Disclaimer: Don't own Kingdom Hearts or any other professional things I could possibly mention in this chapter. I don't own anything that the world knows about and pays money for.

Warnings: Yaoi, I can smell it in the air~ oh, and swearing, but I think you guys are mature enough to handle it, and if you can't, well I don't know, either skip over the word, or don't read this story I guess.

Author's Note: Yeah, I'm past chapter ten. Isn't that so cool? Yeah, I know it is. I'm actually really excited to type this chapter up, I think you guys are going to like it.

Chapter 11 - A Halloween Kiss

I didn't get that much sleep that night. I couldn't get what Axel said out of my head. It was just a normal way to say goodnight, but he said sweet dreams. I shrugged it off and went to sleep, but then I had one of those dreams about some other life again. I had one about were we talked about him teaching me what a day off was. For whatever reason, I didn't know what it was. Another thing that I had come to notice throughout these dreams are that we are all wearing black leather coats. I've seen Sora and Kairi in my dreams, and they never did. Riku was also there, and he sometimes had one, and other times he didn't. I didn't like these dreams, not only are they weird, and have a whole story line to them, when I wake up from them, I had a weird feeling on my body, like there was a heavy weight around it, and it is hard to move around when I'm in this state. But what really troubled me, is that Axel said sweet dreams, and then I got a dream like this. Of course, it could have just been coincidence, but my brain just wouldn't let it go. I woke up halfway through the dream, and I couldn't go back to sleep because I was so bothered by it.

When I laid in bed for a few hours, lying awake, I realized that I wasn't going to go to sleep anytime soon, so I decided to go downstairs and maybe get something to eat, or watch some TV. When I got downstairs, I saw Namine, just laying down on the couch, not watching the TV, but not asleep either. For a second, I thought that she fell asleep on the couch and was one of those people who slept with their eyes open, but when she actually greeted me, I realized she was actually awake.

"Namine? What are you doing awake? It's, like, three in the morning," I said, which was soon followed by a yawn.

"I could ask you the same thing, Roxas," She said quietly, almost like she was tired, but I knew that she would have a good reason to not be asleep at this hour. I paused, and thought over what I would share with her.

"I…had a nightmare, and couldn't go back to sleep, so I came down here, what's your story?" I didn't want her to know what really happened, but what I told her could be the truth, if I considered those dreams I had to actually be a form of nightmare.

"Roxas, have you ever once thought that maybe…maybe you had a past life, and there was something that you still had to do, so you were given another chance? Another way to start fresh, and do what you were meant to complete, or maybe even just…keep a promise you made to someone important to you?" I looked at her funny. Now, I don't have a specific religion, but I don't really believe in past lives, and being reborn as something new in another life. I just don't really think about things like this. I always assumed it was the same for Namine and Sora, but I never really asked them or anything.

"Not really, if there was something I was supposed to do, it should still be in my memory, so that I knew what to do and how to complete it…right?" I asked a little confused. It was a little bit difficult to communicate with my younger sister. I like to consider her a true poetess. Every word she says has such a deep meaning to it, and she knows exactly what she is saying, but sometimes, it is very hard to figure out what she is trying to say.

"But, what if those memories are with you…just locked up, deep inside your heart, and you still have to find them?" She asked hopefully.

"I'm not sure, but I think, if there is something that I was meant to do, then I'll do it, naturally. If I don't do it, then I wasn't meant to. But Namine, I think you should get some sleep, you sound tired, and your eyes are red and are starting to look dark under them," She looked a bit disheartened when I told her she should get some sleep, but she reluctantly went up to bed after telling me a goodnight with a small smile on her face, which I replied with my own goodnight and smile.

After my talk with Namine, I went to the fridge and got a glass of white milk and some chocolate chip cookies. I went back to the living room and turned on the TV, turning the volume down so that I didn't wake up anybody in the house. I stayed downstairs for almost an hour before I went back up to my room. I finished my chocolate chip cookies and brought half a glass of milk up to my bedroom. When I went in, I saw Axel at my window, drawing on some notebook. There was a full moon tonight and it was enough light for him to see what he was drawing.

