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Househunters

Who:) and Roxas (

coolerthansora)
When: Some time later in the afternoon
Where: Axel and Roxas' apartment
Style: Prose, but I'll follow whatever's cool with you, bro
Status: Closed

After taking a day for himself to just... sort out his thoughts related to quite a few things, Axel heads back home late one evening and immediately crashes in his bedroom, barely moving until he finally stirs later on in the afternoon the following day. It's clear he was exhausted especially after all those nights not following a proper sleeping schedule, but now he feels... a little better rested, all things considered.

Deciding that he'd rather not wear his coat today, Axel opts for a simple tank top and a pair of jeans then walks out into the living room where he spots all three of the baby chocobos sitting on the couch together. Well... he supposes they're not really babies anymore since they're more or less the size of watermelons now. They can't burrow in his hair and they can't all fit in the bathtub with Roxas in there with them and when they try to play around on the floor they usually end up bumping into things and knocking them over on accident.

... Hm. Maybe it's about time he discussed something with Roxas.

Thinking it, he walks over to the couch to pat each chocobo on the head before he makes his way over to Roxas' room. He hasn't seen Roxas in a little over a day now, so he really should show his face.

"Yo, Roxas. You in there?"

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You know he does that at other times, though. When you aren't looking.

"No big deal." Bookmark retrieved, Roxas sticks it in between the pages and sets the book down on his pillow. "Okay. Let's get going."

As long as you're not shoving your hand under his ass too, you can do whatever you want, man. Whatever floats your boat.

With a nod, Axel stands up then starts to walk out of the room. There. Now you'll get a better view from here, Roxas. "Let's take the chocobos with us. Gotta make sure they'll like the place too. Right, kids?"

At that all three of the birds perk up then hop down from the couch to start flapping and jumping excitedly around Roxas and Axel's feet. Isa's the least bouncy of the three as per usual, but at least he still seems to be into the idea.

Come on, you might just like it if he grabbed your ass.

Hm. It does look pretty good in jeans.

Roxas follows him out, then laughs at the chocobos' reaction and reaches down to pet them on the heads if they'll stay still long enough. Which means he may have to settle for petting Isa. "I don't think they're that picky, but it's not a bad idea."

Popcorn jumps up and around Axel's feet to try and get his attention then with a laugh Axel reaches down to scoop the chick up into his arms. They may not be too heavy, but they are getting heavier now, gaining more pounds by the week. It'll only be a matter of time, he guesses, before they'll be almost half the size of their adult counterparts living in the chocobo barn.

"You think? I bet they'd hate it if we picked a place without a huge yard for them to run around in. Isn't that right?" he asks to which Sunset chirps below.

"They've been making do pretty well with just a hallway to run around in," Roxas says wryly. They're going to be tearing up the floors before long, too, with those talons they're growing.

Roxas straightens and makes his way towards the apartment door, Sunset and Isa chirping at his heels as though to insist they go find a good place with more than just hallways.

Axel carries Sunset all the way to the door, occasionally petting him on the head as he walks, but when Roxas says that the chocobo seems to protest, beating its wings and jumping down to join the other two. Heh. Looks like they're not ok with just hallways either.

"See? They want more than that, Roxas."

"Hey, we'll make sure they get it. We're gonna find someplace awesome."

Roxas steps out into the hallway, holding the door for Axel and the kids.

They'll just be forever known as their kids, ok.

The chocobos peep and cheep after Roxas as they follow and Axel steps outside along with them, hands at his hips. "Any idea where to start looking?"

"Hmm... Maybe there's some other big places around where Demyx and Faris live?" Their house is pretty gigantic. "Or we could see if there's anything close to the park. Then they'd have a ton of space to run around."

Demyx and Faris? Huh, he supposes it would be nice to do a little bit of searching around there to start. Shoving his hands into his pockets, Axel glances off in that general direction.

"Hmm... I guess they do kinda like the park, don't they?" he asks as he looks off in the opposite direction again. "Maybe we can start there and slowly make our way over."

"That works," Roxas agrees, turning for the park and motioning the chocobos along. "C'mon, guys." They know which direction this is, so it doesn't really require encouragement. They're going to the park!

