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?

A/N: Hey everybody! I'm glad you guys liked chapter 6! That was a blast to write yet it was difficult since I was still in school when writing that. But, senior year is officially over and I'm no longer in high school. I also had my University Orientation and it was so so stressful! I like my classes though and I'm super excited to take Intro to Astronomy! It should be fun haha. Anyway, enough about me I know the reason you're here is because of the chapter haha.

Here is chapter 7!

Chapter 7: Brawl

"A nice game of pool eh?"

The redhead smirked as he twirled his pool cue around. "Of course, you look like a bunch of guys who would enjoy this friendly game." Saix came up to the men and said, "What's the catch?" Zack shrugged and said, "What do you want?"

Marluxia's eyes took a quick glance at Namine, which did not go unnoticed by anyone. "That's not one of the prizes." Reno growled out and he made sure that Namine was behind someone so Marluxia would not be able to see her.

Marluxia let out a laugh and as he examined his pool cue he said, "Well, clearly that's the only prize I see here." Zack even though he has only known Namine for a few hours saw her as a friend already and he was about to lunge at Marluxia but Leon held him back.

"Let me go you big jerk! Wait until I get my hands on him!" Zack said but then he saw Reno's grin and knew that his friend was up to something and that in the long run would cause a lot of damage.

Oh well.

"Calm down Zacky. Don't lose your marbles just yet." Reno said, as he made sure that Leon had a good grip on Zack. Once he was satisfied he went up to Marluxia. "Before we begin our game though, I feel like a bad person because we haven't even introduced ourselves yet. My mom taught me some manners, unlike yours. My name is Reno."

Saix started laughing and said, "Are you serious? What kind of man are you?"

"I'm one of a kind blue boy." That little nickname made the blue haired man narrow his eyes and his grip on his beer tightened. Marluxia, who notice his friends distress looked at Reno and said, "I appreciate your politeness. It's not everyday you meet someone with wonderful manners. My name is Marluxia."

Namine was looking at Reno and Marluxia and she was hoping that nothing bad would happen. Hopefully, they would just play a simple game of pool (with no cheating) and leave it at that.

That was some wishful thinking.

She looked around the bar and even though there weren't that many people everybody was looking over at them to see what the commotion was about. Tifa had gone to their table and was putting the drinks down and asking Rude what was going on. She didn't understand what Rude said but it made Tifa pale and she immediately went to the back of the bar to hopefully, get somebody (or her dad) to stop what might possibly happen next.

"You see when I meet new people I like to make really great first impressions." Reno said as he was walking up to Marluxia with the pool cue in his grip. "I hope you remember my first impression."

With that Reno punched Marluxia in the face.

"So, she's with Reno then?"

Sora nodded and he saw his girlfriend sigh as she sat down on one of the chairs in the kitchen table and take a muffin. Sora, Kairi, Roxas, Axel, and Riku were all around the kitchen table in Roxas's and Axel's apartment waiting for a certain redhead and blonde to come back. They were going to drop off Riku before going back to the apartment but he forgot his house keys and his father and brother weren't going to be home until later in the evening.

"Do you have the slightest clue on where they could possibly be?" Roxas asked his best friend and he said, "Even though he's my brother, I have no idea what type of places he likes to hang out at." "Well, are there any popular hang outs around here that your brother would like?" Riku asked as he grabbed a muffin as well since he hadn't eaten ever since lunch.

Axel shook his head and Sora said, "I remember that when he came in the afternoon he was saying something about meeting up with a friend but I don't remember the place's name." Sora said as he awkwardly rubbed his neck. Sora, bless his soul was a very forgetful person so nobody expected him to remember anything. After that an awkward silence loomed in the kitchen. Nobody really knew what to say but Kairi did not want to be stuck in a silent room with four worried boys. She decided to spice up the conversation by asking Riku about his relationship status and give the information she received to a certain young blonde.

"So Riku, do you have a girlfriend?"

"No, I don't." Riku said and he gave Kairi a strange look. What kind of question was that? "Oh really? Well, what do you look for in a girl?" "Uh.." Riku started and he felt weird that she was asking these types of questions, especially with these 3 guys around the table who were waiting for his reply.

