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Deathly Sources
Chapter 3:
Hidden Information
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"Sora was always a good mafia person."
Riku rolled his eyes, watching Zexion, Sora's singing manager, smoke a cigarette.
"He killed the instant Roxas told him to." Zexion nodded, "Like a doll, he was."
"Do you remember anything they liked to do?" He wasn't going to ask how Zexion knew this, if you were near both the twins at the same time, it seemed you knew what they really did.
Zexion's smirk couldn't be hid behind his cigarette. "Oh, I was there loads of times when they did."
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The man gasped, withering in pain as he fell against the pavement with a sickening thud. The ones around him chuckled, as if watching his pain to be amusing.
Zexion watched as he stood smoking on his balcony, he'd met the blond, who seemed to be in charge, several times before and was friends with the brunet so knew he wouldn't get in trouble for watching.
"I SWEAR!" The man cried, "I WOULD NEVER GO AGAINST—"
The man on the right kicked him in the stomach; they watched the man wither in pain, clutching his side as he gasped.
"Do it." Came the mutter from the blond, Roxas, as he closed his eyes and folded his arms across his chest.
The man on the left grabbed the box of liquid from his side, opening it and smirking as he began to drench it all over the man's body. The other man kicked him, causing the man to cry out as the other poured the clear liquid into his open mouth. (1)
They took a few steps back, Sora quietly walked up and kneeled down in front of the man, showing him the silver that was in his hand, "Do you recognize this?"
The man's eyes widened, "That—That's my—!"
The brunet opened the locket, a smirk on his face, "Your wife and daughter are so cute, how old is your daughter anyways?"
The man tried to sit up, falling back with a loud cry as one of his ribs cracked, "L-leave—"
Sora threw the man down, pushing it into his mouth so it would keep his mouth open. "Sit tight like that for me, okay?"
The man's eyes widened as Sora stood and pulled out his lighter.
"You should've known better." The brunet muttered and walked towards his brother.
Roxas's eyes merely closed with a sigh, knowing Sora loved to toy like this. His eyes traveled back to the body, watching the man try to cry past the locket.
Almost reaching the safety of his blond brother, Sora turned and chucked the open lighter at the man. "I forgot, the on switch is jammed, it tends to turn on all on it's own."
They walked away, laughing, before leaving in the shadows.
The man began to cry, trembling, as he tried to worm his way away from the lighter. However the fire flickered on, catching onto the toe of his shoe and lighting it's way up the screaming man's body.
Zexion turned, going to open the sliding glass door when his lover did.
The blond, mullet haired man grinned, "Zexi! I made coca! Want some?" Three seconds later he paused, "… Is something burning?"
Zexion ushered the blond in, "I'd love some coca Demy, and I think someone's meal went wrong."
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Zexion's eyes closed, "Sora and Roxas would never hurt the innocent though, once, this man held some kid hostage to avoid getting shot at. He had paid the kid to go tell some enemy their secrets. However they managed to gun the man down at let the girl go free, because she didn't know what she did was wrong, she was only six."
Riku gulped harshly, eyes wide, "Right, got it, thanks."
"No problem." Zexion threw his cigarette onto the floor and snuffed it out with his shoe as Riku went one way and he went the other.
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Cloud cringed against his chair, "Squall, how's the investigation going?"
Squall's lips pursed, "I… really don't know until one of them report to me."
"Everyone knew about Roxas…" Cloud muttered softly, he looked up at his lover, "Did you guys find out about Sora?"
Squall nodded, allowing Cloud to wrap his arms around Squall's right arm and bury his face into the black fabric of his shirt.
There was a loud noise of feet running, and Axel and Riku burst through the doors, panting, red, and breathing heavily.
Squall sighed, "These are the two I assigned to your brother's case, Axel Nakango and Riku Umino."
Riku was the one to grasp Cloud's extended hand, "We're very sorry for your loss, they must've been a great family."
"If that bitch wasn't there, then maybe." Cloud snorted.
They blinked.
Cloud turned to give Squall a look, "You mean they don't know about Sora and Roxas?"
The two turned to stare at their boss.
Squall sighed, looking away before looking at Riku and Axel, "Noriko Kaze wasn't their real mother…"
"And when were you planning on telling us this?" Axel's eyebrow shot up.
"I thought the age difference would be obvious…" Squall muttered before he lead them all to his office and let Cloud continue.
The blond gave a small sigh, "Shinichiro had another wife." He muttered bitterly, "Her name was Chizuro, but Chi-chan, as we called her, had passed away due to sickness. She was 22 when she had Sora and Roxas, however she died at age 40."
"So that doesn't explain why Noriko hated Sora and loved Roxas."
"Actually, it does." Cloud whispered, "Roxas, as the slightly older one, just somehow knew, like instinct, that this was their new mother and grew to know her. However Sora still had a child's state of mind and when he would want his mom to take care of him, he wanted Chi-chan, not Noriko. She grew to hate Sora because he didn't want to give her a chance, so she wouldn't give him one either."
And suddenly it clicked; this odd, family relationship that Riku felt could be some child's nightmare.
