You would think that with me being the hopeless romantic that I am writing romance would come just a little bit more easily to me than it actually does.

Disclaimer: When pigs fly and fire lasers out of their snouts(I was going to say ass, butit just didn't sound right).

At this moment Roxas felt that if his mother were to walk through the classroom door at this very minute he'd get down on his knees and beg her forgiveness for just being born. He'd even yank Sora down on the ground with him. "How do you make it shut up?" Shaking it was apparently not one of the ways you made it shut up.

"Roxas, stop that! Are you trying to kill him?" Namine snatched their egg baby back from him and cradled Hikaru in her arms, gently rocking him. The baby immediately quieted down. Across the room Sora was fairing about as well as his brother.

"Um- Kairi? She's making a funny face." He put the bottle down on his desk and held the egg at arm's length, staring at it with an arched brow.

"Baby's usually have gas after a feeding. Just burp her." After receiving a very clueless and pleading look she instructed Sora on the correct way to burp a baby. He patted the egg's back once. Twice. Then grimaced. "What's wrong?"

"Mrs. Potts never said anything about them spitting up." Sora replied, shivering as a cold white liquid slid down his neck. "You want to hold Sayu now?"

"Hey it's kind of cute." Hayner gave his egg the once over. "This project may not be so bad." He decided just before the simulator in his hands let out an ear piercing scream that scared him into nearly dropping it. "It wants you!" He tossed the egg to Riku.

"Be careful with Light." Riku set the egg on the edge of his knee and started bouncing his leg. It fortunately had the desired effect. He stopped screaming and started laughing instead.

"You named it?" Riku stared at him as if that were the dumbest question he could have asked and then handed him the form.

"Write it down. We're supposed to name them."

"You named it, Light?" Hayner recorded the name anyway. "Light Mitsuru."

"Light what?" The silver haired teen snatched the pen back, scratched out the name Mitsuru and wrote his own last name in its place.

"What did you do that for?"

"You won't even hold him." There was no way the baby was getting Hayner's last name. "You're the wife in this relationship so he's going by my last name."

"No way! You're the one mothering it. You should be the wife, pretty boy." Riku looked like a chick with all that long hair. He's more of the woman here than me.

"Like hell I am!" Light began to scream again. "Shhh. It's okay."

"Mr. Yasutora. Mr. Mitsuru." Mrs. Potts said, rubbing the bridge of her nose. "As entertaining as this lover's spat is you two are disturbing the other families." The two boys looked around the classroom just now noticing the numerous couples shooting them irritated glares as they tried to hush their crying eggs. "The bell will ring in two minutes-thank God- so everyone hand your forms to Ms. Kisaragi and clean up."

"So um…" Was about all Sora could manage to say while he watched Kairi pack the baby bag that had been given to every couple for the project.

"Meet me outside the school gates?" He settled on a nod. "Great." The bell rung just as Kairi slung the baby bag over her shoulder and picked Sayu up. "Bye Sora."

-/-

"Hey Sora? You know since you're my little brother I love you all, but," he grabbed his brother's cloak and pulled him close so he could speak directly into his ear, "if you don't stop fidgeting I'm going to ram your head through a wall!"

"You just never get to see brotherly love like this anymore." Roxas released his hold and turned towards the voice. "How's life at the institute treating the Strife clones?"

"Clones are identical in every way, Cid. What are you doing here?" Sora asked. The man shrugged his shoulders and leaned back against the black stretch limousine he'd driven to Institute 13 in.

"Hell if I know. Your father said you two would be needing a ride home from school so here I am. The Strife family's private chauffer." Cid hooked his thumb at the limo. "Now get your asses in."

"We can't!" Sora slapped his hand over his mouth. That couldn't have sounded any more desperate if I tried. "I mean we can't because um-we can't leave.." He pushed his fingertips together and started fidgeting again.

"Sora!" The poor boy nearly jumped a foot into the air. "You didn't wait long, did you?" Kairi ran up to him carrying two baby bags along with double the load of backpacks. Namine was just a step behind her with Hikaru and Sayu in her arms, trailing even farther behind was them Tidus and Selphie, and dragging his feet in the rear was Hayner, who wasn't carrying more than his own backpack.

