A/N- YAY!!!! A bandfic!!! And a KH one at that. I am actually quite proud of my self for writing this, I usually get bored or writers block and just cant keep writing, so here it is.
Pairings: Axel/Roxas, Riku/Sora, Namine/OC
Warning: Yaoi, Yuri, lemons, extreme OOCness you know, the usual.
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, The Band Skillet, Evanescence, Linkin Park or any othe band named in this fic. I do however own the wakky plot, The OC and the band name Bi-Latteral.
Chapter 1: The Auditions… AGAIN!
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"That's it a I can't take it anymore! You're all a bunch of gays!" screamed Tifa, who was currently pacing around the recording studio making quite a large fuss, "I'm leaving!"
Grabbing her guitar Tifa headed for the door and attempted to slam the door on her way out, only to remember the door couldn't slam. Frustration growing by the second Tifa headed for the entrance and attempted to slam open the door, only to remember yet again that you had to pull instead of push. With that she was gone, for the 4th time this month.
Meanwhile back in the recording studio the other band members were having a discussion.
"There she goes again, think she'll be back again?" asked Roxas casting glances at the other band members and putting his guitar down.
"Doubt it," replied the leader of the band, Axel. "That's the 4th time this month and I think Namine really pissed her off this time. Not putting her on the cover of the new Cd. What was she thinking?! How are we gonna find another chick who can play guitar, keyboard and sing all at once?!"
"Well, we could hold auditions… again," offered the bands drummer Sora whilst getting up from his drum set and slipping into the arms of his boyfriend Riku, who was the bands resident violinist.
"You know what happened the last time we did that, we didn't even find anyone that could do all two of the things Tifa could. Let alone all three koi." the violinist said in a monotone pulling Sora closer to him.
The five, well now four members of the hit band Bi-Lateral were in the recording studio that belonged to Sora and Roxas' parents, Leon and Cloud. They were, no wait scratch that, had been recording their new album and halfway through it when Namine, the bands graphic designer, had sent through a copy of the new albums cover, at which time Tifa had had her little episode and stormed out.
"Well, we better get some rest, we'll start auditions in the morning." said Axel walking out of the recording studio, remembering to pull the door, not push it before walking outside and into the large tour bus that the band used as a base when they were on tour or recording at the studio.
Roxas followed Axel, closely followed by Riku and Sora still hand in hand. As soon as they all got into the bus, Sora and Riku plonked down in the couch and started watching TV. Roxas just started walking toward the queen-sized bed, that's right, queen sized bed, at the far end of the bus.
"Okay Roxy baby, go get some sleep, I'll be there in a bit." taunted Axel before catching a slight blush rising on Roxas' cheeks.
"Okay, and I told you to stop calling me that Axel," replied Roxas before drawing the curtain around the bed and climbing in, falling asleep almost as soon as his head hit the pillow.
"Hey, we should get some sleep as well Ri, tomorrow is going to be long and tiring, and you know you can't function without sleep." Sora said quietly using his boyfriends nickname and getting up and walking to the bed at the other end of the bus.
It wasn't long before all Axel could hear was the quiet breathing as all the other members of the band slept.
I better get some shut eye too, unless I want to fall asleep in the auditions tomorrow, Axel thought, chuckling in his mind at the thought of himself snoring during the audition. He quietly walked over to the bed with Roxas in it and slipped under the covers careful not to wake his boyfriend, not even bothering to change his clothes before falling asleep.
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The next day came all too quickly and everyone was awakened by the sound of a mobile phone going off.
"Make it stop Ri," groaned Sora sleepily rubbing his eye with a balled up hand.
As much as Riku would have liked to please his Sora, he was still half asleep himself and therefore called out to Axel.
"Axel, please shut that thing off because if you don't I will personally dispose of it myself." he said laying back down before shutting his eyes again.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm goin', I'm goin." Axel muttered yawning before looking down at the teen curled up on his chest.
"Roxy baby, your gonna have to move now." Roxas didn't wake but did role off Axel's chest allowing the red head to get up. Axel swore that kid could through a tornado if he really wanted to.
Before anyone could yell at him again, Axel pulled back the curtains and stepped out into the lounge/kitchen/dining room and picking up his phone, he looked at the caller ID before flipping it open and answering the person on the other end.
"Namine, what the heck are you doing calling at this time of the morning?" he asked the designer on the other end.
