DOTR: Okay so I know you guys want me to update K for Kings of Heart and I want that too, but eheh, life (gotta love it) so I just racked up this idea for a oneshot and, ehem, as you can see it turned out longer and so instead of making it one LONG longshot I decided to break it down for ya. Well, here's something for you guys. Call it an apology present for being away from the Kingdom Hearts fandom for so long. Sorry, and enjoy and don't forget to tell me what you think, thanks! I will update the other part if I get much love and reviews/and/or/loads of hits.
"Great. Now how the hell do I get out of this damn forest?"
Xigbar had been given a simple mission: deliver a letter to the Alpha, Xemnas. Of course he has to go and take a shortcut the moment the sun begins to set in a chance to save time so the already impatient Ookami wouldn't bite his head off over lack of timing . . . like the last time . . . and the time before that and . . . well if he was so unreliably "timed" then why does that damn Beta keep sending him of all the pack as the messenger man?
Xigbar froze in his thoughts as a rustling to his right caught his attention. Sure there had been a small breeze in the night air but all-in-all the night was pretty still.
Wandering, his golden eye darted around and subconsciously he touched his left eye remembering well what happened last time he had lost his way. He'd rather not have another repeat run-in with a nasty aggressive Alpha. Well, he supposed he deserved that for not paying attention into which territory he entered . . . liked now.
"Who's there?" Xigbar asked, holding up the rolled parchment as if he'd beat the assailant with the scroll should they decided to attack him.
Honestly he blamed the forest for coming out of nowhere and surrounding him in lostlessness. Now the road's disappeared from him and he was way too far from town. Why on earth did his Alpha pick now of all times to visit another town when he could have just stayed in their own to—
"AH!" Xigbar would not admit how unmanly that scream was but hey . . . if a scared shitless Beta screamed like an Omega with no one around to hear him . . .
Suddenly Xigbar hated his life and his damn jitters. Something had popped out of those rustling bushes, but it wasn't an aggressive Alpha, that was for sure. There, before him was a young . . .
"Puppy?" Xigbar raised his brow at the sight of it. It was chasing a . . . a . . . a shrew! He could see that black tail of his wagging away as he took hold of the small animal in his mouth and tossed it in the air before it dropped to the ground and began scurrying off again to escape, but the pup was once again after it.
Xigbar stood there amazed at the sight. Never ever before had he seen a pup out in the middle of the woods, all by himself, without even the slightest shred that a parent was present.
"Parent, right, they should be around," Xigbar muttered to himself as he leaned to the left and then to the right to catch sight of any Inu around. It was possible the pup's home was nearby, Xigbar knew not everyone desired the town-life and quite a few Alphas and Betas alike settled down in the countryside but not much was known about that lot since they were . . . well . . . isolated.
So, that could mean this puppy wandered off from his home and by the looks of it he was no more than four years of age. Xigbar let out a sigh and then crouched down on his haunches. He smiled fondly and watched the little one play, pawing at the shrew before the poor creature was worn out of running from the boy and then just lay there, much to the pup's dismay.
"I think you tuckered him out, kid," Xigbar said. The child paid him little mind, just a simple uncaring glance before returning his attention to the shrew and pawing him again.
Xigbar let out a chuckle and shook his head. No one ever teach this kid to be wary of strangers? Sheesh, what an incautious puppy.
Remembering the feel of the parchment in his hands Xigbar suddenly remembered his Alpha who was no doubt running those dastardly sharp claws along the armrests of his "throne" while waiting for his neglecting pack member. He wondered if it was too late to throw himself against a tree in hopes of getting a black eye and blaming his delay on an Alpha who happened upon him as he dashed as quick as his could in a loyal manner to his Alpha.
But . . .
"Telling him I was helping a kid could cease some flame," Xigbar suggested to himself as he looked down at the puppy who began to pout at the surrender of his entertainment. Xigbar rolled his eye and let out a sigh before scooting closer to the young Inu puppy. "Heya, ya lost? If ya want I can take ya with me and we could have a good time. I've got this Alpha ya see and if he sees ya then I'm sure all his thoughts of torture weighing over my head will vanish. Whatdaya say?"
The puppy looked at him with bright blue eyes, a pretty color in contrast to the black fur the child sported. His wagging tail had led Xigbar on as he moved to pick the child up only to get an armful of baby teeth.
"YEOUCH!" Xigbar yelled as he pulled back and watched as the pup began growling and then scrapping up the dirt underneath him with his legs. Just as soon as he had tried out how his growls sounded with his small vocals, the little pup wagged his tail and chirped up a bark. Xigbar raised a brow in confusion before rolling his eye.
"Heh, you got me good there, Beta," Xigbar said with a chuckle. He had thought the damn Inu pup to be an Omega but after that bite and then the shifting from submissive to dominant; Xigbar could tell they were in the same class. "But stop being stubborn and come here to Uncle Xigbar."
