I felt like updating this. mep. ENJOY!

Hours later, the three sat on the clock tower at sunset station, licking ice cream.

"This was fun, we should do it more often." Neira said into the silence. Riku and Roxas both chuckled at this.

"What?" she asked annoyed. She hated it when they laughed about something oblivious to her.

"Well, if you think that all the guys hitting on you and we had to defend you is fun, then yeah, we should." Riku said. Neira smiled at him. Roxas sighed and threw away his Popsicle stick.

"Too bad it's school tomorrow." he said looking to the ground.

"At least we'll see each other, can't be too bad then, right?" Neira said. Riku smirked at her again, Roxas just smiled into nothingness. They watched the sun slowly sink into the ground. It was getting darker and darker and they slowly got up and headed for Neira's place. When they finally got there it was pitch black. Neira hugged both boys good bye but didn't went in the house yet.

"Hey, it's way too dark for you two to walk home, I'll ask Reno if he can you a lift, okay?" she asked them. Riku agreed but Roxas had his worries. If Larxene caught him with any red head, she'll kill him for sure. But if they walked, they'll not only probably get lost but also robbed or whatever. He smiled at his aunt, meaning 'yeah, alright then'. She smiled back and hurried inside. The boys heard some noise inside and cheerful laughter, greetings as well. Then silence and the girl came back outside followed by another red head, only it wasn't the one the teens had expected.

"Dad?!" Roxas said unbelieving. Riku stood there aside, uninvolved and looked out casted so Neira joined him. Meanwhile Roxas and Axel hugged brotherly.

"Good to see ya Rox! Man you've grown, only a couple more inches and your as tall as me!" the red haired porcupine laughed. Roxas was still a little surprised to see his father here without any warning that he was coming.

"What are you doing here?" was all he could say. Axel grinned at him.

"Oh, just dropping by, you know. There's some business I gotta do here though, then I'm off again. Where's that dear mother of your's?" he asked. Roxas looked at his watch. It was twenty past seven.

"Can you give us a lift to Riku's place? Mum's picking me up there soon and you know how she is." Roxas answered. They all got in the car quickly, except Neira, she stayed behind. They arrived at Riku's pretty fast for it wasn't very far. Everything was good until Roxas screamed out when they saw a certain orange car.

"She's here! And she's gonna kill us!" he screamed.

"Relax, Rox. Things cool off over time, ya know? I bet she's not that furious any more." Axel sad confident while pulling over. They got out of the car went to the house.

"Ashe, we're back!" Riku yelled into the house. Ashe came from the kitchen and hugged him. Following her was a blond, wearing a business like outfit and oddly extremely happy about something.

"Roxas, there you are! Didn't Demyx tell you I'd pick you up at seven?" she said smiling and pulled her blond son into a hug. Axel, who had been standing in the doorway to keep a distance, coughed quietly but clearly.

"Hey Larx, what up?" he said casually but with dislike in his voice. Larxene's smiled vanished at once.

"Hello, Axel. What a surprise." she said cold. Her green eyes reflected the hate she had bred against the red head over countless years. Her grip on Roxas' shoulder tightened while Axel continued in his casual voice.

"So, how are things going? Demyx still living with ya? Haven't seen him in a while, I think I'm gonna pay him a little vis-"

"Step foot in my house and you'll die a VERY painful death!" Larxene snarled. Axel ignored the warning and went over to Roxas. Larxene put her arms protectively around him.

"What do you want here?!" she hissed at him. Axel shot her a friendly death glare. They could feel the tension between the two.

"I just wanna see my son." he said quietly. Then his lips formed one of his genuine smiles again.

"Hey, Rox, I'll be in town for a while, how 'bout you stay with me?" he asked Roxas but before the blond could answer Larxene exploded.

"HE WILL NOT STAY WITH SUCH A BASTARD YOU ARE!"

"Hey, this is Roxas' choice not your's so SHUT UP!" Axel yelled back. The wall of peaceful conversation has been brought down. Heavy swearing bombed into the room. Ashe wanted to stop them but her words went under the screaming and yelling of Larxene and Axel. Riku watched them like a tennis match, looking from one side to the other and Roxas being the most unfortunate of them all was stuck crouching and holding his ears in the middle of the two. But swearing and insulting each other didn't seem enough to them. Axel jumped over Roxas and hauled his fist into Larxene stomach who in turn scratched his face with her long nails. They went on fighting each other, getting more violent by the second. Ashe whimpered and tried to stop them but knowing Axel she was too afraid of him so she was too frightened to do anything. Riku went over to Roxas who had his arms around his knees, face pale, eyes closed and was trying to convince himself that he wasn't here. A couple of minutes later, Rassler returned home and saw the disaster. He immediately grabbed Axel and pulled him away from Larxene. It was working but Larxene used her chance and kicked, boxed, bit and punched the defenseless red head. Riku went to Rassler's aid and tried to restrain Larxene who kept snarling and hissing at Axel. After almost an hour of strangling the two adults stopped trying to hurt each other. Axel had his face covered in scratches, some so deep blood was running down his features, a couple of bruises and a bite mark on his neck, Larxene looked more bashed up than him but she tried not to show her pain. She had a bleeding lip, her entire left side of her face was purplish blue bruised and she had taken a couple of hits on her rips as well. Axel left the scene without another word but furiously glancing at Larxene. She returned the favor but then limped over to her son.

"Hey, Roxas, you alright?" she asked him bending down to him. He looked at her in shock.

"You should be asking that yourself. Why do always have to fight?" he asked her back with a crackling voice. She looked away then slowly got up again.

"Hey Ashe, sorry about before but..."an angry expression hushed back onto her face. "he asked for it." she whispered. Ashe and Rassler helped her out and into her car while Riku was left with Roxas. The blond like a looked frightened five year old and that wasn't a nice sight.

"Rox it's not your fault." Riku said calm. Roxas looked at him disbelieving but then nodded. He spoke, again with a crackling voice.

"But I should be used to it by now, I mean,..." he paused a bit while Riku helped him stand up."they do it whenever they meet." Riku nodded worriedly. He knew exactly why Roxas was so scared when his parents fought. He had even been there.

poor Roxas. heh, I know what happened to him and it's sad...raise your hand if you think I'm talking too much about Roxas' life instead of the Larxel... I'll try change that in upcoming chaps, however, thinking of the entire story, starting with Roxas' point of view seems pretty alright... nah, I'll stop anoying yous now...

next chap is a flashback! wanna know about it? drop a review please!