Author's Notes:
You'll have to forgive me guys, but I had to put minor fluff and a strong sex scene in this chapter. All this drama and angst can get to a girl and well…I needed my sexy! Anywho, there you are: a warning, cause it gets a little hot further down the chapter. I really hope you enjoy this chapter…and please…I'm sick of Kairi trying to hide under my bed. No chasing her after you read this…pretty please::Pleas fall on deaf ears:: On with the story!

Sephiroth's Guide to Love and Deception
Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Beast Within One's Ravenous Heart (Pt. 1)

"Riku?" Sora called softly, and Riku snapped out of his deep train of thought, taking a deep breath but still saying nothing. There had been five minutes of silence between the pair since he'd asked his question and Riku had yet to answer. "What where you guys talking about? Tell me…what did you mean when you said Kairi tried messing us up before?"

Riku stared at him, not knowing really what to do. On the one hand, he was practically throwing a parade in his head that the subject had come up at all, especially from Sora but then again…Sora could simply not believe him either and this could further drive a wedge between the pair.

"Sora…it's complicated," he began softly and Sora shook his head. "Fine Riku. It's complicated. Explain it to me then. What happened that I'm not remembering? And why are you hesitating to tell me?"

"I'm…trying not to Zo," Riku admitted. "It's just that…I have no idea if you'll believe me and with Axel being…out of it recently…there would be no one to back me up right now even if I did."

"Oh," Sora nodded before glaring at Riku harshly. "I don't care. Tell me anyway."

"Sora--"

"My memories Riku!" Sora snapped, finally sounding as angry as he felt. "These are my memories that someone is playing around with! And I want to know why! What happened?! And tell me everything Riku!"

"I don't know what's happened to you recently," Riku snapped, honestly before calming down--he hated it when Sora got short with him. "But…fine. Back a few years ago, you and I started going out. And then…I thought you were cheating on me with a guy and I broke up with you. You moved away because of it, I think and I didn't see you for years."

Riku paused and Sora nodded. "Okay…go on."

"Well when you came back, you were still pissed at me about it, but over time and with some divine intervention known as your sister, we finally got back on good terms. However, it wasn't until Kairi started messing around with Axel--"

"Messing around…wait, isn't that her cousin," Sora cried, making a disgusted face and Riku smirked. "No, you dummy, not like that. I mean she started to bother him Sora--she started messing up things between him and your cousin Roxas. He got angry so he corned the guy I thought you were cheating on me with…and got him to confess everything. He recorded the entire event with his cell phone and he let you listen to it. You got mad at Kairi and told her off…but somehow, you guys stayed friends."

Sora blinked at him. "So…what exactly…did she do Riku?"

"She asked that guy--Zexion--and a friend at the time, to break us up Sora. I talked to her about how I felt…about you…because I thought she and I were still best friends. I didn't know she liked you too and might use it against me. She learned everything and all of my fears about going out with you. And she used them against me and got this guy to kiss you just in time for me to see it. I got so pissed--and she was trying to comfort me so I thought you were actually…and I completely overreacted and dumped you at lunch."

He looked away from Sora. "I still regret it."

Sora watched Riku for a moment then nodded. "So…she set you up so that…we'd break up? Just…so she could try and date me?"

"…Yeah," Riku replied softly and Sora nodded softly, taking a seat on his own bed, his hands between his lap. "I…don't know what to say about that."

Riku remained silent. "I mean…you could be lying…I could say you were. But…you and Axel didn't know I was there, listening to you so you had no reason to do that, just for me to hear."

'Oh thank god he's not that naïve anymore,' Riku sighed mentally.

"I…don't know what to say Riku. If this is true…then…what else has she done?" Sora whispered softly, looking as though he was in troubled thought. Riku shook his head and hunched. "I don't know what else has happened Sora…"

"Were we going out," Sora demanded softly, looking at Riku with pleading eyes and he paused, confused. "Before…I lost my memories? You and I…did we have some thing or had we broken up again by that point?"

"We were still together," Riku announced softly and Sora seemed to look troubled again before he got up and headed for his door. "Sora…"

"I need to talk to Namine," Sora replied softly back and Riku looked alarmed. Wasn't she the one that lied to him in the first place? "Sora!"

"I'll be back Riku! Just wait for me at your house, okay?" Sora announced fretfully and he ran down the hall, past his sister and a few others that were sitting around the low living room coffee table and out the door.

"What was that about?" Tidus asked bewildered before Riku came charging down the stairs. "Sora! Wait! She may have lied to you and still might!" he snapped as he too went out the front door, leaving it wide open.

"Aww, the power of romance," Ri sighed playfully as she walked over to the door and shut it, before taking a seat with everyone else.

She looked over their plans again before nodding and looking up at the rest of the group. "Okay Wakka, what's the word from Zexion?"

"He's bout done with that replica-thing," he admitted, before looking puzzled. "But why does he even need it Ri?"

