Ok. I'm back with more KH2 goodness! Sorry for the wait but…um well…yeah stuff has been going on, ya know? And then there was some weird problem on dunno. This chapter will be leading us into the romantic drama and mishaps that will provide the meat of this story. We see some new character developments as well as some tragic and comedic misunderstandings.

NOTE: I'm not to sure on all the eye colors of characters so I'm taking guesses and using a bit of artistic license with eye color. please forgive me. And remember to Review after the chapter to tell me what you thought.

Disclaimer: I don't own them!!! WAAH! If I did though…it'd be rated much higher than what it is…and there would be so much gay that your head would explode and rain skittles.

Ch.5: Nothing is as it Appears

30 minutes later

"Hey! Roxas over here!" Kairi yelled over to the front of the dining hall as she saw Roxas about to enter. The blonde turned around and saw the auburn haired girl waving him over frantically. "Hey. What's going on?" the blonde asked her as he walked over to meet her. But before he could get an answer the brunette grabbed him by the wrist and began to pull him away from the front of the dining hall "Hey! W-what the hell?" Roxas managed to sputter out as he hesitantly allowed the girl to drag him over to a small shaded area behind the building.

There he saw Sora and the others sitting on top of a black blanket like material around the trunk of large tree. "Hey guys I found Roxie!" Kairi announced happily as she released Roxas' wrist and skipped over towards the others and took a seat beside Selphie and Namine. The others all looked up from their breakfast and gave Roxas various greetings of hello as the blonde sat down on an open spot of cloth between Zexion and Namine. "Finally! It's about time you came Roxas!" Sora exclaimed with mock impatience.

Roxas rolled his eyes at his cousin mumbling "shut up…" as Namine giggled and handed him a small brown paper bag. "I swiped you some food so you wouldn't have to go wait in line when you got here" the sweet smiling blonde said as she gave him the bag. Roxas looked down at the bag and then looked up at Namine with a slight blush and smiled "um…thanks" he said softly and the girl giggled at him before picking up her yogurt cup again.

"Awww…What's with the blush Roxie? Do you have a crush on Namine or something? " Selphie asked with a teasing grin. Roxas shot his head up and stared wide eyed at the stiff haired brunette as the others in their little breakfast circle all stopped and stared expectantly at Roxas. "N-No! That's impossible" Roxas huffed tensely as he opened his bag and pulled out a blueberry muffin. "Hey guys! What'd we miss?" Axel asked energetically as he and Demyx came strolling over to the tree.

Roxas felt his heart jump for a moment as he looked up towards the increasingly familiar voice. Axel had a half eaten pop tart in one hand and the other was slung around Demyx's shoulders quite comfortably as the dirty blonde teen leaned slightly on Axel's slim but sturdy chest. Roxas narrowed his eyes slightly as he turned back to his muffin and started biting into hit rather violently. It was weird, he couldn't explain it but for some reason when he saw Demyx with Axel like that it made him feel really pissed off and a little bit sick.

Namine gave Riku a bemused look and the silver haired teen smirked evilly as he looked up at his two cabin mates. "Not much…Roxas was just trying to deny that he has a crush on Namine, that's all" Riku said as he tried to hold back his laughter. Roxas immediately shot Riku a glare as he made his comment. "What? Of course Roxas doesn't like Namine…why would he when he has me?" Axel said with a mock pout as he left Demyx's side and bent down to wrap his arms around Roxas' shoulders from the back.

Roxas stiffened his back and went rigid as Axel nuzzled his face in Roxas' hair "riiiight Rox?" Axel crooned as the others in the group broke out in spurts of snickering laughter. Roxas turned bright red as the older teen hugged him from behind "g-get off me…" Roxas ground out weakly as he tried desperately to control his breathing. "Ax…maybe you should let him go before he passes out or something…" Kairi said between giggles as she noticed that Roxas looked a bit light headed from all the blood rushing to his face. "Huh?" Axel responded dumbly as he pulled away from Roxas slightly and looked down at the blonde who was currently shivering lightly as his face still burned red.

