A/N Updating at the speed of light! XD

"Let's do it!" exclaimed Sora.

"O.k. We'll need to pair off into teams for saftey reasons," Xakra said.

"I call Xann!" said Sora.

"I call Xelly," Riku said, hugging Xell from behind.

"No shit, Sherlock," Xalcry said teasingly.

"I'll go with Xakra, if that's O.K." said Roxas.

"It's fine," Xakra replied with a smile.

"Well that leaves the disfunctionals," Xell said.

"Nu uh! I am NOT gonna be paired with her during this game. Who said I'm playing anyway?" Axel demanded.

"I'll be on my own team. It's fine," Xalcry said.

"Well, the sun set. Let's go!" Xann said. "We're playing in the alley out back, 'kay?"

"Who's gonna be it?" Xell asked.

"Hmmm... Sora and I'll be it, 'kay Sora?" Xann said.

"Alright! Let's get this party statred!" Sora exclaimed.

"Everybody, go hide!" Sora yelled from his perch on his motorized bar stool. "I'll give you to the count of 50!"

Riku and Xell ran downthe end of the alley and hid by a dumpster. Xakra and Roxas ran up an ajoining alley and his behind a parked car. Xalcry ran the opposite way of Rik uand Xell and hid under a aprked car. The alleys were poorly lit. Perfect for a game of man hunt.

Sora started up his motorized stool after he counted to 50. "I'll go look this way. 'Kay, Xann?" He motioned toward the alley Roxas and Xakra were in.

" 'Kay. I'll go see if they snuck back into the appartmentents," Xann said going back into the appartment building.

" 'Kay."

Sora drove up the alley of his choice singing in a blues- style, "Drivin' up the alley. Bar- nar nar nar- na- naar. Lookin' for some people. Bar- nar nar nar- na- naar. Wonder where they're hidin'. Bar- nar nar nar- na- naar." He drove past Roxas and Xarkra, totally oblivious to the fact that they were there.

"Wow. He's an idiot at tiems," Xakra whispered.

"Yeah, but he makes things interesting," Roxas whispered.

"What do we ahve here? Hey girl, why don't you come with my friend and me?" a strange male voice said.

Xell turned around in her hiding place to find two ganster- looking men looking at her. One looked to be Hispanic, the other White.

"Well, chica, come one," the white guy said, stepping closer to her.

'Shit! I'm cornered!' Xell thought when she chanced a glance behind her to find the dumpster was crooked and she can't get out thru the tiny gap between that and the fence.

"I'm quite fine here, thanks," Xell said Her voice calmer than she felt.

"Come on, girly. You're too pretty to stay behind a dumpster. Come have some fun with us," the Hispanic, first, guy said, grabbing her wrist and pulling her forward.

"No!" Xell exclaimed, fighting back.

Riku popped up from behind a garbage can across the street. "Let her go. Now!" he growled.

'Did his eyes just flash orange?' Xell thought.

"Or what? Wanna eat lead, bitch?" the white guy said, pulling out a gun.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Riku said, dangerously calm.

"Or you'll wha-" the gun holder attempted to say when Riku appeared right infront of him. Riku took the gun and threw it quite a distance away and grabbed him by the shirt- front. "What the hell man! Joe! Help me out, man!"

The guy holding Xell, "Joe", let her go, picked up a board, and went to hit Riku in the back.

"Riku! Look out!" Xell shrieked.

"What the hell?" Roxas said.

"Xell!" Xakra realized.

"Shiz! Let's go!" Roaxas said as they got up and began running to Xell and Riku.

When they arrived, Riku had a guy by his shirt and was punching him while another was lying motionless a few feet away.

"Oh man! You get Xell. I'll get Riku," Roxas said as he ran toward Riku, pulling a bandana out of his pocket. Xakra ran to a frieked out Xell and tried to calm her down. Roxas managed to sneak up behind Riku and put the blindfold over his eyes. Riku froze. He dropped the man he was pummeling, who quickly got up, ran to his friend and carried him awat on his back. Riku fell to his knees and put his head in his hands. Xell ran to him.

"It's O.K., Riku," Xell said, trying to calm him and huggin him. "It's all over."

"What about Xalcry? She's all alone somewhere in the alley," Roxas said to Xakra.

Xalcry stayed under the car she was hiding under when she heard footsteps. The steps stopped nearby. Xalcry held her breath, but shrieked when she was abruptly pulled out from under the car by her ankle. The person who pulled her out fliped her over and covered her mouth with their hand.

"Shh, don't scream, little girl," a ganster looking white guy said.