"Hey, what are you doing awake?" I asked quietly.

"Couldn't sleep, I'm guessing you have the same reason?" He looked up at me and smiled. He looked absolutely perfect in the moon's light. His skin looked paler and smoother and his eyes were an even greener green, shining brightly in the darkness of my room.

I shook my head, stopping my thoughts from going any further. I've been having them about Axel lately, not even realizing that we were both guys, but I think it was safe to assume that I'm gay, or at least BI. I considered it the first time I had these thoughts, and I had a problem with it, thinking that I could never be gay, but I've grown to deal with and accept it. Plus, I knew that Sora, and everyone he told he was gay, would be okay with me being gay.

"Yeah, I woke up a couple hours ago, couldn't go to sleep, went downstairs, and had a snack and watched some TV."

"I only woke up a bit ago. When I realized I wasn't going to fall asleep again, I decided to finish up your costume," Axel replied, looking back down at the tablet in his hands.

"Yeah, Marluxia already has a couple of the costumes done. He's really fast but still really good at making things like that."

"I know, Larxene said that he makes some of his own clothes, and even makes some for her,"

"He should be one of those people who makes clothes," I paused, waiting for a response, when I got none, I continued, "We sound like girls, talking bout other people and clothes," I joked.

"Hey, at least we aren't making up lies," Axel said, pointing a pencil in my direction with a joking smile on his face.

"What time is it?" I asked, falling onto my unmade bed, my hands over my eyes.

"It's almost 4:30 AM. We need to be up for school in one and a half hours." Axel said, taking out his cell phone for the time.

"So, Friday's the first of October, huh?" I asked looking at my calendar.

"Yeah. 31 days until Halloween. Riku said we are just going to go and walk around the neighborhood and city. Maybe scare a couple of middle-schoolers or go to a party,"

"Okay, I don't really want to go around to people's houses asking for candy. It gets boring after a couple years, plus we can always get candy from the stores in those big bags," I pointed out.

"Yep. Hey do you prefer sharp teeth or sharp nails?" Axel asked, glancing at me, without turning his head, but moving his eyes.

"Uh, sharp teeth I guess, that way I don't need to wear fake nails," He nodded, and went back to his drawing.

"I'm going to try to go back to sleep, I have a test in Reading and I don't want to fall asleep in the middle of it," I said starting to lay down on my bed.

"We have a test in reading? Well, it's just reading, it can't be that hard. Can I have the rest of your milk?" He pointed at my green cup filled with the milk that I had earlier.

"Sure, if you're okay with drinking after me," I said, trying to get comfortable on my bed.

"You aren't sick, are you?" Axel asked, picking the cup up anyways.

"No, not anymore. G'night, Axel." I said, closing my eyes.

"Good night, Roxas,"

It felt like I woke up a second later, as if I had blinked and the time skipped two hours.

"Roxas, wake up, school starts in an hour," Axel was shaking my shoulder gently, trying to wake me from my short slumber.

"Mm, just another minute," I mumbled and turned away from him and the window that was beaming in the light from the sun rising.

"You said that ten minutes ago, come on, get up," I realized that Axel wouldn't stop, so I decided to sit up in my bed, I stretched and then rubbed to eyes to try and get myself awake.

"Finally, you're awake. I thought you'd be asleep all year," I took my pillow and threw it at him, trying to get Axel to shut up.

"Two more days until the weekend," I told myself quietly, forcing myself to get up and get ready for school.

"What?" Axel asked.

"Nothing, just talking to myself." I said, going to brush my teeth. Before I got the chance to walk into the bathroom, I saw Namine open up her door. Her bedroom is at the end of the hallway, and when the wall turns, there is the bathroom door, so if you go to the bathroom, you'll pass her door. I looked at her with a concerned face, making sure that she was acting more normal then she was last night,

"Good morning, Roxas," It sounded like she was, which I was glad about. I replied with a morning, and I heard Axel come out of my room, He had a clean pair of jeans on, and he was wearing a button up shirt, which wasn't buttoned up yet. I turned my head away, trying to hid the light blush that was forming on my face. I think that Namine noticed it, her eyes watched me as I turned away.

