Author's Note: hey guys this is my first fanfiction up here! i hope you guys like it. reviews make me happy so review please! also, just to be clear, i'm placing twilight town and the rest of the kh world in zanarkand. zanarkand would be like the continent or something, i suck at explaining things so i hope you guys get what i mean! other worlds will be placed in cocoon. both zanarkand and cocoon are worlds from final fantasy. (ff10 and FF13). also, i made some of the characters older than they're supposed to be. just so you know! anyway, onto the story :)
Edit: i made some small edits! i have a habit of going back on my work and just changing things around a little. i hope it's not too annoying if you notice this happen in future chapters!
Whisper Wars
CHAPTER ONE:
It was August 23rd, arguably the hottest day of the summer. Needless to say, the majority of Twilight Town's residents were either stuck at home, probably sticking their heads in the freezer or hanging out in some air conditioned building. Not a single person could be found wandering around the streets of Twilight Town. That is, unless you were sixteen year old Roxas Hikari, who was stuck outside running errands for an elderly man named Terra- or as he liked to call, Hitler's reincarnation. Or just Hitler. Either way, Roxas had to work for this guy. And whether he liked it or not, he had to do whatever he was told. Roxas had already gotten in trouble several times from the boss and one more "outrage"- as his boss put it- would cause him to lose his job, leaving him with no other job to turn to except for a position at Chuck E. Cheese's. Despite having to put up with Terra's ridiculous demands and mindless rants about practically everything, Roxas was convinced that being a Chuck E. Cheese Boy was a fate worse than death. Though admitingly, Chuck E. Cheese had good food, Roxas was determined to keep himself from being ridiculed by his peers for parading around in a costume of an oversized rat or vermin of some sort.
"He better be grateful for this." Roxas muttered as he dragged himself, along with the bags of groceries and items Terra had asked for, into the elderly home. Sunny Side Homes, the name of the building, was painted yellow and resembled an apartment building only the inside of Sunny Side Homes smelled of prunes, or "old people smell", as Roxas described it.
A majority of the elders, including Terra, spent most of their time in the lounge room. Only, instead of playing chess or chatting with the others, Terra was sitting away from the rest looking out the window as if there was a show going on outside. Roxas found that the elderly man did this a lot. He wondered what it was exactly that Terra was looking at, but he didn't dare to ask. Partly because he was scared that the man would snap at him, but mostly because it wasn't really any of his business.
"I got the stuff you asked for." Roxas said, standing just a few inches behind him. The older man looked back at him, studying the pool of sweat that was Roxas. He cringed at the sight of him and motioned for him to put it into his room, which wasn't far from the lounge.
Roxas didn't bother to wait for a thank you, he knew better than that. The word's "thank you" and "take a break" were obviously not in Terra's vocabulary. The blond continued down the hall and opened the second door to his right. Just like the rest of the building, it smelled of prunes and the walls were painted white and had blue carpeted floors. Terra's room was minimally decorated, only having a lamp on his bedside drawer and a medal from his army days laying on his dresser drawer. According to the old man, he was a cadet in the Zanarkand/Cocoon war- the longest war to take place in history. The old man didn't give much backdrop on the story, all he said was that he was that he regretted fighting in the war. Roxas wasn't exactly sure why he said that, but seeing as Terra wasn't exactly a ball of sunshine, it wasn't hard for him to believe that Terra hated his country and the people in it as well.
Being that Terra didn't like anyone staying in his room for too long, Roxas quickly dropped off the items beside. Before leaving, he hesitated on whether he should take the items out of the bag or not. He decided not. Besides, why should he? The old man didn't even show any signs of appreciation for him going out into the hot weather to pick up a bunch of toiletries and books, and sweets - which, by the way, Terra was prohibited from according to the staff. In an essence, Roxas was a smuggler for Terra. To spite the old man even more, he decided not to close his door when he left. Roxas knew exactly how much that pissed Terra off.
"Do you need anything else?" Roxas asked, returning to the old man. 'You better not'
"No, I've had enough of your lousy service for one day. I tell you, if I were allowed outside on my own without someone wheeling me in a chair all day, I would've gotten the job ten times faster." He said, not bothering to look at the blond. "Oh and I'd do it without breaking a sweat either!" He added just as the blond was halfway out the door.
Roxas rolled his eyes at him. The nerve of this old geizer. He never should have listened to Olette in the first place. She had told him that working for Sunny Side Homes would be fun. He should have known better than to take the brunette's word since her idea of fun was doing charity work. The last time Roxas had volunteered for something was when he decided to go with Olette and Hayner to the soup kitchen, and he remembered how much "fun" that was. Sure it felt good to do something nice for others but it was just too, for a lack of better words, troublesome.
He was a slacker, no doubt about it. Just by looking at him, one could already peg him as one; From his messy spikes and loose attire that hardly ever matched, to the way he walked- slow and carelessly. Though others called him the towns slacker or a lazy bum, as Kairi would say, Roxas prefered the term laid back. It sounded less down-grading.
Roxas continued his way down the streets, the sun beating down hard on the back of his neck. The second he got back home he planned on taking a nice, long shower and then taking a nap afterwards. Usually he would hang out with his friends, but seeing as they had all so ungraciously left him for the whole summer, he was forced to be on his own the whole time.
