Hello c:

This is my new story 3 i've decided to submit it cause one of my wonderful friends took her time and beta read it for me 3

This is mainly Akuroku, but there is some Riso in here and there might be some zemxy later on c:

Also im submitting this as T rated but there's some cuss words so im not sure if i should bump it up to M or not?

Hope you enjoy the first chap. 3

Disclaimer:All charecters belong to Square Enix and Disney .-.

Also don't read this if you don't like Yaoi. It makes no sense if you do...

"Hey Roxas wait up" I could hear my brother shout from behind me

"Hey Roxas, wait up!" I could hear my brother shout from behind me. I looked back to see him running to me. I slowed my pace and waited for the brunet.

"Thanks." He barked when he caught up with me. Yes I did say bark, at the moment we were both shaped as dogs. We're mutts; we come from a long line of shape shifters. Grandpa was a fox, Grandma was a Phoenix, Dad was a wolf and Ma was a ferret. They could only transform into that one animal and had a human form. I and my twin brother could both transform into three forms, four including our human. My forms include a white husky; which I was currently in, a white and blond ferret, and a white, red and black fox. My name is Roxas. My twin could be a brown and white husky, which he was now, a red and gold phoenix and a brown wolf. His name is Sora.

"You know I'll wait for ya!" I laughed as I began to walk down the streets paved with stone. We live in a world where cars and electronics weren't around. We knew what they were because our father travels to many worlds. This world is by far my favorite. It was like an old England town, with hills in the background and the ocean forward.

"Oh yeah like you waited for me when you just randomly started to run off" Sora said as he came to my side and walked at my pace. We could freely walk around in our dog forms. Though we had to make sure no one was around when we transformed back to our human forms. We could have just walked around in our human forms but sometimes it's just cooler being a dog. They have better senses, like smell and hearing, and you can get through a crowd a lot better.

"Come on, let's race home!" I could see our house from where we were.

"Nah let's just take our time. We're leaving here in two days." He was right. Father had business to attend to.

"Yeah, guess your right. I really like this place too." I frowned a little. Then a gunshot rang through the town. Both me and Sora jumped at the loud noise. We looked back toward the docks as many people came running towards us.

"Pirates!"

Many were screaming that title as more shots were unleashed and many of the people dropped, dead.

"Quick, we need to get home!" Sora shouted, we then went into high gear running for our house. We reached it but as we did a fire started on the roof of the next house to ours and quickly spread to ours.

We ran inside, for the door was open.

"MOM! DAD!" Both I and Sora yelled not even bothering to transform into our human selves. The flames had already spread to inside the house.

"Roxas, Sora!" Me and Sora looked to the right to see our dad in his wolven form standing through a door that lead underground where the pirates and fire could not reach. Mother in her ferret form clung to his head. Sora ran in front of me towards them. I ran after him but I had inhaled too much smoke and started to cough uncontrollably.

"ROXAS!" My father yelled, Sora was already looking back at me by father's side, fear in his bright blue eyes. I then darted to where they were, but then I heard a shaking from above. I look up to only see the roof start to cave in. I just stood in fear, my fathers and brothers yells not even registering in my mind. Then all went silent and ever thing stopped. I looked at my family.

"I love you." was what I breathed before I felt wood and fire claim my body.

"I guess my summer vacation ends here." I then blacked out. I knew that I would ether be crushed to death or burned to death.

I had a dream as I waited for death. It was me and Sora when we were just little kids. Merely 5 years old. At the time we lived in a city. There were huge sky scrappers and it rained all the time. Me and Sora had wandered away from mother and were just walking down an ally. We were both in our human forms. We were not wet though; mother had given us an umbrella to keep us dry. We walked by a dumpster and saw two boys maybe two to three years older than us. They were wet and their clothes were ripped and torn. One had fiery red hair and one had silver hair. The two just sat there and looked at us.

"Here." I said as I gave the two our umbrella. Sora was about to do the same thing as me but I beat him to it.

The silver haired one took it and looked at us confusingly. This was a rough city and giving away anything no matter how old you were was rare here.

