~BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!BE-Snooze~

~Five minutes later…~

BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!

"Roxas! Get your lazy ass up and turn off that alarm! God!" Roxas' uncle yelled.

"Yes sir!" Roxas said sleepily. He tried to get out of bed, but the beatings from the night before made it hard to move. He knew he would have a hell of a time walking around today, but he wouldn't let anyone know about his bruising. The last thing he needed was someone to take pity on him and call the police. Roxas slowly got up and made his way to the bathroom. He turned on the light and a surprised sound escaped his lips. He looked like crap. He had three or four visible bruises on his chest and legs, and one big one on his neck that looked yellow-ish and sickly.

~20 minutes later…~

Roxas wore a black and white checkered hoodie with dark blue skinny jeans, a black undershirt, and black converse. 'At least the bruises are covered…' Hopefully they would be gone after today. Roxas was about to leave when his uncle started making noise downstairs and then something that sounded like glass breaking, then loud cursing rang through the house.

"Roxas! You up yet! I need you to make me some breakfast!" Roxas didn't answer, but instead he snuck downstairs quietly, crawled through the living room, and out into the hallway. He heard his uncle shuffling around in the kitchen so before he could say anything else, Roxas was took the key and left, locking the door behind him.

Axel arrived at the school 10 minutes late as usual. It wasn't his fault; it was his hair's fault. It wouldn't cooperate. His teachers expected it anyway, and wouldn't mark him absent. As he was walking into the attendance office, he spotted the blond talking to Larxene behind the counter. She was being overly flirtatious, and Axel had to stifle a laugh because it seems Roxas didn't notice. Even when she leaned over and gave him a good view of her breasts, he ignored them, took his schedule, and walked away. Right into Axel.

"Woah there short stuff!" Axel said as he kept Roxas from falling down. Larxene was shooting Axel a death glare from behind her desk. She gave a "Humph" and busied herself with her work.

"Oh Axel, I need you to show Roxas around the school. 'Kay?" Larxene said, every word practically dripping with poison.

"Okay. Let's Go Roxy."Axel said and laughed at the angry expression on Roxas' face.

"AAANNNDDD Last but not least! The broom closet!" Axel said while gesturing to the empty hole in the wall.

"Axel. You You've shown me every broom closet, dark corridor, rank-smelling bathroom, and every other f-ing dark place imaginable! Can we please just get to class?" Roxas said.

"Awww! Does Roxy not like dark places?" Axel said in a baby voice.

"Not with you!" Roxas said. He started backing up when Axel came toward him with a weird look on his face. When his back hit the wall Roxas started panicking. Axel was still coming toward him, and Roxas couldn't find the exit. He contemplated screaming, but they were in the basement, so it wouldn't do any good. Axel kept walking toward Roxas, and when he got to Roxas he put his hands on either side of Roxas' face. Axel looked at Roxas with that weird look, and Roxas thought, 'I've seen that look before…Somewhere…' Then a memory hit him, and hit him hard. One thing was different though, Roxas actually knew this memory. He wished he didn't. Axel was looking at Roxas with a confused expression, then Roxas wasn't in the room anymore.

His uncle stumbled through the door around 11:00 at night, startling Roxas who was sitting on the couch watching t.v.

"Hi uncle. Did you have a nice night?" Roxas asked pleasantly.

"Shut up you faggot!" His uncle said. Roxas could tell he was drunk and probably high too.

"What's a faggot uncle?"

"Nothing. Come over here, I need you to do something for me."

"Okay." Roxas said and hopped down from the couch. He walked over to his uncle, and stood there waiting for him to tell Roxas what he wanted to do.

"Okay, now just stand there."

