Therapy

Disclaimer: You already know that I don't own or profit off of this.

Warning: Slightly pervy Axel

Pairings: Axel x Roxas, mentioned Zexion x Demyx

Axel stared down at Roxas, a grin overcoming his features. With a gleeful glint to his eyes he grabbed the blond, pulling him into a tight hug. "I'm so happy you want to continue too." He muttered into blond spikes.

Roxas relaxed into the embrace before saying in a rather matter of fact tone, "Why wouldn't I want to be with you? I don't usually sleep with some guy after only knowing them for a few days."

"Mhm." Axel muttered. Axel glanced at the clock, grimacing slightly when he saw the time, 3:45. Well we're already in bed so I might as well try to get some more. The redhead's hands began to slide over Roxas's back and he slowly leaned the blond back down.

"Axel," Roxas said softly, "We really shouldn't."

"But it's so much fun."

"Axel, I need to get up."

"Come on Roxas, it's the weekend, not like you have to go to work or anything." Axel began to nip at Roxas's collar bone.

"I…oh god." Roxas's head fell back, his eyes closed. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and he pushed Axel off of him. "I really need to get dressed Axel, I do actually have plans today and I don't think my family is going to just forgive me for not showing up because I was having sex."

"Fine," Axel sighed slightly, "If you insist."

Roxas slid out from beneath the covers and strode over to an oak dresser and began to pull some clothes out of it. Axel however stayed in bed admiring the view. It's really weird, I feel like this is normal. That can't be right though, this is the first time that this has happened. Besides usually I'm not this comfortable around someone I've slept with. I wonder why I don't feel like I never want to see Roxas again. Roxas had found whatever it was he wanted to wear, Axel didn't care enough to actually pay attention to what the clothing was, and abruptly turned back to the drooling redhead.

Roxas smiled slightly at the sight before saying, "I'm going to go take a shower."

Axel nodded slightly, still to mesmerized by a naked Roxas and the realization that he still cared to really hear him. It was not until Roxas had actually left the room for the adjoining bathroom that Axel realized what the blond had just said. Shower means naked Roxas. Naked wet Roxas. Naked, wet, sudsy Roxas. Oh I am so not missing this. Axel sprang to his feet to follow the short blond.

That's when he heard it, "Holy shit! Axel you gave me a huge hickey!"

Grinning sheepishly Axel stuck his head into the bathroom to see Roxas staring in the mirror, pure horror on his face. When the look of horror was turned on him Axel could only say, "Heat of the moment, sorry."

"Sorry! I have to have dinner with my family tonight. We may get along but that doesn't mean that they're above teasing me." Roxas turned back to the mirror, a hand tracing the offending mark, "You should have heard Sora tease Demyx the first time he came home with a hickey. Maybe I should just cancel." Axel rather liked that option, "No, then Sora will just tell them I'm too busy getting plowed into the mattress to care about any of them. Why did he have to show up here? There's no way out of this for me." Roxas laid his head down on the sink dejectedly.

Axel had to think fast. I can't let Roxas be depressed; I was the one to get him into this situation after all. Crap, what do I do? "I could come with you to dinner and scare the crap out of your family so they don't make fun of you while I'm there." He offered.

Roxas looked up at the redhead, his face completely blank. "You want to meet my family," he sounded like he couldn't believe what he was saying, "And scare them into silence?"

Wow, stupid move Axel. "Um, yeah, basically."

"Your funeral," Roxas shrugged slightly, "But if you want to come I won't stop you."

Brilliant move Axel! "Great, but we should probably both get cleaned up then." Axel adopted an evil grin, "And you know as a pyro I hate being cold. You should let me take a shower with you so that you don't use up all the hot water."

For a moment it looked like Roxas was going to throw something at the redhead then he said in a silky voice, "Well, if you insist Axel."

The redhead was so busy congratulating himself for getting to take a shower with the blond that he didn't notice the evil grin he was receiving in return. Roxas turned on the shower and after a moment tested the water and stepped in. Axel jumped in right after him and let out an indignant squawk. The water was freezing! Axel's skin erupted in goose bumps and he immediately jumped out of the offending water jet. "What the hell?"

"Oh, I like a cold shower." Roxas said innocently, "Helps to wake me up."

