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

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Suggested food: pre-packed lunch

Suggested beverage: juice box

Suggested listening: "It's Gotta Be You" – Backstreet Boys

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Where the Hell is Magic Lake?

Chapter 05: How To Get Lost

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"Get up, get up, get up!" Sora's voice – extra loud in the silence of early morning – rang out, directly outside Roxas's tent. "It's today!"

Roxas groaned, rolling over. Why did Sora have to designate his "special" days with the greeting 'It's today!'? It really didn't make them sound too special. Every day was a today while it was happening.

Stretching and cracking hid back, Roxas yawned, figuring he'd better just get up now, before Sora's chattering grew any louder, or more ridiculous. Rubbing at his eyes, Roxas sat up, looking around the tent. Masses of blankets and food and junk were strewn about, turning their tent into some sort of freaky, jumble next of typical manly carelessness. Roxas was torn between disgusted and thoroughly impressed. Grabbing a sweatshirt to pull on over his pajamas, Roxas stifled another yawn, disentangling himself from his sleeping bag.

"Mmmmnnn… make 'im shut up." Axel murmured over on the other side of the small enclosure, burying his face in his pillow. Roxas wasn't sure if he was entirely awake or not, but it seemed as though it was too early for him to be enjoying sharing in Sora's annoyingness. Slipping out of the tent, Roxas was surprised to see Riku taking down his and Sora's tent at the other end of camp.

"Um, Sora?"

"Yes!" Sora chirped, all to happy to come bounding over to Roxas to talk to him. Riku had told him to keep away while he dismantled the tent.

"Why is Riku taking down your tent? Don't you… you know… kinda need it?"

"Of course we need it!" Sora confirmed. "That's why we're taking it down!" Roxas was confused. "Today's the day we start heading to…" Here Sora dropped his voice to a conspiring whisper. "Magic Lake!"

Oh. Right. Sora's little secret camping spot that this whole trip was about in the first place. Roxas had nearly forgotten.

"You guys need to start working on taking yours down too!" Sora informed him. "It's a two day hike to get there so we're leaving as soon as we can! Why don't you go wake up Axel and start right away!"

Right, because that's how Roxas wanted to start off his day – by dealing with an early morning Axel, who probably hadn't gotten very much sleep last night, staying up and playing stupid sleepover games with himself. Roxas sincerely hoped he'd forgotten about last night's late night Seifer confession.

With a sigh, Roxas went back into the tent, kneeling down at the side of the foot of Axel's makeshift bed and wondering how to best approach this. "Axel." He said, prodding at the other male's arm, which was flopped across the floor. "Hey Axel."

"Nnnnnnnmmmmff!" Axel grumbled, turning over.

"No, Axel!" Roxas said, growing a bit exasperated as he moved over the sleeping male, shaking him. Why did the redhead have to make everything so difficult? "Axel, come on, you have to get up!"

"Nyeah!" Axel indignantly responded, swiping at Roxas and effectively slapping him across the face. It wasn't very hard, but it was enough to make Roxas decide to quit with the 'Mr. Nice Guy' routine.

"Axel, you lazy idiot! Get your ass out of this bed right now!" he ordered, punching Axel in the shoulder, hard.

Axel growled, and before Roxas realized what was happening, had gripped him by the arm, dragging him down and pulling the blonde flush up against him. With a startled squeak, Roxas tried to struggle away, but in vain. Oh come on! What kind of an idiot grabs and freaking cuddlessomething that just hit them!? his brain protested.

"Oh hey Roxas I forgot to tell you that – AW!" with a blinding flash, Roxas knew that Sora had snapped another picture of them in yet another compromising and highly embarrassing situation. "Is this how you guys sleep?"

"NO THIS IS NOT HOW WE SLEEP!" Roxas shouted, struggling with renewed vigour. All the jostling and yelling finally had to have an effect on Axel, who blinked his eyes open, staring down at the blonde in his arms.

"Why good morning too you too, Roxie!" he gushed, affectionately nuzzling Roxas's squirming form.

"Get off me!" Roxas yelled, elbowing Axel in the gut and causing the redhead to release him with a pained grunt. Standing up and stalking out of the tent Roxas called back to Sora. "You tell him whatever it is he needs to do. I am going to have a nice, calm, breakfast and savour my first meal of the day without having to deal with him."

