Kingdom Hearts II- The Prelude of Roxas

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Disclaimer: I don't own any rights to any of the KH anything that's out there. /cries silently/ I wish I did…

Chapter Two – Finding Roxas

After a moment, which seemed like an eternity, Roxas looks back up at Axel, his eyes shining with delight.

"Roxas…Roxas is my name," Roxas says to Axel.

"Do you remember anything?" Axel asks him, louder this time, "Anything?" Roxas thinks a moment before he answers. Axel watches carefully as Roxas stands there. 'I need him to remember,' Axel says to himself, 'but will he be the same?'

"Well think," Roxas pauses and frowns slightly, "would it hurt you if I didn't?" Roxas gazes into Axel careful watch, which gives him the answer he is looking for. Roxas continues, "I remember something's, trust me."

"Well," Xemnas glances carefully at Roxas and places his hand on his chin, "If you do remember pieces then maybe Roxas does not need to see Naminé, yet." Xemnas looks at Axel. "Axel?"

"Yes sir?" Axel responds, still looking at Roxas.

"Roxas needs to begin training immediately. I'm assigning you to train and teach Roxas." Xemnas opens a portal. Before he steps through it and disappears Xemnas speaks to Roxas. "Until next time… Roxas." Xemnas disappears in the blink of an eye leaving Axel and Roxas very much alone.

"Roxas…" Axel whispers. Roxas smiles and runs to Axel. When he reaches him Roxas hugs him. Axel nearly falls over by the force of Roxas but is able to stay standing and wrap his arms around his little blonde. "I had no clue where you went." Axel whispers to Roxas.

"Neither do I," Roxas says and looks into Axels' face, "But I'm not about to leave again, I promise.

"That's good to hear," Axel tells him, getting a thought in his head suddenly. "Oh besides, you have training to get done, so you really can't leave anyway."

"Training!" Roxas spits out and his temper flares a bit. "I don't need stupid…" Axel stops Roxas by kissing his lips gently. All of Roxas' anger drains away as Axel kisses him. His scent of fire and metal fills his senses, making him shiver in warmth and joy.

Axel pulls away slowly and frowns saying, "Yeah. I think you do need training." Roxas laughs and rests his head on Axels' chest. He inhales through his nose and savors every bit of the time spent in Axels' arms.

"If that's part of my training," Roxas says nonchalantly, "I can't wait to start."

"Then," Axel offers, "Let's start now." He looks down at Roxas and Roxas nods his head in agreement. "Hang on," Axel warns him. Roxas nods again and holds onto his love as they disappear into nothing.

The two become swallowed by darkness and aren't able to see. Almost as soon as they went into the dark they come out. Roxas blinks a couple times before his eyes are able to adjust to the dark alley laid out before them. There is nothing unusual about the alley.

Puddles of water scattered here and there, neon sign stories above their heads, and rain falling out of a dark clouded sky. The alley is desolate and awkwardly disturbing. Roxas lets go of Axels' waist takes a step or so forward, and then looks back at Axel.

"Where are we?"

"I overshot our landing, though we are near the Skyscraper of Memories, which still leaves us quite a bit of a walk until we'd reach," Axel pauses when he sees Roxas' confusion, "Oh… we are, uh… oh, on a world called The World That Never Was. It's a world for Nobodies, you know, like us."

"Okay…and where are we headed?"

"Well," Axel thinks a moment, "we're going to Castle Oblivion, or that's what I think the place is called, to begin your training." Roxas smiles when he hears "training."

"Lead the way then, o mighty trainer," Roxas says sarcastically giving Axel a slight bow and includes, "Hail the Trainer!" before he busts out laughing. Axel can't help but to laugh along with Roxas.

"C'mon then," Axel says. He puts his hood up and Roxas copies him. Axel offers his hand out to Roxas. Roxas looks at it for a second before he takes it. Their fingers lace together as they begin walking down the alley.

