I totally took a cold pill like...twenty minutes ago...and I feel goooooood (giggles)

Disclaimer: Don't own it...stop thinking that I do!

So, this chapter is dedicated to:

Judiro: I didn't think the anti-gay rally was a fun idea either...it was just a random thought I put down

NightmareFairy: Because you wanted to see Sora smashed! XD and...

amber-firetongue: Sorry you didn't get to see Roxas bashing Riku's head in last chappie...so I put some in here for ya! (winks)

Thank you all for sending in what you wanted to see, I did my best to get it all in here! And aslo thanks to the rest of you lovely reviewers...you all make me so happeh...I totally love you all! HUGGLES FOR EVERYBODEH!

Roxas: o.O' is she high?

Kanta: you know, I don't know anymore and I just can't bring myself to care...read and enjoy peoples...(sighs)

Axel stood by the couch, tapping his foot impatiently and constantly glancing up at the clock mounted on the back wall. It was now 7:30 and they were still here.

"Roxas!" he shouted down the hall.

"I know, just five more minutes!"

"Ugh…" Axel tilted his head back and stared up at the ceiling, praying for some divine intervention. "Baby, this isn't some special gala, we're just going to a bar to hang out with our friends!"

"Five more minutes!"

"That's what you said twenty minutes ago!"

There was the slam of the closet door and a disgusted sound from Roxas before the bedroom door flew open and the blond stalked down the hall. "I'm not ready. Just go without me."

Axel raised an eyebrow at that. Roxas looked more than ready. He was dressed in a pair of tight, leather jean pants that he didn't even know Roxas owned and a black half-shirt that showed off the blonde's edible stomach.

"You look fine…" he words trailed off as he dwelled on Roxas' exposed navel.

Roxas' eyes got wide. "Oh god, you hate it, don't you?" he turned to run back down the hall. "I have to change!"

Axel snapped back to reality just in time to grasp Roxas' arm. "No. You're done playing dress up. It was time to leave half an hour ago." He dragged an unwilling Roxas to the front door. "Get your shoes on, we're out of here yesterday."

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"How many of those have you had, Zexion?" Riku questioned, forced to speak up a bit to be heard over the fast-paced music that pounded through the interior of the dance room as the slate-haired boy tossed back another jell-o shot. They sat together at a table in the bar section of the club, the room slightly quieter than the dance floor that was separated from them by a soundproof glass wall. Neon lights flashed across the press of bodies that bounced and writhed against one another. Here, you could sit and talk without having to raise your voice too much and not go deaf. There was the bar along the wall behind them, several table set in intimate corners where other patrons sat and talked boisterously amongst themselves as the waiters and waitresses weaved their way gracefully back and forth from the bar.

"Enough to have another one," Zexion mumbled, pulling another shot glass closer. Demyx and Asmara finally came stumbling back to the table from the back, laughing about something.

"My god! You guys have to see the bathrooms in this place! They're so…so…" Asmara struggled to find the words to describe what she'd apparently seen in the bathroom, her scratchy, hoarse voice hard to hear since she couldn't really speak up easily.

"PRETTY!" Demyx supplied with a giggle. They'd been here for about a half hour, and already Asmara, Demyx and Zexion were tipsy. Well, Asmara and Demyx were tipsy…Zexion seemed to be going for broke. At the rate he was sucking down those shots, his face would be having a real intimate meeting with the table here soon.

Sora bounced over, hugging Riku from behind. "Hey! I found Dominay!" the brunet couldn't seem to stop snickering. "Have you guys noticed the waiters and waitresses here?"

Riku turned to stare at Sora over his shoulder. "No, why?" he glanced back at the others, only to get shaking heads from Asmara and Demyx, who was only just noticing his boyfriend's severe alcohol intake. When the musician tried to take the shot glass Zexion was trying to bring to his mouth, Zexion jerked away with a snarl.

"Go get your own." He growled.

"Back off a bit, Zexy, please," Demyx begged, blocking any attempts Zexion tried to make to grab another shot.

"Where are Axel and Roxas?" Dominay asked as she came up to the table, a tray full of empty glasses balanced on one hand.

Everyone went silent and still at the sight of their friend.

"W-what are you wearing, Min?" Demyx stammered out, looking pale and shell-shocked. Asmara took one look and started laughing, leaning against a slumped over Zexion who was starting to look like he was regretting all those jell-o shots.

