Yes, I know I should be working on sweet talk 1o1. And I am. Like. Right now. I swear. You just can't see it. Next chapter will be up soon. I just typed this up quickly because I got bored and needed a giggle. So I hope you like it. :) Will be multi-chap.

Disclaimer: Don't own kh... or ff... It makes me sad. Title belongs to jack johnson because i was listening to that song while writing this and it fit. Chapter titles are lyrics, also belonging to jack johnson

Enjoi.


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. b e t t e r t o g e t h e r .

.where'd all the good people go?.

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Hello. My name is Sora. Or, y'know, Sora Leonhart if you wanna get all technical about it.

So, anyway, I have a story for you. One that I hope you'll be interested in hearing. Because I don't really have anyone else to tell this story to. No, I am not a lonely git. Basically, since the moment we had first met, my jerk of a 'best friend' royally screwed with my life. It's not a fun thing to go over because no matter how much you want to, you can never seem to get away from these people. They will hunt you down, the little fuckers, just to screw you over. Fun, right?

Um. No.

Especially when you end up falling in love with said jerk.

Yes, shut up, I know it's fucking cliché. What's not cliche is how damn painful it was. Imagine pulling teeth. That's what it's like being with him. Well.. that's what it was like, I should say.

And yes. Him. Fuck you, you homophobes. The world doesn't need more of you, and I don't want to deal with your shit at the moment.

...Alright, so let's start this story from the beginning.

-"It's a boy! And... another boy!"

Whoa, hey, not that far into the beginning!

...On second thought, what the hell. Since you and I are going to be getting down on a personal level here, might as well start from the, well, beginning.

"Twins! We have twins, can you believe that?!"

Honestly, it must be every girl's dream to have twins when she becomes a mother. I, personally, don't see the point. The whole thing is just a headache just waiting to happen. Don't get me wrong, I love my brother and all but...

"Oh my god, Squall, we lost Sora!"

"...No, Sora is right here, we lost Roxas."

"Are you blind?! This is Roxas!"

"Rinoa, stop screa-"

"FIND MY BABY, GODDAMMIT!"

...As it turned out, Roxas was the one who had toddled off. See what I mean? The only time anyone was able to tell us apart was in middle school when I finally decided to dye my hair a darker shade of brown. I refused to be mistaken for Roxas and vice versa for the umpteenth time.

So, anyway, around the time that Roxas had decided to be an adventurous little toddler was about the same time I met my 'jerk of a best friend.' We had actually just moved to Destiny Islands (the same day we lost Roxas in the airport, on the island of the same place where couples run off to fornicate and such... it wasn't fun looking for him) and a few days later I decided to leave the square security of my house and wandered down to the beach. And that was when I met Riku. Oh, and Kairi, but she wasn't and still isn't a jerk. Riku on the other hand... Riku was a Dick. Yes. With a capital D.

He was eight, only a year older than me, cocky, stuck up, the kind of kid who would bet you his collection of wooden toy swords that he was better than you at everything.

I spent the rest of the day playing with them, and let me tell you, Kairi fucking worshiped the kid. She followed him around like a baby duck with a spork in its head. It was creepy. The whole time, Riku'd been shooting me haughty looks like "haha she likes me more"-

Well, fuck you, Riku. Fucking fuck you.

The kid made the rest of my life an utter hellish competition.

Once, he pushed me off the docks and told me that if I caught a fish with my bare hands, he'd give me bragging rights for a whole week. I never did catch that fish... but my pants did. I like to think that if I really had caught that fish, I'd smack Riku in the face with it. Repeatedly.

We grew up, went to middle school, blah blah blah BAM. That awful awkward thing happens to you when you come of age. Puberty. And after puberty? HIGH SCHOOL. Sweet Shiva, nobody likes the first day of highschool. And even if they say they do? They lie.

Now, Riku may have been a year older than me n'Kairi, but that didn't mean he was in a higher grade (higher classes? yes). When he asked Kairi out in freshman year, I swear to Jenova that they spent every living, breathing moment together. It was almost disgusting. I didn't know who I was jealous of more, Riku or Kairi. Or if I was jealous at all. Either way, I was inexplicably thrown completely out of the loop. Like and old newspaper. Last night's leftovers. The report card you don't want your parents to see-

Yeah. You get my point.

So the two, they date of course, for two years, when the unthinkable happens. DUN DUN DUN, are you ready for it? Riku leaves. For a year. Because he was put into mental rehab. Can you believe that shit? Riku, the perfect, better-than-everyone else, Riku.

...Well, when I put it that way, then no wonder.

Anyway, Kairi comes crawling back to me, and since I'm a forgiving guy, I welcome her back with open arms.

Unfortunately for me, tomorrow is the first day of Senior Year and Riku's coming back.

Jenova above, please help me.

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I woke up next morning to the perfect first day of school scenario.