"To further put that little brat in a hole she can't get out of…and tell Sora everything he needs to know to make things…difficult to ignore," she admitted before snickering and adding. "But that's all I can say, kay?"

"Fine, fine, gotcha," Wakka whistled and Selphie raised her hand. "Girl, this isn't school, just ask," Ri laughed and blushing a little, she complied. "So…since she probably thinks that Wakka at least set her up, what should we all do?"

"Play along with it," Ri announced. "If she suspects all of you, Selphie, you're her best friend so you'll know how to get around her defenses and at least, make it seem like you weren't involved. Tidus--"

"Doesn't care what she thinks or says," the dirty haired blond admitted, scribbling down the part of his plans under a heading that said 'Axel's B-Day Bash'.

"And I can try n talk myself out of it, but if she won't bite, I won't worry bout it, my jobs done anywho," Wakka replied and Ri nodded. "But Selphie, you've got to say in her good graces, since you're the spy into the mind that is Kairi. What her actions so if she tries anything stupid, we'll want to be prepared, get me?"

"Got you!" she nodded and then it was Tidus' turn. "Okay, a few questions: Should we keep the idea for Axel's 'big' gift now that they've broken up and he's acting mental. Should we try to recreate what happened at my party via Riku and Sora and finally, should we have spiked punch? Regardless?"

"Hmm, yeah, let's keep the idea, just in case we can get Ax back to normal by his party, I'll get back to you on that because Seph said he wanted Sora and Riku to be sober if they did that again to avoid any confusion or bad reactions and yeah. Strawberry punch please. But something not so bad, no need to be shitfaced."

"Then why spike it?" Tidus teased but nodded, taking the notes down. "Oh yeah, Zexion said call him when you get the chance today. Something about that replica thing."

"When was this?"

"Ten minutes ago, when someone called," Tidus admitted and Ri glared. "Then why didn't you say anything?" Tidus hunched. "Wakka was delivering Zexion related news so I just assumed."

"Don't…strain yourself," Ri sighed as she picked up her cell phone and dialing in the number quickly, waited only a few seconds before Demyx answered.

"Hello?"

"Hey Demy baby, let me speak to Zexion?" she cooed and laughing Demyx complied. She could hear him calling out to the short, silver haired boy before he finally answered the phone.

"It took you long enough to call back," he muttered coolly and Ri rolled her eyes. "Yeah, yeah, I know you love to hear my voice."

Zexion scuffed and Ri snickered. "So what did you need."

"I decided to call you back with my progress because I'm sure that buffoon wouldn't relay the message properly," he announced and Ri looked over at Wakka and snickered, the Blitzball player glaring back at her, knowing something had been said about him.

"The replica of Kairi is completely done--visually. I have yet to add all of her memories," he continued. "Given that you don't want me to add any of her childhood memories, I'm almost completely done with her. Namine did well with copying Kairi's memories of events from her recent years and they're easily transferring nicely."

"And she included everything, even whatever might have happened to Sora recently?"

"Yes…and I must say, I think you'll find the events…anger inducing," he mumbled and Ri frowned. "What happened to my little brother?"

"…I'll let 'Kairi' explain it to you," he replied softly and for once, he sounded worried. Ri remained silent before taking a breath and nodding softly. "Fine. When will it be ready."

"By tomorrow," Zexion admitted and Ri nodded. "Good, send her to Sephiroth when your done with her."

"Excellent, I'll wrap a bow around her neck," he replied sarcastically and hung up, Ri jotting a note down before hanging up her own phone, no longer looking amused.

"Rikku, what is it?" Selphie asked softly and Ri simply hunched. "Something's wrong…Kairi might have done something to Sora after all…pissed."

"Ohh," the trio all said in unison, nodding, and the quad all got back to jotting notes until Ri gave a long sigh and putting her pad on the table and tossing her pen on it, she headed for the stairs.

"Hey Ri, what's up?" Wakka called after her in confusion and she hunched. "Need some air, going on my roof. You guys keep it up and don't let my parents see, mom will freak and DiZ will give a two hour speech about 'friends' again."

They all laughed and she even cracked a bit of a smile before she continued into her room, sliding the window open and slipping through it, climbed the rest of the short distance to her roof.

She sat Indian style once she found her spot, leaning against the tall brick chimney and frowning, began to broad.

"Something is on your mind, yes?" a soft voice called and she felt a butterfly in her stomach flutter as she looked up to see Vincent standing a small distance away from her, a gentle smile on his features. She nodded and patted a seat next to her, Vincent taking her up on the invention and sitting right next to her, knees drawn up.

Ri didn't mind though. She still leaned over and rested her head on his shoulders, making the strange crimson and black clad young man caress her hair with his other free hand.

"It's about my brother, Sora. I'm really worried about what might have been done to him," she admitted with a deep sigh and Vincent simply closed his eyes. "Did you not express to me that you and your brother's lover were dealing with such a matter?"

