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"Ah... So tired. What a day!" Axel entered the bedroom is his usual casual swagger with the same goofy grin on his face. He hummed and strolled straight into the bathroom unaware of a certain somebody sitting on the bed in a quiet state. Coming out a short while later in only a pair of boxers and a sleeveless undershirt, he finally noticed the other person in the room. "Whoa! Roxas! I didn’t see you there."

A hurt look crossed the boy’s face as he subconsciously curled into a ball and hugged himself. "Yeah..." He said quietly, refusing to look at the older man.

Noticing this, Axel crawled over and wrapped his arms around the blond haired boy into a tender embrace. "What’s wrong?"

"N-nothing..."

"Common, something’s wrong."

Roxas turned a bit to look into those emerald green eyes to see the serious look on his lover’s face. "Well..." he turned and grabbed something from the side of the bed. It was a small square box dressed in shimmering red wrapping. "Here."

"Eh...?"

Roxas frowned and made a pouting face. "Did you forget? We’ve err..." he paused for a second. "We’ve been seeing each other for a year now..." he muttered quietly as he quickly turned his gaze away to cover his blush.

Axel smiled gently and lifted the top to the box. He stared at the contents briefly before digging his hands into the small cardboard cube to lift out a small teddy bear of a rich chocolate colour. "Hey...! He kinda reminds me of someone... Saix perhaps?"

"You idiot, it’s supposed to look like you!" Roxas exclaimed, turning around sharply to throw a fit.

Axel grinned and gently kissed Roxas on the lips. "Thanks... but..."

"But..?"

"He could never replace my favorite teddy bear."

"Wha-?" Axel swiftly pulled Roxas close to his chest, holding the bear closely as well.

"You."

"I hate Christmas!" Roxas grumbled angrily under his breath. He shifted the weight of the two bags hanging off his right shoulder and tried to gain a better grip of the other five bags in his hands. However, his attempts weren’t helping at all.

The sapphire-eyed boy growled irritably as every part of his body ached as he and Axel had been Christmas shopping since 10am in the morning. Did he also note that it was now 4pm and the date was December 24th? The pushy, busy bodied people around him only increased the annoyance level of the swirly-haired boy as Roxas cursed heavily in his mind at the red head since it was his bright idea to finally go shopping today. Shifting his gaze slightly in front of him, those bright blue depths instantly caught sight of the taller man.

As he studied the red haired man’s back, a particular object caught the attention Roxas’ irritation; looped over of Axel’s right arm was a single plastic bag. Instantly Roxas started glared heatedly at the back of emerald eyed man, rage engulfing him wholly.

Now with the intensity of Roxas’ glaring, Axel quickly became aware of Roxas’ feelings. Chuckling evilly, he shot the younger boy a look over his shoulder. "What’s wrong hun?"

"What’s wrong? WHAT’S WRONG? I’LL TELL YOU WHAT THE ******** IS WRONG!" Oh boy, Axel wasn’t even trying yet he managed to make the Blondie snap. The people walking past them instantly backed away and started going around the two. "I’m cold, I’m tried, I’m sore, I’m carrying seven ******** heavy bags and I’ve been listening to the same ******** ten Christmas songs done by another fifty ******** people for the last six ******** hours. On top of that, I’m now officially broke, and now that I think about it I’m hungry, and now that I look at you, you’re carrying one ******** bag and not suffering at all. THAT’S WHAT’S ******** WRONG. WHY THE HELL ARE YOU NOT SUFFERING LIKE I AM?!"

Axel whistled. "Feel better?"

"No, though I do think I’d feel a whole SHITLOAD better if I beat the ******** s**t out of you at this very moment." Roxas wheezed as he tried to catch his breath. He wouldn’t admit, but he DID feel a little better.

The red head scratched his head. "Hm… And is there any way I can make you feel better without having you beat me ******** no."

Axel grinned slyly and looked down at the boy with a mischievous glint in his green eyes. "We’ll see about that."

Roxas opened his mouth slightly to rebuttal, but quickly found it covered with warm, soft lips. His eyes fluttered close as Axel’s tongue pried itself into the younger boy’s mouth, intertwining itself gently with Roxas’ own.

It was undeniable that Roxas’ anger melted away to Axel’s taste. Their tongues fought for a moment longer before Axel pulled away.

"Now how do you feel?" the emerald eyed man smiling triumphantly and stroked Roxas’ cheek as a brilliant rouge blush quickly spread over the boy’s features.

"a*****e, we’re in public," was all the sapphire eyed boy could say as he eyed some of the spectators watching them.

Laughing the older man pulled away. "Then let’s go home and continue, shall we?"