Namine stayed hidden under her hood as they walked down the street. The rain was pouring down and as she finally came up to Roxas' house and she was surprised to find it surrounded by police cars. She and the others ran up to the tape and looked passed to the open front door.
"Come on," Axel whispered as he lifted the police tape and they all crawled under. The kept out of sight of the police before they slipped into the house to find Troy and Rachel sitting around the dining room table with the boys at their feet and Rachel was holding Rosie. Rachel had tears passing streaming down her cheeks and the boys just looked confused.
"What's going on," Demyx asked, the only one of us who had the courage to do so.
"Hey, you kids aren't supposed to be in here," a police officer in the corner told them.
"No, it's alright," Freddie told them.
"Yeah, they're our friends," Kenny added. The officer looked at Troy who was holding Rachel to calm her a little. Troy nodded and the officer simply took his place back into the corner of the room.
"Well I believe that is all Mr. and Mrs. Koki. We will get your boys back," the head officer said as he shut a notebook and all the officers in the house left. Namine stood there, confused for a moment. Back, as in Roxas was missing, and boys, plural, as in two. When all the police left, Troy took them into the living room where he told them all that had happened with Roxas that very morning.
"So Roxas just ran out like that," Axel asked.
"Sora took off after him sometime after. We don't understand why he just ran off like that either," Troy told them as he put his head in his hands.
"Well, I know one reason," Demyx chimed in.
"What," Troy asked looking up at him.
"Well, you said the one thing you really shouldn't around teenaged orphans," Larxene told him.
"Yeah, you said that he needed parents," Demyx explained.
"By the time an orphan is a teenager they know how to take care of themselves," Larxene told him in a matter of fact tone.
"I see," Troy said pondering it for a moment. Namine sighed, trying to take it all in. Roxas had run away and Sora had gone with him. Knowing Roxas, and the current situation, he was only gone to do one thing.
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Roxas walked through the back alleys of the town, navigating his way to the records building. He had to figure all this out and maybe it has something to do with his past, something that he didn't even remember. He turned and punched something when something grabbed his shoulder.
"Ouch...when did you get that strong," the familiar voice asked as he grabbed his nose that was hidden beneath a black hood, much like Roxas'.
"Sora," Roxas inquired and he heard a slight snort come from the other boy.
"Who else would be dumb enough to follow you into your problems," Sora asked with a slight laugh though Roxas didn't.
"I didn't ask you to come, you could have stayed safe at the house," Roxas mumbled as he turned and began to walk again.
"Hey, you're my cousin. Heck, in legal terms, my twin brother, you think I would let you go in alone," Sora asked.
"Still," Roxas started before getting cut off.
"This is about both of us, no matter what it is. Don't forget you're not the only one being accused of murder. Besides, I think it would be cool to have my old partner back. Pranks aren't as fun when you can't share it," Sora told him, a bright smile becoming visible from under his hood.
"Right, I guess I forgot," Roxas told him with a laugh and so the two cousins headed out towards the records building.
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Roxas and Sora walked up to the building and Sora stopped to think for a moment before walking it.
"What," Roxas asked turning back to him.
"I don't think they're about to let two teenagers that already look like delinquents look at private records," Sora told him as he started to get a large smile.
"You just want to get us in more trouble now don't you," Roxas told him.
"Hey, you've got to do what you've got to do," Sora told him and Roxas shook his head before they both pulled their hoods on tighter over their heads. They walked around to the back alley behind the building.
"Now what do we do genius," Roxas asked as Sora looked around the alley. His eyes finally sat on an air duct that seemed to run outside. He pointed at it and Roxas looked and sighed. They climbed up on top of a dumpster and Sora boosted Roxas into it and then climbed in himself.
"Do you even know where we might be headed," Sora asked.
"I think that the records room is right here," Roxas said as he looked to the metal guard beside him. He noticed that it was screwed into place. He could just break the screws but then someone would notice that they had been there. "Hey, do you still carry that old pocket knife," Roxas asked thinking after a minute.
"Sure," Sora told him as he moved around a little and got into his pocket and handed the old red knife to me. I carefully opened it and unscrewed the guard and pushed it to where it fell with a small crash on the carpet below. "Easy, we don't want them to know that we're here, remember," Sora said as Roxas crawled out of the duct. They landed on the ground without a sound and started to look around in the files.
"Here it is, Sora Iku," Sora said as he pulled out a file. Roxas abandoned his search for his own and figured that he would find it after he looked over Sora's.
"Something isn't right," Roxas told Sora as they both looked over it.
