You sighed and woke up, the afternoon light shining on your face. Sitting up, you rubbed the sleep out of your eyes and peeked out the window, the peaceful sight of Twilight Town shining back at you. You took a peek at your alarm clock and groaned. 12:32. Hayner told you to come to The Usual Spot at 11.
Gathering up random clothes and pulling them on quickly, you grabbed a breakfast bar before locking your houe and running down the alley and past the Sandlot. You paid no attention to Seifer and his gang hanging out near a bench until he got it for you.
"Hey, Aimi!" He growled. [a/n: Aimi is you, hehe] You sighed in annoyance and skidded to a stop.
"Hello to you too, Seifer." You said, turning to him. "What now?"
"Tell your little friends that they should give us back what they took or else." He said.
You rolled your eyes, unimpressed by his 'threats'. "And you think we took..." You waved your arms.
"The _____'s. Don't play dumb."
'What the hell. Seifer.' You mentall facepalmed. "Sure Seifer. But it would help if you completed your sentences so I know what we 'stole'. You should know how to finish your statements, right?"
"Hey! Seifer knows what he's talkin' about, y'know?" Rai said, stepping in front of Seifer.
"No Rai, I don't. Whatever. I'll be sure to tell Hayner anyway." You said, rolling your eyes and starting twords the steps that head to the back alleyway, wanting to avoid trouble.
Finally, you came up to the brownish cloth that hid The Usual Spot from others. With a sigh, you lightly pushed the cloth aside and stepped into the confy spot. Hayner was in front of you with Pence to his left, Roxas was on the sofa and Olette was sitting on the old wooden crate. Usually Olette would be sitting on the sofa but due to a massive spider issue [which was now resolved] she prefered sitting on the box which was insect free.
"Where were you Aimi?" A quite peeved Hayner asked you.
"Sleeping." You said, sitting next to Roxas on the sofa. "I want to catch as much sleep as I can before I have to get up at 6 in the morning for the next 180 days." You stuck a finger down your throat and pretended to gag.
Roxas chuckled and scooted closer to you, wrapping his left arm around your shoulders. You smiled and tilted your head so it rested on his shoulder. He sighed, content while the others gave you random looks.
"Why don't you two just go out already?" Pence asked.
Yes, it was true. Roxas and you weren't dating, no matter how much you wanted to. But if someone competly new to the town would just walk in and see you two, they would automatically assume you were. Every day when you walked in you took your place next to Roxas on the sofa and you two would cuddle like you're long time sweethearts. Hayner, Pence and Olette wanted you two to finally date, but they kept it to themselves. But you knew they talked about it behind your backs. Like you minded though. You liked the thought of you and Roxas walking down the peaceful streets hand in hand.
"Mmmmph." You growled. Roxas chuckled.
"Anyway, what were we talking about before?" Hayner piped in.
Your head snapped up. "Oh yeah, Seifer said to give back whatever you took from him."
Hayner fumed. "Him too? Why does the whole town think we stole the _____'s?" He grumped.
"Oh no, not you too." You groaned. "Why can't you people finish your sentences?"
"It's not me, it's the word." Hayner said, defending himself. "It's happening to everyone."
"Then what's the word?" You asked.
"_____'s." Pence said. He pointed to his camera, and you understood then.
"Oh, _____!" You said. But the word didn't come out.
'What the hell? Photos. Say it!'
"Weird..."
"Tell me about it."
Hayner stood up. "Well, we can only go around asking who did this and claim we didn't. They have no proof, so why should they blame us?"
You shrugged. "I'm for it." Roxas nodded beside you.
"Alright, let's go." Hayner said with a nod.
~*~*~
For the past few minutes, you and the group had been walking around Twilight Town, asking random people about their missing _____'s and who they think stole them. You were quite happy that most said they didn't suspect you or your friends, but you did have those few...
"That's weird. I wonder why everyone's _____'s were stolen..." You muttered.
"Beats me." Pence said.
You headed to the Sandlot to take a shortcut. But you regretted you doing so.
"Hey, lamers!" A voice called to you. You groaned.
Seifer stood in front of you, a struggle bat resting in his hand. "Did you bring back my _____'s?" He asked, looking at you.
"No. We never had them." You said, giving a 'I don't give a damn' shrug. He glared and humphed.
"Then who does?"
"Someone who's not us."
"Smart-ass." He muttered before coming at you with a struggle bat. You easily avoided the swing and held up your hands.
