[Location: Aikuro's place; Time 7:00 AM (Day 46 {Tri-City School Raid begins})]

"SENKETSU!" Ryuko jumped up completely reanimated from her slumber. Unlike the last time she did this, which was on the first day Sora was here, she was in her striped underwear and also unlike last time, there was no Senektsu around. However on her right there was a very stoic looking Sora kneeling on the floor while holding his Keyblade in a medieval like stance, like he was praying for a speedy recovery. Looks like he didn't bother to sleep either; as he was remaining vigilant to ward off intruders. "Sora?" She asked

All he did was simply rise and withdrew his weapon knowing full-well his work safeguarding Ryuko is done. While another shuddery yet annoyingly familiar voice said "It must be fate that every time you crash at my place you're always left without your clothes. Ever considered being a nudist?"

"I'm growing tired of your sexual shenanigans, creep!" Ryuko yelled as she aimed her weapon towards his face

"My, my. Feisty as always are we not?" the double agent said as he nonchalantly pushed the crimson sword aside

"This doesn't make any sense…" Sora muttered

"It's difficult to believe, but trust me. It happened alright." A familiar stern and concerning voice said to the Keyblade Master

"I know of what Satsuki did after Nui left, but I still don't get WHY. She was able to wield the Keyblade as you no doubt recall"

"Yes, it is still quite the curiosity even to my understanding." The voice said

"Satsuki…? Sora, who are you talking to?" Ryuko asked out of curiosity

"Someone I'm sure you know." He chirped back as he revealed the same scarf that she was holding onto the other day "You were clinging onto this as if your whole purpose of being alive depended on it. However, I regret to say that this was the only piece of him they didn't take. I'm sorry…" Sora apologized with a sorrowful tone

"Who has the rest!?" Ryuko questioned

"Take a wild guess…" Sora joked

"The elites have them, don't they…?" Ryuko said, not surprised in the slightest

"Yeah, but for what exactly…?" Sora wondered

Then it hit them as they recalled what the council was planning for the better part of the week and simultaneously said "The Tri-City School Raid!"

"Satsuki must have plans to weaponize the 100% Life Fiber scraps to further better the odds of this campaign." Sora hypothesized

"The bitch! Once I get Senketsu back together, I'll tear her a new one!" The hot-headed drifter shouted as she was putting on a red track suit accessorized with yellow tinted shades and (mandatorily) the scrap of Senketsu as a neck scarf.

"I need to know what and where Satsuki is going with all this. Aikuro and I will join in the reclamation. Ryuko will take on the Kyoto raid squad, Mikisugi will take the ones from Osaka, and I'll take care of Kobe." Sora said, formulating his counter-raid.

"Thanks for the offer, Sora. But I won't need it. Besides, I think you can finds your answers your way. Notice anyone missing?" Ryuko declined his offer followed by giving Sora a hint of what he could do

"The Elites! Even Lady Satsuki herself are gone to oversee the very operation!" Sora exclaimed as he was struck by inspiration "This might be my only chance to get the answers I seek from the source: Satsuki's Tower!"

"Thankfully for you, the bitch's is going all out with this campaign, boy." Aikuro said with a strong hint of concern "If there was a chance to get off easy with infiltrating that place, then now's your time…"

"Yeah, I've gathered. She's pulling out all the stops on this one for sure… but why…?"

"Don't know really; even I'm at a loss of what she's after, but I'm more worried about you when you actually step in that place; it is THE most dangerous place in the school; good luck." Aikuro bid Sora farewell as the latter prepare to infiltrate the most heavily guarded facility of Honno-Ji City.

