Roxas found it hard not to be excited. It had come; the day of the skateboarding contest. It was his one chance to show himself to the whole town, or at least all the teens. (Adults really only came for events like the Struggle.) And, although he was never one to want a lot of attention focused on him, skateboarding was the one thing he knew he was really good at and that no one else could beat him. But, along with the contest, the fact that Namine would be there watching him, also gave him a sense of excitement and security as well.

The sandlot was outlined with bleachers for the audience while the center was filled with ramps, railings and concrete blocks of all different sizes and shapes that only existed in a skaters dream. Roxas' eyes glanced over all of the obstacles as his mind wondered of all of the ways he could tear them up. He then smiled with satisfaction at his thoughts.

"Glad to see you're happy" Olette told him as she took a seat next to Pence on the sidelines.

"I mean, do you not see all the moves and tricks I can do out there?" he smiled to her

"I do" Pence replied and lifted his camera onto its tripod "And remember, I'll be capturing every one of them and that includes falls"

"Well, that's one thing I know won't happen"

"Alright, so stop yapping and sign up already" Hayner came in began to push him to the registration table "Geez, you like to show-off a lot"

Roxas rolled his eyes at Hayners comment and began to walk himself to the table without his help. After receiving his competition number, 13, he rejoined his friends on the sidelines.

"So, umm…" Roxas began to ask them and looked around "…when does this all start?"

"An hour, maybe" Pence answered working on his cameras lens. "But gotta come early to get good seats"

Roxas continued to look around beginning to feel nervous. There was no Namine in sight.

'I hope she comes on time' he thought

"Are you leaving today?" 12 year-old Namie asked Namine.

All three girls were in the large kitchen today baking cookies, which was a big treat to them. Little Namie especially, since she loved to wear a chiefs hat. Namine turned from observing the cookies that were in the oven to Namie, who seemed to have a look of sadness on her face while the other had a face covered with brown cookie dough.

"Yes," she replied with a smile

"Well, do you have to?"

Namine then lost her smile and knew something was troubling her and walked away from the oven.

"Why?" she asked, "What's wrong?"

"Well" Namie started and began to fiddle with her white dress, as if nervous "I…I just feel that whenever there is extra time to be with us, you just leave"

"Oh, I'm sorry you feel that way" she explained "but I only do it to see another person I care for"

"More than us?"

Namine couldn't resist Namie's upset expression and began to get filled with guilt. She sighed with disappointment with herself when she realized that she was letting Roxas, someone she only met for a month, get in the way of the only two people she had always cared for.

'So, why do I want to be with Roxas so much?' she thought to herself and looked down to the floor.

"Namine?" little Namie asked from across the room.

Namine looked up to her youngest self to see her face and dress covered in flour and dough holding a huge bowl and spoon in her hand.

"Are you leaving?" she asked, still with a glob of dough in her mouth.

A deep and horrible feeling sank into Namine's stomach. Today was the skateboarding contest and she promised Roxas that she would be there. But, how could she turn her back on them?

While she was in thought of her response, a timer went off, signaling that the cookies were ready.

"Weee! Cookies!" little Namie yelled in excitement and ran to the oven.

"Those were the longest 45 minutes of my life!" Namie remarked and also headed to the oven.

Namine smiled at them and opened the oven and pulled out a tray of 20 chocolate chip cookies and laid them on the counter. Both Namies' immediately reached for a cookie, then immediately dropped them and burnt their fingers.

"Oww!" little Namie cried and began to blow at her red fingers

"They weren't kidding when they said 'wait 10 minutes'" the other commented and ran her fingers under cold water.

Namine laughed at her younger selves and pulled off her white apron.

"I think, I'm going to take you guys on a field trip today" she told them.

The room seemed darker than usual, even for a person like Axel. Of course anyone else would turn on a lamp, but he refused to see any light while he sat in thought of what he was about to do. He took in deep breaths as he paced his room and finally began to walk to the door. Because, once he left, there was no turning back. He had a mission and was dedicated to complete it, no matter how much he didn't want to do it. The doorknob seemed hard to turn as he struggled to open his door. When he finally did and got out, a smiling Demyx greeted him.

"You ready?" Demyx asked him

Axel only groaned and ignored his question as he walked past him to the elevators. Of course Demyx was not one to get ignored and immediately followed.

"You know, I thought today might have made you feel a little better" he explained as the two continued to walk "I mean, that's the only reason why I voted that you should be the one to talk to…"

"Well, you thought wrong." Axel interpreted "In case you forgot, this is not the same person that we are messing with, unlike before"

"Yeah, but that will all change once he remembers"

"IF he wants to remember"

Demyx sighed in disappointment. He always thought his conversations were one to give some light on everything, but Axel was simply being resistant to him.

