Holla: Okay, so I know I'm an awful person for not posting this, but please forgive me... I'll make up for it... I promise. Also, please do feel free to have constructive critism and stuff, but don't blame me for having a lot of mistakes... It's late and I'm tired. *yawn* Hikari, darling, the disclaimer?

Hikari: Oh, yeah! Holla-chan does not own anything except my character. TheKeeperofKingdomHearts owns Sophie, Jade, and Yunaki, as well as others to come. And- *turns to stare at Holla, who has fallen asleep on the floor*

Holla: *SNOOOOORE*

Hikari: Um... as I was saying-

Holla: *starts to sing quietly in her sleep while she tosses and turns* La la la...

Hikari: *sigh* Let's just get on with this, okay? *weak smile*

"Sophie? Sophie, where are you going?" I yelled as Riku took after her. I didn't know what to do. I hadn't meant to upset her. I watched her retreating form until it disappeared. A door slammed; she must've run out. I started to bite my thumb nail, feeling.

"Um… Hikari, was it?" I nodded, turning to Namine. "I have a question." She said, beating around the bush. My head started to throb, so I turned to her with a pained smile, trying to urge her to speak faster so I could sit down. I didn't want to be rude, so I didn't say anything. "So, um… about your home…" She started, and my vision was starting to get seriously fuzzy. Without any warning, I blacked out.

I woke up in a daze, only to find I was on a sort of platform shaped like a heart, surrounded by darkness. No, not like evil darkness, just lack-of-light darkness. I looked around, confused, when suddenly, a heartless came out of nowhere. Behind it, others were making their way towards me. It seemed as though they were coming from under the platform. Not having a weapon, I curled my hands into fists, pushing the thought that they wouldn't work to the back of my mind. Soon, I was surrounded. I spun around every which way, trying to make sure none of them tried to attack me from the back. My heart was pounding, and I became very aware

Just as one jumped at me, my hands went up to shield my face. Something heavy abruptly appeared in my hands. Without thinking, I slashed at the creature in front of me, and it immediately disappeared, leaving a small, pink heart that drifted upwards until it vanished. I looked down at the thing in my hands. I was like a small Keyblade, but it fit perfectly into my small hands. It was a light pink with an intricate three-grip heart with the main grip in the middle for the hilt, like the original Keyblade but heart-shaped. The blade itself with designed with little diamond shapes on the edge, and the point another heart, this time not hollowed out and more like the Kingdom Hearts logo I knew so well. I didn't have any more time to study it, though, because the rest of the heartless jumped, and soon I was striking them with the bizarre Keyblade-esque thing as if I'd done it a thousand times before. I struck the last one with extra gusto and watched as the little pink heart escaped the darkness.

After they were gone, I sat down, out of breath. "Hikari," I heard from behind me. I turned quickly to see a woman of 20, maybe 30 years standing before me. She was slightly taller than I was, with long blonde hair cascading down her back and over her shoulder. She wore a long, sleeveless white dress with red buttons that was hiked up and buttoned to her black shorts underneath. She had loose sleeves that displayed her shoulders, too.

"Who are you?" I asked. She smiled softly.

"Your mother, Hikari. My name is Isabelle. I'm here to explain how your story begins." I stood there, dumbfounded. This woman who claimed to be my mother, she felt so familiar, but this wasn't the mother I had back in Hendersonville. I couldn't shake the feeling I'd known her forever, though. "You see what you're holding? That's called a Keyheartblade. It has been passed down, generation to generation. I was getting older, and you father and I decided that we would pass it to you soon. We started training you, and you were a very fast learner, but not quite ready for the Keyheartblade. But one day, the day before your Keyheartblade ceremony was to take place, you disappeared along with your friends. Everyone was so worried. We searched everywhere, but it was as if you had vanished. We waited for so long, not knowing where you were, but one at a time, your friends were being spotted again. And now you're back. I'm so happy." She ran to hug me. Dumbfounded, I could only stand there, too confused to speak. In time, I got my voice back.

"B-but, how come I can't remember anything? And how could I be from here? Where is here, anyway?" I let the woman, Isabelle, hug me, and eventually I just hugged back.

"You are, you were taken from your true home, taken to somewhere else for so long. We're in your heart right now, Hikari, awakening the Keyheartblade bearer inside your heart. You had to look inside your own heart to find this. I'm not actually here in your heart; I wouldn't be able to stay here for long. This is just a projection." At that, I wondered how she could hug me if she was a projection, but I decided not to push it.