"Yeah Vin…but…it's not that," she admitted regrettable and he stayed silent, waiting for her to finish. "It's that…if Kairi did do something to Sora…something bad…then I'm gonna feel a hell of lot more guilty. I've always been around, you know, to protect him. It's kinda a thing in my family: Cloud protected me, then I protect Sora. But if Kairi did succeed in hurting him--again--she did right under my nose.

"Again."

She sighed miserably. "I don't know if I can live with that Vin. Other than wanting to see Ku and Sora happy again, the only other reason I got involved with trying to get them back together the first time was because I felt responsible for not being there when Sora needed me."

Vincent stroked her hair softly before resting his own head on her own. "Rikku,"

She shivered, man did she love it when he said that!

"You mustn't blame yourself for Kairi's discretions. Yes, perhaps you feel as though there was something more that you could have done but you must remember: you, nor anyone else, had any idea how the girl's true nature was. You could not have known what she would have done."

"Yeah, but that just makes me feel worse if she's gotten away with it again," Ri replied, whining a little and Vincent chuckled. "Love can make fools of us all: some more foolish than others. If you are to take blame, then I must take it as well."

"Vincent…"

"I am the one that has been preoccupying your time from your duties, therefore, it is as much my responsibility as it is yours. If you must feel guilt, than I shall feel it all the same."

"Vin, I don't want to you feel guilty," Ri whispered and Vincent raised her face to meet his gaze. "Then you mustn't dwell on the past and the mistakes that transpired there. You must only concentrate on what you may do to correct such mistakes now. No one can fault you if you try Rikku."

She smiled at him and leaning in, planted a firm kiss on his lips, seeing stars once again. They broke apart for only moments, simply staring into one another's eyes…before they slowly moved in again, Vincent caressing her right cheek with his clawed hand gently, amazed to himself that the girl was still unflinching at something he found so--monstrous--before the pair shared another, passionate kiss, forgetting the world around them and entering a private sanctuary of their own.


"Kairi?"

He heard a soft growl from the other end of the receiver. "Oh now what do you want Roxas? Axel still won't come out of room, being a big jackass of a baby and all…"

"This isn't about Axel, sort of," Roxas snapped, trying to make his anger die down at her unconcern for her own cousin. Really, he would be thrilled when all this stuff with Sora blew up in her face.

"For the last time Roxas, I don't know anything then!" Kairi snapped on the other end. "He won't tell us anything yet, even if he is letting mom sit in his room!"

'Well at least he's allowing company,' Roxas thought fleetingly before he thought carefully of where he wanted to take this conversation. He was sitting on a bench, right across the street from their academy, waiting. He had a course of action already but knew there would be no point of even attempting getting expelled if he didn't know who's stuff he was looking for.

He knew Kairi knew the professor that had abducted Axel: she herself stated that she was there when one of them had taken him.

He just wanted to know which one.

And since she was being less than helpful, it seemed he would have to use her all powerful yet well know weakness against her: Sora.

"I'm not wanting to talk to Axel right now anyway," Roxas muttered bitterly. He was still pissed that he had to hear a majority of what was going on from Riku instead of Axel. "Actually…I just want to know what professor came to get him--"

"Can't help you," Kairi snapped automatically and Roxas narrowed his eyes at the phone before taking a breath and put on the best 'fake concern' voice he could muster. "And here I was thinking that you actually cared about my cousin."

There was a pause of silence. "What are you talking about?"

'Gotcha bitch,' Roxas thought triumphantly to himself as he continued. "Didn't he tell you Kairi? Sora found out that Axel was getting private lessons--rumor is that they're fighting lessons and that's why Axel's been a wreck, cause the guy beat him up pretty bad. Sora decided that he would sign up for the classes too--"

"He can't do that!" Kairi shrieked. "Professor Saix might hurt him!"

'Bingo,' Roxas smirked inwardly but replied confused and weary. "Professor Saix?"

"He's nuts," Kairi cried. "H-he had those things done to him and it made him crazy and if he goes near Sora--"

"Whoa, whoa, WHOA!" Roxas gasped, feeling his heart beat skip. "What the hell are you talking about Kairi?"

"I have to go stop Sora--Axel was one thing but I don't want anything happening to Sora!" she shrieked in fear and Roxas felt his blood freeze. "Wait…you knew what was going to happen?"

Click.

He sat there in shock, letting the dead silence fill his ear until finally, the phone signaled the other party had hung up, Roxas flipping his own cell phone shut before getting to his feet and quickly jogging toward the school.

'Did…she have something to do with this too?' Roxas thought bitterly, getting angrier the faster his feet carried him through the courtyard, up the stairs, and finally, through the halls.

'How does she know so much about him?' he thought, grinding his teeth in rage now, his ocean blue eyes filling with hot tears. 'How could she let something--whatever it was--happen to her own cousin? Family? Does she really hate Axel that--'

"Young man?"

