Thank you all soooo much for the reviews!! The constant reviews have spurred me on to keep continuing with this story, unlike ditching it which I do with all my others. :) Thank you again. I wake up early so that I can write more and get farther ahead in my plans, and I realized - at chapter 13 - that this thing is close to ending!! You don't have to worry though, you've still got a few more chapters before you get there.

Disclaimer: Same as last chapter. Nothing in this story belongs to be. All Kingdom Hearts/ Final Fantasy characters goes to Squeenix and the song (which is Johanna by the way) belongs to Stephan Sondheim. I just...changed it around a little.

The next morning, Xion yawned as she walked down the hallway in her pair of stolen boxers and a baggy, gray TURKS shirt. She wiped at her eye and made to walk past the door to the bathroom, but stopped when she heard water running.

"Someone is taking a shower? This early in the morning?" It was 4:30 AM, the time that Tifa had told her to get up to take a shower so that she could avoid the guy rush. "That apparently didn't work out so well."

Soon, a baritone voice started humming from the other side of the door, mixing in with the water spraying.

"I feel you, Johanna,

I feel you.

I was half convinced I'd waken,

Satisfied enough to dream you.

Happily I was mistaken,

Johanna.

I'll steal you, Johanna,

I'll steal you.

I'll steal you, Johanna,

I'll steal you.

Do they think that walls could hide you?

Even now, I'm at your window.

I am in the dark beside you,

Buried sweetly in your raven hair!

I feel you, Johanna,

And one day I'll steal you!

Til I'm with you then,

I'm with you there,

Sweetly buried in your raven hair!"

During the course of the song, Xion had leaned against the wall and ended up on the floor with her knees against her chest, her eyes closed, and a content smile on her face. The one who was in there could sing. And not only that, he had sang Johanna.

When the person came to a certain part, Xion jumped a little at knowing that he changed the lyrics. It's supposed to be 'Buried sweetly in your yellow hair!', but the person changed the color to raven.

Her hair color.

A coincidence?

Xion jolted when she heard the shower turn off and she quickly stood up and ran back down the hallway, seeming to see as if she were just coming out of her room. Starting to walk down the hallway for a second time, she tried to keep her eyes from widening as Riku stepped out of the bathroom.

She blushed, realizing that she had listened to Riku taking a shower. And he was the one who altered the lyrics. Xion was also blushing because he was still shirtless, except now his hair was wet and he had a few water droplets dripping down his very sculpted chest.

She was a girl after all.

"Oh, morning Xion," Riku greeted as he noticed her. Xion nodded.

"Morning Riku. How'd you sleep?" he grinned.

"Like a log, thanks. How about you? The second night in a new house, must be different," Xion sighed and nodded, leaning against the wall again. Riku stood in front of her, his arms crossed.

"You didn't want to move here, did you?" He finally asked. Xion sighed and shook her head.

"I know it seems mean, but you have to understand!" Xion blurted. "I've lived my whole live in Traverse Town, avoiding coming to see my brothers when my dad came because I thought that they would never be a part of my life! But then my mom died...and I was lost... I lost almost all of my friends, my grades dropped - I even dyed my hair!

"But then dad said that he reconnected with his ex-wife at the funeral reception and that they were going to give their relationship another go," Xion explained. "It went like that for a few weeks, and then he decided to move us here. I had to leave behind the two people who stayed with me throughout my mother's sickness and the funeral to come to a city and live with three brothers whom I've never met."

Xion was trying her hardest not to start sobbing, and she was doing a pretty good job. Images rushed past her head, flicking before her eyes as if taunting her to cry. Her mother lying the hospital bed, pale and lifeless. Her mother in a coffin wearing her favorite pink dress. Xion's last report card with four Cs, a D, and an F. An image of Xion with light brown hair which quickly changed to black. Her friend's faces when she got in the car to head to her new life.

Riku pulled her into his arms, hugging her. Xion, shocked, put her arms around his waist and leaned against his chest. Trying not to let the tears start flowing.

"I understand completely," Riku assured her with a gentle voice. "I felt exactly like that when my dad died. My mom got remarried and he and her fight all the time. I moved here from Destiny Islands, at least your lucky that you know somebody even if it is Axel. Just know that your friends back home still love you, and you already have a few friends here." Xion nodded against his chest and backed away, wiping at her eyes.

"Sorry I blubbered all over you," she mumbled out in an apology. Riku shrugged his shoulers.

"No prob. You can always come to me if you have any problems. After all, you are my best friend's little sister," and so he walked away leaving a very confused and slightly sad sixteen year old staring after him.

"His best friend's little sister?"

Dun dun duuuun! He only thinks of her as his best friend's little sister? Poor Xion, she's heartbroken. Riku's confused, she's confused - heck, even I'm confused! Go confusingness!

It you're confused, rant about it in your review (cough cough). Thanks for reading!!

-The Gray Rook