"You did that on purpose." Axel growled stepping out of the shower and grabbing a towel.

"Well at least you'll have a warm shower."

"And you will have no towels." Axel smiled and grabbed every towel in reach before running out of the room. A yell followed the redhead but the words were far beyond Axel's comprehension, he was very pleased with himself. I might not be showering with Roxas but he'll have to come out here naked if he wants a towel to dry off with. Axel sat down on the bed and watched the bathroom door expectantly. No Roxas came out of it; in fact Axel stared for nearly ten minutes before he heard the shower turn off. Frowning slightly Axel stood to go investigate. Before he reached the door it was thrown open and a fully clothed Roxas appeared, a towel in hand.

"Sora's done that one to me far too many times to work. I keep extra towels hidden from view." Roxas smiled up at the indignant redhead, "If you want to take a shower now is your chance."

Muttering about sneaky blonds under his breath Axel stalked into the bathroom, one of the stolen towels in hand. After a blisteringly hot shower Axel reemerged into the bedroom. His hair was limp and hung around his shoulder, not a look he particularly liked. "Do you have any hair gel?" he muttered in Roxas's general direction.

"No, sorry I don't." Roxas smiled. Any anger or disappointment Axel had towards the blond melted away in an instant. There was no way that he could stay mad when Roxas was beaming at him like that.

"Then how do you get your hair to do that?" Axel pointed at the blond spikes.

Looking up Roxas twirled a lock of hair in his fingers. Oh god that's cute. Get a hold of yourself Axel, Roxas doesn't like it when you jump him. You found that out with the whole shower incident. Axel was brought back from a very vivid fantasy by the sound of Roxas's voice, "Oh, this is natural. I really hate it; I can't get my hair to lie flat for anything. It runs in my family actually."

"You shouldn't hate it. I think it's really cute." Axel walked up to Roxas and ran his hand through the blond locks. Before he could stop himself Axel leaned down and captured Roxas's lips with his own. The blond didn't pull away; if anything he actually deepened the kiss. However the feeling of being sprayed with cold water returned to Axel and he moved away from the blond, a crimson blush to match his hair on his cheeks. "Um, we should probably get going."

"Axel, you're only wearing a towel." Roxas smirked and pointed at the distracted redhead.

Axel looked down and, yes, he indeed only had a towel around his waist. If it was possible Axel would have turned an even darker shade of red, unfortunately the redhead had met his limit. Grabbing his clothes off the floor Axel looked up to find Roxas had a very amused grin on his face. "You don't have to look so happy." Axel grumbled under his breath, "Can we stop by my house on the way? I'd like to get some clean clothes before dinner."

"Sure." Roxas smirked.

Half an hour later Roxas had pulled up in front of Axel's house and the redhead was starting to have some misgivings. What if he wants to come in? Oh god, Reno and Zexion will scare Roxas away if I bring him in there. He'll never want to speak to me again if he meets my family. "So, um, why don't you wait in the car and I'll be right back." He shot the blond a casual smile.

"Sure thing." Roxas smiled back.

With a true smile Axel jumped out of the car and trotted up to his front door. He didn't bother to get his keys out of his pocket, they never locked the door as no one was stupid enough to try and rob them. Striding into the house Axel was met by the other annoying redhead in the family. "Oh, hey Reno." He muttered and headed for his bedroom.

"So where were you all day?" Reno asked in a sing song voice.

"Out."

"I don't think so." Reno followed Axel into his room and leaned up against the doorframe, "As I remember it Zexy said that you were sick and had to stay at your therapist's house last night."

"Your point being?" Axel started to rummage through his drawers for some clean clothes.

"There is a blond, like your therapist, waiting in a car outside. He is also pretty hot, like you say your therapist is, and looks normal, like your therapist should be. All in all one would assume that he is your therapist."

"Again, your point being?" Axel pulled a pair of black jeans and a red shirt out of his dresser before turning to his older brother.

"Why is your therapist waiting for you outside our house instead of just dropping the poor sick patient off?"

Axel couldn't stop the smirk from spreading across his lips, "He's not my therapist anymore."

"Then why are you so happy? I mean you were the one who was so happy about having a hot doctor."

"He said there was some sort of ethics issue with dating a patient."

