Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, Soul Eater, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Transformers, Ouran High School Host Club, Hetalia: Axis Powers, Naruto, or Natsume Yuujinchou.

A/N: Writing flashback is really fun, although, they'll probably make more sense once Every Story Has a Beginning, a Middle, and an End is written.

_Chapter 11

Soul, Sora, Stein, Chrona and I go outside of Death City. It seemed such a strange group but I was still wondering who the last person to join us would be, Sora hadn't said anything about it yet. The swish of a portal is drawn to my ears as I look over in the direction it came from. Out steps Demyx, in his Organization coat, looking as happy as ever. Sora smiles, "Alright, everyone's here." He then looks at me, "So, here's the deal, you have to beat me and Demyx, separately of course, and then hold off those two, for 10 minutes." So everyone moves out of the way except for Sora and I. I'm leaning on my left foot to avoid putting too much weight on my broken ankle. Sora summons his keyblade in a flash of light and so do I. Stein adjusts his glasses on his face, "Ah, so that is the keyblade." Soul watches in wonder, his eyes glued to the battle that would soon take place.

Sora takes the chance to attack on my right side, and I fall over but somersault out of the way. Sora charges again, this type going for my left side. I dodge again and hit him on the back, "Gravira!" The gravity around Sora disappears as he's stuck floating there for a bit. Sora some how manages this and pauses in mid air. He draws up his keyblade and mumbles something causing fire to come down from the sky. I get hit by a few blasts and knocked back into a wall on a ruined building. The gravity spell has now worn off as Sora gently floats down to the ground; he then comes at me quickly and is ready to hit me on the side with his keyblade. I block him with my keyblade and kick him in the stomach. He wasn't expecting that and is knocked back a few feet. He holds his stomach for a few seconds and then recovers, charging again, this time summoning the power of lightning. I get zapped and let out a small cry of pain, "You are so going down!" I take a running start towards him and hit him straight on with the keyblade.

I hear him suck in a breath. He flies back tons of feet and lies there for a moment on the floor. Though he slowly regains strength and stands up, he holds out his keyblade and throws it boomerang style, all the while summoning another round of lighting.

I duck and run for him again, summoning some blizzard magic that freezes his keyblade to the wall. However, just by merely extending his hand the keyblade is summoned back to his hand. Now it is his turn to use the blizzard spell and while that spell is in effect he charges forward this time heading for the right side. My feet are frozen to the ground and for the first time in my life, he connects. Sora had never hit me before, not even in sparring lessons or when he was angry, it was the first time in my life that I had felt how powerful he was. I double over in pain, on my knees, wondering if this was how others felt when they were about to lose in a fight. "ARI!" Soul shouts, he sounds worried, "Come on Ari, get up! You have to finish this, you can do it!" Soul's encouragement is enough for me to shakily get back up, tightening my grip on my keyblade and gritting my teeth. I glare at my mentor with such an anger he has never seen before and then, I hit him with the keyblade again, this time on the left side.

Sora is taken aback and a bit shocked at such anger I have towards him. He, again, is sent flying once more, this time he is done. He looks up with a slight grin on his face, "Okay Ari. I think you proved it for me. I think you pass." "Th-thanks," I groan in pain. "Dem, next, right?" I look over at Demyx, a little worried. I never had wanted to fight him, we were friends. He was gentler than most people and didn't deserve to be hurt. Stein puffs out some smoke, "Wow, I'm impressed, I wasn't expecting that at all." Soul nods in agreement, he looks a bit in awe of the power of the keyblade and smiles at me when he catches me staring at him. I look over at Demyx, "Bring it." I try to smile at him. Demyx looks a bit nervous but he nods. He smiles slightly as he sticks out his hand and his sitar appears from a liquidy form.

"Alright, let's do this," he says and begins to play his sitar. His water clones appear. My eyes never leave Demyx's as we stare at each other in concentration but I can hear the side conversation that's going on. "So this guy uses a sitar to fight?" Soul didn't sound impressed in the least. I keep watching my opponent as his eyebrows furrowed at the implication of him being weak. He had heard Soul's comment and I could tell it infuriated him. "He uses the sitar to control the element of water. Interesting," came Stein's comment back. It sound like he was curious about what would happen and not judging Dem's way of fighting. I waited for a bit, getting used to the feel of the music, knowing that Demyx always attacks on beat from our previous fights together. I let my mind wander back to one of our previous battles together.

-Flashback-

"Rixa, if you keep fighting like that, you'll be knocked over easily. You have to let your body move with ease, like you're dancing. One movement to the next, plan your steps out." Demyx smiled over at me, encouragingly. I knew he was trying to help out Axel, trying to make his job easier because, apparently, Saix thought I just couldn't fight very well. I nod at him, smiling back: who ever came up with the idea that Nobodies couldn't feel was out of their mind because Demyx, standing here with me at the moment, he was overwhelming amount of emotions stuffed into one person. "So, I'll play some music on the sitar, call my water clones and you can practice." I sigh, summon my keyblade and prepare. A few clones appear as he plays a bright and upbeat melody. My foot begins to tap with the beat as I let my motions become more fluid, moving with the music.