Sora pointed and bounced some more. "THAT'S WHY!" the brunet burst into unstoppable giggles, falling into Riku's lap as the silver-head just plain stared.

Dominay's expression hardened and she glared at them all. "Stop laughing! It isn't funny! It's fashionable!" she defended, resting her free hand on her hip.

"Since when is…is…oh god," Sora couldn't even form a sentence he was laughing so hard.

Dominay kept glaring as they all kept looking the girl up and down. She was wearing a rather scandalous outfit that consisted of a tight, mini-skirt that barely reached mid-thigh with sleek black boots that went up to her knees. She had a lacey corset that was black on the seams, transitioning to a deep purple with a starburst of yellow in the center. Her hair was slicked back with some kind of gel that made it look wet and she was wearing eyeliner, something the girl wouldn't have worn if it hadn't been a requirement for work. To top off the outfit, she was wearing purple fishnet arm sleeves and matching stockings, a single flower pinned behind her right ear.

"You look like a hooker!" Demyx announced, appalled.

"I do not!" Dominay snapped back. "It's the theme of the place. Every server's outfit is based on a type of flower."

"And what's yours? The Pimp's Blossom?" Axel's voice teased.

They all turned to see that Axel and Roxas had finally arrived. Axel had his arms crossed over his chest, staring Dominay up and down with a barely restrained smile that looked more like a shit-eating grin. Roxas stood next to the redhead, glancing nervously around and wringing his hands together.

"NO! It's the Tiger Lilly!"

Ignoring Dominay's outburst, Axel sat next to Zexion, raising an eyebrow at the empty shot glasses in front of him, but saying nothing. Dominay stomped away, threatening to pour arsenic in their drinks if she had to serve them. Sora, spotting his brother, leapt off of Riku and tackled the unsuspecting blond.

"You're finally here!" Sora cheered, giving his brother one final squeeze before darting away. He called back with a wave, "I'm gonna go get us something to drink!"

Roxas tentatively sat in the only available chair that was, unfortunately, next to Riku.

It was going to be a long night…

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Roxas inwardly cursed for the millionth and a half time that night. Three hours. Three hours of horrible karaoke and constant refusals of dance and date offers. He knew wearing this outfit was a bad idea. Every guy in the bar seemed to be hitting on him. He slapped at a hand that groped his ass and kept walking. The night never seemed to end.

He finally made it back to their table, only to see that Zexion had face planted onto the table, and lay there, passed out. Demyx didn't seem to notice and kept talking animatedly, and loudly, with Asmara who just laughed as the other blond flailed about, flapping his hands as he spoke.

Setting down the drinks he'd retrieved from the bar, since nobody trusted the waiters after Dominay's remark on the arsenic, Roxas sat in the empty chair next to Axel, only to have the redhead immediately pounce on him, trying to convince Roxas for the fifth time that hour to sing a duet with him.

Roxas planed a hand flat against Axel's face and pushed him away, not interested in the least. Everybody was drunk, save for him and his brother. Speaking of Sora…where was he?

The brunet appeared instantly, glass in one hand and red-faced from constant giggles that randomly erupted out of his mouth, as if he couldn't control them. Roxas jumped up and grabbed his twin. "Sora, where the hell have you been?"

Sora laughed at his question and pointed at the bar behind them. "I-I wents over ter!"

Riku pulled himself away from Demyx and Asmara who each had grabbed an arm and tired to pull the silver-haired boy into the dance room. He quickly came up to them and stared at Sora.

"Sora…are you…are you drunk?" Roxas asked, appalled. Sora took another sip of his drink and snorted.

"Noooo…" he giggled. "M'not drenk, Rosa…no…Roxal…erm…Roxas!" more chuckles. "I'm stone…cold…HAMMERED!" the brunet fell against Roxas, laughing as if he'd just said something incredibly funny.

Roxas snatched the drink away, holding it above his head as Sora cried a protest and flailed his arms to get it back, bouncing. "Sora, you're underage! Why were you drinking in the first place?"

Sora suddenly got over having his drink stolen and giggled some more. "Tose really nice guy over at the bar bought meh one!" Roxas glanced over to see several larger, way older guys grinning and waving Sora to come back. When the brunet smiled goofily and tried to stumble back over, Roxas grabbed him, forcing his brother to sit.

"You've had more than one, Sora," Roxas glared down at his brother disapprovingly. 'What if someone finds out that you're underage? We could all get in serious trouble."

