Title: When We Met Her, I Lost You

Warnings: Lemons, yaoi, yuri, fighting, cussing, and some mention of someone slicing their arms.

Pairings: RikuXSora, KairiXNamine', RoxasXAxel, CloudXLeon, DemyxX?, and other random pairings throughout the damn thing

Author's Random Ramblings:OK! NOW WE'RE COOKING! Finally made it to Chapter One! It took me weeks to write this one, simply because I was having issues on how to start it. Then I had issues on the whole "how is she going to come in" and "where are they going to finally meet" scenario. And then Finals came up. Then I went home to California, America for Christmas. Well, a few days after Christmas, anyways. Now I'm back, and I think I'm on the right track. Go Me! I'm also doing something I've never done before with this ficcie. I'm putting in...YURI! A friend of mine, who is annoyingly like Axel, recently pointed out to me that though I am in a Yuri relationship, I only write with Yaoi. So, because I can't get the idiot's words out of my head, I am putting Yuri in this one. Also, the rest of Organization XIII decided it would be funny to get all of my muses drunk every weekend while I was trying to write this, so this chapter, and the next few, may be a little...odd, simply because I am working with my own Space Case mind and a group of constantly hungover muses. Why me?

This chapter is dedicated to my wonderful Step-Mother who actually got my out of this hell and back home for a good old New Year's party. Thank you, Momma Nita!

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"That'll be seventeen-fifty, sir." Kyka sighed as she took the man's money and gave him his change. "Have a great day!" The man left, and Kyka fell against the counter, sighing again and running a hand through her choppily-layered, blue-streaked black hair. Her bright blue eyes stood out against her black uniform pants and shirt. The apron of her uniform danced just above her knees as she turned to rifle through the drawer behind her. A notebook and a pen were tossed onto the counter by the register.

"Hey, Ky! Do we have this in a different size?" Kyka looked over at her co-worker, and closest friend, Axel and grinned. The tattooed red-head was holding up a bright pink sweater with neon orange stripes running up the sleeves.

"I don't know. Do you have a brain?" Laughter came from the door are Axel's boyfriend, and Kyka's second close friend, Roxas walked in carrying a bag from the Chinese restaurant down the street. Behind him was the fourth of the group, Demyx, who was carrying a tray of drinks.

"I like that one, Ky," the younger blond said as he set the bag on the counter and began digging in it, pulling out a white box and handing it to Axel, receiving a kiss on the cheek for it. Demyx passed the red-head a drink and slid Kyka's across the counter, blushing and smiling when their hands touched. "Here you go. Sesame chicken, fried rice, steamed dumplings, lo mien, orange chicken and shanghi beef with two spring rolls." The girl smiled and nodded thank you to her adoptive brother as she took the box and small bag from him.

"Thanks, Rox. Marly didn't give you any trouble today, did he?" Roxas shook his head as Demyx laughed.

"No. But he found your little note amusing, though." Kyka laughed as she pulled her stool to her and settled down to eat, breaking the chopsticks apart and snatching a piece of mandarin chicken from Axel's box. Axel glared and stole a piece of the girl's beef. Demyx laughed and sat on a stool beside Kyka behind the counter.

Almost a year after Kairi had come into the lives of the three children of Destiny Islands, Kyka's father moved to Twilight Town, taking her and her older brother with him. When she turned sixteen, Kyka met the three boys after kicking the ass of a girl giving her trouble. The four became instant friends, and created a band within a week. When she turned eighteen, she and Roxas opened a store together, naming it Ocean's Flames, after the band. Along with the usual clothing designed and made by the two talented teens, the band's c.d.'s were sold there. Axel and Demyx started working for their friends when their parents started refusing to help them pay for anything. The four shared the apartment above the store, pooling their money together to pay the utility bills. Every so often, the group would close the store and go to the small beach house that Roxas and his brother inherited from their father when he died.

"Hey, you guys. What do you say about closing the store this weekend and heading out to the beach? Kyka's starting to get pale, and I still have to get my surfing lessons." Kyka threw an ice cube at Axel when he called her pale.

"Sounds good. I suddenly feel like swimming and finding shells." Demyx smiled shyly when he mentioned seashells. It was a hobby both him and Kyka shared. The girl nodded and looked at Roxas.

"I'm in. Wadda think, Rox?" Roxas smiled.