Reno just stared at his brother. He looked like he got hit with the stupid stick and then run over by dumbfoundedness. Finally he seemed to collect himself enough to squawk, "What?"

"I got a boyfriend!" Axel was full on smiling now his glee extremely apparent.

"But how do you know he's your boyfriend?" Reno had still not completely grasped what was going on and from the look on his face Axel severely doubted that he would.

"Well," Axel calmed himself down enough to explain what was going on, "I got sick, threw up on him, slept at his house and then had a nice long chat with him. Oh yeah, and I slept with him." Reno just stared at Axel, "I got laid and got a boyfriend!" Axel was by now dancing around his room in utter joy. The whole situation had just really sunk in and he couldn't contain himself any longer.

"How the hell do you go from throwing up on him to him sleeping with you?" Reno was completely lost at this point.

"I'm not completely sure." Axel stopped dancing around his room, "But he jumped me, not the other way around, so I guess I did something right. Now get out of my room, I need to change."

"Why?" Reno seemed to not have caught up yet and this new command was not helping him in the least.

"Because Roxas and I are going to dinner and I don't want to wear my stinky sick clothes." Axel said as if it were the single most obvious thing in the world.

"Okay." Reno left, still completely lost as to how puking on someone resulted in sex.

Axel changed as fast as he could, tugging his hair into a ponytail without bothering to look in the mirror, there was no way in hell he was waiting for Zexion to come in with that smug little smirk of his and some biting comment. Axel had no doubt that Reno had already told their younger brother what had happened and was not in the mood to have his high ruined. Emo bastard, always ruining my good moments. Axel was a little surprised when no lilac haired emo bastard came in, and even more startled when he made it all the way to Roxas's car without incident. He was still watching the house suspiciously as they pulled away, as if Zexion would come hurtling out at any moment to fling an insult in his face. "Weird."

"What's weird?" Roxas glanced at Axel before turning back to the road.

"Oh, did I say that out loud?"

"Yes, and you didn't answer my question."

"I expected Zexion to be all over me for not showing up until now. It's weird that he didn't even show up to make some snide remark." Axel sat back in the passenger seat and gazed at the road before them.

"Maybe he wasn't there."

"Yeah."

The rest of the car ride was spent in silence, not an uncomfortable silence, more of a calm quiet that neither occupant wanted to break. Axel felt his lips forming a small smile, he couldn't remember the last time he was actually comfortable with silence. Usually if it got too quiet he would say something like 'Who wants to see a cool trick?' and promptly light something on fire. Actually I haven't wanted to light anything on fire since I met Roxas. Weird, must be an anomaly or something. Axel was so wrapped up in contemplating his lack of pyromaniacal tendencies that he didn't realize that they had stopped. "This is it." Roxas's voice brought him back and he looked up at a very large house.

"Wow," Axel whistled, "Your family must be rich."

Roxas looked at Axel out of the corner of his eye before answering, "My parents were hard workers, they wanted the best for their family is all." Nice going Axel you made him bring up his parents. Didn't you learn to keep your mouth shut about that with the whole picture thing?

Axel ran a hand over his head in defeat before turning back to Roxas. "Um, shouldn't we go in?" he asked cautiously.

"Yeah, we probably should." Roxas seemed oddly detached as he answered.

The silence that followed immediately made Axel looking for some way out of it. Briefly he thought of using his usual method but quickly shrugged it off, he was fairly certain Roxas would not be pleased if he accidentally burned down his family's home. The redhead barely registered that Roxas had gotten out of the car and slowly he followed after Roxas. The pair walked up a small stone pathway to the front door which Roxas opened with only a moment's hesitation. As soon as the door had shut behind the pair they heard it. "ROXYYYYYY!" a voice screeched.

"Demyx, no!" Roxas yelped as he was tackled by a sandy blond with a mullet.

All Axel could do was stare at the pile of limbs and blond hair on the floor. "Why are you so late Roxy? Ooo why do you have a huge hickey on your neck? Who is it? Is it a boy or a girl this time?" the mullet haired teen babbled.

"GIRL?" Axel had caught that comment for sure, "Why the hell would it be a girl?"

"Oh hey Axel." Demyx looked up as if just realizing he had an audience, "What are you doing here?"

