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For additional disclaimers, warnings, summary, pairings, and everything else see the first chapter!

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Suggested food: Burrito

Suggested beverage: um… water?

Suggested listening: annoying boybands and Disney Remix Mania. XD

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Where the Hell is Magic Lake?

Chapter 02: Burrito!

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"It's TODAY!

Roxas groaned, sitting up and rubbing his eyes. Sora was running around the room in circles shouting "it's today!" (whatever that was supposed to mean) rather loudly and waking everyone up.

"It's today, it's today, it's todaaaaaaaaaaaaay!" The brunette sang as he skipped over to Riku, prodding the still sleeping teen. How Riku could sleep through Sora's obnoxious shouting Roxas would never know. Maybe it was the fact that they spent so much time together. Maybe Riku had just been so desensitized to it that he could now sleep through even Sora's loudest outbursts. Roxas was slightly envious.

Sitting up and looking around, Roxas surveyed the room. Everyone was scattered about, having fallen asleep wherever it was that they collapsed after multiple rounds of speed Twister. Sora was the first to loose every round due to his squirming and fidgeting, and was therefore always in charge of spinning the little wheel. Apparently Sora didn't believe in stopping between spins to give everyone a chance to properly find their spots on the mat, creating mass chaos and many a tangled mass of limbs.

As the brunette bounded around the room, everyone else started waking up – not that they had much of a choice in the matter. It was at about that time that Roxas decided to stand up, only to realize his legs were trapped under something. What the…?!

"GAAAH! AXEL! Get off me, you freak!"

With some vigorous kicking and thrashing, Roxas managed to both throw Axel's body off his legs (wondering just how long the redhead had been sleeping over them) and give the other male a very rude awakening at the same time.

"Ow, hey, watch it." Axel said, scooting away from Roxas to avoid further bodily harm. "Geeze."

Roxas mumbled something about "you watch it" as he stood up, running his hands through his unruly hair, which was rather flattened on one side from where he had slept on it weird. Actually, his back was rather sore too, most likely from sleeping on Sora's floor. What a rotten start to the day.

Rubbing at a kink in his neck, Roxas made his way to the bathroom, intending on taking a nice, long, warm shower, hopefully getting rid of any Axel germs that accumulated on him during the night. Urgh. Axel germs. However he was stopped halfway there by a disgustingly happy Sora. Honestly, Roxas was pretty sure it wasn't even legal for anyone to be that much of a morning person.

"Good morning Roxas!"

"'Morning."

"Where are you going?"

Dude, why did Sora care? "To the bathroom?"

"Oh no you don't!" Sora gleefully announced, grabbing Roxas by the arm and dragging him off. "We're leaving right away and you always take a million years in the shower!"

"I do not." Roxas grumbled. He only took half a million years at the most. How rude.

By now everyone else was awake, sitting up and certainly not looking their best. But at least they all get to go home and take nice, warm, long showers, whereas I'm going to be shoved in a car for hours and hours and driven off into the wilderness for a week and a half. Roxas thought bitterly.

"Come on, guys!" Sora loudly prompted. "Everyone up! Let's go, go, go! Move, move, move! It's time to go caaaaamping!" At this point Sora actually leapt on Riku in an attempt to wake him. The silver haired teen groaned and rolled over, opening his eyes to find Sora's grinning face about an inch away from his own. "Morning!"

"Sora, what time is it?"

"Five o'clock, bright and early!"

Roxas was surprised Riku didn't kill Sora on the spot.

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"EVERYBOOOOOOODY! YEEEEEAAAAAH! ROCK YOUR BOOOOOODY! YEEEEEEAAAAH! EVERYBOOOOOOOOOODY! ROCK YOUR BODY RIGHT! BACKSTREET'S BACK – ALRIGHT!"

"Make it stop…" Roxas groaned, burying his face in his hands. "Please, God, make it stop…"

The moment everyone had gotten settled into their seats in the car Sora had started blasting his most annoying music – 90's boy bands. The brunette sat in the passengers seat in the front, singing loudly, and Riku seemed to either be deaf or otherwise not mind, because he was simply contenting himself with driving. Or maybe he had been smart and brought earplugs along. Roxas on the other hand…

Roxas was having an extremely difficult time tuning out the loud, annoyingly pop-y music. Not only did Sora have the stereo cranked up all the way as he sang along, but Roxas was sitting next to another person who seemed to enjoy singing along at the top of his lungs as well.

