Yachiru Hatake: Yay! I'm on a roll with chaps!

Kiroi: You said it! I'm so smart!

Yachiru Hatake:*cough* not *cough*

Kiroi: Did you say something?

Yachiru Hatake: Who me? No no, you must be hearing things.

Kiroi: Oh.*narrows eyes at author*

Yachiru Hatake: Anyways here are my thanks to my readers who are:

Anna Shiki: Kiroi would like to have a word with you, Kiroi here ya go.

Kiroi: Thank you for agreeing with me about yelling at Xehanort in chappy number 2. You're awesome!And I'll make sure that the author will write this fic til the end. And thank you for agreeing that I'm smart, at least some else thinks like I do, unlike a certain someone*glares at author* And yes, I love my backpack/book bag, and I'll save it before a friend. I'm done and again, you're awesome. *leaves*

Yachiru Hatake: She didn't have her glider in ch. 3 because she didn't spin her keyblade and toss it in the air like Ven and Terra, that's why she hopped on Ven's. Sorry if I also confused others with this.

Kenpachi29: Thank you too for liking the Kiroi and her backpack scene.

Same for you ichigo's-soulreaper-lover and gracia198. Also thank you Thequietninja for adding this story as your favorite, story alert, and adding me as your favorite author. You're awesome, and Kiroi told me that she loves you.

That goes for all the others who added this story as your favorite, story alert, put me on author alert, and favorite author. You're all fantastic!

Thank you all for your support. On with the chappy!

I'm all alone…..

My friends are gone now. I've lost everyone…

I lost Ven, Terra, and Aqua…

They were all I had and now they're gone…

The only thing I can do now is go after Ven and see where his heart is at.

I'll follow where he goes. He's-He's my best friend, and I can't give up on him. Terra he's most likely lost forever and Aqua is looking for someone somewhere else.

This is where I'm going…..I'm going to go to sleep, just like Ven.

I'm going to go….

Birth by sleep….

3rd POV:

Ventus and Kiroi arrive at the Dwarf Woodlands and finds themselves in a Mountain Trail. They look down and see several short men wearing hats and carrying pick-axes.

Kiroi looks at the short men in awe. "That is so cool! They're so tiny! Like little babies, but they're not babies. You know Ven we should-." Ven cut her off. "Kiroi, this isn't the time to be trailing off and speaking your thoughts out loud. Come on, we gotta find out where we're at."

They walk under a bridge they're standing on, and they both run to the other side to watch them further. They walk into a mine and Ven follows them. Kiroi follows silently after him. When they were walking towards the mine, these black creatures appeared out of nowhere.

Kiroi's POV:

'What the freak are these things! Wait a sec, oh, now I remember, they're unversed. Vicious creatures they are too.'

Ven and me both take out our keyblades and prepare for battle. The unversed seemed to get the idea that we're gonna fight them and they run straight at us. "Kiroi!" Ven shouts as one appeared behind me somehow and tackled me to the ground.

I punched it in the face once I got to my senses and took out Dark Phoenix. 'You ready Dark Phoenix. We're going against something different from anything we've ever gone against in our lives, so work with me.' I rolled away from the unversed, got up and did a flip in the air behind it.

'Gotcha.' I smirk and cut the unversed right in the back and it disappeared into thin air. Right as I finished, Ven came to my side after he finished his off. I could see worry and relief on his face. "Are you okay Kiroi?"

I wave my hand and turn to the direction we're supposed to go in. "Yeah yeah, I'm fine. Just got caught off guard, but I promise you that won't happen again, for I am Kiroi!" I wink at him and do the 'Kiroi pose'.

Of course I knew that earned me sweat drop from him since everyone does that, but did I say he could like my pose? No, so he'll have to deal with it.

"I guess you are alright since you're doing the 'Kiroi pose'." He quotes it with his fingers. "Shut-up Ven! Let's just go and find those short men already." I turn and start walking towards our destination.

I knew Ven was following me because I could hear his footsteps follow. "Okay. Sorry for worrying over your health." I heard him mumble. 'He cared, for my health? I'm touched. That is so sweet! Awe! But I'll never voice it out to him unless one of us is dying.'

