Fractured Memories

Pairings: Akuroku, Soriku

Genre: Suspence/Romance

Discription: AU Akuroku Soriku - Riku and Axel think that they've found the perfect boyfriend. Except for the fact that someone wants Sora and Roxas dead.

Disclaimer: I have Sora, Axel and Roxas action figures and all three games, but that is as much of Kindom Hearts as I own.

Warnings: Yaoi, lemon/lime, and a slight bit of violence, death, and kidnapping but most of that is just implied.

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Axel and Sora sat next to each other in the waiting room of the hospital. Every once and a while Axel looked over at the brunet, looking concerned, but he kept silent.

There were both so caught up in their own thoughts that they didn't even notice when two men walked over and stood in front of them.

"Excuse me," said the taller one quietly, breaking them from their thoughts. "I'm Detective Leonheart and this is Detective Strife." he indicated the other man beside him with spiky blond hair and a blank expression on his face. "We'd like to ask you a few questions about what happened."

Sora and Axel exchanged looks before turning back to the detectives.

"Where should we start?" Sora asked quietly. Now that he was paying attention he recognized Detective Strife from his own stay at the hospital a few weeks earlier, and knew that they couldn't gloss over things this time. He just hoped that Riku was okay and that they didn't lock him up in some padded room somewhere.

"Why don't you start at the beginning," Strife urged softly. Axel put a hand on his shoulder and he was grateful for the comfort even if it still felt a little strange.

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Riku was laughing at him as he bounced around their apartment, making sure he had everything he would need, whispering checklists under his breath and shoving more things into his backpack.

"Sora, I'm sure you have everything," Riku called out in amused exasperation as his friend ran back to his room for something else he had forgotten. "You don't really do much on the first day anyway. If you keep this up we'll be late!" Sora huffed and frowned at his best friend as he walked past him to the front door.

"That's easy for you to say, it's not your first day of college," he grumbled as they walked to Radian Garden University. Riku smiled at him and just shook his head.

"It's not that different from high school," he tried to assure him. " And besides, three of your classes are with me, don't worry." Sora sighed and tried to relax. Riku was probably right, but Sora wondered if his silver haired friend had been as nervous as he was now a year ago when he'd started at RGU.

He'd hated that they'd been apart for nearly that entire year after Riku had graduated. Sora's senior year had been hell without his best friend there with him. He'd missed him so much.

Riku grabbed his hand and pulled him towards a building that wasn't the one they had their first class together in and Sora looked at him in confusion. Riku just smiled.

"Come on, I'll show you a shortcut," he said, leaning in and almost whispering, as if it were a secret. Sora smiled back and let himself be led.

The classes really weren't so bad. But that could have been because so far they'd been together for all of them.

"Are you sure you don't want me to walk you to your class?" Riku asked for the fifth time as they walked out of their last one.

"Yes, I'm sure," Sora sighed. "It's right next to where we had our first one, I'm sure I can find it, and I don't want to you be late." Riku frowned but nodded in agreement, his last class being on the opposite side of campus from Sora's.

"Alright," his friend finally agreed. " Be careful."

Sora smiled at him as he walked off.

"I've only got one more class, it shouldn't be too bad. I'll see you later, okay?" Riku just smiled after him as he disappeared into the crowd of students and disappeared.