"I look for someone sweet, funny and caring I guess, kind of like Na-where are you going with this?" He asked catching himself from saying Namine's name. Kairi gave Riku an innocent stare and said, "I'm just wondering. You seem like a great guy."

"Kairi are you hitting on a guy who's younger than you? I didn't know you were a cougar!"

Kairi glared at Axel and she threw a piece of her muffin at him. Axel opened his mouth and caught the piece in his mouth, which made Kairi glare at him even more. "I'm just wondering, geez! Is that a bad thing? Besides, I prefer men my age and I already have him, so no offense Riku."

"None taken, I prefer girls younger than me."

Roxas, who was sipping some of his water, started chocking on it and Axel had to pat him on the back. He started choking because he knew that Riku was a year older than Namine.

"What's that suppose to mean?" Roxas snapped at the silver hair boy whose eyes had widened. Kairi did not want the silver haired boy to be killed just yet since she had to get him and Namine together. She had to help him out! "Just ignore him Riku, he's crazy. He can't get any girls, I have no idea how he managed to get his girlfriend."

Roxas was about to reply but Kairi said, "Here, try this muffin Roxas, these muffins are so good!" and she proceeded to stuff his face with one of the muffins, nearly chocking the blonde. When Roxas was able to swallow his muffin he said, "Are you trying to kill me Kai?"

"Maybe."

"Sora, I have no idea what you see in her." Roxas said and Kairi just stuck her tongue out, thankful that she was able to change the topic, even if it almost killed the blonde haired boy.

"Whatever, Roxas. Since we have nothing else to do now, whose hungry? I feel like ordering a pizza since I believe Reno is going to come back later on in the night. What do you say? We can drop Riku off after?"

"Sure, why not! Besides, I'm hungry and I feel like getting some greasy and bad food." Axel said and everybody laughed when he rubbed his stomach. Kairi was glad that she had found a way to make the boys stop worrying about Namine and hopefully she could get to know more about Riku, without any of the boys creating a distraction. She was going to make sure that Riku and Namine got together.

Kairi loved to play matchmaker.

That punch started a very chaotic brawl.

Reno immediately lunged at Marluxia and he had him pinned to the ground where he was trying to beat the daylights out of him. Saix who was distracted by the punch didn't see Zack get out of Leon's grip and kick him in the stomach. Lexaeus, who saw his friend get hurt hit Zack but luckily for Zack before Lexaeus was going to body slam him; Cloud had grabbed a pool cue and hit it over Lexaeus head. Leon had his arms crossed, clearly amused by the fight but then he heard Xaldin coming behind him so he just punched him in the face, which knocked him down.

"You guys stop!"

Namine had moved away from the brawling men and was watching their fight from afar. She knew that if she got in between she would probably end up getting hurt but that might just end the brawl. She noticed that Rude, like Leon had his arms crossed and a smirk was playing on his lips. Namine assumed that Rude was always a spectator in fights but maybe she could ask him to stop it.

Namine did not like violence and whenever someone hit another, she would wince or close her eyes. Punches were being thrown here and there, kicks were being felt, and grunts were being heard. She then saw that Marluxia had managed to get out of being pinned and now had Reno pinned on top of the pool table and to her horror she saw that he had grabbed a pool ball. Namine knew that Marluxia was going to hit Reno with the pool ball and she knew she had to stop it and without even thinking about the consequences she quickly made her way towards the brawling pair.

As she got closer she saw that Marluxia had raised his hand and was about to hit Reno but she grabbed his arm. What she didn't know was that Marluxia was the type of person who would get mad if someone had stopped him from hurting another. He turned to see who had grabbed him and was surprised to see that it was Namine.

"Don't hurt him!"

Namine wasn't sure if what she did was brave or foolish as she saw Marluxia's face twist into a sick grin and he grabbed Namine's tiny wrist and was applying pressure. "Nami, princess-" Marluxia started in a sickly sweet voice "Don't interrupt us." He finished with a harsh voice and then he let go of Namine and he slapped her face.