Once again he was coming toward the child, knowing the pup would just lollygag his way if a mature adult didn't help him and bring him back to town so they could find his parents. Xigbar, this time, made sure to watch the child's reaction toward him. He watched his ears fall down and his tail fall back between his legs. That's right, Xigbar could be dominant if he wanted to—especially when getting his point across to some sniveling little pup whom he was just trying to help.
Just as Xigbar reveled in his dominance over a four-year-old puppy he hadn't taken into account how the child hadn't been looking at him, but, apparently, at someone behind him. The moment Xigbar realized this he regretted ever being born. Slumping his shoulders, Xigbar put on his submissive side riding along the lines of the Omega class and turned around to confront whatever was scaring the Beta pup.
Xigbar's eye widened and his jaw dropped. There, before him, was the most beautiful creature he'd ever seen in his known existence. From the days of his puphood up into his juvenile years and now into his adulthood he had heard of these creatures, so rare in existence and said to have so much magical capabilities that some think they might just be spirits than actual beings.
It was a Kitsune.
Not just a Kitsune, but from the aura emitting off the redhead, Xigbar felt the dominating presence of an Alpha. He could tell, with the way the redhead was standing before him, his stance firm and unshakable should a fight ensue.
"I . . . I . . . uh . . ." Yep, that was all Xigbar had to say, his ears going down into an all-out Omega submission. He just didn't get paid enough for this shit. He then began to rationalize the current situation: why hadn't he known this was an Alpha's marked territory? He was paying good attention to the space around him; How come he didn't smell him coming? Also, why is a Kitsune even here when concerning an Inu pup, unless . . .
Xigbar chuckled nervously before he turned; keeping his eyes on the threatening Kitsune of course, and picking up the pup who trembled in his embrace as he also looked at the Alpha Kitsune. "Eheh, is this thing yours?"
Suddenly a growl emitted from the Kitsune's throat and Xigbar froze. He was usually more akin to shaking, especially around his Alpha but nope, nothing of the sort this time. He just froze, the pup locked in his grasp and everything.
When the Inu pup began to finally come to and squirm, Xigbar cursed his ridiculous cowardice. He tried to drop the kid but he was utterly frozen. He had no control over his body! When the kid began to cry Xigbar realized it was a cry to his parent, especially as he reached out to him, he began to break out in a cold sweat.
Then, in awe and terror both, Xigbar watched the myths and legends come true. His golden eye widened as he watched the Kitsune wave his hand and soon what he remembered titled as "fox-fires" appeared around the Kitsune, dancing around him hypnotizing but tauntingly. Then the Alpha Kitsune flicked his hand outward toward him and in horror he watched the fox-fires slide on his skin, and fly toward his own direction.
"AH!" Xigbar cried out the moment the fox-fires hit him. His body came to and he dropped the pup but was absolutely amazed that the Kitsune would attack someone who had his own pup so near—of course assuming that Inu pup was his own. But just as he finished his "stop-drop-and-roll" he watched the Kitsune kneel down toward the Inu pup and wave the flames away and then in the notion of a simple snap the flames were gone.
Those piercing green eyes turned back toward Xigbar as the Kitsune picked up the pup in his arms. Xigbar froze again and scurried back until his back slammed against the trunk of a tree. Looking back toward the pup, Xigbar realized it was his own, seeing how the pup nuzzled himself into the Kitsune's arms. Xigbar had unknowingly stumbled upon a Kitsune's child.
When Xigbar expected to be burned alive he raised his arms to prepare as the Kitsune moved, but when no burning came upon him, he looked up and noticed that the Kitsune had just walked away. With a heavy sigh of relief Xigbar looked down at himself and noticed his cloak burnt to ashes.
"Fuck," Xigbar cursed. Could his luck have gotten any worse? He didn't think so. He then turned to his right hand and noticed a pile of ashes and when he realized what it was he jumped to his feet and shouted, "FUCK! ! !"
His angry bout sent a few bats hanging in nearby trees flying but as he kicked up the ground and then the tree he had coward against he turned back toward the place he had seen the Kitsune. Was it all a dream? No, it wasn't. The state of his clothing was proof enough.
After a little thought Xigbar grinned and shoved his hands into his pant pockets before continuing his way toward where his Alpha had been waiting for him in the next town. He was certain his Ookami Alpha would forgive his mistake in not delivering the parchment. After all, he had more important news to tell him.
Yes, Xigbar was sure if his Alpha, Xemnas, knew he had sighted a Kitsune in this very forest, why, there was no doubt the Alpha would make the capture of that magical rare creature his first priority over beating his senseless Beta to death.
"Go back to your mother, Zackary," The Alpha Kitsune had commanded, but softly, and watched as his little pup took off to run as fast as he could to his mother's side. There he watched the little Inu pup kneel down next to his mother who was nursing her latest litter. She leaned up and held out an arm to him which the little Beta was too happy to run into.
"Zackary!" The Inu Omega cried as she held her pup close and kissed and licked his face before his attention was caught by the squirming newborn pups against her bosom. "Puppies!" the little boy squealed in delight, his little hands coming out to pet the little ones in amazement.
