"So, how did you know?" Roxas repeated his question as Riku gulped.
"I heard a rumor that Axel knew about mixed couples. From what I know, no one actually accused him of being in a mixed relationship, but I assumed he was."
"If rumors are going around, then we'll have to work harder to hide what's going on." Roxas let out an annoyed sigh.
"Where did you hear the rumor from?" Zexion asked the only wolf mix in the room.
"I didn't hear it; I saw it written in a bathroom stall, at school." Riku confessed.
"Wait!" Roxas jumped out of his chair. "What exactly did it say?"
"It said something like 'Mixed couples are better, got it memorized?' I knew right away it was Axel but then someone else was talking about how Axel must be in a mixed relationship."
"I wonder," Roxas scratched his chin.
"Wonder what?" Sora asked curiously.
"Axel's always talking about trying to reach out to other mixed couples, but I said it was too risky. Maybe, maybe he is reaching out, behind my back?" Roxas asked himself.
"Look, whatever Axel's doing, it's," Riku started, but Roxas interrupted.
"Stupid! He could get caught! We could be revealed, and then separated!" Roxas sighed loudly.
"He's helping other people." Sora shrugged.
"He's risking our relationship!" Roxas shook his head, and when his boyfriend returned, he growled.
"Alright, two pizza's, six people, let's get started." Axel grinned happily before Roxas walked up to him and slapped his face. "Oww! Babe!" Axel whined.
"I told you not to worry about other mixed couples Axe! If you keep advertising our relationship for others, we won't have a relationship to advertise!"
"Rox," Axel handed the pizza's over to Demyx, who set them on living room coffee table. "I think we can help others, the way we would have appreciated the help in return. There are other mixed couples out there. There has to be. Maybe we can fight the system. Maybe we can change the rules. It all has to start somewhere." Axel gave a small smile.
"Then you should have warned me!" Roxas pleaded.
"I'm sorry." Axel frowned.
"Let's just eat." Roxas shook his head, sitting down at his usual spot.
"Are you angry?" Axel asked, sitting on the floor beside him.
"No; I'm just scared. I can't lose you Axel." Roxas looked his boyfriend shakily in the eye.
"You won't have to. No matter what happens, we will always be together." Axel gave Roxas a quick comforting kiss as the other two couples snuggled closer.
"This really is going to be a lot of work, huh?" Sora asked Riku.
"I believe Axel. I believe if we find all the mixed couples, we can change the laws so we don't have to hide like this."
"It's too risky." Demyx shook his head.
"It's possible." Zexion argued.
"Can we just eat, please?" Roxas asked, his eyes on the slice in his hands.
"Roxas, I don't want you to live in fear, but we knew that was the lifestyle we'd have to endure for this to work."
"Then why are you making it harder?" Roxas let a tear fall.
"I'm sorry." Axel whispered. "I just want to help others the way I think I can."
"I know Axe. You're a great guy, and I'm lucky to have you. I just, I don't want to lose you cause you're helping other people's relationships."
"You know our relationship comes first in my life."
"Then why can't we let others worry about theirs?" Roxas complained.
"Because I believe I can do more. And it's not just me; its every other mixed couple who has the courage to take a stand." Axel smiled.
"What would you have me do?" Roxas asked, his eyes leaking quietly as his lower lip trembled.
"I want you to smile, and support me," Axel calmed the pink lips by kissing them gently.
"I love you." Roxas rested his head against Axel's chest.
"And I love you." Axel repeated.
"Guys, no matter what happens, we can't let these laws keep us apart!" Demyx said resolutely.
"Yeah!" Sora echoed, inspired by Axel's determination.
"We may be just six now, but who knows? With time, our numbers could grow." Zexion smiled along, maintaining the positive energy in the room.
"Now, let's fill the tummy with pizza," Axel placed a hand over Roxas' shirt. "Cause after dinner I bought some tasty treats for all of us." Axel winked.
"Ooooh I hope it's my tuna melts!" Roxas said anxiously before he ate his pizza hastily.
"Tuna melts?" Sora asked in confusion.
"It's his favorite cat treat." Zexion commented between his bites of pepperoni.
"You eat cat treats?" Sora asked, a bit disgusted.
