"So you're telling me that all of them have been given "heart-pieces" and been resurrected by some sort of necromantic shaman, though stripped of almost all powers, and now all Kairi has to do is say "Osawari" and she controls them? What the #$#'s going on around here?" Sora screeched impatiently.

(Inuyasha fans, sorry about the whole "Osawari" thing, I just had to, I'm sorry! LOL!)

Leon groaned and leaned against the wall of the walkway. The group was still outside, even though they had been standing outside the door for hours, and nightfall had already occurred.

The noise inside the room had gotten even louder since Larxene, who had been on the roof earlier, had rejoined the group, and had to keep some of the more drunken men in line. Demyx had also learned how to make the computer print things. Lots of things. As far as any of the Radiant Garden Restoration Committee (RGRC) knew, Cid was off crying his heart out over his baby.

POOR CID! Awww! The past few hours of my dream (by the way, this is the narrator, miss shaman-lady, speaking) have been quite amusing. Sora finds it hard to sink in that the OXIII are back, and he's baby-sitting, while Riku refuses to accept it and just wants to kill them. Kairi is, like Yuffie, baffled, though somewhat amused.

Leon just can't seem to control everyone around here. Merlin has attempted to get back to his study twice, one try resulting in the roof getting a new window, and the second resulting in a new wardrobe for the wizard. Boy, I never knew Xigbar could do that!

I'm beginning to wonder if I made a mistake. Or maybe Sora and Riku just need some time. It still hasn't sunk in for them yet.

Axel isn't there.

"We have to do something with them." Kairi murmured. Sora shook his head, clutching it and grimacing.

"First off, what's a "heart-piece"?" Sora questioned, looking up to Leon. Yuffie answered for him.

"A heart-piece is an occurrence. When someone willingly splits their heart apart, it creates a heart-piece. To split your heart, you simply focus on one emotion, and different things from your past that have to do with that emotion. If you concentrate that into one piece, and split it away from the rest of your heart, you've created a heart-piece."

Leon continued. "When you give someone a heart-piece, you are planting a seed of an emotion. The person that receives the emotion can let it grow by living and learning how to feel. You can split your heart as much as you want, but the more you split it, the less you are. Slowly, and surely, you'll become a nobody if you split it too much. Unless you make it where you split up your heart into all heart-pieces, and leave one for yourself so you can grow a new heart, you'll die." Yuffie sighed.

"Someone must have split their heart up a whole lot to have done this, then." Riku muttered. He was sitting on the railing, thoroughly mad.

"Who would've gone to that extent? And why? For these guys?" Sora complained, throwing his hands to the door.

A loud, exuberant scream came from the house, and suddenly, Luxord came through the window. He crashed into the railing where Riku had been sitting, but Riku leapt away. Mumbling and giggling drunkenly, Luxord stood, shakily, and waved haphazardly to Leon (almost hitting him in the face; Leon grimaced) as he stumbled to the door, opened it, and tried to walk back in. He tripped half-way, causing laughter inside as Marluxia ran up and shut the door.

"Okay…" Leon muttered. Grumbling, Merlin rolled up his sleeves and fixed the window with a wave of his wand.

"Some of the people in there are traitors. Some hate us. Yet, there they are, partying like no tomorrow." Kairi stated.

"I know what you're getting at. Think of it this way; they were all dead and heartless. Now they have a second chance at life, and have achieved one of their ultimate goals for pretty much nothing on their part." Leon answered, chuckling. "I have a feeling they could care less right about now."

"I guess so." Riku whispered, sorrow faintly tipping his words. They really did finally have hearts, didn't they?

"Alright, it's time to go inside, confront them, and come to some sort of plan or agreement or something. Besides, don't you guys want to see Axel again?" Leon asked. Sora's eyes lit up.

Riku's eyes flashed. 'Axel? The red-haired one?' Riku hadn't seen Axel in there.

Sora ran for the door exuberantly, grinning like mad as he threw it aside.

Inside, the partying didn't cease when the door opened; only one noticed it had opened. With a sly smirk, the one that had noticed walked up to the boy in the doorway, lightly and rudely pushed him out the door, and followed him outside, closing the door behind him.

"Xemnas!" Sora muttered, on his guard, but not yet calling the keyblade. He had to give this whole "second-chance" thing at least one try, didn't he?

Xemnas grinned vilely at the boy, looking each person over with silence. No one had spoken since he had walked out the door. Xemnas crossed his arms coolly, leaning against the door.

"Move aside! I want to see Axel!" Sora demanded. Xemnas turned to look at him with defiance.

"First of all, I'm sure its Roxas who wants to see Axel, not you." Sora sneered, but stayed silent. "Second, Axel is not in there." The silence broke as confusion took over the group.

"Where is he then? Where?" Sora implored desperately. Xemnas laughed quietly, a knowing look in his eye.

"He was left behind."

Sora's heart jumped painfully.

"W-What do you mean?" Xemnas stood away from the door and walked over to Sora, as Sora stood back a bit, shocked.

"A woman resurrected us for reasons unknown to me. She attached us to this", Xemnas lifted his palm, and opened it, letting a creamy orb fly out of it. A brown one followed after. "And told me to give this", he removed a letter from his pocket. "To Kairi." A bit surprised, Kairi stepped forward, Sora moving aside for her. Gulping, Kairi shyly took the letter, as all eyes were on her.