"Xion, hold on, let Zackary watch you nurse so it'll keep his attention. I don't want him wandering off again," The Alpha Kitsune said with a sigh as he shook his head and ran his fingers through his red locks. "A Beta had seen him."
"W-What?" Xion, the Inu Omega gasped, leaning up a little more, causing her nursing litter to begin crying out from struggle to feed. "Please say they didn't see you."
"I had no choice but to show myself. He had Zackary."
"Oh, Axel," Xion gasped before nuzzling her little boy who seemed to sense the trouble he'd caused his parents and so flattened his ears against his head.
"I guess we'll have to fucking move again!"
Axel, the Alpha Kitsune, turned toward his first mate, an angry golden Neko who was already showing the litter he was carrying inside him. Axel let out a sigh and turned from him, trying his best to ignore him. After finally getting the Neko pregnant through less-than-gentle means, the Omega has been nothing but an aggressive, hateful burden.
"Yes, we will, Roxas," Axel said, keeping his gaze away from the boy who simply crossed his arms and scoffed.
"Of course," Roxas muttered with a roll of his blue eyes. "Like fucking normal. Why can't you find a stable place to stay?"
"Because I'm a fucking Kitsune!" Axel shouted, turning toward his first mate and standing tall to present his dominance over him.
Xion, his second mate, could tell Axel had had enough of the boy and so took her litters close and made sure to cover their ears the best she could. It was best they didn't hear what their father was saying. Their young brains just wouldn't understand. As Xion watched, she saw Axel come close to Roxas to get him to submit, but as of recently, the Omega was defiant and stood his ground.
"You knew this would be a possibility if you mated yourself to me, Roxas!" Axel pointed, poking his first mate in the chest and pushing him back slightly. Sometimes, he just wanted to kick and bite the boy but not now . . . he was carrying . . . maybe later. "Now you're complaining after that warning? Well, fuck you! Why don't you leave if you don't fucking like it? But of course if you do . . . I would not doubt you carry a few Kitsunes inside you. You could try to make it on your own but once others find out there are Kitsunes in your litter, they'll kill you and any child that isn't a Kitsune and take those kits and sell them to the highest bidder. Do you want that, Roxas? Do you? !"
The boy remained silent, but held his ground. Xion could see he accepted Axel's explanation, but as of now, she knew her partner-mate would not admit it. There it was, the Neko just shook his head, his golden ears twitching before he turned around and began packing their belongings quietly. Xion wanted to get up and help the poor boy but was held down by her nursing newborns. So she looked toward her mate and bid him silently to help the boy, his first mate.
Axel looked at Roxas and made a move to help but instead he shook his head and turned from him saying, "You'd better not lift anything too heavy, Roxas." With that warning he left to pack up their belongings in the other end of the cabin.
"Mama, we moving?" Zackary, Xion's third child asked.
Xion just smiled and pulled him close, kissing the top of his head before playfully nipping at her son's fuzzy onyx ears. "Why don't you go help papa?"
"Ya!" The little boy cheered as he rushed off while his litter-siblings remained by their mother's side and helped her with her new litter.
Indeed; it wasn't easy to have a Kitsune mate, both Roxas and Xion knew this. From the time they had been mated as a trio the family had moved no more than 10 times. Some were because of sightings, some because of better housing. The pups were becoming quite used to the road and the lack of stability began unnerving the expecting Neko.
Roxas, a golden Neko, and Axel the Kitsune's first mate had been with him longer. A good 10 years, but a majority of it being that the two had known each other since kit/tenhood. Xion had come in later, after the two had been mated for 2 years but after she had been pupped first, Roxas' strain began affecting his and Axel's relationship, even more so when, after four years of sharing his mate with another Omega, that same Inu Omega was pupped again.
After all, it had been Roxas who suggested Axel determine if Xion could be a suitable mate . . .
It had been that same Omega from before, Roxas was sure of it. The first time he had seen her were when he and Axel had been mating in a clearing. It hadn't been their first time mating in the heated season, but it was the first time they were interrupted by someone. Since Axel was a Kitsune he produced a higher-than-normal level of magic where he could easily place up a barrier around them, luring people away with illusions but this Omega, an Inu Omega had found them.
Of course they both shrugged it off as sheer accident but after the second time it was coincidence and the third and fourth were nothing of the sort. Neither had understood why the girl was constantly following them when there were plenty of other Alphas to smell and mate her, but no, continually she'd stalk them and it eventually weighed on Roxas' mind.
"Axel, Axel, Axel stop!" Roxas demanded just as his mate grunted over him, already picking up the pace of his thrusts.
"What?" Axel asked, his breathing labored and mood about ruined from his mate suddenly pulling away from him and sentencing his hard cock to a lonely cold night's air.
"Over there," Roxas said, glancing toward the bushes where he smelt that Inu Omega, that same Inu Omega. "It's her again."
