Hello, this is the writer of this fanfic. As you can tell, this is an update! Yay! I updated in celebration of the last day of summer for my little sister! Enjoy the chapter

I don't own Kingdom Hearts.

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It's painful to say good-bye

Especially when you can't remember

The one going away

Though it doesn't feel he's gone

Sadness still eats me inside.

It was in the early Saturday morning that Naminé last hugged what was left of her older brother. With his ashes in an urn, Naminé had begun telling him her farewells. Earlier in the day, Kairi had woken Naminé up to go to the beach. In the car along the way, Kairi was explaining Cloud's wish was that his ashes to be with the waves so he could be with his younger sister. At first, Naminé did not get it but Kairi explained that 'Nami' was Cloud's nickname for Naminé and coincidentally, it was also Japanese for wave. Kairi, Axel and Uncle Cid decided to wait by the car till Naminé was done seeing her brother off, saying that they had already said their good-byes. Naminé removed her shoes and walked into the waves, stopping when the water level covered her feet. In the frigid cold air, Naminé sighed, removing the top of the urn.

"I'm sorry that I can't really say anything touching or deep. Last night, I think I dreamt about you, but I'm not sure. Kairi said that you didn't like having your picture taken, so I don't know the faintest clue if you look like I do. I think that you were the one that marked out your face in my yearbooks. If I could draw you, then it would be just like the you I dreamt about in my dreams." Naminé said to the ashes. "I know you'll live happily amongst the waves. No matter how far away we are separated from each other, you'll always be close to me in my heart." Naminé turned the urn over, pouring the ashes into the water below. Naminé stepped out of the waves and put her shoes back on.

When she reached the car, she saw Axel arguing with Kairi. Axel was looked very frustrated as Kairi tried to possibly persuade him. Naminé walked over to her family. They were so engrossed in the argument that they paid no attention to Naminé.

"I don't think that we are handling this in the best way that we could." Axel hissed.

"What choice do we have?" Kairi asked him. "This was Cloud's decision. He wanted a more peaceful life for her."

"What about Roxas?" Axel asked.

"What about him?" Naminé asked innocently. The two red heads turned their attention to Naminé.

"Naminé, you shouldn't sneak up on us." Kairi said. "Roxas feels sad that you don't think about his feelings."

"I guess I could be nicer," Naminé said. "He does have it tough on him. Like you guys said yesterday, he wants to do things that I can't because of my memories. Just stop bickering. Siblings should love each other." Axel huffed and went into the backside of the car. "Is he going to be okay?"

"Yeah," Kairi said, pushing Naminé into the backside. "He's just grumpy that he didn't get a full night's rest." Kairi closed the door for Naminé. Naminé looked up at her cousin.

"Sorry for ruining your sleep." Naminé apologized. Axel ruffled Naminé's blond hair.

"Don't worry too much about it." Axel told her. "I could just sleep in later or now." Naminé oh'ed at him. Naminé buckled her seatbelt and sighed. Naminé leaned her head against the cool glass of the window. Before the car could even start going home, Naminé felt a great amount of weight press onto her shoulders. She turned her head to see Axel resting his head on her shoulder.

"Just let me rest here for a while." Axel whispered. Naminé nodded slightly and looked away in the opposite direction. Unconsciously, Naminé inhaled his scent: apples and cinnamon. Naminé blushed as she thought about how much Axel scent has reminded her of a nice, warm apple pie. Somehow, Naminé thought it fitted Axel perfectly.

During home, Naminé's faced had turned the same shade of red as her cousin's hair. She had learned something new about her cousin or at least something new to her at her current state. Axel is a sleep mutterer. It was due to his proximity that Naminé was able to listen to his murmurs over the blasting of the radio. Though, Naminé kind of wished she was listening more on the radio than her cousin's unconscious rambling about fire.

Axel muttered about the color of fire, the warmth fire brings and how fire could create new life. His mutters weren't only limited to just the element fire. It also included things with the word 'fire' in it. At one point in the drive, Axel muttered about how to create fireworks. He then started to talk about how great it would be to stand on the sun and feel the heat tickle his skin.

Slowly but surely, Naminé had been nodding herself to sleep. Her weak attempts to keep her eyes open were lessening. It wasn't long till Naminé found herself dozing off in Slumber land.

