Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Sorry about the long wait! I feel guilty. Anyway, I'm posting this ASAP, seeing as the brother-from-hell decided to delete the chapter I pulled together through crap-loads of school work. WHY DON'T I HAVE ANY PRIVACY?

And about the story, I'm not going to explain the entire Kingdom Hearts plotline (thank you very much) seeing as it's a fanfiction and not a summary, so I'm going to continue with the whole 'Kaze' bit, and then later

Sorry, just a little rant (here's the chapter)

Chapter 10, I Can't Take It Anymore

We spent the night in trees.

Before you comment, NO WE HAVE PLENTY OF MONEY TO BUY A HOTEL ROOM, we just didn't have the time and resources, so here we were spending the night like homeless people in the rainforest. Except here sleeping in trees was illegal and in the morning a cop's going to come and give us a hard time, OH WELL, NOT MY PROBLEM.

My problem was the wind; it kept shaking the freaking tree so I had to cling for dear life.

I was JUST at the sleeping point when 2 voices popped into my head.

Kaze?

'Meh, not now'

It's Kale stupid, answer her.

'Fine, yes Kale?'

I just met up with Riku, he was going to bust you out but he joined up with the bad people instead, AND there's people out to kidnap us, just the FYI.

'Can I complain for a moment?'

Umm…preferably not?

'I'm pretending that's a yes. Okay, where should I begin? Oh, did you know that I can see super far AND in the dark, so now, AS I TRY TO SLEEP, I can click on a light in my head and see in the dark. Also, I have a voice that randomly appeared into my head when I started insulting the author, she also talks up at the worst possible times and…'

I'm leaving.

'NO!'

Me too.

'YES!'

I sighed, then snuggled against the tree, this sucks big time (as everything else in my life does too)…

"Kaze, sweetie, wake up, you'll be late for school!"

I opened my eyes, I was on the couch again, and my dad was shaking me awake.

I leapt up and looked down, way! I had my little stick figure body! I wasn't 15! I didn't have an oversized chest! I was 12! I patted my back, no wings! I patted my hair, still short!

It was all a nightmare, just an ugly nightmare!

I ran into the bathroom and changed and put on makeup, then I shoved a piece of toast into my mouth and picked up my backpack, "See 'oo Dad!" I called, then ran out the door.

I was so happy, I wasn't a clone! It was still Monday! Yea…oh, I have to re-face Riku.

I vigilantly walked down, ready to strike at any unknown foe (namely, Riku-the-annoying-bastard-whom-I'm-completely-and-totally-in-love-with).

I stopped, wait, I'm thinking like I'm 15, is it the nightmare still lingering?

Arms wrapped around my waist, and a chin rested on my head, "You need to wake up now."

I laughed and clung to Riku's arm, "I am awake silly!"

His voice warped into Angel's, "Hibiscus, seriously, the police are about to shoot you!"

The entire picture washed clean like windshield-wipers on a car, and I was back in reality…

Alicia looked at me with concern. "Riku, maybe you should rest, I can drive you back and then wake you up."

I blinked back unshed tears and mumbled, "Fine."

We had a simple task, get that puppet 'Pinocchio' and bring him to Maleficent to be turned into a heartless. We not only failed, but Sora got the best of me…

--flashback--

"Aren't you taking this a little too far, Kaze is dead, except it, you'll feel better if you do." Sora said with a small voice, completely out of character for him.

"Shut up!" I screamed, and lunged, but Alicia pulled me back.

"Look, I get it, she's your girlfriend, but take it out on the people who killed her."

"I said shut up!" I shouted, letting my voice raise an octave.

"No! For the last 3 fucking years you've been a walking zombie! Obsessed with the past, YOU TWO WEREN'T EVEN GOING OUT!"

"SHUT UP!" I broke free and threw my fist toward Sora, but Alicia wrapped her arms around my neck and pulled with all her might.

I choked and fell back, gasping for air, she pushed me toward a portal, "Enjoy yourselves, you sick bastard." She snapped her fingers and a huge squid-like-thingy fell down right in front of them.

By the time I knew what was happening I was halfway through the portal, I struggled, but one more shove from Alicia and I was on the floor in our ship. She helped me up, and pushed me into my seat, then strapped me in.

I just sat there numbly. Kale didn't lie, did she?

The ship blasted off, headed off to inform Maleficent of our failure…

--end flashback--

I lay back on the bed behind the 2 seats.

"I'm sorry about your friend, Kaze I mean; she must have been something special huh?"

"She was, and she's not dead, Sora's just dumbest jackass in all existence."

"Is he your worst enemy?"

"No, he's my best friend."

She turned to look at me, "Then why are you working against him? I say you should quit, go and help him."

"Why don't you?"

"I have amnesia, Maleficent is helping me get my memory back, seeing as you have nothing tying you here, leave, I might come too."

"She has Kairi."

"Another friend?"

"Yup, she was one of the coolest girls on the entire island…"

I held one end of the bandage in my mouth and the other against the gauze on the painful wound (that hurt even more when you looked at it) on my arm. I began to wrap the abrasion up.

"Garsh Sora, who's this Kaze person?"

"Yah! We've heard about her multiple times, why did Riku react so violently when you said she was dead?"

I clipped up the end and sighed.