Cloud's hands rubbed against his bare arms, "Can I see the bodies first? I'll tell you anything you want to know, but I want to see them one last time."
Riku licked his lips, "You are family to them, and as the son and older brother, you have full custody of what we do with the bodies."
Cloud paused, looking at Riku with a silent 'thank you' before nodding, "Let us go then."
They led him down the steps, Cloud clutching Squall's arm like life support as Xaldin ushered them in.
The older male was first, Shinichiro was pale, just like he had been before, but now his skin was a deep pale and began to show signs of blue, green, purple, and yellow bruises.
"What are those bruises?" Cloud asked slowly, looking at his father's skin with disgust.
"He's decomposing." Xaldin answered simply.
Cloud nodded and watched as they pulled out another cabinet while closing the father's. The blond's face remained impassive, "She never cared about anything but money." He spat bitterly, and Xaldin closed it quickly, realizing Cloud didn't care what happened to her.
"Are you sure you're ready?" Squall asked, grasping Cloud's hand.
"I've seen my father, what's so bad about my brothers?" Cloud asked weakly, but he had harshly grasped his boyfriend's hand.
Xaldin pulled Roxas out first, allowing Cloud to run his fingers through the straw-like hair.
"I expected him to die from what he did." Cloud muttered, "To get gunned down in the middle of a mafia fight or something. Not die by some house intruder…"
Axel's mouth opened as if to say something, but Riku elbowed him into silence.
Cloud swallowed harshly, "Sora's the only one I don't want to see… he got pulled into this world, not want it."
Squall was going to pull him out, already starting to.
Cloud shook his head, "I need to do this, if not for my sake, for theirs, so we can find out who did this." He nodded to Xaldin and the black-haired man covered Roxas's body and closed it before opening another.
Xaldin looked over to where another detective was waiting, he looked up at Squall, who nodded before staring into Cloud's eyes, "You can do it or someone else can, I need to go help someone else."
When the man walked away, Cloud's cheeks became glossy with the running tears.
"Do you—?" Squall started.
Cloud shook his head, "I'll do it." He whispered, he was able to not cry or anything while looking at Roxas; surely he could do it for Sora. But then, Roxas's head would had been closed up, Shinichiro had no head wound while Noriko's wound was small and could truly be passed for falling down the stairs. He quickly grasped the sheet and pulled it down in one swift motion.
Instantly, his eyes darted to long and gaping cut on Sora's throat.
"Oh god…" Cloud covered his mouth, tears pouring down even harder as he pushed past Squall and to the sink where he began to vomit. Squall was at his side in a second, patting him on the back with paper towels ready.
Riku's gaze flickered from Sora's body to Cloud, who was now accepting the towels from Squall before wiping his face off and then sobbing into the brunet's chest. "Should we get back to work then?"
Axel watched Riku walk away before he sighed and covered Sora back up, then pushed the tray into it's cabinet and running a hand through his hair, "It's going to be a long night…"
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"Is that—?"
Sephiroth chuckled, nodding his head, "The plant Sora brought back to life? Yes." He reached onto his desk and began to play with the green-brown leaves, "As you can see, without Sora it's dying."
Axel bit his lip, "We were wondering if you could tell us a bit more about Roxas and Sora's relationships."
Sephiroth blinked, "Oh, like who?"
"Marluxia." Riku shot in, arms folded, right leg on top of his left as he all but glared at Sephiroth, "Surly as Sora's boyfriend, you must've known about Marluxia." The word 'boyfriend' was said as if it were vile; obviously the younger silveret remembered their last encounter too well.
A grin shot to Sephiroth's lips, "As Sora's boyfriend, I do know of him."
He could tell Riku was trying not to growl at him for the word, but he couldn't help but find it amusing.
"The man was as boring as day, I'll tell you." Sephiroth rolled his eyes and sat back in his fine leather chair. When he wasn't being a mafia boss, Sephiroth owned Square Enix, the largest video game company in the world. (2) "Loved flowers, anything cute, and had an obsession with the color pink. He was actually bi, believe it or not."
Axel rolled his eyes, "We already know all that about him."
Sephiroth pulled out a box of cigarettes, lighting it and smoking it almost cheerfully.
"You don't seem to care Sora's dead or about Marluxia."
"I'm mourning." Sephiroth reasoned, grabbing the box of cigarettes and waving it around before putting it back in his desk and closing the drawer, "These were Sora's favorite brand of cigarettes, had me buy him a pack almost every time I went to go buy my own."
Axel rolled his eyes as Riku's blazed with furry, but the redhead traveled on, "How'd you feel about Marluxia and Sora?"
"He was an easy shit to control." Sephiroth tipped the ashes into an ashtray and continued, "He had been with him twice before I met Sora." His eyes searched for something in Riku, and when they found it, he smirked, "I remember when Sora told me and I went down to tell him to back off. I bought a book, covered and all so he wouldn't know who I was, and we began to talk about Sora."
"What'd he say?" Axel asked, it was as if the two detectives were learning about Sora for the first time.
"Asked me if I'd slept with Sora yet, told me he was good in bed, and when I told him I had, he had a complete change of attitude."