Axel looked toward the bush with his glowing green eyes, a sign to Roxas that his magic was working well and that no doubt the barrier he enveloped them in was working. Cocking his head to the side he glanced back down to his mate. "What do you want me to do about her?"
Roxas closed his eyes and inhaled her scent. She was in heat this time, as she had been on other occasions she happened upon them. The scent reminded Roxas of the pains of being in such a heat with no one to mate to. He knew the feeling all too well in the times when his heat first began and he hadn't had the guts to ask Axel to mate to him the first few years. Now, after two years of being mated to Axel, Roxas hadn't had to go through that pain again and so he sympathized with the Inu Omega.
"Go to her, Axel," Roxas finally decided. He looked up at his mate with pleading eyes while Axel looked down upon him quizzically. "Give it a try, for me?"
Roxas knew Axel was picky, he always had been. Even when Roxas finally managed to ask to be the Alpha's mate, Axel was reluctant before after a small persuasion from Roxas finally made his mind. So, Roxas wasn't sure if Axel would like the Inu Omega but he wasn't going to hinder him from trying. Already feeling akin to the hidden girl, Roxas knew he would not hate her if Axel had decided to mate himself to her.
So Axel let out a sigh and stood himself straight then licked the tip of his index and middle fingers before summoning his fox-fires, two of them, and then motioned his hand to guide them to burn the bush the Inu Omega was hiding herself behind. The young girl cried out and jumped back, her black tail between her moist legs and her dark ears falling flat and down.
She scooted back only until her back hit the trunk of a tree and she could retreat no more. Her features showed fear but also something else. Axel smirked down at her and scanned her with his eyes, taking in her small frame similar to Roxas' but this time, it happened to be a female.
"Y-Y-You're a Kitsune!" the girl gasped, but the fear was slowly receding as her heat thickened and now the look in her eyes—Roxas could tell she wanted Axel. The Omega wanted the Alpha to dominate her.
"Yeah, and what you gonna do about it?" Axel asked as he knelt down and slid his fingers up her slim legs and then pressed them between her thighs, making the Omega gasp wantonly. "Oooh, someone's already so wet. Tell me, have you been pleasuring yourself while watching me and my mate?"
The Inu Omega trembled at the Alpha's touch but her eyes darkened and the fear was replaced with nothing but want and need. Leaning down, Axel inhaled her scent, his nose gliding across the skin of her neck and then down toward her collar where his other hand had risen and slowly loosened the fabric of her cloak. Once it draped across her shoulders Axel let his fingers slip inside her shirt and soon he was cupping one of her small breasts.
The Inu Omega let out a moaning squeal, especially when Axel squeezed gently. Her head fell back and in that moment Axel let his tongue taste the girl, his mouth-muscle trailing up toward her jaw where his lips then rested near hers and he breathed heavily against her mouth, teasingly mixing his breath with hers.
"What do you want, Inu Omega?" Axel whispered against her and watched in delight as she closed her eyes tightly and opened that small mouth of hers in sheer pleasure as he pressed two fingers inside her, not going in too far to tease all the more. "Do you want to mate with me?" The Inu nodded her head vigorously. "Why?" Axel asked and in this questionnaire before the dirty-deed, Roxas realized he was asking the same questions he had asked him before they mated. "I'm a Kitsune and you're an Inu; different races, different breeds." Pressing his fingers in deeper this time the girl's eyes opened and looked at Axel closely. "My kind is the hunted while your kind is the hunter. Anyone associated with someone like me could possibly be killed. You willing to stand by that decision?"
So, Axel liked her scent and her body appealed to him, now he was testing her loyalty.
The Inu Omega remained silent but as she raised her hands and let her fingers run through Axel's red locks, Roxas and Axel saw her decision. Axel smiled before leaning down and capturing her lips in a sweet but deep kiss. When he pulled away he kept his lips near hers as he asked, "What's your name, Omega?"
"Xion," the girl whispered, still trembling from her heat and the Alpha's dominance over her.
"The name's Axel, A-X-E-L, got it memorized?" Axel asked and Roxas chuckled in the background, remembering the same words from before. Xion nodded her head and Axel's smile turned deviant. "Good, because I want to hear you scream my name tonight."
In that Axel moved and pressed Xion to the ground, her face and chest facing toward the ground while Axel mounted her. He pulled her hips toward him and this time pressed two more fingers inside her to prepare her. The more he pressed into her the more juices dripped down his hand and occasionally he'd lean down and lap up the substance. When he was doing this he glanced at his mate beside them who had stayed his distance and simply sat and watched.
"I'll be coming back for you later, kitten," Axel said with a wink that made Roxas' face heat up and blush.
When Axel took his fingers away and pressed his member inside the small girl he sighed out in pleasure, his eyes closing and head falling back. Roxas, being sensitive toward magic as is, felt the barrier Axel had created from his own abundant magic waver slightly.
"Be careful, Axel," Roxas warned him to stay in control.
