Hello everyone! I know, I know, I shouldn't be writing another fanfic when I have so many already, but I wanted to start this one right away because it seemed like something everyone might enjoy. :D:D I thought that it should be a story to be shared with everyone. :D:D And no, it's not the sequel to my other Kingdom Hearts fanfic. Lol. It's just a random one. :D Well I hope that you all enjoy it nonetheless and will like it as much as I do. :D:D My apologies for spelling errors and stuff. Enjoy!!

At Sunset

Waiting

Why was it that I could barely think straight when he was around? When I saw him walking around with those two blonds… why did I feel compelled to talk to him? I didn't know. All I knew was that it made me happy when he waved.


I sat against the wall of the Accessory shop in the Tram Common of Twilight Town. I hadn't done much all day… just kind of sat around. Seifer had already come over once to see what I was doing. He was making his second trip right now.

"Why is it that every time I walk by here, you're sitting against that wall?" he ask me with slightly furrowed eyebrows.

Truth be told, I enjoyed Seifer's company when he came to see what I was doing. He was the only one who seemed to give it a thought. No one else seemed to care. 'Didn't he once say that he cared because I was a 'slacker' and could be a 'troublemaker'?' I wondered as I looked up to him.

"It's not always this wall," I told him, closing my red eyes and smiling slightly.

He made a face and shook his head slightly.

"You're always sitting somewhere all right," he grumbled and sat down against the wall beside me, "Don't you have a home to go to?"

I opened my eyes and turned my head to look at him, the smile gone. He was staring ahead of him, making it seem like he didn't care at all. 'I'm surprised that he managed to shake Rai and Fuu off… They're usually right behind him.'

"I don't want to go back there yet," I told him pleasantly, resting my head against my knees.

'I don't want to go back there at all…' My black cargo pants made it easy to carry things in my pockets. They were rather baggy, but they still fit without falling down.

"Ixaon…" he said, probably about to give me a lecture.

"Hey, there's Seifer, y'know," Rai called, his voice hearable through the entire Tram Common.

Seifer's expression narrowed as if he was agitated.

'Okay… so he had been trying to ditch them for a while…'

"Just make sure you go back there," Seifer told me as he got to his feet and started to walk towards Rai, "I don't want any more complaints about someone sneaking around at night."

"I will," I told him, "… around sunset."

'I don't sneak around at night… I walk home in the middle of the night.' When Seifer was gone, I stared ahead of me across the Tram Common blankly. 'I'm sixteen… I can take care of myself at night. I don't need them to do it for me.' My eyebrows furrowed at the thought of my parents. All they ever did was argue, and argue… and argue. Then I'd go in the same room as one of them to get something and then they'd yell at me. I always wondered if they had done that before I was born… if I was the real problem. They never seemed to hate each other until I got home.

"Who cares," I grunted, still watching ahead of me.

I could sit in one place as long as I wanted to, so long as I didn't have to go home when they were awake.

A little while went by as I watched people go by. Pence went by, heading for Station Heights so he could take the shorter way to his group's hanging place. I knew him from school. He had been in a few of the classes that I had to take.

As he ran by… that was when they seemed to make their appearance; three of them, wearing the same kind of black coats. They came out of nowhere because they were walking away from a wall. Two of them were blond and the other was a couple inches taller with spiky red hair. One blond was the shortest and seemed to be the youngest with his hair going to one side. The other had a kind of mullet… and he seemed rather uplifted than the other two.

"Who're they?" I whispered to myself as I raised my head to get a better look.

The taller blond seemed to turn his head to look at me with some surprise before he smiled and waved slightly. I waved back as well with a small smile. 'He seems nice enough…' He said something to the red head and then all three were looking towards me. The smaller blond only cast a glance, as if he didn't care about something, and the red head smiled before waving as well. They walked by and were heading in the direction of the Sandlot. 'That's weird…' When they went around the corner of a building and I couldn't see them anymore, I rose to my feet.

"Where are they going?" I wondered quietly as my feet unconsciously started to follow after them.

They seemed… interesting. They were different; looked different, dressed different. I wanted to know this different. I wanted to know… if they knew what it felt like to be abandoned.

I quietly ran, my black shoes barely making a sound against the pavement. 'I knew there was a good reason that I wore these shoes today.' I mused to myself, pretending that I knew something like this would have happened. My long red hair hung down my back as I ran and slightly over my eyes. The wind was blowing them out of my way. My red eyes looked around the corner and I didn't see them anymore. They were gone.

"How does that work?" I whispered to myself, looking everywhere for them.

'They're gone… just like that…Did I imagine them? I did seem to be the only one to notice them so it is possible that I've finally lost my mind…' I shook my head at the thought. I wasn't going to be condemned insane for that.