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"Okay!" Sora said, as everyone stood around him, backpacks full to bursting. "Everyone has their backpacks, right? We're leaving everything else in the van and locking it up. So what we've got in our packs is all we're gonna have for the next week, because that's all we're taking with us to Magic Lake."

Roxas felt uneasy about this. Even though they all had big packs, he was just a little uncomfortable with the fact that they were leaving everything else behind. What if they needed something? What if they got lost in the woods and all they had with them was whatever they had managed to shove in their bags? What if –

"It's only a two day hike, and we're gonna follow a path through the woods to get there. The path gets a little hard to find at times, but it runs pretty close to the creek, so if worst comes to worst and we get lost or someone gets separated or something, just head to the creek and follow it – it'll lead straight to the lake. Not a lot of people know it, but Magic Lake's the water source responsible for this dinky lil' creek."

Here Sora paused to look around at their campsite one last time. Roxas fought the urge to whimper and run off and lock himself in the van with all their excess stuff, refusing to leave. Although far from sophisticated, this little campsite was the closest they were going to be to civilization for the next week.

"Anyways, let's get going, right!?" Sora brightly said, starting off to the edge of where the scattered campgrounds stopped and the wilderness began. With a definite sense of foreboding, Roxas followed after him.

The hike was severely uneventful as they got so deep into the forest that all there was to experience was the surrounding trees. Roxas's mind started to wander, trying to keep himself occupied. After a while, Roxas started getting a little paranoid about being the last person in their line as they followed the narrow path. Wasn't the last person in line the first person to get picked off by wild animals? Picking up the pace a little, Roxas scanned the surrounding forest, searching for any signs of things that might want to eat him.

So focused on looking out for wild animals, Roxas wasn't paying attention to what was directly ahead of him and, as a result, found himself crashing right into Axel's pack. Axel turned his head, wondering why Roxas had crashed into him.

"You okay back there?"

"I'm fine." Roxas responded, a little too quickly.

"You sure?" Axel smirked, catching Roxas's paranoid scanning of the underbrush. "You're not afraid, are you?"

"No." Roxas indignantly replied, scowling at the boy ahead of him.

"Okay, good." Axel said. "Cause I know I sure would be if I was at the end of the line. That's who the mountain lions always pick off first. Right before they go for the weak, little ones. And, well, seeing as you're both…"

"Shut up!" Roxas snapped, following so closely behind Axel at this point that if the taller male was to suddenly stop, Roxas would be getting a face full of Axel pack. "I am not weak or little."

"Whatever you say." Axel patronizingly responded.

Roxas snorted. "Just because you don't have to worry about anything eating you, seeing as how you're so freaking skinny!" By this point the redhead had turned around completely, walking backwards to more effectively taunt Roxas.

"Why, Roxas, I had no idea you even noticed. I'm flattered." Axel placed his hand on his hip, jutting it out to more effectively show off his figure. "I'll be thinking of that when a grizzly bear is chowing down on all of your cute baby fat." Here he winked, causing Roxas to flinch. He hated when people winked.

"Shut up, Axel. It doesn't matter anyways; no one is going to get eaten. Besides, there's no wild animals around here." He added, mostly to comfort himself. Really, he had no grasp on the wildlife situation of the Hundred Acre Woods National Forest area.

"Oh really?" Axel smirked. "That's weird, cause I could have sworn I saw some pretty big animal bones back there a little ways, and I'm guessing it would have taken something pretty big to take something that size down and – "

"ARGH! SHUT UP, AXEL!" Roxas shouted.

Axel raised his hands in self defense. "Hey, I'm just saying!"

"Well DON'T!" Roxas snapped, pushing the other male aside and making to move up a spot in line. Suddenly he stopped. There was no line. The only thing in front of Axel was scattered bushes and trees. "Axel…" Roxas began slowly. "Were you paying attention to where you were going?"

"Sure." Axel responded. "I just turned around for a second to… Uh oh."

"… 'Uh oh'? 'UH OH'?! Axel, you… THIS IS ABOVE AND BEYOND 'UH OH'! WE'RE LOST IN THE FREAKING WOODS!"

"I'm sure it's not that bad…" Axel assured him, looking around. We can't be too far off the path… I'm sure Sora and Riku are right around here somewhere…"

However after a thorough, quarter of an hour search of the area, it appeared as though Sora and Riku were not anywhere right around there. Or, in fact, anywhere nearby at all.