Everyone had turned when they heard the smack and Reno, Cloud, Leon, and Zack's blood boiled as they saw Namine fall to the floor clutching her red cheek. Tears were starting to fall and Namine closed her eyes when she saw that Marluxia was leaning down to her level.

"YOU ASSHOLE!"

Namine saw a blur of black hair tackle Marluxia to the ground and saw that the black haired blur was Zack. Zack was uncontrollable as he kept punching Marluxia everywhere in his face. The fighting against everyone had intensified even more and Namine just closed her eyes to block the sounds and the pain that was coming from her cheek. She was pretty sure that it would leave a bruise.

How was she going to explain to her brothers and Axel about the bruise?

The fighting continued and she decided to peek but saw that everyone was starting to get tired. She was praying that someone would come in and stop the fight. She looked at Rude but instead of seeing his playful grin from beforehand, it had turned serious and she saw that his knuckles had turned white from holding the beer to tight. Maybe, now he would stop the fighting?

Fortunately for Namine, her prayers were heard as she saw that her savior was not Rude but a tall man with black hair who had come to out from the back and was trying to get the attention of the men fighting. At first he whistled but when he realized that wasn't going to work, he used his last resort.

He yelled.

"THAT'S ENOUGH!"

Everyone stopped what they were doing and saw a very tall, burly man with his arms on his hips glaring at the fighters. Tifa, stood next to him and if you were a regular at this bar you would know that this man was the owner of 7th Heaven and Tifa's father. Tifa saw Namine on the ground and immediately went to her and pulled her into a hug. Namine accepted the hug but then something sparked in her mind, a maybe brilliant but foolish idea. Namine told Tifa something and Tifa went to go get what she had asked for.

"Now, I understand you guys have problems but to take it out on each other in MY bar and destroying MY property is something I will not tolerate, especially the hitting of a young girl. I want you guys to pay for the ruined property right now and I want to write down the name of the man who hit the girl!"

"Don't worry about the damage costs, I'll pay for it right now."

They all turned and saw Rude get up from his comfortable position on the chair and walk up to Tifa's father with a checkbook in one hand a pen on the other. "How much will it be?"

Tifa's dad told him how much it was (a very hefty price) but Rude just wrote down the amount, signed the check and gave it to him. "I gave you some extra money because you had to endure all this bullshit." Tifa's dad looked at the amount and his eyes widened. "Always the business man aye, Rude?" He said and Rude shrugged. Tifa had come back with a glass of what Namine had asked for. Namine thanked Tifa and turned to watch the conversation at hand.

"Now, which one of you guys hurt the little lady here?"

Everyone stared at Marluxia and he said, "It was clearly an accident. She got in the way." "That is so not true! What the hell man?" Cloud said with disgust laced in his voice. Leon was about to say something as well but Namine cut in. "Yeah, it was an accident."

Everyone stared at Namine as though she had just said she was moving to Mars. "I did get in the way, I shouldn't have. It was my fault really." "Namine! That jerkwad just hit you and your gonna let him get away with it?" Reno said. He did not want this guy to get away with what he did. Sure, Reno has done some pretty messed up things but hitting a girl was unacceptable.

However, what no one knew was that Namine had something up her sleeve.

Namine had gotten up from the floor and was walking towards Marluxia. "It was an accident, don't worry, just like this is an accident." She then with the cup that Tifa had gotten her, she poured it's content on his face. Everyone stared in shock at what Namine had just done.

Reno then burst out laughing followed by Zack and Tifa while Rude, Cloud, and Leon just smirked at Marluxia and his gang. Namine had no idea why she had done that, she felt that she needed to stand up to Marluxia because she was tired of him scaring her and she wanted to prove to herself that she could stand up to him.

"I guess you got yourself into another sticky situation, huh Marluxia?"

Marluxia, who was once again covered in soda viciously glared at Namine and said, "One of these days Namine, I will get even with you and your brothers and I will make sure you experience as much pain as possible. Consider that a threat."

Then Marluxia gave Namine a fierce glare and with the rest of his gang in tow, left 7th heaven. Reno who was still laughing from what happened to Marluxia said

"Well that was one hell of a fight, huh?"

"Three sevens."

