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Chapter Ten: First words
Can I fully say I don't hate the kid? No.
But something was there, and it was growing.
I did get mad at times, even annoyed, but he always smiling at me.
I really did love staring into his eyes.
And I really did love him...
But I couldn't forgive him for what he did, even if it wasn't a big.
It hurt a lot...
"I have to ask him what I won..." was what Aura heard before entering the grey area.
"What did you win?" she asked, looking at the stick.
"Huh? Oh, I wanted to ask Axel what I won," he said, looking at the stick as well.
"We'll both ask him when he comes back," She said, smiling at Roxas. "Saix told me to meet him here, so I'll see you around."
"I'll come along," he said, stopping her as she was walking. She turned around, and nodded, he walked up to her and they both walked towards Saix.
"Well, I'm glad you both came at the same time," Said Saix. "You two will be spending a lot of time together... while executing missions alongside Xion."
"Roxas, you are in charge," he explained. "Aura, you will provide provide protection. Make sure to protect Xion and Roxas."
"Will do," Aura replied. Roxas also nodded, and agreed as he looked at Xion. He walked through the portal, as did Aura. She smiled at Xion as she passed. Xion walked through last.
The three of them passed through the portal to enter Twilight Town, and Aura walked a little ahead of the two. She was feeling really... light. Changing her name, being nice to Roxas... and making a new friend certainly made Aura feel really good. She heard Roxas give the go, but Xion stayed silent. Aura turned around and smiled at two, and in return Roxas smiled as well.
"Well, boss," she said, making Roxas blush slightly. "What's our mission?"
"Um, we have to eliminate a heartless named Poison plant," he replied. "I hope we can get rid of it, though."
"No sweat! With the three of us fighting, we'll get it down in no time," she said. Roxas smiled at her cheery attitude, and she laughed. The three advanced through the town, until they were blocked by a couple of heartless. Roxas and Aura took out their blades, and started attacking the heartless. They also noticed that Xion was not participating in the fight, as she merely watched the two fight. None of them really minded, and figured that she was still getting used to fighting.
After the fight, they proceeded to continue with their mission. Aura attempted to try and make conversation with Xion, but she was not much of a talker. She was in understanding though, as she had not seen or heard of Xion, she figured that Xion was rather busy to talk.
"Say, fighting these heartless are getting pretty easy," she told to Roxas, who merely nodded and agreed.
...He was another one to work on his talking skills, but she was glad that she finally talking to him. Although not as she expected, she was making progress with him. They continued walking through town, until they got to the tunnels. Roxas walked a little ahead of Aura, just so if any heartless popped out, he'd be the first to know.
They walked through a little more through the tunnels, until they found what they were looking for, the poison plant. Both Roxas and Aura took out their weapons, and she stayed close to Roxas. He ran towards the heartless, and delivered the first attack. She ran in after swinging her blade at the oversized plant, and after dealing some hefty attacks. Roxas ran behind the plant, and Aura ran in front of it, both dealing damage from the front and back. In a matter of minute, the plant was beginning to slow down, until Aura attacked him. He fell afterwards, and they both put away their Keyblades.
Aura jumped a bit out of joy, she was feeling so happy today, and she didn't know why. She looked over to Roxas, and raised her hand in the air. He merely tilted his head, and looked at her. "What are you doing?"
"High-five!" she shouted. "It's a cool way of saying 'we did it!' you just smack your hand against mine."
Roxas followed Aura's instructions, and smacked his hand against hers. She laughed and smiled really wide, which made him smile in return. She raised her hand in front of Xion, but she didn't respond. Aura lowered her hand, and smiled at Xion. "It was really nice going on a mission with you, Xion."
Still no response.
"I've got someplace to be," Roxas interrupted. "Go ahead and RTC without me."
"Huh?" questioned Aura. Xion stared a bit before going through the portal, and Aura was left alone with Roxas. "What's up?"
"I just... gotta go somewhere," he told her. "So you can RTC without me."
Aura dropped her shoulders, and looked at him before leaving. He quickly turned around and looked at the clock tower before walking there.
Clock tower
Roxas sat atop the clock tower, with his ice cream in hand. He looked to his sides, and no one was there. He sighed, and continued eating his treat.
"You could have told me you were coming here," a familiar voice said. Roxas turned around, and saw Aura standing by the entrance. She smiled at him, and took a seat beside him. "What's on your mind?"
"Nothing," he said. A silence was placed between him until he spoke again. "...It feels different."
