HnH: Hi hi! Thanks to apoetcreatesmagic(Really, you have a way with typing out words. The way you typed out 'She's beautiful' blew me away. It held so much...emotion. So much feeling, like there was a story behind why you typed that.), lebrezie(Bish is a bishounen. A pretty boy, if you will.), O.K.A, Mr.Who(I'll try and fix that. Oh, and, I just use names of tracks on the KHII OST and some song lyrics for chapters...), Ellie(Axel: YAY FANGIRL!-hugs Ellie-), Auburngal1315, Chinchilla Ninja Leah, Soraeatscheese(Sora: -cheese stuffed in his mouth- WHAT! THAT IS A LIE!), Aerith The Evenstar(hope it gets better!), and KeytoDestiny--
Axel: WHO MADE ME FEEL UNLOVED! SHE SAID RENO WAS BETTER THAN ME! THIS IS SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND THE LAW WILL NOT STAND FOR IT!
Roxas: How is it sexual? Besides, I don't think any Judge will listen to a video game character.
Axel: BUT THE JUDGE WILL PUT HnH IN JAIL BECAUSE SHE'S NOT USING A DISCLAIMER! Nyahahaha!
Kairi: Um...yeah. HnH doesn't own anything, duh.
Axel: WHAT did you say, Kairi? SORA asked you if you'd rather HAVE SE-
Roxas: AXEL! -slaps Axel across the face twice- Stop being perverted!
Reno: BESIDES, KtD knows what she's talking about. I'm better than Axel.
Axel: Actually, no. The Nobody is always better than the Somebody!
Roxas, Naminé, and the rest of Organization XIII: Damn right.
Larxene: ...it's better than yours, I can teach you what I have to charge. My milkshake brings Axel to the yard and he's like... -voice fades-
Sora: Well...ROXAS isn't the one who saved the world twice, now was he?
Roxas: I was too busy saving my soul.
Note: Sorry that Roxas is speaking in an angelic language that only I can translate. Believe me, it's nothing relevant or else I would've provided translations. You can kinda tell what he's asking/saying by what his mom answers, anyway. And sorry that Roxas' flashback is kinda weird. It was written originally in 1st person and I converted it to 3rd which is why it sounds weird...xD Sorry
Angels in Flight: Towa no Shirube
Chapter 31: Losing This Fight(Dilemma of the 13th)
(Roxas' POV)
"Meirikushiku kiari Naminé, rinkarinka?" I was talking to my mom, the only one who could understand me. For some reason, whenever I tried to ask a question in a tongue where everyone would understand me, it turned out in angel. Of course my mom understood me.
"Outside in the gardens." She answered. I nodded and thanked her before having to fly to outside. I could not really teleport that well while my halo and my 'pretty' wings were in appearance.
I made it outside to the gardens to find my princess lying in the grass looking up at the skies. I looked up and found that clouds were scattered in the blue sky. I sat down next to her and waved. She turned her head towards me and she smiled, looking back at the sky.
"I wonder which one Heaven is on top of?" She asked, referring to the clouds, "Hey Roxas," Naminé turned her head towards me again, "Since you're all angel and stuff, do you think you could go up to Heaven?" I shrugged and got up. I looked at the sky and signaled for her to wait. Actually, I could. I saw the angel's rays coming in between clouds. I sat back down and nodded. "That's so cool! Don't you ever want to go up to Heaven sometimes?"
I shrugged. I couldn't really answer any of her questions because if I did she wouldn't understand me. Then...I got an idea. I signaled for her to wait again and looked up at the sky. I walked some feet away from her. Sephiroth had taught me how to fly faster and more efficiently. I kneeled down to the floor and I flapped my wings, the grass starting to blow. I glowed for a moment and like a rocket, I shot up into the air.
I flew to a giant cloud, the low temperature not bothering me. I held out my hand and channeled the kinetic energy the wind passing by my fingertips was making, and then I transformed it into a physical blast. So, I blasted through the water vapor that was the clouds to make words. I wrote, 'Hi, Naminé!' However, I had to fly all the way down to the gardens again to see her expression. So I did.