"Great." Roxas said, slumping to the ground. "We're lost. Totally and completely lost in the middle of the freaking woods. I hope you're happy Axel."

"What?" Axel questioned. "How is this my fault?"

"How is this not your fault?" Roxas grumbled. Standing up with a sigh, he turned towards where they could hear the creek running off to their side. "Well, since we're LOST now, we're gonna have to follow the creek like Sora said."

"Alrighty." Axel said, in a far better mood than Roxas found appropriate for the situation. They were lost in the woods for crying out loud! Making their way through the trees, Roxas scrambled down a ledge to the creek bed. Placing his hands on his hips the looked the area over. The water part of the creek was small, with most of the bed filled with rocks and boulders that they would have to climb over, but it was better than tromping through the woods, getting themselves even more lost, and away from their only source of guidance.

"So." Axel said, coming up behind Roxas. "Where to?"

Roxas rolled his eyes. "You heard Sora. If we got lost we're supposed to follow the creek. I'd think that makes it pretty clear." Axel shrugged. Sighing, Roxas started up the creek, not looking forward to spending an entire two days alone with an annoying redhead.

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Roxas ground his teeth, focusing intently on the rocks he was navigating in an attempt to occupy himself with thoughts that didn't include murdering Axel. Because, as he kept reminding himself, no matter how annoying Axel was being, he still needed him. Kind of like how the pioneers needed mules. After all, Axel was carrying half of their stuff.

"… and so then I suggested to him that maybe if we just sort of, you know, took a lighter to it –"

"Axel, will you please stop talking?" Roxas groaned. For the last couple of hours Axel had been jabbering nonstop. That in itself wouldn't have even been so bad, usually Roxas could just block it out, but it seemed that the stupider Axel's stories got, the harder it became to block them out. And by this point it was impossible for Roxas to stop listening. Vaguely, he wondered if he had some sort of unconscious masochistic tendencies.

"I'm hungry." Axel suddenly announced. Roxas would have snapped at him that he just told him to shut up, but he realized that he was getting hungry too. After all, they'd been hiking for hours and hadn't had anything to eat since breakfast.

"Fine." Roxas said, stopping. "We can stop and eat something."

Axel happily took off his pack, plopping it down and ripping it open. After a second, however, a distraught expression came over his face, and he looked up at Roxas with wide eyes. "I don't have the food." He said, he said in a voice so calm Roxas just knew his brain was shutting down, probably to gather up enough energy to then completely freak out. "This morning… when I was packing… Sora gave me the collapsible stove and cooking utensils and said that he and Riku would handle the food…. ROXAS! WHY AREN'T YOU FREAKING OUT?! WE'RE GONNA STARVE!!! OH, THE IRONY! WE HAVE ALL THE STUFF TO MAKE THE FOOD, BUT SORA AND RIKU HAVE ALL THE FOOD ITSELF!"

Roxas shifted, looking slightly embarrassed. "Uh… Sora and Riku don't have all the food."

Axel tilted his head to the side, giving Roxas a questioning look. "They don't?"

"Uh… no." Roxas admitted, looking guilty as he un-zipped his pack. "I kinda brought some of my own." Inside the pack were, yes, the normal things that one would expect to find in a backpacking bag, but most of the bag was stuffed full of snacks that Roxas had expertly crammed in, in case of an emergency. Such as the one there were currently in, thanks to a fiery haired idiot.

"FOOD!" Axel shouted, lunging at Roxas's bag. The blonde quickly pulled back, possessively clutching at his pack.

"Hey, hey! This is my food, and I'm not letting you just dig in like some sort of rabid, starving raccoon!" Roxas chided, smacking Axel's hands away.

"Come on, Roxas!" Axel whined, attempting to give Roxas a puppy face to earn his food. Roxas was not swayed. "Sharing is caring!"

"I never said I wouldn't share." Roxas told him. "I just don't want to let you dig in, or the next thing I know there'll be none left."

"Are you calling me fat?" Axel question, placing his hands on his hips and looking offended.

Roxas rolled his eyes. "No, but I've seen how you eat." He responded. "And it's a wonder you're not. I'm going to be the one in charge of rationing out our food."