[Location: The entrance just outside the courtyard; Time: 1:00 PM]

The place was just as vacant as Sora had hoped: nothing but tire tracks and the faint smell of gasoline; and by the look of things everyone that was helping with the task force must be on break. He then makes a break for the tower, but then stops suspecting that this too easy. He cast a heat detection spell around and it's just as he thought: Satsuki's forces littered the place with mines that have 3 feet detection range and will go offline after a set period of time; probably at the end of the day when the raid is complete. Taking this into account, Sora safely traverses the mine-riddled courtyard and reaches the door to the President's Tower. When he did, he noticed that the door is guarded by a retinal scanner; only those in the system are allowed access to the tower. He started to ponder for a while, then recalled the letter that he received from Satsuki in regards to the club's disbandment. "Hmm, it's a possibility, but…" Sora thought to himself as he decided to use his own eyes for the scan instead of finding someone else to use. Much to his surprised, the door came to life as it opened "I can't believe it; she never took me out of the system." He said aloud in response.

[Location: Satsuki's Tower, Main Hall; Time: 1:10 PM]

Sora finds himself in awe as he is surrounded by what could no doubt be called the wealthiest surroundings he has ever laid eyes on. But just as he continued his trek, he was met by a woman by the look of it. She has ebony skin in a shade unlike those akin to Master Xehanort, her hair is white and is in the shape braids tied into a ponytail from the look of it, is decked out in an all-white female's business suit, with shorts in place of pants, and despite her more mature appearance compared to Satsuki, she is rather… short for her age.

"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid that Satsuki has left for a rather important trip today, and odds are you may have heard of what it is exactly." She said in a polite and professional tone

"I know th- wait a minute. How did you get in? How did you bypass the retinal scanner?" Sora pondered "I doubt someone like you would be allowed beyond this point."

The short woman then dropped the professionalism, chuckled a bit, extended the arm sleeves of her business jacket into whip-like blade appendages, and replied "Take a wild guess. Furthermore, you're no better yourself."

"You're in cahoots with Nui, aren't you!?"

"Bingo…" she then lashes out at Sora, only to be easily out-maneuvered by the younger, spryer boy after he took Valor Form.

"Damnit! This goes against everything we gathered about him thus far!" The woman thought as she tried desperately to slice Sora into fine ribbons.

"You're no pushover I'll give you that" Sora said "What's your name?"

"Rei Hououmaru, Head Secretary of REVOCS" the woman replied

"Alright, Rei. I'll make a deal with you: If I cannot defeat you within the next three moves, I'll take my leave. If you do lose by then, it's the other way around."

"Your ass is as good as gone." Rei smirked

"You first." Sora calmly replied as he kicked things off with a simple yet fast combo attack of which Rei blocked and/or dodged easily. After he was winded out, Rei then taunted him "That's one."

"You're fast, I'll give you that." Sora replied as he then decided to try out a bit of Brazilian jujitsu he learned from some of his athletics colleagues back when he still had his Scouting Club. When Rei saw an opening, she latched her whip-like appendages around Sora left ankle and then tried to throw him as hopes to get him disqualified. Much to her chagrin, Sora got his footing back and landed on both feet with no problems.

While her plan to get him out by default was a bust, she did thwart Sora second move which was victory enough for now and added "Strike two!"

"Not bad, but how about this!?" Sora added as he then tried a leaping slamming attack. While Rei dodged it cleanly, she didn't see what happened next. An incredibly powerful shockwave was then generated from the combined strength of Oblivion and Karmic Teaching, and she was sent flying back-first into the ceiling

Sora then mocked her "Oh… so close! Check…" the defeated then made her way to ground level with a resounding thud "and mate."

Rei then got back up, but slowly and threatened him "Damn you, boy! This isn't over. Lady Ragyo will hear of this!" she then faded into thin air as she honored her end of the deal, most likely that was how she got in in the first place.

"I wonder what that was all about. Still, who is this…Lady Ragyo?" Sora pondered for a minute for something to pop back into his head "Could she be…"

[Back during Sora's first day]

"Are you the one named Sora? The one who destroyed Master Xehanort?"