Ventus's POV:

Sheesh. You care for the girl, and what does she do, she waves it off like it was nothing. Next time I just won't care for her then, maybe that'll teach her a lesson. 'But I do care deeply for her health though. She's my friend and I have to look after her since Aqua isn't here. She'll most likely want me to look after Kiroi since she can't. Still, I wish Kiroi would be more careful, she could've died if she wasn't too careful. Those creatures weren't just out of the ordinary, they were something to fear and be dangerous.'

Once we made it to our destination we walk into the mine entrance, and saw dazzling jewels stuck in the walls. Each of the little men is digging the jewels out with their pick-axes. The smallest one picks up his axe and swings it into the ground. He grabs it again, and it weighs him down backwards, nearly stumbling him. One of the men turns around to see me and Kiroi.

3rd POV:

"Huh? Who are you?" The one they call Doc asks them both. "I'm Ventus. Call me Ven. And this person over here," Points at the fascinated Kiroi who was staring at pretty jewels in the walls, "Her name is Kiroi."

"Diamond thieves! Take cover, ya fools!" The dwarfs run helter-skelter around the cave, racing into a side shaft. Doc and Grumpy run to the entrance of the shaft and hide, peering out at Ven. Dopey runs around and into a wall, falling over on his back. Ven gasps while Kiroi, who now turned her head back to the present, stared in awe at seven dwarfs.

"I'm sorry. We didn't mean to frighten you." Ven looks them with an 'I'm sorry' look. "You didn't?" Happy was the one to step up and ask both Kiroi and Ven. "*yawning*You mean, you're not here for our diamonds?" I think you all know who asked that one.

"That's not nice, treating me and Kiroi like we're some kind of bad guys. We're just trying to find a friend. His name is Terra. He's dressed kind of like me, about yay tall-" The one named, Grumpy, startles Ven before he could finish. "Sounds like a tall tale to me! Go on, git!"

"Hehe, he's funny!" Ven turned to look at Kiroi weirdly because she's acting weird right now, but then turns his head back to the dwarfs. "We don't know any Terra." Bashful looks down bashfully. "Please... Could you come over here? I just want to talk." Ven said while scratching the back of head sheepishly. "Yay! We get to talk to the dwarfs!"

Again Ven turns to look at Kiroi funny, but she was nowhere to be found. "Huh?" He questions himself. "Don't fall for it! Stay where ya are! And look out for the other one! She was acting funny." Ven crosses his arms, now turning back to them and decided he'll look for Kiroi later, but first, he needs answers.

"All right. Then we'll do this the hard way!" He runs after them and they run through the shaft into the mine. Dopey remains in the entrance, saying nothing when Ven tried to question him after he got to him. Ven catches Bashful after stopping a mine cart the dwarf was riding in and fighting more unversed.

Ven walks up to him and Bashful says, "Oh, gosh..." Ven was about to run after the others, but Kiroi was right in front of him, almost touching lips for she was that close. She was staring in his eyes, as he was staring in hers. "Kiroi?" Ven questions her as he starts to blush.

Kiroi tilts her head curiously when she saw his blush, and reached up to touch his cheek and cup it. She leans into his face, Ven closes his eyes and starts to lean in, but felt that Kiroi had let go of his cheek. He opens his eyes to see a blushing/embarrassed Kiroi.

"I-I'm sorry Ven! I didn't mean to do it! It just slipped and we should go back to looking for those dwarfs!" She quickly gets out her keyblade and runs the opposite ways to find the other dwarfs and fight off unversed.

Ven touched the cheek that she just cupped. He saw the look on her face and he felt rejected. First she leans into kissing him, but for some reason stops herself and runs away from him. "Dammit." Ven whispers, he was so close. So close to kissing the one he now knew who he had feelings for.

Ven shakes his head ad goes the direction he was going in and the exact opposite way that Kiroi went to. After he found Happy and Sleepy, he went to the entrance because he had a feeling that Kiroi caught the others, and of course he was right because he saw her with the others.

Ven and Kiroi both stand before the dwarfs. "Come on. I'm telling you, we're no thieves." "Ha, that's what they all say. Well, we're onto ya!" Grumpy says as him and Doc cross their arms, while Dopey on the other side of them looks at Kiroi and Ven sympathetically.

