Warning: Yaoi, several boy on boy parings. Be prepared.

Disclaimer: OF course I dont own Kingdom Hearts, trust me, you'd know if I did.

I just realized that I never did give a disclaimer or warning to my first chapter. Oh wells, I'll go back and fix it later. Anyways, I'm always open to reviews, or opinions. I like input, it's what makes the world go round. Nothing works properly without some form of communication

Chapter 2

A New Breed

Roxas knew the moment he heard a door slam shut the next morning that he should be thankful he woke before his twin. Sora was in a cheerful mood… as always. He could also bet that his twin would be even more chipper when he realized that Roxas was already up and ready.

His suspicions were confirmed when Sora bounded into the studio where Roxas was working with a new music mixing program he had gotten over the summer. "Rox! You're up!"

"Sora! You're observant!" Roxas grumbled in response.

The brown-headed teen grinned and clasped his hands behind his head. "Come on grumpy guts! I smell coffee!"

Roxas groaned, but followed Sora out of the room and down the stairs, only under the presumption that coffee sounded good and promising for his muddled head. "Sora, are you aware that you are way too awake for it to be nine o'clock on a Saturday morning?"

"Are you aware that he wave this conversation every Saturday morning?" Sora countered smartly, trotting into the kitchen as if he were dancing.

Cloud chuckled at the conversation as the two entered the kitchen, looking up from his cup of coffee and the newspaper he had been pouring over. "Seriously Rox, nearly eighteen years you should be used to Sora's odd morning cheerfulness."

Roxas couldn't help but give a slight smirk. "I am." He shrugged, hunting through the cabinants for the cups. "I just feel that it's my duty to inform my twin about how un-human-like he is." He continued, succeeding in finding the cups with a nod of his head.

"I'm more human than you are." Sora argued with a pout as his twin handed him a coffee mug.

Roxas snorted in response as Cloud grinned. "Cause that makes total and complete sense." Roxas added, pouring some coffee into his mug while Sora filled his halfway with milk and cream. If one could name one extreme difference between the two, it was how they drank their coffee. Roxas drank his with precisely two sugar cubes and a pinch of cream, however Sora drank his in a way that had people asking him if he wanted some coffee with his milk and sugar .It was often half cream, milk and sugar, and half coffee, if even that. It was something that always made Roxas gag as he watched.

"Oh by the way Sora… mum called and said to tell you that your editor is trying to get ahold of you." Cloud offered casually, quirking a brow when the oldest twin choked into a large gulp of coffee-flavored milk.

"What-What'd she say?" he managed while Roxas abandoned his cup to beat on Sora's back.

Cloud shrugged. "Something about the next twenty pages being due Wedensday." He replied absently as Sora groaned and Roxas returned happily to his coffee. "Oh… and mom gave her our address."

It was Roxas's turn to laugh while Sora seemed less than amused. "Seriously?" there was a slight pause, and then a deep sigh. "Of course she would." He muttered before giving a dramatic sigh. "I can't escape!" he exclaimed loudly throwing his one free hand into the air dramatically.

Folding his paper, Cloud gave well-pronounced smirk at his younger brother's dramatics, and stood with a stretch. "Well you can worry about that tonight, since your both up and ready why don't we get an early start? Go grab your schedules and we'll go."

Roxas frowned at the thought of actually having to do something today and drained his mug, eyeing his twin who was pouting into his own mug. "No use getting all bent out of shape, it's your fault for taking the job and then procrastinating." He ordered, washing out his mug and setting it to the side.

"But I'm going to be at that desk all night if I don't want to have to do it during school." Sora whined following Roxas's suit, pouring the rest of his coffee-milk down the sink, and flushing the cup with water.

The blonde clamped his twin on the shoulder before moving out of the room. "You'll find a way, you always do."

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One thorough exercise-of-a-tour later, Sora was collapsing into Yuffie's arms when the three brother's entered the University's spacious café. "And to think we only went through my classes." He exclaimed as the short giggling girl guided him to a large table where Tifa and Aerith were already sitting.

"And the Library, and the Technology Center, and the Counseling offices." Cloud corrected with a grin, sitting down beside Aerith.

Roxas nodded, taking his own seat as Sora plopped down into the chair next to him with an exaggerated sigh. "And we have two classes together, so we only have to find three more."

"Five classes huh?" Tifa asked handing the boys a menu. Roxas gave a shrug but nodded. "That's awfully brave, I didn't dare more than four my first year."

