I had fun with this one. :D
Theme: Insanity
I wasn't that inventive though P: sorry.
Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I found Marly prancing in the flowers so I stole his scythe xD square still owns all the characters though. I own the story (:
"Hey Rox, what does it mean to be 'insane'?" the cocking of one spiky blond head made his blond haired brother roll his eyes. Sora could be really dense sometimes.
"We're in a library Sora, go look it up," Roxas replied, returning his gaze towards the book in front of him and shifting his glasses up his nose again. With an exaggerated sigh of distaste the brunet stood, trailed himself over to the dictionaries, picked up the biggest one he could find, and returned to sit down again, dropping said book with an unnecessarily loud thud and smirked mischievously at his brother's startled jump. "If you get us kicked out of here, your ass is mine," Roxas warned, shying away from all of the glares the other occupants were sending the pair as Sora's face turned black before he blanched and pressed his hands to his head.
"Oh god, never ever say that again I don't appreciate the image," Sora whined, squeezing his eyes shut to rid himself of whatever thought had entered his mind.
"Shut up and find what you're looking for douche bag ," Roxas said, thankfully having steeled himself to any such thought like the one Sora had had.
"What was the word again?"
"Insane," Roxas replied, removing his glasses and pinching the bridge of his nose to stop himself telling Sora to just get out before he spread his stupidity.
"Insane, insane," Sora mumbled as he flicked through the letters, finally stopping at 'I' and skimming through the words with his finger before finally tapping it against a word and reading; "1. Legally considered as psychiatrically disordered: considered legally incompetent or irresponsible because of a psychiatric disorder.
2. Lacking reasonable thought: showing a complete lack of reason or foresight."
Roxas watched as Sora's face remained passive to this new information and knew what was coming next. "What does that mean?"
The blond sighed, "I can't explain it to you, if I do, I might go insane myself."
"But I don't get it," Sora pouted dejectedly, folding his arms across his chest in a huff.
"Well it's your lucky day because the king of insane just walked into the building." Sora looked towards the Library entrance excitedly, his eyes shining with hope as he spotted one unmistakable redhead.
"Have you decided when you'll tell him that you love him yet?" Roxas shot a deadly glare at his brother at the question and the brunet squeaked with fear.
"Now that idea is insane."
"But what does that mean?" Sora grumbled, now infuriated by the word and talking louder than he should be.
"Hey now spiky, what seems to be the problem?" Sora turned his attention to the previously mentioned redhead with hopeful eyes.
"Axel, will you tell me what it means to be insane? Roxas is useless," said blond gave an offended look to the statement which Sora ignored with ease.
"Me?" Axel chuckled, "why would I know?"
The hope from Sora's eyes faded, "Roxas said you'd know because you're the 'king of insanity'. So I thought I'd ask you."
The redhead raised an eyebrow at the blond who had lifted his book to hide his face and any unwanted blushes he knew he'd have after just being snitched on. "The king of insanity?" Axel repeated but gauged no reaction from the book.
"Yes," was the answer the blond gave though he still wouldn't look at Axel.
"And how is that my dear Roxy?" the redhead questioned, resting his elbows on the table and chin in his hands as he waited for an answer and the blond lowered his book.
"No offence Axel, but have you seen the girl you're going out with? No one in their right mind dates Larxene of all people."
"I'd probably agree if someone would explain the word to me!" Sora huffed with increasing frustration.
With a sigh Roxas closed his book and looked at his brother. "Sora, if you're 'insane' it means you're in the wrong state of mind, Axel here, is a good example. Obviously he holds no common sense and acts irrationally and unreasonably, that's what makes him insane."
The brunet sat and 'oh'd' at his brother's explanation before nodding. "I get it now."
"Good, I'm going home," Roxas finally said as he stood up, picking up his bag as he did so and carried his belongings and book he'd been reading to the main desk to check out.
"Hold on a second," Axel said, following the blond after staring at him for his uncharacteristic outburst. "What's up with you?" he questioned, but his question was ignored as Roxas waited for the book to be stamped and smiled at the librarian before leaving, Axel still following with a highly confused look on his face. "Don't just walk away Roxy, I thought you were happy for me, you're my best friend."