"Bullshit!"

Sora groaned, as he had to retrieve the cards from the big pile. They had already ordered and finished eating the pizza and to relieve the silence and worry, Axel had suggested they play a game of Bullshit. So far, Axel, Roxas, and Kairi only had five cards in their hands while Sora and Riku had almost half of the deck. They were pretty bad at lying.

"This game isn't fair." Sora whined as his deck of cards was now too big to hold in only one hand. "Quit being a baby Sora! It's just a game!" Axel said which earned him a glare from the younger brunette.

"So Riku, have you ever been to Destiny Islands?"

Riku nodded and said, "Only once. My dad had business there so he had to take me with him. I didn't really get to explore the outside much since I was forced to stay in the hotel room. It had a nice view of the ocean though."

"We should take you there and explore! You have to go to the beach there at least once in your life. The sunset is so romantic and pretty! You would love it!"

Kairi was starting to scare Riku but he was trying not to show it. He knew that the older girl was up to something but he wasn't sure what yet. He briefly wondered how Namine dealt with Kairi's questions.

Riku was about to put his four "eights" on the table when they heard Roxas's cellphone ring. Roxas looked at the caller ID and quickly answered it. "Namine?!"

"Close, but no it's Reno."

"Reno, where the hell are you? It's getting late and I thought you said it wouldn't take you that long to be wherever you guys are."

"Chill big brother! We just had to deal with a few…distractions."

"Distractions?"

"Well, please don't kill anybody when you find out what happens. It's hard not to lie about something this big."

Now Roxas was worried.

"What happened?"

"I'll tell you when we get there. Just, don't freak out okay? Right now, Namine does not need a freak out."

"Wait Reno-"

"We are on our way to the apartment. We will tell you what happened there."

Roxas was about to reply but he heard the click, which signaled the end of the phone call. "Roxas what happened?" Sora asked as he sensed his brother's discomfort. "I don't know, Reno wouldn't tell me. They are on their way here right now. What is making me worried is that Reno said to not freak out which means that something really bad went down."

"Maybe Reno is just messing with you?"

"No, he sounded way too serious. Let's just hope that nothing bad happened."

"Four eights."

The older teens looked at Riku and Kairi was secretly glad that Riku had re-started their game as a distraction for them. Kairi grinned when she looked at her deck and realized she had all the eights.

"Bullshit!"

"Aw man!"

"You okay Namine?"

Namine nodded as she held the ice pack that Tifa had given her to ease the pain. The people that were involved in the fight were all holding ice packs and putting bandages on the cuts they had received.

"I'm fine, it just hurts really bad. You think my brothers will notice?"

Zack who decided to lay down on the table instead of sitting on a chair got up and said, "Oh yeah, babe. They will definitely notice that mark on your cute face." Cloud threw his ice pack at his older brother and said, "You know she's not interested right?"

"Way to hurt a man's pride, bro."

Everyone laughed and then Namine saw Reno get off the phone. "Okay kiddies, as fun as this was, it's time to take Nami home." Namine cringed and said, "I'm not looking forward to that." She got up and waved at everybody and made sure that their injuries weren't too bad. "Even though I hate fighting, I guess I should say thanks for sticking up for me." The guys and Tifa smiled and she said, "If he keeps bugging you, just tell us and I'll make sure these boys taste his medicine all over again."

Namine smiled and then she grabbed her backpack and along with Reno went outside. As they walked to the car they heard footsteps behind them and Reno stopped to see who it was and surprised to see Zack.

"Wait Reno, can I stay with you for the night?"

Namine and Reno gave him a confused look and Zack sighed since he had to explain why he wanted to stay with them tonight.

"See, Cloud is staying at Leon's house and I cannot go alone to the house. My dad already thinks I'm a bad influence on Cloud and if he sees me like this he's going to flip. Please let me spend the night at your brother's place!"

"Well, I'm sleeping on the couch so maybe you can sleep on the carpeted floor?"

"Or I could just sleep with Namine. I'll keep you warm!"

Namine giggled and said, "Of course you can stay with us! I don't' want you to get in trouble with your dad, but like Reno said your sleeping on the floor!"

