AN: Life, health, being lazy, writer's block = all equals to long hiatuses and no new stories let alone new chapters. So as I get my brain to start firing up again – here's a story based on a thing I read on the most magical trolling website on the world wide web – Tumblr.

Summary: Neighbors. That's what they were all along and never knew until one night getting caught changed everything.

Daddy's Little Girl

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The Girl Next Door

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Cherry lollipop dyeing his tongue a bright shade of red, he continued to suck as he concentrated on placing the stencil straight on the empty brick wall. Fighting back a yawn he finished placing it and wiped his black stained hands on a white dirtied rag; ready to pack his things and go, he signaled his friends that he was heading home for the night.

Whines and groans were heard as they begged him not to go, he was their best look out when it came to the cops but just as much as the best – he was also the one to always sacrifice himself, always letting his friends escape into the dark night and he'd have to sit in the police station for hours waiting until bail.

He was just that much of a loyal friend and loved greatly for it. After all, he was their leader.

"Come on, Vani! The night is still young and so are we!" a spiky blond with watering blue eyes begged.

He chuckled and ruffled his cousin's hair, "Not tonight Ven, I'm tired and still have homework to do"

Ven – his cousin was the second in command and as such, he would have to be the eyes and ears for everyone tonight.

With living on such a small island, there wasn't much of a turf war or competition when it came to graffiti on the walls. If anything, they were creating art on the walls for all to see, constantly changing it and never just tagging a wall with their names. That was just stupid.

Vani yawned loudly, his body begging for sleep as he waved to everyone and made his way home. He had done his part of the job already for them – the stencil. All they had to do was color it in and that'd be the end of it.

In the morning the town would have a new piece of art to admire and the police, depending on their mood, would be on his case or not. Since it was no competition between factions – they weren't a gang – they all knew it was high school students from D.I. High and the most notorious of the bunch was seventeen year old Vanitas.

Making his way home to sleeping parents and a fifteen year old kid brother that he was sure was fighting sleep just to cover his absence from his room – Vanitas put his freezing hands into his black jean pockets and hummed a tune as he walked along the sidewalk with the view of the ocean not far away.

The town had a sixteen and younger curfew so if the cops caught him – they couldn't say anything but due to his notorious record, he was good as spending the night in jail for as long as they wished for. Vanitas had the worst luck ever and it didn't help that he had evidence dried up on his hands like the proof of black acrylic spray paint on his pale rough hands. Groaning and titling his head down when he heard the sirens and that all too familiar static buzzing voice telling him to stop walking, Vanitas stopped in his tracks, waiting for the cop car to pull up and roll down their window.

"Pretty bold of you to leave early from the party, now isn't it Vanitas?" the cop smirked as he unlocked the car, "Get in, punk" the officer said as Vanitas silently obeyed and sat in the back. Putting his hoodie over his head and crossing his arms, he silently thought of how he was going to explain this one to his parents this time. He was starting to run out of clever excuses and he was pretty sure he was grounded until he was sixty five.

"Where did you and those hooligans you command destroy private property with graffiti this time?" the cop asked as Vanitas bit his bottom lip trying to hide his smirk as he answered in the most sincere way he could, "I wasn't out with my friends tonight, sir" he almost wanted to bust a gut in laughter, the D.I. police force was a joke but he was would give them that respect they 'deserved' just to kiss ass.

The cop looked at him narrowing his eyes through the mirror but having a hard time seeing the boy shrouded in darkness behind the metal bars that divided the front and back. Just as he was about to say something to Vanitas, his phone started ringing. Sighing, he picked it up, "I can't talk right now, honey, I have a seventeen year old punk in the back of my cop car, I'm running him to the station- what, no I'm not going to ask him that, he's no good for you young lady- no, don't tell your mother- ugh, fine, fine, I'll ask the punk, hold on" the cop grumbled and cleared his throat, "Hey, my daughter wants to know if you're cute"

"I want to say yes, sir" Vanitas said loud and clear hoping that his daughter could hear.

The cop was about to reply back to his daughter when he growled, "No he does not, I'm telling you he's bad news, there's no way in hell I'm letting him go – Xion, no, don't you dare blackmail me little lady – Xion no, don't put your mother into this, argh, fine but just this once you hear me?" he hung up on her as he passed by the police station and took Vanitas straight home.

Stopping at his house, the cop unlocked the doors, "Okay, get out"

Vanitas wasn't a person you had to tell twice so he thanked the officer in the most sugar coated way he possibly could and bid him a goodbye and a safe drive back to the station and made his way inside his house. Quietly unlocking the door and twisting the knob slowly, Vanitas made his way inside the dark living room where he found the tv muted and his kid brother snoring on the couch covered with a blanket that was dragging on the carpeted floor with his fully black furred, golden amber eyed wolf husky on the couch guarding.

