Solstice has been in a two of my Kingdom Hearts (and many more to come) stories, so I thought I'd write a story about him. His roles switch in the stories from a happy-hyper brother, to a crazy and psychotic stalker. But here, he's just...Solstice.

Summer Solstice.


Bwa ha ha. No one can catch me now! Well, they could if they tried, but they wouldn't be able to arrest me! I didn't do anything, ha! Okay, I'm really stupid right now, So I'll cut to the chase.

Desert.

Desert.

Not dessert, the good an yummy stuff after meals.

No, DESERT.

Lots and lots of desert. I was deserted in the desert. No pun intended.

I stumbled forward and the small bag on my shoulder almost fell. I tried to brush the silver hair out of my face, but...yeah, that wasn't happening. At least the back was up in a pony tail. I looked down at my watch. 7:40. Shouldn't that lazy ass excuse of a brother of mine be here by now? Everyone, and when I say Everyone, I mean EVERYONE, thought that I didn't look a thing like my brother Sephiroth. I took pride in that. When his face was long, pale, chiseled, and handsome, my features were a bit different. My cheeks still had a little bit of baby fat on them, and my face wasn't as long as a horse like that stupid Seph, my eyes, proudly, are a light baby blue with a hint of green, and their more perky and happy then my hard ass brother. I take pride in my tan as well. I look good with it, or so one or two people say. The others hate it.

"Damn you, Sephiroth!" I growled, stomping on the ground. My Black tank top started to blow in the wind, my brown cargo pants going as well. I could feel the air by my bare feet, and I looked up at the cloudless sky, squinting. I stared for a moment, wondering what Sephy would think if I told him I had my sentimental moments too.

I sighed, literally hearing my brother laughing his ass off with my other brother, Ansem, laughing right next to you. Oh, I didn't mention? I have to have the worst family ever, but people love my family because every single person in it has silver or silver-ish hair. There was, of course, Sephiroth: the oldest: 25, Ansem: third oldest: 22, Saix: second oldest: 19, Riku: Saix's fraternal twin: 19, Setzer: also eldest: 25, then...me: youngest (damn that): 14. Everyone was in their twenties except for me!

Six boys in my family, no girls born to my mom. My mom, currently, had dropped me off in the middle of the desert because she'd rather spend time with her boyfriend than with me. I was the only one of my brothers that she was allowed to see, but she didn't want to see me. Don't feel bad, heck, I don't wanna see her either.

But I just wish she'd STOP dropping me off in random places! She could stop at a gas station, or maybe a super market, but not in the middle of a stupid HUGE desert! It would be a surprise if my brother even found me. And when he did find me, I'd be on the side of the road rotting because a wild coyote or wolf or something ate my intestines and left me to die. Oh, that's another thing, my brothers think I have too big of an imagination.

I heard a car start to slow, like it was stopping for me, but out of the corner of my eye I saw that it was a sleek black car. I'm not so good with car names, so I'm just going to say it was a compact car. But, none of my brothers liked black, and it would be a million years before I saw them driving a black car, so I knew it wasn't them.

"Hey, sexy, you wanna go for a ride?"

I was hoping to whatever god there was that they weren't talking to me. But they had to be, because I was the only one within ten miles in all directions. I ignored him, just like my brothers had always taught me too. Wait...does everything I say always end up to somehow being connected to my family? Weird.

"Cutie's got an attitude," they said again, and I knew it was the same man. God, I hate perverted pedophiles. Gives me shivers.

I walked faster, but I knew that never in hell could I outrun a car! I heard it speed up as well, the engine revving and the man laughing.

"Look at that silver hair," The man said, and I started to get scared when I heard him pull over behind me. Why did this always happen to me? I know, I'm stunningly attractive, but I don't want THIS kind of attention.

"What a stunning color," the man said, and he actually picked up a strand of it.

I winced, then heard a sort of 'crunch' sound, then I heard a muffled sound, then I actually turned around about then. Wow, was I relieved at that sight.