"You were supposed to be at the auditions like an hour ago axel. It's 9 o'clock now." Came the reply.
Axel looked down at the watch he wore on his left wrist before noticing that the time was indeed 9 o'clock and that they were an hour late for the auditions.
"Shit, hang on I'll get everyone else up and be there in half an hour." he said before hanging up the phone and walking over to Riku and Sora's bed and waking up Riku, not game enough to wake up the sleeping brunet, god that kid could be in a bad mood sometimes.
"Riku, come on wake up. We're late for the try outs." Axel said softly.
Riku gave a sigh and replied, "I wasn't asleep, I've been awake sine your blasted phone went off." who was it by the way?" he asked.
"Namine, we gotta get going though so wake up Sora and get ready okay?" Axel said before walking to his and Roxas' bet and sitting down gently on the edge.
"Roxy come on baby, we gotta get to the auditions, and we're late already."
Roxas sighed before rolling over and sitting up rubbing his eyes and leaning up to kiss his boyfriend good morning. "Kay, just give me a minute and then we'll get going okay?"
"Okay," Axel replied before getting up and changing into his everyday attire, which consisted of a tight red t-shirt under and open button down black shirt and a pair of black skinny jeans.
"Come on guys, it can't take that long to get ready!" he said loudly whilst flopping on the waiting for the three members of their band.
Roxas was the next to emerge also wearing skinny jeans but with a tight black t-shirt and black eyeliner. He walked over to the bench of the kitchen and made himself a cup of coffee, giving Axel a nice view of his behind as he did. He then sat down on the couch beside Axel, but not before Axel had given his ass a thorough squeeze.
Riku came out next and like Roxas, grabbed a cup of coffee since it was highly probable that they would not get breakfast until after the auditions. He was clothed in black cargo pants and a short sleeved white dress shirt.
When five minutes passed and Sora still didn't emerge, Riku got up and spoke to the others, "I'll go check on his, he's probably deciding what to wear or something."
Riku walked to his end of the buss and as he suspected, Sora was standing in front of the mirror on his wardrobe with two shirts in his hands. One black and the other dark blue.
"Ri, which one looks better?" he asked as if no one was waiting for him to be ready so they could go.
"Wear the blue one, you always look good in blue aibou." Riku said walking up behind Sora and pulling the sleeveless shirt over his koi's head before turning him around and kissing him deeply.
Sora moaned at the loss of warmth when Riku pulled away and spoke, "Come on, everyone's waiting for us, we can finish later, Okay Koi?" he said with a mischievous glint in his eyes. Sora turned red at the comment and walked past Riku, said person following him out.
When they emerged however they found Axel and Roxas sitting on the couch lip locked. Well, Roxas was sitting on Axel who was sitting on the couch to be politically correct. Before they knew it, they had both been slapped on the back of the head, Axel by Riku and Roxas by his twin.
"Come on you two, let's get going. Otherwise all the people will leave before we get a chance to tell them how bad they are." said Sora pouting.
"And this is coming from the guy who takes ages to pick a shirt," came the reply from the red head rubbing the back of his head. "Oh well let's get going." Axel said before stepping out of the bus followed by the others and climbing into a black convertible parked outside.
The ride to the hall where the auditions were being held was uneventful, until that is, Sora found a song on a radio station he knew and started singing
I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless lost under the surface
Don't know what your expecting of me
But under the pressure of walking in your shoes
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
I've become so numb I can feel you there
I've become so tired so much more aware
I'm becoming this all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you
"Wow, Sora, you can really sing, why don't sing more often?" Axel said still keeping his eyes on the road as he drove.
"I don't know," Sora said scratching the back of his head. "I guess I never thought about it before now."
"Oh, well, we can talk about this later, we're here now." Axel said pulling into the car park of a hall in the middle of Traverse Town and stopping the car. Seeing the line of people outside of the place, Axel smacked himself in the forehead. This was going to be a long day.
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As soon as the four got into the hall where the auditions were to take place, he headed straight to the desk that was set up at the front in front of a stage and sat down. "Come on guys, might as well get this over and done with as fast as we can hey?"
Axel was right. The day dragged on and on until it was just before 5 o'clock in the afternoon. There had been hundreds of people audition for Tifa's old place in the band, but no one had been able to do all three things at once. Some of them couldn't even play one instrument or sing at all. The table in front of them was littered with food wrappers, namely chocolate in front of Sora, and empty Starbucks coffee cups.
"Well that was a complete waste of time. Like all the other times we did this. Do you really think she wont come back Axel?" said Roxas standing up and stretching his arms above his head.
"Nope," replied Axel. "She's gone for good this time. Namine said she went back to Hollow Bastion, her home town."
Just as he finished talking, the door burst open and the security guards that stood by it, (what sort of band didn't have security guards to save them from rabid fans after all?), held back the mass of red and black that had tried to run in.
"Hang on a sec guys, I'll handle this." Came the monotone voice of Riku. He did have a way with fans. After a few minutes conferring with Xemnas and Xaldin, the two head bodyguards, Riku came back and spoke to Axel.
"There is a girl here. Says she knows you Axel. And if you ask me she looks a lot like you too."
"Great," came the reply. "Probably some fangirl that likes me. Come on, the band is called Bi-Lateral for a reason ne?" With that he stood up but not before Sora had reminded him of something.
"Axel, you did it again." Axel had a habit of slipping into Japanese at times and for the second time that day, slapped himself in the forehead before walking over to see who the person was.
When he saw who it was however, a lot of things changed. "Okay, Xemnas, Xaldin, you can let her go, I do know her." Axel walked back over to the table with the girl following him.
"Sorry for the trouble." he said to her before turning to Roxas, Sora and Riku. "Guys, this is my sister, Hisaki. Hisaki, this is Riku," he said pointing to Riku, "Sora," pointing at him whilst Riku slipped his arms around his waist. "Sora is Riku's boyfriend. And this one here," he said pointing to Roxas, "is my Roxas." Roxas visibly blushed at this and before he knew it he was being glomped by the redheaded girl wearing much the same clothes as Axel.
"Ahhhh! He's so cute! Axel can I keep him?!"
"Ah, Saki, if you don't let him go he's going to suffocate, and I know you like blondes, but no you cant have him." Axel said before wrapping his arms around Roxas.
"You never told us you had a sister Axel. " came the monotone voice of Riku once again. "Yeah, why didn't you tell us Axel?" asked Sora obviously liking the fact that someone else in the group actually had siblings apart from him.
"Hey, hang on a sec Saki," said Axel whilst looking a bit confused. "Why are you back? I thought you were in Japan studying. You weren't due back for another whole year!" What they all heard was very surprising indeed.
"Well, when I heard that Tifa quit the band, I thought that I might be of some assistance." She said whilst striking a pose, pointing her right finger like a gun and crossing it across her body.
"But, but…… Tifa only quit yesterday! How could you have known straight away?!" came the strangled voice of Roxas pointing his finger accusingly at Hisaki.
"Well," Hisaki started, "lets just say I have friends in high places, very high places." She said winking at Xemnas who visibly blushed before looking away.
"Oooooh! He's gonna get it!" said Roxas shoving up the sleeves of his shirt and starting to walk over to Hisaki, but not before Axel grabbed him around the waist and pulled him against his chest.
"Now, now Roxas, we can't go hurting the newbie can we now?" He purred against Roxas' ear before pulling away leaving a very dazed Roxas swaying where he stood. "Yeah Roxas, leave……hey wait a sec, what did you just say?" asked a shocked Sora looking on in disbelief.
"That's right, from today on, Saki here will be taking over Tifa's position in the band!" Axel said putting his arm around his sisters shoulders and pulling her closer."
"Hey, hang on a sec, don't we get a say in this? I mean come on, I know we rejected everyone in the auditions today, but…" Roxas trailed off having snapped out of the pleasure-induced state Axel had put him in just before.
"Hey, Saki, your Ipod still have that song and speakers in it?" Axel said looking at his almost identical sister.
"Uh, duh. Why wouldn't I have that song, and last time I checked my Ipod speakers were still working fine." she replied pulling out her Ipod and shaking it for emphasis.
"Ok guys, you are in for a real treat, Saki's voice is really, really good." Axel said before motioning Hisaki to start singing.
"Awwww, come on Axel," she said in a whiny voice. "You know I need you to sing as well for this song. I wont sing until you get your but up here as well."
"Oh well, looks like I have no choice then." Axel said before following Hisaki up onto the stage.
"You guys can be the judge of whether she gets in or not hey?" And with that they started singing.
A:I wanted you to know
I love the way you laugh
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away…
I keep your photograph and
I know it serves me well
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain
A/H:Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
A: You've gone away, you don't feel me here, anymore
H:The worst is over now
And we can breathe again
I wanna hold you high, you steal my pain away
There's so much left to learn
And no one left to fight
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain
A/H:Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away…(1)
"Oh, my, god…." Was the response given by Sora who was currently standing with his jaw on the ground.
"Sora, koi, stop staring. I say she gets in. What do you guys think?" Riku said also looking impressed with the show put on.
"So………, what do you guys think? I know Sora and Riku approve with it by the looks on their faces, but Roxy, what do you think baby?" Axel asked looking straight at Roxas. "Well… as long as she doesn't hit on me, I'm happy. And I told you to stop calling me that!"
"Well Saki, looks like you're in. Welcome to the band!" Axel said turning to his sister and giving her a hug.
"Ok guys, let's get back to the studio. How do you all feel like a day off tomorrow so Saki here can get the strings of the songs we still have to record ok?"
And with that the now complete Bi-Lateral walked out of the audition hall and climbed into Axel's convertible.
Once back at the studio, all five exited the convertible and climbed into the tour bus. Hisaki looked around.
"Ah, Axel, from what I see, there are two beds in this thing, where am I meant to sleep tonight?" she asked walking over to the couch and sitting down. "Where did Tifa sleep while she was in the ba… whoa, whoa!" Hisaki had just jumped up and walked backwards away from the couch. "What just happened?"
"Hehe, sorry Saki, couldn't resist. Well, that solves where you're sleeping doesn't it?" Axel was standing besides the couch with a remote in his hands. The couch had just sprung out into a double bed complete with sheets and a blanket.
"Ok…wasn't exactly expecting that was I?" Hisaki said flopping down on the bed and closing her eyes. "Oh yeah. I can live with this." She said whilst still laying there. "Ok, ground rules guys. I don't have many so it shouldn't be too hard." She suddenly said whilst holding up one finger. "Number one, you know the usual, no leaving the toilet seat up and such things." She held up a second finger. "Two, at this point, only Axel can call me Saki unless I tell you that you can. And three. I am fine with anything you do, and you know what I mean, as long as you don't piss me off." She said holding up a third finger.
Everyone stood there and nodded, Roxas and Sora turning shades of red at the last thing said while Riku and Axel just smirked.
"Well, I think we can all live with that. Cant we?" Axel said and the others just nodded. "Well, its getting late and I think we're all tired from today. Plus you can sleep in all you want tomorrow, you having the day off and such. And yes Sora, that means you can dance all you want. Just not too loud ok?"
"Alright!!!!!" Sora yelled and pumped his fist in the air for emphasis.
"He," Riku smirked whispering into Sora's ear. "If I have anything to do with you tonight, you wont be dancing at all tomorrow koibito." Sora turned bright red and ran off to his and Riku's end of the bus.
"Riku, that was mean. Don't do that to my little brother!" Roxas said to Riku standing with his hands on his hips and pouting.
"Oh well, I'm sure Axel could say the same to you at the moment going on how he's looking at you right now." Riku replied. Now it was Roxas' turn-to-turn red and run off. "You tow are two of a kind aren't you." Hisaki said turning her head after watching the scene play out.
"Oh well, we try." Axel said smirking.
"Do you intend on carrying through with that Axel?" Riku asked.
"Of course. Why would I give up the chance to molest my hot uke?" he replied.
"Ok guys, if you are gonna talk about that, go and talk about it elsewhere cause as you can see, I am trying to get some sleep. Unlike you I have a hell of a lot of work to do tomorrow." Saki had stripped down to a red tank top and black tights whilst the two seme's had been plotting.
"Ah…..," Axel said yawning. "Your right. Come on Riku. Lets get at least some sleep before tomorrow." And with that both men walked to their respective ends of the bus before drawing the curtains and turning out the lights.
"Well, tomorrows gonna be a long day." Hisaki said to herself before curling up and falling asleep. Little did she know, tomorrow was going to be more than long.
(1) A is obviously for Axel and the H is for Hisaki. A/H is them singing together. Just to let you know, there will be lots of singing in this fic so i will post links in my profile to the songs they are singing.
So........ what did you think........? Yes, No? Please R&R! Ja ne!