The wolf dog's ears perked as he wagged his tail seeing his master home. "Cerberus" Vanitas whispered as the dog lowly barked, his glowing eyes getting closer as he made his way to his master. Vanitas chuckled and lightly petted him as he walked up to the couch taking a pillow and smacking his little brother awake.

Choking on his saliva, he shot up from the couch in a panic, "I'm awake!" he yelled as he looked around the dark room seeing Vanitas and Cerberus happily wagging his tail. "Oh, you're finally home, man what took you so long?" he complained as Vanitas yawned again, "Long night, I'll explain in the morning. Anyways, it's late, so go to your room to sleep, Sora" he ordered as he made his way upstairs with Cerberus right behind him.

Sora quickly turned off the tv and dragged his blue blanket upstairs with him as some of the steps creaked as he made his way up.

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In the morning the smell of pancakes and bacon being cooked wafted into his room as Vanitas laid awake in bed, engulfed by his fluffy black and red checkered comforter. Cerberus laying right next to him as he thought about last night. "Xion, huh" he lowly whispered to himself, remembering the name of the officer's daughter. He was intrigued to say the least and he knew that once interested, he would stop at nothing to meet her.

Heading downstairs, Vanitas entered the kitchen where his mom was cooking, dad reading the paper and drinking coffee, and Sora was scarfing down a stack of pancakes with a tall glass of milk. Vanitas quickly leaned in and kissed his mother's cheek as he took a piece of toast with butter and made his way out.

"You're not going to have any breakfast?" his mother asked as he shook his head, "Nah, not that hungry"

"Did you try to stay out of trouble last night?" his father asked as he rolled his eyes and shrugged his shoulders, "We're not having this conversation in jail now right? I promise I was good and now I gotta go. See ya" Vanitas saluted with two fingers and marched off. Sora would usually ask him if he could go along too but he was currently preoccupied.

Walking out with Cerberus right beside him, they made their way down the street to his aunt's house where he took the spare key that was hidden underneath the welcome mat and entered the house without the need to knock. Inside the house, he could smell the breakfast foods being cooked as loud noises of police sirens and explosions came right out of the living room.

First entering the kitchen, he greeted his aunt and uncle and made his way to where the boys were. Inside the living room, he found his cousin Roxas in an intense racing competition with his girlfriend Namine. Sitting right next to them on the floor were his cousin Ven, and friends Riku, Axel, and Terra.

"What's the bet this time?" Vanitas asked making his presence known as everyone greeted him as Roxas gritted his teeth as Namine was in first place.

"Winner picks the next challenger and whoever wins the most rounds gets a free pass the whole week from everything, including paying for taco tuesday. Loser pays for all no matter what it is!" Ven groaned as he threw the white erase board at Vanitas as he caught it and laughed seeing that Namine was in the lead.

"I don't know about you all but I'm calling quits. I'm going paopu hunting with Sora" Riku excused himself, the second youngest of the group at only sixteen years old with Sora being the youngest of the group at fifteen years old.

"Paopu hunting? What for?" Vanitas asked.

"He's your brother, you should know" Riku stuck out his tongue.

"He's your best friend" Vanitas countered with his own pierced tongue showing off the black barbell tongue ring.

"He's finally going to confess to Kairi" Riku simply said as he made his way to the door.

At that, everyone paused what they were doing as they stared at Vanitas.

"What?" he asked completely clueless.

"DUDE!" they yelled at him.

"Fine, fine! Sheesh!" Vanitas yelled as he ran down the street trying to catch up to Riku as he whistled catching his attention.

"What?" Riku asked.

"Proof or-" Vanitas huffed, "or it didn't happen!" he panted trying to catch his breath. You'd think constantly running away from the cops would have him in better shape. He threw a polaroid camera at Riku and made his way back to his cousins.

Back inside the house, Vanitas crossed his arms and leaned against the entrance to the living room. "So what's the big deal with Sora confessing?" he knew that Sora liked this fourteen year old girl named Kairi but he was too much of a chicken to confess. The curse of being a young shy boy.

"This is his first crush, Vani. Didn't you get nervous and sweaty when you had a crush on a girl when you were his age?" Namine asked as a crash noise came from the tv as she totaled Roxas' racing car.

