~The Truth~

Roxas was discharged from the hospital the next morning. The doctor had told him not to go to school that day. "Axel, please don't make me stay home. I might already fail as it is." Roxas said as Axel was carrying him to his bedroom, Roxas had refused to go to his room on his own.

"I am sorry Roxas, I can get this day waved though" he said as he put Roxas in his bed and held up a doctors' note.

Roxas sighed while sitting up in the bed "I don't see why I have to miss school though."

"Well, you hit your head pretty hard Roxas, and we don't want to take chances of you passing out at school again" he said his voice very concerned and weary.

Roxas sighed again and leaned back in the bed "But still..." he said more to himself than to Axel.

Axel walked over to the corner of the room and turned on the dull lamp that made fake flames dance around the room, he scratched the back of his head, Axel had a lot of things on his mind at the moment and was deep in thought.

"Axel?" Roxas said, sitting up again "are you ok?"

"Huh? Yea just thinking" Axel said, reaching down to clean his room a bit.

Roxas stood up, walked over to Axel, and placed a hand on his shoulder "A-Axel?" Roxas said with concern.

Axel looked at Roxas and he looked like he was trying to tell him something, but was very hesitant about it.

"Axel, remember what i said at the hospital?" Roxas said, closing his eyes and sitting on the bed "If you do, sit next to me and tell what's on your mind." he said, patting the spot next to him.

Axel made a small sigh and sat by Roxas "Roxas, you know how said that I liked fire?" he asked as he tried to explain the best he could. Roxas nodded, looking at Axel.

"W-well uh, geese how can I say this, um...well, I lost my temper again, but it was worse, when I punched Saix I left a burn on his nose from my hands, I got back in the car and about melted my steering wheel, I had to put the AC on to keep them cool enough to drive with, but uh, after I drove you to the hospital I went to an open field, and well I punched and uh…I felt pain, like a burning pain, that ran up my veins and into my fingers, well fire came out hitting the ground" Axel looked down waiting for Roxas' reaction.

"Is that all?" Roxas said looking at Axel "There is something you need to know." He said, taking his eyes from Axel and standing up "Remember that suitcase I won't let you touch no matter what?"

"Yea, what about it?" Axel asked.

"Well..." Roxas sighed "Something similar happened to me, Zexion, and Demyx about one day after you left all those years ago." Roxas looked at Axel again "before i explain further, call them over."

"Erm alright, sure" Axel said, as he reached for his cell phone and dialed Zexys' number then Demyxs'.

Zexion and Demyx both arrived at the same time. When they got there, Zexion immediately realized what was going on and looked at Roxas "We're telling him, aren't we?" he asked in an uninterested tone. Roxas nodded.

Demyx looked at Axel and then his hands "looked like you got yours, to" he said.

Roxas looked at Demyx "Fire." Roxas said as if to answer an unspoken question.

Demyx frowned "Aw man!" he said upset, "out of all the elements, why fire?!"

Zexion looked at Demyx in a threatening way "That's enough." He said with a note of finality.

Demyx cried "b-but Zexy, that means me and Axel cant touch, we would cancel each other out" he said whining.

Zexion looked at Axel, who looked confused, then at Demyx in a very stern way, as if to say 'Don't confuse him more than he already is'.

"Whoa, wait" Axel said "what the hell is going on?" he said very confused. "Roxas start from the beginning please" he asked pathetically.

Roxas sighed "Axel, what do you think is happening right now, other than a bunch of crazy people talking." Roxas chuckled the last bit, as if to put humor in a very serious situation.

"I don't know Roxas, it...its odd, tell me what happened when i left, please?" he asked with a small smile.

"Well...first of all…how did you find out Oblivion high?" Roxas asked, looking Axel square in the eye.

"Well, this odd man about as tall as Principal Xemnas, told me about it" he replied.

"Thought so." Zexion said "What did you say you'd do if he recruited Axel, Roxas?" Zexion asked teasingly "But, you did forget two days after you said that...even though it was Spencers' fault you forgot..." Zexion left the sentence hanging.

Axel tensed at the sound of his brothers' name and kept his eyes to the floor.

Roxas realized they had all been standing, he said "lets all go to the living room." Demyx and Zexion went ahead of him and Axel. Roxas held out his hand to Axel.

Wordlessly, Axel took Roxas' hand and allowed him to pull him to the living room.

After they were all seated, Roxas looked at Zexion, "It's best if you explain." Roxas said, his hand still intertwined with Axels'. Zexion nodded.

