Chapter 3

Part I: Juniper Green

"Whad's wrong Nami?" Kairi asked, Naminé looked at her little sister curiously. She knew Naminé very well and obviously sensed her disappointment. Pence still hadn't shown up for her birthday.

"Id's nothing Kai," she hugged her sister. Praying the goddess Cosmos that her little sister wouldn't have to face the same hardships she did (A/N). Kairi had Sora and Riku; she hoped that they wouldn't abandon her.

Nagori and Sebastian were just outside of Naminé's room when a boy came rushing down the corridor and passed them. They exchanged confused looks only to find him come back.

"Is Naminé awake?" He asked, Nagori stared at him for a few seconds before she recognised him.

"Of course Pence." She gushed, "We just left her and Kairi alone. They get along much better when we're not around." She gestured to her husband and herself, "go ahead I'm sure she's expecting you," She beamed. Sebastian looked at his wife and sighed

"That was such a motherly response." He grunted, Nagori's dreamy smile turned instantly into a glare.

Naminé was quietly humming a wordless lullaby learned off their mother to Kairi. She was curled up snugly at her side. Naminé had her eyes closed, lost in the melody.

"Happy birthday Naminé." Naminé's rhythm was broken by a sudden voice. she opend her eyes to a grinning, very red faced Pence. "You didn't think I forgot did you?" His face fell when he saw Naminé's sad look.

"No, of course nod." She lied. She nearly cried after lunch over it.

"Great! I looked everywhere for something and I found you these." He handed her a present that was obviously wrapped by himself. There was plenty of sticky tape, that wasn't really holding the paper together. (A/N) Naminé made no move to do anything with it. "Go on. Open it" Pence urged.

Carefully Naminé unwrapped Pence's gift, aside from her mother, no one actually bothered to wrap a gift for her.

"Pence you didn'd." She stared at the unwrapped gift.

"I did and I spent ages finding them." He grinned.

"Bud Pence they cost a fortune." She argued.

"And a half." he agreed. All that time she wasted being upset, thinking he'd forgotten, when he was really searching high and low to replace her broken pencils.

Carefully Naminé shifted closer to Pence. Careful so she didn't wake Kairi or hurt herself, since she'd shattered her left wrist people crowded at her right side, with her right arm she pulled Pence into a hug.

"Thank you Pence" she whispered. She couldn't stop the tears of joy flowing from her eyes. She buried her face in his shoulder.

"Naminé, you're hurting me" Pence choked. She quickly let him go and apologized. She wiped the tears from her eyes.

"I take it you like them" he concluded.

"I love them" she replied, Grinning widely. She just couldn't help it.

Without warning a small boy barged into the room and leapt over Naminé's bed.

"What in the name of Cosmos!" Pence cursed.

"Shush, Riku's after me." Came a whispered reply.

"What's going on?" Kairi woke up from the commotion

"Sora where'd you go?" another small boy entered Naminé's room. Kairi looked at him confused.

"Bud Sora's not here Riku" she told him "Why're you here?" she cocked her head to the side.

"Sora's cousin is Baby sitting us" he spat the word 'baby' "he's not very good at it." Riku leaned out the door to check for Sora's cousin.

"Guys, c'mon!" Someone called down the hall "why did you go to the hospital? I thought kids hated hospitals" Naminé heard him mutter to himself.

Pence stared at the door, recognizing the voice.

"You know Sora's cousin?" Riku raised a questioning eyebrow.

"Found you Riku" a blond boy came in and threw the child over his shoulder.

"Roxas!" Pence gaped

"Pence?" Roxas questioned

"Sora!" Sora jumped out from his hiding place.

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A/N: I have Final Fantasy Dissidia and OHEMEFFGEE I 3LOVE3 Zidane. Monkey boys are so cute!!

I used to wrap things like Pence did till I started working in a bookshop. The girl I work with decided that one day when it wasn't busy she would teach me how to wrap things… god we wasted so much paper before I actually got the hang of it! The boss wasn't impressed with the amount of paper wasted but he was happy I could wrap things.

Yay! Little Riku and Sora! Riku has such an attitude problem, and Sora's just adorable!

Enjoy all my lovely readers! I'll be back soon with another chapter

~Shazi-chan