Ok this one is probably not the best, however I wanted to prod the story along and this does a way decent job of that I believe. Thanks to my lovely beta Redfaerie :D

"Baby where are the onions?" Roxas called from the kitchen, urging Axel to get up and come help him cook. Instead, the only response was a prolonged hum, an indication that Axel was trying to think, but couldn't remember. That or he was distracted by whatever he was doing. Roxas would have put money down on the latter. With an aggravated sigh, he peered out of the kitchen, watching his redheaded boyfriend fiddle with something while he sat on the couch. A remote or game controller, he was sure. "Axel! Onions!" His attention was grabbed, eyes widened as he tried to hide whatever it was he had been messing with. "What are you doing?" The blond asked suspiciously as he slowly walked forward.

"Nothing," he replied with a coy grin, slipping his hands, and the secret object, into his pockets as he stood up. "Onions are probably in the pantry, but if there aren't any, would you like me to go get some?"

"Sure," Roxas answered, still skeptical of the other mans intentions. "What's in your pocket?" He asked with a nod at his pants. Axel only shrugged as he walked past, laying his lips on the disheveled, sandy-colored mop. Roxas wouldn't let his eyes leave his strong, sturdy back as he bent into the kitchen pantry, searching for the required vegetable.

"Nope, no onions. I'll go grab some. And some wine?"

"Sure, why not?" He couldn't seem to sink these notions, though he knew he should just let it go. Years of barely trusting himself had unconsciously led to mistrust of anyone else. "Just come back soon, my brother's gonna be here in like half an hour."

"Yes sir," he smirked as he walked out of the apartment, leaving Roxas to his own devices. He grabbed his phone from the charger, sighing as he began to dial.

"'Ello?"

"Dem, we need to talk."

"Oh hi Roxy! What's wrong? Did something happen? Ooh did Axel finally sleep with one of the alters?"

"Why do you always jump to that conclusion?"

"I always figure it'd be the most interesting one." He could practically hear that indifferent shrug that Demyx had made his signature. "So what's up then? You sound...stressed."

"I am stressed. Axel's acting weird and I don't know why." There was an audible pause, making Roxas furrow his brow as he tried to wait patiently. "Demyx, why are you being quiet? You're never quiet." And then the clicking sound, the sound of Demyx clacking his tongue against his teeth, resembling the sound you'd make if you wanted to call over a squirrel. He was keeping a secret. "Demyx, tell me right now."

"Oh Roxas! I'm sorry!" He whined on the other end. "I have to go, um we'll talk later!" And then the sound of static aloneness, that eery emptiness on the other line. Roxas hadn't heard Demyx sound nervous like that in years. He hadn't sounded like that since his parents were getting a divorce.

"Oh god," he felt his heart squeeze, his eyes started to sting. It must've been his phone he was holding, reading a text from someone new, someone completely sane. And now it would soon be over, everything they had. He knew the day was inevitable but he had hoped it wouldn't come so soon. They had only been together...four years. Ok, maybe it had been a while. And now apparently his time with Axel was expired. Had he done something wrong? Was it too much for the laid back redhead to handle? Had the years finally eaten his hope, making him realize that this would never end? And with that final thought, Roxas felt his head reel. His body and whoever was in it sat quietly on the sofa until someone knocked at the door. "Hello?" His head cocked to the side, a vacant smile on his face to greet the guest.

"Roxas?" The man at the door watched his head shake side to side, his eyes closed with a grin. "Ah, damn. Here I was hoping to see my brother. And who did I get?"

"Oh you can get it, you're smart Cloud!"

"Well you must be Xion since the other ones seem to hate me."

"Aw come on! Roxas doesn't hate you." She smirked through her boy's face, stepping aside to let the brother in. "Can I have a hug?" The older man rolled his eyes with a grin as he hugged his brother's body. "See now I bet Roxas just loved that."

"Where's Axel?"

"I have no idea, something happened though. I remember he was stressed then I was here!" She shrugged, throwing her hands up and letting them fall to her sides, smacking against her thighs as she walked into the kitchen. "I think I'm supposed to be cooking, but I've never been very good with that..." Xion stared at the stove, jumping slightly at the sound of food crackling in a heated pan. Cloud slipped his jacket off, throwing it on a chair before joining her in the kitchen, gently pushing her aside as he started stirring the mix of vegetables and meat on the burner.

"So why was he stressed?"

"Not sure, I wasn't here. More than likely something to do with us. It seems to always be us." Xion said as she slumped into a chair, resting her chin in her palms.

"Don't be so bummed. Besides, I'm sure if Roxas could pick one that didn't annoy the crap out of him, it'd be you."

"Which is strange considering I'm a girl trapped in his manly body." She laughed and shook her head. "Well, not manly, but you know what I mean. With his penis and everything."

"I got onions!" Axel walked into the kitchen, spotting his boyfriend at the table, his boyfriend's brother at the stove. "Hi Cloud! I didn't think you'd beat me here. I just ran to get some onions that Roxas apparently needed, right?" He looked over at the man at the table who only shrugged, a placid smile on his face. "You are not Roxas, are you?"

