Dun dun dun! I have a new story for Kingdom Hearts, though it's more of a Kingdom Hearts/Final Fantasy mix. I'm having so much fun with this story XD And, I'm going to be posting at least one chapter a week for a while, so be prepared for constant updates on Sundays :D

This story is first person from Roxas' POV, except for a few chapters that will be from some of the other character's POVs. Also, this story will eventually have a companion story called Something About the Rain, which goes into the pasts of the characters (mainly Roxas' parents) and shows what happens to each character after the story ends. So be expecting that eventually.

Anyway, I would really appreciate reviews on this, and this is only kind of edited... I got too tired so I might just... repost it later when I finally stop being lazy.

Thanks for reading this and please enjoy :)

Disclaimer: Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts are only mine in my dreams... it's sad, I know...

~Sunechirei

Oh joy, I'm graduating.

"As of today, we are all no longer students of Twilight High, but newcomers in the world of adults. Class of 2010, I am proud to say, we have finally graduated!"

I cringed as the cheers of my class mates reached my ears, but I joined in as we threw up our caps, and let out a pathetic cheer of my own. The band began to play, and all around me people picked up the caps they had just thrown, awards the had been granted, and their diplomas before walking in a neat line out of the gym. I followed the line silently, feeling conflicted about no longer having to wake up at six in the morning, or dealing with crazy teachers. Sure, it would be nice to longer have to do those things, but still, high school had been fun.

Sort of.

My feet trudged against the tiled floor of my school as I stripped off my gown, revealing the messy suit I had been forced into over three hours ago by my best friends, Hayner, Pence, and Olette. I really didn't want to wear the stupid thing, but once Olette showed me her infamous puppy eyes, I couldn't help but agree to wear it.

"Dude! Roxas! Why the long face? We just graduated for heaven's sake. Cheer up why don't you."

I couldn't help but smile at the sound of Hayner's voice and I turned around, slinging my gown over my shoulder.

"Cheer up? You, Pence, and Olette are all leaving the city for college while I'm stuck here learning how to run my father's business. Why should I cheer up?" I asked, despite the fact that a grin had spread across my face. Hayner let out a laugh.

"Oh come on," he said, placing one hand on my shoulder, "inheriting the most successful hotel business in the world can't be that bad." He continued to laugh, not quite getting that I wanted to move out of my house, not live there forever.

But he would never understand that. Hayner was one of those people who wanted everything handed to him, and the fact that he was being forced to actually go to college was like a nightmare come true for him. He had been complaining for the past eight months about having to move fifty miles and go to college without having me to cheat off of, ever since he had found out that the he was going to school on a fencing scholarship. If he and I hadn't been best friends for the past, oh say, fifteen years, I would have murdered the man.

Just as I was about to try, for the millionth time, to explain to Hayner that I wished I could go to college away from home, Olette and Pence called out to us.

"Hayner! Roxas! You aren't going to believe this!" Olette's voice was filled to the brim with excitement as she skipped over to us, hugging me, then Hayner.

"Yeah. This is totally unbelievable," Pence didn't seem quite as excited as Olette did, grabbing my attention quickly.

"What's so exciting then?" I asked, eager to know what would ruin the mood of the happy go lucky nerd.

"I got accepted into a summer program at the college I'm going to! I leave in like, three days so I can start learning to be a teacher! Isn't that awesome!" Olette squealed and jumped on me, her arms wrapping around my neck, but I was frozen. Olette was leaving in three days? I thought I had at least another two or three months before she would disappear from my life. Hayner and Pence seemed to be thinking the same things, as they had a look of disappointment lingering in their faces.

Already this day was sucking horribly.

Olette let go of my neck, and looked between me and the other two, confused. "Is something wrong? I thought you would be happy for me," she pouted, crossing her arms. Hayner laughed nervously.

"Look, Olette, we're really happy for you," he began, "but-"

"But what? Do you think I'm not going to be your guys friends anymore because I'm leaving before you? How well do you guys know me?"

"That's not what I was going to say." Hayner rolled his eyes. "We just didn't know that you were going to be gone so soon, and it's kinda a shock that we don't have another few months hanging out with you..." he trailed off, though I wasn't exactly surprised about that. Hayner had been crushing on Olette for as long as we had known her, so basically for five years. This was probably hardest for him, especially since Olette was going to be living over three thousand miles away from Hayner.

