Heya, it's Kiwasaki again. I must apologize for the Peter Pan down below. Twilight Town doesn't offer a lot of NPCs, which was what I would rather have used. Hayner, Pence, Olette, Seifer, Rai, and Vivi all have their own bits in the story. So yeah, I am so sorry. I couldn't wait to finish this chapter, as I have been putting a lot aside so I could rewrite Our Promise is Broken. There wasn't enough Axel and Roxas interaction for me to just continue it. So that's why this is being put out. Love on the Battlefield is also being worked on, not a rewrite, the next chapter. As much as I love Basara High I don't think that will be coming out soon. I do hope to get a chapter out before my birthday though, if not Basara High then the next chapter of this. So anyway, please enjoy.

(Day 2)

June 6th

I woke up around eleven in the morning. That was way more than twelve hours of sleep and I had to wonder how was it possible that I was that tired. Either way, I rubbed my eyes and hoped to get all the sleepy feeling out of them.

My stomach growled and I could clearly remember I went to bed without dinner last night. I was starved. Ice cream does not hold a teenage boy over. So with the biggest grumble that I could muster, I escaped the confines of my bed. Before my stomach would growl again, I went to the bathroom to use it and take a brief shower. My room was connected to one of the bathrooms in the upper apartment so wasn't I lucky. I don't think I could handle sharing the bathroom with my brothers again, especially not Ven. He took hours to preen himself. In the end, we still looked alike, so nothing he did changed any of that.

After my bathroom trip, and another three stomach growls, I ran downstairs to grab some breakfast. I was hoping that someone was awake and made food. Cooked food would make my stomach feel wonderful after not eating the night before.

I made it down the stairs and to the kitchen only to see Ven eating some Honey Nut Cheerios. Ven being up first was new...Ven not burning down the kitchen in an attempt to make pancakes was also new. This was so not my twin. Or one of my twins. I blinked around three times to make sure that what I was seeing was actually happening. If Sora was downstairs then he would have surely pinched me. Then it really hit me. Ventus was already down here, before me, and around eleven thirty-five in the morning. Hours of preening...hours of making himself look exactly like me.

I wasn't a good cook either and thus I decided to just make myself a bowl of cereal myself. I looked at the cabinet to see if there was anything I was willing to eat. Lucky Charms was my favorite cereal, I mean toasted oats and marshmallows are genius together. My death would have to be from suffocation on Lucky Charm marshmallows, nothing else would be acceptable. I was highly upset that there wasn't a box of it. Mom got everyone's favorite but mine...hell she even got Vanitas's and he's with Dad. Oh wait. Did she forget that I liked Lucky Charms and Van liked Fruit Loops? That would be some major bull if she did.

With a glare, I poured a bowl of Fruit Loops. I wanted to be anywhere but at home at that moment. Who forgets their son's favorite cereal? It's not like I changed it often, I don't remember changing it at all. I was irritated, probably irrationally irritated, but one couldn't tell me that at the time. I don't think I've ever heard of someone angrily eating cereal, but there I was doing so. Eat spoonful was a crunch of anger that was followed by angry chewing, and irritated swallowing. It was a bit of an irrational mess the whole way through.

I could hear Sora's feet as he walked down the stairs. It was weird that the kitchen was where the stairs were, but I'm not going to fault the designer of the house. It really didn't help that Sora had a problem with walking heavy when not in his shoes. He looked like he just got out of bed, white t-shirt and red basketball shorts being all that he wore. His hair was always a spiky mess and well now it was worse than normal. He was so the adorable brother.

I gave a chuckle as I thought about it. If Van were here, he would have ruffled Sora's spikes and made him go back upstairs to change. It was Van that let us know "personality" of brother we are. Sora is of course the innocent and adorable brother, I mean there's nothing else that can describe him. Ventus is the dreaming brother, always having huge aspirations and wanting to fulfill them all. I am the confused and angry brother. I get angry easily and when confused that anger gets worse. As loving and sweet as our older brother sounds, Van is quite the ass and he enjoys being one.

Sora walked over to the stove, still wiping the sleep from his eyes. I watched him and wondered what he was going to be making for breakfast. He wasn't exactly a good cook, but he was better than me in the breakfast department. Two skillets were placed on the stove and he soon turned to the fridge to get bacon. Bacon and pancakes, it wasn't going to be anything else as we all craved pancakes in the morning. A trait from our mom.