There was Sephiroth, punching the lights out of that guy. That was a sight to see, and he was yelling a mile a minute, cursing the man for ever touching his dear brother. Then, I saw that my other four brothers were going to help in their ways possible. Saix, was going to stand tall and pull Sephiroth back when he saw that the man had gotten his just punishment. Riku would cheer them on, glaring all the way at the man. Setzer would stay leaning on the car, staying and looking cool, but there just in case the man made a run for it. Ansem would just cross his arms, and if Saix would pull Sephiroth back too soon, he'd let Sephiroth at the man a little more. And if Sephiroth had punched so much his knuckles started to hurt, Ansem would do the punching. Then, as if they were all in a daze, when Saix would pull Sephiroth off of the severally injured man, they'd all run in a stampede toward me.

I also forgot to tell you, my brothers are very, very, very overprotective when it comes down to me. I don't get it either, it might be because I'm the youngest, I just don't know. They just all try and help me and protect me every chance they get.

"You okay?" Riku exclaimed, looking me over. Seph put his hand on my head and glared at me, but it's okay, it was just tough love. Saix hugged me and not say anything really, just checking me over like Riku did. Setzer stood back, cursing himself for not coming sooner.

I smiled and scratched behind my head, "I'm fine! I was just walking to where Seph told me to meet him. And don't worry, I totally ignored that guy, not provoking at all!"

Sephiroth checked me over again, then sighed, turning around and stalking back toward his truck. He had a deep blue pick up truck, and he'd usually drive, Riku would sit in front to fiddle with the radio stations, and all the others would sit in the back. I was used to this seating arrangement, and everyone else was too.

I hopped in the back, throwing my bag in the bed. I walked to the front of the bed, and sat. Hot damn I was tired. I yawned and felt the truck shake as the others got in, and soon after the truck started up. I yawned again, then felt Ansem sit next to me. I leaned my head on his shoulder and yawned, closing my eyes, "I'm tired,"

"Don't whine and just sleep," Ansem growled, not really minding that I was sleeping on him. See what I mean? Overprotective. If I'm tired, they'll make me sleep, no matter where I am. I'll just use one of them as a pillow.

I sighed, feeling the silence growing. My brothers usually didn't talk to one another, only when they were talking about me, or to me. I sighed, wishing that my brothers weren't so overprotective.

(LOOK! I'm actually using real line-breaks for once!)
I felt a strong gust push over my face, and I shivered. A arm went around my shoulder, and I heard the soothing voice of my brother, Sephiroth, trying to wake me up in the calmest way possible. I mumbled something that I couldn't even make out, then tried to pull up the blankets more.

"We're going out to dinner tonight, and unless you want to go hungry, I suggest you hurry up,"

I sat up slowly and rubbed under my eye and yawned, "Where's Dian or Sphen?"

Dian and Sphen, our maid and butler. Oh, didn't I mention? We have a maid and butler, so ha! Oh, my parents left a huge fortune to their only sons when they died, and that mean's. . . mansion! I mean seriously, it might be the second smallest one on the block, but I'm talkin four floors, ten bathrooms, and twenty four rooms here! Not to mention a huge game room, and a huge television room. But we don't use the whole house that much, we haven't actually set one foot on the top two floors before, even when we lived here with our parents.

I watched tiredly as Seph put my shoes on, and I yawned again, then watched him put the blanket over my shoulders and helped me to my feet. I was literally a walking zombie when I just wake up, "Where we goin'?"

"A steak house, you'll like it," Seph said, then walked me to the door, "You don't even have to get dressed up!"

"Is there going to be any more of those weird business men?" I asked, shivering at the very thought.

Seph nearly growled, "No, don't worry, just the family,"

I smiled and walked down the path toward the car, where I hazily saw everyone sitting in the bed. I walked to the edge and Ansem lifted me like a kid onto the back (I was too tired to do it myself), where I laid down and closed my eyes, listening to Seph close the door.

"You'll get hurt just laying on the bed," I heard Setzer say, and I rolled around to where he was and plopped my head on his lap. I heard him chuckle, "You're way too damn spoiled,"

"I was brought up that way," I mumbled, trying to pull the blanket closer against the harsh wind, "It's what I do,"

"You're so spoiled people can smell you in china," Ansem mumbled, crossing his arms and smirking.

I grunted, "I smell good, Ansem!"

I sat up and put my back against the bed, "hasn't anyone noticed that sitting like this with no seatbelts is illegal?"

"No cops have pulled us over yet, and there isn't another car big enough to fit us all," Riku said through the small window connecting the front from the back, "In case you didn't know!"