"Well, Axel..." Zexion said looking at Axel "Are you ready for the longest story you'll ever hear?"

"Try me" Axel said with a sharp grin.

~seven years earlier~

Roxas was sitting in the place where him and Axel had spent so many days before. Laughing, talking, singing, and finding out the lives they wanted to live compared to the ones they had now. He heard a rustle from the bushes "W-who's there?" he asked, quickly trying to staunch the tears.

"Nagh!" Demyx shouted as he fell out of the bushes face first on the ground.

Roxas looked up and saw Zexion' foot, obviously the thing that had forced Demyx into the clearing.

"Why are you so mean to me!!" Demyx whined, though it was muffled by the grass.

Zexion knelt down and lifted Demyxs' head to where he could look him in the eye "because you are my toy" He said simply, then let go of Demyxs' head and walked over to Roxas. "Out of all of us, you probably miss him the most." He said sitting next to Roxas.

Demyx stood up and dusted himself off and spat out the grass "well that is kind of obvious" he said more to himself rather than Zexion.

"What's obvious, that you are my toy, Roxas misses Axel the most, or both?" Zexion responded without opening his mouth.

"Oh that's so not fair Zexion!" Demyx whined "And the second one" he muttered.

"Sometimes, stating the obvious can be sating the hidden." Zexion said simply. Roxas let out a quick giggle.

Demyx pouted and walked over to Roxas and sat on the other side of him "So, what have you been up to today Roxy-chan?" Demyx asked, as he looked at the pond.

Roxas looked at the ground and smiled sadly "Watching Axel go playing over and over again in my mind." He said quietly.

"Aw don't be sad, he'll come back" Demyx said, as he put a comforting arm around Roxas' shoulders.

Zexion looked at Demyx in a way that made Roxas think Zexion was talking to Demyx.

"Awe Zexion, don't be mad" Demyx said, pouting. Zexion raised one eyebrow.

"Come on, its not like we can just sit here" Demyx said quietly "we have to cheer him up some how."

"Then..." Zexion sighed "How about..." Zexion started to talk to Demyx in his mind again.

"Well, I haven't quite gotten that down yet" Demyx said a bit embarrassed.

Zexion raised both eyebrows this time, in disbelief, as if to say 'i saw that what you did that one time'. Roxas stared at the two in confusion.

Demyx frowned "Oh i can try it, but don't hit me if you get hit with water" Demyx said as he stood up. Zexion smirked as if to say 'don't worry, I will'.

Roxas was thoroughly bewildered.

Demyx stuck out his tongue and got up "Roxas, do you want to see a magic trick?" Demyx asked with a big grin.

"If it's anything like Zexions', then no." Roxas said bluntly. Zexion rolled his eyes.

"Nah, it's far from Zexions' ha-ha" Demyx Replied nervously. "Well uh, you know i like to dance around and play in the water?" Demyx asked quickly.

Roxas nodded "How could I not? It's kind of disturbing." Roxas said simply. Zexion laughed "So true." he chuckled out.

"Oh, you guys are so mean" Demyx whined pathetically, "Well I wont do if you keep being mean"

Roxas sighed "Alright, I'm sorry." He responded. "I'm not." Zexion said, still giggling slightly.

Demyx lifted his hand and shot Zexion with a stream of water from his palm "I wont let you come over anymore" Demyx said triumphantly.

Zexion smiled "If you do that, I'll tell your mother where you go when you 'run away'" he said smugly.

"OHH!!!!" Demyx whined as he stomped his foot, puffed his cheeks and turned around and sat cross-legged on the ground, and crossed his arms.

Zexion looked at Demyx in a way that made Roxas blush at the intensity.

"Nya nya, I am not going to do that anymore, all because Zexion is mean" Demyx said with pursed lips.

Zexion stood up, walked over to Demyx, and kicked him in the head.

"OOOOWWWWW!!!!!" Demyx shouted as tears streamed down his face, he rubbed the back of his head "OH! your so abusive!" Demyx cried.

Zexion glared at Demyx. They were reminded that there was an onlooker when Roxas started to laugh.

"Demyx is sad now!!!" Demyx Whined.

"Toy." Zexion said threateningly.

"Big Meany!!!" Demyx said sticking out his tongue.

Zexion smiled and said something to Demyx in his mind, causing said person to look at Roxas and smile. Roxas was too busy laughing to notice.

