temple.
"You got bullied?" Axel then pretty much more stated than asked, his eyes were slightly narrowed.
Roxas grimaced slightly and nodded. It was true after all, even though it wasn't the big reason he had moved, it was close enough, "It got out of hand after a while."
"Out of hand like in... fighting?" Demyx asked, not so interested in his food any longer, and even Zexion had lifted his face from the book he had been reading, to see what it was about.
Roxas gave a slight nod, "Yeah, some fighting and many threats."
Axel growled slightly, to Roxas surprise, and then shook his head in frustration as he crossed his arms, "I hate schools like that. Why is it that the bullied student always is the one who has to leave?" he asked and sighed in annoyance, swearing under his breath.
Roxas blinked as he looked at Axel. The redhead was for sure special. He had no idea what made the redhead seem to care about him... But he kind of liked it.
"It was more my choice than theirs though," Roxas muttered, "I hated that school. Felt like everyone were like... them," he said and directed his eyes at Riku and the others.
"Ouch man, then I'd have left as soon as I got the chance to as well," Demyx said with a grimace on his face, "But you know, there's always space at our table!" he then cheerfully said, "As long as you don't work as a prep in disguise!"
Roxas rolled his eyes and looked at Demyx, "Seriously, do you think they'd still be glaring at me if I was with them?" he asked. And yes, Riku was still working on burning a hole through Roxas's skull. And if Roxas didn't know better he'd think he started to actually get a hole in his skull. His head was aching after all, and if it was because of his little trip down the tree or because of Riku's glaring, he didn't know.
Demyx blinked as he looked back to see if it was true. And of course it was.
"I swear, one day I am going to kill that damn Riku," Axel growled as he glared at said silver haired boy who now glared at Axel instead, "At least gonna pluck his eyes out. I don't see what's so darn fantastic about his eyes like all the girls see. All he's good at is fucking glaring at people," he stated with a pissed of look on his face.
Demyx snorted and then gave a nod as he once more turned his attention to his food.
Roxas simply sighed and ignored Riku, who apparently had changed glaring target. But his head was still aching so he shuffled through the stuff in his bag and got a hold of the bottle of pills Aerith had given him. One at mornings, one at lunch and one before bed. With a slight grimace he put the pill in his mouth and downed it with his juice. Ugh, he hated swallowing pills. And yet he had to do so pretty often. For several reasons.
"Your head still hurts?" Axel then asked when he noticed that Roxas had been swallowing a pill.
Roxas shrugged, "Yeah, but not so much. My back is a bit worse though," he answered which was true. It hurt like hell to get up from sitting to standing and back to sitting down. His head was fine as long as he didn't make any sudden movements.
"Ouch."
"Uh-huh," Roxas said with a nod.
"So... What's your brother up to?" Zack then asked with a grin on his face, "Last time I saw him he dropped out of his senior year and left town."
Roxas blinked a few times. Ah right. He had almost forgotten about Cloud dropping out of school, "He's working down at the Sandlot for the moment, said something about damage being fixed."
"Aha. Then I might go by and scare the living daylights out of him!" Zack said with a wide grin, "No one pulls a disappearing act on me unpunished!"
Axel groaned and closed his eyes, "Zack, with your personality I'd not be surprised if people suddenly disappeared."
Zack made a very offended face expression at that, "Are you the one to talk, Ax?" he then asked with an evil smirk plastered on his face, "I mean, you scare people out of trees..."
Roxas blushed slightly of this, "That was more my fault..." he mumbled as he took a last bite of his sandwich.
At this everyone looked at Roxas as if he was crazy.
You for sure are normal, Roxas... I can't believe I am a part of you.
"Hell, Roxas, stop worrying about that!" Axel said and let out a short laugh, "It wasn't your fault at all, I was being an idiot when I woke you up, should have known it was a bad idea."
"Sor-,"
Demyx laughed and shook his head before Roxas had time to finish, "You're apologizing too much, relax!" he said and grinned widely.
"I am?" Roxas said questioningly, "I... I guess I haven't been thinking so much about it..."
"Yeah, I mean... It's totally on me that you fell down that tree," Axel said with a grin on his face.
Roxas gave a weak smile as he drank the last of his juice and then sighed lightly. He felt a bit uncomfortable. He hadn't exactly lied when he had told Sora that he didn't feel good while eating with people. It had nothing to do with the persons he sat with. Axel and his friends seemed to be really nice actually.
"How do you know Sora?" Zexion then asked which made Roxas's brain almost stop functioning.
How did he know Sora? Was Roxas supposed to be able to answer that? He hadn't any idea about how to answer the question. He should have known that something would go wrong like this.
Aw, Roxas is starting to panic, isn't that right?
Roxas looked at Zexion who patiently awaited an answer that didn't come; Roxas opened his mouth to say something when...
"Holy shit!" Demyx said loudly as he looked at the watch, "I and you, Roxas, got our lesson in five minutes!" he said as he abruptly stood up and looked at Roxas who stared at him, "Yeah, I took my liberty to check up your classes!" he then added with a grin on his face when he saw Roxas's confused facial expression.
