Omg, I'm so sorry to everyone I had waiting for this chapter! Things were going crazy over here, and with this plot...I had gotten a ton of new ideas, so...I had to revise everything. Luckily, the first two chapters can stay as they are. So things aren't going to be super clear...I apologize, but someone will shed light on them later in the story. v.v; And I accidentally lied; organization encounter next chapter. ;x

And also, another reason this took so long is that...

Your friendly neighborhood elephant has been trying really hard to make this into an actual fancomic (Doujinshi, if you wanna get technical.). ;3 Sooo, it's HARD. XD The chapters should start going at a smooth rate now. lol. Annnnnnnnnnd thank you so much to all who reviewed, please don't get discouraged by the crappiness of this chappie. I have a present for AkuRoku fans near the end? XD Those desperate resort to bribery, eh? Anyway, thank you all for reviewing, I love you guys. Please don't shoot me for this ugly chapter. I'm also sorry I couldn't personally reply to all of the reviews. D;

...So I totally just realized in the summary of this story, it says evil organization XII, instead of XIII. XDD Nice one, Lizzie. Nice one. -Smacks self.- Anyway... I present to you, Ladies and Gents, a craptastic chapter of:

Of Fallen Angels and Porcelain Feathers

Chapter 3

.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!Riku!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.

Riku had dozed off a bit watching Sora sleep peacefully. But now the boy was wide-awake, hopping about and exploring every crack and crevice just as he did in Riku's room. Riku watched him with an almost envious look. He wished he could be that innocent again.

"Riku…?" Riku felt poking on his arm, and looked over. He wasn't sure when Sora had gotten within such close proximity of him, but he didn't really mind. He was too busy staring into the azure pools that scanned him with what seemed to be worry, almost. Sora still cradled that bear still, he treated it like his own child and never let it out of his sight. Riku thought it was cute, like a mother hen and its chick.

But to more important things; like how Sora's eyes bore into his own intensely. Riku could've sworn Sora's eyes were looking straight into his soul—maybe that was one of an angel's powers? He allowed himself to dwell on that thought—in a matter of hours the responsibility of a boy; an angel was placed in his hands. Angel, huh? He's innocent enough… I just can't get over his wings; they're so…pure and white. Riku thought, looking at the appendages in question. They were folded to Sora's back at the moment, but they twitched as if feeling Riku's gaze on them. Riku remembered how it felt when his finger stroked the delicate appendage...and Sora's more than interesting reaction. What on earth had possessed him to do such a thing? He fought a blush, still staring at the wings. Sora must have seen him looking because he craned his neck to see what Riku thought was so interesting behind him.

Riku chuckled, ruffling Sora's hair. Sora grinned and it was so adorable that Riku nearly squealed, but it died in his throat and came out like a throaty squeaky, grunt. Sora raised an eyebrow at this noise, then giggled. Riku had never had so many consecutive urges to squeal, if any at all.

"Say…how's about going to the animal shelter?" Riku suggested. Sora cocked his head. "A-aminal…sh…" He got lost half way through the word, wrinkling his nose in concentration. "Sh…" Sora pouted, then huffed. Riku smiled. "Shelter. It's a place where animals who don't have homes, or lost their homes, wait for people to give them a home and a family." He explained, a bit slowly so Sora could understand him better. Sora tilted his head a bit. "Home? Family…?" Sora got a faraway, troubled look on his face and Riku felt sorry for him; the boy probably hadn't seen his family in a while, if he had any. Riku even sometimes missed his parents when they were on vacation, he didn't know if he could do without them altogether.

Wanting to escape the gloomy atmosphere, Riku stood and stretched. Sora mimicked his movements, grinning. Sora always seemed so happy, Riku wondered if half of the time he really was… "Well, let's find you some clothes." He started up the stairs, but turned back to the brunette who looked at him cluelessly while still holding the bear. "Coming?" Riku grinned. Sora grinned back and followed him happily.

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They got back to Riku's room, and Sora immediately ran to the bed. Riku leaned on the doorframe, confused as to what Sora was doing. Sora smiled, saying something to the bear—he assumed it was the angel speak Roxas told him about a little earlier—and Sora nuzzled its cheek with his own. He rocked the stuffed bear gently in his arms, humming a soft, unnoticeable lullaby. Well, it wasn't completely unnoticeable… Where had Riku heard the song before?

Sora giggled, kissing its nose and setting it with its head propped up on a pillow. Riku watched the display silently, hand over his lips. He resisted the urge to squeal, settling for smiling softly. Sora's gentle actions reminded him of when he himself was a kid and his mother took care of him…he really missed that (And apparently, so did his mother when she told him how she missed being able to pick Riku up and rock him back and forth. You couldn't pay her to do so now.). Sora was gonna make some woman (or man, who knows) happy some day… Riku, for reasons unbeknownst to even him, saddened at that thought.

