Hey peeps! How ya all doing? Glad you liked the last chapter; this is my new one now, hope ya like it! Some parts are a bit longer than previous chapters, and some are shorter, and some are the same, but anyway, please like it! I spent ages.

Disclaimer- You can remember it from last chapter can't you?

Oh yes, in this chapter, there is some yaoi stuff, not lemon or anything, just a bit of kissing, but it's not a continuous thing, well maybe with other characters, I'm just contemplating it at the moment.

Ok, when Ansem is talking during when he's watching the scenes (next part) his speech looks like this

~*~ Ansem speaks here ~*~

Get it? Ok.

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Chapter 3- Hearts divided

(3rd person)

"Good work, hmm, yes, that should slow them down, but that was uncalled for, I shall remember to talk to him about that. " Ansem muttered as he sat at his desk, frowning, watching Kuja's assault on Sora through a green portal. 'Mages are very useful indeed' Ansem though to himself as he leant back in his chair, fingers arched together, thinking.

Still deep in thought, he picked up a small silver key from his desk and proceeded to unlock a small draw. Among the many contents in the draw was an alabaster stone, Ansem picked up the stone and began to read its inscription, which was carved in silver. The portal turned blue, and then emitted a few golden sparks. The scene melted slowly, eventually changing. It was an island, with tall palm trees and golden sand. Ansem leaned in closer to get a better look,

"Soon, this world would be destroyed once again, as will the others, one by one." He leant back in his chair and watched the proceedings as the day went by.

*~*Destiny Islands*~*

The sun was beating down hard on their heads as some of the islanders sat under the minimal shade of the paopu tree. As per usual, nothing remotely interesting had happened, they all spent the days sunbathing, swimming and maybe a bit of practice fighting. They didn't like to do anything that reminded them too vividly of Sora or Riku, it was depressing. Now that they were older, the island had lost its appeal and often seemed dull, most of them longed for something exciting.

Kairi sat alone, away from the others; she was tired of Wakka's non-stop talk of sport. It was no good trying to talk to Tidus and Selphie; they enjoyed the taste of each other's saliva way too much to even bother about anyone else. She eventually got up and made her way to the secret place, where the air wasn't so hot.

~*~ I know that girl, wasn't she a princess? She could come in useful later, bait maybe. ~*~

She sat by the 'paopu picture', which remained the only carving in the secret place that hadn't been graffitied over when Tidus and Wakka went 'exploring' previously. Kairi sighed and touched the picture lovingly. Her and Sora had drawn those pictures when they were just 5. 'Where was Sora now?' Kairi thought as she stared at them for a while, looking as though she wished to melt into them.

~*~ Foolish girl, very well, I shall put her out of her misery soon, she will see her precious Sora~*~

Ansem then looked away from the green portal as a knock resounded through his door, reminding him of where he was supposed to be. Ansem then waved his hand and the picturesque island disappeared from view as well as the portal.

Ansem then arose, sighed, and slowly made his way to the large circular room down the hall, his footsteps echoed as he made his way down the corridor yet again. The room he entered was the one he had been to previously, one by one; he visited the separate rooms of his captives.

Most were sleeping, or at least pretending to sleep, although he caught one trying to blow a hole in the wall with a concentrated flare attack. 'They will be punished' Ansem thought to himself as he swept away, back to his office. He hated routine checks on them, why couldn't someone else do it? 'Well, I'll soon see to that,' he thought to himself.

His mage would be back soon, good. Then he could really see the damage done.

"Ah, here they are now." He exclaimed as a black portal opened beside him.

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(Riku)

"Hello?" They waved their hand enquiringly in my face as I sat there.

"But that's my name," I protested, "Did Seifer tell you to say this? I bet he did, I'm gonna kill him!" I rose angrily from, my seat, but Rikku gently pushed me back down.

"Chill out! I'm also called Rikku you see? R-I-K-K-U, Rikku. You're Riku with 1 K, so it's not the same name, even if it is pronounced the same, weird huh?"

She smiled at me and then asked again what I wanted to order. I asked for a coffee and she bounded off to get it. This is so weird. I looked around at the people in the inn. Mostly warriors, I could see a few swords perched dangerously on the edge of tables and there was a gun over in the middle of the room. They were exchanging stories and items for munny all over the place. I sat low in my chair, so no-body would approach and bother me.

Seifer then burst through the double doors to the inn, causing a small reaction; most of them obviously knew him. He spotted me and strode over to my table, carrying his weapon on his shoulder, so that he would look impressive, and maybe even intimidate some of the locals. When he reached about a metre away from me, he thrust his weapon towards my face, just centimetres from my throat.

"Get that thing away from me" I batted it away with my hand, regretting the choice to do so.

