model behaviour

Chapter 2

Sora woke to the sound of banging on his door, he looked up over his brother's shoulder and growled.

"Sora Roxas it's nearly noon and we have things to take care of today!" Cloud their father poked his spiky blonde head into the room.

`"What things?" Sora asked.

"As I told you a week ago Aerith's brother is moving into the house next door and we are helping."

"Okay we'll be down in minute."

Cloud left the room and went next door.



Sora and Roxas finally arrived at the house and saw their dad talking with a tall silver haired man in blue jeans and a black shirt. Squall was in a pair of leather pants and a white shirt, he was carrying a box from the truck in the driveway to the house where Zack and a silver haired boy about their age in a white top and jeans. He was pale and had bright green eyes.

"Hey Squall!" Sora called.

"Sora Roxas nice of you to join us."

"at least we're here."

"True, Riku these are Sora and Roxas Cloud's sons, Sora Roxas my nephew Riku."

"Hey."

"Hi."

"Hello so what needs moving?"



"The boxes mostly but they are set up by room I think most of the ones in here are basement or kitchen."

"All right."



They picked up a couple of boxes carrying them into the building. Roxas ' box had basement on it, so he carried it to the steps. Another silver haired boy was down there looking through some of the boxes he looked up as he came down.

"Oh hi."

"Hi."

"I'm Miki."

"Roxas umm where does this go?"

"Over there." He gestured and went back to the boxes.

"Okay." Roxas put the box with a bunch of others. "What is all this stuff?"

"Photography supplies mostly also some old keepsakes. "

"Oh."



They headed back upstairs to get some more boxes Roxas followed, deciding he enjoyed the view.

The others were still moving boxes and furniture. Sephiroth and Cloud had also started carrying stuff. They worked for a few hours before Aerith and Kairi as well as Squall's wife,Rinoa with a pair of baskets.

"Hi guys we brought lunch." Aerith smiled brightly.

"Great,"

"Thank you Aerith."

"Of course Seph I'm happy to help my favorite brother."

"you say that to all of us."

"I know I hate to choose so you're all my favorites."

"Isn't she the best." Zack beamed and Squall simply smacked his brother on the back of the head.



"Aright boys,separate corners it's time to eat."

"Yes Rin."



They sat around the dark wood table in the half unpacked dinning room of Seph's house.

"You know if all of our parents know eachother why don't we?" Roxas asked Aerith.

"Well,Cloud and I went to school with Zack and Squall and your uncle. Seph's my older brother by about nine years so he was out of school but he and Zack met at work they hung out all the time but then Seph got a job at MIdgard and met your mother."

"We know what happened then." Miki spoke up.

"So how come we never met?"

"Well Zack and I usually brought Kairi to the city when we visited and Seph never came and visited us." She pouted at her older brother.

"Yes I had a lot of work Aerith."

"I know."

The rest of lunch passed with various anecdotes about the kids. After wards the five teens left to look around town Kairi Sora and Roxas giving Riku and Miki a tour.



They were about four blocks away near an apartment building when they ran into a group of their friends.

Two teen boys were playing Triple Triad (1) at a picnic table.

"Come here Ruby Dragon" Hyne a blond a couple of inches taller then Roxas in a black tank top and camo pants, crowed picking up one of the cards infront of Pence.

"Rematch." Pence said shuffling his cards. A pair of girls Namine and a brunette named Orlette were on the swings. Namine was the first to spot them.

"Kairi!" she called jumping off the swing Orlette was only a step behind her, the boys looked up from their game.

"Hey Nami Orlette." She smiled. "these are my cousins Riku and Miki, Riku Miki our friends Namine, orlette, Pence and Hyne."

"Actually I'm Sora and Roxas' cousin."

"Nice to meet you."

"A pleasure, You're Zack's nephews then right?"

"Yeah."

"He's told me about you you want to go into a modeling agency right?"

"Yeah."

"Well, there is a good one here The Honey Bee Inn, Pence and I both work there."

"I can tell you defiantly look like a model." Riku smiled at her.

"So do you." he looked her up and down talking in the short white dress and strappy white sandals.

"Nami down." Sora joked and she smiled at him. "Aww is my little cousin embarrassed."

"I'm older then you Nami."

"So."



"So is there anything else to do around here?" Miki interrupted.

"Well ther is Blitz-ball. the Highschool team has won four championships, their Captain and Forward are both being scouted by the professional league too." Hyne told him.

"Cool."

"Well, Tidus is a given since he's the Zararkand Abe's star player's son after all."

"Sounds good."

"Yeah there is also the Butterfly."

"Butterfly?"

"Yeah it's the arcade in town it's the best place to hang out."

"Cool."

