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Zess: This chapter is going to be very short, but I know how it feels to be a reader and have someone not update for like ever! So this is like a tide-over chapter until the weekend.

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Chapter Four:

In Which Roxas Goes Insane And Questions Go Unanswered

It had been two class periods since the fateful meeting at lunch, and Roxas still couldn't believe it. Not this guy. It was just his luck that the both of them had all four after-lunch classes together, and Axel just kept proving how wrong all the rumors had been.

Once they had been introduced, Axel had followed Roxas around like a lost puppy after its master. It was bad enough to have a per petulant shadow, but this shadow had hands like an octopus and a leer. Not just the look, but this leer that clearly said "You're going to you're your back and BAM I'm going to molest you." Roxas had done everything in his power to lose Axel, but how far away could you run if your pursuer is in the same classes?! And of course, Sora and Riku found it hilarious. Sora already had a hunch that Roxas was at least Bi, and though Sora was hyper and usually air-headed, he was good at reading people. He had "gay-dar" as Riku called it. So the jokes kept coming, and they just kept laughing.

But they would . . . they don't understand. . . I need t-

"AHHH!! What the hell?!?!?"

Roxas had leapt from out of his chair, and was now standing on his desk, jumping up and down going "what the hell, what the hell was that?!!?!!"

"That" had ended up being Axel's hand. On Roxas's leg.

ON MY FREAKING LEG!!

Oblivious to the rest of the class, looking at Roxas as if he were insane, Roxas began growling and cursing in the few different languages that he knew.

"Sie Arschloch! How the hell could you do something like that¡Pervertido de mierda! Raak me niet ooit! Don't touch me!! DO YOU HEAR THAT??!? DON'T TOUCH ME EVERRR!!"

When Roxas paused for breath he finally noticed that the whole class, and the instructor, were staring at him mouths agape. Sora was looking up at him from the seat to Roxas's left and had a bunch of his sleeve stuffed into his mouth so he wouldn't laugh. Riku was absent from this class, as he had TA duty. And on top of that, Axel looked as innocent as always, and was peering at him with a sort of rejected look, as if to say "What did I do?" And then Axel had the gall to close his eyes, recline, and to all out toward appearances go to sleep.

This left Roxas fuming. He heard the instructors discreet "ahem" but he didn't care.

You should care you know! His rarely heard-from conscious piped in. Your education is your future!

Don't listen to the sissy! Kill him! Just kill him right now! Blood Blood Blood!! Stated the blood-thirsty side of him.

No! We can't kill him yet. . . He has information. Oh he will pay . . . but not yet . . . That soft, scratchy voice came from his revenge side, the side that he had listened to for the past year.

Roxas stood on the table, head cocked to the side in indecision as the voices inside his head waged. The teacher had begun teaching again, and the shock of The New Kid ranting had worn off. Roxas however, found this hilarious as he looked around the room and noticed that no one cared any more that there was a gender confused psychopath standing on his desk while the rest of the class learned all about the human-body. Well, expect for Sora who was currently rolling on the floor laughing, his eyes streaming tears.

Wait what? Gender confused?

That thought almost brought him out of his wanting to murder Axel, but then. . .

Blood Blood Blood!!

And Roxas was launching himself at the green-eyed devil. Knocking him out of his chair Roxas straddled Axel's chest (his chest was the only place Roxas could straddle and still reach) and began to choke him with a type of crazy-man laugh.

Unfortunately for Roxas, Axel was a much better fighter than he had been able to show earlier in the cafeteria. It wasn't very hard for him to do it anyways, since Roxas was mind-blind with crazy. Picking up the small blond, who was still trying to choke him, he muttered an "I'll take care of him," winked, and walked out of the class.

"GET OFF ME, GET OFF ME!! LET GO YOU PERVERT!! YOU TOUCH ME AND I'LL RIP OFF YOUR FEET AND SHOVE THEM UP –"

Tired of the mirage on his character Axel pressed his lips to Roxas's in order to silence him. It worked too.

Roxas stared back at Axel incredulously, his hand moving to touch his lips. Suddenly reality fell, crashing down on him in fact and he was about to start screaming again.

"I'm sorry okay; I'll stop with the flirting just stop screaming jeese!"

"Stop screaming!? Why don't you keep your hands to your fucking self?"

"Hey! I said I'm sorry okay, got it memorized? Or do I have to repeat myself?"

"Sorry. . . Sorry isn't enough!"

And in that instant, it was all just too much for Roxas. He couldn't think, he couldn't breathe, and he couldn't keep the tears away. Everything was going horribly wrong, and he felt lost again. He dropped to the floor, curling into the fetal position and just cried, laying there in the center of the hallway.

Axel's POV

I snickered evilly as I sat down next to Roxas in our Anatomy class. I didn't know why but I just couldn't get enough of torturing my savior. It wasn't as if Roxas had some kind of personality changing affect on me, I had just found somebody to be myself around.

Ha-ha, my terribly perverted self!