After a second breakfast, in which Sora made some absolutely perfect vanilla flavored pancakes, we started a cleaning session in the area meant for the shop. Mom hadn't came downstairs yet, so why not? Well Sora went back upstairs to shower and change clothes since there was a huge glass window in the front. The cleaning session included moving plants to be in the light better, mopping, sweeping, dusting, you know all the usual stuff. It wasn't long at all, maybe around half an hour of getting things done.

So we all went back upstairs to see what we were going to do for the day. I wanted to head out some more, get used to the new town we were in. Ventus wanted to play his PS3 for the day as he had unpacked it the night before but went to sleep before he could play. Sora wanted to come with, however, he explained that one of us should at least make sure Mom was okay. It was a shame that I couldn't spend time with my brothers while being outside, but it was alright. I could always get bored and come back home with them.

We all went to our rooms and I decided to change clothes so I could go outside for a bit. I changed into a pair of tan shorts that stopped right below my knees, a black vest with a silver zipper, my x-shaped necklace, and my gray and black shoes with red velcro. I checked out myself in the mirror, working on the spikes in my hair so they would go the opposite direction of what Ven's did. My rings, one black and one white, were put on my left index and left middle fingers respectively. Before you knew it, I was running down the stairs and out the door.

For it to be around one in the afternoon, I was not expecting the sun to be beating down on my face. I shielded my eyes from it and started walking down the street, humming a slightly dark tune. The tune reminded me of Sora's best friend from the island, Riku. The slightest hint of a blush came to my cheeks, it never happened when thinking of him before. If anything thinking of Riku usually brought to mind his brothers, and more specifically his younger brother Kadaj. It was probably the heat making me think that I was blushing.

I wondered where I would go for the day as I had already went to the ice cream shop. Just thinking about the shop reminded me of the jerk from the day before and I really didn't want to catch wind of him. I looked up and could see a huge clock tower from what seemed to be northwest of town. That was the place that I was going to go, I wanted to be on top of it. I would brag to Sora and Ven later about being on top of the clock tower later too.

I continued my walk until I found myself in a dark alley, in the middle of the day. Alleys weren't common on Destiny Islands, only knowing what they are from television shows and movies. Even then you only saw them in the middle of the night. I wasn't sure how it was possible for the small area to be dark this early in the afternoon. Well I guess it's because there are a bunch of huge buildings around so they blocked out the sun. Still it was weird.

There were a few people there and movies have taught me to never trust anyone in an alleyway. Everything says to stay away from them and here I was going closer to them. It's not like I could just back out the alley and go a whole separate way to get to the clock tower. No, that would sound like something a rational and sane person would do. This was so going to be my fault if I got attacked.

In my hopes of being stealthy enough to not be caught, I swear I ran into everything. Several trash cans, kicked an aluminum can, broke a few twigs, stubbed my toe on a brick wall. I'm not even sure how any of those things were even possible, but it was. I was outed and damn were those guys not scary looking at all. They had to be teenage boys, not much older than myself, and were quite bland looking. A couple brunets, a blond or two, three with black hair, and the leader being a redhead. Not the redhead from the ice cream shop, no, a duller shade of red. Now did I think I could fight all of them and run? Hell no. I didn't even think I could take out the leader in an one-on-one battle.

"What's a kid doin' here?" a chubby brunet guy asked.

"Pro'ally tryna' steal our treasures," a blond looked over at the redhead.

The redhead looked between all of his underlings and me. I kneeled down and grabbed a stick just in case they attempted to jump me. It wasn't a new thing that people picked on the new kid no matter what could be considered the environment. I was new, trespassing on their territory, and could potentially be trying to steal their "treasures" so I was not to be trusted. Made me wonder if they could tell that I was new. They seemed a little off, and not just the butchering of the language.

My eyes went straight for the glint of silver that I was able to catch. Brown eyes narrowed slowly as he continued to look at me. I probably shouldn't have grabbed the stick, but I'm only here to defend myself. He walked closer to me, and it was easy to see that he was holding onto a dagger. No, not some basic knife, a plain looking dagger with a double edged blade.

"What are ya' doin' here?" he asked.

"He's come to steal our treasure, Peter," the other guys chimed from behind.

"Hush. I'm askin' the kid," he turned back to his group. Once they quieted down he turned back to me, "Why are ya' here?"

"Walking pass. Trying to get to the clock tower," I held my fear in check.

