Night: Aloha, and welcome to the Fourth chapter in my series!
Riku: Alright, so the first chapter wasn't so interesting.... She's sorry she was rushed.
Yuki: I blame her dad....
Night: =_= Enough about my problems. Roxas, please do the disclaimers~!
Roxas: Night-chan does not own any any of the Kingdom Hearts games, Naruto, or any of the characters. She only owns Blaze, Kei, Akira, and Yuki.
Sora: I'd be very scared if she owned any of us...
Kiyux+Yuki: Enjoy~!
Guard Armor was a lot like the regular soldier heartless. The only difference was that Guard Armor was about the size of a small buliding, purple, and it could detach body parts and attack the teens individually. What seemed most effective at the time was dodging and attacking whenever luck was at your side.
Yuki struggled to come up with some sort of plan to be able to attack and make more damage. Her arms were once again bleeding from various cuts and lacerations. None the less, she still stood tall and fought.
Sora wasn't as bad, though he was getting quite a beating. Donald assisted with his magic, curing and handing out potions when deemed necessary. Goofy stood by his side, effectivly defending him while Donald cast his spells.
A thought of realization hit Yuki like a ton of bricks. Determination fully visible in her eyes, she held one hand up with a hand seal. Focusing her chakra, five clones appeared from the shadows and began to aid the party in attacking individual parts of the giant heartless.
~I must be loosing it. Come on, why didn't I think of shadow clones before we were in dire need? Oh that's right, I had to stop training for almost a year. Yet, that couldn't have prevented me from thinking the obvious. Even a genin would've thought of that!~ Yuki mentally beat herself up for making a simple mistake most jonin don't tend to make.
The trio of Sora, Donald, and Goofy stared at the clones in slight awe. Slowly, the shadow clones began to disappear from being hit one by one.
Gaurd Armor now only stood with it's left leg and right arm intact. Seemingly peeved, it began twisting it's torso. Not knowing what to do in time, the four were bombarded with the strange attack.
Yuki stood up slowly, careful not to pay attention to a large, purple cut on her forehead. She looked around to see that Goofy was unconcious and the duck was barely standing. Sora had stood up quickly and ran back into battle, waisting no time in trying to defeat the enemy.
Yuki pulled out two potions and ran to her two friends. Handing them to Donald, she took out a scroll and began an intricate number of seals in a fluid motion. Finally landing on the seal of the tiger, she placed a bloody thumb and smeared her blood on the hand-sized, red scroll.
A large 'poof' was heard, pausing the battle for a minute. A beautifully crafted sword, longer than the normal katana, floated above the ground, surrounded by an eerie blue light. The sheath was black with golden tree branches and cherry blosoms embroidered on it. The hilt was a light, creamy white with a golden pattern and crowned chain. The crown was like a golden replica of Sora's pendant around his neck. Just before the sword began, the kanji for 'dream' was the base, forming what kept the sword intact.
Yuki quickly unsheathed the sword and got in her battle stance in front of the looming heartless. Her eyes darted around Guard Armor for any kind of opening. There, she found it, right after said heartless attacked Sora.
Focusing chakra to her feet, she dashed into battle, dodging any attack that came her way. Right before she reached the purple creature, Sora was thrown into her, making both teens tumble back a couple of yards. By this time both Donald and Goofy charged into battle.
"Itai! That hurt. Hey, um Sora? Can you get off of me?" Yuki's voiced was meek and trembled in slight embarassment as Sora's face was a few inches away from her own. His bright eyes shot open and he hopped off of the pink-faced girl, a slight tint in his face as well.
"Oh, sorry. Are you okay?" He asked, extending a free hand to help her up. Yuki winced.
"Does landing on the sharp edge of a blade feel okay to you? No? Then I'm fine." Her voice held a mixture of sarcasm, pain, and laughter. Before Sora could answer her, she ran off, sword in hand. The brunette noticed a small splater of blood on the pavement before running after her.
A wicked grin appeared on her face, no sign of pain anywear.
"Hey General Purple! Yeah I'm talking to you! Hasn't your mother ever taught you to never to lose and arm and leg for a girl?" The heartless turned its now furious gaze to the blue-nette who was standing and laughing lightly. The other members of the party looked at her as if she said she had 500 siblings.
Guard Armor seemed to take the insult personally as it charged atYuki in full speed. The armed girl only smiled and giggled as she swung her sword once, making it begin to glow a deep, ocean blue. Swinging it again, water droplets began to form, then swinging it one last time, a small explosion of water exploded from the blade, making it seem as if it were made of water. She motioned for the awed trio to continue fighting the heartless.
Going for the arm, seeing as it caused more damage than the leg, she whipped her blade toward it, seemingly doing nothing more than soaking it. The heartless gave Yuki a taunting look, though she only smirked in return. She swung her long blade once more, though purposely missing, creating a wave of icy air that froze the water.
