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"Where can they be? I searched the whole island and I still can't find them!" Sora panted as he returned to the main part of the island. It was a week since he returned from the Realm of Darkness along with Riku and he wanted nothing more to spend time with his friend and his long-time crush. He surveyed the island once more and saw the entrance to the cave where they used to draw when they were kids. "I didn't check in there yet. They might be in there." He told himself as he made his way towards the cave.

Sora had some trouble getting in since he grown quite a bit, but prevailed and made his way in. He slowly walked in and began hearing noises. "Is that someone moaning?" He peeked around the corner and saw what was causing the noise. "Oh my God!" Silently, he made his way out of the cave and collapsed on his knees on the beach. "How could they? I thought, I thought," was all he could say as he was fighting back the tears. "Kairi..."

As he was about to let his waterworks flow, he heard his name being called. "Sora!"

He looked around and saw nobody. "Who is that? That's not Kairi's voice..."

"Sora! Wake up!"

It was then Sora jolted forward with sweat covering most of his body. He began looking around to see where he was and saw a nervous Yuffie. "Oh, right. I'm staying with Yuffie." The teen let out a mental sigh and went to face Yuffie.

"You okay? It looked like you were having a nightmare..." she stated in a hushed tone.

"Yeah, but I'm fine now." He lied to her.

She looked at him with a raised brow, not fully believing him. "Well, okay. I made some breakfast so hurry up and eat so we can go train grasshopper!" And with that she left the keyblade master to himself. With a sigh and a yawn, he got up from bed and made his way downstairs for breakfast.

It has been a week since Sora had started training under Yuffie and in his opinion, it was the longest, toughest, most cruelest week he had ever had. But, he was glad he went through it as he had gotten closer to Yuffie. The two would laugh and have fun when it would be at home, during training, or just hanging out around town. But the training was still somewhat torture.

Ever since day one Yuffie stepped up his training significantly with each passing day. She would add in new exercise like jumping jacks, pull ups, and more basic exercises. It wasn't just basic exercises as she would also throw in some of her own so-called, "exercises." On top of his shuriken dodging routine, she would make him run up walls, make him jump from building to building, and even going as far as making him carry her to and from training. And to top it all off, he was now lugging around two hundred pounds in his training.

His training wasn't just physical training, she also helped him mentally. She taught him about meditating and tai chi, easing both his mind and body as it was the only time inside of training he was allowed to take off his weights. He enjoyed these exercises as he felt truly at peace and felt one with the world of Radiant Garden, though it only lasted an hour until they continued his training.

Today was a bit of an odd day for him. After carrying Yuffie to their training area she told him that today she was going to work on his skills in battle. She motioned him to sit down as she pulled out boxes for both of them to sit on. Once the two was situated she began speaking, "Today I'm going to talk you about opening and weaknesses. Everyone has a weakness and from time to time leave themselves opened for attacks. The key to this observation, without it, you're screwed. I'm sure you know this as I've seen you dodge and counter attacks with several opponents."

Sora laughed sheepishly as she stated this. "That's true, I have learned to counter and look for weaknesses. But lately I've been having trouble looking for the right time to attack and can't seem to find my opponent's weaknesses." He stated somewhat shyly.

To his surprise Yuffie simply nodded. "That's okay, that's what we'll be working on today. Also to help we will be getting more carrots in your diet to help you see better. For now however, the best way to learn is to do it. What do you say to a little spar?"

A blinding light formed as Sora held his hand and his keyblade appeared in his hand as he smirked. "Bring it on."

The teens made their way to the opposite sides of the training grounds and looked each other in dead in the eye. Yuffie smirked at him. "Ready..."

"Set..." said Sora.

"Go!" Yelled both of them as they rushed at one another. Sora realized he still had his weights on but since his earlier days of training he no longer felt anything on him. He was prepared as Yuffie jumped ten feet into the air and launched several shuriken at him and deflected them with ease. Yuffie growled in frustration at her attack being so easily fall flat. She decided close range would be best and pulled out a kunai and began rushing towards him. Sora however didn't expect this or her surprising speed with the knife. He dodged a slash aimed for his head and a stab towards his chest. He kept his pace up, studying her intently, looking for the slightest bit for an opening. Luck was on his side as he saw she was opened when she tried to stab him again. Quickly, he stepped aside and brought his blade on her hand, making the girl drop her weapon. She held her hand as she felt sharp pain tingling her nerves. Surprisingly she fell to her knees and started sobbing.

"Ah crap. I hit her too hard." Sora walked up and knelt down beside the crying ninja girl. "I'm really sorry I hurt you Yuffie." If he could have seen her face he would have saw her smirk as she suddenly slammed her fist into his gut, making him drop his weapon and she tossed it aside. "W-wha?"

Yuffie glared at him. "Look for an opponent's weakness. You're too nice and you're about to face the consequences!" She taunted as she propelled herself forward towards the unexpected teen. Yuffie didn't waste anytime as she began throwing out punches and kicks faster than the speed of the shark. She snarled as he kept on dodging her advances. "How come you're not fighting back? Afraid to hit a girl?" She taunted as punched at his head.

