KHIII is here! Please enjoy it for me since I still don't have it :'c Anyway, here's the new chapter, please read and enjoy :3

"Naminé."

Before she could respond, Roxas draped the girl with a white cloak, bringing her closer to him as he did so. He then stared deeply into her blue eyes and gently covered her head with the hood.

"We don't want people to go ballistic like the last time we were here." He smiled at her and kept walking towards Twilight Town's main entrance. Leaving a blushing Naminé and a flabbergasted Virtus behind.

"T-thanks." Naminé said before she and Virtus ran in order to catch up with Roxas.

After discovering the mural, the trio set their minds on finding the Bleumoire Flower. However, before going to Mt. Nipha, they went back to Twilight Town in order to buy more supplies for the long trip. After the trio was done with their shopping they decided to go buy sea salt ice cream before resuming their travels.

"Roxas, I'm really excited to eat that sea salt ice cream you mentioned on our way here. I'll go buy them for you, stay here kupo!" Virtus said as he eagerly flew towards the ice cream parlor shop.

"Can't really blame him for wanting to eat sea salt ice cream that bad." Roxas chuckled as he said this and Naminé joined him.

"Roxas, is that you? It's been quite a few years since we last saw each other." A dulcet voice said from behind them. Roxas flinched immediately when hearing the newcomer's voice, it only meant that he was here as well. Naminé didn't dare to face the stranger due to fear of being found out.

"Oh, who is this? Is she perhaps, your girlfriend?" Another voice joined the conversation. Just as Roxas suspected, he was here as well. That voice belonged to him. It's not like he didn't want to see these two people after being away for so long. It's just that he didn't know how they would react if they found out he was with Naminé.

Roxas finally turned around in order to shout at them and wipe their allusive smiles off their faces. "Sora, Kairi…I didn't come back home to get pestered like this—"

"K-Kairi?" Naminé said with a voice barely above a whisper. That name seemed so familiar to the her. In her attempts to remember, she began to grip her head and groan in agony. She fainted, but before she hit the floor Roxas caught her. Making her hood fall off. Which revealed her face to both Sora and Kairi, making them gasp in surprise.

"Roxas, that's—" Kairi began, but Roxas hugged Naminé closer to him and made a run for it. "Wait!"

"Virtus! We're getting out of here!" Roxas grabbed Virtus when they passed by the ice cream shop. Both Sora and Kairi where tailing behind them.

Roxas noticed an airship nearby and ran towards it. He put Naminé gently on one of the seats and started to get the ship ready in order to take off.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing with my ship!" An infuriated voice belonging to a man said. He was getting closer to the ship.

"That voice…don't tell me this is his ship." Roxas shuddered and began to panic. It was obvious this ship belonged to him. "Storm it, he's coming! Where's the button to close the—Ah! Here it is." Roxas pressed the button just in time and the door began to close. Before it completely closed, it started to open again. Revealing Cid Highwind's enraged face.

"Wait what?!" Roxas said with surprise and began to panic even more. Just a few more seconds and the ship would've been ready to take off. Cid was standing on the platform and about to enter the ship.

"Ship ready to take off." The automated ship's voice said with a loud rumble. In a frantic attempt to take off, Roxas pressed a random button, hoping that it would miraculously save them.

"I'm this ship's owner, you idiot! did you think that you could just—"

Roxas flinched at the loud thud. That button controlled the platform. "Thank goodness…I mean…I hope nothing too grave happened to him."

"Kupo! Let's take off before something else happens!" Virtus said from the back. He was taking care of Naminé.

"Ah, right! Mt. Nipha, here we go!"

"That little squirt stole my ship! Wait till I get my hands on you, you son of a—"

"Cid! Give me a ship, I'm going after them!" Kairi said. Sora was trailing behind her.

"I don't have more ships." Cid said, still fuming over the fact that his only ship was stolen.

"You don't?!" Sora said speechless. Cid punched his head as a response.

"Why are you after Roxas anyway? Did he also steal something from you?" The grown man huffed sarcastically. He then started to light a cigarette.

"No he didn't…well, kind of I guess. He has Naminé with him." Kairi said.

"Wait, what?! Are you sure it's her?" Cid asked incredulously.

"Yes, we're totally sure" Both Sora and Kairi responded simultaneously.

"Too bad for Roxas that I have a tracker on that ship." The man said while smiling smugly to himself.

"That's great, but how are we gonna follow them if we don't have another ship?" Kairi asked with concern in her voice.

"Don't worry kiddos. I have the right man for the job. We'll get your sister back in no time, Kairi." Cid smirked while making ring smokes.

"Naminé, wake up, kupo." Virtus started shaking the girl awake.

"W-what…where am I?" Naminé asked groggily.

"You're in a ship, kupo! After you fainted, Roxas sto—I mean, he borrowed a ship and we made our way here. We're already in Mt. Nipha, kupo!" Virtus gave Naminé a coat and started dragging her outside the ship. Roxas was already outside. He welcomed both Virtus and Naminé with a smile and they started walking away from the ship. There were snowflakes falling everywhere. It looked like a storm would brew soon and if they didn't hurry up, the trio would be caught in it.

As they kept moving on, Naminé could see a bluish light emitting from the top of Mt. Nipha. She assumed that the Bleumoire flowers were located there. She went ahead of Roxas and Virtus, very excited about regaining her memories. She was getting near the top, but then her negative thoughts stopped her.

"What if knowing about my past changes me completely? What if I don't like what I did in the past? People were running away from me, so what if Roxas and Virtus hate me and don't want to see me ever again?"

