Author's note: Yoyoyo. Gosh, I can't believe this is chapter 18… where did all the other chapters go? They're going like HOTCAKES! This chapter is… Alrightish. I'm not too sure about it to be honest but, oh well. I don't like writing Roxas/Seifer…. It's killing me. Well, not really, it's making me laugh. But that's not the point. So, yes, Thanks to my wonderful beta, she rocks and makes me feel better about every chapter. Jaa. ENJOY!

-o-x-Chapter 18-x-o-

Roxas rubbed the sleep from his eyes and wearily put his alarm clock that was tell him to 'wake-up, sunshine! It's a b-e-a-utiful day!' on snooze. He could sleep for a few more minutes.

'…I know what you want from me, doo bee doo bee doo da da doo bee doo bee doo da da! Sweet little Bumble bee more than just a fantasy!'

Then again, maybe not.

He kicked his covers off, grabbed his towel and walked into his bathroom. As much as he 'liked' Sora's renditions of DDR songs, he couldn't really relax through them.

-x-X-x-

One nice, refreshing shower later, Roxas sat at the breakfast bar munching on a bowl of Rice Krispies with Demyx and Sora, under the watchful eye of his Aunty.

She was eyeing all three boys beadily. It was like being in a room with a movement censored surveillance camera - not very pleasant.

Roxas rubbed his neck absent-mindedly and, sure enough, her attention snapped from a bouncing Demyx to poor Roxie. Her lips curved in mild amusement.

"Nice hickey, Roxas." She tittered.

Sora and Demyx both turned to stare at him. Roxas clapped his hands over the offending purple marks, appalled.

"I suppose I should now give you a lecture on how 'stupid' it is to let someone so that to you, but my imagination is a little tired so I'll let you off."

He sighed in relief.

"That's really now fair," Demyx whined, "I still have mental scars from the time you gave me that talk. Scars, mum! SCARS!"

She looked at him with sarcastic sympathy, "Yes, dear. The eldest child always has it the worst."

He nodded almost proudly and went back to inspecting his bowl. The room was silent once again. Jess was looking at Roxas. She was trying to read him. He could tell. Well, screw her. He was a very hard book to read, like one of those classics where you have to read each sentence about three times and even then you don't really understand what it meant.

"So, are ya gonna tell me who did it?" she asked, twirling a lock of her blonde hair which was an almost impeccable imitation of Rikku.

"No." Roxas replied simply without even looking at her.

"Fine. I guess I'll just ask Naminé, Rikku and Yuffie…" she said, an evil glint in her eyes.

"You do that." Roxas wasn't scared of her. He was a big boy. And big boys weren't scared of crazy thirty-something year-old ladies. No sir, they most definitely weren't.

"You know you are scared of me really, Roxas."

Damn it. She could read him like one of the 'Peter and Jane' books he had been taught to read with. And it wasn't even book two (We're Peter and Jane. Trouble is our middle name.)

He scowled at her and scraped the last few bits of soppy cereal out of his bowl. The sooner he got out of the door, the sooner he would be away from the crazy lady.

-x-X-x-

After a short car journey (how Demyx had ever managed to pass his test, Roxas would never know), they arrived at school. Amazingly in one piece.

Demyx practically shoved Sora and Roxas out of the car and hurried off in the direction of a livid blonde girl. Roxas was very glad he didn't have to go in that direction, she looked as though she would punch anyone that came near her.

He was also glad that he wasn't in Sora's position. The poor brunette was currently being hugged (to death) by three (rabid fan) girls.

That was until he saw Seifer and his 'gang' walking towards him. If it were a choice between Seifer and a coach load of fan girls; he take the latter. Ten times over.

He waved at the tall blonde with a fake smile plastered on to his features, remembering what Rikku had told him. Roxas did feel ever so slightly mean for using someone like this. He tried to reassure himself that Seifer was probably using him too - for things he really didn't want to envision - but it didn't make him feel any better. In fact, it made him feel a whole lot worse.

There was just a small group of freshmen girls between them now and Seifer pushed through them roughly, Rai and Fuu following (or lumbering, in Rai's case) after him. Roxas found himself being dragged into a forceful kiss by the front of his shirt. He was unsurprised though a little unnerved by the way Rai and Fuu just stood watching with their arms folded.

But, honestly, who wouldn't feel slightly uncomfortable when you were being unwillingly made out with and being watched by two rather intimidating, yet expressionless, people?

Eventually, Seifer pulled away and gave Roxas a sort of satisfied smirk. He slung an arm around the smaller blonde's shoulders, which did surprise Roxas, and started walking in the direction of Roxas' locker. Roxas looked behind him to see that Rai and Fuu were following them. He didn't know whether to be annoyed or relieved. Surly Seifer wouldn't like… rape him in front of these guys, right? RIGHT?

-x-X-x-

"…Larxene?" Demyx approached the fuming blonde warily; he was 'testing the water' so to speak. He didn't know what level her anger was on. It didn't look like friendly-let's-pull-Marluxia's-hair Larxene, but it didn't look like I-have-PMS-and-I-am-going-to-punch-anyone-who-comes-within-a-five-meter-radius-of-me Larxene either. Maybe it was I-am-in-serious-need-of-a-punch-bag Larxene.

