I'm sorry it took so long to update, but here is chapter three of Kiss And I Will Surrender! This chapter's song is Orchard of Mines by Globus. Check it out if you feel like it :)

Warning: Relatively severe violence in this chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, I just borrow the characters every once in a while.

Kiss and I Will Surrender

Three

Orchard of Mines

Sora was rudely awakened from his blissful drunkenness by the fierce, biting wind which buffeted his face the minute they left Jackson's. The snow had gotten worse, swirling around him and Roxas like an icy tornado. He winced, squinting his eyes against the buffeting whiteness. He was suddenly shifted when Roxas hoisted him further up on his arm and started to drag him deeper into the blizzard.

Roxas was... holding him up? Sora's cobalt eyes flicked to the side, and in his alcoholic haze, a flash of gold appeared, swimming before him. He was being pulled, his feet mindlessly following Roxas's directive and making pathetic steps forward. The snow crunched beneath their feet, but the sound was lost in the howling wind. The sound deafening, and as the snow swirled around them, it felt as though they were encased in their own world, a loud, unpleasant world.

They reached the roadside, which had several tire tracks marking the snow that covered it, but not enough to mask the fact that at least two inches of snow had fallen whilst they were in Jackson's, if not more. Sora wondered vaguely why he didn't feel cold. He couldn't feel anything really; his fingers, which he noticed were fisted in part of Roxas's coat for support, felt numb, and the snow that cut past his face felt more sharp than cold.

He was jostled again as Roxas raised his arm, flagging down a lone taxi. The yellow vehicle pulled up to the kerb, the driver looking severely annoyed by the weather conditions, and Sora was bundled unceremoniously into the backseat, wherein Roxas followed and the door was slammed shut.

"Where to?" the driver asked, eyeing Sora in his mirror, who was struggling to right himself but failing miserably. Roxas leaned forward and placed the money Cloud had given him into the driver's hands, stating his address.

"You're kidding right?" the driver replied, looking at the singer in disbelief. "That's more than an hour away from here, and the snow is only getting worse. Sorry kid, I'll drop you on the outskirts, but no further."

"So we have to walk the rest of the way?" Roxas growled, his usually placid eyes flaring up in exasperation and rage. Sora had finally pulled himself into a sitting position and was resting his forehead against the window, his eyes flicking to the side to regard the back of the driver's head.

"Sorry, but I don't want to risk being stuck out in the suburbs. Take it or leave it," the driver shrugged, moving to pass Roxas back the money he had been given.

"No, just drive us as far as you're willing to go," the blonde growled crossly, taking a ten back from the pile of notes in the man's hands and flopping back against the seat crossly. Sora, with effort, moved so that he was facing Roxas, and when he caught the boy's eye, he rolled his own, trying to show he was still relatively lucid. Roxas quirked one eyebrow, a ghost of a smirk on his lips at Sora's less than sober state. The boy still had the legend 'I Love Men' scrawled over his forehead, not even smudged, and his azure eyes were hazed over with alcohol. His chocolate spikes, while even messier than usual, gave him a young, adorable look of vulnerability, enhanced by his ever innocent looking face that was constantly graced with a genuine smile.

"Roock-saaaass..." the boy drawled, a giggle emerging from his lips, which were drawn into an infectious grin.

"Yeah?" the blonde replied, unable to resist smiling back. He couldn't deny that Sora, along with the relatively large amount of alcohol he had ingested, had made him relax a little. The boy, who while being the same age as him, seemed incredibly naive, but his constant happiness was contagious, and even Roxas, dubbed the 'Emo King' by his imaginative band mates, was unable to resist the cheerful charms of the art student.

"You were awwwesome on stage tonight," Sora slurred, hiccupping slightly, still grinning. "It was coooool..."

Roxas resisted a laugh which bubbled up from his chest. The boy was unbelievably drunk, and he was a happy drunk, which made it even funnier. The writing on his face and the bout of narcolepsy he had suffered earlier just added to the air of hilarity which accompanied the boy. Sora saw the uncontrollable smirk on the singer's lips, and narrowed his hazy eyes.

"You're... you're laughing at me..."

Roxas had to turn his head away and politely cough out a laugh. Sora did not realise how unbelievably cute he was, like a puppy, a pout formed on his tanned face as he slumped against the door of the taxi. He had yanked his scarf off but was still bundled up in his coat, his face poking out over the top of his collar like a shy animal.

Sora continued his pouting and drunken drawling for the duration of the journey, leaving Roxas in a state of suppressed hysterics, which eventually burst out and he started crying with laughter, doubled over in his seat and laughing genuine shouts of laughter. Sora smiled through his lack of sobriety; Roxas looked better when he was smiling and laughing. His cerulean eyes lit up like an outdoor swimming pool, and a pinkish tinge lit his pale features, making him even more indescribably beautiful... Sora stopped his thoughts right there; he refused to let alcohol convince him into thinking another guy was beautiful, attractive or gorgeous in any state or form.