"Hi Axel," she said, her voice slightly higher than Roxas' normal tone.

"Hi Xi," he responded with a soft sigh. "You want me to chop one of these up?" He turned his attention to Cloud.

"Go for it, I'm assuming that's what Rox was intending."

"Xion, I know you usually have no idea, but do you have any clue when Roxas will be back?"

"Aw, is my company not wanted tonight?"

"You're lovely, but tonight was kind of important."

"Maybe that's why Roxas was stressed! He kinda disappeared because he got overwhelmed by something."

"He was...what? He didn't know anything, how could he get overwhelmed?"

"Well you're not a very good actor, were you being obvious?" Cloud asked, poking chunks of beef, sliding it across the gleaming, greased metal.

"...Maybe." Axel groaned, taking his frustration out on the onion beneath his knife. "Crap, I didn't mean to be. I just...I really didn't want him to figure out anything was going on." He added as he scraped onions into the pan. Xion sat with her face in her hands, wide eyes flicking between the two men in the kitchen with her.

"What didn't you want to be obvious?" She couldn't help asking, though she was fairly sure neither would tell her. She knew of course that she could keep secrets from the lot of them, but anyone who knew Roxas refused to believe her when she repeated it time and time again.

"Nothing," they both blurted at the same time.

"Poo, you've made me curious and now you're withholding information?"

"Yes, yes we are." Cloud said, smirking as he brought the food to the table. "Hungry?" He asked her. Xion only pouted, aiming her borrowed face at Axel who avoided her gaze. She knew the trick. Axel was a sucker when it came to pouting, especially considering it was his boyfriend after all.

"I swear Roxas will never find out. I keep trying to tell you we have separate minds but you never listen! You never listened to me either." She complained, openly frowning at the blond man she had learned to consider her brother. He only shook his head as he scoffed.

"I don't have any reason to." He explained simply as he shoveled food onto the three plates, taking a seat between his brother's boyfriend and his brother's body.

"How can you possibly have separate minds when you're all stuck in the same body?" Axel asked as he started to eat,

"How should I know? I'm not a psychiatrist. All I know is that I'm a girl and I'm stuck with a dick." Xion pouted as she prodded the food on her plate.

"Come on Xi, don't get bummed. At least you're a cute boy." Axel smirked as he watched her mockingly stick out her tongue and roll her eyes.

"I'm going to sleep. It's never as good as it is when I have the body." The lithe, boyish figure stood and made his way into the bedroom. Cloud and Axel watched Roxas' body leave the kitchen, exchanging an exasperated glance when they heard the bedroom door close. The redhead sighed as he massaged his face roughly, Cloud only smirking and shaking his head. Axel had gotten good at it, but no one was as good as Cloud was. He had been doing this since Roxas was ten.

"Shit," he exhaled as he leaned back in his chair. "I was really hoping no one else would show up tonight."

"Can't be so sneaky with him. He assumes the worst and then he's just gone."

"You don't think he'll be gone long right? I've been stressing about this and I kind of just wanted to tell him already."

"It depends on how upset he was, the bigger the stress factor, the longer he's gonna be gone for. I think the longest he was ever gone was five days about six years ago?"

"Jeeze, the longest he's been gone in the last couple years was ten hours. Who'd you get instead?"

"Sora, it was pretty unpleasant. I had to go out and pick him up from the dorm, they said he couldn't stay until he was 'back to normal.'" Cloud scoffed, obviously still bitter about the entire situation. "I mean he was in that dorm specifically because of the stupid fucking alters and then they send him home. I mean Sora can be annoying but these people were ridiculous. I tried to tell them to just ignore him but they said he was being disruptive or something completely irrelevant like that." He focused on his plate, not touching it, just keeping his eyes on it. Axel watched the man with a sideways frown.

"You're a good brother dude." He nodded in response, his eyes still down.

"I never really had much of a choice."

~0~

As soon as he woke up in his bed, he knew it was Xion that came before him. He despised her habit of taking advantage of a body to sleep with, it caused soreness and dizziness on his end. When he would finally awaken, making his triumphant return from wherever it was exactly he had been, his head would ache and his body would ache and on several occasions, he was just nauseous. So while Xion would simply drift away, her reality becoming fuzzy, Roxas would resurface. He gripped the side of the mattress as he stood, willing his body to stand erect.

"How long was I asleep?" He asked, his voice hoarse. Axel looked up from his book with slightly widened eyes that immediately softened at the sight of his haggard boyfriend at the entrance of their living room.

"About four hours. But it's only nine. I saved you some food if you want some, but Cloud already left. He said he's sorry, he had to get home but he'll come by tomorrow to see you since you have the day off."

"I have the day off?" He asked, obviously surprised at this new development in his work schedule.

"You do, I called the office around six and told them you weren't feeling well."

"Thanks I guess, but I could've gone just fine."

"Well Xi said you were stressed so I thought maybe a day off would do you some good. I'm a considerate boyfriend." He said cockily as Roxas sank down on the couch next to him, groaning as his head fell back. "So what were you stressed about?" The blond inadvertently pouted, trying to take a deep breath. It was now or never.

