The Passionate Beat

The Passionate Beat
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Chapter Two

Warning: I don’t own the characters, Kingdom Hearts, or Squeenix…so I don’t make money off of this…which is a shame.
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“Mom! We’re here!” the twins called out into the seemingly empty house as they pushed the door open, walking in with Riku, Axel and Demyx following closely behind them.

“I’m out back boys!” a female voice came through the open patio door off the side of the open kitchen. Waving at everyone to leave their shoes on, Demyx followed the other four that knew this house so much better than him. They made their way out through the double doors into the modest sized backyard, giving Demyx little time to look through the house. The fenced in space was nice and grassy, a single picnic table with an umbrella set up in the centre of the grass, while a barbeque was placed under the overhang of the house, a thin lady tending to it, smoke billowing out from everywhere.

“Hi Mom,” Sora and Roxas both smiled, walking up to the woman, causing her to turn around and face the small group, a bright smile lighting her face. Instantly, Demyx took notice of where the twins got their bubbly and open personalities.

“Welcome home, boys.” She returned their smile, receiving a hug and a kiss on each cheek from her sons. “And don’t think that you three can just stand there and not hand out hugs and kisses.”

“Wouldn’t dream of it, Ana,” Riku laughed, walking over to the petite blonde, mimicking what her sons had just done, followed by both Axel and Demyx.

“Happy birthday, Demy dear,” Ana grinned broadly, giving him an extra tight hug.
“Have you enjoyed yourself so far?”

“Yeah, I’ve had a great time so far. The beach was amazing. I still can’t believe how warm it is here on Destiny Islands. It wasn’t nearly this nice back in Radiant Garden,” Demyx answered with a laugh at the woman who had professed herself to be his make-due-mother from the moment that they met. “What can I do to help?” This comment earned the blond a stern look.

“You are not here to help, Demy. You are here to celebrate. I have these two to slave away for me, so you go plunk your cute little bottom down at the table, and no, you are not allowed to help Sora and Roxas set it.” Despite her tiny stature, when Ana told you do something, you did it, no questions asked.

“Alright. If you insist,” Demyx smiled, making his way over to the picnic table that Sora and Roxas were indeed setting.

“Mom banished you to the table, didn’t she?” Roxas asked with a grin as he placed a place mat in front of his friend.

“I assume that this is a normal thing?” Demyx asked as Sora followed behind his brother, placing plates on each of the brightly coloured mats.

“Yup! You should have seen her last year at our birthday. Because Riku was away doing family type stuff, and Roxy and Axel had only been together for like 3 months, she didn’t realize that there wasn’t going to be anyone else around to help her, and she wouldn’t let us do anything, not even help with the cooking. And trust us when we say that anything warm is not her speciality,” Sora continued, laughter in his voice as well.

Raising an eyebrow, Demyx snuck a peak over at the barbeque, and sure enough, Riku was now the one tending to whatever was on the grill, the smoke no longer pouring out like it had been when they had first arrived.

“Why do you think that we know how to cook? Same with Riku. For years, it seemed like the only time that we got a hot meal that wasn’t take-out was if we were over at his house,” smiled Roxas.

“At least mom was always welcome too,” added Sora, as he sat down across from his taller friend. Roxas joined his twin at the table and nodded.

“Sora! Roxas! Do you want mushroom or eggplant?” Riku called across the yard.

“Eggplant!” Roxas answered at the same time as Sora yelled “Mushroom!” causing Demyx to laugh at them. The two of them were always so much fun to be around. It was as if just being in their presence was enough to bring a smile to even the hardest face. It wasn’t even bad to be around them when they got into one of those horny moods that they were susceptible to.

“What are the three of your gossiping about over here? I hope it is my mad sex skills. Cause they are legendary,” Axel smirked as he walked over, a large bowl of pasta salad in one hand and a large pitcher of lemonade in the other.

Roxas just huffed. “The only place that your skills are legendary is in the penitentiary.”

The two others at the table burst out laughing as Ana walked back towards the table, a stack of cups in her hand. “No sex talk at the table, boys,” she scolded, placing the plastic cups in front of all six places. Axel added the salad to the middle of the table before pouring some of the lemonade into each of the cups. At that moment, Riku came over with two large platters, each of them over laden with food.

“Alright, grilled eggplants and mushrooms for the veggies, and nice thick t-bone steaks for us carnivores,” the silver haired teen smiled, placing the platters down before taking his seat next to Sora. Ana and Axel sat on either side of Demyx, creating a nice cozy atmosphere. Sora reached out and began to dish out the food for everyone. The first was the smallest steak going to his mother, then both an eggplant and mushroom for Demyx. He placed a juicy steak on each Axel and Riku’s plates before giving his brother a piece of eggplant and a mushroom for himself. Roxas then took over, dishing out the pasta salad to each plate. Sitting down, everyone gave their thanks for the meal before digging in.