They emerge at the end of the alley after a few minutes into a large concrete area. To the right of them is a large ominous building jutting into the sky. As lighting crashes against the dark sky it outlines the building making it look more fearsome.

"Is this… the Skyscraper of Memories?" Roxas asks Axel as they both stare at the towering structure. Lightning crashes as they stare and Roxas swears that for a second he sees a man standing at the very top.

"Yeah. Been a while since I've actually looked at it from the outside…" Axel admits to Roxas, grasping his attention back. Axel waits patiently until Roxas becomes bored with looking at the building and they continue to trudge along.

They take the alley on the left of the building, hand in hand, and right into trouble. Walking past the stairs of the skyscraper on the left side they hear something unexpected.

"Arc, reload!" A deeper voice yells out from the dark. Axel's hand shoots around Roxas' waist and he swiftly pulls him to the side leaning against a building. A cloaked figure rushes past them without even a glance and sprints up the stairs to the skyscraper.

Pink blurs fire past them towards the figure on the stairs. Axel curses under his breath and he and Roxas dart towards a small opening between two buildings on the other side of the alley from the stairs. Axels' hood falls down as they run. The opening is about three feet wide. He has Roxas go in first then himself.

They barely make it in the opening without being seen by the second figure that appears. Its boots slap against the wet ground with each step. The first figure already disappeared into the building by the time the second one reaches the stairs.

Roxas squeezes Axels' hand when silence washes over the area. Axel tries to think of a way out of their situation and it comes to him. He bends over and whispers into Roxas' ear.

"Stay right behind me and don't say anything. We don't want Xigbar to attack us, got it?" Roxas opens his mouth to speak but catches himself and nods his head. He puts up his hood silently before they go.

Axel emerges from the opening silently with Roxas immediately behind him. Roxas keeps his eyes glued to the back of Axels' coat, like Axel advised him to. They try to move quickly without any noise. Unfortunately they don't get very far before Xigbar spots them.

"Axel hey! Where're you going?" Xigbar comes up behind Axel and Roxas. Roxas remembers not to say anything and not to look at Xigbar. Axel puts a pained smile on his face as Xigbar stops right beside him.

"Xigbar." Axel acknowledges, "I'm going to the castle. You?"

"Humph," Xigbar grunts, "I challenged Demyx to fight. He accepted.

"He… accepted?" Axel utters, raising an eyebrow too. Xigbar snorts and tries to cover the noise he made. Axle chuckles. "What did you do to him this time?" Xigbar snorts again and asks.

"What makes you think that I did anything to him?" Axel was quick to react.

"Because last time he agreed to fight against you was when you took his Mr. Squeakers hostage. Remember?" Xigbar turns his head thoughtfully and runs his hand once down the side of his face. Then grins hugely.

"This time I took his 'Mr. Bun-bun-tiggie-poo-snuffles'. Where the hell does he come up for such names?" Axel snickers.

"So I took it right in front of him and he caught on pretty quickly. So we began. But then he ran from me so I followed. He's a wimp that one." Axel and Xigbar both laugh at the truth told. Roxas isn't as tense now because Xigbar hasn't mentioned him yet.

"Aren't you going to follow him?" Axel asks with slight interest in his voice. "Teach him a lesson?"

"I'd like to but I don't quite know where he went," Xigbar admits, putting his hood down. Roxas can't help but to look at him from beneath his hood. Xigbar has black hair with strips of gray scattered through them. He also has a scar running down the side of his face and an eye patch on his right eye. Axel smiles when he hears that.

"Most likely he went to his room," Axel says, lowering his voice secretively, "knock on his door twice, pause a second, then knock three times more. He'll open his door thinking it's either me or Larxene and you can teach him a thing, or a couple more."

