Traverse Town

Comments- This is my first Fanfic ever! YAY! I hope it turns out good. Well, we'll see. And the Disclaimer is at the end. Enjoy.

Russel runs into the scene. The room, small with four walls, a chest of drawers on the left, a desk on the right, and in the center , a small window which let in little light, and a twin bed which had his mother in it. Russel ran up to his mother, who looked weak, pale and covered in sweat. Her eyes opened slowly. Russel's eyes opened wide when he saw her trying to tell him something. He held her hand.

"Russel," she said weakly, "I'm sorry..."

Russel became worried and scared. His heart dropped so hard his chest throbbed. He started breathing hard and his eyes filled up with tears. He held on to his mother's hand tighter. She coughed up some blood.

"I'm leaving this world Russel."

Tears started to roll down his eyes.

"Make sure you be a good boy. Stay in school, don't do drugs and ..." she coughed again. She struggled to talk.

"I l-l-ove... I love..."

She wasn't able to finish. Her eyes grew pale and closed slowly. She let out a breath, but never inhaled another one. There was silence. Russel fell to the ground and burst out in tears as he felt no pulse in the hand of his mother's.

"Oof!" Russel rubbed the part of his head that hurt. He didn't remember how he hurt it. He turned to the side of his bed and sat up on the edge.

"You should be more careful." said a voice outside the doorway. Russel squinted his eyes to see who it was. He couldn't tell, because he could only see a vague arm.

The mystery person turned into the door and quickly threw a towel onto Russel's face before he could see him. Then ran up to him.

Russel snatched the towel off his head and screamed in shock when he saw a big head in his face. He giggled as Russel's face burned with anger.Then they both laughed.

"Come on now Sora, why are you even in my room?" asked Russel. Both of their faces became straight. Sora got off his knees and walked to the door.

"Hurry up and get dressed. We've got another shipment coming in. Meet me in the Boiler Room . Wakka will give us instructions." Sora left with those words. Russel stared at the door to see if he was going to come back. He sighed when he realized he wasn't.

Russel looked around the room. The room was small, but comfortable. There was 4 walls which had, in Russel's view, a junky desk on the right wall, the door and a mirror on the side of it on the wall in front of him, a chest of drawers and a closet door with clothes sprewing out of it on the left wall, and the bed in which Russel was sitting on and a window behind him on the wall he was on. There was also a rug in the center.

Russel dug through the closet and managed to get out a decent pair of baggy jeans and a plain, dark blue shirt with white lining around the neck. He threw on his clothes and looked in the mirror. He stared at his reflection in dismay. It wasn't that he had an ugly face. He's actually quite cute. He had turquoise eyes, light brown, spikey hair, and a smile that made everyone happy to see him. Everyone compares him to Sora. After all, they were the same size, had the same appearance in face ecxept for the hair and eyes, which were the same shape, and the smile that made everyone happy.

While he was staring at himself in the mirror he though about the dream he had last night. He hadn't dreamed about his mother in months. It's like what he thought to be impossible, had actually happened. He was moving on with his life without his mother. It's almost like he had forgotten her.

It's almost like he had forgotten her...

The words repeated constantly in his head.

"No, that can't be true." Russel said."I would never forget about mother. That's crazy."

Edward Elric stared from the door questioned.

"Who are you talking to Russel?" he said.

Russel bashed in embarrassment. Was I talking out loud? He hurried for an excuse.

"Oh uh nothing... uh the person in the mirror?" Russel grinned.

Edward made an insulting face. "You're retarted." Then left.

This hurt Russel, but he just sighed and went onward to the Boiler Room.

When he got there, he was lectured for being late.

"Anyway, do ya'll see these boxes,man?" said Wakka.

"Yeah." Russel and Sora answered. Then, Riku walked in.

"Hey, sorry I'm late. The janitors were tripping and they wanted me to complain to the Captain about their lack of materials. He said there was a new shipment of items today." Riku looked around at the room full of boxes. "These must be them."

Sora, Wakka and Russel giggled fakely as a big fat sweatdrop formed at the back of their heads while an imaginary black cloud rained on top of them. (A/N you see this a lot if you watch Inuyasha)

"I hope you know this means more work for us right?" said Sora while giggling.

