A/N: Hi, guys! I'm back! -crowd cheers- Thank you, thank you!

Anyway, we are at chapter 4! Yay! We'll see more insight to Roxas (My favorite character in this story) and some others you already know about. :) And I desperately need to introduce MORE characters. (There are about 30 in this story all together!) So, that eventually this story can REALLY get going! I'm so excited for when that happens! Alrighty...on with the chapter!

WITH ROXAS

Roxas sighed as he collapsed on his bed after biking all the way home from the school. (He lived two miles away.)

The first day at school had been more hectic than all of his other 'first days' combined.

He was torn between defending Namine and staying friends with Axel. It was getting harder and harder to do because Seifer, Riku, Kairi, Leon, and even Saix thought he should kick Axel to the curb after he knew what he did to Namine.

They just didn't understand that he couldn't. He and Axel had been friends for a long time, and even though he knew that he should forget about Axel, he couldn't. And he tried, oh, boy, did he try.

Roxas tried ignoring Axel for at least a month after he 'accidentally' left him at Leon's summer party. Eventually he had to call Sora to come get him and his brother wasn't too happy to be woken up in the middle of the night to get him. Axel had said that he thought Roxas had a ride home, and that he was sorry. But that didn't change the fact that he was outside in the pouring ice-cold rain for an hour.

He gritted his teeth remembering Sora apologizing about taking so long, saying that he had to 'fix his hair'. Roxas just figured that Sora fell back asleep and suddenly remembered his brother outside, in the cold.

Anyway, Roxas decided to ignore Axel as 'punishment' for a month, maybe longer. That didn't quite work out like he thought it would.

Axel called everyday. He repeatedly coming over and asking for him, Roxas' parents got ticked and told him Roxas would talk to him when he was ready. And when those didn't work, he badgered him when they shared shifts at GameStop. All of that lasted a week. That one week was the worst week Roxas ever had to endure. Eventually, Axel called again and Roxas couldn't help but answer.

They talked for two hours. It was mostly Axel apologizing and promising it wouldn't happen again. It didn't matter to Roxas.

Axel was his best friend. They shared everything together. At least...they used to. Now, he's always caught up in the 'Organization' he and the others had going since the last two weeks of school last year.

It bothered Roxas a lot that Axel would rather hang out with people he just met rather than his best friends, who have known him since middle school.

His cell phone vibrated in his pocket causing him to jump and fall off his bed.

He fumbled for his phone while he was still on the floor and flipped it open quickly while propping his elbows on the edge of the bed.

"Hello?" He greeted.

"Hey, Roxas! It's Axel!"

Roxas smiled and stood up and sat himself on his bed. "Hi, Axel. What's up?"

"I just wanted to know if you wanted to hang out at the park or something." Axel suggested, hope ringing in his tone making Roxas' smile even bigger.

"Sure, hang on, I'll ask my dad." Roxas replied, while leaping off the bed and went down stairs to the living room where his parents were.

He positioned the phone so that the bottom was facing away from his mouth, but if Axel spoke he could still hear him.

"Hey, Dad?" Roxas said, gaining the attention of his father. "Can I go to the park to hang out with Axel?"

Roxas could see his father wasn't too pleased with the fact that it was Axel, but he nodded saying he needed to be back before curfew, which was ten o'clock.

Roxas positioned his cell phone back to his mouth and told Axel.

"Great! I'll pick you up in five, okay?" Axel said.

"But, you live five miles away!" Roxas cried into the phone.

He heard Axel scoff. "Yeah, and your point?"

"You'd have to be going...a hundred to get here in five minutes!"

"Actually, a hundred and ten, you forgot all those street lights I'd have to pass. But who's keeping track? I'll pick you up in five, be ready!" Axel said and hung up preventing Roxas from arguing further.

"Let me guess," Sora said, appearing in the living room/kitchen doorway, "Axel's speeding again?"

Roxas nodded and ran up stairs to his room, threw his shoes on, sprinted back down the stairs and out the door.

He counted four minutes and twenty seconds before Axel's Harley dashed into his driveway, giving Roxas a heart attack.

Axel took off his helmet and shook his hair, trying to eliminate the helmet hair he had gotten from the ride.