"Thanks Axel," Xigbar declares with an evil smirk, "Also, hello to your little buddy behind you." Roxas lets out a gasp and Xigbar laughs. "Don't worry," he assures Roxas, "I won't hurt you unless you ask for it, and really you should watch out for Sai'x instead." Xigbar shivers at the thought of him and waves good-bye to Axel and Roxas.

"That was weird," Roxas flat-out says to Axel as Xigbar disappears inside the building. Axel shrugs his shoulders and Roxas puts his hood down. He watches as Roxas yawns tiredly.

"Uh, hey Roxas?" Axel asks him. Roxas looks at him and raises an eyebrow. Axel blushes and looks at the ground with a shy smile on his face. Roxas puts his hand wearily to his head and lets out a little groan before he collapses in exhaustion. Axel yells, "Roxas!" and catches him a split second before he hits the ground. Axel shakes him a little to wake him up.

"Just five more minutes' mom," Roxas mutters and turns his head away from Axel. Axel laughs silently so he won't disturb his sleep and, picking Roxas up bridal style, they disappear into a portal.

A second later a portal appears in what seems to be someone's bedroom. It's a large room with black walls on each side. There is only one window that is directly above the head of the bed. The bed has blood red sheets spread across it with two big black pillows. Right across from the bed is a desk covered with all sorts of papers and pictures covering it and hanging from the walls.

Axel strolls out of the darkness and goes over to the left side of the bed with Roxas still in his arms. Trying to set him down, Axel puts a knee on the bed and places Roxas in the middle. Axel tries to pull away but Roxas has his arms wrapped around Axels' neck and won't let go.

"C'mon Roxas," Axel whispers, "Let go." In his sleep Roxas mutters something incoherent. "What'd you say?" Axel whispers to Roxas.

"I want…" Roxas murmurs then trails off.

"What do you want?"

"…Stay…me," Roxas tightens his grip a little on Axel and scrunches his face, "Don't…leave…because…love…" Axel smiles and kisses Roxas softly.

"I'll stay," Axel whispers into Roxas' ear, "because I love you Roxas." Roxas smiles sweetly and loses his grip on Axel. His arms fall to his chest while his breathing begins to deepen and his chest rises and falls slowly. A sympathetic smile graces upon Axels' face as he watches Roxas sleep.

'He looks exactly the same when I first found him.' Axel thinks to himself.

'He may not remember us though,' a small voice calls out from the back of his head.

'It seems like he does.'

'He may just be playing with you.'

'Roxas wouldn't do that.'

'Are you 100 positive?'

'Will you just shut up?' Axel yells to himself.

'Fine, but I'd be careful around him if I were you.'

'Ha! You are me! Wait a sec… Aw crap!' ((That's where I show myself in the characters)) Axel furrows his eyebrows, while groaning crossly at his mind, and lies down beside Roxas on the bed. ((Uh-huh. Totally me)) He turns his head left and asks aloud, "Have you really forgotten everything?" Axel lies on the bed with hopes that everything will turn out for the better before he drifts off to sleep

Axels' dream mode!
Axel is walking casually down a pitch-black hall. His steps echo with everyone he takes. A shriek makes him run to the location it came from. He runs around a corner and skids to a stop. Roxas is in front of someone but their face is blurred out. Roxas shrieks again at the person.

"Oh what, you mean like getting close to you!" Roxas' voice scratches and becomes distorted, "I hate you!" ((Sounds like a CD that's been scratched, you know, how it skips)) One moment he's standing shrieking, then the next running towards Axel. Axel opens his arms to hug Roxas as he approaches.

"Roxas!" Axel says in relief, "I thought you…" he stops talking as Roxas phases right through him. Axel touches his chest where Roxas disappeared and looks at the blurred figure angrily. 'How could they do that to Roxas?' Axel thinks madly. Then, when Axel hears the figure sobbing, he lets his anger go. The person drops to their knees and sobs.

"He hates me," The person covers their blurred face with their hands. Axel begins to take pity on them. He walks over to them and leans against the wall beside them.

