Author: Alrighty, next chapter. I made this extra long cause I haven't updated as soon as I hope. Now this story will be kind of short. Like, not long and not short but in between. Hope you enjoy and I WILL update passing Shadows soon and I will start updating Fallen angel maybe after I'm done with passing Shadows which wont be for awhile cause I might make a series of it. NOW READ!!

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When Sora and company walked into Yuffie and Leons place they were greeted by a warm cheery site as they expected. Their was a kitchen table with a computer opposite it and a small window. The living room was directly across with it full of every electronic you could imagine included surround sound, DVD player, and all the game councils ( "X-BOX!!" Sora and Riku ran toward it but Leon pushed them away. " Mine!…hands off runts! I'm in the middle of playing Halo.") Their was also the kitchen leading from that, full of pots and pans and everything you would expect to see in a kitchen ( I'm not naming everything all you are smart enough to know what's in a kitchen I hope.) and a girl wearing a blue dress with long sleeves and brown hair turned and smiled at them.

"Hello everyone." beamed Aerith. Everyone said hi back and took a seat at the kitchen table. Sora looked an blinked his Aqua eyes surveying everything around him. Yuffie and everyone was doing well for themselves.

"So…what became of the vacant house?" Donald asked out of the blue. Leon rolled his eyes but Yuffie decided to answer. "Cid bought it from us. Said we should get out and start making some money for ourselves. Turned out he had good intentions but he ended up turning the place into a Gummi Shop anyway."

Aerith walked into the room and placed 7 glasses of apple cider on the table and everyone took one. Sora hesitated slightly as he watched everyone around him drink and sighed. He wasn't used to this cozy home cheerfulness. I mean, barley even two years ago they had all been fighting for their lives against the heartless. It was kind of awkward.

Aerith sensed Soras tension and she ruffled his hair softly. "Good to see you again Sora." She said smiling.

The brunette withdrew slightly but forced a smile. Did Aerith still think he was a little kid?

Riku snickered under his breath and Sora kicked his leg from under the table making him wince. Kairi just rolled her eyes.

"So what do you all want to be for Halloween?" She asked trying to change the subject.

Bad idea…everyone answered at once.

"OH! I'm going to be a witch!" Yuffie shouted happily.

"Me too!!" Kairi and the ninja gave high five and started talking non stop while Donald and Goofy talked with Leon. "What do you mean your going to be you!? spit it out already!!"

Leons face twitched but he made no jester to move or speak.

"OUT WITH IT!"

"Nope…"

" COME ON!!"

"Donald I don't think he's gonna say."

"I'll make him."

"……………….."

Sora decided to step in and he crossed his arms over his chest staring Leon down. "Come on it cant be that bad."

"Yes it can."

"Please?" Sora smiled his completely goofy yet charming smile and Leons face twitched as he slowly gave in. "ALRIGHT ALREADY!…. Yuffie wants me to be a cow WITH the utters and all but I'm trying to con her out of it."

( Everyone look at a pic of Leon and think " MOO")

Sora, Donald and Goofy stared at him for a second before cracking up and falling on the floor laughing. The brunette was practically in tears before Leon picked him up by the scruff of the neck and brought his face within inches of his.

"If you keep laughing like that kid and I end up getting out of it, it will be YOU wearing the cow costume." he said through gritted teeth.

Sora gulped and nodded frantically. "K…K Leon. I'll stop." the gunner dropped him to the floor and stormed off up the stairs. The brunette sighed and wiped the tears from his eyes before glancing over at Riku who had been very quiet on the whole situation and he walked over and put his hand on his shoulder.

"So, what you going to be?"

Rikus eyes flamed and the brunette shrunk down in fear. "Um…Riku?"

He sighed and looked down at the ground. "I don't want to be anything…"

Sora blinked. "Hey, you got to be something. Who knows. You could wear your outfit from Hallow bastion."

As soon as the words had left his mouth Riku had tackled him and began beating the crap out of the poor Keybearer.

" THAT IS NOT FUNNY!!!"

" AHH!! GET OFF!!"

"TAKE IT BACK!!'

"Why?"

" TAKE IT BACK!!"

" Fine, I take it back."

The silver haired teen grabbed a sucker from the candy table beside him and shoved it in Soras mouth. "Eat your words while you can." he mumbled.

The brunette removed the sucker and frowned at his friend. "But seriously what are you going to be?"

"…if it will make you stop asking probably a Keybearer."

Sora was in the middle of a understanding nod when he realized what he had just said and glared at Riku who was holding up his key blade. "HEY!!" he went to grab it but his friend pulled it away.

"Well it is really mine isn't it? I just let you have it. My hearts pure enough now." Riku told him beaming. He through it back at Sora and walked over to the table where everyone was sitting talking about everything that had happened throughout the years. He loved having everyone around again…but the thought of Riku being able to summon his Keyblade scared him a bit. If his friend ever rebelled he could just take it whenever he wanted.

'no use worrying about it…' He told himself. 'not like any of us is going to turn evil or anything…' he went and found a seat at the table next to Leon who eyed him threateningly but continued talking to Kairi. A few minutes passed before the whole table was talking about him for some odd reason.

"Guys I'm sitting right here you know?" he shouted.

Everyone blinked. "So?"

"You're an interesting subject Sora." Riku told him smirking. "Like the time you used the Keyblade to try and unlock the refrigerator in your sleep but it didn't work cause it had no lock you were just to stupid to not realize it."

Soras face burned red and everyone laughed. "Well you would do the same thing if you kept dreaming about chocolate covered strawberries! I told Kairi to never make them again after that!!"