"No, not long." Sora mumbled, lowering his head and tugging at his zipper. "You uh-You want to walk home together?" Before Kairi could answer Cid reached into the front seat of the limo and sounded the horn several times.

"Hello, I still exist and my orders are to take you two straight home. You can flirt on your-"

"How about you guys ride home with us?" Roxas asked, jumping in front of Cid and cutting him off mid-sentence.

"What!" Cid and Hayner yelled. "No way!" They paused and stared at each other. Hayner quieted down, but Cid continued yelling. "I'm a private chauffer not a taxi driver! I don't have the time or the gas to waste driving your little friends home."

-/-

"And yet somehow I'm driving their little friends home anyway." Cid sighed as he used the rearview mirror to spy into the back of the limo. He had five more passengers than he'd planned on having . "You brats are going home first, got it?"

"Brats!"

"You know he's talking about us, right?" Roxas asked. Namine yanked her brother back into his seat before he could dive into the front and try to pummel Cid.

"Here." Namine said, placing Hikaru in her partner's arms.

"Why are you giving him to me!" She'd held the egg all throughout class and Roxas had been perfectly content to let her do so.

"Because he clashes with my outfit." Was the very dry response. "Seriously, you need to learn how to hold a baby." The blond boy let out an agonized groan. She chose to ignore it. "Support his-well a head is kind of all he is so support that." While the two blonds practiced their parenting skills Selphie turned to Sora deciding this was as good a time as any to get some answers from him.

"Who's that hot institute boy that sits next to you in class?"

"Huh?" What kind of question was that to ask a guy? Especially one like Sora who wouldn't know a hot boy if one strolled up to him and slugged him. "My brother?"

"He is! Why isn't he here?" Sora stared from her to Roxas and back and then looked to her friends silently asking if it was normal for her to act the way she was. Kairi treated him with a shrug, but Tidus stared back with the same venomous glare Hayner was shooting at his brother. What exactly did they have against him and Roxas anyway?

"What are you talking about? My brother's right there." Sora said, pointing at his twin.

"Not him! I meant the boy with the silver hair!" Why on earth did he think she wanted to know about his clone?

"If you wanted to know about Riku you could have just said so," he scratched the back of his neck, "but he doesn't sit next to me in Home Ec, Roxas does. Riku sits on the other side of him." If this were an anime Selphie would have sweat dropped. As she was she just slapped her hand over her eyes and leaned back into the leather seats.

-/-

The teenagers followed Cid in single file up to the Strife household. When they were two steps away from the door Sora and Roxas stepped to the side of the walkway. Cid advised the others to do the same. "Why should we?" The chauffer snorted and told Hayner, "Don't say I didn't warn ya." Thinking it best to do what they were told all except the one skeptic joined the twins off to the side. Cid unlocked door and then jerked it open, stepping back quickly to practically disappear behind it.

"Get it off! Get it off!" Hayner hadn't known what had bowled him over until it was sitting on top of him blowing hot smelly air into his face. "Get this mutt off me!" The mutt sniffed him a little and then growling jumped off Hayner and padded over to Roxas.

"Don't jump on me I'm holding a baby!" Goofy raised his self up on his hind legs, sniffed at the egg in the blond's arms and licked it. Hikaru giggled.

"Stupid dog." Hayner didn't even make it to his knees before he was trampled again by another, but much smaller, mutt. "Damn it!"

"I did warn ya."

"Max." Sora crouched down, holding out his palm as the pup ran to him. "Here boy." The little dog shot passed his owner without a backwards glance. "Hey." Max ran circles around Kairi, yipping and hopping every few steps and wagging his tail excitedly.

"Got any more mutts in here?" Hayner asked, watching his sisters and Selphie fawn over the little dog that had bounced off his head.

"Naw, they ain't got any more dogs, but they do have-" Cid began.

"Ouch!" Hayner yelped, flying away from the doorway with his hands gripping his rear.

