Our Beloved Romance
Summary: When Sora dumps Kairi, it enrages Namine. She tries to comfort Kairi, when something completely unexpected happens. Kairi x Namine. Contains Yuri. Namine's POV.
Author's Note: This is my first fanfiction. Constructive criticism would be nice, as it would help me make my writing better.
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or its characters. Sadly, I make no profit.
Beta'd by: RukiRomance
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Chapter 2: A Forgotten Beauty
"Keep your eyes closed. We're almost there," Kairi whispered into my ear, which gave me chills all throughout my petite body.
"Do I have a choice?" I asked sarcastically. The only reason I listened to the cute redhead leading the way was because she covered my eyes with her hands, blocking my view. Her hands were so soft, so I didn't mind that she was touching my face.
When we got there and she uncovered my eyes, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It was so beautiful, like we weren't even on the Destiny Islands anymore, and Destiny Islands is a beautiful place to live. We were in a meadow, filled with daisies, and in the middle was the most beautiful sakura blossom I've ever seen. Well, the only one, but it was really pretty.
"When you said I'd like it, you weren't kidding, Kai," I exclaimed with a grin, kissing her cheek.
We went over to the sakura blossom, and realized someone was under it. When I noticed who it was, I was shocked. Mostly because of when I last saw her.
"Yuffie?" Kairi called out. When she looked towards us, she got up extremely quickly and almost fell over from light-headedness.
"Kairi! Namine! How long has it been, nearly five years now?" Yuffie was overjoyed to see us, since the last time we saw each other was, like Yuffie said, almost five years ago. She had short, straight black hair, chocolate-colored eyes, and was about an inch taller than Kairi. Looks like she gets more and more hyper every time we see each other, but that just adds to the fun.
"How long have you been here?" I asked with a huge grin directed to the short-haired ninja in front of us.
"I just got back. Hangin' out here was my favorite thing to do here, so I thought I would just come here for a bit before I came to see you guys. I mean, I love nature, and you can't get much better than this. Damn you, whoever thought of industrialization. Sorry if that's a bit selfish."
"Yeah. It sure is beautiful, right?" I said this, looking at Kairi thankfully. "This is actually my first time here. But wow, is it even possible for something to be so wondrous? I think you guys found the 8th wonder of the world."
The three of us spent an hour or two reminiscing. We met in 3rd grade, and instantly became friends. When I introduced her to Kairi, the three of hung out every day, just like now. When Yuffie's dad had to move to Twilight Town for business about five years ago, Yuffie had to go with him, since she didn't have any relatives here. Both me and Kairi offered her to live with us, but she said it would be better to just go with him, and that she would move back when she could. It's been so boring without her hyper-activeness, but we got used to it, somehow. But now, she was 17, a year older than us, and her dad let her move back if she wanted, so she did. Her dad made her promise to come back and visit, but she didn't have a problem with that. According to her, she already found a job or two she might be interested in, and has an interview tomorrow. Yuffie's dad was awesome, trust me. He didn't care what we did, as long as we didn't get hurt, and it was legal. After all, we did have a bad habit to get into trouble. That is why he always supervised us.
Right before she headed to the main town to tell everyone else she was back, she said something completely unexpected. "Well, have a nice date you two." She said this in a joking matter, followed by a wink, but we could tell she was serious. She was out of sight seconds after that, so we were left standing there, shocked. I couldn't move. Leave it to her to find out all of our secrets the first day she sees us again.
"Uh. How did she know?" Kairi somehow managed to say after a few minutes of standing there, speechless. She was just as shocked as me, by the looks of it. We were just standing under the sakura blossom, so still that we could've been mistaken for statues. How did she know? Did she see me kiss Kairi? No, she would have gotten our attention if she did. Wouldn't she have? I don't know anymore. I'm so confused. Whatever. I really don't care anymore. Maybe that's because my head is starting to hurt from all this thinking. Maybe it's because in reality, I really don't care if she knows. God, I hate this. I am now shutting you off, brain.