Roxas slid to the stop, blinking his tears away and looking flabbergast as he spun around---and had to stare down. "…Headmaster?"

Professor Mickey smiled cheerfully at him, bowing his head a little in recognition. "Why are you still roaming the halls Roxas?"

'He knows who I am?'

"The school has been out for a few hours now…may I ask what you're doing here? And especially in front of my office?" Mickey asked with concern and Roxas eyes shifted toward the large wooden door with the school's crest embedded on it, with gold. 'Oh! So it's in the shape of his head…,' he thought amused before nodding a little and address the small mouse in front of him.

"Um…it's a motto of the school that you'll sit and speak with all students if they have concerns, right?" he asked hopefully and Mickey smiled, nodding. "Why certainly! Though it must be very important if you've come to see me in out of school hours. Please! Come in my office."

With that, he walked up to the door, Roxas not even beginning to try to figure out why the doors were opening by themselves. "Follow me."

Roxas did as he was told, looking around the large space--it was surreal. He, nor too many people he knew, had ever been to the headmaster's office. It was a large, oval room with the entire back wall being a tall bookcase, filled with volumes upon tomes of books. He had a large, oak desk that frankly, looked to big for him, with neat stacks of papers on top of it, a filing hold, and a ink well complete with feather pen resting in it.

'He still uses those?' Roxas thought softly to himself before jumping as a pair of mops hop-danced past him, both caring arms--arms?--full of water in buckets.

"What in the--"

"Don't mind them, they're just mopping the floors as usual," Mickey laughed as the pair went for the double doors and left the office. "This academy is so large, it would take hours for people to actually do it. So Deputy Headmaster Yen Sid enchanted all the mops in the school to do it themselves."

"…Oh."

"Please, take a seat," Mickey offered with his hand, and Roxas sat down on a large, plushy (and very comfortable) wine red chair, sitting right across the desk from Mickey, who took his own seat. He placed his elbows on the wood, leaning forward and resting his chin on his linked hands, waiting for Roxas to speak.

'Bet he's on books' Roxas thought absently before taking Mickey's silence as a cue to speak, so he did.

"I need to ask you about your special, disciplinary detentions," Roxas began and Mickey immediately frowned in confusion but said nothing. "A friend of mine got suspended out of school about a week or two ago and he was placed in special, after school hours disciplinary detention sessions because of it and I was wondering--"

" Wait, I'm afraid, I'm not understanding you," Mickey cut in, frowning further in confusion. "After school hours disciplinary classes?"

"Yeah," Roxas frowned. "He got signed up for these special session and I wanted to know how you qualified and where the professor lives."

"But that's just it Roxas," Mickey replied in worry. "We don't have disciplinary sessions."

Roxas froze. "You…don't?"

"Why no," Mickey continued. "We only have detentions--in school---,out of school suspensions, and expulsion. We haven't and never had, any types of disciplinary classes, let alone out of school."

The room grew quiet for a moment and just as Roxas was about to continue, the doors burst open and Professor Donald burst in, looking angry "Headmaster Mickey! Goofy has, once again, added to much Fairy Dust to the---"

"Oh not again," Mickey cried, springing from his seat and quickly dashing after the duck, who was already out of the room and back towards the science lab where even Roxas could hear Professor Goofy's trademark yell and Yen Sid fussing loudly.

"I'll return as quickly as I can Roxas, just sit tight!" Mickey called before shutting the door behind him.

"Sorry professor but I've never been good at 'just sitting tight'," Roxas muttered to himself as he quickly went around the desk and opened the first file cabinet, looking through folders and files.

He thought that maybe he could get some insight on the program but if the headmaster wasn't even aware of Saix having come and taken Axel…then this was something that was clearly over his head and out of his control.

And Roxas would just have to get answers from the 'horses mouth' so to speak.

"Come on, come on," he muttered, slamming another drawer closed and opening another. "Bingo! Huh, wonder why he doesn't lock these," Roxas muttered as he looked through the alphabetically filled names of each student, then as he hoped, professor. "There's Luxord, Demyx--he's still in here?--and…Saix!"

He slammed the cabinet shut, putting the file under his shirt and swiftly left the room just being missed by Mickey by a matter of seconds.

The headmaster looked around the room confused, Yen Sid following him close behind. "He's…gone."

"And your files have been tampered with," Yen Sid frowned in disapproval and Mickey looked at the small statue of himself and his wife, Minnie, just going into a twirl. His nose was glowing a light red.

"Hmmm…how many students were suspended in the last two weeks Yen Sid?"

"Just three amazingly:" Yen Sid announced, going straight to the desk and pilling out a small folder and opening it, reading it's contents. "Beast, Prince: for enticing and fighting with another student. Pan, Peter: for flying around the girls room and pulling up their skirts. And Doss, Axel: for fighting with another student in class."

