Disclaimer: My disclaimer crew ran off and found jobs with other authors...-- I feel so abandoned...Why do you think I hired the DISCLAIMER crew in the first place? Hmmm...I wonder? Also, I don't own the Angelican language I use here, all credit goes to Breta Moore.(I'm sure there's others...I just used hers because hers is awesome and it's all japanese-y...and she's a personal friend of mine and I'm sure she wouldn't mind) Oh! I don't own How to Save a Life, either. That song is so awesome...and...sad...
Thanks to Numina-Namine, babyangelwintergirl, Ellie,(just going to shorten your name. Numbers were so last year. :P Just kidding!) Chukobher, Oathkeeper, and Chibi Minomoto! And of course, the readers who decide to stay anonymous.
Yeah, Chibi Minomoto is right. There is way too much going on. But most of it's not important. Just the stuff that I keep repeating over and over.(i.e. Roxas being an angel/machine...things that I mention almost every single chapter) and stuff that I mention once or twice(i.e. Tifa, Mizu no Akashi, Sephiroth, Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo...etc.) isn't important.
The only characters that are important to this story are Sora, Kairi, Nami-hime, and Roxas. No one else makes it...besides Tifa...and Axel...(but they don't count because they're not important in this story)
Does anyone know who's missing from the character list? I do! I mean, I'm with you guys, no KH story can be a KH story without him! Well, technically, he's made a cameo but its so brief you guys probably didn't even notice it. (I hint everything in my stories. You just have to really hide in the bushes and wait for it to pop out)
Angels in Flight: Towa no Shirube
Chapter 16: Every Angel Has Their Wings
(Roxas' POV)
"Home?" Naminé asked me. Not only did I consider this place my home, it also was overflowing with holy power, even more so than Mizu no Akashi. I felt strengthened and tranquil here. I wondered if Naminé felt like that.
"Yeah. This is the place where Sora and I would go when we needed that void in our lives to be filled." I said, then explained, "Our mother was gone, so neither of us had felt a mother's love. Our motherly figure lives in this home. I can't wait until you meet her, Naminé!" I couldn't contain my smile, and mine made her smile, too.
"She sounds like a wonderful person, Roxas!" She chirped, and I walked into my home for the first time in three years. I never had known them to reject me before, this side of my family always accepted me with open arms. I couldn't wait until I saw her again!
When I got inside, we were immediately greeted by many members of my family. Of course, they all kind of backed away when she came running up to me and hugged me.
"Roxas! How are you? I haven't seen you in so long! We got worried!" Ashe wasn't that older than me, being only 35. It sounds like a lot, but we were 19 years apart. Ashe did have a husband that I venerated and sometimes even looked up to as a second father. I just idolized this side of my family, and so did Sora.
"I'm feeling better, Ashe. I want you all to meet someone..." I looked behind me and Naminé was hiding behind me. I guess she didn't want my family to crowd her. I stepped aside and she blushed and bowed. "...Princess Tsugare Naminé...the girl that I love." I said it. Finally. Finally, I said the 'l' word with no strings attached. It felt great, but I knew it wasn't true. For the most part, anyway.
"N-Nice to meet you." She said shyly, and I was about to tell her to be open(because us Hikari were very...loving and compassionate people. That was so ironic...) but all my family hugged her and introduced themselves and the whole nine yards. I could see that Naminé was flustered and a little overwhelmed.
"Let me introduce her to you all." I said, clearing my throat so they would back off. They all got into a straight line. "Alright, first is Ashe. She's like my second mother, the woman I was telling you about." Naminé smiled politely at her and Ashe just grinned back. "Then there's her husband, Rasler." They both exchanged 'Nice to meet yous' before I continued.
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After I had finished introducing everyone to her, everyone went and prepared the biggest meal they could. They told us we would have to wait, and neither of us minded much. Of course, Ashe stayed behind to talk to us. "Pleasure to meet you, Naminé. So, Roxas, what's the reason for coming here? And bringing your lover and not your twin? Something's up." I decided to just let the 'lover' comment go(although it had been the...what? Fifth time this week that someone made a comment like that?) and tell her the whole story.
