Disclaimer: So I tried to own Sora, and Riku kidnapped me and handcuffed me to a pole in an abandoned warehouse. Then he brought Sora in and blindfolded me, knowing that I couldn't watch as he screwed his boyfriend. The Meanie.

Title: Deathly Sources

Authoress: Tysonkaiexperiment

Chapter 6:

In The Name of the Law

Riku sighed, dropping his just-used napkin onto his open Subway sandwich wrapper, it hit the uneaten half of his sandwich before rolling off to the opposite side of the wrapper. Normally he wasn't one for Subway, considering the fact that half the time the products weren't as well kept as they showed in the commercial and he'd bet fifty bucks that the meat was frozen then thawed the morning of use. At least the soup was decent. But honestly, the only reason why he was sitting in Squall's office, with said man, Axel, and himself, Subway bags and wrappers between them was because Squall was a penny-pincher and when it was his turn to buy lunch, he got the cheapest thing he could find. Which were usually those awesome taco trucks a couple streets over that made delicious Mexican food out of an old hot dog/burger truck. Now Subway was having that five-dollar foot long sales crap, and while that was a good deal, it, in real life, only applied to about a fourth of the subs.

Axel leaned back, pulling a chip out of the Lays Bar-B-Que chip bag he was holding before munching on it, "So, whom do we investigate today?"

"I don't have anyone in mind." Squall commented as he played idly with his cup's straw, "It's up to you guys."

Axel paused, looking over at Riku, who had been daydreaming and had yet to say anything for a good half-hour. He kicked the front leg of Riku's chair, causing it to tip back, and land the man rolling backwards until his back harshly met the wall behind him.

Squall let out a snicker before covering it with a cough, though anyone could tell he had let it out, "You okay?"

Riku groaned, fixing his chair and plopping back into it before kicking Axel in the shin, "As good as I'll ever be with this jerk-off around."

Axel glomped Riku within the second, "But I'm YOUR jerk-off!!"

Squall rolled his eyes, throwing a balled-up paper napkin that hit Axel right between the eyes, "That's enough you couple, go do your job, I'm not paying you to make out in my office."

Axel stood before holding out his arms to Squall, "Does Squally want a hug too?"

In an instant, the barrel of Squall's gun was pointed at Axel's face, "Now."

The redhead turned, a wide grin on his face, "We're off Ri-Ri! Let's move!" He skipped out, leaving a sighing partner in wake.

"Cloud, any luck with what's going on?"

The blond sighed, running a hand through his hair before turning up the TV to its maximum level. "No." He answered quietly.

"In today's news, lead detectives of the Kaze case were at Destiny Islands school to hold a press conference to the students in response to the killing. We're still very sorry for the loss of Sora and Roxas Kaze." In an instant, there was a picture of the twins instead of the female reporter, "And an even greater loss of their parents—."

"Heh." Cloud gave a dry laugh, "Mom and dad never deserved Sora and Roxas."

Aeris sighed from her place near her friend, "Trust me Cloud, they'll find the killers. I'm sure Roxas would be just as quiet as you trying to figure out how to cheer you up and Sora would be poking you in the shoulder right now."

Cloud gave a soft smile, tracing the large photo that was sitting on the coffee table in front of him. It had been a picture of the three brothers together, Cloud was standing on the beach, Sora had jumped on his back with his arms around the blond's neck in safety, and Roxas was handing a towel to the older blond with a small smirk on his face. On the glass, Sora's obvious handwriting read 'Brothers Forever' while each signed their name and Roxas's obvious writing was scribbled at the bottom 'Or Until Cloud or I disown Sora for marrying Sephiroth'.

Aeris quietly sat down next to him, rubbing his shoulder in a comforting way, "You married Squall with the trust that you love him, now instead of trusting that you just love him, you need to trust Squall that they'll catch the killers."

"I know." Cloud answered, "I do have trust in Squall."

"Then you know not to worry about what's going on in the case." She answered just as softly as his first answer to her had been, "You know Squall will inform you of everything, and that Riku and Axel are both on the case, and Squall trusts both of them."

