Someday

I know

You don't really see my worth

You think, you're the last guy on earth

Well I've got news for you

I know I'm not that strong

But it won't take long…

Won't take long…

"Last stop: Twilight Town," the intercom repeated, "Passengers please exit to the nearest door."

As the two let go, Namine had an odd feeling that this wouldn't be the last time they'd be talking to each other, "Twilight Academy?" she asked.

He nodded, "Yeah, I'll see you there."

The blond girl smiled and waved as she stepped off the train heading in her own direction. Roxas wheeled his skateboard forward only to hear his board make a strange sound on the pebble ground. He lifted it to see that there was a folded sheet of paper underneath. As what many would have done, he opened the paper to see it was a letter addressed to Sora. "A letter of confession huh..."

"I'm finally home..." Namine sighed, taking her shoes off once she stepped into the mansion. She paused hearing sounds from the kitchen and tip toed quietly over to the door.

"Welcome back Namine."

"Ah!" She jumped at the familiar voice seeing her brother casually leaning against the wall not too far away, "Cloud! What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be at Hollow Bastion?"

He stood there with a blank expression, "I see, if that's what you wish..."

"No wait!" She ran over to the front door to stop him from leaving. Sheesh, sometimes her brother seemed to take her every word seriously, "I didn't mean it like that, I was just surprised that you're home after so lo-"

"I needed a break," he interrupted. The girl thought the sentence over, "That doesn't make sense...the project he's working on with Tifa takes up all his time and he can't just leave whenever he feels like it. And why today of all days? There's nothing special about today except for Sora moving..." She blinked, in other words it meant: I need to see that you're okay. She laughed lightly at how bad her brother was at covering up his feelings while he gave her a strange look. Suddenly his mobile phone started ringing, "Did you see Sora off?" he asked as if his phone wasn't there.

"Yeah." Namine was about to mention the part about meeting Roxas, but decided to keep it a secret for now. She gave him a weird look, "Aren't you going to answer your phone?"

The older blond shrugged, "It's Tifa," he took it out of his pocket and showed the current caller, "See?"

"So? Just answer it."

He pressed the send button hearing the girl on the other line say hello several times. Namine stared at him in confusion as he hesitated and pressed the end button. "She's not going to be happy that you just hung up on her you know..."

The phone rang again, this time it was voicemail. "CLOUD! YOU'RE IN A WORLD FULL OF HURT YOU KNOW! DO YOU KNOW HOW RUDE IT IS TO-"

Namine didn't even bother staying to hear the rest of the voice message. Having Tifa mad at you was the last thing anyone would want. She ran up the stairs towards her room where she took her belongings out of her bag. "Do I have everything?" She said, mentally checking off that all her art stuff was there before resuming back to the first page of her sketchbook. Then paused. Something was missing...

Twilight Academy

-10th grade, Fall-

"My, I'm surprised," Olette commented as she sat down in her desk beside Namine's, "Roxas has only been here for about a week and he's already the talk of town."

Namine stopped drawing in her sketchbook to look over to where Roxas was, "I wouldn't blame him though, aside from being the new kid, he's the newspaper boy in the mornings and helps out with various jobs around town-"

"Actually!" A bright flash and small "click" interrupted the two. Both girls blinked in surprise.

"Pence!" Olette gave him a scolding look, "What did you do that for? This early in the morning too?!"

He shrugged with a friendly smile, "Hey don't get mad, I need this for the yearbook!"

The brunette girl muttered, "That had better not be in the yearbook…"

Namine giggled and looked at their friend, "Did you need to tell us something?"

"Yeah, maybe a WARNING next time when you take pictures?" Olette added sarcastically. She sighed tiredly and decided to pull out her student planner as a distraction just in case while listening to the conversation.

"Hm…" The dark haired boy began to think, "Oh right! You guys were talking about Roxas. Actually, he's not new in town, he used to live here before and moved away to Hollow Bastion because of his dad's job."

Olette closed her planner, setting it aside and shook her head confused, "Wait a minute, how come I don't remember him?" She tried to recall a time when it was the four of them, "Was he the boy that came to visit one summer?"

Pence took the chance to snap another shot of Olette before she could glare at him again. "Yeah, he moved before your family came to town, and a few years back, he came to visit us for the summer. I have pictures to prove it!" He smiled, "Remember when Hayner didn't want to do his summer project and we all decided to search for the Seven Wonders?"

