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Warning: Slash or Yaoi whichever you prefer. Boys kiss boys, if you don't like it don't read it!! Alright onto the story then.

Video Games and Realizations

"Sora?"

The door was unlocked, so the tall boy decided to let himself in. At first everything seemed quiet, but then he detected faint noises coming from upstairs as well as the sound of someone shouting in disappointment. Sora must be playing video games again. With a smile Riku dashed up the stairs to Sora's room,

"Hey Sora, I…"

"Oh!" A blond boy jumped up startled. "Uh, Sora's not home yet. He said something about trying out for the fencing team at school." Blue eyes looked down to the carpet while his hands found their way into his pockets.

"Oh," was all that the older boy said.

"Yeah," a moment of awkward silence hung in the air before both boys spoke at once.

Roxas shook his head blond spikes bouncing. "What?"

"I said, 'I guess I'll come back later then.'"

Roxas let out a soft "Oh," and he looked down once more, hiding the disappointment on his face.

"Rox?"

"Yeah?!" he answered looking up almost too eagerly.

"Did you say something too?"

"Oh," his voice went soft again. Riku had never been close with Sora's little brother and Roxas had always been a bit shy around him. "I said that you could wait here." He looked up hopefully, "I mean I was just playing video games and you could play too. Sora has some really cool games and…"

Riku never had been one for video games, but Sora's brother was trying to be helpful and it was all rather cute. "Sure." Riku said.

The video games turned out to be a good idea since neither boy talked much and when they had hung out together in the past, Sora had been the one doing all the talking. An hour past by quickly both boys taking turns racing trying to beat each other's scores. Riku ended up thinking that Roxas wasn't half bad company when Sora wasn't around.

He handed the controller to Roxas not noticing the blush that crept up the younger boy's neck when their fingers brushed. "So," he asked leaning back on his elbows, "how was your first week of high school?"

"Uh," Roxas avoided crashing into a wall but nearly ran into another car, "good."

They fell back into their companionable silence, occasionally making comments to the other about the game.

Five-thirty. Sora said he'd be home slightly after six. It was now or never, who knew if he'd ever get a chance like this again. Suddenly Roxas's mouth felt very dry and his hands began to sweat as he paused the game.

"Hey, why'd you stop?" Riku asked sitting up.

Roxas turned to face the silver haired boy, but chose to focus intensely on the carpet. "Can I talk to you about something? Something I can't talk to Sora about?"

Riku was half curious and half weirded out. "I thought you and Sora talked about everything?"

Roxas shuffled a little bit pulling his knees up to his chest and looking up at Riku with his big blue eyes, "Not about this."

Damn those eyes! It was the same look that Sora gave him every time he wanted something. The same look that made him melt every time Sora did it. "Alright."

"Well you know my friend Ollette?"

Riku thought for a moment and recalled a dark-haired girl who liked pigtails. He nodded signaling Roxas to continue.

"Well, she and I started spending more time together this summer, alone sometimes, I mean without Hayner and Pence, and…"

Listening, Riku wondered where the younger boy could be going with this. Sex talks were not high on his list of things he wanted to do and Sora would be much better at this than he would.

"We went to the movies a couple of times, and, and…" he was blushing now and hiding his face behind his knees, "we held hands a lot, and cuddled, and I kissed her and…" he mumbled something.

Riku leaned forward, "What was that."

The blond looked up his eyes begging for understanding, "I think I like guys."

"And you thought you could talk to me about this, because?"

"Well, I… you see… you… I… I…"

Sighing Riku cut him off speaking in a matter-of-fact voice, "You're more observant than your brother."

Roxas nodded.

"Well I don't know if I can help you much. I mean the only boy I ever liked is your brother. I'm not exactly and expert on… liking boys."

The blond nodded again. "Well you see, I thought maybe, I…" he blushed and looked down.

"You thought what Roxas?"

His blue eyes looked straight into Riku's Aqua ones and having set his mind to do this he spoke. "Can I kiss you?"

Riku's mouth dropped open, while the question hung in the air between them, creating an awkward feeling. And neither quite knew what to say.

"Rox, I… don't you want your first kiss to be special?"

