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What about Axel bringing his s/o to see the festival and floating lanterns in Corona?

I’m literally gasping because THIS IS SO CUTE WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THIS SOONER!? Here you go anon :D hope you like it!

Axel’s Day Off

“Okay, that’s quite enough training for today.” Merlin closed his large book of spells with a loud thump. “You two are making excellent progress! I think the you both deserve the day off tomorrow to rest. I will update Master Yensid over tea this evening on your progress. Enjoy your time off!”

Kairi looked up at Axel and smiled. “A whole day off! Any ideas on what you wanna do?”

Axel was lost in his thoughts and didn’t hear Kairi’s question. All he could think about was spending time with you. It’s been weeks since he’s seen you; before he left with Kairi for training, the last time you were both in the same room was at Master Yensid’s tower after Sora and Riku’s Mark of Mastery exam. Although you weren’t officially together (yet), there was definitely something unspoken between the two of you. Catching one staring at the other here and there, light touches in passing, always making each other shy away and blush. He felt something deep for you, and decided now was the time to finally show it.

“Axel? Are you listening to me?” Kairi asked.

“Huh? Oh, sorry. What were you saying?”

“I asked how you plan on spending your day off tomorrow, silly. Are you okay?”

“I’m fine. I just…. I think I wanna spend it with [Y/N]. Get to know her some more, ya know?”

“Aww, Axel! I’m sure she’d love to spend some time with you, too!” Kairi squealed.

And that’s when he realized the problem: how was he going to find you?? You were off venturing with Sora, no doubt, and he had no clue where you were. His shoulders dropped in defeat. “Yeah, but how am I going to find her? Who know’s where she is, especially with Sora leading the way…”

Kairi rolled her eyes and pulled her phone out of her pockets. She smiled as she dialed Sora’s number while Axel looked over her shoulders.

“Where did you get that??”

“Chip and Dale made them for all of us! It came with my new outfit. You’d have yours too if you opened your suitcase from Master Yensid,” she smirked.

Axel scoffed and rolled his eyes. “Wise-ass,” he muttered.

“I heard that. I’m trying to help you out, you know,” Kairi stuck her tongue out. Her phone stopped ringing and a live video of Sora displayed on the screen. “Hey, Sora! How’s it going??”

“Kairi! I’m so happy to see you! You’ll never guess what happened! We just came back from a world where we were turned into toys! We were all shrunk down really small, and even got to explore around a huge toy store! It was so cool!” Sora was practically yelling into the phone because he was so excited. Kairi shook her head and smiled, letting him ramble on about other worlds that he’s visited since they last saw each other.

“Sora, that all sounds great! But Axel here actually needs to talk to you. It’s very important,” she waved at Axel and shoved the phone in his face. “Talk!”

Axel stared at the phone and noticed you in the background, sitting with a girl with long blonde hair near a lake. He heard you laugh, and it made his heart skip a beat, something he thought he’d never feel again once he became a Nobody. Snapping out of his thoughts, he took the phone from Kairi and focused back on Sora.

“So uh… where exactly are you guys now?”

“The Kingdom of Corona! We landed a little while ago, probably’ll set up camp for the night before we continue in the morning. Our friend Rapunzel needs to get to the Kingdom by tomorrow night to see the lantern festival. Why, what’s up?”

A lightbulb went off in Axel’s mind. “Lantern festival, huh? What’s that all about?”

“Apparently they do it every year in hopes that the Kingdom’s lost Princess makes her way home. Rapunzel says thousands of them are released into the night sky and you can see them from miles away! But it’s also Rapunzel’s birthday tomorrow, and she wants to see them up close. We’re helping her get there safely.”

“Hey, you guys think you can stick around the campsite a little late tomorrow morning? I’m thinking about coming out to you guys…” Axel trailed off as he looked passed Sora to look at you again.

“Oh, really? Uh, sure! We can hang out until you guys come. Wait, Kairi’s coming too, right?” Sora brought the phone closer to his face, cutting off Axel’s view of you.