"Get off of me." Came a muffled cry from beneath Demyx.

"Oops, sorry Roxy, forgot you were down there." Demyx said sheepishly as he climbed off his brother.

Roxas stood and brushed himself off before turning a death glare on the taller blond. "Axel is here with me." He stated coolly.

Demyx squealed like a girl before beginning to ramble, "Ooo, Roxy's got a boyfriend, and a hickey, and is looking like he's going to kill me! Save me Zexy!" And with that the taller blond ran for his life, which was not in the least bit of danger.

Roxas and Axel simply stared after the mullet haired boy in complete shock. "I never get used to that." Axel said softly as he watched Demyx race up the stares.

"I've known him his entire life and I'm not used to it." Roxas shook his head softly.

"Roxas, stop being mean to my boyfriend." A voice called down the stares.

"Zexion!" Axel yelped as he heard the all too familiar voice.

Axel was grinning like a Cheshire cat. Suddenly he flung himself onto Roxas mumbling into his spikes, "I'm so happy you want to continue too."

Roxas immediately relaxed into the embrace. "Why wouldn't I want to be with you? I don't usually sleep with some guy after only knowing them for a few days." I'm not some kind of whore, he added silently.

"Mhm." Axel murmured as he started to slowly slide the blond back down onto the bed.

Roxas caught sight of the clock and winced slightly. I'm going to be late. "Axel, we really shouldn't."

"But it's so much fun." Can't argue with that logic.

"Axel, I need to get up." Even if I don't want to.

"Come on Roxas," the redhead almost whined, "It's the weekend, not like you have to go to work or anything." Axel was nipping at Roxas's collar bone by this point.

"I…oh god." Roxas let his head fall back to give Axel better access to his sensitive neck. Suddenly an image of Sora's jeering face popped into his head and Roxas forced his eyes open and pushed Axel off of him. Trying to recollect himself he addressed the redhead, "I really need to get dressed Axel, I do actually have plans today and I don't think my family is going to just forgive me for not showing up because I was having sex."

"Fine, if you insist." Axel was obviously not pleased with this but allowed Roxas to get up none the less.

Roxas slid out from beneath the sheets and moved over to his dresser, he could feel Axel's eyes on him the entire time. A small smirk flitted across his face. Good to know that he still finds me attractive rather than wanting to be done with me forever. Still it is odd that I'm so comfortable standing in front of him completely naked. I mean I've only known the guy for what, four days? I guess that Cloud was dead wrong when he called me a prude. Roxas had found some clothes that were suitable for a family dinner, a black sweater and some jeans. Turning back to his bed Roxas found Axel was basically drooling at him, only the redhead somehow managed to look hot even while doing that. Roxas couldn't help but smile at the redhead and, while shaking his head slightly, said, "I'm going to go take a shower." The only response Roxas received was a slightly dazed nod. Still smiling the blond walked into the bathroom and placed his clothes on the sink. As he was about to turn to turn on the shower something caught Roxas's eye. At the base of his neck was a large purple bruise. "Holy shit! Axel you gave me a huge hickey!"

Said redhead stuck his head into the bathroom. Grinning sheepishly he muttered, "Heat of the moment, sorry."

"Sorry!" Roxas stared at Axel, his horror evident on his face, "I have to have dinner with my family tonight. We may get along but that doesn't mean that they're above teasing me." He turned back to the mirror and began to trace the bruise on his neck, "You should have heard Sora tease Demyx the first time he came home with a hickey. Maybe I should just cancel. No, then Sora will just tell them I'm too busy getting plowed into the mattress to care about any of them. Why did he have to show up here? There's no way out of this for me." Roxas allowed himself to sink down dejectedly so that his forehead rested on the counter.

"I could come with you to dinner and scare the crap out of your family so they don't make fun of you while I'm there." Axel didn't sound completely sure of what he was saying.

"You want to meet my family," Roxas stared at the redhead, "And scare them into silence?" He can't be serious about this; there is no way I got that right.

"Um, yeah, basically."

"Your funeral, but if you want to come I won't stop you." I can't believe he's actually willing to do this. Sora and Cloud are going to rip him to shreds. Does he actually think the whole big bad pyromaniac routine will actually work?

