Chapter Nine: Time For Fun

Roxas and Namine came up to her front gates to her house, which was on one of the highest hills of Twilight Town. Even the gates made Roxas' jaw drop. They were twelve feet high black gates. She punched in a code next to the gates and they opened.

When they walked up to her house Roxas was shocked at how huge her house was. It was a mansion. He was zoning out on the sight of it. Then Namine hit him in the side of his face with a snowball.

"Haha! I got you!" she said.

"Oh yeah? Take this." Roxas said as he quickly made a snowball and chucked it at Namine and got her in the shoulder.

They laughed while playing their snowball fight. Roxas started chasing her around the yard and getting her in the back with snowballs. He was winning the war so far. She hid behind a tree, Roxas then came around the tree and held a snowball above her head.

"Wait, I give, I give!" she said as she held her hands up signaling she was surrendering.

He wrapped his arm around her and pulled her close to him as they walked towards her house. She then smashed a snowball on top of Roxas' head that she was hiding behind her back and ran off as he picked up some more snowballs and continued chasing her around.

She ran around the house and into the large stable that they kept horses in. And Roxas was right behind her. She ran into an empty stall then Roxas caught her and pulled her down with him onto a pile of hay in the corner of the stall. They were both still laughing a lot.

When they finally stopped laughing, Roxas leaned over and kissed her on the head and then started nuzzling her face and neck. She smiled back and started giving him little kisses all over his face. Then after a little while she got up and so did he. They started walking back to the front of the house and went in.

"Hey Roxas are you hungry?" Namine asked him.

"Come to think of it, I am. What kind of food do you got around here?" he said.

"Well let's go into the kitchen and see what I have."

They walked into the huge kitchen and started going though the cabinets and refrigerator.

"Wow, you sure got a lot of stuff that looks good." Roxas said.

"You can go ahead help yourself to anything you want." She said.

"Ok then." He started going through one of her cabinets. And before you knew it Namine was yelling stuff like- "That's not eatable!", "you can't eat that!" and "hey! Get that out of your mouth!"

After a while they decided to just make some popcorn and watch a movie. They sat down on the large and fluffy armchair that was so big two people could comfortably sit on it. So Namine and Roxas were snuggled up close to each other. They feed each other popcorn as they watched 'V for Vendetta' together.

Towards the end of the movie, Namine fell asleep as it was getting close to 12:30. Namine was using Roxas' chest as a pillow and he rested his chin on top of her head. He had his arms wrapped around her and he held her close. He leaned over to grab the soft blanket on the couch next to them.

He then placed it over himself and Namine, he too fell asleep soon afterwards.

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In the morning Namine was woken up by Roxas' extremely loud snoring. She sat up and just placed a pillow over his face. But it didn't help much. She smiled to herself and got off the armchair to find something for breakfast.

"Hmm, I think I can make some waffles. Do I have everything I need to make them?" Namine said to herself. Then started looking around for some eggs, milk and pancake mix.

Roxas finally started to wake up to the smell of waffles baking. He walked into the kitchen to see a big mess of pancake mix all over the cooking table and Namine trying to clean it up. He walked over to help her out.

"Hey, wanna hand with that?" he said.

"Whoa! Roxas you scared me! Uh, yeah I could use some help. But just with the cleaning part, I don't want you screwing up like you did back at the kitchen in the home." Said Namine.

"Oh haha, very funny." Then Roxas help her out with the mess. After he was done with that, Roxas asked to use the bathroom.

"Ok, you just go up the stairs here then go right down the hall and it's the second door to the left. Got that?" Namine directed him.

"Yeah I think so." And then Roxas headed up the stairs. But instead of going right down the hall, he went left. And wound up going into a very large bedroom. Which obviously belonged to Namine's parents.

He took a look around. The room was huge! The walls, carpet, bed, and curtains were all white. 'Wrong room…' Roxas thought to himself. But he couldn't help but to go over to the closet door and open it. It was one of those walk-in closets with the whole wardrobe hanging across the walls. But then Roxas notices a large jewelry box in the back.

When he opened it, it had to have had millions of dollars worth of jewels in it. Roxas just stared at them in awe. Just a hand full of this would be more than enough for Xemnas. But Roxas couldn't bring himself to do it.

