Hey! This is my first fanfiction ever so it may not be that great. A warning ahead of time: this story contains many Christian themes and if you are uncomfortable with that then 1) you should begin a relationship with Jesus Christ or 2) if you are unwilling to accept my faith, then don't read it and please no flames for my religion.
That being said, I would like to thank my good friend idoenjoyanime for encouraging me to start writing and I would like to thank Skillet for making the song Forgiven which was and continues to be my inspiration for this story. Enjoy!
Forgiven
Chapter 1: An Interesting Sunday
Beep beep beep. Ughhh…… Why does church have to start so early…?
That was my first thought on the day that changed my life.
I'm Roxas. Don't ask my last name because I won't give it. Don't start judging me just because I go to church, I am not one of those wimpy pacifist Christians. If you mess with me, I'll fight you back and I'll win. Don't get me wrong, I love God; I just think letting people walk all over you isn't helping anyone. My father hates that about me but that's to be expected when you're the son of a pastor. But, back to my story…
"Roxas! Hurry up or you'll make us late!" My brother, twin actually, Ven screams up to me.
"Relax, relax I'm ready," I say coming down, throwing my jacket over myself (A/N just imagine outfit in kh2) and grabbing a bagel from the kitchen.
"You can't go to Church in that! What will everyone think? And did you even take a shower?" Ven asks, acting superior. Just because you wear a black suit and red tie… shut up Ven!
"If they're real Christians then they shouldn't judge by appearances. And I took a shower last night, I don't need one." It's true. My hair never gets messed up… well its always messed up but that's how I like it.
"Are you boys ready yet?" My father demanded as he walked into the kitchen. My father, the great pastor Squall Leonhart, or Leon, as he liked to be called, is actually our adopted father. Our biological mom and dad… well I don't like to talk about him.
"Yes dad," my brother and I reply in unison. We have both learned not to mess with him, especially on Sundays.
"Oh Squall, are you yelling at them already? It's not even 8:00 yet! Give them a break sweetie," my mother, Yuffie, what a Godsend! Leon may be strict, but mom is relaxed enough to compensate.
"No I wasn't yelling at them I was just making sure they were ready. And it's Leon honey."
"Well, it looks like everyone's ready so let's go! Off to church!" Gosh, how does anyone, in their 40's none the less, have this much energy this early?
Ahh youth group, the best part of church. Basically, we do a little Bible study, a lesson or two on morals, and then we can jut sit and talk. Its ten times better than listening to dad preach for 2 hours. Ven and I walk into the room and find our friends waiting for us and even saved us seats!
What good friends…
We were sitting in a big circle looking up and reading Bible verses. Clockwise we sat me, Ven, his girlfriend, Aqua, who had the strangest blue hair…, her brother, Terra, even I was a little afraid of this guy… he's huge, Riku, he must be stressed out for having gray hair at 16 years old, his best friend, Sora, his brown hair almost spikier than mine, his "friend" Kairi, they're in love and everyone knows except the two of them, and my best friend, Axel, sitting in between me and Kairi, his fiery locks matching his pyromaniac attitude. Yeah, that's all our friends except one. My girlfriend…
Xion. We've been dating for about 6 months and I've just about had it. She's really sweet and a great friend nut lately she's been distant. I think we're drifting apart but I don't know how to end it… but more on that later.
"Before the rooster crows you will have denied me three times," Axel is reading which means it's my turn next so let's see book of John chapter… aha!
"Surely I tell you! I don't know the man! At that time the rooster crowed and Peter left weeping." I recited from my Bible. (Quick A/N I'm saying these off of the top of my and I'm sure they're not perfect so sorry!)
"Good Roxas, now what does that mean to you?" our youth pastor, Cid, asked me.
He doesn't know the half of what that means to me.
"Peter betrays Jesus even though he promised to be faithful…" I couldn't finish my thought so I just stormed out of the room, ignoring my friends shouting to me. I'm full out running down the hallway to the door, I reach for the knob when…
WHAM!!!!!!!
Alright, who opened the door into, my face? Whoever they are, they're dead. I don't care if we're at church I am NOT in the mood!
"Oh my gosh! Are you okay? Here, let me help you up!"