Yes, Roxas had somehow managed to get stuck in the back seat next to Axel of all people. And it seemed as though Axel shared Sora's enthusiasm for singing along loudly and off-tune to extremely lame music. That was probably what got to the blonde the most – not the volume level or the annoying singing along, but the actual music itself. If only it wasn't something so disgustingly sugary and… and… boy band-y!

"Urgh… SORA!" Roxas finally burst, unable to handle it anymore. "Can we please change the music?"

Sora turned around in his seat to look back at Roxas, a puzzled expression on his face. "You mean you don't like this?"

"Yeah, Rrrrrrrrrrrroxas – what's wrong with this music?"

Roxas turned to Axel, who was trying to have an innocent expression, but failed drastically because one corner of his mouth kept twitching up into a smirk. That… that…BASTARD! He KNOWS how horrible this music is but goes along with it anyways just because he knows it bothers me! ARGH! Do the limits of his freaky jerkdom never end?!

Roxas sighed, trying to keep his cool and make his request in a totally calm, polite, and completely un-offensive way. "Um… I was just thinking… maybe we could give it a break and switch to something else…"

"Oh. Okay!" Sora agreeably chirped. THANK YOU!!! Roxas thought, a wave of relief washing over him as the music cut off. Sora fidgeted with the stereo for a minute or so, switching the music, before he turned back to Roxas and flashed him a grin and a thumbs up. Roxas weakly smiled back, thankful that he wouldn't have to listen to any more annoying 90's boy ba –

"IT'S TEARIN' UP MY HEART WHEN I'M WITH YOU! AND WHEN WE ARE APART, I FEEL IT TOOOOOO!"

"ARGH! Sora! This isn't what I meant!"

Sora turned in his seat again, looking back to Roxas with an extremely confused expression. Out of the corner of his eye Roxas could see Axel smirking again. Damn him. Apparently Roxas was going to have to be very specific in his music request.

"Um… I was just wondering if we could listen to something that wasn't… you know… a boy band?"

Sora's confused expression immediately vanished. "Ooooooh! Okay! Why didn't you say so?" Sora fiddled with the stereo once more before turning back to Roxas again after a few minutes. "Is this better?"

"WHAT'S YOUR NAME, WHAT'S YOUR NAME? OH! I REALLY WANNA KNOW! YOU GOT ME GOING CRAZY AND I WANT YOU MORE AND MORE! OH! HEY! THIS COULD BE SOMETHING REAL! I GOTTA LET YOU KNOW THE WAY I FEEL!"

Roxas's brain was suddenly flooded with images of a little blonde boy singing in a disgustingly pop-y manner, making sure to fit the word 'girl' into every song to remind his listeners that he was not batting for his own team. Roxas wasn't convinced. And he was pretty sure every time Sora switched the music it got progressively worse, so it was probably best to simply put up with this for now.

"Uh, yeah. This is fine, Sora."

As soon as Sora had turned back around, Axel turned to face Roxas, giving the blonde a devious smirk and upping the volume of his singing. How the heck did Axel know the words to all these songs?! He probably learned them just on the off chance that one day he would have the opportunity to sing them very loud in an enclosed space with someone who hated him. Roxas wanted to smack him but refrained. He instead contented himself with staring at the window, trying to find something interesting to look at.

Tree, tree, post, tree, post, bush, post, tree…

Somehow Roxas wasn't too surprised that there wasn't anything of interest outside the window at five thirty in the morning.

After a while, Roxas found that if he tried hard enough, he could manage to block out the sounds of the music and Sora and Axel singing. As long as he concentrated on something else really, really hard, they could just fade into an annoying background. Letting his thoughts wander for a bit, Roxas nearly jumped out of his seat when he felt a sudden weight slump against his side.

"Huh?" Turning his head, Roxas found that Axel had just pretty much passed out on him, his eyes closed and his breathing even. "Oh, gah! Axel, get off!" Roxas said, pushing at the redhead in vain.

"Aw… how cute."

Roxas glanced up to see Sora having turned around in his seat yet again, looking back at Axel and Roxas with an expression like he was looking at cute, cuddling, puppies and kittens or something. Roxas didn't see what the heck was so cute about it. Axel was using him as a freaking pillow! That wasn't cute – it was insulting and annoying!

"Sora, could you help get him off of me?"