The brunette sighed hearing Hayner's name, that boy would use any excuse to skip homework, "How could I forget? We spent our last summer days doing homework and trying to save money to go to the beach. Too bad we never went."

"Wow…sounds like I missed out," Namine said. Hearing all this made it sound like "she" was the new kid in town. "I've known you guys since middle school but it feels like I still don't know much about Twilight Town."

She felt a hand on her shoulder, "Don't say that," Olette said with a smile, "this year is going to be a lot better now that we're all together again."

"Except for Sora…" The blond girl mumbled accidentally. She suddenly looked at her friends, "Er…I didn't mean that…"

Her two friends looked at each other and back at her, "Then what did you mean?"

"It's just…" she let out a soft sigh, "I'm still not used to Sora not being around, it's kinda lonely actually and it's only been the second day of school." She held a sad expression before laying her head down on the desk and close her eyes.

Olette gave Pence a "what should I say" look, unsure of what to say now. Pence gave a small cough, "Isn't it weird how just when Sora leaves, Roxas moves back?"

The blond girl opened her eyes still resting on her desk. "That's true…what a coincidence…" Her brunette friend punched him on the arm, "Idiot, now you're making it worse."

"Ow…" He hated to admit it, but Olette was the type of girl with strong punches. He rubbed his hurt arm and grabbed his camera, "Alright alright! I'm leaving."

Olette smiled a thank you to him before turning her attention back to her friend. "You know Nami, it's not like he's gone forever or that you'll never see him again. He said you could go visit him right?"

"Visit…him?" Namine's face became pink thinking of the idea of traveling alone to visit a boy. She quickly sat up, "B-But I w-wouldn't want to v-visit him unannounced!"

"Then e-mail him! Don't make this a tough situation when it's so simple!"

She laughed lightly, "You're right."

"Hey girls! Smile!"

"Pence don't you-" a soft flash and instant click happened, making the brunette annoyed, "That's it! Give me that camera!"

Clock Tower

"What a pretty sunset…" Namine smiled talking to no one in particular. She had just opened the door to the roof of the town's clock tower admiring the sky. "This would make a good drawing…" she remembered as she quickly looked in the bag for her sketchbook and sat down with her colored pencils and crayons surrounding the girl.

"The view from Sunset Hill is much better," a voice added making her jolt in surprise. Her head turned to see who had just walked up, "Roxas!"

He sat down beside her, "But I guess if you're going to draw here, the clock tower would be the best place."

She smiled feeling at ease. Her eyes caught his skateboard which was right beside him, "Finished with all of your jobs?"

"Fortunately," he laughed, "without my board, I'd be running back and forth in town and wear myself out."

The blond resumed back to her drawing with a simple nod, switching her colored pencils to crayons to fill in the rest of the white space. He continued to sit there watching her in silence. "Guess what? Sora told me that he doesn't have to start school until next week and he made the blitzball team."

This caught her interest as she stopped coloring, "Really? Did you guys talk on the phone?"

"Nope, e-mail." He looked over at her to see a stunned face, "Now don't tell me you don't have his e-mail. I thought you guys were the best of friends here."

She shook her head, "We are friends, it's just…when he lived here, his house wasn't far away from mine so there was no need to e-mail." That was something she forgot to ask before he left.

He sighed and stood up, reaching for something in his pocket. He ripped off a piece of paper from one of the posters he was supposed to put around town earlier, "Can I borrow something to write with?"

She handed him a random colored pencil and watched him write down something on the paper before handing it back. "Here, it's his e-mail. That way you guys can keep in touch," he paused, "let me know if you're planning on visiting him."

"Eh?" She stood up to take the piece of paper from him, "Just wondering, but why?"

He shrugged, "I want to come with you when you visit him that's all, he's my cousin."

"Ah…ok…" She nodded and started to put her colored pencils and crayons in their boxes. He bent down to help, "Besides, you might get hurt if you go alone..." he thought seeing her smile. "Thanks." The sound of the clock tower bells sounded seven times meaning it was already seven in the evening. "I should be getting home."

Roxas nodded as she walked past him towards the roof door. "Namine?"

The girl turned around, "Hm?"

