A/N: Here comes chapter 2. Thanks to everyone that showed their support for the first chapter!

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The Call

"Hey. What's a baby face like you doin' here?"

Sora held in a groan. He knew this would happen sooner or later and to be frank, he didn't give a shit about the two large thugs that stood before him. He just wanted to eat his jail cafeteria food in peace.

"If you want me to be your bitch, forget it. What I'm in for will make you cringe," he said as he took a bite of his gruel.

He heard the thugs laugh.

"That so? Why don't you try me," one of them said mockingly down at him.

"Fine. You asked for it." The brunette put his spoon down and gave the two large men his coldest stare. "I'm in here because I was the apprentice of Master Xehanort." He got his desired effect. The two men gasped and took two steps away from Sora. He smirked, not completely proud of his title, but it help when he wanted to be left alone. "Told you that'd make you cringe."

He watched the two men share a skeptical glance.

"How do we know you're telling the truth?"

"You want to try me?" Sora drawled with a daring look that frightened them even more. "Thought so."

"He had plenty of apprentices. What makes you any special?"

"He taught me everything I know, so that means I know how dismember someone in two hundred different ways," he said very impassively. He got his wish when the two thugs walked away with fear in their eyes.

Again, he wasn't proud of what he did, but it left him alone.

"Villiers." Sora let out an irritated sigh as he turned to see one of the guards approaching him. "You have a call."

"More interrogating? Think I'm gonna spill some more?" The guard glared at him and he hung his head in defeat. "Fine. Make it quick, I feel a nap coming."

Apparently, Sora misunderstood when the guard said that he got a call, he literally meant that he got a phone call. The brunette merely shrugged it off as he was lead to the wall of pay phones where a specific phone waited for him. The guard pointed to which one and Sora picked up the phone from its cradle.

"It's been a long time, hasn't it, Sora?" A bad chill went up his spine, yet he wasn't completely surprised. He recognized the graveled voice and his defenses immediately went up.

Xehanort.

"Thought this stunk enough, and I was right to think so," he spat into the phone. "What do you want?"

"Think that low of me, Sora? What would give you the idea that I want something?" Just as slimy as ever, Sora had thought.

"Because you always wanted something. 'Kill him, kill her, kill that child, they might grow up to exact vengeance.' It was always what you wanted, never any of us. The only reason we stayed was the money."

He heard the old man chuckle.

"You were always my favorite student, Sora. And for a good reason of course, you were never one to ask questions later. Look where that brought you."

"Because of you," he snapped back as an unsettling feeling landed in his stomach. "Something tells me that if I don't agree to whatever it is you want, I'm stuck in here."

Somehow, the brunette could feel Xehanort's infamous smirk.

"Another reason why you were my favorite student."

"So what is it?" Sora demanded as a pause passed.

"Sanshu no jingi."

The brunette lifted a confused eyebrow. "Excuse me?"

"Never heard of them?"

"Sounds like a disease."

"They're ancient treasures."

Sora scoffed into the phone.

"In that case, not my department."

"I heard about your exploits in Greece and Italy. How you found the Sword of Peleus and the girl you were with."

Anger shot through his system in less than a millisecond. "Leave her out of this," he hissed.

"I told you not to get too close to someone. She has completely dominated you. Now you don't see the possibilities finding these treasures would bring to you."

"More like she has shown me how much of a jackass I've been. And that whatever you want me to do, I'd rather sit on death row."

Another pause passed and the brunette could almost tell that the old man was plotting something.

"She seems rather nice. Shame she might be pulled in. A very smart child, I would say. I would be too if I ever got a PhD," Xehanort said very calmly.

"I told you to leave her out of this," Sora practically yelled.

"You want me to leave her alone, do your research and go find the treasures." Sora was silent after that. It was all Xehanort needed as he hummed, "There's a good lad. Oh and if you tell anyone about this, her blood will be on your hands."

The line went dead after that. Sora's mind was a complete blank. He couldn't think. He couldn't breath.

Before he could think about moving, he slammed phone back on its cradle.

He played right into Xehanort's hands.

"Shit."

"You want me to what?" Kairi asked into the phone while drinking her evening tea.

"Just go up to the guy behind the desk and ask. He'll give you something," she heard Sora say to her, adding on to her confusion.

"What is it?"

"It's a surprise."

She held in a groan.

"Sora, what's going on?"

"Nothing you should worry about."

Something was wrong. He sounded like this was the last time that they would see each other even though she planned on visiting after her lectures.

"I want to see you," she said.

"Me too," she heard him sigh. "But you promise though, right?"

"Yes, I'll come and get whatever it is you want me to have."

"Thanks. I love you, Kairi."

"Yeah. I love you too."

She pressed the button that ended the call. She had a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach and it has been right a few times in her life previously.

She knew something was going on and she actually debated whether or not she should investigate.

Sora was happy that he was not claustrophobic, otherwise he would've found the six by six cell extremely uncomfortable. But nope, he was actually a little content. Maybe it was because he was soaking in his last moments of freedom (as ironic as that sounds.) It wouldn't be long before Xehanort sent in one of his cronies to bust the brunette out.