Xalcry looked at him with wide eyes, then noticed another guy in the shadows. 'Son of a bitch!' she thought. She tried violently, but friutlessly, to free herself from the man who was now sitting on her with his hand over her mouth.

"Nu uh uh, babe," the guy said. She bit his hand. Hard. " Ow! You bitch!"

"Como estas, bitches," Axel said.

'Oh thank goodness!' Xalcry thought.

"What the fuck?" the other ganster- looking guy said, standing and pulling out a gun as his buddy did the same.

"You look pretty ganster. I'm pretty ganster myself," Axel said as he snapped his fingers. His hands became aflame.

"Nice trick, Houdini," the shadowy guy said.

"Trick? I'll show you a trick," Axel said as he flicked little fireballs at the men's feet. "Dance, bitches."

"Fuck!" one of the men exclaimed when they went to shoot. Axel sent fire to the gun handles causing them ment to drop them. The guys went to run, but Axel stopped them by placing a wall of fire in their way. He sprinted to them, caught them by the shirtfronts, and growled in their faces, "Dont' you ever let me catch you near here again. Got it memorized?" the nodded vehemently. "Good. Now tell your buddies to do the same, or else." At this, he cause the wall of flame to burn higher and hotter. The guys whimpered like scarred puppies. Axel dismissed the fire, half threw them away from him, and snarled, "Get outta my sight,you worthles pieces of shit." They ran and Axel turned back to Xaclry when they disappeared from his view.

She was curled up in a ball where he left her, shaking. He stood near her and said,"You O.K.?" She didn't answer. He knelt next to her and repeated his question. She looked up and Axel saw she was crying. He said, "Hey, hey 't cry. Wait for the others to do that." She continued crying, so he put a hesitant hand on her shoulder to attempt to comfort her. At that bit of kindness, she uncurled herself to surprise Axel with a hug as she convulsed into sobs. He, who was not used to such things, tensed and just sat there dazed as she cried on his jacket with her arms around his neck. When he regained his senses, he, shockingly enough, hesitantly put his arms around her and rested his chin on her head. He began saying softly, "It's alright. They're gone, You're O.K."

They stayed like that when Roxas came over. Roxas froze and Axel just looked at him while mumbling reassurances to Xalcry. Roxas mouthed, "Gang bastards?" Axel merely blinked slowly in answer. Roxas mouthed, "Xell and Riku too. Riku snapped and nearly killed them." Axel smirked, stil looking at Roxas. Roxas added silently, "They went back to the rooms. Sora too." Axel blinked slowly in reply and Roxas left.

Axel asked softly," Xalcry? You O.K. to walk back to the appartment building?" No answer. "Xal?" He slowly lifted her head away from his chest to find that she cried herself to sleep. Axel then slowly and carefully lifted her up to carry her to her appartment.

He entered Xalcry and Xannele's room to find Xann shopping on the computer.

"What the hell happened?" Xann asked.

Axel ignored her. Instead, he carried Xalcry to her room, tucked her into her bed, and left her room. Before leaving the appartment he said to Xann, "Gang bastards." and left.

Riku and Xell were in Riku's room sitting on his bed. Riku was ;aying down, his head on Xell's lap, and Xell was stroking his silver hair in a soothing fashion.

"I shouldn't have lost control," he scolded himself.

"You're fine, they're fine. It's O.K., Riku. No one's perfect," Xell said soothingly.

"Perfect? No one has Ansem in their head causind them to hurt others. If Roxas didn't show up with this bandana," he gestured to the black bandana that was covering his eyes, "who knows what could have happened."

"But it didn;t, sweets," Xell said.

"What if i killed them?" he continued, ignoring Xell. "Oh God! What if I hurt you?" Riku covered his blindfoled face wit his hands.

"Shh. It's O.K., sweets. You didn't kill them and I'm safe. Thanks to you. Now, hush, sweets, and go to sleep," Xell said then began to hum 'Hymn of the Faith' quietly.

Riku mumbled so quietly that she didn't hear, "I don't deserve an angel like you." He drifted off to sleep shortly after. Xell fell asleep leaning against the wall of his room, his head on her lap.

Axel got back to his and Roxas' appartment and was anxious to get to bed. Then Roxas made his non- sleeping prescence known.

"Axel, do you have a minute?" Roxas asked.

"No, but what do you want, Roxy- boy?" Axel responded.

"Do you like her?" Roxas inquired.

"Who?"

"Xalcry."

"Hell no," Axel replied as he turned to enter his room, closing the door behind him.

Roxas looked at the door, shook his head, and said, "Mmhmm. Yeah right."