"I don't know how mom coped with you guys," Seph mumbled, and I piped up.

"You did too! You and Setzer only had to wait three years 'till Ansem came along, then you were six when Saix and Riku were born!" I exclaimed happily, thinking that Seph and Setzer would still remember a little bit.

"Yeah, but we were ELEVEN when you came along!" Setzer laughed happily, and I pouted. He laughed more, "You were the most obnoxious kid, did you know that? You still are!"

"Playing around in the mud all the time," Seph put in.

Ansem looked at Me and smirked, "I might've only been eight, but I remember you always getting into trouble."

"Like that one time he jumped in the deep end of the pool when he was only five," Setzer laughed, and my cheeks burned with embarrassment. I put the blanket over my head and hid myself. All my brothers knew I always tried to hide myself when I was scared or embarrassed.

"Look guys, we're making him hide!" Riku exclaimed, then shouted, "five points for the annoying older brothers!"

We probably looked weird, but I was talking too much with Riku to notice. Yeah, six tall and handsome men coming into a normal restaurant. Looking like the normal person would, except they all had astonishingly silver hair! And this silver hair, was all at least to their shoulders. Riku had the shortest hair, it going to his shoulders. Sephy had the longest, it going all the way to his ass. Pardon my french. Mine, on the other hand, was about to the middle of my back.

"How many?" The waiter asked, and Setzer answered him,

"Six,"

I laughed at Riku's joke and followed with everyone. We often went out to dinner, but our chief at home didn't mind all that much.

"This good?"

Sephy nodded and I sat down on the very far edge of the booth. I watched as everyone filed in and the man passed out menus. I smiled, thanked him, but the menu down, grabbed the salt shaker, shook some into my hand, and licked it off.

"God, Sol, why do you do that?" Riku whined, and Setzer was just staring at me. They should have gotten used to this by now. I happen to have a fetish with salt. I can tell which is a good salt, and which is a bad salt. I just love salt, and Setzer keeps telling me I'll burst my arteries before I'm twenty, but I'm good enough in health. I'm skinny too, so that's good, Isn't it?

"Cuz' I'm just cool like that," I mumbled, licking more salt off my hand.

Saix reached across the table and opened my menu, pointing at it, "read,"

I put down the salt and started to read it. I always did what Saix said, because whenever he actually says something, it's to the point. He's more like my father then any of them, He's helping me with everything, and even fathers all the others.

"Hey, my name's Tuki, what can I get for you guys?" The waiter asked, smiling and taking out a pen an paper.

We all ordered, everyone either getting steak or some kind of sea food. Our family was a real 'meat' family, and everyone love steak and seafood. I liked it too, and this time I was even going for a real dare and getting my meat rare. Yum!

I smiled to them all, and watched them having nice conversations with each other. I checked my pockets and felt the bump of having a safety wad of cash in my pocket.

This happened often, and I really didn't mind. They'd go into their own conversations and leave me to think. They usually talked among themselves, and I didn't understand half of what they were saying. They usually talked to themselves, but sometimes they'd strike up conversations between other tables and people liked their company. No one talked to me, and I actually liked it that way. I didn't have any friends, and It was summer, so I didn't have to go to school, so it was better this way. We went out a lot, and they'd talk. I'd just smile, and sometimes the person from the other table would see me and talk to me a little. But they'd always go back to my brothers eventually. They knew I didn't mind, and that's why they did it, usually.

I nibbled on a french fry and watched them talk to the person in the booth at our backs. I felt someone ruffle my hair, and I looked up and smiled at the stranger.

"You have the nicest hair of them all, don't you?" She asked, her smile kind and her eyes kind of shining, "You're the best looking too,"

"Hey!" Riku exclaimed, pouting and crossing his arms.

The woman laughed and picked up a strand of my hair, "It's very silky. Light, almost grey. Not that stupid old person gray, but the gray you sometimes see on a stallion. It's so pretty, I could stare at it,"

She looked at me and smiled again, "And your eyes, the same shade as your hair,"

"He's the only one in the family with silver eyes," Ansem said with a small laugh, "Lucky little. . . all of our boyfriends so far have been hanging out with him more than us,"

The girl pouted, trying to look cute, "You're gay? I was hoping I'd had a chance,"

"Only beef, baby!" Riku exclaimed, and Sephy smacked him on the back of the head.