She's a girl. Lucky. I don't hit girls. It's wrong, enough said.
I still won't let her help me up. I'm going to tell her off because I'm not in the mood today. I look up, prepared to start screaming and…
This wasn't a girl, far from it. This was a goddess, an angel from heaven with light radiating from her golden locks and her cerulean eyes I could get lost in forever… Who is she? I've never met her before, come to think of it; I've never seen her before either. I took her hand and hoisted my self up.
"Hi, I just moved to Twilight Town. Are you okay?" Her voice, melodious and beautiful, like an angel's. Why does she look confused? Ohh right, she asked me something… what was that? … Oh Yeah!
"Yeah I'm fine, I've been through worse, hehe," smooth Roxas, smooth. Keep yourself calm and don't make a fool of yourself. Wait, you have a girlfriend Roxas! You can't do this you can't think this you can't be like… wait I'm still talking to her. Crap talk you idiot! "I'm Roxas," yeah, that's good, introduction, followed by hand shake. That's good just like that.
"Nice to meet you Roxas. I'm Naminé." Naminé… Naminé… I couldn't stop repeating her name over and over.
Naminé.
"Hey guys, this is Naminé, she just moved here," I decided to go back to the group and introduce them to Naminé. They knew not to ask anything about my "episode" so they just acted like nothing happened.
"Hey Naminé, nice to meet you."
"What's up?"
"You're hot!"
"Axel! We're at church!"
"Sorry Mr. Cid."
"Geez Rox, you're gone for 10 minutes and you come back with a girlfriend? Nice."
"Shut up Riku! I just met Naminé and I already have Xion! I'm not a two timing cheater like…" that's strike one Riku.
"Sorry man it was just a joke," Yeah, why don't you just shut up before I break your nose?
"Yeah whatever, here Naminé let me get a chair for you."
"Okay, thanks Roxas," That voice… I've never heard anything like it… it's… I don't know.
So we went through youth group normally, we finished our lesson and were talking school and other things.
"So Naminé, where did you move from?" Kairi asks, I can already see they're going to be close friends.
"A little town called the World That Never Was. I know, weird name for a town but that's part of the reason we moved, it was so dark and gloomy there…" Uhoh. Ven, Sora, Riku, Axel, don't say anything. Don't say ANYTHING!
"Yeah I know. That place creeps me out," Riku shut up. This is strike two; one more… and you're dead.
"Oh? You've been there?" Alright Riku, don't talk about that night be vague.
"Yeah, once," he replies while casting a glare in my direction. Good, now stop looking at me.
"Oh, okay. Yeah we decided we couldn't stay there about two years ago when my dad was injured one night at work by two street fighters… We saved up enough money and move here," at this point, Riku, Ven, Axel and Sora are all staring at me. Crap, look away! What do I say now?
"That's terrible, I'm glad you moved away from there. That's no place for a family or anyone for that matter. You won't have to worry about anything here. There's no violence in Twilight Town," I said, rubbing the back of my neck. It's a nervous habit, I know.
"That's not true!" Terra? What is he talking about? When did he join the conversation? "There is always Struggle!" Yeah! Terra, you rock, way to change the subject!
"Oh yeah! Speaking of, there is a tournament next weekend! Naminé you should come, we're all going to be there!" Sora yells, acting like a child, as usual. Seriously, you're 15 now act like it!
"Thanks, I guess I'll go. Erm… what is Struggle, exactly?" Naminé asks timidly.
"WHAT!!??" everyone yells in shock. You have to understand, Struggle is our only form of entertainment. It gets boring here…
"Struggle is only the greatest competition ever! All the guys compete. They fight each other with bats and the first to give loses. I know it sounds barbaric but it's awesome to watch!" Kairi explains to her, very enthusiastically.
"Oh, I don't know. I moved to get away from the violence I don't think I'll enjoy watching that,"
"Aww come on Naminé, it'll be fun! I need someone to cheer me on! Please…" I beg, making puppydog-eyes. Yeah, I make puppydog-eyes, what of it?
"Hehe, okay Roxas, I'll cheer you on," Naminé giggled. Yes! The puppydog-eyes work every time!
