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AN: Ok, so last chapter dealt with Riku and Sora's night, and now we head on over to Roxas's room to check out the action over there. Fun stuff, kids!
Warning: Lemon! XD
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glassxshadow: Alas, I have not read that story. However, I will go look for it to read it. Also, thanks so much for the nice review!
Zolarius: Thanks for the review, complete with a real live suggestion/constructive criticism! Yayy! I tried to take it to heart for this chapter, so see if I did a better job this time around. Thanks so much!
Raevyn1313: Thanks for the numerous reviews! XD Is your fanart online anywhere? It sounds awesome! Also, in regards to the t.a.t.u./KAT-TUN mixup, KAT-TUN is a different band (heh).
NocturnalWriter: In regards to Axel's fire thingy, it just seemed logical, since he's like.. the fire dude. Incidentally, I've seen it in a lot of other fanfics as well, so it wasn't like my original idea or anything. (I wish!) Thanks for the review!
LuvJRock: KATTUN is definitely better than 'Nsync, but Axel doesn't know that! XD I have a serious Akame obsession, so no worries, I love KAT-TUN. Thanks for the review!
Karesu: I have to admit, I am a more intense AkuRoku fangirl than RikuSora as well. But I love them all. Who doesn't? Yay!
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Axel grinned over his shoulder as he watched Riku enter Sora's room.
"What's Sora giving him, anyway?" Roxas asked, ushering Axel into his own bedroom. Axel giggled a little.
"You don't want to know."
"Yes I do! Tell me!"
Axel sighed and sat down on Roxas's bed. "Listen, Rox, I told you you wouldn't like smoking, and you didn't. So take my word for it, you don't want to know what Sora's present is."
Roxas rolled his eyes. "Fine," he said, pulling a small wrapped box out of the drawer in his bedside table. "This is for you. I made it myself!"
Axel smirked. "Is it a belt?" he asked, laughing as he pulled the ribbon off. Roxas laughed too, sitting cross-legged across from him.
"C'mon, c'mon, open it!" he said, poking at Axel's legs excitedly.
Axel batted his hands away. "This is why they don't give you sugar." He hesitated for a moment after ripping off the wrapping paper. "Rox, I feel bad, I didn't get you anything. I don't want to open this until I can give you something back."
"Ax-elll, open it already! You coming to dinner tonight was present enough, ok? I don't need anything. Open it!"
"Okay, okay! Calm down, would you?"
Axel opened the box tantalizingly slowly, amused by Roxas's excitement. A thin, silver chain lay inside, and he discarded the box after lifting it out. "You made this? Like, with your hands?"
Roxas nodded anxiously. "For my art credit at school, I got suckered into taking Jewelry Making, but then I made you this! And I was gonna make something to go on it, but then I didn't have enough time because it took me so long to make it good, but it's not really very good, but I spent forever on it, and I can make something to go on it once break is over if you want!"
Axel smiled, examining the chain. "Rox, it's amazing! I can't believe you made this!"
"Let me put it on you!" Roxas exclaimed, grabbing it from Axel's fingers and leaping up from the bed. Axel watched his face closely as he fastened the chain, then reached forward to wrap his arms around the other boy, effectively pulling Roxas between his legs. With Axel sitting on the edge of the bed and Roxas standing, they ended up roughly the same height, and Roxas blushed a little when he realized how close they were.
"I-I'm glad you like it," he stammered, unsure of why Axel was staring at him or where he should put his hands. "The-uh, the last link by the clasp is a little bent, but I-I can fix it once classes start…"
Axel shook his head, smiling. "It's perfect the way it is," he said quietly, placing Roxas's hands on his shoulders as he pulled him even closer.
"A-Ax, what are you doing?"
"Kissing you," he murmured, tilting the blond's chin up toward his own.
Dear God, he better not push me away this time…
Panicking, Roxas tried to pull back. "Ax, stop! I-I don't… I don't know… how."
Trying desperately to contain himself, Axel took a deep breath. "It's easy, kid. Just do what I do, ok? You'll just- you'll know what to do once it's happening."
"Don't call me kid! You haven't done that in a-"
Unable to stop himself, Axel pressed his lips hard against Roxas's. He felt the boy tense up beneath his hands, and kissed him again, more gently, before pulling away. Roxas appeared to be frozen in shock for a moment before starting to pout. "Why'd you stop?"
