OMG! I CAN UPDATE! This is a mirical. I've been trying to update for the past like week, and now i finally CAN! thank god. well hello everybody, it's been a while since i've updated. lol. sorry about that; school got busy and I didn't have time. But now, I'm working on the story now and i'm even working on the next chapter as I update this.

Alright! Well, i'd like to take this time to reply to a few reviews that caught my eye from recently:

Parisa wrote:

kingdomhearts 2 alreaty came out a mont ago i dont wanna brag but i own it and igot it on april 5 but when it came out it was march 39 2006 nd i think it was sunday well update and can i be annie

alright weeeellfirst I got it the day I came out and second "can i be annie"? wut does that meanXD...

well thats the only one that was, well, interesting but thank you all sooo much who have been reviewing nice things! I want to say thank you to all to save time and boredom.

And without further ado, I give to you...

The Space Between Us:

Chapter 37

(POV: Molly)

The tears wouldn't stop streaming down my face. I had never felt so alone in my life… this was not the time to be alone… and I had blown it… blown it completely…

I stood up and tried to wipe the hot tears from my red face. Everything seemed so unreal… like I was in a dream…. No, a night mare….and it was the part in which I was supposed to wake up and go to my parents room, climb into bed, and fall asleep in the secure settings of my biological protectors.

But unfortunately, I'll never be able to awaken. Not even when I return to Earth.

If I return.

Damn it Molly… pull yourself together… you're the strong one, right?... the wise one, who always knows what to do?…you'll find a way around this one… you always do… if you keep crying like this, you'll only form a larger river to get over… pun intended…

"It's time to find her." I said aloud, finding the strength to push away the loneliness. I turned around, beginning to walk, but instantly stopped and froze. Why does she have such a smug look on her face?...

"It looks like you already HAVE." Namine said, her smirk widening.

"And you're just EVER so vain as to think I was looking for YOU." I shot back at her, and her smile turned upside down. Wasn't this bitch supposed to be watching the boys?...

"Oh, I'M the vain one! Little miss, 'Oh, Riku, ILL rescue you! ILL be the one to protect you!'" She said in a cheesy imitation of my voice with a strong bite of bitterness mixed in. I had the strongest yearning to throw my fist into her little face.

"You're the one who left him! Where did you go once you told us he was in trouble back in Traverse Town, huh? And now, what are the boys doing? Just laying there? Do you ever help at all! Of course not… you wouldn't want to break a nail…"

As I spoke, her eyes slowly got narrower and narrower, until she didn't look pretty at all. She suddenly didn't look anything like me. I smiled.

"You little bitch…" she said coldly.

"Oh my, not in front of the little forest creatures… they might just jump on your head and ruin your perfect blonde hair…"

At this, she must have lost it.

"No more games, Molly! I've been waiting too long to do this!" and then, darkness began forming in her hands, her eyes shifting into a darker color. I took a few steps back, surprised at this sudden outburst. I was not expecting this at all. I noticed, after the dark in her hand morphed completely, it was a black sword, completing a yin-yang look with her white sundress. One other stunt I wasn't expecting her to pull off. I could see her noticing my hesitance to psychotic behavior, and she grinned again. But this grin was different, more dark and threatening.

I quickly gathered strength inside to summon out my twin blades. They appeared in my hands, their heavy handles comforting in the mold of my grip. I was ready.

"Oh, please! Don't think you can win! The light can never overcome the dark…" she boomed, letting out an inhuman laugh. There must have been something more to her that I didn't know about, for this was not the Namine I met in Traverse Town. Or… was she just lying then?...

"You're a good actress, Namine… a very good one…"

"As are you! Outside you may seem to look confident, but inside I know you're cowering in fear…"

"You would like that, wouldn't you?" I said, and got in my fighting stance. She simply scoffed and leaned back to admire my courage with a raised eyebrow. I kept my cool and didn't let her see how pissed off I was.

"I don't want to hurt you… but if I have to…"

"You don't happen to have short term memory loss, do you? I mean, a moment ago, you seemed to know exactly what you wanted to do: kill me. I knew there was something wrong with you since the beginning..." I said, and she looked at me, taken aback. For a moment, all we did was stare daggers into each other, waiting for the other to look away in defeat. Neither of us did.

"Something wrong with me!" she finally said, her eyes blazing with anger.

"You're not a human… you're far from human… and I'm going to find out what you really are…"

"Just try…" she said, darkness echoing in her voice, as if a second, deeper male voice had made its way into her mind. Our weapons both went up at the same time, clashing against each other, and the fight had begun.

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(POV: Jessica)

My mind was racing with ideas as I continued to stare at the leather jacket and the slip of paper before me. Was this just a coincidence? Half of me wanted to believe it was, while the other half was eager to find out more of this mysterious "Roxas".

