hauntings
disclaimer: NO OWN KH.
roxiri n. pairing many think is screwed up but is really almost as sweet as sokai, at least in author Kaiora's book
a/n: yay. this is for waraenai, dayjuana, or muffin's contest - heroes and thieves. my prompt was ghost stories and plus it had to contain "hero/heroes" and "thief/thieves". r & r plz.
i'm being H A U N T E D
She hated ghost stories.
She used to love them, that was, back when she could huddle together with her best friend in the safety of a tent, back when the fire outside would crackle and soothe her, back when there were limits, back when she thought they were only stories. But now she knew. Ghost stories were real.
Maybe it's not a ghost, but she's haunted. Haunted by memories. Haunted by dreams. Haunted by the remnants she has of her forever hero, and of the thief, the thief that stole her heart, her being, her everything and then left, breaking her, leaving her like this.
Her teardrops fall silently yet again, and she knows that she'll never be whole.
HAUNTED BY memories
He loves ghost stories.
He used to hate them, hate them because he was like the ghost, a shell, a remnant, and he still is, but he remembers none of this, so he is happy. He loves ghost stories because they remind him of his dreams, and he knows ghost stories are real because he is haunted, but he loves his ghost, even though they've never met.
Not really a ghost, she's not really dead, but she thinks she might as well be. He doesn't know this of course. He is gladly plagued by dreams of islands and keys and a redhaired girl who is silently mourning. He longs to be her hero, the one she is crying for. Because the thief has surely stolen his heart.
He smiles emptily, not really caring.
haunted by DREAMS
That first contact is a shock.
Their minds brush for barely a second, and then she is distracted by the long-lost boy. But with a laugh, he leaves her again, leaves her to break and to wonder and to worry, leaves him to try to comfort, but her mind is closed, focused, blocking anything out but the voice that is gone again.
And Roxas feels hurt, broken, because she has a ghost of her own, and he can never take the place of the ghost, never take the place of the boy, never take the place of Sora. He doesn't yet know what is the strand that connects them, but he vows he will use it to help protect the girl from his dreams, the girl of his dreams.
Especially now that he knows her name.
Kairi.
i can't trust anyone
Falling in love is a strange thing.
He's fallen in love with a girl he doesn't know, one he's never met, one who is, he finds out, more real than he is. Because he is the ghost, the shadow, the empty shell of the boy that she once knew, and yet she learns to love him anyway, and soon all thoughts of Sora are out of her mind.
After the initial contact, it's easy for them to talk, mind-to-mind, talk about memories, talk about problems, talk about anything. They confide their whole life in each other. That brown-haired girl, Selphie, she wonders what happened to Kairi, who now chooses to lay on her bed, talking to the boy she loves through her mind.
It may seem strange, but to them it was the most natural thing in the world.
no happy endings for US
But then their whole world changes.
Roxas is taken away, made part of Sora, Sora, the boy who broke Kairi's heart, her soul, haunted her with the long-lost ghost stories that she had finally forgotten about, and they all rush back again in bits and pieces of memories and hurting and her head spins. Without Roxas...
Then Kairi, too, is taken away, by a strange man with flaming hair, and she is imprisoned, and longs for Roxas, although when she tries to contact him, she just feels the shell surrounding Sora's mind and so she cries.
He is lost forever.
It seems there are no happy ending for a Somebody who loves a Nobody.
a/n: augh, i know, i know, i promised no angst. but seriously, roxiri fluff is about impossible for me to write. same with namora, the angst just COMES.