The Moon and The Star
Written By: x-Oreo Neko-x
"Sometimes they come together
Sometimes each one alone
Moon sad under a starless sky
Star crying in a moonless night"
Last chappie (cries)
"That was so fun!" Olette exclaimed after their Karaoke game. Which involved Riku, Sora, and Ven to dance Barbie girl.
"It was soo obvious Kisho and Kuro were gonna win though!" Ven grinned at the two.
"Shut up!" Kisho blushed as he punched him in the arm.
"Ugh! I can't wait anymore, let's open presents!" Hayner complained as he pointed at the Christmas tree.
"Sure!" Joannu agreed. She and Sora went up towards the tree and handed everyone their ever so colorful presents.
"Here Sora, your gift!" Hayner handed Sora the gift because he forgot to put in under the tree.
"Thanks Hayner!" Sora unwrapped the gift and stared at it, "What am I gonna do with it though?" Sora raised an eyebrow as he stared at the box which contained cologne.
"So you can show Jin some of your good stuff of course!" Hayner grinned.
"Hey, what kind of good stuff?" Sora just stared at his friends in shock not wanting to know the truth.
"Hehe, you know what I mean!" Hayner joked.
On the other side with Joannu…
"Ooh, let's see what I got!" She smiled. She picked up an envelope that had in print, 'To: Jin Fr: Ven.' When the auburn haired girl pulled out what it contained she glared at it. It was a white card that had a cartoon Santa Clause on it saying 'Merry Christmas!'
"Umm…Ven," Joannu's eye twitched at the inconsiderate gift, "didn't you listen to the rules, the gift has to be twenty munny minimum!"
"Oh really, here then," Ven just handed her a twenty munny bill before going back to talk to Wakka.
Joannu just continued to sweat drop glare at the blonde boy until she felt a tap on her shoulder, "Huh?" She turned around to see a familiar brunette boy, "Hey Sora!"
"Hi Jin, umm…" Sora began to blush, "umm…this is for you," he pulled out a small baby blue box with a white ribbon tied around it.
Joannu opened the small gift and gasped, "Aww…Sora, you shouldn't have!" she gave a hug in thanks that made him melt inside.
The gift was a silver necklace that had a small blue heart-shaped pendant.(like the logo in the title of the game XD)
"I also have a gift for you!" Joannu also pulled out a small box wrapped in shiny red paper.
Sora quickly tore up the wrapping paper and opened the box to find a shiny silver crown chain. On the back of the chain was Sora's name engraved and below it in smaller font was 'from Jin.'
Sora stared in awe, "How much did this cost?"
"Believe me you wouldn't want to know!" she laughed, "Hey look up there!"
"Look up where?"
She pulled something out of her pocket and grinned, "Mistletoe!" she kissed Sora playfully on the lips, "Thanks again for the gift Sora!"
"You're welcome!" Sora smiled back as he pulled her in for another kiss.
On the other side of the room everyone was sitting on the couch opening their gifts.
"Cool, Joannu got me a fifty munny certificate to the music store!" Riku smiled.
"Holy crap! Sora got me two tickets to the next football game!" Ven exclaimed.
"Who are you gonna take?" Wakka asked hoping it was him.
"Is it gonna be Leiko?" Olette grinned.
"Maybe…" Ven blushed.
"Wow! This box is huge, you shouldn't have Wakka!" Olette smiled. As she opened he gift she frowned, "Seriously Wakka, you shouldn't have," she just continued to stare down at the Bliztball.
"Hey Olette, there's another gift for you. And it's from Hayner!" Kuro informed as she handed the tiny orange box.
"Really?" Olette stared at the blonde boy who just looked a way with a pink tint on his cheeks. She opened the small box with a huge smile plastered on her face. It was a silver ring with a emerald like crystal, "Thank you Hayner!" she couldn't help but just stare at the gift, she was so amazed.
"You're welcome…" Hayner blushed. Lucky for him no one noticed.
"I got a gift from Riku" Leiko looked at the boy as she read the name on the box. It was a box of expensive chocolates, "HOLY SHIT! Arigatoo, Riku!" Leiko smiled like a little child and everyone just dropped their jaw.
"No problem. I knew you'd love it!" Riku smiled back.
"Lei-Leiko smiled!!" Sora pointed out. "It's a Christmas miracle!!" Hayner fell to his knees and threw his hands to the heavens. Leiko and Riku sweatdropped as they smiled at each other.
Everyone just blinked.
"My gift is from Sora," Wakka unwrapped the gift and squealed like an anime schoolgirl, "It's an autographed Bliztball from the Besaid Aurochs!"
"Thanks for the memory card Leiko!" Pence smiled as he was already attaching it in his camera. "No problem, after all, you did needed one." She popped a chocolate into her mouth. "Want one?" She sat on the couch as both her and Pence ate the chocolates and looked at everyone else.
"You too Olette, this watch is awesome!" Hayner exclaimed. "What did you guys get?" Hayner asked as he stared at Kuro and Kisho.