“Of course I’m coming, Sora! I’m not going to let Axel have all the fun on our day off,” Kairi poked her head back into the camera’s view.

“Awesome, we’ll see you guys tomorrow!” Sora smiled widely and hung up before Axel could even ask where their campsite was.

“Guess we’ll have an early start tomorrow…” he sighed.

~*~

Thanks to Merlin’s magic, Axel and Kairi were transported to the Kingdom of Corona early that next morning. They arrived in a secluded area with a tall, narrow tower next to a stream. Once they located a hidden cave that led to the main part of the forest, the two of them began on their journey to locate you and Sora. It was a beautiful summer morning: the sun already beaming down strong, the soft grass warm to the touch, a slight cool breeze picking up dandelions. This world was simply beautiful.

“This place is amazing,” Kairi gasped.

Axel hummed in agreement. “We should still be on our guard. There could be Heartless around here.”

“Right,” Kairi nodded. The two of them continued to walk for bit longer until they reached a clearing. As if on cue, a few Heartless formed and the two wielders-in-training summoned their Keyblades. Standing back to back, Axel and Kairi readied themselves and launched their attacks, keeping in mind everything they’ve learned so far from Merlin. After a few combo attacks, the Heartless were cleared out. For now.

“Hey, look up ahead!” Kairi pointed to a grassy area next to a few hills with some logs and a small fire pit in the center. Axel could see a few forms laying on the ground, immediately recognizing you amongst them. Figures, Heartless are roaming around and you and Sora would be sound asleep. Kairi ran up ahead stood over Sora with her arms on her hips. “Sora! Always such a lazy bum, wake up!” Sora didn’t budge one bit, letting out a rather loud snore. Axel rolled his eyes and walked over to where you were sleeping. Kneeling down beside you, he pushed a strand of your [h/c] hair away from your face and smiled. You looked so peaceful; he wished he could curl up and lay next to you, but for once he didn’t want to waste his one day off taking naps.

“[Y/N]? Hey, wake up,” he whispered. You shifted slightly and grumbled before slowly opening an eye. You thought you were seeing an illusion, or even possibly still dreaming. Axel looked down at you with a soft smile. The sun made his red hair appear more fiery than ever, and he placed a hand on your shoulder. Nope, definitely not dreaming.

“Axel?? How?? What are you doing here?”

��Morning, sleepy head. I guess Sora didn’t mention that Kairi and I were coming to visit you guys?”

“No! Ugh, Sora, we gotta do something about that memory of yours!” You threw a nearby mushroom at Sora’s head. He jolted up from his deep slumber, almost bumping heads with Kairi.

“What the — Kairi! You’re here!” He practically attacked Kairi with a gigantic bear hug that nearly knocked the two of them over.

“Hey, in case you guys were wondering, there are others here who would like to wake up at a normal time of the morning,” a voice groaned. You all looked towards the rest of the group as they slowly started to wake up. Donald didn’t look too thrilled, per usual, and Goofy just let out a big yawn and waved at Axel and Kairi.

“Sorry, Flynn! Oh, you guys! This is Flynn Rider and Rapunzel. [Y/n], Donald, Goofy and I are helping them get to the Kingdom for the Lantern festival today.”

Rapunzel hesitantly waived at the new guests, while Flynn shot a thumbs up in the air before flopping back down to catch a few more snoozes. You and Axel turned at the same time to look at each other, immediately shying away when your eyes connected. A blush crept up on your face and you did your best to hide it behind your hair, but Axel gently pushed the same strand out of the way and behind your ear.

“Well, let’s get going then! I want to make sure we get there for the start of the festival,” Rapunzel jumped up from her spot and started running away from the campsite, too excited to start the day. “Flynn, hurry up!”

“Is it too much to ask to sleep a little longer…?”

