Disclaimer: I do not own kingdom hearts, final fantasy, or any of the characters stolen from either series. I do however own the plot line and title. O.o
Note: This is not betaed, I pretty much write and post, won't be looking it over so I apologize for any mistakes on it. If anybody is interested to be a beta, PM me.
Main Pairing: Axel x Roxas
Other Pairings: Sora x Kairi, Roxas x Hayner, Paine x Rikku, Larxene x Marluxia, Leon x Zack x Cloud, Cloud x Sephiroth, Riku x Sora, Demyx x ???, Xion x Axel, Tidus x Yuna, Baralai x Gippal... and some more... i know it seems like a lot of couples but... not all of them are happening at the same time... O.o
In a GrAy World
Chapter 09 – Coming Out
"What she's doing isn't fair," Naminé spoke with a professional tone. "She is making you chose between your girlfriend and your best friend. That's not fair and she should know that."
"Yea… but the way she said it, it also seemed as if she wanted us to break up so I could be with someone else," Sora explained with a shake of his head. Then he replayed the entire conversation that had happened over a month ago with his now ex-girlfriend.
Naminé was quiet for just a moment before she nodded. "This… Riku… does he have feelings towards you?"
"What? No! He's not gay."
"Being gay or not has nothing to do with this…" she explained then eyed the boy warily. "You are not homophobe, are you?"
"No! No. My cousin's gay… been in a few relationships too."
"Roxas?"
"His older brother," Sora explained and grinned sheepishly. "I keep on forgetting we met through Roxas."
Naminé laughed softly and nodded. "Me too. But you're fine with the homosexual community?"
"Hey… as long as I don't get any guys in g-strings dancing in my face or anybody hitting on me, I don't mind them," they both smiled at that and nodded.
"So are you sure he doesn't like you?"
"I told you… he's not gay…"
Sora looked up from his conversation when he heard the apartment door open and watched as Roxas walked into the small apartment. "Hey Roxy."
"You know I hate that name," came the response as a greeting, a cold tone in the younger man's voice. Then he saw who was sitting at their small dining table and smiled. "Hello Naminé."
"Hey," she waved lightly, a faint blush covering her cheeks.
"Thought you weren't gonna be home till later. Clubbing with the guys."
"Don't want to talk about it. I've got some school work then I'm turning in for the night. Have a good night you guys," he called to them both and walked into his own room, closing the door firmly behind him.
"Is everything alright?" Naminé asked softly and eyed the older cousin worriedly.
"It's alright. When he gets like this he gets really pissed off if I bug him."
"Hmm…" the let the subject drop although glanced at the closed door one more time. "So… how do you feel towards Riku?" she asked softly.
Sora winced. He had hoped that with Roxas' appearance the conversation would be directed away from what they were talking about.
"Well… I'm glad to have my best friend back… but… I mean— he's not gay anyway…" he kept on interrupting himself.
"How do you know?"
"Well… have you seen him?" the young girl shook her head. "Well… he's like… sex on legs! He can have any girls he wants! Why would he go for a guy? Why would he go for me?"
"Sex on legs?"
Sora blushed up to his ears at Naminé's arched brow.
"Well… he sort of… you know…"
A fast and loud knock on the door kept Sora from answering and he let his blush die out as he went to answer.
"Is Roxas back?" Demyx asked quickly.
"Yea… why?" the musician pushed past Sora quickly with a soft apology and never noticed Naminé as he went straight for Roxas' door. He knocked gently on it, spoke a few hurried words and opened the door, stepping inside.
"Is everything alright?" Naminé asked one more time stepping up behind Sora.
"I… don't know…" Sora was wary this time.
Just as he was about to close the door it opened a bit further. "Hey Sora, are Roxas and Demyx here?" The brunette nodded and pointed down the hall. Riku walked quickly in and as Demyx had knocked softly on the door before entering.
"Wow…" Naminé spoke this time.
"Told you… sex on legs."
"That's Riku?" her eyes widened dramatically.
"Yea… he's a year older than us, lives right across the hall."
"I know his brother," Sora's eyes narrowed a moment as he thought of the first brother that came to mind. "He and Kajad look so alike it's kind of scary."
