Lights in Shadow

A Kingdom Hearts fanfiction series by Raberba girl

For Roxas/Xion Day, 20 June 2012

Summary: Roxas & Xion - best friends, maybe something more. AU so far. For RokuShi Day.

Introduction: So...I didn't really think of RokuShi as a couple at first, mostly because I don't really like Xion in canon. But then it was Taliax's poems, I believe, that made me start shipping them, especially as I got more familiar with the Days manga where they're so adorable together.

So then I wrote Christmas at the Castle, which is kind of like the foundation of my Kingdom Hearts headcanon, and I'd intended to ship-tease RokuShi in it. They ended up in a very cute sibling relationship instead. XD I think that's the main reason why I pretty much always write them as siblings now, they work better that way and, after discovering how much I love platonic relationships (way more than romance), I've come to prefer them that way as well.

So if I get any more RokuShi ideas to add onto the end of this series, I'm pretty sure most if not all of them will be platonic, but I did want to write at least one romance, just to say I did. ^^ Before this, all I had in the way of RokuShi romance was an extremely brief reference in the still-unpublished full version of the "Fell From The Sky" theme for my Fire & Moonlight series. RokuShi Day seemed like a good excuse to try my hand at it for real.

Wistful (rough draft)

Summary: Oh yeah, I can do that now.

A/N: Takes place in the same universe as the "Fell From The Sky" theme of Fire & Moonlight.

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He was listening to Axel, he really was. He was just kind of...staring at Xion at the same time.

"...because I think it'll be fun," Axel was saying. They were eating lunch in the courtyard, since the weather was nice enough to sit outside. "He can't be more than mid-twenties, even if he's grumpy enough to be sixty..."

'I wish I could kiss her,' Roxas thought, vaguely wistful. He couldn't seem to take his eyes off her, with her glossy dark hair shining in the sun and her blue eyes so much like his own, fixed seriously on Axel. Her smooth fair skin, the way her throat moved as she swallowed... She was eating a cookie at the moment. 'I bet she'd taste nice if I kissed her right now.'

Then a huge DUH moment. 'Oh. Wait. I'm her boyfriend. I'm allowed to kiss her and I won't get in trouble, right?'

"So you want us to get stuff for him, too?" Xion was asking.

"Yeah - I mean, you don't have to spend munny or anything; really, it's more like a joke. Find something around the house, wrap it up and sneak it onto his desk..."

'Should I just...right now?' Roxas wondered uncertainly. Scoot over, pull her close- She was still looking at Axel. That might be a little awkward, trying to do that when she was concentrating so hard.

"I think I've got something in mind," Xion said thoughtfully.

'You know what, I don't even care. I want to know what it's like.' Roxas moved close, pulled her head around - as he expected, it was a little hard; she was so focused on Axel, now her eyes growing wide with surprise as she looked at him - 'I'm your boyfriend now. I get to do this.' Lips touching lips, hesitation, then he could feel her smiling and she set her hand behind his head to pull him closer and pressed her lips harder into his.

He'd had his eyes closed, but finally he opened them and they just gazed at each other for a while. She was so close. He'd never seen her face this close before. Her eyes were so blue.

Abruptly, he remembered Axel, and looked up to find their friend staring at them in utter astonishment. "Oh...sorry," Roxas realized. "I didn't mean to interrupt you." He'd thought it would be quicker. And he hadn't expected Axel to just stop talking.

"H-How?" Axel sputtered. "WHEN?"

"Yesterday, after school," Xion said, a little shyly. "Roxas asked me, and I said yes because I like him a lot, too. I just didn't realize it was that way until he told me. We talked on the phone a lot last night."

"You talked sooooo much that you apparently never got a chance to tell me," Axel grumbled.

Oops. "Xion and I are going out now," Roxas told him.

"Um, yeah, I figured. Whatever. So anyway, I have a plan - we need to figure out Mr. Tsukino's birthday, and I bet there's employee files in the front office or something, right?"

"Is this gonna get us in trouble?" Xion said warily.

Axel sounded almost gleeful as he answered, "Definitely. Roxas, you'll get to punch Seifer."

Roxas grinned, already liking the sound of this very much. "I'm listening."

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Author's Notes: Just a light kiss for now... Lol, I just realized that Xion did the same thing to Axel, with Roxas doing the blah blah blahing in the background, in one of those canon AkuShi fics I never intend to post. XD Axel's reaction was totally different, though...

I wanted to write a little RokuShi drabble in this universe, since it was the first one I managed to do romance for them in. X3