"I see…Yen Sid, I believe we need to contact all of these students parents."

"If you do not mind me asking, why?"

"I do not. I'll going to check my files to see what Roxas stole out of it…if it's what I think it is…a professor's file…then we'll have our culprit. And if he was speaking the truth about these rouge classes…then the parents will be able to inform us of which student had them and we can take proper legal action from there."


"I can't thank you enough again Sephiroth," Namine smiled gratefully. They'd left Marluxia at the hospital with Xaldin, who had sworn to watch over and protect him while she went home and got some much needed rest. "It's been so long since I've even seen his eyes--I was beginning to think he'd never…"

She got quiet for a moment, sniffling softly and Sephiroth only glared at her with mild contempt. He hated people showing such…weakness. And this girl did it so often it was beginning to anger him. "It is nothing. For your role in our little agreement, I've kept my end of the deal. Nothing more, nothing less."

"I know," she sniffled sheepishly, whipping her eyes quickly and taking a seat beside him on her couch, handing him a small cup of tea. He glared at it before glaring at her, and Namine quickly began sipping it, pretending she'd never even offered.

"But I'm just so thankful for your help. You're the first outside person that has actually ever been able to aid us and…after he heals up a little better, than he'll be able to tell the police what happened."

She smiled gratefully at Sephiroth. "You may not understand--or even care--how much you've aided us but please know that I feel forever in your debt." On instinct, she reached over and took him around the middle, hugging him close, missing the look of loathing that crossed his features before he rolled his eyes and sighed deeply.

"Thank you so much Sephiroth. You and that Maleficent person."

"If you knew what it took to get her to agree to make such a concoction, you wouldn't be thanking her," Sephiroth muttered, gently pushing Namine (by the forehead) away and off of him before standing. "I must be going. Strife is expecting me. I just wanted to see to it that you arrived home safely. What with you sobbing the way you were, I hoped you wouldn't get hit by an unseen vehicle."

She laughed sheepishly and nodding, got to her own feet to see him out. "I'm sorry--really I am. I was just so happy."

"…Yes. Happy," Sephiroth muttered as if the concept was ridiculous. Namine didn't mind. Sephiroth could spit on her face right now and she still would think he was best thing that had ever happened to her.

Before the pair got halfway across the living room however, there was a sharp knock at the door, followed by what seemed like arguing.

"Um…who is it?" she called, looking back apologetically before rushing to the door.

The arguing stopped as soon as she opened the door and Riku glared up at her while Sora himself didn't seemed to pleased to see her at the moment and with a small 'squeak' she slammed the door shut in their faces and putting her back against it, looked at Sephiroth in concern.

"It's your brother--a-and Sora!" she whispered in fear and Sephiroth arched his brow. "And?"

"I-I told you I wasn't very good at lying," she whispered fretfully, her voice going high as she ignored the sharp knocks on the door and Sora's voice demanding to be let back in. "Sora probably found out the truth about…everything and--"

"Relax, he's figured out nothing of those nights events and very little of his past," Sephiroth assured her, looking at the door with very little interest. "But what should I tell him?" she whispered in worry and Sephiroth pivoted, starting for her backdoor instead, his hair swaying from side to side behind him.

"You need not say anything than you need to," Sephiroth announced, already walking away. "Lie to him no further but explain nothing. Simply see to it that his faith in Riku is strengthened while his own in Kairi falters further."

"B-But what if he's angry at me," Namine whispered sadly. "If he finds out I was lying?"

"Then he will be grateful for it once he finds the complete truth," Sephiroth said simply and disappeared from sight around the corner. Namine looked after him, regret filling her heart until she remembered Marluxia and with a deep sigh, she opened the door, looking sheepishly at the pair.

"Namine!" Sora cried in disapproval and she bowed her head. "I'm so sorry Sora, I thought that you were…someone else I was trying to avoid."

"Riiiight," Riku replied in a tone that clearly said he wasn't buying a word she said, pushing his way past her and inside, making Namine stare after him in worry. He was…angry. "Namine, we need to talk about a few things," Sora announced, glaring at her in what seemed like worry. And hurt.

"Right," she replied, trying to sound cheerful before closing the door behind him and mumbling. "Talk…"

She had no clue how not to lie to Sora while keeping her previous lie going--and not telling him anything once she did technically tell the truth about lying…but she would have to figure it out. Somehow. Sephiroth had confused her, to say the least.

"What do you guys need?" she questioned politely, watching Sora take a seat on her couch while Riku took one on her recliner, draping his leg over the left arm of it, both teens glaring up at her.

"I don't know exactly how much you lied to Sora," Riku began harshly, glaring at her with cold pale eyes through his bangs. "But I know you did. And you're going to tell him why."

Namine looked down at her hands. "I…can't do that."

Sora glared at her as if he'd been hit by a truck. "So--you did lie to me?!"

". . .Yes." she admitted softly.