Axel only chuckled, keeping his eyes closed as he said, "You keep up a constant magical barrier while entering a virgin and I'll tell you to 'be careful.'"
Roxas simply crossed his arms and rolled his eyes. Axel on the other hand made sure to keep his magic in check while he thrust into the virgin Omega underneath him. When his paced picked up he heard small cries from the girl and they weren't in pleasure and so he opened his eyes and looked down at the girl who was looking up at him to her best ability.
He could tell she wanted to look at him and also he needed to be more gentle since it was her first time.
So he pulled out and then turned the Omega around to lay on her back. When he leaned down he pressed inside once more and leaned down to press kisses toward her jaw. "So you want to look at me? Alright," Axel said as he kissed her neck and then ran his fangs along her skin, reveling in the feel of her tight warmth around him and the strong heated smell she emitted.
When Axel bit into her she cried out but mostly moans escaped her lips as the Alpha above her rolled his hips deep but softly, for her. Roxas had been surprised that Axel could mate so gently, but maybe it was just his tastes. Roxas, himself, preferred rough and fast from behind while it seemed this Inu Omega seemed slow and soft while she reached up and looked into his eyes.
Now that he had seen this side to Axel, Roxas wondered if he'd give him a taste of this mating. It seemed intimate and overly sweet. Roxas also realized it prolonged the pleasure as the two had been officially mating for a good half hour now and it wasn't looking like it was stopping any time soon. Just the sight made Roxas hard, along with the delicious smells.
After that night, Xion had kept to her promise and remained with them as a marked mate. Not only had the mark offended other Alphas should they come looking for a young Omega, but the litter inside her had made it official that she was taken.
Roxas had not been jealous at all when he watched Axel pet and kiss and lick Xion's rounding belly. In fact, he often did the same; cooing over the expecting Omega. The feel of the constantly moving litter inside her was amazing and it only excited Roxas more that he would one day carry his own.
When Xion had birthed them in their small hut she as well as Roxas had been afraid of her giving birth away from an experienced doctor. Both knew expecting Omegas would usually seek the help of a doctor to follow the pregnancy, but Axel forbid either from seeking one out because of the fact that Xion was carrying a Kitsune's litter. He had explained it was too life-risking and that if a doctor told the authorities there was no doubt Xion would be killed and her litter taken.
So it was Axel who helped with the birthing process.
Xion had clung to Roxas as the pains rolled over her. Axel was rubbing her protruding stomach affectionately and would often emit a low fiery glow in his hands to make this process easier.
When the first pup was out, Axel took him up in his hands and held him close. The pains had receded to a certain degree so Xion could rest and watch as her mate held her first pup, their first pup. But actually, the child wasn't a pup at all, but a kit.
"My firstborn," Axel cooed, wiping the slim off of his crying face and petting his head. Roxas watched as Axel's eyes glew their green hue and then a spark came from the child in reacting toward the magic. Roxas smiled, the little one was kit, already so much magic was inside him and Axel showed so much pride that it swelled Roxas' heart.
Leaning down, Roxas purred and rubbed his face against Xion's head as he held her hands. "You did good, Xion," Roxas said in his soft purring. "Look, Axel's so happy that it's a kit."
Xion leaned up and smiled at the sight of her mate coddling his first child. Both she and Roxas watched as Axel took a wet cloth and began cleaning the child slowly as if examining every inch of him. Xion was nowhere near to birthing the second of her litter and so watched in peace as Axel wiped the child clean and smile when she noticed the small patches of red hair atop the little one's head. She was glad the little one looked like his sire and hoped every other one would too.
"What do you want to name him, Axel?" Roxas asked with gentle eyes laid on the child.
Axel was silent for a moment, still rubbing the child's cheek with his knuckles. He then held him close and said, "He's my first and the beginning of many. Genesis, I'll name him Genesis."
A fitting name; both Xion and Roxas agreed. The moment to revel in the name vanished when pains pressed against the Inu again and her grasp almost crushed Roxas' hands. "Axel!" Roxas cried out and watched his mate wrap his firstborn in a heavy blanket before placing him down in a cot made for the expected litter. He then returned to Xion's side and helped usher in the second child.
It was another kit, another highly magical being and this time, Roxas and Xion watched Axel falter in his emotions. Instead of calm affection, Axel stumbled in his solemnness and they caught sight of sadness encased in his happiness.
"Another one," Axel said, the tremble in his voice had struck both Xion and Roxas in the heart. They had never seen him display this kind of emotion before and it was as if they were witnessing another side of their mate. "It's another kit," Axel continued and as he cleaned this little boy, Roxas had no choice but to let go of Xion as Axel's form weakened and he about dropped the kit.
"I'll take him," Roxas said as he took up the little redhead and finished cleaning him. The Neko smiled and twitched his ears before perking them toward Axel to hear his answer. "He looks just like you, Axel. What do you want to name him?"
But from the silence, Roxas turned and noticed Axel could hardly look at the child. His hand was on his mouth and his head shaking.
