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Summery: Axel and Roxas play videogames every Friday together after school. What happens when a friend persuades them to play Kingdom Hearts? The weirdest Akuroku ever!

Notes: School killed me. I suck a lot, I should have used time management. I feel bad since I got some really nice reviews. I really want to keep Roxas in chracter, along with Axel. Yet try to have some fluffy moments with them. I hope I pulled that off, I most likely didn't though. Oh well. x.x So I'm really sorry! I hope this makes up for it you guys. I love writing this, and I love the respsonse from it.

My alarm went off and I slid my hand slowly onto the snooze button.

"Roxas don't you dare hit that snooze button!" My mother shrieked.

I grunted and slowly raised my body up. It was Friday; the week flew by if I was in autopilot the entire time.

Ever since that dream, my outlook on Axel has changed. This entire week he was busy with last minute college stuff, along with senior privileges. I few months ago I would have been 'alright, he is busy', now I'm going 'why won't he make time for me?'.

I looked at the clock again seeing I had zoned out for a good five minutes. I got off my bed and dragged my feet towards my closet.

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"Roxas!" I slammed my locker shut to see Axel waving his hands.

"Axel, don't you get this Friday off from school?" I asked him as I made sure I had my first and second period textbooks and folders.

"Yep, but your mom asked if I could pick you up from school today. So I just decided to go; I have a history test to make up anyways." He placed his arm on my shoulder as he stood next to me.

"Are you staying over tonight, or are you too busy for me?" I said bitterly.

Why am I mad at Axel? He did nothing wrong he's busy with his own life. Why the hell am I being so damned immature? He has other friends, senior friends. Who by the way are more than cooler than me.

"…huh? What the hell are you talking about Roxas? 'Course I'm not too busy for you." He removed himself from me and decided to stand in front of me.

"You didn't even say hello once to me this entire week." I muttered.

He blinked and took in a deep breath. I could see a frown slowly form on his face.

"Roxas, I didn't know you'd be so affected by my absence. If you wanted to talk to me, you could have called me. You're acting like a little girl." Okay, he was right. I didn't even bother to initiate contact.

"Let's drop it, unlike you I have classes." I sharply turned around and started to walk away from him.

I didn't bother to look back, but I could tell he was standing there, ever so confused. I hated how I couldn't present my emotions properly; I didn't want him to hear my bitter tone. I wasn't mad at him, was I? I guess to some extent I was since I no longer wanted a platonic relationship between us.

Wait, back up there brain. Just because the words aren't coming out of my mouth, doesn't mean you can say whatever you want without letting me approve it. (Yes, that was directed at you brain.) I want an extremely platonic relationship with Axel, my best friend. Oh dammit. I don't know what's worse, the words I approve of, or the ones I don't.

I don't want to hold hands and listen to songs that make me think of him. I don't want him holding me when he thinks I'm scared, when I'm really not. No, I want him just be there for me. Stop being stupid Roxas, you've lived a good seventeen years without feeling a crush, you don't need to start now.

So guess what, I'm going to be immature for three seconds of my life and blame this all on a game. Thank you Kingdom Hearts for making me doubt my platonic feelings for Axel.

"Fuck that stupid Sora kid, this is all his fault." I mumbled as I sat into my seat in my first period.

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I moaned as I felt someone shake my shoulder. I must have fallen asleep from that boring physics slide show. I opened my eyes; the room was dark, but the projector emitted a blue light that slightly illuminaed the room.

"Roxas wake up; the bell is going to ring." I heard a voice whisper to me.

I turned my head towards the voice and saw Axel's face.

"What are you doing here?" I tried to keep my voice down; it was obvious I was annoyed.

"My history teacher isn't here yet, so I can't take th test just yet. So I thought I'd visit you in physics for moral support." A smirk formed on his lips and his slim fingers ruffled my hair.

I swatted his hand away from my head, and felt my face heat up a bit. I looked at the teacher's desk, seeing my own physics teacher had fallen asleep. Way to show your students a good example.

"What for? Next thing I know you'll be holding my hand to English and protecting me from hard math problems."

"Stop being such a smart ass, most people can't tolerate it. Next year you'll need to find a best friend here." His voice was playful more than anything, but his words stung.

If he said that to me two weeks ago, I would have said some smart ass comment back. Now I can't even take it comically like its intent. What has happened to me? I was cold to others, I didn't care what people thought of me. Now I'm paranoid about every word he says, I'm worried about his judgment of me. What the hell is wrong with me?