"It's not a thing, it's a Gunblade for your information and it's a very difficult weapon to use, but I'm not here to gloat about how skilled I am. Where've you been? Running off like that, little brats can get hurt that way, you need me to protect you," I slid lower in my seat, blatantly ignoring him as he ploughed on with his little 'I hate you, you're pathetic' speech.

"Stop talking crap Seifer, you're attracting attention," I muttered to him, it was true, almost everyone was staring at our table now.

"Oh," He said in a purposely-loud voice, "You don't like attracting attention do you now?"

I sighed; this was going to take a while. Seifer continued making a scene by standing on the table and attempting to smash the light, most of the inn was edging away from him now, looking thoroughly perplexed at why he was acting in such a strange manner.

"Seifer!" Came the voice of Rikku from the back of the room, "Stop scaring the customers!" She then went round the room apologising to individuals who looked the most scared and then got to Seifer. By this time, he had got down from the table, and was calmly sipping a stolen drink from a nearby person, with his feet up on the table, depositing mud all over the clean surface.

"What's your problem?" He asked her between mouthfuls of tea. Rikku just shrugged,

"Nothing, ok, let's go, we gotta long day ahead of us."

"What? Aren't you even going to have a big go at me, shout a bit maybe?" Seifer looked puzzled.

"Nope," She smiled and walked out of the inn. Seifer threw the teacup on the floor, muttering to himself, he obviously wanted a fight and waltzed out of the inn. I arose slowly and followed them, avoiding the stares of the onlookers.

Once outside, I looked up at the darkening sky, rain clouds were forming and Seifer was grinning insanely, staring at the sky, then Rikku, then back to the sky again. I made my way over to where they stood, by the last houses in the area; Rikku was adjusting a large red glove on her hand, and glancing fearfully at the blackening clouds.

"Ok," Her voice wavered slightly, "Let's go!" And after these words, she set off at a run straight up the mountains, pausing after a few metres only to shout at us, so we could catch up, then continuing again. I glanced at Seifer, who looked livid, probably because a girl was ordering him around. I decided not to get stuck with Seifer and caught up with Rikku.

After a while, the first bolt of lightning thundered down, mere metres from us. Rikku then leapt towards me, threw her arms around my neck, strangling me and hid in my chest. I was having a hard time breathing, from both the lack of air in the mountains and the arms around my neck. Seifer wasn't exactly helping, he stood there, laughing at me, one of these days, I'm gonna get him...

My breathing was getting less and less regular now, I wish she's just let go. Just as I felt I was about to collapse from lack of oxygen, Rikku released her grasp.

"I'm so sorry," She said, helping me back to my feet, I had fallen to the ground, humiliated, I stood up, "I really..don't like lightning," She finished off lamely.

"That's alright," I assured her several times, whilst rubbing my neck, letting oxygen re-enter my lungs once again.

"Sweet as though this might be," Seifer commented scathingly, "We have a bigger problem on our hands," He then pointed to a writhing black ball moving towards us, which I recognised as heartless.

I took out Mickey's Keyblade, a surge of guilt flowed through me, was Mickey dead? Is it right for me to use his weapon? As I pondered this, Seifer waved his Gunblade around with flourish and Rikku adjusted her glove. When the heartless drew near enough to attack, we moved in for the kill.

Amongst the thriving mass were neo heartless, there were harder to beat than usual and I felt guilty as I saw them attack my comrades one by one, well not Seifer so much, he deserved to get hurt a bit, maybe it was my fault that they got out, after all, I didn't seal the door to the light after me, they could have got out. I slashed away at the heartless, occasionally pausing to use a Hi-potion when necessary, until we had defeated the latter of the group.

"Hah! I could've taken them by myself," Seifer strode ahead, scouting for more enemies as I made my way up the mountain with Rikku by my side.

"Where'd you get that from?" She asked me in a cheerful voice, indicating the Keyblade, which I was still holding in my hand. "It doesn't look like something you'd have, you look like you'd usually use a more complex weapon, and this looks a bit simple and plain to me. Is it yours?"

"Well, it's not mine," I said, looking at my feet, "Not that I stole it or anything," I added, not wanting Rikku to get the wrong idea.

"I don't care whether you stole it or not, I have nothing against stealing," She said with a wicked glint in her eyes, "We'll stop here and keep going in the morning." She then ran after Seifer and basically dragged him back to where I was sitting, with our minimal luggage.

"Seifer, make a fire," Rikku commanded, throwing some sticks on the floor.

If looks could kill then Rikku would almost certainly be dead by now, I could tell that Seifer was fed up with being bossed around, but he looked cold himself,

"Do it yourself you stupid bitch, I mean Fira," He said, half-heartedly mumbling, pointing the Gunblade at the sticks, they burst alight and sent happy flickering shadows over the alcove, where we sat, Seifer still muttering death-threats under his breath.

"Thanks!" She said cheerfully, smiling at both of us. Seifer did not return the smile, but glared in return. I could tell this was going to be a long journey.

