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Key Of Twins

Chapter 9

(The Fated Prophesy)

*KAIRI*

It has been a month since we came to Castle Oblivion. Even though we were surrounded by people we were beginning to understand, I had never felt so alone. Naminè had been different ever since she came back with Riku. The same guy who I had been contemplating killing for whatever he did to her. She had been cold and distant ever since she came back. She wouldn't even communicate enough to me to tell me what had changed her. Riku had finally told us what had happened after Naminè went straight to her room. She's been the same way since.

"How's she doing this morning?" Tifa asked as she sat in her spot by Rinoa.

"She's alright…same as usual I guess. She doesn't say anything different. Well she doesn't say anything at all" I shrugged my shoulders.

"I don't understand…Demyx and Naminè were like two parts of the same heart. Why wouldn't he listen to her?" I asked more to myself than to the others.

"Demyx…was…in love" Xigbar said carefully.

"I knew it!" I said slapping my lap, "Hayner owes me twenty bucks" I said forgetting myself.

"You bet on Demyx's sexuality?" Cloud asked with a light hint a smile.

"It was a safe bet" I said smiling before reaching for a biscuit.

The people around me were still strangers. I only saw a couple of them three times a day. Which were breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Xigbar was always with Cloud and Leon planning in their office. Vexen always had me in his lab from breakfast to lunch asking annoying questions. I barely even go time with my sister; she would quietly go to the gym and work with her limit. Riku would always simply watch over her. They never spoke. She never spoke to anyone after the day Demyx was kidnapped, even me.

"There are new plans for today" Xigbar said sitting in his designed chair.

"Such as?" Tifa asked looking up at her father. I could totally see the similarities. She had his dark hair and his nose. But Xigbar had this crazy jagged scar under his left cheek. He wore a patch over his right eye.

"We are going to the land of dragons. It seems that something is going on there…I want to be on top of it" Xigbar simply said as he scraped some strawberries onto his plate.

"Kairi…I want you to stay here and continue your work with Vexen." He said looking up at me.

"Yes sir" I said a little sad that I couldn't go with anyone else.

But what was the point if I did go? They all went on really cool missions, and fight. I couldn't fight because I still didn't have my stupid limit. So basically I was doomed to this castle just stuck with Vexen each day. Not that Vexen was a bad guy, but he tended to have this crazy glint in his eye whenever he thought he had found something. That and he had absolutely no comfortable seating.

"Vexen, make the poor girl a couch. If she has to spend all day with you she might as well be comfortable" Xigbar said with a light smile.

Oh Crap! I forgot that Xigbar could read minds. I guess nothing is secret around him. I think that out of everyone I had really gotten to know the girls. Tifa was extremely nice; she and Rinoa were together all the time. They were really good listeners. Yuffie was awesome too; she knew how hopeless I was feeling with Naminè. We had even tried to get her out of her room. But it hadn't worked. Naminè had stayed in her room for every meal. Xaldin had gotten to where he didn't even set her plate out anymore. He just brought her meals straight to her room.

"Something has to be done about that" Xigbar said catching my eyes so I'd know he had been talking to me.

"But she won't come out…Believe me, Yuffie and I have both tried. She won't even talk to me".

"Riku…Have you tried? You know all the smaller details of what happened. Maybe you can cheer her up, what do you think Kairi?"

I tried not to growl at either of them, Xigbar laughed lightly and winked at me with his good eye. "I guess. But if he makes things worse…" I left my threat in the air…But I was sure Riku got my meaning.

"I think I am the last person she wants to talk to" Riku simply said taking his spoon up to his stupid lips. But somehow, somewhere deep deep deep down, I knew how he felt. I missed Naminè like crazy, and somehow, I know he did too.

"Riku" Cloud said making Riku stop eating. "Talk to her", Cloud didn't talk a lot, but when he did we all took notice.

"You never know…" Leon said wrapping his arm on the back of Rinoa's chair. She smiled up at Leon and scooted close to him. They were the only real couple here, I knew Cloud liked Tifa, but Xigbar didn't like it.

