Warnings, disclaimer, ect, ect, in chapter 1.

"Here it is, home sweet home," Tifa said as she drove us up to a bar with rooms above it.

"You own this?" Sora asked and Tifa nodded as we got out of the car.

Tifa seemed nice enough a woman. She had long, dark hair and dark eyes, but they were kind dark eyes. We followed the older woman into the bar and toward the stairs that were next to the counter. She gave a wave toward the blonde man who was behind the counter and headed up the stairs. We followed her.

"Well, I hope you two don't mind sleeping bags on the floor," Tifa said as she walked into a bedroom where two kids already were.

"Denzel, Marlene, these are Roxas and Sora. They're Cloud's relatives and they're going to stay here tonight because Cloud's out of town," Tifa explained.

"Aren't you a little old to be babysat?" the boy, Denzel, said as he looked us over.

"Someone broke into our house so Cloud wants us to stay somewhere else until he gets home," Sora explained.

"Oh, so that's what happened," Tifa said, looking thoughtful.

Marlene smiled at them, "You know Cloud?"

We both nodded, "We live with him."

Denzel tilted his head at us, "You two look a lot alike and you just talked at the same time. Are you twins or something?"

"Cousins," we both answered in unison again.

Marlene giggled a little and I supposed that it was slightly amusing that we seemed to contradict ourselves. Tifa handed us sleeping bags and said that when we were hungry we could come down and get something from the bar. She left and Denzel and Marlene were quick to follow.

I sat down on the sleeping bag, "You think that Squall/Leon wants to talk to Vincent about your case?"

"Why do you say that?" Sora asked, sitting on his own sleeping bag.

"Think about it, all this is happening and then someone who used to go to school with Cloud and was working with Vincent on a case, but obviously an old case since he can't get a hold of him anymore, says he wants to talk to Vincent about the case?"

"Alright, fine, it does seem a little coincidental."

"Wonder what he knows…"

"Why are you so obsessed with this Rox?"

"I donno… but I just… it feels like I need to…"

"You're not still tripping over my parents' death, are you?"

"What do you mean 'tripping'?"

"Blaming yourself."

I shrugged a little, "I know that there was nothing I could have done and that it probably would have happened anyway, but it was my parents."

"Yeah, but you aren't your parents."

"Thank god for small miracles..."

Sora opened his mouth again, but was interrupted by his phone ringing, "Hello?"

There was a pause then he laughed nervously, "Hey Riku."

Uh oh.

"Uh, no… no… now would be a bad time," Sora said, looking at me for help.

I opened my mouth and then closed it again, thinking quickly, "We… uh… I got nothing…"

Sora rolled his eyes, "We're…"

Marlene walked in and I quickly said, "Babysitting."

"Right!" Sora said laughing, "We're babysitting, for a friend…. Of Cloud's… so yeah, not tonight. Sorry."

Marlene blinked at us, "What?"

I made a shushing motion at her and she looked at the phone and Sora, confused.

"What history assignment?"

...Homework… well shit…

Sora groaned, "I forgot all about that."

There was another pause.

"No, now I really have to go. I haven't even made dinner yet. I'll see you tomorrow Riku."

He hung up and looked relived, "Man, that was close."

I rolled my eyes, "You're the worse liar ever."

"Well sorry if I've never had to lie before."

"Why were you lying?" Marlene asked.

I paused before saying, "Because we can't tell anyone where we are. The police told us not to."

"Oh," she said.

"Common, I'm hungry," Sora said getting up.

I stood and followed him out of the room.

"Where'd you guys end up?" Olette asked me quietly the next morning.

We were sitting on the table that Axel and his group usually sat at. Sora was in the library with Riku, working on the homework that he didn't do last night. I had wanted to go with him to make sure that he didn't blow our cover, but that would have probably blown our cover more than he would.

"We ended up at a friend of Cloud's. Tifa, she owns the 7th Heaven bar."

"Does Cloud know what's happening?"

I nodded, "Yeah, Vincent called Cloud and told him about the break in, but not the death threat. Cloud's on his way back home but he was all the way in Healin when Vincent called yesterday."

"Healin? That's closer to Midgar than anything else."

I nodded, "Yeah, and it's not close to Midgar either."

Olette shook her head in agreement.

"What's not?"

We both jumped and turned to see that Axel, Zexion, and Demyx had arrived.

"Don't do that," Olette breathed, placing a hand over her heart.

I agreed.

Axel grinned at us, "Sorry, what's not close to Midgar?"

"Healin," I replied.

Zexion scoffed, "Nothing is near Healin."

"Why are you talking about Healin?" Demyx asked.

"That's where Cloud is right now," I replied.

"Damn," Axel said as he took a seat next to us.

"Yeah," I yawned.

"You not sleep?" Olette asked worriedly.

"Not really, I donno how the hell Denzel and Marlene do it. Bar's loud until three in the morning," I said, fighting back another yawn.

"Bar?" Zexion asked.

"Cloud wanted us to stay with a friend of his last night," I replied vaguely.

"And they took you to a bar?" Axel asked.

I shook my head, "They live above a bar."

"Oh."

There was a pause before Axel spoke again, "So, what was with all the cops at your house yesterday?"

I looked at Olette who once again shrugged at me (thank you Olette…) and I sighed, "Someone broke into the house while we were at school."

"Is that why Cloud wanted you at his friend's house?" Zexion asked.

I nodded, "Don't tell anyone though."

"Why not?" Demyx asked.

"We can't let Riku find out. He's the closest to Kadaj and we don't want to risk Kadaj finding out," I replied.

"You think he did it?" Axel asked.

