Shado: Waaaaah. I'd hate to see this story end but this is most definately the last chap for my fav Akuroku story. Gomen nasai! I promise I'll write up the sequel within the next week to month at the most! I already can't wait but first I have to get through the second and third week of school and keep myself in line with finishing homework at school so I can have more time at home with chores, making amvs, n updating my fanfics. Or at least try to.

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Chapter 14 Happy Family

The next day and a half or so was spent on me learning how to walk, fast walk, and run. And I also had to get used to getting food down my stomach and not have to throw up since my body was still fairly new. Seriously it felt like the pregnancy all over again but without the cravings, the mood swings, and the swollen belly. Yea I'll tell you I'd rather go through the other stuff instead of the puking after every mealtime.

But after that day and a half I started to get better. I was able to keep dinner down the second night without the need of throwing up. So by the third day I was anxious to head home, but they wanted me to stay until at least around lunchtime. That morning I couldn't even eat breakfast, I was that excited. Kairi actually threatened to force my food down my throat but fortunately I was able to get Zexion, Sora, and Namine on my side that I'm too anxious to eat.

And when lunch came around, they were making up their minds on whether or not have lunch here or when we get to Hollow Bastion.

"Hollow Bastion, Hollow Bastion!" I practically jumped up and down.

"But Roxas-"

"Hollow Bastion!" I pouted at Ansem with a small glare.

"I think that answers our question, even if we didn't get to vote." Riku chuckled, smirking towards my direction.

"But just to be sure he has to eat." Ansem crossed his arms.

"Oh for heaven's sake just let us go." Zexion spoke up. "He wants to see Axel and Xentshi. I want to see my own family and any longer then I fear Demyx and Axel might cause mayhem in town."

"Please please please please please plea-" I chanted.

"All right! You guys may go. Remember if you have any problems just come here." the elder reminded.

I just nodded before turning to Zexion, who already opened a portal. Instantly I ran through the portal and found myself just outside the town of Hollow Bastion. Followed soon after was my other half, Riku, Kairi, Namine, and Zexion took up the rear. I glanced at the two girls blinking.

"Why are you two here?" I asked.

"I wanna see the babies." Kairi smiled innocently.

"I'd like to get out more often and so I thought, why not here?" Nami smiled sweetly.

Without noticing I smiled back before I took off in search of a certain tall redheaded pyro. And I knew just who to go to for help. I searched and found the Kiss Kiss Cafe, and pretty much ran inside through the front doors. Aerith, who was cleaning a few tables glanced up and gasped. Simultaneously both Aerith and Yuffie squealed and ran to glomp me. Laughing, I wiggled myself out of their tight hugs to grin up at them.

"I was wondering when you'd come back! Axel's been sparing with Cloud and Leon just to kill off his stress the past couple of days." Aerith said, her eyes happy and a hint of relief.

"Not to mention Demyx has gone all emo!" Yuffie added, hands on her hips as she grinned.

"Say, where's Axel now?" I asked, asking Aerith directly.

"I believe he's babysitting the little ones at Cloud's place. Marluxia and Larxene already found a home so that's one less little one for him to watch over." she informed.

I blinked. "He's watching over them alone?"

"Demyx went with Cloud and Leon for help to find a job." Yuffie explained.

"All right, I'll go and help him." I smiled, turning to leave.

"Thank you!" I shouted as I ran out the door.

"You're welcome!"

Basically I ran all the way to Cloud's house, even though it's all the way on the otherside of town. When I reached the front door I stopped to take a few moments of breath. Once my lungs got enough air I simply walked in. Cloud usually didn't lock the door unless no one's home. This way it made it easier for the rest of us getting inside for he didn't want more than at least two spare keys to the house.

I walked inside, turned to my left and smiled at a dozing Axel on the couch. He looked up and blinked, before he sprang up and ran to me. I yelped as he picked me up and pushed me up against the wall, desperately kissing me full on the lips. Writhing, I wrapped my arms around his shoulders, pulling him closer while my legs instinctively held around his waist to keep myself from falling. Soon the kiss turned into pure lip, tongue, and teeth. His nipping made me gasp and mewl at the long lost attention.

Finally we pulled away, panting for air. I leaned the back of my head against the wall as he leaned his at the crook of my neck. His hot, quick breaths sent shivers down my spine, making me mewl and tilt my head to grant him more access to my neck. I felt his smirk on my neck before he bit down, once again marking me possessively. I moaned and arched my back, partly screaming when he began to suck on his favorite spot. Even in this new body, his favorite spot still worked its magic on me.

"Axel...oh god I love you. I love you...I missed you." I whimpered, hugging him ever closer.

He pulled away from my neck to peck my cheek affectionately. "I missed you too."

I smiled, before I saw the dark circles under his eyes. Tilting my head I stared, as he smiled weakly.

"How many hours of sleep you've been getting?" I asked, gently rubbing under his eyes with my thumb.

"Um...four at the most." he shrugged.

"Axel." I groaned with a pout.

"Well, can't help it when I love you with my whole being." he grinned his trademark grin.

I blinked. I just remembered that I had my own heart, and he didn't. Without a second thought I nuzzled his chest, leaning my head over his left side. He stared with a confused expression, watching as if he knew I was attempting to hear his heart but failing. He had no heart. Axel leaned closer to nuzzle my hair, sighing as he breathed in.

"What's wrong?" he whispered, still staring at me.

"I...I have a heart. I don't know who's, it was supposed to be Namine's but someone else beat her to it. They don't know who it was." I said, watching as he pulled away to stare at me.

