You know what I really hate? When I promise my readers I'm going to update as often as possible over the summer, and then get writer's block. Seriously, everything I've even tried to write so far this summer for the stories I've been supposed to update have been complete and utter fails.

Now, when I've finally given up hope that I'll be able to write an acceptable chapter, I'm struck with insomnia. I go to bed at 11, just like always. I stay up awake for no apparent reason until after midnight. I finally go to sleep. I dream up an awesome idea for a story. This dream wakes me up at about 2 am. It won't let me go to sleep until I've theorized every single idea for the first few chapters. When I finally feel ready to go back to sleep, I notice that I can see out my window, and it's light out.

Just to let you know, I've never actually played "Kingdom Hearts". However, I have read the vast majority of the stories by the fanfiction writer Xanrivash. She's on this site – go check out her stories if you haven't already. Basically, I borrowed her versions of Organization XIII members, but didn't borrow either Xanrivash or Fori. Anywho, here we go!

In other news, here, read this Author's Note that I have typed up! I'm gonna add this to all my current stories right after this:

Hello, my faithful and wonderful readers! Thank you all so much for continuing to read my stories, despite my not being on for an entire month! I swear, I have a perfectly reasonable explanation!

As many of you know, I am now a college freshman. This is wonderful, except for the fact that freshmen are not allowed to have cars on campus. However, there are a multitude of ways for freshmen to get around to the neighboring areas, including my house, which is really nowhere near campus. One of these ways is a Zipcar, which is a car-rental thing we have on campus.

Anywho, one day early last month, I rented a Zipcar to go home for the weekend. Everything was going great, until I tried to leave the parking lot. There was a patch of black ice right there at the exit to the parking lot! The car spun out and wound up crunched into a streetlamp.

The next thing I knew, I was waking up in the hospital with a fractured leg and a broken arm. I couldn't type or write or really do anything for about a month, and the pain meds the hospital had me on made me kinda loopy, anyway. I guess it's probably for the best that I couldn't write anything down – if I had, someone would've sent me to the loony bin by now.

So … yeah. The arm cast came off yesterday, and it feels so weird being able to use my arm again, which is why I'm typing this up right now. I'm still in the leg cast, so for the most part I'm getting around campus using a wheelchair. It's actually pretty fun, until I have to go back to my dorm. My dorm doesn't have an elevator, and I live on the top floor, so I have to use my crutches to get up there and walk around. Curse my living on the 4th floor – do you guys have any idea how difficult it is to walk up 3 flights of stairs on crutches?! I almost fell down twice today, and it takes me at least 10 minutes to get down to the entryway!

So I hope you guys are doing better than I am. And now, on with the story!

DISCLAIMER: I obviously do not own "Kingdom Hearts". If I did, I'd probably know more about it.

PROLOGUE

Kris sat watch, as she did just about every night. Even though they had been living out on the streets in their fairly small town for about 3 years by then, it never got any easier. Especially not since … what happened the last time she had left her little sister alone. Now the only time Kris slept was when Emma forced her to, usually by threatening to stop eating if she didn't get some rest.

Kris sighed and looked back at the younger girl. The girls' parents had gotten divorced three years before. They had moved in with their mother, who had committed suicide within the first three or four months. Their father hadn't come for so long, that the girls had been forced to move out before the landlord could come and try to split them up. At least, that's what Kris told herself was true – in fact, she just didn't want to live with her father. She had to protect her sister from him.

Emma was just … so fragile. Way too fragile to ever go back to … that kind of living. The girl hadn't said a word since they had discovered their mother's body almost three full years before. Since then, she had developed a sort of sign language all her own. Neither girl had attended school since they had left home for good. Kris was still wearing the same outfit she had when she had left the house, although she had had to steal shoes when her own had become too small. Emma wore hand-me-downs, essentially rags by this point.

Kris' stomach rumbled. She knew she would have to go get more food soon – Emma hadn't had a decent meal in days. But … she was just so scared of leaving Emma alone, but wouldn't it be even more dangerous to bring her?

Kris must have fallen asleep after all, because suddenly, there was a scuffling sound from the alleyway near their current "home": an abandoned mill near where their father had worked before the divorce. (He had since moved halfway across the country, and was apparently now married with more small children. Kris hoped to God that none of them were girls, but who knew? The man might not care which gender the kids were.) A small black … something or other with yellow eyes came out of the shadows. Kris stared at it some more – it looked sort of like a cat.

Kris shook Emma's shoulder, trying to wake her up. But no matter what she tried to do, she wasn't getting up. "Emma! Please, wake up. You've gotta get up, Emma!" At this point, she was cut off by the cat-thing climbing onto Emma's chest and started scratching right above her heart. Kris screamed. "Get off of her, you stupid animal! Stop it!" She tried to pull the cat off her sister, but the harder she pulled, the harder the cat dug its claws into the little girl's chest. Finally, the cat sank its claws into her heart and pulled it out of her body.

At this point, Kris blacked out. Within minutes, her heart also stopped beating. The cat-thing removed the older girl's heart as well, before slinking back into the night.

~~~ Meanwhile ~~~

Xigbar walked into the Superior's office. "Sir, I have just been checking the Proof of Existence. We should be expecting two more members. One will have the ability to control blood, the other animals. Both are from Earth."

The Superior, Xemnas, nodded. "Tell the others that we are now starting an emergency meeting."

Xigbar nodded submissively and walked back out of the office.

So, I think I did a pretty good job. Sorry if I got the whole heart-being-removed-from-body thing wrong. Oh, and in case you couldn't tell, it's actually been a lot longer than Kris realized since she or Emma have eaten. Emma died shortly before the Shadow arrived, but Kris, who was caught up in her thoughts, didn't notice. Kris hit her head on her way down, and died shortly afterwards. Now, the Organization is up to 15 members. Or will be shortly.

The next chapter will be of them being found by the Organization. Fun times ahead! Oh, and I still haven't played "Kingdom Hearts". Like, ever. Oh, and this is just the prologue.