Here I am again. Sorry it's been taking so long for me to get these chapters out. I've been busy since the end of the school year is only a couple months away. I don't have much else to say.

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And now...the moment you've all been waiting for...

Chapter Ten: One More

After the explanations were finished, there was some silence while Roxas's friends contemplated what we had just told them. A while later, Roxas suggested we go to the Station Tower where our friends could get to know each other better.

It was the next day and I was snuggling on the couch. I leaned further back into Axel, lacing our fingers to tighten my grip on him more. I was being clingy but I had already lost him once and I was afraid that if I didn't hang onto him, he would disappear again. He didn't seem to mind, though, since his arms were wrapped around me and tightened considerably.

I tilted my head backwards and looked up into his green eyes. He grinned down at me and kissed the top of my forehead.

When I looked back, Roxas was grinning, too.

"So, you guys finally got together, huh? When did this happen, Kat? If I remember correctly, you hated Axel. What was it you called him? Flaming Haired Lunatic?"

"Roxas!" Olette scolded.

"I'm quoting!" he defended himself.

I narrowed my eyes but couldn't keep a small smile off of my face. "Shut up. It was your fault anyway. You left us and that brought us closer together."

"Nu-uh. You guys spooned before that. Remember? Before you met Xemnas for the first time? I'd say you'd have to be pretty close for that."

"Hey, now, I don't comment on your love life," I said, giving a sideways glance at Naminé.

"Shut up!" Axel chuckled at his bud's flustered face.

"OK, OK." I squeezed Axel's arm some more. "So I haven't talked to either of you guys in forever. What is up?"

Axel spoke up first. "You already know pretty much all of my story. I was resurrected and then I stayed at Jessica's house for a while because I was sick. Then we went to your house and found your note and I knew where Roxas would be so I came here."

"I'll tell you the earlier parts of the story later," Roxas told me. He meant what happened after he left the Organization. "But when I came back here...uh...I started school."

"That's it?" I asked.

"Well, I've brawled with Seifer a couple times and Hayner and I have been practicing for the next Struggle Tournament."

"You're a boring individual, Roxas."

He hung his head. "I know."

"Don't worry. I've only been doing something semi-constructive at school. I wasn't really feeling up to doing anything that would amount to the effort of training. So you're not as boring as me!" Everybody raised an eyebrow and I laughed sheepishly. "Sorry guys. I'm kinda hyper."

"We noticed," Hayner replied.

"So are you guys going to prom?" I asked.

"No," Olette answered sort of sadly.

"How come?" I wondered.

"Are you?" Roxas asked.

I snorted at that thought. "Are you kidding? Make-up and frilly dresses? Not for me. Besides, what the flip would I do there? I can't frickin' dance."

"Sure you can, just get Axel to shake your groove thang for you," Sora suggested.

"You're a doofer, Sora," I commented and turned back to Hayner, Pence, Olette, and Roxas. "But anysnoo, how come you're not going to prom?"

"Sophomores can't go because they're working on the gym this year and it won't be done in time. They thought it would be but it won't so the juniors and seniors are going to find somewhere else to hold prom and they're going to skip sophomore servers. We're not going," Pence explained.

"Well that blows..." I thought about that for a minute and then smiled. "Why not come to our prom? Sophomores are going to ours!"

Hayner crossed his arms. "Why would we go to your prom if you're not going?"

"Look, dude, just 'cause I'm not going to be a girly girl and dress up and go, that doesn't mean you can't have fun without me. I'm used to it because I have no life so I'm usually left to entertaining myself. Besides, Jess and Christy will be there and Axel knows them so you guys will have cool people to hang out with."

"Like he'll go if you don't," Riku put in.

I sighed, frowning at their persistence. "Aw, fudge biscuits. Alright barf sacks (1), I will go if you will leave the subject the heck alone until the time comes. Happy?"

"Don't take it personally; she always insults people when she gets outwitted," Roxas informed his friends.

"As if you would know what happens when I get outwitted. Besides, I'll probably just read a book or something."

"The heck you will," Axel cut in.

"Who's side are you on?"

"Look, babe, I love you and all but that's exactly why I'm not going to let you skip out on this...Wow, that sounded weird coming from me."

I huffed and put a groan in it to show my annoyance.

"You guys wanna come, too?" I asked Riku, Sora, and Kairi.

"What do you think, Sora?" Kairi asked. Sora just stared off into space. "Sora?"

Now I tried. "Sora? ...Hayner, toss me that dart, I'm gonna throw it at him."

Riku nudged his friend with his sneaker, snapping the brunette out of his little world. "You better pay attention. Kat's not good at throwing and she might hit something you don't want to lose."

"What were you thinking about?" Naminé spoke for the first time in a long time.

"Oh, I was just wondering how the rebuilding of Hallow B–I mean, Radiant Garden is going."

"Let's go see! Can we?" I asked, sitting up suddenly.

"Why do you want to go?" Sora asked.

"All the stories made me want to meet everybody," I said. "Please?"

"Uh, OK."

"Hooray!" I jumped up and grabbed Roxas. "Please come with us."

"Uh..." He looked over his shoulder at his friends.

"Can I steal him? Just for a couple hours? I'll have him back by the end of the day. Promise."

Hayner shrugged while Oletter voiced, "It's OK with us."

"Woo hoo!" I shouted. "But it will take forever on that Gummi Ship so I say it's portal time!"

"I can't make portals anymore," said Roxas and Axel nodded his agreement.

"I can!" I told them. "And I've been there, too."

"Let's go," said Sora. I got up and put an arm around Naminé and Olette in a hug.

"We'll be back soon." I looked at Hayner and Pence. "I'd hug you but you don't look like huggy people...On second thought–" I hugged Pence and pointed at Hayner. "–you don't look like a huggy person."

