WHEEEEEEEEEEE! Seems like its been a while, huh guys? XP Well, Tragedy and I are back and we bring with us... not a continuation of the last chapter but a random interval. Hope you like it! XD Incidently, for thos of you interested I have updated my deviant (website link on my profile) and have uploaded a fari few picks from the fanfition you read before you. XP There are also in my favourites some other fanarts others have sent me, I am deeply humbled by this. ACK! I've just remembered, Tragedy, you need to see them too. I keep forgetting to tell you about them, I'll e-mail you the links sometime. Lol, maybe when i finish the next chapter XDDD.


Meanwhile...

Axel jumped as he heard the door slam; nearly dropping the glass he was holding as his little husband stormed into the room with a look that could kill roses.

"Do you know there is no way for me to get in contact with them?!" Roxas demanded the startled redhead.

Gathering his composure and setting the glass down somewhere it wouldn't be hurt, Axel turned to Roxas. "By 'them' I'm assuming you mean Sora, Riku, Soku and the rest of the crew?" A death glare confirmed his suspicions and Axel gave a sheepish laugh. "Well, you know, love, they are on a different world…"

"That's not what I want to hear!" Roxas stamped his foot and scowled at the taller man. "I'll never forgive myself if something happens to any of them! And God forbid something happen to Soku! I knew letting that boy go was a bad idea!"

Axel sighed. Creeping slowly over to his lover, so as not to startle the high-strung man into a frenzy, the elder wrapped his arms around the blonds' waist and pulled him against his broad chest to which Roxas struggled admirably to be free but Axel wouldn't let go. "You know very well they had no choice in the matter. We helped Sora sneak on board so as to keep Soku safe, remember? There was no way we could have gotten Soku off that ship and you know it."

Relenting, Roxas bunched his fists in Axel's shirt and scowled at the material. "We should have gone too…"

Chuckling, the elder poked Roxas softly before kissing his forehead. "I think you're feeling way too maternal…" Roxas stiffened in Axel's hold and the redhead raised an eyebrow. "You…are? Roxas, is there something you want to tell me?"

"I-I've been thinking…"

"Oh crap, that's never a good thing..." Axel groaned.

Roxas scowled and punched him, hard. "Shut up! This is serious! I really want you to listen to me!"

"Okay… shoot."

Taking a deep breath the blond suddenly stepped forwards and Axel fell back, falling onto the sofa and Roxas falling after him and straddling his lap, hands still clutching Axel's shirt as his deep blue eyes bore into the taller man's green ones desperately. "Axel...I-I… I want to have a kid!"

It went silent and Axel found Roxas' grip on his attire tighten to a crippling point but he couldn't feel anything, just shock. Then he shook his head and placed a hand on Roxas' shoulder. He couldn't help but think he should have known this was coming. "I hate to be the one to tell you this, Roxy… but you can't have kids. You're a man."

Roxas cried out in frustration and slammed his head against Axel's chest, winding the elder. "I'm serious, Axel!" He yelled over the redhead's coughing.

"Okay, okay! I give, I give!" Axel pleaded as Roxas released his hold on his husband. "…I tell you what, Rox. I haven't really thought about it cos, I mean well it'd be awesome if we could have kids… you know… our kids…" Roxas blushed. "But if it's something you really want, I'd be delighted. Let's just wait until Riku, Sora and Soku are back. Then we can do it without the worry of our closest friends safety, 'kay?"

Roxas pursed his lips but smiled suddenly, kissing Axel softly. "Sounds reasonable."


Marluxia approached his wife in the garden, kissing her cheek softly to announce his presence before presenting her with a single red rose. Namine blushed lightly and smiled, taking the rose into her gentle hands and pressing it against her lips briefly as she let its scent reach her.

"Welcome home." She gave a delighted smile and set her sketchbook aside, her pencil rolling to the floor as she made room for him on the bench in the garden.

"Happy to be home. What have I missed?" Marluxia always termed work as 'missing out' on his children's childhood even though he was away while they were at school and only a few hours after they returned home.

Namine sighed and rested her head on his shoulder. "Narxia's been getting into trouble again at school for his use of his memory powers. He's been getting out of doing homework by making his teachers forget about setting it."

"Clever…" Marluxia sniggered then coughed when he saw Namine's withering look. "I mean… how did they find out he was doing it?"

She glared at him. "Teachers write things down in there planners so when the teacher he'd messed with read their planner, the memory returned. He's not that apt at his power yet and it only takes a slight trigger for them to remember again." She shook her head. "But I guess I can't blame him for using them… I was very tempted to use them on Ami today…"

Marluxia's eyes widened. It didn't sound good and nobody messed with Ami, Ami was Marluxia's daughter and his princess. She always would be. His face became dark. "What happened?"