"..." I told her everything. Not the angel or machine part, that she already knew. But I summed up everything she didn't know, such as the keyblades and my brother. "I came here because I need the Oblivion to get stronger..."
"Oh, poor Ut- um...Sora...he did that to save his girlfriend who got revived anyway..." Ashe was looking a little teary-eyed. "Well, if you want the Oblivion, we'll give it to you after our meal. We don't want you running off again." She said and smiled warmly, walking away.
"This place seems less hostile than any other place I've been...I feel like I'm holding an angel feather." Naminé sighed dreamily. "So serene and tranquil..."
"I feel like that, too. I'll show you around." She linked arms with me and I went up to the tower, the highest point in the mansion, and also it was my favorite. Once we got up there, Naminé's eyes nearly bulged out of her sockets.
"The view here is so pretty!" She sighed again. "I wish time could just stop sometimes. Wouldn't it be lovely if we could stay like this forever?"
"Nothing lasts forever, Naminé." I said, but didn't want to be a raincloud so I added, "You should see the view here when the stars and the moon are out. It's beautiful. Almost as much as you are, Naminé." She stared at me like I did something wrong. "What? Is-is something on my face?" I began to feel my face for any irregularities that might make it even more uglier than it was to begin with.
"Don't change the subject, Roxas!" She shouted, and I flinched. I almost expected her to hit me. That's how mad she sounded. "H-How could you say that?" Naminé bit her lip and her eyes were brimming with tears.
'What did I say now?' I asked myself, and my systems were already scanning the whole situation. Scanning...12 percent complete... 'Go faster!' I mentally screamed, but kept my cool on the outside while I was a raging fireball of a wreck on the inside. Naminé crying over me? No. No, no, no. Don't you remember when I said that whoever made her cry would pay? Yeah, well, I seriously meant no one would make her cry and not get away with it. Not even me.
"How could say that nothing is eternal? Roxas, that isn't true! You, of all people, should realize that!" She was mad. Really, mad. What to say? What to say? 'Go FASTER!' I mentally yelled, keeping a calm demeanor on the outside, and having a temper tantrum on the inside. Only because yelling and screaming is an illogical and slow way of dealing with things. "Well, maybe you wouldn't, because you CAN'T love!" Oh. Burn.
"There's a reason everyone wants love so badly." There the tears went. "It's because it's the closest thing to eternity that we have, and I really believe that if you love someone enough, someone, anyone...they'll hear you, and they'll make you stay together forever!" Naminé looked back up at the sky.
"It sounds stupid, especially to a person who is incapable of feeling, but those words I will never regret! Maybe the one thing I want more than that..." Naminé looked back at me and before I could brush away her tears she did it for herself. "...is getting love from you, Roxas." I was speechless. 98 percent complete...
"I'm sorry, Naminé. I didn't know. I didn't know the thought of eternity appealed so much to you." I said, and she bopped me over the head with her fist. "Ow!" I placed my hands over my head and rubbed it. She hit hard! And she said she was weak...
"Were you just listening to ANYTHING I just said, Roxas Hikari?!?" Using the last name. Not a good sign. "Eternity doesn't appeal to me! Getting love from you does!" She took a frustrated sigh and turned away from me. "But that'll never happen..." She said meekly, probably thinking I couldn't hear her. Of course I could, but I didn't know what to say! Scan complete. Retrieving results...1 percent complete... I decided not to wait for my sensors and just use my common sense.
"Naminé..." I knew what I could do! I held out my hands and calmed myself down. I just needed to recreate the image in my head...the beautiful sunset. I didn't know if I could do something like this on a large scale like I was doing now, so I cracked opened an eye to look. Perfect.
