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Sup! Thanks to everyone for continuing to read my stuff :D I hope everyones enjoying their Summer to the fullest! Go do Roxas-y things, eat ice cream! Chill with friends! Go to the beach! Watch the sunset! Or, of course, you can do Axel-y things- Chill with Roxas! 3

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xX~That Damn Leather Jacket TWO~Xx

Chapter 18: Music for Dummies

With the Xaldin issue pushed aside, Axel now had all the rest of his extensive list of 'stuff to do' to get done. Starting with practice. Cheerleading practice is important, due to the fact that they're, oh, I don't know- AT A CHEERLEADING CAMP.

He and Riku got dressed in silence, the silverette slightly grouchy because he had to leave Sora sleeping by himself, all alone in a big comfy bed. Axel had just mercilessly dragged him out of bed, chucked a Chocobo T-shirt at him then left out the door. Riku followed in his wake, occasionally rubbing his eyes to make sense of the World around him.

If Axel didn't know any better, he would have said Riku was 'hungover'.

But no, the silverette would never drink the night before a practice.

Of course not.

Wink.

So, our two hero's walked to the gym, Axel's eyes looking at the ground as he contemplated the meaning of life, and Riku, blindly trudging across the crunchy frosted field. They got to the gym in a matter of minutes, almost bashing into the wall when they got there because neither of the two were paying any sort of attention to their surroundings.

Rubbing their noses and cursing under their breath, Axel and Riku finally made it into the gym with no broken bones... At least, they think, their noses did hurt an awful lot. They entered the room to find the vibes very... Scary. Like Kairi scary, and she was very scary as we all know. She threatens to remove people's private parts and what not.

Riku and Axel looked at each other sideways before manning up and going over to their team. Their vibe-senses were right, Kairi was in a state. She was gesturing wildly everywhere, glaring at random people, and generally just freaking out. Axel didn't dare say a word of 'hello', they wanted to make their presence unknown as to not disturb Kairi in any way.

"What the hell are we going to do!?" She was screeching. "Two weeks left and we have nothing! We need this cheer by tomorrow or we'll have no chance! grfjDamn these stupid fucking themed competitions! This sucks! I hate my life!-" Kairi just kept going on and on, Axel told himself he had to step in and take charge, yeah, he was a martyr like that.

Sucking in a deep breath, Axel stepped into the middle of their meeting-circle, and everyones eyes were on him straight away, even Kairi's, and you could almost see the 'red for kill' in them. Axel heard a resounding dun dun duuuun in his head but ignored it, clearing his throat to gain the attention he already had.

"Um, I actually sort of..." Freaking out under the pressure, he took a second to regain his thoughts. Then, with a stroke of brilliance said, "-had a plan..."

The noise that followed was astounding.

"WHAT!? WHAT PLAN!?"

"TELL US! TELL USSSSSSS!"

"AXEL WHAT IS IT!?"

God, they sound like hideous creatures.

He had the whole team shouting at him, so he cleared his throat awkwardly once more. "Um, Riku and I actually had a plan..." Axel could see his best friend eyeing him up with a look that said: 'We DID?'

The red head nodded, seeing everyone's relieved faces. There was a downside to this... He now had to figure out how to find a new cheer, in like, a day.

And a song.

Crap...

"Yes, ah, we have a plan! And, we'll... Be back to you tomorrow with said 'plan', so you guys just... Calm down." He looked meaningfully at Kairi, causing her to scowl at him. "-And we'll be back to you tomorrow."

Axel then promptly grabbed Riku by the sleeve of his shirt and dragged him from the building. Once outside, the silverette brushed himself off.

"You know, I don't much appreciate being dragged everywhere-"

Axel was far too anxious to deal with Riku's angsty-ness by replying with a witty remark. His thoughts were still on 'we-are-so-screwed-what-the-hell-are-we-gonna-do-t his-time?'. "Look, we have more pressing issues than 'whether your shirt is wrinkled or not', we've got to come up with two songs and a cheer!"