I decided then that if I was going to gather more information about this mysterious person, I would have to find out for myself, from himself.

There was only one slight problem: I didn't know where to start. I was about to get up, but ended up sitting on the ground again. It was hopeless of me to think of finding him anyway…

The bushes rustled across from me, my heart gaining speed. My daggers were out quickly, ready in my hands for whatever came out.

A squirrel popped out of the bushes a second later, his cheeks bulging with nuts he collected from the ground. I lowered my daggers, scowling at the small beady eyes that were fixed upon me.

"Why don't you be useful and tell me where to start, huh?"

When the squirrel didn't say something, I picked up a rock and hurled it at his head. With a thunk, it hit him hard in the skull. I expected him to either dodge the stone and scamper away or fall down upon the Earth due to his slow reflexes.

It did neither.

Instead, he continued to look at me, the same expression on his face. This abnormality edged me to scoot closer to the squirrel and hope he didn't have hydrophobia.

The squirrel watched me edge closer, his eyes shifting slightly; I noticed it.

As his eyes focused to my body getting closer, I heard the slightest noise: a small, metallic shifting sound a camera lens would make when zooming in or out.

This wasn't a squirrel.

I made no hesitation run my dagger across his furry little neck. His head came off with a moaning metal sound, sparks spraying out of a loose cord. His head flung carelessly a few feet away, the neck of either part of the destroyed machine still sparking with broken wire connection.

The squirrel must have been some sort of camera, which would explain why it didn't make a move to look away. I could only hope that the person wasn't watching me the entire time, tracking my position, as I walked away from the mess of broken squirrel-cam.

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The forest didn't have anymore furry robotic rodents to destroy, but after a bit of walking in circles I heard a distant cry echo from the forest. With instinct, my head turned towards the noise as I headed off in the direction of the scream in a flash.

Keep yelling… where are you?... I sent a message telepathically. If Kyara was awake, it was possible that he could hear it…

I didn't need to send a message though, for the yelling droned on, accompanied by recognizable weapon clangs. I picked up speed until I could see the blurry figures coming up ahead.

Though I was tempted, I didn't jump in right then. A large tree stood towards the clearing, so I decided it best to hide.

Cautiously, I peered around the tree, only to jerk back behind it.

Riku must have awakened, as he was one of the people fighting, his striking grey hair falling in his face as he dodged the punches thrown by the other fighter.

He was fighting Ansem.

It was too much of a risk to look at them, my ears becoming the only sense.

Clang. Rustle. Clang. Scrape. Slash. Scream.

Scream wasn't good, and it didn't sound like it came from Ansem…

"You thought you could escape, did you?... you really thought I was that dense, Riku?..." I heard his deep, dark voice break the sound of dancing weapons. Panting was all that answered, only encouraging the worst thought…

Riku was loosing the fight.

I finally dared a look, spotting the cloaked figure of Ansem looming threateningly over the sprawled, gasping Riku. My daggers slowly materialized in my hands as I made my way behind his back.

I was doing good silent-wise, until my foot came down on a small branch, breaking it with a loud snap!. Ansem's eyes were on me in the blink of an eye.

"Well well… look who we have here?..." he said, moving away from Riku. My heart was going wild in my chest, but I stood up strait and triumphant none the less. I could feel sweat on the daggers as I twirled them in my hand, their slippery surface warning me that a slip of the hilt could cost my life. Riku had his eyes on the daggers, unbelieving in my presence. "It seems we have a little spy…"

"You only wish I was one of your spies. You only wish I was one of your little minions… "

His expression was hard to read with a cloth wrapped around a majority of his face, but that wasn't how I could tell he was mad.

"You only wish you could gain control of the Earth."

"Perhaps so, my dear… but I will no longer have to wish. I already know your weakness…"

"What is it then, you slime ball?"

"Are you sure you want to call me such an immature name?..." he said, and began moving from Riku and over to the right. "Watch what you say around those that can do…harm."

He stopped at a body lying on the ground, black and white city clothes unmistakably noticeable from the Earth. How I didn't see it before was mind-boggling.

Kyara.

"You wouldn't dare…" my voice came out in a growl. My hands were squeezing the daggers so tightly they could have slipped like soap from my hands. His expression shifted from irritated to triumphant.

"Oh, but I would. If it means breaking down my useful pet, then I could care less of one of my former organization members."

"Organization member?" I asked, the term not familiar. I looked towards Riku, but found he wasn't sitting in his spot anymore. Whatever he had planned, I didn't want to ruin it, so I looked back to Ansem.

"There is no time for explaining, I'm afraid." He raised his hand, a small, dark matter forming in his hand. It played around his fingertips, whispering voices of death that reached my eardrums in a low rumble. A gulp found its way to my throat. "I have a duty to attend to…"

I wasn't going to stand it anymore. The dagger in my right hand disintegrated immediately, the feeling still tingling my hand. My right dagger was left now, and I placed it directly over my heart. Ansem's face fell.