"Why are you giving us this? You don't even know us." The red head said this time.

"We can't accept this for free." the silver head said as he tried handing it back to me and Sora.

"It's not free." Sora said with a smile.

"We have no money to pay you with." The red head said shaking his head.

"Money is not what we want." I smiled as I realized what Sora was doing.

"What we want is to know your names." I said with a toothy grin.

"And for you to be our friends." Sora did the same as me. The two older boys looked at us confusingly.

"My names Riku," said the silver haired one "and this is Axel." The two then went on to explain that they were orphans and lived in an orphanage but had run away yesterday. We sat and talked for a few hours it seemed like but then mom found us. She hugged us and then took Axel and Riku back to where they came from saying it was from their own good. She then took us home. We lived in the town for three months before we left and every day till our last we went and visited Axel and Riku. Riku and Sora got along very well as did I and Axel. Both I and Sora cried when we had to tell them goodbye. Riku cried as well but Axel didn't cry.

"Why aren't you crying?" I remember me saying to him as I sniffled.

"Because I know I'll see you again." He grinned at me, his two front teeth missing. He always made me laugh. I hugged him before mom came and picked me and Sora up. As we drove away I could see Riku crying into his sleeve while Axel just stood there smiling at me. I stared at him till I couldn't see him anymore.

The dream was bitter sweet and left my heart pounding.

A tear feel down my face. I then realized how could I be crying if I was dead? That's when I came to.

I opened my eyes and looked around. I could smell sea salt water and when I looked up I saw some sea gulls. Then my brain registered where I was. I stood up on all fours, as I was still in my dog form, and ran to the railing that I saw. I looked down and saw water. I was on a boat. I backed away from the edge and looked around. I then saw a dirty blond boy run up to me.

"Hey you're awake!" He cheered as he petted me on my head. I really hated being petted. I growled softly at him but it was unheard or ignored.

"Hey Axel, He's awake!" he yelled.

"Wait did he say Axel? Ha, the irony that he said that name." I smirked I had just had a dream about my old friend and first crush who's name was Axel.

I heard foot steps and looked at where the human was. It was to a pair of stairs that went below the deck. I then saw the man named 'Axel' come up onto the deck from the stairs and walked over to me. He was tall; coarse every thing less than 3 feet was tall to me in this form. He had red hair just like my Axel. He had emerald eyes just like my Axel. And he had black triangles under his eyes.just like my Axel.

"Wow, this irony is getting a little annoying." I grumbled.

Axel let out short laugh as he kneeled down and stroked my head.

"He's a cute…dog…creature" "Who doesn't know what a Husky is gosh"

"Hmp, I'm a husky thank you very much. Stupid human." I laughed. I knew they wouldn't understand me. Just hear me bark. I felt weird though when I looked at their faces. Both had stopped petting me, eyes opened and mouth's opened. I gave them a confused look.

"God what's up with these humans? Maybe they've been at sea to long." I shook my head at the two.

"Oh right sea, gotta find a way off this ship" I walked away from the two and began to walk towards the edge.

"Holy shit!" I heard the red head say but paid no attention to it. I needed to find a way off this ship and see if Sora and my family were still alive. I then felt two strong arms reach under my front legs and pull me up. He brought me to eye level.

"He looks just like…"

"RIKU!" Axel shouted as he ran over to the man holding me.

"... okay the Irony is getting old now." I snorted.

"Did you hear him to?" The blond said as he walked over to Riku as well.

"Yes, Demyx. It surprised me" Riku said with a look of interest in me.

"What is up with you humans? Haven't you ever heard a dog bark?" These humans were just too weird. I mean all they heard was bark bark bark, not like they understood me.

"Hey dog." I looked at Riku.

"What." I barked, still thinking all they could hear was a bark.

"I'm pretty sure you haven't realized this yet but we can understand every word your saying. You're not barking, you're talking plain English." I raised an eye brow at the silver head.

"Ha, I highly doubt that's true. I've never been able to talk human in this form before." I couldn't believe him. I've tried talking human in this form before, it didn't work to well. I struggled enough and got out of his arms. I licked my paw. A trait from my fox side.