"Aw, why would you want to do that?" Sora asked with an adoring smile, eyes googily and full of sparkles. "He's cuddling you."

"No he isn't." Roxas snapped back in a grumble, still attempting to push Axel off. "He's squashing me. Get him off."

"Aw, but he likes you." Sora insisted, and Roxas swore if Sora said 'aw' one more time he would somehow launch himself out from under Axel and get up there and strangle the brunette.

"I don't care if he likes me, I don't like him." Roxas responded, squirming in an attempt to scooch away from the offending redhead. "I don't want him sleeping on me."

"Come on, he can't weigh that much, and besides, you can use him as a pillow back. We've still got a long way to go and you can sleep on the way there so it won't seem like such a long trip."

Roxas dearly wanted to point out that the freakily thin male was a lot heavier than he looked, and he very much doubted he'd be able to sleep with half of his body being crushed, and with loud, obnoxious music still being blasted in the background, but decided that he'd just deal with it on his own and let Sora go back to thinking everything was fine, and that he had a good taste in music and friends and places to go on a birthday trip.

But Roxas must have eventually managed to drift off into sleep, because the next thing he knew there was a stomach churning lurch as the van came to a sudden stop and a door was slamming closed behind Sora as he bolted out, screaming.

"WE'RE HERE, WE'RE HERE, WE'RE HEEEEEEERE!!"

Roxas rubbed his eyes, groaning at the sudden noise level and brightness. He must have been asleep for the whole car ride, because the last thing he remembered the sun was barely coming up over the horizon, and now it was casting bright beams straight through the window and into his eyes. He heard a second door open and shut, leaving him to reason that Riku must have gotten out of the car as well, possibly to try and keep Sora under control. Roxas vaguely noted that some sort of bizarre Disney remix music was playing in the background.

Finding himself having somehow shifted into a half-laying position in the seat, Roxas moved to sit up, only to find that, once again, his movement was restricted.

Oh, you have GOT to be kidding me…

Looking down, Roxas found that Axel was lying sprawled across the seat, using Roxas as a living body pillow. His head lay on Roxas's chest, the strands of his fiery hair just barely brushing against the underside of Roxas's throat. To top it off, it seemed as though Axel was one to cuddle in his sleep, because he had his arms securely wrapped around Roxas's waist. An embarrassed blush immediately appeared on Roxas's cheeks and he uselessly shoved at Axel, trying to push him off. However, the more he tried, the harder Axel clung to him, tightening his hold around his wait and nuzzling his face into Roxas's chest, mumbling something incoherent in his sleep. Oh, URGH! This is so wrong on so many levels… But at least no one is here to see it… maybe I can get him off before Sora or Riku come back to check on –

FLASH!!

Blinking at the sudden, blinding light, Roxas glared at its source once all of the little white spots of light cleared from his vision. Sora was leaning over from his seat, having somehow managed to get back in without Roxas noticing. A camera dangled in his outstretched hands, and he was grinning widely.

"Rise and shine, Roxas! We're here!"

"I noticed." Roxas grumbled. "And Sora, please tell me you didn't just take a picture of this."

"Well, duh! Of course I did!" Sora affirmed, turning the camera around and showing Roxas the picture on the little screen. If Roxas had been able to, he would have surged forward, grabbed the camera and chucked it at the nearest hard, solid object. Possibly Axel's head. "Isn't it cute? Riku got me this new digital camera for my birthday, wasn't that nice of him?"

"Yeah. Real nice." Roxas mumbled irritatedly.

"I got another really cute one of you guys when you were both sleeping!" Sora announced, pressing a button and bringing the picture up to show Roxas. Roxas thought he was going to die, right then and there. Or throw up. Or both. There it was, clearly etched in 8.0 megapixel glory– Axel and Roxas cuddling in their sleep. Roxas noticed with a large amount of distaste that his sleeping self didn't seem to be protesting Axel's body on him all that much. Actually, he looked pretty comfortable, darn it, what with his peaceful expression and… HOLY GUACAMOLE! FOR ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY, WERE THOSE HIS ARMS WRAPPED AROUND AXEL'S BACK?!?! Curses! Apparently his body turned traitorous in his sleep.

"Uh, so yeah… I don't suppose there's any chance of you deleting those pictures, is there?" Roxas asked, although he was pretty sure he already knew the answer. Sora looked scandalized at the suggestion.

"Delete them!? No way! I'm keeping all the pictures I take on this trip and making a photo album to remember it by!"