"Hey, Roxas! Ya ready to go?" Axel asked, smirking at Roxas' expression.

Roxas wordlessly walked down the apartment steps to Axel and stood there for a minute.

Then, suddenly, Roxas karate chopped Axel on the top of his head, muttering, "Dumbass..."

Axel mocked pain while he asked Roxas, "Why'd you do that?"

Roxas climbed on the back of the red Harley and said, "Because you could've gotten killed. You don't take life seriously."

Axel smirked as he revved the engine and started off. "I do too take it seriously; I just have more fun with it than you do."

Roxas didn't know why Axel did it, maybe to show off, or to prove his point, either way Roxas suddenly thought that he might not live to see the next school day because Axel suddenly sped up so that they were passing cars in city streets.

Noticing their speed of seventy, and the way Axel was swerving around all the cars not slowing down, Roxas threw his arms around Axel and held on tightly. He pushed his face into Axel's back and inhaled his scent.

"Are you having fun yet, Roxie?" Axel yelled back to the blonde.

"Yeah!" Roxas yelled, not mentioning that with Axel, he always had fun.

"Good!"

They rode for about two minutes until they got to the park.

Roxas hopped off the bike while Axel cut the engine and pocketed the keys.

Running to the swings, his favorite thing about the park, he admired how Axel's hair was still spiked and only slightly flat in places whereas Roxas' hair was air-blown way out of proportion.

Axel reached Roxas on the swing, trying vainly to pump himself higher but only moving a couple inches.

"Want me to push you?" Axel offered.

Roxas nodded and his skin got goose bumps when Axel's brushed his when he pushed and pulled the chain holding the swing.

Axel finally got him high enough where he could just push his back barely, he was going so high.

Roxas was swinging and watching how the ground would seem to get closer and farther away. He was thinking about what Axel said, about having fun with life. Axel's way of having fun with life is taking risks. Well, Roxas was about to take a risk.

Roxas readied himself waiting for Axel to push him again, and then pushed himself off the swing, rolling on the ground after he hit it a little harder than he thought he would. The grass looked soft, the ground underneath was harder.

"Roxas!" Axel cried as he watched Roxas jump off the swing and rushed over to him. "Are you insane?!"

Roxas picked himself up off the ground and admired his grass and dirt stains on his clothes.

He looked up at Axel, smiling, "Nope. Just having fun with life."

Axel rolled his eyes at him and playfully punched his shoulder. "You idiot. No one takes me seriously, you definitely shouldn't be."

Roxas shrugged and rushed back to the swing that he jumped from. "I wanna do that again." He said as he pulled himself using the chain back onto it and started pumping his legs.

"Axel! Help me!" Roxas cried to the red-head.

Roxas watched as Axel slowly walked to him and moved to stand in back of him. He felt Axel grip the chains tightly.

He started smiling like a maniac when Axel started pushing the swing again.

"Remind me again why you're doing this." Axel said wearily as the swing started going higher and higher.

"Because," Roxas said, "I don't know. It's fun."

"Right. Because breaking your bones is sooo much fun." Axel said sarcastically.

"I won't break anything. I'm not that far up." Roxas insisted.

"Whatever." Axel said as Roxas launched himself into the air again.

Roxas knew it was really stupid and pointless, but it was fun. Just free-falling like that, even for a little while, was exhilarating. The adrenaline would start to kick in just before he hit the ground and rolled, causing him to want to do it more before his brain could scream, NO.

And he loved it when Axel would start to worry about him even if was just for a second. Roxas wondered if maybe that was the reason why Axel did stupid stuff all the time. Maybe he wanted people to worry about him... But Roxas quickly dismissed that thought. Axel wasn't the attention-whore type. That was Demyx's job.

As Roxas lifted himself off the ground again he decided that that was enough for now.

"Hey, Axel!" Roxas called to him. "Why don't we go to the clock tower?"

Axel smiled at him and yelled an agreement back to him.

Excited for being able to get to spend some more time with Axel he rushed to Axel's motorcycle and leaped on before Axel even got close to it. He started to get impatient watching Axel take his sweet time getting there and putting his helmet back on and started the bike.