"Are you ok?" Axel asked with a small hint of worry as he crawled around to look Roxas directly in the face. Most of the others halted their laughter and looked over at the blonde who they now realized seemed to be seething with anger as he looked at the redhead. Roxas' right eye twitched and Sora frowned worriedly and scooted away from Riku and closer to Zexion on his left "um…Riku…you may want to move over a little" Sora said weakly as he looked over at his silver haired friend. "Why…?" Riku asked incredulously as he looked over at his best friend.

"Roxy?" Axel asked with a curious lopsided grin as he poked the blonde's forehead. Roxas looked up directly into Axel's concerned green eyes and gave him a glare that could freeze death as the blonde leaned back slightly on his arms. "SCREW YOU!" Roxas grunted angrily as he reeled back his legs and kicked Axel squarely in the chest effectively knocking the wind out of the redhead as well as propelling him back into Riku who sat across from Roxas. "Oof!" Riku grunted painfully as Axel's back collided with his chest and caused them both to fall back against the jagged bark of the tree.

"Holy Crap!" Demyx exclaimed as his hand immediately flew to cover his mouth in shock. "Eep! Riku! Axel! Are you guys ok?" Sora panicked as he crawled over to make sure neither of them had hit their heads or broken anything and Kairi leapt up to go see if they were ok as well. Selphie and Namine just sat there in stunned shock looking between Roxas and the twitching lump that was Riku and Axel. Zexion politely turned away and coughed to try and keep down the laughter that threatened to spill out.

"I told you to get off of me…idiot" Roxas snapped angrily as he stood himself up stiffly and brushed his knees off. "Shit Roxas! What's wrong with you?" Demyx went over and asked him in a serious tone that did not even attempt to mask the confusion and hurt he felt. Roxas looked up at the taller dirty blonde haired teen and shrugged coolly "it's not my fault that your boyfriend is a jerk" Roxas replied smartly as he brushed past the other boy. Demyx was left staring after the other blonde as he made his way off to the patch of woods that didn't have a paved path through it.

"Whoa…he looks royally pissed" Selphie scoffed as she watched the blonde disappear behind some trees. "Get the hell off me!" Riku winced as he hoisted himself to a seated position and shoved Axel roughly off of his lap. Axel scrambled up and away from Riku's lap and sat up on his knees holding a hand to his chest and coughing slightly. Riku rubbed the back of his head painfully and Sora grabbed his still partially frozen water bottle and pressed up against the back of Riku's head where his hand was.

"Ah! Geez that's cold…" Riku cursed as the cold water bottle stung the tender quickly swelling bump he had coming in. Sora sighed helplessly as he held the cold compress against his friend's head "I told you to move over…" the brunette said in one of those annoying 'I-told-you-so' voices. "Is he usually that pleasant in the mornings?" Kairi asked in a sarcastic tone as she rubbed Axel's back soothingly to try and calm his coughing. "Yeah…that was a bit intense" Namine agreed grimly as she looked back to where Roxas had gone off.

"When Roxas was in middle school he got harassed a lot because he was short and kind of feminine looking…" Sora started but he was interrupted by a scoff from Riku "but he still is" Riku replied dryly and Sora rolled his eyes before pressing the bottle harder on Riku's lump causing the other boy to hiss in pain. "ANYWAY, like I was saying…Roxas got harassed a lot so my aunt enrolled him in kick boxing classes so that he could be able to defend himself" Sora continued thoughtfully. "Surprisingly …he was pretty good at it" Sora added as an afterthought.

"Seemed that way to me… what did you think Axel?" Zexion asked the redhead with a sarcastic half smirk. Axel turned to glare at the amused looking emo kid "ha-ha very funny…" Axel sneered with a heavy sarcasm as he tried to dust off the foot print on the front of his shirt. "That was pretty awesome though…I wonder if Roxas could teach me how to do that…?" Demyx mused dreamily as he turned to stare in the direction Roxas had gone in.

"Dem…you aren't helping buddy" Axel ground out in false sweetness through his gritted teeth. Demyx snapped out of his day dreaming and turned to give his thoroughly pissed off friend and sheepish apologetic smile "ohh…right…sorry" the blonde shrugged with nervous laughter. "well it's Axel's fault for messing with him." Selphie said huffily as she glared at Axel in a reproaching manner. "What!?" Axel exclaimed incredulously "Selphie has a point…if you hadn't kept laying and groping all over him then maybe he wouldn't have knocked your perverted ass out" Riku muttered bitterly at Axel.

