Disclaimer: I don't own... Kingdom Hearts, any of the characters... A Goofy Movie... any kisses... um... what else... Axe spray... I think that's it... :D Enjoy the ideas, I thought them up!


Recap:

Sora nodded. "Damn, looks like Riku's in the lead…"

"As it should be…" smirked Riku.

"Damn, looks like Riku's as cocky as ever…" said Namine

"As it should be…" laughed Roxas.

The four of them laughed, the tension in Namine breaking as she giggled with her friends.


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Casual?

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Chapter 8: Why are the Only Clear Messages thru Phone Calls?

"I can't believe that Riku is ahead of us! This really sucks eggs. I can't lose!" ranted Roxas, in Namine's ear.

Namine lowered the volume on her cell phone and sighed. Leave it to Roxas to overreact to something that kills his ego… Especially for days, since the meeting was 4 days ago.

"Roxas, can you calm down? Geez… I'm kinda ticked too, but you knew this was gonna happen," Namine reasoned.

There was silence, before Roxas huffed. "Knew this would happen? Knew this would happen? How could I possibly known this would happen?"

"Oh, geez… It's Riku! You've known him longer than you've known me! Why this was a surprise for you, I'll never know," Namine chuckled.

"Well, I just figured that since you and I teamed up, then we'd be really far ahead. I mean, even Sora is pretty close to us…"

"Yeah, that was a surprise… But hey, just because we team up doesn't mean a guarantee that we're gonna score an easy win. You gotta put in the effort, you know?"

There was silence again while Namine turned on the TV. She entertained herself with A Goofy Movie while Roxas fumed on the other line. The movie was just getting to the part when Big Foot was dancing to Staying Alive, when Roxas spoken up.

"Hey, do you still have my axe spray and hair gel?"

"Sure I do. It's in your box here next to Sora's and Riku's… Why?"

"…I need it…"

"Roxas, who are you going on a date with?"

Long ago, due to the boys getting interested with girls, Namine found out that all the guys were hopeless when it came to matters of getting ready for a date. For some reason, they got ready for the dates like they were going to hang out with her!

Namine had to school them all, with the help of Kairi and Xion, on the proper way to take a girl out and dress to impress. Eventually, the three boys ended up taking the easy way out and giving her a box each, with contents that had all their lucky equipment for girls. Riku stopped asking for his box long ago; Sora sometimes asking for her opinions, but not much since he saw Kairi so often. But Roxas still had trouble with everything in this matter…

"So I'll be over in a bit to pick it up, okay?"

"Roxas… you didn't answer the question…"

"And you don't even have to spray it on!"

"Oh yes I do. You always put too much on!" Namine said incredulously. "You don't want to choke the poor girl so she can't breathe… Which reminds me, who is she?"

Roxas laughed. "See you in a sec," he said, before he hung up.

Namine glared at her cell phone. 'That loser didn't answer her question…' she thought, before going back to her movie. It wasn't long before there was a knock at the door and Namine got up, stretching as she made her way to the door. She raised an eyebrow at her best friend, dressed in his causal but nice looking clothes. He looked hopeless with his hair though. Not that there was anything wrong with it; but Roxas kept messing with it, which was giving off the impression that it wasn't how he wanted it to look.

"Need help?" Namine asked, looking at his hair.

"Please?"

Namine sighed, grinning. "Come on… your box is upstairs…"


"Yeah…yeah… okay, sure," Namine said into the phone again.

Roxas sat between her legs as she ran her figures expertly through his hair. She opened the jar of hair gel, and rubbed a small dot on her hands, just to make sure that his hair stayed the way he wanted while he rubbed it thru the night.

"Yes, Riku, I get that you're mad that Sora beat you in something physical, which is a first; but will you stop being a sore loser? You're acting like a pansy…" sighed Namine, exasperated.

There was silence while Namine listened to Riku's retort. As she listened, her hand stopped moving and Roxas rubbed his head back in her lap to get attention.

"Stop it, Roxas. You just messed it all up again! I'm not using anymore gel… You know I don't like my fingers to smell like it…" said Namine, glaring and playfully flicking her figure on his neck.

"What are you doing over there? Are you having sex with Roxas over the phone with me? I know I burnt your dolls when we were younger and you swore revenge, but this is just wrong…" Riku screeched over the phone.

Namine put the phone on speaker so that she didn't have to hear his voice vibrating in her head. Roxas just laughed at his comments, as Riku just continued to rant.

"Oh yeah, Riku. Me and Roxas are having sex… Why don't you tell everyone in Paris, since I don't think they heard your tirade? Don't worry about Australia though; I'm pretty sure they heard you…" Namine said, back to fixing Roxas' hair.

"Are you almost done?" asked Roxas.

"Yeah, but you know, if you tell me who you're going with, it would make me move faster…"

"Roxas, you're going on a date? With who?"

"He's not telling…" Namine muttered.

"Oh, no fun… Well, maybe he doesn't want us to know who's giving him ideas for his kisses, Namine. You might cheat if you knew…"

Namine just laughed at his comment, trying not to sound guilty. "Whatever, Riku. I don't always cheat. Only when things don't rule in my favor… and I don't cheat! I just come up with an interesting way to get around the rules."

"Anyways, what are you doing tomorrow?"

"Who are you asking?" asked Roxas.