"No one goes through here ta' get ta' the tower. I think ya' tryna' take our treasure," he held the dagger out.

"How can I be after a treasure I know nothing about. I can honestly say that I am going to the damned clock tower," I looked around the alleyway, hoping that no one was coming up behind me.

It was hard to try to keep my eyes focused on anything. There was a kid holding a dagger in an attempt to threaten me, and this alley was open ended so who knows if another member of his group wasn't just sneaking up on me. I was scared, no doubt about it.

Someone touched my left shoulder and I quickly turned around. Have I ever stated how much I hated being short? I really do hate it. Turning only got me a good look of red and black. It's way too early to be dealing with these kinds of things and quite annoying even if it wasn't like one in the afternoon. My hair was ruffled and instead of being angry, I thought about my older brother being near.

"Don't worry about him, Pan. He's just lost and trying to find his way," an obnoxious voice I really had hoped to never hear again.

"Why should I believe ya', Flames?" Peter, well at least that what I thought was his name, folded his arms over his chest.

"Well I could just call my gang up and we not only steal your 'treasure' but make sure you never see it again. Got it memorized?" The redhead from the other day smirked.

"F...fi..fine. But keep tha' kid off our turf," Peter said, slightly afraid.

The guy grabbed my hand and we walked straight through the alley with no problems. I tried hard not to look up at him, but once we were back in the sunlight I couldn't help it. Black and red were his red t-shirt shirt and black sleeveless jacket. There was an orange keffiyeh wrapped around his neck and black fingerless gloves on his hands. Did he have no fashion sense? Leave the jacket and change his shirt white and sure the keffiyeh would work. Not that I cared or anything.

I wanted to say something, maybe a thanks or anything of the sort, but my mouth was refusing to open. Probably had something to do with all the fear that was running through me not that long ago. Fear isn't something that comes to me often so who knows what was going on with my body. I could hear all three of my brothers berating me for not understanding how my body works under fear. I was usually cautious about things, not running in head first like my twins. Its rare for me to go head first into anything that might be a bit skeptical.

It didn't seem like he minded the silence at all. He just squeezed my hand a bit and as much as I wanted to pull my hand away, I couldn't. He just saved me from something that was going to happen. If I can't vocally give him thanks, then this was the best thing. It wasn't like our skin was touching except for his fingers.

"You should stay away from that alley. Peter and his gang are some weird drug users," he looked down at me.

"Drug users?" I asked.

"Yeah, something called Pixie Dust. It makes people hallucinate and they see some weird shit called Neverland or whatever," he shrugged his shoulders.

I was going to get messed up by some drug users. In an alley, way too close to my home was a group of drug users. I just wanted to find somewhere to hide for a few hours after that. The thought that I could see them again and any time soon was an exhausting thought. I wasn't scared anymore, just not willing to deal with them.

"Where are you trying to go? I only happened to see you and Peter looking like you were about to stand off," he stopped walking.

"I wanted to go to the clock tower," I muttered.

"Why didn't you hop on a tram?" he asked.

"I'm new here, I don't know anything about trams or where they go or how much they cost or anything else that deals with trams," I glared up at him.

"Well of course you're new. No hot blonds in the slums, at least nowhere near as hot as you," he chuckled. "But you should do your research before coming out the house."

"What are you, my mom?" I scoffed at him and took my hand out of his.

"No. I'm just your friendly neighborhood Axel Sinclair, got it memorized?" he tapped his temple with his left forefinger.

I let out a small chuckle after seeing his gesture. He didn't seem that bad of a guy, but it was still a bit of a ways before I could trust him. It's not like I didn't want to after he helped me out like that, but he was still annoying. Twice in the time that he has spoken to me has been about my looks.

"I can get you to the clock tower, since you decided to go the backstreet way. Let's see, station heights should be a half an hour walk west. Then we go north for about ten minutes and we make it to station plaza," Axel grinned.

"Are you serious? Over forty minutes of walking from here?" I looked at him in disbelief.

"We can always make it to a main street and catch a tram from there. Better be glad that they come like every ten or so minutes," he tapped his left foot on the ground.

"Okay. Then where's the nearest main street?" I asked.

"For a tram to the station, we just go east for about five minutes," he grabbed my hand again.

He was an idiot. Axel could have graduated high school at the age of ten and I would still find him to be an idiot. Who in their right mind would suggest going the hard way to a newcomer? If I could have stabbed him with my stick, I would have. Why did I still have this damn stick?