"You gotta kiss back, Rox," he said, laughing as he leaned in for a second try.
This time, Roxas was determined to kiss back, regardless of the fact that he didn't have a clue what to do. He pushed his mouth sloppily against Axel's, unsure of where to put his lips or what to do with his tongue.
Letting out a small yelp of pain, Axel pulled back. "You bit me!" he said, trying not to laugh again as he felt for blood on his lip.
Mortified, Roxas turned a deep shade of red. When he tried to move away, though, he found that Axel would not let go.
"I'm sorry," he mumbled. "I suck. I'm a horrible kisser! You said I'd know what to do, but I didn't."
"Just relax, kid," Axel said, softly running his fingers through Roxas's hair. "Calm down a little, and try not to be so… spastic."
"Stop calling me kid," Roxas said indignantly. "How am I supposed to calm down? Do you even remember what this is like? Were you calm the first time you got kissed?"
Axel smiled and shook his head. "I dunno, but I hope I was a little smoother than you." Catching Roxas's glare, he quickly continued. "You're thinking too hard, Rox, just stop trying so hard, ok? Just let go."
"How am I supposed to-"
Axel was not in the mood for further discussion. Instead, he captured Roxas's lips once again with his own, softly running his fingers across the smaller boy's shoulders, chest, and hips. Roxas hesitated for a moment before slowly beginning to kiss back, pushing back when he felt pressure, and wrapping his arms tightly around Axel's neck. Axel let out a small, satisfied sigh before gathering Roxas into his arms and pulling him onto the bed. Propping himself up on his many pillows, Roxas clutched at Axel's shirt and shoulders, parting his lips to allow the redhead's eager tongue entry. A low moan escaped his throat as he felt the older boy's hands slip beneath his shirt, pushing it up to expose Roxas's chest and stomach. A warmth spread over him as Axel settled in on top of him, rolling each nipple between his fingers and pressing his hips against the smaller boy's. All too aware of the dull ache between his legs, Roxas sat up a little, allowing his shirt to be removed. He tugged at Axel's t-shirt until it, too, was discarded, leaving nothing between their upper bodies as Axel hungrily returned to his exploration of Roxas's mouth. The blond whimpered, wrapping his legs around Axel's waist and grinding his hips upward, desperate for the other boy's touch. Axel's attention shifted from Roxas's mouth to further down, and the blond let his head fall back as Axel's lips trailed softly down his neck and chest.
"You know," Axel said, almost whispering as he unbuttoned Roxas's jeans, "Now that you've let me, I've kissed you almost everywhere."
Roxas whimpered and squirmed beneath him, reaching down to unzip his jeans, unsatisfied with Axel's slower pace. Axel laughed quietly, pulling the other boy's pants to his knees and wrapping one gloved hand around the throbbing arousal he had revealed.
"A true blonde," he observed, teasing Roxas with kisses placed along his hipbones.
"Axel, please…" Roxas whined, his hands clutching at the sheets needily.
"Please what?" Axel gently stroked the smaller boy's length, making a mock innocent face.
Roxas let out a small gasp as the older boy touched him. "K-Kiss… me," he said, unable to formulate a longer sentence.
"Kiss you?" Axel smirked, letting go of Roxas's arousal and moving back up to plant a hard kiss on the boy's lips.
"N-no," Roxas whimpered, glaring at the redhead. "Kiss… kiss me… there." Gesturing vaguely downwards, he squirmed again, trying to hold out for Axel without touching himself.
"Where? Here?" Axel asked, dipping his tongue into the other boy's navel. "Here?" he asked again, gently nibbling at his hipbone. "How about here?" he said, smirking as he nipped Roxas's inner thigh.
"Stop teasing," Roxas whined, burying his hands in Axel's hair as he moved closer to his aching need.
"Ohh, you mean you want me to kiss you… here?" Axel met his eyes as he snaked his tongue out of his mouth, finally giving the tip of Roxas's dick a long, slow lick.
An incomprehensible moan escaped from Roxas's throat, his eyes falling closed in pleasure and his hips bucking upward. He gave a vague nod, burying his hands in Axel's hair as the redhead leaned forward to continue his ministrations.
