GAH! I'M FINALLY BACK!

I hate it when I take forever to update. It makes me sad. D:

Sorry, the flood was being mean to me. MEMPHIS STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN. LITERALLY. MAKE IT STOP! ...Oh! I saw a tornado touch down about 3 weeks or so ago. It touched down, um...less than a block away from my house. Two streets south of me, to be exact. See, the town near Memphis I live in most of the time is on that borderline between Shelby County and I think Fayette County. For those who don't know, Shelby is basically the Memphis area and Fayette is that area in Mississippi that gets all the storms. So my town gets both.

...There were no cows in this big fat tornado. I was very disappointed. ANYWAY, luckily only one house and I think a business got destroyed, so we got lucky. VERY lucky considering if it had stayed on the ground long enough, it was supposed to be an F-5. :O

...Aaand I also had a bit of writer's block for this story and my Bleach story. I was sad. BUT NOW I DON'T! And I'm working on the next chapp for this while you're reading this rambling author's note!

I probably should've written more for being gone for so long, but...well, I like cliffhangers. ;D

ANYWAY.

Keariel, thanks for the heat compresses for Kiera and Sora's unfortunate times of the month. They'll appreciate them, I'm sure. xD And Morcelink, thanks for the 12-month supply of pain-and-exhaustion-reducing cookies! And Fanofawesomestories, for now on I'm calling you Fan. Okay? :D And thanks for Kiera's video tutorial: "101 Ways To Train Your Keybearer".

ILooveAnimeBishiesx3, thanks for your gifts too! They are:

"For Sora - a big hug from me, a giant cookie, a Playstation 2 and Kingdom Hearts 2 ;D Just so you can play as yourself! hahahah. :)

For Kiera - tampons, PMS pills (Thank god they have those!), extra clothes and a giant chocolate bar. I love eating chocolate on my period, and I hope you do to :D"

And thanks EVERYONE for your compliments on the story, well-wishes as far as Memphis is concerned, and for still reading this sequel even though I feel like a total slacker since it doesn't even have 5 chapps and I'm already getting lazy. I SHALL DO BETTER, I SWEAR BY IT!

...And next chapp, Kiera and Sora might come back into the author's notes. Just 'cause I can do that with my Powers Of Teh Authoress. :D

So read.

Review.

And ENJOOOOY! :D

The two eventually ceased their argument in favor of the hopes of seeing Tron, and were somewhat cheerful as they followed Yuffie.

Faaaar away from each other.

Of course, this didn't stop them from looking at the other person when they weren't looking. Or at least, didn't look like they were looking.

Yuffie ran up to Leon and started chatting up a storm almost before they even reached the entrance to the computer lab hidden by Ansem's study.

Ansem...

Kiera shook herself as a flashback of those final battles – and her dad – flashed through her head, catching up with Donald and Goofy.

"...And now that Sark and the MCP are gone, it should be pretty neat to see what Tron's done with the place," Sora concluded, having been explaining Tron to Kairi and Riku just like Donald and Goofy had.

Kiera made a face. "I hope he didn't do anything stupid."

"Kiera, it's TRON we're talking about. He's the smartest person I know!"

"Besides me?"

"...Yeah. Sure, besides you."

Her temple throbbed at how he didn't even bother making that sound convincing, and she sighed woefully. "Ahhh man, I miss the good old days when you were terrified of pissing me off."

"Why was he so terrified?" Kairi wondered.

Riku and Goofy looked at her like she was clinically insane, while Kiera just smiled slyly. "Oh, because he knew pissing me off would lead to me doing this: SIIIIIIIIIT!"

THUUUUUUUUUD.

"You know...being sat hurts worse than I remember," Sora said simply, his face buried into the ground.

Kiera giggled and let him get up, and Leon cleared his throat. "Hey. You two." They both looked over at him, and he pointed to a dusty computer. "If you can get it up and running, you'll be the first in about a year."

"What?"

"Yeah. Someone hacked the system when no one was here, and when we got back we couldn't access anything. Not even the public files."

"Hmmm..."

Kiera cleared her throat rather loudly, looking at Sora meaningfully. He rolled his eyes. "Go ahead, give it a shot."

"YES! Step aside, let your own personal Geek Squad take a look!" she said cheerfully, zooming over and summoning a wheelie-chair before plopping into it and popping her knuckles professionally.

Sora sweatdropped, shaking his head quickly. "Since when does she ever wait for my permission to do something?"

"Maybe it was for dramatic effect or something," Kairi suggested as Kiera clacked away on the keyboard. "She's a pretty...'dramatic' person."

Riku chuckled. "That's one word for it."

"I can hear ya'll, you know," Kiera muttered distractedly as she waited for the screen to load. "Damn," she said after a few moments.

Firewall.

"Think...think...thiiiiink," she said to herself as she tapped her fingernails on the arm of her chair.

"Does it need a password?" Sora asked suddenly from right behind her, making her jump so bad she flipped out of the chair. "GAH!"

Everyone watched with sweatdrops as she stood, temple throbbing, and glared wordlessly at Sora. After a grand total of six seconds, he gulped and quickly bent down to pick up the chair, pulling it out for her. "Thank you," she said in a dangerous tone, sitting down in the wheelie-chair. "And yes, it does."

"Does what?"

"Needs a password, stupid."

"How am I the stupid one? YOU'RE the one who just flipped out of a –"

"SIT."

THUD.

"Sometimes I wonder why he even talks," Riku commented thoughtfully. Leon and Kairi nodded, while Yuffie just leaned with her elbow on the desk, staring at the computer screen. "I wonder what's going on down there in Tron's world. Must be something big, for him to not try and communicate with us."

"Right...Hey, wait, that's it!" Sora said suddenly, making them all jump. This time, Kiera didn't flip out of her chair, and she sighed heavily. "What's it, Sora?"

"That's the password!"

"What is? 'That'?"

"NO, us!"

"That makes no sense! A standard password's supposed to be at least five characters long, and that's only two!"

Sora facepalmed before pushing her chair over to the right so he could get to the keyboard. Kiera then zoomed into the wall while he typed meticulously. Kairi ran over as she crawled out from under the chair, but she waved her off. "Just...leave me here. The ground smells nice."

Riku sweatdropped, and Sora suddenly pumped his fist triumphantly. "Ah-HA! That was it! 'Sora, Kiera, Donald, Goofy'. WE were the password, just like I said!"

"Technically speaking, you said 'us'," Kiera grumbled, her face against the floor.

Sora glanced her way to argue about it, but then he sweatdropped. "What the hell? How'd you end up on the floor under the chair?"

"The chair had a temper tantrum. What do you THINK happened? You pushed me into the wall, jackass!" Kiera shouted.

"...The idea was for you to stop yourself with your feet if you didn't stop before hitting the wall," Sora commented simply.

"...My feet don't touch the damn ground, and you know it!"

"...Oh. Right. Sorry, I forgot how short you were," he said with a laugh. That earned another glare, and he sighed. "Please don't sit me."

"Sora, SI –" She cut herself off as the computer whirred to life, running over so that she'd get zapped as well. "YAY! We're about to get zapped in! Everyone crowd in like it's a picture."

Kairi, Riku, Donald, and Goofy all crowded around the two of them. Sora and Kiera exchanged a look and a sweatdrop as the other four posed goofily like it actually WAS a picture.

"I hope your face freezes that way."

"Kier-aaa," Sora said in that warning tone of his.

"Oh please, Sora, I wasn't directing it to only Kairi! I just...happened to be looking that way, and, uhhh...OH LOOK, WE'RE BEING ZA –"

She didn't get to finish her sentence as she was zapped into the computer.

"Ugh, I forgot about that tugging feeling. It sucks," she commented as soon as she could talk, rubbing her stomach. Upon rubbing it, she realized there was a material there that most definitely was NOT like the last Tron outfit.

"Sora?" she wondered, looking around. They ended up bumping into each other, and her temple throbbed. "You coulda said something!"

"YOU coulda said something!"

"I did, if you recall."

"Oh. Right. WHOA, WAIT. Kiera, how come you got a new outfit?" he asked suddenly, making her jump.

"Because I'm specia – hey, you got one too," she noticed suddenly. She tried to keep the flush out of her cheeks, there was no headgear to hide it this time around.

Let's just say that his new outfit was rather form-fitting. It was a black suit that looked to be a one-piece, but she couldn't tell. And she was NOT going to risk him catching her staring to try and figure it out.

He was glowing with blue light from the pattern all over his outfit, and a couple random spikes in his hair had blue neon-looking strips mixed in them. Made her wonder what the hell SHE looked like. Kiera summoned a mirror, moving it every which way so she could see.

From what she could gather, hers was pretty damn form-fitting too. It was black like his, only hers was glowing a bright green. She had green strips mixed into her hair as well, on both spikes and pieces of her hair that waved.

When she looked up, Sora was the one flushing, and she grinned. "Guess my hair's not the only thing that grew, huh?"

"I-I-I wouldn't know," he said quickly, looking around as his flush turned into full-out bright blushing. "Where the hell's everyone else?"

She sweatdropped. "...I was talking about my HEIGHT, Sora. Just 'cause I'm still shorter than you doesn't mean I didn't grow any."

"...Right. That's what I was talking about, too. I wasn't, um...I wasn't talking about your che–...Is it hot in here?" he asked suddenly, making her bite her lip to keep from laughing.

"There you are!" Kairi said suddenly, running up to Sora. Kiera's temple throbbed as she wondered if Kairi had forgot to put on a bra. Maybe she's just plain better-endowed in that department than I am.

Her outfit was glowing pink, and Riku's was glowing a greyish-black color. Kairi had white strips in her hair, and Riku's were black. Donald and Goofy's outfits weren't form-fitting like theirs; they looked more like their regular clothes turned into the same black color, both of them with blue strips.

"...Well. This is different," Sora commented thoughtfully. That was when Kiera looked around, and she tugged on his arm. "You think THIS is different? Look in front of you."

They all looked, eyes widening. Kiera let out a whistle. "Goddamn. Two years, and all this happens."

On the ground, as far as the eye could see, were a ton of white dots. They looked like pressure sensors from that one scene in Charlie's Angels or something.

Up ahead was the city itself. That's right, it was now a city. There were tall towers all over, and everything was lit up with bright white light. It looked like a futuristic version of New York City, with thinner towers.

"Whoa..."

"Yeah," Kairi agreed.

Kiera looked at a treasure chest nearby, one of the ones that Sora always opened with his Keyblade. "I think these are the only things left here that I recognize!"

Sora tapped it open with his Keyblade, collecting a Mythril Gem. "...Well, Kiera?" Kairi asked suddenly, making Kiera turn to look at her.

"Hmm?"

"Where do we go from here?"

"That way!" Kiera said almost immediately as if she knew what she was doing, pointing in a random direction.

They all nodded and followed her and Sora, with Donald and Riku bringing up the rear as Goofy praised Kairi on her "true adventurer spirit".

"So. Do you think Tron's dead?" Kiera asked in a voice so low that Sora almost didn't hear it. He looked at her funny. "Wh-What makes you think that?"

"Well, he hasn't talked to anyone in over a year. That's not like him, don't chya agree?"

"Well...Yeah, but...That doesn't mean he's dead. Maybe he's in the Pit Cell, like last time! There's probably just another enemy for us to fight, that's all," Sora said in a tone that made Kiera wonder who he was trying to convince more: her, or himself.

"Like there even IS a Pit Cell anymore."

"...There could be a new one."

"Right, Sora. You're probably right."

"Are you being sarcastic?"

"Of course not."

"Right."

"GAH!" she suddenly exclaimed as Heartless appeared, three of them right in front of her face. Without even thinking about it, she summoned a fork and a pair of chopsticks, impaling all three in the eye in under five seconds.

The others sweatdropped as the Heartless vanished, and Kairi's brows furrowed. "What the hell was that?"

"Heartless. Duh."

"I kinda meant you."

"Me?"

"Yeah, did you just defeat Heartless with a fork and chopsticks?" Kairi asked, sweatdropping even more. Kiera grinned. "Sure did! I probably coulda just summoned my Keyblade, but random objects are a lot more fun. Besides, that was all reflex anyway."

Sora and Riku sweatdropped at her bragging. "Still using the Keyblade?"

"There aren't really any reasons to back where I'm from," Kiera replied to Riku, who nodded. Sora looked at her weird. "I thought you said Memphis had the highest number of crimes in your world?"

"Well, I dunno about the WORLD, but...as far as the United States is concerned, pretty much. I think we're ranked second or third right now. Why?" she asked before destroying another Heartless that popped up.

"Well, do you ever use it for self-defense?" he asked once the other Heartless were gone. At least THOSE still looked the same.

Kiera shook her head. "Nope. Usually I just summon a big gun, and I never even have to use it. It's pretty great," she said with a laugh, getting that far-off look on her face as she thought back on all the morons who had tried to mug her on the way to and from her house.

As they made their way towards the city, fighting Heartless here and there as usual, Kiera began to grow uneasy. "Sora...?"

"Yeah?"

"Why is it so empty-looking?" she wondered quietly as the others talked amongst themselves. Sora's brows furrowed as well. "...Do you think it might be since we're kind of out of the city's limits?"

"Yeah...Maybe...But why does no one go outside the city limits? Is there something out here we should know about, do you think?" she wondered.

He looked at her funny. "I think that's the smartest, most logical thing I've ever heard you say when it comes to exploring."

She couldn't help but beam at that, but her face fell when they heard rather loud whirring behind them. "...I get the distinct feeling that it's not a Heartless behind me," she informed him matter-of-factly.

Their faces fell even further when they heard the others make noises of struggle before hearing SHRRK and CLINK noises.

"Dammit," they both groaned as they turned around. Their eyes widened at the sight of their friends being forced onto platforms that apparently worked like Gorilla Glue in that it made them unable to move.

And standing before them, hands on his hips, was none other than...

Kiera's eyes narrowed. "Captain Asshole. We meet again."