“So, what are your plans for the rest of the night?” Ana asked, wiping the corner of her mouth with a brightly coloured napkin.

“We’re heading up to Hollow Bastion for the night. My cousin is a DJ at a club there, and it just so happens that they are having their annual pride night,” Riku shrugged, wiping his own mouth off. “And we will be spending the night at his house, so we aren’t going to be driving.”

“Riku! You ruined the surprise!” whined Sora and Roxas in unison, laughter erupting from the others at the table.

“If it makes you feel any better, I already knew,” Demyx smiled sheepishly at the twin boys. He watched as identical blue eyes turned to focus on him, mirrored looks of shock plastered on the brother’s faces.

“Who told?” they exclaimed, each sending their boyfriends evil glares. With guilty looks taking over their features, both Axel and Riku raised their hands in admittance of their crimes. This brought upon loud yelling and cursing from the blond and the brunet, each of them focusing solely on the other’s boyfriend.

“Boys!” Ana all but screamed, clapping her hands together loudly to accent her point. Instantly, Sora and Roxas sat up board-straight, one hand held to their temple in a salute, looking at their mother with almost panicked looks on their faces. “Now shut up and eat the rest of your dinner. Don’t make me bring out your prom pictures.”

Both teens ‘eeped’ before digging into their still full plates, no more noise coming from either of them.

“I’m telling you, Ana. You have got to teach me that trick sometime,” Riku chuckled, amused at the quiet state of his boyfriend next to him.

“Oh, Dem. You’ve got to see those pictures some time,” Axel smirked, staring his lover down across the table, but getting no response from the blond. Just giving his best friend a smile and a shrug, Demyx just continued to enjoy his meal.

The rest of dinner passed by without incident, and with no more threats of bringing out prom pictures. And while everyone else was cleaning up, Demyx felt useless as no one was letting him do anything to help. He was allowed to watch and talked to them, but he wasn’t even permitted to stand up and be over near the clean up. Eventually, after standing on the side lines for what seemed like forever, Sora and Roxas were finished with their chores and grabbed Demyx’s arms without warning and dragged the blond up the stairs to their bedroom. Demyx had only ever been up here once before, and wasn’t surprised when he only saw the single queen sized bed in the room, with two overnight bags on it. That was something that Demyx never understood. How come the two of them were that close? If he didn’t know better, he would think that they were incestuous, and some days he wasn’t even sure that they weren’t. They sure were strange kids.

“So, now that you know where we are going, you can help us dress you,” Sora said, pushing Demyx onto the bed. Demyx could only look at the two of them with widened eyes.

“And because it is Pride Night, the bar is going to be completely full of hot guys looking for a sexy single guy like you to fuck. So, you are going to have to dress the part,” Roxas’ voice held an evil tone, and suddenly Demyx started to fear for his and his ass’s safety for tonight.

But before he could raise his voice in protest, a large piece of orange duct tape was pressed over his lips, effectively stopping his speech.

“Hope you shaved this morning, because that is going to hurt like a bitch if you didn’t,” Sora smirked before turning around and starting to dig in the bags that held clothes, hair products and a bunch of other things that Demyx was sure that he didn’t want to know what they were.

While all this was going on upstairs, Riku and Axel continued to help clean up downstairs with Ana’s supervision. “So, you promise that none of you are going to be driving after you go to the bar tonight?” Ana questioned her son’s boyfriends in a motherly tone.

“Promise,” Riku smiled. “We’re spending the night at my cousin’s, and he only lives about 3 blocks from the club. We aren’t even driving there. My aunt and uncle are out of town for the week and Zex would probably like the company. Besides, he starts school next week too and is renting the house with me, but he has never been there and needs someone to follow back to Radiant Garden.” The silver haired teen then looked over at the petite woman, hoping that she wasn’t going to freak out and break down again.

Ana had been a complete wreck last week when Sora and Roxas had moved out of the house so that they could attend RGU. And although the two of them had gotten a dorm room to share, everyone knew that they were going to be spending most of their time at either Axel, Riku or Demyx’s place. “Oh, alright. As long as you boys all look out for one another. I don’t want anything bad to happen to any of you. Call it a mother’s worry.” She sighed, hanging up her dish towel.

Axel just scoffed. “With twins like Sora and Roxas, you have all the more reason to worry,” He laughed, as he dried the dishes that Ana had just finished washing, before passing them to Riku to put away.

“Ladies and Gentlemen!” A pair of voices rang from the staircase, causing the three in the kitchen to look over where both Sora and Roxas stood on the stairs, each with a gin that was way too innocent to mean any good. “Let us present to you, the ultra hip, super sexified, ready to get his ass pounded into by some random hot guy, Demyx!” As soon as they called out the older blond’s name, Roxas reached up and pulled their friend down the stairs.