Axel turned to look at the group in shock "Why is it my fault? I was just being friendly!" Axel said defensively as he attempted to put on his most innocent and pitiful kicked puppy look. The others rolled their eyes "Maybe Roxas didn't appreciate your interpretation of friendly…" Zexion suggested with a nonchalant shrug and Axel rolled his eyes at the boy. "Hey, I can't help it if I'm just naturally affectionate" Axel said defensively.

"Or maybe you have a crush on Roxas" Sora suddenly piped up causing all eyes to turn to the spiky haired brunette. Sora blinked "what? I just figured that maybe the reason Axel keeps teasing and paying so much attention to Roxas is because he might like him and be trying to get closer to him until he sorts out his feelings and finds a more effective way to express them. That's all" the brunette said with a carefree shrug. Everyone just stared at the brunette with wide eyes and opened mouths. Finally Namine spoke "wait…so you're telling us that you were able to decipher Axel's growing feelings for Roxas simply based on how he acts around him?" the blonde haired female asked in utter amazement.

"Of course! I thought it was pretty obvious. You guys are just slow I guess" Sora laughed lightly as everyone else sweat dropped 'If you could figure all that out about other people then why cant you figure out your own feelings for Riku?' was the single thought that passed through all the other's heads, except for Riku's. Axel's cheeks tinted a dusty pink color "no way! I hardly know your cousin, Sora. I just liked messing with him and seeing him get all flustered…it was purely out of fun. Its not like I want to date him or something…ha-ha that's ridiculous!" Axel crossed his arms over his chest and attempted to laugh off the whole accusation.

Demyx shook his head at his friend and sighed "wow…you are such a bad liar…cant you just admit that you actually may have feelings for someone?" the sitar playing blonde asked his friend disappointedly. Namine and the other two girls shared a brief knowing smile before turning back to an even redder Axel who was still attempting to brush the whole thing off as nothing. Axel stood himself up quickly and grabbed Demyx by the arm and pulled him towards himself in a dramatic embrace catching the dirty blonde haired teen by surprise.

"Don't worry Dem, you know that no one could ever replace you babe" Axel said with a wide grin as he stroked Demyx's slightly flushed cheek. "A-Axel, you're ignoring the question" Demyx responded with a whiny pout. Kairi rolled her eyes at the two friends' antics and went back to eating her breakfast and chatting lightly with the other two girls. "Don't you two ever give it a rest" Riku sighed in mock disdain as he rolled his eyes at the two while Sora giggled slightly at the two.

Axel nuzzled his face in the crook of Demyx's neck and smiled goofily "but I can't help it! Demyx is so huggable" Axel replied teasingly as Demyx grinned down at his friend and brought a hand up to gently stroke his scarlet mane "dummy…" Demyx laughed aloud as Axel attempted to make purring sounds that ended up sounding like he was choking on chicken noodle soup. During their whole exchange Zexion had been watching Demyx's face intently through the curtain of his silver grayish hair.

Zexion watched the laughing blonde and his leech like redheaded friend for a few moments with a strange dark look in his stormy eyes and a small sad ghost of a smile on his lips. "Eww…get a room you guys!" Sora laughed teasingly at his two friends as he threw a piece of pop tart at Axel's forehead and missing. Riku laughed along with the brunette as he draped an arm casually over Sora's shoulders. Demyx chanced a look over at Zexion only to find the darkly dressed teen looking quite dejectedly at the him.

"Ehh…Zexion…?" Demyx started to inquire as to the boy's health but before he could Zexion stood himself up gracefully and turned to Riku and Sora with his usual bored nonchalant expression. "I'm going to go make sure Roxas doesn't get lost since the 1st block will be starting soon. I'll catch up with you all later" Zexion said with a slight nod towards them, Riku and Sora gave Zexion slightly confused looks but eventually just smiled and nodded him off. "Ok, see you later Zexion! Tell Roxas that if he wants me to beat up Axel for him I will" Namine said with a playful smile on her face.