He didn't look at her as he said this, "Did Sora tell you why he wanted to move?"

She paused trying to remember what the brown haired boy told her, "I'm sure Sora said it was because he wanted to join the blitzball team since we don't have it here..." The look on Roxas' face was somewhat surprised, "Why?"

The blond boy shook his head with a smile, "Nothing."

"Okay…well I'll see you tomorrow?" Her tone sounded like it was full of hopefulness. He smiled, "Yeah, tomorrow."

As the door shut behind her, Roxas let out a small laugh, "Sora, what kind of excuse was that?" His cousin using that as an excuse to move?

The Sandlot

Namine's heart thumped nervously holding onto the paper that held Sora's e-mail address. "I can't wait until I get home! What should I say?" Thoughts of him swirled around her mind, she'd have to thank Roxas later. "Of course I would have to ask how's he doing…how's blitzball pract-"

She found herself stumbling back after colliding with another girl spilling her colored pencils out of her bag. Must be a habit of hers, having to always drop everything... She heard the girl gasp, "I'm so sorry! Are you okay?"

Namine took a good look at the redhead girl standing in front of her, "I think I am…"

The redheaded girl bent down to pick up the spilled pencils, "Sorry, I kind of got lost so I've been running back and forth."

"I'm taking a bet that you're not from this town." Namine guessed.

She grinned, "Well you win that bet. I'm Kairi."

"A pretty redhead and she's friendly…"Namine stared at her in admiration, "Namine."

Kairi handed her the rest of her dropped pencils, "Here, sorry I'd like to stay and talk a little more but I have to go back home before it gets dark."

"Wait!" Namine picked up something else from the ground that wasn't hers. "Is this yours?"

Her eyes widened in surprised and quickly ran back over to the blond, "Thanks, you don't know how much I'd be freaking out if I lost this."

She smiled slowly handing back the…"Is this a charm? It looks like a …star or sakura flower?" She wasn't saying that this girl had an odd taste in art - a charm of five shells put together, a crown in the middle with a face on the front, it was cute and unique.

Kairi laughed, "It's a star shaped charm. I made this out of thalassa seashells, it's good luck for travelers you know, I was planning on giving this to…" her cheeks became pink, "someone special to me, but I don't know if he'll accept it."

Ah, so it WAS for someone, the blond had a feeling it was like that. She must really be in love from the look on her face. Namine grinned imagining her with her future boyfriend, it'd be picture perfect, "I wish you the best of luck Kairi."

"Thanks! I hope we'll meet again soon," She smiled happily before running off in the opposite direction, "Bye!"

Namine watched the redhead run in a familiar direction, "Huh, she's heading towards the same apartment building where Sora used to live," she shrugged and headed her own way.

"People in Twilight Town are friendly..." Kairi hummed happily seeing that she was almost close to her destination, or...she thought, "Ack! I should've asked her for directions!"

"Kairi?"

The redhead automatically turned to the person who called her out, "Roxas! What great timing, I was looking for you!"

He looked at the sheet of paper that was supposed to be a map of Twilight Town, "It takes great talent to get lost in this town..."

She shook her head, "Are you kidding? How was I supposed to find your place when all you told me was look for the tunnel number 7 as soon as you step out of the train station?"

Roxas sighed and pointed to the tunnel a couple yards away from them, "Is it really that hard to find?"

(Insert nervous laugh here)

"So I'm guessing you're here to pick up some of Sora's belongings?" He pointed to the box that had his name on it, "I decided to put it in a box for you to make it easier," as he walked over and handed it to the girl. "But..." he paused, "why is he making a girl like you go get it for him and not someone like Riku? No offense to girls."

She shook her head and smiled, "None taken, but that's because the boys are all busy with blitzball at this time of year and it's not like Sora told me to do this, I volunteered for him."

"You're a good friend Kairi," Roxas grinned, ruffling with her hair as she laughed and tried to get away, "Quit it! Or else I'll tell Sora that you were being mean to me!" She stuck her tongue out at him.

"Sora? Not Riku? Tidus? Selphie?" Roxas questioned, "Just Sora?" He liked the taken aback look on her face. He also noticed something in her hand, "A star charm? For what? Helping you get lost in town?"