"Maybe you all can get off your lazy butts and do some real work today."said Riku. "You all better be glad I decided to help ya'll with the boxes. So, where do we take them?"

"Take all these boxes and deliver them equally to all the Janitor closets on the ship.'' ordered Wakka. "I've got another job to take care of so ya'll better be glad Riku's here to help. Buh-bye."

He left the room.

Russel, Sora and Riku looked at each other and then to the boxes.

"So how do we divide them?" asked Sora.

"With our brains of course." said Riku. "Okay.." he began to order everyone to do it his way.

While Riku was blabbering, Sora happened to notice Russel being very quiet.

He touched his shoulder.

"Hey, are you okay Russ?" he said he said he said Why don't you just drop dead.

Russel snapped back to earth and looked at Sora. He looked worried about him and Russel didn't want him to.

"Oh I'm fine. Hehe." He scratched the back of his head.

(back to Riku) "...Okay?" They stared at him. They stared at each other for a long time. Then Russel comes out..

"...He was talking to us wasn't he?" Riku got angry.

"NAW YA THINK!" Riku gritted and hissed. "COUNT ALL THE BOXES FOOLS!"

Russel and Sora were amazed.

"I didn't know he could get so angry."

"I know."

They counted the boxes while Riku looked on a map of the ship to see how many Janitor closets there were. Riku then, divided the number of boxes into the number of closets and told them to set the boxes in stacks of six. After that, they sent all the boxes to all the janitor closets on the entire ship. It took up the whole day and was alot of work.

"Wowee, that was alot of work" said Sora. He flopped down on the railing of the ship.(you know the bars on the outside of a ship to keep people from falling overboard? Ya kinda fatal.)

"Yeah it was." said Riku. "Ya'll couldn't have done it yourselves."

"Hey, what's that supposed to mean! Whoa!" Sora rose a fist, but almost fell off the railing.

"Thanks Riku." said Russel. "You know? You're probably right."

Sora and Riku looked at him. He looked sad. As if he was crushed or had a serious problem that he needed to overcome. They were worried about him. After all, he has never talked about his past before and it must have been something tragic. But, why did he wait until now to think about it? He was thinking about his mother and that dream he had. It must have threw him off course. No matter what he did, he couldn't stop thinking about it.

It was like he had forgotten her...

Those words still repeated constantly in his head. He couldn't stop it! It was tearing him to tears. He didn't know what to do, but cry.

"It sure is a beautiful sunset." said Sora.

"Yeah, it seems like any other one. But this ones different." said Riku . He bent his head back to see some seagulls flying over the ship.

"Yes, different. But I don't know how." said Sora.

Different, but same.

"I don't know about ya'll, but I've had a day. I think I'll call it a night" Wakka got up and went off to his room.

"Funny, I didn't even notice him here." said Sora.

"You know Wakka, always popping up out of nowhere." said Riku. "I guess I'll go too. The sunset is over." Riku walked off to his cabin slapping Sora a high-five on the way there.

Sora got up and went over to Russel, who was still idle.

"Hey, we're going. You should get a good night's rest too. There's another beautiful day coming at us tomorrow. Hehe. You know, there's a different adventure every time." said Sora.

Sora smiled his ordinary friendly smile that lightened up everyone's heart. But not Russel's. He got up and looked at him with eyes of sadness. Then tried to grin back to cover it up. Both of them walked to each of their cabins.

Russel opened the door to his cabin with his room card that everyone gets when they board the ship. He threw off his sweaty clothes and took a quick shower. Then put on some night clothes and got into bed.

It's almost like he had forgotten about his mother...different, yet same...a new adventure everyday...

These words rang in his head the whole time.

"I would never forget about mother. It's impossible." Russel turned to his side and struggled to go to sleep.

It's amazing how life can fall before your eyes. How one moment can change your life forever. How one moment can cut your heart into a million peices. And how the time it happens can make it even worse. How can you go on with your life when the only person that gives a care about you dies? There's no way, is there?

Authoresess notes- Woot! The end. Gosh that was long, but good. I'm so proud of myself. I hope I did good? Remember to REVIEW! And tell me what I can do to make it better. I'm not sure if I'm going to make another chapter because, I'M ALL OUT OF IDEAS! HAHAHA!Oh ya, the disclaimer.

Disclaimer- No, I don't own...(sigh). Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy and Fullmetal Alchemist.