The War that Binds Us (Yaoi! Yay!)

[Rikugurl]

Riku blinked. "Sora! No wait...." He reahce out but Sora was half way down the street by now. He stood and watched his friend disapper into the darkness of the night. What if something bad happens? What... if he gets taken away again?

"SORA!" He yelled again... but no response. A sigh. He was too tired to follow and his lip was killing him. He walked to a street lamp and sat down, never letting his eyes leave the spot where Sora disappeared to. Please don't get yourself into any trouble.



The patter of shoes on gravel traveled through his ears. Red and yellow crossed his path and waited for it to pass before pushing his lanky body from the wall. His arms uncrossed as he stood in the middle of the street, watching the boy continue to run.




"So now your search for me? I should be flattered." The red head remarked as he watch Sora run off. "However, I'm not. I had to remind you that we were best friends. The Roxas I knew is long gone.... isn't he?" The red hair fell over his long black shirt that hugged his curves. Blue jeans came down to black shoes. He was no longer in his Oganization clothes. Why would he be? He wasn't a part or them anymore.

A ring of fire circled around them, blazing up infront of Sora so he couldn't run off any further.

He put his hands out by his hips, and as soon as he did, balls of flame appeared, circling around until they made his chakrams. A grin appeared as he moved his body to the flow of him twirling the rings in his hand. His bright green eyes glared at the boy, almost... the color of the ocean.

"You won't forget this!" His body started to go up in flames as he soon got into stance.

[Reno]

"Axel!" Sora cried in surprise, the keyblade instinively appearing in his hand. he looked at it, shocked. "wait a minute!"

Sora... please Roxas pleaded quietly.

Sora didn;t even need to ask. "last time... last time we saw each other... Axel you said you wanted to see Roxas. Well..." Sora shut his eyes, then pushed Roxas to the forefront of his mind and the switch was both visible and draining. They had done it once or twice before... but never under these conditions.

Roxas stumbled a bit, feeling the pain from the crash affect him now, then he looked over at Axel... his best friend. "I don;t want to fight you."

[Rikugurl]

The red head's eyes softened as he saw the blonde. Is.... is that really you, Roxas?. He had called Sora 'Roxas' like all the other Nobody's... but that was only because they could feel him inside of Sora. But it wasn't until now that he actually saw his friend. His best friend.

"You really do remember me this time?" He asked as the chakrams burst into flames and disappeared.

He slowly walked up to the shorter blonde. "When you left... you said no one would miss you." He looked away slightly. "I did. I missed you a lot." He looked back at Roxas and sighed.

"The war is going to start soon Roxas, we need your help. You... you were the only one I liked... and having you fight with us would be the key to us winning." He smiled and moving his hand a bit as he talked. "And if we win... we can have hearts."

[Reno]

who's us? Sora asked suspiciously.

Roxas felt the keyblade disappear from his fingertips. "Axel i..." he looked up at him, frowning. he looked down. "i;d love to join you... but Sora..." he shook his head. "who's... who's us? the organization?"

[Rikugurl]

The red head blinked. "The Organization? Hell no." He looked down, a bit disappointed. "Have you forgotten who and what you are?"

Looking back down at his friend, he tapped on his head.
"You're a Nobody, got it memorized?" He lean back and sighed.

"Us....as in the Nobody's. You have no idea what this war is about do you?" He gave the younger one a doubtful look.

[Reno]

Sora watched the exchange from the back of his own mind silently, curiously. He wanted to know more... and Axel knew more...

"Well no we've been kind of left in the dark." Roxas admitted, frowing. "And i'm not a Nobody anymore... i have a heart."

[Rikugurl]

Well, if you weren't hanging out with these loonies, you'd probably know what I'm talking about The other thought.

But since he knew Roxas for quite a long time...well... almost three years, he'd decided to clue his friend in about the war. Being a Nobody, he knew what the war was all about...

But...

"And i'm not a Nobody anymore... i have a heart."