~*~

Several hours later after a number of Heartless and Nobodies vanquished, you finally arrived at the Kingdom’s main village. The entire place was streamed with purple flags with golden suns painted on them, villagers lined the market place to sell their best food and souvenirs for the festival. Excited chatter was amongst all of them, hoping that this year would finally be the year the lost Princess would return home after being missing for almost two decades.

“Wow, look at this place!” Kairi exclaimed. She grabbed Sora’s hand and dragged him to the center of the town circle where people started to gather with flowers.

“Ready?” You looked up at Axel and smiled, holding your hand out. He stared longer than he probably should have, which made you grow more nervous, but he finally smiled back and took your hand. You led the way to the town circle where music began playing loudly and made your way through the crowd. Rapunzel was already dancing in circles and grabbed Sora and Kairi’s hands to join her. Flynn stood next to the two of you, crossing his arms and admiring Rapunzel, until she dragged him into the dancing crowd as well. Donald and Goofy jumped in, accidentally tripping up a few people along the way, leaving just you and Axel along the sidelines.

Kairi ran over to you and Axel, pulling you towards the crowd. “C’mon you guys!” She pulled your arm so hard you thought it popped out of its socket for a second! You looked back at Axel and smiled, holding out your other hand for him to join, but you were interrupted by a villager who started to twirl you around.

Axel shook his head and laughed. “I’m enjoying the show! Have fun!” He winked as your eyes widened, as if saying “Are you kidding, help me!” Axel’s attention turned to a man selling lanterns from across the circle. Making his way over, he purchased two lanterns and stuffed them in his pocket before returning to his spot in the crowd. Moments later, someone in the crowd shouted that it was time to go to the boats.

Out of breath from dancing, you walked back to where Axel was standing. The sun was starting to set and a light breeze swept through the evening air as people started to make their way down to the shores. The group briefly rejoined at the center of the dancing circle before Rapunzel and Flynn took off on their own, followed by Kairi and Sora. Axel looked down at you and placed his hand on your shoulder. “Come with me this way.”

You nodded and took Axel’s hand, this time him leading you, to one of the long wooden piers by the water. It was just the two of you walking slowly down the wooden planks until you reached the far end and sat down at the edge, letting your legs dangle off the sides of the pier. A few moments of silence ticked by, and then finally a single lantern started floating above the castle in the distance. Dozens slowly followed its path, and before you knew it, the entire sky was full of lanterns! You gazed up in awe at how beautiful it was, not noticing that Axel had taken out two lanterns of your own.

Clearing his throat, Axel held up a lantern in each hand and passed one to you. Your eyes beamed at him as you took yours. “Axel, thank you!” A small flame illuminated from Axel’s fingertip, carefully lighting the bottom of each lantern. The two of you raised them up above your heads before releasing them into the night sky to join the rest of the other lanterns floating above you.

Axel couldn’t help but stare at you again; the way the wind gently blew your hair around, how your eyes sparkled while looking up at the lanterns, your face glowing from the golden lights surrounding the both of you. You were the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen, and tonight he was determined to show it to you. He lightly tucked the same stubborn strand of hair that kept falling in front of your face behind your ear before tilting your chin towards him.

“[Y/N], I just can’t keep quiet about this anymore. I like you… I like you a lot. I know we’ve had our differences in the past. Hell, we’ve even fought each other more times than I’d like to remember. But things are different now, and if you’d give me the chance, I’d really like to show you.” Axel stumbled on his words a few times; you could tell he was pretty nervous, and you decided that a flustered Axel is a very cute Axel.

You giggled and cupped his cheek with your palm, smiling back at him. “Axel, I really like you too. I have for a while. Honestly, what happened in the past doesn’t matter to me anymore. I just want to get to know the real you.”

Axel leaned into your hand, placing his own on top and looked into your bright [e/c] eyes. He started to bring his face closer to yours until your lips were just barely touching, and closed the distance between you. It was a soft kiss at first, slowly evolving into a deeper one as he ran his fingers through your hair and lightly grabbed on. For the first time in what seemed like a century, Axel remembered what love felt like. And he’d be damned if he were to ever let that, or you, slip away again.

