Title: Kingdom light

Disclaimer: still don't own Kingdom hearts or Naruto, hey, I'm working on it!

Gold: hey, here is another chapter that is super long! I'm just about finished with Naruto's world but I think the ending might give you stuff to think about. This is a really long chapter, really long. I'm trying to make up for leaving you guys so long and sorry about chapter eleven. For some reason I can't delete it and it repeated chapter ten, sorry! Um… story down there, go read

Chapter twelve: I lit everything on fire!

"Anko what are you doing!" Kotetsu cried angrily.

Anko's emotionless eyes bore into his own. She didn't grace him with an answer. Everyone exchanged confused glances. Hayate gripped his katana's handle frustrated, "Anko what is the matter with you? How dare you threaten our lord's life?"

Lord Hokage didn't move an inch, his eyes roved over everyone else's warily, warning against action. Keshia, Marrissa, and Tami were sure if they'd been in his situation their voices would quake with fear however The third Hokage's was steady and clear, "Anko is this what you really want to do? Is this what you worked so hard for? What about our students and our village? Do you choose to cast them all aside?"

Anko's clouded eyes flickered for the slightest moment, and then went dark again. Zenshire laughed, "what do you think Sora? It's a new way to use the heartless. It was a brilliant idea if I do say so myself, fusing a modified heartless with a human heart. The heartless will feed off their very soul before its drained empty and they die. Pity but you can't expect good help to last forever now can you? I don't know how much time this one has left though she's been fused with the heartless for a long time now, I think four weeks."

Everyone stared a moment, letting it sink in. The one sentence that was replaying clearly in everyone's mind was the heartless will feed off their very soul before its drained empty and they die.

All the while he was explaining this Anko remained stone silent. Her face remained steadily blank. The light began to fade from the sky everyone was standing around, careful not to get too close. Zenshire was highly amused, "well this has been tons of fun ladies and gentlemen but I have places to destroy, people's lives to ruin. I suggest you surrender the spiritlock before you lose your precious leader."

Everyone fell silent. They all knew they couldn't risk hurting the Lord Hokage. Sasuke's eyes met Zenshire's, "you were using Anko the whole time. When Lord Hokage told her of what he knew you heard too. She let the heartless into the village…"

Genma and Hayate both gasped, Genma nodded grimly, embedding tooth marks into his toothpick, "he's right. We were with her when she started acting weird and took off towards the gate right before they entered. We didn't think anything of it at the time."

Zenshire just smirked. No one knew what to do they were all at a loss. Iruka and Izumo exchanged a look and they nodded. Zenshire had won. Tami felt as if a part of her very being was about to be torn asunder. There was no way to get around giving him her spiritlock. The two key chains clanked together and a high pleasant note resonated throughout the area, sounding so out of place in the grim situation. She felt like crying but didn't have the energy. She took a step towards Zenshire, never imagining taking a simple step, simply moving her leg forward, could be so painful. The snow had let up and was up to their upper shins by the sides of the street. The heartless and their rapid movements combined with Naruto's battle with the fox spirit had cleared most of the snow from the battle area. There wasn't one among them that wasn't shivering. Tami went to take another step, grinding her teeth in frustration, when Ibiki placed his hand in front of her, blocking her path, "look."

They all turned in the direction he was looking. He was gazing at Anko and Lord Hokage, specifically at Anko who had fresh tears streaming down her cheeks. No other emotion played across her features, just a stream of salty water trickling down her face and falling silently off her chin and landing on the Hokage's shoulder.

"Anko," Hayate whispered. She didn't blink or acknowledge that someone had called her name.

"She's crying!" Goofy cried startled. Donald hit him, "we can see that!"

Zenshire was getting irritated, "give me the spiritlock already!"