"It's all just a game of trust." Cloud answered, "We're placing trust on each other to have the other solve the case, while Sora and Roxas's killer is running free of the high of killing them."

And Aeris could do nothing but cradle him as the blond began to sob.

"And God said, let us return to the Earth and become one with it so that we are not truly gone, but we've just changed form and will continue to live forever." The preacher's words were lower than the sobs, but it spoke more powerfully than any cry.

Cloud couldn't stand it; this wasn't where he expected to be at this time, he never imagined witnessing this in his life, just like people in real life forget that anyone could die in the next minute and so many things would be left unsaid. "Sora would've gotten a kick out of this."

"Because he's Atheist?" Squall answered softly.

Cloud gave a small grin; "He would've commented how he didn't want to be reborn as something small, he would want to be born as something big, like the Eiffel Tower."

"Does seem like him." Squall's own lips gave a smile, "And Roxas would be beside him, hitting him over the head and telling him that the Tower was built, not born."

Cloud's lips tugged into an even bigger smile, and not ten minutes later did the priest excuse himself so that he give Squall and Cloud his blessings and allow people to walk toward the caskets. "Let's go up."

Squall nodded, watching his husband stand before standing up himself.

Against the back wall, Axel blew some of his hair out of his face; he'd been late and ended up not having time to gel it at all. "I don't do well at funerals."

"Because you talk too much?" Riku commented dryly, eyes trained on Cloud sobbed over his brother's caskets, Squall holding him to make sure he could stand.

"Mostly." Axel answered, "I hate sad faces." He paused before looking towards the front, "Hey, Ri, what would you do if you could meet either of the twins before they died?"

Riku paused before shrugging, "I don't know."

Axel's lips tugged into a faint smile, "I'd tell them that they were in danger. From what I could guess, Roxas would probably look at me as if I were crazy, and Sora would probably laugh in my face. It'd be an interesting way to meet either of them."

"They probably wouldn't have been able to stand you." Riku rolled his eyes at his own dry joke before standing straight and grasping the two flowers in his hand, "Come on, might as well get this over with."

The line wasn't as long as they thought, over half the people were still sitting because they couldn't get over the fact of the deaths, and they stayed to pray for safe voyage for the family.

The first they stopped to was Roxas, who looked rather pale, make-up Riku had decided, compared to his black mob-suit that Cloud said Roxas always wore when he made decisions that would have a big affect on the mafia. They each placed a flower on his body before moving onto the next one. Although you could tell hints of his tan through the layer of cheap make-up, Sora did look pale also, but he was dressed in a decent-covering clubbing outfit that Cloud said was his favorite.

After placing their final flowers, they paid their respects to both Cloud and Squall before heading outside.

"I'm guessing we should talk to more of Roxas's friends first." Axel huffed, "Unless we can find some of Sora's friends we haven't talked to."

"Who wasn't the kid's friend?" Riku rolled his eyes.

"Good point, mark Sora under one of the eight mysteries of the world." Axel answered as they walked over to the car and got in.

It was midnight when Riku's phone rang, the silveret wasn't expecting a call at all, so it caught him when he was laying against his table, head sticking to several papers laid out before him. He grasped it weakly before flipping it open and parting his dry lips to speak, "Hello?"

"Umino-san?"

There was a bit of silence before Riku's sleepy head registered the voice on the other line, "… Demyx…?"

There was a pause, "I—I was wondering if I could talk to you…"

"About what? I was—."

"Please, it's about Sora's case."

Riku glanced at a clock near him before looking down at his somewhat reasonable attire, "There's a café near the police station, called Seventh Heaven—."

"I can be there in twenty minutes."

And when the dial tone reached Riku's ears, the silveret began to wonder just what was going on.

"Sorry for calling you on such short notice…" Demyx answered, stirring his cup of tea with the little tea packet that came with the kettle of hot water.

"I wasn't doing anything." Riku lied, shrugging before leaning away from his own cup of water.

"Well, um…" Demyx shuffled through the bag that was with him, "Zexion and I wanted to give this to Cloud, you know, since it was Sora's." He handed the silveret a CD before pursuing his bag further, "And well, I had this dream…"

"A dream?" Riku paused, eyes searching Demyx for any hints.