He made it very clear that he didn't want to leave and endanger the woman that he loved, but he couldn't deny Xehanort's power over him. He knew that the old man would keep his word to do her harm if Sora didn't cooperate. He found the whole situation pretty bullshit, but what could he do? Defy Xehanort and Kairi winds up dead.

It wasn't fair, but who was he to argue against the master terrorist.

Suddenly, he heard the locks in his cell door click and the low groan of the door swinging open. Sora got up from his bed and stood up, expecting to see a large hulking man with a large weapon hanging off his back. Instead, he saw a small-framed woman with chestnut brown hair that curled at the tips and apple green eyes staring directly at him.

"You, Sora?" she checked as he merely crossed his arms over his chest. Was this the best Xehanort could send? Then again, he didn't know anything about this woman and he learned in the past that women who worked under Xehanort were maniacs.

"Who wants to know?" he asked daringly only to watch her roll her eyes.

"The shadow hides those that wish to be unseen."

Yup, Xehanort sent her all right.

"So he sent you to get me, huh?"

"That's how the deal goes. You come with me and your girlfriend is safe."

"He's never about choices," he chuckled as the woman stared at him in irritation.

"You want to save her or not?"

"I'm coming," he said as he walked over to her. "Don't know why he even sent you, I could've gotten out myself."

"He said you needed to be cooperative," the woman said as she started leading him towards the exit.

"Sounds like he thinks I need a babysitter," Sora mused as they skulked the cell blocks and did their best not to be heard. "So, what kind of blackmail did he get you with?"

"What makes you think it's blackmail?" she stared accusingly at him as they turned a corner.

"Why else would he have a cute girl on his side?"

"I'll have you know that I joined willingly with him."

He let out a silent scoff.

"Please, he's has everyone wrapped around his pinky."

"Didn't he get you out of sympathy?"

"Hardly. He manipulated me and my then-best friend into joining."

"Sounds like you want out."

"I've been out for five years," Sora countered.

"You must be good to recruit you again."

"I'm sure he has told you all about it."

They could see the exit and crept their way towards the doors. What Sora didn't expect was that it was actually the front gate. They literally walked out the front door.

The woman guided him across the street as he wondered how they accomplished such a feat. The security cameras must've been cut as well as all the alarms. Xehanort's good, he'll give him that.

"We're suppose to wait here," he heard the woman say as they waited by the curb. They didn't wait for very long because a black SUV pulled up in front of them. The woman opened the door and looked expectantly at him. "Get in."

"Okay, I'm going," he conceded as he climbed into the back seat where a set of black clothes lay waiting for him. Even his signature crown necklace sat lying on top of the pile. His necklace got confiscated in the prison since the pointed tips could be seen as a weapon. He picked up the crown to see if it really was his and was satisfied when he saw the deep scratch on the back side.

"So what's your name?" he asked the brown haired woman that sat in the middle as he put his necklace back on.

"Dr. Olette Nabaat," he shot his head up as soon as he heard her title.

"Doctor?"

"That's right." He found that a little disturbing.

"Sora Villiers," he simply responded as he started changing out of his orange jumpsuit. "So, what kind of doctor are you?"

"If you must know, I was a surgeon."

Sora paused as he was slipping the black long-sleeve shirt on.

"A surgeon? As in a real doctor?"

"That's correct."

"So, what happened? Why'd Xehanort pick you to babysit me?"

A hesitant pause passed over them, and despite the fact that Sora could only see the back of her head, he could tell that her eyes shifted downward.

"You wouldn't understand."

He had to roll his eyes at that statement. He wouldn't understand? Him of all people?

"Look, I'm gonna level with you. Whatever reason Xehanort got you into this, he's doing it for himself. He doesn't care what's gonna happen to you. Only the prize at the end."

"As long as we're leveling with each other here, let me remind you that the reason you're in this is to protect your girlfriend."

"Yeah. That's true," he shrugged at that reason. "I got her a ring."

"What?"

That got her attention.

"Yeah. I was gonna ask her when I got arrested. Perfect timing right?"

"I'll say."

"Doesn't matter now. In the morning when she comes to visit, she'll find out."

Another pause passed as the brown haired male finished changing into his new black clothes and put on a winter jacket.

"Xehanort told me a lot about you. You've killed a lot of people and yet you went and fell in love."

Sora let out a slight laugh.

"Yeah well, that's Kairi. There's a lot about her that attracted me."

"We'll be there soon," Olette said abruptly, earning a quirked eyebrow from the male brunette.

"Where are we going anyway?" he asked.

"The private air field. We'll be leaving for Japan as soon as we get there."

"Japan?"

"Yeah, that's where the treasures are. Didn't he tell you?"

"Nope, but now I think about it, I think he said something to me in Japanese."

Olette shrugged while holding in an eye roll.

"It's a start."

A/N: And that's chapter 2! Hope you guys liked it and I hope this gets you excited for chapter 3. ^_^

Special thanks: , Scarlett-95, Evil Dark Knight, and Gohan Roxas for your kind words. And a special thanks to greypurpleblack for beta-ing this chapter and the last.

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