"What if I don't want another best friend besides you?" I whispered weakly towards him avoiding eye contact.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw his shoulders drop and his taunting face form into a somber one.

"Roxas, you have to move on without me. We can't be friends forever; hell, it was great while it lasted but…"

The next thing I know, I somehow moved my body out of my seat and ended up hugging Axel's upper body. His face had a shocked expression, and for a few seconds I saw Axel actually dumbfounded. He couldn't say a thing, and boy Axel could talk for hours on end about bullshit. Yet there he was, having me 'hugging' him and he couldn't say jack. So he did the only thing he could do, he wrapped his arms around me and rubbed my back.

"Axel, why the hell am I hugging you?" I asked him still holding his body.

"I don't know Roxas, but don't get mad when people start calling you a fag."

"What about you, aren't people going to say the same thing?"

"Roxas, I don't give a fuck. Two more weeks and I'm out of here. Worry about your own reputation."

The bell rang and that brought us back to reality. I let go of Axel and got some weird glances from my fellow classmates. My physics teacher had spotted the ever so apparent Axel, and started yelling at him to get out of his class. Axel gave me a quick wave and casually strolled out of the class leaving my teacher's right eye twitching.

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The rest of the say was pretty much a blur, since the teachers decided not to do anything but write our finals. Even my usually calm English teacher was stressing about finishing correction on senior projects. She selected a few students for extra credit to help grade the papers. I'm pretty sure that's not allowed, but it wasn't any of my business.

When it came time to pick me up, Axel acted like the whole incident never happened. On the other hand, I did not brush it off. I was tense, fidgety, and felt awkward around him. Every move he made, I had to watch. I tried telling my brain to stop, but I guess it was still pissed at me from this morning.

"Roxas we're here, let's go." He got out of his car and proceeded to open the passenger's car door.

I started to get out, but I found myself upside down. Axle hauled me over his shoulder and shut the car door. I cursed at him and began to hit his back.

"Let me down now, Axel! I'm going to make sure you never pollute the gene pool if you don't!" I hit his back as hard as I could, but he still didn't put me down. All I managed to get out of him was a few winces and hisses.

He snaked his hand into one of my pockets and grabbed my house keys. He opened the door and started to carry me up to my room.

"This is assault Axel; I should call the police on your ass." I yelled at him again kick my feet.

"If it isn't sexual, you have nothing to worry about." He threw me down onto my bed and sat down on my floor.

I felt my cheeks warm up again, and I mentally slapped myself for it. I saw him turn on the play station, and saw Kingdom Hearts loading.

"If you ever do that again, I'm going to ki-" Axel had me in a head lock and puckered his lips. Don't tell me he's going to do it again, argh.

"You're going to kiss me, aren't you? How wonderful of you darling, you're the sweetest little boy I've ever known!" He sarcastically said in his pseudo 'fabulous gay' man voice.

I pushed my palm against his face to get him off, and snorted at him. He looked like such a moron when he did these sorts of things

"I can't believe such retarded things can come out of your mouth." I grabbed the controller and proceeded to load the saved game.

"I rather say retarded things, than do them." He gave me a wink and stole the controller from me.

"Wow Roxas, you got pretty far. You're already Monstro? Someone must have been neglecting his school work." Axel swayed his finger in front of me and received a glare.

"If you don't move your finger, I'm going to bite it."

"I dare you, mother fucker, I dare you." Axel whispered in my ear.

I rolled my eyes and muttered 'fine'. Axel knew what he was getting into, I never resist a dare.

I bit down on his finger and he let out a moan of pain, while trying to get his finger out of my mouth.

"Rox…as! I was kidding, let go!" He dropped the controller and hissed in pain.

When I let go of his finger he quickly retracted it, and glared at me.

"If you were going to bite, you shouldn't have bitten so hard. Save that type of jaw action for the bed, Roxas." He cradled his 'wounded' finger as he said this.

"Shut up, you should learn not to tease so much." I picked up the controller while realizing what I said had a double meaning. Great, his perverted behavior had rubbed off on me.

"Anyway, there's a boss fight with that parasitic cage is coming up, and you suck at fighting bosses." I added trying to get the subject off my mind.

There you have it, a slightly longer chapter than usual. I PROMISE so much I will update next week. Review? I like them a lot. D: