Dear lord! Please forgive me! My last chapter was nothing but a horrible mess! (I'm not the best with grammer.) I'm a worthless fanfic writer now...I deserve to be punished. No more Fire Emblem games for me for a week! Nooo! I like playing my Soren sage...

Anyways, I'm just gonna clear up a few of things some of you might be curious about before I start this fic.

~Ienzo is between the ages of sixteen and seventeen in this fic.

~In the first chapter, I believe I refered Zexion as to being one of the Elders of the Organization. I have two reasons for this.

-He's part of the first six original Nobodies of the Organization.

-His appearance has stayed the same throughout however many years he's been a Nobody. I like to go with the theory that Nobodies don't age. So in other words, you don't really know how old Zexion is.

~Amaru does not fit exactly with Marluxia's name. I know this. I chose this name because I've grown accustomed to it. Also, I think it's suits someone like Marluxia better than calling him Marulia or Amarilu or something weird like that. (Plus, Amaru sounds more like a noble name in my opinion.)

Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts I, II, Chain of Memories and all of it's characters and places within it are copyrighted to Square Enix and/or Disney which is not owned by me, so therefore the characters or settings belonging to them used in this fic or mentioned in here are not owned by me either. (If I did, then I'd attach devices to all the key-blades so that they'd explode if a teeny bopper touches them.)

Chapter Three: Provoked Beginnings of Infatuation

"I highly doubt going about this in a electrophysiological way will work at all." Ienzo commented lightly from across the room; seemingly not too interested in his fellow scientists' ideas of procedures and such. Braig just made a gruff sound as he marched right over towards the youngest apprentice.

"Oh yeah? And what makes you think ya know what will work and what won't, kid?" Ienzo let the kid comment slide as he placed a pile of folders on an already cluttered desk. Despite the older scientist for being taller, Ienzo was never intimidated by anyone's size.

"Because, if you'd been paying attention through-out most of Ansem's lectures, you'd know that the heart has both a physical and almost spirit like side to it. Xehanort himself has done some work to back up this idea, and I highly think we shouldn't be going about in our experiments focusing on the heart's physical aspect anymore." Ienzo heard Even's skin crawling chuckle of his.

"Oh come now, Ienzo, don't tell me they've got you to believe that foolishness too? Really, I thought you were smarter than that." The blond smirked the little iritating grin whenever he thought he'd insulted someone.

"Obviously, I'm the only one of us that's not moronic enough to throw out any ideas of things supernatural or has anything to do with vitality. You focus too much on your logical sense of science, Even, that you can't deal with the fact that an immaterial force might be out there. Just because your way of science doesn't prove it's real, doesn't mean new ways of explorations can't find it." The young man pushed the gray haired male in front of him away so he could stare straight at the tall blond. "Are you afraid that you might be wrong? That your past work has been a waste because you didn't take something unknown and unnatural like that into account?" The taller apprentice gave the smaller an icy glare before storming out of the room. None of them didn't even dare to go after him.

"So, is Ansem's focus towards a non-physical aspect of the heart now? He never told us anything about changing the whole direction of our studies." Dilan finally spoke when he knew it was safe to ask such a thing without being berated by the narrow minded Even for questioning something around that topic.

"He didn't want us to know his studies of the heart had changed. His lectures only hinted he was heading in that direction, but Xehanort and I believe he's doesn't want us to start experimenting with the non-physical segment of the heart. Ansem thinks it's too dangerous for us to do so, but Xehanort is trying to convince him otherwise." The young man stopped talking once Xehanort himself entered the room. He knew the older had been listening in on the conversation, but now just decided to let himself be known. The two apprentices nodded towards the other knowingly as Ienzo passed by him to exit the room. He knew the white haired scientist would brief the other two in the room more about the topic. Xehanort certainly didn't need Ienzo's help with explaining things, for he knew the man was intelligent enough to do so on his own. Right now, he was late.

As he turned around a corner, he nearly ran right into someone much bigger than himself. Taking a couple of steps back, Ienzo gave an expressionless stare up towards Aeleus. The younger crossed his arms as a moment of silence passed by for a while. It was usually like this whenever the bigger man wanted to speak to him about something serious or anything that was eating away at Aeleus's thoughts. He'd show up before Ienzo, out of now where, and then they seem to have a wordless conversation. At least it appeared that way.

"...Excuse me, Aeleus, but I must be going." As grayish blue haired male tried to pass by the other in the hall, he was immediately stopped. He narrowed his eyes in slight annoyance towards the bigger apprentice while he tried to get by again. Failing to do so a second time, Ienzo softly growled out loud as he gave in. "Fine, what is it this time?"

The muscular scientist crossed his own arms as he gave the younger a serious look. "Why have you been wondering off?" Ienzo let out a small, "Ha." sound as he grinned slightly.