The conversation continued from their and Aerith glanced at the clock. "…he should be here soon."

"Who?" Kairi asked.

"Cloud. He's coming here for Halloween."

Sora choked on his apple cider and stared up at Aerith wide eyed wiping his mouth on the back of his hand. "Clouds coming here!?"

"Yes. He's done with the tournaments now. He's going to be staying with us."

Sora gulped at the thought of him staying in the same house with Cloud AND Leon who were both like ticking time bombs which would go off at any moment. How would he get out alive?

Yuffie got up and closed the curtains in the kitchen and went around doing the same to all the windows.

"Yuffie why are you doing that?"

The Ninja turned around to glance at Kairi slightly but continued on in her work.

Leon sighed. "Theirs been…some strange people around here lately."

"..Stranger then usual?"

"As in vampire strange."

Everyone grew quiet and stared at the gunner with raised eyebrows. "Vampires?"

"Theirs been several attacks lately. Mostly seen as 3 girls with brown hair that travel around. Cid believes their some weird form of half human and heartless."

Riku drank the rest of his apple cider slowly and sank slightly low into his chair but no one took notice.

Sora blinked. "Is that even possible?"

"Rumor is they used to work with Maleficent on Ansems orders in the background. They were 3 girls who used to live in Hallow Bastion along with us. They had always taken to Ansem ever sense they were little and when darkness took him he decided to experiment a little. And those three were the results of his experiment. "

Sora muttered. "Half human...half heartless. That results in a vampire?"

Leon shrugged. "They have the power to take peoples hearts but they live off of blood and can turn people into their kind too. But we don't take them as much as a threat. The two younger once are childish and cause mischief…but the older one is a problem."

"Who is she?' Kairi asked.

Leon opened his mouth to speak but Yuffie glared at him. "Leon…"

The gunner glared back. "It wont kill them to know."

"…fine."

"The lead girl. She used to be Yuffie's best friend back in Hallow Bastion."

Everyone's eyes widened and Yuffie suddenly took great interest in rubbing the dust off the curtains in the living room.

"Her names Fire. And lately she's been taking great interest in hanging around here. Almost taunting us actually."

"Well then get rid of her."

Leon shook his head. "Cant. She's to strong and the authorities think its child abuse. They have no idea what she is and fail to believe it."

Their was a ripping noise and everyone turned to look at Yuffie who had tore the curtain in half fuming. "That no good little traitor!!"

Aerith walked into the other room to get another drink and Leon came and led Yuffie back to the table. "Lets not talk about this anymore."

Everyone nodded and then looked down at Riku who was rocking back and fourth in his chair with a terrified look on his face.

"Um…Something wrong Riku?" Sora asked.

His friend gulped and smiled slightly. "N-no..fine." he quickly stood up and straightened his shirt out. "I'm…going to use the rest room. Be right back." and with that he ran up the stairs to the second floor of the house.

Everyone blinked and Yuffie looked at everyone suspiciously. "You think he knows anything? Why they might be here? Cause remember he used to be in line with-"

"That has nothing to do with it." Sora said sharply making her shut up.

"Look, lets just enjoy ourselves and forget the whole thing." Said Kairi. Everyone nodded and began to talk when Aerith walked in with a glass mug with a painted picture of a cow on the front.

Everyone grew quiet and Sora couldn't stop the devilish smirk from spreading across his face and him and Leon met eye to eye.

"MOO."

"THAT'S IT!!!" The gunner jumped up from his chair and with a yell Sora tripped out of his seat and went running out the door crashing into the piled up tables stacked up outside from the Café.

"OW!!"

Leon slammed the door shut and locked it leaving Sora alone in the cold, eerie night. "Well that was smart Sora." he muttered to himself.

The brunette sat outside the door waiting for a few seconds when he finally got the point that he wasn't going to be let back in for awhile and walked out of the shelter of the café and looked around. All the lights that usually shone through traverse Town were shut off leaving only the moon and stars above for guidance. Sora shivered slightly and took out his key blade lighting a fire spell to keep him warm.

"Jeez, so this is what I'm degraded too. Being locked out of a gunners house in the middle of the night JUST cause I said "MOO." he leaned against the wooden post of Yuffies house and stared deep into the flame. So many memories existed around him. He had started his adventure here no more then 2 years ago and now here he was alive and wiser then before ( slightly) and still with his friends.

"But still…." his eyes shadowed. "I wonder if…it isn't over yet…"

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Fire stood on top of the turned out lamp post and watched the keybearer smirking. 2 other figures stood on the lamps several feet behind doing the same.

"Inu…Ryu… he's mine." she whispered.

They both glared at her and hissed slightly but she shot back. "SHUT UP! You'll get your chance soon enough. All the others in their you can go and take for yourself."

"OH!!" Ryu jumped slightly in excitement. "Can I PLEASE have the sexy white haired one?"

"No way he's mine!" Inu shot back.

"MINE!!"

"SSSHHHH!!!"

The both shut up and fire flipped her brown hair back flashing her red eyes at them. "Its now or never. And I choose now." She jumped down from the street lamp and landed gracefully on the ground. The keybearer still hadn't seen her.

Slowly she straightened up and smirked as his eyes wondered at the noise from earlier and soon came to rest on her. "Hello Sora."

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Author: I think I made this longer then I expected. But I hope you enjoy. Oh, and by the way. Fire, Ryu, and Inu are me and my two best friends nick names. I'm Fire out of all of them if you ever noticed my screen name. I said I would put us in here for the fun of it. PLEASE REVIEW!! I'll update soon.