The clouds had started to form in the sky some time ago and were now making their appearance known. It began to rain and the cool water felt good against my face. 'Maybe they didn't go to the Sandlot… Maybe they went somewhere else…' My red eyes wandered to the large hole that had been made in the brick wall of the Tram Common. Through there were trees and a forest… even a creepy mansion. 'I don't think that they would want to go there…' With the rain falling now, I still wasn't sure if it was a good idea to go home. Was it late enough now that they wouldn't fight? I didn't know.

'I guess that it couldn't hurt… before I get completely soaked to the bone.' With a sigh, I started to head home. The water formed puddles on the ground and they made a little noise when I walked through them. My red t-shirt was wet as well as the thin black long-sleeved one underneath. They were both clinging to my skin with the wetness.

"I wonder who they were…" I whispered, seeing the three guys in my mind.

To me, none of them really stood out… except maybe the taller blond because he seemed to be the happiest. Other than that… they all kind of seemed to be the same to me yet they were all interesting. 'They seemed strange to me.' They were all the same kind of different.

As I walked home, my red hair clung to my head. I didn't realize how close I was to home. My red eyes looked up and I saw that the house was close. It was almost dark out now and I had stopped to look at the house warily. There were two lights on and that usually meant they were both awake. 'I'm not sure I should go in there… I don't want to have to listen to them again…' I thought it was sad that I was afraid to go into my own home; that I was afraid to listen to what my parents had to say to each other, about each other… about everything. Sometimes it was really unbearable to listen to what they were saying that I ran out of the house.

"Maybe I should wait…" I murmured with a worried expression on my face.

'I should wait until the lights go off…' It was a safety hazard to go in when the lights were on.

I sat down under a stairway where it was dry and looked at the ground blankly. There was nothing that I had to do. All I had to do was wait an hour or so until the lights went off. What was an extra hour of waiting?

"Hey there," an unfamiliar voice said.

Lifting my head, I didn't see anyone and I cocked an eyebrow. 'Okay… now I'm really going crazy…'

"Over here," he laughed slightly and I looked towards my right to see the tall red head standing there.

My eyes widened with some surprise when I saw him. How had he gotten there? I didn't know.

"I saw that you were watching before," he said with a small smirk.

"I've never seen you around here before," I told him pleasantly.

No matter how miserable I really was, I had no reason to be rude to others.

"It's a first time," he told me, his greenish blue eyes bright in the dark, "Like a business trip I guess."

That puzzled me. '…Business? What business is there around here?' The red headed stranger's expression changed slightly, becoming curious.

"What are you waiting for?" he asked me, looking around a little.

There wasn't anything there; nothing to find.

"I'm waiting…" I started, looking up to his standing form, "to go home."

I wasn't sure if I could call it that. Somewhere that you lived but didn't feel safe or welcome... could anyone call that home?

"Oh…" he said quietly, looking to the side solemnly, "I see how it is."

'Does he really?' I wondered with a cocked eyebrow. He crossed his arms and turned to look at the building with the lights on.

"Do you sit around like this every night?" he wondered, still looking at the building.

"I guess you could say that," I mused, looking ahead of me.

He shook his head and then rubbed the back of it with some confusion. 'I do sit around… but I wait until night to go home…'

"Wow… I guess I have to go," he told me as he turned towards me with slightly furrowed eyebrows, "I'd stay longer but I have some more 'business' to take care of."

'He's leaving?' I cocked an eyebrow, turning to look at him and he was gone.

"Wow… I really am going insane," I mumbled to myself while shaking my head.

At that moment, I decided to go home. If I was going to be down outside of the house, I might as well be that way in the house. I went back into the rain and felt the cool water against my face. 'At least the world doesn't stop when something bad happens. Just because one person has something bad happen to them doesn't mean that the world has to end just for them…'

As I opened the door, I heard my mom's voice from upstairs.

"What is wrong with you?" she yelled, which caused me to wince.

"Why are you yelling at me when it's her fault?" my dad asked back angrily.

"Why do you never take responsibility for your actions? Why do you always blame everything on Ixaon?" my mom shouted again,

"Do not accuse me of doing that when you do that exact same thing!" my father accused.

It was true. They both did the same thing; blamed their troubles on me so they didn't have to deal with it. 'Why do they have to do this? Why can't they just play nice for once instead of being so stupid? I just don't get it! I had to have been a mistake!' I shook my head at the thought as I tried to get rid of it. If they had been in love enough to have me… to get married to one another, then why couldn't they be that way afterwards? Why did everything have to go wrong while I was growing up? Why not beforehand when it didn't matter?

"When I wasn't alive," I murmured with furrowed eyebrows.

