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Axel's POV

I don't know exactly how long we held each like that. It felt so right with him my arms, yet I felt like there was an inner battle raging inside of me. I felt as if I was being torn apart. It was agonizing how much this one embrace was affecting me. Being here with him just felt right. It was as if Roxas was the only person I needed by my side to make me happy; then I remembered how much it had hurt to be close to someone. I remembered what it was like to lose the ones I cared about most.

There was a slight breeze that blew around us. The tree tops above us rustled in the wind, dropping some leaves that landed on top of us. I blinked as one fell onto my head and moved one of my arms that were around Roxas to push them off of us. I felt him shivering next to me; I looked at Roxas and chuckled at the sight. He was sound asleep. He looked as if he didn't have a single care in the world as he snored away; his expression completely content as he used my other arm as a pillow. The baby face he once had changed slightly. He still had that same adorable face even with him looking a little older.

I wrapped my arm back over him to try and shield him from the sudden chilly air. The damned weather here can never make up its mind; one minute it's hot then the next it's cold. It didn't help that we both laid down on the cool ground butt naked.

"Axel?" I hummed in response to a sleepy sounding blond. "I have to go. I'm surprised they even left us alone for this long, considering the fact that Cloud still wants to rip your head off after what happened last time. Even after I explained everything to him, he still didn't care."

I raised a brow at him quizzically. "I'm not going to say I'm surprised. What kinda brother would he be if he didn't want to tear me into pieces?" He gave me a questioning look that asked me to explain what I was talking about. "You explained to Cloud everything Roxas; of course he'd be pissed that I sucked you off and almost raped you,"

His blue eyes enlarged as a red stain began dancing across his cheeks. He quickly sat up and turned his face away from me; he hugged his knees and buried his face into the gap he had created to try and hide his flushed face. His reaction was just too perfect; it was just way too easy to tease him and I quickly realized I was laughing. I haven't laughed this hard since the early spring. I didn't even notice the death glare he gave me until he smacked me hard in the arm with his tail.

I wiped a tear from my eyes, taking a few deep breaths to calm myself down and prevent me from laughing again. I closed my eyes and then breathed outwards. Even with my eyes closed, I could still feel that Roxas was still glaring at me with his death glare. When I opened my eyes, I couldn't help but laugh again when I saw his puffed up red cheeks and pout. 'This is what I really missed.' I thought with a smile on my face. "Don't get mad at me pup. You set yourself up." I chortled.

"Don't call me a pup!" He growled and stood up with a twist on his heel so his back was facing me. It was a nice view I must say; the front or the back of him. Even if I didn't want a mate, that wasn't going to stop me from checking him out.

Before he turned around, I noticed he had some muscle to him now. It was lightly defined, but still noticeable. His once flat stomach now had the imprint of his abs. His chest didn't really change much, but I could see he was trying to build up his pecs. The once skinny pup I met before had done well for himself these past few months. I let my gaze drift to his ass, and from what I saw that wasn't blocked off by his tail; I could see it was just as nice as always.

"I'm going home." He grumbled, slowly taking off with a stomp in his step. The grass, dirt, and leaves were crunching under his feet nosily as he walked away. It was fun to watch. I wanted to tease him some more. 'Just one more time.' I thought to myself.

"What do you think your brother will say if he sees you looking like that with my scent all over you?" I smirked when he completely stopped and turned to look at me. 'This is just too easy.' I thought, as I got up off of the ground, dusted my ass and tail off, and gazed into his narrowed azure eyes smirking.

"I'm pretty sure he'd want to kill me more don't you think? Speaking of which, I think I should be leaving. I wasn't exactly invited here ya know? You might not care about me being here, but your pack may see it as me trespassing. Oh, and when you see Terra, tell him to drop by. See ya," I gave a mock salute as I turned around.

"Axel, why don't you want a family?"

I stopped in my tracks from the sudden question. I hated it when I was asked that. The only ones that knew why were the guys. It wasn't any of his business why I didn't want one. I kept my back to him and asked, "Why do you want to know?" I tried my best not to sound as irritated as I suddenly felt right now.

"Why don't you want to take a mate?"

He asked me this and it must be my imagination, but he sounded hurt.

I took a chance and glanced over my shoulder to get a look at him; his head was down and his eyes were covered by his hair. It was hard to tell what he was feeling or thinking. I tried to come up with a solution with why he asked me these questions all of a sudden.

