Kittens for Sale!
Dedicated to my precious kitty who inspired this in all of her crazy loveliness.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, they all belong to their respective owners.
Warnings: future slash, mentions of man on man crushes, swearing, and cat boys
Pairings: AkuRoku side:SoRiku, Zemyx, CloudSephiroth, and possible Cleon /past Cleon.
Summary: Bi-humanoids, Organization XIII's newest freak accident err- I mean scientific discovery, a cross between animal and human, sold to everyday folk as something a little more extraordinary than the average house hold pet. Better hurry and get one before they're all sold out. AkuRoku, others.
AN: So this is the first Kingdom Hearts story I've posted and it's an idea I've had in my head for a few weeks and I finally got some time to write it. This probably isn't the best idea, since school is starting up soon, but I've got two weeks of nothing going on so hopefully I'll get quite a start on it.
Chapter One: Riku's brilliant idea and Axel's missed climax
"Axel, I want one of these."
Axel, who had been intently staring at the T.V. not moments ago, suddenly had a face full of indiscernible glossy colors of a magazine page that was too close to his face for his eyes of focus in on. Sputtering because he was missing the highly anticipated climax of a show he had been following for the past 4 months, he shoved the thing away, only for it to come back almost immediately, this time do a dance in front of his face, following as he tried to look around it.
"God Riku! Just- wait a fucking minute will you! I'm about to find out if Jessica will chose Drew or Gavin but I can't see the fucking screen when you wave that fag mag in my face!" he grabbed the wrist that controlled the annoying thing and moved it out of his way. Alas it was a futile effort as Riku was not one to give up so easily.
"Dude, get your slang right, do you even know what a fag mag is?" Riku scoffed at his brothers ignorance. If he was going to talk the talk, the least he could do was get it right.
Axel shot him an annoyed look, "a faggot magazine? As in the shit you read, duh."
Riku shook his head. "No man, a fag mag means fag magnet which is a girl who-"
"Yeah, yeah shush I'm trying to watch this bro," he waved his hand at Riku, a clear dismissal. Riku just crossed his arms, jutted his hip out and started to tap his foot like the prissy little bitch he was. Axel, used to his younger brother's display, was immune and thus ignored the impatient silveret. This didn't sit well with the younger boy; nobody ignored Riku Norio.
"DAAAAAAAAD!"
Sephiroth, who happened to be passing by the living room on his way back from the kitchen, stopped when his youngest started whining at him, his eyebrow twitched as he felt the start of a headache. Sephiroth loved his children, but Riku's whining voice caused instant headaches from it's pitch alone and only meant impending trouble for him. Riku knew this and used it to his full advantage. Slowly, Sephiroth turned his head and looked over to his pouting, silver haired child.
"Yes, Riku?" he spoke calmly, hoping this would be over fast.
"Axel wont listen to me and I'm trying to tell him something important! It's a matter of life or death!" He went for the overkill, using the voice and the face, a combination so deadly that, when used against an opponent such as Sephiroth, it resulted in an instant K.O.. It was the perfect way to get him to cave easily.
Axel, who had been trying to ignore them both and hear his show, turned away, mouth hanging open as his face whipped around to face Riku then their father. "What! I said I'd listen AFTER my damn show was over ya stupid queen! Don't fall for his clever tactics!"
"Queen!"Riku squawked, feathers ruffled at the insult. "I resent that!"
Axel smirked and didn't offer a response, instead turning back to the TV only to make a similar squawking noise like Riku had before when he saw Jessica in the arms of Gavin, having just missed the big finale. The couple offered a few words of how happy they were and then the credits started to role. Axel threw up his arms and let out a dramatic 'Nooooooo!' before turning an accusing finger to Riku.
"This is all your fault!" pop
"No way! If you had just listened to me when I wanted you to this could have been avoided but nooooo" pop
"Not everything is about you Riku! If I tell you to wait so I can watch the end of my show you will very damn well wait!" pop
Sephiroth, who now had three angry little veins popping, finally snapped. "Enough!"he roared, causing the bickering siblings to snap their mouths shut and shrink back. "All I did was come out here to grab some coffee because I still have a few hours left of paperwork to do, I'm already stressed because I had to bring my work home on a Saturday again, and now I'm going to have to do it all with a pounding headache. To avoid making my day any shittier than it already is, I don't want to hear either of your voices for the next five hours, Here's a hundred bucks now get out of the house." and he turned and fled the room, silver hair swaying almost poetically in his dramatic exit, locking himself back in the confines of his bedroom, leaving the house eerily quiet.
