Hello again! Yay. I'm actually proud of this story! Whoop. Anyway.

Well, we left off with Axel trying to retain what little dignity he has left. Demyx seems a bit agitated. Shall we continue? Oh. And to all my loverly readers, I now have an editor! Bella! –insert cheering here- So, if you see Bella around or commenting on my stories, that's whom she be! XP Anyway, enjoy chapter six!

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Demyx watched from the door as Axel stumbled over to his bed and fall on it, trying to keep himself from shivering. Axel was distraught, and Demyx was fuming about how Xemnas got him into this mess. Crossing his arms over his chest and leaning on the floor, Demyx sighed.

"Axel, we've got to do something about this."

"Ya' think?" Axel squeaked, trying to sound sarcastic though his voice was weak. "Naw…"

"Axel, please cut the shxt and stop being so reclusive," Demyx snapped back, pushing away from the door and walking swiftly to stand near Axel's bed, glaring. "I don't even know if you really want to do this, or whether you just like torturing yourself. Come on! It has been two days, and you're already acting like we've been at this for weeks. Do you even care?"
"Are you afraid of fire?"

"Pardon?"

"Are you afraid of fire?" Axel looked up at him, glaring. "Searing your skin, making bones melt, slowly killing you, or doing large amounts of damage and leaving you in incredible pain?"

"Someone's cheery tonight." Demyx mumbled, sitting on the bedside table.

"You're avoiding my question," Axel offered, pulling himself up on his elbows and resting his chin in his hands. "Are you afraid of me?"

"Your question was if I was afraid of fire. Not you."

"You consider yourself water,"

"Are you afraid of me?"
"I suppose not. Let me re-rephrase. Are you afraid of fire?"

"…" They stared at each other. Not glaring, or mad. Demyx felt himself flush as an evil smile crossed Axel's lips.

"You are, aren't you? It's why you douse me before you make a smart remark."

"No, dousing you always comes at an opportune moment." Demyx yelped, now embarrassed. "It's funny."

"To seem me have a conniption?" Axel snapped back. Both were standing, face to face. "You think that's funny water boy? Should I see if lighting you on fire is funny? I think it'd be hilarious, mesmerized?"

"That's not what I meant!" Demyx snarled defensively, trying to stand as all as he could against the looming figure before him.

"Then what did you mean?"

"I meant it was funny before you got paranoid!"

"Paranoid?! I'm paranoid?"

"You leaped ten feet when I said puddle! You were shaking like an earthquake when we got back in here!"

"I can see you flailing like a candle down the hall! I can make that happen, you cocky little imp!"

"I'm not an imp! I'm a person like you! God you're an idiot!"

"We aren't people!"

There was a silence that followed this unhappy, true statement. Both men glared, near snarling.

"You two sound like a married couple," A voice hissed from the door. Eight and Nine turned, looking at the Cloaked Schemer. "Really now. Must you make this noise at one in the morning?" They blinked. He was now clad in his coat, pants and boots, as though he slept in them.

"Do you even sleep?" Axel asked, confused.

"On occasion, actually, I was up doing crossword puzzles." Zexion shrugged, crossing his arms. "May I ask why you two are up and ranting? You'll wake the dead…or Saix." He raised a brow, watching the two exchanged glances both of them babbling random things he couldn't understand.

"That important, huh?"

"He was just…"

"Well this morning we…"

"Um…"

"…Riiiight, well, keep it down, whatever the hell you were yelling about." Zexion turned, waving his hand over his shoulder. "By the way, I locked up the pool for you."

"…Does he know everything or am I just going crazy?"

"Demyx, I think it's a bit of both."

"I love you too."

"Get out of my room."

"Noon."

"Noon."

The door shut.

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"Ow ow ow, hey stop that it hurts, man!" Xigbar whined, tugging at his hair which Larxenne held captive. "That's connected to my head!"

"I realize that." She growled, tugging a bit harder. "Stop pointing your retarded fecked up guns at me!"
"I didn't!"

Meanwhile,

"It read one twenty three," Saix shrugged, leaning against the counter. Xemnas had taken a seat in a chair not to far off, looking at a few papers and sipping some coffee. "And this morning it read he'd added eighty since then."

"This boy doesn't sleep," Xemnas stated, frowning.

"Neither do Demyx and Axel apparently." The two men looked up, seeing Zexion pull a piece of bread out of the breadbox, and then a spear impaled the wall behind him, and Xaldin and Luxord were once more enthralled in a fight, with their audience consisting of a cackling Marluxia and bored Vexen. Axel and Demyx had yet to come down.

Ah breakfast in the castle…

"Really? Elaboration?" Xemnas asked, taking another sip from his mug and setting the documents on the table.

"There're them." Saix shrugged, now pouring himself a glass of orange juice.

"Well, true enough," Zexion offered. "But, they were screaming at each other like Hyenas. It was amazingly hard to concentrate. I'm surprised they didn't wake anyone."

"Didn't they wake you?" The Berzerker asked, shutting the refrigerator and turning to look at him.

"No. I was doing crossword puzzles."

No one said anything.

"Anyway, from what I heard, Axel was threatening to light Demyx on fire because dousing Axel was funny."

"Well it sort of is," Xemnas laughed, setting his coffee down. "Don't you agree?"

"Well, apparently Axel now has a phobia. I think Demyx is trying to help him get over it."

"This should be interesting. I thought they hated each other," Saix mused, raising a brow.

"Oh, I don't doubt it," Zexion replied, shrugging. "From the way they were hollering it couldn't be any clearer. But, I think Demyx took it as a personal offense because water is his element, and Axel's just pissed off because people are going to laugh at him, so they 'joined forces.'"

Xemnas sighed, leaning back in the chair so it stood on two legs. "We'll be lucky if we still have half the castle standing."

"We'll be lucky if we have anything standing at all," Saix added softly.

"So the fun begins."

Bella- Soo, now the bottom is MINE! MUHAHAHA… that's all I have to say.