Family Syndicate
Chapter 8: 12 in the Afternoon
Notes: There's just some SLIGHT language in this lol Sorry it's taking me so long to update. It takes me a while to get started but on I finally get going I take off! lol So... yeah! Sorry for any spelling and all that stuff... enjoy... hopefully lol
I didn't say anything, I just stood beside my uncle, more than one emotion running through me as Sora and Riku scrambled to cover up kiss bruised lips and messy, tangled hair, my cousins eyes water as if he was about to cry.
"Well, this complicates things…" My uncle stated. "Come here, Sora. I think we need to talk."
I could feel panic and throw up coming up my throat. Oh no, please don't tell me he's going to cut off Sora's pinkie. Please please please…
The brunette walked towards my uncle, Riku behind him looking both ashamed and embarrassed, which I would too… If I was caught trying to deflower my employer's 'beloved nephew'. Luxord turned towards the main house, making Sora follow behind him and I knew I couldn't stay here with Riku, wondering what would happen.
I followed them, quickly, slightly wondering if Riku was behind me but I couldn't care about that for too long. I had to follow Luxord and make sure he didn't hurt Sora, which I really couldn't tell if they knew I was or not, but I didn't care much either way. Luxord took Sora into the house, allowing me to come in after them and sat down on a small chair in the room.
I've never felt more intimidated by my uncle, not even when I first found out he was a yakuza boss or even when I first saw him, then I was at this moment, as my cousin and I bowed at his feet. "So Sora, are you in love with Riku then?" He asked, after a long moment of silence.
I looked over at him right as he nodded and kept his eyes to the floor. Please don't take his pinkies… pleeeaaaase don't take his pinkies…
"Hmm… this is a large problem then, Sora… Why didn't you tell me this before?"
"I was scared…" Sora replied. "I didn't… I didn't wanna let ya down… I knew ya wanted me to take on the family and I didn't want ya to take my pinkies like ya did to my dad…"
My uncle choose Sora to take on the family? Well… that is the best way to go, I would have done the same thing, why did I seem surprised? Well, just don't let him be hurt, alright? Please, Buddha, Gods, who ever I need to talk to!
"… Wait… pinkies? Your dad?" I watched his blue eyes widen slightly and suddenly a smile crossed Luxord's face. "Oh, you mean… when Leon… Sora, did you ever ask your father what happened to his pinkie?" Sora shook his spikey head and my uncle smiled. "Sora, your dad did that to himself."
"What?" Even I was in shock. I'm guessing both Sora's and my faces where blank because next thing I knew, Luxord was laughing and pretty freaking hard to. "Hey, what's so funny?" I asked.
The laughter was slowly dying down as my uncle leaned forward, holding his stomach. "Ah, nothing, nothing I'm sorry." He said, trying to keep his composer. "But as I was saying, Leon did that to himself. He did it as punishment for hurting Cloud."
"What happened?" I demanded, the questions spinning in my head. I never understood how much I didn't know about my father. "What did Leon do to him?"
My uncle's face turned somber before he smiled slowly looking at from my face to Sora's. "He married Cloud's sister, he forced Cloud to marry your mother, he did what he thought was right for me and not for Cloud because he pleaded his loyalty to me first. When Cloud found out he was seeing someone else, he left. He didn't want anything to do with this family and moved away, marrying your mother, Roxas, and producing you."
My dad had his heart broken by Sora's father. He tore himself away from the family because of it and I grew up never meeting any of my family members because of it. It finally made sense but I didn't like it. I was almost hoping I wasn't born, that my dad was with Leon, that they could have been happy together. But now, it's too late, my father was ashes.
Well… shit…
"So… you're not cutting off his pinkies?" I looked at my cousin for some kind of reacting but he seemed to be in shock, his face hadn't moved besides the occasional blink that, let's face it, he can't control, so I wasn't all that sure he was still on this planet anymore, but my uncle continued to talk as if he was.
"I am not, although this is a large problem. You see, since Sora is going to take over, I was planning on him marrying the daughter of another syndicate, merging us and making our family stronger. Without that marriage, we'll have to figure something else out then it would seem but it I'll invite them over and we'll discuss everything tomorrow." Luxord seemed sure of himself. He excused us under the pretense he was going to talk to Larxene and my attention turned back to Sora, unmoving, staring into space Sora.