Riku shook his head so softly that it almost went unnoticed. He pushed his chair back and walked out of the dining room, as we called it. I had finally gotten use to this huge castle. The halls were becoming more recognizable though the four weeks I had been here. Sora was a big help too as he showed me around. There was even a library, indoor pool, and many more rooms that were being unused.

"Where's Riku?" Sora asked stepping in late. He sat down beside me and started to shove Xaldin's biscuits in his mouth.

"He's going to talk to my sister" I said annoyed.

"Easy girl" Sora said smiling at me through his food. I couldn't help but smile.

"So Land of Dragon huh? What do you think we're going to find?" Yuffie asked.

"I'm not sure yet…But Sora, I want you to stay here, so that if Saix knows we are going out he won't try to attack the castle" Xigbar ordered.

"Yes Sir" Sora said still through his full mouth.

"Want me to stay with Sora? It'd be hard for him if a whole group showed up and it was only him defending the castle." Yuffie asked. I wasn't sure the relationship between the two of them, but I knew that they were close. I felt another pang.

"Ow!" I grimaced clenching the orange in my hand.

"Kairi?" Vexen asked instantly by my side.

"I feel this strange pain…in my chest…It…stings like crazy" I growled through grimaced teeth.

"Come…please" Vexen said rolling his eyes as Xigbar raised his eyebrow.

Xigbar had told Vexen to be kinder to me. Vexen had a tendency to be nicer to his experiments than to people. I wasn't sure what I was to him, a person, or an experiment. Either way, I followed him hoping it would ease this crazy pain. Vexen put an awkward hand under my arm to help to his lab. I realized that not only was he weird around people, but he was especially weird around the opposite sex. It was as if he didn't know what to do with us. For some reason I found it funny.

"How are you feeling?" He asked quickly grabbing his white lab jacket from its hanger.

"It still stings…but it's gradually going away" I said coming to hop on his metal table.

"Wait…Xigbar told me to make you comfortable…here" Vexen put his pointer finger to his temple and start to stare intently at a corner of his lab. All of a sudden a red leather recliner formed into the once empty spot.

"I'll never get use to that. That must be an awesome limit to have" I said stepping towards the recliner.

"It has its moments. Unless I am thinking of something unpleasant, then it can get dangerous." This was what our conversations were like. It was actually nice to talk to Vexen sometimes; we could have really intelligent conversations.

"Whoa…I never thought of it like that…what was it like to get a hold of your limit? I mean you had to go through some sort of training yourself right?" I asked.

"Yes…Once I thought about a mythological three headed dog. I wondered if it were real or not. Well it ended up being in the living room" Vexen said with a light chuckle. "You should have seen Demyx, he had never been so scared"

"I bet"

"What were you thinking about just before the pains?" Vexen asked grabbing his little notebook to write notes in.

"Um…nothing" I said feeling instant heat rise to my cheeks.

"Kairi?" He asked raising a dark blonde eyebrow in my direction. "You know better than that, any little detail might be able to help you in the end" He said clicking his stupid little blue pen. Did I mention how crazily annoying his little pen was? Whenever he was asking me questions he would keep on clicking it.

"I was thinking about…Sora" I said softly suddenly growing insanely embarrassed.

"Is that all?" He asked writing something down.

"I was wondering what his relationship to Yuffie was" I said still feeling the stupid heat in my face. There was nothing more that I wanted at that moment then to hide behind the recliner and crawl up into a ball.

"Oh really? Well I can ease that stress…they are just friends. I know because I have been trying to help Yuffie find her lover" He said writing something else down.

"Oh…" I really wanted to know more. But how terrible would that be to ask about Yuffie behind her back? I wouldn't want someone to do that to me.

"Hey Kairi?" A soft voice called from the closed door.

"Naminè?" I asked. It had been the first time I had heard her voice in a month.

"I am going to help with the search. I'm hoping that maybe we can find…" She quietly stepped into the room. I ran to her and jumped in her arms.

"Sissy" I whispered holding her so close that I could barely breathe.

"I'm…sorry" She whispered with little to no emotion. When did the fun love Naminè I once knew in Twilight Town transform into this? Even after the Heartless attacked she had still been as she was before. She softly pulled me from her and walked out slowly…not even saying a good bye.