"About how much?" Sora demanded and Namine shook her head. "I am not allowed to say Sora, I'm sorry--"

"Not allowed to--Namine" he snapped distressed. "Namine, these are my memories you're messing around with! How can you lie to me about something vital--I think--and then say you can't tell me why? Or at least how much of it was a lie!"

"I was asked not to!" she admitted and Riku glared at her. "By who? Kairi?"

"No," she admitted, shaking her head and both looked dumbfounded. "Then by--"

"I just can't, I'm sorry! But I didn't lie to you to be cruel. Or to be hateful and I don't have something personal against Riku." Namine cut in, looking sorrowful at him. "But…I did it because…something…very bad happened to you recently. It's hard to explain completely because not even I know why it happened or how entirely. But it was just easier--for now--until the person trying to help you can get things straightened out."

"I don't understand," Sora replied softly, looking hurt and confused and Namine shook her head. "You aren't suppose to--yet. But you will soon, I promise! Everything that happened…it will all be revealed to you shortly, I think. But. . .until then…don't believe in words Sora."

"Don't…believe in words?" Sora frowned and Riku remained silent, still glaring at her.

"No," she replied quickly, heading for her door slowly before opening it to them. "Please leave now…I need to go back to the hospital."

"Namine. . ."

"I'm sorry Sora but, I must. Please leave. Now!" she cried fretfully and Riku got to his feet, already heading for the door. "Let's get out of here Zo, she's not going to help you anymore."

"I can't," she whispered softly and Riku simply gave her a witheringly glare before rolling his eyes and stormed out, Sora following only to pause right next to her. "Do you really know…what happened to me Namine. And my memories?"

". . .Yes."

"Then why won't you tell me," he asked surprisingly soft. She gave a deep breath.

"Because…Sora, it's easier to let them explain things than me. He's got the answers--he knows why it was done--I don't. I only provided the clues…the insight. But he's the one that actually has all the real answers. And he wants you to know them when…they can't be denied. They can't be talked around or weaseled out of. You need to know the complete truth and it needs to be a final truth and only he can provide that for you."

Sora nodded, trying to understand but still feeing betrayed and angered. "So then…Kairi isn't my girlfriend."

Namine gave him a sad smile. "You know I've lied to you Sora--so how would you know my answer wouldn't be one as well?"

He stared at her blankly, but remained silent and she nodded softly. "That's another reason I can't tell you--you may or may not believe me. Trust is a hard to thing to gain again when broken…and whether you believe me now or not, it is better this way, to let him do it."

Sora stared at her a moment longer before nodding and beginning to turn around. "Sora!"

He froze, turning around to face, Riku waiting by the edge of the street impatiently. "Just…follow your heart Sora. Your memories may have faded and been torn…but the heart is a blue print--a sanctuary for your true intentions and feelings. If you can't count on anything else Sora…believe in that. And I think you'll find your answer to your...Kairi question."

With this, she shut the door, leaning against it again and giving a deep sigh.

"Please…follow that advise Sora--for Riku's sake." She looked up at her roof. "And please, Zexion…finish 'her' so that we can all know the truth. The final truth…"


" . . . .It's quite creepy love."

"But efficient," Zexion muttered softly, a hint of smile coming across his features as Demyx wrapped his arms around his stomach and pulled him close from behind, both staring at the visually perfect replication of Kairi Doss.

It looked back at the pair with dull, dead glass like eyes, no expression on it's features. It wore Kairi's trademark pink zip-up dress with hood and lace up Converse shoes, same in color.

At the moment, it had a small device planted just over its mouth, with 95 on it's visible window reading.

"So where will we keep it?" Demyx questioned with interest and Zexion sneered at the very idea. "We won't. I simply had to build her and place Kairi's recent memories into her being. She goes to Sephiroth after that and out of my hair."

"And what will she do," Demyx asked softly and Zexion smirked. "The same thing the Riku Replica did."

"…You are joking love," Demyx asked alarmed, pulling Zexion away from him and spinning him around to face him, glaring at him with disapproval. "I don't see how raping Sora again will--"

"What? No!" Zexion snapped, slapping him on the arm, Demyx giving an open sigh of relief. "No…she will act completely normal to everyone: her enemies will be her enemies. Her loved ones, loved ones. And her friends, friends. Except for one…minor feature."

Demyx arched his brow and playfully made the sound of a drum roll by clicking his tongue, figuring his love wanted to pause dramatically. Zexion, despite himself, smiled at the notion and rolled his eyes.

"She will admit, not only to Sora, but to everyone she comes across any and everything she has done wrong to them," he replied proudly and Demyx mouth flew open.

"Everything?"

"Everything. From five years ago to at the moment she is brought to existence, she will know and tell all--she won't understand why but she won't be able to resist. It will be like breathing to her to do so."

"My, my, aren't we a sneaky, delicious little devil," Demyx cooed seductively in his ear and Zexion felt his cheeks become hot instantly, his eyes adverting to the floor.