She looked quite flustered and her eyes held a misty quality. She sighed and got up. I frowned. What was wrong with her? She looked like she had a bad cold, but she couldn't have just suddenly gotten a cold. So why did Naminé look like she was trapped in a perfect daydream?
I suddenly remembered that way back when I was fourteen and her bodyguard(shortly before I had gone berserk) that Naminé always had that dazed expression, she was always flustered, she stuttered and she sighed a lot. I realized what must be happening...but why was it happening again?
-
(Third Person POV)
"Spying on them like this isn't right, Axel." Ienzo commented, looking at his redheaded...acquaintance. It was funny, at the Organization they despised each other. But now they were so close it was like they were twins.
"Well, your FACE isn't right but I'm not complaining." Axel stated. Ienzo rose an eyebrow. Axel was never bitter like this before. Yeah, sure, to some people he was, but he seemed he was–
"Jealous?" The 'Cloaked Schemer' asked. Axel stared at him for a good, long time before Ienzo added, "...That Roxas would rather spend his time with his girlfriend than his best friend?"
"Kind of. But not in that kind of way."
"Yeah, yeah. How could you be gay and still get every girl you want?" Ienzo said, seeming sad. The redhead smirked; he knew why Ienzo was currently sadder than the normal emo.
"You're after someone." He stated, standing up. "Well, Ienzo, what are you waiting for? You're never going to get her if you spy on people all day!" Axel grabbed the emo's arm and tried to drag him outside of the castle grounds.
"..." Poor Ienzo did not budge. "...She's dead. She found out what I was. She told me that she would help me through it, but it turned sour when that damn Even told the Superior I had a love interest. So, he killed her off in front of me." Ienzo's fist clenched and he punched the ground, "I couldn't do anything to save her...She was the only one who cared about me, who showed me any affection...and I failed her! Dammit!" His other fist clenched as well. Axel placed a hand on Ienzo's shoulder.
"I remember hearing about that from Roxas. Brutal punishment..." Axel shook his head. He had never had to suffer harsh treatment such as that, although Axel was an outcast in the Organization. He and Roxas... "Ansem hated relationships outside of the Organization. Killed off Xiggy's girl, yours, attempted to kill Roxas'..."
"You're lucky. You have Arlene. She freakin' worships you, AND she's an Organization member. If she ever comes back to the real world, you're set. I think the Superior favors the outcasts...Remember, Axel, you and Roxas are the only ones..." Ienzo sighed, didn't finish his sentence and shook his head, getting up and walking away to leave Axel wallow in his own thoughts.
Axel blinked, looking back at Roxas and Naminé. "Yeah...we always were the outcasts." He remembered...
-Flashback Start-
"You agree to all our terms, 000001?" It was Ansem who was speaking to a younger version of Roxas. The other Organization members were behind their Superior, except for Axel, who was standing behind Roxas.
"I don't really think I have a choice. AND my name is not 000001! That's my manufacture code. My name is R--" Roxas started, but the Superior cut him off.
"Sora." Ansem finished. You could tell be the look on the Superior's face that he was not happy Roxas had disagreed with him. He didn't like rebels.
"I'd like to be called Roxas." Roxas said, crossing his arms and slightly glaring at the Superior.
One of the members scoffed, "He's just like Axel! He enjoys being a machine! The freaks enjoy being weapons!" It sounded oddly like Even, but I'm not saying any names. Whispers were being thrown around the Organization members. Roxas tried to catch bits and pieces, but it was impossible to make out anything.
"Enough!" Ansem yelled, and the members instantly quieted down. He turned to Axel and Roxas, "Alright, freaks, don't try and contaminate us so much that we enjoy being called our little pet names as well. Unlike you two, we enjoyed feeling and being normal." Ansem spat, turning around to enter Headquarters with the other Organization members.
Axel sighed, "Looks like we're going to spend a lot of time with each other, huh?"
-Flashback End-
And thus, they became friends. Arlene, Dyme, and Ienzo were the only ones who were friendly. Briag had a tendency to drop in and ask them if they'd like to surf(they would then politely decline; Axel hated water and Roxas hung around Axel. There was that one time, however...), and sometimes the Gambler of Fate would play poker, rummy, or even solitaire with them, but that was about it.