"Her boyfriend dumped her. She doesn't know why or what she's done wrong but she's completely distraught. I don't know what to do with either of them…" Namine rubbed her eyes. "I've spoken with Narxia but he doesn't want to talk to me anymore and Ami won't let anyone into her room."

The pink haired male hugged his little wife tightly and kissed her firmly. "Let me handle this one, you just stay here or do whatever it is you want to and when I'm done we can all go out for dinner, how does that sound?"

Namine smiled, "Like heaven."

Marluxia grinned before making his way into the house and upstairs to where the twin's rooms were. He paused on the landing: Narxia or Ami?

Narxia. He'd be easier to handle.

Marluxia knocked on his son's room but when he received no response only the music being played being turned up louder he opened the door regardless. Narxia was curled up on the bed, his dark pink hair fanning out behind him on the red sheets, his cobalt eyes distant and forcefully ignoring his father's presence.

Switching the music off the elder turned to the curled form on the bed. "Narxia?" Marluxia called to his son as he sat down on the bed. The dark pink hair that fanned out on the bedspread glinted from the sunlight that burst through the pulled down blind, framing the sixteen year olds form. The boy's body stiffened as he felt Marluxia sit near him. "Son, talk to me… I'm not here to lecture you, I've a pretty good idea that you've had that from both your headmaster and your mother. I just want you to talk to me." Marluxia began evenly, his fatherly role coming naturally. Sora had always commented as the twins had grown that Marluxia seemed to have been born to be a dad.

Narxia made no reply. Marluxia sighed and made to stand up. "I'm not here to pressure you, know that. I promised your mother I'd speak with you and I have, we would like to go out for dinner tonight so please… don't run off, don't try and act overly happy but don't be depressed either. Just… make an effort to be ready for six and come with us. Okay?"

As Marluxia stood to leave he barely got a step from the bed when Narxia sat up and gripped Marluxia's shirt sleeve tightly, his head bent forwards. "I… I miss him, dad…" Narxia said softly, his voice cracking with despondent frustration. "I miss Soku so much…"

Marluxia turned to his distraught son and sat back down, not minding in the slightest as Narxia pulled his arm closer and hugged it firmly. He watched as he saw silent tears slip from his sons large blue eyes and slide down his rosy cheeks to splatter onto clothes and the bed sheets. He cocked his head to the side and gave his son a sad smile. "Talk to me." Was all he needed to say.

"I miss him so much, dad… Soku and I… we're best friends… he shouldn't have gone without me… we're supposed to do everything together… you know I like, like him dad!" Narxia cried with a slight blush on his cheeks. "If I couldn't go I shouldn't have let him go either! What if he doesn't come back?!"

Ah… was all Marluxia thought. The whole island was a somber and strained place since Sora, Riku and Soku had left, no one dared speak of it for fear of breaching the horrid thought that the sun, moon and stars that were what that little family embodied would never return. Sora was a light that brightened everything that the sun could never reach and Riku was a pinprick of light that seemed so small and insignificant but in fact was always there, growing and pulsing with life but never fading. Even their son, Soku, was a beautiful, constant light that no one could view without smiling. The thought of losing any of them was a sad thought for anyone. So no one spoke of it. Apparently it was all Narxia could think about.

"Son… I can't pretend war isn't dangerous, why do you think we forbade you from going when you asked? I don't even want to think of losing Soku or his parents but I won't lie to you, there is a chance that they could die out there." Narxia gasped and his eyes creased as more tears fell. Marluxia put a hand on his son's shoulder and squeezed it firmly. "But do you know what you must do? You must pray son. You don't need to be a religious person to pray. A prayer is a wish filled with love and hope and all you have to do is give all your love and hope into a pray and keep praying for Soku. Pray for him and his family to come home safely."

"A prayer?" Narxia repeated dubiously.

Marluxia nodded. "It's like wishing. But prayers have more meaning." The elder pink haired man smiled at Narxia, "Do you remember that old lady we used to live next to when you were younger?"

"Yeah…?"

"She was catholic but she used to tell me that prayers were like wishes, only prayers were heard by someone who wanted to help." Marluxia laughed suddenly. "By no means do I expect you to become a catholic boy with every intention of joining the priesthood, I'm just trying to give you hope. There's no way you can help Soku physically, so give him your hope. It might be all he needs."

Narxia thought for a moment before his face split into a smile and he wiped his eyes before launching himself at his father and hugging Marluxia tightly. "Thanks dad. I'm gonna give Soku all the hope I have."

A few moments later Marluxia stood in his daughters room asking her to talk to him and doing a similar routine as he had with Narxia, Ami caved and she spoke to her father.

"Justin dumped me." She stated nonchalantly but the red rings around her eyes told a different story.

