Legal stuff: I don't own KH

Warning: Strong language, yaoi, possible lemon in the future

A/N: Ok so this is my first Fan Fiction so it would be really nice to get some reviews to know how I did. It's just a basic intro really, so read review and all that fun stuff. Hope you enjoy, now on with the show.

Ok I know it needs some editing. It's curently out to get that done. I'll have a fully edited copy up tomorrow.

Surprises

Chapter One

Roxas stood leaning against the counter watching as people walked by. The food court was almost empty and he had finished stocking. All in all, the work day hadn't been half bad; a little slow, but not bad. He'd served a half dozen people in the last hour, and the hour before that it was a dozen. He turned and looked at the nearly bare product shelf, "Wow, we don't have much left."

"No, you certainly don't," Came a silky voice that Roxas knew all too well. That didn't stop him from jumping at the sudden comment, especially when he had been looking where the voice came from not two second earlier and no one was there.

"Jesus don't do that." He had exclaimed before looked over at the redhead standing in front of the cash register now. His shock expression softened slightly. Then he took in the guys appearance and froze up. The redhead was wearing his usual black trench coat but it was hanging open to reveal red silk button up shirt underneath and black dress pants. His piercing green eyes were watching Roxas' closely. "Uh..." Roxas finally said.

"No, what you want to say is... 'Hi there, can I take you order please.' Then I say, 'Yeah, I'll take you.'." The redhead smirked as he said it, and gave him a wink.

Roxas shook his head then, coming out of his transe. "Axel! What are you doing here?"

"Picking you up." Axel laughed, "Duh."

"But I don't get off for another three hours." Roxas scowled at his boyfriend.

"Nope your done now Roxas, go home." A silver haired man said as he came out from the back of the store. "I can close without you tonight." The owner of the coffee shop said.

"No you can't. What if you get slammed." Roxas protested, he needed the money and he wouldn't be getting much this way.

"Roxas, it is a Wednesday night. The mall is dead. I called Axel so we wouldn't have this conversation." His boss said looking at him pointedly. "Axel get on the other side of the counter!" He snapped not even turning.

Axel had indeed been sneaking around the counter and managed now to grab Roxas, hoisting the younger teen onto his shoulder and dashed away from the other man. "Man Seph, do you have eyes in the back of your head or something!" He exclaimed as he moved back a little. Roxas was struggling in Axel's hold and shouting about being put down.

"I'm simply use to Cloud and Leon trying to catch me off guard." Sephiroth laughed at the pair of them. "Now you take Roxas home and have fun."

Roxas was still protesting as Axel nodded and for the doors. He froze slightly as what his boss said sunk in. "Hey!" He shouted at Sephiroth, "What's that suppose to mean?" They were half way across the food court at this point.

"Don't do anything I wouldn't," Sephiroth called after them as he moved to get back to work. Axel chuckled at that as he continued to walk. When they were well out of hearing range, which meant they were outside of the mall now he commented.

"So what wouldn't Sephiroth do?" He glanced over his shoulder at Roxas. He almost regretted the action and Roxas made to elbow him in the face. "Hey now settle down Rox, I'm not hurting you."

"No, but I want you to put me down. I won't go back to work, okay?" He growled.

"But I haven't really seen you in, like, two weeks." Axel moaned a little as he said this. "I miss my Roxy."

"Axel, don't call me that." He snapped still not having been put down. "Look I'll make it up to you, just put me down."

"Not till your in the car." Axel nodded to emphasize his point. "Rox, why are you doing this?"

"Doing what?" Roxas asked trying to be as innocent sounding as he could be when slung over Axel's shoulder. It didn't really work that well, but he had stopped struggling.

Axel sighed but continued to walk to the jeep and then sat Roxas down beside the passenger door. "Your never home, I never see you anymore Roxas." He looked pained as he looked into Roxas' eyes. "I wait for you, and I'm still asleep when you finally show home. Yes, it's still nice that you make breakfast before you leave for the day, but..." The redhead shook his head at this, "We're going home." He walked around to the drivers side of the car and got in.