Roxas gave another shrug. "Most of them are music classes, so I thought I could manage." He replied absently.

"Most of them are music classes? Shouldn't you work on your basics first?" Aerith asked curiously, leaning forward in her seat with smile that said she was genuinely interested.

Roxas blinked at her and then glanced at Sora who shrugged. "Rox tested out of most of his basics. Believe it or not, he was near the top of his class at Destiny High, Sora wasn't far behind him, he was just too lazy to study and test out of most of his." Cloud answered idly for them.

Sora gave a silly docile grin in response while Roxas stretched, trying to ignore the amused looks Tifa and Aerith were giving him. "Yo! You started without me!"

Tifa sighed loudly, but exchanged a smiling glance with Aerith, while Yuffie jumped up with a laugh, throwing her arms around a tall red head. "We've only just ordered drinks Reno, calm it." Cloud responded, standing to shake the other young man's hand, who promptly pulled him into a hug.

"Hey! It's two of my favorite twins!" Roxas glanced up with a smile at the red head, while Sora beamed and waved merrily in greeting. Reno was perhaps one of the easiest people for the twins to like. He was a tall and lanky teen with long unkempt red hair that was pulled back into a ponytail. There were two symmetrical tattoos on his cheekbones that some how seemed natural. He was humorous, loud, and genuinely fun to be around. A perfect match for their cousin, though Roxas and Cloud often found them to be a bit too much if around too long, especially when you added a Sora into the mix.

"Yo Reno." Roxas greeted with a grin and a flick of his hand.

"So Reno! Where's that illustrious little brother of yours that we never seem to meet?" Cloud asked resuming his seat, moving so that Reno could sit next to his cousin.

Reno snorted waving his hand. "I made him drop me off here, he's going to park and come eat lunch with us. I doubt I'll see him much after this weekend." He replied jovially, waving over a waiter and placing a drink order.

"Because you're a lazy ass." A voice somewhere behind Roxas spoke up, Sora almost jumped out of his seat, and then laughed, clasping his hands behind his head as if nothing had happened.

Reno grinned, "And guys, that is my brother-"

"Are you two twins?" Sora interrupted, dodging a smack from Cloud as a reprimand for the rude interruption. Roxas turned to look up at the newcomer, and had to admit, he agreed with Sora. The stranger and Reno looked exactly alike. They were both tall and lanky, with the same bright red hair. The new comer's was a bit shorter, loose and had long spikes going every which way. Like Reno he had symmetrical tattoos, only his were reverse teardrops under each vivid green eye. He blinked, the stranger was oddly attractive.

Both red heads laughed loudly, "My little brother, Axel yo." Reno corrected, to which Sora blushed, giving a small smile. "Bro, this is Yuffie's cousin's Cloud, Roxas and Sora. That's the legendary Tifa, and the mommy of the group Aerith."

Axel gave a two-fingered salute, stretching down into the seat next to Roxas. "Nice to meet ya."

"The invisible brother emerges!" Tifa exclaimed, inspecting him.

"My magic spell wore off." Reno shrugged.

Axel gave a wide grin. "Doesn't mean I wont embarrass him still."

"What's your major Axel?" Aerith interjected, leaning forward again in her seat as if to get a better inspection of the newcomer.

Axel shrugged. "I haven't quite decided yet, I'm just getting my basics out of the way. It will be something to do with music." He responded, taking the drink the waiter, who seemed to appear out of nowhere, handed him.

"Roxie's a music major too!" Yuffie countered, reaching across the table to ruffle Roxas's already messy hair.

Roxas winced at the name but swatted his cousin's hand away lazily. This wasn't anything new to the blonde, Yuffie seemed to have fun messing with the more solemn of the two twins. "Music business." He corrected, fighting off Yuffie's hand that was still trying to grab a lock of his hair until Reno finally wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her back into her seat.

The younger red head turned to eye Roxas curiously. "What do you want to do?" he asked with a slight smirk after a few moments.

The blonde twin flushed slightly under the gaze. Were green eyes usually that intense? If so, Roxas had never noticed it before. "Well preferably I'd like to stay in production, or run a recording studio." He replied drawing his eyes away from the red head.

"Hey! So is Zack coming back?" Reno blurted as if it had been a forgotten thought, drawing Axel's attention, and profound gaze, away.

Letting out a deep breath, Roxas leaned back in his seat, pulling his soda to his lips for a deep gulp. Cloud's best friend seemed to be a popular subject among them, judging by the way everyone suddenly jumped into the conversation. Or rather, it was popular to tease the blushing Aerith, who was apparently the object of the missing teen's affections.