"Because Axel's not here?" she asked, to which he replied yes. She could relate, Axel was sort of a connection to them of both. He was a safe place to her, and he was a comforting companion to him. In the end, Axel was both their friends.
"Well, I'm not Axel. But we still have each other to talk to," she comforted. "You can... ask me what a word means and... I'll have a definition for you."
"Really?" he asked.
"Yeah, before really speaking to Axel or you, I spent most of my time with Zexion," she explained. "He taught me a great value of things, I would also read the dictionary every night."
"Oh," he said. "What does... 'love', mean?"
"A strong positive emotion of regard and affection," she replied. "It's basically an emotion, which we don't have, I think."
"You 'think'?" he asked. "Axel told me that we can't have emotions since we don't have hearts."
"True..." she replied. "But I get angry sometimes, anger is an emotion."
For some reason, Roxas was reminded about what Larxene said to him. It was a good time to confront it about Aura, but he was a little hesitant. He didn't know why, but perhaps it was because he didn't want it to be the truth. "Larxene told me that you said I was incompetent, and couldn't hold a conversation. Is that true?"
Aura felt her breathing going irregular, and she took a deep breath. Anger was slowly rising within Aura, and it wasn't directed at Roxas. It was at Larxene, and right now, Aura wanted nothing more than to rip her vocal cords out of her body. But that would have to wait, because right now she had to clean up the mess Larxene put her in.
"At first it was, but I was jealous," she said. "I know you and Axel and everyone else might we can't have emotions, but I do. I really think we can bear emotions even if we don't have hearts. I've kept track of the emotions I've had, even recording them and finding about them through research."
Roxas wasn't understanding Aura a lot, but he did feel for her when she said that she believes she could bear emotions. He wasn't entirely sure what emotions even meant, but he did know they were for people with hearts. He kind of wanted to believe Aura, but he also wanted to believe Axel.
"I don't mind," he said. "You're not mad now so.."
"Yeah, exactly," she said. "By the way, why did you want to know about love?"
"I read the word in a book Zexion left behind."
"Oh," was all she could say. In truth, although she never really worded it, she was missing Zexion. He was the first person to teach her almost everything, and she was really grateful to him. She just hope he came back fast so he could continue to teacher about even more stuff, like it should be.
"Well, let's call it a day," she said. "We're probably going to have more missions like this."
"...Yeah," he replied. They both finished up their treats, and left to go back to the castle. Roxas was feeling a lot better about what happened, especially since Aura stated, although subtly, that she doesn't think those thoughts anymore.
He was feeling a lot better now.
The next day – mission with Xion
As Aura suspected, the three of them, Roxas, Aura and Xion, were sent on a mission together. It was a fairly easy task, just to eliminate some heartless, like always. There was nothing out of the ordinary, and they were able to finish up their mission in no time. Aura found the mission to be quite boring until they finished of course, where Roxas and Aura were taken by surprise by Xion's random action.
The three of them went back to the portal, and Xion stared at both of them. Roxas looked at her, and smiled. "We've gotta go somewhere, so go on without us."
Roxas began to walk towards the tower, but Aura didn't move yet. She was however, surprised to hear Xion for the first time.
"R...Roxas," she said, in a low and quiet voice. Roxas' eyes lit up, and Aura looked at Xion.
"What did you say?" he asked her.
"Your name...It's Roxas, isn't it?" she asked, turning around to face him.
"Yeah, Xion," he said. "That's right."
Aura smiled at Xion as she left through the portal, and looked at Roxas. He was also smiling, which made Aura even more happy. She walked towards Roxas, grabbing his arm, and he looked at her while smiling. They both walked towards the clock tower, content and feeling satisfied.
-x-
Roxas and Aura sat eating their ice cream, and silence filled the air, yet it was not awkward silence. They both kept eating, until Roxas looked up into the sky. "Was my name the first thing Xion ever said?"
Aura tilted her head, and looked at the sky with Roxas. "It certainly seems that way, I bet it makes you feel happy. I think it's a compliment for someone's first words to be your name."
Roxas looked down below, and then looked at Aura. "What were your first words?"
Aura looked at Roxas, took a bit from her ice cream and then looked back at him. "Kingdom Hearts."
"What?" he said. "How did you know about Kingdom hearts?"
"I don't know, I was just... born with the knowledge of knowing it's name."
Why was I born with the knowledge of knowing the name Kingdom Hearts?
I had never really thought about it much, until that talk with Roxas.
I wanted to know...
What was my connection to Kingdom Hearts?
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