Chapter 3

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Axel grinned stepping into the house looking around. Most of the kitchen/dining area were somewhat unpacked. Smiling Axel stepped over to the dining room table gently scooting a box out of the way and placing the bag of food he had, opening the bag he removed one of the containers and handed it over to Roxas signature grin in toe.

"Nothin fancy just a simple burger with fries. Didn't know if you had any food allergies so I went with the basics."

Smiling Roxas accepted the box and peered inside mouth watering. "Heh, thank you. Sora's sort of OCDing over his room so I'll just take his up to him, if you don't mind that is." Looking up Roxas stared into Axel's venom eyes breath hitching slightly as he fumbled on his toes.

"Yeah have at it." Axel replied absentmindedly peering inside one of the boxes on the table gently poking around at its contents.

Nodding Roxas tightened his grip on the box and trotted out of the kitchen practically running up the stairs. Zigzagging inbetween the box maze that was the upstairs he opened up Sora's door gasping at the progress his brother had done. It was almost finished and… well it looked amazing.

"Hey Rox! You find the tools yet?" Sora bounced walking up to Roxas and sniffing at the air. "That's not tools smells good! What is it?" Sora asked tilting his head slightly.

"Axel brought over some food from his work, he's downstairs right now so if you want to join us have at it if not I'm going to con him into helping somehow heh" Roxas chuckled leaving the room.

"I'm good just bring me tools when you find them, why the hell they took the beds apart is beyond me!" Sora yelled after the retreating Roxas.

Sighing Roxas walked back to the kitchen surprised to see Axel sitting on one of the chairs lengthy legs gently crossed with picture frames occupying his lap. Confused Roxas walked up to the redhead to see which pictures he was looking at, sadly upon spotting them Rox retreated mournfully back to the kitchen and continued rummaging through the boxes.

"Nope get over here and eat before you faint." Not bothering to look up from the pictures Axel pointed to the chair adjacent to him as he set the frame he was looking at back in its box before picking up another.

"Wow… didn't realized you have a doppelganger that'll take some getting used to." Axel grinned turning the picture to Roxas who just stared at it longingly. "Coolest thing in the world to have twin so easy to screw with people's heads." Chuckling Axel turned the picture back to him to look at it closely.

Gently reaching out Roxas took the picture and looked at it. "That's Ventus." On the picture was Roxas and his 'doppelganger' Ventus arms around each other's shoulders identical expression with Sora practically jumping over them on their backs.

"So I know you have an older brother, Cloud. Note sure his age… or yours for that matter….. or Sora's." Axel droned on reaching out for the picture to return it to the box. When Roxas made no move to return the picture Axel looked closely at him seeing him lost in his thoughts. "Something troubling you Rox?" Concerned Axel placed his hand on Roxas's.

Coughing Roxas sat up, sad crystal blue eyes looking into Axel's before handing over the picture. "Cloud is 25, Sora, Ven and I are 19, we're actually triplets."

"So where is everyone then? If you don't mind me asking." Curious Axel leaned back in the chair adjusting his long legs before waiting on Roxas to respond.

"Mom's gone… died when I was 15, Dad I'd prefer not to go into. Cloud is in Europe for a while longer…" Roxas went silent as he looked down to his lap allowing a pregnant silence to fall over the two.

"Sorry to hear that. And Ventus?" Axel smiled scooting the food over to Roxas urging him to eat.

Without warning Roxas jumped up from the table and ran to the entrance of the kitchen, "I'm going to the bathroom I'll be back." Without another word Roxas took off feet gently thumping with his steps.

Sighing Axel looked back down to the picture wondering if he somehow upset the blond… He didn't think he said anything out of line. Unless there was this triplet feud thing going on he didn't know about… The entire situation was too confusing for him, sighing again he looked back to the picture studying the identical boys looking for something to tell them apart. 'Roxas has prettier eyes that is for sure' Axel thought studying closer. 'Wait what? Why the hell did I think that?!' taking a breath Axel put the picture back down looking up to the doorway where Roxas left longingly.

