Standard Disclaimer: Not mine! No money! No sue!!!! Onegaishimas…

Notes: Last pre-written chapter…gonna have to start working on this story again now…

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

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Radically Inverted Morality

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Roxas was a godsend. Between his knowledge of spreadsheets and no-nonsense attitude, he had all of them working like clockwork by the end of their first hour together. Riku's house was their base of operation, a pair of laptops from Riku and Kairi their tools of the trade. He faced the whole thing almost like a military operation, breaking down assignments and requirements with an efficiency worthy of any admiral in the defense force.

"Sora, Kairi, you're in charge of data input," he said handing over the pile of bank records. "The first thing we have to do is get rid of all this paper. The data is useless to us like this. I'll get to work constructing a spreadsheet that will do all the summations and charting that we'll need when it comes time to analyze. When you guys are done, we'll link computers, transfer the information and plug it into the spreadsheet. Simple enough. Since you won't be here for any of this Riku, I'm gonna need you to be prepared to take over for analysis. I can play with the numbers but I won't really know what any of it means without you."

"I think I'm already ready to offer you the job, Roxas," Riku said from his place leaning against the wall. Roxas couldn't help but note how well his relaxed posture displayed his natural grace, or how the late morning light streaming from the window seemed to almost make his pale skin glow. Riku was wearing only a pair of loose fitting beige cotton pants that hung low on his hips and a white tank top that molded to the shape of his abdomen, not yet dressed for the other commitments he had for the day.

Roxas kept his face completely neutral as their eyes met, but the intensity of his stare must have given him away.

A slow, cocky smirk began pulling at the other boy's lips, a smirk that sent heat coursing through Roxas' veins, and Roxas knew that he was caught. Riku knew.

"I feel confident leaving this in your hands while I take care of other business today," he said, pushing away from the wall and walking sinuously over to drape himself around Sora's shoulders where he and Kairi were pouring over the pages in front of them. Sora gave a small yelp when Riku nipped at his neck lightly, smiling over at his boyfriend a moment later.

"I'll see you later, babe," Riku told him quietly, and Roxas watched, fuming quietly as they shared a tender kiss, Riku looking up at him and smirking again before exiting the room. The bastard. He'd done that on purpose. He knew that Roxas was attracted to him and he intentionally fell all over Sora just to what? Prove a point? Make his preference clear? Like Roxas needed the reminder. He'd spent almost every free moment of his life since finding his family in the presence of Sora and his friends. Roxas knew by now how strongly the two felt for each other.

Still...

That nagging thought was back. There were so many what-ifs, so many could-have-beens. He and Sora were twins. It stood to reason that if his father had taken Sora instead, it would be Roxas who Riku was draping himself over, Roxas who would be sharing passionate kisses with him in the mornings, Roxas who'd have the freedom to run his hands over that firm body, fingers through that silky silver hair. But that wasn't the case. Things had happened the way they had, and at this point, there wasn't much that Roxas could do about it.

"Let's get started," he said, looking up at his brother, and as was becoming more and more common, shoving the darker thoughts aside. "We've got a long day ahead of us."

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"I'm gonna kill him," Riku snarled from his place on the floor the next day. "He's going to wish the cops had found him instead by the time I'm done with him."

As predicted, it had taken the better part of the day to get the sorting of information taken care of. Sora and Kairi has dutifully worked at appeasing the gods of Excel in hopes that the sometimes temperamental program would go easy them, and Roxas had called on skills he'd almost forgotten he had to create the equations they would need to properly be able to see what the numbers really meant. There were plenty of false starts, blank stares and calls to Riku before everything was working out the way they were supposed to.

Riku had come back from the luncheon he'd been required to attend around 4 and found Kairi and Sora collapsed on the floor practically twitching and foaming at the mouth, Roxas angrily plugging away at Riku's laptop, looking about five seconds away from throwing it out the window. Riku had left around 10 that morning, and they had been working with few breaks ever since. Not the healthiest work ethic in the world.

Fearing for his friends' sanity, Riku had declared work done after the last equation was made in Roxas' beautifully crafted spreadsheet and taken them all out for dinner, putting off the data insertion and analysis for the next day. They'd enjoyed a lovely evening out, free of budgets or computers or any of the other things that seemed to cause the other three to twitch when mentioned. Everything had been great...and then the morning came. The analysis was complete, and Riku was not happy with what he saw.

"How bad is it?" Sora asked, resting his chin on Riku's shoulder to see what the older boy was seeing on the screen of his laptop.