Only someone without eyesight wouldn’t be able to turn and look at the figure being forced down the stairs. His legs were wrapped in a form fitting pair of black leather pants, the material clinging to and accentuating his perfect little ass. On the top, Sora and Roxas had covered his chest with a tight baby blue shirt that came down his arms, stopping just below the elbows. Silkscreened on the front of the shirt were black and white music notes, a large black guitar in the centre. To complete the ensemble, he wore a silky black button down shirt, left unbuttoned. The sleeves only came partially down his biceps, so it left the sleeves of his blue shirt exposed.

“Oh, Demy,” Ana sighed happily with a smile as the three made their way down the stairs. She wasted no time in rushing over and taking the lanky blond into a bone crushing hug. Demyx just smiled at his surrogate mother, only a small twinge of jealousy and regret invading into him at the contact.

“Whoa. Dem, you clean up well,” Riku laughed as Sora quickly ran over and glommed onto him. Roxas just shook his head at his twin’s actions before calmly walking over to his own boyfriend, passing right by his mother and friend. Axel said nothing to his best friend, but the huge grin on his face was more than enough to give away his emotions to everyone watching the redhead.

Axel was proud of Demyx.

Ana finally let the poor kid go when his lips started to match his shirt. “So, you boys all have fun. Make sure that if you do find someone, Demy, that you use protection, alright?” the woman said, her sparkling blue eyes holding nothing but the utmost love and concern.

“I promise, Ana. But I’m not really interested in finding someone tonight. I just want to go and have some fun.”

“But sex is fun!” Both Sora and Roxas exclaimed instantly, earning laughter from the other four.

“Anyway, we need to head out soon. The doors open at 8, and we need to drop the things off at Zex’s house,” Riku piped up from the spot he took on the couch, Sora attached tightly to his side.

“Yeah. Ana, thank you so much for everything today. Dinner and dessert were awesome.” The birthday boy gave their hostess a warm smile, but there was something about it that didn’t sit well with Ana. The smiled still didn’t reach his eyes. Unable to restrain herself at the sight, Ana pulled him into another tight hug.

“You’re more than welcome,” she whispered, rubbing his back gently. “I may not be your birth mother, but know that you are like a son to me. I will do anything for you, and you are always welcome here. Just remember that, alright?” the blonde woman’s voice began to crack at the thought of what Demyx had gone through in the past, and it was all she could do to give him one last squeeze of reassurance.

“I know. And it means a lot to me. I really appreciate it,” Demyx replied, returning the squeeze before pulling away. As soon as he did, two figures darted passed him, almost tackling the petite woman to the ground.

“You’re going to visit next weekend, right?” two muffled voices spoke from where Sora and Roxas had their faces buried against their mother’s shoulder. Ana just had an arm around each of her sons, tears that had been threatening to fall now making their way down her cheeks. The first year kids go off to college was always the hardest.

“Of course. Call me in the morning when you leave Hollow Bastion, alright?” Ana sniffed.

“Okay. Love you, Mom,” the twins answered, each leaning in and placing a soft kiss against their mother’s cheek. After they pulled away, Riku and Axel both said their farewells to Ana, neither event being quite as grandiose as the previous two, and after that, they packed up the last of their things up into the back of Riku’s black car, before piling in and with a final wave, they were out on the road and on their way.

From his position in the passenger’s seat, Demyx just stared out the window in complete silence, watching the twilight set all the scenery ablaze with colour. Today had been a great day so far, and in all honesty, he was sort of excited about going to the club. It had been so long since he had been to a pride night. The last time had been was when…No! He wouldn’t allow himself to think of those sort of things. It was his birthday for crying out loud! A time to spend with friends and…Demyx just let out a deep sigh that had been easily heard by the car’s driver in the odd silence of the car.

“Something on your mind, Dem?” Riku questioned, briefly looking over at the sound of the sigh.

Startled slightly by the sound of the silver haired teen’s voice, Demyx took a quick look to the back seat, only to see Axel asleep in the centre, a twin on either side of him, curled up and just as asleep as the redhead. “I don’t know,” he sighed.

Riku took a quick peek back in the rear view mirror and smiled, before turning and looking at the obviously depressed blond. “Are you jealous of Sora and Roxas?” For some reason, the source of Demyx’s depression was obvious to Riku.

Demyx straightened instantly in his seat. “What? I mean, no! Of course not! Why would I be?”

The younger teen just chuckled. “You want what they have.”

“Huh? Never! I mean, come on, why would you think that?” the blond stuttered, unsure of where Riku was going with this.

“You’d be amazed with how much you can learn through the lens of a camera,” Riku just smirked.