"Is that all? Come now Aeleus, I've done more than my fair share of work to deserve some alone time to myself. Now I suggest you move out of my way." As he took a step forward, the other just stood his ground and wouldn't let him pass. Ienzo's grin faded as he gave a stern look up towards Aeleus. "What? I explained my reason more than clearly enough for a child to understand." It appeared the older man wanted more answers and Ienzo was not about to give him any.

"You've been doing this constantly. You worry us." The younger raised an eyebrow and sighed at the ridiculous thought that he worried any of the elder men here.

"I highly doubt that any of you worry at all about my where-abouts these past evenings. The thought that especially Braig or Even caring about my safety or anything of the sort is laugh-able indeed. Now, if you can't give me any logical reason for you wanting to know about my personal life, then I suggest you move before you make me irritated." Ienzo saw an opening and he took it. He didn't even turn back to see if Aeleus was following.

"The brute made me even later..."

"Well well, if it isn't the little trespasser again. Here for some more social chatter, or are you going to try and ignore me again like the last couple of days?" Ienzo held his forehead once he saw Amaru sitting at the place where they first met, again. After two weeks of running into him, you'd think the apprentice would be use to this by now. Maybe Ienzo was or maybe he wasn't, he really couldn't decide.

"Do you have a headache again, boy? Or are you just overwhelmed by my presence?" Amaru smirked as he stared at the youth in front of him.

"It's your presence that's causing my headaches these days...and I thought I told you to stop calling me boy." Ienzo gave a glare, even though it never has an effect on the wavy haired man. Amaru waved his hand in the air as if he was brushing away the comment.

"Sorry dear Ienzo, but it's a force of habit by now."

"I'd rather you'd stop the whole dear thing as well." Ienzo huffed as he took a seat next to the elegantly attire man. Sure Ienzo was getting annoyed already, but it's become more of a routine now that he's secretly enjoyed. This was strange, for Ienzo usually dealt with annoying persons in his own little ways to shoo them away. Amaru was allowed to get away with saying almost anything to the slate haired boy.

"I use the title dear on almost every person I've become acquainted with. Now, what's with your grouchy mood tonight? If anyone is to be upset it's me, but I'm not acting in such a manner. To do so would be childish." Amaru stated as if he was giving a lesson to a small child. Ienzo shot another glare towards the auburn haired man.

"Are you calling me childish?"

"Not at all. Just the way you seem to be getting hostile even more than usual this evening is childish."

"I still take that as an insult." The pale eyed boy's gaze went away from Amaru, trying to ignore him again.

"Oh come now! You know I'm only teasing you dear Ienzo." He waited for the younger to respond, but then sighed as he saw the boy wasn't going to reply. "You do know that you're the one who showed up late, so I should be the one acting more upset tonight and not you."

"Hardly an excuse to be upset with someone." Ienzo mumbled as he drew his knees up to his chest.

"And being teased a little is hardly an excuse to be upset either." Amaru turned to try to get the youth to look at him again.

"I'm not an adolescent child. I take being thought or called as one in high offense. I know a few persons much older than myself who should be considered child before I for their outlandish behavior." Finally, Amaru caught Ienzo's eye again.

"Ah, are you speaking of your fellow co-workers you were telling me about some time ago?" The botanist decided to change the flow of the topic a bit to get the younger off the thought of being upset with him.

"Yes, and Braig is the worse."

Ienzo spoke of Braig and his other fellow apprentices and also of some of their work to Amaru. Eventually, their conversation with each other this night changed many times. Amaru spoke of some medical properties some wild flowers in this world carried, Ienzo shared a few stories from some interesting books he has recently read, and so on. They weren't really sure how long they spoke to each other that night, but did it really matter to them? Ienzo actually find being sociable with this estranged man to be a highlight, especially tonite.

"Number VI." The Nobody awake suddenly from his slumber. Apparently, he had fallen asleep while studying at his desk. When his vision was focused, he spotted the Silent standing on the other side.

"Don't you ever knock Lexaeus?" The large man folded his arms as he stared at the still sleepy Nobody.

"I did. You didn't respond." Zexion made a slight moan of annoyance as he held his head. He then realised in his other hand, he was still holding a book he was reading last night. Lexaeus gaze went towards the book the smaller Nobody held. "You haven't been over-working yourself again, have you?"

"Oh and why are you concerned? Are you worried I might overexert myself?" Lexaues said nothing to the sarcastic comment. "I've just been studying on how to lock one's memories away for good. It might be helpful to me...I mean...our mission in the near future."

BTW, Reviewers...you all are amazing. I love this fic and all of your comments, but the fact of the matter is, I have ADD and am lazy. Naw not really...I got caught up in making cosplays of Vexen and Saix...EXCUSES! NO! There should be none! I can't say how sorry I am for the wait. Thanks for sticking with me...if ya'all still are going to that is.

Electrophysiological-An electrophysiologic study (EPS) is one of a number of tests of the electrical conduction system of the heart performed by a cardiac electrophysiologist, a specialist in the electrical conduction system of the heart. These tests are performed using catheters situated within the heart. (Def. from ) I like big words! :3