(A/N: Oh boy! Chapter 10. I hope you enjoy it. Sorry for the long wait though. .' Thank you for the patience and for reading the story so far!)

Namine

(Sorry, Naminé. But I need time to cool off. I promise that I'll be back. Ok?)

With that being said to her, Roxas' eyes had left her eyes as she could only watch him leave her sight. She felt the urge to cry, but she couldn't get herself to do it. She had no idea why. All she felt was a deep despair in the pit of her stomach. A black hole of some sorts, and that hole was eating up all of the happiness that she had inside of her.

Then she heard the door slam.

"S-shouldn't we go after him?" Naminé had asked Master Yen Sid.

"No, not yet. I believe he needs time to cool down. If we go after Roxas, I'm afraid that things will get worse for Roxas and Sora. We cannot risk Sora being exposed to any more unnecessary darkness or else Sora's fragile heart will become corrupt and we will never win this war against the Organization. Unfortunately, Roxas barely said anything new about Sora's condition. All he said was nearly the exact thing that he had told us when he had announced himself. All we got was that Sora was in a critical state. Neither the less, Roxas might've gotten a point of how he was able to physically transform. But now my question now is, how did you physically transform into yourself?" Master Yen Sid asked her in return with an eyebrow raised high.

Naminé thought about it for a moment, but she couldn't think about why she had her body back. The only thing that she could only think about was only Roxas. She didn't want to think about anything else, but to chase after him. She needed him because she finally knew that her emotions were actually hers, and that she wanted to be near him all of her life.

(Roxas!)

Unfortunately, no reply and she started to yearn for him, but she held herself back and looked at Master Yen Sid.

She replies, "I don't know. I only planned to switch places with Kairi for three days, and I didn't expect to switch places with her like this. Kairi should be fine right now, but I don't know how she's doing exactly because we just switched places recently."

"Hmmm… fine I shall give you some time, but I need you to find out how Kairi is doing."

"Fine." She replied with a sad expression on her face.

"On other matters, we need to find Roxas and have him come back with us before the Organization can take advantage of this situation. Lea, since you've been friends with Roxas, you should go on ahead and search for Roxas since you are the best person to find and calm him down."

"Got it, Old Man," Lea told him in reply as he started to walk to the door.

All of a sudden, Naminé blurted out as she jumped out of her seat, "Wait!"

Everybody stared at her; the only people who were surprised were Riku and Lea. She began to blush from having this many eyes, but she knew that she had to convince the master to let her go with Lea to find Roxas. She knew that this wasn't her, and that it would be near impossible to try to convince him. Neither the less, she tried anyways.

With courage, she looked at Master Yen Sid with a serious face, "I need to go with Lea. I can calm Roxas down as much as Lea can."

"No," Master Yen Sid answered her in return, "its best that Lea goes alone."

At first, Naminé looked down towards the floor with sadness. She knew that she couldn't do anything about it, and that she wasn't the type of person to argue back about anything. Her facial expression changed into pain and she began to nearly cry.

But before she could cry she heard a voice inside her head.

(Argue back.)

(How?)

(It's easy. Just disagree with him. We both know that you want to! You love Roxas and I want you both to be happy. That's kind of the reason why I switched bodies with you.)

Naminé began to blush and her heart pulse began to rise when she said the word "love".

(Do I really love him?...)

(It's pretty obvious Naminé. You just need to fight for him! But as of right now, you need to argue back.)

Naminé took a deep breath and looked at Master Yen Sid with a stern look, "How come?"

From the look on Master Yen Sid's face, he wasn't expecting Naminé to answer back.

"Because we need you to stay here and be safe. I don't believe that you have the ability to wield a Keyblade," the Master replied with a stern voice.

With the expression in the Master's voice, she knew that he was not going to change her mind about it anytime soon.

(Sorry, Kairi. I tried.) Naminé had told her with tears in her voice.

All of a sudden, Lea had called out to Master Yen Sid, "Come on, Old Man. Just let her tag along. I'll take good care of her. And when we find Roxas, I'm pretty sure he'll take good care of her as well. So what are you fretting about? This isn't my first babysitting job that I've done before, ya' know? I'm pretty sure that this will benefit all of us."

Naminé and Master Yen Sid, with both faces holding surprised looks, looked at Lea.

Master Yen Sid took a minute to decide wither to let Lea hold responsible or not.

Naminé decided to not look at anyone as she was afraid to make things worse for herself.

Meanwhile, Lea was looking at Master Yen Sid with an encouraging smirk on his face.

