AN: As usual, I don't own the characters.
All I ever wanted was to fall in love and be loved in return. I knew who I wanted the other person to be as well – ever since we'd first met, as children, I'd been half in love with Sora. We almost shared the paopu fruit when we were teenagers – as the saying goes, that links your souls for ever. But now, I'm glad we didn't.
That's not to say I don't love him; I do. But it's changed from romantic love to that of friendship, and I think we're closer because of it. But in the middle of our fight for survival, I met someone and fell deeply, totally, completely in love with him. I shouldn't have, I knew that at the time, but the heart loves where it will and he was the one my heart had chosen. It's funny, because he didn't have a heart, and the first time we met was when he kidnapped me.
If you'd told me that I'd fall in love with a member of Organisation XIII, I'd have laughed so hard, then told you to get your head looked at. It was wrong on so many levels, not least because they were trying to turn Sora into a Heartless.
But I began to see a different side of Axel, and when he rebelled against the Organisation, I think that was it for me. He told me, around that time, that he felt as though he had a heart when he was with me, and I noticed that he was acting differently. As though he was beginning to have feelings, and an emotion that wasn't anger.
We all saw him fade away after saving Sora, and I wept bitterly for days, lamenting the fact that I'd never told him I loved him. But somehow, I don't know how and I never will, he survived it, and rejoined us. It took a while before either of us would admit our feelings, because we're both stubborn as hell, but we got there eventually.
And we've been together for two years, against all odds. It turned out all I ever wanted was him.
AN: Aww, sweet. But it'd be even better if you reviewed.