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]

[Lea's pretty sure Sora and Riku didn't go through all this crap when they were learning to be Keyblade Masters. Of course, they kind of got to learn as they went, but he doesn't really have that luxury. He's not sure what sort of hex Yen Sid hit him with, but it wasn't fair and he's not happy about it.

When he finally gets back to the house, he's completely worn out and it shows. Usually, he'd just throw himself on the couch, but there's not enough space at the moment because someone is in the way.]

Move it or I'm gonna fall on you.

[heartismyown]

[Roxas looks up from the book and he blinks.]

Okay Lea...

[He sits up and moves down to the end of the couch.]

[by_heart]

[Faced with a suitable amount of space, Lea just drops face first onto the couch. There's not exactly enough room for his arms or his legs, considering how much space they take up, but he's past caring.]

Ugh.

[heartismyown]

[He gets up and goes around to poke him in the head.]

What's wrong with you Lea?

[by_heart]

[He swats weakly at Roxas' hand.]

Overworked myself.

[Damn it. There it is.]

And Yen Sid put some weird spell on me.

[heartismyown]

[That doesn't sound good to him. He pokes him again in the shoulder.]

Can I fix it for you?

[by_heart]

If you STOP POKING ME!

[He pushes up on one elbow and tries to aim the next hit better.]

[heartismyown]

[He takes his hand away before Lea can whack it.]

Sorry.

[He looks down at his feet.]

Do you need anything?

[by_heart]

I need to rest and keep my mouth shut for the next 24 hours.

[He's already discovered that it's not so bad if no one asks him direct questions, but the more straightforward the question, the more screwed he is. Of course, he has to come home to the question machine...]

[heartismyown]

Why? Does your throat hurt?

[Roxas is worried, his brow creased in a frown.]

[by_heart]

[He buries his face in the couch cushions, so the reply is a little muffled.]

I wish. The spell forces me to be honest. I can't even talk around it that much; it all just comes out. It gets worse the longer I talk, too. I'm supposed to learn something from it, but I think the guy's just being a weird old sadist.

[Crap. He's going to have to explain sadism now.]

[heartismyown]

What's a sadist?

[Yep, you called it Lea.]

[by_heart]

Someone who enjoys watching other people suffer. You remember Larxene, right? Like that.

[Please let that be good enough.]

[heartismyown]

[Hmmm, that makes sense.]

So you don't want to talk to me?

[by_heart]

No, I don't.

[Well, it is true. He's usually really good at distracting Roxas and talking around the questions he doesn't want to answer, but that's not going to be an option until the spell wears off. If he's lucky, he's just going to be bombarded with things like "Why's the sky blue?" and "Where do babies come from?" but he knows the discussion is going to turn to hearts and their workings sooner or later and he'd really like to keep how his works to himself.]

[heartismyown]

Oh. Okay.

[His face falls, it's good Lea can't see him. He takes a few steps back and looks back at Lea, worried. He's never said that to him before. He's refused to answer questions, sure, he does it all the time. He's never said anything that blunt.]

Do you want me to leave?

[by_heart]

[Lea sighs heavily and rolls onto his back, his arm draped over his eyes. It takes a few seconds before he can answer because he knows he needs to find the right words and none of the words that come to him seem to be right.]

I...I don't, because you're just going to get strange ideas in that head of yours and everything's just gonna get worse.

[heartismyown]

[Roxas isn't sure what to make of that. Ideas?]

It's okay Axel. You don't have to worry about me.

[He's bothering Lea, isn't he? He didn't want to talk to him, so he walks out of the room into the kitchen. Now what?]

[by_heart]

Yes, I do.

[He says it mostly to himself, almost surprised that he can. He's always wondered if he was lying to himself about that, if Roxas would be fine without him watching from the shadows. He's sure it was true once, when he was Axel and there was no one else who gave a damn, but now that Roxas has come back, he has plenty of friends and a chance to build his own life.

Well...maybe it's that he needs to worry about him because it makes him feel needed.]

[heartismyown]

[Roxas doesn't hear him, but it's getting late and now he's getting hungry. He can manage it though! Lea's made food lots of times, it can't be that hard. He puts his textbook down on the table and looks around for something he can make himself. Noodles would be good, he thinks.

Does Lea want to eat? How can he ask him without bothering him? He wavers a bit as he tries to think. He opts to write it down on a piece of paper, folding it into a plane before turning around the corner from the kitchen. He looks at Lea on the couch and throws the paper airplane on top of him.]

[by_heart]

[Getting hit in the arm with a paper airplane snaps him out of his funk a little. What on earth?

He unfolds it and sees that it's just a question about dinner. Trust Roxas to decide that "not wanting to talk" means "communicate through paper airplanes."]

You can just ask, you know. I have to answer, after all. And no, I'm too tired to eat. Just make something for yourself. [He sighs.] I'm not mad at you, stupid.

[heartismyown]

You said you didn't want to talk to me, so I'm leaving you alone.

[Roxas explains before disappearing back into the kitchen. He pokes around, but when he can't find what he wants he gets annoyed, knocking a cup off the counter. Shoot. He sighs and starts picking up the mess.]

[by_heart]

[Great. Now Roxas is breaking the kitchen.

Lea rolls off the couch and drags himself over to the kitchen, leaning on the doorframe and inspecting the mess.]

Yeah, but I didn't tell you to go wreck my kitchen. I said I didn't want you to leave, too, but it looks like you forgot that part.

[heartismyown]

I didn't forget it!

[Roxas snaps before thinking. Where is all this negativity come from? Is it because what Lea said? It hurt a little being dismissed like that, and now, now he's annoyed because it seems like Lea is taunting him.]

I didn't leave!

[by_heart]

You went straight in here and started breaking things! How is that not leaving?

[Yeah, so he's still in the house, but he'd really just wanted Roxas to sit back down on the couch and be quiet for a while. Stupid spell. He can't lie, but he's still not saying what he needs to say.]