Seph growled and glared at Riku, "Keep it down, you doof! Not everyone in this society appreciates our sexuality,"

"I'm actually glad you guys admit it to yourself," The girl said, then gave a wide smile, "I keep trying to convince my boyfriend that he's gay, but he just wont listen,"

I just sat there, my back to everything, and I ate a huge chunk of my steak. Gees, this stuff was good! I smiled to myself and drank down some of my soda. I added more salt to my steak and took another bite. This was one of the best steaks I've ever had! Well, I say that about every steak, even if it's not that good. Wait! What am I saying? EVERY steak in this world is delicious!

I took a bite of the mashed potatoes, then stole one of Riku's french fries when he wasn't looking. They were all still talking to the people with that lady in it, and I was still musing to myself.

"Hey,"

I looked up, and saw that a man was leaning over the small boarder wall between us and the booth on the other side. I smiled at him, "hi,"

"Why ain't you talkin' with the others like that?"

I shrugged and went back to my food, figuring that he'd talk to one of my brothers. But to my great surprise, he continued to talk to me.

"You're not like your brothers," He stated in a matter of fact voice, and I looked up at him. He had spiky blonde hair, and he actually looked very kind. He looked nice because of the look in his calm baby-blue eyes.

I snorted, taking another bite, "That's what I'm told,"

"Cloud,"

I swallowed and looked up at him with a raised eyebrow, "What?"

"That's my name," He said with a small smile, reaching out his hand, "Cloud Strife of Strife Delivery service, nice to meet you,"

"I've heard of you guys," I said, then took his hand and shook it, "Solstice,"

He smiled, "Nice name. I'm glad that I'm not the only one on this planet with a strange name,"

"You should hear my brother's," I laughed, then saw another head poke up. This was a more rugged man, and he had long brown hair, with sharp eyes and features.

"Cloud, what you doing?" He asked, looking at the other, then looking at me, "Hey,"

I just nodded, and the Cloud guy went to talking to him.

"Don't mind the sour-puss, he's my boyfriend," He smiled, and then looked down at me again, "You got steak too? Wow, does this place only sell steak?"

"It sells seafood," I said, then looked back down, not really liking to talk to strangers. This is actually the longest conversation I've had with a complete stranger.

"Riku!"

My brother recognized that voice. Hell, I recognized that voice. I shivered. It was . . . Sora.

"Sora!"

Riku yelled, and climbed over me, stepping on my head and clambering over my shoulders. He jumped the gap and went into the booth that Cloud was in. I heard Riku talking with someone, then I saw Cloud again.

"I didn't know you were Riku's brother,"

"I didn't know you were Sora's,"

I went back to my food and I was starting to get a headache. Riku kicked me really hard!

I saw that Ansem was now talking to the girls boyfriend, and she was clapping happily at their flirting. The girl's boyfriend was actually rather cute (Made up character because I couldn't find a character that would be a good pairing with Ansem), but he looked weird.

Sephy was talking to the people to his back, a group of guys that HAD to be gay, but not together. Saix was talking with them too, looking rather interested in a guy with a blonde mullet. He was good-looking, just loose the mullet.

Sephy was talking with a man with a long flowing red cape and LONG black hair. The man was drop-dead sexy, but that's Sephy for you, don't settle for anything less. Setzer was talking with another blonde, him being a bit younger. He was cute too.

MAN, my brothers were shallow! But, that happens. We always get surrounded by cute guys spontaneously. It's kinda weird. But looks like all my brothers now have boyfriends. Boyfriends that were getting along amazingly well with them. I felt that same strike of panic in my heart.

Remember me telling you that my brothers were overprotective? Well, when they got boyfriends, they'd shift that overprotectiveness to their boyfriends. So that would leave me all alone in the dark until they dumped their boyfriend, or their boyfriend dumped them. It was actually a vicious circle. They'd have a boyfriend for two months, and then not have one for four or five. So that leaves most of their doting to me. But I just feel so lonely when they have their boyfriends. It makes me feel that their only protecting me because my parents asked them too.

Because my parents did.

Right before my parents died on the hospital bed, they told everyone to look after each other. But they told the five of them too look after me especially hard, because I still had a full life ahead of me.

LOOK AT ME! I'm ranting along, aren't I? Well, I do that sometimes. Ha.