"It's alright. Not like he said it to me though," Axel talks out loud, knowing the person can't hear him. He stares up at the ceiling broadly as he listens to the person continue to cry and sob. Whoever it is shuffles onto their feet which catches Axels' attention. "You know," Axel says, continuing looking at the ceiling before he brings his gaze to the person, "I couldn't imagine if Roxas said that to…" Axel drops his mouth open in shock.

The person's face is no longer blurred out and Axel sees that he is staring at himself. The real Axel takes a step towards the other him. Axel reaches out to touch the others face and his hands phases through just like Roxas did. The dream Axel wipes his face of his tears and begins to talk.

"I'll kill him for saying that," Dream Axel speaks quietly. The real Axel watches as the other walks in the direction that Roxas ran and disappears into the dark. Axel falls back into the wall.

"What the hell is going…" Axel hears a cracking like ice fill his ears, which makes him pause, before the floor shatters apart into blinding light, "On!" He falls through the light and his figure becomes smaller and smaller until he disappears completely.

The Next Morning

Axel bolts up in a cold sweat from the nightmare. He cradles his head in his hands as he catches his breath. Something moves to his right and he nearly jumps a mile. Straining through the dim light to make out the shape he sees that it's only Roxas. Axel glances around for a clock. He spots one above the door directly in front of him. It stands out in bright red lights declaring its 3:26 A.M.

'It was just a nightmare," he assures himself quietly, "just a dream. Roxas isn't mad at me and I'm not mad and everything's fine."

Axel collapses back onto his pillow he was using and tries to get back to sleep. His heavy breathing a few minutes later whispers into the dark announce he's successful.

A few hours later Roxas wakes up with a drowsy look plastered to his face. He studies the room carefully and then looks at the clock. The time is now 6:01 A.M. Roxas rubs his eyes and yawns tiredly. He looks over at Axel who has his head covered with the pillow he was using. Rolling his eyes he begins to plan.

'I want to go back to sleep,' Roxas thinks as he yawns again, 'but if I don't stay awake I'll be even more tired later.' He figures that the best thing to do is to get up now and stay up. 'Time to do some exploring,' Roxas thinks, crawling off the bed softly.

He exits the room quietly, shutting the door ever so gently as not to wake Axel. Roxas lets out the breath he has been holding for what seems the last five minutes and tries to figure out which way he should go down the hallway he is now standing in.

The hallway is nothing unique and that disappoints Roxas. There are only plain white walls with no windows. He turns around and examines the door he just exited. The door has the Roman numeral "VIII" in bold silver plating and underneath the number in bold silver plated letters is plated "Axel." Roxas runs his fingers over the letters and smirks.

'He took me to his room,' Roxas thinks to himself, 'but exactly why?' He thinks about what he remembered yesterday and becomes more confused.

Roxas walks left down the blank white hallway and grimaces his face as a foul smell pierces his nose. He quickly covers his nose and mouth with his coat sleeve.

'What in the world is that stench?' Roxas thinks to himself as he walks slowly to the end of the hallway and enters a small lobby. There is a doorway on each wall. The clanking noises are echoing from right hallway so Roxas shrugs his shoulders and continues down the right hallway.

This hallway is shorter than the one Roxas was in before. To the left is a large archway that leads into somewhere Roxas doesn't know. Then on the right is a huge lounge area with 5 or so huge black and white couches, a couple of chairs fitted into little desks with a computer on each desk. Roxas decides to go through the archway to see what could be making all the noise.

He passes through the archway to find someone digging through kitchen cabinets. The kitchen is almost the same size of the lounge. There are two six-burner stoves, two sinks, and about twenty cabinets circling around the kitchen. In the middle of the kitchen is a large dining room table with thirteen wooden chairs around it. He drops his arm away from his face.