"Fine." Axel pouted, sitting down on a rock and waiting for Roxas to hand him some food. Roxas inwardly suppressed great pleasure in having control over Axel. Being in charge of the food, (And therefore Axel's life or death. Roxas reasoned) gave him a feeling of power that he rather liked. Was that unhealthy? Probably, but Roxas still indulged himself in getting a sick kick out of it.

"Here you go." He said, handing Axel a packaged lunch and juice bottle. Axel ravenously grabbed at it, ripped it open and set about eating. Getting out something for himself, Roxas sat down as well, just starting in on his lunch as Axel finished his with a long swig of his drink. Wide eyed, he stared at Axel.

"Well that was good." Axel stated, sneaking a look at Roxas's bag as if he was considering rooting around for more food. Roxas scooted it a little closer to himself. Axel pouted and sat for a while in silence, much to Roxas's enjoyment. "It's hot." He said after a minute. "I'm taking my shirt off."

"You do that." Roxas replied, not even looking up from his lunch and wondering why Axel felt so compelled to fill him in on every little detail on what he was doing or thinking.

After Roxas finished his lunch he looked up to see Axel fidgeting with a stick, poking it in some nearby bushes. That kid was like a living A.D.D parade. Couldn't he ever sit still for a few minutes?

Not finding the urge to keep going just yet, Roxas sat on his rock, watching Axel poke his bush for a few more minutes. "You know, you're going to burn if you don't put your shirt back on." Roxas commented.

"I'm fine." Axel replied, looking up from his bush poking, a sly smile coming to his lips. "Unless of course you want to put some sunscreen on me…?"

Roxas sent Axel a dry glare. "No." Axel shrugged.

"Fine then. But I'm not putting my shirt back on. Besides, you know you like it."

"Do not." Roxas shot back, giving Axel a once over. For… confirmation purposes. Right. Didn't see anything he liked. Nope. Not one thing.

"So then." Axel continued, standing up. "I guess we better get going." Roxas stood as well, pulling on his pack. "But first I gotta go pee."

Roxas raised an eyebrow at Axel. "Thanks for sharing." Actually, come to think of it, he kinda had to pee too. Watching as Axel scrambled up out of the shallow creek bed, Roxas followed after him, wondering where he was going.

"Axel, what are you doing? We have to stay in the creek."

"Yeah, I know." Axel said. "But first I have to go pee. And the unwritten guy code dictates that when in the woods, you have to pee on a tree. There were no trees in the creek, so I had to climb up here to get one." To finish his statement, Axel unzipped his pants with flourish.

Roxas's eye twitched. "Um, Axel, don't do that right in front of me."

"Why not?" Axel asked, hands pausing in his pants. "We're both guys, we've been in public restrooms before. Nothing we haven't seen before."

"Yeah, well… I'm gonna go over there." Roxas said, pointing. "I'll be back in a sec."

"No way, man!" Axel said. Roxas was uncomfortable with his pants open the way they were. It was nothing too drastic, but it just seemed like a disaster waiting to happen. "If you wander off you could get lost and we can't afford to get separated. Pull up a tree." He concluded, gesturing to a pine a few feet away.

"No." Roxas insisted. "I'm just going right over there for a second. I'm not going to get lost. Have a nice pee."

Wandering off a few yards and making sure to pick a tree behind some bushes, Roxas did a quick side to side scan for any wild animals and/or perverts that may want to take advantage of the fact that he had his pants down and eat and/or molest him. Judging that the coast was clear, Roxas unzipped and was about to go about his business when someone's head dropped and rested on his shoulder and a voice spoke up not an inch away from his ear.

"How's it goin'?"

Roxas screamed. "ARGH! AXEL!" Quickly blushing and zipping up his pants, Roxas turned to face the other male. "What the hell?! You don't just sneak up behind someone when they're peeing and ask how it's going!"

"Well you were gone for a little too long and I couldn't see you so I decided to check up on you."

"Well I'm fine!" Roxas assured him. "Now go away!"

"You know it doesn't take that long to pee." Axel said, crossing his arms and leaning up against a nearby tree.

"Well I can't pee under pressure." Roxas snapped, finding the whole situation highly embarrassing. "So just go back down to the creek and I'll be there in just a second."

"Fine." Axel huffed. "But if you get eaten by wild animals while your guard was down, don't say I didn't try to prevent it."