When I looked up, I saw that they were all starting to leave, my brothers going with their boyfriends. Oh, and I forgot to mention (Insert growl of death here), when my brothers get boyfriends, THEY ARE COMPLETE ASS HOLES! I sighed, picked up the check (which they'd conveniently forgotten to pay) and rummaged through my pockets. There was that wad of cash I was checking for earlier, now you know why I need it.

The check was a bit over two hundred dollars, but I always keep two hundred in my pocket, and another two hundred in my wallet. See? Being a rich-kid pays off sometimes. I looked back at my meal, seeing that I wasn't finished. I put the money needed in the check thingy, and continued to eat by myself.

This happened about once a month. . . I'm used to it. . . I really am used to it.

I'm used to the fact that my brothers jump at the chance for something else to dote over other than me.

I'm used to the fact that my brothers often forget me.

I'm used to the fact that this isn't the first time I've been surrounded by a warm environment, people, and families. . . but feel completely alone.

I went to the place where Sephy had parked the car and wasn't surprised to find that it was gone. Wonder why I keep the extra two hundred? Cab fare. See, I think ahead. The first time this happened, I had the beg the waitress, and she called my brothers cell. She scolded them for a good thirty minutes about leaving a child unattended, and she was about to call the police when I said that everything was fine. I was smart then, knowing that if my brothers went to jail, I'd have to got to a foster home. I was real smart for a kid that age. I was seven.

I'd learned after that, that it was just annoying to keep telling the waiter over and over about my predicament. And My brothers were always cranky when I stole them away from their dates, so I always told the asking waiters that they'd told me to put down the money while they went to start up the car, and I'd have extra money for a cab fare.

Now, I know what your thinking. My brothers couldn't possibly be that mean! I know, their not. They just forget sometimes. Their really nice brothers, and they don't need to spend all their time going around, caring for me. I can take care of myself.

I went to the curb and put out my hand whenever a cab would come. I knew they wouldn't stop for a kid my age, but I liked thinking about it a minute. But I always tried for a person who would stop for a kid my age. But I always had to hold out a fifty in the air when one went by, they'd always stop.

"2363 Harlem Drive. 2100 east, please," I said, then felt the car jolt when he took off. I looked out the window and watched all the colors swish by. It couldn't have been later than 10:00, but it was already pitch black, the lights of the city shining.

It wasn't long until we made it to my house, and I payed the man, and walked up the long and dreary sidewalk to the front gate, then I'd have to walk all of the driveway to the front door. I hated this part more than anything.

I pressed the button to have the gatekeeper open the gates. They were always closed, and I'd grown to know the gatekeeper quite well.

The screen of the television that the gatekeeper used buzzed and his calm face appeared. He was such a nice old man. He had dark skin, and a light beard going around his lips. He was almost bald, but he still had a bit of hair on the sides.

"Solstice," He smiled at me, and his voice was so nice that I almost smiled back. But I was shivering too much to smile. He noticed this, "I'll open up the gate right now and come down on the cart to pick you up. You don't need to walk all the way to the door."

I actually did smile this time, "Thanks, Frank,"

I walked through the opening doors and saw that he was already waiting for me in that golf-cart looking vehicle. He used it often, and sometimes would let me try driving it. He had bad legs, so the family bought it for him.

I sat in the front and he started off at a fast pace, wanting to get to the house quick before I froze.

"Good thing you have a jacket on," I mused, then smiled at him, "You keeping warm in the gatekeeper place?"

He laughed at my name of the security room, and nodded, "Sephiroth installed the heater last week, remember?"

I smiled, then remembered, "Did Ansem already set up the hot chocolate machine?"

"Yes,"

"Did Riku put lots of blankets in the closet?"

"Yes,"

"Did Setzer put an inflatable mattress in there just in case you get snowed in?"

"Yes,"

"Did Saix put sheets for the mattress in there?"

"Yes, already!" He laughed, then slapped me on the back, noting me that we were at the door, "You worry almost as much as your brothers,"

"Well, you're my friend," I laughed, then went to the doors, and opened them.

I was hit with the sound of laughter. Looks like my brothers invited their friends over. Damn, I hated that I needed to walk through the living room to get to my room.

I walked in the living room and almost all the furniture was full.

"Bro!"