"Namine, dumbass. I'm feeling horny… why would I ask you?"

"I'm not doing anything tomorrow, Riku…"

"Good, come to the gym tomorrow with me?" asked Riku.

Namine shrugged, even though she knew he couldn't see her. "Sure, why not? The beach trip is this weekend, so I need to make sure I got the beach body anyways."

"I can help!"

"Ha ha, very funny… I'll see you tomorrow. And don't have me come get you, again," Namine laughed, picking up her phone.

"Right, right; see you."

Namine hung up and tapped Roxas on the shoulder twice. "You're done."

"Finally! My butt was falling asleep…" said Roxas, exasperated as he stood up and stretched.

"Well, a masterpiece needs—"

"Time, patience, and talent… Yes, yes, you're stupid art philosophy. Can you spray me real quick before I'm late?" asked Roxas, rolling his eyes playfully.

Namine glared at Roxas before turning back to his box and grabbing his can and making the turning gesture with her finger. He started turning slowly in circle and Namine pressed the button to spray a bit on Roxas. She thought that Roxas already smelt nice, all the boys did when she thought about it, but guys were actually more sensitive about things like this.

After spraying, she sniffed a bit before nodding. "Okay, you're ready. Now can you tell me who all this is for?"

"Fine," said Roxas, picking up his shoes and making sure he had everything. "Me and Olette are going to the movies. It's nothing big…"

"Roxas, whenever you ask me to spray axe on you, it's something big. I thought Olette was dating Hayner?"

"Yeah, well I guess she's not anymore…Have you seen my wallet?"

Namine reached into Roxas' back pocket and pulled out the leather wallet. "Here."

"Ah. There it is…Thanks, you're awesome," Roxas said, amused at his dumbness. "So, since at the beach trip, we can't exactly do the dare there, we should play catch up tomorrow."

"Yeah… about that. I need to talk to you about something… I thought—"

Suddenly, Roxas' phone went off. Roxas made a face, a cross between guilt and happiness. He opened the phone to see a text. Namine waited patiently, watching him quickly type words and then wordlessly put the phone back in his pocket.

"I gotta go, but we can talk about it tomorrow, okay?" said Roxas, grinning.

Namine's eyes narrowed, but she said nothing more on the subject. "Fine, whatever… you better get going before you forget something else, okay?"

"Yeah, sure…" said Roxas, kind of distracted.

Namine watched him, wondering why he hadn't moved and why he was looking like he was debating something in his mind. Then swiftly, he scooped down and pecked her square on the mouth. By the time Namine's mind commuted what happened, Roxas was grinning at her and on his way out of her room.

"34… Don't forget to write it down!" he called over his shoulder before leaving for his date.

Namine just stared after the door, completely confused which quickly turned to frustration. She was a woman! Why was he having his affect on her but she wasn't having this affect on him? If he thought that he could just tease her to get his own satisfaction, he had another thing coming…

Namine snatched up her cell phone and pressed the number 5 and the call button. The other line picked up after 3 rings.

"Hello?"

"Cocoa puff insurance, please?" Namine asked clearly.

"Band-Aid or tampon?"

"Examination… Do I need to make an appointment?"

"I got time. What's up?"

"Ugh… I don't know what to do with Roxas anymore. He's totally being an ass!"

"Nami, is he really being an ass or did he just find another one of your… uh… secret spots?"

"Oh Kairi, bless your hormones…" Namine said sarcastically. "Nothing like that…"

Namine proceeded to tell her in full detail about the conversation Axel, Larxene, and she had, concluding with what happened today. It took about 30 minutes of talking and explaining, Kairi listening and letting her fully vent out all her confusion and frustration with the situation that she was in.

"…So, now I don't know what to do! I know that I'm not supposed to read too much in this, but I don't want to seem like a slut… and Olette isn't some stupid girl. If she sees Roxas, she's going to find out about me and I don't want that on my conscience…"

As Namine fell silent, Kairi cleared her throat. "So, my opinion?"

"Yes, please…"

"Don't kiss Roxas anymore. Not until he appreciates what you're doing for him."


A/N- Okay! What did you think? I actually had fun writing this one... the Goofy Movie helped since I'm writing about summer and I'm in snow so I lost some of the summer fun... Anyways, did it shock you? Are you all going to review with messages like: WTF? ROXAS DID WHAT? NAMINE IS GONNA DO WHAT? Yeah, actually, I'm looking for that reaction so don't feel weird if that's what you wanna type... and if not, then I'd just like to know if I did better than the last chapter. I certainly hope so! I need to get back to awesomeness level, but I think I'm still a level away from it...

So, as for the contest... No one has gotten it write yet... Several are close, but no one got it right... Now, I'm thinking it might be a bit hard, so I'm adding a second place prize. If at least one person guesses it right, before I actually post the answer in the story, I'll put up the list of kisses on the story... It'll be like an epilogue or something... Deal? Deal! So don't forget to review this with your guesses! Remember 2 months and they already got 34 with a month to go... and they were slacking... lol

Good luck to everyone and thanks again for all the honest and lovely reviews! I appreciate everyone telling me how I truly did and it really made a difference. Thank YOU! :D

P.S.-Let me know your thoughts on the code talk between Kairi and Namine... I'll explain it if you want to ask me about it in the review. Although, I thought it might be easy... lol