Yeah…:muttering: I bet you think you're so great, don't you story? Don't you…yeah I bet you do. Surviving once again to move on into and even higher chapter count…think you're so great…….even if you are I won't admit it…at least not to the story. Anyway! Hope everyone is doing well! Sadly as I went for a quick rundown of the ideas I have…I don't believe this will be the last chapter either…somehow this thing just keeps holding on…kami knows how. I mean…if it was going to die on chapter 5...and I allowed it to go to chapter 35...you'd think it'd be happy, but no. It has to keep going and going…I swear I'm in shocked it ended. But it had to end so I can do the sequel later on…:Muttering about how evil the story is being: Okay than…well with that in mind…oh screw it let's just get things started.

Warnings: SHONEN AI! Duh.

Notes: (X) Pov switch and or time jump

More notes: Don't blame me for it's will to live…I tried killing it twice already for real and both times it came back in full force…it doesn't want to die…even if technically it'll still keep living..

Even more notes: Forgive me for so much dialogue

Chapter, 36: Sisyphean Evince

Yoarashi closed his eyes tightly as he felt the tight grip go over his heart and than vanish. It was a clear sign that once again one of their comrades had left them.

"Master shouldn't kill so many off…"

"In due time."

Yoarashi jerked his head to the side he thought he'd heard the voice coming from.

"Huh!"

"In due time. It's alright for now Yoarashi, just smile and know that this is not an end, merely a change."

Yoarashi stood their silently as the rest of the script for this act began going through his mind. It was than he finally understood. That this was merely the end leading to the beginning…Act 2 was up next.

(X)

"This feels so weird."

"Well it's going to for a little bit, I didn't expect you to just be 100 percent used to this after you just got your tail, it takes time," Miyuki sooth pulling Setsuna closer.

Setsuna nodded and began moving his tail up and down than side to side.

"This still feels really weird. And not to sound even more ungrateful, but I think I'm the only one here with a black tail…is it because I was human first? This way everyone knows I was human before a merperson?"

"Of course not," Miyuki scolded. Setsuna had been asking tons of questions, it was of course natural for someone to be asking all of these questions, but he just wished Setsuna would trust him a bit.

'I can't exactly blame him though after all he was put through…' He sighed and rested his head on Set's shoulder. Than before Setsuna could ask he grabbed his tail and held it up.

"Look, this tail it's a reflection of your inner self," Miyuki explained calmly. "Every color has a meaning and sometimes if a merperson changes too much, so does their tail color."

"Does everyone start off with black than? Or…am I just an evil beast like they said?"

"No. Think about it Setsuna. I'm guessing right now you believe white is the color of pureness?" Setsuna nodded. "That's a lie. What's also white? Something you humans see when it gets cold?"

"…Snow?"

"Ice. Snow to, but mainly ice. It's cold and unfeeling and can kill many can't it?"

"I never thought of it that way…"

"Besides. White can also be pure…but white is created by having all colors mix. While black is what most people say, not a real color," he explained as they watched a few fish swim by. "Black means you're not tainted, because black can only be achieved when no colors can reach it. You're not only untainted though, you've shielded yourself…I'd like you to drop your shields around me though," he said smiling a bit. "But we'll see what happens in due time."

"What does your tail mean," he asked curiously running his hand down the side of Miyuki's tail. Of course he had no idea at the time that this was seen as a more sexual act to a merperson, so Miyuki let him get away with it for now.

"Mine's blue. Usually it means a calm person who has their feelings under control, it's because I'm a healer."

"Oh…"

"My tail wasn't always blue though."

"What color was it before," Set asked looking up at the merboy. He wanted to know as much as he could about him.

"…It was silverish red…"

"What's that mean?"

Miyuki just smiled letting go of Setsuna and nodded towards the castle.

"Come on, you need to eat so you can get some rest."

(X)

'Miyuki…was supposed to live…was supposed to live much longer than I was…I was supposed to go when Caine did….but Caine's back to…'

A loud scream sounded from somewhere around Setsuna. It sounded so far off though as if maybe it'd been muffled by water.

'Miyuki, I hope you can forgive me for this…'

Flash

Setsuna's eyes narrowed growling at the people in front of him.

"Do you think I'll be taken down so easily? Ha! You must be joking. Taking you is going to be easy," he said smirking. Caine would back him up if worse came to worse after all. This was their area, their home; they shouldn't have to hand it over to a bunch of other guys just because they claimed to be stronger. "Go ahead and try it, I dare you. Come at me," he said flipping a knife out. Caine currently had his sword.

"What a cocky little bastard," One of the guys said. The other four with him nodded.

"Yeah, let's teach the punk a lesson."

They all began to get into a fighting position, but stopped when they saw the figure behind the boy.

"Are you guys giving my lover a hard time?" The guys eyes widened and they ran off. They'd put up with Caine enough to last them for the rest of the year. "You should really stop provoking them," he said looking over to Set. Setsuna though was just smiling brightly at him.

(X)

"Hey what are you doing?"

"……."

"Hey!"

Sora jerked around to look up at Riku falling back attempting to block the picture he was carving in the stone behind him.

"N, nothing!"