"I know, and it's your fault." Riku huffed.

Axel nodded, "Yeah, I know." He said as they began walking back to the Cabins. "But hopefully you'll help me out... You know..." Riku knew what was coming, Axel was looking down at the ground. "Cause your my best friend..." At that precise moment, the silverette decided that the clouds were looking mighty interesting this morning, and kept his gaze skyward. Meanwhile, Axel was giving him his fiercest puppy-dog look, the only look Riku was able to cave into.

"I'm not looking..."

"Whhhyyyy... I might be giving you twenty dollars..." Axel whined, grinning in his puppy-dog state.

"You're not. You're giving me that look." Riku sighed, shoving his hands into his pockets.

"What look...?" The red head walked right in front of his friend and thrusted his face into his line of sight. Riku stood looking at him, trying desperately to not give in to. That. Stupid. Face.

His better instincts disappeared, so he shrugged, throwing his head back with a noise of exasperation. "FINE. I'll help you."

Axel fist-pumped the air, then did a small wee dance which mostly involved a pelvic thrust. "YES!" He then trotted back to his best friends side. "You'll see Riku, this will be fun, we can pull an all nighter-"

"Do you want me to paint your toe nails too? Then we can watch High School Musical!" Riku muttered, his words dripping in sarcasm.

Despite Riku's tone of voice, Axel's eyes were sparkling. "Really?" He said, as if that night would make all his dreams come true.

Riku just punched him in the guts and stropped off ahead of him.

X-x-X

When the boys got back to Cabin 6C, they were surprised to see Roxas sitting on the porch steps of the Leopard Cabin, looking incredibly bored. When he saw Axel though, his eyes lit up, and he straightened his back.

"Axel! I wasn't sure when you were going to be back..."

"Yeah, our practice came out early, what are you doing out here? It's freezing!" The frost hadn't completely disappeared yet, which everyone thought was unfortunate. Axel went forward and offered his hand to Roxas, who gladly took it. Riku walked in side, feeling rather awkward and third-wheely.

"I pulled a sicky, I already know our cheer so I pretended to have a cold... Only half a lie, I'm a little sniffy since this morning." Axel was concerned straight away, but Roxas squeezed his hand and smiled to show he was okay, then continued speaking. "I figured I could find other stuff to do today, like read a book, or hang with you..." Insert Roxas's hopeful face.

Axel grinned, pulling his boyfriend into his Cabin. "I guess I can house you for today, you can serve as my inspiration for song writing." Axel sat on his bed, resting his back against his headboard whilst Roxas sat between his legs, resting his back on Axel's chest.

"Song writing?" The blonde asked, smiling widely. "Do you mean for the competition?"

"Yeah, smart-guy here got us tasked with coming up with the routine." Riku wrinkled his nose, sliding back into bed with Sora. Which, according to Riku was where he should have been for the past ten minutes, instead of floundering around with Axel in the cold outside.

Roxas looked around at Axel. "You mean, you guys aren't going to get any help? At all?" The Leopard's must have all worked together or something, because Roxas sounded baffled.

"I guess it won't be too hard, we've got all night. Plus, I think if the lyrics come to me, then the music won't be too far behind..." Axel sounded so sure of himself, all Roxas did was nod, resting himself back onto the red head more, enjoying his warmth.

"What are you going to write about...?" The little blonde sighed, closing his eyes as if he was going to fall asleep. Axel let him sleep, enjoying the comfort of Roxas's chest rising and falling in a smooth pattern. Grabbing a note pad and pen off his bed side table without stirring the blonde, Axel settled into a writing flow, being careful as to not wake his precious Roxy.

What am I going to write about? He asked himself, but really the answer was right under his nose.