"Oops. Here, let me fix that." Letting out a hearted laugh, she focused chakra to her fists and punched the frozen arm, shattering it and unleashing a hoard of HP orbs.
Sora wacked the leg once more before it disapeared, leaving HP orbs behind. He rejoined Yuki who had a crazed smile, as if she had just been named queen of Traverse Town or something. The torso was all that was left, save the head.
They all nodded to each other and charged at the torso, dodging it when it spun. Finally, with a final leap, Sora slashed at the head, making it collapse to the ground. A large, pinkish heart, glowing in a pale silvery light flew into the sky, signaling the end of the long battle.
"Thank god, that battle's finally over. I hope I get back into shape before we battle other boss heartless," Yuki breathed.
"But, er gawrsh Yuki. I thought you were already in shape. You did pretty well in the battle." The trio nodded together. The teen only shook her head.
"I've lost my touch. Being crippled for a year does that. I've lost a lot of my memories of battle, making me be at least genin-level in my mind." Yuki sighed a little in disapointment.
"Genin? What's that?" Donald asked.
"A level of shinobi that is second-weakest. The weakest is an academy student. A level higher than genin is chunin. From there, it's jonin, and if you're lucky and strong enough, you can become ANBU. There's only one level after that, and currently filled by three people. That's Sannin or Sennin. It's the same level of Hokage." Two voices spoke out before Yuki.
The group turned to see both the bubble-gum-haired kunoichi and lazy shinobi.
"Sorry, we were never formally introduced. I'm Sakura Haruno and this is Shikamaru Nara." Sakura held out a hand for Sora to shake. He gladly accepted, yet with a bit of confusion in his eyes.
"You're slipping up Yuki. And here I though you were my superior." Shika smirked as she held a look of slight guilt.
"Wrack! It's not her fault she was crippled and had no memories for almost a year!" Donald defended. All of their eyes widen as they turned to look at the distressed blue-nette.
"Donald! They weren't supposed to know! Sheesh, why do you think I told only you three and the royals?!" Yuki fumed the rest of her curses silently, seeing as probably no one else had heard of the foul language she was speaking.
"You lost your memories?" Sakura and Sora asked slowly, a look of worry crossing Goofy's face.
"Yes, but only of my Shinobi years, which I find strange. I guess something happened to make me not want to remember at all." For a minute, relief passed over briefly on both Shikamaru's and Sakura's faces.
"Oh. I'm sorry Yuki!" Goofy exclaimed. She gave him a smile.
"Don't be. My body may remember, but my head'll catch up soon. I'm sure of it! I do have very few memories, and they were about me sparing and training with all of my friends, so I'm not totally in the dark." She gave a big smile.
"Good, 'cause we came to spar with you to see how we've improved." Sakura held out a fist and a small glint was seen in her eyes.
"You came to spar. You only dragged me to be the referee." Shikamaru shot her a nasty look, in which she only stuck her tounge out to.
"Hey, what is a 'shinobi' anyway?" Sora stood with the same look of confusion from earlier.
"Yeah! What is it?!" A hyper voice called from the background. Yuffie apeared with Leon and Aerith from around the corner.
"You're one and you don't even know?!" Shikamaru, Sakura, and Yuki exclaimed in disbelief.
"Well, she doen't have any chakra, and she doesn't have any band from any shinobi village...so I guess It make sense." Shikamaru said in thought.
"Ugh. A Shinobi is a ninja from a hidden village. Hence, we're Leaf ninja, from Konoha. There are many other types including sound, rain, rock, grass, sand, waterfall, star, and snow. Women are refered to as Kunoichi though. Before you ask, chakra is what people in our world have. Though not most of them." Sakura explained to almost full detail. They all nodded, now understanding to a point.
(Five minutes later)
"So, you were looking for me?" Sora asked, holding a finger up to point to himself. Yuki, Donald, and Goffy all gave a simaltanious 'uh-huh'.
"They, too, have been seeking the wielder of the keyblade," Leon explained. Yuffie and Sakura nodded in agreement.
"Hey, why don't you come with us? We can go to other worlds on our vessel." Goffy offered with a grin.
"I wonder if I can find Riku and Kairi..." He looked down sadly.
"Of course." Donald replied.
"Are 'ya sure?" Goffy asked Donald quietly while Yuki secretly glared daggers at Donald.
"Who knows? But we need him to come with us to help find the king." He lightly flinched, sensing the danger.
"Sora, go with them. Especially if you want to find your friends." Leon stepped forward, his voice slightly convincing.
"Yeah, I guess." Sora held his head down.
"But you can't come along looking like that. Understand? No frowning. No sad faces. Okay?" Donald took a crack at cheering him up.
