Title: Shake On It (Originally "It Doesn't Matter What You Are, Just Who You Are")
Universe: Kingdom Hearts
Theme/Topic: What if Sora and Demyx had become friends??
Rating: PG-13
Character/Pairing/s: Sora, Demyx, Riku, Kairi (No Pairings!)
Warnings/Spoilers: Well if you haven't played KHII yet - aside from being ashamed - you probably don't want to read past the first line/divider/thingy
Word Count: 999 (Demyx number XP)
Summary: What would've happened to Demyx if he and Sora had been friends?
Dedication: None really, though I was listening to Smother Me – The Used over and over again while writing this.
A/N: Well, all I can say is that this was surprisingly easy to write. Might write one for every (still alive at this point) Org Member...
Disclaimer: If KH was mine Demyx would be gay with Xaldin, so I obviously don't own it.
Distribution: Just tell me if you put it anywhere; please and thank you!

Shake On It

Sora had been walking around this town for a couple of hours now.

He hadn't thought that there was anything particularly wrong with it (i.e. no Heartless, signs of Organisation XIII), until he saw some rather nasty looking men beating up a guy only a few years older than he was.

He chased the men away, and helped the guy into a sitting position.

I was amazing to him how much alternating sadness, apathy and happiness was in the sea green eyes he beheld when surveying the swelling on his face.

He said his name was Demyx, and that he had just been taking a walk when the thugs had attacked him. He explained that he had been on his way to a café where he often had lunch, and offered to pay for Sora's food (all he could eat) in exchange for helping him out.

Sora soon found himself in a small café which Demyx was treating him to lunch in. Donald and Goofy had gone off to stock up on potions and the like, and Sora found that he and Demyx got along surprisingly well.

"Er, Sora?" asked Demyx.

"Yeah, what is it?" Sora managed through a mouthful of croissant.

"Yeah… I'm a Nobody."

Sora spat out his mouthful of food, and wiped himself up with as much dignity as possible for a person in his position.

Imagine his position:
A person you just made friends with turns out to be working for Al-Khaida (sp?). What do you do?

Sora stared at Demyx. He stared hard.

"Do you work for Organisation XIII?" he asked suspiciously. Demyx nodded. The Keyblade was in his hand before Demyx could squeak.

"But I'm not on a mission right now, honest! I seriously was taking a walk when those guys tried to mug me, and I actually come to this world pretty often! Ask anyone, I practically live in this café on my days off." Demyx said, listing excuses, alibis, and waving his arms wildly in front of him as if to shield himself from any oncoming attack.

"What's this, Demyx?" asked a very deep, and rather menacing voice. Said voice came from seemingly nowhere. Demyx shuddered as he heard it.

'I'm in deep crap now…' he thought.

"Consorting with the enemy? Report back immediately." The voice continued, sounding as angry as someone without a heart and emotions could.

Demyx looked up at Sora apologetically. "I guess the next time we see each other we'll be foes. It was nice meeting you before I have to fight you. You're pretty cool." He stood up, and to his not-so-surprise, so did Sora.

"It was nice meeting you too. If it were under different circumstances, I guess we could've been friends." He said, sticking out his hand to shake. Demyx looked at it in surprise.

Then he grasped the outstretched hand. "Hell, let's just be friends anyway." He said as they shook on it.

"DEMYX!" rumbled the voice. Demyx flinched.

"See ya later then!" he said, grinning sheepishly as he disappeared into a portal of darkness.

Demyx and Sora put on the perfect act of hating each other.

Demyx wondered whether he should steer Sora in the direction of a career in acting for his final words. That's noble, right? Helping out a friend till the end?

They tried very hard, but they both got carried away at points during their battle and found themselves singing and playing a duet together.

They both thought that they sounded good like that.

However, they quickly corrected these slip-ups though, and either Demyx or Sora would be sent flying in the attacks that followed.

Demyx drooped as their little play finished, smiling slightly.

His sitar fell beside him, vanishing into the darkness where he assumed he would be joining it soon.

He braced himself for the finishing attack, but it never came.

Instead there was a hand placed in front of his face and as he looked up he saw Sora grinning like an idiot, with his arm outstretched.

"We're friends, right? Well the next time I see you, I want it to be on Destiny Islands when all this is over and the Organisation, minus you, has been destroyed." He said to his fallen companion.

Demyx grinned and grasped his hand. "Looks like the second time this week that someone's betrayed the Organisation." He said.

Sora was lost. "Huh?"

"You'll meet him in a little while; just keep fighting hard while I'm gone, 'kay! Don't give up!" he finished with a smile and two-finger-salute, disappearing once again in a portal of darkness.

"Hey Sora, you seem kind of distracted…" said Riku as the three of them sat on the bent over Paopu Tree.

"Oh, I was just thinking about a promise I made with a friend a while ago." He mumbled. His eyes then widened as he saw a rather large wave headed towards them. "Um, guys…"

"We won't even make in to the boats if it keeps coming at that speed!" exclaimed Kairi as she looked at it in worry.

All cause for worry immediately vanished when he heard a familiar voice.

"Dance water, dance! Yahooooooooooooooooo!"

Sora jumped off the Paopu Tree and waved at the small speck on the massive wave that was Demyx. "Demyx! Over here!"

Demyx easily surfed his way over, and the wave turned into something not even a child with a skimboard could surf on as it go close to shore. As Demyx waded through waist deep water, Sora laugh at the looks on Kairi and Riku's faces.

"Hey kid, it's been a while!" Demyx laughed as he banished the water from his board shorts and climbed the wooden stairs to the mini island.

"Only a few weeks." Replied Sora as Demyx reached the top.

"Really? Where I was it felt like years. It was soooo boring…" he mumbled the last part, almost pouting.

Sora grinned and stuck out his hand.

Demyx grinned right back and took his hand, shaking.