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Something about this seems familiar... [Active]

Character(s): Roxas and Kairi
Content: Kairi recognizes Roxas, who of course hasn't met her yet
Setting: Somewhere near Niflhiem gate
Time: Twilight, week
Warnings: None expected, but beware spoilers for 358/2 Days in case I might screw up. >.>

Roxas took a bite of his ice cream, lost in thought as always. He was sitting on a bench near the Niflheim gate, and was once again glad that Xemnas had let him keep the clothes he woke up in--not that he remembered waking up anyway.

The first thing Roxas thought about was Marluxia. He'd never worked with the guy much, and didn't know a lot about him. But apparently he was an enemy of the Organization now, and then he'd decided to start telling everyone about all the Orgainzation's plans...a lot of stuff that Roxas hadn't known a thing about. So they were actually inside Castle Oblivion? That was really weird, since he never remembered going there. Maybe one of the Dark Corridors had been set up to bypass the castle itself and bring him straight to Paixao. It wouldn't surprise him, since the Organization usually didn't bother to tell him things like that. He didn't even know what most of his missions were for, other than collecting hearts with his Keyblade. That was all they kept him around for anyway, but it was his job so he had done it without complaint. It wasn't like it was that hard very often.

Then...he'd met Riku here. And after that he met Timon. And still everyone was talking about Sora, but not telling him anything about the guy. What was so special about being his Nobody anyway? Did that make Roxas somehow important? But more...was Sora eventually going to destroy him, too, along with the rest of the Organization? Why would someone kill their own Nobody?

Nothing was making any more sense now than it had before, and the urgent pleadings from Timon to leave the Organization with all haste weren't helping the keyblade wielder sort out his thoughts. It was hard enough before he knew any of this stuff, but now it was a lot worse.

"Why can't I just be a normal kid, and go to school and hang out and play in the Struggle tournaments?"

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Kairi, as per usual, was out and about through the city, enjoying moving throughout. She was use to running across familiar faces - ones that she had met from the last time she had arrived in Paixao. But she wasn't exactly use to meeting familiar faces that she hadn't yet seen again in this place.

Was that... Roxas? When did he get back...? Shock wore off, and excitement took over and she rushed towards where he was eating ice cream, throwing her arm up into the air to wave as she made it closer. "Roxas! Hey!"

Roxas looked up as he took another bite of ice cream, the bar still half in his mouth. That voice...why was it so familiar? He struggled to grasp at the fleeting thought of who the voice belonged to in his memories, he knew she was somehow important to him. But he just couldn't remember.

He let the hand with the ice cream fall, and looked at the girl confused. "Do I...know you?" She even looked familiar...and not just in one way, either.

She pulls to a stop, drawing her hand towards her chest and looking hesitant. The first time they ever met, in the city, he was fighting Sora. She didn't really... know him much. Riku told her about him, explained things about how he was Sora's Nobody.

Riku was always the one who sort things out for her, huh?

"Um... maybe. I guess." She frowns, trying to think. The second time they 'sort of' met, it was really just him and Naminé and... she didn't really meet him. Should he know her? "We're friends," she tries, because it seems like it would be true enough. They were all connected after all, right?

"Friends?" He thought for a second. "Does that mean we ate ice cream together? And why can't I remember who you are? I feel like I know your voice from somewhere, but..." He trailed off, unable to complete the thought. What if he had been her friend, and forgotten about it? ...But why would he forget that? The only other person he'd ever eaten ice cream with was Axel, wouldn't he remember if it was someone different?

She blinks. Eat ice cream together? That didn't seem like a normal question. "No, I don't think we did. Every time we met the circumstances were kind of... odd. I don't know why you don't remember me... I guess you're probably from a time we didn't meet yet."

She was use to that. Sora and Riku would always show up at confusing times, talking about things that she should apparently know but she... didn't. Well. Not true, now she understood after she left Paixao originally. Things begun to make sense and all that. "I'm sorry. I'm Kairi," she says apologetically and holds out her hand in greeting.

Roxas blinked. "Oh...so you're just like Riku." There was no enthusiasm in the realization. Then he looked down at her hand, and without thinking at all he grabbed it and shook enthusiastically, almost smiling a little.

Then he abruptly stopped as he noticed what he was doing. "S-sorry...about that..." His hand fell, and the smile faded.

Just like Riku? Not that it surprised her that they knew each other.

She smiles when he does, even when he stops. "Don't apologize!" she says quickly. "It's alright. I probably shouldn't have come across so strong."

Why did he that? Roxas looked confused, but only for a moment. "So...if we've never met, then how do you know who I am?" Then a thought popped into his head, one he wasn't too happy about. "...Wait....You know Sora, don't you?" The second question was rather flat-toned and cynical. He turned away from her as he said it, as if it would somehow protect him from whatever her answer was.

She was really now wondering when Roxas was from, exactly. He didn't seem to be taking anything regarding Sora very well, and it made her weary to bring up her friend. How would Roxas take it?

"I have met you," she insists, lowering her arms down to her sides and looking determined. "I met you in this city before." He was fighting Sora, although she only who he was until later when Riku explained it to her. "But you obviously don't remember that, which is fine. And yes... I do know Sora, he's a very good friend of mine. I met you another time through him, in The World That Never Was. Naminé liked you." But did he even know who that was...?