Goldenrods and saffrons splashed the pink-hued sky, right above the glowing orange orb we call 'the sun'. "It's so beautiful..." Naminé said, and she looked at me. "Roxas! You look pale!" I felt...well, you know what I mean...but I didn't feel very well. Probably because I used my light powers at such a length that I made everyone see the image of the sunset. "Don't go to such lengths to please me! That's just another one of your flaws! Now, revert the sky back to the way it was and feel better!"
"But Naminé..." I was clutching onto the banister to keep my balance. I couldn't keep the image up for long. "...making you happy is my goal. Just enjoy it, okay?" She didn't understand that I had to go to extreme lengths to do something drastic such as recreating the image of the sunset or...going into Final, Master, Valor or Wisdom Forms...or anything else, really. Anything that made her happy I had to really hurt myself to do.
"It is very pretty, Roxas...but don't strain yourself just for me!" Naminé said, looking back at the sunset and smiling. "...Don't create something false. Then I'll always live in a dream and when I wake up, reality'll hit me really hard." I did as she requested and the sky reverted back it's cloudy-and-sunny state. I immediately felt better.
"Something wrong?" I asked, and Naminé took a very long time to answer. When she looked at me, she had a serious face on.
"I was just thinking...of what Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo said. They said that I'm living in a dream of where you feeling is actually a possibility. They said that I just love you because I'm just hanging onto that hope. When I wake up...there'll be nothing left for me to hang on anymore. I'll realize that you'll never love me and when you DO finally get reprogrammed to protect some other girl...I won't love you anymore. They told me that it was just a juvenile love and nothing more than that..." Naminé said, leaning against the banister and her arms hanging out and reaching towards the ground. "But that's just it...if this is a dream...I never want to wake up from it. And like you yourself said...nothing lasts forever. If you, a machine that cannot say anything false, is telling me that, then it must be true."
I opened my mouth, but closed it. I saw the tears glistening in her eyes. It would be best not to say anything. I just took a step toward her and drew her into a hug. She started to cry again, and I just wanted to shoot myself.
"To make it up to you...since I failed to protect you...I'll grant you one wish. It can be anything. Anything at all." I said, hoping she didn't wish for the impossible. Even if she did, I'd find some way. I would.
"Anything?" She sniffed, and I nodded. I could see Naminé was depressed. Maybe that was why she was thinking all these morbid thoughts when I told her not to listen to those stupid triplets. When I got my hands on them...
"Yeah. It can be anything!" I reassured her, and then she sent me a crafty look.
"Well...if it can be anything..."
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"Just so you know, I'm not enjoying this." I grumbled. It had been half-way through her wish when I realized(finally) that I had been duped! She was acting like that on purpose just so she'd get to see me...AGH! It was so embarrassing.
"Aw, come on, Roxas. You have to admit, you make a very pretty Roxanne." Ashe giggled, petting my actually un-spiked hair.(It took them hours to un-spike it, and tons of nasty hairspray) If it wasn't spiked, it looked like a short-haired girl's hair, complete with layers.
"You didn't have to lend her your make-up and dress!" I hissed at her, smoothing out the wrinkles of my sky blue dress. Ashe said it matched my eyes. That, and the ruby red lipstick, light blue eyeshadow, blue mascara, blush, blue nail polish, eyeliner and glittery lip gloss. My...uh, Ashe's blue dress had a million ruffles and TONS of red lace, the top part was incredibly glittery and I looked like I had a bust. I had some cover-up on my right shoulder to make sure no one could see my barcode. There was a red sash on me and they put a red ribbon in my now-curled hair, and I was wearing red high heels. Ashe had some clip-on earrings lying around, so I was wearing red-and-blue glittering-whenever-I-moved earrings, a couple of gold bracelets, and rings with rubies encrusted on them. The skirt-part of Ashe's dress reached my ankles. I had long evening gloves on my arms and I looked like a complete and total female.
