Hey, guys I'm back for another chapter. Disclaimer: For the 10th time here, I do not own Kingdom Hearts or Naruto. This will be Jiod's POV.

After I finished eating ramen with Naruto, I decided to visit his teammates. I figure I'd visit Sai first. When I arrived at his apartment room, I knocked and was greeted by a "Come in."

When I walked into Sai's room, my draw dropped.

I knew Sai was a good artist, but I had no idea just how much artwork he did. Everywhere I looked was another portrait. All of them were completely different, and they were all amazing. Wish I could do art half as good as this... I found myself thinking. Sai looked at me and chuckled before stating simply, "I figured it was you."

"How?" Even as I asked, I looked down and saw a few cartooned mice. "Oh, you use those as your eyes?" He nodded. I walked over to the portrait that caught my eye more than the rest: a picture of Luxus, Flash, and myself standing tall over a horde of enemies that piled up behind us. I placed my right hand on my portrait self's face. Every detail was perfect... If I didn't know that never happened, I would've thought that someone held a camera and took a photo of this... Masterpiece. I found it a little frightening, especially considering that, in the picture, the three of us had the same outfit that we had when we went to the forest, where all of this began; plus, Sai doesn't know Luxus and Flash... Unless...

"When did you do this?"

"I didn't. Riku gave it to me when he told me about you." As I heard these words, I figured that Namine probably did that. She was the only artist that could match Sai, as far as I knew.

"So that's how you knew me..." Not for the first time since I arrived, my mind wandered back to Sai's "test" for me in the Leaf Forest, and a question formed in my mind.

"You never did answer me. How do you know Riku."

"That's... Classified." He said. I shrugged in response. I guessed that it must've had something to do with how much Riku and Sai love their secrets, or something to that effect.

"You should visit the others," he said, "Danzo doesn't take too kindly to newcomers, especially outsiders. Your outfit makes it obvious that you aren't from this world, and Danzo doesn't like to think there are others..." He trailed off, and i could only imagine what would happen if I didn't do something about all of this. I nodded and said, "Thanks for the heads-up. And thanks for convincing Danzo to have me trained, instead of executed, or whatever he would do."

With that, I left his room and decided to find Sakura.

After walking for a while, I looked up and saw someone with flowing pink hair and a red shirt on a balcony, and assumed that to be the person I was looking for. I walked to the front door and knocked.

I didn't notice that the hair was longer than Sakura's, nor did I see the flowers in the area.

When the door opened, I couldn't believe what I saw. Instead of Sakura, I found myself looking at a man with pink hair wearing Sakura's shirts.

Either Sakura transformed into a man for some reason or other, I thought, subconsciously trying to figure out why she would do that, or... I looked behind the man and saw both Naruto and Sakura tied up in strings of... Were those seriously rose petals?

As I put two and two together in my brain, nothing made sense anymore. My hand shot up to cover my mouth as I said in a muffled voice, the one who I was looking at. "Marluxia?"

The pink haired man laughed. "So, you have head of me. Well than I guess we can skip the formalities. Yes, I am Marluxia, Number XI of the Organization." He summoned a large scythe that had a pink blade and swung it in a rather over-large arc at me, as if going for dramatic effect instead of impaling me on its blade. I jumped to the side to avoid it and raised an eyebrow in disbelief. "How are you here? Didn't Sora defeat you in Castle Oblivion?"

The scythe wielder turned to stare at me and laughed. "True, but as you can see, I'm back... With a fashion."

"What do you know about fashion?" I responded, jumping to the two tied up, grabbing a kunai knife in each hand, and slashed the rose petals binding my friends. As soon as I made sure they were free, I got back into the same battle stance I did with Sai's test.

Naruto and Sakura stood up and followed suit. I glared at Marluxia. "I don't know how you're back, or how you're here, but I promise you will be defeated again."

Sakura looked up him, then looked at me. "You know this guy?"

I shook my head. "Only that he's both evil and strong enough to destroy this village without so much as a care in the world, if we don't stop him."

Naruto gulped and looked shocked. "Should we try and lure him away then?"

Marluxia pointed his scythe at us and rolled his eyes, saying, "If you're done whispering nonsense over there, then let's do this." He jumped forward and brought his weapon down in a devastatingly powerful arc. I brought both my knives up in a cross-block even as I stepped to the side. His scythe hit the ground, and I saw some of the ground deteriorate and crumble. I looked at the pink-haired man in shock, then shook my head as I went over my options.

We could fight him here, but that would risk much of the village. Besides, Danzo may think I brought him here, and that's not something I can afford. We could bring more reinforcements to fight him, but how? He chained up Naruto and Sakura, and obviously did it both quickly and easily, since noone else noticed; besides, I wouldn't stand much chance against him at all; I have no Shinobi training, and my only weapons are tiny knives, which is not my weapon of choice. I started to panic as I continued to race through my thoughts, desperately trying to think of a solution that could work.

"What do you want from us?!" I shouted, trying to stall him.

Well if we can't fight here, and we can't bring anyone who could beat him quick enough, then maybe... An idea formed in my head, and I didn't have time to think of anything else, so I went with this thought.

"What do you have to give?" He replied.

I pointed to the door. "This place isn't going to be big enough for a fight like this. You're big-ass scythe alone can barely fit when you swing it. I'd like to test my abilities without anything getting in the way. You?"

He shrugged. "Whatever. Wherever you want is fine, as long as I get to bring your corpse back with me." I walked out the door, trying hard not to shudder at his words. I turned to the two I just saved moments ago. "Stay here," I said. "I think he's just after me."

"How do you figure?" Naruto asked.

"We were tied up, and he left us alone. He attacked him, not us. I think he's right. Besides, didn't you here the creep? He wants his corpse." Sakura answered. I nodded both my agreement and disgust.

"Naruto, Sakura," I began, as I started walking toward the village gates. "Tell Danzo what's going on. I'll try to hold him off as long as I can, but there's no way I can beat him alone."

They nodded and fled. I led Marluxia to the forest, to the same spot I first landed in. Everything leads back here, doesn't it? I thought. The testing, my weapons, Riku, now this...

I turned to the pink-haired scythe-wielder and got in my battle stance, a kunai knife in each hand.

"Now then," I said, "where did we leave off?"

he smirked and swung his scythe in a large overhead arc, despite being about fifteen feet away from me.

A pink shock wave rushing at my face at high speed was all I saw.

Wow, I really didn't expect it to be this way until I had it written out. Marluxia in Konoha? How did he survive? Why is he there, and only after Jiod of all people? In all honesty, I don't know where this is going, either. Not until it's written; but if I get any special requests, I'll try (keyword: try) to send the story in that direction. Reviews, critique (please don't be too harsh; just remember this is my first fic), comments, etc are all well appreciated. Thanks too all of you for sticking with this, and I'll see you all next chapter.