Sora said aloud, not knowing how this Heartless is communicating with him mentally "I did indeed destroy Master Xehanort, so what chance you think you have against me?"

"He was the mistress' mentor!"

"'The Mistress'? Explain yourself." Sora poked in curiosity

[Present Day]

"…The one that Heartless mentioned back when I first got here? Could she even be the one behind the Heartless here as well as the ones that tried their hand at Yen Sid!? By Eraqus' wrath, now everything is spinning; fast." Sora said, putting two, two, and two together, but then resumed his trek. Only after a few more hallways and corridors, he was by three Dapper Shadows and then one of them proceeded to say telepathically

"Only our lieutenant promised to leave, but she didn't say jack squat about us!"

And yet another battle ensues as he is outnumbered three to one, but never outgunned. He then powered down from Valor Form, only to then take on Limit Form, one that he hasn't used in a while. But that won't mean he's rusty with it in the slightest.

"Alright…Time to have some fun!" Sora exclaimed as drew his Oblivion Keyblade and the trio tried to triple tag-team him. Sora sharp reflexes and nimbleness of which he displayed in his fight against Rei prove troublesome for the team of handsome heartless. When he got them to get close to both him and one another, he unleashed a ripple drive that sent all three of them flying quite a way. When they all regain their bearings, the noticed that their target was gone and nowhere to be found. From within the shadows of a corner, there was a blinding flash that passed by one of the Dapper Shadows, slicing him wide open and left him oozing out its liquid darkness. Realizing that they were down one man, they reformulated their attack approach; one would distract Sora while the other one tries to flank him. The diversion heartless does well trying to keep Sora distracted for its partner to end the fight for good, only to realize that Sora knew of this plan already and decided to put a premature end to it as he unleashed a counter-Zantetsu: the same attack that he used on the first one he killed. Now all alone, the last one tried to feign a retreat by merging with the shadows, but it didn't take long for Sora to catch on to what the Matrix Agent wannabe was up to. He his Keyblade still drew as he patiently waited for it to pop up all while pretending to be on his merry way to Satsuki's chambers. Silent yet quick footsteps were heard approaching Sora from behind. Just as the final Dapper Shadow tried to stab him in the back, Sora flawlessly performed a reverse summersault jump. As his arms were in position, he swung his Keyblade across the Heartless' neck, decapitating it. With the last of the strike squad now gone, he then reverted back to normal and proceeded to make his way to the Lady's Quarters, all while avoiding the security cameras that were now present in the halls beyond the one he fought Rei and the Heartless.

[Location: Satsuki's Tower, top floor; Time: 1:25 PM]

After evading all the cameras and climbing the elevator shoot instead of taking said elevator to retain his low-profile, Sora stood in front of a massive sound-proof door and then thought to himself "Well… This is it: A break and enter that's been six weeks three days in the making." He then summoned his Keyblade and used its magic to hopefully open the door, which much to his joy, did so. He then took a deep breath and muttered "I'm in…"

He then made his way to Satsuki room, while he knows that the information within her first journal entry could be a true wake-up call for himself as well as Ryuko, he still feels dirty and shameful that he has to pilfer through a girl's chambers. But at least he has the humility to put everything back to where it was after he checked a certain area of the room. Just when he was on the verge of giving up, he stumbled upon a DVD disk after he used his Keyblade on a wall safe and muttered "Hmm…not what I was hoping for, but maybe this can help." He then walked up to the projector, ejected whatever could've been in the machine at the time, put the disk he found in Satsuki's room and pressed play.

