Night Lights
The sun was going down now and the air began to cool, but nothing could erase the heat from the events of earlier that afternoon. The clock on the wall ticked slowly, tick… tock…, as the two sat silently with their stiff friend. The boy was kneeling and kept his gaze on his immobile friend, while keeping his cool. The girl on the other hand, sat with her legs crossed lotus/Indian style and her arms folded squarely across her chest, her left pointer finger tapping impatiently on her right arm and her eyes darted dangerously from the boy lying motionless on the floor to the one sitting before her.
Finally the chime on the clock went off, drawing the attention of the two from their fidgeting. 6:00 pm… Kairi thought with worry, that's it I'm going after them. She stood up to leave when Riku held up his hand to stop her.
"What?" she asked impatiently. "Look, I know you don't want me to rush after them but it's already 6:00 and…" but he held up his hand to silence her again and said, "They're here."
And at that exact moment, a black hole appeared behind her along with a sudden gust of wind. She tried to turn around to face the hole but was blown forward into Sora, who was blown into Riku, and in the end the three of them ended up in one awkward pile on the floor.
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"Oh fudge; we didn't make a very smooth landing, did we?" Hayner started, slapping a hand to his forehead. "Hayner!" Olette hissed. "Watch your mouth!" she said smacking the back of his head. "Ouch." Pence sighed hopelessly as the two began to argue. Here we go again…
"Man, those two just don't know when to quit." Axel commented dryly. "They're made for each other." He added more enthusiastically this time. Pence, Roxas, and Namine all giggled at this. So true. "Hey Namine, isn't it about time you wake Sora up?" Axel reminded her. "Oh yeah…" Namine said thoughtfully. "Right then, wake up Sora!" she called sweetly. At her call, Sora stirred.
Sora lay on his belly and blinked sleepily as he finally began to wake. What the heck happened… he thought dreamily as he pushed himself up slowly. He looked around the room trying to remember where he was when he noticed a strange and unfamiliar feeling where he lay. Then he heard a soft groan from below him. No, it wasn't below him, it was under him. Something or somebody was lying under him. He was fully awake now, and looked down slowly to what horror he would find.
But he didn't meet one.
Instead, he found himself face to face with his dear friend Kairi, who was facing forward to him, but her back was laid across Riku's so that they made a sort of cross shape. Riku growled quietly in pain while Kairi just stared at Sora as though she couldn't believe what she was seeing. Sora kept his arms stiff in push-up form and shut his eyes to brace himself for a slap, but he didn't get one.
Then he felt arms suddenly grasping around his torso and was pulled down into a tight embrace. Sora felt like he was suffocating, but Kairi just held onto him and exclaimed, "Sora, thank goodness, you're okay!!" Then she squeezed him even tighter. Sora felt the air quickly escaping him while Riku groaned in pain at the weight of the two. And I thought they were light… Man they need to cut back on the paopu fruit. He thought tiredly. Meanwhile, the other six were howling with laughter. Damn town brats… Sora and Riku thought both flushing red. How embarrassing.
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When Sora started turning purple and Riku looked like his spine might give out, the viewers from Twilight Town finally jumped in to help. Roxas ripped Sora from Kairi's grasp, Sora wheezing heavily, while Olette and Namine helped Kairi up, and Riku was massaged by Hayner and Pence before Axel finally helped him up. Then they all headed out to the beach and hung out along the shore in the last bits of light and when the first star appeared in the sky Roxas checked the time on his watch.
7:03 now, eh? He thought sadly. They would have to leave now if they wanted to catch the meteor shower. So he stood up slowly, turned to his friends and said "Well, today was fun but if we want to get home in time for the meteor shower we have to leave now." Hayner, Pence, and Olette crawled to Roxas on their knees and begged him to stay longer like he was the strict father and they were his children. But Roxas didn't give in to them and in the end they all stood and got ready to go.
They packed some paopu fruit with them, promised to visit soon, and when Namine had made sure that Sora was ok, they said their goodbyes and disappeared through the black hole once again.
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When they returned to Twilight Town it was already 7:30 and they still needed to decide where they were going to watch. After arguing about whether they should watch from the mansion or the station tower, they decided on watching from Sunset Hill. Except now it was 7:40. They could only hope that the train would go fast enough so that they could still get some snacks. Unfortunately, it didn't.
But it was fine with Hayner, Roxas, and Axel that the train didn't go as fast because it meant that they had an excuse not to buy super nice food for the girls and Pence. They ended up buying snacks on the train anyway so it didn't matter. It was 7:51 when they reached the station so they didn't have time to waste hunting for food.