His expression was that of shock, and at first it seemed that he didn't believe me. Lowering me to the floor, Axel stepped back to sit on the chair behind him and pulled me close. I sat on his lap, arms wrapped around his shoulders while I leaned forward to the crook of his neck and shoulder. I shivered while he kissed and nipped my neck affectionately, small love bites that made me gasp a few times and arch my back a little.

He pulled away when he kissed over my vein, feeling a small movement of my heart pumping blood through my system. As quick as a flash he ripped off my shirt and before I could protest, he put his ear over my chest. My heart pounded as my cheeks flushed in embarrassment as he listened. After a few minutes he raised his head to stare into my eyes, he looked horrified.

"Axel?"

"I...damn it Roxas...I don't know what to do. I love you, but..." he lowered his gaze in shame.

"You're scared now that you're the only one left with no heart."

His frown deepened. I nuzzled his chest, then pulled him into a short kiss. I wasn't really good with words, especially when it came down to feelings. Well...most of the time actually. Unless I had mood swings and I'm suddenly angry over the simpilist of things. But other than that, I'm not really good. When I tried to say something, I ended up saying the opposite. That got me into trouble loads of times during the organization, and alot of misunderstandings too.

So I went with what I was better at. Showing my feelings. To show Axel what I'm feeling, it came easy. I initiated the kiss and urged him to deepen it. He took a while to respond but with a heavy sigh Axel let himself go. Axel sighed and deepened the kiss to start a short war of tongues. When we pulled away he picked me up and carried me to the couch. Together we lay down, him sprawled over the couch with me on top.

And so we laid there in silence, just enjoying each others company until we fell asleep.

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Over the shock of me having a heart, Axel was almost back to normal. He knew that there was something that I didn't tell him, but he didn't push it. And I had a feeling it was something that even I didn't even know. Axel knew about the mako, he claimed to have noticed it right when he saw me when I walked into the mansion. It's just that there was something missing, and we couldn't really figure it out and and yet we weren't concerned.

Turned out that Leon was going to keep the cafe shop in business during the day, but renamed the Harmony Cafe. But by night, it was a bar. A gay bar that Leon incidently called Heart Revolution. At an instant I was dragged into being one of the employees with Axel. And we became one of the star pairs along with Leon himself and the ever shy Cloud. We don't show off on stage every night, just every other weekend. And we would alternate, one weekend would be Cloud and Leon, the next me and Axel.

And no, we don't go swinging around in our birthday suits. Leon's rules was that no one, no one was to walk around in the nude in the bar. We can take off our shirts, but leave the pants on at all times. Or you'd be thrown out like the stupid guys on the first night of the bar. After that little show no one questioned Leon's rules ever again.

The reason why Leon made his business a cafe by day and a bar by night was to help Cloud pay for remodeling the old mansion. When the remodeling started everyone who was living in the mansion had to move to an apartment not too far from Aerith's place. No longer in the mansion was hard and a bit frustrating, but we waited on.

Zexion was now the proud librarian in The Hollow Bastion Library, the only library in this world and let me tell you. It was really big. When he heard that the library needed a new librarian, he ran to the library at an instant. Now that he was the main librarian, Zexion could take books home without a card. Everyday he brings home books to read to Zaixou and Xentshi. And guess what? I got to act out the stories.

I was horrible, but neither of the little ones noticed. In fact, with me acting out the stories and Zexion reading, they learned how to talk by the age of one and a half. By that time the mansion was just getting done on remodeling. It was so old it took that long just for it to be finished. When it was finally finished we were happy to move back in.

And the mansion was beautiful when I entered it. The old carpet was replaced with a baby blue color, the walls repainted to either green or a blue-grey color. The furniture was still in good shape so Cloud kept them, and added a few more here and there. The nursery had sky blue colored walls, with fluffy clouds spread out. The clouds was Leon's idea, a little joke he thought would be cute.

Of course Cloud didn't like the joke, but he didn't insist on changing the design. Which made everyone happy, for Xentshi was caught about five times staring at the fluffy clouds on the wall. From those little incidents, I knew that Xentshi was a daydreamer. I could only hope that Zaixou would be nice enough to help my son out now and then for school. Even though he was this young I had this feeling Xentshi wouldn't be asking me for help.

Despite my worries, I was happy. And now that we were back in the mansion, we're a family again. To some, we may be a weird family. Two warriors of Hollow Bastion, Sora and Riku (who would come by during the holidays), and two nobody couples that live in the same house as said warriors. And don't forget the two kids in the family.

Even when some people looked down at us, we went along with our business and continued living as a family. Cloud and Leon were the bigger siblings, Zexion the only mature person in the whole mansion, Axel and Demyx were placed as the children for pulling off pranks. And the babies were always spoiled by everyone. Even Leon would spoil them, mostly Zaixou I noticed. I guess Zexion's expression of calling Xentshi "the devil's son" made Leon weary.

But so far there hasn't been any complaints. Everyone was happy, and we liked to be a sometimes weird, questionable, happy family.

Then one day, Namine came up to me with her usual smile.

"Do you know, you're true name?"

I blinked.

A few minutes I stared at her, before I turned around and walked away.

I wanted everything to stay the way it was. Even if it was ignoring the dreams, adventures with Aqua and Terra.

If only it was easy.

But still, my family made me happy.

Shado:...don't kill me! I'm sorry that this chap was crappy, short, and disappointing, but I swear I didn't know how to end this! And well, I wanted to end the fanfic here cuz I ran out of ideas. The ideas I do have are better off for a sequel. And I promise there will be a sequel sometime in the near future. I think sometime around Thanksgiving or right after Halloween. I just need to finish a few other fanfics, then work on the sequel. And I already got a title for it, so keep an eye out for...

A Somebody's Heart

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