No one was listening to him anymore. Marrissa felt her heart about to break, it wasn't fair. How dare Zenshire do this to her. Anko was a committed ninja, with a lot of respect for the Hokage and a love for what she did. It wasn't right for Zenshire to try and hurt her, or anyone else! You won't talk to me like that! I'm no servant that will jump at your command! I'm a Chuunin level ninja! That had been Zenshire who had pinned her against the wall. Anko had been confused but she covered it well. She was trying to fight the heartless inside her and Marrissa wished with every fiber of her existence that she could give her strength to Anko to help her. It wasn't right that Anko had to battle alone, if only…

"Hello? I'm still here you know. Remember me? Planning world conquest and all that good stuff?" Zenshire mocked.

Tami turned towards him again, thinking she'd rather give him the spiritlock through his stomach. Keshia felt tears of frustration, anger, and helplessness threaten to burst from her eyes as well.

Marrissa couldn't take it anymore. Throwing her spear aside she ran up to Anko and hugged her from behind. Anko stared surprised, not sure if Zenshire wanted her to cut open the third Hokage's throat or not. Before anyone could say anything a great burst of blue light erupted from Marrissa's chest, engulfing her and Anko in blue flames. She heard Keshia's scream of terror and Tami's cry. She heard Sora's call and Sasuke's surprised gasp. She even heard Zenshire muttering a curse under his breath, but these sounds were all in the background. Her soul purpose was to help Anko. The flames weren't burning her they were pleasantly warm, like a hug or a mug of coco. It's an impossible sensation to find words for the feeling of safety was surrounding her and whispering in her ear. The flames were hers. She knew, not exactly sure how she knew but, she knew. Let Tami have her spiritlock. She called to Anko, willed her to fight on. Marrissa called on Anko's warrior spirit, and she felt it respond.

Anko became aware of the heat on her back. A taste like sprite soda filled her mouth. She felt a veil of darkness around her heart. She tried to push it away but she was tired, so very, very tired. What was the point? How she longed to sleep, to let the shadow stay there. She began to close her eyes, just let go. Silence really was peaceful, she had no responsibilities. She sat in silence a moment when suddenly heat swelled within her. She was on fire! The flames were a dancing cerulean color, enveloping her body. Images played across her mind, Genma and her partying on Saturday night, he'd ended up waking outside in the snow with only her nightgown on. She wanted that back. Her and Hayate training so hard they didn't even realize it was dark out until they couldn't see each other anymore. She remembered Lord Hokage consoling her about her old teacher Orochimaru. He had taken her in, no one else was willing sure that she'd betray them all. Now she had earned their trust. She had worked hard to become an elite ninja, she wouldn't be defeated now! Not when Konoha needed her the most. She had responsibilities to the people she cared about, she could hear their voices now, calling out to her. She began to fight again, and together with the flames she was able to burn the shadow creature from her heart.

Everyone stared transfixed no one could see anyone inside the fire. Even Zenshire was stopped short. It seemed like ages the fire burned, no one made a sound. The snow stopped falling altogether. The only light was the reflection of the sun off of the moon, and the bonfire where their friends and sister used to be standing. Finally the flames died, the smoke cleared, and the dust settled. There was a thump as something hit the ground that made everyone jump. When they could see into the circle they saw an inspiring sight. No it wasn't pikachu. They saw Anko on her knees, her arms draped across Marrissa's shoulders. The kunai knife lay by her feet and Lord Hokage had his hand on Anko's head.

"What?" Zenshire stared shocked, then he got angry, "what are you doing? You're under my control!"

"No she's not!" Keshia growled. Zenshire whirled around, Keshia, Tami, Sora, Izumo, and Kotetsu were standing around him in a crude circle. They weren't overly concerned with the perfection of it. Their math teachers would cry. Oh well, I can tell you honestly that math teachers feelings were the last things on their minds. They were tired, mad, exhausted, and mad. Did I already say that? Well either way those aren't ideal combinations. All weapons were raised. Quickly he stepped into the shadows of the wall, disappearing.

"Darn it," Sora muttered, "he escaped… again. Why can't it ever just be a clean sweep? The bad guy always has to have one last trick."

"What are you going to do?" Tami shrugged.

"Anko?" Ibiki was shaking the unconscious ninja, "Anko wake up!"