Riku put an arm around my shoulders, and led me to the middle where everyone was staring at me.

There was Sora, standing next to Riku.

"Solstice, this is Vincent," Sephy laughed, his arm around the black haired man's shoulder. They all thought I wanted to know their boyfriends. I really didn't care.

Ansem was always next, "This is Kit,"

Then Setzer: "meet Hayner,"

Then Saix: "Demyx,"

I already knew Riku's long-time boyfriend, and I really didn't care.

I watched them all talking happily. They were all talking to their boyfriends one minute, then they were all talking to one another. They looked like the perfect family. They all looked so happy, in each others arms, with each other. My brothers were truly happy with them. . . and not me.

I shook my head of these ridiculous thoughts and walked out. I wanted to take a shower. I wanted to go to bed.

The next day, I heard their laughing and voices again. Wow, they already spent the night. I laughed to myself and opened my door.

"Hi!"

I looked lazily up at the voice that had said 'hi'. It was that Demyx guy. Wow, usually their boyfriends didn't mess with me, wait. . . this is the first time that any of them had actually talked to me.

"I'm Demyx if you remember,"

I nodded, reaching up and rubbing under my eye. I pouted when I saw that my shirt was too long and covering up my hand. I rubbed under my eye anyway. I yawned, little tears forming in my eye. I looked up and saw that he was still there.

"You're. . ."

I waited, wondering if he'd get out of my way.

"So. . ."

I put my hand down and looked up at him, confused.

"CUTE!" (Insert little floating hearts here)

I was shocked for only a moment before he actually glomped me. I stood there for a sec, wondering what in good hell he was doing, then he let go.

"I noticed that you looked really sad last night," He said, then smirked at me, putting his thumbs up, "SO! I got all the others up and were gonna talk about how cute you are. You're brothers aren't included."

I sighed and closed my door.

I slowly walked back to my bed and crawled back in it, pulling the blankets over my head and trying to fall back asleep. My brothers never got up early, but I could wait until they got up.

I heard the door open. I also heard many footsteps, and I groaned.

"You okay?"

It was Sora.

I felt the weight shift, and I felt a hand on my head. Sora had always been one of the nicer boyfriends. I nodded, knowing he'd feel that I nodded. I closed my eyes, feeling more people sit on the bed.

"No your not," I didn't know who that was, but I really didn't recognize him. I'd heard all their voices last night, and I was fairly sure that this one was that Kit guy.

I nodded again and spoke, "I'm fine. Go away,"

"We're not leaving," this one was Hayner, I knew. I growled and hid myself further. All of these men were twenty and older! I was only fourteen!

"What's wrong? You won't talk to us, and you didn't stay down there last night," Demyx said, and I wished I could stick my tongue out at him.

"I didn't want to," I said, clutching at the blankets, "You're all older than me,"

"That's not the reason," Sora said, and I knew he was being serious for the one moment in his life, "You're not acting like you usually do. You're usually so happy and hyper, almost like me."

I laughed, but that choked off, "That's not possible."

I couldn't believe I was starting to cry. I could feel the prick at the back of my eye, and I tried to hold it back. But it gave it all away when my shoulders started to shake. I knew Sora could feel that.

I felt something pick me up, and with my head still covered by the blanket, something held me. Like a mother would hold their child. It was so warm, and it felt so loving. I didn't know who it was, but by the way my small body fit in his lap, I knew it was that Vincent guy.

I tried to push him away, but he kept me there.

They were nice. Really. But I'm not used to people yet. You know?

I'm walking down a random alley thinking to myself about my brothers' new boyfriends. Their nice. I like them all, and Vincent is cool, but he doesn't talk much. Demyx and Sora talk too much. Hayner smiles and goes along with everything too much. And Kit is. . . umm, how could you say it? If ANSEM is dating him, he has to be a bit weird.

I actually kind of like them. No! I can't be saying things like this! I shouldn't like the people that take my brothers away from me!

I felt a hand on my shoulder and I turned around.

It was one of Riku's old boyfriends. But behind him was four more people, that looked like all of my brothers' old boyfriends. I raised an eyebrow, backing a step up.

"Hello, Solstice," He mumbled, and I hit the wall to my back. They all surrounded me and I gulped. My back was to a wall, and I would run to the right, but two were blocking me. I looked him hard in the eye.