"Why won't you tell me why it's such a bad thing to take a mate and have a family?" He hiccupped and his body started to shake; his hands were in balled up fists by his side and his tail was tucked between his legs. Now I understand why the kid was trying to ask me all those questions.

"Fuck." I said under my breath. I looked towards him again, balling up my own hands. My body trembled with the aggravation I felt from his questions. This little shit head wanted to know why because...

"Axel, say something!" He screamed at me with a scratchy voice. I didn't even need to look at him to know that he had tears in his eyes.

"Shut up!" My fists grew tighter from the strain of not being able to hit something. "It's none of your business! So just go home and leave me be you annoying little puppy!" I barked out, annoyed. I heard a twig snap from behind me. 'Roxas!' I thought. I could clearly see that he wasn't going to leave until he received a response from me. "Fine, if you won't leave then I will." I said, glaring at him.

I took off running and transformed in midair. I was furious and needed to kill something to take that anger out on. I ran through the forest at full speed to get as far away from Roxas as I could. Unfortunately for me the pup was right on my tail. He was fast and I wondered how fast he was back then. I didn't know and probably would never know. It doesn't matter. Not when I needed to lose him.

I took a sharp left and heard him yelp when he smacked into a tree. I didn't even bother to see if he was okay or not, at this point it just didn't matter anymore to me. I kept running past different obstacles to make it harder for him to catch up to me. I jumped over logs, ran through bushes, took a sharp right turn, leaped off of short cliffs. I did everything I could think of to keep him away from me. Every time I heard him catching up, I made some more sharp turns any direction I could to throw him off of my trail. I ran through some more bushes, and jumped over more logs; I did anything and everything I could to possibly escape from him.

When I finally got back to my own territory I stopped and spun around. I growled angrily when I saw Roxas behind me. Roxas saw me slow down and slowed down his pace. He was a panting mess. His fur was all ruffled with random pieces of plant life stuck to him; his right eye was slightly shut as if he had been hit by something. I could also tell that he wasn't trying to put pressure onto his right leg when he limped towards me.

"Why did you follow me?" I growled angrily. He was about four feet away from me when I saw him stop.

"You never answered me," He said panting heavily. I looked closer at him and saw that there was some red staining his yellow locks on the edge of his right eye.

"I told you it's none of your concern! Now go home before I make you!" I snarled at him. My canines were showing to let him know that I was dead serious. 'He's nothing to me. Just some puppy I saved and took care of for three and half days.'

He winced but didn't back down. Instead he took a step closer to me causing me growl again. "If you dare take one more step Roxas I will make it so your brothers will never see you alive again!"

He didn't listen to me; he took another step towards me and ignored my threat. I growled and bared my teeth at him, trying to get him to walk away from me, but the fool just didn't listen. I lunged at him and sank my teeth into the side of his neck. He howled out in pain and in a flash, I saw how his eyes changed to kill.

He snarled and bit my upper leg. I pulled back and so did he. We snarled at each other, neither one of backing down. Roxas' ears were flat against his head. He was lower than me when we circled each other. We both knew I had already won this match won; even so, we kept fighting each other. I ended up attacking from the left and that was his downfall. He jerked away from me by putting pressure on his bad leg and collapsed under himself. I took advantage of that and stood over him with my face in his face.

"I warned you." I bellowed at him.

He whimpered and rolled onto his back showing me that he has given up and submitted to me. "I just wanted to know. What's so bad about it?"

"Don't make me laugh. I know why you want to know Roxas. My answer is no even if I did tell you why." I backed off with a sigh of regret. "Just go home and don't bother me anymore. Besides, even if your pack is different from the rest, and before you ask how I know, I've heard rumors that the crazy wolf Cloud, lets other members in the pack mate up. What I didn't know until after you left was that they were allowed to keep their young.

It's amazing but also very stupid. So go on home and never come back here. You can do so much better than me, and I'd rather like being free from taking responsibility."

"Is that why? You don't want to take responsibility?!" He rolled onto his side, but didn't get up. I suspected that the fall might have broken his leg. "You're horrible and selfish!"

I clicked my tongue and rolled my eyes at his evaluation of me. "You think? And that's not the only reason. You're not getting any more help from me. Now limp on home before I actually do what I threatened you with,"

"I'm not going anywhere." He said struggling to get up. "If I have to fight you again, I will!" he said with a look of determination in his eyes.

"Damn it Roxas! I don't want to be your mate! I know why that's the true reason you're not listening to me. The real reason why you want to know! You asked me why I didn't want family. Why I don't want a mate. What you really want to know is why I don't want a family with you. Why I don't want to be your mate! Isn't that what you really want?"