Suddenly, one of his clones attacks, pushing me out of my thoughts of the past. And he does the unthinkable, he attacks on the offbeat. My eyes widen with surprise as Demyx smiles a bit more, "I thought I'd try something different. Jazz up my style a bit." "Of course you would." I giggle, "Sorry 'bout this, Dem. Blizzaga." Soon, all of the water clones are frozen in place and I head straight for Demyx, "Sorry if this hurts." Demyx smiles again, "Who says you are going to hurt me?" His voice isn't coming from the direction I was heading in; I notice that he was out of range of the snow the whole time. Right when I get to him, he turns into water and splashes onto the ground. The real Demyx is behind me, with another water clone, about to attack. I turn around quickly and try to block whatever attack he is going to use.

The clone is destroyed but Demyx is right behind it with his sitar in a bat like position. He hits me on the side, but not to hard, for he is nice enough to just send me a little ways across the floor. I struggle to get up this time, "I-I see you've gotten serious, Demyx." "Only slightly." He goes back a little ways and holds his sitar normally, "Your turn kid." "You asked for it." I finally get up and murmur the word, "thundaga" and a bunch of lightning goes through all the water on the ground, straight into Demyx. Demyx yelps out in pain and collapses into a heap on the floor. He seems to be cringing quite a bit due to the fact that he just got over surgery. He lies there for a while and then slowly and clumsily stands up, leaning against his sitar for support. He murmurs something and more water clones appear. This time they come in such a crazy way that there isn't even a pattern to their movements. Worry starts to flood my logic of the battle; he must be really hurt to have no pattern at all. I'd never seen him attack like this before.

A bunch of the clones hit me, splashing against me in such a flood that I'm knocked back into a wall and a very gruesome sounding snap comes from that direction, as my leg is broken again. I feel a scream erupt from my throat as I fall on both knees. Demyx seems totally startled. He runs over to me and holds me gently, pulled out the thoughts of battle as well. "I'm sorry Ari, I'm sorry," I look up at him and notice he is very pale, almost deathly white with the fear of how bad he's hurt me. It was nice to know he still cared. "I'm fine," I push him away. "It was broken before and I can deal with now too." Demyx seems hurt but he lets me go and gets up. "Al-alright," he goes back a ways and waits for my attack. "I'm sorry," I murmur. "I just can't give up yet!" I get up, leaning on the keyblade for support and say, "Trinity light, whirlwind effect." A burst of light heads towards him in a spiral direction.

Demyx still isn't totally recovered and he sort of dodges it but it still hits him. He falls to the floor this time and it doesn't look too good. He starts to cough a bit. "He should give in, he wont be able to hold on much longer," I hear Stein say from the sidelines. Demyx is on his back, lying completely still as bit of darkness start coming off of him. He is fading. "Demyx. N-no!" "W-what is happening to him! This is insane," Soul's eyes are extremely wide. Stein rushes forwards to see if he can do anything for the broken Nobody. Demyx smiles slightly and gives me the okay sign with his right hand, "You-passed." I walk, cringing with each step, over to him, and pull out a potion, "Use it. Please. You can't fade, not again!" I look at him, desperately; I won't let him fade again, not like the last time. This time, however, it's my fault and not Sora's.

Stein doesn't even wait for Demyx to respond, he takes the potion from my hand and puts it to the boy's lips, forcing him to drink it whether it wants to or not. I watch, terrified that he's going to disappear, not caring about the exam at that moment, just caring about Demyx's safety. I should've been more careful with him, he wasn't completely well before this fight, I should've made sure he could handle what I was going to do before I tried it. With Stein's quick movements, Demyx doesn't fade but he is unconscious. I sigh in relief, "Thank God." "I suggest a break should be taken, due to the fact that this, just happened. You need a break too Ari," Stein looks over to me and hoists Demyx onto his shoulder and leads him away to lie down. I glance at Sora, "Is that protocol?"

He nods, "In this situation, yeah. One 30-minute break can be taken in every exam due to an emergency and Demyx being like this certainly counts. If we need to, in between the next battle as well, due to your leg, I'll make an exception and we can do another break." Soul seems shaken up as he walks over to my spot, where I'm sitting on the ground, leaning against a tree. "How are you feeling? How is your leg?" I wince, "It's-I'll be okay. Once my magic builds up again, I'll use cure." Soul nods slightly, "O-okay." He pauses, "You-you did good." "Thanks," I smile a pained smile, "I hope Demyx'll be ok. I'd feel terrible if I sent him to the void again." Soul looks over where Stein is, "He is in good hands. Stein is a great doctor. He stitched me up when something happened to me a while back. He may seem crazy, which he probably is, but still, he is a good guy." "Okay, I'll trust you on that one." And before we both know it, the 30 minutes is up.