"She also said she was keeping Axel. Don't ask me anything; I've told you what I know." And with that, Xemnas sauntered past them, towards the Maw. Sora moved to read over Kairi's letter, as she turned from watching Xemnas go to look at the envelope in her hands.

Gently ripping it open, Kairi unfolded a note and began reading aloud.

"Dear Princess of Radiant Garden,

I'm sorry to dump this responsibility on you. I am in desperate need of your help, but I don't feel safe telling you everything in a note I'm passing through one of you enemies. Somehow, I'll talk to you again, in a safer enviorment.

Anyway, as you probably know by now, there are 12 nobodies/humans/ghosts, or whatever you want to call them, on your hands. Because I connected their hearts to the creamy heart of Namine, your nobody (I split my heart into fifteen pieces, saving one for myself, 13 for the organization, and two for your Nobody, and Sora's) you will be able to keep them in line. Even the Superior will have no choice but to obey you.

You may be befuddled with questions right now, but I can only answer so much. First off, I guess your wondering what's in it for me to help the organization. I have always believed in second chances, and when circumstance brought me to a place where I learned of Sora and the XIII, I knew I had to help. I also had a personal reason, but you don't need to know quite yet.

Just tell Saix that "Dream-Catcher" is still looking out for him, alright? We'll talk again soon! Take care!

The Dream-Catcher

"The Dream-Catcher?" Sora questioned. Looking around, he saw Riku shrugged as he leapt off the rail and walked over. Kairi looked the note over one last time before passing it to Leon.

"I wonder what her connection to Saix is." Leon muttered, reading the note over himself. Yuffie walked up and stood on tip-toe to see it.

"Maybe they knew each other, back when Saix was human, or something." Yuffie suggested.

"Why "The Dream-Catcher"?" Sora added. Riku shrugged again.

Kairi was in a world of her own. She was watching the creamy sphere that was floating around in the air with the deeper brown one, the two playing with one another. Namine's new heart and Roxas'? What did this mean? Could the two of them have their own bodies now?

"Kairi?" Sora implored. Kairi awoke from her daydreams and turned to him. Flashing her a smile, Sora looked up to the two spheres. Taking a step forward, he strectched his arms wide.

"Well?" He asked the brown heart. "What are you waiting for?" The brown heart leapt, as if overjoyed, and dove for Sora. The others began to protest, but before they could say anything, the heart entered Sora and a bright light blinded everyone.

When Sora stood, he shook his head, wiped himself off, and looked around. Everyone else was still where he left them, but they were all looking towards the new person standing a few feet ahead of Sora.

Raising his head, the new person walked up to Sora.

"We never formally met, did we?" He asked, lifting his hand. Chuckling, Sora took his hand, and they shook.

"No, we didn't. Sora." Sora introduced himself. The other shook his head in response.

"Roxas." The sandy blonde responded with a smile.

Kairi gasped, and the others were a bit confused. Riku quickly told them about Roxas, and Namine, Sora and Kairi's nobodies.

At the mention of Namine, Kairi felt a pang in her heart. Nodding her head, Kairi looked up to the creamy sphere and extended her hand. It landed lightly in her palm, and a second later, a blonde girl stood next to Kairi. Looking at each other, the two girls laughed. Roxas grinned at the sight of Namine.

"Looks like all the nobodies are back." Riku muttered, complaining, though a bit amused, and smirked tiredly. Sora looked to him and nodded sadly.

"All but one."

A few hours later, it was late night, and Leon and the others had retired. They had left the wonderful job of requiring the house to Riku, Sora, Kairi, Roxas, and Namine. Xemnas was standing off to the side, thoroughly amused at their antics.

Somehow, they were going to get the other nobodies in line, and explain to them the situation. It seemed the only one who knew anything was Xemnas; all the others knew was that they were alive and had hearts.

"Ok, here's the plan." Riku spoke to the others. All of them looked up to him expectantly. After a short pause, he spoke quickly and almost incoherently.

"WethrowSorainandseewhathappens." All eyes fell on Sora as he tried to comprehend what had just been said.

"Wha-?"

Two seconds later, and Sora was thrown inside the room, and the door slammed shut behind him. An eerie silence broke out as all eyes in the room fell on poor, poor Sora.

Gulping, Sora sat up on his knees and waved sheepishly. Demyx looked him over, standing up, and then looked back to the others. Xigbar shrugged, and Luxord gave a thumbs-up. Demyx grinned and pulled Sora to his feet.

"Welcome to the club, kid!"

"I should've known that wouldn't work." Riku groaned outside as Sora's voice joined the others that were cheering and singing stupidly. Kairi sighed and shook her head. Namine glared at Roxas, who looked sheepish and shrugged.

"What?" He demanded. Groaning, Namine looked back to the others.

"Ok, plan B: We through in Roxas… who will hopefully have more authority and mind to him!" Riku muttered. Roxas sighed wearily, fake tears welling at his eyes as he mourned inside.

'WHY ME!'

So the door was thrown open one more time, and Roxas was thrown in, before it was slammed shut again.

Again, Demyx looked him over, looked back to Xigbar (who shrugged) and to Luxord (who gave a thumbs up), and then…

"GET HIM!"

END PART TWO. HAHAA!

(none of these guys belong to me)