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(Sora)

"ULTIMA!"

I was on my knees in seconds, with only 1HP left, my MP had not been touched, but I didn't think that Curaga would be enough. I felt so helpless. I quickly searched the inventory, and used up our last elixir. I glanced around, standing up again, the shadows on the walls of the cave had materialised into shadow heartless and were closing in.

In the centre of the group stood a person. They were slightly shorter than me, with long white-lavender tinged hair and wore a strange assortment of clothes, which I recognised to be made of the same material and colour as the clothes that Riku had once worn in Hollow Bastion. Thinking of Riku made my heart twinge, I was wasting my time here, instead of finding him and the king.

They wore a smug look on their face and stepped away from the growing forces of the heartless, towards us. I looked around for Donald and Goofy; they both also had 1HP left, and were using items to replenish their health, it's not like they'll be any more help alive than dead.

"Who are you?" I asked the approaching figure, they responded by shooting a fireball at my chest, it hit me with extreme force and I staggered a few steps backwards, with a burning sensation travelling across my torso, almost a quarter of my HP lost. I heard Donald and Goofy call my name, and maybe they suffered a similar punishment, I don't know. My attention was drawn to the shadows clawing at my feet.

Immediately I drew my Keyblade and unleashed a series of combos to destroy the nearest shadows, loosing little HP in the process. I heard laughter and looked up,

"Pathetic fool, they cannot be defeated by sheer force, it takes delicate precision," They were right, the shadows reappeared within seconds, gaining more HP. What is with this? Usually, they fell easily. I had no time to be confused though; another fireball was unleashed. I quickly dodge-rolled to the left to avoid the fireball, but met more shadows instead. I jumped up and slashed as harsh laughter filled the cave, reverberating off the walls.

"Who-Are-You?" I asked again in between strikes, oblivious of Donald's cries for help. I risked a glance at them; they stood playing with their hair, smiling, whilst the heartless crawled towards me,

"Your plight is most humorous," They took a step closer, "But the fun is yet to begin," I shot them a look of contempt and continued hacking away at the heartless.

"That doesn't answer my question," I shouted at them, exasperated, I stopped to catch my breath, and found them standing directly beside me

"Well who are you, do you know who you are?" They whispered into my ear, their breath cool on my neck. I shivered and took a few steps away, the heartless still swarming around. The moans in the distance and the absence of my name being consistently called told me that both my companions had been knocked out, but I didn't have to wait too long for them to re-awaken again.

"Of course I do, I'm Sora," I replied, glancing round, only to find them behind me

"Are names that important? Just because you have a name does that mean you know who you are?" I opened my mouth to speak, but found his in front of mine. His tongue intruded my mouth, striving to find mine, eventually finding it. I recoiled in shock, and tried to pull away, but he held me by the arm. It was odd, the longer it went on, the more I enjoyed it. He held on for a little longer, savouring the moment, and then released me. I spat on the ground.

"Oh, surely I'm not that bad a kisser," He stood there, yet again playing with his hair, looking hurt. The truth was that he was an excellent kisser, but I wasn't about to admit that to him.

"That's not the point you son of a bitch, isn't this supposed to be a fight? Not a chance to get your tongue down my throat." I was decidedly angry at him, and he just stared at me with a look of longing in his eyes.

"Tut tut my dear, what would your mother say?" He was scaring me now, I tried to make a break for it, but I found him standing in front of me again.

"I'm not falling for that again," I hurriedly stepped to the side and sent a blizzaga spell over my shoulder. A small gasp escaped from the man and then I heard him call an incantation

"HOLY!" I was engulfed in white light as a dozen spheres circled me and eventually hit, the pain was excruciating. It was as if I was being torn open from the inside, unlike his earlier spells, which had lasted for a short time, this went on for much longer. I could make out a shadowy figure approaching me, as I felt more and more faint by the second.

Where were Donald and Goofy, surely they were revived again by now? If so, why weren't they helping me.

He bought me into a final rough kiss before exiting; blowing teasing farewell kisses as he left through a newly materialised black portal. The heartless disappearing as he went.

As I dropped down to the floor, which seemed to take an age, I felt the last of my HP draining and by the time I hit the floor, I had been knocked out cold.

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Yahoo! Another chapter finished, Please please please read and review

And sorry to all the Sora fans, Kuja won't be bothering him again... well maybe a little. *Evil laughter*

Seifer- what kind of a part did I play in this?

T1WP- A small one

Seifer- and being bossed around by a girl? No way! I only take orders from myself!

T1WP- Well what about being the sorceresses Knight? Surely those weren't your orders?

Seifer- Shut up you *various bad words that are either too bad, or too ugly to type, due to the rating of this fic :P *

T1WP- Anyway, please read and review and the new chapter will hopefully be up soon!