~Old Memories, New Danger~
Roxas was looking at his watch, it was 2:45 and Axel was late. "Where is he?" Roxas mused quietly.
"damn it I'm late!" Axel said looking at his watch running to the tower and nearly slipped on the wet concrete.
"Why are you late?" Roxas wondered to Axel when he reached Roxas.
Axel pants his black skinny jeans wet on the hip from slipping "I'm sorry Roxas, i was trying to hurry and I lost track of time with homework, p-please forgive me?" Axel asked, and his voice seemed kind of upset.
"Are you sure that is all that's wrong?" Roxas asked concerned.
"uh y-yea" Axel said, obviously hiding something, he has a slight bruise on his shoulder from what looks like he was shoved. "I slipped on the way up here"
Roxas knew something else was wrong, but he dropped it. "What is it you had to see, Axel?" Roxas asked changing the subject.
"Um" Axel is suddenly nervous, Straitening up and shoves his hands in his pockets. "its erm kind of hard to explain"
"We have time." Roxas said leaning his back against the tower, acting cooler than he felt.
Axel gathered up courage "will you close your eyes for me?" he asked nonchalantly.
"O-ok" Roxas said, feeling Axel was about to do something. He closed his eyes.
Axel walks over to Roxas and puts a hand near Roxas's head, leaning against it in front of Roxas, and his black and red high-tops, neatly made, as he closes his half shut eyes getting closer to Roxas's face.
Roxas felt Axel getting closer, he wanted to open his eyes to see what Axel was doing, but decided against it. "A-Axel?" Roxas asked.
"Yes?" Axel whispers with soft gentleness, his lips just inches from Roxas's, "keeps your eyes closed Rox-chan"
"O-ok" Roxas said, wondering what Axel was doing.
Axel took his other hand and placed it gently on Roxas's cheek. His hand was warm and smooth, Axel was getting a little closer to Roxas's lips. Axels' phoenix axe smell dancing around Roxas's nose.
Roxas felt Axels' warm breath mixing with his own. "Axel..." he whispered the name almost inaudibly.
Axel didn't reply and his lips gently met Roxas's. His fingers stroked Roxas's hair gently, Axels' cheeks turned red and he closed his eyes fully.
Roxas felt a pair of soft warm lips meet his own. Axel was kissing him. The thing that surprised Roxas the most though, was that he found himself kissing back.
Axel blushed after a couple minutes he pulled away, opening his eyes and letting out a slow breath "are you alright?" he asked in a whisper.
Roxas, who by now felt like his heart was going to explode, nodded and leaned his head onto Axels' shoulder, trying to hide his bright red face.
Axel held Roxas gently and Roxas heard Axels' heart was pounding as hard as his. Roxas smiled against Axels' shirt at this comforting thought.
Axel closed his eyes and whispered "wow..."
Roxas looked up at him "Axel, are you ok?"
Axel looked down at Roxas and smiled gently "yes" he replied softly.
Roxas smiled at Axel before he could even think about what he was doing.
~later that day~
"Rox-chan do you remember anything else from your memories?" Axel asked as he walked down the street holding Roxas's hand.
"What are you talking about Axel?" Roxas asked confused.
"Have you remembered anything else from your childhood?" Axel asked more detailed.
"I-I still don't understand, what do you mean 'childhood'?" Roxas asked getting lost in deeper confusion.
"uh...never mind, don't worry about it, lets go get come ice-cream" Axel said with a smile.
"O-ok" Roxas said still giving Axel a confused look, then he looked past Axel and saw the Ferris Wheel. "u-um, Axel" He said shyly. "c-can we go on the Ferris Wheel?" He asked looking at the ground.
"hmm?" Axel said taken aback from the random question, "um, sure thing, why not" he said with a smile.
Roxas smiled brightly at Axel, causing Axel to turn a little red.
Axel blinked and turned a little red and led Roxas to the Carnival, "what do you wanna do afterwards?" he asked
Axel paid the man and he got on the ride with Roxas and put both hands behind his head and closed his eyes, "Well we can go over to my house and watch a movie" he suggested.
"I don't mind" Roxas said looking out the window. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Axel looking out the window too.
"I hope you don't mind my house" Axel said staring at the small group of people staring at him with anger and Axel shifted with uneasiness.
Roxas looked at Axel, "What's wrong?" Roxas asked with concern in his voice.
"Maybe we should take a shortcut to my house" Axel said as he stared at the small mob.
"o-ok" Roxas responded. "Axel..."
"Yea Roxas" he said as he looked at Roxas.
Roxas moved to sit beside him, "What's wrong?" He asked leaning in to examine Axels' face.
"Nothing is" Axel said looking at Roxas, and his eyes in deep thought.
Roxas leaned in closer "Are you sure?" he asked with uncertainty.
"Yea I'm sure" Axel said with false happiness, and he smiled and remained thinking.
"O-ok." Roxas said, "Axel..." Roxas was still close to Axel.
Axel blushed "y-yea Roxas?"
Roxas leaned in and kissed him, and suddenly he was in the place with the willows again, doing the same thing to a similar figure. He opened his eyes and he was back in the Ferris Wheel, he jerked away from the kiss.
Axels' eyes are widened and he is blushed in the cheeks "wh-what was that for?" he asked a bit startled.
"I-I just f-felt like it" Roxas said blushing and looking at the floor.
Axel smiled and put his arm around Roxas "thanks" he said with a smile
Roxas smiled slightly and put his head on Axels' shoulder.
Axel laid his head on Roxas's smiling to himself "I hope he starts remembering more of his past soon...I cant help but feel like its not the right time...and I don't want him to think i am lying to him...but I guess I already am telling him I am alright when I have people wanting me dead" thought Axel to himself.
Roxas closed his eyes, "Axel..."
"yea Roxas?" Axel replied
"I saw something when i kissed you" he said, unsure of how to continue.
Axel blinked "Well what did you see?" he asked with a hidden excitement.
"I saw me doing the same thing to someone who looked like you in the place with the willows" Roxas said drifting off.
"really?" asked Axel realizing Roxas is drifting off.
"mhm" Roxas said, snuggling into Axels' shirt, "I remembered his name is Ax-nii-chan, is this what you meant earlier?" Roxas said right before falling asleep.
"yes Rox-chan...it was me" Axel whispered too quietly for Roxas to hear.
Seconds later, or so it seemed to Roxas, he was gently being shaken.
"Rox-chan wake up" Axel said gently. "Its time to get off" he said picking up Roxas and getting him off the ride.
"I had the best dream, Ax-nii-chan" Roxas said, still half asleep.
Axel blushed "what about Rox-Chan?" Axel said sheepishly while looking around for the small mob.
"It was about when you saved me from the mean dog" Roxas said, then fell back asleep.
"That was a scary day" Axel said quietly picking up Roxas letting him lies his head on Axels' chest and smiled a little.
Roxas woke up in a strange place a short while later, "Axel?" he said groggily. He knew he must be in an apartment of some sort, and, judging by the red and black decore, it was Axels' apartment.
There is a small distant sound of a piano playing and low singing and mumbling "hmm maybe I should rewrite this part"
Roxas followed the sounds, and saw Axel sitting at the piano, and he was covered in freshly forming bruises.