She was clutching a tissue in her left hand as the right hand tugged on a strand of her pastel pale pink hair, her blue eyes focused on the floor as she fidgeted from foot to foot, avoiding looking at her dad, as though she was ashamed of being dumped, like it mattered to her dad that she didn't have a boyfriend. And it did matter to Marluxia, not in the way she thought though. It just meant he was liable to kill this 'Justin' boy.

"He said… he said I wasn't his type anymore. He couldn't stand being around me because my family seemed to have friends everywhere and people were constantly suffocating him with their watching and their wishes to treat me right… he said I was a good enough looking girl but I wasn't enough to make him put up with that so as to keep him around." She began to cry again. "He said I was just like those fags I call friends!" Marluxia was at her side instantly, pulling her into his hold, stoking her hair and shushing her gently. "Narxia's my brother for god sake? I don't care what orientation he is! As for Tairi she's not gay! She's just not into dating for the sake of dating; she's waiting for the right guy!"

Marluxia nodded his head, pretending to listen and follow her babble when he interrupted saying, "I'm going to fix this Justin problem of yours, don't you worry about that. As for his comments about your friends, don't let them bother you. After tonight, he will be none of your concern." He smiled brightly at her, a little too brightly in her opinion. "Get dressed for dinner, we're going out tonight!"

As he turned to leave he was forced back as her hand shot out and a rose exploded from her hand like a bullet, summoned from nothing, the needle tip of the stem tearing through the cuff of his shirt and pinning him to the doorframe. "I hate him, daddy: yes. But don't you dare think of killing him, as much as that would please me they'll know you did it, I mean, death by choking on rose petals can only be explained away once and I love you too much to see you rot in prison for killing a bastard." She walked up to him and kissed his cheek softly. "I love you, daddy, please don't kill him."

He smiled at her again, the murderous glint not gone from his eyes however. "Okay, my darling. I won't kill him; just… scare him a bit. And I'll bring Zexion to help, he'll make sure if anything goes wrong I won't get caught, how does that sound?"

"Perfect." Ami smiled at him, the murderous glint in his eyes mirrored by her own.


Demyx nearly let the fork he held fall from his hand as he heard Zexion laugh in the other room. He raised an eyebrow. His husband rarely ever laughed; whatever the cause it was at someone else's expense, Demyx sincerely hoped it wasn't at his.

Placing the last eating utensil by a clean plate Demyx fetched the pan and began to spoon out some slippery white spaghetti, folding it neatly into a bundle on each plate before getting the saucepan and placing some Bolognese sauce onto each plate as Zexion made his way into the dining room, a disturbing smile on his face.

"Who was that, Zex?" Demyx asked calmly, trying to ignore the urge his primal instincts gave him to run the hell away at the look on Zexion's face as he sat down.

Zexion sat opposite him at the little table and placed his napkin over his lap. "Oh, just Marluxia…"

Demyx froze, neatly cut fork of spaghetti half-way to his mouth as his mind put the pieces together slowly, "Did it… did it involve Ami?" Zexion twirled his food expertly and raised it calmly to his lips, chewing it slowly as he nodded. "No… Zexy, you can't!"

Zexion managed to surprise Demyx a second time as the lilac-haired man swallowed and his lips curled into a full grin. "Of course I can. I'm not the Cloaked Schemer for nothing, Demyx." He took another bite and locked eyes with Demyx. "I'll make sure we're not caught if that's what you're worried about."

Demyx scowled at him. "Of course that's what I'm worried about! There are so many things wrong with this! If you get caught you could get put in jail! What am I saying?! Of course you'll get caught, it's not exactly a secret we have these powers, is it? And the very fact we have them should be enough to tell you we should use them responsibly and for good not selfish, evil acts!" The blond said firmly, pushing back his chair and standing, making to leave when Zexion was suddenly just a step behind him, his hand firmly holding Demyx's wrist.

"It is a good act in a way, we're helping Ami. And even so, I never said I was a good person, Demyx." Zexion pushed Demyx up against the wall and pinned him there by holding the blonds' shoulders roughly. "You of all people should now how bad I am." He kissed Demyx roughly, bruising the younger man's lips harshly, biting hard enough to break skin and sucking cruelly enough to make his lips swell. "If you need a reminder, I'll be all too happy to oblige…."

Demyx whimpered and cried out as Zexion began to suck on his neck, biting like a vampire would and roughly pushing him to the floor, his lovingly cooked meal barely touched, lying forgotten on the table above them as Zexion proved to Demyx just how bad he was in the best way possible.


"I'm not hungry, mom!" Tairi cried, slamming her fist on the table, rising from her chair and storming to her room making sure to slam the door on her way.

Kairi winced at the angry sounds and shook her head as Tidus made to go after their daughter; it would do no good to rush in their now. Tairi would be likely to just explode further and Kairi would get over it, although it pained her to hear the anger and dislike in her own daughter's voice directed at her, she knew that all teenagers were like that, hell she'd been a bitch at that age.

