Similarities

Rating: PG-13/T (For language and mention of sexual situations)

Genre: General/Humor

Summary: Kingdom Hearts II Final Fantasy VII crossover. A conversation between two redheads on their similarities…

Author's Note: This came to me after I watched Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. For someone who had already played Kingdom Hearts and seen Axel, the first thing that comes to mind when Reno is introduced is, "Wow! He looks just like Axel!" And thus, this fic was born.

Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy VII or Kingdom Hearts. I know Tetsuya Nomura owns Kingdom hearts, but does anyone have any idea who owns Final Fantasy? Anyway, I own one character who's mentioned here- Riot. She doesn't make an appearance, but Axel mentions her. She's in some of my other fics.

"We're a lot alike, you know?" Reno said, leaning back. He and Axel were sitting on a park bench in Edge; the latter was feeding peanuts coated in cyanide to the pigeons. Axel raised an eyebrow at this.

"Appearance or personality wise?" He asked.

"Well, we do look a lot alike."

Axel snorted, tossing the bag of peanuts aside.

"No kidding. But the personality bit remains to be seen." He said.

"All right then… Age." Reno said, pushing up his sunglasses. Axel gave him an evil look.

"Laugh, and I'll kill you slowly and miserably."

"I won't laugh."

There was a pause.

"Seven." Reno shot up from his relaxed position and stared at the other redhead, who was pouting and crossing his arms. "What?" He snapped defensively.

"It's just… you look… older." Reno said delicately.

"I'm a Nobody, remember? I was born this way." Axel grumbled. "And I'm stuck this way for a while."

"Oh, yeah."

"What about you?"
"Twenty-five." (A/N: I'm taking a stab in the dark there…)

"Hn. Okay… Profession?" Axel put in.

"The lackey of an incredibly powerful man who has the power to snuff me out when he's mad. Zero respect. The General population hates me. And I have a btchy blonde on my back, chewing me out every time I screw up." Reno said. "Oh yeah… and a partner whose face might crack if he smiled for once."

"Eerie. I've got a similar problem."

"Even the part about the blonde?" Reno asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah. Girl named Riot. Riot, Miss Hey-You-If-You-Burn-The-Ship-Again-I'll-Kick-Your-Arse. Total killjoy." Axel sighed. "Got an idiotic blond too… Total dumbarse. Hates fighting. Damn pacifist."

"Eh. And the respect part?" Axel gave a dry laugh.

"You're joking, right?" He asked.

"Thought so. Oh yeah… You gonna tell me what those triangle things under your eyes are?" Reno asked, pointing at the green triangles under Axel's eyes.

"As soon as you tell me what those red things on your cheek-bones are." Axel said. He had assumed they were either tattoos or scares.

Silence.

"So… What's your boss like?" Reno asked, quickly diverting the subject.

"Eh… Not too bad. Now my previous boss… Total psychopath. So far out of his mind, he wouldn't recognize sanity if he saw it." Axel shuddered in remembrance of Xemnas.

"Eh, my boss ain't too bad… He's not crazed… Though, his company is the reason our world looks like sht…" Reno said, waving a hand at the gloomy city behind them. "Though, it was really more of his dad's fault."

"Weapon choice?"

"Electrically charged pole. You?" (A/N: I don't know what it's called… Sorry…)

"Fire. And Chakrams."

"You control fire?" Reno asked, a spark on interest in his eyes. Axel smirked.

"Yup. That's why Riot and Riku keep btching at me not to burn anything." He said proudly.

"Oh."
Another pause.

"Anything else?"
"Well… Our names have the same number of letters." Axel said. Reno's eyes narrowed.

"No they don't."
"Yes, they do."

"No, they don't. Mine has five." Reno protested. Axel cocked an eyebrow at this, and spelled out Reno's name.

"R-E-N-O?"

"…Oh. Whoops."

There was a pause. Then, Reno posed a question they'd both been burning to get to. "Gay or straight?"

"About as straight as a circle."
"Likewise."

Pause.

"You thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Screw like rabbits in the storage rooms until our bosses bug us with new assignments?" Axel asked, watching as the pigeons around them dropped dead.
"You read my mind." Reno grinned.

-Fin