Stepsiblings: Light-Kissed Waves

A Kingdom Hearts fanfic series by Raberba girl, drabble challenge by Wishing-Fire

Summary: Roxas & Naminé's story in the Stepsiblings universe, written for Wishing-Fire's Memories challenge.

Introduction: I'd originally planned to do the four siblings' love stories as multi-chapters, but eventually realized that if I waited until I had the time and energy to devote to that, they'd never be finished. *sweatdrop* So then I figured that I'd do Wishing-Fire's Memories challenge for each of them instead, then fill in the remaining gaps with random stories where needed.

Curiosity (theme 1) [rough draft]

Summary: Roxas makes a friend on his first day of high school.

A/N: AU because Zexion's supposed to be in medical research, but that was too hard for me to write, so I went with something that was much easier to look up. X'D

Roxas's POV. (I think this is the first time I've written teenage StepsibsRox in first person. 8O)

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I asked Axel what clique I should be in when I start high school, and he laughed and said it doesn't really work like that. I asked Xion what clique she's in at her school, and she said she didn't know. I asked Saïx, and he said to forget about ridiculous stereotypes and focus on my studies.

Whatever. I guess I'll find out on my own.

I don't know how to feel as I'm waiting for the bus, so I give up trying to feel anything. Both Axel and Mom wanted to wait for the bus with me, but I told them to get lost because I'm not a baby.

The bus finally comes, and I take a deep breath and climb up the steps and look around. There's not that many kids, and some people look at me but don't say anything, and some people ignore me, and finally I just sit down in the closest seat. The driver shuts the door and drives away. I remember when me and Xion were little and we went to pick up Axel and Saïx from school, and I smile at the memory. I freaking miss Xion. I wish we could be going to school together, like we're supposed to.

When we get to school, I look at the other kids getting off the bus and wonder if I should follow them, but they get lost in the crowd of people hanging out talking to each other all over the school courtyard. I look around again and wonder if I should go up to someone and start hanging out with them and talking to them, too.

The thing is, all the other kids seem like they have walls around them, like Saïx's doomgaze: "Don't come close. We don't want anyone new." I try talking to some of them anyway, but they pretty much just give me weird looks and wander off, or stare at me until I give up and walk away. What is with these people?

Finally I see someone who'll let me in. She has "Stay away" walls, too, but she's alone and she doesn't have all those too-pretty girls surrounding her like guards. I mean, she's pretty, but she doesn't have makeup caked all over her face like a Barbie doll. There's plenty of room to sit next to her on the grass, so I do.

She looks up from her notebook and stares at me.

"Are you a nerdy girl who's gonna have a makeover and end up with the guy?"

"Um...what?"

Siiiigh. "You know. The girl who's not as pretty and doesn't care about boys and does interesting stuff, then stuff happens and people lie to her and they go shopping and put makeup on her and stuff so she's super-pretty but she doesn't look anything like her old self and doesn't act anything like her old self and she and the guy go out and have a fight and break up and then get back together again after he runs through the street and almost wrecks his car and catches her right before she gets on the plane and they kiss and HOPEFULLY that's the end, but sometimes not."

"...I think I saw that movie," she finally says. "Did you like it?"

"NO. Most boring movie EVER." Well, maybe that's not true. "No, most girl movies are boring, I can't pick which one was worst. But the one about the girl with the pig nose was cool."

"I...I haven't seen very many movies."

"Oh. What do you do, then?"

She looks really nervous. She looks down at her notebook, then covers it even more with her hands and says, "I...um...I like seeing science experiments."

"Science experiments?" She doesn't look like that kind of girl, but oh well. "What kind of experiments?"

"Well...my father is working on something right now...seeing if cell phone radiation has any effect on honeybee travel patterns."

"Huh?"

"Sorry..."

"For what?"

"What?"

"What are you sorry for?"

"I-It's just - that was a weird thing to say, wasn't it?"

"What do cell phones have to do with bees?"