It helped a lot that my savior was sexy. Ohh so sexy. His big light blue eyes hid mysteries and untold secrets. And passion, ooh yes, much passion. Roxas his it well, but I could see it when he was panting for breath after he had beaten the living crap out of Yazoo, Kadaj, and Loz.

I felt a little sheepish then, it wasn't very cool to know that my newest conquest had seen me getting my ass kicked. But no matter, I would have my Sexy Roxy.

And what better time to start then right now?

As I listened to the teacher drone on about the human brain I slowly slid my hand under the table as not to cause attraction, and then slowly . . . ever so slowly. . .

"AHHH!! What the hell?!?!?" Roxas screamed.

My heart fell for a moment until I noticed the tell-tale blush on Roxy's cheeks. That made all of the yelling that followed worth it. I leaned back in my chair; my fingers linked behind my head and grinned.

He likes me. . .

All of a sudden I felt something slam against me, and I fell back in my chair. It was a little disconcerting to feel how very light Roxas was, and how small. It was also a bit humbling. This shrimp was able to take on all three guys and I couldn't?

But I had other thoughts to think of at the moment, like the small hands that were currently cutting off my air supply. I easily picked up the small blond, cradling him in my arms even though he kicked and thrashed. I think I murmured something to the teacher as I took him out into the hall. I looked down at the small form in my arms, and was ignorant to all of his ranting. All I could really see was his lips, so lush, as they moved. He licked his mouth to moisten his lips and I couldn't help myself. Leaning down I pressed my lips to his in a soft, sweet kiss.

Pulling back I made a quirky smile even as my heart pounded overtime, and when I was about to say something witty, I looked at him, really looked at him for the first time all day. At his lost, furious look I started to feel a bit of regret. With all of my little pranks that I had pulled on the cute blond, I had forgotten that some people thought I went too far.

"I'm sorry okay; I'll stop with the flirting just stop screaming jeese!" I sighed and ruffled my already messy hair.

He looked at me eyes-wide. "Stop screaming!? Why don't you keep your hands to your fucking self?"

"Hey! I said I'm sorry okay, got it memorized? Or do I have to repeat myself?" That stung a little and I lashed back, my infamous temper on the rise.

"Sorry. . . Sorry isn't enough!" He whispered. I was about to storm off at the refusal when he collapsed . . . and started to cry.

He curled himself into a ball on the hard tile of the hallway and just cried, as if he hadn't in a long time. It pulled at all of my heartstrings, and I didn't take the time to examine why. I just quickly sat beside him and tried to run my hand along his back, trying to stem the tears in some way. But with each stroke of my hand he just retreated more and more inside himself. Finally I just dropped my hand and my head, looking lost. What could I do?

Calling his name over and over he just wouldn't answer. I wanted him to just stop crying! Feeling my own eyes moisten I stiffened. I didn't cry, not anymore. What was this boy doing to me?

The door to anatomy opened and another small boy walked out. Sora. His eyes fell on Roxas and immediately he fell to his knees, glaring at me over Roxas's body as he tried to pull the other boy close, as if I was the one to cause the problems!

I gave him a helpless look and motioned at Roxas. He seemed to soften slightly and I was grateful. I had never seen Sora angry and I didn't know the small boy could be so cold. I guess to him, friends were everything.

"What happened here Axel?"

"I don't know . . . he just . . . he just fell down and started crying. What can I do?" My own voice sounded disoriented, distant.

We both stopped speaking as Roxas began to speak, his voice so quiet we both had to strain to hear.

"They killed her, they killed Namine. She was the only person I had ever loved and they killed her. The organization. . ."

My blood froze cold in my skin. The Organization? I spent my life running from them, from their hate, and their rage that I had gone against their wishes. What did Roxas have to do with them?

"They killed her! They killed her and you know Axel, you know where they are! Why did it have to be you. I want revenge and now I will never find it. . ."

Roxas fell still and silent, his breath even now. He had worn himself out and into sleep.

"Axel, do you know what he was talking about?"

"I have no idea," I lied. "Maybe he's just stressed with it being his first day and the fight and all."

I could tell by Sora's eyes that he didn't believe me. But he didn't ask anything anymore. I lifted the sleeping body of Roxas into my arms again and took him to the infirmary, my thoughts clouded, Sora following slowly behind.

Roxas' POV

I awoke on a scratchy mat and looked around my surroundings. Sora, noticing my consciousness, smiled in relief and held my hand tightly.

"What happened?" I asked, a little out-of-sorts.

"I don't know, you just. . . fell? Axel and you were fighting and he said that you just kind of collapsed from the stress."

Some memories came back, and I felt anger stir in my veins.

"That jerk, he tried to molest me in class!"

Sora looked at me strangely, but he said nothing.

What is he thinking?

And why do I remember. . . Telling Axel everything?

A/n: Okay, told you the chapter would be uber-short, but like I said, I wanted to give my amazing absolutely awesome readers something. It's a little hurried, but everything will be explained in the next chapter and you'll get a regular long chapter again. My self imposed deadline is still in play, so another chapter will be up by Friday (3/23) night.

Like always please R&R!