"3 years ago, when I was starting 6th grade and Riku 7th, there was this new girl, Kaze. She came from a rich family, and she happened to be in Riku's first 4 classes, our lunch, my PE class, and Kairi's choir class, she always had this tough attitude, but she was deaf in one ear and always went out of her way to help us. Riku fell in love with her after she beat up these teenagers that attacked her, and everyday he'd walk her to school, then she saved Kairi from drowning, but she almost drowned too, and Riku was crying and everything, but she resurfaced after like, 10 minutes, Kairi in tow, but after we went home and changed our clothes we decided to get some ice cream and celebrate, but we saw Kaze and she was all bloody and wet, she started going hysterical and talking about somebody trying to kidnap her, Riku, Kairi, and I managed to get her to a town meeting, but the kidnapper gassed the entire place, and when we woke up she was gone. We searched for 3 months, and Riku began taking depression medication, and…I don't blame him."

"Garsh, that's why Riku's so scary, huh?"

Donald nodded in agreement, "We should go to the next planet, Sora, if you want you can play around on the computer."

"Just don't break anything, hyuk."

I nodded, "I'll just go on the internet."

They left the room and I brought up a Google search.

'Kaze' I typed into the box and pressed 'Web'.

In 2 and a half seconds I had 400,000,000,000 hits. I sighed and pressed the one that said 'Kaze's Podcast'.

I found myself on a page that showed silhouettes of a girl with large bird wings flying over the camera.

'New To This Site?' I read, and then clicked the little button, a pop-up flashed up.

'WARNING, if you press okay, you become a part of the experiment too, press okay and there's no going back!'

If this is Kaze, it's worth it. I pressed okay.

The next page was a registration form; at the top it said 'Congratulations, you're officially part of the resistance! Click here if you're one of Kaze's friends (new or old)'

I pressed it, and a list of names popped up, 'Pick Your Name'.

I scrolled down the list.

Kairi was on there, so was Riku, then Selphie, and…

My name. MY name!

I clicked on Sora, and then a page of questions appeared.

'What is my last name?'

Waters.

'What was the first thing I ever said to you?'

I'm sorry, I'm afraid I didn't order you're background check (I think).

'How many times have I kissed you?'

(Eww) None.

'Where did I live?'

Crap.

'That one blue house across from Riku's on East Lilac.'

I pressed enter, crossing my fingers.

A chat window popped up:

Bluejay101: Sora? Is that really you?

I laughed and logged on to my account really quick...

Excalibur231: kaze ur alive! XD!

Bluejay101: ugh, chat room talk

Excalibur231: riku is going crazy looking 4 u!

Bluejay101: Really? Dude you won't believe it! I'm on another planet!

Excalibur231: I'm on a ship, wat planet?

Bluejay101: Earth

Excalibur231: let me c if u can come with us

Bluejay101: I can't, sorry.

Excalibur231: WHAT?

Bluejay101: I have to go, the library's closing, nice talking to you.

Excalibur231: WAIT!

Bluejay101: What?

Excalibur231: Riku really misses you. Kai and I do too.

Bluejay101: I do too.

Excalibur231: And Riku really really REALLY…

Bluejay101: What? Is he okay?

Excalibur231: luvs u, I'm not jk, kk?

Bluejay101: Huh?

Excalibur231: RIKU LOVES U A LOT

Excalibur231: g2g, ttyl!

Excalibur231 has logged off.

Bluejay101: Hey! Wait! What?

Bluejay101: This isn't funny!

Bluejay101: Sora?

Bluejay101: Umm, goodbye?

Bluejay101 has logged off.I sat and blinked a few times, what the hell just happened?

"Hibiscus, we need to leave, the guard just spotted us." Fang nudged my shoulder.

We ran down the stairs and burst through the doors and into the night, glad for once we weren't being chased.

"Why didn't we get a hotel room?" Angel asked me as we walked through the subway, looking for a good place to sleep.

"Halt!" I turned around to see a gypsy-like lady holding out her hand, "What are you doing here?"

"Looking for somewhere to sleep." Max replied, we nodded our agreement, trying hard not to look like 7 kids who are scared as hell.

"Got any food?" Gazzy held out his pretzel. She took it, sniffed it, and then bit into it.

"You get that area over there," she pointed to a ledge.

I helped Iggy and Gazzy while Fang helped Nudge and Angel.

I lay on the hard concrete and mentally groaned.

I bet you miss the tree.

I closed my eyes, hoping to god Safaia would shut up.

I was woken up by Max violently crashing against me, and then bolting upward.

I sat up and saw her curled up into a ball, crying, her eyes were distant and it looked like she was having a seizure.

"Fang!" I hissed and nudged him with my foot, I put an arm around Max, Fang did the same from the other side.

I reached out, and then slipped into her mind.

Pictures flashed before my eyes, sounds hit me like a greyhound bus, I felt like I was having a trip, only it wasn't pleasant.

I retreated, "I don't know what's happening, but it's really creepy." I hissed.

"I'm okay." Max's voice was weak and strained.

"Are you sure? I can run and buy some medicine. Does anything hurt?"

She nodded, her head still on her knees, I got up, but she grabbed my arm.

"Don't go!"

I sat back down and put my arm around her again, "It's okay, it's over now."

"Who's messing with my Mac!" an angry voice called out.

"Shhh! She has a headache!" I whispered at the young boy who had climbed up and plopped his laptop in front of us.

"I traced the interference to here, who's screwing with my computer?"

I sighed, "I bet there's nothing wrong and you just want to piss us off."

"Oh yeah?"

He turned the screen to face us, Max looked up.

The screen was all black, except for red letters that spelled out 'Hello Max'.

Oh. My. God.

Sorry again about the delay!

(BTW: I'm adding 2 new stories, you might want to check out, but they're probably not as good, just the FYI)