Heya :) i wrote this a while back but wasn't sure if i should carry it on or not :S So i've been through and edited it and please let me know what you think, mostly if i should continue or not XD anyway ENJOY!!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.....apart from the Sunset Isles i own them XD or wish i really did anyway!
Does contain exceptionally mild boy x boy loving so if you don't like it please don't read it :)
The weather was hot and sticky, they'd opened the little train window but it hadn't achieved much. Even the breeze was warm. They had been travelling all day to get to the main island in the set called the Sunset Isles. A train to the coast, then a boat across and now, finally, another train to the only city on the island.
"Oh my god! Oh my god, I can't believe we're almost there!" An over-excited brunette was jumping up and down in his seat. "I can't wait!"
"Well, we still have four hours on the train Sora, so try calm down okay?" Said the blonde opposite Sora in a very patient voice.
Sora stuck his tongue out at his twin, Roxas.
"I can be excited if I wanna be!"
"Not when it's at the expense of everyone else's sanity." Said a silverette sat next to Sora.
"Just 'cause you're a year older, Riku, you think you can boss me around!" Sora pouted in a very cute way.
Riku laughed, flipping his long silver hair over his shoulder.
"I know I can boss you around!" Riku kissed Sora's nose. Sora frowned and scrunched up his face, then he swooped in and pecked Riku on the lips, blushing as he did.
The two girls who were sat next to Roxas giggled. They were called Namine and Kairi. They were twins but not identical. Kairi had auburn hair, the colour of autumn, and Namine had white-blonde hair like starshine.
They were flipping through the pages of a magazine. Kairi's was a girly mag with hints and tips on looking beautiful, and Namine's was an art magazine, giving advice on paints, brushes, pencils and techniques.
"Don't worry Sora I got your back!" came another hyper yell from a dirty blonde boy sat on Sora's other side.
"Yeah! Demyx is my back-up!" Sora cried.
"Pretty lousy back-up if you ask me." Said a tall, red-head who was sat between the window and Roxas. His usual lopsided, mischievous grin was plastered on his face.
"Awww come on Axel no fair!" Demyx moaned.
Roxas quietly giggled, his sapphire eyes, the match of Sora's, watching Demyx's affronted expression. Axel smiled down at the blonde, hearing the secret giggle.
"I would be inclined to agree with you." Said a boy with periwinkle-blue hair sat opposite Axel. He had glasses perched on his nose and a heavy book in his lap. His voice was cool and quiet.
"Oh Zexion, how could you agree with the devil over there?!" Demyx said pouting as good as Sora did and displaying sea-green puppy dog eyes.
Zexion looked up from his book for a moment and gave his head a little jerk, flicking his fringe out of his eye only to have it fall back into place again. Roxas was sure he detected a small blush colour Zexion's pale cheeks.
"Because the 'devil' over there made a very appropriate statement."
Then he returned to his book, leaving Demyx looking slightly miffed.
"Cheer up Dem! We'll be there soon!" Sora clapped his friend on the back, elbowing Riku in the ribs in the process.
Riku grunted and bowed over his knees, Sora's elbows were pointy!
Because of the lack of space in their little compartment Riku knees were a centimetre from Namine's. His forehead rested on her bare skin.
She jumped at the sudden contact and accidently kneed him in the head and hit Kairi in the face with her magazine.
"Hey!" Kairi protested, half turning to her sister and knocking Roxas over.
By consequence Roxas found himself sprawled in Axel's lap, looking up at his amused emerald eyes.
"To what do I owe the pleasure of your company, Roxas?" Axel asked, grinning at the exasperated expression on his best friends face.
Roxas sighed.
Kairi was trying to apologise to Roxas and at the same time Namine was trying to apologise to Riku, who now had a headache and bruised ribs. Sora was also trying to apologise to the silverette and Demyx was laughing fit to burst at the domino effect.
Zexion simply turned the page of his book and continued reading.
....xXx....
Sora gasped.
"Roxy!" he almost jumped on his brother, rupturing the silence that had lasted for almost half an hour! An amazing feat with Sora and Demyx in the same compartment.
Roxas jumped out of his skin and tried to pull his book out from under Sora.
"Shhh! What, Sora?" he asked in a whisper.
Axel and Zexion were fast asleep. Axel's head was resting on his shoulder and he had mp3 player earphones plugged into his ears. Zexion was leaning on the window, using his hoodie as a pillow with his glasses back in their box.
"Did you remember the bucket and spade??" Sora asked, totally seriously by the look on his face.
Roxas stared at him. He blinked a few times. Riku and Demyx chuckled quietly and Kairi and Namine giggled.