Roxas finally stopped at the bottom steps of the Library and spun around to face his best friend… and the boy he'd fallen in love with over the many years of knowing him. He'd never been happy arrangement and Roxas was astounded that Axel could come up with such an assumption. "When have I ever told you I was happy for you and Larxene, Axel?" the blond questioned, unable to control his temper after such an exasperating half hour with his brother and then this redhead, who obviously had no idea how Roxas was feeling.
The redhead furrowed his brow and kept his mouth shut because he had no answer. Roxas was right, he'd never said he was happy for him. "Every time you brought her up I told you you're insane," that was also true. Though the entire relationship, Roxas had said that and only that.
"I don't get it, why didn't you ever say anything then?" Axel asked and the blond scoffed.
"Yeah right, it's your life and I care about your happiness. You looked happy so I accepted it but I was never happy about it." The blond took deep breaths to calm his nerves though it didn't work as well as he'd hoped. He was still angry thinking about Axel and Larxene. The queen bitch.
"Roxas," Axel said and shook his head like he was disappointed in the blond total obliviousness which only managed to fuel Roxas' rage. "If I'd known you cared so much I would have dropped Larxene in a heartbeat." This statement made no sense to the blond whose brain became overwhelmed by curiosity now rather than anger.
"Why would you even do that? I'm your best friend Axel but I'm not enforcing the 'bros before hoes' policy here," Roxas said and the redhead laughed.
"I honestly thought you just didn't care. Not just about Larx but about any of my other choices, you never seemed that interested but… I guess you care more than I thought." Axel's smile was warm and soft, an expression that was making Roxas' heart race for a different reason than the negative adrenaline running through his veins. "I'll break up with her," Axel stated and Roxas felt his stomach flip flop. What was going on here?
"You're insane," the blond stated, "here you go again with these insane decisions. What are you talking about?" By now Roxas was a body full of swirling emotions. He'd lost track of any logic this conversation had. What was the point? Axel was just confusing the hell out of him.
"I wanted you to care, and by doing that I didn't even see how much you really do care," the redhead stated, holding his adoring smile as he stepped down towards Roxas who couldn't move anymore, his mind was too full on nonsense to allow for any rotary signals to the rest of his body so he just… stood there.
He stood there as Axel wrapped his arms around the smaller body in a warm embrace. Didn't move as he placed his long pale fingers on Roxas' shoulders and crouched so he was eyelevel with the blond. The only time he did anything was when Axel finally closed his eyes and kissed his softly on the lips, the electricity finally sparking his brain to realise that none of that conversation mattered anymore. Axel was kissing him, and that was enough to push the jumble of thoughts aside for now.
"Consider that my promise that I'm not staying with Larxene," the redhead said as he pulled away and Roxas' confused sapphire eyes just stared at him.
"I thought you were straight," was the only thing the blond could say and Axel could help the burst of laughter that left his lips.
"Are you kidding? Being with Larxene would turn anyone gay, then again I was bi before I even started dating her."
"You never told me that," Roxas accused the redhead, he was now highly offended that Axel hadn't trusted him with knowing such information.
"Well you were the only guy I ever wanted to be with so I didn't see the point," he admitted and Roxas' cheeks turned an alarming shade of red.
"Insane," he breathed out.
"Yeah well, you're going to have to live with it. Because now that you know about me liking you, I'm not going anywhere." Axel leaned in and kissed Roxas again just as gently as before and the blond lifted his arms to wrap around Axel's neck as his insides fluttered happily.
"I can live with that."
"Stop looking at me like that," Roxas grumbled, his cheeks flushed and his head down in another book.
Sora on the other hand was smiling triumphantly and this expression hadn't changed for the past hour, not to mention he'd been looking like that since the previous day after seeing everything that had gone on between his brother and -now boyfriend- Axel. "Tell me who was right and I'll leave you alone."
"Never."
"So are you insanely in love?" the brunet questioned with a smirk and Roxas deadpanned at him.
"You know, some people just snap sometimes out of insanity and have been known to kill the cause of their mental breakdown if it's a person."
"I'm going to Riku's!" Sora called as he sprinted out of the room and Roxas grinned.
Yes as a matter of fact. He was insanely in love. But Sora would find out over his dead body.
A/N: (: I love Sora. xD
Thanks for reading!
Review please. ^^
Kit~