Sora walked over and knelt by her side, then realized he probably made a mistake in doing so. It wasn't likely he would be getting up again of his own free will. Marrissa was supporting Anko awkwardly, the older woman was a lot heavier than Keshia. Tami stood behind Sora's shoulder and leaned over, "why won't she wake up?"

"I think… I think the darkness is still there. We have to…" Sora seemed to struggle to explain what he meant.

He was silent for a while, "we have to what?" Keshia snapped frustrated.

"We have to create a seal on her heart girl," Donald snapped back, "so the darkness can't reform."

Sora nodded. "Don't call me 'girl'," Keshia said.

"Can you do that with that fire Marrissa?" Sasuke asked.

Marrissa looked up she was still trying to grasp what had happened, "fire? I don't even know how I made it come… but I'm sure it was from me… I don't think I can create a seal though."

The third Hokage draped his coat over Anko's shoulders. Kakashi picked up Sakura and Iruka picked up Naruto. They all stared at the pale faced warrior, unsure how they could help her.

"What?" Sora looked down at the keyblade. An unfelt wind was forcing the key chains to rattle rapidly.

"Hey!" Tami protested as the spiritlock jerked upwards of its own accords. A bright red light shot from the point, straight at Anko's chest. She breathed in heavily then opened her eyes timidly. She took in her surroundings and growled.

"What are you all looking at!"

Everyone laughed at the confused expression on her face.

Three hours later every single heartless in the entire city had been destroyed. To say that everyone was tired wouldn't do it justice. To say they couldn't lift their heads off their pillows might hit closer to home. Keshia groaned, "I have never been this sore, not even when I ran the mile at school without stopping."

Marrissa wasn't awake to hear her complaining or she'd have hit her over the head. Keshia was lying face down in the couch muttering into a pillow. She'd been asleep for fourteen hours then woke up. They were in the gummy ship which had been transferred to Konohagakure's main square. She was the only one awake everyone else was in their rooms. She turned over, ignoring the ache and cramps that accompanied the motion. If she'd had the energy to do so she would have thrown the pillow out of boredom.

They had gotten back to Lord Hokage's after the battle and everyone had collapsed around the huge room. There was no time for rest though as the entire population of Konoha showed up to demand what had happened. Lord Hokage had told them everything he could, leaving out small parts about the spiritlock. Angry cries rang out when he told of how Anko let the heartless in but they settled down to whispers as he told of how she had been possessed. He was very patient with them, Keshia remembered wanting to slap some of them. She smiled though when she remembered Kotetsu and Izumo throwing buckets of water on the unsuspecting villagers. She had overheard them planning on doing something similar when she had eavesdropped on their conversation on the way to the Hokage's. They had stood on the roof and threw two buckets a piece, their greatest trick ever. They were to be punished severely. Lord Hokage finished what he was saying and dismissed the villagers, taking Kotetsu and Izumo aside. While he was doing that they'd tried to guess what had happened with Marrissa and the flames and then abandoned that for the subject of Tami and the spiritlock. They had no answer to either. Finally to tired to talk anymore everyone had just fallen asleep.

When they woke up they ate some ramen. Naruto had waken up in the middle of the meal wanting to know what had happened. When they told him he stared at the ground for a long time and didn't talk. Then finally he had run off, they hadn't seen him since. Sakura and Sasuke had bolted after him but they didn't know if they had caught him. Anko had felt terrible about what she'd done, but she also realized it wasn't her fault. She, Iruka, Ibiki, Genma, and Hayate had all gone home. Kakashi had waited an hour before going off to find his students. Donald and Goofy had run to get the gummy ship and everyone moved back in there. Beyond that Keshia just remembered waking up in her bedroom thinking, where am I and why am I in pain?

