So rereading this chapter made me remember why I had written it…xD I went ice skating with my class at school…and I was totally doing what Axel was doing this whole chapter. Cursing and clinging to the side of the rink. Damn it.

--

--

Axel clung to the side of the ice rink. This was definitely not his idea of fun.

Xemnas had announced just a few hours earlier that the Organization would be taking a field trip…to a place filled with frozen water. Axel and water didn't mix well…but not only was it water…it was frozen water.

Roxas slid by easily, making Axel wish he could chuck one of his ice skates at the little blonde.. "Axel, do you need some help?"

"God damn it, I've told you already. NO!" Axel told the newest member of the organization. Yes, he was keeping his temper under control…

Roxas frowned and turned gracefully around to pry Axel's hands off the railing. "Follow me. I won't let ya go."

Axel glared and tried to control the temper…if he didn't…they would all be swimming in a moment. God. Damn. Ice. And. Frozen. Water. HE HATED IT!

Xaldin slid by the group. He wasn't exceptionally well at skating, but his control over the Air Element helped him pretty much glide over the ice. Asshole. Axel wished he could take out his fire and kick some hairy Xaldin ass right here…but the mental pictures made Axel want to puke, so he ignored his throbbing head and thought about something else…like balance.

Axel concentrated on his balance. He would prefer that he not fall over because if he did his black leather gloves would be totally ruined. But, if he took them off, he would be burning Roxas's hands right now. For once, he wished he could be normal, so he would be able to share this romantic experience without thinking about accidentally burning someone…but where was the fun in that, he reminded himself.

Axel couldn't help but snicker as Xemnas gracefully slid by. He was wearing tight black skating pants and a black silky shirt…um…interesting. He was a really good skater, thus the only reason why he dragged the whole Organization to this place. Only he looked a little more like he should be in a strip club or something than in college.

Half of the members weren't skating, and Axel wouldn't be, if it wasn't for the fact that Demyx had challenged him…damn that sandy blond knowing that Axel was deathly competitive!

Roxas stifled a chuckle as he watched Axel's emotions play out over the redhead's face. "Axel, are you ok?"

Axel looked up from his feet to glare at the younger boy. "Do I look ok? I am a pyro-kinetic college student with a flaming temper skating…on ice."

Grinning, Roxas looked off to where Demyx was skating circles around Xigbar. "Why did you come out here then?"

Axel muttered, "Because Demyx challenged me." Great, now he felt like a wuss.

Demyx skated over before Roxas could reply and try to cheer the pyro up. "Heya, Axe. How are ya?"

Axel cursed under his breath. "Perfectly fine, thanks." He tried to stand up straight, wanting to show the sandy blond he was perfectly ok…but he was more afraid of falling over, so he stayed hunched over like an old man with a cane.

"You don't look so good…kinda like a cat being held over water…and your face is kinda red." He giggled, knowing that would really piss his best friend off. Poor Axel…

Axel hissed, "I'm FINE, got it memorized?"

Demyx shrugged, knowing Axel was lying. That lying bastard! It made Demyx smile to see his best friend in such pain. Poor Axel…

Roxas suddenly let go of Axel's hands and started shaking his off. "Ow…Axel, you're burning up." He leaned over to press his hands softly against the freezing ice.

Axel shook his hands off, regretting letting Roxas take a hold of them in the first place. "Sorry, kid. Look, I'm getting off. If I don't, your all going to be swimming." He wobbled over to the door and got off the ice.

Roxas followed him, quietly. "What else are you going to do? I mean, didn't Xemnas tell us to come? So we have to stay, don't we?"

Axel snorted. He felt like being rebellious, so dammit, he would be! "We came. And I'm leaving."

Roxas frowned. "You don't want to stay?"

"Not a chance. I'm going back to my dorm and playing DDR. Wanna come, kid?" Axel replied as he started unlacing his skates.

Roxas smiled to himself. Axel wanted to know if he wanted to go home alone with him. How could he say no? "Sure, I suppose…I mean, if Xemnas isn't going to get mad…"

Axel grabbed Roxas's arm and dragged him over to the door to ice rink. "Hey! Mansex! Roxie and I are leaving!"

Xemnas looked up from staring at Saix's ass, who was skating directly in front of him. "Why?" He had a fairly deep voice…and very intimidating, Roxas noted.

"Because this place sucks. It's almost as bad as the time you made us go to Sea World. God, what the fuck is going on with the obsession with WATER?" Axel yelled back, remembering that hell hole that somehow actually attracted visitors. How they did was beyond the redhead, since all he could recall from that whole trip was being drenched head to toe. It was the worst weekend of his whole life.

Demyx laughed from across the rink. "I like water!"

"You would." Axel muttered under his breath. "Anyhow," he continued to Xemnas, "Me and the kid are leaving. See ya tomorrow. Don't stay up all night." With that, he towed Roxas to his little black car.

Roxas got in and buckled his seat belt. "Are you sure you don't mind me coming over? I mean, it a school night, and if you want to study, I don't mind."

Axel laughed outright and turned a sharp corner, not bothering to put on his seatbelt. "Do I look like the kind of kid who likes to study?"

Roxas didn't know what to say to that.

When they got to Axel's dorm, the pyro opened the door and tossed the keys on the table. "So, want do you wanna do?" He asked, dumping himself on the sofa inside.

The blonde could think of a few things he wanted to do, but none that he cared to mention to the redhead.. "I don't care."

Axel snorted. "That's helpful…well, are you hungry?"

Roxas nodded. He was hungry. He was too excited about the little field trip today, that he couldn't eat. So he had eaten breakfast…and that was about it.

"Well…do you want pizza? Tacos? Bread? Dick?" Axel listed off a few of his favorite things on his fingers, trying to keep the look on his face innocent.

