TA: Just to clear things up... Yes, Roxas was a junior being moved up to a senior. Why? Ask Sora and Demyx. XD ...and the paopu fruit likes to take drastic measures! On another note, it's been a while since I wrote into this, so if you notice the difference in writing style, it's because there's a three-year difference between chapter 3 and 4. XD I think that when I learned to write with better conventions and big kid vocabulary, my (crack-style) humor died out a bit.
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts
Say It Isn't So!
Chapter 4: Unbearable
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"Axel!" Leon, Roxas' new English teacher, called as the the new student stood beside him.
"Yes, sir?" Axel stood up casually from his seat, a light smirk already forming at the corners of his mouth.
The brunette turned his attention to Roxas and pointed at Axel. "See that tall, overbearing guy over there? He'll be your guide from here on out." He instructed without so much as a bit of enthusiasm in his words. "I've been told that you've been given the same schedule to help you catch up to the rest of the seniors. Good luck, kid."
"Same..." Roxas paled at the thought of a whole 6+ hours with Axel. "Schedule?" He cringed as Axel gave him a teasing wave from where he stood. "Wonderful," the blond grumbled in dismay as he made his way to the empty seat beside Axel.
"Hey there, Roxas," Axel grinned as the unwilling boy sat begrudgingly beside him.
Leon observed the pair for a moment more. "Axel, take good care of Roxas. I'm leaving him to you."
Aforementioned blond's expression turned from one of annoyance to one of complete anger. Was it just him or did Leon make it sound like he was giving Roxas away to be married? They weren't even related! What right did Leon have to give him away like that? ...Who would entrust his dear self to Axel anyhow? Grahhhh! None of this was right, not at all...
"Of course," the redhead replied with an understanding nod of his head and politely took his seat once more. He stole a glance from his favorite blond and couldn't help but smile at the adorable pout on Roxas' small face. His "angry" look turned out to be cuter than anything he'd ever seen in all 17 years of his life. Call him a sadist, but Axel loved this expression the most; it made his world go round and made pigs fly. With a sneaky shift of his posture, Axel leaned close to Roxas so he was of a whispering distance, "Keep it up and I might not be able to restrain myself from attacking you."
Guarded blue eyes slowly made their way to meet Axel's seductive green irises. "Get. Away. From. Me."
"Not possible," Axel smiled as he pulled out his already prepared schedule to show Roxas. He set it side by side to Roxas' newly formed schedule and just as Leon had said, they were identical. The only difference in the papers were their names. Hell, they even had the same street address.
"Don't remind me," Roxas' head crashed onto the wooden table with a loud thud, scaring the skin out of a nearby student who was buried within his notes. "Why do I have to have the same schedule as you?"
Axel paused for a moment, pretending to give it a serious thought. "Maybe because I'm just that amazing. I am Student Council President after all."
Roxas froze. Ohhhh no... This couldn't be his doing could it? No, he couldn't... But if it is... Someone won't be coming home in one piece tonight...
The frustrated head of Roxas rose slowly as accusation was suddenly evident within his blue eyes. "This... My transferring isn't because of you, is it?" A part of him honestly wished it was... So he could have a reason to beat the living daylights out of his rival.
"No, I don't have that kind of power." Axel replied innocently, his eyes currently outlining the structure of his face in an attempt to burn the image of an irritated Roxas into his memory.
"You don't, but I know what does," Marluxia, who had so silently sat beside Axel, mumbled in amusement, though never halting in his elegant copying of notes for their next test.
"What was that?" The redhead turned around swiftly and gave his attention to Marluxia, who only waved his hand and brushed off the inquiring question with a 'go away, I'm busy,' a typical Marluxia response. Not questioning it further, Axel once again averted his gaze to the small boy next to him, watching him frantically set up his items and copy down the notes that came at him a mile a minute. "But I do like this outcome..." He examined the blond for a few more minutes, "I like this a lot."
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"Sora! Save me!" Roxas cried as he ran full-speed toward his unsuspecting twin.
The brunette version of Roxas whirled around at the sound of his name, but didn't have a fast enough reaction, resulting in the two small boys crashing down onto the cafeteria's bacteria-infested floor.
"R-Roxas, what's the matter?" Sora cried in absolute distress, wondering what could make the more mature of the twins to come running to him.