"One such as bad as you should be…punished," Demyx taunted softly, brushing his lips against the tender piece of flesh and nipping it playfully, pulled on it with his teeth before sucking it between his teeth and massaging it with his tongue.

His ear. That was the weakest spot on his body--and Zexion was damning him with every fiber of his being as he felt his legs give way and he was having to be supported by the mohawked teen completely, the latter snickering as he continued on his simple attack on the ear.

"Be professional," Zexion moaned softly and this made Demyx snicker. "Around you? Parish the thought love. What fun would there be in that?"

Zexion started to reply but whimpered when Demyx attacked his neck, his tongue making a trail from his ear straight to his collar bone, where he attacked it mercilessly before Zexion could feel him smile against his skin and lift him off the ground, carrying him the short distance to his lab table, clearing it of everything before sitting him down on it.

"That was my favorite beak--mmm" Zexion tired to complain but was cut short by Demyx lips, his tongue immediately seeking entrance as he laid the smaller boy back on the cool metal surface, his hands grasping each lab button one by one before pulling the article of clothing off of him.

"Damn it...Demyx…stop," Zexion moaned half-heartedly as he felt the blonds' hands playing with the button on his black slacks, yanking it open and making him hiss as he felt himself being lifted slightly and having his pants pulled away from him and yanked off his legs, seeing them tossed over Demyx's shoulder before he was pushed back down, on his back.

"My father is upstairs," Zexion cried breathlessly, hissing in pleasure as he felt Demyx fully clothed hips grind into his own, sending sparks down his spine. "If he finds us--"

"Then he'll get to see quite a spectacle," Demyx sang seductively before he devoured his lips again, his hands gently caressing his inner thighs lazily, the smaller male shifting and whimpering softly as he tried in vain to get him to touch him.

"No no, my lovely little scientist, you're my experiment now," Demyx teased, whispering into his ear as he finally grabbed his shaft and gave it a loving squeeze, gaining a pleased cry from his lover…just as Zexion's cell phone rang.

"Don't answer that," he spat, forcing Demyx to look at him instead of at the ringing phone, thrusting himself against the blonds' hand and giving out a cry of pleasure once Demyx complied, giving it another nice squeeze before rubbing the top of Zexion's head with his thumb.

"Leave a message but stop calling me," his cell phone spoke as the answer machine picked up and Demyx arched a brow. "Polite."

"Shut up and stop teasing," Zexion growled impatiently, thrusting again only to have Demyx chuckle softly to himself as he pulled his hand away from him, making Zexion give him the death glare. "Now, now, none of that," Demyx smirked playfully, slowly lowering his face between his legs--and resting it gently on his thigh.

He couldn't help but laugh as Zexion tried in vain to roll over a little, to put his penis at least at his lips, the blond now holding him down by his hips. "Anxious, aren't we?"

"I hate you so much," Zexion growled hatefully as he trusted at air, those actions being ceased when Demyx applied pressure to his waist to keep him from moving.

"Now now love, it is the temptation and lust that drives us--that makes these actions of love so worth while," he sang sweetly and Zexion sent him a withering look. "If. You don't stop singing and suck my dick--!"

"So vulgar," Demyx teased, gasping in fake surprise. "Such actions should be punished, don't you agree?"

"Demyx…"

"Oh yes, I know exactly what to do with filthy little scientist such as yourself," Demyx smirked evilly and pulled out the worst thing man had ever created out of his pocket.

"Demyx…no!"

"Oh dear lord yes," Demyx whispered in pure bliss as he slipped the 'toy' on Zexion's member, narrowing his eyes at it before without warming, he took the entire thing into his mouth, his tongue teasing the underside of it before slowly, he pulled it out of his mouth, pausing at the head to give hard but short sucks.

"Demyx!" Zexion whined, his hips bucking automatically and being restrained just as swiftly as he was taken into the blonds warm and inviting mouth again.

The phone continued to ring but both chose to ignore it in favor of their activities before after a while, Demyx finally slowly pulled the shaft out one final time, licking the head playfully before licking his lips.

"T-take it off!" Zexion whimpered and Demyx noted his shaft was becoming a beautiful shade of bluish purple, making him chuckle.

"Not until you sing for me in soprano love," Demyx cooed, leaning over Zexion and raising his legs slightly. "You make this harder on yourself love--all I want you to do…is sing."

"Fuck…that!" Zexion spat and Demyx simply hummed, ignoring him as he casually prepared the boy, inserting one finger inside him and moving it around in--if you could say--a loving fashion, watching the boy wither and moan as he made contact with the deep spot instead of him that drove him crazy.

"Until you sing for me the way I desire," Demyx continued in a husky voice, inserting another finger, then a third and final one, stretching the boy out until he was sure he was prepared and stepping back, began to strip quickly. Once finished, he grabbed Zexion by the waist again, lifting his legs over his shoulders and staring straight into Zexion's beautiful eyes. "I won't be pulling that nasty little cock ring of mine off."