Her face flushed red, "S-Stop teasing me, it's for someone special!" and she quickly shoved an object into his hands, "here, this is Sora's cell phone, it doesn't work where he lives now and since you're living here, you might as well take it." She didn't bother to wait for his response and began to walk away.

He looked over at her and the charm she was holding as she walked away, the first person he thought was Sora. "Kairi."

"What?" She stopped, hoping that this wasn't another remark from him.

"Good luck with Sora."

Again, her face transitioned color, "T-Thanks," she turned around and smiled at him, her last words before she ran off, "I'll do my best!"

"Kairi, she hasn't changed a bit," he smiled. There was just one thing he had to confirm, as he looked for Sora's home number in his "new" cell phone.

"Sora here." The boy on the other line greeted, making Roxas laugh, "It's Roxas."

"Roxas? Hey! How's Twilight Town? Did Kairi already drop by to get my stuff?"

"Twilight Town isn't bad, I just have to get used to moving back here, and yeah she did just now."

"Really? Then I'll talk to you later, I want to meet her at the train station when she arriv-"

Now that was a first, Sora putting a girl over his cousin? "Sora," the blond boy interrupted as Sora stopped, "by any chance, is she...the reason why you left Twilight Town?"

He heard silence on the other line, "Uh..."

Roxas sighed, "Answer me honestly, did you leave knowing Namine's feelings for you?"

Sora didn't know how to say it. Of course he knew that she didn't want him to leave, but something told him that Roxas was talking about a different kind of "feeling", "I had an idea that she might've liked me, but she never told me..."

"Would you have stayed if she did tell you?" He knew the answer to this one as he heard a depressed sigh through the phone, "You left her hanging? Do you know how disappointed she'll be if-"

"I know I know!" Sora wanted to bang his head against the nearest wall hearing this from his cousin, "I was hoping that since you were coming back that you'd do me one more favor."

"Sora, I'm not going to tell her your rejection message, that's something you shou-"

"No not that. Please...take care of her for me."

White Mansion

-10th grade, Winter-

Namine who was spending her winter break at her mansion, sat in front of the computer in boredom. Suddenly, a new message popped up as she excitedly clicked on the button to open it. "It's from Sora!"

To: Namine

From: Sora

Subject: Re: Hello

Namine!

Sorry I've been busy that I hadn't had time to reply back. Destiny Islands is awesome! I'm glad I'm back at home, of course I still miss you guys too. Blitzball practices are almost every day after school and on Saturdays in the mornings. It's a little tiring :P How's your winter break going on over there? Snowing hard or hardly snowing? Haha. We don't usually get a lot of snow over here so it's a change of pace for me. Tell the others I said hi okay? Later.

- Sora

Namine read the message over and over before turning the computer off. Not that she wasn't going to reply back, but it did take her time to think of what to write back. She noticed snow starting to fall from her window, making her walk over and stare at the white clouds in the sky. Then the familiar ring came from the front door.

"Look who decided to come out of the mansion."

She grinned seeing Roxas at the door, "What are you doing here? Don't tell me you were waiting outside like a stalker."

"Hah, you wish," He pulled out a wrapped present from his bag, "I'm working as a delivery boy today. Sign here too," he pointed to the clipboard where she was supposed to sign.

After she had signed it, she handed back the clipboard to see his grinning face, "What?"

"Did you read what you just signed?"

She glanced at the paper, "Of course, didn't I sign at the…I, Namine hereby sign this paper as an agreement to meet with Roxas later at seven?! What is this?!"

"You've been in this mansion for days," he explained, "besides, I need help with finding our friends gifts for Christmas."

She shook her head in disbelief, "And this was something you couldn't just ask me?" She sighed expecting a reply, only to hear silence, "Roxas?" She looked up to see him gone from her doorstep leaving tracks from his skateboard in the snow. She smiled before closing the door and quickly ran upstairs to her room.

The Market Place

"Any word from Sora these days?" Roxas asked her after they had finished shopping around town. The decided to sit down at a small café while they waited for their orders.

She gave him a small head tilt as in so-so. "We still keep in touch, but as time passes by, he responds much later than he used to," she gave out a nervous laugh, "I bet it's because he's busy with blitzball and school. I'm not involved with any activities at school besides art, so I'm the one with all this free time."