"Hey there Sora," Axel waved lightly as he watched the scene before him.
Roxas pulled away from Sora with teary eyes, looking as though he'd been bullied out of his lunch money. "That's the matter! Get it away from me!"
Sora tilted his head to the side innocently. He knew Roxas always hated Axel, but he's never seen him run away from him... Then again, he's never seen Axel chase after Roxas either. Just what in the world was going on?
"S-Sorry, I'm not following." Sora apologized with his adorably confused look.
Axel took a seat on a nearby table and sat with his legs spread apart, each foot on its own respective chair. He let his grin reappear as Roxas continued to stare him down, not once letting down his guard. Although, with his position on the floor so openly like that, it took everything he had not to swoop down and steal his Roxas away.
"Someone transferred me into the senior class and now I'm stuck with this guy for at least six hours!" Roxas complained as he shook Sora wildly, probably stirring up the jumbled thoughts of his brother even more. "He won't even leave me alone for lunch!" The blond began to fake sob into Sora's chest again, trying to gain some sympathy from those around him.
Axel rolled his eyes. "Oh come on, being with me isn't that bad." The redhead hopped down from the table and kneeled down beside Roxas, facing the twins with a seductive smile. "Some people would do anything just to get a few moments with me." He tilted Roxas' head up with the tip of his finger, forcing the blonde to look at him directly and closed in on the distance between them, completely ignoring the third wheel that Roxas was still keeping caged beneath him. "You're the first person to want to run away from me so badly. Have I done something to you?"
Totally not comprehending what Axel was getting at with his sudden advancement, Roxas glared at the older boy. "You're an idiot."
Axel paused. "...Excuse me?"
"I hate you."
"...Because I'm an idiot?"
"Yes."
"...What?" The dumbfounded president was at a loss, unsure of how to go about such a blunt answer. Axel pulled away from Roxas, lifting himself up onto the nearest chair. He shook his head in hopes of clearing his thoughts. "Repeat that again for me."
Roxas, without ever changing his expression, replied, "I hate you because you're an idiot."
"And here I was thinking you hated me for a decent reason." The frustrated boy raked a hand through his hair and sighed, but being the perverted president that he was, came up with his own interpretation of Roxas' answer. "For such a vague reason, you must actually like me, right?"
"Don't get ahead of yourself." Roxas warned, finally deciding to free his captive brother from underneath him. The twins rose from the floor, losing many of their previous observers that had probably been wondering or hoping there would be a threesome within the cafeteria that afternoon.
Axel and Roxas bickered back and forth for a good 5 minutes before Sora decided that he wasn't being of any use here and ate lunch with Axel's forgotten friends, Demyx and Marluxia. As the day progressed, the two were becoming more and more like an old married couple, except one was in heat 24/7. Alas, Roxas' torture didn't end until he arrived home safely, compliments of Axel who took time out of his busy schedule and walked him all the way home from school.
"Grahhh! Does that guy not know what the phrase 'personal space' means?" Roxas growled loudly as he threw his overweight backpack onto his unmade bed. Just as angrily, the boy threw off his clothes, making no hesitation to change into nicer smelling clothes. For all he knew, Axel might have bugged the whole room and was watching him from behind several computer screens at his house. The thought of being watched by Axel made Roxas shiver, not a single pleasant feeling in his body.
Roxas made his way to the window and peered out to observe the skies for a few moments, an old hobby of his. "Looks like it's going to rain..." He mumbled before shrugging off the idea. "Probably just a light shower or something." Oh, how wrong he was...
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"Roxas, Sora, babies, are you alright?" came the worried cries of the twins' mother. "Neither of you are hurt, right? Please say no, oh God, please be alright!"
"Mom, Mom, relax," Roxas said as he tried to pry his mother away from he and his brother, both of whom were being strangled and showered with motherly kisses. "We're fine. We made it out in time."
Who knew that "light shower" prediction of Roxas' would turn out to be one of the town's worst storms ever? Hah, ironic? No, not at all. Something else was behind this, but Roxas couldn't figure out what. Why would Roxas think that there was some kind of higher power behind this you ask? Well, it might have been the worst storm in the town's history, but guess what? Only their house was hit. The other houses were dry and standing like it was the middle of summer.