"Yes Sora, I did. You threw them at me this morning remember?" Roxas whispered patiently.
Sora sat on Roxas' knee and thought back to this morning. Cloud, their older brother, had bought a new bucket and spade, at Sora's request, and Sora had thrown them at Roxas in his eagerness to get them packed.
"Oh yeah! I remember!" Sora said, very loudly.
Axel moaned and turned over. Sora froze. He grinned at Roxas' warning look and hopped back to his own seat. He looked over Demyx's shoulder at the handheld game he was playing.
Roxas sighed and ineffectually tried to smooth the pages Sora had crumpled. There was an hour left on the train. Sora and Demyx laughed out loud. Roxas winced and looked at the sleepers. Zexion stirred but didn't wake. Roxas sighed again as he listened to Riku warning the over loud pair to keep quiet. It was going to be a long hour.
....xXx....
The train finally pulled into a dark station. Sora and Demyx immediately began pulling luggage out of the racks over head. Roxas gently poked Axel. He didn't move. The blonde pulled his earphones out of his ears and was going to call him when a bag flew down from the rack Sora was fiddling with and landed smack on Zexion's lap.
He awoke with a start, looking around him with a little confusion.
"Hey Zex, we're here, sorry you woke up like that." Roxas apologised, pulling the bag off Zexion's lap.
Zexion rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and ran a hand through his hair.
"S'okay Rox." He said, his words slurring slightly. He stood up and looked around the crush of bags for his own belongings.
"Okay Roxy, me and Demyx are getting off the train now! See ya on the platform!"
Roxas spun around only to see Sora and Demyx running off along the train.
"No Sora! We gotta..." he started
"It's okay Rox, I'll go catch up with them." Said Riku laying a hand on Roxas' shoulder.
"Yeah we'll go to!" and Kairi and Namine followed him out the compartment.
"O okay!" Roxas called after them.
He and Zexion found their bags and after a small struggle trying to get the thing on Zexion's back, the sleepy boy headed off to see where the others were.
Roxas was struggling to lift the heavy bag that contained all of both his and Sora's stuff for a week, when he felt a hand on his waist. He gasped and twisted away from the touch.
Axel held up both hands in the universal symbol for 'I mean no harm'.
"Sorry, Rox. Just...trying to help." He looked away slightly.
Roxas didn't know what to say. He and Axel had some history together. They had been together for two years before...complications arose. They had argued badly and split up. They saw each other at school and still retained a small friendship as they had many friends in common. But Roxas had never expected Axel to come on this trip. When Kairi said she had invited him Roxas had been sure Axel would say no. Obviously, he was wrong.
"Wanna hand, sunshine?" asked Axel.
Roxas looked up at the red-head, smiling, not unwillingly, at the nickname that he hadn't heard for a while.
"It would be appreciated, thanks." Roxas replied. Axel lifted the bag and Roxas slipped his arms into the straps. When Axel let go Roxas thought he would fall over backwards. The thing was so damn heavy! He watched Axel swing his own bag onto his back with apparent ease.
"So, getting tired looking after Sora already? Not that I've ever heard you complain, about anything." Axel asked as they grabbed their day bags, checked the compartment for anything left behind and then left the train.
"Weeell I just never really noticed how much of a hand full he really is! I guess I'm just used to it. I mean, we've always been on holiday with Cloud and Leon before so he had them to bug and I'd actually get some time to myself, I guess I never noticed how hyper he gets when we're away!" Roxas explained as they pushed through the crowded platform, lit by beautiful lanterns hanging from the ceiling and attached to the walls, making their way over to a waving Kairi.
As the day had turned into night the temperature had dropped. Roxas shivered a little. Axel noticed and was trying to come up with a way to get Roxas to accept his jacket in a strict, 'friends only' fashion, when he was interrupted.
"Hey guys! Isn't this great! I love it already!" Sora yelled grabbing Roxas' hand and dragging him back to their friends.
"Sora, turn down the volume a notch we're not deaf." Axel teased. Sora stuck out a pink tongue at Axel, who chuckled. At least Sora seemed to be accepting him back. Slowly. Sora had never really forgiven Axel for what he did to Roxas, even after Roxas seemed to have forgiven Axel. But then, Axel had never really forgiven himself, so he wasn't surprised that Roxas' twin hadn't.
Namine smiled at Roxas as he neared them.
"You okay Rox? You look tired." She asked with her usual concern.
Roxas smiled back.
"I'm fine thanks, I'm no more tired than you are."
"Okay Roxy, holiday planner! Where to now? Where's the hotel?" Sora babbled.