"Now what do you think you are doing…"

"If I destroy my heart, you won't be able to use it." I said, softly but loud enough for him to hear it. "If you're done with him, you're done with me."

"Don't fool around, Jessica. This is not some little game!" he erupted, the dark ball in his hand bursting with his anger. He began advancing towards me, and I fell down onto my knees, the dagger ready. My eyes closed before he reached me, and I heard what I had expected.

His body screamed out, his body surrendering to the forest floor. Feet still rustled around, though, and there was no mistaking who's they were.

"Jessica, look."

I opened my eyes, Riku standing next to me. His shining blue eyes were looking at the heap on the ground, lifeless. I saw it slowly fading, the body becoming transparent. It finally disappeared after a few seconds, a clue for Riku to begin talking.

"Do you see it?"

"Do I see what?"

I couldn't see anything. The area was completely cleared of his corpse, the grass and leaves slowly bending back from his body's imprint.

"Good. It's what you didn't see, actually." He squatted down, seating himself next to me. I turned towards him, a little confused. This was a chance to take in the form of his face, alive and well. He did have a strong face, those blue eyes that looked at the ground enchanting. Molly was lucky.

"Do you ever take time to notice that when a person dies, a small, glittering figure rising from it?" he asked, turning towards me. I looked over at Kyara.

"No…" I said, not really thinking about the death of people. All I could think was why isn't Kyara awake?...

"Well, maybe it's just something that you can see here in this realm."

"Why do you ask?"

"that man right there didn't have one." He said, peering down at his hands. His voice sounded sullen.

"What do you mean, 'didn't' have one'?" I asked, and it took him a while to answer.

"Jessica, that wasn't Ansem you killed. And Ansem wasn't the one Sora defeated a few years ago."

My breathing thinned, my mind growing blank. All of this he was saying was so new, so confusing. My voice came shaky. "It… wasn't?"

"That was Ansem's… nobody. The shell released from his dying body. The Ansem Sora defeated was his heartless. Ansem has been dead quite a while now."

By now, I wasn't breathing at all. The air just wasn't circulating. A rise was forming in my throat, but I just couldn't swallow. If Ansem was dead this whole time, then his nobody had tricked us.

"Where's Molly! Why isn't Kyara waking up!" I stood up, anger rising. Riku grabbed my wrist.

"Jessica, I know this is a lot to digest, but-"

"No!" I wrenched away, racing over to Kyara's side. His eyes were still closed, a peaceful essence taking form through his pale face. I bent down and touched his cheek: his flesh was cold underneath my fingers. My heart pounded.

"Why won't he wake up!" I got frustrated. Closing my eyes, I sent messages to him. Kyara, please… please wake up… I'm here… just move, show me a sign you're still-

I was wrenched from him, arms prying me away. I struggled, but it was no use against Riku's brute strength.

"Let him wake up on his own!" he grumbled while making a great effort to keep me pinned on the ground.

"I need to help him!" I screamed, and felt my leg loosen. With all the strength I had, I kicked up my leg, sending my knee into his unguarded stomach. He coughed, rolling away and letting my arms free. I rolled the opposite way, crawling towards Kyara again. I couldn't be separated from him…

"You can't bother Roxas" Riku gasped behind me.

I hovered over my protectors body, unsure if I had heard right.

"… What did you call him…."

"His name… isn't Kyara…" Riku wheezed, spitting and coughing from my impact. "You kneed me in my wound, you know…"

I turned around slowly, paying no attention to Riku's cursing and struggle to sit up.

"Then what is his name?" I whispered. He looked up for a moment, then back at his wound, wincing as he touched it.

"It's Roxas."

"How is it Roxas!" I yelled. Riku looked at me as if I could have spared the volume of my voice.

"It's a long story… if he wants you to know, he'll tell you himself…" he said, but I was already stumbling over to him, holding his jacket sleeve. All sense of control was knocked out of me, and everything I felt was desperation.

"Tell me! Please! I've heard that name before!" I begged, and his eyes shifted from his wound to my hand on his sleeve. I took the hint and slowly let go.

"Jessica, you won't like what you hear. If I told you, do you promise to think of him the same? As a real person?" he looked sincerely into my eyes, a secret reflecting in the glint they formed from the setting sun. I nodded slowly, not sure how the outcome was going to be. He sighed and turned away, his facial expression flinching with worry and contemplation on ways to explain. Was the secret really so big he couldn't make eye contact while telling me? After a silence, he finally spoke.

"He… he doesn't have a heart, Jessica… he's a nobody."

Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! tell me if you don't understand what's going on and if it doesn't ruin the next chapter i'll explain it a bit. Please review:D