Disclaimer: I do not own the characters mentioned in this fanfiction, they are under the ownership of Square Enix/Disney.
Pairings: AkuRoku, slight pairing of SorRiku and SeiferFuu
Roxas' first day wasn't about to end with the interrogation from his cousin and, more then just a friend Riku, no; it was just starting as he headed to first period which was Freshmen English. Once again, he was introduced as if he was a show pony for all to see and ask questions of until he found a seat towards the back, burying his face behind a textbook. He just wanted the day to end, but it was just starting. The next three or four periods breezed by while each teacher just made a minor introduction, asked him if he wanted to say anything, and when he didn't have anything to say, he was told to take a seat.
"Well, here's hoping the day goes be better then I hoped," Roxas thought to himself as he started to sit towards the middle of the class as he sat through Science, Math, Freshmen Foundations, Issues, Language.
The lunch bell was the next thing to ring as Foreign Languages ended and the teacher let them leave, everyone was in a rush to get in line for lunch, but as High School usually is, the cafeteria was like a fish tank full of hungry sharks and varieties of fish swimming around hungrily.
Old acquaintances found one another and those in clicks sat together as they seemed to shun the other smaller groups formed around them, the new students found their way around easier then the nervous Roxas.
"What is this, a feeding frenzy or a cafeteria?" Roxas asked to no one in particular as if he was trying to break the tension that seemed to hang about his neck like a neon sign.
"Roxas!" waved a familiar hand as the voice beckoned him over to Sora and Riku's table where a young woman with auburn, red hair sat on the opposite side of Sora and Riku.
"Oh, Kairi, this is my cousin, Roxas, Roxas this is Kairi and her cousin, Namine, Namine, this is Roxas," Sora made introductions all around as he got to Riku, who just silenced him with a carrot stick to his lips as he managed to muffle, "Amhn….ynh knyw Rkhiu…I MEAN, you know Riku."
"I'm sure in time, he'll learn who everyone is, Sora," Riku leaned into towards Sora, curling his lips around the end of the carrot stick and nipping off a piece of it, "You know you should chew before you swallow and choke on it."
All Sora could do from getting flustered and showing how embarrassed he was mixed with the overwhelming feelings coming to the surface was to return the favor, "Then why don't you help me finish it," Sora leaned in and pressed the nipped off end to Riku's lips as he waited for him to accept it.
Riku smirked, "You are quiet the little tease today, aren't you?" he took the nipped end into his mouth as he started to chew it and munch it until he took Sora by surprised as he pressed Sora's head towards his as their lips mashed together as the last of the carrot stick disappeared between their kiss, "Better?"
Those around the two were not affected by it, but Roxas was taken back by the sudden show of affection at the lunch table as he turned away as the feeling of his lunch leaving his mouth was playing on his mind, "Do, do…do they do this often? Or are they just playing around?" Roxas was flabbergasted.
"Oh yeah, they do this whenever they are feeling silly, but I thought you know that Sora and Riku were a cou—"Kairi was stopped by Roxas' hand as Roxas was on the verge of upchucking not only his lunch, but lack of breakfast all over the cafeteria floor.
"I know now," Roxas' face was in a cold sweat as it spread over his face as Sora looked back to his cousin.
"Hey Roxas, you okay?" he leaned over the table and saw his cousin return to eating his lunch.
Things would've gone without incident had it not been for the fact that all grades shared the same lunch period and that didn't help Roxas' as he ate his lunch in silence while the others talked around him. As the others talked, the world around him seemed to fade out so that it was only him alone in his own little world, but it was interrupted as he felt a fleeting breeze picking up his backside as if someone was looking something.
He started to get flustered by he felt the fingers move from the hem of his shirt to the hem of his pants as they started to creep and crawl their way to the front as if they started playing on his button of his pants and then the zipper, his face was growing hotter.
"What are you doing…gulp…why are you teasing me like this?" Roxas softly spoke; he thought he was the only one in the small world as the voice answered him.
"I'm only teasing like this because I'm trying to make you remember what it used to be like between us," his fingers slightly slipped down past the zipper to the hem of the item keeping him from going further.