"Stop that," Axel said, frowning as Roxas's hips bucked again. "You're going to choke me if you keep that up."
Roxas simply moaned again, no longer in control. Axel grinned, using one hand to hold the smaller boy's hips to the bed and the other to touch what he couldn't fit in his mouth. Picking up the pace, he sucked and licked harder, working his hand roughly around Roxas's shaft until the boy's moans seemed to be at their most desperate.
Roxas gave a loud groan, and a sigh of relief as he came into Axel's mouth, his entire body tensing for a moment, then relaxing, completely worn out.
Axel swallowed as much as he could, the excess dribbling down onto Roxas. He licked the extra from the other boy's skin, cleaning him up before looking up at his face. Roxas wore an expression of slightly dazed happiness, and utter satisfaction.
After wiping a bead of sweat from Roxas's forehead, Axel sat up and rolled off the bed. "I'm gonna go rinse my mouth out," he said. "There's like a layer of the stuff coating my entire mouth…"
"What does it taste like?" Roxas asked, propping himself up on his elbows.
Axel leaned down and kissed him, allowing Roxas to slip his tongue across his teeth. Roxas made a face. "Yea…. Yea, you definitely want to rinse that out…. Sorry, I didn't know that it would be like that…"
"Hush, you. Enjoy your afterglow. I'll be right back."
Axel turned on the fan as well as the light as he entered the bathroom, and as soon as he had the door closed he grabbed the small trash can from beneath the sink and began to unzip his pants. Taking off his glove with his teeth, he reached down to touch his own need, replaying Roxas's moans in his mind and remembering his face, and his hands, and his hips until he came, almost immediately into the trash can. Deftly covering the evidence with a few well-placed pieces of Kleenex, he zipped up his pants and washed his hands. He swished some water around in his mouth for a moment before spitting it down the drain, and after putting his glove back on, he opened the door back to Roxas's room, buckling his belt as he emerged.
Roxas hadn't moved, save for kicking his pants completely off, into the pile on the floor. As Axel approached the bed, he looked uncomfortable.
"Um… Hey Axel?"
"Yea?"
"Um… well, you know how you just... did that to me?"
Axel nodded, sitting down beside him on the bed.
"I-I'm really sorry. I don't-I can't… I don't think I'm ready to do that, you know, to you… Which I know is really awful since you just had to do it to me, and I should have stopped you if I knew that I wasn't gonna do it for you, because it's not fair to you, but I-"
"Shhh…" Axel pressed a finger to Roxas's lips, quieting him. "I know you, Rox, I don't expect you to be ready for that yet. Consider it my Hannukah present to you, ok? It's totally fine."
"But… but you- I felt it, you were… hard."
"I, uh… took care of it already," Axel said, kissing Roxas's forehead. Smirking, he added: "You can check the trash if you don't believe me."
Roxas laughed, blushing a little, and pulled the sheets over himself. "It's kind of cold, now."
"Roxas? Hey, ROXAS!"
A familiar deep voice echoed through the halls, and both Axel and Roxas leapt out of the bed as they saw the doorknob start to rattle back and forth.
"Rox, why is your door locked? Open up in there, Mom wants you to come down and say goodnight to Nana!"
"I-We're just changing into pajamas, and didn't want anyone to come in!" Roxas called, tossing the pile of discarded clothing into his laundry hamper and heading for his dresser. "We'll be down in a minute!"
"We? Both of you are changing? Together?"
"Leon, go away, we'll be right down!"
A loud chuckle could be heard through the door before Leon's heavy footsteps retreated down the hall.
"Nice save," Axel said, looking through the dresser drawers as Roxas pulled on a pair of boxers and green plaid pajama pants. "Listen, I forgot to bring clothes to sleep in, can I just wear some of yours tonight?"
Roxas nodded, handing him a pair of boxers with a palm tree print and fishing a white t-shirt out of his drawer. "I dunno if my pants will fit you, you've got slimmer hips than me and longer legs. I'd say just stick with boxers, but if we're gonna go downstairs…" Rifling through his drawer, he finally pulled out a pair of fitted girl's powder blue sweatpants that had been cut off around the knee. "Oh man, I had forgotten about these! They're cut off at a really random length that's like mid-calf on me, so they might be a normal-ish length on you. You're pretty skinny, too, so I think they'll fit on you…"
Looking up, he realized that Axel was giving him a strange look.