"You have to admit, Roxas, she got you pretty good." Rasler said, laughing and he clapped me on the back. "Just think - you have to eat dinner in that! You'll never live it down." I was just about to make my grande appearance, when he stopped me. "Oh! I forgot!" He took out the Mizu no Akashi(how the heck he got that, I do not know, and I was too agitated to find out) and placed it around my neck. It covered my dogtag, and the blue glow of the medallion was just what I needed to accent my beautiful and gorgeous self. Yeah right.
"Come on, Roxas! Let's see it!" Naminé shouted from the outside. Ashe and Rasler were actually the two people who dressed me up, because she wanted to be surprised. Hey, if she can imitate my mom once, then I'll imitate a girl once. It's only fair.
"I can't believe I got duped by Naminé! I never expected she would...ugh! I'm so stupid!" I growled, but if it made her happy, I'd go prancing around as a transvestite all year long.
"I was watching the whole thing and she seemed like she really meant every word she said. I'm sure she did, Roxanne-" Rasler started, but I glared at him, making him stop.
"Roxas." I corrected.
"C'mon out, Roxanne! We want to see how girly you are!" Yelled another member of my family, whose name isn't important right now and I couldn't distinguish the voice anyway. So, taking a deep breath, I nodded to Ashe and Rasler. They opened the doors, blocking me.
"Introducing..." Rasler started,
"Roxanne Hikari!" Ashe finished, moving to the side so I could walk down a red carpet. My family might be loving and compassionate, but they're extremely melodramatic. Everyone started to laugh. Surprisingly enough, Naminé wasn't laughing. She was looking worried. Something that dampened the light-hearted laughter. I wanted to stop and ask her what was wrong, but Ashe pushed me on when she noticed that I was about to stop.
"You have to complete all of Her Highness' wish!" She chirped, and I sighed, trudging on to the dining room. Once I sat down, Ashe made me stand up again.
"Now what?" I yelled, seriously about to blow. I wasn't mad because I was a girl, I was mad because I went through all the strenuous hours of sitting still and doing absolutely nothing while Rasler and Ashe fawned over what color eyeshadow I would be wearing, and after all that, even though it was Naminé's most sincere wish...still wasn't happy! I wouldn't have been so mad had she been laughing too. But she wasn't laughing.
"Please don't get mad, Roxas...But Naminé doesn't seem too happy. Come here for a minute." Ashe grabbed my arm and dragged me to the room where they kept the Oblivion. It was a regular-sized room, except that it had stained glass windows which were absolutely gorgeous to look at. "Turn around." She commanded, and I did so. "Tell me if this hurts..." She pressed a spot on my back, and I winced, almost screaming, but I managed to contain myself. It hurt. A lot. I wondered if she was stabbing my back with a knife covered in alcohol. I looked back at her, and she was only placing her hand over a spot on my back.
"Yeah, it hurts..." I squeaked out, and I sounded like I had just breathed in helium for an hour or something.
"Thought so! How about this?" Ashe asked, and she pressed another spot on my back. This time, I did scream, but I managed to bit my lip to keep it from going all-out. That hurt even worse.
"What the hell are you doing to my back?" I yelled, and she removed her hand and looked at me with concern.
"Please tell me this doesn't hurt...if it does, you'll be in such a mess..." She practically begged me, pressing another area on my back. It didn't hurt at all, and it was a nice reprieve from the pain I had suffered seconds ago.
"That doesn't hurt at all.Why?" I asked, about to take a breath when she moved her hand over to another spot. It didn't hurt as much, but it made me squirm uncomfortably.
"Because the spots on your back that I'm touching have a special significance. They're where your wings are supposed to be. I know you have six of them, and I'm just seeing how many are taken away from you, and how many are in keyblades." She finished what she was doing(after eons) and took a deep breath. "You have one wing out of six retrieved, and when we give you the Oblivion you'll have two."
"That's nice and all, but how does this pertain to Naminé?" I asked, crossing my arms and remembering that she started the conversation by adding her name in there.