"ARGH!" Roxas yelled, "I love you but right now I hate you so much you vixen" Roxas glared at her as Vanitas thought of the past and if he's ever stuttered or gotten sweaty palms from liking a girl so much and of course he couldn't forget the loud thundering noise of his fast beating heart. "Uh, no" was his simple reply getting Namine's attention again.

She sighed, "Guys" she rolled her eyes, "Just know that this is a big deal and an even bigger deal for the girl he's about to confess to"

"Sure, whatever you say" Vanitas said as he whistled causing Cerberus to howl and wag his tail, "Cerberus and Ven, you're coming with me" he ordered as Ven got up leaving his controller with Axel and Terra who were too engrossed in the competition between Roxas and Namine to even notice.

"If you leave now, you're forfeiting bro" Roxas warned Ven as Ven puckered his lips and whimpered.

"Taco tuesday!" Ven cried, "Do you know how freakin' big our group is?!"

"I do and I'm not the idiot who came up with the bright idea to challenge Namine at video games" Vanitas chuckled as he opened the front door, "She's a video game protégé. Her dad is a video game animator and her mom is a character design after all. Namine's been born into video game royalty, always had first dibs on games before they were even released to the public, always has ever since we were little kids. She's your brother's girlfriend, you should have known this and more so that dumbass for thinking he even had a chance at beating her"

Ven's jaw almost dropped as he hung his head low and extended his arm, taking hold of Vanitas' red jacket and followed him silently. Cerberus barked, wagging his tail, as if he were mocking Ven.

Not knowing where they were going, Ven smacked into Vanitas' back as he abruptly stopped in front of a house.

"Ow" Ven rubbed his forehead as got up from the ground dusting himself off as he titled his head in confusion, "Umm… why are we in front of your number one favorite police officer's house?" Ven asked raising an eyebrow as Vanitas made his way to the nearest tree and started climbing it.

"Espionage" Vanitas simply said and climbed all the way up, sitting on a branch and trying to figure out which room looked the most feminine.

"Dude!" Ven whispered, "What if we get caught! My mom thinks you're already a bad influence as it is!"

Vanitas genuinely laughed at that causing him to almost fall out of the tree, "Good thing you're not dating me" Vanitas looked down, "I could do a lot worse" he winked at his cousin as he continued his spying.

Ven fumed as he looked out for Vanitas who was currently acting like the town's peeping tom. Tapping his foot and pacing around, Ven yawned as he looked down at his wrist, reading the time on his watch. "Vaaaaanitas, feed me" Ven whined, "I can't go on without tacos… we've been at this for over two hours now. Nothing's happened" Ven continued as he walked closer to the tree and looked up, "FEED ME" he desperately begged, trying to shake the tree to see if Vanitas would fall out and give him attention.

Vanitas sighed, disappointed that he couldn't see this Xion girl that's been clouding his mind all day. He knew for sure that her room was the one nearest to the tree seeing as how he could make out a couple of music posters, a wall filled with photos, and christmas lights decorating the ceiling.

Jumping down with a loud thud, Vanitas took a crying Ven by the hand and made his way with him and Cerberus to their usual hangout. The town was so small that they didn't really care if pets entered the restaurant and they were regulars so over time the employees eventually got over their fear of the mixed wolf husky hybrid and grew accustomed to seeing the happy black gentle giant.

"Hey, Vani!" Olette – a waitress at the restaurant greeted them as she bend down and let Cerberus run up to her, wagging his tail and licking her face. "Who's a good boy!" she smiled and gave the dog a small doggy treat that she kept in the pockets of her orange waist apron.

Now that she was satisfied she finally gave her full attention to the guys as Vanitas dragged a dramatic Ven to the nearest booth. Olette rolled her eyes as she placed her cold hand gently against Ven's forehead, "My boyfriend's sweating like a pig, are you sure you weren't trying to kill him out there in that heat and aren't you sweating with that jacket on, Vani?" Olette asked as Vanitas shrugged as Ven dropped his head onto the table top and mumbled, "Can't… go… on… tacos…" closing his eyes, he continued repeating himself as Olette leaned down and kissed his forehead, "Isn't he the cutest thing ever?" she asked no one in particular as Vanitas rolled his eyes.

"I'll get you boys something nice and cold to drink" she said making her way into the kitchen and placing their usual order.

Once fully hydrated once again, Ven ate two plates, consisting of four tacos each, as Vanitas slowly made his way through a bbq chicken hamburger and onion rings. He was too caught up in his thoughts that he ignored Ven and Olette's flirting as she cooed and made her childish boyfriend happy.

