Summary: Roxas and Sora are twins who were separated 6 years ago when different families adopted them. Roxas finds Sora again when he moves to Hollow Bastion. Everything seems perfect if you don't count nearly the whole school being homophobes. He falls into the Organization, a group of friends who are openly gay and ends up meeting the school bullies.

Roxas POV

Couples: Axel/Roxas, Riku/Sora (main) and some sides of Cloud/Leon and Demyx/Zexion


I wandered around my new house with only an eyebrow raised in curiosity. I had moved far too many times to be bothered by it. This was the third house my current foster parents had bought, that's not even counting all the other homes I've had over the years. It was honestly getting monotonous. I supposed most teenagers would be angry at the constant changes, but I had long accepted these things as part of my shitty life.

The reason my life was shitty? Other than being an orphan of course, I had been separated from the only person I loved or even gave a damn about, Sora, my fraternal twin brother. What kind of people adopt one half of a person? That's what it felt like, Sora and I were just two parts of the same whole. Six years ago we had been ripped apart, and left to drift like forgotten shreds of paper. I would never forgive those people for it. They had wanted only one son, I didn't know why they chose me over the other boys our age at the orphanage, ones that weren't part of a pair. If they thought I was going to be a sweet ten-year-old they were damn surprised.

I did everything in my power to make them hate me. I disobeyed every order they gave me, I trashed things, I didn't do my homework, anything I could think of. After two months they had had enough, only thing was, after they adopted me we had moved. They weren't even decent enough to take me back to my old orphanage with Sora, no they dumped me at a different one. I've been through six foster parents in as many years because none of them can handle my attitude. I didn't care, I didn't need them. The two I have now are both in business traveling, they basically adopted me as a charity case to look good in their social circle. More often than not I had the ridiculously large house to myself, with a few rules not to break anything. Fine by me.

This new house seemed even bigger than the old one and it took me a while to finally find my new room. The brand new queen sized bed was already pushed against the far wall and my desk and TV were set up in the corner. I dumped my duffel bag and skateboard in front of the closet and looked inside. Geez, ostentatious much? I shrugged to myself and hoped that Hollow Bastion at least had some good skate parks.

"Roxas!" I heard my fake mom Yumi call my name from downstairs.

"What!" I yelled back not bothering to be polite.

"We're going out to eat! There's money on the counter for pizza!" she shouted back.

They hadn't met their new shareholders yet so there was no reason to tote me around like a trophy. I didn't bother replying to her and a few seconds later I heard the front door slam. Left to my own devices, I slowly started to bring more boxes up from the living room. The movers had already brought everything in the house but I hadn't let them touch my stuff. Underpaid assholes always broke things.

By the time I started feeling hungry I had tacked up all my band posters, filled the dresser with my clothes and threw everything else inside the closet. That's about all I planned to do. No doubt, I would manage to piss off Yumi and Takoshi enough to kick me out soon. This just saved me time in the long run.

I let my converse bang on the stairs as I headed down to the kitchen to order myself some dinner. They of course had already set up the entertainment center, so I flipped through channels while I waited. A loud knock had me vaulting over the back of the couch for my food. I opened the door and had to work to keep my face characteristically expressionless. The guy in front of me looked only a little older than my sixteen years and had the strangest combination of a mullet and Mohawk hairdo I had ever seen. The dirty blond boy grinned at me and rattled off my order and the price.

I blinked at him and dug the money out of my cargo pants, before slapping it into his hand and taking my large cheese. I turned to go back inside when he said, "Wait!"

I twisted my head around and glared at him impatiently, I was hungry dammit!

"Yeah?" I asked coolly.

"You guys just move here?" he asked and gestured through the open door to all the boxes laying around.

"Obviously." I said slowly. I hated it when people asked stupid questions.

"Er, right." he rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, still grinning despite my cold demeanor. "You'll probably be going to my school then! Hollow Bastion High School, or HBHS for short hehe. Name's Demyx!" he said this very fast.

I nodded at him because I was pretty sure I had heard my fake parents talking about it on the way over from Traverse Town.

"Cool! I'm a senior, what grade are you?" he asked cheerfully.

"Sophomore. Look um, Demyx. I really just want to eat my pizza okay?" I finally told him getting a bit annoyed at his chattiness.

