Disclaimer: I own Kingdom Hearts. It's the little voice in my head that said so.

Warnings: Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll (not necessarily in this order), yaoi triangles, attempts at humor, not at all educative behaviors, hormon-driven guys, underage drinking, namby-pamby stuff, a sometimes-whining-Sora, an often-mean-Riku, an occasionally-naked-Roxas and a lot of other stuff that I should and will not mention here.

Main Pairings: Sora / Riku / Roxas triangle

Author's notes: Sora, Roxas... and a lot of other people

Awesome Beta Reader: Saxocalyptica

Chapter 10: Limitless Boundary

Sora was strolling through the crappy part of Twilight Town, apprehension tingling through his bloodstream. The buildings on either side of the dingy street were ramshackle and even if he wasn't sure why, Sora knew that it wasn't a good idea to be there. He was nearly running, trying to stay behind the blond boy who was quickly walking through the darkest alley the brunet had ever seen.

He considered once more to simply run away and leave Roxas there, but he couldn't do that to his roommate. That and the fact that he wasn't sure he could outrun the blond boy persuaded him to keep walking. His heart was beating so fast that he couldn't even tell apart the beats.

"Stay close, kiddo, this is a shady district." Roxas said without slowing or turning his head for a moment.

'You don't say... I could swear I just heard that drunken guy offer me five bucks for a quick peek at my nipples...'

"Sure." the brunet simply answered.

A few minutes later, Roxas stopped abruptly, making Sora nearly bump against him. "Our destination." he announced proudly, showing with a wave of his hand the most rundown building on the street. It had to be decades old, centuries even, and most certainly never been renovated. "Let's just go in."

'Are you really telling me that someone lives here? Fuck, Roxas, it will probably collapse on us the second we'll go in. Just forget it!'

"Sure." Sora said, quickly following his roommate inside of the building.

The interior didn't look any better: the painting on the walls was scraped, showing the bricks, except for certain points where you could directly see the room behind. They took a winding staircase that looked just solid enough to sustain their weight, then Roxas stopped at the fifth floor.

"Wait!" Sora finally managed to spit out just a second before the blond boy could knock on a door. Roxas looked at him quizzically, impatiently waiting for the rest of the sentence. "I... I..." It looked like the brunet had completely forgotten how to talk. "I'm not feeling too well, I should go home." he finally managed to say.

His roommate's blue eyes were inquiringly fixed on him, searching for a reason for Sora to lie so blatantly. "If you can't lie, don't." Roxas quickly answered slightly irritated and finally knocking on the door.

Sora was waiting for some scary guy to open the door, maybe armed with a knife, maybe wearing a hood, or maybe with some kind of esoteric emblem painted all over him. He realized that he couldn't have been farther from the truth when a scrawny redhead wearing an apron greeted them.

"Rox! You're late tonight, you're the last one." the guy said before quickly peeking at the brunet with him. "Oh, you must be Sora. Welcome to my home, Roxas told me you would come too. The name's Axel, got it memorized?"

"Uh, sure." Sora answered giving him a once-over and prudently following Roxas into the small apartment. He felt really surprised when he discovered that it was nothing like the rest of the building: despite being little more than a single huge room, the walls were painted in a suggestive yet elegant black and white pattern. Most of it was hidden from his view though, because it was covered by various pictures and posters of more or less well-known rock bands, except for the west one that had a huge window allowing a magnificent view on the city.

A blond-haired guy with a sky-blue t-shirt and with an extraordinarily wild haircut lying on a huge sofa waved a friendly hand. "So, you're the famous Sora? Nice to meet you." He then looked at the only girl in the room. "Don't scare this one too much, Larxene."

Sora's eyes immediately moved to the girl: she was tall and slender, with short bright blond-hair ending in a couple of bangs protruding over her head; her cyan eyes were minutely dissecting Sora, leaving no part of him uninspected. She stood up from the pouf she was sitting on and started slowly walking towards the new boy. "Roxas' roommate, uh?" She was now standing in front of him, their noses merely centimeters from touching. Sora felt uneasy, but he didn't budge an inch. "Nice knowing you." She finally said turning back and reaching again for his place. Sora thought that had to be an act: no one could be naturally that creepy...

"Don't worry too much about Larxene, she's a good girl, all things considered." Axel said, causing a burst of laughter from the boy with the wild-haircut. "And the laughing idiot is Demyx, you'll get used to him. Eventually." He then moved his eyes towards the small kitchen in the corner of the room. "And the two that are trying to ruin my dinner are Marluxia and Zexion."

Sora looked at the two boys that were messing about with what looked like a giant pizza. Just barely. One of them was tall, somehow with feminine features and shoulder-length pink hair that left little to no room for doubts about his sexuality; the other one had bright aqua colored eyes, though only his left one was visible, the right one being covered by his long, layered steel-blue bangs, reaching about an inch or two past his chin. The former looked at them. "Come on, Ax, we're trying to save what we can of our dinner, has anyone ever told you that you're a terrible cook?"