Naminé's looked around the house. Her body was ghostly, making no contact with the objects beside her. She walked through a narrow hallway toward the front door. The walls she passed by were decorated with photos in frames with the faces all looking blurred to her. When she had reached the door, Naminé felt a pair of eyes set on her. She quickly turned around. Sitting at the foot of the staircase, was a shadowy form. He was devoid of any color. No features that would distinguish who he was were present. He was nothing but a big giant glob of dark matter. Naminé was able to make out the fact that his arms rested on his knees as he faced the door. Unconsciously, she got the sense that he was upset. Naminé phased her head through the door. It was dusk. The neighboring houses gave a familiar vibe to Naminé. There was a blue house with a white front door across the street. Its brown shingled roof was decorated with a giant blow-up heart sitting on its chimney. To the right was a house as yellow as a hard boiled egg's yolk. The other was bright green. Both houses had their windows tinted a light gray. The few people that were out were also shadows. In the front of the house were two that seemed very much in love with each other. The smaller one stretched up to kiss the taller. The tall one left afterwards. The short one walked up the pathway, up a small set of stair onto the porch. Naminé phased her head out of the door. The door opened and the figure at the steps stood up. The one by the door gasped.

"You were supposed to be home an hour ago." A smooth cool voice said, with little anger in the tone of his voice.

"I thought you said you were going on a date later." The smaller one said her voice so familiar to Naminé. The small shadowy figure started to change. It was starting to form a silhouette of a girl.

"I also thought that I told you that you aren't allowed to date." He said.

"So you could freely date but I can't. It makes perfect sense to me," She said sarcastically.

"Yes, because I don't want you dating." He told her.

"Do you know how selfish you are sounding?" she asked, shaking her head in disbelief. Naminé silently watched as a heated debate between the two rages on. She couldn't distinguish if the two were blood-related or just living together.

"I tell you time and time again! As long as you are living under this roof, you go by my rules!" He shouted.

"Then I guess I should go run away!" She bellowed."I did it before. I can do it again.

"You weren't running away alone." He growled. "If I wasn't with you, you wouldn't know where to go!"

"I'm older now! I am smarter, braver, and more resourceful!"

"Don't forget more modest," he scoffed.

"Like you're one to talk," she muttered. They stood in silence, their chests puffing up and down. Naminé took notice of their newly made features. The tall one had spiky hair, and high cheekbones. The small one had a partial amount of hair hanging over her shoulders with her bangs framing her face in a way similar to her own. The doorbell rang, catching all three of their attention. The small form quickly looked away in what seemed to be disgust. It started to make its way up the stairs.

"Have a fun time on your date," the small one sneered with a venomous tongue. The tall form opened his mouth to say something but closed it instead. He watched the smaller one go up as the doorbell rang for the second time. He turned around to open the door revealing another dark figure. The sound of a door slamming above reached their ears.

"Is she going to be alright?" a kind feminine voice said with much concern. The spiky haired one scratched his head.

"She's just being very thick-headed," he sighed.

"Weren't you like that too when you were young?" She asked.

"I was; now I'm thinking that running away with her influenced herself into thinking that it is okay for her to run away from issues." He replied. The female figure placed a hand on his shoulder.

"It's okay-she's smarter than that," she said. He shook his head.

"You have no idea how foolish she could be." Naminé felt a deep pit in her stomach. She placed her hands on her stomach as if she could just make the empty feeling go away by covering it. The two shadowy figures left. Naminé climbed up the stairs to see the young girl sitting on the floor, hiding from the two who had just gone on their date. Her breathing was erratic. Naminé knelt down next to her. For a brief moment, Naminé saw the other glow a bit lighter. The girl took a deep breath before getting up. She went down the hallway and into her room. Naminé followed, phasing through the door. The girl had set a bag on her bed. She started to shove clothes in it. Naminé watched as the girl took out her wallet and a checkbook. She grabbed the cell phone off her desk and started to make a call. Naminé brought her head close to the phone to listen in. The phone was ringing on the other side. After the third ring, someone picked up.

"Have you made a decision?" the voice on the other line asked.

