The Sacred Sneer

A.k.a: The Diary Adventures

By Zess

Summery: Prequelish to The Holy Smirk. (That means you got to read the Holy Smirk to understand any of this o-k?) Kidding. Daily posted blurbs about Roxas's & Axel's days in the Guard.

Other Stuff: 2 page chapters of a long ass one-shot, broken down because I felt like it. Mostly Shonen-Ai some Yaoi way later, AU, Kingdom Hearts Based, AkuRoku, Zemyx, Rated M To appease my hentai mind. Language. Humor/Romance/Action/Adventure/Drama. I own nothing but this story.

Time: Two or so Centuries ago.

Place: Castle XIII, Noivilbo, and Ynitsed Isle. (Mahwah Turn your Monitor backwards)

A/N: Dedicated to everyone who loved The Holy Smirk and especially Neferet10210, because it was requested! Yay! So if you like this, send your thanks.

This is my December, this is my snow covered hall, this is my December, this is me alone.

Episode Two:

Trouble

As slobber ran down to his chin, Roxas stared in absolute shock at his red haired best friend.

"You got. . . a puppy?"

Axel smiled sheepishly once more, and pulled the puppy towards his face to rub the ugly dog against his check, cuddling him close to his face.

"Yeah, isn't she cute?"

As Roxas surveyed the dog, he would have to say that the puppy was anything but cute. It was obvious that the little runt was underfed because her ribs suck out. The dog's fur was strung sickly over bone, and her tail hung limply in two places, broken and healed incorrectly. But still, though she was no beauty, as the dog eagerly licked Axel's face, Roxas did feel a sort of childlike glee at being near a small animal. And Roxas had to admit, though the dog was ugly as sin, she was full of life an energy. In a surprisingly uncharacteristic bought of wanting, Roxas had a desperate urge the hold the puppy, as Axel was and to run and play with her. Not that he'd ever admit it.

So he squared his shoulders as best as his young frame would allow him, and huffed in Axel's direction. "You know we can't keep pets!"

Axel looked positively crestfallen, and his head hung down. Roxas had never actually seen such a change in his friend before. In fact, he had never really seen Axel looking sad

before he was always so. . . optimistic. It was very scary for Roxas, who knew better then anyone just how much he depended on Axel. Axel was the one person who liked him for who he was and didn't whisper behind his back. Axel was. . . Axel was. . .

"Okay, I'll help you figure out a way to keep the dog."

Axel gave a little pathetic whimper through the bangs that had plopped over his face. "Do you. . . Do you. . . promise?"

To Roxas's ears, Axel sounded like he was almost close to tears. This alarmed him to no end and he nodded his head quickly up and down, holding his hands out in front of him in the most reassuring gesture he knew how to do. "Yes! I promise now Axel please don't-"

But when Axel looked up through his bangs with the most mischievous grin that the blonde had ever seen, Roxas knew he had been had.

"Yay! Did you hear short stuff? He said that we'll keep you yes we will! There's a good girl. . ."

"Axel. . ." Roxas was positively livid, perhaps more from his own foolishness than anything else, and he stepped a menacing pace closer to the taller and older male. Axel seemed to realize that he was about to be ripped into tiny pieces as he smiled and moved back a few paces.

"Now Roxas… Calm down…"

But he was cut off at a rustling in the brush. The puppy in Axel's arms gave off a faint growling sound as she pressed herself closer into Axel's chest. Roxas and Axel both looked around in alarm and found that, while they had been arguing, they had been secretly surrounded. And this gang of about six were not the nicest looking of bunches.

A tall portly man with a full beard stepped forward from the circle surrounding Axel and Roxas. In respond Axel and Roxas stepped closer to each other, Roxas instinctively grabbing Axel's hand and only beginning to breath once more when Axel gave his hand a reassuring squeeze.

To Be Continued...