"One very foul tempered duck." Cid finished. Donald clicked his beak and waddled back into the house.

"Okay that's it! I don't care if we have to walk, we're going home now!" Though he could chalk it up to an overactive imagination Roxas swore there was steam rising from the blond teen's head.

-/-

"I got an idea!" Roxas said leaning against the door. Sora was the one who'd asked the sisters if they wanted to walk to school with them so why was this so difficult for him? "Instead of staring at this big hunk of oak forever how about we knock on it and let Namine and Kairi know that we're standing out here?"

"You're a riot, Rox." Sora grumbled, pulling his brother to the left so he could knock. To the twins surprise neither Kairi or Namine answered the door. "Uh, sorry, guess we got the wrong house." He took a few hesitant steps back, staring up at the strange brunette who'd answered the door.

"You two would be Zola and Rucksack, right?" There was less than six letters in both of their names. How could anyone mispronounce them that horribly?

"Zola and Rucksack?" Before Roxas could say anything more Namine shot out from behind her uncle, snatching his wrist and nearly ripping his arm out of his socket in her haste to drag him off.

"Let's go!" Sora yelped as he was shoved hard on the back. His wheels flew out from underneath him, but he managed to regain his balance.

"Kairi, what are you doing?" Sora looked over his shoulder at the girl pushing against him. "Why are we in such a hurry?"

"We're hurrying because any minute now Hayner is going to realize, or Uncle Jack is going to open his big mouth, that me and Namine are walking to school with you two and he's going to come rampaging after us." He didn't need telling twice. Sora stopped resisting and started blading, though not so fast that Kairi couldn't keep up with him. "It be nice to have a conversation with you without my brother breathing down our necks."

"Um, can I ask you something?" Kairi looked up at Sora, giving him her full attention. "You and Namine, you guys look a lot alike, but your brothers-"

"Don't look anything like us?" She laughed. "It's actually pretty weird that Namine and I could almost pass for twins."

"But you're sisters." He said, a little confused. Their facial features were so similar and they were the same age, weren't they? It had honestly shocked him that they weren't twins like he and Roxas were. Wait, now that I think about it Kairi and Namine don't have the same last name and neither do Tidus and Hayner. What's the deal?

"We're not blood related. None of us are."

"So, you were," he started lining up the pieces, "adopted?" Sora guess.

"Yeah." Will and Elizabeth Turner had adopted her when she was two. Some times it felt strange to think that even though she was their first child Hayner was the oldest. "Now can I ask you something?"

"Anything." Was Sora's instant answer.

"Why Food of Wonders?"

"Okay, see about that…"

-/-

It was a bit of a shock for the last period Home Economics class to find the young Yuffie Kisaragi sitting at Mrs. Potts desk instead of the teacher herself. "She had a breakdown during sixth period." Yuffie told Sora when he asked for their teacher.

"I thought that was her good class?" The teacher's aid snickered and ruffled the blond boy's hair. Roxas scowled and shrugged her hand off.

"It is her one of her best classes until Axel the asshole set a snake loose in the classroom. Can you imagine how all those girly girls reacted to this huge constrictor slithering around their feet?" How Axel managed to sneak not only himself, but a snake onto Destiny High campus before his scheduled class period was a mystery the red head was keeping tight lipped about.

"Kairi," Selphie whispered, jabbing her friend with her pencil, "that sub is trying to take your guy. Hey she's after Namine's guy too." She said, watching what was perhaps the strangest interaction between a substitute and student. Roxas was dodging and ducking behind his brother which didn't do him any good. Yuffie caught him by the hood of his uniform, locked her arm around his neck, and then let go of his uniform so her hand was free to grind into his scalp.

"Selphie you're insane." Despite what the red head might think Selphie wasn't taking chances. When Tidus passed her on his way over to Wakka's desk she grabbed the boy by his arm and yanked him into the desk besides her. Looking a little stunned for a second the blond freshmen stood up and tried to leave. The girl yanked him back down by his belt loops.

"Stay." Selphie ordered. Knowing that there was no escape the boy nodded his head and settled back.