"Roxanne, this dress reveals your back and makes you look totally masculine, by the way." Ashe said, and I pondered on whether to take that as a compliment or an insult.
I just wanted Ashe to get the point. "What does this have to do with Naminé?"
"As a girl, I know she's depressed. I know it. I can't let you know, but you should figure it out! Naminé herself told me-" Ashe started and I almost glared at her, but I couldn't let myself be angry at her. She was like my mom, and I just...well, I loved her like any son would to their mother. Even though my real mother's soul was around my neck...
"Tell me now. I have to know why she's depressed so I can fix it!" I said, full of determination and vigor. I didn't want her to be emo!(Imagine her wearing black) I knew something was wrong with her ever since her little talk with Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo. Naminé has been acting much differently lately, and I didn't know why!
"I can't. So-rry. If I were in her position, I'd be heartbroken if I found out someone told my lover the reason why I was depressed. She wants you to figure it out yourself. I gave you a couple of hints and I'm sure she has in her own way. But it's just up to you to piece them together." I opened my mouth to say something, but Ashe just smiled and placed a hand on my shoulder. "Good luck, Princess Charming." I sighed. I felt like I was stopped in time and everybody was passing me by.
"It's just up to me, huh?"
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"Naminé, you're not eating anything. Something wrong?" I asked. I decided to myself that I would be as nice to her as possible, and optimize my voice so she'll just tell me what's wrong so I can go and fix it. That's what I'm supposed to do. I can fix things that are broken, but Naminé's parents failed miserably at giving me girl-sense. I was a complete and total idiot when it came to females.
"No...nothing..." she said, poking at her food with her fork and taking a deep sigh. When everyone finished eating, and Ashe took our plates away, Rasler nodded his head toward the room where they kept the Oblivion.
"Want to come with us?" I asked, standing up. She nodded and grabbed my hand.
"Sure." Even her voice seemed to droop. She sounded monotone and melancholic...it was just terrible. What could I do for her? I wasn't good at anything except for singing, really. I don't know if a song was enough to cheer her up.
"Naminé, what's your favorite thing to do in the world?" I asked her. She blinked and looked up at me.
"Favorite thing...in the...world?" Naminé repeated slowly, as if I was saying something in some foreign language she couldn't understand. "It would probably be drawing..."
"Drawing? I'll keep that in mind..." Maybe I could draw her something. I've never really tried it before, maybe I was good at it? We entered the room with Oblivion.
"I'll get it out of it's case, and then it's yours!" Rasler said, and he placed a hand over the case, "Mekufuzutakateku, notakukaariku mimorinku modochi molu rikitekitoji katote shikurukukata fumodoshi tekirukitoku nomomeikushiari! Shikuchidoshito chimo fumodoshi katojikuta! Dotokichiku, katote zukumimorinku chirikukishi meikitoji!"
I had NO idea as to what Rasler just said. I couldn't translate any of it, and I have a translator installed in me with every language under the sun...I'd ask him later. Oblivion glowed and it appeared in my hand. I had to re-activate it, so I did and I felt a lot more energized. Two down...four to go! And I also had to find my brother's, wherever they were.
"Rasler, what language were you speaking? And what were you saying? My sensors couldn't translate it..." I asked, and he shrugged.
"I don't really know...I was just taught that chant by the Head. He said that if a keyblade was ever in the hand of the wrong user, I just had to say those words and it'd return to the right owner." He said, and then smiled. "Just be glad I got it for you, Rox. Oh, tell Ashe and I when you're going to L.A.X. We'll go and support you guys. Good luck!" Then, he left. I stared after him. I hadn't told Ashe about Sora and all...so how did he...?
Something was definitely not right. Naminé being depressed, Rasler suddenly becoming a seer...this whole thing was just a bad omen. The fact that the only language I didn't know was Angelican, and that I couldn't translate what he said proved it. Someone was trying to tell me something through Naminé and my family. Something really, really bad.