"You don't?" Roxas was surprised.
"I'm cat mix, not cat." Sora shrugged.
"No, you're cat mix so you are cat." Roxas corrected. "Have you ever tried them? They seem a bit weird in human form but there's something about being in cat form that makes them super tasty!" Roxas said anxiously.
"Well, no, I haven't tried them, but it sounds gross." Sora gave his final pizza slice a funny look.
"I say try it. If you don't like you don't have to eat it anymore, but you never know." Zexion shrugged as the boys finished the last of their food.
"Ok, who's ready?" Axel stood up with a stretch to get the grocery bag he had set on the counter.
"Me me me!" Roxas clapped anxiously.
"Ok, for Zex we have the salmon," Axel tossed a packet of dry salmon flavored treats to Demyx. "And for my little kitten we have,"
"Tuna tuna tuna tuna?!" Roxas held his hands together tightly.
"Chicken," Axel said as he walked towards Roxas' loveseat.
"Awww," Roxas frowned.
"Just kidding!" Axel showed Roxas the packaged treats. "Tuna, my baby's favorite." Axel smiled before Roxas jumped on him, hands around his neck and legs around the redheads thin waist with a tight embrace.
"Thank you!" Roxas kissed Axel's lips with an impatient peck.
"Hey hey, give me a real kiss. Once you eat that shit I won't want to kiss you till you brush the tuna flavor out of your mouth." Axel groaned before Roxas made out with him. "Mph!" Axel gripped the blonde boy's hips with as much strength as he could.
"Can I have my tuna melts now?" Roxas whined, his feet firmly planted on the ground.
"Sure baby. Come on, you know the drill." Axel sat down in the love seat as Roxas morphed into his cat form. Zexion had also changed into his animal form while Demyx fetched a bowl from the kitchen.
"Ok Zexy, go upstairs." Demyx smiled.
"Fine." Zexion rolled his eyes and crawled up the stairs and into his bedroom.
"Why does he have to go upstairs?" Sora asked as Demyx went to the top of the staircase.
"Cause I like to leave a little trail for him." Demyx set one piece of salmon goodness on each stair, covering the entire staircase before he spread treats on the clean carpet leading all the way to his chair, where a pile of treats rested in a bowl in his lap. "Ok Zexy!" Demyx called before the grey cat with brown mixed into his fur exited the bedroom.
"That's cute." Riku chuckled as Zexion followed the trail slowly down the stairs.
"Please!" Roxas whined before Axel opened the bag.
"Ok, sit!" Axel commanded, so Roxas sat impatiently in cat form in front of the love seat he usually occupied, the very chair Axel was using. "Now stand," Axel said just before Roxas obeyed. "Lay down. Roll over."
"Axel!" Roxas did everything he was told to, but was losing patience.
"Speak." Axel said before Roxas let out a soft meow. "Awww you're so cute baby. Come on, one more."
"Axe!" Roxas swatted a paw in the air.
"Just one more." Axel said before Roxas gave a forceful yet still weak meow. "Good boy Roxy. Such a good boy." Axel scooped Roxas up in his arms, held the kitten so that the cat's back was resting against his arm, and his fluffy tummy was up in the air. "Here you go." Axel rewarded the small kitten with a tuna melt.
"More?" Roxas asked with big, round, pouting eyes.
"Give me another meow." Axel said, so Roxas did just that. "Here you go." Axel rewarded his cat with another treat. He then hand fed Roxas several more treats, loving how the cat began to let out a soft purr. "You're so cute baby." Axel smiled down to the cat in his arms who was rubbing his paws against his face after licking them steadily.
"Can I have a kiss?" Roxas asked, his tongue grazing his paws in a teasing fashion.
"Baby you know how I feel about your tuna breath," Axel complained just as Zexion hopped up into Demyx's lap, finding the end of the trail and rewarding himself with the bowl full of treats.
"Good job Zexion!" Demyx giggled, watching adamantly as Zexion ate his treats quietly and peacefully.
"Please?" Roxas begged, his body stopped purring as Axel rolled his eyes.
"Ok. One kiss." Axel held the cat up to his face and kissed his head.
"My turn." Roxas said before he licked Axel's lips, causing Axel to wipe his arm across his face.
