i will follow you into the dark
A/N:
The last chapter was terrible, I know **shame**. When I don't have inspiration it shows, I guess. Oh, and can anyone help me with the fact that whenever I do italics it like smushes them all together? This is the first time it's ever happened to me, and I realllly hate it.
Anyways, first AkuRoku chappie yay!
Roxas looked so small, sitting hunched over on his bed with his head in his hands. His tousled brown hair stuck up in about twenty different directions and Axel wondered, momentarily, if it would be soft to the touch.
"What's up, Roxas?" Axel asked, taking a seat next to his friend. "You weren't at the clock tower tonight."
"Sorry." Roxas's voice was quiet, an edge away from breaking.
"Don't apologize, moron." Axel tilted his head, trying to see past the chinks in Roxas's fingers. "Just tell me what's wrong."
Roxas sighed heavily, looking up at Axel. "Have you seen Xion today?"
"Nah. She wasn't at the tower, either."
Roxas looked down at his gloved hands. "I…we were on a mission together, today. And we went to the Coliseum, you know?"
"Yeah." Roxas was such a slow storyteller.
"Have you ever met Zack?"
Axel thought for a second. "Kid with black hair?"
"Yeah, him."
"In passing, yes. Why?"
"He…he saw our keyblades. And he said 'so who which one of you is real?'."
"And?"
"What do you mean 'and'?" Roxas snapped.
Axel rolled his eyes. "Roxas, why are you upset about that? I mean—we're Nobodies, right? None of us are real."
"I know." Roxas swallowed. "But…the keyblade…why did it choose me, Axel? If I'm a Nobody, if I'm not even real…why can I wield it? And why can Xion?"
Axel looked away from Roxas. All he could see was a boy who looked like his friend, except with a rounder face and longer, darker hair. The boy with a keyblade cradles in his hands.
Sora.
That boy was asleep now, buying Axel precious months with Roxas. Giving him time to try and figure out what would happen once Sora awoke.
Sora. A name marred, scrambled, and stamped with an "X" to create the person Axel cared about more than he knew possible in this second life.
Axel sighed. "I think…you'll just have to find that out for yourself, Roxas."
Roxas bit his lip. "Does that mean I'm going to be alone someday?"
Yes.
"Not if I have anything to say about it." Axel tried to sound convincing.
Without warning, Roxas turned and crumpled into Axel's lap, head resting against Axel's chest and hair tickling the underside of Axel's chin.
"Jeez—what's—Roxas…?"
"Don't leave me." Roxas's voice was hoarse.
"I'm not! Roxas, jeez, I'm right here. Got it memorized? I'm right here."
Axel lifted his hand and smoothed it over the back of Roxas's head and pulling the boy closer.
"I'm right here."