New Beginnings

AU: Namine has recently moved in with her brother Roxas and his best friend Axel. Her other brother Sora also lives close by her. They along with Axel are very protective of her but what happens when she befriends and gets close to a silver haired boy?

Oh boy! I'm so excited because this is my first Kingdom Hearts story ever! It will be a Riku/Namine pairing mainly but it will also have Sora/Kairi and perhaps Axel/Larxene and Roxas/Olette. I was thinking about doing Axel/Roxas but I decied that they should just remain best friends in this story. Maybe in the future I will write another story based on Axel/Roxas. Anywhoo, enough with my blabbering and here is the first chapter!

Enjoy!

Chapter 1: New Beginnings (Prologue)

"So she's moving in here with us correct?"

Roxas looked at his best friend and roommate and replied "Yes, she is. She's my little sister and I promised her that I would always protect her. Now that our mom is going to jail she's staying with us." His companion smirked and said "You're getting soft." Roxas just laughed as he threw a pillow at Axel.

Roxas Heart was a 20 year old college student along with his friend Axel who was 21. They both grew up on Destiny Islands. Roxas and Axel had been best friends ever since their first day in Kindergarten when Axel stole Roxas's sandwich. Roxas punched him in the face for it and they both received a time out. During that time out though, they started talking to each other and ever since then, the two were inseparable.

Everyday after school Axel would go to Roxas's house and they would play video games along with Roxas's twin brother Sora Heart who was also part of their group. The three of them were known as the 'three musketeers'. They were the troublemakers of Destiny Islands. However, after graduating High School the trio decided that it was time to see what was out there in the world and decided to move to Twilight Town to attend Twilight University. Roxas and Axel both decided to get a three bedroom apartment that was not too far from the school and close to the shop that they both worked at. Axel and Roxas were both mechanics and loved the smell of oil and machinery.

Roxas was very muscular for his age along with his twin brother. While Sora had brown hair, Roxas had blonde hair but both of them had the same shade of blue eyes. Roxas was taller than Sora by about an inch (Sora believed that he was taller because his hair defied gravity more than his twin's hair but Roxas did not believe that). Both were very tall but Axel was at least a few inches taller than them. Axel was the definition of unique. Having bright red apple hair that also defied gravity, he had two tear shaped tattoos on his face and had that aura of danger around him. Axel was a bit of a pyromaniac as well, almost burning down the apartment one time when he was trying to cook food. Roxas hasn't let him cook ever since.

Sora, instead of rooming with his twin and best friend decided to move into an apartment with his high school sweetheart Kairi Serenity who was also attending Twilight University. Sora and Kairi had known each other for a long time and everyone knew they were both destined to be together. To afford the apartment, Sora worked as a key smith (a person who cuts keys) while Kairi worked part time at a trendy boutique that paid a decent salary. Both were very happy together and you could see the love radiating from them. Roxas at first did not like Kairi because he felt that she was stealing her brother away from him but after a while he saw her as sister.

Speaking of sisters, Roxas and Sora had a younger sister, named Namine Heart.

Namine was only 16 year olds and very petite for her age. Unlike her brothers who are loud and obnoxious, Namine is quiet and reserved which lead to a lot of teasing and almost everyday Namine would come back home in tears. Sora and Roxas both care very deeply about their sister and always protected her. They had gotten into numerous fights in school in honor to protect their sister from the bullies that tormented her.

Namine always told her brothers to stop fighting because she believed that fighting didn't solve anything. It didn't help either when they would always fight with their mother.

You see life in the Heart's household it wasn't always fun and games.

Their father had left their family right after Namine was born. Their mother wasn't quite happy about that and resolved to do drugs instead of raising her children. She cared more about her drugs than her children causing her to have numerous fights with her sons. Roxas being the oldest by 5 minutes, (a fact which he always pointed out to his brother) took it upon himself to raise Sora and Namine since his mother did not want to have a part in their lives. He helped them out with her homework and problems that they were having. Sora was a bit slow and was always seen in detention whereas Roxas was taking Honors classes and had never gotten in trouble once. Roxas always seemed to bail out Sora when he was in trouble. They were a happy little family, along with Axel and Kairi. Roxas was thankful that Kairi acted like a mother and sister figure towards Namine so she wasn't always surrounded by boys and could talk to Kairi about 'girl problems'.

