Are these things we do...sinful?

These ways of mine make no sense.


He felt around on the sandy earth for her hand. Within the moment of finding it, Kairi turned around and stared confused at the boy with gravity defying, brunette hair. Sora was looking intently right back at her.

"Ka-Kai-ri?"

Sora's hand began to sweat. Kairi wanted to pull away, but was too engrossed in knowing what he was trying to tell her.

"Yeah?"

Kairi drew closer to him. He could feel her soft, warm breath on his face.

"I...um..."

She smiled playfully and squeezed his hand.

With a laugh she said, "Sora, it's okay...I...feel...the same way."

Sora blushed inspite of himself. Once he regained his disposition, he smiled too. That was exactly the response he wanted to hear, the response he'd always longed for.

"R-r-really? You do!?"

Kairi laughed again and he flushed agian, but Sora's smile remained on his face. He then leaned in so close to her their noses almost touched. It was Kairi's turn to blush now.

Sora closed his eyes and breathed in her ear, "I'm glad." And with that, planted a small kiss on her lips; the lightness of it sent a chill up her spine. Kairi was unable to contain herself and pushed into his embrace for more. Sora followed suit and together, they were lost in a passionate kiss.


"Roxas...Roxas please...please...STOP!"

Roxas lifted his head from the nape of her neck. He had been so lost in kissing her soft skin that he hadn't heard her at first. Sitting up, he panted a little; he could see she was panting too. A drop of swaet rolled down his cheek.

"What...? What's (pant) wrong...Namine?"

Namine leaned over and clentched her stomach like she was sick.

"I need...to stop...for a minute."

Honestly, Roxas was disappointed she stopped him while he was right in the middle of something, but then again...if they hadn't stopped, they could have done something they would have regreted. He leaned his head back, trying to catch his breath. The sky above them was dark and gray with the presence of storm clouds.

"I think it's gonna rain...," He said changing the subject for the better. Namine automatically turn her attention to the gathering clouds. The sun was almost completely covered by them.

"Roxas," she began and leaned her head on his shoulder,"you know we can't...we can't let them...control what we do."

Roxas put his face into her hair; he could smell the fragrant shampoo Kairi always used. Sora loved that kind.

"How?"

To him the possibility of such a thing seemed impossible. Really, how could they? Nobodies do not feel emotion, so once they are nerge with their original selves, the "original" controlled everything. But this was only becuase they were in existence while Nobodies lived in oblivion. In other words, a false reality created within but seperate from the real world, like it were a phantom place. It was a place like the backwards version of everything inside a mirror, but the inhabitants were more like alter egos than reverse images.

Sadly, the life of such a being was lonely. Roxas and Namine's cases were special in the way that they found their original selves, and those two (ala Sora and Kairi) just happened to know each other. Nonetheless, Roxas and Namine only saw each other when Sora and Kairi were together, so on most occasions, they were apart. Sora and Kairi rarely spent time together anymore for some reason.

Today the Nobodies hoped that that would change.

Namine grasped Roxas's hand and held it to her face. His soft palm was strangely warm against her cheek.

"Sora must be quite happy...," Namine said with a devious smile.

Roxas stroked the top of her hand absentmindedly and replied, "Yeah, actually he is."

The pale, blonde girl pulled her head away from his shoulder and looked deep into his ocean-blue eyes and added, "And Kairi is glad to be with him too."


Kairi felt a raindrop on her cheek and pulled away from the kiss they were sharing just before it began to pour.

"Ahhh!" She yelped covering her head. Grabbing his hand, Kairi pulled Sora up off of the sand and they ran back to their boat, laughing and holding hands all the way.


Roxas pulled a palm tree leaf over he and Namine's heads, but it did little to shield them from the rain. At that moment, neither of them really were concerned about whether or not they were wet.

"They're leaving!? What for; it's just rain!" Roxas griped standing up. His tone of voice suggested to Namine that he was angry, if he could feel that sort of thing.

Namine chose to remain seated on the ground.

"What the hell!? They always f---ing do this! I can't believe th-"

"Roxas..."

He stopped complaining and looked down at her.

"Just please, stop it," she said hugging her knees, "I...I can't stand it."

Roxas flushed with embarrassment. Truely, he was mad at himself for ever have broughten it up. What was it going to solve? Every time they met, it was always going to end this way. He wouldn't see the on;y companion he had left for hours or days at a time and it would kill him inside, but seeing Namine upset for some reason ate away at his concience even more. Roxas figured Sora must care deeply for Kairi's feelings or otherwise, he himself would not. And he hated it.

"Namine..."

He knelt down beside her and laid a hand on her shoulder.

"I'm sorry, Namine," he apologized gingerly, "I...just...(he sighed)...don't want to be away form you, you know?"

Namine looked at him and with a half smile said, "And I don't want to be away from you..."

Roxas stood up and reached out a hand to her, "Come on, then! Let's go!" He grinned from ear to ear in the way that Kairi loved that he (Sora) did.

Namine put her frail hand in his strong one and he pulled her up. Together, they walked down the soggy beach, letting the rain drench them from head to toe.


Sora let go of Kairi's hand and gave a small kiss on the cheek. She blushed with a giggle and kissed him back.

"Goodbye, Kairi!"

The maroon-haired girl began to run to her house, but stopped and turned around to reply, "Bye, Sora!", and she kept on running to avoid getting anymore drenched than she already was.

Sora, however, stood there in the rain and watched her leave. Oh, how beautiful she looked even when totally wet. He was glad he decided to take her to The Island today to talk to her in private. Now he could go home without a huge shadow of disappointment looming over him, and best of all, Riku would finally stop making fun of him.

The sound of thunder woke Sora from his daze and he made his way home as well. Today had been a good day.


Namine gripped Roxas's hand tighter as they approached the small wooden dock. Roxas looked over to her; her exprssion was nothing short of disstressed.

"Namine, what's wrong?" He secretly felt silly for always asking her that, when he knew most of the time what was really wrong with her.

"My stomach...it feels funny." They stopped walking and stood holding hands. Namine gripped her abdomin in agony. She lurtched over like she was going to throw up and nearly fell, but Roxas grabbed her waist.

"Namine...wha-" He was cut off suddenly. What he saw before him struck him speechless, like it always did. Roxas hated this part of their short time together more than anything.

Namine began to fade away.

"Namine!" Roxas yelled gripping for her figure, but his arms ran through the silholette of her body like she was a ghost.

Namine fell onto chest and wept terribly. He could not feel her, but she could still feel him.

"It's not fair! Dammit, it's not fair!" She cried out.

Roxas felt a knot in his stomach; he wanted to hold her, to tell her it was alright. But he couldn't even touch her. She was right...it wasn't fair.

Namine's gaze jolted to his eyes one last time as the last outline of her figure faded away.

"Rox-"

And just like that, like so many times before, she was gone. The worst part was that he didn't know when he would see her again or if he would see her again.

Roxas stood there in the pouring rain and began to feel the sensation of his own self fading. He was going back to the place where he came from, the person whom he sometimes hated more than existence itself.

"Namine..."

A few sort moments later, the beach lay empty. The rain poured out over Destiny Islands without seeming to stop. Sora was sitting at home listening to his music while Kairi prepared dinner for herself. Everything carrried on as usual.

But rainy days are different from any other day. On days like these, the mood is lightened to almost hushed tones, sometimes full of sorrow. Sunshine and blue skys are full of warmth and happiness and the blue ocean above the earth smiles on those days.

Today...

...the sky was crying.