"Yeah, ya gotta look funny, like us!" Goofy added in, getting in the way of Donald's vision. This of course slightly angered the duck and he pushed him away forcefully.
"Speak for yourselves!" Yuki added, her voice tinted with obvious mock anger.
"This boat runs on happy faces." Donald ignored the sarcastic comment.
"Happy?" Sora stood quietly, his face still down. He startled the rest of the group when he suddenly looked up, a ridiculously funny smile on his face. When no one started laughing, he looked up confused with a 'huh?', causing everyone to erupt in laughter.
"That's one funny face!" Goofy exclaimed, laughing hysterically next to Donald who was holding his sides while laughing.
"Okay, why not? I'll go with you guys." Sora smiled while straighting himself up.
"Donald Duck." Donald placed his hand out with his palm facing down.
"Name's Goofy." Goofy followd his example and placed his hand on top of Donald's.
"I'm Sora." Sora took his turn in placing his hand on the top. They all looked at Yuki.
"Yuki Fuyukazu." She smiled at the shorted version of her name and placed her hand on top of Sora's.
"All for one, and all for all!" Goofy shouted for the effect.
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"That little squirt took down that Heartless! Who'd have thought it?" A rough, ominous voice said in slight anger.
"Such is the power of the Keyblade. The child's strength is not his own." Another dark voice with an accent spoke.
"Why don't we turn him into a Heartless? That'll settle things quick enough." A woman's deep voice cackled after.
"And the brat's friends are the king's lackeys. Swoggle me eyes, they're all bilge rats by the look of them." A deep british voice with hints of a different accent spoke out loud in disgust.
"You're no prize yourself." A deep voice with a light southern accent laughed.
"Shut up!" The sound of metal scraping metal was heard from the british voice.
"Enough. The Keyblade has chosen him. Will it be he who conquers the darkness? Or will the darkness swollow him? Either way, he could be quite useful..." A tall, yellow/green-skined woman spoke, silencing the group completely.
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Yuki sighed as she sat in the gummi ship next to Sora. The hesitation in Shikamaru's voice before she left had startled her and made her feel very uneasy.
(Flashback)
"Listen Yuki, you'd better not kill yourself out there trying to find them. For all we know, they could end up...here." Shikamaru hesitated and quickly filled in the end of the sentence. Yuki looked up, slightly startled.
"Thanks. I just hope...the darkness hasn't gotten to them before I do." She smiled and gave her friends a final hug.
"We'll contact you if anyone shows up, especially your familly, that includes Blaze!" Sakura shouted after the four entered the gummi ship. Yuki smiled and saluted her thanks before the ship blasted off into space.
(End Flashback)
A world was slowly starting to make itself known to the party, most of it checkered in purple and red.
"Hmmm? Oh, a new world. It's called 'Wonderland'. I wonder why they call it that. No pun intended," the blue-nette spoke. Sora was done oogling the vast space with milions of stars and sat in his chair in aticipation.
"Alright! We're gonna land right?" Sora asked excitedly. Donald nodded and pressed a button which sent all of us tumbling into a dark hole.
"WAHHH!" Both Sora and Yuki yelled, slightly flailing their arms while Goofy laid down in the air.
"Now this is what I call free-falling!" Yuki exclaimed. Donaled wacked Goofy, to of course, stop goofing around.
"Hey, floating isn't half bad!" Sora exclaimed as we slowly began to descend to where there was a lot of ticking noises.
~Bombs? No, clocks!~ Sora thought to himself.
The group finally reached the pink and red checkered floor. They all steadied themselves on their feet except for Goofy, who landed in a heap on the floor. A small, white rabbit dressed in a red dress shirt and purple vest hopped around frantically. His golden-rimmed glases bouncing with him and the clock that he held.
"Oh, my fur and whiskers! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!" He began to pant heavily while continuing running to the door. "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! I'm here, I should be there. Oh! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late! The queen, she'll have my head for sure!" He kept exclaming while the small group watched in amusement.
"Hmmm...It's official, I LOVE this place." Yuki had stars in her eyes as she giggled at the hysterical rabbit. They all followed the rabbit's path and passed through an interesting door, sorry doors. The door opened up to about five other doors all leading to a smaller one. They finally arrived in a small bedroom, where the rabbit had shrunk and gone through a door with a doorknob who seemed to be sleeping.
"How did he get so small?" Sora asked in wonder.
"No, you're simply too big." The doorknob opened it's eyes and spoke, causing Yuki to laugh hysterically and the trio to fall back in surprise.
"It talks!" Donald pointed out the obvious.
"Hee hee, this is why they call it 'Wonderland'! Silly Donald, the obvious is for the blind!" Yuki began to giggle again. The doorknob let out a long yawn.
"Must you be so loud? You woke me up." He gave another yawn while Donald tried not to glare at Yuki.
"Good morning." Goofy waved happily.