"Err… yea…" Sora then remembered Riku's other brothers and recalled the one that was barely a year older than Riku. "How do you know him?"
"He goes to school here as well. We have the same psychology tutorial," she explained and smiled softly. "And yea… he is sex on legs," she smiled softly.
"Told you!"
After Sora checked down the hall he closed the door but kept it unlocked. There was talking coming from Roxas' room sometimes yelling and Sora was sure that at least one thing was broken in there now.
Something was wrong with his cousin.
"I'm really sorry, can you hold on one second?" Sora asked with a sheepish grin.
"No." Naminé shot back immediately. "I'm coming with."
Sora knocked softly on the door and opened it a moment later, walking in with Naminé on his heels. "Everything alright here?" he asked as he looked at the three men.
Demyx was sitting on the edge of the bed with his head in his hands and Riku and Roxas looked ready to kill each other, glaring daggers from across the small room. Whatever truce and friendship the two had formed since the cousins had moved into the apartment had seemed to dissolve within the room between the two that very moment.
"Yes!" Roxas hissed out low. "Everybody get the fuck out! I have school work."
"Oh shut it! It's Friday, you'll have time over the weekend," Riku yelled back suddenly with a glare. "You had no right to do that!"
"Are you sure you wanna talk about it now?" Roxas dared with a cold voice and glanced at both Sora and Naminé for a moment before giving Riku a pointed look.
The silverette's eyes widened a moment before they narrowed and he uncrossed his arms from his chest. "You wouldn't."
"I would. Because after all… isn't that why—"
"You are aware that you insulted everyone there except Axel, right?" Demyx voiced softly from the bed and eyed the youngest man with a pitying expression. "You know most of us were gay and yet you still called us fags."
Sora found it strange that their conversation had seemed to be steering in a similar direction as his and Naminé's before he realized what he heard. Most of us. Meaning at least one person in this room was included in that tag, meaning most of the guys that had gone out tonight were gay.
He already knew Marluxia was bisexual and had a girlfriend, he knew about Demyx's abusive relationship but always thought it was a one-time thing for the musician. Since Axel was the only one not insulted then that took the redhead out of the equation, and that left Zexion, the lesbians, Paine's male friend named Baralai, and… Riku.
Sora's eyes widened a fraction. And Roxas.
For a moment Roxas' expression fell as he watched the musician shake his head. He closed his eyes tightly, bit his bottom lip and made a tight fist with his right hand. "Fuck." He suddenly spat out, startling Demyx who jumped lightly. "I'm sorry, okay!?" he almost screamed at them. "I am sorry, Demyx," he faced the musician and came closer, kneeling in front of him. "I just—"
"I didn't know she was gonna be there, I'm sorry."
"It's not your fault, Demyx," Riku sighed heavily and shook his head. "But still, Roxas… you're pinning after a straight guy, it's—"
"What?!" Sora's surprised call startled the other three men and they finally seemed to remember the brunette standing at the door with the shy girl hiding behind him. "Roxas you're…" so Roxas was part of the 'us'?
"Sora… don't…" Naminé was the one to call softly and she held his hand back. The brunette turned to her and she kept his eyes locked with her own before she smiled softly. "Do you mind getting us some coffee, we all need it?" the brunette followed her instructions and quietly left the room as if in shock.
"Shit!" Roxas swore.
"Fuck," Riku answered. "I'm really sorry Roxas, I didn't mean to—" he walked towards the younger man but stepped back with the impact of the punch that split his lip open. "I'm sorry! Okay!"
"Yea… I know you are!" Roxas yelled back and punched again, getting another solid hit after two tries on the other's temple.
"Stop it!" Demyx yelled, trying to calm the other two without getting involved while he slowly retreated back into his shell. Naminé noticed the distressed musician immediately and when Roxas succeeded in pinning down the older male, she walked around and grabbed Demyx's arm.
She dragged him out of the room and to the kitchen. "Those two are fighting, I suggest you stop them." She spoke softly to Sora.
The brunette was there in record time and his voice was heard as he tried to disengage the two.
"Both of you! Stop it right now! I swear I will sick Cloud on you if you don't stop now!" Sora threatened and the other two seemed to calm for a moment.