"What? Just stand here? How can I-" the rest of Roxas' sentence was cut off by his uncle pressing his lips against Roxas'. His lips tasted like marijuana, beer, and stale food. It made Roxas want to throw up. He tried to pull away, but his uncle grabbed Roxas' arms and slung him over his shoulder. Roxas was kicking and screaming throughout the entire thing, but his uncle just put duct tape over his mouth. Roxas tried to get away, and wriggle out of his uncle's grasp, but his uncle was too strong. They walked down the hallway, turned the corner, and continued walking toward the basement. Roxas knew what was in the basement, because he had snuck in there once while his uncle was out. The things in there still gave him nightmares. It scared him to death to know that his uncle was taking him in there, and he was probably going to use one of those things on Roxas. Once they were in the basement his uncle laid Roxas down on a bed type thing, and chained his arms and feet to the bedposts. Roxas desperately tried to struggle and get free, but the chains were too tight. Roxas looked from side to side with frantic movements, avoiding his uncle's weird look. When Roxas' uncle took the tape off his mouth, Roxas asked, "Why are you doing this to me uncle Xigbar? What did I do?" He asked, tears streaming down his face.

"You exist." His uncle said simply. Then Xigbar left for a few moments, and came back with a weird shaped stick thing. Then his uncle pulled down Roxas' pants, and shoved the thing in Roxas' rear, emitting a terrified scream from the young blond. His uncle worked the toy in and out, and Roxas tried to struggle, but that only made it worse. Then, his uncle deciding Roxas wasn't already in enough pain, he went and got a whip. He started hitting Roxas with it, and laughing evilly at Roxas' screams of pain and hatred.

Roxas made himself leave the memory, and he shuddered at the rest of what happened. Each moment of that night got worse and worse, and Roxas had hoped that the memory would go away, and leave him alone. It haunted him every day and night that he was in that house, or anywhere near his uncle.

Roxas forced himself to stop thinking about it. He slid down the wall, the pulled his knees to his chest and cried.

After Axel had playfully trapped Roxas between his arms, the blond gave Axel a look of confusion, then after a moment, his eyes closed. They stayed like that for a while, and he shook the entire time. It was as if he was having a small seizure. Axel tried to shake him out of it a few times, but gave up and scooted away and watched Roxas. Occasionally, Roxas would whimper a bit. When Roxas opened his eyes, they were full of terror. 'It must have been a bad memory or something.' Axel thought. He could tell that Roxas wasn't fully back out of the memory, so he just sat there. It was when Roxas slid down to the floor and cried that Axel knew Roxas was back. The redhead scooted over to him, and wrapped his arms around the shaking blond.

Then he wondered why Roxas was crying. Someone as innocent and nice as Roxas should not be crying like this! He thought as a fierce urge of protectiveness toward the blond came over him. He wanted desperately to find whoever did this and hurt them. Badly.

When Roxas was through crying, he looked up at Axel. "I won't tell anyone." Axel said and gave Roxas a hug. Roxas gave Axel a small smile that didn't show his teeth. It somehow looked wrong on him, but Axel didn't say anything.

Roxas put his head on Axel's shoulder, and just sat there. He was still shaking, but after a few minutes, they got less noticeable, and then went away all together. Lost in their own blissful world, they didn't notice the bells had rang. But Roxas heard something that made him jump up, brush himself off, and stare angrily down at Axel, who still had his arms positioned as if they were still holding Roxas.

"Get off your ass and show me to class please." Roxas said stiffly.

"Uhm… Okay." Axel said. He got up, brushed off, and started walking toward Roxas' next class. I wonder what happened? It was wonderful… Then something made Roxas scared… I wonder… Axel thought. He didn't even realize that they had reached the main hallway. It wasn't until Axel ran into someone that he knew they were at Roxas' class. He looked up at the person he ran into. It was Cloud Strife, Roxas' older brother.

"Oh! Uhm… Cloud… Nice to see-"

"Why are you coming out of that hallway with my little brother?" Cloud said angrily.

A/N: Don't kill me~ I know I was supposed to update yesterday, but I got busy :T Anywho, to make up to you guys, I'll update twice today :) I know, the chapters are short, but oh well. XD Love you! 3