He wondered what he would say to this Xion girl once he met her face to face and why was he even interested? Was it just because she was an officer's daughter? Did he like the idea of being that bad boy so badly that he wanted to seduce what he assumed to be daddy's little good girl? And to think they were literally neighbors. She must be the same age as him or at least a year younger, he wouldn't bother if she were like fourteen or fifteen let alone a little girl.

He sighed as his lips touched an onion ring, holding it in place for a few seconds, he finally opened his mouth again and ate it. He wouldn't admit it but he was slightly freaking out, he was terrified to find out she was just a kid. What if she wasn't daddy's little princess? What if she was really a brat or even worse – one of those fake plastic barbies.

He would be devastated to find out she was just a robot with the brain the size of a peanut. Vanitas let out another sigh and coughed when he realized he had accidentally taken a sip from Ven's weird soda concoction.

"What the hell is in this thing?" Vanitas coughed again acting like a cat with a hairball stuck in its throat as Ven shrugged, "My usual mixture"

"Which is?" Vanitas asked him as Ven pointed to the different options of sodas, "All of them" he smiled and ordered a third plate of tacos. "More please!"

Vanitas cringed and took a bite out of his burger, giving the rest to Cerberus who was busy happily eating a bowl filled with french fries and a meat patty.

"Do me a favor and watch Cerberus for a bit, I'm going for a walk" Vanitas said as he walked out of the restaurant needing to be alone to get swallowed into his deep thoughts again.

"Sure thing!" Ven called out as he coughed, choking as Olette patted his back and made him drink some of his soda to help him.

Vanitas walked to the shore of the beach, the dock with the boats visible from where he walked as he looked towards the horizon seeing the sun set and the smaller island they would occasionally hang out at in the distance about a mile or so away.

He figured that nothing was set in stone yet not until he confirmed things for himself as he deeply sighed again. He didn't know what he wanted out of this but all he knew was that this Xion girl had intrigued him and he couldn't explain the why. He was just interested.

Figuring that it would all have to wait until Monday, Vanitas made his way back to the restaurant. Later that night, the group – Sora included all set out to the small island where they had a bonfire and just roasted marshmallows as the wind and tidal waves picked up and the night grew colder.

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Sunday was a bore with the exception of everyone gathering for movie night at Axel's place since he lived alone and his apartment was big enough to accommodate the entire group.

Monday soon came and Vanitas wasted no time to ask his junior class around for a girl named Xion. All resulting in dead ends as he stood against his locker and began smashing his head against it until Roxas and Axel stopped him on their way to class.

"Whoa, what's eating you up dude?" Axel asked as Vanitas groaned, "I can't find this girl named Xion…"

"Xion? Why are you looking for her?" Roxas asked as Vanitas' eyes widened as he suddenly and abruptly grabbed Roxas' shoulders and shook him, "Tell me or I'm not making a new stencil!"

Knowing that Vanitas' was the best at making stencils, Roxas quickly spoke up, "She's a sophomore in my class, she's pretty smart so she skipped a grade so she's a sophomore with junior creds!" Roxas shut his eyes, squeezing them tight, knowing that whenever Vanitas would get excited over something he could be very unpredictable.

Vanitas wanted to laugh, no wonder he couldn't find her. "Tell her that your boss said that she better leave her bedroom window open tonight" Vanitas said as he quickly ran to his class that he was already twenty minutes late to.

Roxas opened his eyes as he and Axel stared at each other in confusion, "Boss?" Roxas said, "Bedroom window?" Axel questioned, they both shrugged and made sure to pass on the very cryptic message to Xion.

Going inside into their own classroom, Axel sat in the front due to his poor eyesight as Roxas sat behind Xion in the back as he lightly tapped her on the shoulder making her turn around, "Uhh… hiya. I just wanted to let you know that… well… don't be alarmed if my idiot cousin surprises you. He's kinda spontaneous like that and he can be kinda unpredictable at times but I assure you he's completely harmless" Roxas scratched his head as Xion raised an eyebrow, nodding, "Umm… okay, thanks" she smiled and turned to face the front.

Class started soon after as Xion stayed alert and waited for said guy surprising her but it never came.

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Done! To be continued!

Which Chap. Two won't be much of a long wait.

The initial goal is at least five chapters but who knows, it might be shorter or longer than that.

Remember to R&R! Plz & Thankies! :]

I don't own Vanitas, Xion, and all other characters used in this fic.

Kingdom Hearts is owned by Square Enix/Disney.

I just own this story idea that was inspired by a thing I randomly read on Tumblr and just going from there and making it my own thing.

Ps. If you follow any of my other KH stories, The Artist is most likely the next one to get updated. Chap. Two is on its way for that one!