A HEART!? He didn't have a heart! He.... he couldn't have a heart. He's still his own.... He looked at his friend. Sora.... Sora was Roxas's heart. All they needed was to fuse back into one. Then.... Roxas will.... disappear. His anger quickly left into hurt.

"But.... don't you want another heart? One for yourself? I mean...." His voice grew sad. "We're just shells Roxas... We're different from Heartless. If we get out own hearts... we can live our own lives... not the lives of... the hearts we use to have. If you... reunit with your heart fully... you'll disappear. I don't want you to disappear.... Don't you understand?"

[Reno]

Roxas opened his mouth then shut it and looked away. "i..."

Sora frowned, feeling sudden sadness sweep over him, but it wasn;t his... it was Roxas. he frowned. Roxas...

"Of course i do..." the blonde whispered sadly. "I want to live my own life... I want to make friends on my own and eat sea salt icecream again..." he smiled forlornly up at the other. "I want to be with you again." he looked away suddenly. "But Sora needs me. I;m half of what he is!"

[Rikugurl]

A soft smile ran across the tall man's face as his eyes brightened a bit. "Well... maybe Sora can help us too."

He looked to his side and held his palm out, making a black cloud form and split, showing an illustration of the story he was about to tell.

"You see Roxas, while you were away with Sora." That's what his name was right? "A witch from the darkness started making the Heartless grow stronger since her new castle resides so close to the Darkness. The World That Never Was.... is still.... well.... there because it's the closest place that Darkness can get to Kingdom Hearts. As you know, Kingdom Hearts hold all of the lost hearts in the universe."

"Hearts control amazing power, and to have them in a huge group.... who knows what the Heartless might do to the worlds." He looked at Roxes and sighed.

"And... that's were we...." He paused. "Where I come in." He showed some real life battles in the orb now. "The Nobody's want hearts too... but not for evil you see? We just want to live again as a whole. We're just the souls of the people who became Heartless. We DO exist... but to ones with hearts... don't think one can exist without a heart I guess."

He seemed to be getting bored with his own story. "So..." A sigh. "The only way we can get more hearts is to destroy Heartless so that their hearts can become one with Kingdom Hearts... and once Kingdom Hearts has enough hearts... us Nobody's can get a heart of our own. We can be whole again."

He fanned the cloud away and turned his green eyes back to Roxas. "So... you see, the keyblade isn't just a key to lock and unlock things.... it's the key to hearts. It's called The Keyblade War because only keyblades can pull hearts from the Heartless. More people have been chosen to be keyblade holders.... even Nobody's.... like you. That's why we need you."

He yawned. "And I hope you got that memorized because I'm not telling that to you again."

[Reno]

Roxas chuckled lightly, smiling at the familarity of Axel's trademark phrase, before letting the keyblade appear in his hands. he looked down at it fingering it. "Yeah i got it. i'm not as absent-minded as Sora."

HEY! i understood too! Sora pouted.

Roxas chuckled again. "so... only we keybladers can fix this mess..." Ever since he had rejoned with Spra, lot sof things had happened to him. First and foremost was the tide of feelings that had washed over him, but secondary to that was a strange sense of duty... to following his destiny type of thing. He learned so much about the keyblade and what it was for and why eh and Sora were given it...

it was important...

and right now one of his dearest friends deperately needed his help. "of course i'll help you. got that memorized?" Roxas sad back with an arrogant smirk. He;d always been Sora's exact opposite - calmer, prouder, apathetic, snarkier, less caring, and in many ways stronger. "You're absolutely hopeless without me you know that?"

[Rikugurl]

He smiled and nodded but placed his hands on his hips. "Hey, at least I knew what the battle was all about before I joined it huh? Unlike your heart." He winked.

He brushed his red hair back and smirked. "I hope you get a new one... but for now... I have to get going. Heartless will be coming soon. We'll meet again.... in twilight town."

He nodded and suddenly jumped to the roof, disappearing into a hole in the wall.