He crossed his arms and gave me an indifferent look. I smiled and waved a hand at him. "Maybe later."

Then I grabbed Axel's hand and opened a portal to Radiant Garden.

I glanced about the broken area with chipped blue and green tiles. It was one of my least favorite spots in any of the worlds.

"Why did you take us so far away?" Axel asked.

"Because this is where I was when I came here and I don't know anywhere else," I replied.

"Oh yeah, this–" I threw a hand over Sora's mouth.

"Don't speak."

He looked at me and nodded empathetically before he headed up a path and into the wrecked bailey. We carefully climbed the debris and what was left of the stone steps that led up into a gated area which led to a ledge up above some houses. It wasn't all that hard for me, though, because I just rode up the ledges with my board and used my atoms for support.

"You made it look easy," Kairi spoke.

"Well, uh, it is easy...for me." I laughed nervously.

We went through the gated area and I looked out the window to a cruddy looking old castle with a Heartless sign on it. This place would look a lot better without that feature.

Now we went up some stairs and came out above the houses. We used some more stairs to get down off of there. We eventually wandered around to one house with a step-up and a rounded door.

"Sora!" We turned around to a path that led to what looked like the town square. There stood a girl with short black hair wearing a black tank and black shorts. Her boots, however, were brown. Heh, if Jess's sister were here, she'd think that was a fashion crime.

"Hey Yuffie!" The girl pounced on Sora in a hug and I just had to giggle.

"Who're they?" Yuffie asked, pointing at me, Axel, and Roxas.

"Why don't we go inside so that we only have to explain this once?" suggested Riku. Yuffie nodded and walked into the house, not even bothering to knock.

As we entered, Sora and Kairi were greeted numerous times and I scanned the room of people. A blonde dude at a computer, chewing on a toothpick caught my eye first. That'd be Cid Highwind, I'd heard of him. Next I noticed Merlin, the old wizard with a beard that was almost as long as he was tall. And, ooh, hottie alert! That leather clad brunette looker with the scar across the bridge of his nose must be Leon.

"Who is this young lady?" Merlin asked, gesturing to me.

"That's Kat. She's from Earth. She helped us defeat Xemnas and the last of Organization XIII," said Sora. "That's Roxas–my Nobody–and the redhead is Axel. He used to be a part of the Organization but he faded and then this lady named Chance brought him back."

"Axel?" said Yuffie.

"And the Organization," said Leon thoughtfully. All four people exchanged looks and then returned their attention to us.

It was Yuffie who spoke, "Hey, do you know a guy named Demyx?"

"Tall, lanky, blonde with a mullet?" Cid added.

"Aerith brought him in four days ago. She said she found him on the outskirts of town. He was beat up and sick so she took care of him." That was Leon.

"D-Demyx?" I stuttered. Surely I had misunderstood. Demyx was gone. I was there when he faded.

"You rang?" I whipped around to where the door was. There, in all his mullet-headed glory, stood my best friend with an armful of groceries and Aerith at his side. "What about Demyx?" He set the bags down on a dresser near the door.

"Demyx," I reiterated in a whisper. No way!

"What? No hello? Jeez, how could you forget about me? You assigned atoms to me!"

I slapped Roxas on the arm and pointed. "Tell me you see him."

"I do," he breathed.

"Demyx!" I shrilled and in a millisecond was on him, squeezing the new life out of his being. He hugged me back, swaying back and forth. For the first time in a long time, I cried. Tears slipped down my face and soaked into his cloak. He held me out to look at me and thumbed them away.

"What's with the water works?"

"I know, I didn't get any." Axel pouted and then strode over and clapped him on the back. Roxas came next and then we decided to sit down for explanations.

I sat between Axel and Demyx on a bed over by a table that was on an elevated stone platform and a bookshelf with Winnie the Pooh on it. Demyx was not going to leave my sight so while Axel had an arm around my waist, I had a hold of Demyx's arm.

"OK, so, I met up with this hot chick named Chance about...four days ago, I guess."

"After I was brought back then," commented Axel. I whacked him to tell him to 'shush'.

"He's tellin' the stor-y." (2)

Demyx continued on. "Then Aerith brought me here and took care of me 'cause I got sick from sitting out in the cold. I was heaving a lot and couldn't eat or drink. It sucked big time."

"Whoa, wait. Are my atoms still assigned to you?" I wondered. He shrugged as an 'I guess so'. "So you made me sick!"

Demyx rubbed his neck. "I did? Heh, sorry. Axel, Chance brought you back, too?" Axel nodded. "Sweet. Well I was planning on coming to find Sora or Kat as soon as I got better but today was one of my first days out of the house."

"So are you gonna stay here?" I asked.

Demyx looked down at me. "What other choice do I have?"

"Well I can still create portals so you could come to Earth. My parents bought the house next door so you could stay there."

"Well then heck no I'm not gonna stay here! I mean–" He looked at the others. "–you guys are cool and all but I gotta take care of my Little Kitty."

I hugged him again. Could this day get any better?

This is the longest chapter I have written for this story. Was it too long? Or maybe some of you like long chapters? In which case, that could be a good thing.

(1) This is what my brother says when he gets mad or frustrated and I just sort of picked it up. I don't know if he got it from somewhere or not. Kat wasn't really mad at them but she was frustrated that they wouldn't leave her alone so she said it.

(2) Any Pirates of the Caribbean fans will know what I was trying to do here.

Sorry guys but I wanted to put something about prom since it is coming up soon. Hope that doesn't make any of you sad. I think everything makes sense but if it doesn't, I'm sorry for that, too. That's what I get for being hyper and listening to The Hamster Dance while I type my story.

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