Finally, Master Yen Sid looked towards Lea, "Fine. I'll leave you in charge of taking good care of Naminé while you both go and find Roxas. If there's any trouble, you both return right straight back. With or without Roxas," then the Master looked at Naminé, "Meanwhile, Naminé if there's any trouble stay out of it. We cannot risk injuring yourself or worse."

"Whatever you say, Old Man," Lea had replied after he turned towards the exit.

"Mhmmm!" Naminé had replied with a smile and a nod.

As Naminé headed towards the door she caught eyes with both Riku and the King as they both smiled at her with compassion. Naminé returned a friendly smile towards the both of them.

Finally, when Naminé closed the door to Master Yen Sid's office, he turned around to Lea and ran up to him to give him a big hug as a thank you token, "Thank you."

"Woah, where's the fire?" Lea had asked in a good-sarcastic tone.

Then finally Lea had given himself a facepalm and with embarrassment he told her, "No. Don't say anything. I understand the accidental pun that I've made for myself. Let's just act like that never happened, okay?"

Naminé said nothing but she let out a giggle as she sees Lea's face flushed a light color of red.

As they started to climb down the stairs and towards the exit, she thought to herself.

(Thank you, Kairi, for helping me out back there. I didn't know what I would've done without your courage.)

(You're welcome. And please, don't be afraid to follow your heart.)

(But I thought that Nobodies weren't supposed to have hearts…)

(Oh, there you go again with the moping. Enough of that and plus, if you have a heart then you wouldn't be feeling like that when you are around Roxas, now would you?)

(Hmmm, your right I guess. Maybe, Nobodies do have hearts. But what about when Sora recovers? Will things return back to the way they were?)

(I don't know. I guess we just have figure it out when we get there, now do we?)

Naminé giggled.

(You know, you're reminding me of Sora right now. He He.)

(Do I really?)

Naminé sensed the embarrassment in Kairi's tone.

(I don't know. You might need to ask him yourself. Te-he.)

(Aww, come on Naminé. That's not fair!)

Naminé laughed, but then it died down when she realized that Lea was watching her.

"Are you going crazy or are you talking to Kairi?" Lea had asked her as they were standin in front of the front door to the castle.

Naminé had blushed for a bit, "I'm talking to Kairi."

"Well, it seems like you two are having a good time. I'll just leave you to it." Lea said has he opened the door to the front of the Castle and had invited Naminé to go through.

Naminé stepped outside as Lea had invited her to do like a gentleman would, "No. I think that we had just finished our little conversation."

"Ok, good. It was weird watching you giggle and make different faces," Lea had said as they started walking out to the front.

Namine was embarrassed by what he had said, "Come on. That's not a nice thing to say."

"Well it was true," Lea replied.

As they walked outside, Lea had materialized his Keyblade to open a corridor of Light. As soon as the corridor opened up, both Naminé and Lea entered the corridor.

"Where are we going?" questioned Naminé as they were walking down the corridor.

"Well…," Lea started, "If I know Roxas as well as I know him then I supposed that we need to stop by a shop to by some ice cream."

"Ah, I see," Naminé replied but followed up with a question of her own, "Can I join you both?"

Lea replied with a grin on his face, "Of course you can join us. I mean the reason why you wanted to come along was to be near your boyfriend."

Lea laughed hard as Naminé was blushing like tomato as they continued their way down the corridor.

Things finally quieted down between then both as Naminé was quietly walking along side of Lea. She finally got the courage to ask what she had wanted to ask him.

"Hey Axel?"

"Not you too! It's L—," Lea sighed with a groan as he pinched the root of his nose, "You know what? Whatever. What did you want to ask me?"

"Well, I just want to ask you about why you helped me back there? Not that I'm not thankful for it."

"Well," Lea scratched the top of his head, "You kind of remind me of someone….. I can't quite recall her though, even though I remembered that I was really fond of her…"

Lea grabbed his head in pain as he let out a little grunt.

"Lea, are you ok?" Naminé asked with panic in her voice.

"Yeah," he said dismissing her as if nothing was wrong, "Let's just go and get some ice cream."

"Fine…," Naminé replied with worry and caution in her face.

They finally got out of the corridor as they stepped out to the street markets of Twilight Town.

They both went to a vendor that Lea always went to as his time in the Organization member. Lea bought three bars of Sweet and Salty Ice Cream bars, and together Naminé and Lea went off to go and find Roxas.

(Roxas)

Naminé called out to him telepathically.

(Please be here. I miss you already…)