Demyx nodded, "I was at… Sephiroth and Sora's wedding, it was pretty." Noting the annoyed look on Riku's face, he tried to get past the details, "It was all normal, Roxas and Cloud and Squall were all there, and it looked happy and grand and gorgeous and I figured no one could be happier. I turned to Zexion to comment on some design on the wedding cake that had been brought out, and when I turned back to see Sephiroth and Sora it all changed."

"Changed?" Riku asked, eyebrow rising.

"It was like everything froze…" Demyx whispered, eyes glistening, "Roxas's body was slumped over, and a certain body part that was above the shoulders was missing. Then, when I looked to Sora, he was draped over the wedding table, blood pouring from his neck and one certain blond head near his own." He tried to wipe away tears as quickly as they fell, even placing the back of his hand on his mouth to cover a sob. He looked to Riku, who was about to speak, but he opened his mouth and began again, "And there was a man… standing over Sora…. H-he had… long hair… and a sadistic smirk…" He paused to swallow harshly, "And I woke up drenched in sweat and tears and Zexion was up and grasping my arms saying that he had been trying to wake me up for ten minutes because I was screaming."

"…" Riku was silent for some time, he had long ago pulled out his notepad to write everything down, but he had stopped to listen to Demyx's whole dream.

"It… it seems weird, doesn't it…?" Demyx whispered, rubbing his eyes, "But I figured it'd help you in any way, so I got ready and called you."

Riku wrote everything down in his notebook before standing up, "Look, I'll talk to the others okay? Try and get some sleep, we'll call you tomorrow."

Demyx nodded, gazing up at him, "Thank you."

"That has to be the weirdest dream… ever…" Axel murmured, glancing around the office. Riku's face was grim and Squall's face was just as confused but uncertain as they all felt.

"Someone with long hair…" Squall's eyes went downward as he looked through the files open on his desk. One file was Roxas's, open, with a clip of the blond's picture on it. And above that was the brunet's open folder, a picture of Sora clipped onto the manila.

"That certainly narrows it down." Axel answered, running a hand through his hair.

"So what do we do?" Riku turned to Squall, ignoring Axel's splutters as he named off all their suspects with long hair.

"We don't have much to go on." Squall answered simply, "We call Demyx in the morning and investigate it."

"Are you surprised I called you out here?"

Riku paused from looking out in the sunlight to glare into the window's glass at the man sitting across from him, "Not really, lots of people have been calling me lately." Especially about this case.

Sephiroth smiled, eyes gentle, "Well, it's not like I'm going to kill you or something."

"Then why did you call?" He grabbed a fry from his plate, he ignored his half eaten burger, and began to eat it as Sephiroth ate a piece of fruit from his meal of pancakes. Riku quickly began to realize that Sephiroth was a breakfast man, which the older silveret replied was a good thing because it was all Sora was able to ever make.

"I wanted to know how you were doing on the case."

"Fine." He replied quickly, sipping some soda. He was going to ignore the other man, why couldn't he call the redheaded moron or Squall?

Sephiroth sighed before tying his hair in a ponytail, "Look, Riku—."

Riku glared, obviously remembering he hand never allowed Sephiroth to use his first name.

Sephiroth seemed to ignore it, "Sora's grandparents called me, I promised them I would talk to you."

"They like you?" Riku asked dryly, he had forgotten that the twin's grandfather liked the older silveret.

Sephiroth smiled, "I met Sora through his grandfather, we had our first date at a restaurant his grandfather owned." There was an even softer smile to the next sentence, "In fact, I even purposed to Sora at their house…"

And Riku studied him, gazing downwards at his fries before drifting off into a world where a brunet would suck up a noodle of pasta, covered in sauce, before he would grin at you, mouth covered in sauce.

"So I've come to find out." Axel told him later that day when they were driving, "That all the 'friends' we've been talking to of Roxas's, aren't his true friends."

Riku's eyebrows shot up, "Are you serious?"

