Hello fanfiction lovers, here is Chapter 12. And just one exclamation of praise. Wow, wow, just WOW! This story is my most popular story on my profile and I have no idea why. The reviews are all loving and are very sweet. I want to thank LordLenne for putting my story on his community which is a LucasxNess community so there are more than just one of these stories. Hahahaha. There is a poll on my biography about this story. I suggest you take the poll. And without further ado, chapter twelve.

I ducked as the bottle went over my head, shattering against the wall. Marth howled with laughter as Lucas tried to dodge the fire blast that went soaring by his head, sending the lit alcohol on fire. I actually squealed, and downed another pixi stick, the corrosive sugar burning my throat, but I think it had traces of champagne in the mixture of the purple colored sugar. It went down with a burning feel; but I felt refreshed. Oh, in case you were wondering, this was some of the nicer smashers celebrating our win today in brawl. Among the party goers were Marth, Lucas, Zelda, me, Pit, Marth's other two roommates Ike and Roy, and even Link of all people. I was honestly surprised because he lost but, he didn't care. Lucario even decided to come, but; he wasn't much of a partier since he was sitting in the corner, immersed in a novel. Marth actually went a little crazy and gotten drunk, completely, holding a bottle of vodka.

"Yo Ness," he slurred, throwing his arm over my shoulder. "We kicked some butt today didn't we?"

I winced, his incoherent English spraying over me like a title wave. I didn't want to spend another minute in the room. "Yeah we sure showed them Marth," I lied. "Why don't you go talk to Ike?" I suggested.

Marth shrugged. "Whatever you say dude."

I felt a breath of relief go away from me and Pit strolled up to me, a nice grin on his face. I gave him a fist bump. "Hey Pit," Then I frowned. "I thought you were an angel, so like no partying."

Pit laughed. "No, no, no. I'm allowed to have fun. Just no cussing, no killing, no breaking the commandments and stuff like that."

"Oh." I pondered. Then I remembered something. "The night you came here, the day Lucas got shot, well I need to thank you for being there first. Not caring at all whether he would die or not. And then you had taken him to Dr. Mario's office when you realized your own power couldn't heal him. I'm thankful for you or Lucas might not have been alive right now."

Pit gave me a hug. "And you are very welcome. How old are you anyway?"

I shrugged, wondering why he would want to know my age but I told him anyway. "I'm twelve. How old are you?"

Pit smiled. "I'm fourteen, only two years older," He gave Lucas a pitiful glance. "How old is your friend?"

For some reason the look Pit gave Lucas made an anger burn inside me. "He's ten and look Pit," The angel looked at me in with a little bit of angst in his eyes. "Lucas has been through hell and back with a smile; he has hurdled over mountains and has taken down foes with the flick of a wrist. He is not as pitiful you think."

Pit shook his head, as if he was having distorting vision. "Sorry Ness, I didn't think you would take a carless glance that seriously." He fluttered off, muttering.

I decided to sit next to Lucas, who was fiddling with a piece of confetti on the ground, looking sad. I nudged him. "Hey Lucas, why are you so down?"

Lucas looked at me, with an artificial smile. "While you guys are having fun I was just remembering it was my birthday today. I turn eleven," He stopped talking for a minute; his mind must have been working. "It is also the seventh anniversary of the death of my brother."

I didn't know what to say. Lucas had to be crushed. "Lucas," I couldn't say anything but, what I did say was pure crap. "Why must your life be so awful?"

Lucas stood abruptly. "You don't even care! You are blinded by your foolish greed of you winning a battle. Well the truth was that you sucked! Why do I even try to talk to you about my problems? All you think about is yourself or the crazy power I possess. Why can't you care about the real stuff, because I think you need to start reading between the lines?" Then he fled from Marth's room and I heard distinct crying come from him.

"Lucas no!" I called, my hand trying to grab his shirt as he ran.

Zelda sat by me, her brown hair in a ponytail today. She held my hand, her fingernails digging into my flesh. "Can you tell me that situation you and Lucas have?"

I dropped her hand. "Sadly I can't. Lucas confided only in me about it and I might have just lost the trust I earned by saving his pathetic life more than once." And I ran from the room.

Marth came behind Zelda, scaring her to death. "Do you know what happened with them?"

Zelda shook her head in assent, her lemonade eyes now having tears spilling down them. "No, but I can sense distress in Lucas, and Ness's heart is torn between him. There is some type of friendship between them and there is a storm ravaging the line that makes them friends."

Marth seemed to change from drunk to sober in seconds. "I worry about Ness more than Lucas sometimes."

Zelda put a fist under her chin and gave Marth a wary look. "And why is that?"

Marth breathed. "Ness cares for too many people and he throws himself in front of the train when it rolls by. But, then he develops a relationship that can't be broken with that particular person but, begins to feel as if anything he says won't break that person's heart. Well, Ness was wrong; Lucas just got crushed."

I found Lucas staring at the moon; he was sitting on the terrace. I uneasily made my way to him and crouched by his side. Lucas raised an eyebrow. "What do you want," Then he changed my mind. "Actually I don't even want to talk to you so never mind."

"I wasn't going to say anything but, now that you've officially made me lose my last known respect for you once again, I'm now not going to say anything." I said crossly.

We just sat there, our legs over the terrace edge. There was the harmonious chirp of the crickets and the shrill hiss of the bitter wind as it raced through our skin but besides that, it was silent. The sky was cloudless, and each star made a dazzling light show. I was amazed at what nature had to provide us. Then Lucas decided to speak after about twenty minutes of utter silence.

"Actually Ness, I'm sorry for me being so short with you." Lucas said when he realized I would have been quiet for a long time.

I nodded. "We all make mistakes Lucas, everyone does. I made one about half an hour ago."

Lucas slid over to me a little, and interlocked his cold fingers around my warm ones since my blood was heated. "I have made more mistakes than you Ness, for the short week and a half I've been here. And, I've already gotten shot, won a brawl, had a murderous wolf try to stab me, had a murderous wolf try to kill my best friend; and I've told my best friend everything about me."

I slid closer to him, making the connection of our hands tighter, his face a mere inch from mine. "You know what you did?"

Lucas, who had no idea where I was going with this looked very confused. "What?"

I leaned in and kissed him. "You said I'm your best friend."

I heard shoes come up from behind us and Marth froze when he saw me and Lucas. "I was coming to check on you but, I personally think you are all right. Now if you can excuse me, I'm going to go vomit." Marth joked.

Lucas broke from our lip-lock. Then he checked his watch. "Oh my god! It's almost midnight. I got to get to bed."

I laughed. "When did you get a watch?"

Lucas looked at me, his eyes cold and steely. "It's Claus's watch that he slipped onto my wrist when he died. It's a very powerful weapon."

I smirked. "Well, that was nice of him. Good night Lucas," Lucas ran off and I fixated my gaze out to the stars, a smile on my face. "Thanks fate. Thank you so much."

And viola. Chapter twelve for you all. Chapter thirteen will be uploaded today and I will give you the title and just that. Chapter thirteen is called One False Ingredient. Review, review, review, REVIEW! These reviews are just pouring in and I'm so glad that this is happening. Thank you all and again I love you ALL!

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