Of course, that also meant she wouldn't be living anywhere near me either. Neither would Pence. He wasn't even going to be in the same country as me.

"Are you an idiot, Hayner?" Olette laughed, "I know that I'm leaving sooner than expected. I thought I could spend some more time with you guys too. But eventually, we're all going to have to go our separate ways; why not start when you can't change your mind. Besides, we'll always have our memories of each other, right?"

I rolled my eyes. It was just like Olette to give us a speech about how our memories are always the most important things in our lives to calm Hayner down. The brat ate the crappy speech up every time, and today was no different.

My pathetic friend smiled happily and pulled Olette into a surprising hug. "Thanks for that. I guess I can learn to get by."

Pence laughed. "You know, we shouldn't be complaining at all. Roxas is the one who has to watch us leave, right Roxas?" I just smiled, silently cursing Pence for reminding me of what my life was going to be like in a few weeks. Basically, hell.

"Why aren't you saying anything?" Hayner asked, letting go of Olette, "Is the mighty Roxas sulking?" I punched him in the arm.

"No, you ass. I'm reminiscing. There's a difference." Hayner rubbed his arm and punched me back.

"Both are such girlish qualities, dork."

"Well, I'm not surprised you have both of them." Scoffing, Hayner pushed me, and I nearly crashed into the wall, but I was laughing.

This was such a normal exchange between the two of us, and by now, Pence and Olette were so used to it that they started talking amongst themselves, waiting for our madness to end. Luckily for the two of them, I didn't retaliate, instead I listened to their conversation, ignoring Hayner's taunts.

"So, Pence, what are your plans for this summer?" Olette was inquiring. Pence fidgeted a bit.

"Um... I think that since you're going to be gone, that I'll probably spend the last few months of freedom staying with my grandparents so I can get used to the country I'll be living in..." he laughed nervously, glancing at me and Hayner. "Don't get me wrong guys, you're my best friends, but without Olette, it's hard to control you two."

What seemed like a day that could be redeemed, fell deeper in the pit of horrid news. First Olette, then Pence. Next thing you know, Hayner was going to be telling me that he was also going to move to his new dorm room, leaving me alone for the summer.

Luckily for me, he had no such plans.

Still, the fact that we had only been graduates for a few minutes, and I already found out that my friend group of over five years was already splitting up, was really putting a damper on my already sour mood.

Olette seemed to, as always, notice how depressed I was getting, so she chirped, "Let's go get some ice cream and sit on top of the train station, like we did back in middle school." Hayner and Pence exchanged glances.

"That sounds like an awesome idea! You're the best, Olette!" The girl smiled and blushed slightly at Hayner's compliment, and I snorted, getting confused looks from my friends. I waved them off, but continued to laugh to myself.

As I said earlier, Hayner has liked Olette for forever. However, I didn't bother to mention that Olette has had a thing for Hayner since our junior year. Neither of them noticed each others infatuation, however, and no matter how I tried to hint it at them, they still thought the love was one sided.

I never understood how Olette could be so book smart, Hayner so street smart, and both still be extremely dense at the same time. This thought caused me to laugh.

"Okay, seriously Roxas, you're starting to scare me man. What's going through that messed up brain of yours?" Hayner asked poking me between the eyes. I slapped his hand away and childishly stuck out my tongue.

"Nothing you need to be concerned about. Or is it...?" I left the question hanging in the air, and enjoyed watching the sandy haired boy think hard about this statement. This caused everyone to laugh at him, and I could feel myself cheering up until...

"Roxas! Sweetie there you are! Your father and I have been looking for you for the past five minutes."

I flinched at the sound of my mother's voice, and turned sadly, knowing she was going to drag me off somewhere, without my friends, and make me talk to Dad about work. Boring...

"Now come on. We have to go out to lunch to celebrate the fact that our baby is no longer in high school," she kissed my forehead and hugged me tight, completely oblivious to how embarrassed I was becoming. I could hear Hayner and Pence snickering at my mother's display of love, and I knew Olette was watching us endearingly.