"What do you mean by form?" Demyx said as the three looked at me. I then completely froze my actions. I then slowly turned my head and looked at the three.

"How'd you know I said that?" I said still looking at three. There's no chance that they can really understand me. Could they?

"For the second time you're not barking as you think you are. You are talking plain English." They could! They could really understand me. I was surprised at that but just shrugged it off. I had been around many abnormal things to let this get to me.

"Or maybe you're just speaking dog." I said again as I stood on all four and faced them.

"Highly doubtful." Axel said.

"Hmp well then I guess I can speak English in this form. New things happen every day." I said as I yawned.

I looked at the sail and saw a black flag swinging in the air.

'So they're pirates, wonderful."

"So mister doggie, whatcha mean by forms?" Demyx once again said.

"First don't call me mister doggie." I rolled my eyes. "My names Roxas and don't expect me to answer your question." I snorted.

I thought I had been killed, I was on a boat with a bunch of pirates and apparently I was speaking human, why be nice to them.

"Hey we saved your butt back at that island. So you should be at least nice to us" Riku said as I turned away from them. I guess that was a good reason but at the moment I just felt like being a bastard.

"And did I ask you to? No." I simply said as I walked away from the trio.

"Well if that's the case." Axel came up to me and picked me up and held me over the railing. "How about we just throw you over board and leave you to die." I squirmed a little then realized that I might as well accept all I had gone through.

"Fine I'll be nice, just don't drop me!" I barked as he took me back over to safety and put me on the ground, in front of Riku.

"So you gonna tell us now?" Riku said as he looked at me.

"Can we go somewhere more private? I would rather it be that few people know."

"We can go to my room." Axel said as he walked down the stairs he had emerged from. I followed with Riku and Demyx behind me. Axel stopped in front of a room and opened the door. I stepped in and watched the three humans come in. Axel locked the door since he was the last in.

"What I mean by forms. Is that I have, including this one, four different forms that I can turn into." I said simply, I highly doubted them to actually understand what I meant by this.

"So you're a shape shifter. I've heard of your kind, but I thought that you could only transform into one animal form and one human form." Riku said as he sat by Axel on his bed. Demyx was sitting in chair that was pulled next to a desk. The room was fairly clean.

"Well that's normally the case but there is a rare trait that if a shifter is made of pure blood then they will inherit the animals of those before them. I and my brother, Sora, are the only two in our family to get this trait." I explained as I sat down and looked at Axel.

"He just reminds me so much of the kid from my dream."

"So you're pure blooded? Pretty rare. Probably worth a good sum of money." Axel said with a smirk.

"Ha, even if you try to sell me by the time you'd get on land, I'd be gone before you blink."

"Cage you." Axel smirked again.

"I'd just transform to my smaller form and go through the bars." This was actually fun.

"Smaller cage" he said. I knew it was all just a game and he wasn't serous.

"Then I'd be dead" I grinned. It looked as I had won.

"Would you two stop your game? And Axel stop flirting with him, he's a dog." Riku simply said as he hit Axel upon the head.

"But he's got a human form. Don't cha?" Axel rubbed his head, as he looked at me.

"Yeah?" I said not really getting at what he was saying, but then I caught on as he smiled at me.

"But don't think you'll ever see it." I snorted as I turned my head away from them, looking at the wall. I then heard a bell ring.

"What's that?" I asked as the three pirates got up.

"Means there's a boat near us and we're going to attack it. You stay here okay Roxas? Don't want you getting shot before I get to see your human form." Axel said as he unlocked the door and the three exited the room.

"You're not going to see…" the door slammed shut. "it" I shook my head.

"Guess I'm stuck here. Wonder how Sora's doing."

Well that's all for now c: i'm not sure when i'll update again. i already have the second chap. almost finshed but i still need a beta reader. If anyone is intersted please IM me. My AIM and MSN is on my userpage c: R&R please 3

Also just want to thank bladebandit again for betaing this for me 3