A/N: Quick update here. Good morning and please, forgive me for this lacking chapter, but I wanted to update. The next chapter will be longer than this one, I promise. Read and review, pretty please? Thank you in advance, my lovely readers. :) Other than that, enjoy.

Chapter 9: Shower

After we got inside his room, he went over to his closet and pulled out some more clothes of mine and handed them to me.

"Thank you," I smiled and went into the bathroom and started to close the door behind me, but a hand stopped it from being shut fully.

I looked back and saw Axel's hand at the door. "Hold on. I'll join you," he said.

He walked inside with some clothes in his hands, too.

"You want to shower with me?" I eyed him curiously.

He nodded and said, "You heard Roxas, I have to keep you in my sight. Besides, a shower wouldn't hurt me, either."

"I guess, you're right." I smiled at him.

And I sat my clothes onto the toilet. He did the same.

He walked over to the shower and asked me, "Hot or cold?"

"Warm, please." I said and started undressing.

He turned the shower on and then undressed himself.

I moved over to the shower and moved the shower curtain a bit so I could climb in.

He joined me a few moments later after getting the towels out of the cabinet above the toilet.

The warm water burned against my skin, I hissed at the warm sensation for a second.

"Too hot?" He asked after wetting his hair under the water.

I shook my head and put my head under the water to wet my hair.

Axel handed me a loofah sponge that he put soap on for me.

I noticed that when he wet his hair that the water didn't mess his spikes up.

"Thanks," I said and took it from him and rubbed it all over my body.

He did the same with his own and rinsed off.

He then moved out of the way so I could rinse off, as well.

After rinsing off, I moved the curtain back so I could climb out.

But before I reaching over to pull the curtain he grabbed my arm.

I turned my head towards him in confusion. "What? I was just getting out," I said.

"We're not done in here, yet." He smirked.

I rolled my eyes and said, "Why not?"

"Because I said so," he said and pulled me towards him.

I shook my head at him. "No, I want to get out. Look, I'll dry off and get dressed in here and wait for you."

"What? And let Saïx come through and kidnap you while I'm still in here." He shook his head, "I don't think so."

I started to get aggravated at him and frowned, "I'll be in here still just outside of the shower. What's the big deal, Axel?"

"Fine. I'm already finished, anyway." He walked towards the shower knobs and turn it off.

I pulled the curtain back and finally got out then grabbed my towel. I dried my body off and wrapped the towel around my head.

Axel started laughing.

I turned around to face him. "What?" I asked.

"You look funny with it on your head." He chuckled.

I frowned and said, "Oh, shut up." And took the towel off my head.

He was blocking the toilet where our clothes were. "Can you move? I need to get my clothes."

"No way, you look better without your clothes on."

I shook my head, "Ugh! Stop being a pervert and hand me my clothes."

He chuckled then turned around and grabbed them turning back around and handed me them.

"Thank you." And I proceeded to put them on.

He shook his head after I was fully clothed. "I was right."

"Right about what?" I gave him a confused look.

"That you look better without clothes." He laughed, again.

"Will you stop?" I frowned, again.

He shrugged and said, "Okay, okay. Sorry."

"How about you put your clothes on instead of talking about others without theirs." I suggested.

"Some people like to be naked," he laughed.

"I don't, it makes me self conscious." I admitted.

He shook his head, again. "You shouldn't be self conscious. There's nothing wrong with you."

"Whatever, people will always have problems with themselves no matter what others say." I shrugged.

He didn't reply to that, but took off the towel around his waist and got dressed.

"Are we done in here?" I asked.

He nodded and walked towards the door then opened it.

"Come on," he said walking out.

I followed him out of the bathroom and I went to sit on his bed.

"What should we do now?" I asked.

He shrugged, "I don't know. What would you like to do?"

"To get out of the Castle and go somewhere else," I replied.

He sighed before saying, "I'm afraid, we can't do that. It's too risky."

"How is it too risky if you're there protecting me?" I asked.

He came to sit down next to me. "It just is, okay?"

"I'm just trying to understand is all. I wanted to see something else for once." I frowned.

I heard him sigh, again. "Look, I'd like to take you somewhere else instead of staying stuck here, but I can't."

"Why not?" I asked.

He grabbed my hands and looked into my eyes and said, "Kairi, I don't want to lose you."

"You're not going to lose me. I trust you. I trust that you can protect me." I said.

He stood up and nodded his head. "Okay, let's go."

I stood up with him and his dark portal appeared.

A/N:Going on an adventure with Axel seems like so much fun, but only if others don't get in the way. And damn Kairi for rejecting Axel's advances on her and his perverts jokes. I'll update soon, probably this upcoming weekend. P.S. Thursday is my birthday so party-party for this soon-to-be 22 year old. Haha anyway, I hope you all liked this chapter, even though it was shorter than usual. Maybe, I should have wrote a little smutty shower scene, but oh wells.