"Namine, I thought I heard your voice, I need you to give this to Marluxia, it's Roxas's Halloween costume." Axel handed her the notebook he was drawing on last night.

"Okay, thank you Axel. I'll give it to him as soon as I see him," She turned towards me, "Oh, and Roxas, I won't be home until about five. Kairi has cheerleading tryouts after school and she wants me to be there," I raised my eyebrow.

"Cheerleading tryouts? It's a month through school, why are they so late?"

"The caption of the squad had a surgery and needed a couple of weeks off, and they can't hold the tryouts without the caption," I nodded my head, it makes enough sense.

On Friday, Marluxia came to me after school, handing me four costumes, Xigbar's, Sora's, Riku's, and Namine's. He told me that he would give me the rest as soon as he could, but didn't want to keep all of those in the home ec. room, were he sews all the costumes together, to get stolen or food spilled on them. It was pretty hard to walk home with all of them in my hands, but I managed to get them there without any damages and not look like a complete idiot.

The next couple weeks went by very quickly. Axel and I have been spending a lot of time in those weeks. Sora was still teasing me about how we are going to go out and somehow have hundreds of babies. I still don't get my younger twin brother. Though, it has started to get worse because I've been getting more flustered at his teasing. Ever since September 12th, the day Seifer punched me, and I saw how Axel reacted, I started to fall for him, more and more everyday. I didn't tell anyone, I knew Sora wasn't the best at keeping secrets, even if he tried his best, but I didn't want to take any risks. I knew that if I ever told Axel, we wouldn't be friends like we are now. Even if he understood, didn't want to go out, and still wanted to stay friends, it would be way to awkward, and it wouldn't be the same, so I decided that I would keep it to myself, and wait for the feelings to go away.

On October 29th, there was a Halloween party at our school. It wasn't much of a Halloween party though. They just had decorations of bats and ghosts hung up around the school building, and we still did our school work, only it all had something with a childish Halloween theme. Sunday came soon enough, and Sora and I were getting ready to meet up with everyone else, and we started to get on our costumes.

"Roxas, can you help me? I don't know how to close the back, I can't find any of the buttons," Sora said, trying to reach his back better.

"Okay," I walked behind him and looked for something to close up the back of his costume, "Sora, you idiot, there's a zipper, not buttons," I laughing and pulled the zipper up, it was a perfect fit.

Axel did a really good job designing my costume. My mask* was half black and half white, and the facial features like the eyes and the mouth, switched to the opposite colors as they went into the other colored side. On the white half, the mouth is black, and then on the black half, the mouth is white. One of the eyes are also upside down, and there were tears of blood coming out of them. For my costume*, I had a spiked collar, kind of like a vampire would have, only less exaggerated. My sleeves and the bottom of my shirt were ripped off, and my shirt was short enough that if I was in a certain position, I could see my navel. There were a few rips in my shirt, but nothing that bad, and it looked like there was blood on it too. My pants were similar, and I had a belt with a strange, heart-like symbol for a buckle. I also had a short chained necklace with an X on it. ON my face, I had a stitch going down it, like Larxene's, only it went down my neck and disappeared behind my hair. I also had fake vampire bits, only it was covered up by a special kind of tape, but the fake blood still leaked through. I also had fake cuts on my wrist, and I had mummy-like bandages wrapped loosely around them. I also had a stitch going around my upper right arm. I put fake vampire fangs on my canine teeth with a special kind of glue that was meant for this. I put my tongue piercing just for good measure.

"Roxas, don't but that…that thing in your mouth, what if you want to eat something?" Sora complained as he watched me put it in.

"Sora, you can eat food with these things in, as long as you're careful, and besides, I can always take it out if I want to." Sora rolled his eyes, and started to play with a loose thread, tugging at it.