Roxas wanted to point out that if he got eaten by wild animals he wouldn't be saying much of anything, but Axel was already making his way down into the creek bed. Grumbling to himself, Roxas re-unzipped and went about his business, joining Axel a few moments later.

"All peed out and ready to go?" Axel asked with a grin.

"Ha ha ha." Roxas replied, no humour in his voice as he took the lead, making his way up the creek bed.

They walked for hours, Axel starting out strong, jabbering on about whatever made it's way into his head, Roxas mostly silent, trying not to listen. But after a while, even Axel started getting a bit worn out, and his banter trailed off as the two boys made their way in silence. Roxas was glad for the change.

"Hey Roxas?" Axel asked as it started to get towards evening. "Maybe we should call it a day? It's gonna get dark soon and we need to set up our tent and make a fire and stuff.

With a sigh, Roxas stopped, turning around and looking Axel over. The guy was looking exhausted, and dirty – even the tips of his flaming red spikes were starting to droop a little. Roxas knew he couldn't be looking much better, himself.

"Yeah, alright." He relented. "I'll set up the tent if you can go grab some firewood." Axel grinned and nodded, frolicking up out of the creek bed to gather up some kindling from the surrounding trees. "And don't go too far!" Roxas called out after him.

"Oh, don't worry about losing me." Axel called back, and Roxas could hear the amusement in his voice. "You'll know where I am!"

A puzzled expression crossed Roxas's face. "What does he mean by that?" He murmured to himself.

"BA-BAY! IT'S THE WAY YOU MAKE ME! KINDA GET ME GO CRA-ZAY! NEVER WANNA STOP!"

Oh God… Roxas realized. He's gonna sing.

Trying to block out the annoying singing, Roxas went to work getting the tent off of the side strap on his pack, pulling it out of the tent slip and making quick work of setting it up. It was a small, easy-up tent that would normally only take about five minutes to set up, but thanks to the one set of dilapidated poles, he had a bit of a struggle getting it set up exactly the way it was supposed to be.

"IT'S GOTTA BE YOU! UH-HUH, UH-HUH! ALL THE WAY!" Axel sang, coming down with his arms full of wood. "IT'S GOTTA BE YOU! UH-HUH, UH-HUH! EVERY DAY!"

"Axel, cut it out. I can see you know. I know where you are."

"Yeah, I know." Axel replied, grinning, looking down at his gathered wood. "I just like to – AH! SPIDER!" Dropping his firewood unceremoniously, Axel furiously brushed at his arms and chest. "Get it off, get it off, get it off!"

Roxas rolled his eyes, going back to securing the last stake in the tent. Apparently convinced that he was now spider free, Axel gathered up the wood again, carrying it over to a cleared out patch of dirt, dropping them into a pile. "Do you think we need any more than this?"

Looking the pile over, the blonde decided they'd batter be safe than sorry. "Um, maybe. I guess we could go get some more real quick before it gets too dark." Following after Axel, Roxas climbed up the slope to the trees.

"I PROMISE YOU, I WILL BE TRUE TO YOU – "

"And you don't have to sing this time. Really. I'm right here."

After having gathered enough firewood, Axel and Roxas went back down to camp, setting up a couple of logs before striking upon a problem. "Hey Roxas, did you bring any matches?"

"Oh, shoot! No! Do you know how to start a fire without them?"

"No." Axel admitted, digging in his pockets. "But who cares?" Pulling out a lighter, Axel flicked it, lighting some of the twigs and pinecones they had settled under the larger logs as kindling. Roxas should have figured. Of course Axel would have a lighter. The freak.

Shivering a little, Roxas dug into his pack, pulling out a sweatshirt. Looking over at Axel, he realized the other male had yet to even put his shirt back on. "Axel, aren't you freezing?" Roxas asked. Not that he cared or anything. He just wondered how someone with so little body fat could possibly retain any sort of heat at night.

"Oh. Yeah. Right." Axel said, as if he had just noticed that he was half naked and it was nearly dark out. Attempting to pull a shirt back on, Axel suddenly hissed in pain. "Ow, ow, ow!"

Roxas smirked, realization dawning on him. "Sunburn?"

"Yes." Axel snapped. "Ow, it burns."

"Well you shouldn't have been walking around all day with no shirt or sunscreen on." Roxas chided.