"Eww yuck!" Axel tried to scrub the tuna flavor off of his bottom lip while Roxas smiled and continued to clean himself.
"You want to try one?" Demyx took one of Zexion's treats and handed it to Sora.
"Umm," Sora looked to Riku.
"Go ahead sweetie, try," Riku nudged, so Sora transformed into his tabby body and sniffed the treat in Riku's palm. "Just try it," Riku chuckled. Sora gulped before he took a bite of the salmon treat.
"What do you think?" Roxas asked as Sora licked his paw.
"It, it's really good." Sora sniffed the air, hoping for more.
"Awww, does the cute orange kitty cat want another treat?" Demyx asked with an extra in his hand. Sora nodded shyly. "Give me a meow," Demyx beckoned, so Sora's tiny kitten body did just that.
"That was the cutest little meow I've ever heard." Axel chuckled.
"Such a good boy." Demyx extended the treat to Riku, who in turn fed it to Sora.
"Good boy Sora, good job." Riku encouraged the role play as he pet Sora's back.
"I love my little kitty." Axel cradled Roxas' body as the cat softly purred.
"Yeah, this is actually our first time doing this kind of stuff but, I really like it." Riku smiled at Sora.
"It's fun being able to express our inner animal, which is why," Axel stood up and got another grocery bag from the counter. "I bought some toys." Axel set the bag on the coffee table and took out two bones, a knotted rope, a ball, and a squeaking chew toy.
"Thank god we saw this new one cause my ball broke." Demyx said.
"You wouldn't stop teething it." Zexion commented dryly.
"Well you complain about my fangs hurting you so I can't bite you so what else do I have?" Demyx shrugged.
"You too?!" Sora asked in shock.
"What?" Zexion looked scared.
"Riku's fangs hurt me when we make out sometimes."
"Yeah wolf fangs are a bother." Roxas agreed.
"Maybe that's why they keep us apart," Sora wondered quietly, referring to the laws he hated very much.
"Look, it's hard for us because we don't realize that they hurt you guys, but we love you, and we try not to hurt you." Axel said as Riku nodded.
"I'm sorry I've hurt you Sora. I do my best to keep them from getting in the way."
"It's ok, it was an accident." Sora said honestly.
"Why don't you guys go back to human form so that we can play?" Axel asked, so Roxas went to the bathroom while Zexion went to his bedroom while Sora hid behind the couch to go back into human form and put their clothes back on.
"So you guys eat cat treats, and you two play with dog toys?" Sora asked.
"It's fun." Demyx said before went into his wolf form with Axel.
"You want the ball?" Zexion asked as Demyx nodded and panted with a long tongue hanging out of his mouth.
"Uh-huh!" Demyx nodded.
"You want it boy?" Zexion teased, watching as Demyx's tongue and tail wagged.
"Yeah!" Demyx begged as he jumped up and down several times.
"SIT!" Zexion ordered strictly as Demyx obeyed. "Give me your paw. Shake! Now, fetch!" Zexion threw the ball up the stairs and into his bedroom where Demyx dashed to, knocking over a small table on his way before he slammed his overly excited body into the wall before tripping over stairs he tried to skip.
"He has way too much energy." Roxas shook his head.
"Can we play now?" Axel asked before Roxas nodded.
"Take the rope and play tug-of-war with Riku." Roxas suggested.
"Tug of war?" Riku wondered.
"Yeah, unleash your inner animal. Go wild, growl, bark; let yourself free!" Axel encouraged.
"If you ate the treats, I bet I can try." Riku said to Sora before he transformed himself.
"Alright, you take this end, and you take this one." Roxas instructed his boyfriend and Riku as they each gripped a different end of the rope. "Go ahead and count them off cutie." Roxas winked to Sora, who gulped uneasily.
"O-one, two, three!" Sora counted before Axel pulled on his end as hard as he could. Riku was certainly caught off guard as he started the match off to a bad start, nearly tripping.
"Kmm hnn," Axel gritted through his teeth that were straining to pull on the rope.
"Hnnn?" Riku wondered as he started to pull back.
"He's saying 'come on'." Roxas translated with a laugh.