"I don't know, that's what he's trying to find out. There's a honeybee crisis, you know. They're dying out, but we really need them to pollinate many of the crops we rely on, so...he's helping in some research to try to figure out how to stop them dying."

"Whoa." She's interesting. I scoot closer. She hugs her notebook tighter and looks away. "So you're not scared of bees?"

"Not really."

"Good. I hate it when girls scream, like because of something stupid like a bug."

"I'm sorry..."

"Why? Do you scream about bugs?"

"Um...sometimes?"

"Oh." Why is she holding her notebook so tight? "What's in that notebook?"

"What?!"

"Your notebook." I try to pull it out of her hands, but she gasps and scoots away before I can see it. "Come on. Is it a diary?"

"N-No. No, it's not. It's just homework."

"You have homework before school even started?!"

"..."

"What are you so scared of, anyway? I'm not gonna eat you."

"I know," she whispers.

...I don't think anyone's ever been scared of me before. I've seen them be scared of Saïx, but...huh. I kinda know how he feels now... I'm not trying to hurt her, geez. "Fine, I won't look at your notebook."

"Thank you..."

I take out a notebook from my own backpack and start drawing. I meant to look around and draw something I could see, but I'm already drawing Xion. Xion Xion Xion, I miss her so much.

"Who is she?" the girl asks softly.

"My sister. I miss her." I look at my picture for a while. I add some ponies, because she likes ponies, but it doesn't help. I look at my picture some more and want to cry. We're supposed to be going to the same school, but because Mom and Father but especially Mom are so stupid stupid stupid, I lost my sister.

There's a ripping sound, and I look back at the girl. She gives me a piece of paper.

I stare at it. "Whoooaa..." It's Xion. Xion and me. Kind of scribbled in crayon like a little kid's picture, but...it's us. And there's love in this picture. It's just not marks on a piece of paper, I can feel love in it, and something drops onto the paper and I realize it's a teardrop. "You made me cry," I say.

"I-I'm sorry."

I wipe my eyes. "Sit still. I'm gonna draw you now."

Her eyes get real wide. "A-All right."

She sits still, posed like a princess in a magazine, and I draw her and then I want to crumple up the picture and throw it away because it DOESN'T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE HER. Or even like a princess.

She touches the paper before I can crumple it, leaning over my shoulder to stare. "Ohhh..."

"I'm bad at drawing," I say.

"No, No, I love it. It's really good."

"You like it?"

"Yes..."

"Oh." I give her the paper. "You can have it, then."

She smiles. She has a really pretty smile. I just want to watch her smile all day, and not have to go to class. "My name is Naminé."

We've been sitting here all this time and never told each other our names?! "I'm Roxas. Hi, Naminé."

"Hello, Roxas. I'm very pleased to meet you."

"Are we friends?"

"I...I would like that."

"Let's sit together at lunch. Then we won't have to find a clique."

"Oh...do we have the same lunch?"

We pull out our schedules and look at them, and we do have the same lunch. And we have science together. "Yeeessss! Good. See you sixth period, Naminé."

"I'll see you then, Roxas."

The bell rings and we have to find our first classes. I keep her picture in my pocket all day. I made a friend all by myself, and I like her a lot.

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Author's Notes: This story has been finished for a while, but I hadn't posted it because I was thinking I'd finish the whole challenge for RokuNami and post it as a one-shot.
But I have insomnia tonight, and I want to finish something, even if it's just to post a completed draft that's been lying around for a while; and I finally did the math and realized that if all the drabbles in this series turn out as long as this one, it'll be, like, 16,000 words. XD So here you go; Rox & Nami's first meeting in the Stepsibsverse.

Lol, I've had the title in mind for a long time, but as I started disliking RokuNami more and more, I started to wonder if I'd ever use it. XD But, huh, I dunno...they were pretty fun to write in this drabble. ^^; Granted, it's still platonic at this point, so I dunno how I'll feel by the end.

Complete: 1/11