Next chapter! There's some RokuNami and there's some VenNami in this chapter. Enjoy!

I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Let Me In.

Saturday in the Woods

Roxas sat against one of the trees near the wall surrounding the Ansem Apartments. Popsicle sticks and Sea-Salt Taffy wrappers lay around him while he played with a Rubick's Cube he had bought in town. Roxas twisted and turned the cube in his hands in frustration. Nothing he did seemed to work. It wasn't long before he heard light footsteps approach him.

"You're here again." He didn't bother to look up.

"So are you." He continued to turn the cube as he heard her sit down at the tree next to him. He could smell an odd irony scent coming off of her.

"I want to be alone right now." He turn his eyes toward her slightly, he noticed she didn't wear any shoes in the snow, before turning back to his cube.

"So then leave. I was here first. And at least I don't smell funny." He thought it would feel good saying something like that to her. As if he could get back at her for what she said last night. But now he just felt silly. He saw her shadow move forward and looked up at her. She was looking at the Rubick's Cube in his hand before she quickly leaned back. He held the cube towards her as she retracted. "You wanna try?" She looked at him cautiously and rubbed her stomach. "Here." He placed the cube down between them and watched her tentatively reach for it.

"What is it?" She turned the cube in her hands as her stomach growled.

"It's a Rubick's Cube. You have to get each side to be a solid color." He shifted so that he was facing her, and started to clean up his popsicle sticks and candy wrappers. Now was a good time to look at her while she was concentrated on the cube. She looked to be a year or so older than him, making her 18 or 19. She was shapely and was blessed with a nice figure. Her hair was in the same style as it was when he had first seen her. From here he could see her pale pink lips, and wondered if they felt as soft as they looked. His eyes drifted to her legs that were bent beneath her, and saw that the skin there was just as smooth as the skin on her arms. The dress she was wearing was barley long enough to cover her thighs. "Aren't you cold?" She shook her head no. He heard her stomach growl again. "You can hold onto that if you want." He stood up and headed for the gates. "I'll see you later okay?" She didn't answer him.

Again it was like he wasn't even there. But at least she was willing to come near him. As he walked across the courtyard to his building he looked up at building A. One of the windows was lit up and Roxas could see a man beating his wife. He flinched as he watched the shadow's hand come down on the frail woman's body. Roxas turned away and quickly headed to his apartment. He had lost count of the numbers of times, he and his mother, and other occupants had called the police on this man. But his wife never held charges against him. She always had an excuse as to where her marks came from, and she avoided the rest of occupants at all times. When Roxas got to his room and started undressing for his shower, he wondered if that girl was avoiding him because her father was beating her. A sudden rage overtook him. He didn't know why but the idea of anyone touching her pissed him off. When he got out the shower he practiced with his knife, letting all his anger out. He continued until his mom called him for dinner.

Later near town

"That damn bitch. Can't give me what I need when I need it." The man coughed into his hand from the cold weather and pulled his coat around himself more. As he approached the hole in the wall that separated the town from the woods he paused hearing someone groan. He stopped and saw a female figure lying against the wall. "Hey, we don't need any hobos near us alright?" The figure groaned again and rolled over onto her back. "Didn't you hear what I said-" he stopped himself and observed the girl. She was very attractive and very alone. "Hey miss, can you move." He approached her and kneeled next to her legs. She groaned a no out to him, and that she was hungry. Perfect. He stroked her bare leg and moved his hand under her dress to grip her rear. "You help me out, and I'll help you out." She moaned again as he moved to be on top of her. She could give him what his wife couldn't. She wouldn't be wearing that short dress she in the middle of nowhere if she didn't expect to get some right?

The next minute happened too fast for the man to register. One second he was hiking the girl's dress up, the next, he was on his back with a searing pain in his neck. "What the hell!? Get off me!" The girl growled in response and bit into him harder, this time tearing the flesh from his neck. He screamed as the light disappeared from his eyes, and darkness found him.

Roxas's Room

Roxas woke up to the sound of shouting. He sat up in his bed and pressed his ear against the wall.

"How could you do something so stupid!?"

"I couldn't help it I was hungry!"

"You're such an idiot!" The next thing Roxas heard was a series of crashes, then a pause, and then a door slamming. He continued to listen as he heard sobbing. Was that her? He looked out his window and into the courtyard to watch the girl's father dragging a sled behind him across the courtyard and out the gates.

Woods

Ventus dragged the man's body onto the sled before covering him with a blanket. He grabbed the strings of the sled and walked deeper into the woods. He sighed and dragged a hand through his hair. He didn't mean to call her an idiot.

Flashback

Ventus glared at the blonde girl. "How could you do something so stupid!?" She flinched at his tone, and wiped the blood from her chin.

"I couldn't help it I was hungry!" she fisted her hands as she tried to keep her temper.

"You're such an idiot!" She looked at him in anger for a second, right before she threw the closest thing (his radio) at his head. He dodged it and lunged at her, tackling her to the ground. Of course she had the power to break free and snap his neck, but she didn't. Instead she rolled them over and tried to run from him. He grasped her ankle sending her to the floor and pulled her into his arms. "I'm sorry." He rocked them back and forth while he stroked her hair. "I didn't mean it. Just calm down. I'll take care of it."

Flashback End

Ventus blushed at the memory of holding her in his arms. She hadn't said anything as he left. He wondered if she would speak to him when he got back. Ventus snapped himself out of his thoughts as he reached the Twilight Lake. He stretched and turned to the hidden corpse on his sled. "Shall we?" He uncovered the body and rolled it off the sled and into a hole in the ice. He pulled out one of the metal poles that was used to mark off the hole and used it to push the body deeper into the water. "Now to get a new radio." He tossed the pole to the side and headed for town.