"N-nothing, don't worry about it." Apparently it was never.

"Come on stutters, I know that's not true." Axel said quietly as he pulled Roxas' smaller body against his. "What was it?"

"Really, it's nothing important." He shrugged as much as he could while being restrained by his boyfriend's strong arms. He felt the need to know what the hell had been going on earlier, but the need to simply have Axel was stronger. Maybe he could live with the fact that Axel was cheating on him, maybe he'd just get over it.

"Fine, don't tell me. I'll figure it out later." He sighed in mild aggravation. He tried to not let it bug him that Roxas was so closed off, but he couldn't stop that irking in his stomach. "I was talking to Cloud, he said you were gone for five days once. I didn't know you could be gone that long."

"Oh, that." Roxas said, his voice hinting at some sort of disgust. "That wasn't the longest though." He admitted with a gentle sigh, complacently crossing his arms over his chest. "I was gone for two weeks the year before, but Cloud doesn't know about that."

"Two weeks?" Axel asked in disbelief. That seemed like an eternity compared to the measly hours he was cornered into spending with any of the alters. Roxas hummed in affirmation as he let his gaze fall on the somewhat shocked man next to him.

"I had gotten a call from the hospital saying that Cloud was in a car accident and as soon as I heard that, my mind went blank. I just remember coming to in the middle of the night, reading a book or something insignificant like that."

"Who was there instead?"

"Zexion said it was mostly Ven, so I guess I sort of lucked out. Ven is the easiest." He shrugged, trying not to pout as he watched his boyfriend nod. "I guess Ven pretended to be me when Cloud called to check in, he went to my classes, he went to work for me. So it was nice of him I suppose." Roxas rolled his eyes at his wording, he felt ridiculous referring to them as separate people though he knew, probably better than anyone, that that's what they were. Ventus was not him, Sora was not him and Xion definitely was not him.

"I'm sure Xion would've done the same. Though it might've been sort of awkward with her being a chick and all." Axel noted with apparently serious thought. How could Roxas not love him? He was always so sweet and understanding about the whole thing, knew and understood all of the people that lived within this tiny body. But maybe the fact that Roxas wasn't all there wasn't an excuse for Axel to be some sort of cheating bastard.

"How could you cheat on me?" He finally let it slip out, feeling the overwhelming urge to start weeping the second the words left his lips.

"What?" His bright green eyes wide in shock, Axel stared down at the man in his arms. Well, previously in his arms. Roxas was scrambling away, stretching himself out on the other end of the couch.

"I know something's going on. You were acting weird and Demyx was quiet when I called him. Demyx is never quiet unless something is wrong."

"Demyx," he groaned as he stood, digging his hands in his pockets.

"I just don't understand why you couldn't just tell me!" Roxas cried out, frowning and tucking his mouth to the side as he tried to hold back the tears.

"Oh don't cry." Axel said quietly as he kneeled in front of the couch, wiping the tears away for him. Roxas whimpered, his face in his boyfriend's hands, his thumbs gently running under his eyes. "What makes you think I'm cheating on you?"

"Why were you being so weird earlier?" He pulled away, wiping his own face, trying to be angry as opposed to upset.

"Have you ever taken into consideration that my weirdness was something good?"

"No, because you shouldn't keep good secrets from me. Just the bad ones, like you cheating on me!" He whined again as Axel rested his chin on his crooked knee.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have acted so obvious. I just didn't want you to find out yet."

"God I knew it!" Axel only shook his head, a smirk on his face as he slipped his hand back into his pocket.

"You're insane if you think I'd ever do anything to risk what I have with you. Roxas, I love you. I'd never do anything to hurt you, you should know that by now. And that is why what I was acting weird about was this." A small, black box. Roxas stared down at it, teetering on his leg, perfectly framed against the side of Axel's face.

"What are you doing?" Breathless, patient, albeit slightly confused.

"Well I'm trying to propose to you. I was trying earlier but I got Xion instead."

"What are you talking about?"

"Roxas Strife, I love you. This is a ring." He tapped the box with the point of his finger. "I want you to marry me. I went all traditional and everything. I asked Cloud's permission, I bought you this ring and now all you have to do is say yes." The blond was silent, completely at a loss for words, stuck staring at the box. His eyes never left it as Axel spoke. "You have to trust me. You have to believe I'm not going anywhere and I'm not going to do anything to hurt you. So say yes Roxas." Their eyes finally met and Roxas could feel his heart thumping in his ears. He took into momentary consideration what the other people within him would have to say and finally decided it didn't really matter. It was his life.

"Of course I'll marry you." He said, his frown quickly replaced with a smile and soon, Axel's lips over his own.

Oh goodness it's long, but isn't Axel such a sweet, perfect boyfriend? It's true. He is. Most of the time I make him an asshole or at least kind of a jerk but in this way he's quite sweet and honestly a little naive, but we'll see how that goes. Reviews are always appreciated :)