Sora was so adorable, Riku still couldn't see the boy as anything but an angel. Sora pulled the covers over the bear, then bent down to give it another kiss.

Riku really, really wanted to be that bear.

"Riku!" Sora ran over and took Riku's hand—how could someone's hands be so soft?—and led him to the bear. He then looked up at Riku expectantly with those shining azure orbs. "What?" Riku asked lightly, raising an eyebrow. Sora seemed to think about his words for a while. When Riku was about to start naming different things to help the boy out, he looked up with a big grin. "Father!" He pointed at Riku, grinning proudly. Riku blinked once. Twice. Three times. One more, just in case.

"Pardon me?" It came out as a squeak. Sora found this amusing, giggling wildly. Riku nearly pouted, but he found it funny, a little… He guessed. He resisted the urge to chuckle. Sora looked back up at him, then smiled. "You want me to be it's father?" Riku asked, smiling very lightly (His jaw was hurting from smiling so much earlier.). He felt a slight blush creep across his cheeks. Riku was…flattered. Riku was very flattered. He'd never been asked to be anything's dad (And maybe that was a good thing…)so this was all a little new to him. Sora nodded vigorously, and this time Riku couldn't keep from chuckling. "Okay, I'll be its dad." He petted Sora's spiky cinnamon locks—So sooooffftt….—and the boy gave a pleased sound.

Sora seemed to be thinking again; probably of what he was going to ask next. He couldn't seem to find the name for it, though. Riku knew this because Sora tapped his forehead repeatedly, as if it would knock whatever he wanted to say to the front of his brain. Then he squealed triumphantly, as if a light bulb went off in his head. "Kiss!" He pointed to the bear. "You want me to give it a kiss?" Riku asked, amusement on his face. He didn't think he'd be doing that after he turned four—about the time he stopped playing House with Kairi. But Sora nodded rapidly, grinning.

"Alright, Sora." Riku chuckled, but leaned down and kissed the bear's nose. He realized that it was the same place Sora had kissed, and his lips tingled slightly when he raised back up. He felt so much like an actual dad with a newborn child, it wasn't even funny. Only Sora could make him do something like that… The boy in question smiled, laying his hand gently on Riku's arm. Riku looked at him, taking in the piercing blue eyes examining him. Sora was so beautiful, Riku didn't think it was even possible to look so angelic. Even for an angel.

The two of them looked at each other for what felt like hours—days even, to Riku. There was that look again in Sora's eyes. As if he were trying to peer into Riku's soul. What was he doing…? Suddenly, a warmth spread throughout Riku. It felt so comfortable, like someone was embracing him gently, but firmly. But there was no one touching him…only Sora's eyes, gazing into his, unblinking. Riku didn't know what it was, but it felt so good…

Hello, Riku.

Riku gasped, then blinked. It was as if he'd broken a trance or a spell, and the warmth disappeared (much to Riku's displeasure). Sora blinked rapidly, then looked up at Riku with a grin. Riku was confused now. That voice…it was Sora's, he was certain. But the smaller boy hadn't moved his lips once during that…whatever it was.

This was getting strange.

He would have to ask Roxas about this later. "Clothes!" Sora exclaimed, running over to the dressed. Riku began to smile; Sora must have remembered the word from last night. Riku smiled fully now, following the mysterious boy to the dresser (Sora was a very fast learner…). No, Sora was an angel.

"Yeah, let's get you some clothes."

.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!Roxas!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.

"Roxy, what's wrong? You have something on your mind. Don't try to say you don't." Roxas looked up from pouring dog kibble to the red-headed beauty currently arranging collars and leashes. "Oh, you noticed…"

"Yeah, so tell me." Electric green eyes shimmered playfully. Roxas sighed. "I'm just a little tired, that's all…" At his answer, Axel put down the leash he had been holding, and walked over to Roxas. He grabbed the seemingly younger male from behind in a tight embrace, burying his face in the dark blonde locks. Roxas' head tilted to the left just slightly, and he sighed gently. "I'll ask again. This time, the truth please." Roxas could hear the smile—or was that a smirk?—in Axel's voice. He hoped the taller of the two wouldn't keep this up; the last thing he wanted was to get in trouble for doing it in front of the animals. Doggy style, no less (Because Axel was kinky enough to demand such. And Roxas, by that time, would want it enough to comply).

"What's wrong with my Roxy?" Roxas tried to ignore the hot air that caressed his ear in favor of thinking of an answer. When he couldn't find a nice-sounding one, he settled for the truth. "The organization." He sighed, leaning back into Axel. The more Roxas fought it, the hornier he got and the more he needed it. But he wasn't horny (not much.)at the moment; he just needed to feel Axel's warmth, and that loving embrace and hear that mischievous voice. Axel frowned at Roxas' answer, angry and upset (Roxas felt his emotions very easily, no matter how hard the other tried to hide them). "The organization? Again? What happened this time," Axel's grip tightened on Roxas just slightly. Roxas knew Axel was still angry and upset about even being affiliated with the 'bastards' as he frequently called them. He was glad he'd fallen in love with Roxas before he'd done anything else with them; he'd told Roxas on many occasions how he was grateful for the blonde "rescuing" him.