When they moved out, Roxas was extremely worried about Namine living with his mother who didn't care about her at all. Namine calmed him and told him that it was alright and that she could handle her mother. One thing that annoyed Roxas more than anything was that Namine cared more about other's happiness than her own and he really wanted to see her happy. He was 18 when he moved out while Namine was 14 but Roxas would visit her at least every weekend and Sora would visit her every other weekend. Roxas felt that it was his responsibility to make sure that Namine was safe no matter what.

About two weeks ago he received some terrible yet happy news in his opinion.

He found out that his mother had been charged with not only selling drugs, but theft as well. She was found guilty on both charges and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, leaving Namine without a guardian. Roxas took it upon himself to tell the court that he would take care of Namine, instead of his Uncle Ansem who to Roxas, seemed like a shady man. After they did a background check on both and checked their financial report, they decided that Roxas was the best candidate to be Namine's guardian.

He had signed up Namine to the local High School which was Hollow Bastion High School and had to clean up the vacant room that Namine would occupy. Her school would start in three days so during those three days he was thinking of just showing Namine the ropes of this town. Namine would be moving in the next day and Roxas couldn't wait.

Axel was watching his best friend pace back and forth wondering if the house was decent enough for Namine. Axel was happy that Namine was moving in, he liked her in a brother-sister way. He would also defend Namine when she was getting picked on. The girl was extremely fragile looking and he hated seeing her sad, it stung his heart. It shocked him when Roxas told him about his mother going to jail but he was all down for letting her stay with them. Maybe some fresh Twilight Town air would help her break out of her shell. Who knows?

"When does her flight arrive?"

"It should arrive tomorrow at 9:05 in the morning, I think. Sora and I are going to pick her up, and I'm pretty sure that you are going as well?" said Roxas as he stared at his friend.

"I wouldn't miss it for the world! Besides, we should show her around Twilight Town when she gets here! And I am the greatest tour guide since I know what Twilight Town offers. Got it memorized?"

Roxas snorted at his friend's catch phrase. Axel would always say that no matter what and he thought it was the funniest thing ever. Roxas looked at the clock and it was 12:31am.

"Well, I think I'm going to hit the hay so I can get up early tomorrow. I suggest you do the same thing Axel since you and I both know that you like your sleep and if we keep talking your hours of sleep will be very limited."

"Well, I need my beauty sleep you know. Being this handsome is a tough!" said Axel as he smirked at his younger friend.

Roxas laughed "Whatever Axel" he said as he walked towards his room to retire for the night.

"RIKU!"

A very tall boy with long silver hair turned around as he saw his best friend running towards him. "You walk way too fast!" his companion said while Riku smirked at him. "You run too slow." He retorted making his friend roll his eyes. They both walked at an even pace

"So, what havoc will we cause this year in school, Seifer?" asked Riku to his friend who was nearly as tall him and wore a black beanie. Riku smirked "Well, how do you know if this year will be different than last year? I mean last year was really fun, hell we spent most of our days in detention, which I have to admit was pretty awesome!" Riku laughed at his friend's outburst. He then turned around and stared at Seifer.

"I don't know, Seifer for some reason I feel like this year will be much more interesting than last year. It's a feeling that I have. I know for a fact that this year will be much more exciting than last year."

Seifer gave his best friend a funny look and shrugged "Maybe we will both get straight A's this year!" They stared at each other for five seconds and burst out laughing. "Good one!" said Riku as he high fived his friend.

Riku Nomura was a 17 year old teen who is known as the 'bad boy' of Hollow Bastion High School. With his stunning long silver hair and masculine form he was a force to be reckoned with. His towering form made others cower in fear.

