AN: Woo. I'm back. Ish. Yeah... Uhmm.. Credit goes to Sarah (takara-miu) for caring enough to get my MSN and pester me daily for updates.
I know I'm no good at updating.. you all should know that too, but yeah.. People like her get these stories finished.
ANYWAY. Read and hopefully enjoy. :)

The Plot Thickens

"Sure." Said Roxas, not fussed about the nature of Axel's question.
"It's pretty personal... You don't have to answer it if you don't want to. I'm not forcing you or anything."
"Just say it Axel." The blond glanced irately at his couch-buddy.

"Okay." The red-head took a deep breath, as if working up a significant amount of courage. "What's your sexuality?"

There was a long, awkward silence, filled in by singing mice from the TV. Roxas' ears were tinged with pink, his mouth drawn into a thin line and the whites of his eyes showing.
Axel, overactive imagination tearing up the tracks at a thousand miles per hour feared the worst and started babbling.
"I knew I should have asked you that question! I knew it! I'm such an idiot! Gawd, now you probably think I'm some freaky pervert or a queerdo or something equally shameful and- and- and-"
Before he could say anything else, he was interrupted by Roxas.
"It's okay… Axel." He un-tensed, just barely enough, for it to be noticeable. "I think… I think I'm bisexual."

"Wow! Really?" Anxiety out the window, Axel resumed his typical banter. "Me too! Well, sort of. If you can count only having been with one girl and six guys as bisexual…"
Sora and Riku, unbeknownst to the other two were having a very frantic whispered conversation.
"What do we do now?!"
"Stick to the plan."
"But what about the—"
"We'll just leave that bit out."
"So the other thingy is still going to-"
"Yes. It will work. Don't worry."
"If you say so, Riku…"
"When have I been wrong?"
"Well…"
"Rhetorical question, Sor."

Axel's babbling gradually died down as the movie reached its climax. Sora clung onto Riku as the boat began to sail away. They had spent the last fifteen minutes in semi-silence, gasping and cheering appropriately.

''Would you like me to return you to your former lives?''

"Former lives?!''

''Well yes you see, you two...well you were already-''

''Oh, never mind''

And the movie ended… They watched as the credits flicked up onto the screen.
"Hey, imagine if we had former lives…" said Axel.
"What are you on about?" Roxas frowned at him, and then frowned at the empty bowl of chips.

"I mean, what if we all knew each other in some past life, possibly in another universe. I mean, that would be cool, right?" Axel continued, licking crumbs off his fingertips. "What if… What if me and Roxas had been best friends in a past life and… Sora, you and Riku could also have been best friends in that world… And Roxas was somehow linked to Sora – maybe even a doppelganger." He was growing warmer to the subject, his non-linear brain doing cartwheels as the story unfolded. "And... and... Uhm… "
At this point everyone was staring at him as if he had said that tinned tuna and chocolate make a lovely accompaniment to pistachio ice-cream.

"Uhhhhh…" Axel looked pleadingly at Roxas. He looked really confused. "Did you guys never play add-on stories when you were young?"

The brothers shook their heads, shrugging their shoulders in nonchalance, but Riku nodded avidly, his head becoming a fluffy white blur.

"I loved that game." He said excitedly. "Oh, and 'I went Africa'… that was awesome."
"No way," said Axel "You played that too? Riku, you now have my unwavering respect. Epic win, man."

Roxas had finished licking his fingers when he asked "What's the 'I went to Africa' game?"
"It's an alphabet game." Said Riku. "You start with a place, for example 'I went to Africa' or 'I went to Antarctica'. Then the next person says 'I went to Africa and I brought a bag' or 'I went to Africa and I brought a buffalo'. You keep going until the whole alphabet is done."

"Yeah" said Axel. "It gets harder as you go up, 'cos you have to remember more and more stuff."

"Sounds aces." Said Sora, stretching a little. "Except, I'd like to spice that up a bit. Every time someone forgets something or makes a mistake, they take a shot."
"Coolios." Said Axel. "I'll go get the bottle I brought then?"

It was only a short time before they had set up the game. Riku was nominated scribe and a new rules were added to score: round number of points awarded for remembering the phrase completely and correctly (so, round one, 1 point awarded, round two, 2 points awarded, etc.); one point per syllable of the new word and five points awarded for originality of the word (eg.: Dog, no score, Dinosaur, score, Dita Von Teese, double score).