"You know what your problem is?" he asked Axel when they reached the elevators.

"What?" Axel replied, not wanting to hear a response.

"You just… care to much"

Axel laughed a little and finally faced Demyx.

"And your problem is you don't care at all" he replied

"Well, you never see this face ever wearing a frown" he told him and gave off a goofy smile. "You should take lessons from me"

"Lessons?" Axel tried not to laugh "From a guy that plays his guitar in his underwear?"

"Ugh, you will never give that up will you?" he groaned and crossed his arms.

"Not as long as I have that tape" he smiled to him, but there was no smile in return.

"Hey, that's blackmail!" Demyx wined just as the elevator came. "You promised me that you burnt it!"

"You know, you kind of did make me feel a little better today" Axel smiled and got inside.

For once, Demyx began to get a little frustrated and quickly summoned his sitar just as the doors began to close.

"Dance water! Dance!" he yelled out and jets of water flew onto Axel, getting him drenched and his precious spiked hair, ruined.

"Ugh!" Axel yelled out and quickly stopped the doors from closing. "Get back here Demyx!"

Demyx was half way down the hall, laughing at him, when he got out of the elevator. Axel's fists formed fire as he began to run down the hallway after him. Roxas would have to wait for now, after all, no one messes with his hair and gets away with it.

Namine did not have the Organizations permission but had no regret with her discussion. Besides, by the time the Organization realized both Namies' were gone; the contest would most likely be over.

After carefully sneaking out of the building and slowly creeping past the gates, the 3 girls were soon out of Organization XIII property and in Twilight Town. Both Namies couldn't help but stare around the town in awe. After all, it was their first time out of the castle. It was a totally new experience for them and Namine couldn't help but smile at their excited and wondering eyes. She couldn't wait to take them out around the town and even to the playground one day but right now, they were on their way to meet up with Roxas.

"So, where are we going exactly?" Namie asked with eyes still focused on the new world around her.

"To meet one of my friends," Namine replied, "You guys will like him a lot"

As they continued to walk and began to approach his building, they noticed a lot of kids and teenagers walking around. It became obvious that the contest was very close by. The surrounding area was loud with cheers and became more crowded as time began to pass. Namine soon began to feel a bit uncomfortable with so many people around her. She looked back at her younger selves and noticed they were too.

'Ok, where are you Roxas?' she thought and looked around, but it was not much longer till a person came up from behind her and covered her eyes.

"Guess who?" Roxas' voice asked.

Namine smiled at his game and turned around to see Roxas in all of his skating gear and a familiar black skateboard on his side.

"I'm happy I'm not late," she told him

"I'm happy you're just here" he replied.

He then came closer to her but she gently placed her hand up to stop his actions.

"I want you to meet my…sisters" she smiled.

His attention turned to the two smaller versions of Namine that stood beside her. Roxas tried to not look so surprised at their appearance, especially since they all looked so alike so much.

"Wow, you weren't kidding when you said you were a clone" he commented.

12-year-old Namie immediately became surprised with his reply and looked up at Namine with an upset expression.

"He knows about us!" she cried to her in a whisper "We're supposed to be the Organizations secret!"

Namine then remembered Sarabi's big speech on not letting people know about the whole Nobody deal. She also remembered the fact that, although she hated every rule Xemnas made, Namie took every rule seriously and probably wouldn't hesitate to tell him about Namine's open mouth.

"Ummm… well…" Namine began getting nervous.

Roxas began to see Namines' tight situation and came in to help her out.

"Oh, did I say 'was a clone'?" he said "I meant 'looked like one'"

He rubbed the back of his neck innocently with a smile hoping his reply would make things a little easier.

Namie gave an unsure glare at him, still having a tough time believing his words.

"Ok" she said, "So, who are you anyway?"

"Oh, I'm Roxas" he smiled and held out a hand.

Namie only stared at it with caution and gave him a weird glare.

"Aren't you a little old to be skateboarding?" she questioned

Roxas retreated his hand along with his smile

"Uh, I never thought there was an age limit" he told her

She shrugged off his comment.

"Well, I'm Namie" she replied flatly

"I'm Namie too!" little Namie exclaimed with a smile

Roxas began to get confused and turned to Namine.

