To reviewers of Uaua:
Forgotten Lullaby: Well, it isn't exactly DDR. You should look up Caramelldansen on youtube and you'll see what I'm talking about, haha. But I will have to admit that playing DDR, especially on the Wii with the hand markers is kinda weird. Not as weird as Samba de Amigo or Para Para Paradise though, XD.
NinjaSheik: Thanks, hope you like this next one too.
Andantenne to Percupine: Silly boys and their hormones right? (wink)
xXxSmidgexXx: Yay fluff! Oh, my apologies for assuming you didn't know a thing about Japanese! Hehe.
Cedarleaf: It's such a Sora thing to do! Of course, Roxas would probably never be caught doing that, right?
CottonCandyHaze: Thank you very much for your support. I hope you'll have read The Heart of a Nobody by the time you read this next ficlet, hehe. I can't say that I'll be able to teach much Japanese since I've only taken it for a year and haven't really kept up on it—bad me I know... But I'll do my best to incorporate more basic Japanese in these drabbles.
Ficlet #37
Word count: 272
嘘 – Lie
Waves crashed against the base of a sheer precipice loudly.
Roxas could just imagine himself being swallowed up by the violent sea.
"My life has been a lie," he said softly. "Everything was just a lie."
He was just a puppet in the grand scheme of things.
His work, a lie. His family, a lie. His friendship with Axel and Xion, all a lie.
Even his love for Sora had been a lie.
"That's not true!" a choked voice came from behind him, cutting across the crashes and distant thunder. "Not everything was a lie!"
The blond-haired man slowly turned around, his dulled eyes falling upon the tear-stained face of his supposed lover. Sora was alone.
"How is that not true?" he intoned flatly. "I was used. No one cares."
"I care!" screamed the brown-haired man. "Axel and Xion cared!"
"And they're dead," Roxas ended, his voice brooking for no further argument.
"Can you not see them?" Sora whispered softly. Roxas blinked once deliberately, taken aback by Sora's words. As he continued to look at Sora, however, shapes began to form beside him. The faces of the two friends who he unknowingly killed appeared—ghostly images of their former selves.
"Just because we're on different sides of the line," continued Sora, "that shouldn't mean that our relationships are fabricated. I'm sorry for not telling you the truth earlier."
"It doesn't matter," he replied brokenly. His blue-eyed lover let out a sob before he latched onto the broken puppet.
"It does, it does," Sora repeated like a mantra. "You can't let the lie win."
Roxas simply stood there and stared into the distance.
Disclaimer: Standard disclaimer applies. QQ.
A/N: Today is, of course, the US release day for Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. Though I haven't played the game (not sure when I'll be able to actually), I actually had the entire plot of 358/2 Days in mind when I wrote this, so it's a bit influenced by 358/2 Days.
In any case, having a bit of trouble writing up the next chapter for Nobody and I've pretty much put Intrigues on the shelf until I'm done with Nobody. Hopefully I'll be able to get the next chapter out pretty soon though.