Karin-chin: Okay, I have nothing to do so I'm updating
Roxas: That was fast
Sora: Maybe it's because of the reviews
Demyx: and the fact that everyone is mad at her for putting a cliffhanger
Roxas: Told ya no one would like Seifer
Karin-chin: Who says I like him? I'm just doing this for the plot
Axel: I thought you were doing this to make us jealous
Karin-chin: That too
Riku: Well, let's get on with it
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts
Replies to Reviewers from Chapter 11:
Mooncry—What the hell indeed. But you'll just have to see what happens in this chapter
KingdomHeartsLuver—Thanks for not pressuring me on updating. Thanks for complimenting on how my story is like an anime. That made me smile.
Iaveina—I have changed the genre. Thanks for agreeing with me on it. There will still be romance but I just think that the story is more on the Drama/Humor side if anyone else besides me thinks it's funny.
Yuleen75—For now I'm just changing the genre, but I'm probably going to change the rating soon too, but if I do change it, there's no lemons in this story. I would probably be blushing the whole time if I did a lemon, which I'm not doing. In addition, I hope this fast update will not make you mad at me anymore for the cliffhanger.
Lebrezie—I know you didn't get this far in my story yet, but I just want to say thanks so far for reviewing and I'm sorry if there were too much Sora/Namine and not enough Roxas/Namine. Hopefully, Chapter nine made you feel better.
xxxKingdom-Hearts-Fanxx—Yes, I thought the moment was so cute too. However, I couldn't resist the plot twist. I'm sorry, but I'm trying to make it interesting.
Recap:
"Namine?" asked a voice. Namine, while in the air, looked over to the doorway and her eyes widened. Due to her change in position in the air, she dropped to the floor with an ungraceful thud. The five males crowded around her with worry, but she ignored them for her eyes were straight on the doorway, or rather, the person at the doorway.
"Seifer?!"
End of Recap:
Namine Narumi- The Friend
"Oh. My. GOD!!!" Namine shouted out as she embraced the newcomer. He immediately hugged her back and spun them around from the force of impact. When he put her down, Namine was greeted with the grinning face of the newcomer.
"Hey there Namine, haven't seen you in what? Six years? Seven?" the newcomer asked. He was about 5'8 with yellow blonde hair covered by a hat and aqua green eyes. He looked to be about twenty-three and his appearance told them that he did some heavy weight lifting. He wore a tight muscle blue t-shirt and brown jeans with black sneakers.
"Hmm, I guess it's been seven" Namine replied with a thoughtful expression. It then turned back into a grin as she looked at him again. "Man, you got so fricken huge Seifer! You in the navy or something now?" she asked.
"Something like that" he told her as he ruffled her cap. "But it's really good to see you Mine, I missed you so much"
"Yeah, I missed you too Sei!" Namine grinned at him using his old nickname. It felt good seeing him again. The last time she ever saw Seifer was about seven years ago. He was one of her closest friends and was often with her when Tifa couldn't be during her teenage years.
"Who are these guys?" asked Seifer as he noticed her guests for the first time. The guests that were steaming on the inside on how this guy was so familiar with Namine.
"Oh right!" Namine said as she slapped her forehead because of her stupidness. "Seifer, these are my bosses—I mean, friends: Roxas, Axel, Demyx, Sora, and Riku!" she introduced them one by one. She then turned her attention to her guests and pointed to Seifer with a happy smile. "Guys, this is Seifer! I've known him since I was fourteen years old! He was a lot of help back then" she told them smiling.
However, her smile seemed to have flown off her face when she felt the cold aura in the room. Instead of her bosses and old friend greeting each other, they seemed to be… glaring. And was it just her or was there static electricity flying between them as the glares intensified.
Eh? Is the electricity going on the frits again?
How dare this man come in and barge into their time with Namine! Who did this guy think he was? He was gone for seven years and he waltzes back into Namine's life expecting to have things all honky dory?
The five men steamed when they watched Namine hug him with a smile on her face, a smile only meant for them. They saw how the man looked at her, as if she belonged to him or something!