Looking at Roxas sleep, the complete innocence of him never failed to make Axel's heart flutter wildly in his chest. The way Roxas could find a way to snuggle without actually wrapping his arms around you... The way his nose crinkled when he found something hard to believe... The way his laughter rang out like a pretty bell that made your insides go all mushy because it's just the most beautiful thing you've ever heard.

I'm going to write about You.

Axel had never in his life written a song as quickly as he did in that next hour.

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Roxas woke up around midday, but instead of being on the bed he was in the bed, with an Axel next to him and said Axel's arms around him. He had to admit, it was a heck of a lot comfier falling asleep in a bed apposed to tree roots.

The Leopard detangled himself from his boyfriends arms, Axel was fast asleep, his note pad and pencil discarded on the bed-side table. Roxas sat up carefully as to not wake his boy friend and rubbed his eyes. It was incredibly easy to fall asleep with Axel, just the right temperature, just the right amount of cuddling, just the right amount of love (D'waawww).

Looking around, Roxas noted that Riku and Sora were still in bed, Terra and Leon were still in Zack's bed, but Zack was...

On the floor?

Facedown?

Groaning?

Roxas hopped out of bed and went to investigate, from what he'd seen last night plus knowing Zack's abilities to handle pain the morning after he could very much figure out why Zack was on the floor. It looked like the Dragon had been able to locate some underwear before scrambling out of bed. Roxas didn't have to view his downstairs department.

He let out a small giggle when he reached the Dragon. Attempting to stifle his laughter with his hand, Roxas crouched down next to Zack. "You tried to stand up didn't you?" He whispered, causing Zack to sigh

"Yes." Was all he said, incredibly un-amused.

The Leopard helped flip the poor guy over. Zack winced when his back hit the floor but at least he was smiling, he'd been on the ground for the last half hour. The two looked at each other for a second, then erupted into a fit of silent giggles, realizing the ridiculousness of the situation. They heard Terra shift in bed so they instantly ceased their laughter. Nothing would be worse than to wake Terra up when he's in bed with his brother with no clothing on.

They would feel his wrath.

Well, they wouldn't, but Leon certainly would. Imagine waking up to a knuckle sandwich from Terra? Yaouch. Not the best way to wake up in the World... No.

"So, ah, how do you plan to get through today?" Roxas asked, sitting cross legged on the ground.

"I have nooooo idea." Groaned Zack, feeling as though his decision last night wasn't the best thing ever. It had, of course, been his first time since his first time, and taking on two guys at once wasn't the smartest thing he could have done. "At the rate I'm going, a wheelchair might be the best option..." Zack laughed in self pity. Why does it feel so good then end up crippling you for 48 hours?

"Did you want me to go get you some lunch?"

Zack blinked at Roxas's kindness, he wondered to himself if all the Leopard's secretly were this nice, then his mind flashed to Marluxia and how he was practically keeping the blonde hostage. That's not exactly a 'friendly' thing to do to someone. Oh well, Roxas seemed happy enough right now.

"Yes please, that'd be great,"

Roxas set off with a smile, leaving Zack contentedly lying on the ground awaiting his return.

He really had to sort out his Leon and Terra issue, and fast. There was no point in leading one of them on, when he really only wanted the other.

In this case, Zack only really wanted Terra.

Which was an issue.

What the hell was he going to do? It wasn't like there was this mystical person who could show up out of nowhere and whisk Leon away, that kinda stuff just didn't happen... Like, ever. And Zack's luck probably wasn't the best around, he just went with the flow.

Trying not to make too much noise, Zack lifted himself into a sitting position, his back resting on the side of the bed. He had to admit, ouch, that had freaking hurt, the shooting pain up his backside.

'I'm never having sex again. Ever.'

Yeah right Zack, we all totally believe you.

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That was another Zack-tastic chapter! We sure are nearing the end of our Camp journey! I might be releasing a few Oneshots soon as to widen my audience, so sorry if I don't post a new chapter for a while! You guys are awesome and thanks for reading!

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