Before him was a man of which neither Sora nor Ryuko are familiar with in the slightest and in front of that man was none other… than Ansem the Wise himself who was going by his alter identity 'DiZ' at the time, hence the red wrappings around his face and for odd reasons they were seen conversing at what appears to be Ryuko's old house. They didn't seem to be talking, at least not vocally. They simply made bodily gestures to express what they said as to not let any ears know who they are and what they were up to. 'DiZ' handed the mystery man a notebook of a sorts, which made the latter cringe like no other as he read the contents of the notebook; like whoever wrote whatever was in that book was like another child to him and was very concerned, then he managed a few words after he turned his back on the Wise Ansem "I wish I could've saved them both…" the young man then took the notebook and locked it in a safe that seems to have camouflaging properties, most likely a little Life Fiber perk, and it has completely blended in with the wall it's mounted into; now in a place where a minute few know of its location.

"Who was that guy that was with Ansem? What is that man's connection with Satsuki if he has the journal locked away at Ryuko's place? And what did he mean by 'I wish I could've saved them both'? I've got a bad feeling about this…" Sora thought to himself as he cringed at a certain worst case scenario "Next stop: The old man's place." Sora said aloud as he proceeded to return everything to the way it originally was to prevent the chances that they have been infiltrated by both Sora and this suspicious Rei character, and decided to open the window, go out that way, close it, jump off the edge and activate his Keyblade Glider, now en route to Isshin's Place.

[Location: Isshin's Mansion; Time: 2:15 PM]

Sora arrives at the mansion once more, this time by himself as he continues his search for the answers he seeks. He looked around the general area of where he saw that safe in the video, hoping for the best of things. Upon reaching the more specific space where the safe, there was good news and bad news. The good news: not only did he find the safe, but it appears that Nui hasn't tampered with it and was hardly singed by the fire that ensued after the attack.

"There it is; untouched even by Harime. Either she never knew of this thing's existence or she was just forced to make herself scarce from the scene." Just as Sora used his Keyblade to open the lock, it would budge. That's when he learned of the bad news: it was Keyblade proof, no doubt 'DiZ's' doing to make sure Xehanort or his cronies didn't get their hands on the safe's contents first.

He took a deep sigh and said "it's never easy in this world, is it?" Sora then took a closer look at it and noticed that it is protected by an electronic lock; an eight digit combination by the look of it. "Hmm…that could be someone's birthday I bet. But if that's so, then whose?" He tried pondering of what the combination could be and as he did he muttered to himself "two days left. The elites aren't back from the raid trip yet, maybe I can find some clues back in the council chamber; only this time I have the advantage of familiar terrain now."

[Location: just outside the courtyard; Time: 7:00 PM]

He needed some time to wind down from the last visit as well as to give himself an early dinner just in case. "Looks like some of the students that went are starting to come back by the look of it. I wonder what made this trip so important…" Sora said to himself as he observed the patrol pattern of the remaining members of the raid that were counted as surplus. After he got a good feel of how their patterns behave, he then made his move every time he saw his opening.

[Location: Satsuki's Quarters; Time: 7:10 PM]

It took him considerably lesser time to get back to the council chambers and Satsuki's room due to lack of heartless resistance as well as the knowledge of the cameras observing the halls back below; using his Keyblade Glider to get up the tower would be an instant giveaway of his location.

"There's got to be a clue in regards to that safe here somewhere! If that Journal entry came from here, then someone here knows the combo!" Sora thought to himself as returned to frantically searching the place. Just as he was searching the place out, his phone started to ring with a rather hip-hop beat which prompt him to pull it out and answer "Hello? This is Sora"

"This is Aikuro. What are you up to?"

"Searching for clues in regards to the first journal entry"

"Such as?"

"It's location for starters; it's locked in a safe at Isshin's home of all places."

"No way, for real!? Why would he keep a journal entry of that queen bitch instead of his own? Scrub that; why didn't he tell us about it in the first place!?" Aikuro shouted in a total loss of thought

"I don't know what's going on anymore, but I got a sneaking feeling that the first entry will help provide some much needed answers." Sora replied calmly

"Say, where are you at?"

"In the Elite's quarters searching as we speak, why? What's going on at your end?"