"Oh. Great." Roxas commented, hoping Sora wouldn't get the bright idea to go around showing everyone. He probably would anyways, but that didn't mean Roxas couldn't hope. "Well now that's you've got it all documented on your camera and everything, could you get him off me? I wanna get out of this damn car."

"Okay!" Sora brightly chirruped, reaching out to tug on Axel's shirt. "AXEL, AXEL, AXEL! WAKE UP! WE'RE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE!!!!"

With a start, Axel sat up, banging his head on the roof of the car. "Ow! What the Hell? Shut up, Sora! I'm up! I'm up!"

Roxas rolled his eyes at Sora's tactics – annoying, but effective. Roxas would have liked to have thought he could have accomplished the same thing given enough time, but knew he wasn't quite up to achieving Sora's level of pure, unadulterated annoyance that could pull even the dead from their slumber. Roxas used his newfound freedom to his advantage, crawling out from under Axel and literally falling out of the car. He hadn't really taken the time to realize his legs were asleep.

Standing back up, Roxas placed his hands on his hips, surveying the area. Hmm… there seemed to be a few too many trees for his liking… Roxas had issues with trees. They just kind of… sat there and… loomed over you. He especially hated planter trees in the city, where they were obviously out of place. There was nothing more nature-relatedly annoying than out-of-place trees.

But these trees seemed okay for the most part, despite their abundance. They obviously belonged there, and Roxas didn't get the creepy looming feeling like he usually did around surrounding trees. Actually, these trees were actually kinda nice… In fact… maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all. Sure, there was dirt and rocks to deal with but maybe he could get in touch with his rugged, outdoors-y side. Yeah, that was it, he'd get in touch with his inner manly!Roxas. Out here in the wilderness. Living off the land. Getting to know nature and all that. Why, maybe he could even –

"RRRRRRRRRRROXAS!"

Suddenly something sharp sunk down on the juncture of Roxas's neck and shoulder, and the blonde gave out an extremely unmanly, nearly inhuman shriek.

"AAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!"

Whirling around, Roxas stared wide-eyed at his assailant, who was looking a little shocked himself. Axel's eyes were almost as wide as Roxas's and his fiery hair was standing on end. "What the hell was that?"

"YOU BIT ME!" Roxas shouted, pointing a finger accusingly. "You sick, twisted freak – you just BIT ME! WHAT THE HELL?!"

Axel held up his hands in defense, still not looking like he entirely grasped the reaction that he had just gotten from the blonde. "Hey, sorry, how was I supposed to know you were gonna freak out?"

Roxas's shock and fear gave way to irritation and embarrassment. "You bit me." He repeated, sounding very affronted. "Dudes don't bite other dudes."

"Pfffft, whatever." Axel replied, starting to regain his amusement as a slight smirk made its way across his features. "You scream like a girl."

"I do not!" Roxas indignantly shot back, even though he knew he did.

"Do too."

"Do not!"

"Do too."

"Do – FINE! Just don't tell anybody!"

"Oh, I won't." Axel promised, crossing an 'x' across his heart. Roxas glared, not believing him any further than he could throw him, and Axel just smiled back sweetly. They stood like that for a minute, neither saying a word, before Axel abruptly spun on his heels, running off. "SOOOOOOOOOORA!!! RIIIIIIIIIIIIIKU! ROXAS SCREAMS LIKE A GIIIRL!!!!"

Roxas immediately gave chase, running after the redhead as fast as he could. "AXEL! YOU JERK! GET BACK HERE!!"

Axel merely continued sprinting off towards where Sora and Riku had scampered off to, grinning and laughing madly as Roxas ran after him, right on his heels but not close enough to stop him in any way. Suddenly Axel made a dramatic switch in direction. Roxas, not anticipating the sudden swerve, tried to follow after him, but only succeeded in turning out and falling to the dirt. Laughing, Axel scampered back over to Roxas, bending down and supporting his weight with his hands on his knees as he smiled down at Roxas, who was glaring back at him. Somehow the glare just didn't have the same kick to it when Roxas was rubbing his sore, dirt-covered butt.

"Have a nice trip?" Axel taunted.

"Screw you." Roxas shot back.

"Is that an offer?"

Roxas barely had time to glance back to Axel in dumbstruck horror before Sora was running up to them, a friendly dog at his side.

"Hey guys, look what I found down by the creek!"