The paper ended up looking like this:

Ro: I went to Animal Farm. +1, +4, +5 = 6 points.
S: I went to Animal Farm and brought a briefcase. +2, +2 = 4 points.
Ri: I went to Animal Farm and brought a briefcase with a cradle. +3, +2, +5 = 10 points.
A: I went to Animal Farm and brought a briefcase with a cradle on a dinosaur. +4, +3, +5 = 12 points
Ro: I went to Animal Farm and brought a briefcase with a cradle on a dinosaur with eleven eggs.(6) +5, +4 +5 = 20 points.

S: I went to Animal Farm and brought a briefcase with a cradle on a dinosaur with eleven eggs filled with frogs. (4) +6 +1 +5 = 16 points
Ri: I went to Animal Farm and brought a briefcase with a cradle on a dinosaur with eleven eggs filled with frogs that galloped. (10) +7 +3 +5 = 25 points
A: I went to Animal Farm and brought a briefcase with a cradle on a dinosaur with eleven eggs filled with frogs that galloped and a hundred hungry hamsters. (12) +8 +6 +10 = 36 points.

Around about round thirteen (I went to Animal Farm and brought a briefcase with a cradle on a dinosaur with eleven eggs filled with frogs that galloped and a hundred hungry hamsters eating icecream and jellybeans covered in kerosene and a pair of lollygagging llamas with moth-wings.) people started screwing up. They got progressively drunker and the words became weirder and more slurred. The game ended with Sora, who ended up in third place, just behind Riku with Axel in the lead. He was swaying slightly and staring at the ceiling in concentration, trying to say it without screwing up.

"I went to Animal Farm and brought a briefcase with a cradle on a dinosaur…. With.. er… with eleven eggs filled with frogs that… that.. that galloped and a hun-hundred hu-hungry hamsters eating… uhh… icecream and jellybeans covered in.. uhm… kerosene and a pair of … a pair of… and a pair of l-lol-lollygagging llamas w-with… ehm… moth-wings.. and naked noses which oinked.. eh.. politely, questioning the quail … ri-riding on the rhino who was… uhm… er.. singing the tales of… of… of a talking trunk underneath an .. um… an.. um… an umbrella covered in vi-vixens wearing w-waterwings.. ah… made of xylophones and.. eh… yoghurt…. Eh… uhm… ah.. from Zanzibar."
The others applauded and whooped- Axel pushing the lampshade he had acquired as a hat along the way out of his.
"Oh…kay now. Uhm. Who won?" He hiccupped a little and looked expectantly at Riku.
Riku stared cross-eyed at the paper for a while before he said.. "uhm..You. I'm second, Sora's third and Roxas has lost."
Axel grinned in pride. "Awwwh.. d'you hear that Roxy? I won. And.. eh.. you lost.. Sorry."

Roxas was lying upside down on the loveseat, the three-quarters-empty rum bottle in his hand. He looked bleary-eyed and rather tired. "I'm hungry." He said randomly, taking a swig from the bottle.

"Yeah.." said Sora. "So am I.. And I wanna watch another movie."
"I call dibs on movie choice!" shouted Axel from underneath his lampshade. "We are going to watch Dead or Alive! That, or the Tenacious D movie."
"I choose Tenacious D.. Dead or Alive sucks." Said Riku, standing up, with the help of the sofa.
"I know it sucks. I watch it to make fun of the shitty acting and the totally lame music." Replied Axel, crawling over to Roxas to relieve him from his bottle. "Anywho, Tenacious D it is."
He reached Roxas who stared at him from his upside down position.
"Heya there Mr. Bat. You gonna give me my rum bottle?" asked Axel sweetly.
"I'mnottabat." Mumbled Roxas as he passed Axel the bottle.

"Then what are you hanging upside down for?" He said, nuzzling the blond on the side of his face. "C'mon.. You're going to show me where the food is.."


AN: Incidentally, I love TDPOD (Tenacious D: Pick of Destiny) and watched DoA in the cinema. It does suck. Like.. seriously. Prime example of shitty action movies which I despise. I was thinking of putting in Full Metal Jacket, just so that I could use the quotes, but nawh..
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