It seemed the guy was thinking the same thing for he was glaring at them in jealously and hatred as well. He was challenging them. Daring them to come within two feet of his property. Well, they had news for this guy, Namine was theirs!
Still, it peeved them on what Namine's thoughts on this guy might be. She said that he helped her through her teenage years. Was he a past boyfriend? Were they still dating? Did they want to start dating? All these thoughts just made the five males growl in resentment.
And what's worse is that this guy could know more about the blonde woman than they all did put together! Maybe he even knew why she hated rich people in the first place. Maybe he knew Namine like the back of his hand.
As of now, Seifer was on their hit list.
"Ah-choo!" Seifer sounded out. Namine turned to her friend with a serious look.
"Seifer, did you get added to another hit list?" she asked him with her hands on her hips.
"Still have your crazy logic don't you, Mine?" he asked as he patted her head. She growled out in annoyance and bonked his head. An anger mark present on her head.
"Stop. Calling. Me. That!" she told him stressing every word. She cursed that nickname down to the deepest pits of Hell.
"Aw come on, I've been gone for seven years and this is how you treat me?" Seifer pouted. Namine glared at him and angrily poked his chest as the other occupants watched in interest and satisfaction that the new guy was getting yelled at by their object of affection.
"Well, you wouldn't had gone away in the first place if…" she stopped dead as she had realized that they were not alone in the room and that this conversation needed to be private. "Nevermind…" she finished dully.
"That's more like it…" Seifer smirked playfully and patted her head causing the males to glare at him. Only they could pat the woman on the head dammit!
"Now since I'm back, why don't we go out to dinner to celebrate? Just you and me" Seifer proposed to the short woman. Namine looked at him uncertainly before replying.
"I don't know Seifer. I have to get Moogle from Olette soon and plus, I have guests" she told him and pointed her thumb in her bosses direction. "Can't leave 'em hanging, ya know?" she said.
"I'm pretty sure they're just leaving" Seifer told as he waved a hand nonchalantly in their direction. The other male occupants glared at him. They were right there you know! No need to talk about them as if they weren't there.
"Actually, we were joining Namine for dinner" Riku told him smoothly. "But if you would like to join us then you're welcome to come" he gave the man a smile of welcoming but the other males knew it was his smile of evil. It made them shudder just looking at it.
Why do I get this strange feeling as if Riku was the real life Kyouya Ohtori from Ouran High School Host Club? Namine thought as she looked at Riku. She vowed never to get on his bad side.
Seifer didn't seem pleased, but if that was the only way for him to be with Namine, then he would have to put up with these guys unfortunately. With a sigh, he turned to the woman awaiting his answer.
"Sure, why not?" he said as if it didn't matter to him, but in reality, it mattered everything to him. They were coming in on his territory and he doesn't take that kindly.
"Okay! Onward to the eating establishment!" Namine cheered and marched out the door not bothering to clean herself up from painting all day, which caused the males to smile at the fact that she didn't even bother to change her clothes. When she had exited the room, all smiles were gone as the five rich males and the one punk male glared at each other.
War had been declared.
"YAY! FUU!!" Namine exclaimed when she entered the Nifty Fifties—with all six males behind her—and tackled the unsuspecting Fuu while she was taking an order.
"What the—Namine?! I thought I told you to stop glomping me!" was Fuu's reply as she tried in vain to pry the midget off her.
"But Fuu! I just love you so much I can't bear to stay away!" Namine whined and held tighter. The two females had everyone's attention in the homey restaurant now.
"Yes Namine, of course I can't stay away from you either" Fuu replied as she patted the younger girl's head deciding to humor her.
"Does that mean you're my lesbian lover?" Namine teased to the older girl. Fuu blushed in embarrassment as the males with Namine chocked on air in surprise. Was Namine a…?
"Don't be stupid" Fuu told her as she softly whacked the girl's head. "You know I'm perfectly straight, but I'm still not sure about you since you're a major tomboy," she told the blonde causing her to pout.
"I'll have you know that I'm straight also, but that doesn't mean I don't like gay people because they're fun to hang out with sometimes" Namine replied clearly stating that she had hung out with homosexual people before and that there's nothing wrong with it (A/n: I also have nothing against homosexual people because in life we can't help who we're attracted to and it isn't their fault, but I've never met a homosexual like Namine).
