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Warning: Boy-Love/Yaoi

Title: Broken Clockwork
Chapter: 11; Battle of the Sparkles

Summary: Roxas was always on top of things, following time down to the second. Until he met Axel, carefree and fun. What happens when you mix two opposite elements of life together?

luluNOTE:

Not much to say today, except that somebody got suspended for writing names in a fake Death Note somewhere in Virginia if you didn't hear about that yet. Lol Poor kid.

From animenewsnetwork:

The Franklin Military Academy in Richmond, Virginia suspended a senior this week for reportedly having a list of his classmates' names in a book called "Death Note," a reference to the Japanese suspense manga and anime of the same name. Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ooba created this story about a boy who finds a notebook with which he can put people to death by writing their names.

It made me laugh.

On another note, I've recently hooked myself onto a new obsession… SOUTH PARK!

THANKS SO MUCH TO: Following Padfoot's Pawprints, raven.in.the.sky, and mornir-brightflame FOR REVIEWING!!! X3 I know the last chapter was sucky, but you guys still reviewed. I LOVE YOU!

Bloop,

Lovely Lulu

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That day at lunch, I stormed up to Riku's table without any hesitation. I was going to give him a piece of my mind for trying to steal the spotlight from me!

"Riku! I wouldn't have thought the least of it, but I have had an epiphany! A realization! An… An… enlightenment!" I pointed a fierce finger into the face of the enemy before he could take the next french fry into his mouth. He raised his eyebrow and put the potato stick back onto his lunch tray.

"Well, good afternoon to you too, Sora. What are you talking about?" He wiped his hand on a napkin. That damn prince thought he could hide his sloppiness by wiping his hands on a napkin instead of his pants?! I'll show him!

"I challenge you to a match," I put two fists onto my hips and glared down at him. I thought I looked pretty scary.

"Oh?" It seemed I had suddenly peaked Riku's interest. "A match, huh? What kind of a match are we talking here?"

"Let's see if this rings a bell: The more sparkles the better," I twitched my eyebrows upwards twice and watched as Riku stood up from his seat at his table.

"It's on," he smirked.

First, I started with a simple wink.

Riku countered this with a flip of his hair. I could have sworn that sparkles came flying out of it. I stood in my place, stunned for a little while.

"Sora!" I heard a voice from the quickly forming crowd. "Stay focused! You can do it!" It was Kairi! Kairi was cheering me on! Yes! I thought to myself, putting my game face on. I can do it! No stupid pretty boy like Riku is going to take me down!

"What are you waiting for, Sora?" Riku asked slyly. Him and his rhetorical questions! How dare he!

"Hmph," I said and ran a hand through my hair in a very sexy manner.

"Ha!" Riku laughed, putting his hand on his hip. "Is that all you got? What do you say to… this?" Suddenly Riku had swooped up right next to me, encircling my waist with an arm and pulling me up close to his face. Our noses were merely inches apart. My eyes widened, but his stayed calm and half lidded, looking down at me. "Let's see you beat that, Sora."

The next thing I knew, I had pushed my face up into his and our lips touched in a hard kiss. The whole crowd gasped. Riku let go of my waist and I stepped a few steps back.

"That's what I thought," Riku just smirked. What? That's what he thought? What was that supposed to mean? He walked over to my side and took my hand, leaning down to kiss me on the lips again. We broke apart and I stared into his beautiful aquamarine eyes.

It was like a comic book with all the sparkles and flowers everywhere.

I put my arms around his neck and got on my tippy-toes, kissing him again. He kissed back and… well, the rest is history.

I can't ensure the safety of all the fangirls that were standing around us. Some of them fainted and some of them got dizzy from blood loss.

Eh. All in a days work.+

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"SORA!" I stood at my locker and turned around just in time to watch as Kairi zipped past me and after my brother. I wondered what was happening. Down the hall, I decided to eavesdrop.

"Sora!" Kairi bent a little, putting her hands on her knees and catching her breath. Sora had stopped.

"Yeah, Kai?" I noticed a strange daydream-y and absentmindedness in his voice. Huh?

"I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!" She cried.

"Inorite?" Sora pushed his back against his locker and slid down to sit on the ground. I couldn't tell if he was depressed or just… I don't even know.

"THE FORCES HAVE ALLIED!" Kairi slid down next to my brother and they both stared at the air in front of them, eyes glazed over. Mostly Sora's eyes, but, you know.

"The forces…?" I muttered to myself as I began to approach the two with my binders for the last classes of the day in hand. "What the hell are they talking about...?"

I stopped short, though, when a silver haired male stepped into my line of vision. What's this? I wondered amusingly. I shifted off to the side of the scene to watch. Riku bowed down and extended his hand to Sora. Sora looked up, plastered on this huge grin and put his hand in Riku's gently. OH. MY. GOD. I clasped my hands over my mouth in shock and surprise. Riku helped Sora up and pecked him on the cheek, causing the brunet to blush furiously and look down at the ground. Sora totally didn't tell me anything about this.

Not wanting to interrupt their prince and princess, and knowing Sora would tell me about it later, I departed from my spot on the sidelines and quickly walked to my next class.

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The red light on my cell phone flashed and I looked down at it, wondering who would be texting me in the middle of the day, especially since I never got texts. Ever. Except from Sora. Sometimes.

I flipped the cell phone open under the desk as the teacher at the front of the room rambled on about something that I could just read about in the text book.

ARE YOU IN CLASS

I looked at the sender and nearly slapped my forehead. Of course it was Axel.