"Oh my gift is from Kuro!" Kisho uncovered the huge box and gasped, "OH MY GOSH! Kuro are you effing serious?"
Kisho just kept staring at the customized skateboard. It was mostly an entire greenish grey on the back. It had splashes of dark grey dots and lines in the background with one thingy he didn't know what it was, but still liked it(The nobody emblem)
"Do you like it? I customized it especially for you. I mean…you did find my necklace for me and everything…" the girl couldn't help but blush.
"Like it? This gift is too awesome to be true! I think I'm dreaming, thanks Kuro!" Kisho smiled.
"You're welcome. Oh…my gift is from you too!" Kuro ripped the blue wrapping paper on the somewhat flat gift to find a white hard covered sketchbook with silver colored rings. Also along with the sketchbook was a brand new box of pencil crayons, "How did you afford this? This brand is…whoa, and same with the sketchbook!"
"I know…good thing it was on a Christmas sale!" Kisho laughed.
She flipped the book onto the first page and gasped once more with her hands hovering over her mouth.
It was a silent picturesque scene that was beautifully drawn and colored. The sketch was a peaceful Twilight Town and it's streets at night with just the street lamps lit up to provide light. It was a winter scene with light amount of snow falling light upon the town. Upon the dark blue midnight sky was just a single star shining above as the others were covered by the snow bearing clouds. In the lonely streets of the town were two people in the distance, walking together through the light blanket of snow. Kuro couldn't really make out who they were though; boy or girl, she didn't know.
"I-it's so b-beautiful!" She complimented the art. The others who also saw the picture were awestruck.
"Thanks," The grey haired boy blushed.
"Now that we've opened the gifts, let's party!" Ven exclaimed. Everyone agreed, but Kuro was still on the couch looking at the sketchbook. "He actually did found your necklace, wow- Grey pearl aren't those very expensive?" Leiko asked as she looked at the necklace Kisho had found. Kuro just nodded slowly still happy to death. "Meh, I was right then…" Leiko sat with her giving Kuro some chocolates.
"Kane I hope you pay me my 67 star bucks now…" Leiko thought.
"I can't believe he did all this…" she thought. Kuro began flipping through the pages, as she reached the last page she notice a message written in black ink.
Hello Kuro,
I hope you like what I gave you! It took me a long to time to find it you know. Hehe…Anyways, I know we started on the wrong foot and everything, and it's always one bad thing after another. I just hope we can stay friends and not enemies all the time so we can stop all the stupid arguments. You're a really great person, and a totally awesome artist. Again, I hope you like my gift for you.
Sincerely,
Kisho
She couldn't help but smile. Kuro let out a small laugh as she noticed the scribbled out word 'Love' before the word sincerely, "Couldn't he just use white out? Oh well, this makes him and his gift, cuter this way…wait did I just call Kane CUTE? Okay…"
Kuro shivered at the thought and soon joined her friends. She began getting lost with her recent memories with everyone in Twilight Town. The girl started feeling slightly bored as she stayed within the room because the only thing everyone did was talk and eat chocolates; then she noticed a certain skater across the room all lonely and what not with the same bored look on his face as her.
"Hey Kane," Kuro greeted as she sat down on the couch beside him.
"Hi Kuro," Kisho greeted back.
"I read the message on the back of the sketchbook. It was really sweet!" She smiled.
"Message? Oh yeah…that one," he blushed a little remembering his mistake but still smiled.
"Umm…Kisho?"
"Yeah?"
"Wanna go outside for a walk? I mean staying inside for too long is kind of getting boring!" she laughed.
Kisho noticed something about her laugh. Sure it sounded kind of cute to him, but it sure was going with his plan… "Sure."
The two got up and grabbed their coats and walked out the door.
"Ooh! I wonder where they're going!" Sora grinned.
"Yeah…we should leave them two alone though," Joannu smiled as she held Sora's hand.
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"Wow! It's so beautiful out here!" Kuro stated as she set foot on the snow covered ground.
"Yeah, it is…" Kisho added as he looked up into the clear night sky, the moon and the famous north star where the only ones out tonight. (This sudden change of moon and star filled sky is for the sake of the story so please bear with me)
"Hey Kane…" Kuro spoke softly.
"Yes," He looked down at the smaller girl.
"I know it's kind of sudden asking, but why did you run off at Yuffie's party last month?"
"Oh that…" Kisho stared down at the ground with a saddened expression.
"Umm…you don't have to answer if you don't want too… I was just curious."
"No, it's okay. I'll tell you," Roxas assured. "After all, you did gained Leiko's complete trust so she won't care if you knew- But probably would love you did." The boy looked back at the part to see his baby sister talking to Ven and Riku. "She only trusts them two after all, but as much as you"
"Wow," Kuro smiled at her friend's new gained trust and soon began listening to the story intently.
"See, it started when I was little, four I think. Anyways I had a childhood friend; then she told me one day that she was going to move away. I made a promise to a little girl that I'd meet her again, someday." Kisho smiled at the sky.
