Okay, so we're nearing the end. This chapter is really complex, because Axel's happy and Namine's a little sad at some parts. This is why I couldn't really pick a good song to fit perfect with it. But I like what I came up with.

SONG: A Skylit Drive - The All-Star Diaries

DISCLAIMER: I don't own the characters or the series that inspired this fan-work.

Waking up the next morning to see her beautiful face, leaning on his chest, Axel smiled and pushed her hair to the side. The light nudge caused her to open her eyes slowly and look up at him tiredly, stretching from shoulders to feet, and turning on her side to wrap her arms around Axel and quickly fall into another snooze.

"Naminé…" He whispered. The blond smiled softly in her sleep and nuzzled his chest gently.
"Hmn?" She asked warily.
"We should…" He began nervously.
"Get up..?" Naminé asked simply, not wanting to let go of the pyromaniac's warm, soft skinned torso.
"Yeah…" He said softly, sitting up slowly and letting the blond slowly let go of her hold on him.

He looked down to the floor for a minute before Naminé placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Axel..?" Naminé's angelic voice rang into his ears, being all that he would let into his brain.
"We're dead if… the superior finds out that we…" He began, but Naminé turned away from him. He looked at her slowly and looked back down to the blanket, placed over them both. He scooted closer to her and paused.

She noticed.

"I…" She began, but Axel's smooth whisper stopped her.
"Shh…" He hushed, soon wrapping his arms around her so gently, as if she were a porcelain doll on the counter that was about to break. She was so small, to him.

The redhead had done all that was impossible to the girl. He'd managed to manipulate her, in a sense, and fall in love with her without her using her abilities on him. The lemon blond young girl felt the warmth around her as he embraced her fragile form, then snuggled up to his chest and leaned on him softly for a few minutes.
It felt good, to Axel. The one person that could give him the chills, this close to him… He could almost feel a heart beating. The blond witch had become everything in his world over the course of about a month…
How strangely the mind works.
It took ten minutes, sitting together, naked in his bed and enjoying each other's presence before Axel nuzzled her neck softly. Naminé shivered and he whispered in her ear.

"Strangely, I'm not afraid…" He said.
"Neither am I…" She replied. Axel laced his fingers with hers and his other hand traced from her shoulder to her forearm, to her hand. Naminé reacted by holding his hand gently.
A long silence followed as the two Nobodies cuddled in silence. Naminé smiled and kissed his hand softly, attempting to break the silence.

"Naminé… Take this day to be away from me." Said the pyro, letting go of one of her hands to brush his fingers through her soft, baby-blond hair.
"But--…" She looked up to him and he cut her off with a kiss.
"Trust me." He said, quietly. His voice convinced her enough and she nodded, tightening the hand that remained inside his own.
"I do…" She said. Axel nodded and let go of her, vanishing in a portal and taking his coat with him. She was left in his room, alone, and dumbfounded.
"I love him…"

"I love her." Said the pyro as he walked through Twilight Town with his best friend. It had been a few hours since Axel left the blond artist alone, not to see her the whole day ahead.
"Neh…" Roxas shrugged. "If you say so."
"You don't believe me?" Axel said, looking back to his friend, his hands rested behind his head. He seemed aloof, compared to his normal Nobody self.
"You killed Zexion." Said the blond boy walking beside his best friend. "That's pretty strong to not be love."
"Hmn… Yeah……" He said, then a long silence passed the two as they stopped.
"You have to help me." Said Axel.
"Yeah, I know." Roxas replied. At that, they disappeared in a portal of darkness.

Naminé, on the other hand, went back to her room, drawing silently as she sat in her chair. It wasn't long before a noise was heard across the room-- it was a portal. Soon emerged the fourteenth member of Organization XIII, Xion.

"You came." Naminé stated in a voice that was almost impossible to read. Though, she'd intended false happiness, hiding her never-ending bitterness to Xion for what had happened to Zexion.
"You wanted me?" Xion asked uncomfortably.
"Yes." She said, "I wanted to know…"
"I wasn't dating Zexion." Xion said quickly. Naminé blinked. "He was my guardian… because Axel denied the job to be your guardian."
"Axel… did?" Naminé sighed, "I wasn't going to ask about Zexion…"
"O-Oh..! I'm sorry." The fourteenth shook her head. "What did you want to know?"
"Actually, I wanted to ask you… if you would take this…" She said, picking up a large book from under her cot.
"Lexicon…" She whispered, reaching a hand to it. Before she could even touch it, she drew her hand back and shook her head. "That's your book now, Naminé."
"I'll never let him go if I keep this." Said the memory manipulator. She knew it to be true, and she was not going to risk Axel for a memory.
"That's good." She said, "A little piece of number six will live on… in that book."
"But…"
"Use it to its full extent, Naminé. There's a reason it didn't fade with him." The dark-haired nobody said, then vanishing into a dark portal. Naminé looked down to the book and felt a tear fall down her face. Could Zexion have really left it behind for her? The tear fell onto the book's cover.

"I'll never let you go… That's right…" She said, hugging the book tightly to her.
"Aw, poor, poor Naminé!" Came a voice from behind her. The young blond spun around to see her worst nightmare…

Larxene.

"You think she'll really…?" Axel shook his head, looking at Roxas.
"You've asked me that three times, Axel!" Said the thirteenth with a chuckle. He nudged Axel to the side with his elbow and took another bite of his sea-salt ice cream.

A long pause followed before either spoke again.

"It'll be just like old times, don't you think?" Said Axel.
"Huh?"
"Me, you, and Xion used to sit here all the time… Now maybe Naminé will join us." Axel said in a matter-of-fact tone. The sunset was making their faces glint orange, but Axel's cheeks seemed a little red.
"Yo, Axel… You're blushing." Roxas said with a smirk.
"I most certainly am not!" He laughed, pushing Roxas lightly. The two laughed as they watched the sunset and ate sea-salt ice cream.