"Aw no fun man!"

The trio laughed all the way until they got in the car. Reno proceeded to raise the volume high as loud rock music was heard and then he sped off nearly hitting an elderly woman who was crossing the street. "How did you get your license anyhow?" Namine yelled as she was desperately clinging to her seatbelt. Reno smirked and said, "Well, by magic of course!"

The trio then sped off to meet their doom.

"I WIN!"

Axel had just won their intense game of Bullshit. It was hard and grueling game but in the end victory was bittersweet for Axel. As Axel took a victory swig of his drink they heard the door being opened and people entering laughing. When they saw them walk to the kitchen however, they noticed two things.

One was that there was someone else with Namine and Rude.

Two was that Namine was sporting a bluish purple bruise.

"NAMINE!"

Roxas immediately rushed to his sister's side and touched the bruise, which made Namine wince in pain. Kairi put her hand in her mouth in shock and Axel, Sora, and Riku were angry.

"What happened?"

Reno and Namine had explained them what had transpired and to say the least Riku, Axel, Sora, and Kairi were furious. Roxas was beyond furious, beyond everything imaginable.

He could not believe that Marluxia had hurt his sister again and this time it left a bright mark for the world to see the damage that Marluxia had done.

"First of all, Reno I cannot believe you got into a fight with Marluxia, second of all Namine you shouldn't have gotten in the way of them fighting. Third of all, Reno are you insane? Bringing a sixteen-year-old girl to a bar? Did you even think for a second of what could have happened if you had left Namine alone?"

"She wasn't alone, she was with me!"

They all turned around and saw that Zack was leaning against the wall watching the whole conversation. Axel, who was very disappointed at his brother turned and looked at the stranger. He looked older than him and he had spiky black hair and a smirk was plastered on his face. Roxas also took a good look at the stranger. He then said:

"Wait a minute. Who are you anyway?"

"I'm your future brother-in-law."

"Excuse me?"

"Zack!"

They saw the stranger glare playfully at Namine who laughed at him. During this exchange, Riku clenched his fists as he glared at the guy. Who did he think he was saying that he was going to be Namine's husband?

Did he feel jealous?

"My name is Zack and I'm Reno's bestie. I'm also Cloud Strife's older brother."

Now Riku had another reason to hate the guy.

"I'm so sorry that he's your brother."

Zack stared at the silver haired boy and said, "He's a pain to everybody else, but I guess he's okay in my book. Wait a minute, are you that one boy that he's always complaining about umm..Riku or are you Seifer?"

Riku shook his head and said, "Close, Seifer is the other guy he hates. I'm Riku." Zack whistled, "Geez, my brother sure knows how to pick the guys he hates." Roxas looked back and forth at the pair and then set his gaze on Reno who grinned at him in return.

"Anyway, what the hell is he doing here?"

"Yeah about that-" Reno started as he went up to his brother and put his arm around his shoulder. "Zack here needs a place to stay for the night. He's too much of a chicken to face his daddy."

"I am not a chicken!"

"So I told him he could sleep in the floor tonight. But it's just for tonight so no worries, right?"

Axel sighed and said, "Fine, whatever! Just make sure he stays as far away from Nami as possible." Zack after hearing Axel's comment said, "Don't worry Red, I don't bite. I'm just a Good Samaritan who only takes one free sample and never litters. I'm a saint." Riku snorted in the background.

"Well guys, it's getting pretty late. I'm glad your okay Namine! If I ever see Marluxia again he will face my wrath!" Kairi said and the boys in the room sweat dropped. They all knew from experience to never get Kairi angry. "I'll beat him up as well. You and I make a great team Kai." Sora replied and gave her a cheeky grin.

Kairi looked at Riku and said, "We could give you a ride home if you'd like?" Riku nodded and said, "That would be great, thanks." Kairi gave everybody a hug while Sora did his secret handshake but both of them made sure to hug Namine extra hard.

Riku just waved at everybody but before he was about to leave he felt a hand grab his wrist and he turned. Namine had held him back and then she proceeded to hug him. "See you at school, Riku." Namine said as she let go of him. He could see a slight blush on her cheeks and that made him smile and the jealousy that he was feeling evaporated.