"Oh right sorry! I'll uh, probably see you at school tomorrow! Bye!" he turned and ran to his delivery scooter and took off.

Shaking my head I went back into the house to eat. I supposed that kid had been friendly enough but I only had so much patience with happy go lucky people. They reminded me too much of Sora, it was painful to think of how talkative and hyper he was. I never got irritated with him for it, just like he had never cared that I was more shy and introverted. We had perfectly complimented each other. I closed my eyes and pinched my arm hard, I did it every time I started to think of my lost twin. It wasn't a good idea to let me get too depressed. That's usually when I decided to do something stupid and end up suspended or on my way back to another orphanage.

I turned the TV to a mindless comedy and finished my pizza feeling more lonely than ever. Since I had moved families and cities so often, I barely made any friends. The few I did make didn't bother trying to keep in touch with an orphan that was constantly in trouble. I thought I might actually put in some effort at this new school to find some people to hang out with. I'd have to see if any of them were at all like me. I had stuck out as a sore thumb at my last school. I was the quiet, brooding, angry skater kid that hardly talked to anybody. Oh yeah, and the fag. Yeah that too. I never bothered trying to hide the fact that I was gay, I wasn't ashamed of it and I didn't give a fuck what other people thought of me.

I usually kept quiet about it at my home though, it was always a good bargaining chip to use if I wanted out. Sometimes, the foster parents tried to be "good people" and stick with me even if they couldn't stand me, trying to prove something. That's usually when I got fed up with it and told them the truth. It hadn't failed yet to get me a one way ticket to a different family.

I got annoyed at myself for my thoughts, and I flipped the TV off and headed back up to my room. I grabbed my iPod out of my duffel and threw myself on the bed. I turned on Marilyn Manson and let the music drown out my stupid thoughts. I didn't hear Yumi and Takoshi come home and they didn't come check on me. After the sun went down, I still lay there in the dark because I hadn't bothered to turn on the light. Eventually, I turned my music off and rolled over, still in my clothes to fall into an uneasy sleep.

Luckily, they did care enough to wake me up in the morning because I had forgot to set an alarm to get to school. I took a quick shower and changed into my baggy black cargo pants, layered band t-shirt and my ever-present checkered wrist-band. I dried my hair and rubbed a small amount of soft gel into it, my blond spikes were natural but the gel kept them from getting frizzy. I debated a moment then went ahead on put on some black eyeliner as well. I had decided not to hide anything and this was how I liked to look. I grabbed my iPod and skateboard and went downstairs. Yumi handed me some cash for food at school, and I decided to just skip breakfast. I wasn't usually hungry in the mornings anyway.

"Do you need a ride to school?" she asked distractedly while putting three different cell phones in her purse. Damn suits.

"I'll board it." I answered stiffly. I didn't want her fawning over me in front of anyone trying to look like a caring parent.

"But Roxas you haven't even been there before." she reminded me.

"You said it was a few blocks North. I'll follow the buses." I mumbled and headed out the door. She didn't try to stop me.

Kicking my board onto the pavement I sped towards my new school. Like I imagined, it wasn't hard to find from the house. I was even on time, or rather I got there when some people were still loitering on the front quad. The really shitty thing about moving all the time? This wasn't the beginning of the semester, it was already the start of November. While I was glad Hollow Bastion wasn't ridiculously cold yet, I hated getting attention for transferring in the middle of the year. Being the new kid was bad enough, but the only new kid at the time? Embarrassing as hell and more trouble than it is worth.

I ignored the looks I was receiving from the procrastinators and headed into the school. I was lucky yet again, the office was right in the entrance and I slipped in the door, quickly walking up to the secretary.

"You must be Roxas Hikari!" the brunette smiled at me kindly. I sighed and nodded. The secretary looked around thirty and had long hair tied in a pink ribbon with bangs. She introduced herself as Aerith, and said I was going to get a student to shadow me and show me around. I groaned internally, I hated having someone chauffeur me the first day of school. She paged over the intercom asking for Kairi Tilly to the office. We waited a few minutes, and I tried to avoid her gaze because she seemed like she wanted to talk.