"What?" Realizing that it might be odd to have a random pair of cut-off girl's sweatpants in his drawer, he continued: "Oh, they're not mine, I-they're an old friend's, and we used to joke around that we could wear each other's clothes because we were the same size, and so we traded pants one day, and then they were girly so we cut them off so they'd be less girly, and then we both got older and I can't fit in them any more, not that I would want to anyway, but I didn't want to throw them out because it was from Namine, and…"
"Namine? That girl that stood you up?"
Roxas nodded. "It's a long story. We used to be really good friends."
Axel leaned against the dresser. "I've got time. Tell."
"It's not an interesting story. Let's just get dressed and go-"
"Rox, I just sucked you off. Be nice and tell me the story."
Roxas sighed. "Ok, I'll try to summarize and make this short. Basically, when I was a little younger, I was really good friends with these girls: Namine, Kairi, Rikku, and Yuffie. They're all really sweet, and I was like… the token guy in the group, and we hung out all the time. I was always closest with Namine, though, and so when she realized she liked girls and had a crush on Kairi, she told me and no one else. I was totally cool with it and everything was fine, and so when I realized that I liked guys, I naturally told her first. Unfortunately, I was totally oblivious to the fact that both Kairi and Yuffie were secretly, like, duking it out over me, but then Yuffie got over me because her attention span is just way too short to spend any real amount of time upset over a guy, and then they all found out I was gay, and then Kairi was secretly using her crush on me to cover up that she liked Namine, and long story short, Kairi and Namine ended up as a couple and Rikku and Yuffie have like, identically excited personalities so they were cool with it, but then we just got a little older and I drifted away from the group, because even though they're all great girls and I love them, Namine was spending all her time with Kairi and I never got to hang out with just her like we used to and so now we're not really friends anymore and it's not a big deal but I was excited to see Namine that one day, and then she stood me up, and now I'm pissed at her, and she keeps trying to call me but I don't even really want to talk to her. Because she probably stood me up to go fuck Kairi, because she likes Kairi better than me."
Axel nodded slowly, taking in the sudden barrage of information. "Whoah."
"But I don't even care!" Roxas said defiantly, his tone of voice betraying his declaration of non-caring, "Because I have you, and I have friends from classes at school, and I don't need her anyway."
Axel raised his eyebrows. "You don't care, sure," he said, pulling on the t-shirt and boxers. "You should answer the phone sometime and see what she has to say. It sounds like you miss her."
Roxas sighed. "Ok, so maybe I miss her. Maybe. A little bit. Either way, put on the pants and see if they fit, they were always really soft and comfy when I used to wear them to sleep, so hopefully they'll be alright."
Axel unfolded the pants and pulled them on. While they were a little tight, if he wore them low enough they didn't constrict him too much, and they came right down to his knees. "They are soft," he said, marveling at the difference between girl sweatpants and guy sweatpants.
Roxas studied the pants on him for a moment, before pronouncing them acceptable and dragging Axel downstairs to say goodnight to Nana and the rest of his relatives. By the time they made it back upstairs, it was late, and they were both tired.
Axel got settled in bed while Roxas turned the lights off, and for a moment he couldn't see a thing while his eyes adjusted. Feeling movement beside him, he felt a rush of warm air as Roxas moved to lie down, and the fruity smell of the blond's shampoo filled his nose. A warm lump slowly became visible curled up against his chest, and Axel wrapped his arms around Roxas before finally closing his eyes.
As Roxas drifted off to sleep, one last thought flitted through his mind:
Best Hannukah EVER.
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AN: So the original plan for Hannukah being contained in one chapter went down the drain, but I think the three chapter Hannukah interlude turned out pretty decently, yes? Yay for Roxas having backstory and fruity shampoo! Please let me know what you thought (Read: Review!), but even if you haven't got the time, the interest, or the internet connection to review, thank you so much for reading! Although you get extra hugs, cookies, and maybe even rainbows if you review (no joke! rainbows!)
Also, breaking 100 reviews on Chapter 9 pretty much made my month. You guys are the best. XD
Chapter 11: Expect some angst. Hey, it had to happen sometime. No worries though, as with the RikuAxel escapade, it lives for the sake of plot progression, yes? Yes. XD