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Disclaimer: So Riku told me that I finally owned something, and I assumed that either he was giving up or Sora chose me over him. Then he told me I owned a plot, and he laughed in my face. Just you wait, I'll get you, you ugly pale bastard with old man hair.
Title: Deathly Sources
Authoress: Tysonkaiexperiment
Chapter 5:
For The One I Love
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"On this day we'd like to remember our favorite set of twins, Roxas and Sora Kaze."
Riku's eyes glazed over the sobbing students, he couldn't stand to watch people cry, it just wasn't in him.
"We've bought everyone in school a flower to lay upon the alter. Tonight at seven there will be a remembrance at the front of the school, you may bring flowers, candles, and anything that you have that serves as a reminder to them."
As the principal began the moment of silence, Axel nudged Riku, "Will we have to give a speech?"
Riku's eyes closed and he folded his arms, "Nope, I'm pretty sure the leader in command will do that."
"Doesn't that mean you?"
Riku kicked one of the legs of Axel's chair and sent it tittering, threatening to fall over. The redhead caught it just in time, but a scraping sound echoed over the auditorium. The glare Squall clearly sent them caused both to obviously shrink in their seats.
Within the next five minutes, Squall was at the podium, explaining for them that they had leads and we still looking into the case.
And that's when Squall said it.
"But I'd rather turn the mic over to our lead investigators and have them tell you a bit more."
"EHH??" Axel squeaked, twitching, "I've been running around, finding out some kid is dead, he was a secret mafia boss, had a secret boyfriend, and his brother was going to marry a mafia boss and now I have to give a speech?!"
Riku snickered; glad for this moment he took up being a CSI rather than a detective.
As they got up and walked by the smirking brunet, they glared and made their way passed the life-size pictures of the twins that had been on each side of the stage.
Axel coughed, brushing a piece of hair behind his ear before choosing his words and speaking, "My name is Axel Nakango, I'm the leading detective on this case, and this is my partner, Riku Umino, a CSI at the local station. At this time we've looked at most of the people concerning Sora Kaze and now will be making our way onto the people that knew Roxas Kaze. We'd like any help we can get on the case, not that we're doing bad, but information is always helpful. My partner and I would like to pay our respects to the entire Kaze family, and we'd like you guys to help in any way possible." Realizing he had no more to say, Axel bowed, Riku copied, and they stood back up, "Thank you."
The shuffle of shoes and student's quite mummers and sobs answered back as they grabbed the flowers being sent down the rows to go up on stage and place them near the pictures.
"Couldn't have said it better myself." Squall responded as they began heading out of the school towards their cars.
"Shut up, it's your fault anyways." Axel hissed, pouting.
"So next time we'll get Riku to say something." The brunet responded easily, Axel began a cry of 'thank you lord'.
Riku glared, "Leonhart, you do and I'll kill you with a rusted spork, and for good measure I'll purposely dispose of all evidence during the case."
Squall smirked as Axel began a joyous whistle.
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"Are you Riku Umino?"
Riku turned; he'd just been in a meeting room with Axel and had stepped out to grab more files. And now, standing in front of him in his actually rather short stature was the King of the world himself. "Your majesty!?"
The king hissed, covering his finger over his mouth before glancing around to make sure no one was listening. He pulled Riku into an opposite room before closing the door, "Only few people know I'm here."
"Well it's kinda easy to tell who you are, you're very… different…" Honestly, what was the king doing there? He stood out with his rounded-black hair and mousy-looking face. Most people around these parts had wild and crazy hair and shocking eyes, so for someone so normal-looking to be around, he would defiantly attract attention.
"Well Umino-san, that's not why I came here."
"Why did you come here?" Riku blinked, stopping as he was handed a photo of the two twins he'd been investigating these past couple of days. Sora was getting a piggyback ride from Roxas, who was grunting at the camera while his brother was smiling. Several people were around them, it looked to be a hanging-out of some sort, Hayner and Kairi, and Tidus were in the background along with a few others. "What's this for?" Was this supposed to help them in their case or something of that nature?
"That's the last picture I want you to put in the news about their case."
Riku paused, looking from the picture to the king. "What for?"
The king's tone became curt, almost as if he wasn't afraid to say anything bluntly, "I want you and Axel Nakango to stop working on this case."
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"He said that?" Squall blinked, how could he have missed the king? Sure King Mickey was easy to find, so how did he manage to get passed so many people?
Riku nodded, dropping the picture he'd received from the king onto Squall's desk, the brunet's nametag clattered to the floor.
"What do you want us to do?" Axel asked, looking up at Squall as if he was going to give the ultimate command, which, in a way, he was.