"What do you want?" I asked, glaring. He smirked, then brought something out from behind him. The polished metal of the blade caught my sight immediately. I gasped and looked at him again.

"Riku never loved me, all he talked about was you," He smirked, then brought the blade up to my chin, "All those stupid brothers of yours cared about was you,"

I gasped. But. . . whenever they were with a boyfriend, they ignored me!

He smirked again, "Did you know what I figured out? That your brothers are just looking out for you because of your parents. They really hate you. They hate your living guts."

I gasped, but I couldn't let them get advantage of me! I smirked back, "Well, if he cares more about someone he hates than you, that explains how much you meant to him,"

The man growled and held up the blade, bringing it down in one swoop. I dodged, but it still cut a clean mark down my right eye. That hurt. Really bad.

"First I'm going to take your right eye," He smirked, marveling at his work. He punched me hard in the stomach, as if trying to add even more pain. I slid to the ground, and one of them kicked me in the side, making me reel in pain.

"Then your hair, then your left eye. That's all they talked about. Your beautiful hair, your beautiful eyes."

I hissed in pain when they grabbed a lock of my hair roughly and started to hack away at it.

"Stop!" I yelled, still feeling that burning.

The others joined in, grabbing and hacking at my hair. I didn't care about my hair! My eye hurt so much I wanted to hurl, I just wanted to get away from them.

They were cutting it shorter and shorter, smiling more, and more.

"STOP!"

That cry wasn't from me. I looked up with my good eye and saw a figure outlined in the setting sun. He looked like a hero in those movies you sometimes see.

It was Vincent.

I smiled weakly, and they all ran. I saw the black-haired man running up to me, and I put my hand against the wall, the other against my eye. It was bleeding pretty bad. I tried to stand, all my weight against the wall.

"Solstice!" He yelled, and I felt my body weight give. He caught me.

I opened my eyes, well, eye. I mumbled something incoherent to anyone who would hear it, but to me, it was, "I'm hungry,"

I looked around and felt a soft weight on my eye. I touched it lightly and saw that it was bandaged, It still stung a little, but nothing like before. I sighed and laid my hand in my hair. Well, what was left of my hair. I winced. Almost all my hair was gone, totally hacked off, looking like one of those weird people that had the short and spiky hair.

"Looks like you're awake,"

I looked over, and saw that Vincent was standing there. I gasped, then saw that he was holding a tray.

"I've got to get back to Sephiroth," He said with a small laugh, "But it's a good thing I bandaged your wound before it got infected,"

I looked toward the window, sighing, "so none of my brothers did it?"

He sighed sadly and set the food down on the chair next to the table, "Eat this before it get's cold. Demyx and Kit will be in here before long to check on you,"

I nodded, glad that it wasn't one of my brothers checking on me. I was happy, yet entirely sad at the same time. I couldn't help but believe what that man had said to me the other day.

I know he said that all they thought about was me, but they were probably bad thoughts. All they wanted to do was get rid of me and live their own lives, but they couldn't because of mom and dad.

I hated them.

I couldn't help but gasp as I thought this. How could I hate someone so close to me? People that had looked after me my whole like.

It was easy, actually. It was so simple, just to hate their guts, hate their very existence, hate everything about them, even hating that I looked like them. But. . . I didn't. Now that I thought about it, I didn't look like them. My silver hair was more shining and silver than all of theirs, more silky and smooth. My eyes were pure silver, nothing faltering the color. No blue, like Riku. No mako, like Sephiroth.

That phrase was surprisingly easy to say. It was so weird: I hate them.

I said that with no remorse, no bad feelings, nothing.

I snorted, feeling that I was happy that I could admit that fact to myself. I looked to the door when I heard it open.

"You okay?"

It was Demyx, followed by Kit, Sora, and Hayner. I even saw that Vincent had come again to check on me. I sat up in the bed and turned to that my feet were hanging off the edge of the bed. I stood and looked at them hard, no longer having a happy and joyful look to my eyes.

"What's wrong, Solstice?"

I was so tired of people asking me that. I glared at them and gritted my teeth, looking at them. I smirked, better and more intimidating that even Ansem could smirk, and looked at them, "What's wrong? What's WRONG!!! I'm tired of every little damn person in this shitty world asking if I'm alright! I'm not alright! I was left at a restaurant, having my brothers leave me to pay the tab. I had to take a cab home millions of times. I know my brothers hate me. I know that they jump at every chance to switch their attention to someone else, so they don't have to look after me. I KNOW THEY HATE ME!"