"Shit! Then you better get out of there fast! The Elite four are on their way back, but from the looks how her chopper is flying, Satsuki may not be a problem for a while; or at all if the pilot passes out and crashes the damn thing." Aikuro warned him from the other end

"What makes you want that of all things to happen?" Sora asked

"Because she did quite a number on Osaka the most over one thing"

"And that is?" Sora wondered

"Nudist Beach" Tsumugu said "She knew our guys were stationed nearby Honno-Ji somewhere and was already aware of Aikuro's true identity from the very start."

"So THAT'S what this whole trip was all about! Damn it all!" Sora said as he placed it altogether

"Simmer down there, detective." Ryuko said over the phone

"Yeah. Thankfully, her lackey Jakuzure was dumb enough to settle for the destruction of a simple hanger." Aikuro continued

"You mean-?"

"That's right. We're holed up even deep than they previously thought. In case if you start to wonder, Mako is also with us; we'll be staying here to recuperate from all of this craziness and plan our next move."

"And Senketsu…?" Sora queried

"Good as new now." Senketsu replied which eased some of Sora's guilt of not being there for them

"Hell maybe even better!" Ryuko replied "In fact, I myself have gotten stronger too. If you DID come to our rescue that day, I doubt I'd be able to battle Satsuki to a tie this time."

"Glad to hear that's the case." Sora sighed as he knew it was nice to hear from Ryuko as well

"In the meantime, good luck getting that safe open." Aikuro said

"And after all the damages that were bestowed on us, it had better be damn well worth it." Tsumugu finished the call

A few minutes after he hung, he was seen cleaning up the place to assure make them think that no one was ever there. He thought "I need major dates regarding Satsuki's life so far…" he sat and thought and recalled his first day at Honno-Ji "Nonon. Maybe I can ask her about some of Satsuki's most noteworthy events." Then chatter was barely audible from where he was at right now, and he knew what that meant "Crap, they're already back!" He then made a break for the window after he got the place back to its original condition as much as possible and closed it behind him, only for Ira to naturally spot him at the last possible second. He then ran to the window, opened it, tried to wrap a spiked whip around him to capture him but completely missed the shot as Sora activated his Glider which prompt the giant to yell out "SORA!" in sheer frustration.

"There's no doubt they'll suspect me of Break and Enter after the stunt I just pulled." Sora said to himself after he managed to get enough space between himself and the tower "Better go back to Isshin's and lay low until the heat dies down…" while Sora's overall intentions were good of heart, this particular action has just branded him a wanted criminal; he could never show his face in the town ever again now that he has a bounty on his own head…


{Character Relations Updated}


[Location: Kiryuin Manor, Life Fiber Chamber; Time: 10:30 PM]

Satsuki just took her leave from the chamber after her mother introduced her to "The Source", who were wearing naught save for towels wrapped around their bodies. Once the chamber was completely empty, the mother then walked over to a seemingly blank wall. She placed her hand on it and before her appeared blood sampler, retinal scanner, and keyboard for a password. As she gave the machine a bit of her blood and allowed the scanner to observe her eyes, she then entered her password, which was "Death2Light" and before her opened a hidden elevator to a discrete place within the mansion and an electronic monotonic sounding voice said "Welcome back, Lady Ragyo…"

Ragyo then took said elevator down which was quite the wait as the elevator was going down to near subterranean levels. After at least five minutes, the elevator finally stopped and the doors opened for her to enter this secret room which contained two metal chairs that barely seem rusted at all, a table fit for two, a small fridge that seemed large enough for several battles of wine, and a couple of wine glasses on the table. As she entered the room she sealed the door, grab a bottle of wine from out of the fridge, poured herself a glass of wine, and before she took her seat she allowed the towel around her body to casually fall off onto the floor, leaving herself completely exposed. After she took her seat, she began to savor the flavor of the red alcohol, then said "It has been far too long… Master."

In front of Ragyo at the opposite end of the table was nothing more than a sizable white ponytail. But who's…?