Axel adopted an evil grin and cocked an eyebrow at Roxas. "Great, but we should probably both get cleaned up then," he slid a little closer to the blond, "And you know as a pyro I hate being cold. You should let me take a shower with you so that you don't use all the hot water."

That pervert! Does he actually think I'll let him into the shower with me just so he can stay warm? Well to bad for him, I'll just make him freeze. "Well, if you insist Axel."

It honestly looked like Axel was doing a happy dance in his head as Roxas turned the shower on. Making sure that the temperature was at the lowest possible temperature that he could personally withstand Roxas stepped into the spray. Axel followed immediately and let out a squawk like a bird. Jumping against the opposite wall and out of the spray of the water he shrieked, "What the hell?"

"Oh," Roxas took on the face of innocence, "I like a cold shower. Helps to wake me up."

"You did that on purpose." Axel growled accusingly as he stepped fully out of the shower and grabbed a towel.

Roxas had to fight to keep from laughing, "Well at least you'll have a warm shower."

"And you will have no towels." Axel smiled as he grabbed every towel within arms reach and bolted from the bathroom.

Roxas gave an indignant yell as he watched the redhead disappear. He then let out a small chuckle as he upped the temperature on the water slightly, though it still remained freezing by most people's standards. Sora has done that one way to many times to work. I mean come on, he knows I have brothers, he should have realized that means that pranks are going to occur in my family. At least now I can shower in peace. Roxas quickly washed his hair and scrubbed down his body, something that would undoubtedly have set Axel into a frenzy and made Roxas all the more glad for kicking him out. Once he was done with his shower Roxas simply stepped out rather than turning the water off. Experience with a hyper twin had taught him that if he turned the water off before he got dressed the person who stole the towels was going to come in. It was only after drying off and dressing that Roxas actually turned the water off. Towel in hand Roxas threw open the door to find a flustered Axel. Smiling at the indignant redhead Roxas explained himself, "Sora's done that one to me far too many times to work. I keep extra towels hidden from view. If you want to take a shower now is your chance."

Axel stalked past Roxas into the bathroom muttering to himself under his breath. Roxas distinctly caught the words "sneaky blonds" but decided to ignore it as he had been rather sneaky if he didn't say so himself. When he heard the shower turn on Roxas started to scrub his hair vigorously with the towel he had and by the time Axel came back into the bedroom his hair was fairly dry.

"Do you have any hair gel?" Axel muttered at Roxas.

Roxas smiled at Axel and the redhead visibly softened. "No, sorry I don't." Don't know why you need it though; you look damn hot with your hair down.

"Then how do you get your hair to do that?" Axel pointed at Roxas's spikes curiously.

"Oh," Roxas took a spike in between two fingers and twirled it absently, "This is natural. I really hate it; I can't get my hair to lie flat for anything. It runs in my family actually."

"You shouldn't hate it. I think it's really cute." Axel walked up to Roxas and ran one of his hands through the blond spikes. Suddenly their lips had connected, sending sparks through Roxas's body. Without realizing it the blond opened his mouth, inviting Axel to deepen the kiss. Suddenly the redhead pulled away, blushing a color to match his hair. "Um, we should probably get going." Axel seemed to be looking everywhere but at Roxas.

"Axel," Roxas couldn't stop the smirk that was crossing his face, "You're only wearing a towel."

Axel looked down and the look of embarrassment on his face made Roxas feel for him, well it would have had he not been overcome by pure amusement at the whole situation. Grabbing his clothes off the floor Axel practically jumped into them. "You don't have to look so happy." Axel shot the blond an evil look, "Can we stop by my house on the way? I'd like to get some clean clothes before dinner."

"Sure." Roxas could hear himself smirking.

Nearly half an hour later Roxas pulled up in front of a rather abused looking house. It was not a cheap home by any means, in fact it looked like the occupants had to be rather well off, it simply seemed that the inhabitants had stopped trying to fix it. There were visible scorch marks dotting the walls as well as knives sticking out at odd places, almost like someone had used the building for target practice. The front yard was slightly over grown and again bore evidence of fire. Well I suppose Axel is a pyro, I really shouldn't be surprised.

Roxas was snapped out of his silent observations by the sound of Axel's voice. "So, um, why don't you wait in the car and I'll be right back." Axel tried, and failed, to smile.

