A/N: Ha. I've been lazy lately, haven' I? Anyway, this is for Kaiora's challenge –Kairi's Love – and my first shot at writing a Roxas/Kairi. So don't shoot me if it sucks. xD

.:someone else:.

by: shadow vanilla

The first time Sora had kissed Kairi, that nagging voice in the back of his non-existent head had just told him to pretend it was Namine, because technically it was Namine, but it was Kairi too, that damn non-existent head of his had also nagged him. You're kissing Sora's girlfriend! He could hear Axel's howls of laughter playing over and over and over.

Oh screw you, Roxas had thought, It's Namine, It's Namine, It' s freaking Namine.

He had kept up this mantra for the first few dates – never once nagging Sora about it and praying his other didn't kiss Kairi. It worked well for a while, and sometimes just trying to escape to the darkest part of Sora's mind worked too. It sometimes sucked he was afraid of the dark.

Still, Roxas was forever trapped as a hormonal teenager, and sometimes – without ever knowing it, of course, would look forward to the dates. Because well, Kairi was the prettiest girl on Destiny Islands, and she was his girlf- wait, where did that come from? Kairi was dating Sora. He was Roxas. He just so happened to share the same body as Sora. He was not dating Kairi. He was not dating Kairi.

Get it, got it, good

And then there was the sixth date, when Kairi had stepped ever so gracefully down the stairs, dressed in all white with tiny blue shoes, an outfit so pretty, so Namine looking. He realized she wasn't Namine, because any person with at least one brain cell could tell them apart. But Namine was in there somewhere, right? Just like he was inside Sora? Namine! Namine! Can you HEAR ME! There wasn't an answer. Roxas never got an answer.

After this Roxas had pretty much given up on trying to get out of kissing this girl. Now, the only option left was pretty much ripping out of Sora's body like a scene from Alien. Nah. He'd probably fade anyway and be doomed to a lifetime of Kairi teasing on behalf of Axel. This leads us to today – which just happens to be date number ten.

Roxas had pretty much forced himself to enjoy this date, because well, he's never going to get to date any girls of his own - the whole not existing business and everything. So might as well enjoy it, ya know?

Sora and Kairi were sitting on their oh-so iconic tree as far as Roxas could tell, he could feel Sora's palms sweating as he gripped the trunk of the rough flora and that pretty much signaled to our little unreal hero that the kiss was coming soon. He saw things through Sora's eyes for a moment, and saw the most beautiful eyes he'd ever seen. Hell, forget if it was just because it was through Sora's eyes, but Kairi was beautiful. Even more so than Namine, even more so than any other girl. She was Kairi. No one else, not Namine in disguise. Kairi. And technically (in a guilty by association kind of way) she was his.

Yeah, Roxas thought, I definitely could live with being Sora.

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