Hello everyone. My name is Yumi Hamano, and I'm a bit different than most girls. For one thing, I'm not mentally like a girl.

For another, I look almost exactly like a guy. And to be precise... Well, I'll just describe myself. First off, I'm way muscular and have nearly no hips at all, nor breasts for that matter. For another, in some freak of nature, I managed to have a voice that is on the very lowest bar of contralto, lower than most people would expect to be coming from a female. And also, I'm kinda tall and have rather largish feet and hands.

But that's not the creepiest thing, no... the creepiest thing is that I look nothing like my Japanese parents. My eyes are storm blue and my hair is very nearly the same color. My skin is a great deal paler than my parent's skin, and my face has absolutely no resemblance. In fact, I was sure I was adopted until I found the birth record. But no matter. I went through life fine until my second year of High School. That was the year Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories came out.

Damn, did that game screw up my life.

For the record, I had a reason to wear my hair in the then-popular emo style... on the right side of my face is a really bad scar from falling on the playground and getting gravel stuck in my skin, and I wanted to cover it up. But Chain of Memories made my life hard. Or rather...

The Zexion fan club that had started up was the real problem. Because noone cared enough to think of the fact that it's kinda creepy for a bunch of teenage girls fangirling about a character that looks EXACTLY LIKE one of the other girls in the school. And when one of them saw me, I was sure to spend the day being fangirled over until I was able to get it through their thick skulls that I'm female. And then they would forget the lesson in their madness the very next day.

And my only friend in school was no help either. She, a dedicated follower of the Kingdom Hearts series, could not and did not let me be. She knew something I didn't, but stubborn Mae Dekumanu refused to tell me, insisting I had to find out on my own. It aggravated me soooo much...

Well, now that I know, I have to say that she was right in not telling me. I never would have believed her, or let her come along with me, and disaster would have struck...

I will now introduce you to the other key players in this tale. All three of them. First off, I must mention my friend via the internet, Alison O'Riely. Alison is, of course, Irish, and she looks the part. Brilliant red hair, intense green eyes, tall, and with a fiery temper when not handled correctly. She also has rather large hips, hips that I wish I had. She started being as severely punk as possible when she was 14, spiking her hair into a lion like mane and constantly doing cool things with a set of watercolor pencils.

Of course, this prompted a prank by her cousin (who I barely know) that ended with her dying her skin black in little upside down teardrops under her eyes. She took the prank well, and keeps her face like that to this day... but I confess that I had played Chain Of Memories as well as the rest of my class and was totally unnerved by her resemblance to a character named Axel.

Ah, but this story isn't about Alison. So now we move on to Matt Johnson. A famed cosplayer, Matt is pictured in costume all across the web. He's an oddity in society, as his rather pink hair is actually his natural color, and not some strange dye. I've met him at some convention or another, but I don't know him too well. He took the Chain of Memories gang rather well, and let them dress him up as Marluxia, a character that he resembles most uncannily. When they came after me with the cloak they had measured out, however, I ran. This prompted his laughter and then his acquaintance.

Ah, and the topic of cosplay brings me on to the third person in my little group, Jareth Flood. Jareth is one of the ones who didn't have a likeness to a character in Chain of Memories... but he still plays the biggest role of all. For now, I won't describe him.

This story truly starts one day during the summer, about three days after my meeting with Matt. I was chatting online with Alison in our favorite room on deviantART. At this point, Chain of Memories had finally come out in America, and Alison was now faced with a problem that was worse, if anything, than mine. She found herself the object of affection for a fanbase miles wide, as everyone looooves Axel.

PunkRed- I hate them so much Yumi-chan! They just won't let me be!

Awakened Heart- Now you know how I feel. I could have warned you, but nooo... noone listens to the voice of reason.

Pinkroot has joined

Awakened Heart- Why hello there.

Pinkroot- . Hi. Is this by any chance a Kingdom Hearts chatroom?