"Hey, I'm coming with you." She said. Naminé bit her lower lip, for reasons unknown. A few seconds afterward, the girl bit her own lower lip as she hung up the cell phone. She took a pencil from her desk and wrote a quick scrawny note. Naminé looked over the other's shoulder to see what she had written.

I can no longer stand living under the same roof as you.

It isn't fair for me to not have the same privileges that you had when you were my age.

As a result, I have decided to run away with my boyfriend.

I hope you will come to understand that I was doing this for the best for both of us.

I wish I could say good bye face to face but that wouldn't actually be me running away.

Thank you for having me under you care.

I appreciate the years we had spent together, however, I feel as if it is time to go my own way

I'm dearly sorry if I had been such a burden for you to take care of for so long.

Farewell – may our paths meet again,

Naminé read the note over and over again. Disbelief was probably the first to come across her face. She looked at the girl with worry in her eyes. She was planning to run away. Naminé wanted to stop her, but she was scared that she would fail in her attempts.

The girl exited her room and climbed down the stairs. Naminé followed, stopping at the top of the stairs. She slowly placed the note on the table near the staircase, next to the telephone. The doorknob jiggled. The girl froze in place. The guy from earlier sees her with the note.

"What is that?" He asked. She crumpled up the note.

"It is a message from the dentist. He said that he wanted you to schedule an appointment to go check up on your teeth." She lied.

"Don't think that you can fool me." He said. "I went to the dentist last month." He walked up to her and reached for the note. The girl quickly brought the note up to her chest.

"I'll just throw this away." She walked passed him and started to walk towards the kitchen.

"That's a note saying you are running away, isn't it?" He asked, causing her to stop.

"So what if it is?" she asked. "Are you going to let me spread my wings and fly or make me a caged bird?"

"Did heconvince you to run away with him?" He asked with an angry tone, emphasizing his rage when saying 'he' and 'him.' The girl scoffed.

"I chose to run away by myself." She told him.

"He doesn't love you!" He snapped.

"I love him," she said sternly. "He loves me. We belong together."

"I will not permit you to run off with a hooligan." He shouted with his voice now raspy.

"Why? Why can't I be with him?" She shouted. "There is obviously something you know that I don't!"

"He is bad news." He said. "I don't want you to be dating a punk."

"We love each other!" She bellowed. "Weren't you the one that told me that if two people love each other, nothing should ever come between them?

"I did, but this is different!" He yelled at her.

"How in the world is it any different!" She asked hysterically. "We were in love with each other when we ran away!" She looked at him with stern blue eyes, awaiting an answer. Naminé felt sadness from emit the small form.

"It just is." The tall one sighed. The girl frowned upon his answer.

"I hate you." She muttered before breaking into a mad dash up the stairs. Out of fear, Naminé moved out of the way, phasing through the railing. Naminé saw the guy shout out the girl's name. It was unusual because thought she wasn't sure if it was her imagination, but she swore he was saying her name.

"Naminé!"

Naminé jolted up. Her eyes were looking around to see if she was still in the house. Above was Axel's grinning face.

"Good morning!" Axel greeted. "Did you like your nap?" Naminé's hand reached her head and she groaned.

"Are we home?" Naminé asked.

"Yeah, just need you to get off my lap to go to my bed." Axel said. Naminé sat up and opened the car door.

"I'm going to take a walk around." Naminé said.

"Okay, just don't go anywhere too far." Axel told her. "If you do, Kairi will nag me for the rest of the day." Naminé nodded as she started on her trip.

In her dream, Naminé was able to read the street the house was on. It felt weird, walking to a place that might not be real. It felt too real to doubt its existence. She walked down blocks and made a turn at a playground. She passed a few more houses till she reached a set of very interesting houses. There was a blue house. On the chimney was no longer a giant heart but instead an inflatable Mount Rushmore on the front lawn. Across the street were two houses: one being a lime green and the other being a dirty yellow. Both houses had tinted windows of light gray. In between the two, there was a house with a 'Sold' sign covering the 'For Sale' sign on the front lawn. Naminé walked down the pathway, up to the house. She stared at the stairs to the porch. She walked up the steps. She extended her right arm to touch the door.

"Naminé?" a voice said, causing Naminé to jump. She turned around to see the owner of the voice that scared her. One pair of blue eyes was paired up with another.

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