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I'm sorry it's short, I'm pressed for time and I don't want to give too much information on this one, I'm holding out on you guys until next chapter, which will be up....Wednesday. ^^

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Oathkeeper or Oblivion

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"So…So how did this happen?" Kairi sat on her bed, the lights having returned just after the fight was over, she could see the little charm she cradled so delicately in her hands clearly. Sora and Riku were exhausted, but they were staying with her for the rest of the night until morning out of fear that Ansem would return for her.

Riku shook his head and crossed his arms; he was leaning against the door to Kairi's room. Outside the room, they could hear people moving and scurrying around. The infirmary was jam packed that night now; both nurses and doctors had been hurt, as well as a few patients. Marluxia had almost escaped but had been halted by what he had called "an enormous-fucking-thing" that Kairi and her two friends knew meant that a Heartless had blocked his path, and he had probably seen a shadow of it.

"We aren't sure." Riku said, he raised his head and looked out the window.

Sora said, "We're going to ask The King later, he'll figure it out." Kairi nodded, ran her fingers over the shells that made up the little trinket and sighed.

"I'm exhausted."

Riku snorted and Sora said, "Join the club."

Kairi smiled a little and walked over to the light switch. "I'm turning out the lights now." Sora hopped back into a window of light and Kairi hit the switch. The room was submerged in shadows and Kairi looked around for a minute before she went back to her bed, crawled under the covers and let out a little sigh, "Goodnight, guys…Thanks for everything tonight."

Riku stayed quiet, Sora said, "You're welcome…Kairi."

A few minutes later and Kairi was snoring, not loud but enough so that Sora had to cover his mouth to keep from laughing. Riku rolled his eyes, "Sora," he kept his voice down so he wouldn't wake Kairi, "Naminé's trying to call me, I think. I'll try and come back later, okay?"

Sora nodded and waved him off, "Go on, go on."

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Naminé sat on the edge of her bed, her lower lip turning a shade of red as she chewed on it. She stood up, smoothed out her dress and went to the windows, pinning up the towels again so when Riku came in it would be completely dark for him. She sighed, turned around and jumped as a column of shadows darker than the ones on the walls sprang up. A moment passed, and a pale, tired looking figure stumbled out, moving towards Naminé's bed instead of towards Naminé herself.

She let out a little sigh of relief and took careful steps towards him; he was holding his face with one hand and leaning rather heavily on the other, and his breathing was a little ragged. He looked up when she sat down next to him, a little closer than intended, and smiled.

"Hey."

She gave him a weak smile back, "H-Hi…"

"Everything okay over here?" She nodded and said,

"I just…I wanted to thank you for saving me the other day. I don't know what I would've done if you hadn't come by."

Riku grinned and shook his head, "Don't mention it." After a moment of silence he said, "I heard you calling for me." Naminé blushed, looked down and said,

"I just thought…You're the one I've been seeing. I thought if Kairi trusts you, I should too." He smiled at that,

"You should." He scratched his nose and asked, "What are you doing up so late? It's almost three."

Naminé shrugged, "I slept most of the day. I got up at eight, I was…I had a nightmare, I guess….My parents are out of town right now, so they didn't care if I slept the day and…." She looked away again, "How did you heal me like that?"

"It's magic," he ran a hand through his hair, "That's really all I can say. It's just a power Sora and I have." Naminé looked up,

"Sora?"

"My friend, Kairi knows him…There's a lot I have to tell you, huh?"

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Hours later, in the morning, Kairi woke up to a few little surprises. Her first surprise was that it was almost noon and the nurses hadn't come to wake her up like usual, meaning that they were really busy or were trying to find an explanation for all that had happened the night before. She knew damn well that Ansem, her doctor of course, would have a migraine trying to decipher everything that had happened and still call her crazy by the end of the day.

Her second surprise was the added weight she felt on the bed, a slight incline to her left that told her either her sister had come around again (though she doubted visitors would be allowed to come by that day, seeing as how the lobby was a mess when she had been escorted to her room) or that Sora was still there.