"Change of attitude?"
"Told me to back off, Sora Kaze was his, and he would kill for him. So I removed my hat and coat and sunglasses, and I told him he had to back off because Sora was now mine."
"What'd he do?"
"Freaked out, told me I could have the book for free. I gave him the money for it anyways. So I had talked to Roxas about it. He said he'd been trying to get Sora to stop selling himself, but if Marluxia was alive or not backing down, he wouldn't. So I got Marluxia to back off, and Sora began to stop selling himself. The 27th and 29th districts became less popular, I guess Sora was a big hit, acting innocent and kind and gentle, guess to some guys it was kind of a turn on. When they found out Sora wasn't going to be there anymore, I guess they left and business kinda went bad."
Axel's lips pursed, "We'll investigate Marluxia more later, probably hit the 27th and 29th districts too." He fidgeted in his seat, "What can you tell us about Roxas?"
Sephiroth finished his cigarette, rubbing it out and sighing, "Roxas was a different matter entirely, he controlled everything from half the harbor to about… three blocks from the police station."
Axel's eyebrows shot up, "That far, huh?"
The man nodded, watching the detectives, "Roxas was picky about what he did, he checked it over with Sora and several of his friends and best men. He was careful in controlling what he did."
"How'd Roxas feel about things?"
"Roxas had a love interest to, he was too busy paying attention to him rather than to worry about things like me and Sora. But he still made his usual threats and watched over Sora."
"Roxas had a love interest?" The detectives froze; the new news nearly caused Riku to fall out of his seat.
Sephiroth smirked, "Yeah, kept it a secret so no one would know that he had a weakness."
"What was his boyfriend's name?"
"… It started with a 'T'…" Sephiroth rubbed his temples.
Axel whimpered, "Remember, remember man!"
"Ah!" Sephiroth snapped his fingers, "Tidus!"(3)
"TIDUS!" Axel screeched, hands hitting the desk as Riku nearly chuckled as Axel's pen and paper fell to the floor.
"Yeah." Sephiroth cracked his neck, fingers drumming his desk. "Tidus seemed to be the only one okay with Roxas's power."
"Roxas's power?" They repeated.
Sephiroth nodded before pausing, "You didn't know Roxas had a power?"
Riku shook his head, rolling his eyes as Axel began to whimper in horror. "What was his power?"
"…" Sephiroth blinked, sighing and tilting his head, "He had the ability to take away someone's life and give the life to another person. Think of it as shortening someone's life span and adding it onto someone else's lifespan."
"WHAT?" Axel moaned, "TIDUS!"
Sephiroth blinked.
Riku sighed and shook his head.
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1— The man on the left grabbed the box of liquid from his side, opening it and smirking as he began to drench it all over the man's body. The other man kicked him, causing the man to cry out as the other poured the clear liquid into his open mouth.
Reason: This might sound weird to people, but I have very meaningful dreams and most of the time I've only told my mother and KC, but now I'm going to tell you guys. Once, around the age of sixteen, I had a dream of a man driving with his best friend to visit his mother. When they reached the mother's house they threw her into the chair in the back of the van, the floor was littered with clothes. They drove to a field of dry grass to which they threw the mother onto the grass and because of her old age she wasn't able to get up. Then they threw the dirty clothes on her and pour gasoline all over her, even pouring it into her mouth. Then they set her on fire. I woke up; sweating before my grandmother rushed in and I began to sob.
Two weeks later, when I was slowly forgetting about it I'd gotten home from school and was flipping through channels to do homework on. Then I saw a talk show, so I stopped on it so I could take out my homework before finding a channel. There sat an elderly lady, half her face and body burned, talking to the host about how her son and his friend set her on fire but she didn't press charges before because she loved him. And now she was pressing charges because he wouldn't stop hurting her.
Then they showed the grass field and talked about the gasoline, but did not mention the clothes. I remember calling the show and talking to the lady and asking her why she didn't mention the clothes, and she seemed shocked I even knew about them.
I had hung up and sat there and sobbed, doing nothing until my grandma found me some time later.
You may not believe me, and I know some skeptic 'I-don't-believe-in-anything' people, so I don't mind if someone doesn't believe me. Just know that this man's death was in imitation to the lady I dreamed about.
2—"The man was as boring as day, I'll tell you." Sephiroth rolled his eyes and sat back in his fine leather chair. When he wasn't being a mafia boss, Sephiroth owned Square Enix, the largest video game company in the world.
Reason: Oh, come on! Square Enix is practically KNOWN for Sephiroth and Cloud. Really. If you haven't heard of the company, you've heard of the characters. So why wouldn't Sephiroth control the company? It seemed to work for me.
3—"Ah!" Sephiroth snapped his fingers, "Tidus!"
Reason: All right, I was reading, a Soiku story, and the side coupling was actually RoxasTidus. I was a little shocked, but when I read it, it was quite cute, and they do have some semblance to each other. I dunno. Usually I hate putting people that haven't met in the game (like RoxasXYuffie) together, but RoxasXTidus just seemed to work…. And I dunno why, but it just became stuck on me, though I am still an AkuRoku fan.