"…a dog?" Axel replied, questioning the obvious.

"Yeah!" Sora gleefully affirmed. Roxas was slightly amazed at the simplicity of Sora's guessing games. "Isn't he cute?"

"Sure." Axel agreed, watching the animal run up to Roxas (who was still sprawled out on the ground) and lick his face. Roxas pushed it away, not that he didn't like dogs, but because it seemed rather like adding insult to injury at the moment. Scream like a girl, fall on your butt in the dirt, get licked by a dog… it was a rather demeaning chain of events in his opinion.

Riku casually sauntered up to the group, having elected to walk back as opposed to run like an idiot with Sora and the dog. "Hey guys." He greeted. "Sora, I think it's time to be done playing with the dog now. We should probably take it back to its owners before they worry."

"Awwwww! Riiiiiiikuuuu!" Sora whined, a pout forming. "I wanna keeeep him!"

"Sora, you can't keep him." Riku explained. "He's already got a family that loves him and would miss him."

"How do you know?" Sora argued.

Riku sighed. Dealing with Sora was a lot like dealing with a little kid. Actually, it was almost exactly the same as dealing with a little kid. "Sora, he has a collar and vaccination tags and everything."

"So?"

"So that means he already has an owner who takes care of him."

"Does not!" Sora insisted. "It just means he doesn't have rabies!"

Ah, the joys of Sora logic.

Riku turned back to Axel and Roxas, who both gave him sympathetic looks. "I'm gonna take Sora back down to the creek to find this guy's owner, okay? Can you guys unpack the stuff from the car while we're gone?"

"Sure!" Axel agreed helpfully. Roxas almost said no out of pure spite for getting dragged along on this trip, but eventually agreed as well.

"Yeah, sure, whatever."

"Thanks." Riku called back as he led a pouting Sora off to the creek. Axel and Roxas watched them walk off for a minute before turning back to the task at hand.

"Need some help up?" Axel snickered, extending an arm.

"I'm fine, thanks." Roxas spat back, picking himself out of the dirt rather ungracefully. Standing and brushing himself off, Roxas looked back to Axel, about to snap at him to get his butt in gear and start heading back to unpack the van, when he noticed that Axel concentration was still on watching Sora and Riku's retreating figures. "Um… Axel?"

"So how long have those two been together, exactly?"

"EXCUSE ME?!" Roxas's jaw dropped at the sudden question, unsure of how to respond first – shock, anger, repulsion… the list went on and on.

"Oh, come on, Roxas." Axel smirked. "Don't tell me you haven't noticed. Even you're not that dumb."

"SORA AND RIKU ARE NOT TOGETHER!" Roxas burst, unsure as to why he was being so defensive.

"Ah. I see." Axel said, taking a step closer. "Rrrrrroxas is a little touchy about gay relationships. Not quite ready to come out of the closet yet, my little creampuff?"

"I AM NOT GAY!" Roxas shouted, and then realized that probably wasn't something to be shouting to the entire campground. "I like girls! GIRLS! GIRLS WITH BOOBS!"

"Whatever you say." Axel responded in a patronizing manner, petting Roxas's head as he walked past him and back to the van.

Roxas silently fumed, watching Axel's retreating figure and willing a tree to spontaneously burst into flame and fall on him.

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Somehow Axel and Roxas managed to get the car unpacked without killing eachother, and when Sora and Riku showed back up (minus one friendly dog) the four of them all set up camp. Currently it was early evening and they were all sitting around the campfire, exhausted after a long day of driving and running around the camp. Roxas had been ignoring Axel ever since he found out the two of them would be sharing a tent ("But it's just so much easier to bring two tents and just share than bring four individual tents!" Sora had protested.) and was being rather short with everyone else. Riku made the mistake of labeling Roxas as "sulking" and had nearly gotten his head bitten off and therefore refrained from making any further comments about Roxas's attitude.

"Hey let's sing campfire songs!" Sora suggested. Axel immediately agreed, loving any chance to be annoying, and Riku, of course, was willing to go along with anything Sora suggested, as long as it was not too illegal and no one got too hurt. Roxas shuddered. Riku was 'willing to go along with anything Sora suggested'. Why did Axel have to go and make that weird comment earlier today? Now every time Roxas saw Sora and Riku within five feet of each other his mind started subconsciously coming up with really awkward and unwanted thoughts.