Axel nodded and rolled his eyes as if it were obvious, "Realize how everyone we've been talking has been in some way connected to Sora? That's because those are just people who knew Roxas and Sora, there are some people that know only Roxas." He raised up his own notepad, "I've got some names right here."

"Then what's the first address?" Riku asked, glancing at him before turning back to the road.

Axel merely opened the notepad and smirked.

"I've known Roxas for a couple years." The girl was gorgeous, gorgeous but deadly. Her blue eyes searched them and she sneered—obviously not finding them worth the trouble—before she spoke again, "He had gotten into a fight with this mob boss I knew, and when he beat the man, he became the next mob boss."

Riku gazed at her, watching her golden hair—which was styled with two weird antennae—gleam as she stretched her neck backwards. "Was Roxas the only one you knew of the Kaze family?"

She nodded, tapping her cigarette ashes out on the floor next to her, "He would talk about his two brothers, a brunet and a blond? But other than that, I don't know anything about them."

Axel was scribbling down notes so seriously Riku wondered if one didn't know him he would seem like the perfect detective.

"It was fun to hang out with him." She answered, "I remembered when he came into power I would laugh at him and he would get all flustered and complained to me about how this wasn't how he wanted to rise to power." She shook her head, putting out her cigarette on the arm of her chair. "The boy was quite popular with the people around him, he was quiet but kind and listened to anyone that needed his help."

"Is there anyone we can talk to about him?" Axel asked, he obviously had more than just the usual questions to ask her, but Riku could tell he was starting with the basics.

As Larxene began to talk with Axel, Riku's cell phone buzzed quietly in his pocket, excusing himself, Riku realized it had been a text from Squall.

'Someone from the king is looking for you and Axel.'

Looking up at how determined Axel was, Riku quickly excused himself from the two and rushed back to the station on his own.

"Where is he?" Riku asked Squall as soon as he got inside the station.

"The conference room near the stairs." Squall answered, watching the silveret make his way towards the mentioned room.

Riku slid inside looking at the man in front of him. There was one male with shoulder-length silver hair, it stuck at three odd angles around his face, he was darkishly tanned and had golden eyes that glared into his face. "I'm Riku Umino, what do you want?"

The man's voice was deep, a sneer in his voice, "Where is Axel Nakango?"

"Visiting a relative." Riku lied; there was something off about this man, especially the fact that he had two knights with him from the castle.

The man cleared his throat and the two knights stood in perfect form at once. In an instant they shot at Riku, surprising the silveret and catching him off guard long enough to wrap his hands behind his back and grab his own handcuffs. They were placed around his wrists and tightened as one of the knights gave the other silveret the key.

Before Riku could even utter a sound the man smirked at him, "Riku Umino, you're under arrest for disobeying the king's rulings and for going against the law."

And he was led out of the station, everyone's gaze on them as a speechless Squall began to make urgent calls.

Tke: dun dunn dunnnnnnnnn!! Can you believe it? Ri-kun got arrested!

Axel: HOLY CRAP!!

Tke: And he saved Aku-kun!

Axel: Oh my GOD!!

Tke: So yeah, sorry I haven't updated in a while, I'm switching between things and these past few months have been hectic. But not to fear, starting Wednesday my grandparents will be on their yearly two week vacation to Hawaii, and as I have chosen not to go means that I can have the computer to myself!! YES!!

Axel: I want the next chapter now.

Tke: Sorry, I'll be starting a new story I have dedicated to a friend of mine who I promised and I WILL get it up, and I owe Taymeho a one shot for her picture of Riku as a security guard stopping Sora and needing to do a strip search when the obvious metal on Sora is his crown chain on his pants.

Axel: After that then?

Tke: Yes, or unless I get enough reviews and I work on it WHILE I work on the other two…

Axel: turns to readers REVIEW AND I SHALL GIVE YOU PLUSHIES OF SORA EATING PASTA WITH SAUCE ON HIS FACE AND OF ROXAS EATING SEA-SALT ICE CREAM!!

Tke: We're giving them two?

Axel: We're leaving them at a cliffie, of course we are!!

Tke: okay then… review I guess…?