"Sora?" I asked, moving forward to do the whole hand over the face it, lifting it up and down over his face until my cousin would blink quickly, snapping out of his own imaginary world to look at me.
"My dad… broke… and pinkies… and Riku… marriage?"
So he was listening.
"It's going to be okay, Sora." My smile seemed to reassure him and the brunette was in my arms, hugging me tightly as I could feel the relief wash out threw him. He was going to be okay, and so where his pinkies and I could finally tell Axel and see if he wouldn't mind being open about our relationship. Maybe even tell him I love him.
It really was looking up. Sora eventually ran off to find Riku, to probably show him he was still intact and I finally left the room, eager to find Axel. I ran past many of my uncles men until I got to his door, knocking on it repeatedly, unable to keep myself calm.
The door opened and before I could stop myself, I had flung myself into Axel's arms, my lips finding his quickly, feeling that warmth and sweetness that came with kissing Axel run through me. It was wonderful, and I had left the door opened and for the first time ever I didn't feel nervous about kissing him. I was able to focus on the actual action and not on my great fear of being caught.
I was overwhelmed. I love this, I love his lips… his hands his body… I love…
Axel finally was able to push me away enough to take in deep breaths, looking at the open door behind me with a look that pretty much reminded me of a fish out of water. "… Roxas… people can see-"
"I know." My thumping heart and my excitement knew no bounds. I couldn't even wait till he was done talking to tell him my news. "Sora's dating Riku, my uncle found out. He's okay with it!" I smiled, looking at Axel, waiting for the news to sink it. "He's okay with them together which means he'll be okay with us together! We can be open about it."
The red head in front of me seemed to sputter for a moment, his mind looking like it was racing miles per hour. "But… so… if… Roxas… he was completely okay with it?"
I could feel a light undertone of panic make its way into my body. He wasn't as happy as I thought he would be… why? I thought this was good news… why does he seem so… "Well, He told us he was okay with it, the only thing was Sora was supposed to marry some girl to merge our families, but since he's gay there's nothing that can be done… They're coming over tomorrow to talk about it and find another way to unite… But, why does that matter?" I wanted to scream. BE AS HAPPY AS I AM!
Shaking his head, Axel looked down at me before kissing me just like I had a while ago. The panic I was feeling slowly moved down my body as if leaving me threw my feet and I tried to participate in the kiss. Axel just needed it to sink in, there's nothing to be worried about. It'll be okay.
Axel leaned his forehead against mine when he finally had to break apart, pushing bangs out of my face with his hands before he seemed to sigh deeply, the look in his eyes worrying me to no end. "Hey, Roxas? … I love you."
"I know. Axel… I think I love you too." I watched his eyes widen before shutting again and kissing me as if he hadn't done to repeatedly a few moments ago. I let myself drown in the feelings, just allowing myself to be happy because somewhere in the back of my mind, I felt like I needed to be happy for the both of us.
The next day was a weekend. We didn't have school which meant we would need to be working on being presentable since Rufus Shinra would be coming to the estate to discuss uniting with the family. I heard from my uncle that morning that he was someone you didn't fuck around with, the man apparently always traveling with his body guards since he was in a wheelchair, so we were all to express how grateful we were to have the opportunity to talk to him, or something along those lines.
From what I gathered, Riku and Sora where much happier. I found them kissing outside when I walked out of the main house, arms around each other, a happy couple if I ever saw one. "Roxas!" Sora said happily, pulling away from his boyfriend to hug me, his smile so bright it was practically blinding.
"Morning to you too, Sora." I chuckled, patting his back softly. Riku walked behind Sora slowly towards me and he didn't look as happy as Sora was to see me.
"Where's Axel?"
"I don't know…" I replied, already knowing what Riku was going to do now that I told him. I was waiting for the taller man to yell at me and pitch a fit but he just shrugged. "He's probably walking around. He knows he doesn't have to protect me when I'm home, so he's probably on his break. Cut him some slack, Riku."
Shrugging, the silver haired guy gathered my cousin up in his arms and held him tightly, making Sora smile. Alright, so Riku's a fucking asshole, but at least Sora's happy…
We stood there, waiting around as more and more of my uncle's men showed up at the front gate. I already knew they would be there to bow and greet our guest in total unison and to be honest, I found myself smiling at the action, despite finding it so weird the first time. Larxene appeared behind us, prepared to act as the gracious host that, to be honest, I didn't even know she could pull off.