"They are both named 'Namie'?" he asked

"It's a long story" she replied "Anyway, shouldn't you get going? I'm guessing with all the people around here, it must be time for the contest to start"

"Actually, it already did" he smiled

"What!? Then why aren't you out there? You're going to be late"

"Don't worry, I still have like 10 people ahead of me. Besides, I have to take you guys upstairs"

The roof looked more like a jungle instead of a rooftop. Everywhere you turned, there were trees in huge flowerpots and rows and rows of flowerbeds. It looked like a maze of colors and plants. Fueled with excitement, little Namie immediately zoomed off to all the different flowerbeds. Even Namie was surprised at all the different flowers and stared at huge trees surrounding her.

"Let me guess" Namine began, as she looked around at the concrete jungle "the landlady?"

"Yeah, she goes a little crazy during the summer and makes a garden up here" Roxas explained, "oh, I'll be right back"

He left the girls alone while Namine found her way to the edge of the roof. When she looked down, she saw she had a perfect view of the whole contest area.

"This is great" she smiled to herself "I can see everything"

She turned back to the girls and saw the two picking out flowers and making bouquets and other flower arrangements. It was not very long till Roxas came back to her with 2 popsicles in hand.

"Umm, you know you shouldn't eat before you go" she advised him

"Oh, these?" he smiled directing attention to the ice cream bars "These aren't for me"

"Ice Cream!" little Namie's voice cried out.

She ran to Roxas quickly and he immediately gave her the popsicle in fear of being run over.

"Thank you!" she smiled and ran back off to her corner of flowerbeds.

"Hey Namie!" Namine called out to the oldest "Do you want ice cream?"

Namie happened to be making a garland of flowers for her hair and turned to Namine with a smile.

"Sure" she replied and went up to Roxas who gave her the ice cream.

For the first time, she smiled to him and turned to Namine.

"Ok, I like him" she told her and went back to her work.

Namine smiled with joy and jumped in Roxas' arms.

"I'm so happy they like you!" she told him

"Well they are… uh… you," he explained "I am glad I got her approval though."

"Yes well they both love the Organization, while I… well… I don't think I need to explain"

"So that makes you one of a kind"

"I guess you could say that"

"Yep, and that makes you very special"

He began to hold her tighter and pulled closer for a kiss but she placed a finger on his lips.

"Not here" she told him "Plus, you need to get going"

Roxas nodded sadly and let her go.

"You're not fair" he wined

"How would you feel if your sisters saw you hugging and kissing me?"

"Well, I don't have any" he smiled and got ready to grab her again but she quickly got behind him and began to push him to the exit.

"Good luck Roxas" she sang to him and practically pushed him through the door.

"Shouldn't I get a kiss for good luck?" he begged

"Roxas!" she laughed "Go already!"

"Alright, I'm going, but I will get you back" he promised

The next 8 skaters were not bad, but Namine knew Roxas could do so much better. She stood at the railing of the roof, which was covered in vines, and looked down at all the loud and ecstatic people below. She kind of felt invisible but it didn't matter whether they knew she was there or not. As long as she was around with him, that's all that they cared about. Plus, both Namies were having a blast with the flowers and playing hide-n-seek in the jungle. Namine observed Roxas with his friends and every now and then, he would look up with a smile and she would blow an innocent kiss.

"Namine?" Namie asked from behind. "Do you want to make a garland with us?"

Namine turned to face her 12-year-old self and saw the two of them on the floor surrounded by flowers and pedals in their hair.

"No thanks" she replied to her "You both just enjoy"

"Well, how is the contest going?"

"I'm seeing stuff you would never see in the Castle, and I'm sure Roxas will win"

Then she heard Roxas' name called over the speakers and turned back to the contest. There, she saw him on the starting ramp, getting ready to go. Everyone started cheering, most of it came from his friends but it was obvious that lots of people knew him and thought he was good. Namine overheard the loud crowd and joined Namine by the railing and looked down at the people. Right then, Roxas looked up at Namine and gave a quick smile before launching out onto the other ramps and began his tricks.

Namies eyes wondered all over the place as he moved quickly from up and down the railings and ramps. Some of his moves made her believe he could literally defy gravity when she saw him jump from ramp to ramp while doing a flip in mid air.

"Wow," Namie commented, "He's really good"

"You sure he's not to old?" Namine asked sarcastically

"Not anymore" she smiled and they continued to watch him.

He seemed to be trying really hard as he glided across the area and when the horn blew for him to stop, he was breathing really hard. The crowed roared with cheers and Namine couldn't help but join them as the judges gave him his scores.

"10, 9, 9, and 10!" the announcer yelled as he read their scores.

Roxas' friends jumped on him with hugs and cheers when he got off the field and joined them on the sidelines. Made Namine want to give anything to be there with him, but he looked up at her and she felt like she was right beside him.