"Whoa whoa tiger. If we're going to have a fight, at least make it fair!" You said. Roxas stood next to you with a [cute] glare on his face, stregnthing your numbers.
He rolled his eyes and pointed to Rai and Vivi. "Give them your bats. Don't worry, it'll be quick." He said. They did as they were told, and the blue bats rolled their way over to you. You picked one up and handed the other to Roxas. You smiled, apparently Seifer wasn't worried about you and Roxas having better numbers.
Roxas held his weapon tightly in his hand and went into his stance. You stood calmly, holding the bat by your side and swung it around.
"Kneel, losers!" Seifer yelled before charging at you.
As he charged at you, you brought up your weapon and blocked at the last moment. He recoiled from the sudden force and staggered back. Roxas took the oppertunity and came at Seifer. You watched, pleased as Seifer took a good number of hits. But you started to feel left out of the battle after a while and charged in, hitting Seifer here and there. Everything looked over until he whacked you on the side of the head.
You grunted and recoiled, scolding yourself mentally for missing the block. Roxas called out your name, but you were too busy eyeing the blue bat of Seifer's that was going to make contact with your head in a few seconds.
Rising to one knee, you blocked and pushed up with all of your might. You weren't really surprised when Seifer started to back off, allowing you to rise up and continue like the last blow never happened. You were quite strong, despite your skinny looks.
You came back with a vengance, hitting Seifer here and there with Roxas by your side. Finally, he gave in with a collapse of surrender. You smiled and looked at Roxas, who blushed back.
But there wasn't much time for a celebration. Almost immeadatly, a silver thing came flying by you, one of its flimsy arms hitting you right in the head. You yelped as it continued on, heading for Tramm Common.
"What the hell was that?" You asked. Roxas took off after it, you right after him.
~*~*~
After more running, the silver thing finally stopped at the front gate of the old mansion you all thought was haunted. You glared at it, happy you kept your struggle bat in your hand after the fight.
"Whoa..." Roxas breathed.
"What?" You turned to him.
"It just talked to me. I don't know why, but it did. Didn't you hear it?"
You shook your head. "But I wasn't paying attention, so your guess is as good as mine." You said, raising your struggle bat. Roxas did the same, and leapt after it. You followed him shortly after.
No matter how many times you tried to hit it though, your nifty struggle bat never seemed to make contact with the silver thing once. You were getting frustrated, and you could see Roxas was having no better results. You leapt back, trying to catch your breath.
"What do we do?" You asked Roxas once he joined you.
He shook his head. You were about to charge back in when a bunch of numbers surrounded your blue bat, then being replaced with a...key. You gave it a strange look and looked at Roxas. He held the same expression, and the same weapon.
"What...are these?" You asked.
"I don't know, but it'll do!" Roxas said as the silver thing charged at him. He blocked it quickly and swipped at it. This time, the silver key thing made full contact with a dull 'thud!'. You smiled.
"Works for me!" You said.
After one last hit, the silver thing disappeared with a flash, papers raining from where it once stood. You gasped as the key took off with it.
"Weird..." You mutttered as Roxas observed what had fallen. He looked back up with a smile.
"The photos!"
"Oh, you said photo! I said it too!" You laughed. You helped him pick up the belongings and headed to The Usual Spot with the treasure in hand.
~*~*~
"Hey, look what we got!" Roxas called as he ran in with you.
"We got the photos! The silver thing had it!" You said before anyone else could ask.
"Awesome!" Olette said as she ran over to observe the photos.
You observed the photos. "But they all seem to be of Roxas..."
"Maybe it liked him."
"More than Aimi likes him?" Pence teased.
"Pence!" You growled as you hit him on the arm. Roxas blushed, but you didn't see.
"Aww, I have proof!" He said.
There was a picture of when you and Roxas first met. It was a group photo with a random shopkeeper in the middle. Hayer and Pence were to his left and Olette was to his right. Behind him was you and Roxas. You blushed as you noticed his arms were wrapped protectively around your waist.
"She's blushing!" Hayner said as he saw your face. This only made you blush more.
A clock rang a ways away from The Usual Spot. Everyone shut up and looked twords the sound, counting the dongs. 15.
"Crap, it's late. Where does the time go?" You muttered.
"I don't know, but I'm going home. We can return these tomorrow." Hayner said, waving the photos in his hand. You nodded before giving them all smiles and walking home.
