Standard Disclaimer: I own an awesome Sora figurine! So yes I own…a Sora…but I guess I still don't really own him. Dang it DiSqueenix…

Warings: Boys loving boys, crazy Roxas, language…that's about it.

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Radically Inverted Morality

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By the end of the week, Rie had finalized the paperwork proving that she was Roxas' biological mother and had full custody rights to her son, and Roxas found himself rooming with his twin brother in the small house where they lived. It wasn't the nightmare that he had expected it to be. There was just…something about Sora. He was almost a completely different person away from school. At home, he was a lot more subdued, not quiet really, but he just didn't seem to radiate the beams of energy he did around other people. He was just kind of…warm. The optimism that had seemed so irritation in the beginning just didn't seem so bad after only a few hours under the same roof with him.

Roxas was only mildly disturbed to find that he and Sora really had a lot in common despite their separate upbringings. Sora liked to talk to him, even though Roxas rarely offered much in response, but the things the brunet said, the feelings he expressed…they all spoke to something deep inside, and Roxas slowly began truly feeling that he was connected to his brother on a deeper level.

"I still can't believe this," Sora murmured into the darkness as they were going to bed Thursday night. "I've always felt like there was something missing…someone I was supposed to be looking for, and now, here you are." Roxas took the words in and contemplated the warmth that filled his heart. The feeling was mutual. He'd been searching so long he'd given up hope of ever finding what it was he'd been looking for, but by some random twist of fate, here he lay in a home with a family. His real family. It was more that Roxas ever imagined he would have. So many thoughts and feelings swirled through him at Sora's words, but all he offered in return was a grumbled:

"Go to sleep Sora, we have to be up early." There was a slight pause and then,

"G'night, bro." Roxas could hear the smile in his words. It was probably a mirror of the smile on his own face.

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Roxas had taken to spending his lunch hour with Sora and the rest of his friends. He still wasn't the most social butterfly in the bunch, but he liked being able to be around his twin. Even if they weren't interacting, it was a good feeling to know that he had family close. It was a new feeling for Roxas, but it was one that he was pretty sure he wouldn't mind adjusting to one bit.

He couldn't deny that it wasn't just Sora that kept his attention when he spent time with the group. He was completely enthralled with Sora's silver-haired angel of a boyfriend. Riku was the epitome of perfection in Roxas' eyes though he would bite his tongue and drown himself in his own blood before admitting that to anyone. Riku's poise and confidence in interacting with the rest of the student body, his revealed vulnerability when around only his closest friends, everything about the older boy spoke to things that Roxas didn't fully understand, and every time he saw him with Sora a foreign emotion squeezed at his heart. It was perplexing.

He also saw the way that Sora and Riku interacted with Kairi. In his years within the foster care system, Roxas had never seen friends so close. In the world where he'd grown up, everyone was on their own. Someone who was a friend one moment could be an enemy at the next. A lot of kids his age in the system just had a lot of issues, and Roxas had quickly learned that he had to look out for himself if he wanted to survive with his sanity intact.

He once again found himself wondering how things would have been different if his father had chosen Sora instead of him. Would Roxas be the one Riku had fallen for? Would he be the third part of the inseparable trio? If he and Sora really were twins, then it seemed likely that everything Sora had now would have been his instead. As before, Roxas had to fight off the wave of jealousy that flashed through him at that thought. It wasn't Sora's fault. It wasn't anyone's fault. It had been simple rotten luck. Nothing more.

Today Sora, Kairi and Roxas were spending lunch in the student council office with Riku and the rest of his executive board; Axel, who was secretary and a blonde girl named Naminé who was the Vice-President. Riku was sitting in front of a computer, dozens of papers spread out around him, a look of absolute distress and bewilderment marring his usually smooth features. He was almost pulling his hair out. Sora had walked up behind him and was kneading his tense muscles with strong hands.

"Babe, you have to calm down," he said soothingly, "You look like you're about to pop something." Riku did relax a little at Sora's words, but the situation was far too screwed for him to relax completely.

"Luxord was smart to run after doing this," he ground out between clenched teeth. "If I ever see that rat bastard again I'm going to introduce his face to every sharp and boney piece of my anatomy."