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"These are your test results, Roxas!" We went back to the castle after retrieving the Oblivion. Naminé opted to stay in her room a little,(because she wanted to be alone) she said she'd scream if Seifer tried to kidnap her. We also sent some guy named Kimahri to guard her room and attack anyone who looked foreign. Oh, after much embarrassment, I finally got myself de-femaleified.
Analyzing... "So...you're saying that my reaction time on my right side is faster than my left, making me unable to dodge properly? Okay...and my attacks are slow, too? And my decision-making is off by thirty-five milli-seconds...alright, this isn't too bad. Overall...my performance is below-average?" I said, reading it, and looking back up at Pops, Queen Yuna, King Tidus, Selphie and Irvine(who were making out so they don't count), and Kairi.
"We decided that we're going to repair you now, then see how you fare against our next test. Naminé's being guarded so we don't need to worry about her now! What do you say?" King Tidus said, and I nodded.
"Whatever you wish, Your Majesties." I said. After all, they were my King and Queen. It would be wrong to go against their wishes and they can throw me into their dungeon.
"Rox, first ya gotta shut down yer systems. Then we're gonna operate on ya and make sure yer abilities are the best they can be." Pops said, and I did so. I shut down all my systems. I didn't even put them on stand by, I shut them off. Pops always turned them on when he was done. Well, most of the time, anyway...
All Systems Offline...
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All Systems Online...
"Okay, Rox. How d'ya feel?" Pops asked me. I was so numb...I couldn't feel my hands or legs or anything like that. He must have numbed me before he repaired me.
"Let me check..." I did a status check. "Battle Performance has been upgraded by 10 percent...Overall Reaction Time has been increased by 3 percent...This is good, but I didn't know I needed this much improvement..."
"There's one more thing I fixed on ya. It probably won't show up on ya since-" Pops started, and then I searched and found what he fixed.
"Capacity increased by 75.426 percent...but it doesn't say for what. It could be anything, really. Capacity to hold weapons, more capacity to stuff information in my database...possibilities are endless, really." I said, and Pops sighed.
"You didn't let me finish! I increased for capacity for handling super-natural things, like making you able to wield yer wings and all. Now you're able to show all six of yer wings off to the whole world without it knocking you out." Pops said and my mouth dropped open.
"Waaaait a minute...how'd you do that?" I asked, and he pointed to the Mizu no Akashi, which was around Kairi's neck.
"Kairi generously offered to transform into Tifa and she showed me how. Of course I'm not saying it'll hurt like hell when you do decide to use yer natural wings, but your as tough as nails, kid." Pops said, and I smiled.
"Thanks, Pops...thanks, Kairi..." Then I thought, 'Thanks, Mom...' "So, how long did these repairs take? I'm sure it's not a walk in the park to do all that stuff."
"It took six hours. Of course, I took some time out to have a bite to eat and all but that's basically about how long it took to fix you up. You should feel a lot better, Rox. If you have any more problems, come to me." Pops said, and I nodded. He was the only one who could repair me anyway...
"I'm going to see how Naminé is..." I stated, walking outside(it felt kind of odd to be walking with numbed legs, but it didn't bother me that much since I couldn't technically feel in the first place) and down the halls when someone grabbed my shoulder. I turned around and saw that is was Kairi. "Kairi? What's up?"
"We need to talk...and it's urgent. More so than Naminé." She dragged me away from my destination. I wrenched my arm out of surprisingly tight grip.
"Nothing is more urgent than Naminé. What if Seifer kidnapped her? We would never know." I said, continuing my course before she grabbed my wrist so tight, I think my circulation got cut off.
"Didn't you hear me? We need to talk...Don't you know what 'need' means?" Kairi asked, and I nodded. "Well, just sit tight for a minute and let me talk to you!" I sighed, and nodded. She let go of me and I leaned against the wall and crossed my arms.