The rich folk let out a sigh of relief. At least their object of affection is definitely straight. Seifer was having similar thoughts.
"But I did meet this girl who tried to convert me once" Namine said aloud causing a unison anime fall throughout the restaurant.
"Well, enough about that, Fuu, this is my friend Seifer" Namine pushed Seifer forward to Fuu who blushed. He was quite handsome. "And you already know these guys" Namine said lamely which caused Roxas to flick her cheek. Namine made a move to tackle him, but as always, Axel caught her in midair before she could lay a finger on the cocky blonde.
"Woah little lady, don't what to get arrested for murder" Axel told her.
"You're right" Namine said and then looked around the restaurant. "Too many witnesses" she whispered to Axel as he sweardropped.
"Well, since you're here causing a muck as usual," Fuu began. "What do you guys want to eat?" she asked as she led them to a table. Namine sat with Axel, Demyx and Riku as Roxas, Sora and Seifer were across from her.
"I want—"
"I know what you want Namine" Fuu said without looking up from her notepad with half lidded eyes.
"Nyah! Fuu's so mean!" Namine whined and pouted as she crossed her arms across her chest in a huff.
"What about you guys?" Fuu asked as she tried to avoid looking at Seifer in fear that her cheeks would glow like a Christmas light again. Oh, the teasing she would endure from the evil Namine if she saw her blush. Oh the shame!
"I'll have a burger" Seifer replied. The rest stayed silent as they looked at the non-classy menus with confusion written on their faces. Seifer gazed at them in confusion and a hint of smugness. "What? Is this the first time you guys ever been to a restaurant or something?" he asked and laughed at his own joke.
However, Namine didn't think it was funny for she had the idea that Seifer's joke was indeed true. Well, at least half of it anyway.
This must be the first time they ever went to a low class restaurant, Namine thought. Suddenly, she felt guilty. She didn't mean to beg them to take her here if they had never tried any of these foods before. They must be feeling the same exact thing she felt when she was in that classy restaurant with them. She felt very disgusted at herself for not even considering it.
Duh Namine, they've stayed away from commoner things their whole lives, Namine repented herself. She was such an idiot! Dammit!
"They'll just have what I'm having" Namine saved them from explaining that they've never been to a cheap restaurant since they were rich and never had any of these fast foods and junk. "Kay Fuu?" Namine asked the silver haired girl. Fuu seemed to have realized what Namine was doing for she just nodded and left instead of questioning her.
"Mine, they can order for themselves, you know:" Seifer told her. Namine flicked his forehead with her spoon from across the table.
"Well, I wanted to order for them, stupid!" she retorted. Seifer glared at them from the corner of his eyes as they smirked at him in smugness and satisfaction.
An awkward silence fell upon them as Namine had thoughts of guilt and confusion on her five bosses and Seifer. Sure, she felt guilty because she put her bosses in an uncomfortable position, but her thoughts circulated upon Seifer more. Questions burned at the back of her mind as she remembered the reason he had gone away.
What was he doing back here? Why of all times did he decide to pop into her life? She didn't think he would want to see her again after that incident. Namine furrowed her eyebrows as her thoughts came to other things. Could she really trust Seifer? She knew him very well and let her just say that he wasn't the goody goody type when she knew him.
Namine shook her head of her internal struggle. Seifer was her friend. He had done so many things for her. He had sacrificed so much for her. Hell, she doubted she would be here if it wasn't for him helping her out.
And oh god, that day. That day when she had almost lost a chance at her future. He had given his future up just for her. No, she should not be thinking horrible thoughts about the person who had helped her time and again throughout her teenage years.
She felt a hand intertwine with hers under the table. She saw that Axel was the one who grasped her hand and that Roxas, Riku, Demyx, and Sora were looking at her in worry. They had clearly noticed her internal struggle. She just gave them a smile showing that she was fine, but they could tell it wasn't genuine.
That smile was one big fake.