Sora instinctly ducked before replying, "I don't know how to fight bare-handed!"

That made the girl stop her assault and looked at him questioningly. "What?"

He got up and dusted off his shorts. "I don't know how to fight bare-handed. All my life I learned how to fight with swords." He admitted, embarrassed at the truth he revealed to her.

This made the girl sigh and closed her eyes as she pinched the bridge between her eyebrows. She recovered and looked at him seriously. "In that case young grasshopper, we will also work on your combat without using a weapon. And we will start training now, so watch me for a bit and then repeat after me." Sora nodded as he watched her throw out punches and kicks, transfixed on her. "Wow, she moves so gracefully and...sexy..." Sora couldn't help and think this. He let his gaze towards her moderately sized bosoms as they bounced between every punch and kick.

"Okay now you're turn!" She exclaimed loudly as she turned to see Sora starring at her, but in another world. "SORA!"

The action caught Sora off-guard as he came back to reality. "Huh?"

The girl sighed and brought him up next to her. "Alright, I'll show you how its done." She stated as she instructed him through various punches and kicks. "Good, we'll continue this everyday after normal practice."

Sora followed her directions with the up-most care and found that he enjoyed it. "This isn't so bad. I can no longer feel the weights and this makes things more easier."

Yuffie giggled when he told her this. "That's good, that means you're developing." She congratulated him with a warm smile. "Also tomorrow we'll add forty more pounds to the weights."

Sora starred at her wide-eyed. "Oh come on!"

It has now been about a month since then and the training was going well in both of their opinions. Sora managed to learn some intermediate level combat skills with only his hands and managed to train his swordplay with his free time. Yuffie was happy as Sora was vastly improving as he was now lugging ninety pounds on both of his wrists and ankles for a total of three hundred and sixty pounds. Not to mention she noticed his agility and skills in combat improved tremendously, even with the weights. Also she saw that Sora was training during his own free time. The sensei smiled to herself at seeing her student grow into a deadly fighter. Right now she was watching him practice his hand-to-hand combat on a wooden dummy. She slowly walked up to him and gently placed her hand on his shoulder, making the brunette stop. "Sora," she started, "you have showed great progress this past month so I decided I will teach you some of my techniques."

Sora grinned happily upon hearing this. He wanted to learn some of her moves for a while and now she was going to teach him some. "Alright!" He yelled happily as he punched the air.

Giggling was heard from the ninja girl and she quickly smiled as well. "Okay, first off we'll start with my hardest technique, "Doom of the Living."" She walked away and pulled out a shuriken. She closed her eyes and soon the metallic star began shining a brilliant white and grew five times the normal size. The star was soon thrown into the air and moved around a bit before coming back to her. Upon retrieving the star, it shrunk back to its normal size. The keyblade master watched the spectacle unfold. She giggled once again at seeing his reaction, "If you can master this, you can master all of my techniques. The secret is channeling enough magic into your blade in order to increase the size. For now, practice."

He nodded and summoned his keyblade before him and closed his eyes. Sora began focusing his magic into the blade and the results were bittersweet. On one hand his keyblade glowed white and grew about three inches, but that's all that happened and left him panting heavily.

"No worries, it took me about half a year before I mastered it myself." She admitted to him, only to receive a look of disbelief from him. "You keep practicing while I go back home to get something to eat." Before her could say anything the girl was already on her way towards the house. He simply shook his head and closed his eyes once more, putting his magic into his blade.

"Why? How? How can they do this?! After everything I did!" Yelled Sora as he pounded his fists into the sandy ground. He couldn't hold back anymore and let the tears flow from his face. What he had witnessed made him no longer see his friends as they truly were. They had betrayed him and made him suffer in the worst way possible. "I need to get out of here. But where..." Sora's eyes lit up as he got an idea and slowly made his way towards his gummi ship.

It was then he felt the presence of someone and soon found himself starring into Yuffie's eyes in the moonlight. "Morning Sunshine!" She greeted sarcastically.

"Crap, I fell asleep."

Yuffie laughed at him for a full minute before apologizing, "Sorry, sorry. I couldn't help myself. But this proves you're improving, now come home so you can rest." Sora quickly got up on his feet and followed her back home.

When the two arrived Sora immediately walked up stairs and began taking a shower to get rid of his sweat. "Ha, this feels great." He thought as he relaxed under the refreshing water. After about five minutes Sora turned off the water and began drying off. He then walked out into the hallway and ran into Yuffie, whose face turned to a dark crimson red. Sora then realized he didn't put on anything to preserve his modesty. Yuffie shrieked as she hid her face in her hands and Sora quickly stepped by her and ran into his room. When Yuffie lifted her hands off her face and it was revealed she had blood dripping from her nose and was partially drooling. The ninja girl laughed perversely as she retreated to her room.

Sora sighed as he was now in his tank top and sleep shorts, his blush still intact. "Nice Sora," he thought as he fell back onto his bed. "She saw all of me. Now that I think I about it, she acts weird whenever she sees me. Could it be she...? But, am I over it? Can I tell her what happened?" Sora thought about the horrible memory once more before shaking his head and sighing. And with that the keyblade master fell asleep, this time however, his nightmares was replaced by dreams of a certain ninja girl.