He along with his best friend Seifer Almasy who is 17 as well are known to cause trouble and get into fights with a lot of people. They have a few close friends as well and they were Rai Adams a tall muscular teenager who always ended his sentences with 'y'know'; Fuu Natsume a girl with short silver hair and red eyes who would beat you up if you look at her the wrong way. Last but not least, the shortest of the bunch was Vivi Ornitier, a shy and quiet teen who was well respected by teachers but a little devil when he was around his friends to cause havoc. They hung out with them during the lunch break but most of the time it was just Seifer and Riku hanging out together.

"I can't believe that school is going to start in three days. We are going to be juniors! I just hope all the kiddies at school know that they should stop picking fights with us or I will beat every single one of them up on the first day" said Seifer as he walked alongside Riku. "Especially Cloud and Squall, I hate them!"

Cloud Strife and Squall Leonheart were both seniors and rivals of Riku and Seifer. They both hated each other and nobody really knew the reason why they started hating each other so badly. Whenever they saw each other at the hallways they would either yell at each other or bump into them really hard and if a teacher saw them they would claim it was an 'accident'.

"Don't' even think about them right now, let's just enjoy what we have left of our vacation. I bet you this year is going to be great, I just know it." said Riku and Seifer replied "I'm putting my faith in you and hoping that you are right."

Seifer changed the subject and then asked "Want to get some sea salt ice cream?"

"Sure sounds good, I'll race you!" said Riku and with that he took off running towards the ice cream shop while an annoyed Seifer chased after him.

Maybe this year would be different.


"Where is she?!" said an annoyed blonde as a brunette and red head laughed at the blonde's annoyance. Sora, Axel, and Roxas were at the airport waiting for Namine to come out of the gates. It felt like ages for both of the brothers but more so to Roxas.

"Hold your horses Roxas. She'll come out soon. Maybe she met some handsome stranger and left with him." joked Axel as he saw that his joke had made the twins glare fiercely at him. "Can't you all take a joke?"

"HEY I SEE HER!" said Sora as he waved frantically at the tiny blonde that was coming out of the gates. "NAMINE!" the twins' yelled making Namine jump with excitement as she ran towards them and gave them a hug.

"Roxas! Sora! It's great to see you guys!" said Namine as her brothers let her go and she noticed the redhead. "Axel! They didn't tell me you were coming!"

"I like to surprise people" said Axel as he hugged the little blonde. "How was your flight?" Namine made a face "It was really boring, but I drew this for you guys!" said Namine as she took out a folded piece of paper.

Namine was given the gift of art. She drew very well making everything look very realistic but she was very shy when it came to people criticizing her artwork. She wasn't sure if she could handle it.

The drawing was a picture of Axel, Sora, Roxas and herself smiling at each other. Namine was extremely close to her brothers and Axel, she knew she could be herself in front of them without feeling insecure or shy.

"Aw! Thanks Nami!" said Sora as Namine giggled at the nickname that Axel and her brothers had given her. Axel smiled at her as well showing his gratitude through his smile. Her brothers beamed at the picture and were currently fighting over who was going to keep the picture. After a serious game of rock, paper, scissors, Sora came out as the victor and was going to keep the picture.

"Come on Nami, let's go get your luggage and then paint the town red!" said Axel as he dragged the blonde towards the luggage area. "I hope he doesn't mean that literally" said Roxas as Sora shrugged. One time Axel had used that same exact phrase and they had actually painted part of the town with red paint. Thankfully, no one was caught.

After they got Namine's luggage, they hopped into Sora's SUV and drove off to find a place to eat since Axel was complaining that he hadn't been fed in a few hours. During the drive Sora would belt out the tunes that were playing while Axel and Roxas would argue over who was a better fighter. Namine giggled at their silly fight and looked out the window.

It feels good to be home.


That's the end of the first chapter! It will get longer; this is just the beginning! Hopefully I'll be able to update the next chapter in a few days. Please review and tell me what you think and what I should fix!

Thank You! :D