"You know he's gay too… if you didn't then maybe Riku should tell you," Roxas growled out and if it wasn't for his cousin standing in the way he would have jumped Riku once more.
"Cloud told us when he was in grade eight!" Sora growled out at his cousin. "You however had no right to keep such a life-changing fact from me!" the brunette's eyes were watering. "Why would you hide it, Roxy? You think I'd shun you?"
"Hey… I'm not the only fag in the room that kept it a secret."
Sora froze.
Naminé was out in the kitchen with Demyx, mixing a shot of the coffee with some milk and a lot of sugar for the musician. "I'm Naminé by the way."
"Demyx… I'm their neighbour," the musician smiled sheepishly as he looked the small girl over. "You Sora's girlfriend?"
"No, no… just a friend. Every guy needs a girl friend to help him out," she smiled softly and Demyx nodded to himself, once more looking the small girl over.
"If it's a friend like you, I'm sure no guy would mind."
"And I swear I just heard you say that you were gay," Naminé laughed softly as she pushed the warm cup into his hands.
Demyx rolled his eyes, "tche… if I hadn't let that one slip I may have stood a chance, eh?" the gentle smile that was on his lips was immediately answered by the small girl.
"You may have." The two laughed softly for a moment and watched the three friends walk back into the kitchen. "I think this is the part what you all sit down and talk this over like grown men," Naminé smiled softly as she set up cups around the small dining table for all of them.
Long moments of silence trickled by where Roxas and Riku were glaring at each other across the small table and if it weren't for Roxas sitting between them they would have probably killed one another already. Sora was in shock still and staring down into his mug of coffee. Naminé was sitting across from him, one of her hands reached out and resting atop his while her eyes shot up between all men on the table, while Demyx seemed ready to jump into his own mug to hide.
"So…" she decided to open the conversation and pulled her hand back, gently tapping Sora's fingers when his hand reached out to follow hers. "Are you okay Sora?"
"No." The brunette immediately answered and both Roxas and Riku looked at the boy. "I just found out in less then five minutes that the two most important people in my life were gay and didn't tell me," he glared at each of them in turn before glaring down at his coffee cup.
"For your information, I'm not gay," Roxas decided to clarify with a snobbish attitude.
"Yes, because liking it up the ass doesn't exactly make you gay," Riku spat back with venom.
"Since you haven't gotten any in a while I guess that doesn't make you gay anymore, eh?" Roxas shot back with just as much venom lacing his own words.
"Shut up!" Sora called out. "How long?" he looked at Riku first then at Roxas and kept his eyes trained on his cousin.
"I don't know… never gotten it up the ass to find out," he glared past the brunette to Riku. Then a loud slap filled the silence of the room and broke the tension between Roxas and Riku so a new wave can settle between the cousins.
"How long?" Sora glared hard at the blonde.
"As I said, I don't know," Roxas growled out holding his burning cheek. "Didn't think to remember the date that I found out I find other guys hot. Excuse me."
"Don't give me that attitude!" Sora growled right back and for everybody's surprise Roxas backed down from the challenge and looked away. "Riku?" he turned to his best friend.
The silverette shrugged softly. "Sometime around grade eleven," he shrugged again and looked down at his own coffee.
"So almost three years?" Sora seemed hurt more than surprised. He then looked back at Roxas. "How long?"
"A few years? Beginning of puberty? I don't know… I'm interested in both genders…" Roxas shrugged once more but at least the attitude was gone from his voice.
"Roxas…"
"Sora," Naminé held back the brunette.
"He's not lying," Demyx shrugged. "I don't know when I realized I liked guys either. I remember when I started hating girls," he looked at Naminé with a soft smile, "no offence. But that was a pretty traumatic event… I'm sure not everybody's coming out was that bad."
Sora nodded softly. "So… who else on the floor is either gay or bi?"
"You're kidding right?" Demyx raised an eyebrow at the brunette. "So far only straight people on the floor are yourself and Axel."
Sora's eyes widened in surprise. "Seriously?" Demyx nodded and when Sora looked to Riku the silverette shrugged softly, eyes never rising to meet his friends. "Tidus and Yuna?"