He made a right turn, continuing slowly down the sidewalk. He wondered why he hadn't brought his skateboard today. Then he remembered, during the first few of weeks of summer, Lea, Axel's younger brother, had asked if he could borrow it. Not knowing that the boy didn't know how to skate, he carelessly gave the board to him. Thirty minutes later, Lea came back with his board missing a wheel and the other half of the board missing. According to all his friends, that was the angriest he had been since they've known him.
Roxas continued to remember the day he found his skateboard totally annihilated by a ten year old boy. Luckily for the boy, he was Axel's brother so he couldn't hurt him. As he was deep in thought a shriek penetrated the air, snapping Roxas out of his thoughts. An old lady looking to be in her late sixties was holding onto a blue purse for dear life as an assailant with a ski mask pulled over his face tried to pry her grip away from it.
The man finally was able to pry it free from her hands, causing the pearl handle to break off from the bag. He turned away from the lady and started sprinting the other direction. Roxas sighed, he'd seen an old woman get robbed already. He couldn't just pretend that he hadn't seen it, could he?
The answer was no. Roxas sprinted ahead of the lady and easily caught up to the assailant. He smiled, he knew that the two years of running those ridiculous soccer drills weren't for nothing! Without giving the man a warning, Roxas grabbed the mugger by the waist and pulled him to the ground with as much force as he could muster. A small grunt escaped from the man's lips as the purse flew from his hands, emptying out all of it's contents in the process.
Meanwhile, as the man tried to crawl away from Roxas' grip, the elderly woman jogged by-huffing and all out of breath- and kicked the mugger in the ribs. "Stupid boy, I told you had no money on me!" She pointed to the items sprawled across the sidewalk. There was a book, a dinosaur looking cell phone, a water bottle, and a half eaten bag of chips. "You better get out of here or else I'll all the cops on you!" She hissed.
He immediately sprang to his feet, knocking Roxas off of him in the process. While the lady was busy picking up her items, Roxas continued to fight the urge not to moan in pain from scraping his knees when he tackled the mugger. Yes, he was aware of the fact that he would survive this, but still hurt a lot damnit!
"Young man, thank you so much for doing this for an old geizer like me!" The woman said, hovering above him. "I wasn't sure that there was anyone else outside in this weather."
Roxas got up slowly, cringing slightly in doing so. "It's nothing, really."
"Nonesense!" The woman shook her head at him. "Here, take this. It's very special." She took one of Roxas's hands and place something light on it.
Roxas examined the item closely. It appeared to be a charm of a paopu fruit. "Legend has it that the person you give this to will be your soul mate." The lady said as he was looking at it.
"Thanks, I'll be sure to give it to someone special then." Roxas lied.
The woman smiled. "Well, I better be getting home now. My husband's probably worried sick, I was supposed to be home two hours ago!"
"Take care then." Roxas said with a smile, before turning to leave. As he started toward the harbor, he could hear her footsteps shuffling the opposite direction.
Passing through the harbor was a longer route to his house, but the air was cooler around the area. Besides, it wasn't like he was in a rush to get back home. His father was yet again out on a business trip, this time to Destiny Islands. Daddy dearest had texted him this earlier in the day while he was still asleep, so Roxas had eaten breakfast alone once again. His mother on the other hand, had been on a trip five weeks before the summer started so he was used to her absence already. The last he'd heard from her, she was in Radiant Garden. But that was bound to change since she was the type of woman that didn't like staying in places for too long. According to her, she was with her friend on a trip to rediscover themselves.
Roxas didn't get it. He figured that it was just another excuse to get away from his father, which was understandable considering the fact that they had been fighting more than usual this year. He also wondered if she was using the trip as an excuse to get away from him as well. As melodramatic as it sounded, sometimes Roxas wondered if his parents secretly hated him. After all, it was sort of his fault that they got into this mess. He didn't have to tell his mother about what he saw. He could have kept quiet and everything would be fine, wouldn't it?
Ten years ago, when he was six, he found his father in bed with another woman. He wasn't sure of what was going on but the most sensible thing at the time to him was to tell his mother. She cried when he had told her, and at his young age, he wondered why. The next day, everything had changed for him. His parents no longer loved it each other; instead they became bitter and almost resentful towards each other. Despite the tension between his parents, they never split up. And although they were still legally married, his father continued to see other women and all his mother could do about it was cry.
From then on, Roxas had sworn never to fall in love. He'd seen what it had done to his parents, it caused them pain and ruined a perfectly happy family. Thinking about it even more, what was the point in risking giving all of your heart to someone who could easily rip it out? What was the point in love if it didn't last? Roxas couldn't see a point in any of those and simply chose to believe that love was for the clueless.
Returning his attention back to the charm in his hands, Roxas rolled his eyes at it as if it were a human being. 'What do I need this stupid thing for?' he asked himself. ' I don't need a soul mate.' with that, he carelessly tossed the charm into the ocean, not even giving it a second glance before continuing his way back home.
Eight thousand miles away from Twilight Town, a girl stumbles upon something glistening by the shoreline. Curious, she walks over to it and picks it up. After closely examining it, she discovers that it is a paopu fruit charm. Many others had picked it up only to put it back down, finding nothing interesting about the charm at all. However, the girl was different. She takes the charm and puts it into her pocket. Unlike the others, she saw something special in it. She wasn't sure what exactly made it special, but there was something there. She could feel it.
So that's it for the first chapter! sorry if it sucks :( it's short too but i'll work on trying to make the other chapters longer! anyway, tell me what you think of it!