"I know, it's only got files from where I started school," Sora said as he looked over the files.
"There's no birth certificate or anything, just school reports and criminal records," Sora said as Roxas continued to think before going and looking through the files that should contain his name. "Wait a second, there is something here," Sora said as he found a strange document in the back of the folder. He read over it silently, a weird look coming onto his face. "Roxas, this says that I'm adopted," Sora told him.
"Who is the original mother then, it always says it on those things," Roxas told him and he looked up at Roxas, confused.
"It says my mom, was your mom," Sora told him and Roxas stood there for a moment, confused. What was all this adding up to? He turned back and again searched for his name. He finally grabbed a folder that had Hikari, Roxas printed on the label. He opened it to read. Roxas' was strangely larger then Sora's but it had all the same criminal records and acts. Even the form from where the Koki's had adopted him. He looked up to think for a moment when his eyes fell on something.
"Uh, Sora, I think I found the rest of your file," Roxas told him as he pointed to the folder that was labeled Hikari, Sora. Sora pulled it out and opened it to find a single piece of paper inside, his birth certificate. He read over it for a moment before looking over at Roxas.
"Let me see yours," he told him and Roxas nodded, handing it over. Sora's eyes scanned over it. "Roxas, I really do think we're twins. From the looks of this, we were born two minutes apart, me being the oldest of course," Sora told him as he handed Roxas the two documents. Roxas looked them over and found that he was right. Everything on the papers was exactly identical except for the times and the siblings.
"So what happened that we got split up," Roxas asked as he tucked the papers back in the folders.
"I don't know, but I'm keeping these just until we get this figured out," Sora said as he put the files in a backpack that he had brought along.
"Right, we'll figure out what to do after we get out of here," Roxas told him as he put his folders in the backpack too. Sora zipped it up and the two climbed back out of the building through the same air duct. They put everything back as it was and they ran off down town.
"Man, I'm starving, you want to get a bite to yet," Sora asked.
"You have any money," Roxas asked.
"Sure, got mom's credit card," Sora said with a small smirk.
"We can't keep using it though, the police can follow it," Roxas told him.
"I wasn't intending to. Find us an ATM and we can get enough cash to get us through a long enough time," Sora told him and Roxas nodded. The two did so and went to a dinner in the downtown area. They looked over the files again as they waited for their food to come.
"Here you go boys," the waitress said as she laid their burgers, fries, and chocolate milk shakes. "Hey, are you boys twins or something, you sure look a lot alike," she said as she looked over the boys.
"Yeah, I guess we are," Sora told her with a small laugh.
"Well I guess it's cool to have a twin. I had older sisters that were twins and would get into all kinds of mischief together though I was always kind of left out," the woman said more to herself and she started to talk to herself as she walked away.
"Okay, the first place we might want to go would be to find mom. She probably knows more about this than anyone," Roxas told him.
"So, do you have any idea where she lives," Sora asked.
"Yeah, I remember somewhat. She lived in an old house on the outskirts of Hollow Bastion," Roxas told him and they nodded.
"We'll get on a bus and head off there when we get done eating," Sora told him and Roxas nodded.
"Wow, now I'm really confused," Roxas jumped a little at the unknown voice before he turned to see Demyx and Larxene.
"What are you guys doing here," Roxas asked as Sora and he slid over to make room for them.
"Saving your butts, that's what," Larxene told him.
"Who are you guys," Sora asked.
"Oh, right, Sora this is Larxene and Demyx, they're friends from boarding school. Larxene, Demyx, this is my…um…well we don't really know at the moment but I'm related to him in some way, this is Sora," Roxas introduced.
"Like the real one," Demyx asked and Sora looked at him oddly.
"Ha, you would kind of have to hear the story," Roxas told him as he rubbed the back of the head. So Roxas, Larxene, and Demyx started to tell Sora of how that they had dressed up Roxas to look exactly like him.
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Kidd: This is in honor of the very first day of Spring Break!
Emma: We'll update as soon as possible though we might be gone a couple days with our cousin October.
Erin: Anyway, The waitress lady really exists somewhere. She actually started to tell us the entire story one time when we were out to eat one time.
Kidd: So that's why you wanted her in, I remember that lady. I can sort of feel her pain.
Emma: What are you talking about?
Erin: Seriously, you're like our unofficial cousin triplet!
Emma: I'm not sure there's such a thing, but sure you're that.
Kidd: Oh never mind, I think I like being myself.
Erin: Hey, what's that supposed to mean!
Kidd: I didn't mean it in a bad way, just that I like who I was born as.
Emma: (Over argument in the back ground) Please review!