"This is all your fault!" He yelled at me, tears running down his furred cheeks. "I hate this! I can't stop thinking about you! I can't sleep at night without feeling your warmth or having your scent around me. I had to ask Zack to burn the shirt you gave me, hoping that it would rid me of all thoughts about you.

Guess what? It didn't work. What's worse is that when I was in my heat, I couldn't stop remembering what you did to me! Every place you touched me burned with the memory of you touching me. Do you know how embarrassing it is to be in human form out in the open while getting hard ons with only a shirt to cover you? It's not a pleasant feeling you bastard!

Cloud had to take me to a secluded place from the pack in a private den that would fit my human form so the young wouldn't be exposed to me moaning, whining, and groaning; begging for some sort of relief. I had to bite my hands so I didn't do anything to myself while I thought of your ugly mug!

So don't you dare think for a second that me wanting you as my mate is my fault! In all honestly I don't want to be with you. All you did was screw around with me and toy with my emotions. First, you act kind towards me; then the next thing I know you shove me away!

I'm so damned confused about how I really feel about you..."

'Holy shit….' That was the only thing running through my mind as I stared at Roxas in shock. 'He's blaming me for wanting me himself? He must be joking. Yeah, sure, I teased him a few times, and maybe I did push him away. So what? But that was so he wouldn't get attached to me. I must have fucked up somewhere. I shouldn't have let him sleep with me. I shouldn't have held him earlier. I shouldn't have said I missed him.'

As I stared at him like a deer caught in the head lights, Roxas shifted forms. He was sitting with his knees against his chest. His right arm lay uselessly at his side while the other hugged his legs. His face was buried behind his scratched up limbs. He was quivering, but not from how the temperature dropped; I had really screwed him up. I was considering just leaving him there and hoping that he would go home, but I just couldn't find the will to leave him there like that.

I traipsed over to him reluctantly, and I mean reluctantly like a snail trying to go up a tree.

I kneeled down in front of him and embraced him. It wasn't unexpected that he would flinch away from me, but he was trapped in my unwanted touch.

"I hate you so much." His voice was hoarse from all the yelling he did. I could only crow from feeling satisfied that he hated me. "You're an ass." He said as he wrapped his left arm around me and let his nails dig into my back.

"I know I am." I said bitterly. "I'm sorry. I know I can't do anything to change what you went through. I can't do anything but hold you and even that might make things worse,"

"It is making it worse...you broke my arm by the way." We backed up from one another to look at each other's face.

"I guess I have to take you back home then huh? Can't have you defenseless now can we?" I licked his injured eye as an apology.

"Your place is closer. Hey, I know what you're going to say; don't worry about them coming here. Sora and Ventus both saw me take off after you. They know I'm with you, and if I don't go home they'll know where to find me. Besides, the worst that'll happen is Cloud grounding me when I go home for chasing after you," he grinned.

I chuckled and shook my head. "You really want me to die don't you?"

"I won't let that happen." He licked my chin and I felt something spark deep inside of me.

"I really should just take you home." I stood up and stuck my hand out for him. He took it and stood on wobbly legs. "You know, you're taller than I last remember."

He smirked at me. I knew he was going to say something cheeky, but I stopped him by pressing my lips to his neck. He gasped and then hit me in the stomach. "Are you really going to fuck around with me now?"

"I can't help it." I say while holding my stomach. "I guess you're used to being nude." I chuckled.

"What….? Ah crap!" A blush crept onto Roxas' face. He moved his tail in front of his crotch and I couldn't contain it anymore and just burst out laughing.

"J-just take me to your place already!" His cheeks were bright red. It was really hard to believe that he seriously didn't notice that we had been naked for quite a while; he had even slept like that next to me earlier in the day.

"Alright, let's go." I said, leading the way and making sure that my tail was proudly up in the air while I moved my hips to tease him.

"Bastard." He grumbled, and followed behind me while holding his broken arm; though if I didn't know any better, it could've just been an excuse to cover his nipples, which by the way were perked.

"Aw that's not very nice of you." I sniggered. "Oof! Hey what are you?"

"Carrying me would be faster." I felt him smile. His left arm was over my shoulder, legs wrapped around my waist and his tail was blocking his length from touching my back.

"Yeah, yeah," I said, and changed forms. "Hang on kiddo," I said, and took off running towards my den.