"Axel?" Roxas motioned and then Axel looked at him and the child.
After another silent break Axel nodded his head and quite surely said, "Lea, name him Lea."
"Lea," Roxas cooed, looking back down at the baby who had by then cried himself to sleep.
When he was placed in the cot next to his brother Roxas returned to Xion's side and helped comfort her when her last child was born. This time, it was a little Inu pup. Xion was near to tears that she had birthed them all without problem but when she looked at her mate who was holding the latest pup a fear rose inside her.
"A-Axel?" Xion inquired of her mate but Axel stilled himself and kept his wide eyes upon the pup.
"What's wrong?" Roxas asked, coming over to touch his mate.
"I knew that there could be others in the litter that may not be a Kitsune but now . . . I'm afraid, Roxas," Axel admitted.
It was from that that Roxas and Xion first became fearful and reflected on the troubles from mating themselves to a Kitsune, the rarest and most magical of all races. Axel had never once expressed his fears and had seemed fine when the first two kits were born, but when the little Inu boy was born, Axel had become overly protective.
The little Inu slept with his papa most of the time in the first few years of his life. After discovering he was a Beta, Axel became more protective and Roxas and Xion kept trying to ask him why he had reacted so differently to a nonkit when he knew he'd have a few as children but the Alpha had not told them anything.
Genesis and Lea were both kits, both full of magic and both Alphas. Even so, the two kits were quite quiet and mellow, while their litter-brother, Zackary as he had been named, was shown to be a Beta and quite active at that. Because of him being the youngest but also a Beta he had sought so much attention from the Alphas in his family to the point where even his poor Omega mother grew tired of his antics.
"Zackary, enough!" Xion ordered and rubbed her temples from the constant nagging from the child. She already had enough to worry about, she was expecting her second litter and the child kept wanting to be held. She couldn't keep doing this.
"Zack, away from your mama," Axel ordered as he turned and noticed his youngest annoying his expecting mother while he was busy trying to teach his two eldest how to summon fox-fires.
The pup reluctantly listened and so went over to his other "mama" to bug. Roxas, at first, had been sweet to the children but after their fourth year and their mother had been found to be expecting again, Roxas had grown resentful toward the litter and their Inu mother simply because he could not yet produce a litter of his own and she was already onto her second.
His emotions were becoming unraveling and soon his anger toward his incapacity to not carry showed. It showed, toward the children, toward his Omega partner and especially toward their Alpha. It was because of this that Axel had decided to ignore him to his best abilities, but after a long estrangement in their own home and going through a few more moves, Roxas finally let his thoughts voice his actions.
"I want to leave," he said one morning just as Xion had given her litter their breakfast.
Axel had been prone to ignoring him of late, but even the Neko's remark made him turn to the boy and look at him with wide eyes. "What'd you say?" he asked.
Roxas hadn't looked him in the eyes, and Xion and Axel wondered if it was his submissive instincts or just his stubborn streak that made him keep his eyes away in a show of rudeness.
"You heard me," Roxas said back, his voice low and his fingers toying with the eating utensils placed on the kitchen table. The moment one of the children, it was a kit, Lea, had snuck his hand over and tried to take Roxas' spoon away, the Neko quite harshly grabbed a hold of his wrist and shoved him away. The little kit was shaken by the gesture and threatened to cry, but he silenced himself when his papa stepped forward and grabbed a hold of his first mate, pulling him out of the chair and pulling his chin up so that he would look at him.
"What the hell's your problem now, Roxas?" Axel growled.
Roxas only pulled himself away, his features sad and angry. "You know what it is," he said. "I'm useless and I don't want to be here anymore."
"You can't just up and leave. You made an oath to me," Axel said, his growl had disturbed his second mate and even the litter surrounding her. So, Xion quietly ushered them off toward their room and bade Axel silently to settle this.
"I have nothing to tie me here, nothing!" Roxas spat, pulling Axel's last hold on him, his wrist, away.
Axel narrowed his eyes and then jotted his head in the direction Xion had taken herself and the litter to be. When he eyed Roxas again he noticed the boy had followed his gaze and in looking toward their direction he noticed a longing but most of all a self-hate.
Shaking his head, Axel said, "Is this about Xion?" No it wasn't that. Axel could see it. "Is this about the litter?" There it was; Axel saw it. It was clear jealousy. Roxas was jealous of Xion because she had born him a litter and Roxas had yet to do that from lack of conception.
Axel shook his head and let out a sigh. A softer side came to him as he looked down at his first mate. "Roxas," he said softly. "I told you when it's your time you'll conceive. Why are you so impatient?"
"Impatient?" Roxas scoffed, shaking his own head before slapping Axel away, the signs of tears pricking in the corners of his eyes. "I've been mated to you for years, long before she came and I still have yet to produce you children. I'm a useless Omega and I can't stand it!"
"You're not useless to me!" Axel defended, but that stubborn look in Roxas' eyes told Axel that he would hear no sweet talk. So Axel growled and took ahold of the boy.