"Luxord around yet?" She asked, looking at the gate. "Axel said he needed to talk to him so I thought they were together but I haven't seen either since…"
That slightly surprised me. Why would Axel need to talk to my uncle? Was it about… us? I should be involved, shouldn't I? "Want me to find them?" I was all too eager to find out what was going on. My aunt looked at the large gate to me before nodding, sending Riku and Sora with me to help me out.
All three of us searched the inside of the main house first, checking rooms and doors until we found nothing and moved the outside, Riku leading us around as we ran after him. We got to the right side of the estate before Sora and myself began to run out of steam from running around so fast, even when Riku seemed to be able to keep going.
"Shit, I hav'a bad feeling." Riku muttered, looking around quickly.
"What do you mean?" Sora asked.
Before Riku could answer, a loud and distanced sound was heard. –BANG!- I froze in shock, looking at Sora with wild eyes before Riku ran towards the sound that was coming from the training area. We followed him as fast as we could but by the time we got there, the door was already slamming open.
I could only prepare for the worst but it was really nothing like I could have expected. Axel ran out of the slammed door quickly, as if the building would catch on fire if he was in it for longer than a few minutes and my uncle showed up behind him, glaring at the red head in a way I never even knew was humanly possible.
Whatever Axel did, he fucked up badly.
"Get him!" Luxord yelled and Riku reacted before thinking, grabbing Axel and turning him towards my uncle, holding his hands behind his back, which looked extremely painful. I had no clue Riku was that strong but it really made me worry and promise myself to never get him angry.
"FUCK!" Axel screamed, struggling in Riku's hold. I watched standing next to Sora, his arm around me. For reassurance? Maybe… I couldn't think straight enough to figure it out so it's not like it mattered right? "Let me go, Asshole!"
"What did he do?" The silver haired guy asked, ignoring Axel completely. What was happening? Why was this happening?
"He tried to shoot me." My uncle said, venomously, pulling a gun out of seemingly nowhere on his kimono. "Who do you work for and how did you get in here? Why target me and my family?" He asked, pointing the gun at Axel, my Axel. I almost couldn't breathe.
"I'm not targeting your family." Axel spat out. "Just you! I work for Xemnas, and the Organization. I'm not answering any other questions!"
Xemnas? Organization? What's going on? Sora's hand tightened. This couldn't be real.
"You betrayed us."
Betray?"
"I want you out of here."
Axel's… leaving?
"And NEVER come near Roxas again."
Never?
"WAIT!" I finally seemed to find my tongue. Axel turned to me and all of the hostility I saw aimed at my uncle vanished, as he looked at me with a pleading expression, that begged me to understand. To not be angry and I couldn't bring myself to do anything for the first few minutes of seeing that face. "Axel… what's going on?"
"Roxas… I'm sorry."
That tone… He apologized to me before in that tone. And it always seemed out of place. Was he apologizing for this? All this time? Apologizing for being a traitor? For knowing he'd have to hurt me? And would he have killed me, if he needed to… "Axel…" Say this isn't true! Say anything to make me believe this isn't true at all! I love you, please? Axel, please? "Just… get out of my sight."
"Roxas-"
"Riku, please, just haul him away." I replied, looking down at the floor. I couldn't watch Axel look at me like that anymore. It was horrible. "Don't hurt him, though alright?" I asked, turning to walk away from him. "He doesn't deserve the energy."
Sora walked with me in the opposite direction of Riku and Axel, and I felt empty. I felt like my heart was in my shoes, but I silently walked beside my cousin as the gates opened for Rufus Shinra. We made it in time to see Larxene greet them all, with poise and grace that I never knew existed as Luxord made his way to greet them as well, acting as if the whole Axel affair didn't happen.
Shrina looked shorter then he really was, thanks to his wheel chair, but he did have his security with him, a tall man with straight black hair and some blonde. Behind them all though was Namine, and when I saw her near Shinra, I knew there had to be a family relation. Pale blonde hair and soft blue eyes must have run in the family.
… Her family didn't like Lolita clothes. It was fitting yakuza wouldn't care much about what they wore. She smiled at me and waved and I did my best to look back at her with some kind of joy that I really couldn't feel. I'd have to talk to her about this later, I'd have to talk to my uncle and Sora about Axel later, because they had to have guessed something was going on between us with that good bye that he endured.
It was only 12 in the afternoon and I already wanted the day to be over.