"Sora stop trying to hide things from me," he sad crawling over to him. He tried to move Sora, but the boy remained firm in his spot shaking his head.

"No it looks horrible I can't draw. Riku stop," he begged pouting. Riku snickered a bit and let the boy have his way sitting down across from him.

"Fine, than explain why you didn't meet me at our usual spot today."

"…oh right. I was going to, but than my mom stopped me…we have new neighbors."

"New neighbors," Riku asked curiously.

"Sort of…the mayor took in this new girl, her name's Kairi…mom had us playing together."

"Can I meet her?"

"Umm sure." Sora smiled brightly and Riku returned it. After a bit of arguing and some more pouting Riku left first so he couldn't see the picture Sora had drawn in the stone. He followed after his friend quickly. "Riku wait up!"

"It's tag Sora, you're it!"

(X)

'All these memories…all of them aren't even mine…' Sora groaned sitting up his eyes slowly beginning to focus. 'Where am I… ?' It was than a movement caught his eye and he saw what looked to be Setsuna biting down on Kurai's neck.

"Setsuna!"

"Don't, he can't hear you," Riku said quickly as he stood up pulling Sora to his feet. "Get yourself under control while Setsuna's at him, I have to go heal Miyuki, get ready to fight again." Before Sora could reply Riku ran off over to the tree Miyuki had been thrown into.

Sora quickly redrew his Keyblade and ran over to Kurai's pinned form to help. Without a word eyes narrowing he left the darkness flow into him as he had while staying with Cloud. Every inch of his body began feeling stronger as he lost the feeling of his heart.

"You're not taking me anywhere this time Kurai. No this time I'll be the one to send you somewhere," he hissed eyes glowing as he ran foreword. He was a bit shocked though when he heard steel clang against steel, Kurai up and ready for the next attack.

"Amusing at most. You can't defeat me."

Setsuna had been thrown to the ground at this point, but wasn't down for the count. His body may have been there, but it was mostly the heartless that was controlling it when some odd affection towards Miyuki making it protective. It'd fight until destroyed.

"We'll see."

"Ready Sora?"

Sora nodded and Riku smirked standing next to his lover.

"Even if you attack me at the same time, it'll mean nothing," Kurai exclaimed loudly throwing his arms in the air. "I'm immortal don't you get it?"

"No one's immortal. Even the dead you've brought back, they can be killed again," Miyuki gasped a trail of blood running from his mouth.

All four of them standing and ready, weapons out they ran at Kurai. Sora and Riku had reached a complete union in battle when they'd fought against each other at the coliseum, while Setsuna and Miyuki, heartless or not had train together so long it was if there was only two warriors doing all the work when there was actually four.

Two people are one thing, but four is another. Kurai could no longer keep up with all the attacks, each of them attacking in an opening he didn't even know could exist while the other would parry off the block.

The dance went on, blades weaving in and out as they shifted from one position to another each doing their bests to score a hit and block another. Kurai noticed an opening to the side and made a desperate reach for it, but it'd been a trap set up by them. The moment he stepped foreword his view had been blocked, a sword lodged into his stomach. Another one went into his back and than two more, one in the chest, one in the side pierced through his skin.

He blinked staring at Riku and Sora who were in front smirking at him. Just as he was about to pull the blades from him though, a blast of lightning shot up from one sword, Sora's, and sent a jolt into him.

He let out a weird choking sound and Miyuki pulled his blade out and than growing ran it through Kurai's neck. With the lightning going through Kurai's body, his bones shaken and weakened, the blade went through easily beheading him.

Kurai's head rolled across the ground and vanished as his body slumped to the ground. No blood visible at all they all stared down at his body frowning.

"Please don't tell me that was a puppet…"

"…I don't think…" Miyuki's frown deepened looking up to meet Sora's gaze. "I don't believe that Kurai was--" his voice was cut off as they were surrounded in darkness.

(X)

Miyuki blinked looking around. For a moment he felt like he was falling and than he noticed that he wasn't falling, but floating. He was back in the water, his tail visible back in place, in front of the castle that was somehow rebuilding itself.

"Atlantica…"

His voice trailed off as he looked around and saw no signs of Setsuna. He automatically went into panic mode and shot off towards the surface. He broke through looking around and spotted Setsuna sitting on the shore.

Without a thought he swam over to him quickly stopping only when the tide allowed him to go no farther.

"Setsuna…?"

Said boy looked up smiling a bit as his hand went into the wet sand and smashed it between his fingers.

"I guess…whatever it is, it's over," he replied quiet yet calmly. His gaze went back to the sand between his fingers and he shoved his hand back into the sand to repeat the gesture again.

"…Something's not right…there was no blood. How could we of possibly have beat him if there was no blood?"

"….I talked to Caine before he left…It was weird…he said maybe Kurai was actually a puppet…not fake, but a dead corpse reanimated for whoever's doing it was…but it doesn't matter now. Things are going back to normal."

"I suppose…but we didn't even get to say goodbye to Sora or Riku or any of the others…" Miyuki sighed a bit, but it quickly left his mind and he was smiling again. "But we'll see them again. Sora promised to show us his island."