"Yeah, Riku it looks like you're not even trying." Sora frowned, watching how Roxas smiled proudly at his boyfriend who was growling and chewing as he continued to tug like a true wolf.
"Grrrrr!" Riku took offense to Sora's disappointment before he used it as motivation. He yanked so hard that Axel had to take several steps forward to catch up.
"Go Riku, go!" Sora cheered as Axel started to fight back.
"Come on Axe, fight!" Roxas clapped for encouragement. Axel wriggled his mouth, loosening Riku's grip before the red-furred wolf jerked the rope completely out of Riku's mouth. "Good job babe." Roxas pet Axel as a reward for his victory.
"You did good too Riku." Sora smiled encouragingly as he pet Riku's back.
"It, it felt weird." Riku confessed.
"Hmmm, it looks like you're still resisting. Stop thinking like a human and just go for it." Roxas advised.
"It just doesn't feel natural." Riku fought back.
"He needs motivation." Axel licked a paw.
"Like what?" Sora wondered.
"Nothing gets a wolf going an internal hunger to chew, growl, and bark." Axel said before he nodded his wolf head to Roxas. The blonde stood up and took the brunette boy by the hips, holding their bodies right against each other.
"What are you," Sora started as Riku watched suspiciously.
"Mmmm, nice ass." Roxas smirked as he groped Sora's backside.
"Hey! Cut it out!" Sora fidgeted as Riku took a step forward.
"Get your hands off of him!" Riku shouted.
"No." Roxas scoffed before he squeezed his fingers.
"Ah!" Sora bucked his hips into Roxas' pelvis.
"You're liking this aren't you boy?" Roxas chuckled as Sora gripped the blonde's biceps.
"S-Sora," Riku panted.
"Mmm, I could just ravish this body, huh?" Roxas asked aloud.
"Don't you dare!" Riku shook with fury.
"Yeah? And what are you going to do to stop me?" Roxas asked with a smirk.
"I, I," Riku panted as his mind raced. He could feel an anger ignite inside him as he stared at the hands that were pleasing his boyfriend.
"You want me to stop? Make me!" Roxas dared and before he knew it, Riku's wolf mode switched on in a way it never had before. Without thinking, as if he were unable to access his human mind, Riku sprinted up to Roxas, grabbed his hand in his teeth, and began to bite without control.
"AH!" Roxas screamed as Riku continued to snarl with his hand in his mouth.
"HEY!" Axel jumped into the scene, tackling Riku, forcing him to release his hard grip on Roxas' hand by rolling on him multiple times as they wrestled on the ground.
"Ah, hoh, ehrm." Roxas grunted as he held one hand with his other.
The two wolves on the floor barked wildly at each other before Roxas began to slowly cry.
"Ah-Axe," Roxas panted in a whisper. "Axel," he repeated when he realized he was being ignored by the still fighting wolves. "Axel!" He shouted as his body trembled. The two wolves paused their battle to look at the shaking boy. "I'm bleeding." He said quietly before Axel let out a loud bark at Riku.
"You will pay!" He threatened before he pounced on Riku, biting and growling as Riku fought back.
"Stop it!" Sora said, frustrated with all the violence. Roxas took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and then turned to Demyx.
"Go get my wolf." Roxas said before he sat down.
"I'm sorry." Sora apologized on Riku's behalf.
"I asked for it." Roxas let out a deep sigh of pain.
"That's enough!" Demyx said in his human form with his boxers on. He snatched Axel's neck and forced him to crawl back to where Roxas was sitting on his usual loveseat.
"Riku you should apologize." Sora said quietly.
"I'm sorry I bite your hand too hard." Riku said uneasily.
"Sorry I upset you so much." Roxas whispered back.
"You better not touch him again." Axel said angrily as he transformed and dressed before wrapping Roxas' arm as the blood stopped flowing out.
"Your boyfriend started it when he touched mine!" Riku argued back.
"Let's just calm down, ok?" Demyx suggested.
"We asked for help," Sora reminded Riku.
"I didn't know he was going to do that!" Riku complained.
"But it worked." Sora said.
"Yeah, guess it did." Riku confessed.
"How did it feel?" Zexion asked.
"Powerful." Riku looked to Zexion, who nodded.
"Just got to learn to control it." Axel said. "That's always the hard part."
