bleed it out
"You are such a colossal idiot!" Axel snapped as he examined Roxas's bare back. "Would it kill you to look around you a little bit?"
"I was looking around me." Roxas replied calmly. "But around me consisted of four Heartless, which made it easy for a fifth one to sneak in and take a swipe at me."
"A swipe?" Axel swallowed. "I don't know if you can actually see your back, but it's anything but a swipe. Got it memorized, kid? You look awful."
"Then stop snapping at me and help." Roxas said, voice still calm and even.
Axel bit his lip and shook his head slowly. Roxas's back was lacerated, four long gauges stretching from his right shoulder to his left hip. Axel had given him a Potion, so the pain was better, but the wounds seemed to deep to heal the magic way.
"Looks like we'll actually need bandages." Axel muttered. "I'll go get Vexan."
Roxas craned around to look at him. "You're leaving me?"
"You're in your own room, moron." Axel rolled his eyes. "I think you'll be fine."
He reached out with an un-gloved hand and touched a spot on Roxax's shoulder that had been splattered with blood. It was a deep ruby color, redder than his hair even. He'd always thought Nobody blood might be a different color than humans', or that they wouldn't bleed at all. But the drops of blood that fell onto Roxas's snow-white sheets were ruby as the blood Axel had spilled as a human.
Roxas sucked in a breath. "Just because it's not open flesh, doesn't mean checking any part of my back doesn't hurt right now."
"Sorry." Axel swallowed. "I'll be right back, okay?"
Roxas bit his lip, sometimes as young and naïve as he'd been when he'd first come to the Organization. "Promise?"
Axel ruffled his hair, knowing that if he had a heart right now it would be lanced with warmth and sadness. "Promise."