Zexion gave her a small half smile and nodded. "Wait, you'll what?" Axel asked in mock anger as he pulled away from Demyx and turned to smirk at Namine who merely laughed at him in return "you heard me. You Roxas molester" she giggled teasingly. Zexion turned to go as Namine and Axel went into a mini argument that ended in the other teens all teasing Axel about being a 'Roxas Molester'. Demyx however couldn't shake that empty heart wrenching feeling he had gotten in his chest when he saw that look on Zexion's face.

'Zexion…' Demyx thought sadly as he watched the other boy leisurely walk towards the direction Roxas had stormed off in. As he watched him Demyx suddenly felt his stomach knot up and felt kind of sick as he thought of the sad kind of lonely way Zexion had looked at him just a moment ago. "Demyx? Are you ok?" Riku asked suddenly breaking Demyx out of his dreary musings, "huh? What?" the usually bubbly blonde asked as he whipped his head around and noticed that Riku and the others were all standing now.

Kairi looked at him with a strange scrutinizing look that made him somewhat uncomfortable and the blonde blushed slightly "w-what is it?" he asked nervously. "It's weird…the way you were staring off into space just now. It looked as if you were about to cry or something" the auburn haired girl said with a shrug. Demyx looked taken aback for a moment but then he turned his attention back to his friends and smiled brightly "really? That's weird, I feel fine!" Demyx said as he lightly bonked himself on the side of the head with his fist.

The others all shook their heads and decided that it was just Dem being spacey again.

Meanwhile

"Oh great! Not again" Roxas growled in frustration as he stopped in front of a large rock that he swore he had passed before on his way trying to get back to the camp grounds. He had been wandering around for 15 minutes at least and he couldn't find the pat he took into the woods. And it was all Axel's fault! "Axel…that asshole…" Roxas growled as he tightened his fists at his side. And to make matters worst, he couldn't stop thinking about the redhead and how he had looked at him with such kind and concerned eyes like he didn't realize that Roxas was pissed because of him and his stupid obsessive compulsive flirting.

"Goddamned Redheads!" Roxas cursed aloud before he went over to a nearby tree. Roxas glared heatedly at the tree. "Goddamned nature!" he cursed as he kicked the trunk of the tree hard causing it to shake a bit and a few leaves fall from it's branches.

"Hey watch it Paul Bunion! Are you trying to make me fall and break my neck?" came a slightly familiar and extremely annoyed voice from above him. Roxas looked just in time to see a pink haired blur jump from one of the lower branches of the tree and land gracefully in front of him. Roxas stumbled back a bit in surprise but quickly turned his shocked face to one of mild annoyance as he recognized the tree hopper. "What the heck were you doing up there anyway? You don't seem like the type to risk scuffing up your new shoes" Roxas asked rather snappily.

There in front of him stood a rather miffed looking Marluxia attempting to pick a leaf out of his glossy pink tresses and smooth the mussed up hair down a bit. "Um ok? What exactly crawled up your ass and died this morning? Hello to you too Sora's cousin" Marluxia replied in an equally bitchy tone as he tolled his eyes at the blonde. Roxas bit back a heated reply and looked down from the brown eyes boy and sighed haplessly.

What was with himself today? He wondered. Roxas hadn't meant to snap at the other boy like that, he was just still so pissed off about what happened with Axel. The redhead wasn't aware of how confused and uncomfortable he made the blonde feel with all his flirtatious comments and affectionate embraces. And to top it all off he had teased Roxas about having feeling for him when it was quite apparent that Axel was more "interested" in a different blonde haired boy.

"Sorry…I'm just a little on edge this morning" the blonde reluctantly apologized before looking up with a scowl and adding "and I do have a name by the way. It's Roxas" he said snippily. Marluxia looked at the boy with a small smirk that made Roxas wish he hadn't apologized "I know. But out of curiosity…does your edgy attitude this morning have anything to do with a certain sexy but cocky redhead named Axel?" Marluxia asked playfully with a glint in his eye that told Roxas the boy knew more than he let on.

Marluxia walked over to the large rock Roxas had been at before and he propped his foot up on the rock and bent over to tie his shoe laces. "How did you…?" Roxas began as he turned around quickly and marched over to where Marluxia was tying his shoe. "I heard you having your little bitch fit down here while I was up in the tree" Marluxia answered without even turning to face the boy.