"Hurry up. You've got two minutes and I set my timer." Yeah, I had a timer installed inside me. I told you that Naminé's parents didn't want to mess me up the first time, because I'm pretty sure they thought they would have no idea how to fix me.
"Ever heard of 'history repeats itself'?" She asked hastily and I nodded, "Well, history is going to repeat itself over and over until the people who history keeps on repeating stop making the same mistake they made in their past life."
"Wait a minute. Back up there." I said, stopping the timer that I saw in the left-hand corner of my vision. "So you're saying..."
"That the Roxas, Sora, and I from the legend came back and reincarnated into you, your brother, and Naminé. Of course, since the actual me was guarding the keyblades while the reincarnation was taking place, Naminé just got my body and not my soul. You know that 'other' you that you think is your machinery that can sometimes take over?" She asked. I nodded. "Well, that's actually the spirit of the guy who loved me. Somewhere along the line Fate or Time or whoever messed up, because you look like, and you have the same exact name as the Past Roxas. We'll call him P.R. and we'll call Past Sora P.S. Got it?"
I nonchalantly nodded my head, singing a song to myself. I did that when I was bored. 'Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend...somewhere along in the bitterness and I would have stayed up with you all night...had I known How to Save a Life...'
"Anyway! In one millennium, there is a fifty-percent chance that the reincarnations of the original Sora, Roxas and I will get together and fix our mistake. So, we only have one chance until the next millennium, and even then, there's either a we're-gonna-end-up-together or not chance. It all gets decides at the turn of the millennium. Pretty exciting, huh?" Kairi asked, smiling. I rubbed the back of my head.
"Maybe to you...but, uh, what exactly do we have to fix? Fixing things is my specialty and all, but unless I don't know what's broken, how am I going to fix anything?" This whole thing was confusing. So my machinery actually had a soul? She didn't exactly say that, but she kind of did...
"I'm saying that I know exactly what's going to happen from this point on because it's exactly what happened exactly two-thousand years ago!" Kairi yelled impatiently, stamping her foot. Two-thousand years? I know in Angel/Demon years, 1,000 years equals 1 human year, but two-thousand years of regular time?
"Damn. You're old." I said, not really meaning to insult her, but it came out that way. She threw her hands up in the air and rolled her eyes.
"I am not! I died when I was sixteen, okay?" Then, she shook her head. "Look, I need to tell you what happened and then you can find a way to fix it." I raised an eyebrow.
"Are you sure I can fix it?" I asked. She sent me a shifty glance.
"Didn't you say fixing was your specialty?" She crossed her arms and I have to admit, she got me there. I did say fixing things was my specialty...
"Wait! But before we find out the problem, I have a question..."I said, and she nodded. Then I slowly pointed to myself as I said, "If I have the nice guy spirit, then who has the homicidal one?"
She tilted her head and genuinely looked like she was thinking. "Well, I know that, ultimately, the reason you're a machine is so P.S. can be inside you and influence your decisions...so, then another person who has machinery would have P.R.'s spirit influence his...or...her...decisions! Know of anyone?"
"The only one I can think of, that's alive, is my brother." I said, but shook my head, "But he can't be evil! He's the nicest guy I know, and he'd never kill anyone intentionally!"
"But didn't his soul get taken away?" Kairi asked, and I opened my mouth, but closed it again. She was right. "Everything happens for a reason, Roxas." Wait...if his soul got taken away...and all that's left is the Homicidal Spirit...then wouldn't that mean...?
"But...but why? Why do I have to go through all this?" I asked. Kairi looked like she wanted to murder me.
"Are you retarded? Seriously?!? For a machine, you're stupid!" She yelled, and I blinked. 'Way to be blunt, Kairi.' I thought.
"I wasn't made for this type of thing. Fighting is my forte, not people. I lack common sense..." I stated, and it was true. I was a combat weapon, not some robot-therapist who knew everything. I did know a lot, but I just knew the things that were in my database.