"Is it really that bad?" Sora asked eyeing the mess in front of his boyfriend with concern.

"We just got the official transaction records from the bank," Riku sighed. "Based on what we can figure out, it looks like he was using the schools money to run a gambling ring or something around Blitzball games."

"Don't tell me he blew all of our money gambling!" Kairi exclaimed from Riku's other side.

"No. I would have hunted the asshole down myself and murdered him if that were the case. Our money's still there, but everything's scattered and fragmented to hell and back. There are receipts for half the clubs on campus waiting to get reimbursed, but there's no way to know how much money we actually have until we get all of these records straightened out." Riku ran his hands through his hair feeling the tension headache he already had steadily building as he thought about the situation and put it into words.

"I've got the Cheerleaders, Volleyball team, Drama Club, and Forensics Club all breathing down my neck for money that they're owed, the Council's supposed to start planning and ordering for the Valentine's Dance coming up, your cross country team needs money for the 10K run you guys have coming up," Riku said speaking directly to Sora for that, "but all of our funds are frozen until we can reconstruct the budget, and if we want to get any of the things we need for any of the events we've got coming up in the next month, all of this has to be figured out by the end of the weekend!"

Riku continued ranting about all the crap he had to do as well as all the things the rest of his council had on their plates. Sora had climbed onto the back of the chair that Riku was sitting in, stroking his fingers soothingly through silky silver hair as Riku rested his head on one of his thighs. Riku's voice was dull as he continued listing his mounting responsibilities.

"I don't know what we're gonna do," he finally concluded.

"What about you guys," Roxas asked Axel and Naminé who had been silent through the whole rant.

"I'm not very good with computers, so I wouldn't know what to do." Naminé admitted with a blush.

"And beyond online gaming and Word, I'm not very useful either," Axel admitted, "Besides, I'm out of town this weekend. Family Reunion over in Twilight Town." Roxas glared at the redhead who answered it with a smirk and a shrug. Roxas ripped his eyes away to stare down at the papers on the desk.

"So, wait," he said, speaking into the tense silence that filled the room. "Really, all you need is to organize this data, right?"

"You say that as if it's simple or something," Riku sighed. "This is no small budget we're dealing with here. This council runs like a small corporation. There are about 50 pages of numbers here, and we were only provided print-outs; no electronic copies. Do you have any idea how long it's going to take to input all of this into a spreadsheet, let alone have it make sense?" Roxas eyed the data again critically.

"If we had a couple of computers and a little help, we could pull it off by the end of the weekend."

"We?" Sora asked grinning. "You mean you're offering to help?" Roxas realized that he was letting his tough guy demeanor slip and promptly tried for a defensive scowl. Unfortunately it came out as more of a petulant pout.

"Look," he said, "I just don't think anyone should ever look that pathetic." He gestured at Riku to prove his point.

"Roxy, babe. That's a pout cute enough to rival Sora's," Axel suddenly said draping an arm around the blond's shoulders and giving his out-thrust bottom lip a little poke. Roxas felt his cheeks warm at the other boy's close proximity, and spun out of Axel's hold.

"Did I say you could touch me, freak?" he snapped, glaring and crossing his arms defensively to hide how flustered he was.

"And with a blush like that…" Axel let the sentence hang shooting Roxas a fiery grin. Roxas glared and promptly turned his attention back to Riku who had a sexy smirk pulling at his lips as he had watched the interaction.

"So Roxas," Riku said lifting his head from Sora's lap. "You really think you can straighten this out in just two days?" He asked indicating the mess in front of him. "Because if you can, I'm prepared to offer you the Treasurer position on my Executive Board."

Looking into Riku's sincere and amazingly blue-green eyes, Roxas felt that he wouldn't be able to refuse even if he'd wanted to. Riku was irresistible. The more time he spent with the boy, the more he realized it. Roxas met Riku's smirk with a cocky smirk of his own. He decided then and there that he would do whatever it took to get that data sorted in the two days he'd been given. If it meant becoming one of Riku's executives and spending more time with him, then Roxas knew that whatever work it would take would be more than worth it in the end.