"Pfft," Sora waved a dismissive hand hard enough to make him teeter in his chair, earning him laughs from the rest of the table. "Naw…tat won' happin…"

"Ergh, Riku, watch him." Roxas ordered.

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Riku was taken aback at that and stared at Roxas in confusion. "Why me? I thought you didn't trust me with your brother."

"I don't. You just happen to be the one here who's the least drunk." Roxas turned and disappeared into the crowd, leaving a baffled and silent Riku to stand dumbly next to their table.

"You're jus' too good to be true…can' take mah eyes offa you, you'd be like heaven to touch, I wanna hold you sooo much…"

Riku stiffened and slowly turned around to find Sora standing on the table, everyone around clapping and cheering as he sang drunkenly…to him.

"Sora, I think you should get down…" Riku reached up to help him when he was stopped by Asmara and Demyx, who came back just in time to hear Sora's random outburst into song. They grabbed him hard and jerked him down into a chair.

"WOOHOO! GO, SORA, GO!" they cheered, elbowing Riku playfully, their faces stained pink and their eyes glazed.

Sora started dancing, well, it looked more like stumbling. "I LUV YOU BAAABY, AND IF IT'S QUITE ALRIGHT, I NEED YOU BAAABY, DON' WANNA LONELY NIGHT!"

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Roxas came running back at the sound of his brother's drunken singing. He'd been hoping, praying, that he'd been mistaken and it was someone else making a complete fool of themselves…but no, it was Sora.

On the table.

Singing and dancing.

For…Riku.

Who just sat there.

And smiled.

Damn it!

Roxas pushed through the people gathered around to see his brother's performance, muttering curses and about ready to commit murder just to get to the damn table. Once he got there, Axel grabbed him again and wouldn't let go.

"Ain't he great?" Axel leaned down to whisper loudly in Roxas' ear. "Of course, I'd rather see you up there, shakin' it for me."

Roxas jerked out of the redhead's hold. "Are you drunk too?" he asked, feeling desperate. Was he the only sober one here?

Dominay paused by their table and, upon seeing Sora singing and table-dancing, immediately darted away, trying to look like she didn't know them. Roxas groaned. She was the only one of them besides himself who wasn't drunk, but it didn't seem like any help was going to come from her.

"Nah," Demyx laughed, popping up out of nowhere. "He's jus' like us, a lil' tipsy s'all."

"Tipsy, huh?" Roxas repeated doubtfully.

"Well…maybe not tipsy…" Axel admitted. "More like toasty…poptart toasty!"

That got the redhead and Demyx going. The two giggled like a couple of school girls who'd just heard their first dirty joke, snorting every now and then.

God, help me now… Roxas turned his frustration on Riku. He approached the older boy and gave him a shove. "I TOLD YOU TO WATCH HIM!"

Riku glared and stood, using his height to loom over the blond. "I am." His reply was cool and calm, irritating Roxas all the more, and he lost it.

"YOU CAN'T EVEN KEEP HIM IN LINE WHEN HE'S DRUNK! IN FACT, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU EVEN LET HIM GET DRUNK IN THE FIRST PLACE! YOU'RE A HORRIBLE PERSON AND I DON'T WANT YOU ANYWHERE NEAR MY BROTHER EVER AGAIN!"

Glaring, Riku stabbed Roxas in the chest with a finger, making him stumble back a bit. "For your information, Roxas, I'm a damn good person, and goddamned near a saint for your brother! He's a big boy now, he doesn't need big brother to run his life for him anymore!"

Roxas was done with the pleasantries of the argument. He punched Riku. Hard.

As Riku went down, Sora stopped singing on account of he'd leaned back too far and had fallen to the floor, earning the brunet a hearty round of applause. Roxas raised his fist to strike the other boy again, only to be stopped, yet again, by Axel, who lifted Roxas off his feet and carried the struggling blond away.

"What is your problem? It isn't Riku's fault Sora's smashed. He did that to himself.'

Roxas growled at the redhead and shoved him away. "Yes it is! If he really cares about Sora, like he always says, then he'd be taking better care of him!"

Axel jerked him back when he tried to go back and tear Riku apart. "Roxas, calm the fuck down. I can't believe you're the sober one, you're so unruly…" he muttered the last, making Roxas growl again.

"Let go!"

"No!"

"Let. Go. NOW!" Roxas screamed, tugging brutally at his arm. "Let me go now, Axel!"