"No duh. If you actually had a shred of intelligence, then you'd know why! Since you can't figure it out, I'll tell you. Remember what the Authority said? And then what Naminé said when she was getting her Divine Sight?" She asked, and I searched my database. 2 results found...
"Yeah...that I'd die in the most painful way possible, and Naminé said that the most painful way to die is to not die at all. I'm sure she wanted to add 'and live a torturous life'..."I said, and she stared at me, waiting for me to figure it out. "Oh! That makes so much sense! That's why He's putting me through this!"
"Exactly! Now we have-" She started, but I had another question for her. Seriously, I think Pops dropped me on the head a couple of times when I was a kid or something, because I really was not the brightest star in the sky.
"Before you finish, let me just ask one more thing, and it'll just be one more question. Then I swear I won't ask you anything else!" I said, and she sighed and shut up. "Well, actually...I have two questions...but I'll get Naminé to ask the other one...Anyway! Why does this happen? Why does Fate give us a chance to meet up again?" Kairi glared at me and looked like she wantedo murder me.
"You have to listen to Naminé more..." She said, rubbing her temples.
"Huh? Wh-OH!"
"..I really believe that if you love a person enough, someone, anyone...they'll hear you, and they'll make you stay together forever!"
"But how did you know about that? You weren't there when she said it...and I'm pretty sure you weren't in that dream..." I said. Kairi laughed.
"I know about it because I know everything."
The reincanation part was actually not originally a part of the plot. But when Numina-Namine mentioned something about reincarnation in one of her reviews, I thought to myself, 'Reincarnation...that's a good way to start off the sequel! If there is one, that is...'
So I did. Was that confusing? Probably was. Okay, I'll explain(since Kairi and Roxas don't exactly make a dazzling duo at explaining things). Besides, I know everything they don't, even though Kairi claims she knows everything:
Two-thousand years ago, P.S.(Past Sora) loved Kairi, and P.R.(Past Roxas) was jealous(or something, I can't really remember how Nami-hime told the story to Roxas) and he accepted the dark. And then...the Heartless(beings of the dark) attack! Okay, so P.S. runs to save Kairi, and he does...but then P.R. comes in and is all 'muahaha I'm evil!'(like Riku in KH1) so then he kills Kai(Kairi), and then he kills himself...and then somehow P.S. dies.(It's not important how he dies, he's just dead!)
But, P.S. and Kai loved each other so much that the Towa no Shirube and Eien no Tobira(she didn't say anything about this, but they're the two who hold all the strings. Wonder why I titled this story Angels in Flight: Towa no Shirube, huh?) were touched by this unbreakable bond of love. So, they decide 'Hey, why not make them come back to life as different people?'
But since that takes alot of power(not mentioned in the story) they decided to make it that every milennium, there'll be a fifty-percent chance that they'll meet up with each other and fix their mistake.(Their mistake being P.R. accepting the darkness and killing Kai, and P.S. failing to protect her and P.R., since P.R. and P.S. were brothers and all)
But how do they decide this? That's not important!(If you REALLY wanna know, just ask) So, a mistake was made(the Towa no Shirube must not be fond of Roxie-poxie because he killed her) when they were reincarnated. Roxas, who has the body/name of P.R. got P.S.'s soul,(but P.S.'s soul in not actually active within him, it's like his conscious, same goes with Sora and P.R.), and since Kai was guarding the keyblades, Nami-hime just got her body and not soul, and we now know that P.S. got P.R.'s soul! And Kai came back in Umiri's body because she's a ghost and ghosts are cool like that. Once you have that stuff down, you're set. That's the plot! The climax. That's it. I just need to make this to 26 and I'll see how many reviews I get. I can end this one of two ways. One is the incredibluy sad-omg-I-Can't-believe-you-killed-him-off-when-it-defies-all-odds ending, and the other is the yay-there's-a-sequel ending...or beginning. Depends on if the glass is half full or half empty.
Does that make more sense? No? Yes? Kinda? Not really?