"Yeah…"

"Set?"

"Hmm?"

Miyuki had finally took notice that Setsuna was sitting in the water, but he was still in human form, he had no tail.

"What…--"

"I don't know," he sighed looking up back over to his lover. "I guess Atlantica has no more need for me. My time down there is over…I guess my run in to the heartless made me unfit."

"No. Setsuna I swear I'll drown you," he growled grabbing Set's legs. Setsuna's eyes shot open, because he knew his lover would do it, and tried getting away as Miyuki dragged him back into the deeper part of the ocean. "If you want to live you'll turn back," he screamed diving into the water and pulling Setsuna down with.

Setsuna instantly took a breath of air and tried to force himself to calm down so his heart wouldn't use all the air up at once, but it was barely any use. With the speed Miyuki was going and the rate of his heart beat, he was quickly out of air and no where near the surface.

(X)

"My head…" Sora sat up rubbing said body part as he looked around. He instantly sat up completely though as he noticed where he was. "Riku! We're back on the island! We're home! I can't believe it…I thought it'd been destroyed…"

"It had been destroyed," Riku said turning back to face Sora. He'd been sitting on the paopu fruit island looking over at the horizon. "Remember what happened?"

"No…"

"An angel appeared Sora."

"Huh?"

Sora stood up walking over to Riku and sitting down next to him.

"An angel with wings appeared and as the world began folding in on itself returning to the other dimension where it was supposed to be located…it took us away. It healed Setsuna and put Caine's spirit to rest. Setsuna and Miyuki are back at Lia Fail."

"So it's over?"

"Seems to be that way…I guess the higher beings had something else in mind than what Kurai was planning. They didn't seem too happy with the way things are going."

Sora sighed resting his head on Riku's shoulder.

"So does that mean we'll never see Kairi again?"

"If we're lucky."

"….."

"Sora."

Sora and Riku turned around blinking staring up at Leon. How in the hell had he gotten on the island.

"Leon?"

He grinned.

"Listen, I know you guys feel really cooped up on this island. When you're of age, Yuffie and I decided we'd come and get you and than we'd go see Setsuna and the others, alright?"

"Hey why can't we go now," he demanded pouting. He was well aware of the other worlds and thought he should be aloud to see them whenever he wanted.

"It's a bit difficult to explain Sora…See this is Destiny Island…heroes are born here."

"…Huh?"

"And when the world or worlds need a hero one of you here will be called on the task…the thing is, by that time, you probably won't remember us anymore."

"What! How could I not remember you guys! I'll never forget any of you…that's stupid."

"But life…Sora. We'll meet again I promise, one day, you'll see." With that Leon's image faded and they realized it'd actually been a transmission from a gummi ship.

"What a cheerful guy," Riku muttered rolling his eyes and lying down. "How do you forget someone like that?"

"How could we possibly forget any of those weirdos," Sora asked laughing. "Setsuna's cold and mean, Miyuki's more hyper than selphie on sugar high, and Leon's pretty cool…and you…" he let his eyes trace his lovers body as he crawled over to him. "You're perfect."

"Really?"

"Yep," he said grinning.

"Prove it to me."

(X)

"Besides the near heart attack, I'd say he'll be just fine."

"Good. Thank you," Miyuki said happily wrapping his arms around his once again merman lover. "I owe you seriously, I promise to work twice as hard," he started squeezing Setsuna harder as he said this.

"I need him as a knight you know Miyuki. Please don't break his ribs."

Miyuki nodded back at the King smiling all the way and than went back to hugging. He was too happy to let the warning make him back off. It was finally at its end.

(X)

"Rai…?"

"Yoru, where the hell have you been?"

"…I was with the others…Tsukasa had me stay put…he said I was needed here while things went to their next act…"

"I'll kill them all," he said shaking. He walked out of the shadows showing Yoru his tattered body covered in blood. Yoru's eyes widen and he took a step back to get a full look at his comrade.

"What in the hell happened!"

"Kurai's what happened," he growled his eyes narrowing. "He took me and…" his voice trailed off and he began shaking even more. Yoru dropped the scared act knowing he'd have to be a friend in this and walked over to him hugging him.

"Come on drop it…Kurai's dead…"

"……"

(X)

"Tsukasa, go and get Axel would you?"

Tsukasa turned around facing the darkness and nodded.

"As you wish master."

Smiling he bow and vanished.

Act 1 end

Okay, this is the end of Act 1 obviously…which means there will be a sequel eventually. And also, a lot of those things up there seemed pointless right, the flash blacks for Setsuna and Sora and stuff, yeah, well they become important for Act 2. So you'll see what I mean when it gets here. Sorry if it confuses anyone and sorry there was so much dialogue…there was a lot to clear up, and my writing skills seem to have abandoned me for awhile. Forgive me.

I hope you enjoyed this story and all its wonders…even though technically it's going to be continued later on. Keep in mind everyone! Kingdom hearts 3 for the play station 2 comes out tomorrow! Get ready! (Yeah now you guys know why I ended this here and now…must play newest kingdom hearts….:Drools: ) Ja ne until later next time than and have good days, times, and luck until than!