Axel looked from Roxas to Demyx and then gave Roxas a slight pinch, "You better run, or you two will get killed by Vexen," he said with a grin as Roxas stumbled up from his chair and was grabbed by Demyx who pretty much ran away with Roxas, shouting a quick good bye.
Out in the hall Roxas finally got a hold of the situation as they reached the lockers, "What class is it?" Roxas asked in slight confusion as he opened up his locker.
"Chemistry! And if we are late Vexen might kill us!" he then said as he closed his locker and Roxas did the same before once more being dragged away by Demyx.
Once Roxas and Demyx got out from their classroom both of them let out relieved sighs. The class had been horrible. Of course they had been late. By two minutes. But apparently that was enough to tick the teacher off and they had gotten a really bad scolding and some nasty threats involving acid and fire, and of course Demyx and Roxas as test subjects. Demyx had managed to get them out from detention by pulling a lie how he helped Roxas who was new. Vexen obviously wanted to punish them further but he couldn't argue about the point of helping a new student.
"Oh hell... Thank God that you are new or we'd both be test subjects or something like that!" Demyx said and wiped his forehead as he let out a sigh.
Roxas laughed nervously, not entirely sure that it was a joke; he wouldn't be surprised if Vexen used his students as test subjects... Well, despite Vexen being the scariest teacher Roxas had met in his life the lesson had been okay. And Demyx was happy to have Roxas in the same class since he himself sucked at chemistry while Roxas was good at it.
"Well, we better meet up with Axel; he has the next lesson with us!" Demyx happily said and looked at Roxas, "Oh... Uh, I am sorry if I'm being annoying, you probably don't want to be dragged around like this but it's really-,"
"It's fine, you aren't annoying," Roxas said with a smile on his face, "And I don't really know how to get to my classes anyway so I don't mind." he then continued with a slight laugh.
Demyx grinned as they once more reached the lockers and switched books, this time for math. Ugh, how Roxas hated math. Not because he was bad at it. He was excellent in math; he simply found it to be boring as hell. He'd even go back to Vexen's chemistry lesson instead of math.
"Well you're lucky then! It seems I've got pretty much the same schedule as you!"
"Good, then I won't have to get lost," Roxas said and chuckled as he looked up and saw Demyx make a small happy dance only to later be smacked on his head by Axel who had appeared out of nowhere.
Demyx let out a whine as Axel smacked him again with a smirk on his face, "What's that for?!"
"For being a goof," Axel replied with a grin on his face, "What makes you do a happy dance just like that, huh?" Not that Axel was one to talk since he had done a happy dance in the cafeteria, when he had spotted Roxas, but he didn't know that.
Demyx huffed, "Cause thanks to Roxas being new we got out of trouble for getting to Vexen's lesson late."
Axel grimaced at the thought of Vexen. Axel was probably the student in school who hated Vexen most of everything. And Vexen hated Axel with a passion. Of course there was a damn good reason behind this mutual hate...
"You got lucky," Axel simply said as he then locked his own locker and sighed, "Well, math then," he said with a slight mutter, "God, I hate math."
"I bet Roxas is good at it! He totally made me understand my chemistry which I have never done before!" Demyx happily said which made Roxas blush again.
"Uh... I'm not that good," he mumbled as he headed after the two much taller boys. Why was he so short? He damned Cloud for being the tall brother. He damned his genes for not making him taller as well.
Demyx grinned as he patted Roxas's back, "Not even Zexion could make me understand that isotope stuff."
Axel's eyes widened as he turned to look at both Demyx and Roxas, "You made Dem actually understand chemistry when even Zexion can't do that?" he asked in disbelief, staring at Roxas.
Roxas shrugged and smiled sheepishly, "I guess I did."
Demyx just grinned widely, "I fucking can explain to Zexion how it works, I can't wait to see his face, HA!" he said and made a small jump with a look of triumph on his face.
Axel smirked and shook his head as he threw an amused look at Roxas who just smiled back and then chuckled at Demyx being all over excited.
Thankfully the math lesson didn't take as long time as Roxas had thought it would it was actually over pretty fast.
"Well then. That was one day closer to the weekend!" Demyx chirped.
"For you, some people got work right after this shit," Axel said with a glare at Demyx.
"Come on! It's Friday tomorrow, you can't be mad!" Demyx said with a grin on his face, "Right, Roxie?"
Roxas sent a glare at Demyx which made the teen squeak, "Call me Roxie one more time and-,"
"Sorry! Roxas, it's Roxas!" Demyx said and grinned sheepishly.
Axel smirked as they headed out of the school. So Roxas could get pissed of if he wanted to. He had almost thought that Roxas couldn't get angry or be determined.
Well, there were a lot of things for Axel to find out about Roxas. And he'd be happy to explore Roxas's nature and personality, he almost thought of it as some kind of challenge. He wanted to get to know Roxas better; there was something special about him.
And if there was one of them who was more different then all of them put together, it was Roxas. Axel was pretty much sure of it.
A/N: And that was chapter 3! I hope you enjoyed, even though it was a bit choppy from time to time. Soon I think I'll speed up things a little bit, as in making Axel and Roxas get a bit closer. I just need to get a way of not making it too sudden.
And today it's me and Cloud asking for reviews!
Cloud: Review, please. -grabs buster sword and smiles sweetly-
I don't think they like being threatened, Cloud...