"Um…" Roxas hesitantly speaks, confused on what to say to whomever is digging through the cabinets. The person in the cabinet pulls their head out and looks at Roxas. They have dirty blonde hair formed into a semi-mullet on their head. They have blue eyes that look curiously at Roxas.

"The name's Demyx," Demyx addresses himself, taking a slight bow. Roxas opens his mouth about to introduce himself but is interrupted by a shout.

"Demyx!" a shrill voice rings out and echoes through the hallways. Demyx's eyes widen and his mouth drops.

"Oh no," Demyx mutters frailly.

"Demyx? Where are my FLUFFING pancakes? Demyx! I want my FLUFFING PANCAKES!" The voice screeches as light footsteps can be heard arriving closer to the kitchen.

"Who in hell…" Roxas mutters, trying to think of someone who would actually shout about pancakes. ((A/N: I would!!!)) The footsteps come to a stop in front of the kitchen. Roxas sees that it's only Larxene and gives her a little wave with his hand.

"Oh, hey Roxas," Larxene says cheerfully before she turns on Demyx, "Demyx, I already told you that you owe me pancakes. Because you screwed up my mother fluffing brownies last week and you promised to make it up to me! I still haven't gotten any fluffing pancakes! I want my fluffing pancakes!

"Uh," Roxas starts, "Mother fluffing?"

"Yeah," Larxene says with a slight blush, "I have an anger issue so I have to watch my language or Sai'x will go ballistic on me."

"And he," Roxas says pointing over his shoulder at Demyx, who is cowering behind a cabinet door, "Screwed up your mother fluffing brownies?" Larxene frowns and nods her head. "How?"

"Okay. So this is how it happened," Larxene begins, "Music Boy here was chasing after Axel one day for some stupid reason," but Demyx cuts her off.

"He stole my hair gel!" Demyx stands up, pouts and crosses his arms in protest.

"Whatever," Larxene says and waves a hand for Demyx to be quiet, "They ran through the kitchen where my poor, innocent brownies were sitting out to cool down and," She pauses and inhales, "Demyx threw his sitar at Axel, missed, and hit my brownies off the table."

"I said I was sorry," Demyx whines. Larxene glares at him furiously.

" 'Sorry' doesn't bring my brownies back to life! Does it?" Larxene yells at him, "DOES IT!"

"Demyx, my good lad," a British sounding voice calls to the kitchen as the person walks nearer, "I heard you were going to make waffles and I thought…" Luxords' smile wipes off his face as he enters the kitchen. He is greeted with one glare, one raised eyebrow, and one pout. He frowns. "What, did I say something odd?" Luxord asks.

Roxas, of course, is the one raised eyebrow. He looks at Luxords' short blonde hair and his many earrings. 'Who the heck is this dude and who does he think he is, Mr. Great Britain?' He thinks as he eyes Luxord curiously.

Larxene, again and of course, is the glare. Demyx is the pout because, he's a sissy, ((A/N: Not really, that's just the vibe he gives off)) and he doesn't like to cook for the other members of the Organization.

"If anyone is to get PANCAKES," Larxene adds emphasis to the word 'pancakes', "It'll be me because Demyx screwed up my mother fluffing brownies!"

"No," Luxord says defiantly to the infuriated Larxene, "Demyx owes me because he lost at Poker, Black Jack, 21, 52 Pick Up, Slap Jack, Spit, and Go Fish so many times he almost has his life signed away to me." Roxas snickers when Luxord mentions Go Fish.

"Me!" Larxene shrieks at Luxord.

"No me!" Luxord barks back.

"ME!"

"ME!"

"ME!"

"ME!"

"FUDGING ME!"

"Shut up!" Demyx angrily shouts at the bickering pair. Larxene and Luxord both drop their jaws in surprise. They had never heard Demyx yell before.

"I'll make the pancakes for whoever the freaking crap I want to, GOT IT? Larxene could get them," he points at her and she smiles, "because I fluffed up her brownies. Luxord could get them," he points at Luxord and Larxene frowns, "because I did lose to him a lot, but he's a DIRTY ROTTEN CHEATER!"