"So, Seifer" Roxas began. "Why'd you leave so suddenly for seven years if you and Namine are close?" he asked casually, but on the inside, he was boiling. Didn't he notice at all that Namine wasn't happy?
"It was an abrupt leave" Seifer simply replied. "Besides, I came back because I wanted to see Namine again," he told them.
"Just to see Nami-chan?" Demyx asked suspiciously. Seifer just gave him a smirk.
"She owes me," he told them. Namine just stared at the tabletop in silence. "In fact, she owes me for a lot of things, right Namine?" asked Seifer. Namine didn't answer nor did she move.
"She owed me from the first time we met" Seifer laughed, but it wasn't one of those laughs you want to join in to.
"How did you two meet?" Riku asked calmly, but inside he felt as if something was going to happen. Seifer just smirked even wider. If they heard this, they surely wouldn't want to be with Namine anymore leaving her all to him. Judging by Namine's posture, he doubted she even told these guys anything about her life.
"Well—"
"Don't. Tell. Them" Namine spoke in a deathly serious voice. "Don't you dare tell them anything Seifer" she spat out.
"Why? You have nothing to hide Namine" Seifer replied. "I mean, if they're really your friends then I don't think they would care how screwed up your life—"
SLAP!!!
The left side of Seifer's face was burning and turning red. He looked at her shocked as all the other occupants of the restaurant. Fuu stared with wide eyes at the anger radiating off Namine. She knew that the blonde had never, ever, been this angry since she was two-years-old.
Since the day her mother had left them.
"Outside" she said in a low voice. She didn't look at him or anyone, but even a blind person could tell she was angry.
Seifer followed her outside leaving a stunned crowd behind them. The sky was now very dark and if Namine was correct, had very heavy clouds meaning that it would probably rain any minute.
They went into an alleyway beside the restaurant in silence. However, when they got there, everything was anything but serenity and silence.
WHAM!!!
Seifer hit the dumpster behind him from the impact of Namine's punch. She glared down at him and grabbed his collar before he even had a chance to recover from the impact of her punch and the dumpster.
"You bastard!" she snarled. "Where the hell do you get off telling people about my past?" she growled out.
"What's wrong? Thinking that they'll see you for what you really are?" he spat out at her. "I know you Namine. More than anybody and believe me, from the stuff you did in the past, you're no innocent saint" he retorted.
"Same goes for you dumbass!" she snapped and pinned his body against the dumpster while she still held his collar violently. "You were doing drugs before I was ten! And I don't think the police let you out for just being a good boy" she lashed out at him.
"I wouldn't be the one rotting in jail if I didn't save your ass back then!"
"You deserved it for all the crap you put me up to!" Namine shouted at him and pressed him harder against the dumpster.
"Crap that you had no problem doing" he told her. "Crap that I can easily turn you in for Namine. Think about how people will look at you if they found out what a dirty bitch you are. Your sister and best friends will be ashamed. Your father will go back into depression. And the mother you have no idea where she is will always be right about you!" his words cut a hole in her heart.
"That you were always an ungrateful child who didn't have any reason to be in this world except cause trouble for everyone around her!"
A cord inside her had snapped as everything around her froze. Flashes of the past came back all at once. From the day her mother had spoke vilely of her behind her back to the day when she had decided to clean up her life. Her head throbbed in pain as she doubled over onto the ground.
However, Seifer grabbed her roughly and pinned her against the dumpster with his form trapping her.
"You owe me Namine," he spoke in her ears. "It's about time you paid up for everything that I went through for you" he hands began moving around her body as his mouth roughly covered hers. She struggled as his words were pulling her mind into a stupor of what happened years ago.
"So if you want to rant or cry or tell me anything. I'll be honest with you and treat you like a person and not a child, okay?"
"Sweet like Na-na"
"If it's that important, then I suggest you get a job to keep it"
"You're a really strong girl, Namine"
"Where's my hello you little rascal?"