Roxas suddenly realized that Sora had initiated a ridiculous campfire song and that everyone else had joined in. Part of him was screaming to just continue sulking, but another more persistent, nagging part of him was telling himself that he really did want to join in – that it was no fun being left out. Quietly, Roxas joined in.

After a minute of getting more used to it, Roxas picked up his voice a little. No sooner had he done so, however, than Axel – who was sitting next to him, OF COURSE – turned to look at him out of the corner of his eye. What, did this guy just have built in "potentially embarrassing Roxas situation" sensors or something?! Roxas immediately quieted down, slumping a bit in embarrassment. A sly smile graced Axel's lips, and a resulting blush spread across Roxas's cheeks. He was very insecure about his singing voice.

Roxas sulked for the rest of the song, and when it ended he stood up, announcing that he was going to bed.

"Roxas! You can't go to bed yet! It's not even that dark out yet!" Sora protested.

"So?"

"SOOO." Sora retorted, in the same tone as one generally uses to say 'DUUUUUUH!' to a particularly slow individual. "The rule is that you're not allowed to go to bed until there is at least one star out!"

Roxas looked skeptical. "Who made up that rule?"

"Me!" Sora happily informed him.

Roxas rolled his eyes before looking up at the darkening sky. "There." He said, pointing. "There's a star. I'm allowed to go to bed."

Everyone looked up, squinting at where Roxas had pointed. "Um, Roxas?" Sora said, a little confused. "I'm pretty sure that one doesn't count. It's moving. I think it's an airplane."

Roxas heaved a sigh, pointing at another 'star'. "That one then."

Sora, Riku, and Axel all turned their heads to the new spot at which Roxas had pointed. Roxas offhandedly realized that this could be a pretty fun game if he was in a better mood – making up random stars to point out and watching everyone swivel their heads to search it out. But as it was, he was tired of games; he was irritated and he just wanted to go to bed.

"Roxas…" Sora began, a little uncertainly, as if he was trying not to upset Roxas. "That's Venus… It's a planet… And it you can see it out hours before you can see any stars…"

"I don't care!" Roxas half-shouted, exasperated. "I'm tired and I'm going to bed." Moving to stride purposefully past Axel to get to his tent, Roxas had almost cleared the campfire when he was stopped by a hand latching on to his wrist. Snapping his head back around, Roxas was met by the intense, green stare of Axel. "What?"

"Nice singing voice." Axel muttered, quietly enough that Sora and Riku, across the fire, couldn't hear. Roxas was about to snap back a response something along the lines of "screw you" when he noticed there was no teasing quality in Axel voice or expression. That was… weird. And he'd even lowered his voice so the other two couldn't hear, meaning it wasn't meant as a mean joke for the others to hear. Could it be that Axel was being… sincere?

Roxas was rather unnerved by this change in the other male's attitude and he quickly tugged his arm away. He thought about saying 'thank you' but he still couldn't be entirely sure that this wasn't some sort of a tease. He instead opted for a parting "whatever", heading off to the tent to settle in for a well deserved rest after what felt like the longest, most frustrating day of his young life. Quickly stripping out of his dirty clothes and slipping into a pair of warm pajama pants and a sleep t-shirt, and a large sweatshirt pulled on for added warmth, Roxas crawled into his sleeping bag, pulling it around him and shivering a bit. It sure did get cold out here in the evenings.

Closing his eyes, Roxas willingly let sleep overcome him, falling into a light on-and-off doze. It was a little early to be truly falling asleep, but he greatly preferred at least attempting to rather than sitting out there with everyone, feeling stupid and out of place. Stupid Sora dragging him out into the woods. Stupid Axel being a jerk and making his life miserable. Stupid Riku… actually Riku hadn't really done anything to him. Stupid Riku not giving him a reason to be pissed at him.

And what had been with that last parting comment of Axel's? Roxas still couldn't tell what was meant by it. Axel had certainly looked sincere enough, but why the heck would he just randomly be nice to him after a full day of torture? Roxas almost didn't want the stupid redhead to have meant it, because then he would have to re-evaluate his opinion of him. And he was perfectly fine with hating Axel. Yep. That was just the way he wanted it.

He lay like that for a while, just thinking, before he was interrupted by the sound of the tent's zipper door being pulled open with an extremely loud whirr, followed with a rather loud stage-whisper. "Hey, Roxas, you asleep?"

"Yes." The blonde grumbled, rolling over and facing away from the door.