I'll skip the boring part of making it to a tram stop, which was like ten minutes from my house. The tram itself was fairly cheap, ten Munny for an all day pass and three Munny for a single ride. Axel paid for both of us, all day passes for both. We took our seats near the back and I fell in love with the feeling of the town. Though the sun was high in the sky, it seemed to always feel like it was in twilight. I wanted to ask Axel about it, but he was probably too stupid to know the actual reason.

My face was pressed up against the window as the orange vehicle started to slow to the last stop. The tram ride was around fifteen or so minutes, as said by the redheaded idiot sitting next to me. I didn't want to leave, screw the clock tower. I wanted to see more of the town just like this, the complete safety of a vehicle that wouldn't just pick up people without Munny.

Luck wasn't on my side and Axel dragged me off. The clock tower turned out to be a train station that led to other districts in the city. My eyes widened when I really saw how tall the tower really was. I thought that it was just because it sat on a hill that it was easy to see, but no, it was at least thirty stories high. This had to be the tallest building I had ever seen. No matter what one reads in a book or a few magazines, seeing something up close makes a huge difference.

Axel only chuckled and pulled me towards the station. I swear he was not going to keep dragging me wherever he wanted me to go. At least, I kept telling myself that but I knew better. I was too amazed by the sights to even really move and if he left me behind who knew what would happen. No cell phone to call home and even if I did it wouldn't mean that anyone knew how to get here. I was going to have to stay with the redhead no matter how much I didn't want to.

I wasn't sure why I didn't expect there to be an elevator to get to the top, nor that the elevator would be one that you had to pay to get on. Thirty Munny per person and again Axel paid for us. I was keeping track, that was like forty Munny that I would have to pay him back, and eighty Munny for the overall day. Either he was loaded to be able to spend Munny like that or he was really trying to woo me. I was really preferring for him to be rich. At least I was hoping that until we reached the top.

Twilight Town was beautiful from this height. Everything could be seen, people the size of ants, houses, shops. My whole little neighborhood was easily seen just from looking out front. Looking east and I could see the ocean. This was the best thing ever and I couldn't wait to see more of the town through my own two feet, or the tram. We were the only ones up here so we took a seat on the ledge, front and center.

"I see you're amazed," Axel grinned.

"I didn't think I would see something this beautiful. I never thought anywhere could be as beautiful as home," I answered.

"Your home?" he asked and handed me a bottle Sprite.

Not questioning where it came from, I started talking about home, "My island that's home. A view like this is quite different from sitting on a Paopu Tree and staring at the ocean. I wish I could share this view with my friends. I bet Xion would like it best."

I didn't realize how much I said to a total stranger before I looked at him. His eyes had softened and he looked at me like he could understand where I was coming from. He seemed like a totally different person from the guy hitting on me the day before.

"This town has it's perks if you let it. Moving is tough and I'm sure you haven't been here long enough to really know anything about here, but I'm always willing to teach you," he ruffled my hair.

"Axel," I stared directly into his eyes.

"I've only been here in Twilight Town for a few years myself, trust me I know how hard it is to move. I got lucky and my best friend was moving here too. We hated it. None of our other friends were here, snacks weren't the same, things just felt completely different. A week after moving, we came up here and found something worth it. A sight this breathtaking isn't everywhere and we accepted the move. It doesn't take away from missing friends and wishing they could be up here with you. It does make things a little easier. You can just come here when you're feeling upset, lonely, or whatever," Axel had a faint smile on his face.

I didn't think of anything of the sort. I really thought that I was going to hate this place until everything fell into a routine. Of course I didn't have Munny to be coming up here whenever I felt lonely or anything. It was a nice thought though.

"Thank you, Axel," I grinned.

"Huh? For what?" he sounded genuinely confused.

"Saving me back in the alley and bringing me up here," I finally said it.

"No problem. A better thanks would be telling me your name. I already told you mine after all."

"Oh, I guess I didn't tell you. My name is Roxas Strife," I opened the bottle.

I was happy up here. The two of us, a bottle of Sprite, and an endless sky high above. It was relaxing and a bit nostalgic. There were times on the island where I would stay out later than I was supposed to just to sit on the Paopu Tree. Van would find me and the two of us would sit there together with something to drink and something to snack on.

This wasn't exactly it. Axel wasn't like an older brother, but a very close friend. At least that was how it was feeling for me right now. A friend that I had known for a while and wasn't willing to let go of. Granted he was still an idiot, a perverted idiot, but he has his good side. Can't believe my whole view of him changed in a such a matter of moments.