"I told you" Roxas, feeling less shy after asking something so bold, curled his legs underneath him and leaned forward a bit. "I've already had my first kiss, and my second, and my third. But none of them felt right. I just… I want to see if kissing a boy is any different. And… well I…"

The other boy's heart began to beat quickly in his chest; Riku had never really kissed a boy either. And part of him was a tad bit scared and wanted to say no, but another part really wanted to see what it felt like. And Roxas really did look like Sora.

"I… sure."

Both shuffled around a bit, awkwardly Riku situating himself so he was sitting up with his legs underneath him and Roxas, taking the initiative to lean forward so that he was sitting up on his hands and knees.

Their lips met. It was soft, tentative at first. Roxas hesitated but Riku leaned into the kiss and found that he was enjoying himself. It was over quickly, but it was long enough that neither would question whether kissing girls was better.

Still only inches apart Riku smiled softly and asked, "So, what do you think?"

The blonde smiled back, "I think I like boys."

And then Riku's hands were touching his face and pulling him closer to his lips. Roxas didn't resist and allowed himself to be lead. The kiss was longer, explorative. Riku's tongue ran over the younger boy's bottom lip and Roxas allowed him entrance with a moan. Muscular arms circled Roxas pulling, dragging him in and he found himself situated in Riku's lap.

It was then that their hands began to explore more running over each other's arms and chest, both reveling in the feeling of delving into what they truly desired for so long. They broke apart breathing heavily and Riku watched as Roxas licked his lips and found that he liked having the smaller boy curled up in his lap looking at him hungrily.

He captured Roxas's lips again this time harder, more forceful and was rewarded by soft moans from the smaller boy.

Suddenly, they heard the door open and shut and Sora's cheerful voice calling out, "Rox, I'm home!"

Riku and Roxas locked eyes for a moment an unspoken agreement between them—that there were not going to tell Sora!

Roxas practically jumped off the older boy, diving for the PS2 controller, and re-immersing himself in the neglected game. Riku merely ran a hand through his silvery hair and leaned back watching the TV as if nothing had happened.

By the time Sora got to his room, both boys seemed totally involved in the game. It was odd that Riku and Roxas seemed to be hanging out, but Sora had been hoping that the three of them could be closer for years since both Riku and his brother were his best guy friends.

"Riku! I didn't know you were coming over! And it is good to see you two hanging out."

Riku smirked, "Yeah, turns out we had more in common than we thought."

The comment was lost on Sora who merely smiled but Roxas caught it and wondered how Riku could treat it so casually. "So Sora, how were tryouts?"

Plopping down on the carpet with a great huff Sora began to tell them all about tryouts. "I made junior varsity" irritation evident in his tone. "Turns out the captain is this senior named Axel. And he said that anyone who wanted to make varsity had to be him."

"Is he good?" Roxas asked a little too interested.

Sora sighed. "He's the best! He could beat everyone and only the people he wanted on varsity could get on it."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean the only people who beat him, are the people who he let win!"

"What and asshole!" Roxas tried to comfort his brother.

"Why did you want to join the fencing team anyways?" Riku cut in.

Sora blushed. "Promise not to laugh?" After receiving nods from both other boys, he sighed. "Well, Kairi has been going on and on about this kid Saix."

Maybe Sora didn't notice the annoyed look on Riku's face, but Roxas sure did. Sora had just kept on talking.

"Well, he's a junior and on the fencing team. So I thought that if she liked him, well, maybe she'd like me if I were on the fencing team."

Riku laughed and Roxas snorted.

"Don't make fun!" a pout crossed Sora's lips and Riku still feeling rather hot and bothered found himself eager to rush forward and take them in his own.

Instead Riku stretched an arm out, and laid it gently on his friend's shoulder.

"Alright Sora if this is something you want to do, then we support it."

"Really?" both other boys nodded. "Thank you guys!" He cheered up after that. And promptly asked Riku for help with math. "Geometry is so hard! I'm not good at this like you were Riku! And you did it all last year!"

Soon enough Roxas felt like a third-wheel and went to his own room. He wasn't entirely certain what had happened that evening, but he was fairly sure he liked it. What's more, he thought he might actually like Riku, who liked his brother, who happened to have a crush on his childhood friend Kairi. Things were about to get complicated.

AN: Hope you like it! I know I may move fast, but this is going to be an Axel/Roxas fic eventually. Gotta get there first though. Reviews appreciated!