Tasogare No Hime
Chapter 2
Naminé‚ soon discovered being dead was surprisingly like being alive. You could sort of bathe change clothes and even eat. She was told by Aerith who had been the head gardener of the grounds before she had died that none of it was of course physical just as none of them were physical beings, it was a matter of thought, and memories of life. Naminé‚ still found it very odd that she was able to fit into the memory of Kairi's clothes. (Kairi turned out to be the one who had stopped the cold man from strangling her the night before.)
The antique dress was an eggshell white with pastel flowers embroidered across the low cut top and the bottom hem of the long skirt, the sleeves were short and the waist line was set just below the bust. Kairi one of the adopted children was wearing a similar dress in a shade of pail lavender with violet ribbon instead of embroidery. Axel the red hared boy had been shooed off by Aerith. The old woman who turned out to be the widow who had owned the house (everyone called her Granny)
had gone to find a suitable room for Naminé.
It had occurred to Naminé that perhaps death should have bothered her more than it did, but once she realized that she was really dead it nothing seemed to matter anymore. She had expected for a while to go into a light or fade away or something similar, but that had not happened. Now however the numbness and shock had faded a bit and the girl was beginning to think of the consequences her death would cause.
"What are my parents going to do when they find out? Larxene, and Marluxia will be back in the morning what are they going to do?"
"That is something they will have to figure out them selves"
The girls turned to find a boy with spiky brown hair and a boy with long silver hair standing at the door. Aerith frowned at the taller of the two boys.
"Riku, that wasn't nice"
Riku ignored the woman and walked past her over to the old bed seating himself on the edge.
The smaller boy followed him in but walked to Kairi's side instead. He gave Naminé a bright but goofy smile. "Hi! I'm Sora! Don't mind Riku, he's just trying to look cool in front of a pretty girl!"
"SORA"
Riku jumped up, grabbing Sora in a head lock he began to drag the boy about rather noisily.
Naminé suddenly remembered the cold, and painful grip on her throat.
"Please stop! what if he hears you"
Both boys stopped and looked at the now shaking Naminé sheepishly. Riku let go of Sora who scratched his head in an embarrassed manner.
"Oh yeah, that's what we came up here for. We got Xehanort back in the basement. Diz, Leon,
and Cloud are making sure he stays there"
Riku nodded, he had a grim expression on his face.
"Not that he'll leave his precious treasure willingly when he thinks no one is going to take it. I don't get what he thinks he's going to do with all that money anyway. He's as dead as the rest of us. Besides, it's going to be day soon and he hates the light"
Aerith shook her head sadly.
"Some people just can't let go. I wish he would though, then maybe someone would buy this place. I'd love to see the gardens taken care of again"
The woman sighed wistfully looking out the window.
"Um..who are Diz, Leon, and Cloud?"
Naminé now that she knew this "Xehanort" person was not going to attack her again, had become curious about the other people mentioned, and who else might be in the house.
Kairi smiled and took her hand.
"Come on you'll have to meet everybody! Diz is our tutor. You would think we wouldn't need one anymore but it hasn't stopped him. Leon, and Cloud say they were Granny's bodyguards before they died but Tifa, she was the cook, says they were just glorified errand boys. Besides that there is Roxas, Sora's brother, Rikku, with two ks but it's still kind of confusing when Riku and Rikku are in the same room, She's kind of ditzy, Paine, she's scary at first but it's mostly for show, Yuna, she's really nice you'll like her, Tidus, he's fun too, Olette, Hayner, and Pence, they are usually with Roxas and Axel, you already met Axel he's the oldest of us orphans, and finally Yuffie who ended up living here after she tried to pick pocket Granny"
As they waled through the house and Kairi spoke Naminé realized she must have lost track of time at some point because the sun was rising. When they reached the bottom of the grand stair case they were stopped by a blond boy, a girl with brown pigtails, a taller blond boy and a short chubby boy with black hair.
"Your Naminé right? Axel told us what happened. I'm Roxas. This is Olette, Hayner, and Pence"
Naminé nodded politely.
"It's nice to meet you."
Hayner the taller of the blonds was looking out through the boards on the windows.
"Those two who locked you in here are coming up the drive! What do we do?"
Larxene frowned as she looked around the entrance hall.
"Where the hell did she go"
Marluxia glared at his girlfriend, he was tired and angry because she had called and woken him up early out of worry for the brat, like Larxene actually cared what happened to anyone else... "Well go look for her. You're the one who wanted to come get her anyway"
The blond girl stuck her tongue out at him.
"I don't want to get in trouble when people notice she's not at school. You know their going to blame us"
Marluxia grumbled as he walked past her.
"Yeah, yeah lets just find the brat and get out of here"
It didn't take long to find Naminé, but when they did they wished they hadn't. Marluxia stared white faced at the body while Larxene behind him was trying not to break in to hysterics. "What do we do? What the FUCK are we going to do! We killed her we, fucking killed her"
Marluxia turned around and grabbed Larxene by the shoulders shaking her, he was beginning to panic himself.
"WE didn't do shit to her. What ever she did after we left was her own damn fault"
He ran his hand through his hair and started pacing while he tried to think.
"Ok, we go to the cops. We'll tell them we saw her go in here on her own last night. She was new, probably a bit curious. We didn't think anything of it, right? And she lives near your house right? So when you didn't see her walking to school you got worried and we came to look for her. That's it. That's what happened. We didn't do shit"
Larxene nodded slowly refusing to look at the girl. She felt sick, and even more worrying, like she was being watched. Like some one they couldn't see already knew what really happened. She and Marluxia walked to the door slowly still shaking. Any semblance of calm they had gathered was lost however when they reached the veranda all the windows shattered behind them sending glass and boards flying toward them. Both teens screamed and they ran from the house with out looking back.
"Axel! Not the windows"
Aerith slumped on the steps and over looked the mess. Axel stood surveying the damage with a broad grin. "Got what they dissevered jack assess! Give em' even more if they come back"
Naminé, despite the situation found herself smiling.
End of chapter two!
Next chapter 3: CSI Twilight Town! And a reluctant clairvoyant becomes involved in the whole mess.
Also a question to the readers. origonaly I was just going to use the origonalKH characters and the FF in KH but I've kind of run out of people who are still alive for the later in the story. (most of the people I haven't used yet already have asigned parts.
Do you want me to bring in more FF characters if I need them or Disney characters, since this is a KH fic? it's up to the readers!
please R&R