"Not in the last hour." The redhead answered nonchalantly while offering a disoriented Sora a place to sit. The brunet smiled: definitely not the kind of guys he had expected to be friends with someone like Roxas.

The rain had finally stopped when the two boys were walking together through the empty roads of Twilight Town. "So, feeling a little better, kiddo?" Roxas asked on the way back to the dorms.

Sora looked at him smiling widely. "Your friends are awesome, Roxas! I would have never thought that I could have so much fun spending an evening eating pizza and playing board games, can you believe it?"

"What's so strange? Haven't you ever played a board game, before?" Roxas answered mockingly.

"Not since I've celebrated my tenth birthday."

The blond boy smiled too. Until that evening, Sora could have never imagined to see his roommate doing it. "You see, kiddo: this is precisely the reason why I can't stand people in high school." Sora looked at him perplex, unable to understand what the blond boy meant. "They are all 'oh-so-high-and-mighty-being-on-Twilight-Town-High-School', too busy showing around how elitist they are to simply do whatever they feel like, not caring about what people could say about you."

Sora didn't answer. He wanted to object, to say that not everyone in their school was like that, but Roxas' words felt somehow right. So he simply focused on something else. "You know... tonight you were different from your usual self..."

"Don't be ridiculous, kiddo. I am me, nobody else." The blond boy quickly dismissed Sora's thoughts. But the brunet wasn't the complete idiot some people thought him to be, and he was sure that, yes, tonight Roxas definitively had not been the same person he had known until that moment.

A comfortable silence fell on them for a few seconds. Just when they were starting to see the periphery of the school, Sora spoke again. "You know, Roxas, I have to admit that I was kinda worried when you invited me tonight."

The blond boy looked at his friend surprised. "You were?"

"Yes, you know, the rumors about you at the school..."

"What rumors?" Roxas interrupted, stopping on walking and looking at the boy.

"It's just what I've heard, it's not like I think..."

"What-rumors-did-you-hear-about-me?" The blond boy's eyes were shining in the darkness of the night, scaring the scrawny brunet.

"I don't like how you're looking at me, Roxas..." a scared Sora muttered while taking a step back.

"Three seconds."

"Uh?"

"I give you three seconds to spill the beans, then I'll make you do it."

And Sora told him everything Riku had said about him. He wouldn't have ever guessed the blond boy's reaction, though. "You're... you're laughing, Roxas?"

Roxas, face-palming, couldn't stop laughing. "I can't... I can't believe it." he said when he was starting to recover. "People really say that about me? That I'm in a gang?" A second burst of laughter erupted from the boy, with Sora feeling really stupid to have fallen for something like that. "And you believed it?"

"Well." the brunet said, trying to justify himself. "Axel's district is a really dark place..."

"Yeah, so is the toilet in our room, but I've seen you use it without problems." At the sight of Sora blushing, Roxas shook his head and calmed down a little. "You know, Axel doesn't like that place either, none of us like it."

The brunet looked at him in disbelief. "I don't understand, then why doesn't he go somewhere else?"

That question earned him a glare from Roxas. "You make it sound as if he has other possibilities. Not everyone is rich enough to go to Twilight High, you know?" Sora felt a wave of shame overwhelming him: he hadn't even considered that. "None of my friends have a lot of money, but this has never stopped Axel from always opening his house to us." When he caught sight of Sora's sad expression, Roxas smiled a little. "This also doesn't stop him from trying to poison us with his dinners, anyway."

The two of them didn't say anything else after that, silently climbing over the wall circumventing the periphery of the school and walking quietly until they had reached the dorms. After having stopped Sora from going straight through the main door, Roxas started to move towards the back of the building, stopping only when they were under the window of their room. "Alright, kiddo. You first."

For a moment Sora didn't understand about what his roommate was talking about, then he saw the huge tree next to them. "No, wait, you mean that..."

"How do you think I come back every night, by flying?" Roxas clearly enjoyed seeing the brunet hesitantly getting closer to the huge tree that, Roxas knew it very well, wasn't at all easy to climb. But he was pleasantly surprised when he saw Sora starting to climb it effortlessly. Now, that was a surprise.

"Come on, Roxas, don't you come?" Sora asked innocently when he reached the branch of the tree that was hanging towards their window. He then quickly jumped inside their room.

Well, Sora was surely full of surprises, Roxas thought before following him.

End Notes: I wanted to take a moment to thank all those anonymous reviewers that I can't contact personally (come on, just create an account... :). Thanks to Anonym, Mandy-xLog, ChibiRealm (don't worry if you can't review every chapter, it's still appreciated :), Svenja, Lexa and Sokailover. And special thanks to NeoRulez and Wolf8 that are reviewing every chapters. You people are amazing :).

Next chapter (18/03/2016): Secrets in the Deep