So, got bit by a rabid plot bunny a few weeks ago while surfing the LJ comm. for Kingdom Hearts yaoi after a ten hour marathon straight of the game—needless to say the game has been on my mind for quite some time…I just loved the idea of Sora and Roxas interacting, but I also thought that Naminé just made such a good maternal figure that I ended up with the three of them as the main characters for the story: waves hand idly: needless to say I just got consumed to write this story…although after awhile it just stayed there in my computer gathering virtual dust…it took my friend Steffie reminding me to finish writing that got me actually working…anyhoo, the story's shonen-ai (as per usual of course) the pairings are as follows:

C/L, R/A, S/R, and some very light D/Z, T/S (ok that pairings hetero but hey whatever…)

Disclaimer: Do I really seem like I own the rights to Kingdom Hearts? If I did I wouldn't have such a hard time finding doujin…:grumbles like a jaded old woman:…

Keep Tryin'!

+--Prologue: 'The Wonderfully Wacky Strife Family and its ever present Moochers'--+

a.k.a.: What are friends for besides selling your prized possessions?

Yuffie beamed widely, rising up from her seat in a way much akin to one making a long-winded speech. Cloud sighed at the upcoming result, he wondered idly if he should go to get some aspirin, he had a very bad feeling he would be needing it in a few minutes.

"Attention family!" the hyper-active teen began banging on her fist to get more attention to her, as a result she succeeded in achieving that as well as pointed glares from certain disgruntled and peeved blondes—both of which she ignored with ease, "I've got good news!" then she lowered her voice a bit, "...and some bad news. But mostly good!"

"Yuffie for the last time—"

"—we are too a family!" the girl emphasized this point by slamming her fist into the air theatrically, "after all, we're all we all have left!" she did a quick glance to see who would agree with her readily, she saw her target and mentally gave a trade mark grin, "— right, Sora?"

Of course, the only brunette male present readily agreed with the speaker, his blue eyes sparkling at the loyalty he had for his dear 'family'—he nodded readily: "Right, we're all family!"

On either side of him, his two siblings (who were actual blood relatives) both offered their own reactions: Roxas continued to eat his potatoes, while Naminé just gave a supporting smile.

"What's the big news, Yuffie?" she asked, with a curious tilt of her head.

Yuffie looked triumphant as she continued her speech, clearly pleased that there was interest in what she had to say. She took a deep breath as she commenced her announcements:

"Good news is—Aerith and I finally finished paying off the repairs for that house in Destiny Islands, since Aerith is already over there, she, Tifa, and Sephiroth—"at that Cloud really felt that migraine's presence, he had a short tolerance of the silver-haired man, " they're helping to get it ready for us!"

"Yuffie," Cloud's voice was calm as he felt a sudden inkling feeling at what the bad news was, "and why would they be doing that?"

"Well...erm...you see," Yuffie tried to search for a way to prolong the inevitable, she tried to keep her smile on her face for a moment longer as to not alert Cid (he was in striking distance after all),

"that's where the bad news comes in. You see we had a lot of debt thanks to that house and well, I, uh, had to sell a few things and cut back on a few expenses so we could pay it off."

Cloud felt a sudden feeling of dread well up in him, slowly as if trying to confirm all of this was happening or not—that it wasn't another nightmare courtesy of some of the ninja girl's undercooked food—voiced what was on everyone's minds:

"What did you sell?"

"Nothing much! Just..." her voice lowered a bit and she lost most of her charisma, "...your bike...and...I...uh, had to—erm, take money from our bank accounts—" it was as if her mouth was trying not to say itself what horrible act she had committed, this caused everyone to fear the worst, "... and I also had to mortgage the house. We have two days."

"—Wait a minute! I don't live here, what did you do to my things?" Cid demanded cutting into the silence before anyone could attack Yuffie, "you did so something, didn't ya?"

At that Yuffie, mentally said her prayers and gulped, smile fading a bit as she finished, "...I figured you don't really spend much time at home, so err...I sold your apartment. You should've gotten an eviction notice sometime today. That's why I invited you over for dinner..."

Cloud and Cid both rose from their chairs with expressions dark, ready to attack the eldest female when the lights suddenly flickered off, causing everyone to blink around in inky absence of light. Sora, from a never really conquered fear of being surrounded entirely by darkness grabbed onto Naminé, who just patted her brother's head, while Roxas just shook his head, tiredly as finally from somewhere near the door a light soprano voice murmured:

"Did I also mention that I drained the emergency account that paid for the bills?"

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...And so here they were, all piled into Cid's old beat-up, hideous mustard yellow stripped with mocha brown, Astro van. It hurt just knowing that they were inside such a monstrosity…driving it however was something that Cid relished daily, which was why he was yelling for the umpteenth time as someone near caused yet another collision with his dear beloved Sierra (yes, he named his car…what of it?), while in the front seat, Cloud housed another migraine. In the way back of the car, Yuffie still sat with a pout on her face that rivaled Sora's, whom sat next to her, while Naminé and Roxas sat in the middle chairs—acting as human shields of sort.

"Mou! Cloud Strife! I hate you!" Yuffie jeered as she nursed her hair cut, and threw one of Sora's offered snack cakes at the blond haired teen in the front, "you'll probably like it there anyway you'll see! And then you'll feel bad for ever chasing me with the razor shears, but I won't forgive you even if you're on your knees and crying like the little sissy I know you really are!"

Yuffie had been continuing in the same train of thought ever since they had left Twilight Town—so Cloud was practically a candidate for canonization when he ignored the umpteenth

Twinkie to bounce into his hair, leaving even more cream smeared onto his clothes as she screamed more colorful prophesizes of his demise.

And just like that, the wonderfully wacky 'family' pulled into the drive way after the ten hour drive, more than ready to settle into the new home…

--TBC--

I forgot to mention earlier but the title of the fic is from a recently released Utada Hikaru song called 'Keep Tryin' its so cute :Huggles her CD single: anyhoo, I have nothing else really much to say, Review if you'd like…I'm just trying to put off my Econ homework so I really don't mind…oh btw, if anyone is interested in beta-editing for this fic, contact me. I'm usually ok on the big things, but I never really notice the little typos until its posted: sighs: after all these years I still have this problem…you'd think it'd wear off eventually…willies kiddies, there's gonna be some interesting meetings as well as some major turn of events, so see ya'lls next chapter, now if you'll excuse me, I have a patient to save :reaches for borrowed DS and begins to rabidly play Trauma Center: Argh! Nooo! I won't let you die on mee!