By the time they had reached Sunset Hill, it was 7:57 and all that was left now was to split the food and decide on a spot. They still had the paopu fruit but, they would each have to share one if they still wanted to save some for another time. So they had a quick argument about pairs, then chose seating arrangements, and finally settled down in their spots.
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The pairs were perfect for each other. Since Axel and Pence mostly cared about eating they got along fine. Hayner and Olette would have seemed like a rough pair for this evening, but Olette soon warmed up to him and let Hayner escort her to their spot. The last pair was Roxas and Namine. At first things were awkward between the two, but the tension broke soon enough.
As the two sat together on a ledge next to the houses they talked for awhile and ate. Then Roxas checked his watch once more. He would have frowned because the clock read 8:05 but before he could, Namine suddenly grasped his hand and tugged on it, and then told him to look up at the sky.
He peered up for a moment and saw the great little lights streak across the black night sky. Then Namine said, "Make a wish." And she let go of his hand to clasp both of hers together, as she closed her eyes and made a wish. Roxas peeked up the sky and then he looked back at Namine. Never had he seen her look more radiant than she did tonight. He thought of how beautiful she looked and then he closed his eyes and finally made a wish: I wish for Namine to be happy.
He was forced to open his eyes again when Namine shook him. "Roxas, hello, earth to Roxas." She said a little worriedly. His eyes flickered open and he seemed almost in a daze. "Huh? Oh, sorry. I must've been wishing too hard." He said jokingly. Namine stared at him and then a smile spread across her face. "So what did you wish for?" she asked teasingly. He flushed for second. How was he going to answer that question? It was way too embarrassing.
He thought about how he would answer and decided that the truth would be best. It's Namine, she'd know if I was lying anyway. She is a witch. Not like I think about her that way. He thought with a sigh. Then he said, "I wished for everyone to be happy." Alright, so it's not the whole truth but it still is part of the truth. He thought feeling slightly ashamed. Namine smiled at this and surprised him by saying, "You're lying. You wished for me to be happy." Roxas was stunned.
"How did you know?" he asked totally shocked. She smiled again and leaned into him and whispered in his ear, "Because I'm a witch, remember?" she pulled back giggling. Her breath tickled his ear and he blushed even more. She had been so close and she knew exactly what he was thinking. Then she took out the paopu fruit, split it in half, and gave one half while she began to eat the other.
They stared up at the sky eating their fruit when Namine spoke again. "Y'know, on the Destiny Islands they say…" "That if two people share the paopu fruit it binds you together?" Roxas cut in. Namine blinked and then said, "Yes that's exactly what they say." She finished her fruit then scooted closer to him. "Hey Roxas, I had a lot of fun today." She said quietly resting her head on his shoulder. He looked down at her, a small smile spreading across his face. Then he finished his fruit up too, and scooted close enough to her so that the gap between them was gone. Then he put his arm around her shoulder, leaned in close, and whispered, "Me too, Namine."
33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 Somewhere, in the Destiny Islands sat Sora, Riku, and Kairi. That night, they too, were watching the same meteor shower. They all made wishes and talked and were having a good time. The three were also eating paopu fruit. They were just relaxing under the star sprinkled sky. Kairi sat in between Riku and Sora and they all thought about the gang in Twilight Town. "We sure do have some weird friends." Sora commented, lazily chewing up his paopu fruit. "We really do." Kairi nodded off blankly. "Mm…" Riku mumbled in agreement.
"But today was weird too," Sora added casually, "what did happen exact-""Enough Sora, just shut up and eat your paopu fruit." Riku butt in irritated by Sora's curiosity. No way was he going to explain what happened after he passed out and show how worried he was about him. "Oh yeah? Well say that again!" Sora shot back getting pumped up. Kairi sighed and thought to herself, There they go again. Oh well, no need to worry. I'm just glad that everything's back to normal. And she listened to the two argue all through the night, while wishing on every shooting star she saw of for everyone's happiness.
The End.
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Note: Well everyone, it was hard but I finally completed my first fanfic. Yay!! Thank you so much for all the great reviews. They were great. I'm not sure what I'm gonna do for my next story but I have a few other Kingdom Hearts stories in mind so be on the lookout. Sorry if it was too long and if the ending sucks. I suck at writing endings. And this last chapter was especially hard since I had to make the ending pretty and nice so I had rough time with that. Once again, thanks for the reviews. I know I have bad grammar and I repeat a lot of words and whole bunch of other things, so if you have any tips please tell me. And since this is the last chapter I hope you'll do me the favor of giving me some last reviews for this story. I won't be able to fix my stories if I don't have feedback so please review. Thank you to those who have kept on reading my story and I hope to hear from you again in my next fanfic. 'Til then, this is goodbye for now. So thank you, goodbye, and please review. Sigh, I repeat myself too much.