The waitress quietly placed their coffees in front of them and walked away to serve the other customers. Roxas took a sip from his cup before setting it down, "Even if Sora was busy, he wouldn't let that get in the way of communicating with his friends. I'm sure he's happy getting your e-mails and just can't respond as fast as he wants to."

"He's right. It's not like Sora answers in one sentence replies or ignores my e-mails…" Namine thought and muttered, "Yeah, you're right."

Roxas stared at the disappointed girl in front of him and concern filled his face. He wanted to say something to comfort her, but he couldn't remember anything about…"Sora's team is traveling around the worlds."

"Huh?" She placed her cup down softly.

"Since Destiny Islands had been ranked as one of the top blitzball teams, they're traveling around to compete with other worlds. Sora said something about coming to visit Twilight Town when he doesn't have any game schedules going on. I think sometime around the spring season."

She sat up, her heart fluttered with hope, "R-Really? I'm so happy." Now she couldn't wait until spring would come. It was only a season away but it seemed like such a long time. "Sora…is…coming to visit…" Her mind repeated making her smile happily.

He smiled fondly at her seeing her in a daze. "At least her smile has started to come back." But a small frown appeared on his face, "...take care of her for me" Sora's words over the phone.

Flashback

"No not that. Please...take care of her for me."

"..."

"Roxas?"

"Do I look like the kind of guy who'll pick up your mess?"

"If you're trying to make me feel guilty, it's working with a capital G."

"I'm telling you that no matter what, she's bound to find out and it's not going to be pretty."

"...I know."

End of Flashback

His thoughts were interrupted as they both heard a mobile phone ringing from Roxas' pocket as he gave her a nervous laugh, "Ah…sorry, I'll be right back." She nodded as he stood up from his seat to answer the phone outside the building.

Roxas sighed, his phone had to ring at the perfect time. His finger pressed the send button and greeted, "Hey Olette, what's up?"

It was quiet on the other line which he figured might've been a mistake or a prank call his friends decided to do. Just when he was about to hang up, he could hear a sniffle on the other line, "Olette? What's wrong?"

Namine who was just about finished with her drink stared at her cell phone. "Roxas has been on the phone for 10 minutes…" She softly spoke and stared out the café's window. He was still on the phone and held a different expression. It wasn't serious, but it was more caring in a way. She watched him hang up and walk back into the building to her table, "Is everything okay?"

"Yeah," he quickly replied, pulling out his wallet from his pocket, "sorry but I have to leave early, I'll pay for both of us."

"Roxas wait, I can pay for mine," Namine interrupted as she stood up and touched his hand to stop him. "His hand is cold…" It was quiet between the two as she quickly took her hand away, "Uh…"

The blond boy shook his head, "I invited you so consider this my treat and a thank you," he set down the munny on the table and waved, "Later!"

"See you…tomorrow…" she started, but he had already left before she could finish. When the girl realized she was still standing, she quickly sat down in her chair, her face was turning red and to be honest, she felt something different. "It must be the weather…"

A/N: Chapter 2 what do you guys think? :)

As promised, I want to thank my awesome reviewers: ATOMIC ORANGE: Thanks, oh yes, I was sad when the story started out like that, I'm feeling a little better thank you, Pokkin Choco: Yep, I did use it from that game, I thought it was cute :) But it also made me cry, I'm doing better so far, Ramen and Chopsticks: I'm alright now, hahaha, I thought it would've been cool to put that in the story, Automatic Code Red 123: Sheesh, Roxas is too casual about it - and we thought he was the quiet type ne?, First Day High: Yeah, it's a Peter Pan quote that I will never forget, :) thanks for your wonderful words of support, Gogglelicious: *joins in the Skull Candy chant :D I'm glad you enjoyed that scene, Pandapple: Thank you, :) And yes, hopefully Namine will realize that!, U.W.A.H Squad: Same! We should start a fan club ne? You have to admit, that's a great quote :P And thanks for ths support again, ***NaMiXaS***: Don't worry, I don't plan on giving up!, Fenrir of the Dark Moon: Thanks friend :), Fanfiction Fanatiction: I updated I updated! :D, Kiome-Yasha: Hahaha, you'll have to wait and see. :) Yes, her meeting up with Roxas was too much of a coincidence - lol I'm hoping she'll realize that too. BTW: I'll r&r your story soon, I've been busy these past few days, gomen! Thanks for the awesome review