[Reno]

"In Twlight Town." Roxas repeated, a small fond smile on his face. he stared at the spot Axel had vanished for a few minutes, just happy to know Axel was alive... "So it;s safe."

we don;t know that. Sora spoke up. Come on let;s head back, i'm dead tired.

Roxas nodded, casting one last wistful glance to the stars before he began walking back the way they came.

Sora?

yeah?

You'll help us, won;t you?

Sora paused thoughtfully, then laughed. You've been with me for how long now and you don't know the answer to that autotmatically? I answer any cry for help. You know i will... i think it;s unfair your trapped like this and if i can help you and Axel and everyone else... i will. As long as no one tries to kill me.

Deal. Roxas grinned a bit.

As the small house came into view, Roxas suddenly threw Sora to the forefront of their shared mind.

"Gah!" Sora stumbled, nearly falling on his face. "Warn me next time!"

Laughter echoed throughout his head.

"Not funny!" Sora pouted, then answered an unasked qualm that he could practically hear drumming at the back of Roxas mind. "And, heart or no heart, i think you and Axel exist too... Riku's wrong. But Riku;s been wrong a lot. I think you should know that by now." He grinned.

..... thank you. Roxas smiled, curling up around Sora;s mind and falling silent. Sora was his exact absolute too - emotive, loving, affectionate, oh so caring about everyone and everything... and stronger in some ways too. His Somebody was something speacial alright (and not just because he wielded a keyblade), and it took an idiot not to see it.

"Of course." Sora murmured caringly. In the distance he could see a streelamp and... "Riku?"

[Rikugurl]

The silver hair fell over the knees of his blue jeans. The pale skin covered the ocean eyes as the older boy was drifted into slumber. But... it wasn't a pleasant one.

Radiant Garden.... Hollow Baston....

"Come... foolish boy" The hand surrounded with black gloves held out towards the brunette in stance with the keyblade.

"What? You'd rather fight me? Over a puppet that has no heart?"
"Heart or no heart, at least he still has a conscience."
"Conscience? "
"You might not hear it, but right now it's loud and clear. And it's telling me you're on the wrong side!"

A shiver went down his spine.

A younger boy looked out to his friend again, the silver hair in his face as he held out his hand.
"Once we set through, we might not be able to come back. We may never see our parents again. There's no turning back. But this may be our only chance. We can't let fear stop us! I'm not afraid of the darkness! "

The Darkness....

The brunette fell to his knees. "It's Riku. Riku's here... I looked for you!"
"C'mon, Sora. You've got to pull it together..."
Tears started to fall from the boy's cheek.
"I looked everywhere for you!"
"...I didn't want you to find me."

Liquid formed underneath the lashes of the dreamer, slowly building up to run down his cheek.

[Reno]

So Riku had been... waiting for him? And the way he was slumped over told Sora that the elder boy had fallen asleep at his post.

The brunette chuckled, confused a bit by the strange glow of affection that ran through him. Strange... he;d only ever felt such a feeling for Kairi before... "Riku?" the boy called again, but he got no response.

Sora tilted his head, playfully thinking of a prank, but decided against it as he approached the other. That;s when he quickly realized whatever dreams Riku was having, they were not pleasant ones.

He kneeled down quickly, feeling shocked and tremendously worried at the tears. Instinctively, he reached up, cupping one of Riku's cheeks in his hands and brushing away the tears. the other reached up and shook the silver-haired man's shoulder. "Riku wake up." what was he dreaming about?

[Rikugurl]

His sleep was too deep to feel Sora's touch of affection, the dark dreams taking over his mind. They.... here never this bad... but it was here, Hollow Baston, that everything with his Darkness started. This place wasn't as complete as it could be. Still a few sections had a gloom of Darkness in it... and it seemed to know that Riku was here...

But the shaking made the boy open his eyes and looked around.
"Huh?" He blinked, some loose tears running down his eyes. Sleeping dew it must of been. He wipped his eyes dry, carefreely, and looked up at Sora.

"Oh.... Sora." He smiled softy. "I'm glad you're ok. Did you find Axel?"