"Fine, we get it. You want me and Kiroi to leave, we'll leave." They both start to walk out the mine. "Oh, but-can you tell us where we can find some other people around here?" Ven says with his back still turned from them.

"There's a castle beyond the chorus-I mean, the forest." Doc says since nobody was going to speak. "Got it. Well, thanks." They both exit through the entrance. "Well…..that...was…interesting." Kiroi looks down at her feet. "Yeah….it sure was." Ven glances at her.

"You know…I'm sorry for what I had done back there and I really mean it!" Kiroi looks at him with guilt. Ven look at her for a second, but then faces his head forward, trying not to make eye contact. "Don't be Kiroi. It was just an accident. I'll always forgive you when you make a mistake."

Kiroi nods her head and faces forward too. "Yeah same here Ven."

Ventus's POV:

Why did she have to bring up that incident! I was hoping that she'll forget, but karma must hate me today. It was just an accident. That's what I try to keep telling myself, but to me, it was more than an accident. 'Why is it that I have feelings for her? It wasn't supposed to be this way…or was it?'

I give a little glance at her to see that she's still looking in the direction we're supposed to go. 'Maybe….she was just…always there for me….when I needed someone…' Hopefully this will be the last time that any more accidents will come up.

But too bad that things will get much worse from here for the both of us. "Hey Ven." I turn to Kiroi who looked sad. "What is it Kiroi?" "Can-can we go…" I stop walking and grab onto Kiroi's shoulders so that she'll stop walking and will stay put.

"Where do you want to go Kiroi?" She looks at me dead in the eye. "Can we go back and get my backpack?" She was practically wailing like a baby who wants its treasure back.

"Wha-What?" I question her in face like she was nuts. "Please! It'll only take a second!" "And that second will be when we get captured and punished by Master Eraqus." "Oh. Well, when you put it that way…I would rather…..go and get my backpack!"

I shake my head at her and turn my back. I look over my shoulder at her. "If you want to go and get your backpack, be my guest I'm not stopping you, but I'm gonna stay here until I can get Terra back." I start to walk away. "If you really care for your friends like Terra, then you wouldn't waste that friendship and try to get your backpack back. And the question is which do you care for more Kiroi, your friends or a backpack?"

I knew she was staring at my walking form as I left her to be in her thoughts. 'Now it'll only take 5 seconds before she runs over and says I'm right. 1….2…3…..4…..5 and here she comes!'

"Wait!" I stop. "You're right Ven, wow. Without you, I don't know how many mistakes I would've done." I smirk and silently do a little cheer in my head. "Then let's go Kiroi." "Okay! Here we go! Onto adventure!"

"And as friends we go!" "Through night and day!" And we both shout at the same time, "Here comes Ven and Kiroi! Look out world 'cause we're coming for ya!"

Kiroi does her 'Kiroi pose' and she looks at me with pleading eyes. I sigh, what the heck, if you can't stop them, join them. I do my own little 'Ven pose' and I look to see that Kiroi was smiling.

I guess this isn't that bad, especially if you can do your own pose. My pose was me pointing my thumb at my face, hand on my hip, and legs spread out. "Let's go!" I nod my head and we both run into what looks like a forest.

Yachiru Hatake: Another short chap!

Kiroi: But it was worth it!

Yachiru Hatake: If you didn't get why Kiroi acted all funny in the mines, you'll understand in the next chapter 'cause we're gonna meet a certain someone.

Kiroi: Yay! New OC!

Yachiru Hatake: Shhhh! Don't tell them anything else, it's a surprise!

Kiroi: I like surprises!

Yachiru Hatake: I bet you do

Kiroi: What's that supposed to mean.

Yachiru Hatake: Nothing. Oh and I need someone to request something like an OC with a Kingdom Hearts character in this new one-shot story in 'I hate you' form, but it's not really 'I hate you' it's 'I hate that I love you'. You have to read my 'I hate you Ichigo Kurosaki!' to understand.

Kiroi: Yeah and that goes for others like Fairy Tail, Naruto, Bleach, DBZ, Trinity Blood, Vampire Knight, Devil May cry, and etc!

Yachiru Hatake: So read…..

Kiroi: review…..

Yachiru Hatake and Kiroi: And maybe request!