"Good night! I need a bit more sleep." The knob yawned again.
"Wait, what do we have to do to grow small?" Sora got closer to the door, using his hands for emphasis.
"Why don't you try the bottle...over there." He pointed with his nose at a table that 'poof'ed out of it's flattened postion from the floor along with two bottles and a chair. The teens turned around only to see that the doorknob had fallen asleep.
"Which do you think we should drink?" Goofy asked Donald. Yuki sat on the bed only to soon be met with the floor.
"Woah!" She squeeked and fell when the bed flattened against the wall, leaving a hole in it's place. Sora stiffled his laugh as best he could while helping her up.
"We've decided on the blue one." Donald said fom behind the teens.
"Okay!" Yuki took the bottle and took a sip. She closed her eyes for a second then reopened them to be met with feet almost the size of a small car. She looked up at the awed expresions that the trio wore.
"My turn!" Sora took a small sip from the container and they all watched as he shrunk to the size of Yuki. Donald and Goofy followed right after. "Come on, let's go." While walking towards the hole in the wall, a black portal opened in front of them and a few new heartless showed up along with Soldiers and Shadows.
The group brought out their weapons and lept into battle. The new heartless, Red Nocturnes, blew fire spells, and floated in the air making them slightly more difficult to defeat.
Moments passed and the battle was over. The group wandered into a strange forest through the crack.
"Yuki! You need to stop being so reckless all the time! You could've gotten hurt!" Donald squacked angrily.
"Oh, come on, Donald. I'm fine aren't I?" Yuki smiled.
"Maybe you should listen to Donald, Yuki," Goofy added in. Yuki quickly frowned.
"If you weren't so reckless, maybe we'd have been done sooner!" Donald began to let anger take over for him.
"Well, I'm sorry I'm such a nuisance!" She folded her arms in defense. Sora watched the scene with Goofy unfold in horror.
"You're just a kid! You don't know what you're doing!" Donald squacked, now furious. This seemed to hurt her, which Donald realized too late. She glared at him, a scowl on her face. Her eyes couldn't decieve them though, they held pain and sadness.
"You don't know what I'm capable of Donald. You don't know how many years I've been laughed at just because I was a kid. No one had even the slightest respect for me until I showed them and became an ANBU the minute I turned 12. Trust me Donald, calling me a kid, is calling you a child." Yuki spat angrily. "Out of all the people...." Yuki looked to the ground then looked back up, only anger in her eyes.
"Well, maybe I am just a kid! I just didn't wanna hear it again, and from you!" With that, she turned on her heel and ran deep into the woods, leaving the trio flabberghasted.
"Oh boy...what have I done?" Donald looked down sadly.
"Oh, it's not your fault Donald. Maybe you just forgot that she hates being called a kid." Goofy tried to reasure his comrad.
"Why does she hate being called a kid?" Sora asked softly.
"She told us that once, when she was little, everyone treated her and her brother like dirt. They treated her brother worse though. When they went to the academy to learn, they all laughed at the two and said they'll never reach their dreams." Goofy started with a sad look.
"She was determind to stop people from telling her she was just a kid and didn't know any better. She really showed them when she graduated a year later and then passed these...um, chunin exames. Yuki told us she never got the respect she deserved until she became an ANBU. But in the end, the only people who believed in her were her leader, teacher, teammates, students, and fellow teachers. That's why she hates it." Donald said quetly.
Sora nodded and looked to where the blue-nette had run off to. He let out a sigh and continued forward. "Let's just let her cool down a bit and go ahead."
The trio nodded and headed towards another exit.
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Yuki sat silently, trying to hold in her emotions that were let loose. She sighed when she figured that it was going to take time.
There were sounds of leaves being moved from behind her. She stood up quickly and turned around, kunai in hand. Her sword had disapeared after the battle with Guard Armor.
"Who's there?" She asked loudly. A soft hand touched her shoulder, maker her spin around fully, only to be surprised.
"A-Akira?!" She exclaimed loudly. The transparent boy only smiled sadly.
"Hello again, Chiyu-chan."
Night: End! That's all for the fourth chapter! Hmmm... Who is Akira really?
Riku: You'll find out next chapter.
Sora: Hey! What about us?
Yuki: :| You'll see.
Roxas: ?
Blaze: Hee hee~ I'm here to do the previews~!
"Y-you're transparent! Why's that?" The tall greenett frowned sadly. "You'll find the answer within yourself. It'll just take time for you to remember."
"I'm sorry I yelled like that..."
"Where's Alice?!"
"Yuki...there's no one there."The teen placed a hand on her shoulder. "What? But, he's right there! Why can't you see him? Akira, why am I the only one who can see you?!"
"I'll find out where he really is, I swear it!"
Night: That's it for the preview!
Kiyux: See 'ya next time!
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