After a little while, Roxas finally has to say something. "So- it seems like it helped, getting away for a bit."

The chocobos waddle along behind Roxas but at one point it looks like Isa wants to take the lead, moving up ahead of him since he knows where he's going and totally wants to show this off. Axel grins as he watches but then Roxas brings that up and he awkwardly looks away.

"Yeah... It was nice." He needed that time to sort out his feelings, he supposes. Feelings. Hm. "Sorry if I worried you at all."

Roxas slows his step just a bit for Isa to get ahead, smiling at the little chocobo's attempt at a confident strut.

"I wasn't worried 'cause of that. There's been a lot going on lately, and- I want you to be able to sort it out."

Axel knows that a little break for a day had been good for him, but at the same time the fact that he had to take a break at all bothers him. Is he really that weak? But he doesn't say anything about that and just nods, turning his head to face forward again.

"So, did you do anything while I was gone?"

"Sora came over to play video games," Roxas says. He hesitates, because he knows Axel isn't going to like it, but then adds, "Vanitas, too."

Aw, man, he missed out on video games? Those are always fun... when he's not getting super competitive and pushing at people to try and get them to mess up. But even that can be fun sometimes.

There's a pause, however, at the mention of Vanitas and Axel glances over at Roxas with a clear look of disapproval. "Did he invite himself?"

Axel wouldn't need to get that competitive with the wonder twins. Video games are not their forte.

"He always invites himself." Roxas thinks on that for a second. "D'you think if we actually invited him, he wouldn't want to come? You know, just to be- contrary."

Axel kicks a bit at the ground. He doesn't particularly like the idea of Vanitas being that close to Sora and Roxas considering what he's capable of... but if Roxas is still in one piece and unharmed now, then surely things turned out all right. Right?

"Mm, probably," he says with a shrug. "But if he doesn't want to, then I'd be fine with that, you know."

"He's not that bad these days," Roxas says, trying to put Axel a little more at ease about it. "Sora just really doesn't get along with him 'cause he's always acting like a jerk."

Folding his hand behind his head, Axel turns his attention towards the sky. Come to think of it, he hasn't interacted with Vanitas in a long while... but that still doesn't mean he couldn't be up to some kind of mischief. Man. Someone really should keep a leash on certain people in this place.

"I can imagine," he says with a sigh. "They're also practically mirror images of each other. It must be weird having to talk to someone like that and have them be so different, you know?" Like if he were to find his Other one of these days. Axel can only imagine how strange that would be.

It was a joke, but Roxas did suggest the leash idea to Kimblee.

"I think it still bugs Sora a lot, but... I dunno, I guess I've kind of gotten used to it." Roxas scratches his head and adds, "At least they don't look as much alike as me and Ven."

Axel shrugs as he turns a corner and spots a row of houses just up ahead. Excited, the chocobo chicks run along, leaving quite a bit of space between themselves and their pseudo-parents.

"Yeah. At least Ven isn't even around for mixups to happen, right? --Ah, hey! Slow down, kiddos!" Axel picks up the pace now since the chicks have run pretty far ahead.

"Yeah, that would've been awkward." Ven wasn't around long, but even in that short time it'd been weird having to correct people when they got the name wrong.

Roxas gives a start as the chocobos take off and Axel after them. "Ah, jeez!" He runs after so he doesn't get left behind. He didn't think the chicks would get this excited over houses, but... well, they're young, they get excited about a lot of things.

Axel chases after the chicks before at one point Sunset runs in front of Popcorn and ends up tripping, causing the two of them to go tumbling to the ground. MOTHERLY INSTINCTS AHOY.

As soon as he reaches them, Axel crouches down to untangle them and check that they're not hurt. Isa, meanwhile skids to a stop just ahead so he can waddle back over and see what all the ruckus is about. "Geez, you guys need to take it easy or you're gonna get yourselves in some real trouble."

Roxas catches them up and leans down, hands on his knees, to check the two birds. They look like they're doing just fine, their feathers just a little ruffled.

"You guys gotta learn how not to be such klutzes. You're gonna have a lot of room to run around and not bump into each other."

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