Roxas hadn't moved, he knew this had to really be bothering Axel for him to actually say something. He frowned and crawled into the jeep beside Axel, "I'm sorry." He muttered softly to Axel. "I'll quit one of my jobs okay?" He looked over at Axel hoping this would bring that silly smirk back to the redhead's lips.

"You don't have to. Sephiroth will just keep doing this for me and we'll be fine. What time do you have to be at the bar?" Axel asked as he started the vehicle.

"Not till later tonight, I can walk from home." Roxas answered as he turned and looked out the window now. The rest of the ride back to their apartment was spent in quiet. When they arrived, Axel lead the way inside and Roxas following him quietly. Axel wasn't surprise when he tried the door and found it was unlocked, he just walked inside calling out. "Good evening Sora. Riku kick you out again?"

Roxas seemed a little surprise at this statement from Axel but then he saw Sora laying half on the couch half on the floor playing a video game upside down. Sora sat up looking at Axel with his usual grin. "How'd you know that?"

"It's the only reason you come over anymore." Axel responded, and glanced back at Roxas who hadn't even come inside the door yet. "Are you gonna stand in the hallway until you have go back to work? Cause if that's the case then you may as well start walking now." He muttered and moved further into the apartment to take his place on the in-table.

Sora shot up off the couch and looked out the door at Roxas then. "Roxas!" He shouted and then dart forward and tackled his brother. "I haven't seen you in like forever." He exclaimed all to happily.

"Yeah, so I've been told." Roxas choked out when he could breathe again. "Hi Sora. Can you get off me?"

"No you'll disappear again if I do that." Sora looked at him with a scowl, which had the effect of slapping Roxas in the face with a freshly caught mackerel.

"Get off him Sora, he probably wants to get ready for his next job." Axel had taken over playing the game when Sora tackled Roxas. "Hey, you know this is one of the hidden levels?" He called , sounding more like himself then he had been earlier.

"What?!" Sora jumped up and away then going back over to the couch and flopping down again to watch Axel play the game. "It is, awesome! Riku is gonna regret kicking me out this time."

"You said that the last three times you were here." Axel commented then tossed the controller back to Sora. Roxas was finding this odd. He knew Axel and Sora were friends and he was happy they got along so well but this just seemed like they were way to comfortable with each other.

He watched them a moment longer and then yawned. He was tired from over working himself but he knew he couldn't lay down. He walked into the apartment then and made his way to the washroom; what he needed was a shower. The blond disappeared without either of the other two older boys noticing.

Twenty minutes later when he came back out of the washroom he was shocked that the place was silent. He looked into the living room and saw no one there. He checked the rest of the apartment and found nothing. "What the hell, where did they go so fast?" He didn't even find a note. He had a couple more hours before he had to be at the bar, but something didn't feel right here. "If Axel's so upset about me not being home, why isn't he here when I am?" He mumbled walking around the kitchen. He decided to start making something to eat, but noticed there wasn't a whole lot in the cup boards. "Okay so no one goes grocery shopping?" He eventually ended up making a sandwich and eating that.

There came a knock on the door shortly after that and Roxas got up to answer it. It was not surprising to see Riku standing on the other side. "Thought you were working...you don't know where your brother is do you?" The silver haired teen asked not really bothered that Roxas was actually home for once.

"No they disappeared while I was taking a shower." Roxas answered truthfully.

"Oh." Riku raised and eye brow then, "So he went with Axel somewhere, and that doesn't bother you?"

"Should it? I mean Sora's my brother I think I can trust him." Roxas shrugged the thought away.

"Oh so he didn't talk to you." Riku sighed "Not that that is any of my business, but you might want to start paying more attention to Axel and less time at work. Why are you working so much anyway? It's not like your hard up for money."

Roxas looked away from his brother's boyfriend and then walked into the apartment further. "You want to know, then you got to keep a secret." He knelt down in front of the couch and dug around in the springs and pulled out a small box. Roxas pushed the box into his hands, "That's what the money is for, and I do need the money. I dug deep into the college fund; and kinda spent to much. I don't want Axel to think he saved the money for nothing, but I don't want to lose him either."
Riku didn't open the small velvet box, he just pushed it back into Roxas' hands. "You better stop working at least one of your jobs, Roxas. Your losing him, and I don't know if this will bring him back to you." Riku sighed and shook his head. "I'm losing Sora."