"You think he's cute don't you?" Sora leaned in close with a whisper, the moment he was sure that the elder teens at the table weren't paying attention. Roxas could tell by the way his twin was eyeing the group pointedly, not bothering to think about how suspicious he looked.

Roxas rolled his eyes. "I'm not exclusively gay like you remember?" he countered in an equally silent tone. Sora snorted and rolled his eyes turning back to listen in on the conversation Cloud, Reno and Axel were having. A gesture that told Roxas his brother wasn't finished with the subject, but would be nice enough to save it till later. To say that Roxas was exclusively straight wasn't exactly correct either. To be perfectly honest Roxas just didn't date like other kids his age, he had never had the desire too. The only crush he had ever had, ended really quickly, and she moved away soon after. His mother often said that the right person would come along randomly, and it would all quite literally slap him in the face. Roxas highly doubted that, he just wasn't interested in those things kids called relationships or dating.

Several minutes later the conversation turned to who the next candidates were for the top fighters on the dueling team, as the waiter sat food infront of the small company of university students. "Professor Auron was telling us about a few of the candidates the other day at practice." Tifa conferred with a wave of her fork.

Cloud nodded in agreement. "Yeah, he was showing us a few of the applications. There were a few promising ones. I myself personally know one, who with a bit of training and a lot of practice, could take my place."

Roxas looked up from his hamburger with a grin, knowing exactly who Cloud was talking about. . "Don't let Hayner hear you saying that, it'd get to his head." He informed his older brother with a quirked brow. Roxas's best friend was perhaps the exact opposite of Cloud, he was loud, obnoxious, and impulsive. But Cloud was right, Hayner had a real talent when it came to fighting. Hayner, Roxas, and Sora had grown up learning to fight with Cloud, but over time both twins had branched off into their own area's of interest.

The elder strife brother chuckled but shrugged in eased agreement. "Yeah, never tell the kid he's got talent, he'll get lazy." Of course, both Roxas and Cloud had experience with that, despite Hayner's determination, he definitely did better with motivation.

"Speaking of talent, I take it you play an instrument Axel?" Sora questioned, leaning around Roxas to stare at the red head.

Axel swallowed a bite of his hamburger and gave a little one shoulder shrug of his own. "Depends, class instruments or pastime?"

"Both?"

The younger red head grinned. "Well total, I'm a bassist. For band I usually play a double bass, but every now and then I'll pull out the electric. For my rock ensemble class and just hobby I stick to my electric." He explained picking up his soda to take a drink.

Sora nodded thoughtfully. "Do you do any vocal work?"

"Some, I'm alright, mostly back up. I prefer harmony work though."

"You should do a duet with Rox sometime, he's got a killer voice." Sora commented lightly, turning back to his food, purposely ignoring the death glare he knew his twin was sending his way.

Axel chuckled, eyeing the blonde, who had consequently flushed again in embarrassment and turned to stare at his half-eaten hamburger. "Yeah, maybe I should." He replied with a slow grin.

Roxas coughed, stuffing a fry in his mouth. "So you're in a rock ensemble?" he asked, swallowing down the fry, as Axel nodded, "Me too."

"Wouldn't it be funny if you were in the same one." Tifa commented lightly. "I bet you are."

"That would be ironic." The red head nodded, then turned back to his hamburger. "If not, we'll have to play together someday just for fun."

"Oh yeah, you should come see Rox's set up, it's pretty sweet." Sora continued, expertly avoiding the kick that his twin had sent his way. Roxas wasn't usually this pressing when his brother started bragging, but he didn't necessarily want this red head to think that Roxas wanted competition or anything of that sort.

"Hey Cloud! It's only Saturday, how 'bout a video game night yo? Leon and Cid'll be off of work. I know Vincent's in town and we could try to get a hold of Zack." Reno cut through the conversation, as always.

Cloud looked thoughtful for a moment, before shrugging. "Sure, I'll offer our house, is that okay with you two?" he glanced at his two little brothers. Sora nodded with a wide grin as Roxas quirked a brow but shrugged. "Great, I'll let you all be responsible for food and drinks though, we haven't gotten around to grocery shopping yet."

"Tifa and I can do that." Aerith interjected with a sigh. Video game nights weren't exactly her thing, but the boys were definitely fun to watch, besides she wouldn't ever deny a chance to cook for everyone, it was one of her favorite hobbies.

Yuffie clapped her hands. "Video game night it is!"