"Yuna used to go out with Rikku before they met Paine," Demyx spoke softly. "Tidus had this happening for the longest time with some guy… but they figured later it was idol-worship rather than love."
Sora's eyes widened. "Marluxia and Larxene?"
"You're kidding right?" Roxas scoffed this time. "Marluxia?"
"Yea…"
"He has pink hair."
"So… I think it looks very manly on him." Sora explained and then noticed the weird stares. "Hey, hey… he is going out with Larxene and their relationship is far from flowers and rainbows."
"Not his fault. Larxene is the daughter of a Mistress of a lesbian S&M house." When Riku said this even Demyx looked at him like he was crazy.
"You're kidding, right?"
"Nope… she dragged me there one day to show me… I'm really glad it was for women only," Riku shuddered at the memory and finally took up his coffee to drink it.
"Well what about—" a knock on the door interrupted Sora's next question. "It's open!" he called out and all that could see the door from their position faced it to watch Axel walk through it with a young girl attached to his hip.
"Hey guys. You sure left the club in a hurry," he drawled out with a roll of his eyes and walked further in.
"Wait a second…" Sora stopped and held a held up, freezing the redhead in mid-step. He ran the entire conversation through his head and remembered the first words that had led to this. Roxas was pinning after a straight guy. Axel and Sora were the only straight guys on the floor. Sora and Roxas were cousins and Roxas returned quickly after a night out with Axel.
Sora looked at his cousin with wide eyes. Roxas' own widened in contrast and he shook his head, his lips forming threats that never sounded out into the still air.
"Seriously?" was all Sora asked before Roxas dropped his head with a heavy 'thump' on the table. Naminé laughed softly, having heard it all as well and having come to the same conclusion earlier. Demyx grinned and Riku just shook his head.
"Can I move now?" Axel barely moved his lips as he spoke.
"Yea, yea… sorry. Where are the others?"
"Well… Baralai just came back with Gippal, last I checked Rikku and Paine were burning everyone's eyes off by having dry sex on the dance floor, and Zexion is making sure the girls make it home in one piece." Axel explained then noticed Naminé and Sora. "Sorry… hi… I'm Axel," he smiled at Naminé.
"I figured, heard a lot about you," the small blonde smiled softly then turned to the small girl still attached to Axel.
"This is my girlfriend, Xion," the girl was shorter than Roxas even with short black hair and bright blue eyes.
Roxas kept his head down. Sora greeted the girl with a wide smile and Naminé nodded softly.
"So… what happened?" Axel asked as he looked around the group.
"You just missed all the fun," Demyx shook his head with a smile and faced Naminé. The petite blonde giggled softly and Demyx winked at her.
Axel watched the display with hidden amusement then looked at the group. "Sure then… I'm gonna take Xion home and I'll be back after that… don't open the tequila without me!" Axel called as he started walking to the door. "I just know Roxas won't leave me any." The door closed.
Roxas banged his head a few more times against the table.
"I'm sorry Roxas, as I said… I didn't know he'd bring her." Demyx apologized softly.
"It's alright," Roxas took a deep breath and straightened his form. "He doesn't need to know I like him…" he eyed Riku as he said this and an unspoken promise passed between the two.
Sora turned back to them and smiled softly. "So… I say we follow Axel's suggestion… do you want to stay for drinks, Nami?"
The petite blonde looked at Sora with a soft smile, then as Roxas banged his head a few more times against the table, at Riku who rolled his eyes, then finally settled on Demyx who was hiding behind his mug of sugar and caffeine. "Sure… just let me make a call… would it be okay for me to sleep over?"
Both Sora and Riku eyed her warily. "Erm… take this as a compliment… I can't sleep in the same room as you," the brunette grinned sheepishly and Namine blushes.
Roxas shook his head. "I'm sorry but I'm planning on passing out or dying from alcohol poisoning tonight."
Demyx smiled softly. "I don't mind as long as you don't."
"Thank you." She took out her cell phone and turned with her side to the group to get some privacy as she spoke to her mother on the phone.
"So… what am I cooking?" Riku got up from his seat once Naminé was off the phone.
tbc
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