You know, never understood the need for disclaimers. Seeing as how Square owns the characters, why the hell would they make fanfiction? It makes no sense I tell you what.
rated m for stuffs.
"Because, you made, or rather your family, made my life a living hell."
Axel laid in his bed, arms behind his head trying to figure out the conversation from a few hours ago. Roxas hadn't given him an explanation, only stormed off after he said that. "This is highly irritating." Axel said aloud. "At least tell me what the hell your problem is. God" Looking out the window, he noticed that the sun was starting to rise. He had gotten three hours worth of sleep and he felt absolutely like crap, and now he had to walk around the palace pretending that Roxas didn't hate him. Fantastic. Best day ever.
"That's it. I've had enough of this garbage." Axel proclaimed, swinging his legs over the side of the bed. Without even throwing on an undergarment to cover his chest, he opened the door and stormed down the hall. "All I wanted to do..." Axel mumbled to himself as he stomped further down the hall, "Was make a new friend. Is that really so hard? I've been nothing but nice and gentleman-like, but no. All I get is 'Hi I'm Roxas! I'm a little bitch!'" Axel reached the door, his anger as red as his hair. Without even knocking, he flung open the door. "Roxas. Wake up." The blonde stirred under the covers, but didn't show any other signs of waking. So being the level headed man he is, Axel walked over to his bed and threw the covers off him, and shook him awake.
"What the hell!?" Roxas yelled, trying to figure out the red mass attacking him. "What on Earth are you doing! Stop it!"
"Not until you tell me what the hell is wrong with you! What did I do to you?" Axel said still shaking him, albeit not as hard.
"Axel! My head is starting to hurt!" Roxas tried to close his eyes to see if that would help his fast approaching headache.
"Well you hurt my feelings!" Axel mocked. "If I stop, do you promise to let me in on why I'm such a bastard?"
"Ok! Fine!" and with that Axel let go of the blonde. "Jesus! Are you insane?" Roxas held his head, trying to make everything around him stop spinning.
"It's possible." Axel retaliated. "Still waiting." Axel tapped his foot on the floor, arms crossed.
"You want to know why I hate you? Well don't feel left out. I hate your entire family." Roxas glared, then turned his back.
"Fantastic. We have something in common. What I wanna know is what the reason is." The redhead said, sounding a bit less pissed.
"This is more than some rebellious teenage thing!" Roxas whipped around and stared at Axel in his face. "What, you hate your daddy because what? Is he not giving everything you want? Oh boo hoo!" The blonde faked tears, to hide the fact he was about to cry.
"No you stupid shit!" Axel yelled, his fists clutching in anger. "It's because he killed my brother you insensitive prick!"
Roxas was completely stunned. It was as if someone dropped a bomb on his entire world, making his very foundation collapse.
"I had to watch my brother die because he loved someone he wasn't supposed to love. Don't talk to me about 'rebellious teenager things' when obviously you know shit about this." The redhead whispered through clenched teeth.
"Axel..." Roxas whimpered, tears freely flowing. "What was his name?"
"Reno." He recrossed his arms as the blonde walked passed him and out the door.
"Why the hell didn't you tell me Zexion!" Roxas said, running into the room next to his. "That might have been pertinent information!"
Zexion slowly sat up in bed, his bluish hair more crazed than normal. "Roxas, it is dawn and so forgive me if my thoughts aren't coherent enough to understand what you could possibly be talking about."
"The fact that Reno and Axel are brothers! I didn't know Reno was royalty!" the blonde pouted, looking at his 'brother' accusingly.
"Are you kidding me?" Zexion said, now wide awake. When he saw the seriousness in the blonde's eyes, he almost fell out of bed. "Roxas. We did tell you."
"No you didn't! Besides he never had any marks under his eyes!" Roxas countered.
"The power of makeup Roxas. Seriously, you don't remember us telling you this?" Seeing his friend shake his head cleared up so much. "Roxas, do you remember the day he was executed?"
"Yeah..."
"Remember that boy that ran into you in the square after we wouldn't let you see the executioners stand?
Roxas thought about it a minute, trying to recall the circumstance.
"In any case it happened. And Leon said..."
