Chapter 1: The night it all began

Hey it's my first time publishing here please be kind. I have taken great pride into this so far but I will most likely be rewriting it a lot. So I never shipped anyone with Xion for a while and then suddenly BAM idea. So anyways R&R and thank you for giving this a shot I appreciate it. Enjoy and I don't own Kingdom Hearts or any of the characters (sadly)

Probably really OOC I'm so sorry D:

"Oh come on Xion relax!" Axel yelled after her with Roxas following closely behind him.

Xion turned and glared at the spiky red haired boy "Relax? Are you kidding me?!" She stomped up to him and looked up at his emerald eyes. "Roxas breaks up with me because he's with someone else, a guy!" She growled slightly, "my boyfriend was gay, how the hell do you think I feel? And it was you! You guys were using me to cover this so people wouldn't know. What kind of best friends are you?" Roxas looked away, the obvious guilt in his eyes made Xion feel bad but she was too angry to let it stop her now.

"I think it was all your idea too, you sly jerk! Always creeping around, blackmailing people to do things for you." Xion jabbed her index finger into Axel's chest accusingly, "Is this really what you think of me? Just some puppet you can use in your favor? " Xion immediately stopped after saying that. She turned her face away.

Axel grabbed her by her shoulders and she looked back up at him. His usually calm green eyes had a burning anger in them. "You are not a puppet, you are a teenage girl. Don't you dare say I don't care about you, I care about you, no we both care about you more than anything."

Xion turned to Roxas who had his head down. She felt her heart ache seeing him in such a state. Peeling Axel's fingers off her, she walked over to her now ex-boyfriend and wrapped her arms around him.

"We are ...still best friends, even if we need some time away from each other...I'm so sorry" She whispered so only the blond would hear. She could feel his head gesture a subtle nod and she released him.

"I think... You should go Xion..." She heard Roxas' voice for the first time after the whole argument.

He was telling her to leave.

Xion felt the stinging of tears beginning to form. She wasn't going to give Axel the joy of seeing her cry, she glared at him one last time and burst out the door.

"Xion!" Axel's voice called after her but she payed him no mind and started to run as fast as she could. The tears she held for so long began to stream down her face, and she couldn't make out where she was running, but didn't stop to check. She just kept going, ignoring annoyed or concerned looks as she passed by bumping into people.

Xion felt like such a child running away. But the fact that Axel lied to her, and Roxas too. She couldn't bear the thought of her best friends treating her so terribly.

Axel always protected her from people like the bully Saïx who did nothing but treat her like a puppet he always claimed her broken and useless. That's why Axel was so angry when she called herself a puppet, he hated people saying that about her. Xion took the comments Saïx said to heart. She hated everything about him but his words stabbed so deeply into her. Axel was once Saïx's best friend but he hated the way he talked about Roxas and Xion. He deserted that friendship for them.

It was dark before she knew it and soon she could hardly see. She began to panic realizing she was in an unfamiliar part of town. When she could run no longer she stopped to soothe the burning in her lungs, she leaned her arm against a building to rest. When she heard a group of men approaching she began sprinting once again.

Running from her problems was not usually something Xion would do, but yet this time, it felt as though it was all she could do. Well that was until she ran smack dab into somebody and fell on her butt.

"Hey little missy, you should be watching for obstacles as you run." A manly voice huffed at her. Xion looked up to see an outstretched hand which she eyed cautiously before hesitantly grabbing.

With a pull and a chuckle she was face to face with an attractive boy "No need to be so cautious I don't bite, " His lips that were frowning before were formed into a flirty smirk. "well unless you ask me too." He winked one of golden eyes at her.

Xion felt her face flush at the boy's comment. She was grateful it was dark enough to hide it. Brushing herself off quickly she turned to leave.
"Aw come on, can't take a joke? Look I was taught to lend an ear to any girl I come across with tears in her eyes." The boy called after her. He gave a sympathetic smile. "I've got ears to listen."

Xion sighed thinking it over, sure she didn't know him but he didn't look much older than her, and he didn't seem too shady. Finally she shrugged her shoulders in defeat, and sat with him in the alley, retelling the hell that she had gone through that day.

