So, I have come back. Lol! This time with a new story. I wanted to try a PIRATE AkuRoku story. Of course, this is me just procrastinating on homework that's due tomorrow. Dx Gah! Well, enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own freakin' Kingdom Hearts II or anything. Only the ideas to this story. So please don't sue.

--DrumlineSuperAsh0095

NEW: Umm...okay. For all you current readers, i just editted a few things to the first chapter. Nothing too major...but yeah. To all the new readers, don't worry about it.

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"Argh! Ready or not I'm going to find you Roxas!"

Roxas crouched behind a few barrels that were stacked on top of one another. He was small enough that his 8 year-old brother wouldn't ever be able to find him. Roxas let out an inaudible giggle.

"Roxas! Where are youuuuuu?!"

"Hey Sora!" Another voice called out.

Roxas peeked through the tiny space that was between each barrel to see who had called out to his older brother.

A boy with silver hair stood right beside the brunette. He was several inches taller than Sora and was a year older too. The silver-haired boy smiled at the other.

"Hey Riku!"

"Sora, why are you wearing that silly pirate hat?" Riku poked the feather that was protruding from the side of the red hat.

"Oh this? Uhh…I'm playing 'hide-n-go-seek' pirate style with Roxas. By the way, you haven't seen him have you?"

Riku shook his head. The sun was sitting on top of the ocean and was about to set. Sora closed his eyes and let out a sigh. This usually meant that he was about to forfeit the game to Roxas because it was soon going to be dark outside.

Sora ran his hand through his hair, "Alright Roxas. It's getting pretty late and we need to head home now."

He looked around for the 7 year-old to come out of his hiding place. Sora began to furrow his eyebrows.

"Maybe you have to admit that he won the game…" Riku whispered into Sora's ear.

He let out an exasperated sigh, "Fineeee. Come on out Roxas. You win the game today."

"YIPPEE!!"

Roxas jumped up from behind the barrels and ran towards the older boys. He had a huge smile painted on his face. Riku raised an eyebrow after seeing Roxas with his black eye patch over his right eye. Maybe Sora really wasn't kidding when he said that he was playing "PIRATE" hide-n-go-seek.

"So that means…I won…" Roxas began to count on his tiny fingers, "50 times this week!"

Riku stared in disbelief, "You guys have played this game 50 times this week?!"

"No! More like 10 times…Roxas can't count!"

"Nah-uh!! It's 50! Sora just can't accept that I'm better than him at this game!"

Sora crossed his arms across his chest and stuck his tongue out at his younger brother. Roxas mimicked him, sticking out his tongue too. Riku looked at the two quarreling brothers and sighed. This was going to be a long night if he was planning to stay over at their house that night.

Roxas sat on the edge of his bed, staring at an old picture of the three of them. The photo was taken nearly 10 years ago. Roxas still had his little black eye patch that covered his right eye. Sora still wore his red pirate hat. And Riku still never had gotten into the whole "hide-n-go-seek pirate style" game.

A lot of things had changed within 10 years. For instance, all three of them were definitely older. Sora was now 18 and Roxas was about to turn 17. Back then, pirates were nothing but figments of the imagination and old folklores, but after the last few incidents here in Port Royal …Oh, pirates were no longer just fun and games. About a year after the photo of the three young boys was taken, Sora walked into his classroom one morning only to find out that his best friend had been kidnapped by a very treacherous pirate crew. If that wasn't bad enough, their parents were both killed trying to protect Roxas and Sora from experiencing the same fate that Riku had years before.

He heard the front door swing open and placed the picture back on the nightstand that was right next to his bed. Roxas sighed, got up from his bedside, and walked down the wooden stairs. He was greeted by a sweat and dirt covered Sora.

"Afternoon, Rox." He smiled.

"Afternoon yourself. What happened to you?"

"Aah…Cid asked if I could come in early this morning to help him out. Sorry I didn't leave you a note or anything."

"Well, that's what I get for having a brother who's the town blacksmith's apprentice." Roxas shrugged.

"Now, I'm going to head upstairs and give myself a well deserved shower."

"You better, or I'll throw you out with the neighbor's pigs. I mean you'd feel right at home with them wouldn't ya?"

"Hah…that's real funny, Roxas." Sora said sarcastically before running up the stairs and into the bathroom.

Roxas smiled to himself; at least he didn't lose Sora to those damned pirates too. He wondered how Sora could cope with the fact of losing Riku and their parents to them. If Roxas had lost Hayner, Naminé, Olette, or Pence to the pirates too…He'd surely go insane. But Sora was always able to maintain his composure, even at their parents' funeral. Maybe that was the rule of an older brother, "never lose your composure in front of the younger sibling". Roxas would have hated being the older brother if that was true.

"Oy! What are you thinking so hard about?"

He turned around to see Sora towel-drying his hair behind him.

"Whoa! Since when were you done with your shower?"

"Uhh…I've been done for a good 5 minutes now. Jeez, what's making you think so much that you don't even notice the obvious?"

"I don't know. Just think about stuff…I guess."

"Well, stop thinking about 'stuff' or else your brain is gonna explode."

Roxas scoffed, "Like that will ever happen…"

"You know what, Rox? We're going out to eat tonight. Think of it as…a sort of gift to get you off of thinking so much, hmm?" Sora smiled.

Roxas smiled back at his older brother, "I'd like that."

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So? How'd you like it, hmm? Please R&R! And I'll try to get other chapters out as soon as possible. D:

--DrumlineSuperAsh0095