"Naminè Aqua Heart! You get your skinny butt back here and tell your sister a proper goodbye. I understand you've had a hard time, but suck it up. Don't you think I'm hurting too?" I yelled angrily at her as I ran towards where she was.

Everyone peered knowingly at me. I knew my face was beat red, half from anger and half from embarrassment. Naminè just peered back at me with an emotionless expression. I stepped closer to her and suddenly fell to my knees. The pain in my chest was returning.

"I…I…I love you" I gasped through the stinging pain. "I'm sorry…I should tell you that more often"

"Kairi…" She whispered with a single tear rolling down her cheeks.

"I don't care what happens to me, I don't care if I never find my limit. I want you to be happy. I know that Demyx would want that too." I said peering up at her standing form.

"Naminè…your sister is right. I knew Demyx pretty well after Saïx left. He talked about you all the time…" Riku said coming to her side. To be honest, I had never been more thankful for him. He was the one who had gotten her talking.

"It's true; he talked to me about you and Kairi all the time. I was almost jealous; he seemed to have loved you guys so much. Even the morning while we were looking for you guys, he told me that I had better take care of his girls" Sora said getting down on his knees beside me.

Naminè started crying more and Tifa and Rinoa wrapped their arms around each of her shoulders. Xigbar had nodded at everyone and opened a portal. Soon they all had left. Sora was still by my side and soon Yuffie joined us. Soon Vexen had come to check up on me, he and Sora helped me back to my chair.

"Kairi…I'm sorry" Sora whispered staying by my side as Vexen wrote something in his notepad.

"What did I do?" I asked peering up helplessly into Sora's big blue eyes.

"You didn't do anything. Riku told me that Naminè tried everything she could to save Demyx. She had even sung a song he had written. But Saix's hold was way too strong. You know how it is when you're in love. They are the only person who matters to you" Sora said.

"Only Demyx would be in love at a time like this" I said with a hint of anger.

"Love is what makes people stronger" Sora softly argued.

"Or stupider" I said looking back down at my feet.

After not having my limit, my clothes were still the same. Rinoa and Tifa had went on a shopping spree grabbing stuff from abandoned stores for me. I wore most of the stuff under my new black member's jacket. Even though I didn't have a limit Xigbar still felt like I should have one. Vexen defiantly thought I should, saying that I was more at risk than anyone else. I had on black leather boots with black skinny jeans and a pink blouse.

"What has made you like this?" Sora suddenly asked.

"Like what?"

"This!" He gestured moving his hand towards me. "You are grumpy and grouchy. You don't believe in feelings, you think love is stupid. You don't make any connections with people. You barely even really talk to me!" Sora said with small heat rising towards his cheeks.

"What do you expect me to be like? I watched everyone I love die. It's a miracle that Naminè made it with how much I love her. It seemed that they all died, especially the ones I loved. I watched my own father get his heart ripped out by a creature who was four feet tall. What do you expect? I don't want to see anyone else I love die. So I don't love!" I yelled back at him.

Soon we were up in each other's faces. I jerked towards Vexen who was wildly taking notes. I took his stupid clicking pen and threw it in the trash as I slammed the door behind me. Sora didn't even try to come after me as I stormed towards my room. No questions that Vexen could have asked could help me at that moment. I fumed towards my bed and finally flung myself ontothe comfortable mattress. I waited to see if I heard footsteps and when I didn't, I finally let all the feelings I had ever felt come out in that one moment. I cried for what seemed like hours till there was a small knock on my door.

"Sora just leave me alone in my grouchiness!" I growled knowing that I didn't want him to see me like this.

"It's not Sora" Yuffie called from the other side of the door. She came inside and closed the door behind her.

"Hey…Whoa don't take this the wrong way, but you look terrible" She said coming to sit on my bed.

"I…" I wasn't even sure what to say.

"I understand…I just didn't want you to be alone" She said with a small smile. "I understand how you feel…" She said. "I mean, I feel what you're feeling, but I went through the same thing you did. The one I loved was taken."

"Vexen said it was your lover?" I asked. "I mean that all he said" I said coming to Vexen's aid.