Roxas dug into his pockets and pulled out a piece of paper, neatly folded. He unfolded it and looked at the address.
"Okay the hotel we want is called Sunset Beach, and we'll have to take a taxi there."
"Woohoo! Taxi!" Sora and Demyx danced around.
"You guys have too much energy!" Kairi moaned at them and Roxas was inclined to agree. It was, after all, almost ten o'clock at night.
....xXx....
They had found a taxi out the front of the station and the driver had taken one look at all their bags and called up a friend. There were four seats in each taxi and their bags went into the small boots and some on the floor between them.
Roxas, Sora, Riku and Axel went in one taxi and Kairi, Namine, Zexion and Demyx went in the second one. This was mainly to try and get the two hyper active teens to calm down by separating them.
The drivers had told them it was a good half an hour to get to Sunset Beach Hotel if the traffic wasn't bad. Roxas sighed, he just wanted to get to bed, but Sora, who was sat next to him bounced up and down in his seat, excited about seeing the small city by night.
Roxas had to admit it was a beautiful city by night. All blue and white lights and little restaurants and shops and squares with performers doing all sorts, one was a fire breather. They circled a fountain at the centre of a roundabout. It was spouting crystal clear water and was lit up by lights that went from a light blue, to pastel shades of green, yellow, pink and finally, white.
"I feel like a movie star!" Sora exclaimed.
Just then Roxas' phone began to ring. The tone was a piano solo and it told him that Cloud was calling. Roxas pulled it out of his pocket and flipped it up.
"Hey Cloud." He said.
"Hey Roxas, are you at the hotel yet?"
"Not yet, we're in taxis on the way there."
"Okay, how was the train ride? Sora drive you mad yet?"
Roxas laughed.
"The train ride was okay, and both Sora and Demyx have been driving us up the wall!"
Roxas heard Sora give a little "Hey!"
"But I haven't cracked yet!"
Roxas heard Cloud laugh.
"Well that's good, be careful 'kay? Tell Sora I love him and miss him and that it's a lot quieter without him around! And call me if you have any problems, alright?"
Roxas also thought he heard a laugh and a comment from Leon in the background.
"I am not a mother hen Leon! Shut up! Anyway Roxas, have loads of fun, sleep and eat well, don't fall out with each other and be careful! Bye, love you both."
"Okay will do Cloud, bye I love you too and tell Leon he's right you are a mother hen and we love him too."
They were laughing when they put down the phone.
....xXx....
The drive was taking longer than half an hour. The traffic was busy and there was so many people walking around that it made driving difficult.
Sora had swapped places with Axel and was sitting next to Riku, opposite Roxas. He had his head in Riku's lap and Riku had his hand entangled in Sora's brunette locks. Both were asleep.
Roxas felt slightly uncomfortable. A couple of months back and that would have been him and Axel.
"So he finally fell asleep huh?" Axel said quietly. Roxas started. He had thought Axel was asleep.
"Yeah." Roxas whispered back, smiling at his twin.
"So what's it like having Riku with Sora?" Axel asked out of the blue after a pause of five minutes.
Roxas looked up at Axel, but the red head was looking out of the window and Roxas couldn't see his face.
"Well it's...good. I mean they were throwing some pretty serious hints at each other for a looong time. So to have them finally get together is good."Roxas answered.
Axel was silent for a time. He thought Roxas sounded like he was trying to convince himself as much as Axel.
"And they're like, made for each other. Riku brings Sora back down to earth a little and Sora drags Riku out of his shell. They work."
"Yeah, made for each other." Axel agreed thoughtfully.
As the car pulls to a final stop and the engine was cut, Roxas thinks he hears Axel murmur to himself,
"Just like we were."
....xXx....
Axel prods Riku awake, careful not to wake Sora too. They want him to stay asleep.
Riku wakes silently. Just opens his eyes and looks like he never fell asleep at all.
"C'mon we're here, you'll probably have to carry Sora." Axel whispers.
Riku nods and, while Roxas holds the door open for him, he tenderly picks Sora up, princess style, and carries him out the car.
Roxas and Axel drag the luggage out of the car and the boot. The driver walks around to help them.
He looks at Sora and chuckles.
"Been a long day huh?" He asks.
"Yeah." Axel says dragging a hand through his hair as Roxas pulls out the wallet that has all the money in it. He counts out what he owes and then waves as the driver thanks him then pulls away.
The other taxi isn't long in coming and soon it's just the eight of them stood in front of a rather grand hotel.
"Wow." Kairi says, looking up at the hotel.
"Wow." Namine agrees.
