A/N:Yay, thank you for the reviews. XD The help speed up my urge to update, so huzzah. Fairly light-hearted-but-at-the-same-time-plot-heavy chapter. :D Actually, in all honesty, I want to put a bit more…Kingdom Hearts-y plot somewhere farther into the story, but don't want one just yet. Still, I'll be focusing on the important elements in this fanfiction-the AkuMine, and their new daughter. Ooh, and you'll be seeing Demyx and Roxas in this chapter. XD
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Axel's teal-colored eyes stared in surprise at the blonde in front of him, surprised at how she hadn't changed much. Sure, she looked a lot older now, not as small and helpless like she used to be. After 13 years, seeing her again, right there was just so…new.
"When did you get here?"
"I…um. Just arrived."
"Well…" Axel looked at Namine, then at Yumi, then back to her. "This is definitely something I want to ask about."
"Yeah…I sort of figured."
"Let's just go inside first."
"...sure."
///Flashback///
Axel entered the room, blinking in surprise at how…white it was. Marluxia had come up to him, and had given him the task to watch over the memory witch. Marluxia's new title of being Lord of Castle Oblivion was getting to the flower-boy's head, it was sickening. Still, how hard could it be to watch the witch? Last he heard, she was afraid of everyone, and barely talked. So, fairly easy task. Not much to worry about.
He noticed the blonde in the corner of the room look up from her sketchpad, her eyes widened in fear at the sight of him. He could almost laugh at the expression on her face, it was as if he was going to kill her right then. Still, he didn't exactly want to give of the impression that he was a complete ass. Wasn't really his style.
"So, I'm guessing you're the memory witch Marly was talking about."
She blinked once, and slowly nodded, as if reluctant because a wrong answer would lead her to get beaten or something.
"I'm Axel, commit it to memory."
"I-I'm Namine."
"Look, I'm not going to beat you up like Larxene or Marluxia probably do, so you can stop shaking in fear."
This brought a small smile to the blonde's lips, and she nodded. "T-thank you."
"Meh, not like not beating you up is a favor, you don't need to thank me. So, what're you drawing?"
"Um…n-nothing." She quickly tried to close the sketchpad, but was stopped by the pyro who had quickly made his way over there, and was peering over her shoulder. "Hmm. Not bad, Namine."
Namine. She wasn't used to being called by her name, Larxene and Marluxia usually just called her witch(unless, of course, Marluxia needed something,then he'd call her "his favorite witch"), so being called Namine for once was refreshing.
"Thanks."
"Hey, look. You didn't stutter. I think we're making progress." He shook his head, an amused smirk playing on his lips as he brushed back his hair. "I'll be over there in case you need something."
"Why are you so-"
"Nice to you?" he shrugged. "I don't know. I feel like it. Why, do you want me to be a cruel bastard?"
"N-no."
"Then it's settled."
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Demyx entered his apartment, back from his job by the pet shop. True, it didn't pay as much as other jobs, but it payed rent, and he actually had fun taking care of the animals there. And he didn't get yelled at all the time for being horrible at it, like he used to get scolded at when he was in the Organization.
A knock came from the door, and the mullet-head turned around, and opened the door a bit, to see the owner of the apartment, with the usual scowl on her face. Uh-oh. Bad, he still hadn't gotten his pay-check to pay the rent right now.
"Hi there, Mrs. Pea! What're you here for?"
"Your rent, Demyx."
He put his hands together and tried to put on his best please-forgive-me-look. "Please, Mrs. Pea. I don't have my paycheck yet. Can't you give me an extension? Just for a few days. I'll pay the rent, I promise!"
A sigh came from her as she rubbed her temples in exasperation. "I don't think I can remember a time when you paid your rent on the actual date you have to. Alright. 3 days."
"Yay! Thank you, Mrs. Pea, thank you!"
He closed the door when she left and sighed in relief before going off to the small kitchen to heat up some instant ramen.
If any of the other Organization members were still alive(he had no idea, and he didn't even know if "alive" was the right term to describe them), he bet they would hate living like normal humans. He didn't. In fact, somehow, he enjoyed the simplicity of it all. He never really enjoyed going around and fighting anymore, this peacefulness was a nice change.
The phone rang, which was strange seeing as he rarely got calls at this hour(or at all, actually), so he put down the bowl and picked it up.