"Sure. That gives us a day to get the word out." Unlike most store owners, Kyka and the boys let the people in town know if they were going to be out of town. The people liked the consideration and kept idiots from doing stupid stuff to the building while they were gone.

"Oooo! That means we can finally wear the new projects!" Kyka laughed. Every year, the shop owners would keep their workshops locked and make themselves and their friends a new summer wardrobe. Until the clothes were finished and presented on the first trip to the beach, they were kept under wraps. There was also a contest between the two about who could finish the fastest.

"I'm almost finished with my last outfit. What about you, Ky?" The girl swallowed a mouthful of rice and a drink of her iced tea before answering.

"I had it finished last week. I'll take a new surfboard care kit, Roxy." Roxas nodded and stole a bite of chicken from Axel's box. The red-head groaned and threw his hands up as Demyx followed his friends' examples.

"Why is it you guys are always stealing my mandarin chicken? Can't one of you order it for once?" The three laughed as the bell above the door rang and a girl with brown hair walked in.

"Hey, Olette! Just in time, too. Your dress and shirts just got finished." As Kyka bounced over to help her friend, Axel leaned over the counter to talk to Demyx without the girl hearing them.

"You need to ask her now, before she gets snatched by another guy, got it memorized?" Roxas glared at his boyfriend as he leaned closer as well.

"Axel, quit being a dick. Dem, you do need to tell her soon. You're not the only guy around here who likes her, and some already plan to ask her to the party next week. Talk to her while we're at the beach." Demyx glanced over at Kyka and nodded.

"I guess you're right."

Across the store, Kyka and Olette were discussing Demyx.

"Ky. You so need to tell him soon. I overheard Larxene telling Marluxia that she was going to take him to the party next weekend if you didn't, right before Marluxia said he was going to take you. You know how Larxene it around Demy. Protect him, Kyka. Protect him!" Kyka smiled as she tugged on the hem of the dress she has just pulled over her friend's head.

"I know, Lette. Wadda think?" Olette spun in a circle and smiled.

"I like it. So when are you going to tell him?" The short-haired girl groaned and ran a hand through her hair, glancing over at the boys. She blushed when she saw Demyx looking back at her and smiled awkwardly. Demyx smiled and waved. Kyka turned back to the hem and tugged it again.

"We're planning on going to the beach this weekend. Usually, Axel and Roxas wonder off and do unmentionable things to each other." Both girls made a face, then burst into giggles. "And Demy and I usually go seashell hunting when they do that. Maybe I can tell him then." Olette nodded and slipped off to the changing room to put her original clothes back on. Kyka carefully gathered the pile of new clothes and headed back to the register to fold and bag them. Olette got to the counter just as Kyka was settling the last shirt in the bag. The brunette tossed some munny over the counter and grinned as she took the bag and walked out of the store before Kyka could count her change. Axel laughed at Kyka's expression. "I hate when she does that."

"It's helpful, Ky." Axel ducked as another ice cube flew over the counter at him. The others of the group laughed as the bell above the door rang. Demyx and Axel glanced at the door and groaned. A familiar shock of pale pink hair was heading over to the counter. Roxas drug the red-head to the back of the store while Demyx moved to the counter across the store and started pretending to straighten the c.d.'s arranged on one of the racks. Kyka sighed and smiled when Marluxia leaned against the counter in front of her.

"Hey, pretty thang. What's going on?" Kyka swore she could hear Axel snort in the back. Ignoring her friend, she crossed her arms and leaned over the counter.

"I could ask you the same, sweetheart." Kyka and Marluxia had been friends since the girl had moved to the town. However, when the two had become teens and moved on to middle and high school, their closed bond had frayed a bit. Then, there had been an incident that was one of the reasons the other boys in the store hated the pink-haired man.

"Same old, same old. I had a question for you." The girl sighed inwardly and leaned closer to her friend, tilting her head to show he had her attention. "There are rumors flying around, Kyka, that you don't have a date for the party next week." Another inward sigh, and Kyka glanced over at Demyx. There was an unusual tenseness in the sitarist's shoulders that had her worried.

"Actually, Marly, I'm not going. Dem and I were planning on spending that night working on a few songs for our next album." A smile crossed Kyka's face as the tenseness left her crush. Marluxia followed her eyes and glared at the other teen.

