Who: Akito and Roxas
Where: Random beach on a random island
When: After the family event
What: Akito and Roxas eating ice-scream together
Warning: None (Agito doesn't show up)
No matter how much he wanted to close his eyes and be back home, Roxas knew he couldn't shut out the sound of the waves crashing against the shore. It was the second he remembered everything that he ran, finding a place on a different beach. He was sitting in the sand, his laptop open on top a rock, and he had been like that for a few good hours.
Akito travelled on top of his shark, looking at the beach direction, in hope of finding his friend, on his back he had a backpack and in one of his hands he had the small bamboo shark, not having stopped by the ship before looking for him.
He finally spots his friend, directing the shark on the beach direction. Wetting his trousers as he unmounts.
“Roxas-san!” calls, waving with a faint smile, walks in his direction.
Opening his eyes, Roxas raised his head a little before smiling slightly with a weak wave. "Hey, you really did find me." He didn't know if this is a good thing or not yet, but he felt somewhat relieved that Akito was with him. "I'm guessing that's all your stuff from Maple Island, right?" He asks as he jestures to the bag.
“Ah, yes!” smiles brightly as he sees the other smile, feeling more reassured already… He knew how it was to be love rejected, since it happened to him almost everyday. “Also!! Brought this for us!” takes out of the bag a small thermo box “Guess what? There was some ice-scream lef-” opens the box, his eye opens wide, then they show disappointment. The ice-scream had melted and it was now liquid.
Roxas finally stood to look into the cooler, but his movements were almost lethargic. "Want me try freezing it?" He asked as he blinked down at the liquified ice cream. It was really a nice jesture, too bad...
Blinks “Ah! Could you?” that’s right, he could use magic. “Ah! Just a second” goes to his bag and takes two chopsticks, placing them on each side of the box, touching the ice-scream “Okay, do it!” smiles.
With a nod, Roxas summoned his Keyblade and pointed it down into the cooler. One Blizzard spell shot down into the liquid, its contents freezing on impact at the cold magic. Soon enough, the ice cream was refrozen around the sticks and there was a flash of a grin across Roxas' face. "There. It's done."
Laughs, taking the chopstick… and all the ice-scream along with the second chopstick.
Looks to the funny sculpture, grabs the other chopstick and tries to separate the ice-scream in two.
“…” doesn’t manage to break it, so he gets Roxas hand on the second chopstick and licks the ice-scream on his side “ Is good” laughs.
Blinking at the ice cream, Roxas smiles a little more, "Here, lemme try to break it." Taking the other chopstick from Akito, he pulls them away from each other. The ice cream slowly breaks apart until Roxas hands back the other half. "There, I go it!"
Claps hands as the other manages to break it “Hurray!” takes his piece.
Gives a small bite on it.
Looks to the horizon. “It’s been a while… since I went to the beach and ate ice-scream like this…” smiles, taking a breath on the ocean breeze.
Roxas looks at the horizon too as he licks the ice cream. "Yeah...I think I know what you mean." He sounds somewhat nostaligic as his gaze grows a bit distant.
Eats a little more “Do you feel better?” asks, looking to the other.
"Yeah...I think I do." He takes a bite out of the ice cream before glancing at Akito, "But that was really weird...All that family stuff."
Sighs, smiling very happy “It was but… really… loved it…” eats another small piece of the ice-scream “… I wonder how my parents were like…”
"It was...fun." He couldn't say he loved it anymore; he forgot the reasons why he had laughed and smiled so much... "You don't remember yours either?" The question slips out as he gives Akito a questioning look.
“No… All I remember is always having my Onichan…” Licks more, makes a slightly sad look, then smiles again, laughing “But got to know how it’s like to have them! It was really great…”
Licks some more “Also, don’t be so sad about Rinali… I am sure you will find another girl someday.”
"Yeah, I guess I finally know what it's like to have a family now," he says with an uneasy smile.
He takes a few more bites of ice cream before almost choking on a moutful at Akito's comment. "...Why- why would I be sad? It was just a date."
“Oh, you aren’t?” blinks, looking to Roxas chocking “But… why were you sad then?”
"Because I'm not...? I don't know," he says as he stares at his ice cream a little too intently, "I'm not supposed to feel emotions, remember?"
“You aren’t…?” blinks again “Why?” looks worried.
He gaze shifts between Akito and the ice cream, "Oh...I thought I told you..." He trails off into silence before sighing. "I can't feel if I don't have a heart, right?"
“Oh! That’s why you were so worried about me and Agito sharing the heart.” Licks the ice-scream… thinks for some minutes.
Touches with the tip his ice-scream on Roxas neck, waiting to see if the other reacted to the cold.
"Yeah, I didn't get how you two shared a- H-HEY!" Roxas jumped away, pressing a hand over the side of his neck. "What was that for!"
Blinks again “Well… you said that without a heart you weren’t suppose to feel… so was testing it…” smiles shyly “ For someone who shouldn’t be feeling, you seem to be sensitive.”
"That doesn't mean I can't feel the difference in temperature," Roxas mumbles as he rubs the cold spot on his neck. "I meant emotion-wise."
“Oh…” looks to the other boy, looking intrigued “But… you seem to be very emotional… I mean, you always laughed when we played… and even now…”
Sighs, continuing with a curious frown “Are you sure you don’t have a heart?”
"Yeah...I'm pretty sure." His grip on the stick got a little tighter as he tapped the spot over his heart. "I can't feel it anyways."
Looks sad as the other seems to get down with the idea, looks to the horizon again “But… if you can have emotions… maybe you never needed a heart in the first place.” Licks the ice-scream, almost at the end “I mean… it’s the heart job right? If you do it on your own already…”
"Maybe..." His voice trails off as he looks to the horizon again; he seriously doubts Akito but not because he wants to. "So, you're going back to your ship now?"
“Well… since I’m here… thought that maybe we could built sand castles together…” looks to the other, slightly sad “But… if you prefer to be alone…”
"Nah, I'd rather build a sand castle instead," Roxas says with a small grin. It was better than thinking about what had happened over the past few days. "How big do you think we can make it?"
Smiles brightly “How about we make towers and see how many it can hold?” finishes the ice-scream, starting to join the sand between him and the other boy.