"No, Namine, you're wrong"
"We're not your bosses, Nami-chan,"
"We're your friends"
"Yeah, and friends help each other out, you know"
"And they spend time together making memories"
Sorry guys, Namine apologized with a bitter smile as all her important people showed up in her mind. They were all smiling at her, happy that she was there with them, but she knew that no matter how hard she tried, she could not fully be happy with them. She still had many wounds and dark pits that possibly are not ready for healing just yet, but for now, I'm just going to have to lie straight to your faces on who I really am.
Something then caught Namine's eyes. She definitely knew what was in Seifer's pocket. Years of experience with them allowed her to know exactly when someone is carrying one in their pocket. She just didn't think that Seifer was that stupid to carry one in broad daylight all day.
Knowing that she was going to throw up after this, Namine kissed Seifer back. She gagged when he became more forceful and tried to stick his tongue in.
Oh no you don't! Seizing her chance, Namine kicked up to Seifer's pocket causing the item to fall out. Seeing she had an opening, Namine kicked Seifer off her and made a dive for the item.
The bare skin on her arms scraped against the payment in a burning sensation since she didn't have a jacket on, but she didn't care. She quickly got up and pointed the item straight at Seifer.
When Seifer got up, he saw what Namine was holding and smirked despite his bloody lip.
"Well, I shouldn't be surprised you noticed a gun in my pocket" he said knowing of her experience with the items in the past. "But I don't recall you ever killing someone" he told her smugly.
Namine just glared harder at him and held the gun steady. Blood covered her arms from the impact on the payment and her pants were torn to shorts from the friction of the impact. More blood spilled the ground from her legs. However, she didn't flinch. She was numb to this. She was numb to all of it except for the gun in her hands.
"You can't do it," he told her. "You can never take a life. You're too scared to cross that line like I did" he taunted her with a sick grin on his face.
"Shut up" she told him threateningly, but he continued.
"Oh yes, especially that little girl at the convenience store that night. Remember Namine? Remember how that little girl's blood was on your hands when I killed her. Because I tried to shoot you that night when you wanted to turn us in. That little girl didn't want you to die. She said that you were the best thing that ever happened to her. That you made her happy"
"Shut up" she said louder this time.
"Oh but I'm not done, Namine. Is that how you repaid her? By letting her die? Then getting away while I rotted in that cell and not even turning yourself in like you said you would?"
BANG!!!!!
Blood was the only thing Namine saw in her line of vision.
"What was that?" asked Sora.
"Gun shot" Roxas, Axel, Demyx, and Fuu stated at the same time.
"I don't think we need to worry about it. Gang fights happen all the time in the slums, but never in the restaurants," Fuu told them. The five males looked at her in shock. "Judging by your faces, Namine didn't tell you the dangers of living in the slums day in and day out"
"What dangers?" Riku asked.
"All kinds" Fuu answered simply. "Rape, robbery, homicide, suicide, gang fights, you name it, the slums got it," she told them seriously. "In fact, everyone's a target as soon as they walk out their door"
"Dammit" Seifer cursed as he held his injured leg. It was in deep, but if he got it out soon, he won't die. However, he wasn't expecting Namine to actually shoot him. It seems his pushed her too far with that memory.
Namine just stood in the alley panting heavily. The gun dropped to the payment, but none of them dared to retrieve it. Her hands were shaking widely with convulsions, as her eyes were wide in panic. She had just shot someone. In all her life, she had indeed held a gun, she had held in to people's heads in false, but convincing, threats, but she had never, ever, shot a gun.
"Well, Namine" Seifer grinned out as he struggled to get out of the alleyway, "All I can say is that one day your past is going to come back and hunt you down. And I won't be there to stop it" he spat out at her and limped out of the alleyway.
The alleyway that was covered in blood and rain began to pour.
Karin-chin: All right, I'm now definitely changing the rating to M for adult themes, language, and violence. However, using guns in this story are no more since this story is not going to include guns for the rest of it.
So, you all saw part of Namine's past. Sadly, this is just an intro to her life as a teenager for her past is covered in the sequel (Yes, there is going to be a sequel to this story because I know how it ends and what the sequel is going to cover). So, don't expect all of what Seifer said to be elaborated in this story because it's all in the sequel which will not be out until this one is finished.
That's all for now, hope you enjoyed it and bye!
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