"What can't an old friend want to see his best buddy?"

"No." Roxas pressed.

"I…" Axel glared at him, "Fine. What ever. I need to talk to you. Alone."

"As in…"

"Not her."

Chapter 5:

Roxas watched Naminé walk down the hill, obviously infuriated with him. He turned to Axel and held a look as if to say "Well…What?"

Axel sighed, "Listen Roxas, I know that you'd like nothing more than to go off on your romantic love story, but things are different, Luxord, he died…I er… don't know how to reverse his spell."

"What!? You mean I'm stuck like this!? Why on earth wouldn't his stupid curse disappear?!" Roxas screamed.

"I don't know. It's not my fault, its Luxord's. L-U-X-O-R-D, got it memorized?" Axel sighed again. Roxas sat on the bench and raked hid fingers through his hair.

"So we're stuck like this forever?"

"No, I don't think so. It should wear off in a few days…or months."

"Months!" Roxas stood, "What the bloody hell am I going to do till then? Sit on my ass?"

Axel considered, "Well, there must be some way to get everyone unfrozen without Luxord." He shrugged.

"You must be kidding. Are you still mad at me for drinking your sprite?" Roxas joked; Axel shook his head and smiled.

"So you're that little bastard that drank my sprite?" He laughed. Roxas blushed in embarrassment. He smiled at Axel in hoped that he wasn't too mad. "Eh, whatever, that was like two months ago." He patted Roxas on the back.

"Ya, sorry about that. But…wait, who else is unfrozen?" Roxas questioned.

"Well excluding you, Naminé, and me, hmmm…carry the one…No one." Axel sighed, Roxas scratched his nose.

"So every person on this world…is frozen?"

"No, not just this world. All of them."

Naminé walked back up the hill, she had heard Roxas screaming and was going to check if he was okay. She giggled; Roxas was sitting cross legged on the ground, his jaw open. Axel turned and looked at her, she froze. Naminé hoped that Axel would have left.

"Oh, sorry. I heard screaming. I wanted to know if Roxas was okay." She looked at her feet. She could hear Axel's footsteps coming toward her. He lifted her chin with a curled index finger.

"You don't have to be afraid of me." He whispered in her ear. Her lips shivered, Axel kissed her ear, the way he was standing Roxas couldn't see what he was doing. "It's not me you should fear." Axel whispered gently as he turned to face Roxas.

Naminé touched the spot where Axel kissed her. "Weird." She whispered to herself. Why had Axel acted that way? So bizarre. She recovered from shock and went to sit next to Roxas. She sat and glared at Axel.

"Roxas." She said, He turned and looked at her, "No matter what happens, we'll go through this together." She kissed him, full on the lips, "Promise?"

"Promise."

…To Be Continued…