Chapter 9: The Forgotten Chapter!

Disclaimer: Ello ther folks. Neko here reporting from...well...here..Anyway, sorry for the delay but I got caught up and well...forgot...send me blessings for Shenlong not to kill me oh and we do not own Naruto, Kingdom Hearts, or any other interesting thing on television. But we own our OCs. Sayo!


"Uhn.." The tiny, muffled groan of an injured kunoichi lying helplessly bound in a prison cell upon a docked ship with its captain and henchmen striding along on the deck above. She opened her eyes, slowly regaining the consciousness she lost hours ago. It had been a tiresome fight for her. Both the kunoichi and her close friend, Riku, had fought with everything they had against the ship crew coming after them, but in the end they were brought to defeat by the captain's main henchman. Their unconscious state had saved them from death for some of the more "slower" members of the crew just decided they were simply dead.

"R-Riku?" Yuffie whispered into the darkness of the cold cell. She yearned dearly to hear his voice, maybe even see his reassuring face. But Riku didn't reply, nor could he be picked out from the shadows along the wall. With a sad whimper, the girl closed her eyes and rested her pounding head on the floor. In a matter of minutes, she was asleep again.


"I'm sure your friends are alright mate," said Captain Jack as he stood at the wheel of the ship as he looked at his compass and turned to adjust the angle that they were going at so he could catch him just right. "I doubt that he'll hurt your friends or that Bandit would let him harm your friends because then it would diminish the ransom money."

"What do you mean ransom money," asked Sora, a bit angered by the thought of his friends being amounted to simple petty cash as if they were objects on some shopping aisle.

"A pirate always ransoms those he kidnaps or else he won't make any money off of capturing them," replied Captain Jack Sparrow without any signs or hints of being disturbed by the manner in which people were being treated, it was his way of business after all, to steal from people. "You'll find that lots of people do such a thing, like the slave traders in Africa and other places. Don't take it personally."

"I'm sorry but I do take it personally, damn it! I can't just leave them there to be bargaining chips!"

"You should calm yourself and look to the bright sunny day that we'll be having tomorrow," said the infamous or famous, depending on your ethnicity, profession and morals, pirate and just as he said that, rain drops started falling on them like machine gun fire. "Okay so I guess you can enjoy the rainy weather, but at least it's not storming."

"You shouldn't say things like that, you'll be tempting fate," said Sora and sure enough lightning crashed down from the sky at them, waking up Demyx with a girlish shriek.

"Could you stop making lightning noises, you're scaring Demyx," shouted Axel angrily as he tried to sleep in his makeshift bed.

"That wasn't our lightning spell that made the lightning noise it was the damn lightning that made the lightning noise," retorted Sora as he leaned out of the door way down the hallway causing him to come under fire by multiple thrown objects from the other tired passengers.

"It be a dangerous thing to go shouting in the middle of the night on board a pirate ship unless you're the captain," said Jack as he walked down the hall and was nearly hit by a bottle of rum that he caught in his hands. "Of course if you're a captain then you get free rum out of it so it's all good, but if you're not, well I hope you can duck as good as you can wake people."

"Why is it that I'm stuck trying to find my friends out on the open seas when Christmas is coming up," asked Sora to no one in particular, he just felt like complaining over his cruel fate. "The only thing that could get worse is the storm."

"We're already in a storm and the Pearl is being thrashed around," called Mr. Gibbs from on deck. "We need help to contain the water and keep the ship afloat."

"Come on men, all hands on deck before you find yourself below the sea," said Jack as he rushed out and started steering the ship on course while following his compass. "Come on men, secure the left tackling line, Sora."

Men rushed about to each bit of the dock and tried to secure every sail and rope, but the sea seemed determined to swallow them all whole in its watery embrace. Sora never gave up trying though and his courage and determination seemed to spark the others to do so, even Cloud and Leon were encouraged to do so and they both wound up keeping the ship on its right course and prevented it from turning over. When they had finally gotten a good place to rest, the crew stood at ease and gazed at the raging storm that they had just come out of. It looked like some dark presence passing over them and they were soon looking at the full moon peering over the clouds and smiling on them like a lady of fortune. Just for a moment, Sora could forget his troubles and think only about the person who was outlined in the presence of the moon.

