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Roxas nodded at everything he said. He rolled over and hugged him tightly as he heard his voice waver in just the slightest. "Hey...they can still come visit you, Axe. It's not like you're never going to see him again, right?" He looked up at him and smiled a little.

"Mm...Well, at least you'll probably get to see them from time to time, right? That's the most important part. The time you get to spend with him. Also the fact that you care so much about him even when you're apart. I wish I had someone that I could feel that strongly about. That's a special bond. Not many people have that." He patted Axel's shoulder and looked at his phone. about twenty minutes had passed. It took about twenty-five to get to the nearest train station. "Hey, Axe? I just remembered that I have to go run some errands for my mom today. I'm gonna go ahead and do that, so I don't have to worry about it later, okay? I'll be back in like an hour or two." He stood and stubbed out the cig on the bottom of his shoe and tossed it in the trash. "See ya soon," he told him with a smile and a wave before walking out the door to his house, then getting in his mom's car which she left the keys in. Again. Luckily he had his wallet with his license in it. He pulled out of the driveway and drove away to the train station.

About half an hour later he arrived at the station. He got out of his car and walked up onto the platform, plopping himself down on a conveniently-placed bench. He waited. At least he knew what Cloud looked like from a picture Axel had of him.

Yuffie squealed as the train began to slow down at their destination. She stood adn began jumping up and down. "I get to see Axey! We get to see Axey!" she shouted happily, grabbing ahold of Leon's shoulders and staring right into his eyes, a big goofy grin on her face. Leon just laughed and pushed her back down in the seat. "I know, I know, Yuf!" he told her happily. All four of them stood up and hurried out of the car as soon as they were allowed. Yuffie immediately started jumping for joy once she was on teh platform and out of the train. Leon looked around. Then he spotted an old band tee-shirt that he recognized. His eyes moved up to the face of a blue-eyed blond. "Oi, Cloud. Is that him, you think?" he asked, tugging on the tall blond's arm.

Roxas looked up when a voice called his name. His eyes widened a little when he saw the blond. He nodded and stood. "Cloud, I'm guessing?" he said with a smile that slowly melted on his face. He then peered behind him at the other three, raising an eyebrow at Yuffie spazzing out. "Uh...I don't know you guys's names... Sorry..," he said slowly.

Yuffie immediately jumped forward, giving him a thumbs-up. "I'm Yuffie! That's Leon, and that's Tifa!" she shouted happily before leaping forward before Leon could grab her and death-gripping Roxas in a hug. "Can we go see Axey now?! Please!" she whined, whole body vibrating with excitement. Roxas laughed a little, that using up most of his breath. "If you let me live, yeah," he wheezed before Leon pulled her off of him. Roxas breathed heavily then straightened up, grinning. "Okay, let's go. I told him I'd be back in like an hour and a half, so I have about thirty minutes now. Just enough time." He turned and started off towards his car. He dug in his pocket and groaned. "Damn it! I left my cigs with Axel... I'm never getting those back now..." He sighed before climbing into his mom's car. "When we get there, I'm gonna have to park at my house because this is my mom's car. We'll walk to Axel's house. He lives right up the street from me. I wanna surprise him, because he really misses you guys. So when we get to Axel's, could you guys wait outside while I go get him?

Roxas glanced over at Cloud as they went down the road. "Uh...did I do something wrong? I mean, he said his mom made him quit, but... Aw, damnit, how long had he not been smoking before I ******** it up?" he whined, disappointed in himself. How could he have been so stupid? Of course Axel hadn't been smoking in a while... That's why he sounded so desperate for one when he found them.

"Oh...well...I'm sorry. I didn't mean to ruin that, honest. It's just, he seemed kind of stressed out, so I figured one might do him a little good... I guess that 'lotta bad trumps that little good." He sighed softly. He sped up a little so they could get there faster.

Roxas smiled a little at what Tifa said. Then he laughed when Yuffie started squealing and bouncing up and down in her seat. "About fifteen more minutes, guys," he informed them. He was silent for a few moments. "Hey, Cloud? Has Axel ever mentioned...a little boy that he used to play with all the time when he was little?" he asked curiously, eyes on the road.

Roxas nodded, completely understanding what Cloud said. "Yeah, I don't blame you. It is pretty tragic..," he said softly. His eyes softened a little as he thought about how Axel had mentioned him. "Too bad he doesn't even remember..," he said softly to himself. He sighed a little and continued on driving. Leon glanced over at Roxas. "I knew him when he first moved. Remember, Cloud? I lived right across the street from him. He looked so sad when I first saw him. He wouldn't talk to anybody. It took me about a week to get him to actually look at me. Then another two days to get him to talk. When he started telling me about before he moved, the only time he would really smile was when he talked about that one kid from the park. He would blab on and on about the things they used to do and talk about. From what I heard, and partially came to learn, was that they were both pretty weird kids. One story he told me was when they sat up in a tree at the park with water balloons and threw them down when people walked by. He said they never got caught because they were ninjas and hid up in the tree so no one could see them." He laughed a little. Roxas laughed, too, tears welling up in his eyes. He remembered that. He loved it when they did that. It was so funny to see the looks on peoples' faces. "After the whole ninja thing, I introduced him to Yuffie because she was and still is obsessed with ninjas." Yuffie nodded spastically. "Yeah! Me and him became friends. Then me, Leon and Axey would run around Wal-Mart pretending to be ninjas in the you section. We would have all-out battles between me and him and Leon would judge. It was so fun!" She grinned. "Then me and him got in trouble at school for having another ninja battle, and the teachers thought we were really fighting. We got send to detention, and that's where we met big sexy Tifa! I forgot what she was in there for... Do you remember what you did to get detention, Tif?" she asked curiously up at her.