The office door opened and a red-headed girl with a pink dress came in. She smiled at me and looked to Aerith.

"Yes Ms. Gainsborough?" she asked. Her voice wasn't high pitched and whiny like I was expecting. She looked a little preppy but didn't seem too bad actually.

"Kairi, will you show Roxas here," she gestured to me with another wide smile. "Around the school today? Show him his classes and tell him everything he needs to know? You're excused from your own classes with no penalty of course." Aerith explained and Kairi nodded obediently.

She turned to me and motioned to follow her out of the office.

"I hope you enjoy our school Mr. Hikari." Aerith called after me. I forced back a twitch at the name. It was my and Sora's last name together. I had refused to let any of my foster parents change it, needing to keep something to connect me to my brother. Whenever someone said it though, I couldn't help but feel a stab of pain.

"I'm a sophomore too." Kairi said as I followed her to my new locker. I put my skateboard inside but decided to keep my backpack since I didn't know what I'd need. I gave the lock a solid tug after closing it to make sure no one could get into it to steal my board, it was my most prized possession. Kairi waited patiently then strode off to find my first class for me. I didn't really know what to say so I kept quiet. I didn't really mind girls as long as they weren't annoying, but I never knew what to say to them either.

"Um, if you want to Roxas you can sit with me and my friends at lunch. I know you're new so you don't know anyone yet. That is, if you want to." Her eyes were wide with sincerity and I found myself nodding again, because really that was pretty nice of her. For all she knew I could be some drug addict or something, well I did smoke cigarettes whenever I could steal some off one of my fake parents but still, that didn't count.

We reached my first class, English and the whole class stared of course as we entered the room.

"Mr. Kim? This is Roxas, I'm supposed to escort him around today." Kairi said sounding shy with all of the students' attention on us. The black-haired man waved us towards two seats in the back and continued his lesson. We hastily sat down and Kairi whipped out a notebook to take notes. I was a bit confused as to why she needed to, when she turned to me and gestured I do the same. I shrugged at her and shook my head. I never bothered to take notes. I had a good memory and managed to get A's and B's when I cared to try. She frowned a little at me but left me to my own devices. She must be a teacher's pet.

Throughout our next few classes my suspicions were confirmed. She took notes for each one and did the in-class work as well. When I asked why she bothered, she said, "This way I don't fall behind."

"It's only a days worth." I reminded her.

"Still I could miss something important! Especially since I don't take all of the same classes as you do I could learn something different!" she informed me with a smile.

I decided that as nice as Kairi was, she needed to lighten up a little.

When lunch time rolled around I hadn't really talked to anyone else, so I figured I might as well sit with her and her friends. We reached her table after waiting in line for food, and as I had thought, it was full of preps.

"This is Tidus, Yuna, Olette, Pence, Hayner and Namine." she pointed out each person with their name and they smiled or waved at me. "Guys this is Roxas, I'm his escort today." she explained and sat down next to the blond girl introduced as Namine.

"Hey." I said trying to sound at least a little friendly. I didn't really want to piss off the only person I knew so soon. She patted the seat next to her and I sat down dropping my backpack at my feet.

"So, where did you move from?" Tidus asked curiously.

I fended off all of the usual questions as best I could. I really didn't like telling people the truth because then they felt pity for me and I hated that. I didn't want them being nice to me just because they felt bad for the poor orphan kid. I had become rather proficient at telling half-truths, enough of my real life so that I don't get confused, but enough of a lie to seem normal. After about ten minutes of the get-to-know-you bullshit they went back to their own conversations. I picked at my food only half listening.

"Did you see Marluxia today? He dyed his hair pink! I can't believe he hasn't gotten in trouble for it!" Yuna said this as if it were a huge scandal. I couldn't help but roll my eyes a little.

"Do they have a dress code?" I asked curiously, because honestly if they did I had to watch out.

"Oh no you don't have to worry about that Roxas." Olette said quickly.

"It's because he's a guy! I mean pink hair? It was obvious before, but now the whole town is going to know he's queer!" Hayner said getting riled up.

I snapped my gaze to him with a glare.

"He's what?" I said coldly.

"He's totally gay." Tidus agreed.

"Yep, a complete fag." Hayner said nodding importantly and looking arrogant. I wanted to punch him in the face.