"Here, don't pull that, you could get a hole," I picked up and pair of scissors and cut it off for him.

"Ready to go?" Sora asked in his happy attitude again, getting out his phone to text Riku.

"Yeah, let me get my phone first," Sora went to go and get Namine, while I went into my room to get my cell phone. I looked out my window, and I could see Axel's house from across the street. One of the room's lights were on. I didn't know if it was Reno, or Axel who was in the room. I saw someone walk past, and I saw that it was Axel. He glanced out his window and then looked at something that was in his hands, moving his fingers quickly. I got a text message seconds after.

Message from: Axel
Are you ready yet?

I looked back towards his house, and smiled, nodding my head. He looked really good in his costume, there wasn't a single flaw on his face, and the shadow that was on his face blended in with his skin just below his eyes, and it looked good like that, it made his eyes shine more. He picked up Panther, making it wave it's paw towards me, and did the same thing with Chloe. Then Sora came in.

"Roxas, come on, we got to go, I don't want to be late for Riku," He saw me looking out the window, and saw Axel out there. "Jeez Roxas, I hope you guys aren't having a strip show from across the street." Me face went red from what he said, and I glanced at Axel, who saw my red face and laughed.

"Sora, you idiot, we're both completely dressed, how could you even assume that?" I asked, hitting him on the shoulder, pushing him out of my room, glancing back and waving bye to Axel.

We all didn't get into a group until about an hour later. Marluxia was taking forever getting ready, and Larxene said that she wanted to redo Namine's make-up. But, we got done soon enough. I didn't even think that Marluxia looked as good as he could have with the amount of time he took.

"Are we all ready now? I only have until like, one AM, I have a shift to cover with Luxord," Xigbar complained after we got Marluxia out of his dressing room.

We walked around the city for a bit.

Kat Café was having a Halloween party, and we decided to go in there for a bit. They had a cliché dance floor that lit up in all kinds of different colors, but it was hard to tell when the people are crowding it. Sora went straight to dancing, dragging Riku along. Demyx also went, but he couldn't get Zexion to come with him. In the other corner of the café, there were a couple of couches with small snacks on the table in the middle of them, and next to them, there was a stereo system so that the people sitting there could hear a different type of music, but you couldn't hear it over the music from the dance floor. There was also a bar, but there were only a couple of old guys over there, and I think that one was passed out. There was also a place were you could actually get food, and a place for people who wanted to do karaoke. There were some games on the side near the sitting area, and it had Dance Dance Revolution. There was a huge screen that had abstract pictures that went in beat with the music that was playing from the DJ that was on a platform about ten feet off the ground.

Zexion went to the couches, and Xigbar went to the bar. Larxene went to go talk to the DJ, who ended up changing the song before it could end. No one seemed to mind though. Namine went to get some food, and then me and Axel were left.

"Up for some DDR?" Axel asked, elbowing me.

"Only if you're ready to loose," I said, walking towards the game.

"You're on,"

We started out the game with no one really paying attention to two people playing a game against each other. When we started to break records for some of the songs, we started to attract a crowd. We played eight songs, we could have played a ninth, but some kids asked if they could play, and we thought that we played enough for today. We got some food, and headed over to were Zexion was sitting, reading his book.

"Hey Zex, what's going on?" Axel asked, plopping onto a couch that was next to the one Zexion was on. I took a seat next to him with our food.

"I was reading, but now you've interrupted me," Axel started to eat some of the fries that were on my tray. Zexion started to glare at him. He raised his hands in a 'I surrender, stop attacking me' kind of way.

"Do you have a headache from the music?" I asked, noticing how quickly he got irritated. He nodded to my question. Axel glanced at me.

"How's come you can always read people's mind?" Axel asked, taking a sip of his Mountain Dew.

"I can't, I just observe the way a person acts," I was stirring the ice around my water.

"Don't you think that's stalker-ish?" Axel asked.