"Ship dead ahead, sir," called the man on the lookout who had braved the top of that point even though he could have been thrown off it at any time. "There appears to be a large ship dead ahead in our path with the only three men on duty."

"What is the name of the boat, sailor," asked Jack as he shouted up to his look out and the lookout took a second to look at it.

"It's the Dauntez, Captain," shouted the look out.

"Good now get down here, we're preparing for battle," said Jack as he walked down the stairs on the deck and started to make sure that each man had the cannons ready for battle.


Yuffie awoke to the thunderous blares of canons and the soft, gentle whisper of her name. Eyes slow to open, it took her awhile before she realized

Riku was crouched next to her pained body, his bulky hand lightly rocking her shoulder. A strong surge of overwhelming joy rushed into her heart the moment she saw the snow-haired boy.

"R-Riku.." She mumbled. Riku smiled, nodding in response as a canon ball slammed into their captor's ship and rocked it roughly. Riku lurched forward from the force, catching himself before he fell onto the already pained girl.

"What's going on?" asked Yuffie. She lifted her head slowly and tried to pull herself into a sitting position, getting some help from Riku after a few minutes.

"I don't know, but I don't like the sounds of it so far." Riku answered. Another boom from the canon followed the cracking of wood upon the deck. The two teens scooted to the far left of the cell, dead silent.

Suddenly, footsteps tromped down the hallway the cells were on. Louder thumps countered it, then the crack of a one shot gun whizzed by their cage. It broke through the wall of the ship, leaving a small hole of impact where the musket ball tore through the wood and hit one of the men inside who was too drunk to know what was going on.

From the side Riku and Yuffie were hidden against, a girl, long-haired and wielding a long sword in her hand, dashed across the railings on the cell opposite of Riku and Yuffie's. Seconds later, blood splattered on the silver metal keeping the two captives in the cold semi-room. The girl dashed back to the left side, her sword bright red and leaving a blood trail behind. She disappeared from view, but her breathing could still be heard from close by.

"I got the letter a few minutes ago..." She declared proudly. At first, she seemed crazy until they heard the second footsteps of shoes stepping down the hall. With a startled jolt, Riku recognized the steps to be none other than the clicks of Bandit's boots. No sooner later, the blonde man walked past into view. He didn't seem to notice the two in the cell, and they made sure they held there breathe, whether it be via their control or shock.

"Which one?" The man asked in a low yet audible tone of voice. He stopped next to the right end cell's rails, seemingly examining the bloody ground.

"The one Legat sent us. The ...memo? Bleh, whatever. The one that tells us what we're supposed to do next since his lazy ass can't get up and tell us, " the girl answered, her voice very loud.

"Oh, yes, you mean that one that one. That is a very important document dealing with all the jobs he will be having us do for some time and a proper reference for sabotage. Why the hell did that idiot send a letter when we're under attack?"

"I don't know. Hm...I wonder why he wants Sora so bad. Why would he go after someone continuously? Especially after everything that happened, all the failed plans..."

Riku's eyes shot open the moment the girl mentioned his best friend's name. He came extremely close to gasping, but thankfully kept his calm and pricked his ears to listen intently. By the time the girl finished speaking, the boy's ear was pressed strongly against the cold wall.

"Apparently it was something very special. Otherwise, he wouldn't be so intent on stopping on nothing to get that boy." Ban replied without a glance back. Everything fell silent again, almost the burning type that begged to be broken.

At last, the girl broke it with a chuckle and the sound of ruffling, no doubt her fumbling through her pockets. "You got a postcard as well."

The girl laughed, pulling out a card and sending it spinning towards Ban. He reached back and caught it without turning around.

"I see," was all he said before he disappeared and everything ran into silence for the millionth time, all except for the voices in Riku's head constantly pestering him about Sora and this Legat fellow..