Demyx let out another long breath. “Why should I be jealous of them? They are my friends. And no offense, but I am not attracted to either you or Axel.”

“No, you want the closeness that they have with each other, as twins. And you want the type of relationship they have with their mother.”

“I just don’t understand why everything had to be so difficult for me. I guess because today is my birthday, it is just another year since everything happened. But I didn’t even get calls from Naminé and Larxene today. And that hurts,” Demyx vented, just needing to get all this off his chest.

“Oh, right. You came out on your birthday, didn’t you?” Riku said, as much to himself as to the other conscious man in the car.

“Yeah. I mean, Nami and Larx knew, obviously, and they told me that they would support me no matter what. But I didn’t think that coming out would involve being disowned,” Demyx sighed, and even though he knew that Riku already was aware of his situation, it really helped to voice what had gotten him in such a mood. Dinner at Ana’s house had only cemented how much he missed his family. But despite the loneliness that he felt at the loss of his parents, Demyx didn’t regret any of his choices up to this point in his life.

“If there is anything that I have learned from being around the strangest set of twins in the world my entire life, is that they definitely have a connection that no one else has. Whether it is twins or triplets, identical or fraternal, there is something there. And Naminé and Larxene are both thinking of you today, you know that,” Riku spoke softly, and the insight that he provided from an outside source gave Demyx a small smile. It really did help just talking about it.

“What was Ana’s reaction when both Sora and Roxas came out?” Demyx grinned, watching the silver haired teen as he concentrated on the road, glad that the noisiest occupants of the car were all dead to the world.

Riku just laughed at the statement. “She always had an idea about Sora. I mean, we started fooling around when he was 12, and have been together ever since. And she was all for it. She almost acted as if she wanted it, even back when we were little. She was convinced that we were destined to be together. There was one time when we were about 5 or 6, and Ana went so far to dress Sora up in a little wedding dress so that he and I could get ‘married’, and Roxas was going to marry their cousin Kairi. Poor girl. I don’t think that she has ever forgiven Roxas for leaving her at the altar, complaining that if I could marry Sora, so could he.”

Demyx allowed himself a light chuckle, easily being able to picture the twins doing just that. “And when Roxas came out?”

“What Sora does, Roxas does. So she had already sort of figured that one out.” The younger teen shrugged. “Besides, I think the world would be in a deep pile of shit if either of them decided to reproduce.” The familiar smirk found its way back onto Riku’s face.

“Ana is really something.” Demyx smiled at the thought of the kindly woman who had taken him under her wing and treated him as one of her own over the past year.

“That she is,” agreed Riku with a grin of his own. And just like that, the two of them lapsed into a comfortable silence, the drive to the neighbouring town flying by quickly. And Demyx felt worlds better now that his issues were out in the open. And maybe Larxene and Naminé were busy today, after all it was their birthday too, or maybe their parents had been around and they just hadn’t gotten the chance to call their brother. And that was something else Riku had been right about. He shared one of those bonds with his sisters. Even though they were all fraternal, the triplets definitely had that connection between them. But if they were comparing themselves to Sora and Roxas, well, no one in this world shared a bond quite like theirs.

“So, your cousin is the DJ tonight? Is he any good?” Demyx questioned, quickly tiring of the silence in the car.

“Well, he has been DJing for years, professionally for the last two. But he isn’t going to RGU for music though. He always said that it was just something that he was good at, and that he doesn’t mind doing. That, and it pays well,” laughed Riku.

“So, what is he going to be going to school for?” Demyx was just curious now. How could someone spend so much time on something like that, just because they were good at it? The thought itself left Demyx kind of stunned.

“English lit major, minor in art, I think. I have been telling him since he was four that he was going to grow up to be a librarian.” The chuckles still fell from Riku’s lips as they continued the drive, little grunts and snores from the backseat serving as their soundtrack.

Something about the drive suddenly pierced Demyx’s thoughts, sending things just flooding through his mind. Shaking his head to rid his mind of the unpleasant thoughts, Demyx decided that tonight will be about having fun and nothing else.

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Chapter two! Better late than never, right? Sorry it took so long, but as I said, it has been a busy couple of months. Thanks again to Tifa-san for betaing this for me! I really really appreciate it! And thank you to Pahoyhoy, just cause I love you, okies, hehe :)


As for the lack of Zexion again in this chapter, he will be in the next one, I promise! I just really felt that I needed to explain some of the backgrounds in it. And I am hoping to have a small break in my schedule of weeks and have a little more time to write on this, as well as my other ones in the go.

As for if you want this to be a Zemyx or a Dexion, what would everyone prefer? Leave a note in your review and let me know! I’m just curious as to what everyone would like to see out of this story! Thanks again for reading, and I would really like if you would leave a review, because they always make me smile! Until next time!