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Crafting is good for the Heart

An Anon asked:

This is a request as well as a test for you I suppose? since I’ve personally never seen your kh work before. A request for a VentusxAqua writing. When you get the chance.

I hope you won’t get bothered if i wrote a one-sided crush instead of full on shipping. I would’ve been a bit awkward because of Ven being a child (A thousand year old child, but a child nonetheless.

And thanks for giving me a good entry point to write good KH fics. I hope you like it.

Living in The Land of Departure is enough to drive you insane..

Aside from Aqua herself, Master Eraqus and Terra were the only two people who lived in the world with her ever since she moved in to become a master herself.

And she had lived there for at least five years with a man whose definition of an evasive manoeuvre is doing cartwheels until you can literally dodge through an explosion at point blank, and a teenager who regularly eats protein powder out of the can because he didn't read the instructions on how to prepare it beforehand.

She had past the point where she would've gone insane from the master's outlandish sternness and Terra's recklessness a while ago, though. She managed to avoid going insane by crafting stuff in her free time, much like she did before she got the keyblade and her own world fell into the darkness.

She usually bought her materials from a single Moogle who visited the world every now and then, and made small charms, figurines and toys enchanted by her keyblade's magic.

They weren't particularly useful in combat. But at least they gave her a purpose to fulfill as she endured Eraqus’ merciless training.

So, when the shadiest and most suspicious person ever alive, Master Xehanort comes to their castle and drops an amnesiac young boy under Master Eraqus care, Aqua decided to take him under her wing to shield him from the other two's strange habits, as he was likely to lack any kind of coping mechanism due to the amnesia.

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Ventus liked the land of departure.

It was a beautiful place to live, and the group of people he lived with were pretty lively.

Master Eraqus was an strict but kind man. Occasionally letting him do less training that Terra and Aqua, and wasn't as strict with him (Rolling through explosions is easier than cartwheeling into them. Not necessarily safer, but definitely easier.).

Terra was a very cool guy. He always did his best to make Ventus have a fun time, and gave him his old Wooden keyblade as forgiveness for causing him a three months Coma that one time.

However, out of all the three people in the world, Ventus liked Aqua the most.

She was the very first person he saw after waking up from his coma and was definitely the most kind out of the others. She managed to convince Eraqus to give him less demanding training regimes a few several times, bailed him out of the many shenanigans Terra got involved in, healed him whenever he failed to do a trick on his keyblade glider immediately after he learned that he could make one. Not to mention that some of the stuff in his room were books and charms given to him to him by Aqua, including an enchanted figurine that kept the plants in his bedroom watered and healthy..

Ven, having such a pure heart, also tried to reciprocate that kindness. He often gave her a blanket whenever she fell asleep while studying a magic grimoire, serve as test subject for her relatively harmless magical experiments, and partaking in her crafting hobby everytime he could.

He loved the way she smiled at him whenever he did the latter with her. Apparently, the people at her world were mostly artisans. And seeing someone sharing the passion for craftsmanship made her heart flutter with nostalgia.

So, one day, Ventus decided to make something for her. If only to see her smile.

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“So… nervous about the Mark of Mastery Exam?” Ventus asked the young woman, who was polishing small pieces of an orange crystal on her worktable. “The master said It would be in a month or so.”

“Not really, Ven.” She answered, not lifting her gaze from her current task. “Knowing the master, probably the test will be only a combat exam against something dumb like light drones.”

“And what if your opponent is Terra?” The curious boy asked as he peeked at Aqua's work.

“If that's the case, then I guess that Terra will be a great master.” She said.

“Will you let him win against you?” Ven asked.

“Nope. I'll do my best to try and beat him.” Aqua answered once again. “But it's highly probable that I might lose that fight

“How come?” He said. “You’re very strong.”

“Terra once destroyed a thousand light drones in an hour after the master took away his allowance, Ven.” The magician explained. “If he did that for a thousand munny, imagine what he could do to pass the test.”

“Wow…” Ven said in awe.

