A/N: Yay. The next chapter. :D And I have decided to name this one. Because it amuses me. Also, while writing the fighting parts, I listened to the Yugioh Abridged Series. Just in case you wanted to know. XP
Kingdom Hearts belongs to Disney and Square Enix. Mulan also belongs to Disney.
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Twenty minutes, a hair drying malfunction, and several slaps to the back of the head later, Axel and Roxas, who was beginning to regret his decision to go into public with his redheaded...friend(Roxas refused to think of them as anything else, perversions and sex aside).
"So," Axel said eagerly, "Where should we go first? Candy store? Starbucks? Candy store?"
Roxas sighed. "You said candy store twice," he informed his overly hyper friend.
Axel grinned. "Well, I want some candy. I've never had any before. Is it tasty?"
Roxas stared at him. "What did you just say?"
The redhead shrugged, glancing up at the morning sky. "I've never had any candy. I've only been an actual human being for like, two days, you know?" He glanced down and saw Roxas staring at him quite intently. He laughed nervously. "Uh, Rox? You oka-?"
He was (pleasantly) surprised when Roxas grabbed his hand and began to tow him toward the town confectionary, muttering something about insanties and something about ice cream. Axel perked up at the sound of that one- he'd never heard of it before. It sounded... cold. Which sounded... slightly unpleasant.
Roxas practically slammed the door open, the bells clattering loudly above the door. The owner stared at him in shock, as Roxas usually was not the angry door slamming type of person. Today, however, was a special occasion. Still dragging a very wide-eyed Axel behind him, Roxas grabbed a basket and proceeded to make the owner extremely wealthy. He bought practically every type of sweet in the world: Nerds, Laffy Taffy, candy canes, Raisinettes, Hershey bars, Kit Kats, and Zingers. Oreos, mints (Sex! Axel thought cheerfully) Air Heads, cotton candy, Jelly Belly jelly beans, PEZ, gummy bears, gummy worms, sour gummy worms, Pixie Stix, Jawbreakers the size of baseballs, caramel creams, Life Savers, gummy Life Savers, licorice, M&M's, Tootsie Rolls, Tootsie Pops, and practically everything that had the brand name 'Hostess' on it. "Except for Sno-Balls," Roxas had told him matter-of-factly. "Those suck."
Axel found himself grinning like a hyena when the pair walked out of the store, arms heavy with bags. Axel was trying not to choke on his Gummy Worms for two reasons: 1. As he had never had anything this hard to chew up in his two days of living and eating, he was finding them quite hard to masticate, and 2. The sight of Roxas sucking on a lollipop was making the whole ordeal that much harder.
"Well," said blonde said, sighing. "That pretty much busted my bank account until I get my next paycheck for my delivery job."
Axel felt a large pang of guilt wash over him. "Oh. I'm sorry."
Roxas smiled at him. "No, it's fine. Believe me, I couldn't sleep at night knowing we lived together and you never having any candy or anything."
The redhead grinned mischievously. "Well, no one said you had to sleep, you know."
Roxas tactfully ignored him, lest a major cussing out ensue, and continued, "But, I still have some more munny, so I was thinking I could buy you my personal favorite."
Axel cocked his head to the side and asked, "Oh?"
The blonde smiled and said, "Yep. Ice cream."
Axel groaned. Of course.
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"Wow. This isn't as cold as I thought it would be," Axel said thoughtfully, licking the side of the blue bar while thoughtfully gazing out at the setting sun. "And the view's not bad either."
Roxas chuckled. "Yeah, well, that's why I come up here with my-" he gulped. "I mean, I used to come up here with my friends." He smiled wryly. "I guess that's not going to happen anymore."
Axel feigned offense and stood dramatically. "Whell," he said, pronouncing a non-existent 'h', "if you do not consider us friends, my dear boy, then I suppose I shall bid you adieu." And with another flamboyant gesture, he strode to the other side of the clock tower and strutted down the stairs.
Roxas laughed and laid back, closing his eyes. He smiled a small bit, and, without realizing it, dropped off into sleep.
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Roxas woke up to voices about twenty minutes later, familiar voices, but he decided not to open his eyes. Yet.
"Ugh. I should have known he would do something like this," seethed one voice. Hayner. "I mean, if he was cruel enough to break Olette's heart like that, I should have known he'd purposely try to stalk us like this."
"Well," Pence this time. "maybe he just so used to coming here he just did it out of habit. And it's not like he could have known we were coming here anyway."
Hayner began a retort, but a low voice said, "The place next to him is still kind of warm. Someone else has been here with him." Shit. Olette. Maybe she wasn't mad anymore.
"I'll kill the bitch." Yeah. Right.
Roxas opened his eye a crack and saw that the trio were clustered around where Axel had been sitting and tried desperately to think of a way out of there. Cautiously and stealthily, he rose to his feet and began to tiptoe toward the door leading to the stairs. Suddenly he froze- his bag of candy was still back there. Sighing, he turned and went to retrieve it- he hadn't completely blown all that munny for nothing.
Unfortunately for Roxas, Axel chose that moment to come back up the stairs, wondering aloud (very loudly) where on earth the boy could have gotten to. Roxas froze and swore silently, his hand outstretched toward the blue plastic bag. Hayner, Pence and Olette turned and saw the blonde attempting to run away. Unfortunately for Roxas, however, Hayner was a mite too fast for him, and he and Pence pinned him to the ground, where Hayner immediately began to rain blows on his face, which Roxas tried in vain to block. He felt bruises begin to form and his nose might have broken, but he was too busy trying to get a warning out before Olette attempted to shove Axel off of the tower.
Fortunately for Roxas, Axel had heard what was happening and had yanked Hayner off of his chest, throwing him into Pence's lap, toppling the both of them. Hayner jumped back up, swinging his fist, which was easily avoided by Axel. Pence got up to help his friend, and was met with a kick in the chest. Landing a square punch directly in the center of Hayner's face and slamming Pence upside the back of the head, Axel picked Roxas up and began to walk to the stairs.
"Hold it right there." Axel rolled his eyes. Turning, he snorted. What the hell was that little girl supposed to do? Bitch slap him?
"What do you want?"
"So. You'd be Axel then?"
Cautiously, Axel nodded. "Yes. Yes I am."
"So, Roxas left me for you?"
"I guess so." Axel tried his best not to sound smug, but he failed miserably.
Olette walked up to him, looking angry, but then bowed her head resignedly. Taking one of Axel's hands, she murmured, "Here. Take this. He left it at my house one day, and I figured he'd like it back." She turned around and opened the door leading to the stairs, calling over her shoulder, "Oi. Take care of him, alright?" And with that, she left, leaving Hayner and Pence in a painful and unconscious pile, and leaving Axel to hold Roxas in a sweet and loving embrace.
"Will do," the redhead murmured, and patting his blonde companion on the head and giving him a kiss on the cheek, he departed down the steps.
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Oh, yesh. Happeh Valentime's Day. :D
I might decide to upload a lemon later. If I feel like it.
Hope there was enough ass kicking in here for you. :D
Oh, and all Candies belong to their respective owners. And I hate Sno-Balls. Ew. :P