"It makes me sound smarter then you, so call me a stalker," I said setting down my drink, and standing up.

"Where are you going?" Axel asked, and even Zexion looked up from his book.

"To get Xigbar, it's almost one. We've been here for a few hours, Sora is probably getting tired, and Demyx is asleep on the couch,"

"Demyx is on the couch?" Axel's head turned toward the couch, and he saw Demyx laying his head on Zexion's shoulder, sound asleep.

I saw Xigbar still at the bar, and I sighed. There was no doubt in my mind that this guy was drunk.

"Xigbar, you should go to your job, it's almost one," I tried to speak calmly, but it always makes me nervous to talk to someone drunk, you never know what could happen.

"Wha? I don' have no job, you shoul jus go back to yo mommy," I sighed again. I looked at Xigbar's pockets, and I saw he had his phone, I could just call the Luxord guy he was talking about earlier to come and pick him up. I pretend to walk away, and when he turned his head away from watching me leave, I snuck up behind him, and swiped his phone, he didn't notice, so I went back to the couches, where the music seemed to be quieter. I looked through the contacts, and eventually found Luxord. I called the number.

"Hello?" I heard a voice on the other end of the phone.

"Hey, Luxord? You word with Xigbar, right?" I asked, wanting to make sure that I was talking to the right person.

"Yeah, what about him?" He asked.

"He's at Kat Café, and he's drunk. I can't drive or anything like that, so I need you to come and pick him up." I said, looking out the window to see if anything might be going on that he wouldn't be able to get on the road.

"Okay, I'll be there in 15 minutes or so, bye," He hung up before I could say bye, but I didn't really care. I snuck behind Xigbar again, and tried to put the phone back, but he noticed me this time. He thought that I was taking it, and gave me this ridiculous, slurred speech about how I should steal at such an early age, but it got around to something about dying my hair.

I came back to the couches, and Sora, Namine, and Riku were back. I didn't think that Larxene or Marluxia would be back anytime soon. Sora was talking a million words per second to Zexion, making him more irritated. Namine and Riku were having a quiet conversation, and Axel was writing 'Burn Baby!' on Demyx's cheek, in sharpie. They had this rivalry going on about whether water or fire was better. I knew Demyx would be mad, but I don't think he'll notice until tomorrow evening. The fifteen minutes passed soon enough, and Luxord came to pick up Xigbar. That meant that we could leave this place. Riku went and told Larxene and Marluxia that we were leaving, but they wanted to stay here, so we left without them. We found some middle school kids who were still walking around this time, so we thought we would scare them, although, Zexion, Namine and I didn't do anything. Demyx made them laugh because his face was written on, though he didn't even know why they laughed, and Sora made them laugh because he just wasn't good at scaring people. Riku and Axel were really the only ones who could bother them. Probably, if it weren't so late, Sora and Demyx could've scared elementary students.

Soon, we started to split up, Sora and Riku wanted some alone time, Namine went to go and help Larxene and Marluxia get home, and Zexion wanted to go home, so Demyx offered to escort him there. Axel and I decided to go to the park. At the park, there was a big lake that you could take a walk around, usually, that's were someone would walk their dog, or go for a run. It was a two mile walk around, but it was all flat land, so it was pretty enjoyable to go around. About a mile in through the walk, there would be a forest and it was nice to walk there in the summer so that It could give you some shade. In the winter, kids would come and ice skate on the lake, there was only one time when the ice broke, and a kid fell in, but he was fine.

It was quiet for a bit, and it made my mind wander back to when Axel asked me to go to the clock tower. He said he had something to tell me and he had a nervous look in his eyes when we were almost there. I was still curious about it. It left from his eyes when we didn't have to go to the clock tower, but instead had to visit Sora in the hospital. I thought I could ask him about it now. I started to feel light rain drops pouring on me. There was a light rain, but it wasn't bad enough to really get us wet to make us go home.

"Hey, Axel, do you remember that day, at school, you asked me if we could go to the clock tower, and just before we got there, we had to go to the hospital because Sora fainted?" I asked, trying to bring up the memory from weeks ago.