"STOP IT!" Roxas shouted as he bolted up and he knocked his lunch tray all over the lunch table, most of its contents ending up on the table where Seifer and his group were sitting.
Silence rang throughout the once feeding frenzy tank as all eyes transfixed on Roxas; he was panting hard as he looked down and saw that his pants were never touched, but now, there was something that was going to be touched. Seifer sat up as he wiped off the spilled lunch off his clothes as his eyes looked up; they were dancing with anger and read, "You are a dead man walking as of now."
He walked over to Roxas as the crowd dispersed like the red sea as he started to pound a fist into his palm as he made his way towards Roxas, an echo erupted from his fist meeting his own flesh, the room was silent as the grave.
"Is this your lunch?" Seifer placed a banana peel on Roxas' head and the other hand grabbed Roxas' collar and he wrenched back his fist as if to pummel him in where he stood, "Any last words before I make you eat today's special?"
Roxas' eyes scanned the room for help as he attempted to apologize, but no one came as Seifer took a swing and sucker punched him in between both eyes before delivering a final blow to Roxas' abdomen. The students dispersed as the lunch bell ended and everyone went to their classes as if what had happened hadn't happened; Roxas awoke to the school Nurse lightly shaking him as the end of the day's bell rang out.
"Roxas, Roxas…sweetie, the school day's over, you can go home now," the Nurse saw Roxas slowly open his eyes and sitting up as a hand placed itself behind his back to support him.
"Ugh…Hnn…what hit me?" Roxas cracked one of the two eyes open as his eyes came to rest on the red head from earlier.
"Let's just say, you kinda lost it in the cafeteria and the special of the day got lost all over one of the biggest egos on campus, to say the least," Axel remarked playfully as he helped Roxas up, who brushed him off.
"Thanks, but I think I can handle it from he---"he wasn't able to stand up or see partially out of either eye as he stumbled as Axel caught him again.
"I don't think so, little dude, come on, I'm driving you home" Axel helped Roxas to his car, but Roxas wasn't talking or looking the young adult in the eyes, or speaking to him, "Okay…I guess we're playing the quiet game."
Axel talked about the local hangouts, places and people to avoid if Roxas didn't want to end up like that again, Axel would crack a joke in hopes of breaking the awkward air hanging over Roxas' head. Nothing seemed to work, he couldn't get anything out of him.
"You know," Axel paused as his voice sounded like an adult about to make a suggestion.
"What is it?" Roxas finally asked as he kept his eyes on the passing road outside the window.
"He speaks," He lightly inwardly chuckled to himself, "Anyway, you know, if I took you home looking like you do," Axel curled a free hand around Roxas' chin as to bring Roxas' face into his peripheral vision without taking his eyes too much off the road, "Your folks would probably flip and starting asking what happen, who I am, and probably starting point fingers at me, saying I'm the one to blame for the black eyes you're sporting."
Roxas yanked his face away from Axel's hand as he tried to hide his face that was now light red from blushing at the touch of Axel's soft fingers against his face, "Make your point, Einstein, you've already pointed out the blatantly obvious that I got my hide handed back to me in a neat little package of two black eyes, what are you getting at?" Roxas snapped as he glared out the passenger side window.
"If that's the way you are going to act about my act of kindness of giving you a ride home because if you weren't aware of it," Axel paused at a red light, "the school buses were already gone for the day and I didn't feel right letting you walk home in your condition."
"Journal, that red light had to have been the longest red light in the history of man, because no matter how long I refused to respond to his gesture, all he did, was drum his fingers against the steering wheel. I knew he was waiting for me to make the first move by saying something like 'Could you just take me home? I'll deal with my folks later' or 'What are you getting at?', but…that's not what he wanted; he was just trying to help," he looked at the clock on his desk and saw that it was getting on into the evening hours and dinner was almost ready, "I don't know how to explain it, Journal, but…Could I…Could I be…no, I couldn't be…My cousin has already proven his choice of lovers, but…could I be the same way?"
Well, no one said the first day of a new school or even new school year was going to be easy, and Roxas learned that lesson the hard way. In any sense, please read and review.