'No, there's no way I could ever steel from Namine. I'll just have to get it somewhere else!' he said to himself. He left the closet and was walking towards the door to leave the room. Then he saw Namine in the doorway.

"Roxas what are you doing in here?" she asked.

"Oh! Sorry I must have gotten lost." Roxas said.

She showed him were the bathroom was then they both went down stairs to eat the waffles that Namine had made. And just as they finished them up there was a knock at the door.

"I'll get that." Namine said as she got up from the table. Roxas picked up the dishes. Namine opened up the door to see Axel.

"Oh hi Axel, good to see you! Do you need something?" she asked.

"Yes in fact I do, is Roxas here with you at the moment?" Axel asked.

"Yeah he is, I'll go get him for you, would you like to come in?"

"No thanks I just need to tell him something then I'll be on my way." Axel told her.

Then she went to go get Roxas. He was in the kitchen putting away the dishes.

"Thank you for doing that for me Roxas! And that was Axel at the door, he wants to tell you something." Namine said to him.

"Oh really? Ok I'll go see what he wants." Then Roxas headed for the front door. "Hey Axel, what's up?"

"Hey, Xemnas told me to tell you something, but I have no idea what he means by this so I hope you do, he said 'thing's have changed and I need it within two days' what's that all about?" Axel said.

Roxas just stood there in the door with his face going white. 'Oh shit…' he thought to himself.

"Roxas…?" Axel waved a hand in front of his face.

"Thanks Axel, well sorry you have to leave so soon! Bye!" Roxas said really fast and slammed the door closed.

"You welcome…" and he left.

Roxas was walking in circles in the living room deep in thought when Namine came in.

"So what did Axel want to tell you?" she asked. He didn't hear her, he was too deep in his thoughts. "Roxas? Roxas!" she yelled his name.

"Oh, Namine. W-what did you say again?" he said with a little bit of a shaken voice.

"Roxas is everything alright?" she was worried about him.

"No, I mean yes! Everything is fine!" he said to her.

"Then what did Axel say?" asked Namine. She knew what Axel had said had gotten to him.

"Nothing important. He just uh, wanted to brag to me about something." Roxas said as he was starting to zone out again. 'How did Xemnas know where I was?' he thought to himself. 'Great, he knows where Namine lives.'

"Hey, how about we go back to the home now?" Roxas asked.

"Ok, if you wanna go back now." Then she got her jacket and they walked back to the home together.

The whole way there Roxas was in his own little world. 'There is no way I could ever steel from Namine, so my only choice would be to get the munny from the shelter. And in only two days! What could have come up so that Xemnas would want the munny sooner?' he was pondering the whole way there.

When they got there Areth gave them a big warm welcoming hug.

"I'm so happy to see you two!" she said.

"You too." Roxas said. He then went to his room.

"What happened to him?" Areth asked.

"I don't know. Ever since one of his friends came to my house to tell him something he's been acting like this." She said. She followed him into his room.

"Roxas? I know there's something wrong. I want to try and help you, but I have to know what's wrong first." Namine said.

"Nothing is wrong, really. I just feel a little off is all." He said.

"You could have just said 'I don't want to talk about it right now.' It's ok, I know there's something bugging you but I won't push you to say it." Namine said.

She sat down next to him on this bed. He looked at her with a half smile. Trying to lighten up the mood. He didn't want to make her worry about his problems. She leaned over and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Then he really did smile to her.

"I just want to know that you know that I love you and I'd do anything to help you right?" Namine said.

"Yeah, I know. And I love you too." He kissed her back.

'If you only you knew that I was trying to protect you. If I don't get this munny in two days, we're both in big trouble. How am I going to do this alone?'

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Roxas opened his eyes to look around his empty room. He was still very sleepy so he rolled over to go back to sleep. Namine had left the other night to go back home because she had school the next day. Winter break was over for the school kids. Roxas didn't go to school because he was never signed up for school. He has no legal guardian to sign him up for school.

