Hey guys thought I would start making this a twice(ish) weekly update thing. Hope you enjoy this installment and all I will say is only Reno...

"Oh he's gorgeous!" Naminé exclaimed looking out of the kitchen window into the garden where Reno was weeding the lawn. "Nice choice Roxy." Roxas rolled his eyes.

"Nami can you please stop ogling my assistant for one minute?" he asked.

"I can." Naminé replied without taking her eyes off Reno. "I'm not going to. What did you say his name was again?"

"Reno." Roxas replied trying to ignore her.

"Reno…" Naminé breathed biting her bottom lip as, in the garden, Reno stood up to wipe the sweat from his brow; the wife-beater he wore sliding up ever so slightly to reveal the bottom of his well-toned stomach. "Arthur or Martha?" she asked after the skin had slipped back under the vest again. Roxas raised an eyebrow.

"He's bisexual if that's what you mean." he stated.

"Perfect!" Naminé grinned. "And does he know that you're…?"

"Gay?" Roxas cut in. "I would have thought my chosen profession would have made that painfully obvious but, yes, the topic of our sexual orientations has come up."

"And?"

"And nothing Nami."

"Oh what?" she moaned. "You mean to tell me that that fine piece of arse outside has been living here for the best part of two weeks and you haven't done anything!"

"I'm his boss!" Roxas shot back. "It would be incredibly inappropriate and besides, even if I wasn't, I'm not going to sleep with someone after two weeks."

"You slept with Zexion after two dates never mind two weeks." Naminé reminded him smugly.

"Ok firstly I was nineteen and stupid and secondly I'd been in love with Zexion since I was thirteen years old." he stated.

"Oh honey, you still are." Naminé said sighing.

"I am not!"

"You still have photos of the two of you up and you still answer his phone calls; you are."

"So what? We're still good friends." Roxas stated flatly. Naminé just raised an eyebrow at him. "He's with Demyx now; he's moved on and I have a new book to write."

"All the more reason to get a good hot dicking from Reno." Naminé beamed.

"I'm not sleeping with my assistant Nami." Roxas said firmly.

"Can I then?" she asked. "I mean if you're not going to. He's just my type and I could spend three days straight riding his huge d…"

"Reno!" Roxas exclaimed loudly, cutting her off as the topic of conversation opened the back door.

"Hey!" Reno smiled giving Naminé a small wave before turning back to Roxas. "I've weeded everywhere now, is there anything more you want me to do out there before I take a shower?"

"No what you've done is great, thanks Reno." Roxas smiled.

"No problem." Reno shrugged grinning. In the middle of this exchange Naminé looked at the two of them and smirked. Roxas could deny that he was attracted to Reno all he liked but she knew the signs and she was pretty sure that Reno wanted him too. She cleared her throat just loudly enough for Roxas to come back to himself.

"Um sorry; this is Reno my assistant," he said gesturing to him. "Reno this is Naminé…"

"Nami," she corrected extending her hand to Reno, who took it. "Roxy's cousin."

"Roxy?" Reno turned to smirk at Roxas who scowled back.

"Call me that again and I will end you." he growled. Naminé laughed.

"Only I get away with calling him Roxy." she whispered theatrically behind her hand.

"I'll remember that." Reno replied in kind. Roxas rolled his eyes.

"You know in Sixth Form his nickname used to be 'Foxy Roxy' because everyone wanted a piece of him after he lost all his puppy-fat." Naminé giggled.

"I was a little bit chubby in my early teens." Roxas blushed.

"But," Naminé continued as if he hadn't spoken. "he only had eyes for…"

"Ok that's enough!" Roxas said loudly cutting her off. He grabbed her by the shoulders and began to lead her out of the kitchen. "Don't you have somewhere else to be Nami?"

"Oh I could stay here and embarrass you all day long." she giggled. "Bye Reno!" she added throwing him a wave and a smile over her shoulder.

"Nice to meet you." he laughed as Roxas continued to lead Naminé towards the front door.

"Well thanks for stopping by Nami, give my love to Aunt Sue and Uncle Dave." Roxas said loudly opening the front door.

"Oh Roxy he's gorgeous and he has a sense of humour." she said lowering her voice so that only Roxas could hear her. "Will you at least think about it?"

"I'm not sleeping with my assistant Nami." he said for what he hoped would be the final time. "It would be incredibly unprofessional and inappropriate! Plus I couldn't do that to my parents – they still haven't forgiven me for breaking up with 'Riku: the Doctor.'"

"I'm not saying build a relationship with him," she stated. "I'm saying let him pound you into a mattress until you can see God!"

"I have work to do." Roxas announced.

"You should be working the gentle curve of his c…"

"Goodbye Nami." he said firmly before closing the door in her face.

"Too much?" she yelled, her voice muffled by the door. Roxas just rolled his eyes and walked back over to the kitchen where Reno stood, leaning against the doorway with a raised eyebrow.

