Sora's pov

"You don't get it Riku! They really hate each other! Roxas stole his car and gave him a black eye!" I practically yelled as Riku drove me to school. I still couldn't ride a skate board like normal since I wasn't really "me".

Riku laughed. He freaking laughed at this! "Actually Sora I do get it. You seem to forget that I'm Roxas' best friend. I know about Axel, I know about you, I know about the thing with your dad, and I know other stuff," Riku said.

"Wait, you know what's up with him and my dad?" I asked freaking out. Finally someone other than Roxas and Cloud, who I knew would never tell me, knew. "Tell me! Its been driving me crazy for years!"

"Sora I can't tell you about it. I'm his best friend. That means I don't tell his secrets. Even if you are his brother and have a right to know," Riku said firmly in a no-argument tone of voice. I sat back in my chair and pouted. "Come on, don't look all down," Riku said glancing at me.

"I just want to help," I had already gotten over the fact that Roxas was super nice to his friends and totally ignored me, but I did still want to help him.

"Trust me, there is nothing you can do. Now come on we need to get in before the bell rings." I looked around and noticed we were already parked at the school. When did this happen?

"Strife!" I automatically turned around only to have a fist with. . . was that pink nail polish?- flung right in my face. OW! WHAT DID I DO! Why did some girl just punch me in the face? I opened my eyes. Oh. That was a boy. Marly I think, from Roxas' description of him. How was this guy the bully of the school
and not the bullied? HE HAD PINK HAIR! WITH A FLOWER IN IT! . . . My face really hurt.

"Roxas dosn't turn around to Marly yelling at him. He just says 'what?' without looking back," Riku wispered in my ear.

"Thanks for telling me that now!" I hissed back. I didn't even know what to say to this guy. What would Roxas do if someone hit him?

I didn't know, so I turned to Riku for help. 'Walk away' he mouthed to me. WHAT! Thats all Roxas does! He walks away! Well I can't fight so I have no choice. I started walking towards school.

"Just like him to run away," I heard him mutter to his friend. "Gonna go cry to your mommy Strife? Oh that's right, she's dead!" Marly called cheerfully to me.

I went red, and for the first time ever I punched a guy with the full intent of hurting him. My fist made contact with his nose and I heard a cracking sound.

"If you ever even think of talking about my mother like that again, it will be worse," I said glaring. Did he say this kind of thing to Roxas often? The thought made me even angrier so I hit him one more time for good measure, probably giving him a black eye.

As I walked away, Riku came up to me. "Yeah that's what Roxas does too. I just didn't think you had it in you!" he said.

"That's the first time I've ever done that in my life," I responded. My fist hurt more than my face. Was that normal?

Axel's pov

I went to pick up Roxas like normal the next morning. I decided that he needed a distraction from whatever happened last night, so I was going to p*ss him off as much as I could for his own good.

"Hey babe, you look hot today," I said smirking when I saw him after walking in without knocking. I practically lived here anyway so why should I knock?

He gave me a disgusted look. "So you're back to being a perv again?" he asked with acid in his voice.

"Yep," I said popping the P. "Now come on so we can get to school." Then suggestively, "Unless of course you wanted to do something else." He chose not to acknowledge that with a comment and just shoved past me to get out the door and to the car.

"Someone is being particularly emo today," I observed as I got into the car, an orange from his kitchen in hand.

"And you're stealing food from my house..." I just shrugged at the accusation. It was true after all.

"Yeah, so? I needed an orange!" I said.

"Why?" he asked with a sort of reluctant curiosity.

"Because Xion told me I didn't have the guts to throw an orange at Zexion, so I'm gonna do it," I said proudly.

He looked dissaproving. All the better. "Zexion is probably the most normal of you all, and the quietest. Why would you want to throw an orange at him?" Cuz the guy was an emo that read too much and talked to me like I was an idiot, duh!

"Because I can. Just like I can touch you," I said this as I took one hand off the steering wheel, and grabbed his a$$.

He glared at me, but his voice was so calm that if he hadn't been so short, it would've been scary. "Axel, if you wish to keep your tiny balls you had better keep your hands to yourself." He looked like he wanted to kill me, but was worried the car would crash if he did.

"Cheerfull as ever Roxy," I said in a sing-song voice.

Cloud's pov

"ITS NOT LIKE I KILLED YOUR MOTHER!" my father yelled while my brothers were at school.

"No, you just stood and did nothing while someone else killed her and forced Roxas to do the same!" I responded, not yelling but making my anger clear.

"Its not my fault Roxas walked in. If I had done something the man would have killed you and your brothers."

"Doubtful. There were wepons in the house. You had your own gun in your hands."

"This isn't my fault!"

"Yes it is."