-/-

Sayu had fallen asleep in his lap and Kairi was using the very rare quiet to finish her homework. Not wanting to bother her Sora found other means to entertain himself. His other means was flicking eraser bits at Riku's head. Every time a piece of rubber made contact Riku's left eyebrow would twitch. It was actually very fun to watch and do. "Sora?"

"Yeah?" The boy answer, flicking another eraser bit at his friend.

"Do you want my attention or are you just trying to annoy me?" Two bits of eraser hit him this time.

"Both really." The erasers stopped flying. "You doing anything after school?"

"Why?" Sora reached across the desk to grab Riku's hand and turn it over so that his palm was facing up.

"These calluses, they're from wielding a keyblade aren't they?" The teen nodded. "It gets kind of boring always beating Roxas when we spar-Ow!" It was just Sora's luck that his brother was walking back to his desk with a heated bottle and was thus directly behind him.

"You're always beating who?" Roxas asked, his hand tightly clenched into a fist. "We both know that I own you when it comes to two blade style."

"Only if I'm fighting two blade style too. You get your ass handed to you if I'm only using one."

"You don't get bragging rights unless you can beat me at both our styles."

"Like you're one to talk. You wield one keyblade like a novice."

"Why you little-!" Riku grasped both boy's by their cloaks, using them to jerk the twins forward. Their foreheads met with a loud crack. "Ah, shit!"

"Riku!"

-/-

He'd been on a real emotion high on the way home. He and Sora now had a new sparring partner and after a quick work out, which he was positive would end in him taking both his brother and friend down, they were going to meet with Kairi and Namine. Right now though, standing in the driveway Roxas couldn't help but feel that something wasn't right. "Sora, that car." His brother slid to a stop next to him, staring wide eyed at the limo parked in front of their house. "That's not one of Cid's is it?"

"No it's-Where's Dad?" Please let him be home today. He's never home by the time we're out of school, but please let him be home today.

"Didn't Leon say something about Strife Enterprise buying out-Damn it, that means he's not here!" The twins were really starting to scare Riku now. What was so important about their father not being home? "And if he's not here, then that means-Mom!" Sora was a half a step behind his brother in their race to the door. Someone saved them the trouble of opening it. "What the hell are you doing in our house!"

"Now is that any way to speak to family?" The man standing in the doorway brushed passed the brothers, the icy glares they were shooting him being coolly ignored. "Riku Yasutora, correct?"

"Y-yeah." How does he know my name? Why would he know my name? Riku looked to the twins for assistance, but they didn't look any less surprised than he did. "Do-do I know you?" The man was smiling and Riku couldn't help but think he liked it better when he wasn't.

"I don't expect Wise has told you, but your mother would like to see you again." He handed the silver haired boy an envelope before moving to his car. His chauffer scrambled to his side, hurrying to open his car door. "The restraining order isn't for you." With that the man was gone.

"Who was that?"

"Our uncle. Sephiroth." It was bizarre enough that their father's half brother was at their house, but what was his connection with Riku? "Why does he know you?" Riku turned the envelope over in his hands still wondering the same thing.

"I don't know Sora."

-/-

My cell phone has never seen more action than it did today. My Mom must have told all my family members that I was leaving on the July 12. I called my grandparents to say goodbye to them, and fifteen minutes later my aunt who's been living in Florida for the passed two years called to tell me goodbye, and barely ten minutes after that my aunt/godmother called to tell me goodbye and every possible phone number I could reach her by. I got to say goodbye to my uncles in person. Now the only one I'm worried about is Shishi, since I can't exactly explain to my dog that I'll be leaving for ten months. Oh well at least she and my mother will have each other.

Well don't worry about the updating. I can't promise anything, but I asked my recruiter's boss a lot of questions about how life in basic training would be and it seems like I'll be able to update even while I'm there(and order manga online-Yay! I'd go crazy without them) and if not well two months will pass rather quickly. My job training is computer analysts so I know I'll have access to the internet after basics at least so no year long wait for chapter five.

To all who read my story. Thank you and please be patient.