“Yeah.” She raised the piece of glass to examine it, deeming it as perfect before setting it aside. “We should be thankful he is our friend, who knows what could he do if one day he snapped.”

“Remember me to never get on his bad side.” The boy said.

“He probably doesn't even have one.” Aqua said as she took an opaque piece of green crystal. “He’s still a very kind person beneath the Hakamas and his muscly exterior.”

“Why the Hakamas?” The blond boy said confused.

“They look kind of dumb if you ask me.” She said smiling as she started to polish the crystal. “I remember that you even used all of them as a tent one night.”

“Yeah, that night was fun.” He admitted.

Then the two of them fell silent for a little while. Ven sat down on Aqua's bed while she was still polishing another part of the crystal she had.

Eventually, Ventus broke the silence.

“So, huh… Do you remember when you tried to teach me how to craft something?” He said. A faint blush appearing on his face.

“Yes.” She said. “You almost stitched your own finger into the fabric you were working on.”

“Well… I, huh…” He stuttered a bit. “ I have been practicing what you taught me and, huh… I made something?”

“Really?” The young woman said, putting aside her current project. “Can you show it to me?

“S-Sure! Let me get it for you!” The boy said excitedly before bolting out of the room of his friend, running to the other side of the castle towards his room and returning to Aqua's bedroom in less than a minute.

He entered the room with his hands behind his back, hiding the thing he made away from her gaze.

“Please close your eyes for a second.” He asked her.

“Okay.” She complied.

“Good.” He said before placing the object he was holding in front of her. “Now open them.”

And so she did, finding a smaller version of her in front of her. A Mini-Aqua made out of cloth and cotton instead of flesh and bone.

“Ta-dah!” Ven said. “I made a mini you.”

He handed the small plush toy to her, who would then see it more closely.

It resembled a cartoony version of herself, it had a large head covered by a piece of deep blue felt stylized as her hair, and had a pair of black buttons placed vaguely around where the eyes should've been.

The body meanwhile, was really small, and it showed that Ventus really tried to capture the details of her attire despite his low skill, giving the toy a pair of shoes and using gray felt to make her armor. The rest of her attire was made of cotton, and it was just a bit mismatched in certain parts, like her skirt's tails being different types of fabric and her left sleeve being shorter than the right one.

It even had a crude, miniature version of her Rainfell made out of pipe cleaners sewn into her hand.

Ventus just stared at her with puppy eyes, waiting for her validation.

“I love it, Ven!” She said happily. “You must have spent a lot of time doing it.”

“It was nothing.” He said. His blush growing redder by the second. “I’m glad you like it.”

“You should do one for Terra!.” Aqua Commented. “I’m sure that he would love it.”

“Y-You think so?” The boy said nervously.

“Of course!” She said “Terra would think it looks cool.”

“I dunno…” He said. A deep blush flaring up in his cheeks. “It took me a lot of effort to do this one.”

“Just take your time and practice Ven.” Aqua said, ruffling his short, blonde hair with the hand that wasn't holding her smaller self.

“O-Okay.” The boy said as Aqua turned back to work on her project. Placing the small gift on top of a little bookshelf above her worktable.

Suddenly, he felt very embarrassed to be in the same room as her at the moment. So, he made an excuse to get out of the situation he made.

“A-Anyways, I’m really glad you liked the mini you.” he said as sweat dripped visibly from his forehead. “And i would love to ask you for advice on crafting. But I kinda remembered that I was going to help Terra train tonight.”

“That sounds great Ven!” She said. “Just don’t go to sleep very lately.”

“I won’t!” He said nervously as he walked backwards to the door. “Good luck with whatever you’re doing!”

The blonde boy then ran as fast as he could towards Terra’s bedroom, leaving a small trail of dust in his wake.

Aqua stared a the cloud for a second before letting out a small chuckle.

“I’m really glad you’re here with us, Ven.” She said with a smile before returning to polish the crystal for his wayfinder. Maybe she could finish them before the test.

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