"Oh I know, he wouldn't say anything unless it was necessary. I thought I felt jealousy coming from you. Sora and I are just friends…he isn't my type and he loves…" She said as if she were about to say something but suddenly didn't. "I don't think he'd want me to say"

"Who was he?" I asked wanting to talk about anything but that annoying pointy haired blue eyed handsome jerk. Not to mention I didn't want to think about who he loved. I'd dwell on who that girl might be later.

"His name was Vincent…I called him Vinnie. He and Cloud were good friends. The only reason I am here is because Vinnie asked Cloud to take care of me when he was taken." Yuffie started. "He was a…vampire" She said.

"They're real?"

"Yep. At least in my world they are" She said smiling. "He was more handsome than anything I had ever seen. He had this porcelain skin, dark red eyes, and beautiful black hair. There isn't a day that goes by where I don't think about and miss him. He was more than I had ever dreamed he would be" She said.

"So…he was taken?" I asked.

"Yes, I have only been here three months. Cloud and left before Vinnie died. Cloud had come back to bring us here. But Vincent died protecting me from the Heartless."

"I watched my own father get killed…Naminè wasn't there…But I had honestly seen the light go out of his eyes. With his last breath he said he loved me, and he wanted me to take care of Naminè." I said feeling pain form in my chest again.

"How do we cope with something like that?" Yuffie asked shaking her head.

"I wish we could find out so that we could help Nami" I whispered.

"Sora would know…He lost his twin brother…"

"What happened?" I asked.

"Sora's twin was named Roxas, from what Sora told me, they were really close. But Roxas was killed by the heartless before Sora could get to him."

"But how does he act so happy and free?" I couldn't help but ask.

"That's a question for Sora" Yuffie replied laying a hand on my shoulder before she stood up and left.

Something caught my eye as I turned to lay back down on my bed. Naminé must have had her journal out before she left. I knew it was an crime of privacy, but maybe if I knew what was going on in her head I might be able to help. I looked around to make sure I was alone before I crept towards her bed and grabbed her journal. I slowly chided with myself, how far would I go? Has she even written anything? I was surprised to see a entry for this morning.

9/2

I'm not sure how to live anymore. I feel as if everything I ever cared about was slipping from me. Even though I have this new power, I still feel so weak. I know that Riku watches me as I practice. Sometimes I almost want to apologize for the words I yelled about him after Demyx was taken. But I knew that we couldn't do anything about it, and I blamed him for it. I don't like the hold he has over me. Sometimes I feel as if I can't think whenever I'm in his presence. He is the new normal for me; I don't care if he can't see me. I know somehow…that his soul can. But what does it matter? what if he doesn't care about me? Maybe he is only afraid that Kairi would kill him if he didn't watch over me. As much as I want to talk to my sister, I feel like a failure. I failed when it came to our father, and now I failed when it came to Demyx. Both have been lost to the darkness…

"Naminè…" I wrapped my arms around myself holding her journal close.

I jumped when a sudden knock was at my door. Vexen appeared as he stepped more into my room. I rubbed my forehead and set Namine's book back where I found it. Vexen had his notebook and must have grabbed his pen from the trash.

"I think I might know why you don't have your limit." Vexen said excitedly.

"What?" I asked suddenly standing.

"Come" He said with a crazy glint in his eyes.

I followed him back towards his lab; it was the same as when I left. Yet now, there was a huge old book on the silver lab table. I could smell the old parchment the moment I stepped in the room. The book was worn, and some of the pages were sticking out. It was at least the size of both my hands. It's depth was the size of a stack of Xaldin's pancakes.

"Come look at this…" Vexen said excitedly. Whoa something had really gotten him happy.

One so beautiful, so guided from fear

Return to your crystal palace of heart

For there you shall be protected

By a knight pure with white

So shall your light ever so shine

Till the lighted hearts arise

Key of truth to be predicted

Time for the light will be at hand.

"What does that mean?" I asked looking up at Vexen.

"Kairi…don't you see? You are the one so beautiful…so guided from fear. Naminè is your knight pure with white!" Vexen said actually taking a hold of my hands and shaking me.

"So?".

"That means you're the savior!" Vexen said shaking me harder.