"I... don't know. Well, at least she's back, right?" that was more important, knowing that she was back in our lives.When she nodded in agreement, she said, "I guess. She had better knock that off, though."
We sat down next to each other, leaning against the sakura blossom, close enough to where I could feel the heat radiating off of Kairi's body. I leaned my head on her shoulder and put my arms around her waist. As I did this, she put her arm around my shoulder, pulling me even closer, if that was possible. I closed my eyes, feeling her lips gently press down on my head, and sighed. We sat there like this for hours, though I could stay just like this forever. If Kairi was with me, that is.
"Thanks for bringing me here," I whispered to the beautiful red-head next to me. I looked at her beautiful face, only to notice that something seemed wrong, and anyone's guess would be that breaking up with Sora was really taking a toll on her. "Hey, are you okay? Is Sora still bothering you? Tell me the truth."
"A little. But I don't want to talk about it right now. Can we just enjoy this time we have together, please?" she pleaded, which I obliged to.
We were silent for a couple of minutes. I wish I could do something. I decided to position myself to where I was looking into her eyes, and kiss her, hoping she would understand that I was trying to cheer her up. It lasted about two minutes before she decided to push me away. Please, Kairi, let me help you through this. Cheer up. It's killing me, seeing you so depressed. I thought she was pushing me away, distancing herself from me. It turns out she was only pulling me closer.
"Namine," she was crying into my chest. "Thanks for cheering me up. I love you, and I know you love me, too. You bring me comfort when I feel like nothing can help. You always know what to do when I feel down, and I need to thank you somehow," she wasn't crying as bad anymore. I wiped her tears away as I looked directly into her cerulean eyes, seeing what I thought to be hope and happiness. Is she crying because she's hap-? I couldn't even finish this thought before she kissed me. This time was different somehow, but I couldn't put my finger on why. But different isn't always bad.
"Kairi," all I could say at the time was her name. I worry about you more than you think. Just tell me what's bothering you. This is what I want to say, but it won't come out of my mouth.
She pushed away from me to look into my eyes. "Yeah?" she wasn't upset anymore. I lunged myself forward, hugging her tight enough to where I thought I was suffocating her. As I did this, she ended up falling onto her back, dragging me down with her.
"Oh! Sorry. I didn't mean to- um... uh," I said, blushing to where I almost matched the color of Kairi's dark, crimson hair, choking up when I realized the position we're in.
"What? Don't you wanna be on top?" she asked jokingly. I was deciding whether I wanted to kiss her of get off of her. I chose to get off of her, since this was just going too fast. As I got off of her, she sat up and asked what was wrong.
"Nothing. This is going a bit too fast, that's all," was my reply.
"What about last night? We slept together," she pointed out. When I said that it was an accident when I fell asleep, she understood what I was saying. "Oh, I got it. This is completely different than that, anyways," she said smiling.
I was sitting on my knees, my hands on the ground directly in front of me so I was leaning towards my little redheaded angel, who fell onto her back and said, "Hey, Nami, lay with me?"
"Okay," I said as I laid down next to her. She rolled onto her side to look at me. When I did the same, I got the butterflies I had when I first saw her all those years ago. The ocean-like shade of cerulean that were always present in her beautiful eyes were as enchanting as ever. The way her crimson hair cascaded down her shoulder onto her chest was outrageously cute. I couldn't help but move a bit closer to her. I never wanted to leave her side. We ended up lying on our backs, turning our heads toward each other. I grabbed her hand, mostly because it was so soft. When she smiled and moved closer, I wondered how Sora could ever treat Kairi the way he did. She's never mean, even if she hates that person. She loves everybody. How could he treat someone who loved you unconditionally like Kairi so horribly? He makes me so mad.
We lay there, silently, staring into each others' eyes for what must have been a couple hours, because when we finally came to and realized how dark it was, we were extremely shocked. On the way home, she asked if I wanted to stay over. "Sure. How could I not," I replied with a huge grin.
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