Axel sighed once more. 'Not anymore...Roxas cares more about her than he does about his best friend.' He shook his head and got up, finding it boring to watch the two and their lovey-dovey acts any longer. However, he stopped, turned around, ran to his hiding spot and sat down. "Maybe I can't leave them alone together..."
-
"Y-You've b-been up to Heaven, right?" Naminé asked Roxas, stuttering like a fiend. Roxas frowned, placing a hand on her cheek. Her face turned so red that nothing could compare to it. He tilted his head, mouthing something to her. "U-Um...R-Really extremely sorry b-b-but I can't r-read lips!"
Roxas shook his head and scooped her up in his arms, Princess style. He grinned when he saw her shocked expression. She started to say something, but got flustered so it sounded like she was speaking Pig Latin. Right now, Roxas really wanted his voice back...
Oh well. Being mute would have to do for now. He flew her back inside the castle, but stopped when he saw a red bush. 'Red bush?' He asked himself, looking back to see just a regular bush. Roxas sighed and continued to fly. 'My sensors must finally be coming back online for me to glitch like that.'
He flew inside the castle, Naminé stark red and trying(but failing miserably) to protest. He practically blew past everyone in the castle and landed inside of Naminé's room. He set her down on her bed and signaled for her to wait, then disappearing.
'What's with me?' Naminé thought, placing a hand on her forehead and turning over, facing the wall. 'I don't feel sick...I just feel...' Before she got to realize her feelings, Roxas came back. 'Wow! That was fast...' Not only that, but he had a thermometer. 'Oh no...I hate those things!' Naminé groaned, pulling the covers over her head.She felt Roxas tap her on her head, but the blonde Princess just tightened her grip on the covers.
Then she heard the door open. She quickly peeked out of the covers to see that it was Tifa. "Roxas, what's going on?" Naminé heard Tifa say.
"Rinkarinka, Ki'rin chishifukitoji chimo mirikumime Naminé'ari chikurinnokushikachidoshiku.." He said. Naminé frowned, wondering why he talked in that strange language.
"Tifa, why does Roxas talk like that?" Naminé asked, her head still under the covers in fear of that awful thermometer.
"Because he's fully angel. He's speaking the words of the angels. I know he can't help it. When I first fell to Earth...I tried to speak in a language where everyone would understand me, but it turned out in the words of the angels. I suspect when his holy power settles down he'll be just fine..." Tifa muttered something else, then added, "Oh! Naminé, Roxas just wants to check your temperature to make sure you're not sick."
"Tell him I hate thermometers! I don't care if I'm sick--I don't feel like I have a cold!" She yelled, still keeping the covers over her head. Roxas sighed and looked at Tifa, who shrugged.
"Kaarime rikushi kilu...kilu aririku chishidoarichiari rinku..." Roxas said, and Tifa looked confused, then shrugged again.
"Naminé, don't you trust Roxas? He'd never hurt you. Besides, thermometers never hurt anyone...How about this? If he takes your temperature I'll give you a watermelon-flavored lollipop!" She said. Roxas sighed, thinking, 'Naminé's never going to want a--'
"Oh!" The blonde Princess squealed, immediately removing the covers over her head and sitting up. "A watermelon-flavored lollipop?!? Really?" She asked, her eyes lighting up like a small child who was given an endless supply of assorted tooth-decaying sweets. Tifa nodded, and Naminé gasped in disbelief. "Gimme that thermometer!" She snapped, snatching the thermometer from a shocked Roxas. She practically shoved the temperature-reading device in her mouth.
Roxas blinked, his mouth slightly ajar. "... Tomomei Ki metomomei rimomei chimo jikuchi Naminé kito zukute..." He mumbled, only to receive a slap from his mother.
"Roxas!" Tifa said in that tone of voice where you knew you were going to receive a lecture. Instead, she smiled and said, "Naminé, Roxas just said that he now knows how to get you in bed." Both blondes flushed scarlet.
"RINMORIN!" Roxas shouted, not expecting for Tifa to just say that out in the open. How heartless was his mother? Tifa just crossed her arms and shook her head.