"You know, you're cute," Axel broke me out of my thoughts.

"You can't go too long without reminding me that you find me attractive can you?" I punched him on the shoulder.

"In my defense, I have never seen anyone as cute as you. A shame really, I bet you left behind a real cutey back home," he grinned.

"I don't date," I mumbled.

"Then that means you're free for me!" he grabbed my hand.

"I never said I like men."

"Never said you didn't."

"That doesn't mean that I do!" I hit him with the bottle.

"Oh how you wound me," he placed his hands over his heart.

As jokingly as it seemed, I have never thought about being with anyone. I'm fourteen and never even held hands with anyone other than my family. Okay, except just now with Axel I guess. I didn't find anyone attractive on the island, not in a romantical sense. Sora liked men and Ventus liked women. Getting to know anything about what Van liked was such a hassle. So what about me? Did I like one or the other? Did I like both or neither? I didn't know.

It was like earlier in the day when I thought about Riku and somehow started to blush. It never happened before with anyone. So what did that even mean? Would I develop something for the redhead sitting next to me? It wasn't like I was going to just be like sure right now. Why did people think that being a teenager meant that romance was a thing? Why couldn't we just wait until we were ready for such a thing? Why didn't the media portray it in such a way?

I watched him as he pulled out a black smartphone with red flames on the back. In rhinestone the word "Sexy" was at the top of the flame design. I didn't ask what he was doing or if he was talking to someone with it. I didn't really care, too interested in my own thoughts than what he could be doing. The action had just caught my eye.

"I'm needed somewhere, so it looks like our time is going to be cut short," he rolled his eyes at his phone.

"Well that sucks. Guess I'll catch you later," I said softly to hide my disappointment.

"You really think I'm going to leave you up here by yourself? You probably don't know which tram to take to get you home."

"Got me there. But you have to be somewhere and I doubt you have time to make sure I get home safely."

"Pfft. I'll take you to the ice cream shop we met yesterday. I have to go just a bit further from there so it's not really out of the way."

I nodded at him and stood up. Lesson learned to never stand on the edge of the clock tower, it felt like I was going to fall. Axel only gave me a smile and grabbed my hand again. Still haven't told him that I was willing to be with him and he is just enjoying having my hand in his. It wasn't a bad feeling at all.

The elevator didn't cost to go back down and boy was I glad. I already was owing him a lot of Munny in my opinion and didn't do enough chores to get an allowance. A tram was already outside of the station waiting for passengers to get on. As luck would have it, not my luck either, it was the correct tram for us to get to where we needed to go. Maybe it was my luck since neither of us really wanted to leave one another.

The ride was quiet between us and I didn't look out the window at the amazing environment that I found myself in. I didn't take my hand out of his either. In fact, this was probably more comfortable than the first ride we did. Well no, not probably, it really was. I knew better than to think that he was going to start doing perverted things again.

"Roxas," he smiled at me.

"Huh? What is it?" I blinked twice.

"I was just testing out your name. It sounds so natural to say it and well I want to say it more."

"Here I was thinking that you weren't going to continue being weird in my presence."

"Nope, I am naturally weird and don't care about how weird I am."

"Great, now I have to pretend not to know you. What's your name again? Ajax?" I grinned.

"Oh ha ha. Considering how you've said my name twice, I think you've gotten it memorized already," Axel tugged on one of my spikes.

It was almost like I was around Kadaj again. We had a weird friendship dealing with a lot of insults and sometimes deep conversations. Axel wasn't like Kadaj though. The redhead was more perverted and had a Riku-vibe to him. It was strange, very strange in my opinion.

There we were getting close to the shop by Twilight Ice Cream. I wasn't ready to go home just yet, not just because I was enjoying my time with Axel either. I didn't want to go home and deal with my mom just yet. She was going to be a downer to my day and seeing as how I was only gone for like two hours, she was going to find a way to make sure I end up being upset.

We got off and again he ruffled my hair only for me to smack his hand away. He got away with it enough in my opinion. Had to teach him that he can't just touch my hair and think it was okay. I hated it. I hated anyone messing with my hair, no matter how soothing it felt at times. With a wave we started walking in two different directions. It was bittersweet, but it wasn't like I would never see him again. As long as I stayed in Twilight Town, I knew I would see him again.