All too soon, the taxi pulled up to the curb, on the edge of town, and the driver twisted in his seat, eyeing his passengers with sympathy. "This is as far as I'll take you boys. The address you gave me is about a twenty minute walk from here. Be careful okay?" A blast of wind suddenly swirled into the car, causing the driver and Roxas to flinch. Sora had pulled the handle on his door and had promptly fallen out, landing on the floor with a shout.

Roxas rolled his eyes and thanked the driver, clambering out over Sora and stumbling into the middle of the road, falling on his side. His hysterics resumed, and Sora's laughter joined his, from his position hanging half out of the taxi. "You fell oooooveeer, Roooock-saaas!"

Roxas snorted again, and grabbed Sora by the collar, pulling his legs out of the taxi. Amazingly, Sora was lucid enough to kick the door shut, and the taxi drove off, leaving them laughing in the middle of the road. Roxas pulled himself into a kneeling position and leaned over Sora, sniggering.

"You look ridiculous," he giggled at his new friend, who had closed his eyes and had a loose, toothy grin gracing his features. He looked like he should be sunbathing in Costa del Sol, not lying in the middle of the road with the snow buffeting his face.

Sora chuckled and opened his cobalt eyes, locking them with Roxas's cerulean ones. "I feel ridiculous," he replied, gazing up at the golden boy hovering above him. Those eyes were so much more alight than they had been earlier; it was like gazing at a vivid sky, the warm golden hair like the sun, bathing him in light. Not for the first time that evening, he felt his breath hitch in his throat as the utter exquisiteness of the boy above him was displayed. And then, the angel was moving, pushing himself to his feet.

"Come on, we've still got some walking to do, and I'm pretty sure we'll get run over if we stay here any longer." He grabbed Sora by the arms and pulled, forcing the art student to his wobbly feet. Luckily, Sora had regained enough control to walk by himself, which was good, because Roxas was having trouble moving his own body without dragging someone else for twenty minutes.

They were out in the suburbs of Midgar now. The tall buildings shrank away to reveal pleasant apartment blocks and terraced houses, but the smaller edifices provided little shelter from the blustering gale which was now swirling snowflakes around them and trying to make them lose their balance. The cold was harsh and biting, and their legs quickly grew weary as they had to trudge through deep snow. The white stuff was soaking the bottoms of their jeans, the cold seeping into their skin.

They didn't speak as they trudged, too cold and too drunk to produce coherent thoughts. Sora wished he had brought a hat, as his hair was flipping around in the strong wind, occasionally flicking him harshly on the cheeks or forehead.

They were about ten minutes or so from their destination when the wind suddenly became even stronger; in fact, both boys were blown backwards, and the snow became so dense and thick that they couldn't even determine the direction they had been headed in. Roxas pulled close to Sora, afraid to lose him in the blizzard, and shouted in his ear, "Let's find some shelter for now!"

Sora nodded and they stumbled to the side of the road, where they could vaguely make out an alleyway between two apartment blocks, which some large dumpsters. They entered the small space to find that the enclosed space and the dumpsters provided quite impressive shelter from the weather; the wind dropped considerably and thus the snow was not so vicious. They huddled between two of the dumpsters, and in the same way that Sora and Kairi had done earlier, they buttoned their coats together to share their body heat. They slid down the wall into a sitting position, curled into balls and conversing shakily in the cold.

"S-some night, eh?" Roxas murmured, rubbing his hands together – he had forgotten to bring gloves. Sora noticed this and wrapped his gloves around the blonde's, instantly swamping them in warmth.

"Y-yeah," Sora replied, teeth chattering as he forced out a frozen smile. They chatted for a few minutes, their faces red and their lips slowly turning blue, when suddenly another bout of narcolepsy over took Sora. His brilliant blue eyes fluttered closed and he fell forward, his head resting on Roxas's shoulder. Roxas, noticing that this made him slightly warmer, decided to let him sleep there, thinking it would be best for Sora to rest until it was safe to walk the rest of the way home. The boy's auburn spikes tickled Roxas's neck as he snored lightly, his face completely smooth and expressionless.

Deciding to follow the narcoleptic's directive, Roxas rested his cheek on the top of Sora's head, feeling more warmth surge between the two of them, and closed his eyes, pressing as close to the boy as possible, hoping that Sora wouldn't mind his attempts to stay warm. Feeling considerably less cold, he let himself slip into a relatively peaceful, light sleep.

Sora was awoken by a vicious kick to his side, which instantly winded him and slammed him into the wall he was leaning against. His eyes snapped open abruptly, instantly awake, and he turned his head up, as Roxas also awoke. There were several shapes looming over them, boys much bigger than the two of them, their faces shadowed.

