BronzeToast: I have been having this idea in my head for a long time trying to write plot lines on scattered paper even napkins from restaurants! Finally since I have been sick since the holiday break I got out of bed and went to my computer. Inspired by Utada Hikari's song Animato from her new album Exodus.

Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts developed by SQUARE ENIX. Characters from FINAL FANTASY video game series: © 1990, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. Disney characters is a trademark of Disney and Disney Interactive. Written by Utada. © 2004 Batongirl Music Publishing (ASCAP). Produced by Utada & Teruzane skingg U. Recorded and Mixed by Goh Hotoda at the Hit Factory, NYC. Programmed by Utada and Pete Davis.

Chapter 2: Chosen One, My Tush!

"Me a spy! You've got to be kidding me!" his jaw dropped a millimeter.

Kairi shrugged. "That's the only other plausible option that narrows it down to who you really are," she said.

Disney Rapid accelerated at a steady velocity over a brick paved bridge instantly changing scenery. Puffs of cumulus clouds joined together altering its once whitish hue to gray. Snowflakes began to plummet settling on the now empty pasture.

Sora shivered immediately noticing the conversion of weather temperature. Astounded by the abrupt shift of surroundings and draftiness, Sora shouted bluntly over the steam whistle from the front of the train. "What is this place?" Lucky quickly ran to Sora sniffing his thin sweatshirt.

Kairi raised her arms and sticking out her tongue to taste the snowdrops. The corners of her mouth spread into a wild grin. "The wonderful world of Disney!" Kairi replied.

"You mean the theme park in Orlando, Florida?" he titled his head wonderingly.

"No! Not exactly, but this world…this planet was created by him. The chosen one."

"I must be dreaming! This…place isn't real. You're not real! Walt Disney is only a guy who created cartoons. Cartoons can't be human or factual. I know this has to be a dream! I'm probably outside Juliet Lowe's house being beaten up by some punks. For some odd reason, I might have fallen asleep during my pounding. I know I'll wake up!" Sora tried to think correctly. "That's not true!"

It pained Kairi that he did not believe her. She was telling the truth. Not many know of the chosen ones for the reason that they too do not believe.

"Sora, it's okay. You could trust me. Whatever happens I'll be here for you," she promised by grabbing hold of his hand. He pulled away; she frowned. "Anyway, we better move to one of the luggage cars before we freeze to death."

Sora leaned on a duffel bag crossing his arms. "I'm listening."

"Walter Elias Disney is a famous man well-known for his talents in animation. Y.A.F.A.-Young Adolescent Fighters in Action-was one of his brilliant ideas before he passed away in 1966. To the people here, he was one of the chosen ones God picked to protect the world. With his art and drawing, Mr. Disney was able to warn us about what is to come. Unfortunately, only children were able to comprehend his messages not adults. So he formed a plan to instruct youths to shield. Sadly he passed away before it was eventually created." Kairi elucidated gazing out the small hole where little light peeked through.

"Why are you telling me this?" he asked suddenly creeped out.

Sora was used to everything being real. Science and facts. Rain is a. Water condensed from atmospheric vapor and falling in drops. b. A fall of such water; a rainstorm. c. The descent of such water. He believed that Newton's Laws of Motion consisted of activity. First Law-Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it. Second Law-The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F ma. Acceleration and force are vectors; in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector. Third Law-For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Those kinds of things. Sora just did not understand they way things are dealt here.

Kairi stood clenching her fists. "Sora, don't you realize you could possibly be one of the chosen ones? Like Mr. Disney, God gave you a gift so that you could use it in different worlds. Don't you believe? This is real!" she pinched him. "This is real!" she repeated tugging on his hair trying to prove her point. He swatted Kairi's hand away.

"Leave me alone!" she covered his mouth indicating him to quiet.

"They could hear you!"

"Sorry, but me special? I'm only a kid from Savannah, Georgia who's on his way to military school. There is no way I have the gift you are speaking of," he quoted.

She put her hands on her hips. "So how'd you get here, huh? Did you just automatically walk onto the platform with no idea of where you're going?"

He answered honestly. "Yes."

"Really, oh great Obi Wan? Tell me," she challenged.

"I went through a chalk drawing," Sora mumbled.

"Exactly!" she stabbed him in the chest with her index finger.

"Exactly what?" he questioned confusedly.

