A/N: I have an idea, and it just came to me, and it'll be awesome.

Life's Cheat Code

-Level 17: Begin-

The needle hurt only a little, and Riku's hand was there for him to squeeze with the first tiny prick.

Then the nurse missed the vein and that was when it really hurt.

"Did you know you were O negative? That's rare." The nurse said, fiddling with the bag of fresh blood and closing it.

Sora only hummed as an answer, rubbing sorely at the dinosaur band aid at the inner part of his elbow. Riku patted his shoulder and handed him his jacket.

"So, you will be tested for the works, then?"

"Uh…yeah."

She was kind of peppy. Like, two Rockstars, a Redbull, and a few Monsters worth of peppy. Especially at 7 in the morning, before school even started. Finals were coming up for the end of the first semester; if he even had a prayer of passing his classes decently, Sora was going to have to study like a maniac.

He filled out a little more paperwork and then they both were out the door. The two of them stayed relatively quiet when they got into Riku's car and were off to drop the brunet at school.

"I'm glad that's out of the way." Riku said, laughing. Sora only nodded with a sigh.

"What's…wrong?"

"I'm worried." He said plainly, a hint of sanity in his voice. "I mean, what happens if I have something? Something, I don't know, untreatable, or chronic, or-"

"You don't."

Sora raised an eyebrow. "I…don't?"

"No, you don't have a thing."

"...You don't know that."
"…Sora, what do you think I do at community college all day? Bite my nails?"

"Well," Sora looked down at his shoes. "Calculus?"

The second bell rang.

"And…?"

Sora shrugged.

"Physiology."

Sora blinked again. "Human body and disease. You want to be a doctor."

"Exactly. And you don't have too many of the outward symptoms of any of the STD's I've studied." He smiled.

Sora leaned forward, kissing him tenderly on the lips and jumped out of the car with his backpack. "Um…" He said, holding his door open. "I love you."

Riku smiled. "I love you too. Go to school."

Sora laughed and shut the car door. He hustled off to first period, opened the door, and was met with the eyes of everyone in the room. Including the teacher's.

"I'm glad you are here to grace us with your presence for a second day in a row, Mr. Haruna, but class starts at 7:45, not 7:52."

Sora rolled his eyes and dropped himself into his seat. It was going to be a long day.

/L-C-C\

Four hours went by like ninety, and it was finally lunch time. Sora was starving.

After fighting his way around the people who cut in line and got to the front, he got his lunch and scrambled out of the way. That was one thing he did not miss about high school: it was like Darwinism or something.

He didn't even get a tray; they had run out right before he got to the front of the line. Lame. He wandered through the quad to find somewhere to sit, when something had caught his eye; something familiar, something…blond. Someone blond.

Roxas was in a different food line; a more orderly one. And he was at the front and already coming out. They got the same little chicken burger thing.

Roxas didn't see him at first. But when he looked up, already taking a bite out the cheap chicken-patty-and-wheat-bun thing, he stopped. Then he took his bite, chewed, swallowed, and smiled.

"Hey." Roxas said as he shuffled his feet and took another small bite of his sandwich. He glanced from the concrete to the sandwich to Sora, waiting for his reply.

Sora only smiled. It wasn't a goofy, retard smile like Roxas was expecting, but one of those smiles only Sora has that could melt an iceberg. His head was tilted, his eyes sparkled, and his lips only parted for a split second before he wrapped his arms around Roxas. It was so sudden that both disgusting chicken-things were on the ground, and after Sora sniffled in his ear, Roxas hugged back.

The rest of school was a giddy mess. Roxas agreed that there were quite a few things for them to talk about after school and to meet at Sora's house. He was almost ecstatic in sixth period.

After the final bell he raced home. His feet were still sore as fuck, and his chucks sogged through to his socks, but he couldn't have cared less; he was getting his life back.

Roxas hadn't arrived at the house when Sora did. The brunet unlocked the door and ran a warm bath for his toes, which of course felt like they were melting off rather than warming up.

He was toweling them off when the doorbell rang. His heart thundered along with his feet down the stairs and almost skidded to a halt at the door. He opened it and found Roxas shivering outside.

His teeth chattered too much to talk. Sora brought him inside and gave him a blanket and some hot chocolate which was really hot chocolate milk from the microwave. He made another cup for himself

"So, you, and Axel…bumped uglies." Sora said after Roxas had stopped shivering long enough to give him the big news.

"Uh, yeah…" Roxas put the blanket on the counter that stood between the two boys. "A…couple of times."

"So, that makes it official then. You're gay."

Roxas glanced up accusingly.

