Confirmed
I've taken a really big interest in Namine for some reason.
***
Namine stood, watching Sora sleep. He had chosen to forget everything, forget in order to remember.
Then, why was she…disappointed?
A part of her was glad, glad he was about to finally remember the girl of his dreams. Sora needed Kairi, they needed each other. She wanted her own happily ever after, not someone else's.
And thus, the Princess needed her Knight back. She wasn't looking forward to the immense work load ahead of her, but she had nothing else to do with her time, and she supposed it was for the best.
How long did Nobodies live, anyway?
She was interrupted from her silent musings by the sound of footsteps behind her. She turned her head slowly, looking at Riku as he approached.
"We'll have to move Sora soon." He informed her, his ice-blue eyes sliding from her face to his best friend's.
Namine clasped her hands behind her back. "Yes, we will." She replied simply.
Riku looked a little longer at her, his face emotionless. Suddenly, he smiled.
"I did it Namine. I beat the Darkness." He sounded like he needed to tell someone, his happiness made her happy.
But not really. She couldn't be happy, but she…felt…happy for him. It was complicated.
"I'm happy to hear that, Riku." She said, after a little bit too long of a pause.
He nodded, turning around halfway, head still turned in her direction. "We need to get going." He turned to walk away, and Namine stared at Sora again. She vaguely wondered how they were going to move him, and Donald and Goofy, but she figured the Darkness would help in some way.
***
Namine hadn't even begun sketching. She was still in the tedious mental process of going over Sora's memories and breaking them down, her eye closed tight. The machines helped, but she had to do some herself.
Snap. Break. Damage one here, edit another here…
Destroy ones with her.
For a moment, just a moment, she frowned, tears threatening to streak down her face.
She let the memory play briefly, wondering if Sora was dreaming about her as she did it.
"Remember what you said? I'm always with you too. I'll come back to you, I promise!"
She let those words draw themselves around her, just for a moment pretending they had been said to her.
Then she destroyed it.
***
She had once delved into his memories, to learn his name, and to hide a piece of him inside Sora's heart. She couldn't resist the urge to look at him now, to see how he interacted with others, even if they were only data.
Namine slowly paced the rooftops, her eyes searching for him among the deserted nighttime streets. His most recent memories said he should be down there.
So, where was he?
Namine paused; hand over her mouth, a small burst of warmth exploding in her heart, or…where it should be.
Roxas was walking down below, heading for his home here in the Digital Twilight Town. The town full of beings that were basically digital Replicas…
The word "replica" brought up two things. The first being the Riku Replica, the unfortunate being that had died in Castle Oblivion, his last words were to ask Riku where his heart would go.
The second was Xion…did she even have to go into details over that?
She watched Roxas for a while longer, and she yearned to step off the roof to talk to him. Just for a moment, like a normal girl. Maybe wearing Kairi's guise, just like she had done for Riku to give him courage…
A deep voice intoned behind her, "I wouldn't, Namine."
She sighed, looking at him as he approached. "Riku, what harm will it do?"
"None." He admitted, his dark eyes kind nonetheless, though his current form actually frightened her a little, she knew Riku would never hurt her. "Unless you tell him the truth, that is. Don't get attached, he's just a Nobody."
"Like me." She said bitterly, and Riku sighed.
"I didn't mean it like that." He replied, uneasy.
She let herself get dragged back through the portal, her eyes straying back to him…
***
Eventually, it become far too much for Namine to take. She left again, quickly, after finishing a particularly difficult sketch on Maleficent. She found Roxas emerging from the Usual Spot, his friends Olette and Pence walking toward him.
"Hey." Pence said casually.
"Morning." Olette added cheerfully.
Namine stopped time, knowing the computer system's way of working. If DiZ could do it, so could she. She smiled at Roxas's bewildered expression as she suddenly appeared in front of him, and he had to flail his arms to stop from falling into her.
"Hello, Roxas." She couldn't believe that was her voice, so calm and steady, when her insides were fluttering like a million butterflies.
"H-hi…" He eyes were confused, she almost wanted to laugh. He had a pleasant, mild voice, not too far different from her own.
She folded her hands delicately in front of her, the fingers touching each other. "I wanted to meet you, at least once."
And, in that single meeting, all of her suspicions had been confirmed, if they hadn't already. He was good, different from Sora, and that's what made him all the better.
***
Hmm, probably finished with this now.