"What! Why?" Roxas was shocked when he heard that. "Wait a second, Axel acted like it was normal for him to be here when we got home." He shuddered as something crept into his mind. "He wouldn't."

"Yeah, well they took Sora's car. That's why I knocked. I thought Axel was home." Riku said then. "Your not going to work tonight are you?"

"Not anymore." Roxas looked scared. He grabbed the phone then and dialed a number. He waited and waited and waited, but no one answered. "He's not answering his cell." He was starting to panic now, he called his boss at the bar then. "Hello, yeah can I talk to Cid? Yeah I'll hold." He looked at Riku frowning. "Um yeah, it's Roxas, I can't make tonight. I think somethings wrong here at home and I got to fix it...Yeah Cid thanks. I'll be in tomorrow night I hope... alright... thanks again. Bye." He sighed, "I got three nights off at the bar. You think that'll do?"

Riku shrugged, "I really don't know Roxas...they've gotten kinda close. I think Axel sees you when Sora's around."

"Well I got a little extra money..." He looked down at the box. "What if..."

"No, I'll help with that, Roxas. After all Sora never shuts his cell off and can never not answer it." Riku nodded at this, and took the phone from Roxas walking away from him. After a few second the phone was answered. "Sora where are you?"

"Oh sorry, just a sec I'll get him for you." came the reply.

"What the hell who is this?" Riku panicked, "Why do you have my boyfriends cell phone?"

"Ah, so this is Riku." the voice became muffled then, "Sora, it's him, what do I tell him?" There was another long pause. "He can't come to the phone right now. Can I take a message?"

Riku growled into the receiver, "What the hell is he doing that he can't talk to me? I don't know who you are but if you don't put him on the line right now..."

"Riku. Riku calm down.." Sora huffed on the line then.

"Sora!" He blanched then, "Where are you? Is Axel still with you? Roxas is scared of what might be going on."

"Oh, um. I can't really tell you that Riku, but yeah Axel is still with me. You want to talk to him?" The line went dead but Riku could make out Sora yelling something.

"Yeah Riku, what's up?" Axel said after a long pause.

"I think you need to come home. Roxas looks like he's gonna be sick." Riku walked into another room away from Roxas who was now sitting on the couch looking very pale. "Dude, do you have any idea what your doing? You carried him out of the mall and then you just abandoned him at home. I thought you missed him?" Riku was having trouble keeping his voice down.

"What do you mean he looks sick? He looked fine while we were there." Axel sounded a little worried.

"He's thinking the same thing I have been lately. I'm losing Sora, Axel." Riku said blatantly. "He doesn't sleep with me anymore. He's always on the god damned couch when I wake up. I want to know what's going on."

"Nothing, I swear I wouldn't do that to you or Roxas." Axel stammered back.

"He doesn't know that and neither do I." Riku retorted. "You better get home here now. He got time off work for you, so you should be here and not off somewhere with Sora."

"I think we're almost done here anyway." Axel sounded like he was looking around. "Yeah we're done here. Hey, you know what day tomorrow is right?"

Riku was suddenly taken off guard by the question, he cracked open the bathroom door and looked out at Roxas on the couch. He hadn't even noticed he closed the door. "No why?"

"Oh good." Axel seemed to nodded, "We'll be back in like ten minutes, okay." With that, the line went dead. Riku groaned and exited the bathroom. He looked down at Roxas still frowning. "They are on their way back now."

"They wouldn't...would they?" Roxas mumbled halfheartedly. He had gone through so much trouble, not just for something like this to happen.

End note:

Can Sephiroth really handle working the coffee shop by himself?

Does Cid really not want to give Roxas the time off?

What's in the little Velvet box?

Why are Sora and Riku fighting all the time?

What are Sora and Axel planing?

These question and more will be answered next time in Surprises.

PS: Looking at the way things are going. This will be updated next week. Review and I may be nice and update it on Monday.