Once her mind cleared she had punched the pillow of her bed in anger. Then she had cried out in pain from the… well from the pain. No one else had woken up. She had managed to stumble into the living room and sit on the couch. She had not yet motivated herself to get beyond this point. Food is in the kitchen, she tried to inspire herself to get up, plus your stomach rumbling is going to wake everyone up. Don't think about how Zenshire could just walk in and cut you in half at this point in time and you couldn't do a thing about it. I told you not to think that now go eat! She thought about ignoring her inner voice but then her will to eat and live outweighed her will to sit there and die. Curse logic. She maneuvered her legs out from under her and glowered at the sharp intake of breath she took as she got up on her feet. Thankfully they held out beneath her. One step down! … Only twenty three to go… shoot. But hey who's counting? She looked over her shoulder to see if her clumsy stumbling had awakened her companions. Now let me tell you something, Keshia used to get up every Saturday morning at five to watch cartoons. In all modesty she was good at sneaking around quietly however… looking over your shoulder while you're still moving forward leads to… unfortunate accidents.

Tami awoke to a loud crash from the lobby. She jerked up in her bed and groaned as her body quaked with pain. She ached all over. She moved her arm experimentally and found that the action caused a spasm to shoot up it and our conclusion, ouch. She forced herself out of bed, sure they were being assaulted. She hated walking maybe crawling would be less painful. The cuts she had burned slightly, the one on her shoulder bumped her door frame and she cursed Zenshire to the pits of a very bad place. She was entitled though. She peeked out of her door, the spiritlock drawn. She saw Keshia lying on the ground in the living room area. Thinking someone had struck her she ran out into the room, one of the most painful things she had ever experienced and looked around. The most dangerous looking thing in the room was Marrissa's socks, "Keshia what happened? Don't tell me you fell on your face?"

Keshia looked up, rubbing her nose, "good morning Tami, nothings wrong and I won't tell you I fell on my face."

"Then what happened?"

"You told me not to tell you," she muttered getting up, "people who spend their lives reading and drawing, all of which are non active activities, shouldn't do that much physical labor."

Tami was too groggy to even try to understand her. Unable to will herself back into the bedroom she plopped on the couch thankful she didn't miss and meet the floor. Keshia was making her way towards the kitchen muttering something about 'missing her shows' and 'starving' and 'only nineteen more steps.' Sora walked out, curious about all the noise, "what's going on?"

"Keshia fell on her face," Tami supplied. Sora laughed.

"You have no proof! I never actually said I did," Keshia replied defensively between Sora's laugh. Finally giving up she headed for the kitchen again, moving a little faster, "better get this over with."

"Little sore?" Sora inquired to Tami, sitting next to her on the couch.

She nodded, "let's just say we didn't usually spend all day fighting little heart eating creatures from different worlds."

"Oh, well in case you weren't aware of it I didn't spend every day doing that either. Come to think of it back then I kind of sucked. I practiced sword techniques and got in practice fights with my friends, Riku was the best he…" Sora cut off suddenly. He'd been getting excited but the mention of his friend's name still seemed painful.

"Was Riku better than you?" Tami prodded, wanting to get to know him better.

Sora made a face, "better? He certainly thought so. I was the only one who actually gave him a run for his money that's for sure. Waya, Selphie, and Tidus all ganged up on him but they lost! Of course I could take the three of them too. Kairi would always be judge, she didn't like fighting."

Tami smiled at the soft tones in his voice, "my friends usually didn't like fighting, even though some of them were pretty violent."

"Cough, Silver, cough!" Could be heard from the kitchen. They laughed and fell silent, both thinking of their friends and family they missed so much. Tami even had to admit she missed Damon (her arch nemesis) and Dad.

Keshia walked back into the room, grimacing only once when her foot hit the ground wrong. She had a steaming bowl of fruit. They were brown and orange circles similar to the ones Cid had given them. Taking one between her hands and sitting down on one of the chairs Keshia was able to enjoy the warmth coming off of it before she took a bite. It was soft and tasted like a steamed apple almost. She smiled, life was good. Donald walked out then and headed for the cockpit, "I'm going to do a systems check on the gummy ship. As soon as you seal the keyhole we can head for the next world."

Sora nodded, having completely forgot about the keyhole. Stopping an upcoming war between two ninja nations, defeating the bad guy, and saving the girl (she'd kill him if he referred to her as a damsel) often take up a lot of your thoughts, leaving no room to think about why you were there in the first place. A knock at the door turned everyone's thoughts back to the present. Sora got up (he was the only one willing to get up at that point) and opened it. Naruto stood their looking uncomfortable, "can I talk to Tami for a minute, if she isn't still sleeping?"