"I didn't bring any sunscreen." Axel informed him, wincing a little as the shirt fabric rubbed against his delicate skin. Roxas took pity on him and dug around in his bag, pulling out a tube and tossing it to Axel.

"Here."

"What is it?" Axel asked, trying to make out the label.

"Aloe Vera." Roxas told him. "Just put some on – it'll help."

Cringing a little as he peeled off his shirt, Axel took a dab of the cream, spreading it on his hands and attempting to spread it on his skin. With a curse, he pulled away. "Ow! Damn, I can't do it."

"Why on earth not?" Roxas asked, looking at him like he was crazy.

"It hurts."

"Well, it'll hurt even more if you don't put it on." Roxas told him, pulling some food out of his bag and tossing some over to Axel. Grabbing the lantern off of Axel's pack, he carefully turned it on, setting it on a nearby tree stump so they could have a little more light. Axel pouted, setting down by the fire and eating his makeshift dinner.

After a while, Axel's whimpering started to annoy Roxas. "Axel!" he snapped. "Stop wanking about your sunburn if you're not even going to put the aloe vera on it."

"Well it hurts." Axel stubbornly insisted.

"So put the stuff on it."

"But that hurts more!"

"Well not putting it on and leaving it the way it is is gonna hurt the most!"

"Well I'm not putting it on." Axel said, sticking out his tongue.

"Oh, what are you, like two years old? Come on, Axel, just put the damn cream on so I don't have to hear you whine about your stupid sunburn all night."

"But it – "

"Fine then!" Roxas decided, standing up and yanking Axel to his feet, grabbing the tube. "In that case I'm going to do it. Because I refuse to listen to you whining and whimpering and keeping me up all night."

Twisting open the top and squeezing a generous amount of the cream into his hands, Roxas reached out to wipe it across Axel's shoulders which seemed to have been the most badly burnt.

"Ow, ow, ow!" Axel complained, but Roxas couldn't help but notice that he wasn't as adamant about it as before when he had been putting it on himself. Rubbing it in, Roxas heard Axel making muffled little noises, although he couldn't tell if they were ones of pain or not. They sounded funny, but not like the kinds of sounds he would have expected Axel to be making if he had been hurting him. Deciding to ignore it, and satisfied with his job on Axel's shoulders, Roxas squeezed out another gob of the cream, swiping it over Axel's chest, which was also looking pretty red.

"Ah! Roxas!"

Wide eyed, Roxas looked up. Had he accidentally hurt Axel? "Sorry, did that hurt?"

"Um, yeah." Axel responded, looking flushed. "But it's okay."

"Alright…" Roxas replied, suddenly very aware of their close proximity, and the fact that he was running his hands all over Axel's chest, rubbing the lotion in. Gulping, he felt a little flushed, himself. Well this was embarrassing.

Suddenly there was a rustling in the bushes nearby, and Roxas looked over his shoulder, hands frozen on Axel's chest. "What was that?"

"What was what?" Axel asked.

Frowning, Roxas turned back around, continuing to make sure the cream was properly rubbed in. "Nevermind." But a minute later he heard the rustling again, this time much louder and closer.

"Okay, what was that?" Roxas asked again, this time turning around completely, shaking a little. "I know I heard something."

"It's probably nothing." Axel assured him, grabbing a wrist and dragging Roxas's hand back to his chest.

"Alright…" Roxas said, on edge. Glancing from side to side nervously, not even noticing that there wasn't really any more aloe vera for him to be rubbing into Axel's chest.

The rustling grew more pronounced, a couple twigs snapping ominously.

"What the hell is that?" Roxas asked, his voice cracking. This time Axel couldn't feign ignorance, because the sounds continued, growing closer every second. Roxas started hyperventilating, slight whimpers escaping his lips as he pressed himself against Axel.

"Uh… don't worry." Axel said reassuringly, patting Roxas's blonde spikes. "I'm sure it's nothing… Just a um… like a, uh…"

Suddenly the bushes right in front rustled furiously, branches snapping as something crashed through them, right out into their clearing.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

Both Roxas and Axel screamed, clutching eachother in a desperate need to feel protected. "WE'RE GONNA DIE, GONNA DIE, GONNA DIE!" Roxas chanted, closing his eyes and burying his face in Axel's chest.