They were back on the road in no time and Roxas didn't waste a second of it. He didn't hesitate when he grabbed Axel's torso again and held on. He buried his face deep into his back without hurting Axel, and breathed in his musky body wash, still fresh-smelling on his body from his morning shower.

"Getting comfy back there, huh, Roxas?" Axel asked him slyly.

Roxas blushed but didn't move. "Yeah..." He replied, embarrassment apparent in his tone.

"I don't mind. I was just teasing you, Roxie." Axel told him.

"Oh."

They eventually got there after Axel took his 'short cut' which caused Roxas to grip Axel tighter but he was only doing it to actually remain on the motorcycle.

They screeched to a stop in front of the clock tower and Roxas' eyes were as wide as saucers when Axel cut the engine.

"How'd you like that?" Axel asked gleefully, not noticing when Roxas didn't follow him off the bike.

"Roxas?" Axel asked concernedly.

"Yeah?" Roxas asked as he slowly got off Axel's Harley.

"Are you okay?" Axel said, slightly laughing.

"Peachy-keen." Roxas said sarcastically as he walked ahead of Axel to go to the top of the clock tower.

They made it to the top and Roxas sat down with Axel following him. Roxas noticed the sun was setting and the sky had turned a red-orange which Roxas thought was gorgeous from up there.

"Aww, c'mon, Roxas," Axel whined as he looked at Roxas, "I wasn't going that fast! I wouldn't with you with me; I wouldn't risk anything with you with me."

Roxas sucked in a breath and tried not to look too much into what Axel said. Surely, it didn't mean what Roxas wanted it to mean. It just meant that Roxas was Axel's best friend and he wouldn't chance anything with him.

"I know, it's just, well, you scared the shit outta me! We almost hit Demyx and that new kid when we turned that corner! We all could have been killed." Roxas complained to Axel.

"Nah. We didn't even get close to 'em. If you really wanna get scared outta your wits then you should've seen it when Seifer and Leon got into a street race last summer." Axel proposed. "Those two went at it! And they even tied! It was insane!"

Roxas shook his head. "And you liked it, right?"

Axel grinned at him letting Roxas know he was right.

"You can be such an idiot sometimes." Roxas said.

"Yup, but I'm a hot idiot, though, right?" Axel replied.

Roxas blushed and couldn't think of a good answer that couldn't be construed in a bad way.

Axel leaned in closer to him, causing Roxas to blush even more, "Right, Roxas?"

"Uhh, right." Roxas said, trying to get Axel to back up before he suddenly grabbed him and kissed him, like he wanted to right now.

Axel laughed. "I always knew you thought I was sexy, Roxas."

Roxas' eyes got wide and his heart started to beat faster than before.

Axel couldn't know! What is he going to do now?!

"Calm down, Roxas," Axel said, "I was just teasing. I know you're straight. Don't worry. I ain't thinking anything bad about us boys."

"Although..." Axel started again, "If you wanted to...I wouldn't object." Axel winked at him.

Roxas' face got hotter and hotter and he looked away from Axel. "Well...one; we're on the clock tower and two; we're best friends, Axel, and it wouldn't be right."

Axel scooted closer to Roxas causing him to scoot farther away. "C'mon, Roxas, it's just one night. It's not like anyone has to know. Or, if you want, we could say we're going out? What ever you want, I'll do. Same goes for when we're in bed." He said suggestively.

"Axel," Roxas whined, "Stop. This isn't right and I have to go home. It's getting late."

Roxas watched as Axel looked at the sky, as if he was checking to make sure Roxas wasn't lying and Axel's face fell as he discovered he wasn't. Roxas got up and moved to go down the clock tower to go to Axel's bike and heard Axel following behind him.

Roxas sighed as he opened the door and went down the stairs. He slightly wanted to take up Axel's offer but he knew it wouldn't last like he wanted it to. Axel was never the commitment type. And he probably never will be, and Roxas didn't know if he could handle it. So, he would rather remain best friends with Axel than spend on night with him and end up never speaking to him again.

He hated sounding like a girl sometimes but he couldn't really help the fact that he didn't think with his 'downstairs brain' and thought with his 'upstairs brain', unlike most of the male community in this city.

They repeated the same pattern they seemed to have going when they had to get on Axel's Harley.