Just in case, Demyx stood a couple of feet away.

She snapped around and glared at him, "What do you want, Demyx?"

'Oh. Sorry. Did I interrupt something? It didn't look like you were doing much. Maybe you were trying to kill the grass by staring at it. God. She really has anger issues. It's like the time she threw her Math textbook at our teacher and it went through the whiteboard. If a normal person had thrown it, it would have just bounced off and landed on the floor. But NOOO you've got so much anger it went through the board, leaving a hole and everything. She really has problems. Axel should totally chuck her.'

Then it clicked. He was so glad he hadn't said that out loud, if he had he would be a little ball of pulp in a crater on the moon right now. It was obvious what was wrong with her now he thought about it. She'd found out that Axel liked someone else. Damn it. When he found the person who had told he would take away all their candy. And if they didn't have any, he would give them some and then take it away.

"Demyx…" she said, a hint of steely malice in her voice. Did I say a hint? I meant a tonne.

"I-err… What's wrong…?"

Yes. Playing the idiot was always very clever.

She - metaphorically - exploded.

"What's wrong? What's WRONG?! Only the fact that your stupid little cousin is trying to steal my boyfriend!"

Demyx paled considerably, "Oh, that. Ahee… Well, ya see…" he shuffled back a few steps, preparing to run away, "I don't know a thing!" It was true enough.

He shook his head, then nodded, then shook it again. Then he gave up all hope and legged it.

"Run! Run away!" He yelled at a group of random people as he passed them. They all shrugged and one of them said,

"There goes another one."

-x-X-x-

Roxas sat down heavily in the standard dark blue chair that was only half screwed onto the frame supporting it in front of his German desk. He exhaled loudly.

He rubbed his forehead tiredly, trying to erase the thought of when Seifer would next ask if he had 'proved himself' yet.

A group of girls were staring at him from the other side of the classroom. They immediately stopped talking when they noticed him looking at them and smiled at him. Then they all giggled and went back to whispering behind their hands.

Roxas shook his head in half annoyance and half amusement and rubbed his eyes sleepily. He really should have gone to bed earlier last night.

He pulled his books out of his bags and quickly checked if he'd done the homework. He frowned at a little note in small italic scribble in the margin.

We did your homework! LOLLOLLOL love ya! Xxxxxxx

He rolled his eyes: unless 'we' for some strange reason meant Demyx, he wasn't going to get a good mark, but he really couldn't be bothered to redo it.

Roxas looked up when the red-head came into the room, ignoring the now familiar leaping sensation. He scowled when he saw the same group of girls wave at Axel and burst into a fit of giggles when he nodded at them. Stupid girls.

"Hey, Roxas," Axel said, sitting on the chair next to Roxas and resting his feet on the table.

"Hey." He replied shortly.

The red-head gave him a funny look and cracked his gum, "Sheesh, who shove a pole up your ass…"

Roxas laughed sarcastically and stuck his tongue out at Axel, not caring if it was childish.

Axel smirked at him then his eyebrows contracted, "Jeez, I think you should buy your boyfriend some food and not let him have you for dinner."

Roxas raised his eyebrows, concealing his joyous feelings, "What are you talking about?"

"Well, he seems to have tried to drink great goblets of your blood. Is he a vampire or something?"

Roxas smirked in amusement, "Jealous much, Axel?"

The red-head took his feet off the desk and leaned forward so he was looking right into Roxas' blue eyes, "Now, why would I be jealous?"

That stung more than it should have, but Roxas realised that this was probably a really good moment to try out the next thing on the list Rikku, Yuffie and Naminé had given him.

He looked back up into Axel's eyes, causing the red-head to jump slightly in surprise before smirking. Roxas turned his head away from Axel slowly, not breaking their eye contact until the last minute. Then he looked back at him and smiled.

To Roxas' delight, Axel was just staring at him with a slack jaw, his mouth hanging open slightly.

Unfortunately, Frau Molesworth walked in at that moment. Axel shook himself slightly and turned to face the front of the room.

Roxas just smiled triumphantly to himself and opened his books. He decided that he really ought to give those girls more credit. They really did know what they were doing.

-x-X-x-

Author's Note: HAHAHAHAHA. Yes. You see, you will get the AkuRoku you are gagging for. I PROMISE you. Okay, so I'm going to answer some questions now…

How long is this story going to be?

If I knew, I couldn't tell you. I'm kidding, I'm not really that sure, I think it'll be somewhere around twenty five to thirty chapters but I'm not sure. Probably thirty. We'll see.

How long is this whole Seifer thing going to go on for?

Gawsh, hopefully not too much longer. I haven't actually planned how long it will go on for… maybe a few more chapters.

I'm itching to see what will happen next with the Seifer plot twist. What will Axel do? Will he be jealous? Or not?

Bhahaha, you just found out, didn't you! Well, you kinda did. Hmfp.

Do I get a prize for being the 101th reviewer?

Of course, here you are -hands a giant cookie-

Okay, I'm off now. See you in the next chappie! :D

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