"Alright. How about this weekend?"

"We're going to the beach, pinky. Ky, there's a call for you in the office." Axel leaned against the counter and watched his friend leave. Marluxia glared at the taller teen and whirled around.

"You won't be able to keep her forever, Red. And when that happens, I will have her." Demyx chewed on his lower lip as he watched Marluxia leave the store. Roxas sighed as he ran a hand through his already messy hair.

"I'm wondering when he's going to get the hint and leave her alone. You are going to ask her at the beach, right, Dem?" The sitarist bit his lip before nodding. "Good."

"Thanks for calling Ocean's Flames. This is Kyka."

"Well, it's about time!" Blue eyes widened when she heard the familiar voice over the line.

"Oh my Gackt! Zexion? Is that you?" Zexion had been one of Kyka's friends from when she still lived in Destiny Islands.

"So Gackt is the new god?" Zexion teased. Kyka laughed.

"He's been the God for a while, Zexi. You're a little late on that one. So…to what do I owe the honors?" While the two had remained in contact, it was still rare for them to share a phone call. Kyka could count the number of times Zexion had called her just for the heck of it on one hand and still have fingers left over. Most of the time, he was calling because of an emergency having to do with her mom and required her to go back.

"You're still living in Twilight Town, right?" Kyka made a face that her friend couldn't see and sighed.

"If you got a hold of me, then yes, baka." Zexion laughed at the girl and hit the speakerphone button on the phone as his boyfriend walked in.

"Good. Because the school is taking a trip out there, and I want to see you." He met the blue eyes of his lover and grinned.

"We both do." Kyka's cry could be heard in the front where Roxas was teasing Hayner and Pence about being in the store.

"Luxord!" The gambler chuckled and settled beside Zexion on their couch.

"Hello, Ky. What have you been up to?" Kyka grinned as Demyx and Cloud walked in. The older man looked at his sister as she hit the speakerphone button on the office phone.

"Same as usual. Runnin the store, recording new c.d.'s, lookin' for a man, keeping certain idiots out of trouble." Axel's cry of "Hey!" could be heard in the back. "It's going to be so good to see you two again. When are you coming out?"

"Next week." Cloud chuckled.

"You'll be here for the party. Ky, dad said dinner's at eight." The blond waved and left the store, casually flicking Axel in the ear as he passed by.

"A party sounds like fun. We'll see you then. That gives us a few days at the beach to get a little color on you, love." Zexion's cheeks colored and he socked his lover in the arm.

"Shut up."

"When are you going to the beach, who's going, and which one?" Kyka's curiosity got the better of her.

"Starlight Beach, the usual gang, this weekend. Vexen recently bought a new condo out there, and it had yet to be broken in." Roxas' cheer from the front caught the gambler's attention. Roxas had gone with Kyka when her mom got in the car wreck and had met the girl's old friends. The three had become fast friends. Demyx and Axel had the chance to meet the librarian when he drove out to visit Kyka for her birthday.

"Hey, Roxas! He sounded a little happy." Kyka grinned and nodded.

"We're heading to his dad's place this weekend, too. Same beach." Luxord grinned.

"Then I can't wait to break out the cards." The storeowners laughed.

"This time, we're using skittles instead of our clothes, Luxy-babe. Seeing Xiggy naked once was more than enough for me." Roxas laughed at the girl's blush.

"Didn't help that he was drunk, did it, Ky?" The girl groaned and buried her face in her hands. Demyx took pity on his crush and moved to stand behind her, squeezing her shoulders.

"Stop picking on Ky." Axel grinned.

"Any particular reason you're standing up for her, Dem?" The water-child's cheeks colored as he glared at the pyro.

"Ok, you two. That's enough. I guess we'll see you at the beach, right?" Zexion nodded.

"We'll see you then."

"You're cooking, love." Kyka grinned.

"No prob. Latas!" The familiar click of the phone being hung up on the other end signaled the end of the call. Kyka hit the disconnect button and fell back into her chair grinning. "We'd better go to bed so we can be ready to leave in the morning." Roxas and Axel led the way upstairs to the apartment. As Demyx turned into his room, he felt Kyka's arms wrap around his waist. "Good night, Demy." It was only when she was about to close her door when Demyx answered.

"Goodnight, love."

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Whew! Long chappie. See you Next time! (I Hope)

-Kit