Sorry it's been like a week, uh...school is stressing me out and I kept changing things in the chapter.

Quick warning: this chapter is kinda fluffy

Chapter 4

Xion handed me an orange tulip, with the root still attached. We walked to the cemetery because she was afraid I would fall off my skateboard again.

I pushed the heavy, rusted gate open and we padded down the small sidewalk. Near the back we came to an elegant white marble gravestone. I knelt down and carefully planted the tulip. I had a distinct memory that my mother loved flowers and sold them for a career. The engraving on the marker even read "Rest in peace, my flower girl."

I stood back up and Xion put her hand on my shoulder.

Xion's POV

Roxas stood up, his head bowed. Looking at his face, I saw he was crying. I put my hand on his shoulder. Then he took that hand in his and started walking away.

"Where are we going?" I asked. He raised his index finger to tell me to be quiet.

We walked back into town, to the plaza. Roxas pulled me through the double doors of the station tower. We arrived at a metal panel on the wall with a slit down the middle. Roxas pushed a thumb-size button next to it. The metal parted to expose a tiny space. We climbed in to the minuscule elevator.

I turned my head to look at my friend and found him trying to do the same thing. We were so close our foreheads touched. Roxas turned bright red and I'm pretty sure the shade of my face matched. I laughed nervously and just as I was worried we were stuck that way, the doors opened.

I tumbled out and almost fell off a ledge, but Roxas caught me. I blushed (AGAIN! What's wrong with me?!) and he led me around a corner. We sat down on the ledge and he motioned for me to look down.

Below us was the entire town. I could see the little café I worked in, the dress shop, the skate store. Everything. But the best view was the sunset. Decorated with reds and oranges. The first few stars decorating the purple streak at the top.

"Roxas...this is beautiful..." I whispered.

I didn't notice him smiling for the first time that day.

Roxas' POV

"Roxas...this is beautiful..." she whispered in awe. Her face was dyed red from the sun, I couldn't help but smile.

XxX

Xion yawned. It was very late and we were still at the clock tower. We had talked (oh you know what I mean!) for three hours. She laid her head on my shoulder and was soon asleep. I picked her up in my arms and carried her back to her house.

XxX

Her parents weren't home, so I unlocked the door using the key in Xion's pocket, then took her to her bedroom. I laid the raven haired girl on her blue bedspread, and looked at her a last time. Then I felt like I stalker so I tiptoed out.

I could barley stay awake the way home. When I finally arrived at my apartment, I walked in to find my dad asleep on the couch. Kairi was sitting in the kitchen reading a magazine.

"Welcome back." she greeted without looking at me. Waving was useless so I ignored her and went to bed.

XxX

The next day was incredibly suckish. I fought my daily battle with Vexen about drumming in homeroom, burned a batch of cookies in Home Ec, got hit in the face by a basketball (three times...) in PE, and spilled bright orange paint on myself in Art. When the bell finally rang, I sprinted out, eager to get home. Then almost died when I realized I had to go to work. Xion caught up to me and asked what was wrong.

'Incredibly long day at school, now I gotta go to work.'

"Oh, I'm sorry, Roxas." she hugged me, then turned red and backed away. "I-I uh..." she stuttered. I shook my head and smiled slightly.

Xion walked me to the music store, where I work, and even bought some guitar strings before she left.

"That your girl?" my boss, a lazy-I mean laid back guy named Demyx, asked. I blushed like Xion and wrote 'No! We're just friends!' he laughed and said "Ok whatever, dude." then returned to playing his favorite instrument, a blue sitar.

A long while later he called over to me

"Hey, Rox." I turned and jerked my head.

"Me, Axel, Marly, and Zexy are throwin' a party this Friday."

Great, another party to miss out on.

"You wanna come?" I looked at him with wide eyes, not believing what I heard. Demyx, a collage kid, was asking me to come to one of his legendary parties?

"You can bring that girl of yours..." he said. I nodded so hard I thought my head was going to fly off. Then I quickly wrote 'Who else will be there?'

After a long time he replied "Uh...Sora Fooser, Larxene Sparks, this new guy in town named Ventus Waywind, your sister, Riku Tamachi, these two awesome dudes from Radiant Garden Lea Enfernus, and Isa Wulf..." after a random silence he said "It's closing time, you'd better get home." I started towards the door.

"See ya later!" he called.