"Looks like we got a couple of faggots here!" a brash, loud voice guffawed, and another kick was directed at Roxas, who wheezed as a foot connected with his chest, catching Sora too, as they were still buttoned together. Sora immediately started frantically pulling the buttons apart, whilst the men leering at them laughed darkly.

"Hey fags, did we disturb your faggy cuddling?" another voice snarled as they broke apart from each other and scrambled to their feet.

"Seifer," Roxas growled, his position defensive. Sora raised his fists. He wasn't an amazing fighter but he knew how to throw a punch, and he wasn't going to tolerate being kicked.

A tall, dirty blonde boy emerged from the group, his cool eyes smirking at them. When he laid his eyes on Roxas, however, his smile faltered. Before either of the boys knew what was happening, Roxas had been slammed into the wall, a large hand around his throat and another punching his gut repeatedly.

"Leave him alone!" Sora yelled, aiming a punch at the man's head, but someone kicked his legs out from underneath him and he sprawled on the floor. Kicks started raining down on him and he groaned in pain, curling up into a ball as he was repeatedly booted in his stomach, his arms, his legs, his face.

Roxas was slumped against the wall, severely winded and coughing up blood. "You assholes..." he choked furiously, and his face was met with a flying fist. His head snapped painfully to the side, and the skin raged with fire as a bruise immediately blossomed on his pale, immaculate skin.

"Hey Roxy," Seifer hissed, his face pressed up close to the blonde's, his eyes burning with hatred. "Long time no see. Been screwing anyone lately?!"

"Shut the fuck up!" Roxas snarled, spitting out blood and eyeing Seifer viciously, his hands trying to loosen the grip around his neck. Sora was still being kicked on the floor, his moans of pain reduced to pathetic whimpers as bruises started flowering all over his body. His tanned face was cut in several places and his arms were over his head, protecting it from heavy blows.

"What's... he... talking... about?" Sora gasped between kicks, which grew in intensity with each word he uttered.

"Little Roxy here gotta few secrets, I see," Seifer leered at the angry golden haired boy. "Haven't told your faggot boyfriend what a fucking OOF!" His sentence was abruptly cut off when Roxas drove his knee into his groin with all his might, his face furious.

"BACK OFF!" he roared, throwing another kick at one of the people kicking Sora, his foot connecting solidly with the man's stomach. He followed this with a punch to the next man's face, and finally head butted the remaining man, effectively freeing Sora from his prison of beatings. The men recovered quickly, however.

"How dare you?!" Seifer yelled, grabbing Roxas's arm and twisting it behind his back, putting unbearable pressure on the blonde's wrist. "You piece of shit!" he snarled, forcing a pained scream out of Roxas when his wrist gave a sickening crack.

Sora was down for the count, barely breathing. He lay face down, a small pool of blood slowly colouring the snow around his head in a nauseating crimson. This didn't stop one of the men stamping on Sora's outstretched hand though, breaking three of his fingers instantly. Roxas yelled again as a strained sob rose from Sora's body, the boy incapable of anything else.

Suddenly, a wailing noise began to make itself known. Sirens. "Shit!" the boys yelled. Roxas was thrown roughly against the wall as they immediately started running, fleeing the scene. Roxas slid down to the ground, his face black with bruises and his wrist twisted at a mutated, stomach-churning angle. He slumped on the cold floor, waiting for the sirens to arrive at the alleyway, for help to arrive.

But the sirens were fading. Getting quieter and quieter. Roxas realised with horror that they weren't going to be helped as the sound disappeared into the blizzard. Sora whimpered quietly.

"Sora?" Roxas called hoarsely, reaching out with his good arm to shake the collapsed boy. To his relief, Sora stirred. He watched with reprieve and shame as the student shakily raised his head to look up at him, his cobalt eyes amazingly still clear and fully conscious, despite the pain that must be coursing though his body. That ever-present grin attempted to show itself. Sora really looked terrible; his face was incredibly bruised and there were numerous cuts oozing blood adorning his usually adorable features. His lip was split and two black eyes were forming. He was lucky he hadn't broken his nose or lost any teeth.

"Are they gone?" he croaked, wincing as he somehow, amazingly found the strength to push himself into a sitting position next to Roxas, who was cradling his broken wrist against his chest, blood seeping from his hairline into his eyes. Roxas winced, trying not to show he was in pain.

"Y-yeah. They're gone..."

Wow, that is the longest chapter I have written yet for this story! I hope that you liked it, I had fun writing the drunken parts lol... of course, I didn't enjoy putting our favourite boys through pain but it's got to be done, I'm afraid, if I want this plot to work :( Anyways, I would really appreciate it if you reviewed and let me know what you thought ^^