I covered an ear and walked back outside. I wasn't going to deal with that again today. I walked away from the house and walked out into the rain. I didn't know where I was going to go, but at that moment, I didn't really care either. Just so long as I didn't have to go home. If I ended up somewhere like the Sandlot and fell asleep, I could have cared less.


There was only darkness and my eyes wandered all over the place, looking for an exit. I knew it was a dream, because there was no real place in the world like this. I knew there couldn't be… or at least I thought there wasn't.

"Ixaon," his voice called to me from the darkness.

'It's that guy… The red head from before.' His red hair formed first and then the rest of him appeared, black coat and all.

"Come with me Ixaon," he said with a smirk as he held out his gloved hand to me.

He was waiting for me to take it and I wasn't sure if I should. Then the two blonds appeared; the taller one smiling and the shorter one not looking in my direction.

"We understand how it is," he assured me, "We understand how it feels, so come with us."

'Go with them?' I wondered to myself. As I reached out to take his hand, the darkness seemed to get thicker.

I opened my eyes and I was curled up in a ball, leaning against a wall in a place I wasn't too used to. It was Pence's and his friends' hang out place. I didn't know why I wasn't on the couch instead, but I thought that it had to do with my parents fighting.

"Who cares," I grumbled with furrowed eyebrows as I unsteadily got to my feet.

It was summer, so there was no school to go to. 'Maybe I'll go to Sunset Hill today and watch the trains or something…' With a sigh, I walked back out through the fence and into the back alley. I was sure that the three friends wouldn't want me there when they arrived. I knew that it was all right, because they were the only ones who ever went there. Seifer and his gang had their own place to go to, so no one else really bothered. I started to go towards the short cut that would take me to Station Heights. From there I could get to the train station and ride it to the other part of Twilight Town. The person's cart was still sitting on the flat part of the hill, breaks locked so no one could take it.

'That world… that dark place that I dreamt about… is it real? Or was it just a dream?' My eyebrows furrowed at the thought. If it was a real place, I knew who I wanted to shove into it.

"They'd deserve it," I murmured, looking to the right as I made it to the train station.

The bright scenery from there was always beautiful. It didn't matter how you looked at it, the place was always beautiful. It had always been a favorite place of mine to sit during the day. It wasn't often that I got bored of it. The cool breeze from there always felt nice when it blew. I never could wait for winter to see everything covered in snow. That was the only time things seemed at peace.

The bell rang from inside the station, saying that the train was about to leave. 'Better get on…' I quickly ran inside and bought a ticket with what munny I had on me. As I got on the train, I saw Rai and Vivi there. Seifer and Fuu weren't there.

"Are Seifer and Fuu looking around together?" I asked Rai with a small smile.

"No," Vivi replied, shaking his head.

His high pitched voice always amused me, no matter how many times I had heard it. 'Oh… I guess he tried to ditch them again…'

"He ditched, y'know," Rai said with agitation, "I don't see why he needs so much space y'know?"

I shrugged, "I have no idea."

'Could be that you say 'y'know' too much…'

"Nothing we can do about it Rai," Vivi told him, closing his eyes.

"He's around somewhere," I assured them, "He probably just needs some time to think alone."

I was trying to be convincing, but I had no idea Seifer was really thinking. I didn't know a lot of things; Seifer just happened to be one of those things.

"The train will be arriving shortly," the conductor told everyone who was riding the train.

The train stopped and everyone got off, Rai and Vivi looked rather gloomy. 'I can't believe that they'd get to upset over something like that.' I smiled slightly at the thought. It seemed amusing enough.

"What to do now," I whispered to myself.

Looking around, I saw that everyone had already gone and others had gotten on the train. I went down the stairs rather slowly, in no rush to get anywhere. After all, I had all day to sit around Twilight Town. Though now, I only had till sunset. 'I'll go back to the Tram Common before sunset so I can see if he'll come back… I wouldn't mind taking the time out of my waiting just so I can see him again… I want to know if they really do understand what it's like to be this way…' My red eyes felt dull, and I knew that that dead look was on my face. Like someone could say or do anything and I wouldn't care. I felt broken and alone enough as it was. It didn't matter to me if I got even more broken. Who would be there to care anyway?

"No friends… no one to call family… no pets… nothing," I told myself.

'No one to tell anything to.' I winced at that thought because it felt the truest.

For now, I was alone and there was only one option that I felt could change that… The compulsion to talk to that tall red headed, nearly green eyed stranger.

End of Chapter 1

So… How was it? Did you all like it? I hope so. :D:D I worked hard on it and I'm working on the next chapter already, though I don't have much down 'cause I was busy all weekend and yeah. :D I'm really tired right now and I have to go to school first thing in the morning otherwise I'd type more for this. :D:D Well I hope that you all liked this first chapter and will all leave nice reviews for me to want to keep on writing. :D:D Please R&R and I'll update when I get the chance. :D:D