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I have to do something…Axel told himself, trying to shove the tingling buzz in his head away so he could think clearly. This was obviously a volatile situation that needed to be defused. Everyone else at the table didn't seem to mind that Riku had just been KO'd or that Sora had fallen off the table and was now sitting on the floor, laughing and teetering back and forth.

Demyx and Asmara were too busy poking at an unmoving Zexion with their straws and sticking pretzels up his nose to be any help, leaving Axel alone to tame the raging beast that was Roxas Hikari.

At that moment, a slow, gentle song started playing and Axel got a great idea. He pulled a resistant Roxas closer. "Dance with me."

"What? Are you insane?"

"Seriously, Rox, just one dance. I promise you can go kill Riku once it's over." Axel knew that was a false promise, and he was pretty sure Roxas knew it too. But still, heaving a defeated sigh, Roxas let Axel lead him onto the dance floor.

It was a 'nothing special, just holding each other close' kind of dance. Axel could feel Roxas slowly relaxing against his body, tucking his head into Axel's shoulder, his arms tightening slightly around his neck. Their bodies swayed in time to the other, soft and slow, calm and gentle.

"Sorry I flew off the handle…" Roxas said quietly after a while.

Axel shrugged, running a hand absently up and down the blonde's back. "It's okay. Everyone gets to have a psycho moment every now and then, right?" Roxas laughed at that, shaking his head slightly. "Besides, I can understand why you lost it."

"He's my little brother…he's all I have. I can't help but be protective." Roxas admitted, sighing again.

"There is such a thing as being overprotective, Roxas." Axel reminded him, trying not to feel too hurt by Roxas' comment. He pressed closer, cradling the back of Roxas' head in his hand and leaning down to kiss his cheek. "And Sora's not all you have…you'll always have the rest of the gang…and me."

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Roxas couldn't help but smile. He pulled back to look up at Axel, searching for something he couldn't identify in those green eyes. Whatever it was he was looking for, he apparently found, if the way his heart skipped a beat was any sign. Raising up to stand on his toes, Roxas brushed his lips against Axel's, feeling his eyes flutter closed as Axel kissed him back.

The song ended and they worked their way back into the bar, holding hands.

Not feeling too much like beating Riku to a bloody pulp anymore, Roxas decided that it was past time for them to go.

"Come on you guys, we're heading home."

Everyone stood. Asmara and Demyx, who were still giggling, supported a completely limp Zexion between them and stumbled towards the door. Riku, who didn't even so much as glance in Roxas' direction, slung one of Sora's arms over his shoulder, leading the brunet who couldn't seem to walk under his own power anymore after the others.

Roxas rubbed his forehead and went to go pay their tab, saying goodbye to Dominay as he did, Axel behind him the entire time. They all made it onto the street in one piece and piled into Asmara's SUV, since it was the only vehicle that could hold them all.

Zexion was dumped into the back seat, still out cold, Demyx cradling the slate-haired boy's head in his lap. Asmara sat next to Riku, whose face was beginning to swell and darken from the punch he'd gotten. Sora was splayed across both their laps on his back, arms flopping around as he garbled about nothing sensible.

Axel climbed into the passenger seat, laying his head back as Roxas fastened his seatbelt and started the car. "We're all gonna hate life tomorrow." The redhead predicted as Roxas pulled away from the curb.

That they were. Roxas sighed, braking at a red light. Great. It had been a long night, just as he'd thought…and now he had dealing with six hung-over friends to look forward to in the morning.

Yay.

Wow...could you just taste the sarcasm in Roxas' last thought there? Lolz, yeah, so, you likey? No likey? Tell me peoples!! (flails about like a headless chicken)

Roxas: Shoot her, just shoot her and be done with it...

Kanta: (buries himself behind a book) just ignore her. It's easier that way.

Ramen: ZOMG! o.O y'alls...I haven't coughed once in the past hour...YAYNESS! X3 (starts doing a happy dance)

Kanta: she's going to hate life once that cold pill wears off...

Roxas: (gets evil grin) you're right...heheh...

OKIE DOKEY! ahem, anyways, let me know if you liked it or not, like I said in the beginning, I tried to get everything you all wanted to see in there. Next chappie coming soon, and in that one...hang-overs and homophobes galore! Lolz, that's right, the homophobic neighbors are comin' to wreak havoc! Muhahahaha!

Luffles you all lots!

---Ramen