"Only special selected Y.A.F.A. students and teachers have the ability to use those entrances. Walt designed them that way. You must have the skill to possess the senses of battling darkness. Regular mortals in this case can't see or hear darkness. You, my friend, must have the skill," Kairi justified. "Did you see any markings there?"

"Yes, it said MP."

"MP! MP stands for a woman. Mary Poppins! You actually got to witness going through one of her chalk drawings!"

Sora stood dusting off his pants. "This is a dream," he said ignoring the fact that Kairi was talking. "If this is a dream, I can't get hurt. If this is real, I'm in real pain."

"What are you doing?"

He slid open the car door revealing fields of snice in motion. "Seeing if this is real," he answered about to jump. A strong force pulled him backwards causing him to fall ontop of the influence.

Kairi hit him in the back with her small fists. "You idiot! Do you want to get killed?"

"Why'd you do that for!" he shouted back.

"Saving your tush, that's what! Now get off me!" she shoved him to the side. Sora rubbed his back. "This isn't working."

"You could say that again," he muttered. "How far is that Yuca place?"

"Y.A.F.A." she corrected. "And it's pretty far. Nowhere near this area region."

"So, Y.A.F.A. cannot be found?" he asked.

"Pretty much. I tell you some stuff about me if you do the same. You know, vice versa. Because it's going to be a long time til we reach the first point of Y.A.F.A. We need to get on the basis of allies, Sora," Kairi sat across from him.

Sora narrowed his eyes. "Fine. Why are you on this train?"

"It goes toward my home. We already know why you're here, so I'll ask. Why are you going to military school? Because when you said military school I saw this grimace expression on your face."

"I'm about to be homeless in about less than a month," Sora answered.

"Why?" she urged.

He folded his arms. "Nah-ah-ah," he wagged his finger. "One question for vice versa. Why do you know so much about Y.A.F.A.?"

"My grandmother is a healer there and I help her out. Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why are you going to be homeless?"

"I rather would not talk about it."

"Come on, Sora. I think we've known each other long enough to spill our guts. So spill!"

"My mother has cancer. I have no father. So she doesn't want me to be put in an orphanage because she saw the movie Annie. My mom decided to put me in military school. Ta-da!"

"Oh."

"Oh? That's all you have to say is oh!"

"Well yeah! What do you want me to say? That I'm glad you're going to military school!"

"We seem to be doing this a lot lately," he brought up.

"What do you mean?" she asked cradling Lucky.

"Argue. I've never really argued with someone before except for my best friend Riku," Sora enlightened.

Riku. I heard of him, I think. But if he doesn't know about Y.A.F.A. then his friend probably doesn't know either. Maybe I'm thinking of someone else "Oh, what do you enjoy arguing with me?"

"Eh, you're okay," Sora shrugged.

"Oh, thanks. You're really nice."

"I know I am."

"I was being sarcastic," Kairi told him.

"Whatever."

"I guess this is your stop," Kairi said once Disney Rapid ceased to a halt. "Sora, you may not know what you think is real, but deep down I think you do. If you're trying to find a way out, look toward Y.A.F.A., it might help you. But I suggest you do become one of the students, I could see you sometime." She handed Sora Lucky kissing Lucky on his black spotted head. "I don't usually see people off at Y.A.F.A. so I'm going to say see you later." She ran off the wooden platform in between the bustles of Y.A.F.A. students.

"Kairi, wait!" he called after the auburn-haired girl but she was lost within the crowd. He glanced over the Y.A.F.A. students noticing their full attire.

Male students from Y.A.F.A. wore a red jumpsuit, a black/white zippered jacket with white yellow and blue striped gloves, and large yellow shoes to match. Girls on the other hand were situated in a white top with a red/white polk-a-dot zippered jacket, a skirt to match the jacket, and yellow sneakers, plus a red ribbon.

Most of the boys positioned themselves near a supposed ticket booth deliberating about the 'test' while the girls chattered on about new cute student instructors. I really am in Disneyland, Sora thought amusedly.

"Y.A.F.A. students this way!" A series of student instructors exclaimed.

"Aft over there!"

"Cond stay where you are!"

"Porce follow Aft!"

"Billa stay with me!"

Sora followed a near set of Y.A.F.A. students who were strolling toward a Hawaiian little girl in a red dress. Once he was able to push through the Y.A.F.A. students, he saw the most grotesque creature he's ever seen, well, the only creature. His crystal blue eyes wandered over to the other students. Sora was quite amazed that they weren't scared of the blue being.

"Hieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" it greeted. Sora made a face in revolt.

The little girl began, "Welcome to Y.A.F.A. everybody! I'm Lilo and this blue dog is Stitch. As you know Y.A.F.A. sent out student instructors to each of your hometowns watching your every move." She paused for each person(s) reaction.

A girl raised her hand fearfully. "Um, you mean they were watching us in…the showers?" The girls around her gasped frightened. "Are they stalking us?"

Lilo shook her head. "No no no. What I meant to say was the student instructors were taking notes on your personality, or your social status, etc. Things like that."

The girl nodded. "Good."

"Yes, well, as I was saying before, each of you were hand selected to attend Y.A.F.A. This is a great opportunity for some of you. You will be trained to fight darkness. Yes, darkness is real so don't contradict what I say. You may be laughing now, but watch it will come back to haunt you.

Anyway, what I really mean to tell you all is that I will be here for you first years- (Billa) for the first hour or so, then you will be on your own. You may partner up when you come across enemies within school grounds. Basically, you have to find Y.A.F.A. on your own. Stitch will show you the guidelines of your first test. Make sure you pay attention to the directions carefully because there will be consequences. That's it for now!"

Stitch trudged over to a large bulletin board pointing. "Read!" Stitch demanded. All eyes darted to the official rules.

Every summer there is a guide sent from Y.A.F.A. to direct the groups of Billa-1st year, Porce-2nd year, Aft-3rd year, and Cond-4th year toward the Y.A.F.A. location. Students will each be given a wooden sword, an all language translator, a computerized map-the Disnicator (indicator), a compass, a whistle, two potions, one hi-potion, one esther, and an M-key (palm pilot) for their journey.

From time to time a student may obtain items. There is a restricted amount of resources (treasure boxes). Only one resource per student. It is up to the student to find the training facility on his/her own. Locating Y.A.F.A. is Y.A.F.A.'s first test to its students.

Students have only a limited time to pinpoint Y.A.F.A. If a student fails this task, they will be given a low score for the first marking period. All rules apply to all years. Billas will be led personally by the messenger to the first two save points, and then released on their own. The messenger may be found in and/or out of the Y.A.F.A. grounds.

On his/her way, students may find student instructors, or SI, to give him/her clues to the school. SI do not usually comply to the wanted/needed terms of the student. He/she, SI, may ignore any requests of a student. Each student is graded and watched over by cameras and SI.

Allies are sometimes good tools to have, then also bad. To gain an ally, a student must fray against him/her as an opponent. Someone may challenge a student to a battle even if he/she did nothing wrong. Students must be prepared and ready for anything that comes his/her way.

"You have until sunset to reach your destination. Dismissed!" Lilo and Stitch saluted to the Billas. The Billas marched scattering from the platform.

"Huh?" Sora glanced around. "Where's everybody going?" He scratched his head kicking an invisible rock.

Lilo walked up behind him. "Uh, shouldn't you be leaving now?"

"I don't know where I'm suppose to go," Sora admitted putting his hands into his pockets.

"Didn't you read the board?" she asked.

"Some of it," he murmured.

"Well?"

"Well what?"

"What's your name?" she eyed him suspiciously.

The only way to leave this place is to tell the truth probably "Sora," he answered picking up Lucky. Lucky barked back at Stitch. "Bark. Bark. Bark!"

"Hmmn," she took out a piece of paper from her bag. She fingered the list of names. "Is that with a C or S?"

"An S," Sora replied trying to look at the list she was holding. Lilo closed the piece of paper before Sora could have time to see one glimpse of anyone.

"Hmmn. If I'm not mistaken, it says here there is a Sora Rubens. Is that you?"

What the hell is this place? I never did anything to sign up. Maybe this is the military place mom placed me in? Nah! He nodded slowly. "But…I don't know anything about Y.A.F.A. I never signed up or nothing." He declared. "Really!"

"I know," Lilo replied.

"You know what?" he interrogated.

"Well, when I fist received this list," she patted her bag. "Your name was definitely not on it. When you came into the group of Billas, I felt letters rearranging in my bag on the list."

"Excuse me?"

"The paper is magical. It does it all the time. The King intended all Disney materials to be that way. Weird I know, but that's the way it is." Lilo shrugged. "One of the SI probably just admitted you in at the very second. It's okay it happens. Let me fill you in on what you need to know."

I don't think I want to know, he thought.

