Namine sighed as she knocked on the front door of Axel and Roxas' shared home. She hoped Marluxia was gone but doubted it. One of these days she was going to sock him and it would serve him right.

The door was flung open.

"Roxas! I.... oh Namine, I thought...," Axel frowned. "Why are you here?"

"Just to get some of Roxas' stuff." She explained as she walked past the flustered red-head.

"Is...is he not coming…?"

"No," Namine cut him off. "He's not; I think it best if he stays with me for a bit, okay?" She smiled at him.

"Yeah, yeah okay." Axel's returning smile was half-hearted.

Namine walked to Roxas' room and grabbed his bag off the floor. She stuffed the rest of his college work inside it and his sketchpads. Then she rifled through his wardrobe and found another bag. The bag he had taken when the three of them had been on a world trip after finishing high school.

She grabbed clothes from his chest of drawers and the wardrobe, conscious that Axel was watching her.

"So, is blondie moving out or something?"

Namine straightened up after closing the bag. She settled the satchel on her shoulder.

"No Marluxia, this is only temporary." She said, being forcefully polite. Marluxia was leaning on the doorframe, his pink hair pinned back with green slides. Axel was leaning on the wall in silence, his arms folded.

"However if things carry on, maybe he should move out." She said, looking at Axel as she spoke.

Axel looked up in shock, his lips parted.

"Good, then he won't be interrupting so often! It's like having to dodge the parents! He just needs to go out and get laid maybe then he'll mellow out a little."

Namine's blood boiled.

"Not that he's got anything going for him! I mean the emo blonde look? It's no wonder his parent's died!"

Namine snapped.

"Hey Marly that not f..." Axel started angrily.

Smack.

Marluxia looked stunned. Axel's look of surprise was almost comical. A red hand mark began to rise on Marluxia's cheek. Namine had put all her anger behind the slap and hit him like she had wanted to since she met him.

"Don't. You don't know what he's been through. So shut your fucking idiot mouth before I hit you for real!" Namine spat.

She turned to Axel and the red-head flinched as her anger turned on him.

"If this is what you put your best friend through every day, I'm surprised he hasn't left already."

With that parting remark she swung the backpack onto her empty shoulder and stalked out the room.