PunkRed- GRRRRRR. Never mention that cursed game in here!

Awakened Heart- You must have seen the pictures linked in the explanation. No, those are just pictures of us. Now shoo, we're waiting for one of PunkRed's friends.

Pinkroot- No need to get violent, I may have a similar problem! Sheesh.

Awakened Heart- Wait... who are you?

Pinkroot- Matthew Johnson. I would think you would know, you commented on one of my pics.

PunkRed- ZOMG, no way! You're Matt, the legendary perfect cosplayer?!? WICKED!

Awakened Heart- Ah. That would explain it, sure you can stay here. You know I met you. And if you did actually follow the convention belt, you're still in the city.

Pinkroot- ... But you're a girl, right? And I didn't meet any girls who didn't like Kingdom Hearts...

PunkRed- LOL, You got another one Yumi!

Awakened Heart- I don't look like a girl. I look like Zexion. Goddamnit. If I could find one guy who knew I was a girl on first sight... I'd marry him. I swear it.

Pinkroot- That's a very... committed swear... I remember now. You got mobbed by those girls after they had fun dressing me up. I have to tell you, I had to get rid of that cloak very fast. I got mobbed by at least 16 people at once.

Awakened Heart- Yeah, at least you're the same gender as the one you look like... I'm still getting glomped by girls and that game has been in circulation for a really long time.

Pinkroot- LOL, you poor thing.

PunkRed- She's not the only one either. And it's worse for me!

Pinkroot- Why?

PunkRed- Because I look like Axel.

Pinkroot- wince

Rok-n-rolla has joined

PunkRed- Hi Jareth!

Rok-n-rolla- Hi Alison...

Awakened Heart- Aha, so you're the namesake of the Goblin King. I'm Yumi, nice to meet you.

Rok-n-rolla- Isn't that a Japanese name? choosing to ignore the namesake part

Awakened Heart- Actually, yes it is. Very perceptive of you.

PunkRed- Heh, you'll be regretting your oath later when I expect you to uphold it

Awakened Heart- I HAVEN'T ACTUALLY MET HIM YET. I was talking about sight.

Rok-n-rolla- I have no clue what you two are talking about, but I want no part of it!

PunkRed- Aw, but this is the perfect thing for you, mister I'm-gay-but-I-don't-like-men

Rok-n-rolla- I thought I told you not to talk about that! Now I'm leaving!

Rok-n-rolla has left [connection closed

Awakened Heart- I can't believe you would do that. Not only does that offend him, it offends me. As a matter of fact, I'm banning you.

Having banned my insane and rude punk friend, I promptly left the chat and turned the computer off. I leaped out of my seat and decided that I was going to take advantage of my parent's offer to go to America on vacation just so I could meet Alison and slap her for the sake of getting the point across.

Eheh. Of course, Mae Dekumanu decided to show up and ruin my party by insisting that she come along with me in her own, peculiar way.

"HEY! I heard you were going to America. I always wanted to go there... and I'm not letting my little Zekushion decide her own destiny, no... I won't have it" she said, somehow managing to call me Zexion and not aggravate me. I have no clue why, but I could always stand her calling me that- maybe it's the fact that she sees me as a friend.

"Mae, I don't think- ugh, fine. But only because you're already packed," I stated, gesturing towards her suitcase. I myself had just packed, as even thought my family was planning this for weeks, I had wanted to stay behind until recently.

I didn't know at the time, but this would be the turning point of my whole view on life, death, the afterlife, and the Organization. Because somehow, My decision to not buy Kingdom Hearts 2 was gonna come back and bite me on the ass. In the form of fangirls, of course... always with the fangirls...

Oh, and two different Jareths.

Summer vacation plus Organization member OR lookalike plus way too much wishing plus a Fate in training plus pissed off fairies equals the end of all hope

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AN I can't get this thing to register stars or anything else! Would someone like to help me please?