"Sorry about her." Roxas chuckled nervously. "She got the family's crazy gene."

"I thought she was funny." Reno grinned and Roxas felt himself blushing. "So," he added after a slightly awkward pause. "I'm going to have a quick shower then I'll make us lunch."

"Sounds good." Roxas smiled. "I should probably get back to work too."

"Cool, I'll see you in a bit then." Reno stated before making his way upstairs to the bathroom.

"Ok." Roxas breathed after he heard the bathroom door shut. He leaned his head back so that it hit the wall with a soft thump. He closed his eyes in embarrassed frustration and swallowed. Naminé was right about one thing: Reno certainly looked damn good in a soil smeared wife-beater.


"So what's this new boss of yours like? Is he hotter than me?" Cloud's text message read. Reno chuckled to himself before tapping out his reply.

"Baby you know you're my world!" he joked. "He's great though – cool, funny, sexy."

"Sounds perfect." Cloud replied. "Try not to fuck it up."

"Who says I'm going to fuck it up?"

"Reno it's you, of course you're going to fuck it up." came the reply and he could practically hear Cloud rolling his eyes.

"If you know me so well how am I going to fuck it up Mr Know It All?" Reno tapped out his reply desperately trying to pretend that it didn't read as petulantly as it sounded in his head.

"Because," came the almost instantaneous reply. "you will hit on him until he no longer finds it funny or do something inappropriately sexual and he's going to have no choice but to fire you." Reno really had to marvel at the speed and accuracy with which Cloud could text.

"I'm not going to get fired." Reno tapped back after a moment's thought. "Besides Tifa won't have me back in the house if I lose this job."

"You can't stay with me." Cloud told him jumping to the conclusion that that was what Reno was hinting at. "I've got a new boyfriend."

"By boyfriend do you mean Labrador?" Reno joked. His phone was silent for a minute and he began to worry that he had just really offended Cloud and he did actually have a boyfriend he had yet to tell Reno about before it vibrated violently. He opened the message to see a picture of Cloud, shirtless and holding a tiny Labrador puppy in one hand, his phone presumably in the other, the puppy licking his nose.

"Isn't he cute?!" Cloud's text read with an obscene amount of hearts attached to it as well.

"He is pretty fucking cute." Reno grinned shaking his head; Cloud was such a sap when it came to dogs. "Dog's not bad either."

"Cheeky." Cloud replied, a winking face at the end of the message, and Reno knew exactly where this conversation would go if he could keep Cloud distracted from the puppy. Their conversations more often than not led to a bout of sexual texting that ended in mutual masturbation and Reno had a lot of pent up frustration from being around Roxas.

"Good thing your shirt is already off – I wouldn't have to take it off if I was there." he typed back.

"Lazy." Cloud replied. "Good to know you haven't totally dropped me for your sexy boss though."

"Would I ever?" Reno told him. He was about to begin a long, very detailed, description of what he would do to his best friend if they were together at that moment when he heard a loud, frustrated groan from the living room. "Hold that thought BRB." he typed before going to investigate.

In the living room Roxas was sitting at his desk, leaning back in his chair, one hand over his face. He looked up when Reno knocked on the open door softly. He smiled with embarrassment and ran a hand through his unruly hair, blushing.

"Hey you ok?"

"Yeah just making sure you're ok." Reno replied. "I heard you groaning."

"Oh it's nothing," Roxas waved him off. "just having a bit of trouble with work."

"Anything I can help you with?" Reno asked.

"Probably," Roxas replied. "I'm having a bit of trouble with the order of things."

"How so?"

"I've got a beginning and an ending for this chapter; I just need a middle section." Roxas told him. "I was thinking about going for a walk to clear my head then when I get back do you mind if I try a few ideas out on you?"

"Sure thing." Reno replied his mouth going dry. Was Roxas asking him what he thought he was asking him? This was Reno's manic dream come true; his insanely hot boss – the writer of homoerotic fiction – was saying that he wanted to 'try a few ideas out' with him. In Reno's mind that meant what he wanted to try out was of a sexual nature. Roxas smiled and Reno's heart leapt.

"Thanks Reno that would be a great help." he said getting to his feet. Reno was too shocked to react but he managed to keep it together as Roxas walked passed him, grabbing his jacket and his keys. "I'll see you in a bit, ok?"

"Ok." Reno breathed still unable to move until he heard the front door close. He ran over in his mind what had just happened before running upstairs and grabbing his phone to text Cloud. "OMG he wants The D!" His phone was silent for a moment before a message from Cloud flashed on the screen.

"You are so getting fired."


When Roxas returned home half an hour later he felt much more relaxed. He had cleared his head enough to get his thoughts in order and he now had something that resembles a plot; he just had to say it out loud to make sure that it made sense and that's what Reno would help him with. Smiling to himself he let himself in and pulled his earphones out.

