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I know the parent pairings are a bit weird, but I couldn't think of anyone for Leon, pluse Roxas' parents kinda fit.

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"Hey Dad, do you think we can hurry up? I've really got to meet Hayner and Pence today! We've been planning this for EVER!"

"Roxas, we're going as fast as we can. It's all this damned-,"

"Cloud!"

"Sorry. . ."

"As your father was saying, we're going as fast as possible. Do you think you can call them and tell them you'll be late?"

"WHAT? Late? I can't be late! Mom! This is the Struggle Tournament playoffs! If I'm late-!"

"Oh Roxas, shut up! With you it's always Struggle this, Struggle that. When are you gonna man up and get a girlfriend?,"

"Oh yeah Namine? Well why don't I tell Mom and Dad where you've been for the past few nights?"

"You wouldn't."

"You know me better than that."

"Mom, Dad, don't listen to him whatever you do! Don't-,"

"Hey Mom, Namine has been with that older kid, Sei-,"

"ROXAS!"

"NAMINE!"

"BOTH OF YOU! SHUT UP!"

That was the last thing Roxas heard his dad say before a speeding car hit the left side of their Ford Taurus. The other car had run a red light and hit them full speed. Roxas didn't remember what it felt like to be thrown into the side of the car, but he did know about the aftermath. The news reel had read 'FOUR DEAD IN CAR ACCIDENT, SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD SON ONLY SURVIVOR'. His dad and sister were killed on impact, along with the asshole who'd caused it all, while his mom had been taken to the ICU along with him. Apparently she died after three hours of doctors attempting to save her while Roxas had had to stay under for about four. When he'd woken up in the hospital no one was with him except for a nurse who was just checking his stats to make sure he was alive.

His family members didn't arrive until he'd been awake for three days. First came Sora and Kairi with their parents, Leon and Tifa, they had been the closest to Cloud and Aerith since forever. Then came his grandfather, Cid, on Cloud's side, but he didn't have much to say to his grandchild, but it was Cid, so Roxas hadn't expected much to come out of it. A number of other family members, mostly those who he hadn't seen since he was a child, arrived saying that they were 'so sorry' and 'just couldn't believe something like this could have happened to such happy people'. He had scoffed at most of them, irking them so much that they left his room stomping.

"It doesn't matter if they were happy or not, who cares about that? Now, they're dead." Was his typical response, until he'd just stop talking to any more relatives that tried to visit him.

Reporters had come through as well, but he made sure that none of them left with the same story.

The accident had been three weeks ago and now they were back in Aerith and Leon's hometown. The family had accepted Cloud and Aerith's will, understanding that they'd want to be buried somewhere in the hills, but then they realized someone would have to take care of Roxas.

"I've already got three kids." Roxas overheard his Uncle Sephiroth saying after someone had suggested that he could take Roxas. Roxas knew about Loz, Kadaj, and Yazoo and if anyone tried to make him live with them they were crazy.

"Well I certainly can't do it, I've got a reputation to uphold. Do any of you understand how hard it is to run a company?" That was his Uncle Ansem's excuse, going on about how a business mogul can't be seen with children, otherwise they'll think he's terrible. Plus the old man just didn't like the boy.

His relatives went on bickering about who would take the misfit of the family when finally someone stood up from the table. It was Leon, Aerith's brother.

"We'll take him." And then he walked out of the room, all the family staring after the brunet in slight astonishment.

"Kadaj!" Jenova yelled at her eldest son. The brat was fourteen. "Stop telling your younger siblings what to do!" She ripped the stuffed animal the boy had taken from Loz and gave it back to him. Without its head. "No, no, Loz, don't cry. Don't cry! Sephiroth, help me out." Roxas' Aunt Jenova waved a hand over at her husband while attempting to stop all three of her children from crying.

"I'll be back in a moment." Sephiroth held up a finger to Leon and Tifa as he left to go stop his children from making fools out of themselves.

"Why did Cloud have to have such odd family members?" Tifa sighed as more family members came piling into the room all wearing black and having either bored or dreary looks plastered onto their faces. She looked around for Roxas, seeing if the teen had shown up to the funeral. When she noticed he wasn't there yet she flagged Kairi down.

"Kairi, have you seen Roxas?"

"No, but don't worry, Sora has gone to get him."

"Oh."

"Roxas? Hey, Roxas? You there man?" Sora, Kairi's twin, was walking along the halls of his house, searching for his cousin. The house was creepily quiet as the brunet carefully checked each room before moving onto the next. Kairi had told him that Roxas said he'd be home before today, so where could he be now?

As he checked the last guest room in the house he noticed the balcony door open ever so slightly. As he creaked across the wooden floor he could hear someone singing on the otherside, very softly the lone boy sang to himself.

If I caught the world in a bottle

And everything was still beneath the moon

Without your love would it shine for me?

If I was smart as Aristotle

And understood the rings around the moon

What would it all matter if you loved me?

Sora slowly sat down on the otherside of the window, letting his blonde cousin sing his tune. He wondered what it had meant to him. Why he was singing it. Where he'd heard it. He wondered . . . many things.

If I caught the world in an hourglass

Saddled up the moon

So we could ride until the stars grew dim

Until

One day, you'll meet a stranger

And all the noise is silenced in the room

You'll feel that you're close to some mystery

In the moonlight, when everything shadows

You feel as if you've known her all your life

The world's oldest lesson in history

Here in your arms, where the world is impossibly still

With a million dreams to fulfill

And a matter of moments until the dancing ends

Roxas looked out over the ocean, a sense of calm spreading over him as he sang the song his mother had sung to him when he was little. He'd heard her sing it sometimes, especially when she and his dad had come home after a date or gone out with some friends to a party. The melody was a nice, soothing tempo, lulling him into a sort of stupor.

His heart felt a pang as he slowly ended the song, imagining his mother was sitting next to him with one of her flowers and singing it along side with her soft voice. Once he'd gone silent the utter stillness of the moment was wrecked by soft, stifled sobbing coming from behind him. Through the slightly open door.

Roxas picked himself up off the floor and opened the door only to find his cousin, Sora, leaning against the wall and crying a little bit like the uber-softy he'd always been.

"Th-that was s-s-so s-s-sad! Roxas," Sora got up off the floor quicker than Roxas thought the brunet could and held the blonde close, nearly wringing his neck at the same time. "I'm s-so sorry." The brunet kept blubbering as Roxas tried to comprehend why his cousin could be outside the balcony door.

"Sora, why are you here?" He asked quickly, before his shirt could become stained with salt water.

"O-oh yeah, I was s-sent to bring you to the funeral. I forgot! Crap, comeon Roxas, we've gotta hurry!" Sora took off at a run, sprinting down the hall and stairs until he was out the door and down the street in no time. Roxas on the otherhand took his time getting there, instead choosing to sidle down the stairs and make his way very slowly down the hill and to where he'd finally have to realize that his family really wasn't coming home this time.

I know, Sora is a bit of a crybaby, but I wanted a good foil to Roxas' unusual stoic-ness about the whole situation. And, all though in the games Sephiroth calls Jenova his 'mother' I wanted to put him and the remnants in there, just because I felt like it. :)

Also, the lyrics used in this chapter are owned completely and irrevocably by Sting (the musician) and they are the lyrics to the song 'Until' from the movie 'Kate and Leopold' (a very good chick flick :))

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