"See ya."

Then the three made their way out of the apartment. Roxas walked up to Namine to inspect the bruise that was left from the brawl. "You are staying home tomorrow Nami." Namine opened her mouth to protest but Roxas silenced her with a stare. "I don't feel comfortable with you going to school sporting a bruise. I think that you need a break after today's events."

"I second that notion-" Axel said "Besides, Roxas and I have the day off tomorrow so it will be like a fun get together in a way." Reno laughed and said, "I'll join you guys since I don't have any other plans, I just have to drop this lamer at his home when he wants." Zack grinned at Reno and said, "That's what best friends are for. Giving them lifts and letting them stay at their house to eat their food."

Axel and Namine laughed nervously and Roxas was silently thankful that he had gone to the supermarket a day beforehand and the fridge was loaded with lots of goodies.

He hoped that those were enough.

"Dude seriously?"

"Yeah, I can't believe it either!"

Riku, once he had been dropped off, said thank you for the ride, had rung the doorbell, waited for father to open the door and without saying a word, he ran to his room and quickly dialed his best friend's number. He felt so angry about what had happened to Namine but he knew he couldn't express the anger around her siblings and close friends. He has started to really care for her and it pained him to see her porcelain face all bruised up and he did see the fear her eyes held when someone mentioned Marluxia's name.

He knew that a phone call with Seifer would ease his mind since his best friend usually knew what to say at times like these. Usually though, not all the time.

"What a jackass! I mean hitting a girl? A minor at that? I sure hope he burns in hell or something."

"Yeah, I swear if I see that purple haired freak again, I'll beat him up so bad and make sure it's much more worse for him."

"Yeah man, same here! That chickenwuss is going down! Did anything else happen?"

Riku told Seifer about him meeting Cloud's older brother and Seifer whistled. "So there are two of them? That sucks. Is he exactly like his brother?"

"He's worse! He's spending the night at Namine's house because his best friend is Axel's brother. But he kept hitting on her and I really do not trust him. Plus, he's a jerk!"

Riku heard Seifer laugh through the other line and he wondered what was so funny. He heard Seifer laugh even louder and silently swore when he realized that he had accidentally said that out loud.

"Do I sense some jealousy?"

Riku immediately stuttered and tried to make sure that his voice sounded as neutral as possible when he replied with "Of course not! It's just…he's way to old for her! I mean he looked like he was in his mid 20s or something!"

"Right…"

"I'm serious!"

"Alright, alright. I'm just messing with you Riku. But I'm going to give you some advice. You better make a move soon or else she might be taken by someone else."

"I don't like her like that!"

"Even Madam Malefecent can notice you like her, chickenwuss."

"You're a chickenwuss!"

"Ooh nice comeback!"

"You're a jerk, you know that."

"But I'm an awesome jerk! Well I have to go, my mom is yelling at me to go do some chores, which I doubt I will do. I'll see you tomorrow and hopefully by tomorrow you get your driver's license."

Riku had completely forgotten about his driver's test. With all the chaos and fun times he was having it had slipped his mind.

"Thanks for reminding me, I'll do fine and hopefully once I get my license, I'll get my motorcycle license."

"Yeah keep dreaming, lamer. Anyway, bye."

"Bye."

Riku tossed his cell phone to his bed and then laid down on it. He stared at his ceiling and he was wondering if maybe what Seifer had said was right. Maybe he did like Namine that way. It was weird how she became one of his closest friends in such a short period of time. He knew he could trust her though and he knew that she was a wonderful girl. But the question is did Namine like him? Maybe she did? Riku growled and without even changing into his PJs he turned to his side and tried to fall asleep. The last thing he thought about before falling asleep were the words that Seifer had told him.

But I'm going to give you some advice. You better make a move soon or else she might be taken by someone else.

Roxas, Namine, Axel, Reno, and Zack were all around the living room for different reasons. First of all, Namine was not tired at all and the fact that she wasn't going to school the next day made her want to stay up late even more. However, Roxas and Axel being the very overprotective men they are, did not want to leave her alone with Reno and Zack since Reno was crazy and they didn't know what Zack's intentions were.

