Xion didn't quite know why this odd person – Zack, she thinks he was named – keeps looking at her with a smile on his face. Or why he ever so nicely stretched out a hand, maybe to lead her to the games.
And certainly, when Xion had never seen him before at all, she didn't understand why he wanted a rematch. Or why his eyes kept glazing over, like it was someone else he was speaking to…
She had been getting that a lot lately. And, once again, she can't help but snap when he gets her name wrong – Xion didn't quite catch what it was, but the look on Zack's face afterwards is priceless.
A bigger smile, something that sounds like 'That's my girl', and him doing some odd squats before blushing and running into the Colisseum.
She remembers winning those rounds to the sound of Zack's wild cheering, with added emphasis on 'Xion'. She remembers the way he cared to get her name just right.
Xion kept coming back to that world, hiding the portals well away from 'big brother Zack' – she knows he doesn't like the darkness too much, and funnily enough she found herself caring for how he felt.
If Zack cares enough to keep showing up to her matches and waving cheers from the stands, Xion'll take enough care with her portals…
She thinks that Axel and Roxas – her other two 'brothers' of sorts – would find this funny.
Well, now she is on her goodbye tour, and she can't skip this farewell. Zack is sitting down there by the stands, black hair falling on his face and blue eyes shut. A bout of laughter, and he is awake again, apologizing for falling asleep (or simply shooting off barrage after barrage of 'oh man's at inane volumes and doing squats at hyper-speeds).
There was a smile on his face, which fell by the time Xion had finished her 'speech'. A hug, something that sounded like 'I'll miss you' and strings of 'little sister's wrapping themselves around her…
She knows that, despite all this, he'll forget her as well.
Xion doesn't know that, for him, she never changed – always the black-haired, blue-eyed girl…
Although, he was fairly sure he had met someone in such a strange suit of armor before. But he wouldn't ever let her hear that. He really cared too much for her… like a hero ought to do, he hoped.
