Musebox

[heartismyown]

 I need to practice with Roxas! Please drop me a line.


Roxas finished smashing the computer, the one that ruined his life. He swung around angrily and stalked off into an unknown room where he found Sora, fast asleep.

DiZ appeared before him. His eyes narrowed, his hand clenched tightly around the keyblade as he swung it back and forth wildly, attempting to attack him. He was familiar. He was the one who did this to him. It was all about that Sora!

"My heart is my own!" Roxas cried, spinning around. Everything has gone white.

When Roxas awakened, he found himself face to face with....

Comments

[by_heart]

Hold it right there, mister.

[Lea moves to block the door.]

If you didn't go looking for a fight, one definitely found you and that doesn't happen for no reason. What's going on?

[Before he probably would have just let Roxas go and gone back to his own room to lose sleep over it, but now that they've been living together for a while and testing out this new sense of normalcy, such as it is, Lea's getting more comfortable with pushing a bit more when something is bothering him.]

[heartismyown]

[Roxas huffs. It's not like he minds that much. It's nice to know Lea cares even when he's being annoying with it.]

I don't know, okay? I don't know. They came after me and started shoving me around and hitting me. They were bigger than me. Don't as me how normal people are when they're going around beating up people smaller than them.

[There's no mistake there, Roxas is as small as they come for someone his supposed age.]

[by_heart]

And so you just let them do it? Don't tell me there was no way you coulda gotten out of it.

[Roxas is more than capable of holding his own in a fight. Even outnumbered, there's no reason for him to be hurt this much.]

[heartismyown]

I didn't think I was supposed to just pull out the keyblade!

[He grimaces.]

I ran, and I didn't remember which way to turn and it was a dead end.

[by_heart]

Yeah, you should've! Guys like that are just looking for someone weaker to push around. Show 'em something like that and they'll run off. Geez...

[Lea sighs and scratches at the back of his head in frustration. It's not Roxas' fault that he doesn't know these sort of things, but they seem like they should just be common sense. It's not like Roxas has never been in a fight before. Has he been coddling him that much?]

[heartismyown]

Then next time I will.

[He's not particularly upset about getting into a fight, it was just something that happened. Bruises heal, at least Roxas assumes they will. He didn't mean to wake Lea, but he couldn't say why. Maybe because he's so worried now, although how it turned out to be his fault, he'll never know.]

[by_heart]

"Next time?"

[Lea scrubs his hand over his face. This isn't working at all.]

The whole idea is for there not to be a "next time!"

[heartismyown]

Okay, but what if they find me again!

[He huffs a little.]

It's fine Lea, it's not a big deal.

[by_heart]

It's not fine!

[Lea touches the painful looking split in Roxas' lip lightly, but doesn't say anything else for a few seconds. It's not fine and it is a big deal.]

Whatever. Suit yourself. You're not gonna listen to me, anyway.

[heartismyown]

[Roxas has been in a lot of fights Lea. Almost his entire life. He can take some injuries, after all it wasn't all fun and games fighting the Heartless. He just stares at Lea, uncertain.]

Why are you so mad at me?

[by_heart]

I'm not mad.

[He is, though. A little. But mostly he's frustrated. Fighting Heartless is one thing. Roxas can handle himself against them better than Lea can. Fighting regular humans is something else entirely. It's not something Roxas has experience with and not something he needs to get experience with, either. Getting into fights like that...With Roxas, there's the constant risk of him going too far and seriously hurting someone or not going far enough and getting hurt himself. And if he's going to go do it behind Lea's back, where's Lea's place in it all?]

[heartismyown]

[Lea seems mad though, even if he says he's not and that leaves Roxas feeling confused.

He has fought a few people but they were armed, it's not like kids picking on him. The next time he'll bring out his blade and there is a serious risk he might hurt someone.

It isn't like he was looking for a fight or anything. Not unless he gets a job like that, which he's thought about. After all, he has skills with a keyblade and that's the kind of work he used to do. It would be familiar.]

[by_heart]

[If Lea knew what was going on in that fluffy little head, he'd be appalled.]

What's that look for?

[heartismyown]

I don't know. You still seem kind of mad that's all. Even if you said you're not.

[Roxas doesn't have a lot of skills Lea.]

[by_heart]

[There are a million jobs for unskilled high school kids. Roxas can find something that doesn't involve fighting. Hell, they're living in the Destiny Islands. Go catch fish.]

Yeah, well...

[He can't help how he looks. He is kind of mad, after all.]

[heartismyown]

[He sighs a little bit, sucking on his bottom lip. It's a little puffy and weird and tastes a little like blood.]

Okay. I'm going to bed then. Goodnight, Lea.

[by_heart]

'night.

[Lea kisses Roxas on the forehead. He's mad, but he still loves him.]

Leave that lip alone.

[heartismyown]

[He smiles a little and goes to his room to get some much desired sleep.]