"And Hikari, I can't tell you everything, I'm sorry. You must find it out yourself, and with the help of Sophie and her friends." At this, my eyes widened.

"Sophie?" I asked. She nodded.

'You must stay with her, Hikari. You must. It is of utmost importance. You must trust me. Neither of you can survive without each other." She looked around, as if she sensed someone was coming. "I must go now. Be careful." She gripped my shoulders for a minute as everything went hazy. Eventually, everything went black, and I woke up again, with Namine next to me.

"Are you alright? You fainted for a minute!" I nodded weakly, and began to tell her everything.

"Wow…" was all she said after I had finished the story.

"Yeah, and look!" I summoned the Keyheartblade to show her. I was so happy, I actually giggled when it appeared in a flash of light and sparkles. She smiled lightly at me.

"Well, I suppose that means that you'll be travelling with Sophie, then?" I nodded, and she picked up her sketchbook from the table. "Well, then you'll need something else to wear, don't you think? But you'll have to be the one to convince her. I doubt she'd agree to anyone else." I nodded again.

"I'm sorry to be such a bother, Namine. I don't mean to take you from your work." She smiled again, only it was sad; and her eyes were filled with so much pain, though only for a second. Then she was back to her original smile.

"Oh, it's nothing. I won't be working for much longer anyway," she replied, her tone light, way too light to be real. I decided not to press her, though, and cause her any more pain.

"So, how can I help get clothes? Are there any stores in town?" She shook her head.

"There are, but not for the kind of clothes I'm getting for you." She pulled out her very own sketchbook and opened it. "Watch," she sketched a little outfit in her sketchbook, and it appeared on the ground in front of us, folded into a neat little pile. "Here you go, go put this on," she said. I gingerly took the clothing and began to change. It was a salmon-y pink button-up shirt with a black miniskirt and a black, sleeveless vest. It also had a type of sleeves the showed my shoulders, but covered the rest of my arm in soft cotton. The shoes were black high-heeled boots and surprisingly comfortable.

"Wow! This is really nice of you, Namine. Thank you," I said, admiring my new clothes. DiZ came in and sat down near the computers, typing something.

"No problem," she replied quietly. As I examined my clothes more thoroughly, I heard Sophie in the doorway, with Riku trailing quickly behind her.

"DiZ. Namine. What's going on?" Sophie wondered aloud. I smiled, fingering my new clothing.

"Namine and DiZ explained what you were going to do and I've decided I want to go with you and Sora." I didn't say that I needed to go with her, though. I was still trying to process everything that had gone on, I would explain it to her when I figured it out myself. "So Namine gave me this really cute outfit."

"Wait, what?" Sophie looked at me incredulously, her glare sending tiny chills down my spine. I refused to back down, though. Before I could say anything, DiZ interrupted.

"I thought it was a splendid idea." DiZ said. "You need to look after her. She is the Master of the Keyheartblade." Apparently, he had been listening in to all of our conversation.

"What's a Keyheartblade?" Sophie and Riku asked simultaneously, then shot a glance at each other curiously.

"A Keyheartblade is a like a Keyblade except it has the power over hearts." Namine explained. I actually hadn't known that.

"And there is always only one Keyheartblade Master in existence until the Master has a child to pass down the power to."

"Did you know about this Hikari?" Sophie asked.

"No. I didn't." Not until just now, at least.

"Just like you, Hikari has lost her memories of life before." DiZ explained. Okay, I was a little scared. How long had he been listening in? Or had he been there the whole time and I'd just not noticed?

"So Hikari is from this Dimension as well." Both DiZ and Namine nodded and she sighed. "And there is no way I'm going to convince you otherwise Hikari about going with Sora, Donald, Goofy, and I."

"Nope," I said, feeling victorious. I held myself back from striking a pose, though.

Sophie sighed again. "Alright you can come -" Bursting with joy, I started to jump up and down, but she stopped me with a hand, signaling she wasn't finished. "-but you have to be careful, alright? So that means no running off and you have to stay with either me or Sora, okay?" I nodded, barely concealing my happiness. I couldn't keep a grin off of my face, and eventually gave up, going to hug her happily. "Oh, while I'm thinking about this, where is Hikari sleeping?"

Hikari: Thanks everybody and goodnight! :D I promise you that Holla will be posting more often with ALL of her stories... as soon as she write the next chapters... *glares at her*

Holla: *still sleeping peacefully*

Hikari: I swear, that girl could sleep through a tornado. *gets an evil look in her eye* And if you guys don't review, I might just have to do something about it. *pulls out whipped cream and a feather*

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