Rubbing my bleary eyes, I rolled onto my side and reached for the alarm clock. The tiny black device read 7:43 in painfully bright red letters. Doing the math in my half asleep head, I quickly figured out that Roxas and I had to be out for the bus in... seventeen minutes.

"...Shit!" I cursed, suddenly wide awake. I bolted upright, banging my fist against the thin wall that separated my room from my brother's. And let me tell you, that wall was thin. It was convenient for mornings like this but... inconvenient whenever Roxas brought his boyfriend over and I was trying to get some sleep. Not awkward. "Roxas! Roxas, get up! We overslept!"

The wall next to me responded with a very loud thud and a perfectly clear "fuck!"

"...Y-you okay, Rox?"

"Just a little... concussion..."

I snorted and rolled out of bed, brushing my bangs out of my eyes. This was unfair. It was unjustly! I wasn't late once last year. Of course things would end up downright crappy the day Riku returned back to school. Of course I'd end up having to share the bathroom with my brother, knocking limbs together in the shower-

"Holy Jenova, Roxas! Is that a hickey or did Seifer just punch you?!"

-of course I'd miss out on breakfast because mom and dad overslept-

"...Today's the first day of school?"

-but at least I managed to throw Roxas right between the bus's doors before they closed. He wasn't too happy with me after that. Would you be happy with me if I grabbed you by the belt loops and chucked? ...Don't answer that.

I carefully made my way to the back where I could see Kairi's head of red hair, while the giant yellow metal hunk of death jostled happily up the street. She grinned when she saw me and scooted over to make some room. Honestly, her purse was the size of a grown chocobo, I practically had to sit on it.

"Nice bruise. Roxas give it to you?"

"Duh," I scoffed, pulling down the the collar of my shirt to rub at my bruised clavicle.

"If you squint, it kinda looks like a hickey."

...Wow. Perfect analogy Kairi. I didn't know I magically switched places with Roxas at some point.

"Um. No. I, unlike my brother dear, did not get this courtesy of Almasy-"

"HAHAWHAT?!"

"-I'm surprised he managed to cover it up in the first place."

"That's not disturbing."

"I know, right?"

I laughed and sank in my seat before Roxas could realize we were talking about him. For being such a short skinny kid (he was smaller than me even though he was my twin, and not in that way) he had a mean right hook. He dislocated my jaw once when we were seven because I got the better Happy McMoogle toy in my meal. Jerk.

"Sooo," Kairi sang, wiggling a bit in her seat, "Riku's coming back today!"

I found myself rolling my eyes in exasperation. Like I haven't been hearing that one all summer. "Kai, I'm pretty sure the whole bus knows. I'm pretty sure creepy Lady Malificent with the killer crows knows. I'm pretty sure the whole island knows."

"Well, duh!" Kairi stuck out her tongue, giving my shoulder a shove. I nearly fell out of my seat. "I was just trying to get you excited."

"Ooooh, Kairi, I'm so excited I can't contain myself."

"Please contain yourself in your pants."

"Oh. God. Wow. No. Fail."

Kairi batted her eyelashes innocently at me, but oh, I knew better. I wasn't going to buy that. Last time I did, Riku ended up dropping chocobo eggs on top of my head from her room. It took days to get the eggshells out, days! Do you fucking understand how painful those little bitches are?! Even without baby birds inside!

I sighed half-heartedly and leaned back, trying to ignore Hayner's squawks from the front of the bus.

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The school looked the same way as it had ever since I moved here. Like a flat brick institution. ...Okay, no. I'm a liar. I have lied. I'm just in a bad mood. It's actually made out of very appealing granite and marble and has huge open windows, so it's not too hard to breathe in there. Anyway, I currently wanted to jump out one of those windows because standing at the top of the stairs, right in front of the entrance was-

"Riku!"

I flinched and grabbed the ear that Kairi just screamed into, trying not to get trampled as she flew past me up the stairs and into Riku's arms. Really, it was a good thing I hadn't eaten breakfast that morning because I would've upchucked it by now.

This will only be said once and I won't tell you again. I never liked seeing them get all mushy. I don't know why, but it's just them. I normally don't mind PDA, but seeing it from them just... ugh. I don't know. Makes my insides squirm. And that's a lot coming from me, because I am a very affectionate person. Did you know I started a Free Hugs Day on this island? Yeah. I'm just that awesome.

I glanced over my shoulder and upon spotting Roxas and his group, I ducked out of sight and made my way over to them before Riku could see me. A year without him had been peaceful, and I wasn't about to let it all go down the proverbial drain.

Roxas grinned when he saw me, using my presence as the perfect distraction to get himself out of his Seifer-Axel-tug-of-war. Now, um, before we go any further (oh baby), let me just explain something really quick. Back in elementary school, Seifer was like the school's badass. He made it a hobby to pick on the smaller and weaker and blah blah, yo know how it goes. Well, Roxas and Hayner were his favorite by far. They'd be my favorite too if one sliced my face open and the other punched me in the eye.

