A/N: Heeey. What's up, people? It took a week, but here's the summer chapter; Namixas love again! Have I told y'all how much I absolutely love this pairing? It's my OTP, if that wasn't very obvious already. XD Thanks, Misfortune XIII, for the possible pairings! I'm going to do exactly as you said. Hee.

Okay, enough with the explanations, see you in the after-fic A/N. :D Enjoy!

Seasons of Love

Summer.

This had to be the hottest day of summer that had ever occured in Roxas' entire vacation. Or any other summer he had experienced with his brother, as they lived in Destiny Islands, a tropic place that had a lot of sun time all year round. It was the week before school would reopen, and he was trying to bask in the last days of the months-long break, but was, unfortunately, spending the better part of this day in his living room, with the fan directed at him, trying to ward off the intense heat.

His phone rang.

Lazily, he leaned over and picked it up from the coffee table on which he had propped up his feet. "Hello?" He actually had no patience to take on any callers now, and was planning on telling the caller to go bother someone else while he sulked in peace.

"Roxas, get your ass over here right now!" Axel. Well, that was pretty typical of him, to state his message without the pretenses of greetings.

"...Why?" Roxas asked dryly, leaning his head back against the couch's back.

He could hear the rush of waves that meant Axel was at the beach, and the sound of boisterous, male laughter. There were also some high-pitched giggling, not too high that it made him irritated, but it meant his best friend had female company. "Whaddaya mean why? I'm telling you to come over, so come over now! C'mon, you can't be thinking of keeping yourself in all day. This is our kind of afternoon, Rox!"

"Correction," he told the redhead impatiently. "It's only your kind of afternoon, Axel. Besides, it's too hot to be at the beach right now."

Axel tutted from the other line. "Don't be a killjoy. Now get over here or I'm coming to haul you over, okay?" There was a click, and Roxas knew the call had been disconnected. He groaned, dropping his phone beside him on the couch. Axel would hold true to his word. He was that stubborn. Sighing, he got up to get a fresh t-shirt.

Five minutes later, he was kicking up sand as he stalked over to where his best friend was sitting with a bunch of their shared friends-slash-aquaintances. "What do you want, Axel?"

"Roxas, you're here!" Axel jumped up from his seat, also dislodging sand particles in the process. The people he was sitting closest to coughed and spluttered out protests, which he, of course, ignored. "Took you long enough, though." But he was grinning.

Roxas rolled his eyes, but couldn't stop the answering grin that spread across his own face. "Shut up, pyro. Now what did you want me here for?"

"Right," the redhead looked back, as if he was just remembering someting. "Nami, come over here!" He motioned to someone who was still out Roxas' line of sight. It wasn't until the petite blonde girl was at Axel's side that he finally looked down to stare at her.

And stare at her he did. She had the biggest blue eyes he had ever seen, a shade lighter than his own. Her shoulder-length (at least, he assumed it was shoulder-length) hair was pulled back into a messy bun, several strands aside from her bangs falling in slight waves. She wore her white sundress beautifully, as if it was made for her and her alone. She was gorgeous.

He looked up, partly dazed, but wrenched himself from his own thoughts when he saw Axel's knowing smirk. "...Hi," he said eventually.

"H-hi," she replied timidly.

He smiled, amused. So cute, he thought. "I'm Roxas."

"Naminé," she replied in that quiet tone. For the first time, she smiled up at him, and he barely refrained from doing a sharp intake of breath.

Axel smirked widely at them both. It seemed his two friends had hit it right off the bat. "Well, now you two are properly introduced… Rox, I wanted you here so you could show Nami here around. Could you do that for me?" Oh, the look on his best friend's face was priceless.

"Uh, sure, Ax. Whatever." But it was not whatever.

"Okay! I'll leave you two to your devices then," Axel told them, grinning. He waved them off and sat back down to join back in the conversation.

Roxas stood a bit awkwardly, running his hands through his blonde spikes. "Well…" he bagean, casting for something to say. "You heard the man. I guess we, uh, better get going." He held out his arm, half-hoping she would take it.

She giggled, amused at his, well, awkward behavior. "Okay," she replied, taking hold of his arm. Her skin felt cool to the touch. "Let's go."

Well, now it wasn't such a hot day anymore, was it?

A/N: LAME. I just remembered, while I was writing this, that I was avoiding summer for Namixas because my main fic, Summer Blues, is, obviously, summer-themed. Just for a clarification, this has nothing at all to do with SB, okay? This occurs in the same dimension as the one from the first chapter, wherever that may be. XD

Okay, thank for reading! Review, PM, alert, favorite, whatever. 8D Till next chapter!

-Hikari