"Then..." Roxas tries thinking of a solution. "Why don't you just make both?" Everyone looks at Demyx.

"That's actually..." Demyx pauses, "Not that bad of an idea! Way to go Roxas!!!"

20 Minutes Later...

Zexion, Marluxia, Larxene, Xigbar, Demyx, Luxord and Roxas are in the lounge chatting and eating pancakes, waffles, and french toast ((Marluxia's idea :3)) having a merry old time when Axel comes in. he doesn't look so pleased to see everyone gathered around Roxas and talking to him like he was an old friend.

So of course, the pyro becomes quite "heated". Excuse the pun.

"Roxas..." Axel calls shakily, holding in his temper, "Could you come here? I need to talk to you."

"Um, I guess so, right?" but Roxas remains seated on the couch surrounded by everyone. "Um, you guys think you could moooove!?!?" He cries out as Axel grabs his arm and pulls him away from everyone, who is now looking at Axel with weird looks on their faces.

"O-kayyyyy..." everyone mutters. Demyx whispers his brilliant new plan to everyone.

"Wanna listen in?" Everyone shakes their heads excitedly. They get up and peek around the edge of the wall. Conviently Axel only dragged Roxas a few feet from the corner, how ironic eh?

Axel slips his grasp to Roxas' wrist. Pain is written in his eyes, as well as anger, jealousy, and rejection.

"Why were you talking to them?" He asks Roxas angrily, squeezing his wrist tighter.

"SO what if I was chatting with them!" Roxas says defensively, trying to get his wrist back, "It's not like they were trying to kill me!"

"They're only trying to figure out your weakness and destroy it," Axel argues, pulling Roxas closer, "It's dangerous to get relaxed around them!"

"Oh what, you mean like you!" Roxas shrieks in Axels' face and manages to get his wrist back, "If they wanted to destroy me do you think they would have done it already! You are such a hypocrite because you think everybody's out to destroy you! First off, they're NOT trying to destroy you! Secondly, stop being so GOD DAMN PROTECTIVE and get over whatever problem you have! I can't believe I ever liked you! I hate you! I hate you Axel!" Roxas turns around just like he did in Axels' dream and runs away. Axel drops his jaw as Roxas runs away and disappears from view.

"No, no, no," Axel groans, "Why did this have to happen?" Axel remembers what happened next in his dream and holds his fists to his head. His tears run down his face and splatter onto the floor. "I can't hurt Roxas," he whispers to himself, "Couldn't if I tried."

End of Chapter Two – Finding Roxas

TIME FOR WHAT THE AUTHOR WANTS TO SAY!

I'M HIGH ON COFFEEANDSNICKERS!!! I love the author that made that as a line in their story. All righty then, I sound like Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, go me. I am way too hyper right now… Okay the third chapter will come out whether you want it to or not. But if you have any ideas I'd be glad to see/hear/whatever them, I'm sort of, um, stuck on the third chapter so far.

P.B.- /sings/
I think Axel's mad at me.
Axel- Heck yes I am! You make me seem like…like a…sissy.
P.B.- /laughs hysterically/
Axel- You want to prove if I'm a sissy?
/gets into battle stance/
P.B.- You DARE mess with me? The AUTHOR!
/lighting crashes and thunder booms/
Roxas- Nobody messes with the author and lives.
Axel- /drops head in shame/
Sorry author, ma'am.
P.B.- That's all right.
/smiles and snaps fingers once in triumph/
You just have to do my chores for a week and I'll call us even.
Axel- Yes ma'am.
/begins mopping floor/
Roxas & Myself- /begins skipping away into the sunset singing/
Axel has to do chores, do chores, do chores. Axel has to do chores, all day long!

Hehhe, what'll happen next? Well actually i'm not so sure myself... STAY TUNED!!!