A/N: OK, took me almost a month to update. Not totally fine but my imagination just wouldn't start working and I had a bit more events planned for this chapter but didn't want it to be too much too soon. So I'ma move it to the next one (going to start write on that one right away, feeling like my writers block maybe have eased up a bit). Hm. Kingdom Hearts is awesome btw. Just. Too awesome to be real. Read this interview with Nomura the other days where he talked about Birth by Sleep and KH3 and other titles. hihihi.

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Time was passing by fluidly in the twilight lit town and soon enough a whole week had passed. The first snow fell towards the warm ground and each flake melted at the spot, leaving moist marks barely visible to the eye. Winter in Twilight Town was a bit different from other places. The whole world didn't turn into your typical winter wonderland at all. Instead, the sky was still as radiant as ever, almost giving the snow a warm glow. Only at night did the surroundings get tainted by the blue cover Roxas loved so much. Despite his numb way of discarding feelings, that was something that pierced its way through the shield. Just like his love for his friends. That and –

"What are you doing here?" His voice was surprised because he wasn't ready for his heart to race that sudden. He couldn't help but smile when he saw the intense contrast between the white scarf and Axels' red hair. It had been about seven days since he'd been accompanied on the roof outside of his window the first time and the little meetings had kept on going almost every night since. Every meeting was more and more giving but there were still some pauses here and there because they hadn't been with each other enough for conversation to flow like it should. They were getting there though, and pretty fast. That was what Axel was aiming for anyway. That, and to be invited in to the little blonds bedroom even though he knew those thoughts weren't exactly fitting.

"How come we never meet during daytime? Maybe you're not as much of a prude as I thought!" Axel's voice was as cocky as usual but Roxas had started to see through that barrier. Being called a prude could get any wuss in town down in an instant, Roxas included on his bad days, but he did his best not to fit in to that descriptions.

"I think you're just too much of a creep too be seen with me. Roomers around town are that you seduce little boys and take them deep in to the tunnels…" Roxas smile turned in to a menacing smirk.

"You have no idea how close to the truth that is", Axel said under his breath, scratching his head with a bothered face on his features.

"…Hm?"

Watching Roxas snap out of the trance the snowflakes had put him in he laughed nervously and started to think of something to distract the blond with.

"Nothing! Nothing… Just said that it's okey for you to WISH that is the truth. The rest of the closet-homosexuals in town do anyway so… Just stand in line! Axel's back," he said as he put his hands to his waist in a heroic manner, stretching his back and neck with his head proudly peaking to the sky.

'Maybe he could pass for a superhero' Roxas thought but decided not to give Axel the pleasure of saying the words out loud. 'Wonder what powers he'd have?"

"I KNOW, right? I could totally pass for a superhero!"

"Why does it always seem like you're in my head?"

"Maybe that's my power?" Axel raised one eyebrow and pretended to think about it, looking at nothing for a few seconds to make it seem more trustworthy. Just as he leaned closer to the blond and started to whisper: "…but on the other hand… let's not forget my other power," but got cut off, making the blond focus on something else.

"So you're with him again? Are you officially his boytoy now?" Hayners' snyde comment made Roxas remember the meating with Cloud as if he'd been struck by lightning.

"I've been meaning to ask you about that Axel…" he started as he backed a few steps and turned so he could face both boys to hold a conversation, even though this was something that didn't have anything to do with his best friend.

'Geez, I'm attacked by seventeen year olds…' Axel thought to himself. He really knew he was the one always seeking up Roxas and sitting outside of his window way more than maybe was normal for someone who saw the object of interest as a little runt, even though there only was a three year difference between them. Axel just hadn't put two and two together yet, and it would probably take a bit more for him to do so. "You're my boytoy Roxie? Babe, we need to slow things down. Soon enough we'll be holding hands and ta-"

"You're such an ass sometimes."

"Rox-"

"You know what? Forget it. We haven't known each other long enough for me to have to accept you treating me like this and automatically know that this is just you being you."

"You don't think you're overreacting?" Axel snorted, his ego a bit hurt and a sting of guilt throbbing in his chest, but the snort was taken for something else and soon enough he watched the blonds walk away from him. "Hey… Roxas!"

"Woah… I haven't heard you say that many words to him in a long time. Or to someone other than our little group for that matter… what-"

"Forget it", Roxas words were final and even Hayner knew that it was a bad idea to push him. Not that things would go bad and he would get his ass kicked something like that, just that when Roxas said no it really was no. He wasn't the kind of person who'd act all emotional just for the fun of it. Or at all, at times, and Hayner tried to make peace with that in his mind.

"Hey, wanna hang out some 'til we gotta head home? Now when I'm free and all,".

Maybe his encounters with Roxas didn't go as planned and maybe they weren't planned at all because of the way his mind went into blackout mode each time his body started to move towards the little blond, but Axel did feel bad. For not being able to act like any other person and just… be. It wasn't normal to hit or steal crayons from the girl you had a crush on if you weren't in kindergarten anymore and it wasn't fine to treat the person you sought up in time and no time like you didn't want him there at all. 20 years of experience and the redhead was worse at the whole actually-liking-and-not-just-toying-with than Larxene was at getting tail. Besides, it had only been one week. Enough time to start founding some relations but not enough to actually acknowledge there was something there to find.

"I guess I am an ass", Axel sighed and crossed his arm and leaned against the wall right under a window that was placed rather low. A low creak, whiney and menacing could be heard from above and just as he was going to look up a silent rain of muddy water put its weight on his hair making it unable to defy gravity anymore. "Fuck this, I'm going home no matter what Larxene thinks is appropriate for her precious princess" he growled and stormed off leaving the old lady in the window horrified over such language, holding her water can in a tight grip.