"But worth it." Demyx nodded.
"What's this?" Zexion asked as he reached into the grocery bag for the last item inside.
"Oh!" Axel rushed to the bag. "It's a cat toy." Axel pulled out a black stick with a feather and a bell at one end.
"Oooo, I want to play!" Roxas' eyes widened.
"I thought your arm was hurt?" Demyx asked.
"It's better now that Axel wrapped it. Please?" The blonde boy asked the redhead.
"Ok baby, go easy on your paw though, alright?" Axel warned as Roxas morphed.
"You want to play too baby?" Demyx asked Zexion, who gave a small nod.
"Sure." The teen mix changed into a cat and walked up to Axel, who held the stick as he sat in Roxas' chair.
"Come on sweetie, jump for it." Axel dangled it and raised it, teasing the cats who swatted at the jiggling bell.
"I can't reach it!" Zexion growled.
"It's too high!" Roxas whined.
"You can do it." Axel reassured as he lowered it a bit so the cats could reach.
"Do you want to play with them?" Demyx asked Sora.
"I'm ok." Sora shrugged.
"You sure?" Riku asked before he went to change into his human form with his boxers.
"He won't be able to resist this." Axel winked before he pulled something out of his pocket.
"What is it?" Sora asked with an innocent curiosity.
"It's a laser. Transform for me please?" Axel asked with a fake pout.
"Ok." Sora listened, resting in Riku's lap.
"Go get it!" Axel grinned wide as he turned the dot laser on and moved it about the carpet as Roxas and Zexion chased after it. They scrambled wildly back and forth, across the room, over the coffee table, and even jumped up the wall to try to reach.
"They're so cute." Riku admired as Sora fidgeted in his lap.
"You want to play too kitty?" Axel asked Sora.
"Kinda," Sora moved a paw in the air as he watched the laser fly about the room.
"Go after it." Riku nudged Sora forward, so the orange cat jumped on the ground. Axel held the laser still on the carpet as Sora sniffed it, pawed it, and then meowed at it.
"He is precious." Axel smiled as Riku did too.
"He really is adorable Riku." Demyx smiled.
"I love him so much." Riku said in adoration.
"Axe!" Roxas complained as the laser was stuck on the wall, too high for the meowing kittens that gathered beneath it.
"Jump." Axel advised.
"Mph!" Roxas grunted as he jumped on Zexion to get a better reach.
"Hey!" Zexion grumbled.
"Come on you three." Axel led the laser back to his feet where the kittens ran to and meowed impatiently.
"My good boy." Axel scooped Roxas up and snuggled the cat's tummy with his nose.
"Meow?" Zexion looked to Demyx who held his boyfriend lovingly.
"You want to cuddle too?" Riku asked Sora, who gave a meow of affirmation.
"You guys want to stay the night?" Axel offered as the three couples got comfortable on the couch, the human-wolf mixes and their cat boyfriends.
"I am getting a bit tired." Riku looked to Sora, who yawned.
"Do you guys want to sleep in animal or human form?" Axel asked.
"I might go into wolf form cause I'm cold." Demyx shivered.
"We have an extra dog bed." Axel jumped up and ran upstairs as Roxas curled up on a ball where Axel had been sitting, where the cushion was warmest.
"So, have you guys mated yet?" Demyx asked Riku.
"No, we haven't."
"I love mating with a wolf." Roxas spoke up. "They only take one lover, and it makes me feel special to know that Axel chose me." Roxas said to Sora, who looked to Riku.
"I want to be your one mate." He said eagerly.
"You will be baby." Riku petted Sora's fur.
"When?" Sora whined.
"Whenever you want to." Riku smiled.
"Here we are, three dog beds." Axel threw the giant dog beds off of his arms and onto the living room floor.
"Axe, they want to mate!" Demyx said enthusiastically.
"Right now?" Axel asked curiously.
"Well," Riku was about to reject when Demyx's energy interrupted.
"I recommend doing it standing up, it's my favorite position!"
"Nah, doggy style. Come on man, we are wolves after all it's in our blood." Axel argued.
"Yeah but topping when standing just feels so good." Demyx tensed his body with imaginative pleasure. "Makes me feel so manly." Demyx ran a hand down his chest.