"Yeah, I do, why?" Axel asked, glancing at me curiously from bringing up the subject.

"Well, was there something you needed to talk to me about?" I asked. If I knew what he wanted to say, there might be a chance that I could piece together why Axel would be nervous about something. Axel chuckled, and I scrunched my eyebrows down, irritated that he wasn't taking this very seriously.

"Jeez Rox, that was so long ago, why bring it up now?" He had a point there.

"I don't know, at the time, it seemed like you didn't want anyone else to hear the conversation, and it's not like there is anyone else here," I said, looking away. The rain started to pour down faster, but we started to walk slower, focusing more on what the other was saying rather then how we should start walking faster so that we weren't as wet when we got home.

"Well, I guess that's true, unless someone's stalking us," We stopped walking now. I had a small wave a paranoia, and I glanced around myself to make sure that no one really was following us. "You scared?" Axel joked.

"Please, not in this lifetime," I bluffed, crossing my arms. I wasn't scared, I just looked around because he brought something up that got me paranoid for a second. The rain started to pour down a bit harder, and I became very grateful that Namine had me put on water proof make-up on. It seemed like Axel did the same, because his make-up wasn't running either. Slowly, Axel started to walk towards me, "So, you want to know what I was going to tell you?" He asked, he didn't have the look of nervousness in his eyes like he did when he was going to tell me a couple of week earlier. Well, my plan failed, I probably should've just asked him why he was nervous about it in the first place. Still, I nodded my head to show that I wanted to know what he was going to tell me. Soon he was really close, and I could feel heat coming to my face. It was bad for me to blush in a situation like this, even though I had make-up on my face, and it was raining, Axel could probably still see my blush clearly. The full moon that was out tonight was bright enough that we could see each other's faces clearly. Knowing that Axel could see my blush only made me more self conscious. I tried to look away, but Axel's fingers gently grabbed my chin and tilted my head up, so that I was staring right into his eyes. His face started to move closer, so slowly. I started to get more nervous, my heart started to beat so quickly I thought it would burst, he was so close, I could even feel his warm breath on my face. The rain was pouring down, and our hair was starting to flatten, although not completely. Then, Axel said four words that I never thought I'd ever hear come from his mouth.

"I love you, Roxas." And after that was said, he pressed his lips onto mine softly. My eyes widened. My heart sped up. I never thought this would have happened. He was my best friend, who loved me, and I loved back. I smiled softly into the kiss, closing my eyes, and pressed my lips to his. I wrapped my arms around his neck, and his other arm slid around my waist, pulling me closer to him. Our lips started to move with a harmony only we could make, our lips fitting together like they were meant to be together.

Soon, Axel's tongue ran across my bottom lip, asking for entrance into my mouth. I shyly opened my mouth, giving him some access, and our tongues danced together. He ran his tongue around my mouth, getting used to the area it was exploring. Axel tasted like chocolate and a faint taste of mint, probably from brushing his teeth. Soon, we broke apart, getting the air that we needed. I looked right into Axel's eyes, a small smile painted on my face.

"I love you too, Axel."

Author's Note: I promised myself I'd get this done by memorial day, and I did it. I'm proud of myself for once. Anyways, I only have six more days of school. I have one project and a civics test tomorrow, but I needed to get this done. I liked the way it turned out to be honest. I just skipped most of the month of October, but it might come up in future chapters, I'm still not sure. So, this is my first kissing scene. I don't know how I did, I think it's good for a first time, but not the best in general. Please tell me what you think or how I could improve. But finally, Axel and Roxas kiss, so now it's like the start…kind of. Also, I don't know why, but my one friend said that it's pretty fast if they only knew each other for 2 months, but I don't really think so. I know a lot of people get married in just 6 months, so I don't think it's that short. Sorry it took ten chapters before they got to kiss, but I think it was good enough. Also, sorry for the long author's note, but please, please, please review! Reviews are my fuel to write, they keep me going, so review!