Yeah. It was epic. You had to be there. He still has the scar and everything.

So this went on for a while until Axel stepped in (and everyone knows he just didn't want anyone to mess up Roxas's pretty face) and put a stop to everything. And by the time he'd grown some balls to ask Roxas out...

...Seifer had already done it.

Yeah. We're still investigating on how that even happened. I was just surprised that Axel didn't kill Seifer the first chance he got.

"What's up, did you see Riku already?" Roxas asked cheerfully, throwing an arm over my shoulders.

I rolled my eyes at his poorly timed enthusiasm (I didn't have two guys fighting over me) and shook him off. "Yeah, I saw him and-"

"Ran off like a chickenwuss?" Seifer finished with a smirk, wrapping an arm around Roxas's waist and pulling him away from me. Axel didn't look happy at all. Jenova, Roxas was dense.

"No, I-"

Hayner scoffed beside me, prompting an interjection from Olette. "You did too! We saw you and everything!"

Roxas grinned at that and proceeded with a perfect reenactment of me running away like a little girl.

"Lamer," Seifer added, giving me one of his cocky little grins.

Now, I'm not usually in a pissy mood... but what the hell. It won't hurt once every year. So I plastered a sweet innocent smile on my face (I'm pretty damn good at doing that) and turned to Axel, who was glaring at Seifer and probably wishing for all his organs to spontaneously combust. "Seifer punched Roxas in the neck."

I got three very... prompt responses.

A screeching "WHAT?!" from Axel.

A raised eyebrow from Roxas.

And an "ohshit" from Seifer.

Needless to say, I had barely turned around before Axel launched himself at the taller blonde, sending them both flying into the grass. I smirked in triumph as I made my way up the front steps, listening to the shouts and yelps and i'll-fucking-kill-you's fade behind me.

Sora-1

Shitty Friends-0

I avoided going to my locker, hoping to also avoid anymore sightings of Riku, but really, who was I kidding? I had homeroom with the guy. Unfortunately, L came right after K. And fortunately, M came after L. Hopefully... Kairi would keep him company.

Ugh.

The moment I stuck my head through my homeroom doorway, my gaze landed on Riku and Kairi conversing together on the other side of the room with a few other classmates. I made my way to the back of the room before I could be noticed and waited for Axel and Roxas. Despite not wanting to be noticed, I kept sneaking glances at Riku. He was still pale, but not that awful, sickly pale he had aquired at the beginning of highschool. He'd gotten taller and even grew his hair out a bit (what a girl, seriously), which, as much as I hate to admit it, looked really good on him. And just when I was ogling at his hair and trying to count the number of layers, he turned around and caught my eye.

I froze.

I am telling you now that I am not lying when I though my heart stopped momentarily.

Without even thinking it over, I leapt out of my desk and threw myself at the floor.

...Yes, I know it was a dumb idea. Shut up.

"Is there... something I should know about?"

I flinched and sucked in a sharp breath, slowly lifting my head until a pair of checkered Vans came into view. I blew out a sigh of relief and sat up to find Roxas and Axel standing in front of me with very disturbed looks on their faces.

Oh, give me a break.

"Nice bruise, Ax," I observed, eyeing his purple cheek with a grin.

"Yeah, no thanks to you," Axel snapped, slumping down in the seat next to mine and grumbling irritably under his breath. Roxas grabbed me by the arm and helped me to my feet before taking a seat on Axel's unprotesting lap.

Honestly, my brother can be denser than a rock. Just don't tell him I said that or he'll superglue me to my seat again.

"Riku's been staring at you for, like, the past two minutes, you realize this, right?" he asked, nodding his head towards the silver headed figure behind me. Shiva, I could practically feel his eyes boring in to the back of my head.

"No duh, Captain Obvious," I mumbled, slinking into my seat and trying to slouch as low as possible without ending up under the table. The homeroom teacher started taking rolecall and I willed my name to disappear from the list.

"Dude, really," Axel scoffed in exasperation. He leaned forward, resting his chin on Roxas's shoulder and gave me a pointed look. "What, you just gonna avoid him for the rest of the year?"

"I sure as hell can try," I hissed, trying to ignore Riku's call of here when his last name was called.

Little did I know... I had a long day ahead of me.

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POV's will change in each chapter (or whenever I feel like it) between sora and 3rd pov. Because I get bored real easy and like to experiment.

For your sole information, here are some character relations/names...

Sora and Roxas are twins, parentals are Squall and Rin (:D), Roxas is dating Seifer, Axel is in love with Roxas and is Kairi's twin with the last name of Monroe, Riku's last name is Karada hence why they are all in the same homeroom.. blah.. blah.. blah..

...Review? :3

...Please? D: