A/n Okay...so I didn't get the 13 reviews I had wanted...but I'm hearing a lot of eager KH fans wanting to hear what happens next, so I will update at least every week or so. BUT, if reviews are slow or not decent in number, then I WILL NOT UPDATE! I need to have critique on my stories, or else I will get writer's block, and that will not only hurt me (emotionally and imagination-wise) but everyone who wants to know what's going to come next. Also, this story is going to serve as a break while I gather more inspiration for YEWYD, so don't kill me.

Okay, where we last left off, Roxas and Namine bumped into each other...literally. So with friendly yet slightly awkward conversation, Namine is not very eager to make friends, but she may soon change her mind due to a certain red-head and a very cute spiky-blonde haired boy...

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or "Passion" by Utada Hikaru. If I did, I would know the reasons why Disney and Square-Enix chose Haley Joe Osmet and Jesse McCartney to play the parts of Sora and Roxas. I laughed myself into a coma b/c I had no idea why in Hell they would choose Jesse McCartney to play Roxas...oh yeah, no offense to you Mr. McCartney, in case you ever see this. Horacio, please stop laughing at me. Oh yeah, Bianca and Horacio are my characters. You'll hear of them soon enough.

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Chapter 2: "Mirai wa doko made mo kageyaiteta..." (The future was forever shining...)

The halls seemed to echo Namine's current mood:

Empty, plain, and uninteresting.

The blonde-haired girl sighed and made her way to the main office, which was located right by the dorms. She tentatively walked inside, seeing a spiky-haired brown youth there, not much older than she was.

"Are you just going to stand there, or come up and speak?" Namine was taken by surprise; his voice was low, but seemed to boom around the small office.

"Umm...I'm new here and I'm here to pick up my schedule...My name is Namine Wise." Namine struggled to keep her voice calm, but after the young man's previous outburst, she was a little shaken.

"Got it." She got a closer look at his face. His eyes were dark, and he had spiky-brown hair that fell to his shoulders, and had a scar across his nose.

"Here you go; oh, and in case you're here again, which I expect you will, name's Leon." He gave her a brief look-over, then handed her the schedule. With a final look at her, he exited to the back room, a copier going off.

Namine stared confused after Leon, and then looked at her schedule:

1st period: Algebra 2, Yoshitama , 301

2nd period: World History, Matako , 208

Lunch

3rd period: English, Bowles , 102

4th period: Biology, Hikaru , 106

5th period: Academic Decathlon, Bowles , 102

6th period: Art, Kinimoto , 300

Namine sighed once more after seeing her schedule. She was going to be all over the place due to where her classrooms were placed. She then took a look at her dorm number, and then gave a small gasp:

Dorm Hall: Hoshii Hall

Room Number: 100

Roommate(s): Hikari, Kairi

Never had she run so fast in her life.

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By the time Namine got to Hoshii Hall, her hair and uniform was quite disheveled, and despite her calm demeanor she was so used to, she couldn't be more excited. She quickly fixed herself up to look presentably, and then knocked lightly on the door.

She heard a loud bump and then a swear, only to receive a rather loud yell in her face.

"OKAY! NO I DON'T KNOW WHERE MY COUSIN IS, AND I WILL NOT GIVE YOU HER NUMBER!" Kairi looked extremely red in the face, and snarled under her breath before she realized that she had yelled right into the face of the said cousin.

"It's a pleasure to see you too Kairi-chan..." Namine fell over from shock, while her cousin came to aid her.

"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry Namine-chan...I didn't mean to yell at you like that..." Kairi was falling under the magic of guilt, and helped up Namine.

"It's quite alright Kairi-chan..." Namine gave her cousin a smile, just before she pulled Kairi into a bone-crushing hug.

"Umm...Namine-chan...can't breathe..." No more evidence was needed other than Kairi turning blue in her normally pale face.

"Forgive me. It's just...what are you doing here?" Kairi gave a huge smile, just like the one she was always used to.

"Okaa-san let me come to school here, and she offered to pay for everything just so I can hang out with you. You know nothing can keep us apart."

Namine slung an arm over her cousin's shoulder.

"I know that; sometimes, it's like we're half the same person..."

"Yeah, and even though I'm your best part, I think I saw your other half bump into you this morning..." Kairi said with a sly smile on her face.

"What do you mean?" Namine asked, with a totally clueless look on her face.

"I saw that boy you were walking with this morning...my, Namine-chan, you work fast..."

"Um...why do we keep adding honorifics to the ends of our names even though we're related?" Namine eagerly tried to change the topic.

"Don't change the subject Namine-chan. He certainly was cute, and you know his name too..." Kairi smirked in triumph while Namine hastily put away her packed items into their respective drawers.

"Iota-kun is a gentleman; so do not talk about him in such a matter." Namine gave Kairi a glare that only caused her to grin wider.

"Oh, so he is a gentleman?"

"Please stop that."

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"Roxas? Hello? Anyone home?"

Roxas snapped out of his trance to see his brother Sora rapping his knuckles on his skull. He slapped his fingers away and went back to staring out into space.

Sora sighed and ran a hand through his rebellious spiky hair. Roxas had been like that all afternoon, and he was getting frustrated along with Pence, Hayner, Axel, and Riku.

"He's probably thinking about that hot new girl he kept trying to flirt with this morning; you know blonde hair, blue eyes, and great legs. Got it memorized?" Axel smirked as Roxas snapped his head in his direction, a slight streak of red across his face.

"Don't talk about Wise-san like that."

"Oh, so you know her identity, eh Roxas?" Axel snickered, clearly enjoying the effect his words were having on the younger boy.

"Shut up Axel! Or else do I have to tell everyone about that crush you have on Bian—"

Axel slapped a hand over Roxas' mouth, glaring at him.

"You know nothing."

Roxas merely rolled his blue eyes and licked Axel's hand.

"Dude, you are way beyond gross Iota-kun." Axel wiped his hand against his torn khakis and jogged off in some random direction, every girl gazing longingly at his devishly bright red hair.

"Aren't there two new girls?" Riku asked thoughtfully as he sat next to Sora. Roxas only shrugged.

"Not like I can tell; I can never keep track with any of the girls here..."

"So is that why you are still single?" Pence asked innocently while Hayner, Sora, and Riku burst out laughing. Roxas only burned with anger as his face grew hot; he always hated being the center of everyone's attention.

"Shut up...it's not like I'm in love with a stupid camera..."

"Don't talk about Clarrisa like that!" Pence held his precious camera protectively against him.

"Jeez...that is way beyond creepy Pence." Hayner sweatdropped nervously, slowly scooting away from the raven-haired boy as he kept muttering, "My precious..."

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Namine yawned, obviously bored. Her first two periods were boring to the core, but the 2nd one still lasted an eternity...or at least until 5 minutes were up.

Kairi had been chatting with some of the local boys at once. Namine just waited in the corner of the hall while Kairi collected numbers. Kairi was always the most popular one at their old school, while Namine stood in the background.

"And that is the summary of what we'll be learning this year...you are now dismissed..." Matako-sensei finished the lecture at last, and everyone was practically flocking to the door to lunch. Namine sighed in relief, and made her way to her cousin who was waiting in the hall for her.

"That was boring, wasn't it Namine?"

"Yes, it was very unpleasant, but we'll have to put up with Matako-sensei's drone for the rest of the year..."

Before they knew it, they were in the cafeteria, where hundreds of students instinctively split off into different cliques and groups. A group of snobby-looking girls waved at Kairi, who nervously waved back.

"Okay, do you think we can make a quick getaway before they turn us into cheerleader zombies?" Kairi muttered out of the corner of her mouth.

Namine frowned, but then saw a familiar spiky-blonde head moving swiftly through the crowd, heading towards the courtyard just outside the doors.

"This way." Namine grabbed Kairi's hand, and pulled her away through a huge line and but through a few tables to get outside. The boy was sitting with a group of kids who were chatting casually, with a couple of girls teasing him about something.

"Oh, I see. It's the boy from this morning." Kairi smirked again, while Namine rolled her eyes.

"Um...Iota-kun?" Namine timidly spoke as the whole table turned their attention on the two girls.

"Wise-san! You came!" Roxas exclaimed a little too eagerly. The boys around continued to snicker, while he gave them a short glare.

"Um...anyway, welcome to our table." Roxas said, regaining his laid-back composure.

"Wow, so formal Roxas. Don't mind him; he can't help himself when he's around a pretty girl." A silver-haired boy said with beautiful green eyes.

"Anyway, you can eat with us." Roxas made room for the two girls to sit, and then proceeded to eat from their bento boxes.

"Anyway, I'm Roxas Iota as you know, and this is my twin brother Sora—" He pointed to Sora who was now staring openly at Kairi, who gave back a shy smile. "This is Riku Arima and Axel Asage—" The wild red-haired boy grinned at silver-haired Riku with an amused expression on his face.

"I'm Hayner Djibouti, and this is our camera-obsessed pal Pence." The other blonde-haired boy holding a camo-print skateboard locked under his arm nodded towards Pence who glared at him before giving them a friendly smile.

"And we're Olette and Selphie! Nice to meet you!" Two browned haired girls said in unison, while everyone stared at their obvious straightforwardness and hyperness.

"Please excuse them two, they're on a sugar high. How you like the school, sweet thangs?" Axel said smoothly; this resulted in three events happening:

Kairi giggling like mad.

Namine blushing severely.

Roxas and Sora looking so livid it looked like they were about to create a sizzling orifice in Axel's head with their eyes.

Riku bit back a laugh and looked Namine. The way she moved, her blonde hair, and pretty blue eyes struck something in him...

Whoa, hands off Riku. You have enough trouble with girls as it is.

Riku was reprimanding himself in his head, but all the while, he kept looking at Namine with a bit of something in his green orbs while she laughed with Olette, Selphie and Kairi.

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"Why'd you have to go and say that Axel!" Roxas was now yelling at Axel, getting red in the face, while Axel just laid back and laughed.

"How many times I gotta tell ya Roxas? You like this girl, take a dive! Got it memorized?" He poked at Roxas's temple, causing him to pout in disdain.

"Sure, I'll take the dive when you ask out Bianca-chan on a date."

Axel's face turned immediately into a frown.

"You know why I can't."

"No I don't Axel; you're too vague on the whole subject matter, and it makes my brain hurt like Hell."

"Didn't even know you had a brain."

"Don't change the subject."

Axel gave a look of anger on his face, and it was pointed directly at the subject of the whole conversation: Bianca Ikumi, black curls and bright amber eyes walking right towards them; the foreign-exchange-student-from-America-who's-totally-hott-in-Axel's-opinion girl, who spotted the said crusher and waved happily.

"Asage-san! Wait up!" The girl's high-pitched voice raised hairs on the back of Axel's neck, and he strode off in some random direction, leaving Bianca confused.

"Iota-kun, what's wrong with him? He's been ignoring me all week..." The amber-eyed female questioned Roxas, who bit back his tongue.

"Um...he's not feeling himself lately..."

"Is he sick?"

"Something like that..." Roxas shrugged his shoulders in an effort to look honest. Fortunately, Bianca bought it: hook, line, and sinker.

"Tell him I hope he feels better..." She walked off with a slightly hurt look on her face.

Hell yeah, he's sick Bianca. He's lovesick for a certain foreign-exchange student...

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Namine and Kairi walked back to the girls' dorms later that afternoon after all their classes. Kairi had been desperately keeping the male gold-diggers away from Namine and trying to avoid cheerleader preps at the same time for Namine's sake.

"I'm sorry you had to go through all that trouble Kairi. My apologies." Namine bowed, while Kairi looked on with an amused expression.

"Jeez, Namine. You're always so proper. You don't need to apologize to me. I'm your cousin and it's my job, no matter what." Kairi said happily as she pulled her reddish hair into a messy ponytail. Namine slumped on her bed, pulling out her sketchpad.

"Something that I like...something that I admire..." Namine muttered to herself as she tried to think of an idea for her art assignment.

"Iota-kun."

"Huh?" Namine looked up, surprised.

"He told me to tell you that he was going to come later with Olette and Riku to our room. He wants to get to know you better." Kairi said as she belly-flopped on her bed opposite from Namine's, stray strands of red flying around her face.

"I don't want to know him." The blonde-haired girl said stubbornly.

"Oh c'mon, he obviously likes you, why don't you give him a chance?"

"I refuse to act like I'm happy here. I hate this place Kairi. Mother never should have married Wise-san..." Namine struggled to keep her eyes on her sketchpad, her fingers flying across the paper, her eyes tearing up with anger and sadness.

"Namine!"

"I HATE THIS PLACE AND EVERYONE IN IT!" Namine made no move to stop her hands; her delicate fingers scratching so hard again against the coarse surface with her splintered pencil that her fingers were bleeding...

"NAMINE, STOP! You're hurting yourself!" Kairi grabbed her cousin's hands and held tissues against her bleeding fingers. Namine sat in tearful silence as Kairi wrapped her fingers tightly.

"Does that mean you hate me too?" Kairi said quietly as she put Namine's sketchpad on the shelf.

"Of course not Kairi."

"Then don't say things like that. Cry all you want, but don't try to tell me lies." Kairi said sternly as she sat next to her cousin.

"I'm sorry Kairi."

"Just give this place a chance. I can't change your parents, but I can help you make it better." Kairi pulled Namine towards her and gave her a hug, while Namine just sat there.

"You know, Mother doesn't even spare me a glance."

"Don't say that she doesn't care." Kairi pulled away and sat across from Namine. Namine sniffed as she looked down at her hands.

"It was Wise-san's idea to send me to the boarding school..."

"So? This school is neat..."

"They don't want me near the mansion, so that they can focus more on their work..."

"That doesn't mean they don't care..."

"But it sure as Hell feels like it..." Namine sighed and fell against her silk pillow, singing something under her breath.

Someday, I wish upon the light

To serve what I know is right

Will the day come I fall away?

Will my wish come?

Will the day come?

When I wake up for the first time

And we meet again?

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And do you love me too?

Roxas had come early.

And he heard everything.

The blonde-haired boy couldn't stop the hurt cutting into his heart, but he hurt for Namine when he heard her yells and her song. Her parents...

He looked down at the ground with saddened eyes, the blue faded.

Never had he hurt so much...

Namine...

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A/n Okay! This is chapter 2, so I hope you enjoyed it. Please review b/c they really help me and encourage me, so I need feedback. Oh yeah, I also advise everyone to go get KH2 b/c it is awesome. I already beat it (beginner's mode was hard!) and then you'll know more about the characters. I'm sorry if Roxas might seem a little OOC. Also, Horacio didn't appear in this chapter, but he'll appear in the next one. Bianca is based on me, and of course, I pair myself with Axel. He's just so hott!

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