Immediately Tami stood up and made her way to the door. She nodded at Sora as she stepped outside, "be right back."

Keshia stared after her as the door closed, "that's the most happy she's ever been about seeing a guy."

Naruto and Tami walked to a small bench by the edge of the square and sat down. They sat in silence a minute before Naruto spoke, "so I guess you're leaving soon huh?"

"Yes, as soon as Sora seals the keyhole here we have to go to the next world. We have to find a way to get my world back to normal," Tami responded.

Naruto looked shocked, "you… your world was…!"

She looked over startled, "I never told you? Why did you think we were traveling with Sora?"

He shrugged, "no clue. So that Zenshire person we fought… he'll probably attack you guys again right?"

She nodded solemnly. Zenshire's name gave her stomach a weird jolt. How on earth did he know all those things about them? How could he have known how Sora felt towards Riku? And why was the guy wearing Levi jeans?

"I… I think I know where the keyhole might be…"

Tami looked over surprised, "you do! That's great you have to tell us!"

"Well I'm not 100 sure but I think it's the ninja academy, behind the blackboard. I've always felt a flow of chakra coming from it but no one else believed me," Naruto shrugged.

Tami looked in his eyes you'd think he'd be a little more excited about this, "what's wrong Naruto?"

"Why are you still talking to me Tami? Don't you hate me too?" He whispered, not daring to meet her eyes.

"Hate you? Why on earth would I hate you?"

Was his hand shaking? "I have the nine tailed fox demon in my body. I almost killed you and everyone else… besides… almost everyone in the village hates me."

Tami remembered how they had falsely accused him of letting the heartless in. She guessed not one of them had apologized to him, "Naruto I'm not everyone in your village. I could never hate someone… just because they're different."

He looked over at her and finally met her eyes, "because they're different?"

She nodded, "I like wolves, a lot. They're amazing creatures. I think differently then a lot of people where I come from too. They used to make fun of me at school and call me wolf girl and howl at me and my friend Silver as we walked down the halls and stuff. They made fun of me because I was different from them, I know how it feels, I could never do that to someone else Naruto. Besides, you're my friend right?"

He smiled slowly, "you better believe it!"

When they went back inside they found their friends engrossed in a perilous battle of whits. That means they were playing go fish. Sora, Keshia, Donald, Goofy, and Marrissa were all awaked. Somehow a friendly game of go fish had started, now it was war. Marrissa's eyes roved over her cards. Then she jerked her head up and studied the faces of her opponents, "Keshia!"

Keshia jerked at the sound of her name. Marrissa smiled maliciously, "got any threes?"

Keshia studied her hand. Her eyes met Marrissa's and an evil smirk alighted on her face, "go fish."

Marrissa muttered under her breath as she drew a four from the pile. Sometimes fate is mean. Sora laughed, "your turn Keshia."

Without hesitation Keshia turned to Donald, "got a jack?"

Donald turned a lovely shade of magenta under his feathers and he threw his cards on the ground angrily, "I asked you if you had a jack the other turn and you said no girl, you're a liar!"

"I just drew it!"

He said a couple more incoherent words and stormed out of the room. Keshia pouted, "I only just drew the stupid jack. It happens in cards jeez. Sore looser."

"I heard that!" Donald yelled shrilly from his bedroom.

"Sore looser duck!" Keshia yelled, then she hung her head and sighed, "he makes me sound like a child when I talk to him."

Marrissa laughed, "you're a child all the time!"

"Nuh uh."

Naruto and Tami sat down on the couch. Tami tugged on Sora's sleeve excitedly, "Naruto thinks he knows where the keyhole is Sora!"

He looked over startled, "what?"

"The keyhole, he thinks it's behind the blackboard at his school!" She persisted.

He grinned, "yes! That saves us a days search!"
All there heads jerked as someone knocked on the door again. Goofy got up to answer it , the third Hokage, Iruka, Kakashi, Sasuke, and Sakura stood there. Upon seeing Naruto Sasuke scowled and Sakura sighed, "we've been looking everywhere for you Naruto!"

