It's... Part ten... Wow... o_o...

Aside, it's way too early Saturday morning when I start this... And I've had this possible pairing stuck in my head all night... Except it might bump this story up to R, and it's shounen-ai... Which some people don't like... But it may happen anyway... And Ansem's nice... I read too much of Wire and Rain... And... *yaaawn* I'm gonna write now...

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Reviewers: None... Updating too soon... Wrote in a day... Sleep... zzzz

Warnings: Erg... zzzzz... Need... Sleep...

Disclaimer: Didn't come up with it means I dun't own it. Yawn... Too... Early... *Falls asleep*

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Experimental

Kurayami: Part Ten

Black and White



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Ansem blinks his fiery eyes at Shiru.

The boy turns to Oni. "Say hello to Aku for me. Miru said he's doing a very good job, if it is a little unorthodox."

Oni smiles grimly. "He says hi, too. And he knows it's unorthodox, but it works. He knows I care about my family too much otherwise."

Smiling sympathetically, Shiru nods, shimmering grey hair falling across his copper eyes again. "I know, Oni. I know." He sits gracefully, his heavy grey velvet cape pooling around him. "Have you set about molding the new Heartless yet?"

Oni shakes his head. "No, I've only created one- LupeShadows."

"Oh, those. Yes, I saw them in one of Miru's sim-runs. They're cute." Both Shiru and Oni smile.

"Excuse me, but what in the worlds are you two talking about?"

Both the young men smile at Ansem, but it is Oni who responds. "Didn't ore tell you that the Heartless are back?"

Fiery eyes blink again. "No, you didn't."

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Oka starts to hit his forehead. "No, no, no, no, NO. This is NOT happening. Takeo, please tell me you didn't just blurt that out!"

Niji lays a comforting hand on Oka's shoulder as Sora continues to blink. Takeo blushes slightly. "Er. Gomen?"

Zeff shakes his head, brushing back some of his hair. "Well, can't be helped now that it's happened. Sora was going to find out about the kids eventually... I'll go tell Miru." His rust-colored eyes look off into the middle-distance, and both Takeo and Sora hear a slight whisper.

Zeff blinks, and his thin, delicate eyebrows knit in puzzlement. "Niji, Oka, since when has LP been running the tests?"

"Since... Never. In fact, he normally needs to ask help from MIRU..." Niji shakes his head. "Why would LP be there?"

"I... Do not know... I'll ask..." Again Zeff's eyes grow distant, and that brush of sound tickles Takeo's and Sora's minds. "He says that Miru called him in as a favor, for all the times Miru ran those tests for world. And then he felt Miru creating something?... And then, he doesn't know."

Takeo blink, then looks at Sora. "Sora?... Um, could I talk to you? Kudasai?" Not waiting for an answer, Takeo grabs Sora's arm, pulling him with surprising strength to one side.

"Er..."

"Look, um, see... I'msorryaboutblurtingthatoutwithnowarningandupsettingyouandOkaandNijiandthatguythat'swithyouand-" Takeo takes a deep breath. "-Ifyoudon'twanttobeleivemethat'salrightcauseIdidn'tbeleiveeitherwhenIfoundout. And... Andifyoudobeleivemebutdon'twanttopleasedon'tgetangrywithmebalmeAnsem!"

Sora blinks. Then, rubbing his forehead, he sighs. "Come again?"

Takeo looks as though he's just spent today's quota of bravery, but plunges on regardless. "I'm sorry that I said anything, and upset everyone, and if you don't want to b-believe me it's fine," Takeo's voice slowly climbs octaves as he speaks quicker, "Because I didn't really believe it myself, and if you want to get angry it's okay just blame-Ansem-not-me~!" Takeo starts to hyperventilate after that last blurred, squeaky sentence, eyes so wide that a ring of white shows all around his aqua-green irises, and tears start to leak out of the corners.

:: He acts like I'm going to explode on him... I'm confused as can be, but not _angry_...:: "Hey, calm down. Why're you so terrified? And... Why should I blame Ansem?" A puzzled look crosses his blue eyes.

Takeo doesn't respond immediately, but Sora's kind voice cuts through his panic, and his breathing slows. Almost in surprize, he raises a pale hand to wipe the wetness from his eyes, and when he does reply, his voice is only a little higher than normal.