"Hello. Demyx here."
"Demyx? Are you doing anything today?"
The mullet-head nearly dropped the phone right there. That was Axel…wasn't it? Or was he just imagining it?
"Axel?"
"Yeah, so are you doing anything today?"
"…No. Why?"
"Why don't you come over, I'll explain when you're here." He gave his address before saying goodbye and hanging up.
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"Mom, Dad. I really don't need a baby-sitter. I'll be good. I'm 13! I can take care of myself."
"Axel, she's been fine on her own back in Destiny Islands. She doesn't need a sitter."
"Trust me, Namine. If she really is my daughter, she'd probably sneak out and follow us."
"Dad!"
"Okay, but does she really need both Demyx and Roxas to watch over her?"
"Has she inherited my pyrokenesis?"
"…" Namine turned to Yumi and frowned slightly. "Is that why you constantly burn what you try to cook?"
"So , that means she needs two sitters to keep her from getting out and following us."
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"Wow…Axel, I have to say. This news is…huge." Demyx looked at Yumi, Namine' and Axel, taking in all of the resemblances. I never would have guessed that you and Namine…"
"Roxas, you know what to do, right?" Namine looked around the house, worried.
"Yeah. Don't worry, she'll be fine."
"Don't wreck the house, please. We'll be back in a few hours. Yumi, please. Don't try to burn these two."
"Dad, I don't even have any powers."
"Still. Don't burn them." And with that the pyro and the memory witch closed the door and left.
But hey, he didn't say anything about giving them complete hell, right?
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"So…are you sleepy yet, Yumi?"
"No. I'm hungry."
"Oh…er. Well…I don't know what we have…"
"I want apple pie."
"I don't think Axel has any…"
"Then bake me one."
"Uh…I don't know how to bake…do you, Roxas?"
"No."
"I want apple pie."
"Uh..okay. Demyx, help me look around for ingredients."
The two former members of the Organization looked around the kitchen, rummaging through cabinets and drawers for pie ingredients. There were very few.
Roxas dug into his pocket and took out a few bills. "Okay, I'm going to run to the store and get some ingredients, you watch Yumi."
"Why do I have to watch her? She scares me!"
///Flashback Scene///
Namine was putting the finishing touches on her drawing when someone entered the room. She looked up to see Axel, whose eyes were looking around the room, a slightly bored expression in them. It was only his second time watching her, but somehow she was fond of him. She definitely preferred him to Marluxia or Larxene. At least he was more or less nice to her. He put a tray of food down on the table in front of her.
"Here. Flower-boy said you'd be hungry by now. So dig in. Not exactly the best of food, but it won't kill you."
She gave a small laugh before looking at the food, and starting to take a few bites of it.
While she was eating, he picked up the sketchpad she had left on the table, and, before she could protest, started to go through it, nodding a bit. "You must get really bored in here."
"Well…there's not much to do."
He looked around the room and smirked. "Yeah, I figured." He paused and his smirk slowly left his face as he came upon a drawing of a person with spiky, flaming-red hair, and bright, teal-colored eyes, and an amused smirk on his face. Who else could it be but him.
"What is this?"
"…Oh. Uh…"
There was a dangerous glare in his usually bright eyes. "Have you been messing around with my memories, witch?"
"What? N-n-no!"
He slammed his hands on the table, his eyes glinting with a frightening anger. "Tell me the truth witch! What have you been doing?! You think I don't know about your ability to fuck-up people's memories? Answer me!"
"I-I haven't done anything!" tears brought on by the fear she was feeling filled up her eyes, and she couldn't even stand to look up at the angry pyro in front of her, scared of what he might do if she did.
After some long, painfully silent and slow minutes, Namine sensed that his anger had cooled down, and she tried to stop herself from shaking as she slowly looked up. He was looking away, a blank look where the anger once was in his eyes.
"Are you done eating yet?"
"…no."
"Hm. You just eat. I'll be over here." He walked over and sat down by the chair in the corner, his arms crossed as he watched the memory witch reluctantly start eating again.
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"Okay, so…uh. We need to beat two eggs…" Demyx cracked the eggshells and put the eggs into the bowl.
"Beat?" Roxas frowned and looked over the Melodious Nocturne's shoulder, trying to read the recipe on the book he had bought. "How do we beat eggs?"