"Demy!" Zexion whined and the blond looked down at the small pucker on his ass, eyes becoming wide with shock. "Oh dear love! I seem to have forgotten the lubricant." His face falter into that of evil seduction before he smirked. "I suppose…I will have to improvise."

Zexion screamed in pleasure as Demyx tongue began to play around his entrance, circling it for a moment before finally, it plunged deep inside, touching his sides and caressing him lovely, preparing him.

All the while, his phone continued to ring as the caller left their third message--and the percentage on the replica finally read 100 percent.


"I have to catch him," Kairi whispered to herself fretfully as she jogged through the downtown parts of Destiny Island, past a lot of her favorite shops in favor of going to a rich but very few housed area just on the outskirts of the west coast of the large beach.

She didn't know exactly where Saix lived but for Sora, she would figure it out. She'd tried calling his cell, only to get no answer and no one seemed to be at his home either. Roxas wouldn't answer his cell anymore and since she couldn't get in touch with Sora, she was only left to think the worst.

And who could blame her really? He was about to endanger himself to a psychopath.

"Come Sora, where did you go?" she whimpered with fright to herself as her eyes swept from house to house now, looking for anything that might give away the teacher's location--like a last name on the mail box.

She didn't know exactly what had been done to Axel--but now she wish she did. It hadn't been her fault that Saix had chosen him. But she had heard the stories. That night she'd gone to see Namine's--the girl finally told her the entire story with Marluxia and how Saix had been the one to hurt him--but they hadn't been able to prove it.

She could have warned Axel--but why would she? He'd done nothing for her lately but cause her distress and trouble. Even now, he was withholding important information that she needed and as far as she was concerned: what ever happened to him, he deserved it.

But if Sora had honesty thought Saix was giving fighting lessons and wanted to be taught…and just seeing how someone like her cousin had been acting lately..

"He'd be worse off then what I had done to him," she said to herself in fright. "If that's what he's doing to people…then, then…it could trigger memories--and Sora would completely have a break down. I couldn't live with myself if--"

"Get off of me!"

Kairi froze, looking up in time to see someone that looked oddly like Sora--but no, it was Roxas!--being dragged into a house, a lone figure having him around the neck and yanking him forward before taking him by the face with his other hand and slamming him backwards into the narrow doorway, knocking the wind out of him before he was dragged inside.

She caught the sight of blue hair before the door was slammed shut and she froze. Sora wasn't in trouble--Roxas was.

Roxas…was in trouble. And she alone knew about it.

A sigh of relief escaped her lips until something hit her. She could use this to her advantage!

Without thinking, she turned around and this time, run as quickly as she could back to her house, almost excited about what she was about to hopefully accomplish.

It only took her ten minutes to finally reach her destination, practically skipping a few steps on her stairs before falling against Axel's door (all that running mad her very tired). She began to beat on it, perking up as soon as she heard his voice.

"Auntie, for the sixth time, I don't need you to tuck me in. I'm damn near--"

"It's me Kairi!" she cried urgently and there was a pause before Axel said. "Oh. Well, get the hell away from my door. And go fuck yourself. Bitch."

"Axel, this is important!" she cried desperately, trying to hid the excitement from her voice as she bounced on her feet and beat the door again. "It's about Roxas!"

Pause.

"We aren't going out anymore or doesn't the gossip mill get to you anymore? That means, cause I know you're a little thick, I don't give a damn so get lost," he snapped finally and she shook her head. This was exactly why she didn't care what happened to him. "Axel…he's in trouble!"

Another pause of silence.

"Big trouble!" she pressed on. "I-I just saw him and he got kidnapped! By Saix!"

She nearly fell into the room, stumbling on her feet and yelping as the door flew open, Axel glaring down at her with regret and alarm. "What the fuck did you just say?"

"He's been abducted by Saix--I was going to find Sora and I saw it!" she replied truthfully looking concerned. "That son of bitch," Axel cried angrily to himself. "He must have told him and he went out to try and…where the hell is he Kairi? Where did he get kidnapped from."

And at that moment, the concern melted off her face was replaced by a cool, serious glare. "I'm not saying a word Axel. Not until you tell me what Riku and his stupid little friends are trying to pull against me with Sora."


Author's Notes:
Well guys, that's the new chapter. Thanks again for reading and keeping up the story so far, it really does mean a lot. (I know you're sick of me saying that, lol.) I guess I'll be nice and give a few hints this time:
-Expect a very angry Axel.
-Expect a very angry Sephiroth.
-Expect a very angry Saix...well heck, expect a lot of angry people.

And that's all I'll say because I refuse to give anything else away. Exepct I did stop the Zexy/Demy part there on purpose. ::winks::

Happy Reading gang!
-Kamirine