Reno wasn't tired at all and was very amused that Roxas and Axel weren't going to sleep either. Zack was beginning to grow tired but he wanted to see a scary movie before sleeping. Since movies sometimes made Namine sleepy, Roxas and Axel agreed to watch a movie and they were all currently watching a really frightening movie.

What they didn't know was that Zack and Reno were the type of people who always talked during a climatic scene.

"Don't go in the abandoned house girl! The killer is in there! Don't be brave now, you have so much to live for!" Zack said while Reno added, "I don't like her so I hope she does die. I don't want the brunette to die though, she's the only character who isn't annoying."

The said girl had just walked into an abandoned room when the killer popped out of nowhere and stabbed her repeatedly. Namine had to close her eyes on that scene since she didn't like gore that much. Now she knew she was getting absolutely no sleep tonight.

After thirty more minutes of the movie, it officially ended and Namine was grateful for that. "I hate twists! I really thought it was the butler this time but no, the director apparently hates butler since he just mysteriously disappeared." Zack complained and Reno agreed. "You guys are strange." Namine said and then giggled when they had confused looks on their faces.

"Well, I'm going to sleep. I'll see you tomorrow." Namine hugged her brother, Axel, and Reno. She was going to give Zack a handshake but then Zack just pulled her into a big bear hug. "Night Nami! Keep your door open, I'll join you later."

"In your dreams loverboy!" Reno said as he laughed at his friend's childish humor. Zack would always hit on girls no matter who they were. One time when Reno was in a relationship, he kept hitting on his girlfriend but Reno knew that Zack would never try to hurt him by taking his lady. Zack was a funny guy and Reno knew how much it bugged his baby brother and Roxas that he was hitting on Namine and he was using this knowledge to his full advantage.

He noticed Roxas glaring at Zack and he was trying really hard not to grin at this. He always thought that Roxas was way too overprotective of Namine and he believed she needed to let loose.

Now that he was going to live in Twilight Town he would make sure she had a ton of fun, even if it would give her dear old big brother a heart attack.

Namine walked towards her room and once she was inside she quickly changed into a pair of sweatpants and a baggy shirt and crawled into bed. She was still reeling from the events that had happened today.

Getting hit by Marluxia was not fun at all. She believed he wouldn't hit her but when he did, she was so scared that he was going to do something to her. Luckily, she was saved and she was so glad that she got Marluxia back. Although he had threatened her afterwards, she was glad that at least for once, she wasn't letting this guy walk all over her and she felt proud of herself.

When she got home and told them what had happened, she didn't expect Riku to be as mad as he was. Sure, he didn't show it but the way he had balled his fists made her realize that he was trying to control his anger. When he was about to leave, Namine knew she had to somehow try and calm him down and the first thing she could think of was a hug, which she had given the silver haired teen.

When she had let go, she was blushing madly because of the hug and the fact that Riku had seen her blush. She felt really comfortable around him and she had never met someone who has made her blush as much as Riku.

Oh dear.

Did she have feelings for Riku?

She always blushed when he complimented her and although Riku was seen as a tough guy, she knew the real Riku, the sweet and kind Riku. Namine enjoyed his company as well and he treated her like a real friend. She had never experienced that before with people around her age since back in Destiny Islands, people would always tease her and make her feel really self-conscious.

Honestly, she wasn't sure what she was feeling for Riku. She was confused but she wasn't sure how to approach him about it or anything. Maybe a talk with Kairi could lighten the situation?

She sure hoped that Kairi gave good boy advice.

With that last thought in her mind, Namine snuggled into her blanket and completely forgot about the scary movie and the events of the day as she went to sleep and hoped that tomorrow would be a better day.

A/N: Hopefully you guys enjoyed this action packed chapter! It's not as long as the others but I did work hard on it and it was fun to write even if I did have to pull an all nighter. Sorry for any spelling mistakes! Oh well, sleep is calling my name so please update and a very special shout out to LarkaSpirit, HotFudge5000, and blitzburn for their great reviews! You guys motivated me to update this chapter fast! I hope you guys aren't disappointed with this.

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