"AW NOT FAIR!!" Demyx shouted in his own head "oh...wait...DUDE! I can read my own mind!" he said mentally with a grin.

"I can too." Zexion said, kicking Demyx in the head again.

Demyx fell, to the side twitching his eyes swirling with unconsciousness.

Zexion knelt by Demyx and poked him with a stick.

"Five more minutes mama?" Demyx asked with a distant voice.

"If you don't get up now, I'll aim for your eyes" Zexion said mercilessly, holding the stick uncomfortably close to Demyxs' head.

"I wanna stay home, and make cookies with you" Demyx said still distant a bump forming on his head as he twitched.

"Now, now lets all play nice" said a low and deep voice. A man walked out of the bushes with his hands behind his back, he stood tall and rather muscular, his hair was a silver grey and his skin a dark brown, his eyes as grey as his hair, he wore a long black coat with a hood that reached his ankles, and black boots underneath, his mouth was set in an eternal frown, his eye brows were set with a never ending glare, "We don't want poor Demyx to make his parents worry do we?" he said, his voice sending a small chill up everyone's spine.

Zexion stood up, fear clear in his eyes. He shook his "No..." he tried to run past the man but was caught around the wrist. Demyx got up "Zexion!!" he shot water at the man, causing him to glare and head for Demyx, still grasping Zexions' wrist. Roxas stood up, half his face was shaded "Leave them alone." He said as he looked up. His eyes were the color of freshly spilt blood.

Demyx looked at Roxas and felt a chill go up his spine, as he quickly looked away as to not get drawn in. "Roxas..." The man said in a trance like state and he let Zexion go, his grey eyes had turned red as well but a lighter red than Roxas'.

"What are you doing here." Roxas commanded from the man.

"To tell you, Axel will not be returning...and Zexion will be leaving as well soon" he replied immediately.

The wind in the clearing got stronger and Roxas' eyes got ever closer to the color of blood "Why." He said, his voice echoing, even though there was nothing for it to echo off of.

"Axel...has been forced unwillingly to stay with his aunt...Spencer is alive...and is planning to hurt Axel, Zexion will be transporting to a different time...to continue training" the man replied his voice Distant and his eyes dull.

Roxas fell to the floor, unconscious, as if he over exerted himself.

"R-ROXAS!" Demyx yelled and ran and picked him up in his arms like Axel would, and held him close "Wake up Roxy, p-please?!" he begged as tears streamed down his face.

The man blinked "Well that was intresting" he said as he turned around and pulled Zexion along forcefully but stopped in mid step, "Demyx, you were about to bring Roxas to my house, now, you were heading there anyway" he said as his voice echoed in Demyxs' mind with out moving his lips, he made a small twitch of his finger and images flash in Demyxs' mind making him believe what Xemnas just said. Demyx blanked and stood up with Roxas in his arms "I was heading there...wasn't I" he said quietly and followed the man as he walked forward.

When Roxas woke up, he was in an unfamiliar house, he sat bolt upright "Zexion?! Demyx?! Where are you?!" he yelled, looking around frantically.

"Save your breath Roxas, they can't hear you" The man said harshly, his shadow was in the corner of the room, he was sat straight in a chair one leg over the other, his grey eyes illuminating in the darkness.

Roxas' face darkened again. He got up and ran to the man "Where are they?" Roxas said 'I promised Axel...that they would be with me...all the time...I would be safe...' he thought to himself.

"Why, they are just upstairs in their bedrooms" he replied apathetically, "You intrigue me greatly Roxas, but you caught me off guard...and i will not let that happen again" he said darkly.

"What do you mean?" Roxas asked, slightly shocked.

"You hold a very interesting power, and it has left me doubting my own strength, which means, you…are a threat to me." he said and his white teeth flashed in a large grin.

Roxas backed away. He had only felt fear once before, this is the feeling he hated the most.

The man stood up and walked to Roxas and grabbed him by the shoulders and stared him in the eyes "you will go to Axels' old two story apartment, you will remember nothing of your stay here, or what has happened in the past week and three days to come, you were going to gather a few things from Axels' apartment here in three days, you will remember not of Zexion, Axel, Demyx, or any of your friends, now go" he said his voice hypnotic.

Roxas shook his head "you can't control me." He broke free of the mans' grip and ran toward the door.

"Luxord! stop him!" the man yelled and a tall blonde male with multiple piercings in his ear blocked Roxas and grabbed him around the arms.