I struggled against Mom's death grip, and finally got away. "Stop it! You're going to make me the laughing stock of the school." I muttered, my face hot with embarrassment.

"Oh Roxas. You don't go to school here anymore, remember," the woman in front of me cooed, brushing my hair out of my face. I swatted her hand away.

"It's called the internet!"

"Dude, who would bother telling anyone about this on the internet?" Hayner asked, pulling out his phone. I guessed that he was about to go onto the school's WiFi and tell everyone what just happened, so I snatched the phone from him, my irritation rising with every passing second.

"You would."

Next to me, my mother sighed and started tapping her foot impatiently. "Hayner, Pence, Olette, it's really nice to see you again, but Roxas and his father have business to attend to, so I would really appreciate it if you could say goodbye," her voice was calm and sweet, though her sentence wasn't quite so.

Thankfully, my friends are used to the madness of my family, and didn't question it at all. Instead, the said goodbye to me, all with a sympathetic look (with the exception of Hayner who just snatched his phone back irritably) before I followed my mother out of the school.

The restaurant she dragged me to was extremely fancy, not that I was expecting anything else. Mom never dined at a restaurant that wasn't at least four stars. To me, the food tasted the same at almost every place, so I didn't get why we had to spend so much money for food, but that's just the way she was. Unfortunately.

"Mom, do we really have to be here? It's just lunch. Any restaurant would be good," regretted saying these words as soon as they left my mouth. Luckily, she let it pass with just a roll of her eyes, and instead led me into the back of the restaurant where my father was waiting patiently for us.

Mom smiled when she saw him and walked around the table to hug him, "Hello Cloud. We're here."

I rolled my eyes at the excitement of my mother, and my father just nodded to show he had heard her. The two of us exchanged amused glances, and I had to fight off the urge to laugh. I sat down quickly before Mom noticed anything, and pulled out my phone to see if Hayner had texted or called me.

He hadn't.

The bastard.

He knew well that I hated having lunch with my parents. Don't get me wrong, it's not because I hate them, I love my parents a lot, I just don't like having to deal with the seriousness of my mom.

"So, sweetie, how does it feel to no longer be in school?"

Of course my mom had to ask me that. It's probably the stupidest question ever, seeing as I graduated only an hour ago. How am I supposed to know what it's like to be a graduate? It just feels like I got out of school for the day, except for the fact that I knew Olette and Pence were leaving in a few days and not coming back for at least nine months.

"It feels pretty awesome," I lied, pushing back the annoying thoughts that were trying to ruin my "lovely" lunch.

"That's wonderful! Don't you think, Cloud?"

"Yeah."

How my father ended up controlling the most powerful hotel industry in the world was a mystery to me and Hayner. He was such a downer, almost never talked, and was really bad with people. It made no sense, but hey, I'm not complaining.

As Mom continued to try and get Dad to talk, my phone buzzed in my hand, signaling that I got a text. I glanced at it, trying not to let my parent's know I wasn't paying attention to them.

Dude im so bored! Pence is tryng to lctre me and O about why we shouldnt drnk at our graduation party. I mean serusly? What's a party w/out alcehol.

I couldn't help but laugh at this, but went silent quickly when Mom shot me a quizzical stare. Smiling, I picked up my menu in an attempt to make her ignore me, which she did. Thank God.

A safe party. I'm gonna have to agree with Pence on this one. Don't even think about bringing anything like that to our party. If Olette doesn't kill you, I will. I replied quickly, glancing over the food. In the end, I knew I wasn't going to get anything, but Mom didn't know that….

Wht! R u serous man? Ur no fun.

You're right. I'm not. And you need to learn how to spell.

Its txting dude. I dont need to know how.

"Roxas, you had better not be texting," my mother warned. "This is a time for family, not friends." I snapped my phone shut, giving my mom an apologetic look.

"So, what business do we have to attend to?" I said, trying to ignore the annoying buzz of my phone. "I'd like to get this over with and go hang out with my friends. We have a graduation party to go to."

"Roxas! Stop being rude!"

"Tifa..." Dad placed a hand on her shoulder, "Roxas, we need to talk about your apprenticeship with my company."

"Um... okay? Why now? Aren't I starting in two months?" Dad and Mom looked at each other.

"You didn't tell him?" Mom said, shocked.