"Is the whole school homophobic?" I asked flatly.

I was done trying to be nice to these people if they were like this. Kairi, Namine and Olette winced at this. The rest glanced around at each other looking excited at sharing gossip.

"Well, we aren't all homophobes per say. A lot of the guys that are openly gay get beat up though." Yuna explained while picking her sandwich apart. She didn't seem at all concerned about the students which she spoke of.

"Yeah, only the ones stupid enough to tell other people." Tidus said and wrapped his arm around Yuna, as if to prove he wasn't a 'fag'.

"Like everyone in the stupid Organization." Hayner added sourly.

"It's this gang of seniors that call themselves that," Namine explained quickly seeing my confusion. "Not all of their members are gay, but the ones that are, are pretty open about it." she had a soft voice.

"Actually, there are like twenty members unofficially. They and the bullies have a bit of a rivalry. Only some of the boys go after them though, especially after the last time they..." Yuna trailed off and shook her head. They were all looking a bit odd.

"They what?" I felt myself ask. I hoped they weren't a senior exclusive gang because it sounded like this was my only hope of surviving this school.

"Well, Seifer ended up in the hospital last time he and his gang ambushed one of them. I think it was Zexion..." Olette continued the story.

"So?" I said uncaring.

"What do you mean so? He was just making sure they don't contaminate any of the rest of us." Hayner spat.

I had had enough of this shit. I stood abruptly and grabbed my backpack. I noticed the three girls besides Yuna looking embarrassed and a bit sad but I didn't care for them. I glared at the whole table.

"Fuck you bigots." I snarled keeping my voice low.

They nearly all flinched and I spun on my heel to stalk away from them leaving my half eaten lunch. I strode through the rest of the teenage horde still filling up the cafeteria, looking for a place separated from everyone. If this was the kind of mentality here I wasn't going to bother even trying to be civil. I opened the side doors and headed out to the middle quad, since we didn't have to stay on campus. There were less teens out here and they seemed to all be older. I spotted a large group of students hanging around under a tree, all dressed in black cloaks. I wondered if this was the Organization, they sure seemed like a gang dressing alike like that.

I suddenly spotted Demyx, the pizza delivery kid from last night, sitting at the bottom of the tree talking to another blond. I wondered if he would remember me at all. Who knew how many pizzas he delivered? One random kid probably wouldn't stand out to him. I let my gaze roam over the rest of the group since no one seemed to be paying me any attention. There were a few burly and rather scary looking guys, if I was being honest. Tattoos and piercings adorned most of the group. There were quite a few striking hair colors on them, one of which being the pink-haired guy those imbeciles had told me about.

"Hey kid!" I looked over automatically and saw Demyx waving at me and the others turned to look.

I stared back warily, only slightly intimidated by the large, and if rumors were true, protective group of seniors. Demyx beckoned me over, standing up happily. I shrugged to myself and walked over to them. I could see a boy with bright blue hair glaring at me, standing next to a rather creepy-looking boy with long white hair. Demyx stepped forward and patted my shoulder cheerfully.

"Hey! I wasn't sure if I would see you today. Large cheese right?" he said with a smile. I noticed a boy with dark silver hair that covered one eye, step up to Demyx's side the instant he had touched me.

"Who is this?" he asked quietly, his voice nearly monotone.

Demyx spun to face him and laced their fingers together, the gesture seeming to reassure the other.

"This is the guy I told you about last night. Just moved here." he said. About half of the group were paying attention to us while the rest had seemed to lose interest.

"Roxas." I introduced myself.

It was as though my name was an atom bomb, every one of them froze. Those who I had thought were in their own conversations whipped around to stare. Their eyes went wide and they all seemed to share an intense look. I was a bit shocked that telling them my name could have caused any kind of reaction. How could they have possibly heard of me? Bewildered, I glanced around at those closest to me. Demyx and his boyfriend, and a serious looking blond and brunette with a scar on his face.

"Um. Am I missing something?" I asked steadily and took a cautious step back.

"Do you know someone named Sora?" the other blond asked quietly.

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I know it's short but I couldn't help the cliffy. I have pretty much the whole story written, I just want to see what you think of it so far.