Two updates in one night? Yep! this is to push along this story and to make up for not having a chapter for a month! this one is a nice 1,016 words so i'm happy.


Namine POV

I feel to my knees as I watched him run away. Until he was gone, I didn't realize just how much I really needed him until I watched his retreating form shrink smaller and smaller until he disappeared.

"Namine…come on inside, you're gonna get sick." Axel placed his hand lightly on my shoulder, but I jumped up and started running after Roxas. My brother was calling out to me, but I just kept running.

He was the second important person in my life to leave me. Sora, my previous boyfriend, had to be killed. Then Roxas, who I was starting to really care about, runs off. It was all my fault too.

As I was running, I tripped over something and just didn't have the strength or determination to lift myself back up. The leaves around me were rustling, probably from the zombies that were surely coming for me.

"Are you alright?" I felt Axel's heavy hand on mine as he pulled me up.

I looked to the ground to see what I had tripped on. It was a body. Vexen's body. And right there, on his neck, glowing in the pure light of the moon, was Roxas' necklace. I gingerly picked it up in my hands and tied it around my neck.

Whether it was from stress or the irony of the situation, I started laughing hysterically, and tears were falling from my eyes. I collapsed to my knees again and Axel picked me up and walked me back to the apartment.

The next thing I remembered was waking up to sunlight filtering through the window. It warmed and comforted me, but I was still depressed. I sat up from the couch I was sleeping on and rubbed my eyes to wake myself up. Axel was sitting alone on a couch opposite of mine and thinking, or at least it looked like he was thinking.

I pulled a granola bar out of my bag and ate it before I stood up.

"Come on Axel, we need to keep moving." I kept my voice straight and serious. Axel was still there for me and we had to get to that camp.

"Yeah, we should go." He agreed.

We walked out of the building and down our path without saying a word.

When nightfall came, we had nowhere to go; we were in the middle of a forest. Axel was setting the gasoline for the '9 rings of hell' and I was blasting zombies to protect them. I was using a shotgun which would've been heavy, had I not gained any strength from using it before.

The heads of the zombies exploded when I got a headshot, which was actually pretty funny. I wondered if I had gained Roxas' messed up sense of humor from spending weeks traveling with him. When I thought of him my spirits dropped and I absentmindedly rubbed the 'X' symbol of the pendant.

Finally, Axel finished his little project and lit it on fire and we were protected.

"Hey, Axel, do you think that Roxas is okay?" I asked as we sat in the circle.

"Yeah. He seems like the type to survive just about anything." He smirked and my spirits were brought up a little.

I laid on my side to make it seem like I was going to go to sleep, but really, I just wanted to be alone.

The words he spoke before he left killed me. "There is no 'us', Namine. You were just a traveling partner for me and nothing more." I wondered if that was how he really felt, or if he just said that because he was angry. I had really started to feel something for him, something stronger than what I had with even Sora. But if I was really just his 'traveling partner and nothing more', what were all of the kisses, the hugs, the laughs, the flower? Were those just nonsensical whims on his part? Were they just impulsive things to keep me with him as a 'traveling partner'?

Again I rubbed the necklace.

"Good night, Roxas." I whispered. I felt a few tears slowly make their way down my cheek, dead leaves falling gracefully from a weeping tree.

The next morning, Axel and I set out again. Just like the day before, conversation was light between us, but this time it really wasn't uncomfortable. I was leaning against Axel's tall, thin frame and he had his arm around my shoulders. It could've been the cover of a Hallmark card.

In the center of a clearing we were passing through was a large factory. It was all white, although it was dirty from not being kept up for a year or so. The windows were dusty and some were broken, while the sign that hung on the factory was tilting and in danger of falling.

Axel tilted his head to read it.

"Shinra Company Mako and Chemical Treatment Plant." He read. "I wonder why it's here in the woods."

"I don't know…. Hey, do you think we could camp out in there tonight? It's getting dark." I asked him.

He rubbed his red mane before answering. "I don't see why not." Axel shrugged his shoulders and began walking towards the building.

A few hours later we heard the first zombie enter the building through a window. They must've been attracted to the light we managed to turn on in the chemical plant.

Soon, more and more entered and we began to get surrounded. I shot off my shot gun and ended up blasting a barrel of chemicals. Luckily it didn't catch on fire.

I must've jinxed us, because Axel accidently dropped his lighter and set the chemicals ablaze, which caused the biggest explosion I've ever seen. And I saw a lot when Axel lived with my parents and I.

That one blast ended up setting off the rest of the barrels and tanks of chemicals and the whole building burst into flames. That's when I actually thought I would die. The only image going through my mind was Roxas' face.


In this chapter i mentioned that nami and roxas had been together for weeks. i know i hadn't really made timing clear in this story, but i will now. Roxas and Namine had been together for about 2 weeks prior to meeting axel. they were together for 3 more weeks after that, and then roxas left at the beginning of week 6. sorry for the confusion!

I really like this one, and i hope you do to! so review to tell me if you like it or not please!

the song for this chapter is Missing You by Yoko Shimomura (the composer of the KH music, i love her!)