Squall pursed his lips before looking between them, "What do you guys want to?"
Axel flipped one leg over the other, "I want to continue, though I don't know why the king wants to stop us."
They looked to Riku, who seemed to be in deep thought. Within an instant, Riku looked up with a flash in his eyes, "No matter what their pasts, they were still kids, they were murdered. Our job is to find out what happened to them, not snoop into their personal lives."
"Though the jobs do cross." Axel sighed and 'meeped' at Squall's look.
"Then you guys will continue the case."
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"This king thing has got me bugging." Axel commented, looking over at Riku, who merely shrugged.
"He must have something behind his thought process, he's a king after all." Riku rolled his eyes and pulled a folder out of his bag.
"Right…" Axel yawned, when they reached a stoplight he put his chin on the top of his steering wheel, "So, if I may ask, where are we heading now?"
Riku flipped through a couple pages before he randomly pressed on one, "Pence Moran, close friend of Roxas Kaze."
"Right, off we go."
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"I heard about it on the news." The raven-haired boy answered softly, the drink he'd been holding was placed on the table so his pudgy fingers could twist at his shirt instead. Riku never really liked to use the word 'pudgy' or anything close to it, but this boy seemed to bring out the word in a positive meaning, rather than negative.
"How long have you known either of them?" Axel answered, watching the teen try to pick up his glass again.
"I've known Roxas for several yeas, we had a photo class together, we sort of just clicked, pardon the pun. And Sora, I didn't realize until last year I had Sora with me in one of my martial arts classes."
Axel's look said something along the lines of 'you-take-martial-arts?' but Riku continued for him, "What were they like when you met them?"
"Well, Roxas was always a bit quiet, you know? Though he would smile, and laugh, and share stories and be normal around friends, he mostly only confided in Sora. I guess when your parents don't care about you, you've only got your twin you've been with since childhood, right?"
Axel made a small noise, but it went unheard by the raven-haired boy, Riku was too busy writing information on his pad of paper.
"And Sora, of course Sora was the class's own 'prince', everyone in class, except for me, had a crush on Sora. I'd always laugh at him about it and he'd roll his eyes and continue like I never said it." Pence gave a small chuckle, "I guess I met Sora through Roxas, one day when I was without a partner, Sora ditched his partner and came up to me. The first thing he said to me was 'you're my brother's friend, aren't you?'. I remember being surprised and having no idea what he was talking about, but then he explained to me that Roxas was his twin and they'd stuck together since the cradle. It doesn't surprise me since they were so close even to these times."
Axel cleared his throat, "Did either of them ever act weird?"
Pence paused for a second, looking straight into Axel's eyes and realizing exactly what he wanted to know, "Do you mean like that time Roxas acted weird because he found out our 'favorite' mafia boss proposed to Sora?"
"He acted weird?" Axel paused.
Pence rolled his eyes, "As soon as he saw the ring on Sora's finger, he had a freak out. Scream something along the lines of how Sora was marrying into the mafia, even though he was already in one, was now going to be able to rule the earth with a pinky finger, and other crazy things."
The two men looked between themselves before looking back at him, "He wasn't happy about it?"
"You kidding, Roxas actually did hate Sora's boyfriend for a while." Pence made a weird gesture with his hands, "Once got into a fist fight with him, I thought Roxas was going to die, but Sephiroth took it all in good stride and realized what was going on." Pence gave a crazy grin, "It's Sora, if he's going to marry someone, he'll have to have someone that's got many things, wealth, power, looks, his own army of millions…" That was the time Pence paused and gave Riku a look, "In fact, Sora's fiancé looked a lot like you, maybe you're related?"
Riku gave a huff, glaring, "There's no way I'm related to that bastard." Axel snickered, and the silveret sent him the most menacing glare he could muster.
"So you've met him, a bundle of joy that man is, isn't he? Well, I think that's what Roxas was against, because Sephiroth had a hard time coping between the working world and the normal world."
Axel sighed and checked his watch, realizing how late it was, "Ah, Riku, we've got to report back."
Riku looked at his own watch and nodded, standing with the redhead and shaking Pence's hand, "We'll be calling for more information later."
The raven-haired boy nodded, watching them leave with a sigh.
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"That's now… the millionth time someone said you looked like Sora's fiancé…" Axel whistled, still remembering all the girls working at Square Enix confused Riku for their boss, and accused their boss of getting a hair cut that short.
"Shut up." Riku growled, honestly, did he LOOK like Sephiroth or something? Sure, they had the same color hair, same shade, same eye color except Riku's were more green while Sephiroth's were a more yellow… nope, they looked entirely different, people were wrong.