"We don't know," Olette replied, "but the police would rather be safe than sorry."

They nodded in understanding and Demyx smiled, "Alright, we won't say a word."

Cloud was waiting for us at the front gate when school got out. He noticed us and visibly relaxed.

"Hey Cloud!" Kairi called from behind us, "What are you doing here?"

Cloud shot her a smile and I noticed that it was a very fake one, "Just picking them up. We have to go somewhere, don't worry about it."

She nodded slightly and Sora and I walked over to Cloud. We got into his car and it wasn't until we were actually on the road that he talked to us.

"You're both alright, aren't you?'

We both nodded and he let out a breath, "Vincent filled me in. What the hell were you two doing snooping around?"

"But Cloud!" Sora said, leaning over in his chair to face Cloud, "Did he tell you what we found?"

"Yes, but that's the police's job, not yours," Cloud said.

"We didn't mean any harm," I said quietly.

He sighed again, "I know. You have to be more careful though. I mean, if you two can hack into something then what makes you think that someone else can't trace you?"

"First, we weren't the ones who hacked. Second, it really never occurred to me that someone would trace us. Were they expecting someone to check into the history?" I asked, leaning forward a little from the back seat.

Cloud frowned at me, "Alright, you have a fair point, but if you didn't hack then who did?"

"Pence," Sora answered.

"Who?"

"My friend," I answered.

Cloud blinked then looked in the rear view mirror at me, "What friend?"

"I went and found my old gang to go and talk to the police with me," I said with a shrug.

Cloud shook his head a little and looked back at the road, "So you guys planned this whole thing out?"

"It's not like that Cloud," Sora said, "we were talking and you know who he is? He's the one that aunt and uncle supposedly lost!"

Cloud glanced at Sora then at me, then back at the road, "So you guys thought since they lied about that, that they may have been in on our parents' death?"

"Cloud," I said gently, "They were the last ones to see your mom alive. There were drugs in her drink, which I happen to know that my mother was taking at the time. The same day that your dad was killed was the day of my false funeral, and we found out that it was also the same day that my parents paid $5,000 to Riku's older brother, who disappeared shortly afterwards."

There was a long silence during which Sora stared at Cloud, worriedly.

"I see your point," he said after a few minutes, "but you still shouldn't get involved yourself. You could get hurt."

"We see that now," Sora said quietly.

Silence for a few more minutes before I spoke again, "Where are we going?"

"To Leon's."

Remember last night when I was saying to Sora that Leon/Squall had to be in on this case? Guess who was so right.

"Told you."

"Shut up Roxas."

"What are you two arguing over now?" Cloud asked as we walked into Leon/Squall's apartment.

I crossed my arms, "Yuffie came to the police station yesterday looking for Vincent because Leon/Squall was looking for him."

Leon/Squall's eye twitched, "What did you just call me?"

"Leon/Squall?"

"Dammit Yuffie," he hissed under his breath as he closed the door.

Cloud rolled his eyes, "So what if Leon was looking for Vincent?"

"Yuffie said that Leon said that it was about a case. Rox said that it was obviously our case since that was too much of a coincidence otherwise," Sora explained.

The only thing worse than being the center of attention is being the center of attention when you know that you're in trouble.

Cloud pinched the bridge of his nose, "Dammit Roxas, stop being so smart. You're going to get yourself in trouble."

Leon/Squall sighed, "How much do they know?"

"More than me," Cloud replied, annoyed.

"What do you know Leon/Squall?" I asked.

"Just Leon," he said through gritted teeth, "Why don't you tell me what you know and we'll work from there."

Sora and I looked at one another then turned back to the two adults. We explained everything that had happened from the time we got home from school the day Cloud left to the last conversation we had with Vincent.

Leon raised an eyebrow at us, then looked at Cloud who was muttering something about never leaving us alone again.

"So, you think this Kadaj is the one who did this per your parents request?" Leon asked.

I nodded.

"And who is, Kadaj?"

"Riku's older brother," Sora said.

"Riku?" Leon asked.

"Sephiroth's younger brother," Cloud offered.

"Sephiroth," Leon whispered.

"Sephiroth?" Sora and I both asked.

"The Nightmare," Leon and Cloud both said.

Sora and I looked at one another and I was happy to see that I wasn't the only one completely lost.

"We're going to have to call Vincent," Cloud said quietly.

Leon nodded and I leaned forward, "So, what do you know?"

Leon looked at Cloud who made some waving motion, which apparently meant 'go ahead' because Leon turned back to us, "Your parents are back in town."

I screamed, I ranted and I raved. Mentally anyway. I cursed the world to hell and back and I cursed my parents to worse places. How dare they? How dare they come here? Why on earth would they-?

Why would they come here?

I frowned to myself and stared at the ceiling from my place on Leon's couch. Leon and Cloud had both agreed that it would be wisest for us to not go home tonight either. I huffed quietly to myself and rolled over, glaring at the blank TV.

"You're still awake?"

I glanced over to see Sora sitting up on the other couch, "Yeah."

"Why do you think they came?"

"I donno."

A pause, "You think they had something to do with the break in?"

"Maybe."

Sora frowned at me, "You usually have some sort of theory Rox."

I sighed, "Yeah, I know. I just… they're here. On this island. I could see them."

"Do you want to see them?"

"No," I spat; I hated my parents and everything that had anything to do with them.

It was Sora's turn to sigh, "Roxas, it's late and we have school in the morning. Just try and think of something else."

"Like what?"

He shrugged, "I donno, maybe something like why did Leon know they were in town."

Why did Leon know they were in town?