No sooner did he look up Sora bounced through the door grinning to Axel. "Thank you so much for the food definitely hit the spot! Last time we ate was when we were on the road hehehe" Walking over to the trash and dumping the remnants before walking over to Axel. "Whatcha doin?"

"No problem spikey happy to oblige." Grinning Axel picked up the picture once more, "Just snooping through your personal belongings while Roxas plays around." Turning the picture to Sora Axel grinned.

Same as with Roxas, Sora's face saddened tears welling up in his blue orbs. He stepped forward taking the picture from Axel before rubbing his thumb over Ventus's face in the picture.

"Alright, that is the second time I've gotten that reaction from that picture. Spill" frustrated Axel shifted in his seat pulling his knees to his chest resting his face gently on them.

"Yeah that's to be expected. Ven… he…" Chuckling awkwardly a tear escaped Sora as he shifted his eyes to the floor. "He…"

"He's dead." Roxas interrupted from the doorway arms crossed, eyes trained to the floor threatening to spill.

Axel stilled, a lump swelling up in his throat as his mind went numb, "I'm so sorry… I didn't know… I.." 'What should I do? I have to fix this' Axel panicked quickly jumping up from his chair and rushing over to the blond gathering him up in his arms and burying his face in the crook of Roxas's neck. "I'm so sorry" Axel whispered a tear slipping down his cheek dripping onto the blond.

Sniffling Roxas squeezed his eyes shut attempting to force the tears back as he roughly hugged the red head back hugging him with an unknown strength. Sora stared at the two from across the kitchen, hand placed tightly over his mouth to muffle his sobs, no one had ever reacted quite the way Axel did. Usually they just take pity or just brush them off Axel on the other hand was physically mourning with them even though he didn't know them at all. It was a nice change.

"I'm going to go finish my room up. I found the tools in Cloud's room so if you want them come get them" Sora said quietly as he went to walk past the duo. He let out a surprised yelp when a lean lengthy arm roughly pulled him into the hug squeezing them tightly.

Taking a deep breath Axel stood up patting the twins on their back before taking a step back. "Alright I'm done being a girl and crying now, let's occupy ourselves differently! Who wants help unpacking?" Axel said placing a halfhearted grin on his face.

"I'm just about done with my room, Rox hasn't even started. He'll need it or he'll be sleeping on the floor tonight." Sora smiled before walking out of the room quietly.

"I'm just going to assume your room is somewhere near Spiky's over there so I'm going to follow him. You bring your food up and join me." Axel turned out of the room following Sora up the stairs and sneakily giving himself a tour of the house. He walked into Sora's room to see it done, other than cloths needing to be put up that is. He had his bed placed in front of the long window and an entire wall clear of any items which seemed unusual, until he noticed that the wall was a drawing board. "Wow this'll come in handy" Axel smiled looking to the brunette.

"Spoken like a wise man, go through the bathroom and you'll get to Rox's room" Smiling Sora shooed him out of his room.

"Alright, alright I'm going no need to push!" Axel smiled walking through the bathroom and into Roxas's room.

It hadn't been touched, no boxes were opened and everything was stacked in the center of the room. Clapping his hands together Axel walked forward to examine the labels on the box before gently sliding them into sections. Once he had all of the boxes labeled 'bed' he began the task of opening and assembling, after retrieving the tools from Sora. He was halfway through assembling the bed when Roxas entered the room eyes still trained on the floor.

"You don't have to help you know, I'm capable of doing it myself" Roxas mumbled pulling a box labeled 'books' over to the bookshelf and opening it.

"Never thought you weren't, but I'm bored and no one is home and I'd rather help you two unpack than sit on my butt all night" Axel replied focusing back on the bed. "Besides, I'd like to be your friend and can't really do that without putting forth the effort."

"You're something else" Roxas chuckled as he began unpacking.

"You love it" Axel grinned back.

Sorry but this chapter is going to be short and my hopes of having a huge selection typed out on this trip is just not happening. 7 hour car drive with a 1 month old and all these people are just driving me crazy. But I digress I'll type them up when I get home and can get a break from the crazy people.

Make sure to review and tell me if you even like this story because I'm not quite sure it is any good. X_x

queen of beyblade: Yeah but this trip is just crazy now x_x