Roxas thought it was one of the nicest hotels he's ever seen. There was a large stone staircase with beautiful flowers growing at either side in the flower beds. The windows were delicate and most had curtains drawn across them.
"Your brother picked well!" said Zexion.
Cloud had chosen and paid for in advance, the hotel that they were staying in and wouldn't tell them anything about it.
"It's a surprise!" He'd said. Even Leon had known nothing about it.
"Yeah, come on lets head in." Roxas said grabbing his and Sora's bags. Axel grabbed Riku's rucksack and Kairi grabbed his day bag.
They walked up the staircase and through the ornate, bronze door into a cosy lobby.
The decor was in a cosy, beach style, with comfy sofas and armchairs, perfect for flopping into after a day on the beach. There were potted plants spread around the smallish room. All with large green leaves and a couple with pretty white flowers on. The carpet was coloured with different shades of bronze, gold, red and brown. And the pattern reminded him of the carpets Roxas had seen in the street stalls of Agrabah.
"Okay, you guys wait here and me and Zexion will go sort out the rooms." Roxas said, dropping his bag from his shoulders. Zexion followed suit and they walked up to the reception.
Demyx dumped his bag and slumped into an armchair. He would gladly have curled up there and then but Axel said,
"Hey Dem, don't go falling asleep. Rox and Zex will be done soon, 'kay? Plus I really don't feel like carrying you up the stairs."
Demyx simply grunted in reply.
The girls dropped their bags and sat on a sofa. They leaned against each other and closed their eyes.
Riku sat down on another sofa and cradled Sora in his arms. Sora snuffled in his sleep and clutched Riku's shirt.
Axel sighed. He had a headache. And Riku and Sora were just too sweet at the moment. He glanced at the grandfather clock against the wall. Eleven o'clock. He was knackered.
Ten minutes later Roxas and Zexion came back with four keys.
"Cloud got us four double rooms and we have breakfast here every morning." Roxas explained to Axel and Riku.
Axel noticed a twitch of a frown on the blonde's face when he looked at Riku and Sora. So he was still kinda over-protective of his twin. Axel smiled to himself, Riku should watch out; Roxas really could pack quite a punch. Axel had had plenty of experience with Roxas' fist.
Zexion yawned widely, covering it up with his hand. He caught sight of Demyx curled up in the armchair.
"Cute." He thought. Then blushed when he realised what had just gone through his head!
"I'm just overtired." He tried to convince himself.
"I think the girls should share a room," Roxas began.
"Good idea." Said both girls simultaneously with their eyes still closed.
"I think me and Sora should share, Axel and Riku and then Zexion and Demyx."
Axel raised an eyebrow. He hadn't been expecting to share with Roxas, but he had thought the blonde would let Riku and Sora share.
Riku looked like he wanted to argue. But Roxas held his hands up.
"We can talk about it in the morning, for now let's just stick with this okay?"
Riku sighed almost inaudibly, and nodded.
Zexion pocked Demyx awake.
....xXx....
Riku carefully placed Sora on one of the beds in his and Roxas' room. Roxas followed him in after saying goodnight to the others. The blonde dropped the bags on the floor in between the beds and stretched and yawned widely.
"Rox, Sora can't really sleep in his jeans." Riku pointed out.
"S'okay I'll sort him in a sec, I just need the bathroom. You can go Riku thanks, goodnight."
"Goodnight." Riku said, smiling, as Roxas went into the bathroom and locked the door.
He wondered how long it would take to gain Roxas' trust. He had Cloud's. But then Cloud was happy to expand his little family, whereas Roxas was happy with a closed unit and didn't want someone else butting in. Not that Riku was a stranger having known the twins for seven years.
Riku glanced at the bathroom door then, when he was sure Roxas wasn't coming back already, he leaned over Sora and kissed his sleeping lips. He unbuttoned Sora's jeans, then, gently, slipped the denim off the brunette, praying to all the gods that Roxas wasn't just about to walk back in the room.
Somehow his luck held and he got Sora's jeans off. He tucked in his boyfriend and kissed him again before hurrying from the bedroom.
....xXx....
Roxas came out of the bathroom to find Sora's jeans hanging on the back of a chair and Sora tucked into bed and looking peaceful.
"Riku." Roxas thought. Then he smiled. "Sora doesn't really need me anymore."
But the stubborn, closed off part of himself insisted that Sora would always need him and that Riku would never take his place.
Roxas groaned then rubbed his eyes. He drew the curtains and locked the door, before stripping to his boxers and getting into the covers of his bed.
So there you have it. Chapter one :) like i said up top please review and tell me if i should continue thank you XD