Duplicated Insanity

Chapter 1

The Discovery

As the starting scrimmage play was whispered among the field, Sora sat watching, attempting to be excited, although he cringes at the thought of football. Sora sighed and tried to concentrate as the ball was thrown about the field. He was only at the practice because his older brother was on the team, and his sister was a cheerleader. They were both having practice. Sora needed a ride home. It was a vicious cycle.

Sora's eyes scanned the field and eventually came to a stop at where his sister was practising with the other cheerleaders. His sister Toile, and his brother Cloud were twins and they always managed to somehow do everything together. They took the same classes and even had practices together even though they did different sports. Sora had always wondered why they'd been named the way they were. Sora meant sky in some other language, he knew that. Cloud was... Cloud. And Toile was some variation of 'etoile' which was french for star. Sky names. It was so odd.

Sora's gaze lingered on his sister for a moment but soon switched to another young girl jumping around in the green miniskirt and top of the squad. He thought it kind of clashed with her hair, which was a bright red.

Kairi.

In Sora's opinion, Kairi was probably the prettiest girl in school. Which made the horrible hours he spent at his siblings practices at least a little better. He watched as Kairi mounted the other girls shoulders, making a pyramid. His sister was on the bottom of the pyramid, because she was one of the "strongest" on the squad.

It occurred to Sora that if this were the truth, there couldn't be very many strong people on the squad. He wasn't too incredibly fond of his sister, not that he would ever tell anyone that. People in their school all looked upon Sora as a really... 'sweet' person, who was extremely kind to everyone and loved his family and all that nonsense.

Of course Sora really did love his family, but he grew tired of everyone thinking he was so perfect. Other people loved to be thought of as perfect.

Sora didn't.

Everyone else said he was the kindest person they'd ever met, that they would only ever go to him for any advice on their life. And he was tired of it. He didn't want to give the, advice. He needed advice himself.

"Hey! Sora!"

Sora snapped his head to the side and watched as Tidus ran across the bleachers, plunking himself down on the seat beside him.

"Hey... Sora..." he panted. "I... I need some help, man."

Sora fought the urge to slap Tidus, and after several moments, won.

Putting on a fake smile, he said, "Sure! What's the problem?"

"Well," Tidus said slowly. "There's this... Friend of mine..." Sora smiled- A true smile this time. A friend of his. How hilarious. "So this friend of mine, he's like... Having some problems, right? 'Cause this weirdo gay guy is trying to convince him to go out with him, but my friend's not gay! What should he do?"

Sora turned his head away, pretending to think hard. In truth he was trying not to laugh, but Tidus wouldn't be able to tell.

"Well..." he finally declared. "I think... Your friend should just tell this gay guy that he only wants to be friends."

Sora figured that was the funniest answer he could come up with, aside from saying the friend should give it a try. Tidus didn't think so.

"BUT HE DOESN'T WANT TO BE FRIENDS!"

"Oh?"

"NO. HE DOESN'T LIKE THIS GUY AT ALL!"

"Well..." Sora sighed, realizing Tidus would need a real answer. "Okay, then. How about you pretend you're already dating someone else? It might be kind of mean.."

"It's not me! It's my friend!"

"Right. Forgot. Your friend should do that. If this gay guy is really bothering him. But if he's just some kid with a crush, maybe your friend should do his best to ignore...Even saying he just wants to be friends might actually work."

"You think?" Tidus asked.

Sora looked over and saw that Tidus was now gazing into the distance.

"Okay! Bye!"

Tidus leaped to his feet and rushed away.

"Sora!"

Oh, God. Not another.

"Sora!"

I'll ignore them...

"SORA! HELLO! TIME TO LEAVE!"

Sora blinked and jumped up. It was only Cloud.

"Coming!"

Sora rushed over to where Cloud and Toile were standing by the end of the field and put on yet another fake smile.

"Okay... Let's go. I'm going to be late for my appointment!" Toile whined.

Sora followed Cloud and Toile over to Cloud's car (courtesy of their rich father. It was what Sora liked most about his brother. The car) and hopped in. After some bickering on what radio station they wanted to listen to, they left.

When they got home, Sora tried his best to avoid their father. He called to Sora, but Sora said he had a project due, and needed to work on it.

Slamming the door to his room shut, Sora turned on his radio and blasted Dashboard Confessional. He thought he heard someone to tell him to turn it down, but wasn't sure because the music was too loud for him to hear.

He lay on his bed for almost a half hour before finally getting up, and that was only because the CD player was switching to next disc (it was a 5-Disc Changer) and at the current time, he just didn't want to listen to music anymore.

He paused and picked up the phone (he had his own phone line. Spoiled brat) which had begun ringing.

"Yes?"

"Sora! Dude! It's Riku!"

"Riku? I thought you were supposed to be climbing Adams Mountain?"

"I AM! I'm on the mountain right now!"