I Glared at them all, having them all watch in shock.

"Sol-!" Sora started, but I cut him off.

"No, Sora, not this time. No more, 'I'll talk to them' no more 'they love you' you're just a big and whining baby, Sora. You can't stand up for yourself, and you've never had anyone hurt you in your entire life! Good thing Riku has you, because lord knows he can't go without a good screw every once in a while to clear his head. But no, they don't use you. They use me. They hate me because I stop them from having a normal life.

"My brothers are ass holes. You all know that. They-!"

I was cut off. My cheek stung from the rebound of the punch. Someone just punched me! I looked back up slowly and nearly died when I saw who it was.

It was Vincent.

The one person who I thought truly cared about me. He held me when I cried about my brothers, he helped me when I was being attacked, he bandaged my scars, and this is his final farewell? I glared at him, and saw that the door was open, and Riku was holding Sora. I glared at them all and walked through the crowd of people. All ten people had heard what I had spoke. And now they heard what I said: "I hate you all, with every fiber of my being,"

I walked and opened a door in the hall.

We never went up to the second and third floors, but hell, there was a first for everything.

I walked to a random room and opened it. Nothing.

I walked to another room. Nothing.

Another room. Nothing.

Another room. Nothing.

Walking, and finding room after room. Nothing in them.

I didn't know what I was looking for, but I found it.

I opened the last door, on the last hall, of the third floor. I was so surprised that I actually found it.

There, in the middle of the room was a shining circle. Green and blues and hints of yellows were floating up from the glowing circle and swirling around and around, making it look like a little whirlpool of light.

There was a figure next to the circle, and it spoke, but I never saw it's face.

"You, Solstice, are destined to travel to the other worlds,"

"Cut this shit, man," I snapped, turning my head away from the light, as not to be blinded, "Why are you in my home?"

"Is this really your home?" the man chuckled, and I looked at him again, "Is this where you really call home?"

I just watched him with a warning glance.

"Do you wish to find a place where you can really find home?" He asked, and his voice seemed so full of emotion and amusement, "Do you want to find a place where you can go and be happy, not like with your brothers here?"

"What are you talking about?" I growled, clenching my fists, "Of course I would, but that's not possible!"

"Oh, but it is," He said, and arched his right arm out, and I had to put my arms up to cover my eye so that I wouldn't be blinded by the sudden flash of light. I slowly got used to it and brought it down, looking around.

I was surrounded by small planets. I was just floating in a mass of dark sky, and all the planets were floating around me. They were unusually small, and some were brightly colored. They looked so strange, but the man speaking again brought me out of my daze.

"You can choose any one of these worlds you wish," He laughed, then pointed to a random one, "In this world, you are destined to be an enemy of that man you met at that restaurant. Cloud. You are destined to follow him, but to be killed by him."

I grunted, "Why would I go to that one, fool?"

The truth was, I really liked Cloud. I thought he was a good guy. I didn't want to stalk him, nor be killed by him!

He smirked, then pointed to another, "In this one, you are Riku's older brother. You are destined to watch him as he goes on with his career as a star, finding love in an odd place. You are merely back up, coming from Japan in the middle of his lifetime."

I growled again, "I though I cleared this through with you, I don't want to be with any of my brothers,"

He then pointed to another smaller planet. It was bright gold, and it seemed to be shimmering.

"Twilight Town," He murmured, "Go there and help a boy named Roxas. He is supposed to be succumbed into helping the enemy into unleashing Kingdom Hearts. There will still be Hayner, there but you don't mind, do you? You need to get Roxas's memories as a nobody back for him, then get another boy named Axel to do the same as Roxas did,"

I looked at him, raising an eyebrow. What was all this shit? I glared at him, then tilted my head, "No brothers?"

"None,"

"I'll do it," I sighed, and there was this weird sensation of having my heart in my throat. I sighed, closed my eyes, and waited.

I have another chapter written if you want me to update it. And, I KNOW. This probably wouldn't happen in real life. I mean, the brothers forgetting the other brother and all that jazz, but I wanted some sympathy and a plot for later on.