"I just thought that I ought to say what you said so Naminé doesn't feel left out..." She said, chuckling slightly. Roxas clenched his fists and the unclenched them, telling himself not to get mad.
'But I wouldn't have said that if Naminé understood me!' He thought, shaking his head.
-Outside the Door-
Axel AND Ienzo were staring at the closed door, their mouths touching the floors after they heard what Tifa said. "Daaaaamn..." Was all Axel could say. "I thought Naminé was bad but..." All Ienzo could do in reply to this was nod.
It was then that Tifa just happened to open the door. She blinked when she saw the two and their opened mouths, then turned around and smiled cheekily. "Roxas, I think you have more problems than just Naminé knowing..." She pointed her thumb towards the two. The poor, poor blonde who could not even explain himself just turned redder.
"Rinkarinka, notakukaariku arichikafu..." He said in a begging tone, and Tifa sighed, turning around towards the two ex-Organization members who were still gawking like ducks. She grabbed them by their collars and threw them in the room, then closing the door.
"So. What is said in this room stays in this room, got it? Oh, Roxas, I need to talk to you outside." Tifa said, going over to Roxas and dragging him outside the room and closing the door. Naminé frowned and walked over to the door, signaling for Ienzo and Axel to be quiet. They both complied, and she opened the door, walked outside, and closed it quietly.
Outside the door, Tifa and Roxas were talking down a nearby hallway. "Roxas, do you know what caused the explosion of Mizu no Akashi?" Roxas' eyes widened.
"Kunanotamotekute?!?" He asked. Both of them were way too busy with talking to each other to notice Naminé hiding behind a wall and peeking at them.
Tifa nodded, "I thought you might know the cause of the explosion. It happened soon after Seifer's death." She sighed, shaking her head and clenching her fist. "I don't know if you want to see it..."
"...Ki temo..." Roxas said softly. 'After Seifer's death? I would have figured he was the one to cause it to combust, but...' He frowned, wondering who would explode Mizu no Akashi. Someone who knew of it, that was to be sure...
"Alright..." Tifa sighed as they teleported away. However, before they did that, Naminé(whom was watching) latched onto one of Roxas' wings as they teleported away.
What the trio saw in place of Mizu no Akashi was something I could not even describe. But, I'll take a crack at it anyway. Everything was ruined. Bodies littered the ground, and blood stained the rubble that used to be the sanctuary for the fallen was obliterated. the sky above had even turned dark, as if wearing a black cloak for mourning. It was the aftermath of pandemonium, that was for sure.
Roxas looked around, clenching his fist. 'Who could've done this?' He asked himself, shaking his head. His eyes widened as he realized what it could be...
-Roxas' Flashback-
The chant gradually faded away as Roxas' strength faded. Instead of just attacking him, Roxas had infused all the power into one of the light shards he still had on him. But, he didn't use it yet because Seifer was creating a self-destruction bomb-made-out-darkness thing.
"If I'm going down, I'm taking everyone I can down with me!" He sneered, obviously upset that his incantation didn't work. Roxas didn't stop him from making the bomb because even if he did, it would explode on him. And Roxas had an idea to direct the will-be explosion elsewhere.
"Bring it on!" Roxas yelled, creating a portal behind him. Seifer glared at the other blonde, and sent the massive amount of energy Roxas' way. Everything it made impact with caused an explosion. Roxas jumped behind the portal he made and watched the huge ball of darkness go through the portal. Even through the medium he had created, they still felt the explosion when the bomb had made contact with the poor place Roxas had sent it too. Speaking of that...where had he sent it too? He didn't even know...well, that was a bad thing. But he couldn't help it now. He was sure he would find out later...
-Roxas' Flashback End-
Roxas shook his head again, trying to get the image out of his mind. HE caused this? It couldn't be...but what other explanation was there? Roxas stayed quiet about it as Tifa touched an amazingly unbroken wall of a home. The rest of it, however, had toppled over and nothing remained besides from that lone wall.
"It's the World That Never Will Be..." Tifa murmured softly. Naminé let go of Roxas' wing and stepped out, causing them both to look at her wide-eyed. 'How'd she get here?!?' Was their thoughts.