WHAT? YEAH DUR IM IN CLASS

I typed in slowly. I wasn't too good with texting or anything to do with tech, for that matter. Not before long, the little mail icon popped up on my cell phone's screen again.

WELL GET OUT. COME ON – I WANNA TAKE YOU SOMEWHERE

Me: NOT AGAIN!!! LOOK I HAVE TO BE IN CLASS K?

DID YOU GET IN TROUBLE LAST TIME YOU SKIPPED?

Me: …

YEAH DIDNT THINK SO.

I scratched my head and sighed. After I got back to school the next day after our little play date – I mean meeting – none of the teachers said anything and no absences showed up on my attendance record. It was strange, but, okay. I guess either somebody accidentally said 'here' when my name was called for attendance or the teacher just overlooked it and marked everyone as present. The next thing I knew, my hand had gone up in the air, asking to go to the nurse's. 'I wasn't feeling well.'

I swear. It was totally involuntary.

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"Oh, hey," Axel suave voice made its way into my ear. "Look who's back out of school again?"

We were standing right outside of the school grounds, out of sight and around the corner. There was a hill that was right beside Twilight School, closed off by trees, that many people thought might be a land fill or something. I mean, who would put a random hill next to a school, right?

"Shut up," I grumbled. "What do you want?"

"Not much. I was just bored," Axel took a seat down on the nice green grass. It had to be a land fill – how else would it be so well fertilized, right? Yeah, I have no idea what I'm talking about. "Did you know that ostriches' eyes are bigger than their brains?"

"What? Seriously?" I took my seat next to the fiery-headed boy and we both stared up at the sky through the broad hole the trees encircled. I realized I had never actually been to this hill before.

"Yeah, but I also heard it doesn't matter how big your brain is. It doesn't say too much about how smart you are or anything," Axel continued.

"Yeah, but if you have a small brain, you don't have too many brain cells and that means you can't store as much information in your brain, so a bigger brain is obviously a lot more helpful," I countered.

"It's all in comparison, though. I mean, ostriches, compared to other ostriches, are… intelligent…? Yeah. I kind of lost my train of thought there," Axel stuck out his tongue and leaned back to lie on the grass. I swept my gaze to my side to see him. He was really tall and really skinny. He wasn't wearing any fancy-smancy clothes, just a plain black t-shirt with a few white stripes in abstract places scattered over it. His pants were ripped and torn. You could tell they weren't the store-bought, 'professionally-ripped' jeans, but real raggedy, worn out blue jeans. It gave Axel a sense ruggedness and… care-freeness.

Something that I realized I really didn't have.

"Hey, Axel?"

"What?"

"Why did you think I was gay?"

Axel laughed heartily and his body rocked on the lush grass. "I can't believe you're comfortable asking me that." He grinned at me and folded his hands behind his head.

"Well… Hey! What's that supposed to mean?!"

"Nothing, Roxy-poo." Axel raspberried at me and started to get up. He turned away from me and stretched out his arms and body. He brushed off the back of his pants and I couldn't help but find myself staring. I looked away and jumped up right when he turned back around, though. How weird would that be if I was caught looking at his butt after I asked such an awkward question like that…? I looked down at my feet, blushing.

Oh. He never did answer my question.

When I looked up again, though, Axel was already striding out of the other side of the forest boundary thing. I jogged after him and let it drop…

…for now.

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"Sora!" I heard somebody call.

"Oh, hey Roxas!" I showed a perfect set of white teeth. We were at Kairi's locker, as usual, but this time with a new addition.

MY BOYFRIEND! BUDUM YEAH!

"You leaving already, Sora?" Riku leaned down and whispered into my hair. I giggled like a little school girl.

"Yeah. Roxas is a real freak about that stuff," I replied. "We always have to get home at a certain time and everything." I looked up at the silver-haired male and stared into his eyes for a while.

From the corner of my eye, I could see Roxas, standing next to Kairi. He rolled his eyes and made a grab for my wrist.

"Come on Sora. We need to talk." Before I knew what was going on, I was being dragged away from my lover and out of the school by my evil big brother AKA my stand-in mom.

"NOOO!!!" I cried as Riku let go of my hand and waved good-bye to me alongside Kairi. I swear I was about to cry. It was Friday and that meant I wasn't going to see Riku for an entire weekend! "…NOOO!!!" I screamed even louder.

"Shut the hell up, Sora!" Roxas growled.

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"He what!?" Roxas was driving as we sped home from school.

"Yeah. So now we're together!"

"Well, gee. That was fast," he rolled his eyes again.

"We were meant to be, don't you see?" I slumped into my passenger seat up front and sighed.

"Well, I really can't guarantee much of a relationship if it happened that fast, you know."

"When destiny calls, there's nothing stopping it!" I was saying a lot more cheesy lines than usual. I was in love. Oh, you see? There it goes again.

"I bet you 15 bucks you can't stay together for… until Spring Break," Roxas wagered.

"30 bucks says I can, bitch!" I declared as I straightened myself up from my seat.

"You calling me a bitch, Sora!? 'CAUSE I'M NOT GAY!" What an insecure fellow. He just won't admit it.

"What does that have to do with being gay?" I stated more than asked. "Somebody's obviously got something sitting on their brain at the moment…" I taunted him.

"We're home. Get out," Roxas glared at me as he put the car into park and flung open the door.

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luluNOTE:

More is coming. Promise.

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References:

+ - A reference to a Will & Grace episode where the gang dresses up as characters in the Sound of Music and watch the musical on stage. Karen stereotypes gays by saying that when they get hit in the head by a flying object they just say, "Eh. All in a day's work." (Like it happens all the time.)