"Well it's a long story, feel free to tell me to stop if you get bored."

"Hey I said I'd listen, so that is what I'll do." And so she began.

He listened intently throughout the story, adding a nod in here and there. But kept his opinions to himself till the end of Xion's story. "... So apparently they were dating the whole time and was just using me to make sure no one found out..."

"Well if you ask me, these 'friends' of yours aren't worth your time." The dark haired boy said standing up and reaching out a hand to help Xion up.

She accepted it with a smile and nodded. "Yeah I'm starting to think that too..." She chuckled lightly.

Golden spheres stared into sapphire orbs for what seemed to be an eternity, making Xion nervous. She was still not too sure about this guy, after all anyone can be friendly at first.

"I can tell you don't trust me, can't say I'm surprised. I haven't even introduced myself. My name is Vanitas." The boy said staring up to the sky. His gaze seemed so distant like he was looking at something beyond the stars, something that Xion herself couldn't see.

She fidgeted slightly unsure if she give him her name but figure why not. "I'm Xion, sorry for dumping all that on you. It's been a long day..." She frowned slightly.

"Nonsense, I was quite intrigued. Shall I buy you a drink? There's a place nearby." Vanitas had a smirk playing along his lips as his gaze turned back down to her. He was clearly curious to whether or not she actually drank.

Xion quickly shook her head "I can't, I'm only 15. Plus I've got school tomorrow..." She was trying to think of a way to end the conversation and leave. She went to check her jacket pockets only to realize she wasn't wearing it. She'd left it at Roxas's place. "Say... Would you happen to have the time?"

Vanitas nodded and pulled out his phone. "It's 12:13, you gotta date?" He put the phone back in his pocket and didn't wait for a response before patting her head. "You have school tomorrow I know. Your folks must be worried. I'll give you a ride," Vanitas saw the look on her face and chuckled "Look, I'm not interested alright? You just happened to stumble upon a kind gentleman."

Xion looked away and crossed her arms. This was getting troublesome. She could accept the offer after all she wasn't quite sure where she was, but her mind was telling her it could be dangerous. She sighed defeated, knowing it would take forever to find her way home and to get him to leave her alone.

"Sure, a ride would be nice..." With that a small grin grew on Vanitas' face.

He led her to the parking lot by the bar where she spotted their ride. A motorcycle. Yeah that figures she thought to herself. Vanitas seemed like the person who'd have a motorcycle instead of a car. This felt like a bad stereotype to Xion but she just walked over to it without a word.
When they reached the bike, Vanitas handed Xion the helmet that was rested on the seat.

She had to admit it was a nice bike but she knew nothing about them. But she looked it over anyways while attempting to put on the helmet and failing. The strap wouldn't stay in the loops or it ended up all tangled. She huffed out a frustrated sigh in resignation, drooping her head.

With that Vanitas came over and lifted her chin up so they were eye to eye and Xion felt her face flush slightly. He looped the helmet fastener so that it was tight enough and shook his head.

"It's through two back one, you've never rode a motorcycle have you?" Xion shook her head which earned her a sigh. "I need your address to take you home yknow?" She nodded in reply and told Vanitas it.

"Oh I live on 14 Destiny Lane." Xion's mind was screaming at her to decline while she still could but at the same time she knew she had to get home.
Vanitas was up on the bike by the time she snapped out of her mental argument. "Thats quite a ways away, good thing you ran in to me huh?" He turned the key starting the ignition and looked at her cocking his eyebrow smirking. "You can hop on now, or are you just going to stand there till dawn with my helmet?"

His comment made Xion blush once again, she felt like a lost child unsure what to do, he could at least stop picking on her. She climbed up behind him and swung her leg over to the other side. She hesitated before wrapping her arms around his waist, which made him laugh at her again.

"You're afraid I get that, but try to loosen up. " He unwrapped her arms and rested them on his waist. "If I'm going fast or over bumps that's when you can use a death grip." He turned away from her and revved the engine before he sped off leaving the parking lot behind them.