"No, you're wrong, Miss Tifa...It's the World That Never Was..."
-One Week Later-
(Naminé's POV)
"If I go, I think I'm going to get sick." I mumbled, digging my head into a pillow. It was that dreaded day. When they were going to draft...I couldn't even think of it, everytime I did, it sent chills up and down my spine.
"Naminé, please come with me. It would make me feel better..." I heard Roxas say. He had gotten his voice back, and his holy power had long since settled down. No more shiny five-winged Roxas... "...I'll hold your hand if you like..."
"I think she's just worried for you, Roxas." I heard Ienzo say.
"But not about me, huh?" Came the cocky voice of Axel. I clenched my fist, gritted my teeth and looked at the redhead, my look forming into what I hoped was a nasty glare.
"Maybe if some people treated me nicer, I WOULD care!" I snapped. I hated that stupid red-haired...Argh! I just wanted to smash his head and...I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, trying to release all of the evil thoughts. 'Bad vibes be gone, bad vibes be gone, bad vibes be gone...'
"Let's not start a fight. It's not what she needs." Ienzo said, glaring at Axel who just shrugged. "And, anyway, Roxas, you shouldn't force her to go. We don't need a sick Princess; and besides, wouldn't her presence--"
"Give the people peace?" Roxas finished, looking back at me. He grabbed my hands and mustered up the most adorable look I have ever seen. My heart started to race, so I just had to avert my gaze to hide my embarrassment. Honestly, I have never felt this way before...
"I-I'm sorry. I-I just c-can't..." I mumbled, feeling my face heat up. What was wrong with me? I stumbled on my words so much and it seemed as if I got embarrassed around him way to easily.
"...Roxas, you said Naminé's sick, right? Which is why her face is red, she's stuttering, why she has that misty-eyed expression..." Axel listed off all my symptoms, "Did she have a fever? Because if she's sick, she shouldn't go. Well, I don't want her to go anyway, so I'll be happy..."
I growled, jumping up and pointing at him. I felt very superior now, because I was standing on top of my bed with everyone below me. Ha! Beat that, Axel! Who's inferior now? "Listen, you! If you s--"
I don't even know what happened next, but all I saw was the world rapidly turn black.
-
When I woke up again, Tifa was fanning me with a...fan. There probably was an ice pack on my forehead, because I felt like I had just eaten five pounds of ice cream in thirty seconds. I had a hand in a bowl of water, and when I woke up she screamed happily and hugged me.
"You're okay! Thank god you're awake!" She said, then let go of me and removed the ice pack off of my head. I took my hand out of the water and shook it a little.
"Miss Tifa, what time is it?" I asked, blinking. I hadn't stuttered? Come to think of it, I wasn't as flustered as when Roxas was around...but why? "Before you answer that, answer me this: What's wrong with me, Miss Tifa? Do I have a cold?"
Tifa smiled like the Cheshire cat, "No, my dear, you're in love." She patted me on the head.
"But...that's impossible! I was in love before and never acted like this!" I said, and sighed. What a mess... Tifa smiled and then frowned, looking outside the window. "What?" I asked, looking outside the window as well. I saw nothing. "What is it?"
"...I just though the draft would be over by now..." Tifa mumbled, and shook her head. She then jumped up, gasped, and ran over to the balcony. I copied her. I saw a crowd of people going home. Some of them I could see had armor over their backs. The others were walking home with their heads down. I frowned, but then ran all the way to the entrance of the castle, Tifa on my heels.
"I wonder what we're going to do about Sora. He can't fight." I said, waiting for Roxas. I even opened the doors. Tifa turned towards me and held out her hands. I blinked, and she nodded her head. I grabbed onto her hands.
"This is a chant we use to wish luck to someone. Repeat after me:..." Tifa said, and I nodded. However, out of the corner of my eye I caught sight of a familiar redhead. If Axel was there Roxas was surely to be behind, too!
I turned to greet them, but it was some other redhead. That's odd, there aren't too many redheaded people younger than thirty in the castle...I turned back to Tifa and smiled weakly. I had a really bad feeling about this. "How did that prayer go again?"