Sunday Morning

Roxas opened the door to his apartment and stepped into the hallway, almost tripping on something. Looking down he saw the Rubick's Cube, completely solved. "No way." He looked at the door marked C360 and thought about knocking.

"Can I help you?" He jumped and turned around. In front of him stood the girl's father. He was holding grocery bags and looked as if he hadn't slept all night.

"No." Roxas cursed himself for not bringing his knife with him.

"If you're looking for her she's sleeping. So I wouldn't knock right now if I were you." He pushed past him and pulled the keys to the apartment out. Right before entering the room he looked back at him with a glare. "She doesn't like visitors, so you should probably leave her alone." Then he slammed the door shut. Translation: Stay away from my daughter if you want to live. Roxas glared at the doorway and pocketed the Rubick's Cube before heading to town.

Ansem Wise Library

How could he forget that he had to get that stupid book for English? He pulled "Romeo and Juliet" down from its shelf. On his way to the check out desk another book caught his eye. "Morse Code for Dummies" Smiling to himself he grabbed the book and headed to the study section of the library. He picked up two sheets of paper and a pen, before sitting at one of the tables and copying from the book. He was to into what he was doing to notice Seifer watching him from one of the aisles. Satisfied with his work Roxas checked out "Romeo and Juliet" and headed to the Moogle Ice Store.

"What were you so happy about huh?" Roxas looked up to see Seifer standing in front of him. Rai and Vivi stood behind him as usual. Roxas looked down and tried to walk past them and down the sidewalk. "I asked you a question." He felt himself being pushed against the wall "Let's see what you were writing down little girl." He held out his hand for the paper. In his other hand was a slim stick. When he received no answer, Seifer swung the stick for Roxas's face leaving a small cut on his cheek.

"Seifer! You explain that to his mom ya'know!" Seifer spat on the ground and grabbed Roxas's chin.

"I didn't do anything, you slipped because you're a klutz right?" Roxas still didn't answer. "Pfft, let's go. Leave the girl to cry to herself." The three tormentors left him to himself and he headed straight for home, no longer in the mood for ice cream. On his way to building C, Roxas caught sight of two adults making out in front of building B. The teenage boy he was, he started to think about what it was like to kiss a girl. His thoughts drifted to his new neighbors as he continued to his apartment. That girl had incredibly soft looking lips. He shook his head of those thoughts and entered his apartment.

"Roxas what happened to your face?" His mother almost looked concerned. She was dressed like she was about to go out and looked like she thought this would hinder her time out.

"I tripped. Don't worry; I can clean it up myself." Tifa seemed more than satisfied with his answer and rushed out the door with a quick bye.

That night Roxas hurried out the gate and over to the trees where he last saw her. She was there again. She was there and she was smiling at him. Her smile was beautiful. He would kill for that smile. He approached her and opened his mouth before realizing something.

"I never asked your name."

"My name is Naminé." She sat against a large tree and invited him to sit with her.

"I'm Roxas." His heart was beating with how close he was to her. If he leaned over some, he would be touching her. "You solved the puzzle. Can you show me how you did it?" He pulled the cube out and handed it to her. He wondered if she could feel the electricity when their fingers brushed.

"It's really easy once you get the corners." She started to twist the sides of the cube. He watched as her fingers moved the sides of the cube before trying to start another conversation.

"I haven't seen you at my school. Do you go to the Sunset Academy for Girls?" She paused and shook her head.

"I'm home schooled." She put the cube down. "I haven't been to a real school in a long time." She paused in thought. "Do I smell better tonight?" He hadn't even noticed the smell. Now that he was paying attention, she smelled like lavender.

"Yes. You do. I'm sorry if I offended you when I said that before." He smiled at her. She smiled back and shook her head as if to tell him not to worry about it. It was then that he remembered the Morse Code and dug in his pocket to pull out a folded piece of paper. "Here, it's Morse code. We can knock on the wall and talk to each other." She stared at the sheet.

"You can hear me through the wall?" She almost sounded frightened.

"Yeah. Why was your dad so mad at you? He didn't hit you did he?" She looked down before turning her eyes to him.

"Does your mom hit you? Is that where this came from?" She reached out and brushed the band aid on his cheek. He had completely forgotten about it.

"No. She doesn't hit me. She's never around enough to do that." When she gave him a confused look he continued, happy that there was someone he could talk to. "She and my dad are going through a divorce right now. She's always out to 'meet' the lawyer." He air quoted the word lawyer. "Yet every time she comes home, her makeup is smeared and she smells like alcohol."

"Sometimes parents don't realize the effects they can have on their children." Naminé said. Roxas looked at her. She sounded so much older when she said that. "Roxas." He blushed at the sound of his name coming off her voice. "You need to hit them back."

"Huh?" He was dazed by her sudden change in tone.

"The ones who hit you; you need to hit them back, hard."

"There are three of them. And two of them are a lot bigger than I am."

"You have a knife." Could he really stab Seifer? Sure he thought about it, but never really considered doing it. What if that only got him angrier?

"What if that doesn't stop him?"

"Then I'll take care of him."

"But you're just one girl. I should be protecting you."

"I'm a lot stronger than I look."

"I don't want you to get hurt." He looked away from her and at his watch. Right, he had school tomorrow and he didn't even start the reading yet. But how could he leave when she had just started talking to him.

"You should go. You need to get your sleep." She stood up and held her hand out to him. He accepted it and felt that rush of electricity again as she pulled him up. The two teens walked through the courtyard towards building C, unaware of the jealous eyes watching them from Naminé's window.