~two hours later~

"Zack Fair totally just pwned all your faces!" my dad yelled at the top of his lungs jumping up. I banged my head on the wall behind me and Kairi facepalmed. Xion laughed at our embarrassment.

"I give up!" yelled Kairi, throwing her cards down (we play a lot of cards games in this family, get over it.)

"Me too." agreed Xion, mimicking her movements.

Then the phone rang. My dad pounced on it and answered "Fair residents, awesomest person ever speaking."

"Are you gonna answer the phone like that every time I call you?" I heard someone say

"Yes I am, Cloudy." I could practically hear Cloud facepalm on the other end of the line.

"Well can you send Xion home?"

"Aw! But she's so much fun!" my dad pouted "Can't you take Kairi?"

"No. Tifa wouldn't know what to do with such a girly girl."

"Hey!" yelled Kairi. We all ignored her.

"How bout Roxas? He's slightly less girly."

Kairi and Xion laughed at me and I tried to set my dad's ears on fire with my eyes.

"No...Tifa likes having a daughter. But I'll happily adopt Roxas too."

"No way! If we can't keep Xion then she's the only one your getting! We'll send her home." then he abruptly hung up.

"Roxas, take Xion home," he instructed "It's dangerous at night." I nodded and we grabbed our jackets.

XxX

"It's freezing!" Xion shivered. I laughed at her inwardly and then wrote 'Well it is October.'

"October. That means Halloween. What are you gonna be?" she wondered looking sideways at me.

I shrugged. 'I'm probably just going to stay home and hand candy out to the ankle biters.'

She snickered and said "You have to dress up! I'll help you!" *puppy dog eyes* I sighed and nodded in defeat.

"Yay!" she cheered. I smiled at her childishness

A/N that's a real word, I looked it up.

Then I heard a 'thwip!' and something hard connected with the back of my head, knocking me to the ground. Xion helped me up and we looked for the projectile.

Finally, we found it: a rock, about the size of her fist. And wrapped around the rock was a small piece of paper, secured with a rubber band.

I pulled it off and read the note, Xion leaned over my shoulder.

All the blood in my body went to my toes.

Written on the paper, in sharp messy letters, were the words;

"An AVALANCHE can kill a SOLDIER in two seconds."

It was a code. An obvious one, but that was probably the point.

AVALANCHE was after me. Why? I'm not sure, my dad had once said the members of SOLDIER were super-humans. Did that mean I had those genes? I knew they could be passed to one offspring of a member. But...the chance of those genes actually being passed down was one in a million. Then I remembered that the mark of those genes was a birth defect. The worse the defect, the stronger the power.

I gasped in realization. Xion looked worried "W-what? What does it say?"

I handed her the note, she read it and shock flooded her eyes.

"B-but why would they be after you? You aren't a part of-" I put my hand over her mouth and shook my head.

We ran the rest of the way to her house. When we got there, she tried to get some answers out of me but I wouldn't budge. Then she tried to get me to stay just in case somebody was planning to carry out my 'assassination' tonight. But I declined, wanting to go home and get answers from my dad.

After dropping her off, I pulled my hood up to conceal my conspicuous spikes. Sprinting down the road, I wondered if I would make it home. Every shadow, every sound could be a trained killer, coming after me.

'I should've stayed with Xion.' I thought. After what seemed like a million miles of running, I was home.

Kairi's POV.

I was watching TV with my dad when Roxas bursted in. He collapsed on the floor, panting. We rushed over to him and asked if he was ok. He looked up at us and wrote something down, then showed us the page.

'Dad, I need to talk to you.' his expression was very serious.

Dad turned to me and pointed toward my room. "Go hang out in your room."

I pouted and tried to change his mind, to no avail.

Roxas' POV

'Dad, do I have SOLDIER genes?' I asked. He looked kinda nervous.

"Yes...wait why do you want to know this?"

I picked my next words carefully.

'Well I'v noticed I'm getting stronger and faster, and birth defects signal power and mines pretty big. So I was kind of worried.'

"Oh." he looked relieved for some reason.

Laying in bed, later that night, I questioned the air. What if AVALANCHE wanted to completely wipe out the SOLDIER race? Would they know Kairi didn't get the genes? Now that I know I'm a SOLDIER, would the effects become stronger?

These questions haunted me until the moon was above my bed.

Somehow, I managed to sleep.

Well that's it for chapter 4. I was having a Final Fantasy fandom when I wrote this so...yeah