-
"This is bad. No one is in the streets, and they haven't returned." Tifa said worriedly. We had been chanting a good luck prayer at the castle entrance for over an hour, and the crowd that had gone to the draft had dispersed quickly. They couldn't have come in, because we were looking and they surely would have noticed us as well.
"I have an idea...I'll go check Roxas' house! You can use your all-powerful Seraphim powers to locate anyone else, okay?" I said, smiling and bowing slightly(I didn't want to offend Roxas' mom! That would be very bad...) to show respect.
"You're a good kid, Naminé." She said, chuckling, as she ruffled my hair up. I blinked and looked up, to see Tifa's wings shining in the dark of night. It was as if each wing had stolen the moonlight from the celestial body itself. She flapped her wings and set off.
I turned around, using the memories I had to guide me to Roxas' home. I got past the gate and guards easily(seeing how there was none. They really let up security...), and sighed, trying to remember how to get there.
"Let's see..." I said, trying to remember. Instead, I remembered something else...
"Huh? Who are those guys, Nami?" It was Umiri and I, and we looked to be about seven or eight. My sister was standing over my shoulder, looking down at something I had drawn. I shrugged my shoulders.
"I was kinda lost in thought, and before I knew it, this was drawn! Like my subcounscious drew it for me." When I looked back at the picture, I saw it was that same picture that I had drawn way too many times before! The one with Roxas protecting me with his wings, and with a ghost-like Sora floating over him. By his side was Axel with another ghost-like redhead floating above him. It looked like they were going to fight Seifer, who had an aquamarine-eyed silver-haired ghost-like person behind him. In the background was Umiri looking terribly shocked or in terror.
"Lookie! That looks like an older you," She pointed to me, "and that looks like an older me! It's sooo creepy! But Nami, are you dating older guys? I don't know any of them!"
"Umiriiii!" I grimaced at the word 'guys'. "Boys have cooooooties! Eeeeewwww!" I had to laugh at what I had said in the past. I still thought boys had cooties?
"Aw, don't be kidding around! I saw you eye Seifer's friend!" Umiri said, giggling. My past self suddenly felt terribly guilty.
"...Um, about that, Umiri. Daddy and Mommy didn't want me to tell you this, but..."
When I snapped back to reality, I woke to see that I was in the middle of the road. I grumbled something, before brushing off my outfit. I looked around, and hurried on. I stopped when a familiar building came into view. It had to be Roxas' home! It looked like it, but the only thing that was really creepy that it was the only house that had lights on. I gulped, hoping I was right. Even if I wasn't, I was the Princess. I'd be okay...
I stopped when I heard voices. I pressed my ear to the door but heard a 'shush' and everything became quiet. I frowned, narrowing my eyes. I knocked on the door and that's when the voices commenced once more. I pressed my ear against the door again to hear all I could.
"Roxas, you answer it!" I heard a loud whisper, "It's her!" I frowned, trying to figure out who the speaker was. I couldn't exactly tell.
"Yeah, show her what we've taught you!" This one sounded oddly like Axel, but I don't want to say anything. This had to be Roxas' home, because, honestly, how many Roxases WERE there in Tsugare?
"N-Now?!?" I knew this was Roxas speaking, because I could detect his heaven-sent voice from a mile away.
"It's now or never, bud." That gruff voice could only belong to Cid. "Show her what you got because you'll never get another chance like this again." 'Never get another chance?' What did he mean?
I almost fell over when the door opened, but I managed to compose myself and not topple over. "Naminé..." Roxas, the one who answered the door, said, "I've...I want to tell you something."
I could hear a loud smack in the background, and Roxas looked over his shoulder and growled something that was out of my hearing range. He turned back and fastened a smile on his face.
"U-Um sure, what is it?" I asked, telling my heart to stop beating so fast. It felt like it was going to pop out of my chest at any minute.
When Roxas lightly pressed his lips against mine, I can tell you that it did not make my predicament any better. However, I found myself returning the kiss. He deepened the kiss, his hand moving up to my cheek. I could practically feel flames burn my cheeks, but I also found myself not caring. Ignoring the whistles and applause in the background(They overdramatize everything; it's just a passionate kiss!), I slid my hand behind his neck.