"Oh…" Axel sounded a little disappointed almost, and Roxas's stomach gave a strange flutter of… NOT guilt. Roxas was also struck with NOT a blush as he heard the rustling of cloth signaling that Axel was getting changed. Another zipper was pulled as Axel pulled his sleeping bag open and climbed in, settling down. Silence filled the tent and Roxas let out a breath he didn't know he'd been holding. Thank God that Axel was done bothering him for the day.

"So. Let's talk."

Roxas let out a groan, burying his face in his pillow. "No. Go to sleep, Axel."

He could hear the rustling of cloth as Axel shifted in his sleeping bag, rolling on his side and propping himself up on his elbows to look at Roxas. "Aw, come on. It's not that late yet."

"Stop bothering me."

"I get the feeling you don't like me very much."

"No duh."

"So what's your favourite colour?"

"Go to sleep, Axel!"

For a minute it seemed as though Axel had actually listened to him, for the only sounds that filled the tent were both boys' breath and whatever sounds of crickets and other night life were about, as well as the drifting conversation from other campers. Roxas sighed again, settling down in his sleeping bag and closing his eyes, trying very hard not to focus on the other boy's presence only a few feet away. But it seemed as though Axel had settled down as well and Roxas had nothing to worry about. His guards could go down for the night.

"BURRITO!!"

Suddenly and extremely unexpectedly Roxas was being smothered. "WHAT THE HELL!? AXEL!"

Maniacal laughter filled the tent as Axel continued to roll back and forth over Roxas, wrapped up in his sleeping bag like some freakishly annoying living burrito that liked to go around rolling on little blonde boys as they were trying to go to sleep.

"AXEL! GET THE FUCK OFF ME! OW!"

Suddenly Roxas gave a violent surge, successfully knocking Axel off of him. Somehow the redhead had crushed him in a very painful way in that last roll and Roxas was none too happy about it. Axel landed to the side with a soft thump, still chuckling to himself. However, his laughter was quickly cut off as Roxas finally managed to untangle himself from his mess of a sleeping bag, launching himself at Axel and tackling him into the ground.

"Ow! Hey! Roxas, lay off!"

"NO!" Roxas shot back indignantly, trying to wrestle Axel out of his sleeping bag so that he could more effectively take out his frustrations on him. Somehow in their struggles, he managed to roll them both over to the side of the tent, sending them into a tent pole with enough force to make it collapse on itself, as well as making a great deal of noise in the process.

"Hey, you guys okay over there?" Riku's voice called out from the direction of his and Sora's tent.

There was a pause as both Roxas and Axel paused in their tussle, Axel looking up at Roxas imploringly and Roxas glaring back down at him.

"Guys?"

"We're fine!" Roxas called back, angrily pushing himself off Axel and making his way back to his side of the tent, huffily wrapping his battered sleeping bag around himself. He could hear Axel doing the same on his side of the small, now dilapidated tent, but refused to look over, knowing that if he did he would see Axel stupid face and want to punch it in.

Axel sighed, laying back down. "Sorry Roxas. I didn't mean to hurt you."

In Roxas's opinion, Axel wasn't sorry enough so he refused to dignify the apology with a response.

"Hey Roxas, I said – "

"I heard you." Roxas snapped, still not accepting Axel's apology, or even thanking him for it. He heard Axel heave another sigh. That's right, you BETTER feel guilty, freakface! Stew over there in your guilt! STEW IN IT!

Minutes passed by, a longer span of silence than Roxas had ever experienced in Axel's presence than ever before. Roxas actually started to get a little worried. Was Axel okay over there? Had he stewed himself to death? Had another tent pole silently collapsed on him and killed him? Maybe this was just another trick… yeah, that's it. Axel was trying to get Roxas paranoid. Well it may have been working, but Roxas sure as hell wasn't going to let him know that. No, he was going to just curl up in his little corner, unconcerned for that porcupine-haired jerk, and go to sleep. He was strong! He did not care about whatever Axel was doing over there. Not one bit!

Slowly Roxas turned over, trying to make absolutely no noise whatsoever. Cautiously he peered out of his sleeping bag, only to be greeted with the sight of Axel's grinning face staring right back at him from a few feet away.

"BURRITO!"

"Oh HELL no!"

.o.O.o.

Oh, poor Roxas! He's really just not a camping kind of kid. XD Too bad he's still got a looooooong ways to go before this trip is over!