"You are Dem." Zexion smiled up at his boyfriend.
"I love you baby." Demyx pet Zexion and was rewarded with a soft purr.
"So wait, you two haven't mated right?" Axel asked to be sure.
"No they haven't." Demyx answered for the couple.
"Hmm, well you know what they say about us wolves man, once you pick a mate, that's who you mate with for the rest of your life." Axel smiled proudly at Roxas.
"I'm a very lucky kitty." Roxas' cat eyes squinted.
"I'm the lucky one." Axel corrected.
"We can go to my house tomorrow; my parents will be at work until dinner time." Sora looked to Riku, who thought for a moment until he nodded.
"I want to the only mate you will ever take. I love you Sora, no matter what the laws say."
"Well if more people are willing to reach out like you two did, then maybe it won't be a law much longer." Axel shrugged.
"As long as we're careful." Roxas said, still sounding unsure.
"There's no way to be careful when you're breaking laws this big." Riku sighed, causing Roxas to frown.
"Let's just go to bed and get some rest, ok?" Axel suggested, turning on the fire place in the living room before he arranged the three dog beds around it in a half circle.
"Which one should we take?" Riku asked Demyx.
"Mine is the blue, Axel's is the red, so you and your precious kitty can take the green one." Demyx said, smiling at Sora, who was cradled gently in Riku's arms with wide curious eyes. "Can you meow for me, please?" Demyx begged since Zexion was already asleep.
Sora looked up to Riku, who gave a single nod with a small smile.
"Meer!" Sora's small teeth flashed.
"He is so adorable." Demyx gave him a single pet before he put Zexion down, then crawled into his bed. Zexion slowly opened an eye, yawned, and stretched as he realized that he was no longer being cuddled with. The cat stood up hazily and scuttled into Demyx's dog bed .The wolf was lying on his side, his paws extended lazily in front of his body as he began to snore. Zexion curled himself against Demyx's stomach, between his back legs and front legs, trying to keep himself warm with his fluffy tail as he balled up.
Axel shook his head before he carried Roxas to the center of his dog bed. He then morphed into his wolf form and circled his body against Roxas', keeping the cat warm.
Riku then looked to Sora in his arms with the light provided from the fire before he sat down in human form in the dog bed. He delicately set Sora's body against the outlining of the bed before he changed into his animal form, rolled his body into a ball with his nose tucked under his tail by his curled hind legs, and then looked to Sora. The orange kitten stood up on weak timid paws before crawling to Riku, who then lifted his head up to give Sora a place to lie. Sora snuggled right on Riku's hind legs, against the wolf's stomach, just before Riku laid his head on Sora's body gently to warm him.
"I love you." Riku whispered before he licked Sora's body. Sora purred loudly before he licked Riku's snout back.
"Love you too." Sora yawned as he purred and then fell into a deep sleep.
Author's Note: Yay another chapter, hope you liked it! I really wanted to write with them in their animal forms with some balance and plot line. So we see that Axel is trying to reach out, Roxas doesn't approve, and now Sora and Riku want to mate. Can you guess what the next chapter will be like? (insert inappropriate winky face) Hope you enjoyed reading it! Yes, there will be another chapter, but I'm planning on it being the last chapter of this story, so heads up!
To xXSokuGirl0615Xx: Yay, glad you liked it! Hope you like this chapter too.
To Bookgirl111: Oh, sorry, I was referring to your review on chapter 2, about possibly going after the writer (me) if Riku doesn't let Sora have a happy ending, so I was being sarcastic, sorry lol.
To SoRikuR0x: Oh yes, I am almost done with Can You Keep My Secret, I'm going to miss it! Such a fun experience, working with AkuRiku. Glad to know that you enjoyed reading it! Thanks for reviewing!
To babychela45: haha, yes, it was tricky how they had a secret relationship to save their real ones! One more chapter left!
To luckycat222: Yes, they are crafty to have such a great plan! Thank you for reading and reviewing and all of your support!
To Final Syai Lunar Generation: Aww, I'm glad to read your review and know that you enjoyed the adorableness of Sora. Soruku is a guilty pleasure of mine so I'm happy that you liked the kiss haha. Thank you for your review and your faithfulness to this story.
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