"Stop!" Roxas cried out, struggling to get free as he was carried to the other room in their small home and tossed inside. "NO!" Just as he lunged out, Axel had shut and locked the door. Not only that but he had put up a magical barrier where Roxas couldn't even so much as dig his way out of the room much less jump out of the window.
"You're not leaving!" Axel swore from behind the door. "I am your Alpha and I command your actions!"
"You're a fucker, Axel!" Roxas shouted in anger as his tears fell down. "Let me out!"
Axel closed his eyes and let out a sigh as he turned and found his second mate looking up at him with concerned eyes. "He's not going to leave, is he?" Xion asked.
"No," Axel said, rapping his knuckles against the door Roxas was currently pounding on. "He's not going anywhere with the barrier I put up."
"It's because of me he's so upset, isn't it?" Xion said as she cast her eyes down and softly placed her hands on her rounding belly. She had known she was the more fertile of the two seeing how she had conceived during her first mating with Axel and now that she was expecting her second litter with Roxas still lacking his own, it was no doubt the boy was upset.
"Don't think that," Axel said as he placed his hands upon the small Inu's shoulders and then pulled her close. Closing his eyes he smiled at the feel of his litter inside Xion, thumping against his abdomen as he held the expecting mother close. "Nothing is your fault, it's mine."
Xion nodded her head and held her mate close, trusting him to resolve this issue between him and his first mate. She had even promised to watch over the children as Axel took Roxas during the heated season and left their small cabin. She remembered seeing Roxas' state after months of being kept in that room and fed by Axel. He was a mess but his anger had heightened and when Axel took hold of him to leave he had fought so viciously that for a moment, Xion had not recognized the boy.
"Be careful," Xion whispered and leaned on her tiptoes to give Axel a sending-off kiss before he turned and left, dragging a screaming Roxas behind him.
Axel's barrier had been highly strong that time, making sure no one and he meant no one would interrupt them. This time, he was intent on impregnating Roxas and prayed this time it work.
Roxas had not been complacent at all. He scratched, kicked, clawed, and bit at Axel to the point that Axel had no choice but to beat him down to where he couldn't move and so easily have his way with him. It was hard, on the Alpha just as much as the Omega and Axel wasn't quite enjoying raping his own mate but he kept him near and finished as quick as possible.
"Get your hands off me!" Roxas cried out, turning on him and trying to get his mate with his sharp claws, but Axel simply grabbed a hold of his wrists in one hand and used the other to tear the clothing off his body.
Axel of all knew Roxas wouldn't be able to fight him long in his heat but was still thoroughly surprised that Roxas still shouted his rage. He pleaded and warned the Kitsune not to touch him, but Axel had rights to every inch of Roxas.
"AH!" Roxas cried out, feeling his mate enter him without a moment's hesitation or preparation for that matter. There was nothing gentle about Axel's thrusts, no, it was hard and fast. Axel had pressed the boy to the ground, one of his hands holding him down by his head while the other held onto his hips and tail to steady himself as he thrust into him.
It was a surprise how quickly Axel came inside him, almost as if Axel was just trying to plant a child inside him and that was it. The pleasure was there but undernoted by the pain. The pain made it last longer and Roxas could barely stand it.
Axel, on the other hand, had never felt so much hate from the boy and it had hurt him, despite Roxas calling him heartless. After Axel had taken him back to the cabin he had Xion clean the boy up and then place him in his confined room. Even after all this the boy still fought. When Axel went to feed him, he attacked, whenever he could and even when relief washed over his Alpha mate at the discovery of his overdue pregnancy Roxas still snapped at Axel.
But even so, that litter inside him kept Roxas by Axel's side. His loyalty now rekindled now that he was carrying.
When Roxas gave birth to his litter it happened to be inside a cave where they had made their residence while Axel prepared to build a hut. It was amazing how quickly his attitude had changed when he saw his own kittens or kits for the first time. Just as soon as the first was born, Roxas reached out for him but Axel held him back.
"Lye back down," Axel commanded, holding the child out of reach from the clinging mate currently in labor. "You're not done."
Roxas let out a growl but did as told and was instantly met with a wet cloth to his brow from a cooing Xion. "You're doing great, Roxas," she said with a smile as she rubbed the boy's chest. "So much better than I did when I had my first litter."'
Roxas just rolled his eyes and eyed the child in Axel's arms intently, ever wishing to hold him. Axel was smiling down at him and Roxas wanted so much to look at the baby's face and smile just like Axel was. It wasn't fair, not at all.
"He's a Kitsune," Axel announced softly as he ran his hand over the babe and watched it react to his own magic, the little ears atop his head twitching while he listened to the sound of his papa's voice.
Roxas' first litter eventually produced four; two kits and two kittens. The first was named Reno; he was announced to be a Kitsune as well as a Beta. The second was named Cloud; he was a Neko and took much of his features after his Omega as well as taking on that caste as an Omega himself. The third was a little blond-haired Kitsune, Prompto he was named, a Beta, and his little sister Stella she was named, came right after him as a young blonde-haired Neko who had a high sensitivity to magic just like her Omega who she shared the same caste in.