Roxas looked up at the last one, blushing.

Axel laughed at the look on the poor high school kid's face.. "Ok, remind me not to joke around with you…what'll it be?"

Roxas was leaning towards the latter, but didn't want to mention it. "I like pizza." He noticed Axel's bedroom door was open.

"What person doesn't like pizza? Pizza it is. What kind do ya want?"

Roxas shrugged as he walked to the doorway of Axel's room. The shades were drawn, so it was almost too dark to see.

Axel came up behind him, resisting the urge to drape his long arms over the kid's shoulders. "Yes, bask in the glory of the almighty king of all things messy. Go ahead, you can go in, just don't mess up anything. Got it memorized?"

Roxas nodded as Axel went off to order the pizza. He felt as if he was being left alone in the tomb of a great pharaoh…only he wasn't in Egypt, he wasn't an archaeologist, and he sure as hell wasn't wanting to find a dead guy in here….hopefully. Who knew with Axel?

Roxas went and sat on the bed covered in black sheets. In one of the corners, Axel had a smallish TV sitting on a dresser.

Most of Axel's clothes seemed to be sitting in a pile on the floor right outside of his closet. He had heard somewhere that artistic people aren't very organized, and Axel was the most artistic person he knew…besides Namine, the blond girl he had met at school yesterday.

Axel walked in and sat on the bed next to Roxas. "You like my mess? I know it sounds odd, but I know where everything is when I have a messy room."

Roxas nodded. "Yeah, my brother, Sora, is the neat freak in the family. My room looks a lot like this."

Axel laid down with an arm under his head. "It's good to know I'm not the only one with a room this messy. Demyx strives to keep his room clean, but it doesn't really work…at all. He's an artist."

"Are you too?" Roxas glanced at the piles of clothes.

"Demyx says so…but I don't know." Axel smiled before sitting up again. If he didn't sit up, his mind would keep racing with all of the things he could be doing to the little blond boy while they were laying here…even little innocent things like kissing…or more non-innocent things like…he coughed. "The pizza will be here in a moment…and Demyx just called to say he's on his way home."

Roxas stood up when Axel did. "Oh ok. I have homework I need to finish by 7th period tomorrow, so I'll leave as soon as we're done eating."

Axel shrugged, pretending he was totally ok with the fact that Roxas had to leave, even though ht really wasn't. "Sure."

Axel and Roxas walked to the main room, and as soon as Roxas got near the door, it burst open. Demyx and Zexion were fighting to get each other's clothes off, which was an awkward thing for Axel to see anyway, but having the innocent high school kid standing in front of him made him want to kill himself…or Demyx and Zexion…well, preferably the couple, so Axel could stay alive. He rather liked living.

Axel pulled the back of Roxas's shirt to get him out of the way, pulling Roxas to his chest and covering the blond's eyes with his warm, leather glove as the couple moved towards Demyx's bedroom. Axel sighed. "God, sorry about them…I did wish to shield your innocent mind from such pictures…but, alas, somethings are just out of my control."

"Hey, Axel, can I ask you a question?" Roxas asked, while pushing away from Axel so that he could look up at the redhead after he snuck a glance of Demyx slamming the door to his room.

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean I'll answer it." Replied the red head, cockily.

"Before, on the ice rink, you said you were pyro-kinetic…"

"Yeah…?" Axel prompted.

"Meaning…?"

"Oh." Axel took off one of his gloves and snapped. A small flare appeared over his index finger. "It means I control fire…well and that I'm obsessed." He smiled.

"Oh…that's awesome…" Roxas stared at the flame intently.

Axel chuckled as he closed his hand, extinguishing the flame, then opened the fridge and took out two cans of soda. "Demyx controls Water, Xaldin controls air, and Larxene controls lightning. Everyone in the organization controls something…even useless things like Xigbar controlling space or whatever it is. He's kind of useless." Axel laughed, imagining him telling Xigbar that to his face…and getting shot…right away…

"Whoa. That's pretty awesome."

Axel shrugged. "Yeah, except I can't go to a regular doctor whenever I feel like shit, because my normal temp is around 99.6."

Roxas glanced at the door as the pizza man knocked. "That would suck…" He didn't know what else to say, except that this redhead seemed to have a freaking awesome life...all of the pyro's friends seemed to be really interesting too…Roxas was really glad that he had accepted Mans- Xemnas's offer.

Axel got the pizza, paid, the nodded towards his room. "Wanna go eat in there? It might be safer with Demyx and Zexion here."

Roxas nodded then half skipped into Axel's room, excited to get to be alone with the redhead again. Sweet victory!

He claimed his spot on the bed and waited for Axel to sit next to him. They were sitting very close to each other…ohh! Roxas's blood started to race!

Axel grabbed a piece of pizza and took a bite. "Ew. Gross. This…eh."

Roxas looked at him, completely confused and a little annoyed that Axel had ruined the romantic mood that he had created so successfully in his head. "What?"

"It's gross. Don't eat it." Axel offered his piece to Roxas, even though he had told the blond not to eat it a moment ago.

Oh! Roxas couldn't believe Axel was willing to share food!! Although, maybe that wasn't such a big thing to him. It sure as hell was for the little blond boy. "It doesn't taste that bad."

Axel leaned over and captured Roxas's mouth with his and slipped his tongue past Roxas's lips. After a moment, because he didn't want to scare the blond too much, he pulled away slowly, wishing he would have deepened the kiss before backing away, and licked his lips thoughtfully. "Yeah, you're right. It doesn't taste that bad."

--

--

Wow…okie dokie. This one is done…please review…since I'm working so hard to finish these…xD I've decided I'll go through and redo all of the chapters I'm not happy with…in ALL of my fanfictions…xD

Review?