Roxas fell back asleep for three more hours. When he finally woke back up it was around 11:30am. He crawled out of bed to get some late breakfast, hoping there was some left. When he got out into the activity room he saw Areth reading the newspaper like she always would in the morning. She looked up to see Roxas.

"Good morning Roxas, slept in I see. I saved you some pancakes in the kitchen." She said then went back to the paper.

Roxas walked into the kitchen to find those pancakes. He couldn't see very well because he had just woken up and his eyes weren't completely open yet. He just walked around like a zombie in the morning. He got his pancakes, ate them then watched TV in the activity room.

He soon fell asleep on the couch, the news was too boring for him. About an hour and a half later Namine came over. She saw him sleeping on the couch and walked over to him. She took some of her hair and tickled his nose with it. He sneezed.

"Hahaha! You sound so cute when you sneeze." Namine said. She was crouched down in front of Roxas.

"…don't call me cute." He said, then he ruffled up her hair.

"Hey! Do you know how long I spent on that this morning?" she said in annoyance as she tried to make it neat again.

"Hehe, you look so cute when I annoy you." Said Roxas.

"Cute? I'll give you cute." She said as she jumped on him and they started ruff housing together and rolling around on the couch. Roxas was of course being gentle with her.

"Oh come on Roxas your not even trying." Namine said.

"Ok, if you really want me to wrestle for real." Said Roxas, he then got her in a headlock and waited for her to give up.

"Ok! Ok! Let go, I give!" she said.

Roxas let her go. But then she jumped on him again and started to tickle him in his most ticklish areas, which were his sides and feet. He was laughing uncontrollably. Then he went for her ticklish spots. Her sides, neck and stomach. They both eventually stopped because they got tired enough.

"Hey Roxas, do you wanna go somewhere today?" Namine asked.

"Sure, got some place in mind?"

"Well how about we go to your friends hang out?" she asked.

"No! I mean no, their kinda busy with uh, remodeling right now. They told me not to come back for about three days." Roxas said.

"Oh ok, hey I know what we can do! How about we go ride bikes around town? Ya know, get some exercise." She suggested.

"Yeah that sounds fun, but where are we going to get bikes?" asked Roxas.

"I have a few at my house we could use." Namine said.

"Ok let's go."

So they headed over to Namine's house to get some bikes to ride around town. On their way there Roxas asked Namine something.

"So how exactly do you ride a bike?" he asked.

"You don't know?" Namine said with surprise in her voice.

"Nope."

"Well I'll show you when we get there."

And soon enough they were at Namine's house. She went around the back and came back with two bikes. One blue and the other was white. She gave the blue one to Roxas to ride. He tried to ride it but instead just took a nasty fall down the hill next to Namine's house. She helped him up then took him into her house to patch him up. He had some pretty bad cuts, scrapes, and burses.

"Your lucky you just missed the cactus. Now that would have been bad!" Namine said trying to make Roxas' ego feel better from that fall he took down the hill.

"…neh." Was all Roxas wanted to say.

"Ok so maybe bike riding wasn't the best idea. Do you want to play some video games?" she asked.

"Video games? Sure!" he said.

Namine got the game set up. They were playing Smash Brothers Melee. Roxas was playing as Fox and Namine's character was Zelda. They were on the same team of course. And Roxas surprisingly kicked ass with video games even though he had never played them before. He was a quick learner.

They were playing for hours. Then it soon got dark without their knowing. When they were done playing video games, Namine looked outside to see nothing but darkness.

"Oh great, we played the whole day away." Roxas said.

"Yeah, well it's way too dark for you to go back to the home. So I guess your staying with me tonight. I'll go call Areth and tell her so she won't worry." Namine said as she went to the phone.

When she came back into the room that Roxas was in, he was sprawled out on the floor sleeping. She walked over to him and started poking him in the stomach.

"Up boy." She said to him. He woke up and moved so she could pull out the bed. The couch had a pullout bed.

She and Roxas laid down on the pull out bed that was surprisingly comfortable. Namine turned on the TV on the end of the bed and watched Full Metal Alchemist. Roxas rolled over to face Namine. He then pulled her close to him and held her protectively. She smiled and cuddled up to him. They watched the end of the FMA episode then drifted off to sleep.

-Dragon's blood