Both Norio boys stayed quiet for a few tense seconds before turning to each other with glares.
"See what you did now?" Riku started in a harsh whisper, causing Axel to gape at him in disbelief.
"What I did? It was you and your whiny voice!" he whisper-shouted back, both jumping up and advancing towards each other, about to get into a full on brawl. Riku opened his mouth to respond when:
"GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!"
Both boys nearly jumped out of their skins and ran to get dressed before doing the smart thing and running out the door, scared for their lives.
"This is what I was trying to show you earlier," Riku explained, holding out the magazine to Axel, who took it from his eager hands. The brothers' bickering was a common occurrence, none of it was really serious so it had all blown over between them in seconds, despites Axel's bitterness at having missed the final minutes of The Bachelorette. Sephiroth's anger or the other hand wasn't so fast to simmer down, so they had no qualms about staying out of the house for the next while. They were now walking down the streets in the shopping district part of the town, looking through windows to find something to spend the hundred on. So far they hadn't been able to agree on anything yet.
Axel raised an amused eyebrow at Riku, "Covergirl's new line of eyeshadow? I knew you were a queen Riku but I never pegged you as the drag kind."
Riku punched his idiot of an older brother in the arm, turning the magazine over, "wrong side stupid."
Axel looked down to find some sort of science article, something he found to be a bit odd to be seeing one in a fashion magazine of all places. It was titled Bi-humanoid and to the left was a photo of a young boy with dog ears and tail, smiling with his tongue hanging out, head cocked to the side. "Okay... What is it?"
Riku sighed in exasperation at the red heads laziness, snatching back the poor, abuse paper and rolling it up, sticking it into his back pocket. "You remember hearing about Professor Vexen from Organization XIII?"
"Hm, was he the one who created those little pills that allow people to turn into merfolk so they can visit Atlantica?"
"Yeah that was him. Well recently he's been trying to fuse human and animal DNA and a couple years ago he had a breakthrough with some of the domestic animals that didn't just fuse the two species together but gave the creature the ability to switch back between forms! With further testing the Organization decided it was safe to mass produce them for house hold pets. They became available to normal folk like us about a month back." The more Riku talked, the more excited he got and the more not excited that Axel got.
"But isn't that a bit cruel? And isn't that kind of like slavery?" Axel asked wearily, the idea of these half human, half animal creatures didn't sit well with him.
"They're animal's Axel, not slaves. Pets. Creatures to be loved just like other pets. And they wouldn't mass produce the things if it hurt them. The creatures would probably be too unstable or afraid of humans to be proper pets," Riku stated matter-of-factly. Axel wasn't assuaged one bit.
"Did you talk to Dad about it?"
Riku waved him off, "Dad wont care. Besides, I think having a pet would be good for him, he needs to be more social and a pet is the perfect way. Aaaand, our neighbor, already has two of them, two male cats, Zexion and Demyx, and this would give dad the perfect opportunity to go start a conversation with him, wouldn't you say?" It was not secret to either boy that their father harbored a huge crush on their handsome, blonde, single next door neighbor. Axel had to agree that this would provide a perfect opportunity for their father to get back into the dating scene, preferably with their sexy, blonde neighbor.
Riku, being impatient, started to fidget as Axel thought about it, and quickly thought of something. "How about we go to the pet store and at least look at them okay? Then you'll have more to go on when you make your decision and I'll be more willing to accept it rather than flat out rejection."
Axel though for a second before agreeing to go, since Riku had a pretty good point there, and after all what's the harm in looking, right?
End note: you made it! Lol what'd you think? Was it good, okay, bad, so terrible you didn't even make it to the end? Lol It would be greatly appreciated if you leave a review to let me know what you think :)
Next time on KfS: Will Axel really go with Riku to the pet store? Will we find out what exactly these Bi-Humanoid things really are? Will Sephiroth get caught shaving his legs with strawberry scented shaving gel? Wait what? Why would that happen? Tune in next time to find out!