Roxas looked up at the man named Luxord. Roxas' eyes turned the color of blood once more "Let. Me. Go." Roxas demanded in the echoing voice again.

"Nice try little lad, but I will let you go for a small token" Luxord said "how bout a game of poker!" he tossed a card at Roxas' feet after releasing him and it blew up at his feet.

Roxas dodged the cards' explosion and made a break for the door.

"Not so fast pretty boy" Laughed a female high pitched voice and blonde female walked out and tossed Roxas against the wall pinning him with her kunai "you know its rude to run out of a house when not asked to" she said her voice sounding very young almost as old as Axel.

The wind grew strong again "Please let me go." he said, his voice pleading.

"Now why would I do that, you made my Axel go away." she said with another loud laugh "Its all your fault he left." "And now because of you, he will never RE-TURN!" she yelled as her fist hit Roxas' jaw hard.

The punch she had used on Roxas, had sent an electrical surge through Roxas' bones and she got face to face with him "Don't bother running Roxas, we will just find you again" she whispered with a grin and punched Roxas in the stomach with another electrical surge flowing through his veins, she pulled her kunai out and let him fall to the ground.

Roxas stood up a little shakily, he looked into her eyes, Blood Red into Blue, "Let me pass, and get my friends. Please let us leave without further harm."

"No....they are in the upstairs jail" she replied trance like.

"Please take me to them." He pleaded to her.

"Yes...I will..." she said, her body stiff as she started to make her way to the upstairs jail, her blue eyes a light tinted red.

"Larxene...you are a fool...you were going to kill him" Xemnas said through Larxenes' mind, making her stiffen and tremble out of fear.

"Ignore him, and take me to the jail." Roxas whispered, his voice echoing slightly.

"Larxene, this child made Axel leave, he made Axel never able to come back, You dare drop your love for a CHILD!" Xemnas yelled in Larxenes' mind, the loud yell in her mind made her cringe "take him to the jail...but...lock him in with the others, I will bring your Axel back if you do" Xemnas said gently, almost a coo "you do want Axel back don't you?" Larxene stopped all together and muttered "Yes...I want him back..."

"Larxene..." Roxas whispered gently "Didn't he say to you that Axel is never coming back? Wasn't Luxord the drunk driver that killed his only family in this place? Wasn't it his fault Axel is gone?"

"L-Luxord...d-did it...h-he hurt Axel then too...d-didn't he..." she said and her face turned into anger "Xemnas let him...out...it was his fault...h-he planned this..." she said quietly as her face began to darken.

Roxas smiled sadistically "The best way to hurt them is to help us." he said in a carrying whisper, he was no longer Roxas.

Larxene kneeled to Roxas, her eyes still tinted a light red, and whispered where to find the others "Now go...before he acts."

Roxas nodded and quickly moved up the stairs to retrieve Zexion and Demyx.

~back to present~

Roxas had filled in the details of what had happened at Xemnas' house. "And that's what happened" Zexion whispered. Everyone was somber.

In silence, Axel had been staring at the floor the whole time, his face was emotionless, but his grasp on the cup had turned his knuckles white, from holding it so tightly.

Roxas put his hand gently on Axels' shoulder "I'm sorry..." Roxas whispered gently. Axel looked at Roxas.

Axel smiled lightly "At least I know I am not a freak" he said, as he sat back and chuckled.

Roxas smiled at Axel. "I think it's time for us to go to school." Roxas said, hoping Axel had forgotten what the doctor had said.

"Nope, doctors orders Rox-chan, nice try though." he said with a grin.

"But Axel-" Roxas said pleadingly.

"Well, I think it's time to go now Toy." Zexion said, dragging Demyx toward the door.

"I am not a toy!!! You are so mean to me!! You cant make me leave!!" Demyx whined, but followed Zexion anyway.

After Zexion and Demyx left, Roxas sat on the couch and pouted.

"Aw, don't be sad, we can go to school tomorrow...if you are well enough" Axel said, with a slight swing in his words, and put his arm around Roxas and pulled him close.

Roxas leaned his head against Axels' shoulder "By the way, i told Xemnas that if he ever tried to recruit you, I'd try to kill his daughter, then I thought how sad you'd be, and decided against it. I never wanted this for you." after Roxas said this, he fell asleep.

"Mansex...has a daughter?" he said a bit confused "Gee no wonder he is up tight" he chuckled, Axel felt his eyelids start to close, he was tired, and had a lot on his mind, before he could count to three he was out like a candle.