The tensions and anger receded once Roxas bore his own litter. The tender care to accomplish for taking care of a litter was all-too-easy for the Neko since he had taken a part of raising Xion's first litter. Axel, the Neko's mate, had been relieved that his first mate had settled his mourning spirit and now that he watched him with the litter, one that he could call his own, Axel smiled.
"Thank-you, Axel," Xion spoke up a she came by her mate's side to watch her partner play with his own litter. "I know it was very uncivil, what you did, but Roxas needed a litter of his own to ease his mind."
"I know it was what he wanted," Axel said, glancing toward his second mate and smiling at the little pup on Xion's hip who was growing in time with his litter-sisters. Axel reached out and pinched the little Beta's cheek before the dark-haired pup wiggled away from him and pressed his face into his mother's shoulder. Axel let out a sigh and returned to watching Roxas. "That Neko has a tendency to hate himself when he perceives himself to be useless. It happened before we were mated and then from him not being able to conceive afterwards."
"He'll always be wanted here, no matter what," Xion said as she looked on fondly at her partner-mate who looked like he was having the time of his life with his own litter.
It had been amazing how Roxas had changed in attitude after he had given birth—more so when he had conceived again quite quickly. When he had birthed his second litter, there were three children, two Nekos and one Kitsune. This Kitsune whom had been named Naminé had seemed to have unsettled her papa. She had taken the features of her Omega but her face seemed to have reminded Axel of someone from his past. Xion and Roxas could tell by the way he looked at her and how he often got lost in his own thoughts while holding the kit.
"It's strange," Roxas said as he bounced the two little Nekos on his knees, Neku and Shelke they had been named, both Omegas like their litter-sister, Naminé. "I've never seen him like this before." Both he and Xion were currently in the nursery of their newest dwelling, but their mate, Axel, was sitting only on the other side of the room, holding Naminé and staring intently at her, but his gaze seemed to give off a far-off distance in them.
"Really?" Xion asked as she reached down and pet the oldest of Roxas' second litter, Neku's head. "Not even when you first met him?"
The Inu watched Roxas go back into memory before he shrugged his shoulders. "He was hurt pretty bad when I found him. Suggestions of chains were imprinted on his wrists and neck. I knew he was a Kitsune and so there was no doubt he had escaped imprisonment."
"Did he ever tell you how he escaped?" Xion inquired but Roxas only shook his head and looked at the Inu.
"He didn't even tell me who had imprisoned him. In fact I still can't speak about that subject to him without him not talking to me for days," Roxas said with a sigh as he turned back to watched Axel reach down into the white blanket wrapped around their daughter, Naminé, and pet her golden locks and rub her small ears.
"It's so sad," Xion said with a sigh before one of her children, Vanille, a little red-haired kit she had birthed in her second litter, had run into her legs, begging her with those beautiful green eyes she got from her sire to be held. She picked her kit up and set her on her lap while the little one immediately went to gazing at Roxas' little ones. "It's very sad how mistreated Kitsune's are. I don't know what I'd do if I lost mine." At that, Xion tightened her hold around her daughter and kissed the top of her head.
Roxas had birthed three kits and four kittens while Xion had also birthed three kits herself and four pups. They both grew up on tales of the rare race and now that they were mates to such a magical creature they were afraid—afraid of what society and the known world would do if they got a hold of their children.
The lore around the mysterious race of Kitsunes was so seldom heard and somewhat sacred to talk about that neither knew what would happen if bounty hunters and slave traders got a hold of the kits and their papa. Both had an eerie feeling that Axel knew but he never spoke about it and both wondered if they wanted to know.
But one day, when Roxas' youngest litter were turning the tender age of four, Axel had been near Naminé, the little kit was sitting in his lap while drawing with the crayons her papa gave her when she had apparently drawn something that offended him.
"Kairi, no!"
Axel had jumped up, tossed his daughter's sketchbook down while she slid off his lap and about cried. Xion and Roxas had turned and watched their mate's reaction. He looked shaken. His eyes wide and his breathing labored.
"Axel, are you alright?" Xion asked.
Roxas had looked at his daughter who was near to tears before turning his blue gaze back up toward his mate's form. "Who's Kairi, Axel?"
When Axel looked at the two of them he opened his mouth as if to say something, but instead he shook his head, rose his hand and left. He left their home and slammed the door behind him. The moment his presence was gone from the home, Naminé began to cry and in so followed the rest of the little ones.
Roxas and Xion did their best to settle the children but with their papa gone, all feared he would never come back and so eventually the two adults had no choice but to wait until the children cried themselves to sleep. Both had two litters to care for and so neither could go out in search of their mate and so they stayed home, sleeping next to their periodically weeping little ones to hold them close and let them know that they were there to stay.