Five Things

A collection of five Roxas and Namine short stories.

Guardian Angel

When she was younger, in elementary school, Namine had always loved to draw. She had been drawing a blue sky, though without the sun, when a voice behind her had asked roughly, "Whatcha drawing?"

Even though Seifer was young, he still had that cocky smile that Namine disliked. However, before she could answer, he snatched her notebook and she had watched helplessly as he ruffled through it, laughing. She felt her cheeks burn with embarrassment, and she stood up to reach for it.

Seifer was a lot taller. He lifted it up easily, laughing loudly at her.

Then he had come.

Seifer was knocked off his feet by the blue end of a Struggle bat. He dropped heavily, landing on his chin. Namine had reached for her sketchbook but someone else was already handing it to her, his blue eyes shining.

"Here." He said simply.

She accepted it with a grateful smile, clutching it closely to her chest.

Seifer leaped up, scowling. "You got your boyfriend on guard duty, do ya?"

He stalked toward Roxas and Namine again, growling, when Hayner and the others had arrived.

Noticing the amount of hostile stares fixed on his face Seifer smirked and turned around, waving his hand. "Whatever. She isn't worth the trouble anyway."

Namine had turned thankfully to Roxas and his friends. "Thank you."

Roxas smiled. "No problem."

"Seifer's a jerk." Olette had agreed.

"Yeah, he's trouble." Pence added.

"Trouble? More like disaster! Someone needs to teach the guy a lesson." Hayner, of course.

Namine had been about to drift off alone when Roxas asked her, "Aren't you in my class? What's your name?"

"Namine."

"Well, Namine," for some reason she enjoyed the way he said her name. "If you go off alone Seifer is sure to pick on you again. Come with us instead."

The others agreed enthusiastically.

Even now, years later from those young days, Namine still regarded Roxas as her guardian angel. If she ever got in trouble Roxas would be right there for her.

***

Whenever things got bad he was always there.

Whenever she needed help he pledged to aid her.