Moments like these...I'd die if they lasted forever. But unfortunately, until I die, they do not last forever. And thus, this moment ended too soon. When he broke off the kiss, I could tell he was as red as I was.
"...Wow." I said, giggling slightly. I kissed Roxas! (Well, technically he kissed me, but I kissed back!) "That was..." Before I got to finish my sentence, I suddenly felt very light-headed, and dropped like a ton of lead. I fainted...AGAIN...
-
"Why do I keep fainting?" I mumbled, rubbing my eyes, yawning, and sitting up. When I looked outside the window,it was still as black as night. Good, not much time had passed. I looked around the room to see a picture frame on the nightstand beside it. I picked up the picture frame,looking at the picture. I frowned, not seeing anything. Just a picture of the sky. That's odd, why would Roxas want a picture of the sky in his room?(I assumed that I was in his room, anyway)
I did not wonder on it for more than five minutes before Roxas came into the room. I remembered that I needed to ask him whether he got drafted or not. "Roxas..." I started, but he shook his head as if telling me to shut up.
"I got another one." He said sadly, drawing a chair next to the bed and sitting on it. I frowned, taking his hand and grasping it.
"What do you mean?" I asked, tilting my head. I was glad to find that my heart no longer wanted to escape my chest, and that gymnastics class for the butterflies in my stomach was over.
With the hand that I was not holding, he took off a necklace which turned out to be another dogtag, but this one was golden. I released his hand and took the dogtag from him and looked at it. The only thing on both sides was one name. "Ven?" I asked, looking at him. He nodded, and chuckled slightly.
"Ienzo and Axel say I was the lucky one. Ienzo's name is 'Aqua' and Axel's is 'Terra'. We're all in a separate squad called 'ES'." Roxas smiled and took the dogtag back. "It's odd, any name associated with me represents the sky. Sora is sky, Roxas is an anagram of Sora with an x, and Ven is wind."
"Why were you given another name?" I asked, not wanting to believe that he was actually...
He smiled sadly, "Isn't it obvious?" He placed the dogtag around his neck again and went over to one of his closets(the other must have been his brother's) and taking something out. It was a helmet. I gasped and bit my lip to keep any tears back."They need it so in case I die..."
I refused to let him finish his sentence. "No!" I hopped up and hugged him, causing him to drop his helmet. "You won't die! It's not possible! Axel and Ienzo told me they would not let you die! Roxas, you will return to me alive!" I didn't want Roxas to leave me to go off to war. It wasn't fair...
"Don't worry, I will. After all, I've got a beautiful girl rooting for me." Roxas said, hugging me back. I smiled through the tears I could not hold back.
"Yeah..."
But both of us knew that all dreams are but another reality. We just didn't want to believe it then. We both wanted to believe that when he returned, everything would be just the way it was when he left.
...When will we ever learn?
HnH: More subliminal messages! Noooo...Oh, and don't read on if you have not watched the Final Mix Plus ending movie...unless you want to be spoiled, of course.
Roxas: You see, I SEE an uncanny resemblance to the 'squad' and to the 'ESes' of Final Mix Plus' secret ending. Me being Ven, who looks like me...
Zexion: My other being Aqua, who...resembles...me?
Axel: And me being Terra 'cause there's no one else left.
Roxas: And our squad being called 'ES'. While, before we all knew what those three soldiers names were, everyone on the internet called them 'ES'es, or 'Enigmatic Soldiers'. So, this ties in with the Final Mix Plus' secret ending.
Sora: And when my helmet breaks off and reveals my face!
HnH: For the last time, Sora, that was not you!
Sora: -sniff- It can be me if I believe it is! -sniff-
Roxas: HnH, stop lowering Sora's self-esteem! It would be lowering mine too but Nami-chan won't let go of me...
Nai-Nai: -is latched onto Roxas' arm- I don't want him to go anywhere, I don't want him to leeeave me...-cries-
Kairi: My poor Nobody...-sniff-
Roxas: My poor Somebody...But I hope this doesn't change!-looks at Nami- 'Cause this is great!
HnH: The story's coming to a close...-cry- How many of you will actually read the sequel?
Roxas: Me! I wiiilll!