"Bad," Riku said, the word falling from his lips and landing like lead. "This wasn't just shoddy bookkeeping, it was a smoke screen. That asshole has been shaving off bits and pieces of our reserve funds since the beginning of the year!"

"What? How?" Kairi asked, brows creased as she rolled over from her place on the bed.

"All of the reimbursement forms he's been turning in. He made it look like the money was coming from our main account, god, even fabricated documents to make it seem legit, but he was really pulling from reserves, probably pocketing the money for himself because half of our emergency account, gone!" He threw his hands up in the air, falling back and allowing Sora to wrap his arms around his waist soothingly.

Roxas sat watching the scene go on with flat eyes; Riku ranting, Kairi looking concerned, Sora offering comfort. It all washed over his fuzzy brain like water, leaving trace remnants but generally just flowing by. He hadn't slept very well the night before. There had been...distractions beyond his control preventing it. He had learned something fairly interesting however, and it left him thinking; mind buzzing.

Riku's home was huge with plenty of guest rooms for the frequent visitors his family entertained. Riku had a corner of rooms for himself where he could entertain guests of his own meaning that it wasn't a problem for all of them to have their own rooms when it was decided that rather than going home and coming back, they'd just spend the night. Roxas and Kairi got separate rooms, Sora and Riku shared. This came as no shock as they were a well-established couple, and Roxas' mind played out what would likely happen under their sheets. He'd felt that knot of jealous envy grow a little bigger as he tried to force the thoughts out of his mind, closing his eyes to sleep.

It was about half an hour later when he felt the first shiver of sensation, and his eyes snapped open, a shuddering gasp escaping his lips. What was that? It came again; a ghost, a flutter, heat flushing his skin as blood rushed down to flood between his legs. He released a small whimper as sensation overcame him again. What the hell was going on!? It hit him suddenly as his eyes fell closed. There was a flash of silver and aquamarine, a taste of sunshine on his tongue and his thoughts were filled with Sora, his twin brother...who was alone with his boyfriend in the room next-door.

His throat tightened, holding back a moan as a particularly intense spike of pleasure pulsed through him, squirming on his bed as the sensations intensified. He'd never experienced anything like it before. He'd done his share of experimentation during his years going from home to home, but this was...this was unique. The fullness in his heart was like nothing he'd ever imagined even if the feelings weren't his own, and it made him want for things that he couldn't even properly name. He'd read somewhere about twins being able to share experiences sometimes, but he'd never imagined it would happen to him, never thought that it would be like this. And in the moment that he felt phantom lips close over the aching heat of his erection, it hit him that this was Riku. It was Riku causing all of this pleasure, phantom as it was, and knowing this, he closed his eyes and allowed himself to fall into the sensations as they came.

He could almost, almost feel warm hands kneading the flesh of his ass, almost smell the familiar scent of Riku's cologne. He imagined pulling roughly at silvery hair, the grunt of approval that sent ripples of pleasure across his engorged head, buried deep in the wet cavern of Riku's throat. It was almost real...so close…so close…. But when the pleasure became too intense, when he found himself shaking and twitching, aching with impending release, when he did finally gasp out, spilling himself into his now damp boxers, reality came crashing back…

…and he was alone.

Riku wasn't his to have. He belonged only to Sora.

It wasn't fair. What did Sora have that Roxas didn't? It had been luck of the draw; one twin stays the other goes. So simple...so stupid, but in the end, it was Riku and Sora not Riku and Roxas and it seemed that things would be staying that way for the time being.

"...which means we're going to have to completely re-write the budget, and make cuts like crazy!" Riku was saying as he finished his rant, now on his feet with Kairi and Sora watching him from the bed. Roxas looked up when the older boy turned to him, challenge gleaming in his eyes. "So what do you say, Rox?" he asked. "You got the rocks to take this on?"

Roxas ran his eyes over Riku's body taking in the smooth planes of his skin and well-defined muscles. He wasn't sure if the double meaning behind the question was intentional, but Roxas took it as a completely different challenge all the same. Riku may belong to Sora for now, but that didn't mean that Roxas couldn't convince him that maybe he was with the wrong twin. Hours in meetings, time spent pouring over budgets and figures together... Yes. Roxas was sure that he could play the situation to best advantage. If there was one thing he'd learned about life, it was that the strong took and the weak lost. Eying his twin, with his carefree smiles and open heart, Roxas knew who was the stronger between them.

Turning back to Riku, he gave a calculating smirk, and nodded.