She blinked her eyes open, putting her hand up to shield them from the penetrating light, and found her second inkling to be the right one.

"Sora?" she yawned it out, Sora smiled, looking down at her with tired eyes,

"I didn't wanna leave without saying goodbye." Kairi smiled, rubbed her eyes,

"You didn't have to wait up like that…" the door wasn't open so she could speak normally, and she propped herself up, drawing herself closer to Sora. It was accidental, really, but suddenly they both found themselves close enough that if one of them leaned in, their noses would touch.

"I just…I thought maybe….You'd get mad…"

Kairi gave a weak half smile, "Why would I?" and then, in a moment that felt so real, more real than that little charm Kairi had made, she closed her eyes and Sora closed his and there was a light pressure on her lips. No cold swept over her like a December wind, but she did feel her heart speed up to a mile a minute and her cheeks grew warm. A moment later and Sora had pulled away, and Kairi opened her eyes.

Sora scratched the back of his head, his cheeks a bright pink and a goofy grin now plastered on his face, "Hehe…Bye…Kairi…" Kairi opened her mouth to tell him to stay, but he was gone in a flash of all-too bright light, and then she was alone.

She groaned and fell back on her pillows, a minute later and she was laughing.

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Riku stumbled into the garden on Disney, scratching the back of his head and yawning loudly. He heard a little laugh from behind him and turned around, smiling, "Hey, Mickey."

The King grinned and walked up to Riku, looking up at him with curiosity, "Did you just get up?"

Riku shook his head but gave a somewhat sheepish smile, "Yeah, there was a huge fight at the place Kairi's staying. Ansem brought a hoard of Heartless with him and started attacking everyone." Mickey jumped,

"That's horrible! But we'll find a way to finish Ansem off for good, don't worry- I'm figuring it all out." Riku nodded and was about to try and find some food for his rumbling stomach when he remembered the charm from Kairi.

"Oh, Your Majesty, I have a question for you." The King nodded and Riku said, "Kairi made this little charm-thing for Sora. It was a paper star, it was supposed to be made to look like a Paopu fruit. Apparently there's a legend on Kairi's world that if two people share one, then they'll always be together." The King grinned,

"Aww, she likes him!" Riku smirked,

"Yeah, I know. Sora's pretty into her too…But that's not what I wanted to ask you. See, when Ansem attacked he hurt Sora, and I was having trouble getting to him. Kairi pushed Ansem out of the way so I could heal Sora, but she dropped that little paper charm on Sora's back, and I didn't see it. After I healed Sora the charm….Well, it wasn't paper anymore. It was real, and we don't know how that happened."

The King scratched his chin for a minute, narrowing his eyes. A few brooms with buckets passed by them and Mickey jumped, "Oh! I know!" he grinned, "It's the meaning behind the charm. Kairi couldn't get to a real Paopu fruit so she made one herself, and the meaning behind it made it real. Since Kairi loves Sora, you adding magic to it helped it become real." Riku blinked,

"I…I didn't think that was possible."

The King laughed, "Anything is, some things just take time."

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Ansem sat in the chair behind his desk, one hand propping his chin up and the other drumming his desk. He had three hours until his next meeting with Kairi, and he needed a way to get her out of her room for a few minutes.

The night before, when the nurses were searching her room, Ansem had taken a tiny voice recorder, one he used to have with him for sessions at a patient's house, and had tucked it behind Kairi's pillows. She had two on the bed and he was sure to tell the nurses that he had checked there himself, so there was no need to do so again. The tape could run for hours, and he was hoping he had caught something with it.

If only he knew.

Ansem sighed, stood up and started down the hall for Kairi's room but was stopped by a nurse. She held his arm for a moment and said, "Sir, one of the nurses that was injured last night, his name is Demyx, wanted to ask a favor of you. He's in the infirmary, it'll only take a moment." Ansem sighed again and nodded,

"I have time." He walked down the hall with the nurse, somehow knowing that it would relate to Kairi, because it seemed everything these days did.


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