Tidus nodded as he grudgingly acquiesced to his wife's wishes, instead clearing up the mess Tiari had made of the meal her mother had made for her. When she'd avoided dinner, Kairi hadn't pushed it but when Tiari finally came downstairs the redheaded woman begged the girl to at least eat something and had made her a small plate of snacks which Tiari had thrown on the floor. Gesturing for his wife to make herself comfortable in the front room, Tidus began to clear up.

Walking sadly up to the front room's window Kairi sighed as she looked out. It had been too long since Sora, Riku and little Soku were on the island, too long since she'd heard their cheerful voices brighten the islands. It wasn't hard to see how badly the whole island was taking it. Her own daughter seemed angry and hateful instead of her regular, hyperactive and bouncy self.

Tidus stood behind Kairi, wrapping his arms around her swollen stomach, a protective hand caressing the large bulge in which a tiny life grew. He kissed Kairi's cheek softly and hugged her close. "They'll be back. Have faith, Kai."

Kairi looked up at the sky through the window again and sighed, placing her hand over Tidus' hand on her protruding belly and sighing softly. "I know they will. They promised."


Yuffie groaned and gave an exasperated sigh as she faced the tiny woman before her who was holding an even tinier bundle of blankets in which a little pink face stared up at them with red eyes, watching them curiously.

"Why do I gotta explain it again, Shelly?" The dark haired ninja whined.

"You have failed to give me an adequate reason for us moving to Destiny Islands and I want to know why you have decided this without Vincent or my authorization or consultation." Shelke stated firmly, her blue eyes threatening to flash from blue to orange, a clear sign she was annoyed. The baby in her arms just gurgled and giggled at them.

"Sheeeeelly!" Yuffie whined. "You and I both know Vincent needs a good tan." Had Shelke been anyone than who she was she would have choked on laughter but she remained poker faced and glaring at the infuriating young woman. "And so do you! You both need to enjoy this tropical atmosphere and I refuse to let you bring up your child in that dingy apartment you two share, it's emptier than a cardboard box!"

Shelke's eyes narrowed. "It is functional. It contains food and a bed. What more do we need?"

Yuffie giggled, "Shelke, did you just make a sexual innuendo?" The amber haired girl blinked at her. "Guess not… well it was funny to me. Anyways, you can't bring a child up like THAT!" Yuffie pulled a face. "Children need constant stimulation from bright colours and interesting environments and they need sunlight to grow up healthy and strong!"

"What would you know about bringing up children?" Shelke snapped.

"I'll have you know I took care of a fair few Wutai children growing up! I know everything they need!" Yuffie grinned. "In fact, if you ever need a babysitter, you know who to call!"

"I do not need my daughter being brought up a sugar addict." Shelke sighed. "There's nothing to be done now, however. I'll leave you to move all of this wasteful furniture you purchased into the house seeing as this is all your fault. I'm going to take Shalua and map the area." Yuffie glared at her. "Or whatever it is you wish to call it."

"It's called just hanging out, Shelke! Try and be normal, it's only going to weird the locals out if you use you SND to download info on them! Try being social! And I'm counting on you to keep Shalua in one piece!" Yuffie giggled and began to do as Shelke had ordered and move furniture inside the house she had bought for Shelke, Vincent and their baby.


Tragedy's Character Playlist: Okay, this was soooo Akaiba's thing, but I stole it. Ha. No, she said I could. If you haven't heard of any of these bands, I would suggest you download them, they are all FANTASTIC!!! On with the music.

Sora: Animal I have become By: Three Days Grace I thought this was fitting where he turns into AntiForm, and Riku has to save him. I also thought that Sora would be a Quiet Drive's Version of Time after Time.

Riku: I love it how this song plays along with the whole Riku goes coma style and Xikru has to save him, so Comatose By: Skillet.

Soku Don't shoot me, but I thought since everyone depends on Soku for light, Shine By: Aly and Aj. Yeah, I know. But he was hard to decide for!!

Everent I know it talks about a girl in here, but just replace that with boy and think of Soku. Tears don't fall By: Bullet for my Valentine.

Seph What have you done By: Within Temptation, The verses sound like his and Clouds situation.

Cloud My Heroine By: Silverstein, This is directed to Seph not Leon. My Curse By: Killswitch Engage This is directed to Leon.

Leon His stoicism makes it hard to decide but I think that Hello Alone By: Anberlin fits. Listen to the WHOLE song before you judge, umm k?

Death and Destruction (because peace and love ore sooo last year) Your Tragedy.

I gotta admit, Tragedy picks some good songs, they fit well. I picked mine on a whim but you gotta appreciate that she delayed the release to get these songs right, now there is dedication for u!!! Lol, give luff to TRAGEDYYYY!!!!

Akaiba and Tragedy xxx