"S-sorry for freaking out on you. It's just... I've know you were a large part of my base DNA for six years, but I never told anyone, and I thought too much, and I couldn't help doubting even though everyone said you're a great guy and..." Takeo stares at his blue sneakers, taking a few deep, even breaths to bring his voice back down from where it had started to climb again.

"Um... Why don't you start from the beginning?" ::This kid is REALLY confusing me!::

"Well... You know it was Ansem who originally released the Heartless, nineteen- no, twenty years ago, now, by fiddling with doors and such?"

Sora nods. "Yeah, he said all that in his reports; But was it really twenty years ago?"

"Aa." Takeo nods. "It just didn't spread to other worlds quickly, the barriers between worlds had built up for a long time before that. But anyway, about five years after that, he sent a girl off to another world of islands, and followed her briefly once she arrived there. I don't know everything, but apparently he collected DNA samples from her and two young boys."

Sora blinks. "Wait- Do you mean Kairi? Ansem SENT her?"

Takeo nods again. "Yes, Kairi. And the two boys he took DNA from were you and Riku."

"I think I see where this is going..." Sora frowns at the middle distance.

"Well, he basically fiddled around with the DNA, melding it with some extra, and adding in some of the Heartless structure and created my older brother. Then he fiddled with just yours and Riku's, and put some crystalline structure in, and created me. Then Riku's and Kairi's, as well as adding in some cat DNA for claws, fangs, and grace, and came up with Neko-chan, my little sister. And then-" Takeo's voice gets very quiet of a sudden, and he focuses on his sneaks again. "He melded your DNA, Kairi's, and gave m-my sister Anzu angel wings."

Sora stares at his own oversized yellow shoes, trying to absorb all this, so he misses the fact that after conferring with Oka and Zeff for the last few minutes, he created a mallet out of apparently nothing and was about to hit Takeo over the head with it.

Therefore, it wasn't until Takeo fell over that Sora noticed anything amiss.

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::Riku seems to have gotten over his hysteria... Or whatever that was.::

Anima absently rubs the faint mark on the side of her neck, where Riku's overly strong embrace bruised her delicate skin.

"So, where are we going?"

She smiles faintly at the teen, who doesn't seem to really care where they're going as long as he's not alone. "That decision is up to you, Riku. Up ahead is a crossroads- on more than one level. We shall see which way we shall go there." Anima tilts her head back, looking into the endless starry sky. "But for now, we will walk, and talk, and tell of our past, and look to the future. And who knows? Our new journey may not me so hard, or maybe it has already begun, just for all of our meetings, and greetings, and tales of old times. But whatever shall happen, wherever we shall go, there will be people out there affected by our actions. And..." She lowers her pale face, looking before them. "And maybe, just maybe, someone who will never hear our names, or know that we existed, will be able to look up at the sky one day, and think 'how beautiful', and we'll know that it's because of us that that one person is still alive. And that's really all one can hope for, right? To save a soul, or maybe many, or maybe thousands, and they'll never know it was us, but we will know, and isn't that enough?"

Riku stares wide-eyed at her, hands that were folded behind his head dropping to his sides. After a minute of silence, a thoughtful smile breaks across his face. "Wow, Anima, that's deep. That's gonna stick in my mind for a while."

Blushing slightly, Anima beams at the comment, delivered in a rough, underused voice, but sincere as can be. "Th-thank you, Riku."

"Nah, nothing to thank for."

As Riku links his hands behind his head again, a shy smile crosses Anima's face and her slanted eyes sparkle.

TBC

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Translations:

Ore: Remember this from last chapter? A really rough way to say 'I/me', could be considered rude, ect...

Gomen: Sorry.

Kudasai: Please? (polite)

Aa: A general 'yes' sort of sound- Not formal at all, as far as I can tell.

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Aww... Fluff... =^_^= Totally unplanned, and maybe pointless fluff, but still cute. =^_^= I may end up having more romance than I planed.

So, I want to make a little survey. How many people here are up to a love geometric shape? And how many would mind if it included boy/boy? You don't have to answer, but it would be nice. And feel free to ask questions! Ja ne!