"Coffee!!" Axel squealed, running to get in line at the usual and favorite coffee joint near the office. "What do you want?"
"I'll order myself." Riku answered, "Last time you somehow managed to get vodka in my coffee."
Axel pouted, "You're so much nicer when you're drunk Ri."
"That's it." Riku growled, huffing, "You're not longer my best friend anymore."
Axel looked defeated for a second before pausing and shrugging; "there's always Squall."
"Oh, I didn't know you guys got coffee here."
The two turned, and Riku nearly spazzed.
"I don't look like you, got it!?"
Sephiroth blinked, tilting his head to the side and clutching his cup of coffee tighter, "Excuse me?"
Axel grinned, "Everyone's been explaining Sora's fiancé and they keep saying Riku looks like you."
Sephiroth gave a soft smile, "Any luck on the ring?"
"There are no fingerprints, you can have it back." Axel shrugged, "Go pick it up yourself."
"Gonna sell it back?" Riku growled.
Sephiroth, of course, was always one to see jealousy when it was shown to him, "No, actually. I'm not that much of a bastard." He sighed, running a hand through his hair, "I'm paying for the whole funeral while some of the family chips in, it's going to be open casket." And that's where Sephiroth's eyes shimmered, and everyone realized how truly gorgeous he was, "I was going to put it on Sora so he could be buried with it. I purposed to Sora with that ring, it's his now, I have no control over it because it's bounded to him."
There was a few seconds of silence; everyone seemed mesmerized by how much emotion poured from Sephiroth's every word.
"I loved Sora for who he was, not how much, and even if he was murdered by some… lunatic… that's not going to change what I fell for. All of his protection money is going towards his family, his grandparents, his other brother, his funeral, I'm not touching a cent of it." And with that the silveret tipped his head in acknowledgement and walked out of the coffee shop.
There was not a dry eye in the shop, and Axel cleared his throat, "Is it me… or does it seem everyone's connected by Sora?"
Riku quickly turned away to hide his glossy eyes, "I need coffee."
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The raven-haired man sighed, rubbing his temples with a white-gloved hand.
"Did they listen, your majesty?"
The man turned, his mousy-face easing at the sight of one of his close friends, "I'm not sure."
"Has the pictured aired yet?"
"You'd be one of the first to know, Xemnas, you and your twin, Ansem are my top advisers for political and economical gain."
The silver-haired man nodded, brushing some of his hair from his shoulder, "I believe they wish to continue."
"They're under Squall's training." The king answered, looking down at his knees that were bending at the edge of his throne, "Squall would've taught them to be stubborn."
The man chuckled, "Is that to say you're not the same?"
The king's cheeks turned red, "What says your cousin?"
"Uncle Ansem the Wise is still unknowing, according to Xeonhart."
The king merely nodded, looking back down to his knees and sighing.
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Tke: I guess I wanted out of everything, to be able to lead up to this. Where Riku thinks that Sephiroth is the one because of money and power, but he realizes that Sephiroth loved Sora. It also makes Riku (later on) think of his own feelings. Because in real life, you have to realize that not everything will go the way you expect it to and many things aren't what they seem to be. Oh, and I decided to make Xemnas and Ansem brothers, the nobody and the heartless are brothers while the original is their cousin. Random thinking there, it would've been to obvious/easy to make them all brothers. And Uncle Ansem the Wise, I chose to call him Uncle because he's close to them where they can look up to him but at the same time they can stray away from him and it won't be as surprising as if they were all closely related.
Sora: I'm dead.
Tke: yes, we know.
Sora: bitch
Tke: love you too. Oh, and question for readers. Would you guys like me to do the funeral scene, or just make comments about what happened? Because not only is this my fic, it's your guy's story, some times things changed depending on the viewer's choices. However, even with the viewer's choices, I will not stray from my story line or anything.
Please don't ask me to put certain people into the next chapter, or don't ask me to pair up this coupling, or do this, or that. If I do those things, it will lead away from my original story line, and then it'll be a crappy fic.
The only reason I do follow up on people's ideas, for instance, Twilight Emo Wind Goddess 801's wish for Xemnas, is because it seems to fit into my original plans. I was actually going to add Xemnas next chapter, but when I relayed my ideas to KC, who got a bit of a hint for a near-ending chapter, she agreed that maybe I should add a bit of him. So I am.
And now I'm going to steal what Shadowtailmon wrote in her review of last chapter, and I know she'll be okay with it, because it's me. XD
"SO REVIEW TO HELP RIKU AND AXEL SOLVE THE CASE AND PUT ROXAS AND SORA'S SOUL AT EASE! XD"
Please help solve the case, and always fill me in on who you think the killer(s) is/are!!