"Focus..." the keyblade master thought as he began channeling his magic into the keyblade, only to have the same results as yesterday. With a sigh the boy admitted defeat.

"No worries, you'll get it." Yuffie commented while she watched him try and preform the Doom of the Living. "Like I said, it's my hardest technique. If you want I can teach you some others so you're not just working on one technique."

Sora nodded at the girl's offer and was edger to learn at least something new. He was surprised that the rest of her techniques were really easy or really difficult depending on the move. He found Clear Tranquil to be quite easy as it was just a larger cure spell that healed a several people and he mastered it pretty quickly. Greased Lightning and Bloodfest were just simple sword based attacks that he had gotten, but not mastered as he still needed to work on the timing along with the attack combo that went with the Doom of the Living. He found the techniques Landscaper and Gauntlet were proving to more difficult than Doom of the Living in his opinion. For Landscaper, Sora would have to strike the earth with enough force and skill to make the area in front of him collapse. When he tried it the best he got was a crack and a fit of laughter from his sensei. Gauntlet was easier but required way more skill and magic than above else. The idea was to throw his weapon at the ground of the enemy and cause pillars of light to form, effectively trapping and damaging the not-so lucky attacker. Sora got the aiming and throwing down, but the pillars of light were what was getting him. He was edger to master them all as Yuffie told him about a "secret technique" she would teach him when he mastered all her other arts.

The training from all of these moves left Sora in a heaping mess as he was sweating as if he was walking on the very sun itself. The only reward he earned was a pat on the back and a smile from his sensei. "Good work today grasshopper! Seeing that its only one and you've made great progress, how about we spar and take the rest of the day off?" He edgerly accepted and began to make his way to his side when Yuffie stopped him. "Wait!" Sora turned to looked at her. "How about you take off those weights and test out the new you?"

The keyblade master wasted no time and got rid of the weights rather quickly. The results were well worth the effort after a month and a half of hard training. First off Sora felt as light as a feather and when he jumped, he found out he could jump about twenty feet into the air. Second, he found out that his reflexes and speed improved tremendously as he caught a dull kunai between his index and middle fingers that Yuffie had thrown at him. Finally he knew his sword play and hand-to-hand combat had also improved since he experienced it first hand. Overall, he was quite happy with the results so far.

Both teens were at opposite ends of the training area, readying their weapons. Yuffie smirked, "We start in thirty seconds."

Sora replied with a smirk of his own, "Fine by me."

As the two starred time seemed to stop, for both of them it was the longest thirty seconds of their lives. "Ten more seconds..." both of them thought in unison.

"Ten..."

"Nine..."

"Eight..."

"Seven..."

"Six..."

"Five..."

"Four..."

"Three..."

"Two..."

"One..."

"Zero!" When the last second came to the end both teens rushed towards the other. Yuffie managed to pull out some smoke bombs and threw them towards Sora, covering the area around him in a dense puff of smoke. This made Sora cough as he tried to find his opponent, he did find her when he felt her kunai slash his side. Sora wasted no time and swung his keyblade in the direction of the pain and made contact. Yuffie grunted from the pain as she back-flipped out of the smoke and tossed several shuriken into the smoke. He was not expecting this and got hit with two in his left and right shoulder. He yelled as he pulled out the stars as the smoke began to fade away.

"I'm sorry. Did you get a boo-boo?" Yuffie taunted as she played with a shuriken. The brunette gritted his teeth in annoyance of her teasing but that soon turned into a sadistic smile as he pointed his keyblade at her.

"Freeze!"

"Heh, like you're ice magic is going to do any- WHAT?!" She was shocked when she saw ice crystals around the tip of his blade began molding into ice shuriken. Next she found herself dodging the surprisingly fast stars of ice. "Is this what he did during his free time? He developed his magic and based it off of my attacks!" When she dodged the last one she didn't notice Sora was at her side and delivered a roundhouse kick into her side. She rolled to her side as soon as the kick connected and lost her breath.

He was not done as he know had a ball of fire on the tip of his keyblade. He quickly spun it in front of him and stabbed it into the ground. "Fire!" Soon an even bigger puff of smoke surrounded the entire area.

"He even made his fire magic into a huge smoke bomb! Oh crap..." the ninja girl couldn't finish her thoughts as she felt her legs being lifted up off her feet, falling on her back. When the smoke cleared she saw Sora smiling while he pointed the tip of his blade towards her.

"I win." He stated proudly with one of his famous grins.

Yuffie let out a sigh before returning the smile, "That you did."

The boy held out his hand towards the girl. "Now that's over, let's have some fun." She nodded and accepted his help to get up and the two went off, enjoying a well earned break.

A/N: Thanks for reading! I added more into this chapter than previous as Sora is now learning all of Yuffie's limit breaks from Final Fantasy Vll. I decided if he was learning one, why not make him learn them all? Anyways, next chapter coming soon!