"Reno, I'm back!" he called when he couldn't see him anywhere downstairs.

"I'm in my room!" came the yelled response. Roxas grinned, excited to be able to get his new idea off his chest, grabbed his notes from his desk and ran upstairs. Reno's bedroom door was ajar and Roxas pushed it open, flicking through his notes as he did.

"So I was thinking if you wouldn't mind reading…Jesus!" Roxas finished in surprise as he looked up. Reno lay on his bed, his head propped up on his elbow, in nothing but his boxers, with what could only be described as a 'come hither' look on his face.

""Hey." Reno purred. Roxas' jaw dropped and he let his notes slip through his fingers and fall to the floor. All he could do was stare and try to process what was going on.

"What the hell?!" he cried, finally finding his voice.

"What?" Reno asked, his face falling.

"What the hell are you doing?!"

"Hang on, I'm confused."

"You're confused?! Why are you naked?" Roxas asked.

"What do you mean 'why are you naked'?" Reno asked in confusion, sitting up on his bed. "I thought this was what was happening."

"'What was happening'?" Roxas echoed. Reno continued to stare at him, his eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

"I thought this was the arrangement!" he exclaimed.

"Arrangement?"

"Well you said you wanted to 'try ideas out'; I thought that…" Reno tailed off.

"You thought what?" Roxas asked then he thought about the picture he had walked in on and it suddenly dawned on him. "Oh my god!"

"Wait!" Reno exclaimed, the situation suddenly dawning on him too. "Did you not…?"

"No!" Roxas cried. "God, what is wrong with you?" And then it suddenly hit Reno that he was very much almost naked and he had gotten the wrong end of a very long stick. Of course Roxas hadn't meant trying out anything sexual; he had never even hinted that he wanted to have sex with him! Everything he had based this on was all in his own mind and his mind was a complete pervert.

"Oh my god I am so sorry!" he cried scrambling to gather up his clothes.

"It's ok," Roxas replied even though it clearly wasn't, his cheeks pink and his eyes fixed on the ceiling. "just put some clothes on and we can talk."

"Ok." Reno cringed as Roxas hurriedly stooped to gather his notes and bolted out of the room.

As soon as he was alone Reno fell, face first, into his pillow and groaned. He couldn't believe he had been so stupid – Cloud was right he was going to get fired. There was no two ways about this he was going to get fired. Well, he thought as he pulled his t-shirt back on, he could at least own up to his mistake and go out with dignity.

Once he was dressed he trudged downstairs to the living room. He took a deep breath to ready his nerves and went in to find Roxas sitting at his desk. He smiled awkwardly and Reno realised that he could, and had to, make one last ditch attempt to save his job if he could manage to speak first. He sat down on the edge of the sofa and he was struck by the irony that this was very much like his interview.

"So…" Roxas began.

"Before you say anything," Reno interjected. "can I just say I am so, so sorry. I got the wrong end of the stick and completely misunderstood you. What I did was stupid and incredibly inappropriate and it will never happen again. Give me another chance and I promise you won't regret it. Just, please, don't fire me."

"You done?" Roxas asked once he had finished rambling.

"Yeah."

"Ok firstly I'm not going to fire you." Roxas told him.

"Ok." Reno croaked, he hadn't been expecting that.

"I need an assistant and, aside from this, you have been fantastic." Roxas stated. "Plus you were the only candidate for the job."

"Ok." Reno said again. 'Ok' seemed like a good, safe response to give to anything right now so he would keep leading with that until anything more was needed.

"Secondly I probably should have been clearer about what I meant earlier." Roxas stated. "I can sort of see where our wires got crosses."

"I'm really sorry." Reno said cringing as his face heated up.

"It's ok just don't let it happen again."

"Don't worry it won't." Reno assured him. Roxas smiled, relieved.

"Good." he replied. "We'll just forget it ever happened."

"Sounds good." Reno agreed. He was so relieved that he wasn't going to get fired. "Um," he began again after a pause. "would you still like some help with that middle section you were working on?" Roxas smiled and this time it didn't seem to be an awkward or embarrassed smile.

"That would be great, thanks."


It took them both a couple of days but slowly things began to go back to normal between Reno and Roxas. Both of them had made a firm decision to forget about the whole embarrassing incident and never speak of it again.

Reno told Cloud because he knew that he would pester him until he found out whether he had been fired or not. Roxas decided not to tell Naminé as he knew that she would never let him live it down as he 'may not get another chance like that again'. It was embarrassing enough without her making it worse by insisting that he should have taken advantage of the situation.

It was easy enough for both of them to put it out of their minds but sometimes, when he was allowing his mind to wander, Roxas would find himself thinking about it. Occasionally when he closed his eyes the image of Reno lying on his bed in nothing but his boxers would flash across his mind and make his face heat up. Every time it happened he would shake his head and ignore it; that was not a train of thought that it would be advisable for him to go down at all.

Well done Reno you dapsy bastard...