"No. I thought you had."

"Why would I tell him? That's your job!"

"I'm sorry. I wasn't aware that-"

"What are you guys talking about? What were supposed to tell me?" There was a feeling in my gut that told me nothing good could come out of this. Sadly, the feeling was right.

"Your father and I have decided it would be best for you to start your training tomorrow and-"

"What!" My chair made a nasty screeching noise as I stood up suddenly. Mom shushed me, but I refused to be quiet. "You're kidding me, right? There is no way I'm going to agree to this!" The volume of my voice was quickly rising, drawing the attention of other diners and the waiters.

Our waitress walked over to us, a concerned look on her face. "Is everything alright, sir?" she asked me.

"Obviously not!" I snapped at her. "Goodbye!"

"Roxas!"

Ignoring my mom, I snatched up my fancy coat and stalked out of the room. There was no way in hell I was going to start learning how to run this stupid business. The only reason why I was in the first place was because Olette had convinced me that it would be best, seeing as I had no other plans for my future. But seriously, I had two months to hang out with Hayner, my best friend and I wasn't going to spend the majority of it busy dealing with weird, business obsessed adults.

I was so not ready for that yet.

With a sigh, I whipped out my phone and dialed Olette's number. It rang for a few seconds before the girl finally picked up.

"Hey Roxas, what's up?" I could barely hear Olette over the background noise where she was.

"Something close to hell."

"Oh no! What happened?"

"My parents decided to inform me that I'm going to be starting work tomorrow. Not in two months."

"That's terrible! What are you going to- Ouch! Hayner, stop. Give me my-"

"Dude, what's terrible? Please don't tell me it involves you not being rich anymore"

I stopped walking, pulled the phone away from my ear for a second and stared at it with a disgusted face. Of course that's Hayner's first reaction. Sometime I could swear he was only my friend because of how much money my family had. Placing the phone back on my ear I said, "What? Of course not! It has to do with my apprenticeship. Where did Olette go?"

"The tiny girl is currently trying to get her phone back, but she's failing... miserably. Now, what about your weird job thing? Did you lose it or something?"

The tiny girl... yeah, that's just like Hayner.

"No, I didn't lose it. And stop flirting with Olette and give her her phone back."

"I am so not doing that," Hayner hissed, causing me to roll my eyes, "and I'll give it back to her when you tell me what the bad news is."

"Fine. I'm starting tomorrow. Happy?"

Silence greeted me, then rustling, then Olette.

"I think you broke Hayner's brain." She said. "You might want to get over here. Now."

I opened my car door, slid in and started it. "I'm on my way." Closing my phone, I drove as quickly as I could, ignoring the fact that Mom had come out of the restaurant and was calling to me. I knew that telling Hayner would pretty much destroy the tiny amount of peace that had lasted throughout the day, which is why I called Olette instead. But he had to know eventually.

Driving always calmed me down, thank goodness, because if it didn't, I would have been in a murderous rage by the time I got to Pence's house. I had been thinking about what my mother had said about it being good for me to start tomorrow, and I was beginning to see her point.

Which was aggravating.

Really aggravating.

The door to Pence's house opened as soon as I got there, and I was greeted by Hayner, who seemed completely normal to me.

"Dude! There you are! I can't believe how late you are," he grabbed me, dragging me into the house without hesitation. I was extremely confused. Ten minutes ago Olette had told me I had broken Hayner's brain, now he was acting like nothing had happened. Either he was high, or he had accepted the fact that he was going to be alone for the rest of the summer. Knowing Hayner, the first one seemed more likely.

Luckily, it wasn't the case. Pence's parents were home and there was no way they would let drugs into the house. Also, Olette looked happy.

"I convinced Hayner that this was a good thing for you, and he shouldn't be so selfish. Cheered him right up."

"Oh. That's good."

"Good? Man, this is awesome! You're going to be rich and famous! Now let's get this party started."

I laughed at Hayner. This day had started out bad, got worse, got better, got worse, got much worse, but all in all, I think today was a pretty good day. After all, not everything can go the way you want, right? I couldn't see that when I was shocked back in the restaurant, but after calming down, and now, seeing Hayner accept it, I had begun to realize this was true.

But I still wasn't looking forward to tomorrow.