The group continued to talk as they headed over to the arcade. Pence and Miki fell into a deep discussion of cameras, their uses and subjects. The girls wandered off to talk occasionally giggling every time Orlette peered in Hyne's direction. Meanwhile Sora, Hyne, and Riku started comparing pro Blitz teams. Roxas listened but didn't join in, he watched Riku and Miki carefully. They were fitting quite well on their first day. Namine kept glancing at Riku though and he at her.

"Hey Riku want to pose for me in a Blitz uniform!" Miki called to him.

"Maybe." Riku answered.

"Pose?"

"Miki does photography, in fact he's my photographer."

"That's so cute."

"Well, it's not like I'd trust just anybody."

"That's understandable."



They arrived at the Butterfly, which was in a pretty nice area. Many restaurants and shops were settled nearby. As soon as they entered the door they were greeted by as young woman with blonde hair in myriad of braids and green eyes. She was wearing a yellow bikini and khaki shorts.

"I bet that's not the normal uniform."Riku whispered to his brother and Miki chuckled.

"Heya guys, glad you could make it in today" The woman waved. Peering over the new company she asked "Who are the new guys, They look like Paine's brothers, not that it's a bad thing...Always better to have cute guys that are unattached, unlike somebody we know..."

"Breath Rikku." Roxas told her.

"These are my cousins, Riku and Miki, guys this is Rikku."

"So you are related, Poo, ah well that means we're related too... a girl can dream..."

"WE are?" Riku asked, silently hoping it wasn't true.

"Yeah, you guys are my cousin's cousin's nephews I think."the last words were mumbled with her hand on her chin in a thoughtful pose.

"Close enough." Kairi sighed.

"It's scary when you think about it how many family members we have in this city...And all of them are cute" She sighed, shoulders slumping.

"A lot." A voice said as a young woman stepped infront of Rikku brushing a few strands of silvery grey hair out of her red eyes.

"Auntie Sa-." Miki began before his brother's elbow met with his ribs. As he grasped Riku took up the greeting.

"Hello Aunt Paine."

"Hello Riku Miki."

"You know them?"Rikku peered the best she could,at the brothers over Paine's shoulder

"Of course, they are Seph Ni-chan's sons."

"Oh, I was right!"The young woman cheered.

"Come on, I'll show you to a table since Rikku's not doing her job."Paine brushed the clinging girl of and gestured to the boys.

"Hey!"Rikku protested the treatment.

"Thanks Paine."



Rikku returned to her job which was apparently pouncing on people as they entered the building and Paine pushed two tables together for the nine of them to sit at.

"It's weird to be here and not on the clock." Sora said as he sat.

"Yeah, you won't be yelled at for playing DDR on the clock." Roxas teased sitting next to him.

"I only do that if there are no customers." Sora told him.

"Right, I believe that."

"Hey." He pouted at his brother and the girls giggled.



"Do you want anything?" Paine asked them.

"Right could you bring us a couple of fries and two things of wings and a pitcher of coke." Roxas told her.

"Okay." She headed off to the kitchen.



As they waited for their order, Sora stared at the DDR machine across the room a couple of guys were playing it and one of the waitresses was watching. The two guys were familiar too, a red head in yellow shorts and blue shirt, his friend was a blond guy in black and yellow. The brunette smiled brightly as the blond crowed loudly after a particularly difficult song. Rikku bounced over to her and hauled away, nearly bouncing as she moved. Roxas explained Yuna was friends with Rikku and Paine. When they got off the machine he recognized them.

"Hey Chappu Tidus!" Roxas stood up and the two looked over.

"Hey guys didn't know you would be here." Chappu greeted.

"Neither did we but we're showing a few new guys around. Riku Miki these are two of the blitz players we mentioned before, Tidus and Chappu."

"Nice to meet you."

"Hi."

Paine got back with their food and nodded to them.

"Hey babe." Chappu greeted her.

"Chappu."



"Nice seeing you guys, but gotta go, later." Chappu led Paine away and Tidus went back to talking to Yuna.

"they are so cute." Namine giggled.

"Let me guess that's the cute blitz player she was talking about in her last letter." Riku smirked.

"Yep gotta be." Miki agreed.

"Well on that note let's play some games." Sora said.

"You just want to play DDR."

"Yes I do come on."



The group finally went home. The boys found their family's at Kairi's home with her parents. After dinner they headed home.





Miki went up to his room to set up his computer and make sure his portfolio was in order, Zack had gotten them an interview with his boss. they were going with him to work in the morning. As he worked there was a knock on the door followed by his elder brother.

"Hey Aibou."

"Aniki."

"What are you doing?"

"Making sure my portfolio is up to date for tomorrow."

"Ahh well are you going to sleep soon we don't know when he'll be over." He looked over at miki's bed which was covered with boxes and books and most of his portfolio.

"Yeah i know."

"Come on gets some sleep."

"All right I'm coming."



Riku dragged him off to his room and they curled up to sleep.



(1) a card game you can play in Final fantasy VIII.