"Gosh, that was seriously random," Sora said as he scratched the back of his head dumbfoundedly. "It's like a rain cloud just stopped over our house, conjured up a hurricane, tore down our house and left..."
"I think that's exactly what happened Sora." Roxas responded with an unamused face. "Where are we supposed to live now?"
"Well, I called Riku's mother earlier and she said that she had enough room for one of you boys." Their mother replied, finally calming down from her hysteria. "So I asked those kind people that moved in across the street if they could take you in, Roxas."
The blond froze. Kind people that moved in across the street? It couldn't be who he thought it was... right? Otherwise, that'd just be way too cruel. Fate wouldn't be that horrible to him, right?
Behind him, Sora stifled a laugh at the sound of the news. The poor brunette was practically ready to keel over and start rolling around laughing. Demyx was an absolute genius! Their plan was flawless! He lost a house, yeah, but Roxas' distress was priceless! Nothing could compare to the expression on his brother's face right now! Absolutely priceless... Yeah, this was what being a brother was all about.
"You don't mean..." Roxas gulped, already thinking the worst.
"Oh, here's their son. He's just a year older than you and goes to the same school as you and Sora." His mother continued as she waved over a person from across the street. "Maybe you've already met him. I'm sure you two will get along great!"
A familiar chill went up Roxas' spine as the person arrived at his side.
"Oh yes, I'm sure we'll get along great, right Roxas?" a voice snickered beside him.
The boy twisted his head in the direction where his nightmare stood not too far away from him. His eye twitched as the same face he had so wanted to escape from came at him once again. Ahh... What kind of cruelty was this? Whose demented idea was it to cause him so much agony?(a/n: Demyx, Sora and Marluxia...)
Roxas' face paled as he finally managed to utter a response, "A-Axel... It's you..."
"Yup, looks like we'll be living together for a while." The redhead grinned widely as he hovered over the cursed blond, happiness radiating from every cell in his body. "It'll be like having sleepover for a year or at least until your house gets fixed."
"Oh joy," Roxas grumbled as he brooded over his predicament. Really, was there no escape from this beast in sheeps' clothing?
When Roxas went through the day's events, it truly seemed like something was out to get him. First, he was transferred out of his graduating class and into the senior class. Normally, he'd have been jumping for joy that his worth was finally recognized, but having the same schedule as this fool, Axel, just turned his dreams to dust. This outcome resulted in spending over six hours with aforementioned demon. Then, his house was just trashed moments ago by some freak storm that came from out of nowhere with only his house as a target and now he's got to live in the same house as Axel for who knows how long! Ugh... Things couldn't get any worse right?
'At least I won't be sleeping in the same room as him.' Roxas thought with a bit of relief. He eyed Axel warily as the taller boy came closer to him. 'I'd be too afraid that this guy might attack me while I sleep...'
Another redhead approached the two teenage boys. He looked older than the two of them, but not old enough to call him a responsible adult quite yet. Roxas recognized him as Axel's brother, Reno, a near spitting-image of his younger counterpart. Reno had a few inches more on him than Axel, clearly showing him as the older brother.
'What does this family eat that makes them so damn tall?' Roxas questioned as he carefully measured the difference in height between all three of them.
"Hey squirt," Reno began with a look of annoyance on his face, "he's sharing a room with you, got it?" The elder brother leaned down closer so that the next thing he said would be heard only by them. "My girlfriend likes to pay me visits during the night, alright? Don't you dare bother us."
'Oh yeah, they're definitely brothers.'
"Sure thing." Axel grinned as he pulled Roxas into a "friendly" hug by throwing an arm over the blond's shoulders. "We'll be sure not to be a bother." The redhead turned to face Roxas, who was already grimacing at the thought of sharing a room with Axel. "Let's get to know each other real well, ne, Roxas?"
Seriously, whose idea was this?
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TA: Y'know, I haven't updated this story in 3+ years. LoL I know most of you think I haven't updated anything in that time either, but that's not true! I've been updating... just on another account; it's a joint account with another writer. I recently wrote a Soriku and Akuroku story on that other account. Please read it... and review? It's called "Feminine Boys are Deceitful." The new user is "Monkey and Cookee," so if you search it and that's what's listed as the author, then you've got the right one! Ahaha, I bet some of you are probably wondering if I updated just to advertise. Well... Yeah, that's kinda true, but hey, who's complaining? XD