"P-promise?" Kuro thought.
"So years later, at ninth grade; I met another girl, her name was Kuroi. That's why I kind of got mad at the party…" He laughed as he told.
"And you liked her?" Kuro didn't know why, but she felt that same twinge of jealousy again.
"I guess you could say that…Anyway, sooner or later she became my girlfriend, and I told her everything; even the silly promise…" he smiled, "but Kuroi started noticing that I began distancing from her after a while. She knew it was because of the promise in my memories. Then one day, she just couldn't take it anymore. I never thought I'd see her cry so much…"
"I'm sorry Kane…" Kuro apologized.
"No, its okay, you have to hear the rest though," he assured, "so then, I guess you could say we broke up. Afterwards Seifer saw this as a chance to get her; I felt kind of jealous losing Kuroi to him, but if that's what makes her happy. Soon Kuroi left the school though, I didn't know what happen between her and Seifer, but I never saw her again after that day. Leiko promised to take care of me since then, you can say out roles towards each other where switched, I was the little brother now... The little weak brother…"
"Kisho…" Kuro frowned slightly.
"It's funny though, months later its sophomore year. And then you came along and made my life interesting." Kisho shoo his head and smiled at the least.
"Hey!" Kuro began glaring at him, "Oh yeah, you know that girl in you have a picture of in your wallet, is that her?"
"Yeah, the one with the hazel eyes and black hair," He said.
"Hmm…oh it's snowing!" Kuro looked up at the sky where the snow was falling ever so gently to the ground. She began twirling around like a little girl and laughed, "It's like magic!"
"Magic? Don't tell me you believe in that kind of stuff?" He smirked.
"As a matter a fact I do. I think fate is a kind of magic," she smiled back childishly.
"Fate?" Kisho couldn't help but smirk again. Oh his plan was going very well-
"Yeah, when two people meet, and they're meant for each other, I think it's fate!"
"That sounds like a fairytale."
"So what if it does? At least I have an imagination!"
"You're weird," He laughed and walked away.
"Hey, wait up!" Kuro quickly caught up to the blonde boy, "Kisho…"
"Yeah?"
"You said, you made a promise. To a girl when you were younger, right?" Kuro's expression turned into a slightly more serious one.
"Yeah, what about it," Kisho suddenly stopped in his tracks and looked at her. In his mind he did a happy dance.
"Well…when I was younger, I also made a promise to a little boy who was also my childhood friend. I told him someday, we'll meet again."
"Is that all you're worried about?" Kisho grinned.
"Huh?"
"Well don't worry, 'cause-"
He suddenly grabbed her and pulled her in for a soft kiss.
Kuro's eyes widened in shock; usually she would pull away and slap him, but she couldn't help but give into the kiss. She slowly closed her eyes as she felt the warmth of his lips.
Kisho suddenly pulled away blushing, shortening the passionate kiss, "I've think you found him."
Kuro linked one, and then twice before she cried tears and smacked him repeatedly everywhere she could.
"Idiot, I tell you this and you make fun!" She smacked his head. "Hey- Hey, I'm serious!" Kisho yelled through the crying and slapping. She stopped. "What-"
"When I found your necklace, and researched some stuff I came upon a whole dam book about the history of the grey pearl." He whined when he said book. Which was really only one page. "And since those things where only sold in another country, and for high prices." He went on and on about the export and all.
"Will you get to the point al ready?!" She cried out.
"Okay, okay." Kisho sighed out. "Leiko was the only one to notice since day one- She came by my room some nights back and said how much of a bitch I was and such a fucker for kissing you." Kisho gulped. "I tell you, if she had something in hand I would be in comma right now!"
"But to make things shorter… You two?" She asked.
"After a while of talking and me getting punched in the gut by her, it hit me like a ton of bricks no pun intended. I now own her my new found love, and 67 star bucks' vanilla beans." He hugged her close.
"Uhh, you're such a little liar to say Leiko told you that." She glared.
"What you don't believe me?!"
"No."
"Oh for the love of- Kuro I'm…" She kissed him.
Inside the whole group looked out to the teens and most smiled others whine about Sora and Kisho being so lucky. Leiko walked next to her sister. "Meh, it worked?" Joannu looked at her confused. "What worked?"
"Something..." Leiko laughed. "After all I made a promise to Kane."
"Ahh, aren't they cute!?" Olette smiled.
"Ya, they would make nice kids too" Wakka laughed.
"Wakka you're killing their mood!" Riku sighed out.
"Yeah! Can't you see I'm enjoying the moment too!?" Hayner added.
"Will everyone just shut up!" Ven cried out.
And the end, I decided to leave it at that since my cat is typing… no joke there, he's sitting in the Keyboard… That's Roxas to ya (yep that's my cat's name, Roxas XD check my DeviantArt profile to see him if you want)
About the characters being mixed up badly at the beginning or the chapters before this one- I don't work with more than 3 or 2 characters at a time and I myself get confused… Well then I hope you understand my reason to leave it at this ending with Ven yelling lol…