Roxas felt his cheeks redden again at the embarrassment of being caught acting stupid like that. But suddenly Roxas remembered something and he immediately turned back to Marluxia and fixed him with a suspicious glare. "Wait…why were you up in that tree anyway? And don't say you were bird watching because you didn't have any equipment" Roxas asked sternly as he crossed his arms over his chest. Marluxia gave a short chuckle as he finished his last lace and he turned around to look at the impatient look Roxas gave him as he awaited the answer.

Marluxia sighed loudly and scowled lightly as he placed one hand on his dark blue denim clad hip. "Fine. If you must know…I was meeting someone out here earlier and after they left I was about to go back to the camp when I heard footsteps so I hid in the tree" the pink haired teen said as he tucked a strand of hair behind his ear. Roxas took in the other boy's story and suddenly took notice of the boy's disheveled appearance.

Marluxia was wearing a light blue pinstriped linen button up shirt over a more form fitting navy blue t-shirt with the words 'Trust Me I'm A Doctor' written on the front in light blue lettering. But strangely the t-shirt looked a bit rumpled at the bottom as if it'd been tugged down recently and the button down shirt over top of it was a bit wrinkled and the collar was sticking up as if it had been hastily thrown on. Not to mention that the usually cool headed and sneaky looking boy seemed to look rather flushed from the neck up, as if he had just been running.

This all seemed quite suspicious to Roxas "um…why did you hide when you heard me coming?" Roxas asked curiously as the pink haired teen began to straighten up his shirt a bit "my, my! Aren't you nosey…" Marluxia purred through his clamped teeth. "If you must know, me and my friend came out here to this particular spot because we were under the impression that it would be deserted…as in we wouldn't be having any surprise visitors…" Marluxia said with a faux pleasant smile in Roxas' direction to which the boy glared.

"So when we heard someone rustling around out there we split up and I hid up in the tree just in case it was one of the counselors" Marluxia said with a slight blush as he looked away from Roxas as if in thought for a moment. Roxas quirked a curious eyebrow at the older boy 'they wanted to be alone in the woods? And then when they thought a counselor was coming they both took off and hid? Just what the hell were they doing…?' Roxas thought with a mild look of disgust on his face as he tried to imagine just what Marluxia may have been doing in the privacy of the woods with some strange person.

'I hope to God it wasn't that Larxene girl…uggh that's just gross' Roxas shuddered sickly at the thought of those two doing ANYTHING together out here. "MARLY? MARLY!? WHERE ARE YOU!?" came a loud call from off in the distance. Marluxia visibly blanched "oh snap, it's Larxene!" he whispered harshly as he looked around him frantically. Roxas' eyes lit up at the mention of the name "wait so you weren't here with Larxene then?" the blonde asked in slight confusion. Marluxia screwed up his face in disgust "oh hells to the no! why in God's name would you think that?" Marluxia asked the boy as if he'd just bestowed upon him the vilest insult.

Roxas shrugged "um…well if it wasn't here then who…?" the blonde was about to ask but he was cut off by a finger to his lips. Roxas almost jumped back as he watched in shock as Marluxia leaned in closely to his face and removed his finger from Roxas' lips. But before Roxas could question him Marluxia turned and placed his lips closely beside Roxas' ear "Now that, my dear Roxas….is a secret." Marluxia whispered breathily in his ear.

This caused the blonde to blush even harder and stumble backward until he tripped over the rock and fell on his back onto the ground. Marluxia gave the boy a small grin which Roxas noted seemed quite a bit more genuine than the ones he had given him before. "You're so fun to tease Roxas…I can see why Axel likes you so much" Marluxia said as he watched Roxas' face grow even redder at the mention of the other boy and a glare fix itself in Roxas' blue eyes. "MARLUXIA! WHERE ARE YOU? ITS ALMOST TIME FOR MODERN 2!" Larxene's voice carried through the trees like a violent breeze as it became closer. "Later!" Marluxia winked at Roxas before running off through a different path in the woods.

Roxas just laid their panting in shock and mild pain "w-what the hell is wrong with these people?" Roxas sputtered to himself in amazement as he leaned back and shut his eyes. It had only been a day and a half and already this place hard surpassed his expectations of Hellishness. "Roxas is that you?" a sudden voice floated down to Roxas' ears causing him to open his eyes and look upward to meet the blank face of Zexion squatting down over him and staring at the blonde's face. Roxas shot up immediately in surprise at the sight of the pale boy causing their foreheads to collide painfully.