Roxas' jaw hung open a little. "What are you talking about? I've only been in the city a few months, and you didn't get here until a couple of weeks ago. And you're saying you met me through Sora? None of that makes any sense, Kairi." He quirked an eyebrow. "...Who's Naminé?"

"I was here before, in this city. I somehow managed to go home and was left thinking this was all a dream... but then I was back in Paixao again." She shrugs a bit, folding her arms across her chest. "You can meet different versions of people in this city. I re-met Sora so many times here... You sorta get use to it. People leave, show up again, and most of the time don't remember anything about being here."

But apparently there were others like her. Others that left, came back, and did remember. She couldn't make heads or tails of it.

"Naminé is my Nobody," she says, rather matter-of-factly, like she's actually finally become more familiar with all this. It made more sense than it did the last time she was here. She hesitates on the next part, because she doesn't know how much information Roxas has but... "Just like you're Sora's," she mentions at last.

"Riku said that he was from a different time than me, too..." Roxas' train of thought was interrupted by Kairi's next statement, before he had a chance to think about it too much.

"...And Riku told me that, too. Not that it helps me any. I still don't even know who Sora is, and no one will actually tell me anything about him."

"I can tell you about him, if you want. I'm not sure if it really helps you much? But I can." Would it help him at all? Would it only make things worse for him? She shrugs a bit. If he thinks it would...

"Well, I want to know. Everyone's keeping it a secret from me for some reason, like it's dangerous for me to know." Roxas gave a half-shrug that showed a little distress. "I guess...I think I have a right to know about him. ...Don't I?"

It wasn't very fun, looking for answers everywhere and only getting vague replies and warnings about the people he worked with. For that matter, it wasn't really that useful, either. The only thing he knew now was that he was Sora's Nobody. That didn't count for much when he didn't know very much about Sora.

((Sorry about the delay! Took a longer holiday than initially planned. That, and I've been playing Days almost nonstop on it :D ...s-sob just finished...))

After a moment, Kairi nods to him. "Yes, you do have that right." He was Sora's Nobody after all; they shouldn't be a secret kept from one another. "Although I'm not sure what to say," she admits, chuckling softly to herself and gazing out towards the street. "Sora's a very special person to me... I'm not sure where I'd be without him."

She looks around, then finds somewhere to sit, taking a breath in. "We grew up on Destiny Islands - have you been there before?" She thinks, maybe, that he may have. Just a glimpse of his figure in her memories; black robe, so out of place to the rest of the islands. "He has a strong heart, probably why the keyblade chose him."

Roxas shook his head. "If I have been there, I don't remember," he answered. There was a vague glimpse of staring out over the sunset from a beach, but it was gone as quick as it came.

"The keyblade..." he repeated to himself. The thing was still a mystery to him, all he knew was how to use it. If the keyblade chose Sora for his strong heart...did that mean that Roxas only had it because he was Sora's Nobody? It wasn't like he had a heart to be chosen for.

"I'm sure you'll see it one day," she tells him, fairly confident in herself that she was right."

Kairi herself didn't know all that much about the keyblade - she was certainly on common ground with Roxas in that regards. Although he probably knew how to use it a lot better than her; she's only had it in a short while, and she hadn't used it since her re-arrival to Paixao.

That alone gave her pause, and she holds her hand out before her in thought, concentrating on something that felt... well... keyblade-ish? She didn't really know. The others did it all the time. To her luck, after a moment, she has the keyblade Riku gave to her in hand and she smiles. "Maybe some things are better as mysteries."

"Whoa!" Roxas stumbled back. He didn't know anyone else could use one, other than him...and Sora...? But the image that flashed through his mind wasn't Sora at all. He shook his head.

"So you have one too?"

Kairi observes the keyblade in her grip. "Yeah. Though it's... odd, I guess. It's not like I could just one day summon it." She frowns, trying to think how she could explain it. "I mean it didn't exactly have it call out to me one day. It was sort of given to me."

She releases it and lets it disappear again.

The confusion was more than apparent on Roxas' face. "Someone...gave it to you? They can do that?" No one else had ever used Roxas' keyblade...if they could, he was sure by now that the Organization would have taken it a long time ago.

"I don't know. I guess. Maybe it just means I was... meant to have it, at some point?" She gives him a hopeless look, because she really doesn't have the answers. "What else do you want to know? About Sora, I mean. Or anything, really. It's nice having someone to talk to."

Roxas chuckled softly at that last part. "Yeah...it is." How long had it been since he'd had ice cream with Axel? The blond was starting to miss it.

"I guess I'm not going to be able to get the answer I want from you either," he said after a pause. "Not that I know what I'm looking for to start with..."

"Knowing where to start sort of helps a bit, but even if you don't know... that's fine. If you're okay with waiting a bit longer, I'm sure Sora will show up here at some point. He's not normally like a drifter, but... it's always hard to keep him around this city, it seems."

She slides away from her seat and stands, folding her hands behind her back and turning to face Roxas. "But if I can help in any way until then, don't be afraid to ask, okay, Roxas?"

She wanted to ask him a favor. Wanted to ask him please don't fight Sora when he comes, but she holds it back. Even if they fight again, it'll be alright. And she'll support them both.

"Right..." Roxas answered without much enthusiasm. He looked at her from the corner of his eye, but back forward after a moment.

"All right...if I think of anything, I'll ask." There wasn't any more excitement than the previous response, other than the fact it was longer than one word.

It wasn't that he didn't think Kairi could help, it was more that he wasn't quite listening. He was thinking about getting ice cream with Axel.

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