"The poor boy." the blonde remembered, "His brother is also getting executed. Reno was a good man. Damn his father. If he wasn't the king, I swear to God." Everything finally clicked. "Oh my God. I... don't know what to say."
"An 'I'm sorry,' might be nice place to start." Said a voice from the doorway. Roxas turned around, his eyes still puffy.
"Axel..." Roxas sniffed. "I'm...."
"It's ok. Taking a stab in the dark here, but I'm assuming your brother is... was Rufus?" Axel said, still leaning on the doorway, however his eyes had averted to the ground. The silence told him he was right.
The name was like a knife through his heart. Roxas sat back on the bed, his head in his hands. He felt Zexions hand behind him, trying to comfort the blonde.
Axel walked over to Roxas and stood in front of him, fighting back every urge in his body to reach out to the boy and just pull him into his arms. "I know this won't mean much seeing as how you probably already know this but... Rufus was an amazing person, and I'm glad I got to meet him the few times I did." And then Roxas fell completely apart.
"So turns out, he hated us because he blamed our family for his brothers death. He just didn't realize that Reno was my brother." Axel explained to Demyx later that day.
"Man. That's... ridiculous. So how are you two getting along now?" Demyx said, taking in all the new information.
"I don't know. I haven't seen him since this morning so who knows." Just as the redhead said that, he looked up at the door frame to see Zexion. "Hey Zexion."
Demyx quickly turned his head and smiled at his friend. "Hi Zexion! Did you need something?"
"Not me. Roxas wants to see Axel." He said pointing at said man. "You'd best hurry before he changes his mind and runs."
Not saying a word, Axel got up leaving the pair in Demyx's room.
Axel knocked on the door softly before sticking his head in. "Zexion said that you wanted to see me?" Roxas weakly nodded his head before Axel wandered over to him. He sat down next to him on the floor neither saying anything for what seemed like hours.
Finally, "I wanted to tell you about my family." Roxas whispered.
"You don't have to..." Axel started, only to be cut off.
"I want to. It's my way of apologizing. Besides last I checked, you did want to hear the long version anyway." The blonde slowly smiled. "In our family, the only ones of us that are blood related are Cloud and I. Our parents died right after I was born, and so Cloud took care of us. Apparently during this time, Cloud met Rufus, and for a time they were lovers. Of course that didn't last, but Rufus was a great friend, who provided income for us, so he decided to stay. Things were awkward for a while, but we just became a family. A year later, I must have been five, Cloud ran into Leon in the market shopping. It was love at first sight, and they have been together since. The only reason that they have not been caught yet is because we live under the guise of 'brothers' in the slums. No one really gives a damn about us just so long as we don't make anything public. Zexion was also added into our family when Leon and Cloud got together. Leon found him on the streets stealing food, and instead of turning a child, no older than seven in, he took him in. So for the next so for the next three years we lived together; me and Cloud, Leon and Zexion, and of course Rufus. One day Rufus went to the market and, according to him, he kept hearing this guy bitch and complain about how damn stuffy the palace was and how awesome it was to leave it every once in a while."
"That sounds like Reno." Axel laughed a bit.
"Yeah. The rest you already know. The king found out somehow about Reno and Rufus and he had them... executed." Roxas said, sighing deeply, tears once again filling up his eyes.
Axel didn't hesitate this time to pull the small blonde into an embrace."Ssssh. It's ok. I know it sucks, but it will be ok. You're not alone." They sat like that for a few minutes, not caring how it looked. Neither one of them gave a damn.
Until Roxas's stomach growled and he realized how hungry he was. Laughing Axel said "I guess neither one of us would have had the opportunity yet to get some food. So, hungry?" Roxas nodded, smiling. "Ok. Lets go get Demyx and Zexion and we'll go grab some food." The pair stood up and walked to the door. Nearing Demyx's room, the door was slightly ajar. Axel slowly opened it and almost fainted.
Demyx had his tongue down Zexion's throat, and neither one seemed to mind much.
TEH AUTHORS NOTE!
Woot we seem to be picking up steam here and sexx0rs has to be just around the corner right? maaaaybe maaaybe not. Muahahahahaha
in any case, you have already read, so review you lazy bums!!!!