Seeing how Naminé was hesitating to move forward, Roxas said "Don't worry Naminé, we're here with you, and no matter what happens, Virtus and I will stay by your side. Even if other people run away from you, we won't."

His sky blue eyes were staring directly at her sapphire ones. Naminé didn't know why, but whenever he did that she felt a tug in her heart, nonetheless she knew it wasn't something to worry about.

Virtus was standing next to him happily nodding his head. "That's true Naminé! We'll stay together no matter what, kupo!" His words encouraged her to move on as well.

Nodding her head, Naminé made her way to where the blue light was coming from, expecting to see the beautiful flowers that would give her back what she had lost. What she saw made her eyes widen, she could feel a lump forming in her throat. The flowers were gone. The only remnants of them were the bluish light that came from the snow.

The flaxen haired girl fell to her knees into the snow, hot tears slowly falling down from her sapphire eyes. She heard gasps of surprise behind her.

"I guess I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up, huh." her once cheerful voice turned into a bitter one, almost unrecognizable.

Before Virtus or Roxas could say anything to comfort her she continued talking. "R-Roxas… Didn't you p-promise me t-that we would find the flowers and get my memories back?" her voice became shaky and she started sobbing uncontrollably.

Her last sentence broke Roxas' heart into a million pieces. He had promised her something that he himself didn't know if they could find, but after seeing her sapphire eyes twinkling with hope and her bright smile, he couldn't help but promise her that they would find the flowers and she would be able to regain her memories.

"W-was e-everything just a waste of our t-t-time?"

"Naminé, stop the nonsense" Roxas kneeled down next to the dismayed blonde, putting a comforting hand on her shoulder. It was painful to see her like that, it made him feel sick "Even if the flowers are gone, do you still regret all the experiences and fun we had?" He was right, they got to meet Virtus, not only that, but they had a lot of fun being together. The best part was running away on Cid's stolen ship, even though the blonde had been unconscious through the whole thing.

"Yeah kupo! Don't worry Naminé, I'm sure that we'll find another way of getting your memories back"

"Virtus is right" Roxas stood up, grabbed her hand, and pulled her up to her feet. This took Naminé for surprise, so she stumbled, bringing both of them into the cold snow once again.

Naminé fell on top of Roxas, both of them were blushing at the sudden proximity, their faces mere inches apart.

The flaxen haired girl erupted into fits of laughter, hoping to break the awkwardness, soon enough both Roxas and Virtus joined in. Cheerfulness replaced the unease that once filled the place. She rolled out of Roxas' chest, letting him stand up and breathe properly; he then helped her get up on her feet.

"Naminé, Virtus, let's get outta here, I'm freezing! We need to do lots of research too. We're not giving up until Naminé has her memories back" Roxas gave her a smile.

"Roxas, Virtus, thanks. I don't know what I'd do without you" she then embraced them into a warm hug "You know…maybe it won't be that bad if I don't have my memories back. As long as I'm with you guys, I can make better ones."

"Or far better, you can come back with me and we'll give you your memories back, witch."

"Who are you and what do you want?!" Roxas said, materializing his black sword from mist and running towards the cloaked figure. He was about to strike when the figure hindered his movements with a time spell. Roxas was moving in slow motion mid-air. Virtus flew towards Roxas immediately, trying to remove the spell with Moogle magic, but it seemed that nothing was working.

"Roxas!" Naminé tried to run towards Roxas, but the figure simply pushed her and she fell to the cold snow with a thud.

"The Bleumoire flowers are capable of reversing any type of magic or curing any illness. It was obvious you'd be here Naminé."

"You destroyed them, didn't you!?" The blonde shouted at him through gritted teeth.

"We did destroy them, a long time ago. Whenever this world gets plunged into darkness by the hand of our master, one person from the Bleumoire Clan is chosen to bring it back to light. A few decades ago, our master came back. In order to prevent anyone from stopping our master again, we destroyed everyone who came from this clan and the flowers. You see, the flowers do not only cure anything, if used by people from this clan, it awakens their true power. These people were a threat to our master's plans. That's why we destroyed them. Now Naminé, be a good girl and come back with me, our master will be glad to have you back."

"What do you mean our master. I'm not one of you! I'm definitely not…" Naminé slumped further in the snow, tears threatening to fall from her eyes.

"That's rude of you, you know. You were among the highest of ranks. It was really fun watching you wipe out everyone's memories and making them our soldiers. You are crucial to our plans, that's why I'm here to bring you back."

"You talk too much." Another figure stabbed the evil man with his sword, making him collapse to the icy floor as he removed it from his chest. Black smoke started to surround his body and it soon evaporated into nothingness.

The mysterious figure then turned to Roxas and liberated him from the spell. Once the spell was removed he fell from midair and tried his best to balance himself on his feet. The figure then made its way towards Naminé, helping her up to her feet.

"Who are you?" Naminé asked as she stared at his bright turquoise eyes. He proceeded to remove his hood.

"The name's Riku."

Well, there you have it! Please let me know if you have any questions or if anything seems confusing to you. I think next chapter would be great to answer your questions. I'm also very sorry it took this long for an update. I started college and well...you know how crazy it gets xD

Also, just in case you guys are curious. I started writing this story about four years ago, long before I published it here. It initially started as a highschool project. The project consisted on writing a story for a grade schooler. We visited them and read it to them. Once that was finished, I decided to further expand the story, include more to it, and make it a fanfic (lol) And that's how it ended up like this xD

Thanks to everyone who reviewed last chapter and started following, you guys are seriously amazing! Until next time :3