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"They…they woke up Sora." Roxas looked down. "Sora? You mean, your brother?" Axel asked, shocked. Sora and Roxas weren't really brothers, but Roxas called Sora his brother because they were so close. So Axel called them brothers, too. He remembered, when he was with the organization (Even though he really didn't want to remember those things…), that they'd talked about awakening a…key. Sora was his name. But they said that they wouldn't touch him for a long, long while because if they woke him too early…he could destroy the whole world. Too late, and he could have died. Axel didn't take it too seriously, but now…

Now he was pissed. "I can't believe this. They're all idiots." Axel wanted to lash out, but he remembered Roxas'—and all angels'—sensitivity to emotions. Even though the blonde claimed not to be bothered as much as others, Axel still didn't want to do anything to make his love uncomfortable.

"They are idiots. Sora was awakened, but he escaped. Riku found him, so I've assigned Riku the duty of taking care of Sora…and vice versa." Roxas said in his usual quiet tone. Axel smirked. "You didn't tell him much about the whole angel deal, did you?" At this, Roxas shook his head. "He wouldn't have taken it like you did…especially with how Sora is. It would have been too much for him." Roxas sighed. Axel understood this, and left it at that.

He dwelled a bit on how he got from the organization to with Roxas. Axel was different—really different—from most humans. He could control fire. He'd been called many different things because of his ability—pyromaniac, arsonist, weirdo, freak…(he favored the first two very much.). The organization saw this, and decided he would be of great aid to them. They promised him many things, all of them fake. Promised him love, power, wealth. And all if he simply helped them take down a place that had wronged them for the same reason people on earth had wronged him—because they were different. So Axel agreed. He never did anything too wrong; dispatched a few heartless here and there, went on patrol a few times, helped with battle strategies. He thought it was all for good, until Roxas showed up. He was undercover, as Axel later found out, as an Organization XII member. Axel knew the second he laid eyes on Roxas, that he was in love.

So Axel and Roxas got close. And closer. And closer. And closer still. And then one day, Roxas told him everything; the truth. What the organization was doing, and what Roxas himself was doing. And Axel wanted to help. So when Roxas got all the information he needed, he left. But not before declaring his love for Axel, and Axel doing the same and promising to get out also. If they left at the same time, suspicions would rise. So Axel waited a while (spending his time falsely grieving.), and then he left, too. Axel went back to earth (With Roxas' help), and Roxas pulled some strings to become Axel's angel. Even though, in Axel's eyes, he would have been Axel's angel anyway. He'd been with Roxas ever since, helping all that he could. Axel felt as though he owed his life to Roxas.

"Axel?" Roxas looked up to see Axel. The red head had been uncharacteristically quiet. "Hmm?" Axel replied, snapped from his memories. "I told Riku he could bring Sora down here, is that okay?" He asked softly. Axel smiled, kissing his lover on the forehead lightly. "That's fine with me. I get to meet the infamous key that everyone's been talking about." Axel joked. Roxas chuckled—he'd told Axel once that aside from Sora and Riku, he was the only one that could make him laugh—kissing as high up on Axel as he could reach in his position. His kiss landed on Axel's neck, causing him to laugh. "If you wanted a kiss, all you had to do was ask." And Axel was serious when he said that; he loved nothing more than smothering his Roxy in kisses and cuddles. "Then, do you mind?" Roxas asked with a smile. Axel smirked. "Not in the slightest." And with that, Axel leaned forward to kiss Roxas' lips.

Axel swore he would never get tired of kissing Roxas—the blonde was so addicting. He heard Roxas sigh contentedly into the kiss, his hands going up to tangle themselves in his fiery mane. Axel loved it when Roxas did that. Roxas stood on the tips of his toes, trying to press their mouths together harder. Axel let out a ghost of a moan, pulling Roxas closer to him.

This was much better than organizing leashes.

Okay, AkuRoku make-out and fluff to apologize? I wanted to write more--MUCH more on those two makin' out, but...yeah. XD Distracts from the story. So, what was that thing with Riku and Sora earlier, you may ask. That'll be explained. And what of the song Sora was humming? Any guesses?! If you played KH (which one it's from is a secret), then you should know this song!

Soo, if you're wondering why Axel's reminisce on his organization days isn't detailed, it's because I'm putting the actual flashback up another time, and don't wanna put it now. Also, Axel's take may not be correct...it is only in his p.o.v., after all. ;3 Sooo, here is the end of the third chapter (excuse the crappiness of this one, please?). Fourth is comming your way! Certain orgie member appears! ;3 who can guess? Wish me luck on the art deal. XD Axel's hair is hard! D; lol.