"Ow…damn it Roxas what was that for?" Zexion asked a bit annoyed as he fell back on his but and rubbed his now throbbing head. Roxas sat himself up as well and held his head painfully "this is just great…ow" the blonde muttered as he rubbed his head before turning on his knees to face Zexion. "Sorry about that man. But what the hell were you doing standing over me like that anyway? Trying to suck out my soul or something?" Roxas asked half jokingly as he brought his hand down so that he could look at Zexion.

The grayish silver haired boy looked up at the blonde and gave him a halfhearted semi glare "Ha-Ha very funny" Zexion said in a sarcastic monotone as he saw Roxas smile lightly at his reaction. "I was looking for you…I was going to get you so you wouldn't be late for the 1st block. It starts at 10 so we don't have much time" Zexion said seriously again as he rubbed his forehead under his hanging side fringe. Roxas nodded and scratched the back of his head "oh…thanks I guess" Roxas shrugged as he winced from the pain in his forehead.

Zexion looked up and saw that there was a small trickle of blood forming on Roxas' forehead where their head bump had caused a slight cut on the blonde. Zexion reached into his pant's pocket and pulled out a small folded piece of Kleenex and brought it up to press against the cut on Roxas' head causing the blonde to hiss in pain. "Here, you're bleeding" Zexion explained as he held the tissue to the other boy's head. Roxas made a vague noise in understanding and grumbled "just what I need…" he muttered as he reached up and placed his hand over Zexion's to hold the tissue to his wound.

"Hey Marly are you over here? I thought I heard voices and…Oh My Gosh!" came a squealing gasp from their left. Roxas and Zexion both turned around to find Larxene standing wide eyed with a delicate hand clamped over her mouth. "Ummm…" Roxas replied in slight confusion as to what was wrong with her.

Suddenly Larxene saw Roxas and Zexion's overlapping hands which had, during her intrusion, lowered from Roxas' forehead to the edge of Roxas' knee. Larxene's look of shock quickly melted into a sadistic grin as she dropped her hand from her mouth. Zexion looked from Larxene to where her gaze was directed.

"Uh oh…" Zexion muttered as he looked down at their hands which no longer held the tissue (it was stuck to Roxas' head) and immediately removed his hand from under Roxas' hand. "I don't believe it! Sora's stuck up cousin and the weird Emo kid…TOGETHER on the ground…in the woods? And looking quite disheveled may I add…Oh this is soooo scandalous!" Larxene squealed in sadistic delight as she clapped her hands together. Roxas and Zexion just stared at her in shock and confusion.

Suddenly a loud buzzer was heard from the distance back at the camp signaling the 5 minute warning until first block started. Larxene looked back towards the sound before turning back to the two boys and grinning madly "oh I'm so sorry to interrupt…I'll just be going now! Don't have to much fun out here guys…1st block starts in 5" Larxene cackled as she waved a limp wrist in their direction before jogging off back through the woods towards camp.

Realization at what Larxene had meant suddenly dawned on Roxas as he turned to meet Zexion's more subdued but still slightly panicked look. "Don't tell me she thought that…that you and me…that we were…" Roxas asked the other boy desperately hoping that perhaps he had misunderstood Larxene's interpretation. But Zexion simply nodded "yup" he told Roxas and the blonde's face fell as did Zexion's.

"Oh Fuck…" they both cursed weakly as they slumped their heads forward in anguish only to accidentally ram heads again. "Ow! Damn it…this is going to be the worst summer ever!" Roxas lamented as he held his now newly throbbing head and heard Zexion groan mournfully in agreement.

"Uh-oh. This does not look good…" Marluxia whispered guiltily to himself as he peeped out from behind a nearby bush where he had stayed and watched the scene unfold.

T.B.C

A/N: I finally updated! Yay me! Ha-ha I hope you guys still like it. This chapter was very drama filled and poor Roxas…I'm so mean to him. I hope you all liked it and please review! It will make me happy and I'll try to update again sooner than I did last time. Please REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW! I love you guys!! - Chizz