My first attempt at a NaminexRoxas fic. So don't kill me, alright? I just think they go so well together, and... I wanted to write something about them. Especially since I just beat KH2, and I wanted to write what I thought ought to happen to them. You know, other than merging with Sora and Kairi. So... here it is.

Chapter I

I'll admit it, I was a little scared.

I mean, here I was, a Nobody, an empty shell, and I was about to merge with my original. I had absolutely no idea what would happen to me. would I... cease to exist? Just like that? Then again, Roxas had been merged with Sora, and he still existed. So I took a deep breath and stepped foreward.

There was a brilliant flash of light... then nothingness.

Suddenly I was falling. Just like that. It was like an infinite dark void had swallowed me whole, pushing in from all sides. The darkness was suffocating me... wait. There was light up ahead. Not a very bright light, but a light, all the same.

I continued to fall, but I rightened myself, preparing for the landing. Unfortunately, my bright-blue, strap-on shoes were not the best for making a hard landing, and I crumpled on impact, hearing a sickening krak. I could feel a searing hot pain in my left ankle, and I think I screamed. Slowly I crawled towards the light. Every movement I made sent a flash of pain through my leg and burned my ankle, but I kept crawling.

Once I reached the light, I saw that it was really an incredibly bright glyph in the shape of a Nobody symbol that shone with burning intensity. I stumbled to my feet, trying not to put much weight on my left leg. Cautiously, I reached out and grazed the glyph with my fingertips. At first nothing happened, and I slumped down to the ground.

Without warning, the glyph flashed three different colors: violet, aqua, and bright blue. Then it seemed to shatter, and a torrrent of energy flowed from the place where it had been. I was swept along in the current of energy. It felt cold, and at the same time seemed to bathe my body in warmth. It flowed on and on, leading to nowhere. I felt like I was swimming in a violent, rising river. But no matter how hard I tried to keep my head up, it seemed to be sucking me down. I didn't have any strength left, and my ankle hurt worse than ever. So I gave in, and let the current pull me under.

And then I drifted into unconsciousness.

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"Sora! Riku!" a girl - Kairi? - called from the shore of a strangely familiar island. I couldn't see the girl's face, but it sounded like Kairi.

Sora and Riku, who I could see, were out in the ocean. Both of them began swimming eagerly towards the shore. When they had almost gotten there, three familiar figures brushed past me. I recognized them as King Mickey, Donald, and Goofy. Donald and Goofy hugged Sora, knocking him over, and the King ran up to Riku, who swung him around in the air before hugging him.

Kairi's face suddenly became clear. She smiled at Sora, happily laughing. Sora grinned back. Then Kairi's face changed, revealing... my own. I saw a flash of red light, and then I was looking at Sora, through Kairi's eyes. Only he wasn't Sora anymore, he was Roxas. Roxas grinned at me, then changed back into Sora. I saw another flash of light, only it was bright green this time. Then... blackness.

I felt as though something had latched itself onto my hand. Everything was dark... so dark...

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I sat up with a jolt. The first thing I noticed was that it was night. Well, not really night. A few rays of pinkish sunlight peeked shyly over the horizon of a shimmering, deep blue ocean. I was sitting on a sandy white beach, which was completely deserted except for myself. The next thing I saw was that a hand was entwined with my own. That hand belonged to-

"Roxas?"

As if in slow motion, Roxas rubbed his eyes and sat up. He looked at me, and grinned sleepily.

"That's right," he said, more to himself than to me. "You've merged with Kairi, so..."

"So... what?" I was confused. Where was I? And how did Roxas end up next to me?

"So, you've come here. This is where nobodies go when they die. Since we're the only two Nobodies to ever merge with their originals, we end up here, also."

"But... Roxas... I don't get it."

He laughed. It wasn't a mean laugh, it was more of a happy laugh. "Neither did I, at first. You'll understand eventually. But basically, what goes on here is that we keep on living. Only, here we're not really nobodies. We're sombodies. We have hearts, and we can feel." He looked around, then his eyes locked onto my left ankle. "Namine... what happened to your ankle?"

I had forgotten my ankle, and as soon as I remembered it, searing pain shot through my leg. It felt like it was on fire. "I... think... I broke it." I said between gasps of pain. Looking down at it, I saw that it had swollen and was now a blackish-blue color.

"Geez, Namine. We need you to get some medical attention. When did this happen?" He grasped my hand in both of his and looked straight into my eyes. And I saw something I had never seen in his eyes before.

Worry. Caring. Anxiety.

Emotion. He was right. We could feel. I could feel. I had a heart of my own. Not Kairi's... mine.

"When I... merged with... Kairi... I fell through... darkness... and when I landed..." I tried to get to my feet, but my leg simply wouldn't support me this time. I collapsed on the sand next to Roxas.

"Namine!" he cried, picking me up bridal-style. "Come on, we're going to the hospital to get this treated."

"There's... a hospital here?" I asked.

"Yeah," he said, running along the beach. With every step he took another jolt of pain raced through my leg, but I didn't want him to worry any more. "This isn't heaven, where everything's perfect. People can die here, and then they're either passed into heaven or hell, depending on their behavior. That means people can get injured and sick. They need a hospital to help those people."

"Oh..." I murmured. I clutched his white jacket when there was a sudden, horrible jolt. The pain shooting through my ankle was... so much worse now. "Roxas... it hurts." I whimpered.

"I know, Namine. Hang in there. We're almost there." he said soothingly, then quickened his pace.

I heard the sound of his footsteps change. Instead of being a soft thump, thump, thump on the sand, it sounded like the pounding of rubber soles on cement. We appeared to be in a small seaside town. Not on an island, we were more like on a peninsula. The ocean was soothing, the sound of the waves crashing onto the shore in the distance washing through my brain.

Eventually Roxas came to a white building marked EMERGENCY and carried me inside to a crowded waiting room. He carefully sat me down on a chair and ran up to the front desk. I stared down at my ankle. It looked fascinating in the fluorescent light, swirling blues and purples and yellows, all mixed together in a torrent of different colors. I studied it for a few minutes before Roxas came over and sat next to me.

He breathed a sigh of relief, then turned to me. "We're gonna be here for a while. Is there anything I can do for you while we wait?"

I managed a strained smile. "No, thanks... I'm just... glad you're with me. And I want you to stay with me. That's all."

Roxas smiled. "Your wish is my command," he said quietly, lacing his fingers with mine.

I didn't care about my injury. Roxas and I were together.

That was all that mattered.

Haha! I did it! Aw, RITE! Now, I want you to please press that little purple button down there, that one that says "go", and type in your honest-to-god opinion about this.

-Natsyourlord

PS: If you're a Campfire Geeks fan and are reading this, YES I am working on Campfire Geeks 2, but I specifically said it wasn't coming out 'till November. So enjoy this one while you're waiting, and stop sending me violent fan mail!