"OH MY GOD, ROXAS IT'S A…" Axel suddenly trailed off, dead silence filling the clearing.

With a pathetic little whimper, Roxas looked up, braving a look over his shoulder, one that would probably be his last and include a huge mouth full of rows and rows of sharp teeth.

What he saw instead, was almost even more shocking, simply for the fact that it was the last thing he would have expected to see.

"Roxas…" Axel continued from his previous statement that had gone unfinished. "It's a…It's a –"

"Deer." Roxas finished in a voice devoid of emotion. The creature stood before them, flicking its ears nervously, mesmerized by the illuminating light of the lantern.

"BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Axel suddenly burst, doubling over and scaring the animal off. "Hahaha…haha…ha, oh man. Roxas, you just screamed like a freaking girl over a fucking DEER!"

Roxas glowered at him, vowing to kill the other male in his sleep. "You screamed too!" he pointed out. "And besides, I didn't know it was a deer, otherwise I wouldn't have freaked out!"

"Hahaha… wow. That's freaking priceless." Axel laughed.

"Grrrr… shut up!" Roxas snapped, punching Axel in the arm. The redhead didn't seem to notice.

"Rrrrrrrrrrrroxas is afraid of Bambi!"

"Hey, that thing was not Bambi!" Roxas defended. "It was big and it had horns! It could have posed a threat!"

"Haha, whatever you say, Roxas!" Axel laughed, still amused.

"Urgh, I'm going to bed." Roxas announced, grabbing his sleeping bag and blankets and heading for the tent. Kicking off his shoes and angrily unzipping the flap he climbed in.

"Aw, no, Roxas come on!" Axel called after him, grabbing his stuff and following. "I'm just teasing you!"

"Well it's not funny." Roxas told him, huffily unfurling his sleeping bag and climbing in, not even bothering to change out of his clothes.

"Come on, you've gotta admit it's just a little bit funny!" Axel insisted.

"No I don't. Because it wasn't."

Axel sighed, pulling his pants off and tossing them aside. "Fine. I'm sorry for teasing you." He said by way of apology.

"Whatever." Roxas replied, looking peeking his head our from under the covers to glare at Axel, only to see him in nothing but his boxers. Blushing lightly, and thankful that it was so dark out, Roxas spoke up. "Um… Axel, aren't you going to put some more clothes on?"

"Of course not." Axel replied, like Roxas must have been crazy for even suggesting it. "Why would I?"

"Um, because it's freaking freezing at night?"

"Yeah, so?"

"So." Roxas sighed, unable to believe he was actually having to explain this. "It makes sense that the colder it gets the more clothes you put on, not take off."

Axel slipped into his sleeping bag, shaking his head. "Yeah, but everyone knows that with good sleeping bags the less clothes you have on, the warmer they keep you."

"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." Roxas told him.

"Fine then." Axel quipped. "Keep all your ridiculous layers of clothes on. But I'll be the one who's sexy and warm. Goodnight."

Watching Axel roll over, Roxas grumbled to himself. What a freak. His logic made no sense at all. The fewer clothes you put on, the warmer you were? Please. Maybe in the crazy, alternate universe where Axel was from that made sense, but in the real world there was obviously no truth to it. Roxas suppressed a shudder, pulling the blankets closer to him. Was it just him, or was it colder out than usual tonight?

After thinking about it for a minute, shivering almost violently, Roxas very stealthily began pulling his clothes off until he was left in just his boxers. At first he was even colder than before, but after a second, just as he was about to grab his sweatshirt and put it back on, vowing to never listen to another thing Axel said as long as he lived, he noticed that it actually wasn't so bad. Not bad at all… In fact…

Setting his jacket aside, Roxas snuggled back down, pushing the blankets off a little bit; missing the smile that made it's way onto Axel's lips on the other side of the tent as he fell asleep.

.o.O.o.

Separated from the herd, Roxas! Like a little sheepie who doesn't know the big bad perverted wolf is RIGHT THERE!! Ahahaha! We all just know this is gonna be good. … Well, provided they don't kill eachother, that is. XD

The sleeping bag tip is true, by the way. I swear!

Will Axel and Roxas survive the wilderness, with only their backpacks, their brains, and the power of their LOVE to aide them? Tune in next time, in the continuing adventures of Emo Kid and That Annoying Redhead Guy! (aka Axel and Roxas XD)