Sora groaned.

"Really?"

"Yeah! Dude, it's freezing!"

"Well, I would imagine it would be slightly cold at 12 000 feet in the air."

"I'm not at the top yet! But close! Low enough to get a cell signal at least!"

"I could tell."

Sora couldn't believe Riku. He was a complete... Idiot. Calling when he was trying to climb a mountain? Sora never had gotten how Riku found it exciting to do all that climbing, and alpine skiing and everything else he did. But Riku always did it. He missed school a lot to go with his family. Sora had actually considered taking up the crazy things Riku did once, just so he could get of school. But in the end, common sense won him over.

"Well, whatever, man! I gotta go!" Riku shouted.

"Uh... Great."

Sora took the phone from his ear as he heard the dial tone sounding.

"Weirdo..." he muttered.

Sora sighed and hung up the phone. Riku was out climbing, and he was home. Bored. Even climbing some frozen mountain seemed appealing at the moment. He would do anything, he was so bored.

But not give out more advice. He hated doing that.

As if on cue, the phone rang. Tidus was on the other end, begging for more advice.

"I SWEAR IT TO GOD! HE WON'T TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER! HE'S AT MY FRONT DOOR!"

"Your front door? So he gave up on your friend then?"

Sora stifled a laugh. Poor Tidus. This guy really liked him/

"Um... Yes. He did. I NEED HELP!"

"Okay, well... Um. What did you say to him?"

"I told him to leave me the fuck alone!"

Sora rolled his eyes.

"Well, that's a good method, Tidus!" he spat. "Fine. Okay...You have to... Tell him that your... Gang will get him. Yeah. Tell him that."

"What? HE WOULDN'T BELIEVE THAT!"

"Probably not, but it's worth a try."

"No, it's not!"

"Well, whatever, then, it's your problem."

Tidus' end of the phone was quiet for awhile.

"Are you feeling okay, Sora? Are you sick? Because this advice really sucks."

"Look, Tidus, you want some advice? Tell the guy you're not interested in... guys in general. That way he won't be personally offended and he'll get that you don't like him. Okay?" Sora sighed.

"Yep!" Tidus gushed. "No problem.!"

Tidus hang up the phone with a beep and Sora was left, once again, with nothing to do.

He needed a party. That would be fun.

Sora grinned and rolled over. Picking up his phone, he dialled the one person he knew could find him a party.

"Hello?"

"Rikku? Hey it's Sora!"

"Hey, Sora!" Rikku bubbled in her usual cheery voice. "What's up?"

"Well... I'm kind of bored. I don't suppose you'd know of any parties going on tonight?"

"Of course I would... But I though you didn't like parties!"

"Well, like I said: I'm bored."

Rikku sighed and gave Sora an address.

'Thanks!"

"No problem... Don't get too drunk."

Sora opened his mouth to reply, but Rikku promptly hung up on him.

Weird...

Sora dashed from the house, shouting to his father that he would be back later.

When he got to the place of the party, he knew he'd made the right choice. Vowing to do as Rikku said, he entered the house.

Unfortunately, he didn't keep that vow and was completely smashed within half an hour.

Sora stumbled forward, falling on a couch nearby. Looking up at the island in the center of the room, (it was like a kitchen-living room thing, he guessed) he watched as two young, identical twins performed a girl on girl scene for a bunch of losers standing around, shoving money at them. It was slightly gross in his mind simply because of the incest factor. But other than that, it was hot.

Another boy, also his age he presumed, flopped down on the sofa next to him. Sora didn't look at him, but kept his eyes on the dancing girls.

After some time, the guy next to him came to his senses, and Sora heard him breathe, "Twins..."

Sora looked over. The guy did at the same time. When they came in eye contact, for some reason the guy screamed. Sora did, too. Although, why he didn't know. Someone promptly told them to shut up, and they were thrown outside.

Sora sat up, spitting grass from his mouth.

"What the hell's your problem?" he spat at the guy.

"What's your problem? Going around looking just like me! The nerve!"

Sora blinked and looked over. He was shocked when he looked, at how much the guy did look like him. Except he was blonde.

"...What?"

The blonde guy sighed. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a wallet. Flipping through the compartments, he yanked out an ID.

"That's me... Before I dyed my hair."

Sora took the card and looked at him. It was... A picture of him. Kind of. Except it wasn't him. It was... This kid.

He looked up incredulously at the boy sitting in front of him, who held out his hand in a shake.

"I'm Kaz."

"Sora."

There was some silence, but then Kaz asked Sora a question.

"Have you ever met your mom?"

"Huh? No... I live with my father."

Kaz was quiet for a moment.

"I've never met my father. I live with my mom."

Sora thought. He'd never met his mother. Kaz lived with his mother. This kid had never met his father. Sora lived with hi father. They looked exactly alike.

...What...?


And that's the first chapter.