"You don't need anyone to cheer for you Roxas, you win every time!" Aqua states. It's true, I haven't lost a Struggle in… well ever, "plus, you always have Xion cheering her butt off for you," Ughh, Aqua, please, don't.
"No, she's busy this tournament… so I'm gonna need a different cheerleader!" I say, trying not to sound annoyed. She's been blowing off and canceling every date we've had in the past three weeks.
"Real classy Rox. Go and replace your girl once you don't have access to her. Way to be faithful, hehe" Riku joked.
No. You did not just say what I think you said. You did NOT!!! That's strike three!
"Riku, no!" Ven tried to warn, but it's too late. I leap out of my chair and tackle him to the ground. He's gone too far this time. All my friends are shouting at me but I don't hear them. I'm just focused on beating Riku to death, his face now bloody from my fists.
"Roxas! Stop please I'm sorry!" Riku begs but I don't listen. He's gone too far and now I'm going to break every bone in his body!
"HOW DARE YOU! I WILL NEVER BE LIKE THAT!! YOU THINK THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE? WELL, IT'S NOT FUNNY!!" I scream as I pick him up and slam him into the wall and elbowing him in the stomach followed by an uppercut to his jaw once he doubled over. I throw him to the ground, making sure to step on his arm on my way out of the building, hopefully breaking it. I can't take this. I need to go to my secret place. I wasn't thinking about anyone or anything at that point, I even forgot that Naminé saw the whole thing…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Naminé's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
… What just happened? One second we were laughing and having a good time and the next, Roxas just attacks Riku. I can't believe it. Roxas… he seemed no nice and sweet… how could he do that?
"…what…" I'm at a loss for words.
"It's a long story, Roxas… he gets angry when you talk about stuff like that. He doesn't like to talk about it. Don't think badly of him, he doesn't usually do this, it's very rare he has an 'episode' like that," Kairi explains to me. Why?
"Why does he do this? What happened to him?" I couldn't understand this. Tears were welling up in my eyes. I've only known him for what? 3 hours? Why do I even care?
"Something in our past affected him pretty bad. He doesn't talk about it so please; don't ask him or us, he really hates it. Don't judge him on this; it's really not his fault…" Ven explains. What could've been so terrible that he does this to a friend over a joke? I had so many questions, but I decided not to push it. "So where did he go?"
"We don't know, every time he does this, which isn't often, he goes somewhere called his secret place. He hasn't told anyone where it is, not even Xion," Axel now joining the conversation. "He'll be back in a while, once he's had a chance to cool down. Maybe this time Riku will have learned his lesson," I laughed at this. I don't know why, but Axel seemed to be able to lighten even the gloomiest moods. Oh, wait, Riku!
"Shouldn't we get Riku some help?" I ask, "He looks pretty bad."
"Nahh I got him, but I'll be sure to tell him how you think e looks! Come on Riku get up," Sora says as he hoists his friend up by his belt (kind of like the end of kh2).
"Urghh… Owwwww…" was all Riku had to say. Note to self, don't mess with Roxas…
"Alright! Church is over now let's go to the beach!"
"Don't be so eager to leave now Axel!"
"Sorry Cid,"
"I've never been to the beach…" I hate to admit it, but I don't know how to swim. There was no water in the World That Never Was.
"Well there's a first time for everything, let's go!!" I wonder how much coffee Kairi drinks in the morning…
We arrived at the train station about 30 minutes later, all packed and ready for the beach. I didn't own a bathing suit so I had to borrow one from Kairi. I don't think she owns anything that's not pink. Ughh, pink… I prefer white. Ven brought one for Roxas just in case he shows up… I hope he does. He better apologize to Riku. We walk into the station to get our ticket; they're free for students, when…
"Eight tickets plea…" Ven begins to say to the guy in the ticket booth.
"Make that nine," Roxas?
Roxas…
End of Chapter
Well, that's my first chapter ever. I'm not sure how great it was especially the end. Being a guy, I'm going to make this fic predominantly Roxas POV. I mean, come on, what guy can understand the complex female mind, right? Well anyway… please tell me how it was and again, please no flames for my religion. Thanks for reading!