"Sure thing." Roxas was much more successful in his attempt to smile.

Axel really did smile at that and jumped out of the car and ran up to his house. Does he really not want me to meet his family that much? It can't be that he doesn't like me; I mean he wants to meet my family after all. He did say he doesn't like his family so maybe he thinks that I'll get scared away or something. Ug, stop over thinking this Roxas. You always do this to yourself. You always start analyzing every little detail and it comes back to bite you on the ass. Just go with the flow for once, it won't hurt you to just relax.

Roxas waited for only about five minutes before a very cautious looking Axel reemerged from the house. The redhead made his way to the car, continually throwing glances over his shoulder as if expecting to be attacked at any moment. He still had his gaze fixated on the house as Roxas began to pull away. "Weird." He half whispered.

"What's weird?"

"Oh, did I say that out loud?" Axel seemed slightly startled.

"Yes," Roxas smiled, "And you didn't answer my question."

"I expected Zexion to be all over me for not showing up until now. It's weird that he didn't even show up to make some snide remark." Axel leaned back into his seat, seeming to relax as he gazed out at the road ahead of them.

"Maybe he wasn't there." Roxas offered.

"Yeah."

The car ride to Roxas's house was a pleasant one, filled with a comfortable silence that both riders seemed to be completely content with. Roxas watched Axel out of the corner of his eyes the entire way. The redhead was smiling slightly; he had a grin tugging at the corner of his lips. Every now and again he would cast his gaze over at Roxas but he never seemed to notice that he was being watched. If anything he seemed to be enjoying the company of the blond and didn't want to ruin anything. All too soon they arrived and Roxas was forced to break the silence that surrounded them. "This is it," Roxas's voice came out a little louder than he would have liked.

Axel looked up and whistled slightly. "Wow," he said, "Your family must be rich."

Roxas glanced at Axel from the corner of his eye. Willing himself to not sound cold he answered, "My parents were hard workers; they wanted the best for their family is all." Don't be an ass hole Roxas, he didn't mean anything by it and he doesn't know anything other than your parents are dead. Don't go and blame him or call him insensitive before the fact.

Axel grimaced slightly realizing his mistake and ran a hand over his head. "Um, shouldn't we go in?" his voice held deep caution, as if he expected a sudden attack from the blond.

"Yeah, we probably should." Roxas still had to force himself to not come off as cold as ice.

The silence that engulfed them was deafening. Axel's eyes were darting around as if looking for an escape. Roxas simply got out of the car and headed up the stone pathway to the front door. He was aware that the redhead was following him but at that particular moment didn't really care. No, don't do this Roxas. You always find a way to sabotage yourself, this may turn out to be a good thing, don't ruin it. The front door had barely closed behind the silent pair when Roxas heard it. "ROXYYYYYY!" the voice screeched.

"Demyx, no!" Roxas barely got the words out of his mouth before he was tackled by a sandy blond blur.

From his place on the floor Roxas could see a stunned looking Axel but most of his attention was focused on his younger brother who had begun to ramble out questions. "Why are you so late Roxy? Ooo why do you have a huge hickey on your neck? Who is it? Is it a boy or a girl this time?"

"GIRL?" Roxas flinched at the volume of Axel's voice, "Why the hell would it be a girl?"

"Oh hey Axel, what are you doing here?" Demyx looked up at the redhead, completely forgetting that he was smothering Roxas.

"Get off of me." The crushed blond cried out.

"Oops, sorry Roxy, forgot you were down there." Demyx said sheepishly as he let his brother up.

Giving his brother his very best death glare Roxas stated in his coolest manner, "Axel is here with me."

Demyx squealed, something Roxas always found amusing, and began to babble yet again, "Ooo, Roxy's got a boyfriend, and a hickey, and is looking like he's going to kill me! Save me Zexy!" And with that he was gone, racing up the stairs with unbelievable speed.

"I never get used to that." Axel seemed slightly stunned.

"I've known him his entire life and I'm not used to it." Roxas shook his head in slight disbelief.

"Roxas, stop being mean to my boyfriend." A very familiar voice yelled from upstairs.

"Zexion!" Axel yelped in disbelief.