Axel eventually got Roxas home and Roxas was wondering why Axel actually went only twenty above the speed limit this time around.

"Bye, Axel." Roxas said as he got off the motorcycle and walked to his stairs.

"Bye, Roxas." Axel said softly.

When Roxas got into his house he heard Axel start his engine and speed off.

"So, how did it go with Axel?" Sora asked almost immediately after Roxas entered the house.

"Fine, Sora. I'm gonna go to bed." Roxas said as he took off his shoes and slowly walked from the kitchen to the living room, then to the stairs from the living room, and went up the stairs and groaned a little when he heard his brother following him.

He silently thanked his mother for suggesting they both get their own rooms and locks for privacy. Roxas would lock Sora out if he didn't quit bugging him about Axel.

"You have to tell me more than that." Sora insisted and followed his twin into his bedroom.

"No," Roxas started, "I don't." And he shut his bedroom door in Sora's face without remorse.

After he locked his door turned on his bedside lamp before shutting off the light directly above the room, leaving the room lighted just enough so he could see where he was going. He then grabbed his CD Player and turned it on before settling into his bed and hoping to fall asleep, not caring that he was still in his clothes.

He wouldn't be going to sleep anytime soon, though.

He kept thinking about what Axel had said and what would've happened if Roxas had said yes.

Well, he knew what would 'happen' if he said yes, but he wondered about whether he and Axel would've actually been dating afterward or Axel would've started pretending Roxas didn't exist.

Roxas continued wondering about this for another two hours before he actually started falling asleep.

He would deal with Axel tomorrow at school. For now, he just wanted to sleep. He had to take a shower in the morning before school and to do that he had to get up early. He hated getting up early because that entailed less sleep, so he figure get some extra hours in and hopefully he would be well rested when he woke up.

He really wanted it to be summer.

WITH AXEL

Axel rode all the way back to his and Demyx's apartment thinking about Roxas.

Why did he have to go and be himself? Couldn't he hold off on the sex talk at least when he was with Roxas? Now, he probably thought he was disgusting or something like that.

But he had to try. He wanted that money. And he wanted it bad.

When he strode into his apartment Demyx was already home and waiting for him.

"Your dinner is in the fridge." He told him when he walked in.

"Oh, thanks." He muttered before going to the fridge and looking in it for a bit, finding the Chinese food and threw some on a plate and in the microwave to heat for a couple minutes.

"How did things go with Roxas?" Demyx asked, obviously curious.

"If you're asking if anything happened the answers' 'no'." Axel told him sourly as he waited for his food.

Demyx walked over to him and leaned against the counter next to Axel. "Why not? You put your Axel charm on, right?"

"Yeah, but apparently he's immune to it." Axel sighed.

Demyx scoffed at him. "Axel, no one is immune to it. Believe me. Roxas probably wanted to jump you right there, I'd bet." Demyx tried to assure him.

The microwave beeped, signaling that his food was done heating and he quickly got it out, grabbed a fork and started eating while speaking at the same time.

"Doubt it," he spoke in-between bites, "Roxas isn't gay or bi, Demyx. He more straight than Xemnas is."

Demyx pursed his lips a bit. "Anyone with the nickname 'Mansex' couldn't be straight, Axel. He's probably just hiding it."

"Right." Came Axel's muffled reply by his food.

Demyx and Axel went to sit down on the couch and watch a movie on TV. It was only a few minutes after the movie started that Axel's fork hit the glass plate.

"You're such a pig, Axel." Demyx teased as Axel got up to put the dish in the sink in the kitchen.

"Yeah, yeah." Axel waved it off. "I'm beat; I'll see you in the morning."

"Yeah, night." Demyx told him and Axel didn't respond. He just shut his door, stripped down to his boxer shorts and fell on his bed and almost fell asleep instantly.

A certain blond boy plagued his dreams all night.

A/N: Oh, wow! This chapter is probably my worst yet! Gah! I wasn't initially going to make this a Roxas/Axel central chapter; it just, kinda ended up that way. Hope you guys don't mind. I really hated Axel's POV ending. It just sounds so corny! I couldn't think of another good way to end it though! Well, I hope you all liked it better than I did! Review!

~DarkAngelGrl22567