He crossed his arms and looked at the ground, glaring as if he meant to bore a hole through it. He was very set on not meeting their eyes. "Uh, come in?" Goofy invited.

They all came in and found seats around the room except Sasuke, who remand standing. Kakashi sat next to Naruto and ruffled his hair, "glad you're feeling better."

Naruto scowled but didn't push his hand away, "of course I'm fine!"
The lord Hokage sighed affectionately then turned to Sora, "sound has restored their leader to his position. No one knows what became of Zenshire. My people suffered few casualties thankfully but the damage to the city has yet to be fully calculated."

Marrissa looked at the ground, "I'm sorry, it must be hard to loose your houses and have to clean them up."

"No need to apologize, if it weren't for you we would have lost even more. I'm grateful for that. Anyway not a single heartless has been spotted."

Sora rubbed the back of his neck, "they'll come back if I don't seal the keyhole."

"Do you have any idea where that even is?" Sakura asked, "if it's one of the main areas of Konohagakure than I can tell you the most influential landmarks."

"Actually we think it's behind the blackboard at Naruto's school," Tami told them.

"Why would you suspect it's behind the blackboard?" Iruka asked startled.

"Naruto thinks it's there."

Sasuke shot Naruto a strange expression. Kakashi looked at Naruto interested, "what makes you believe that Naruto?"

Naruto sighed, "because of all the chakra coming from it. There's more than lord Hokage behind it but no one else has said anything."

Iruka thought a moment, "I remember Naruto asking me something about a lot of chakra in the board when he was younger but I didn't think anything of it. I figured him to young to sense anyone's chakra, especially if he was sensing it from an object. I've never sensed anything myself and no one else has mentioned anything."

Naruto sighed, "see? Now everyone thinks I'm crazy."

"Let me check it out anyway," Sora shrugged, "who knows with keyholes."

So they walked to the school. Naruto was talking to Sakura and Sasuke so Tami kept pace with Sora, "um… Sora?"

"Hmm?"

"Why do you think the spiritlock zapped Anko?" She asked.

He put his hands behind his head, "I've been thinking about that. I'm not sure but remember what Donald said about sealing her heart from the darkness? Well I think your spiritlock kind of sealed her heart like my keyblade seals a world."

"You think so?"

"It's just a guess."

"How come everything seems to be a guess with us?" She replied sarcastically.

He shrugged, his feet crunching the snow. He breathed in deeply and shivered, "did you know it was usually pretty warm where I come from? We lived by the beach."

Tami smiled. They arrived at the academy and Iruka led them to his classroom. The hallways were along the outside of the school and there was a grouping of trees to there left. Iruka opened the sliding door and everyone filed inside. Keshia shivered, "I hate classrooms. That's one thing I don't miss, school."

Sora looked at the blackboard and brought out the keyblade, "there's a pulling vibration coming from it, I think this is it. Stand back, sometimes there's a big heartless that guards them."

Everyone stood back as the keyblade began to glow and shake. The classroom was pretty big so they backed up into the desk. Goofy looked confused, "the keyblade's acting pretty weird."

"You're right, shouldn't it start locking it by now?" Donald muttered.

Sora gripped the keyblade with both hands and tried to steady it as a beam of blue neon light shot out and hit the center of the blackboard. Several people gasped as something began to come forth from the board. They all drew weapons and waited as it took form. It wasn't a heartless, it was a woman. She had long flowing blond hair and light blue eyes. She was wearing a long white dress that hugged her chest and fell loosely down to her ankles and a pair of white dress shoes. The neon beam disappeared and she gasped, "where am I?"

Gold: Don't kill me, the ending spot was too perfect. He, he, now things are starting to get interesting right? Hey, are you asleep? Wake up! Hey, no, don't leave! I know it's the end but… oh… you'll be back… and you'll review? Yay! I love reviews! If I get enough reviews I'll update again before summer, if you guys hate me then you can throw stuff at your computer and not review. Are the chapters too long? Do you have opinions? I know you're out there! Okay, you can go now…