"Unless you still like girls…?" Sora raised an eyebrow.

"Um… I don't think so." The blond scratched his head. "I think me liking guys isn't just a phase anymore."

Sora smiled. "Well…good to know. Details?"

"Uh, no." Roxas picked up his head, "How is Riku?"

"He's been busy lately." Sora stirred the steaming chocolate milk with a spoon absently. "He's having finals at the JC and, well… he's suddenly so motivated to pass all of his classes."

"It's because you're talking to him again, I think." Roxas gulped down the last bit of his drink.

Sora scoffed. "God, could you get any cheesier? Besides, I know that, but…" He shook his head, "It's just…a good thing that he remembers what he's working for."

"Oh yeah, and I'm cheesy." Roxas laughed, rinsing the cup and putting it into the sink. He sat back on the stool next to the counter and sighed. "Finals are coming up for us too, yanno."

"Yup. I'm not worried though." Sora took a drink. "And next June, we'll be graduates." He smiled at the blond and the whisper of a laugh escaped him. "It's like everything is going back to normal already."

"We still need to redo your iPod. I refuse to affiliate with people who listen to Hawthorne Heights." He hopped off the stool and began toward the stairs. "C'mon, I know some cool techno you'll like."

Sora smiled and followed the blond up the stairs.

/L-C-C\

"You have to tell him. I can't believe he hasn't gotten a clue yet."

"Look, I know, but it's really not that easy. It's Roxas, it's harder than just out telling him 'Roxy, baby, I'm a hopeless pothead. Do you still love me?'" Axel grunted in frustration. "God, I almost wish I didn't like him so much."

"Have you heard back from that ride operator job in Midgar yet?" Riku was sitting at his desk, not facing the pacing redhead, face glued to the screen of his mac. His itunes was playing some song by Green Day softly from its' tiny speakers.

Axel threw himself on Riku's bed, scowling up at his ceiling. "Yeah, I have an interview in, like, two weeks… Oh fuck, what if they drug test?"

"Then let the detox begin, my friend." He didn't look up from the book. "If you don't tell him soon, he'll notice how moody you get off the chronic."

"Ugh, I know, I know!"

The song changed suddenly to Hoobastank. When Axel started singing along the words of Disappear, Riku rolled a few inches away from his desk, and looked at Axel with an eyebrow arched. "Hoobastank. Hoobastank, Axel."

"Roxas has it on his iPod, what do you want from me?" He continued singing…worse than before.

"I wouldn't mind it if you had any singing talent." He rolled back to the desk and continued his work.

"…Roxas thinks I sing just fine."

"And that's all that matters, Axel." Riku propped an arm up on his desk and sighed. He changed the song to hopefully stop Axel's howling. Sucking on my titties like you wanted me, calling me, all the time like "blondie check out my prissy behind, its' fine all of the time"

Axel jumped off the bed, "Like sex on the beaches. What else is in the teaches of peaches? Huh, what?"

It was then that Riku also learned that Axel couldn't really dance, either.

/L-C-C\

It might have taken all night, but Roxas had managed to delete and replace all 3,753 songs from Sora's itunes plus another 9,000 techno songs Sora had never heard of. It was a 160 GB iPod – he had the space.

Luckily, Yori was awake at 4am that morning to come and pick Roxas up to get ready for school in a few hours. Roxas hadn't actually seen his mother in almost two weeks because of her crazy work schedule.

Having only about two hours of sleep, Sora was an exhausted mess as he trudged his way to school. His chucks were soaked through to his socks, his hair was a mess, and he thought he saw a pimple this morning on his way out the door, but he still managed a grin as he made his way to the campus.
At lunch, Sora and Roxas were in the quad with their imitation chicken sandwiches, talking about the odd array of songs on Sora's ipod.

"I like that one boat song. T-Pain really beefs it up with his auto-tune."

" I thought you'd like it. Have you gotten to any of the Psychostick songs yet?" Roxas asked as he took a sip of his chocolate milk.

"Not quite. But I probably will by sixth period." He chuckled after chomping on his sandwich.

Roxas put down his carton of milk when he felt his phone vibrate. He picked it out of his pocket – a text message. From Axel.

He flipped it open discretely and read to himself, picking up the carton of milk again and sipping absently.

hey so we need to talk. im picking you up tonight a little after 6. Love you :)

When Roxas heard the straggled sounds of straw sipping air, he knew it was a sign.

+Insert Coin To Continue?+

A/N: So for the sake of updating, here is an update :D
Uh so, a few things.
I'm in college now, which means probably even less updates. But I really want to finish this fic so I can…not work on them anymore. LOL

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