Yumi walked over to them, and held up an egg beater. "You use this. You have to plug it in first though."
"Oh...Demyx, help me look for a plug." Roxas looked at the egg-beater before putting it down by the bowl.
Idiots.
A smirk that was almost identical to her fathers was on her face as she walked over to the egg beater, and put the switch in the "high" setting, and walked away.
"The plug is over there by that cabinet." She said, turning her smirk into an innocent smile.
"Oh, thanks."
Demyx plugged it in, and the eyes of the two nobodies widened when the egg-beater started up, splattering egg everywhere in the kitchen.
"Suddenly, I feel like drinking a smoothie instead of eating pie." Yumi piped up as she entered the kitchen.
"W-what?"
"I'm thirsty."
Demyx looked around, almost looking like a kid who had just been scolded for spilling milk. "B-but…"
Roxas sighed. "Never mind Demyx, let's try to make that smoothie."
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"I think that's all…now we just need to blend it…" Roxas double-checked what it said in the recipe book before nodding. "So we just press this button, and wait-"
"Hold on! Where's the top of the blender?"
"…Oh. Uh…"
The two started to look everywhere in the kitchen for the top-part of the blender, and were so absorbed they didn't notice Yumi enter slowly, and turned the blender on before running away from the contents of the not-blended smoothie that was scattering everywhere.
"…Roxas, I think Axel's daughter is the devil incarnate."
"…I'd have to agree with you on that one, Demyx."
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Namine and Axel were walking along the streets of Hollow Bastion, taking in the silence. Other people who happened to pass by stared. After all, the two beside each other were pretty contrasting. One was delicate and looked fragile and harmless-the other looked dangerous, mysterious-and definitely someone you wouldn't want to mess with. Maybe there was a charm in seeing such two different people together.
"So you had no intention of telling me I had a daughter, huh?"
"You were pretending to be dead."
"…So what are we going to do about her?"
"Are you sure you're going to accept that you have a daughter?"
"What do you want me to, pretend like this never happened?"
"I don't want to force you into doing something that could change your life…"
The pyro let out an amused laugh. "Finding out I have a daughter is already pretty life-changing, don't you think, Namine?"
"But…I mean…"
"I know. But I'm not going to just leave her."
"Then what?"
"I want to see her grow up. I already missed the first 13 years."
"But she's used to Destiny Islands by now."
"Well, I guess I'll move there, then."
"…Axel, are you sure?"
"Yeah…"
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*around an hour later*
"Wow…she looks so harmless when she's asleep." Roxas let out an exhausted sigh as he collapsed on a nearby armchair as Demyx closed the door of the only room where there was a bed.
The house was a mess. Apparently, Yumi had inherited her father's love of fire, and had decided it would be funny to light a match and throw it on the ground, which had caused the two to frantically run around, long enough for the fire to get bigger, until Demyx had the sense to use his powers to try and extinguish the fire.
The thing was that it had been a while since the Melodious Nocturne had used his powers, and when he summoned his Sitar and tried to use his it again, it had caused a massive flood of water, so now everything was damped and the furniture had moved to different places because of that flood.
"Yeah, but Axel's going to kill us when he sees this mess."
"We better clean it up before-"
They heard the front door open, the voice of the pyro and the memory witch coming from the nearby hallway, and the two nobodies got up, a panicked look in their eyes as they turned to see Axel enter the room.
"Okay, so what-"
He stopped mid-sentence and looked around the room, his eyes slowly filling with confusion, then anger.
"What the hell happened to my house?!"
"A funny question Axel, one which…we can't answer right now."
"Why not? Everything's wet and messed up!"
All four of them(Axel, Namine, Demyx and Roxas) looked up as Yumi stepped out of the room, looking sleepy as her eyes scanned the living room.
"Dad? What happened here? I was just sleeping ever since you guys left, and-"
Demyx and Roxas' eyes widened, and they stared at the 13-year-old redhead. "W-what?! You weren't, you were-but-we-"
"You know what, Demyx? Let's just run." Roxas shrugged his shoulders in defeat.
"You two have ten seconds." Axel crossed his arms as Demyx and Roxas started running away.
A/N: Hey guys. :) So there's chapter 3, an odd mixture of serious and random drabble scenes. So yeah.
More AkuMine and other stuff to come. XD Please review!