Lilo and Stitch left the Billas to fend for themselves including Sora. On their way to the first rest stop, she explained to Sora that Y.A.F.A.-Young Adolescent Fighters in Action-is a secret camp institute that helps teenagers (few preteens) prepare to brawl against darkness. He was told to listen to his elders of Y.A.F.A., the one thing he despised to do, owing to the fact in which they control his well-being. Sora had a few questions here or there still trying to understand what the meaning of darkness was.

Darkness isn't real, he continued to tell himself. But here he was walking, talking, and breathing in this magical, imaginary, fictional Disney World. Disney cartoons aren't real, he said. But here was Lilo, an animated Hawaiian girl with a blue alien as a dog named Stitch. What's the difference between this reality and mine?

Small huts lined one another parallel to one another exactly the same. A forest of trees cascaded in and out of the small village making trails and paths for its community. The weather remained calm allowing the sun to shine its rays down upon the dirt ground.

So far Sora only spotted one resource (treasure box) within the whole period he spent searching for Y.A.F.A. He wasn't sure to open the box because of what the rules said. He could have possibly gotten jumped or jacked by one of the other Y.A.F.A. students. Sora decided to linger around and stay feet away from other students. He could only count on himself, or so he thought.

A group of girls in Porce giggled as they exited out of the Accessory Shop. "I saved up my munny from last summer. Isn't this shield cute? It has flower markings on it and everything. See?" she held her new shield. "Hopefully this will protect me from those watery beach creatures. Last time it gave me a real hydro blow." Her friends nodded agreeing.

Sora walked behind them glancing on all sides of the village. He turned into the Accessory Shop opening the flap bumping into a tall blonde. He stumbled backwards rubbing his head. "Out of my way, shrimp!" the blonde ordered shoving Sora into a wall. The blonde's gang laughed behind him.

The woman behind the counter rounded the corner scolding. "I don't want any rough housing in my shop. Out the both of you!" she took her broom and wacked Sora on the head.

"Hey!" Sora glared.

"Out all of you! You are banned from my shop!"

Once outside, Sora blurted. "Hey, you! Why'd you do that for!"

The blonde turned to Sora. "Excuse you?"

"I said why'd you do that for? Are you deaf?" Oops, shouldn't have said that.

"You were in my way, shrimp. And now you seem to be pissin' me off."

Definitely shouldn't have said that. "I just needed to…"

"What are you going to do about it, shrimp? Are you going to sick your puny dog on me? Fight if you know what's good for you," the blonde challenged. "And what!"

One of his friends tapped the blonde on the back. "Yo, Vaan, we only have two more hours to find the stupid place. Just leave him."

Vaan sneered at Sora. "Today you were touched by an angel, shrimp, cuz you could have been the 'catch of the day'. Let's go." He pushed his way through his gang. The rest followed.

What was that all about? Sora wondered scratching his head. His eyes widened once he realized. "Two more hours!"

"Don't make me use this!" a little girl with blue hair warned shaking her flute.

Vaan laughed leaning on his sword. "Come on little girl. Hand over the Echo Screen, (cures silence). Be nice to me and you won't get hurt!"

"Look, boy. You hurt a moogle, then you have to go through me!" she put the flute's mouthpiece to the edge of her lips ready to blow. "You have on the count of three to leave me be! One…"

"Those moogles had it coming! They wouldn't synthesis my item. But fine by me if you want a fight!" he drew his sword standing in battle stance.

"Two…"

Sora heard the whole conversation running in between them. "Leave her alone!" He had his arms spread out wide. The little girl put down her flute.

Vaan grunted. "You again!"

"You can't hurt a little girl! That is immorally wrong! It's disgusting!" Sora yelled at Vaan.

"Mind your own business! What I do is no concern of yours, so leave, shrimp!"

"No!"

The blue haired girl tapped Sora on the shoulder. "It's kind of you to stand up for me, but I can handle it." She once again put the flute's mouthpiece to her lips blowing into the hole. The softest delicate and gentle music aroused in the air.

It sang, "Cmaab ahaseac. Cmaab ahaseac frema E tavayd oui. Oui yna hu sydlr vun sa. E femm feh eh naymedo yht eh ouin tnaysc. Cu cmaab ahaseac frema e tavayd oui." Translating in: Sleep enemies. Sleep enemies while I defeat you. You are no match for me. I will win in reality and in your dreams. So sleep enemies while i defeat you.

"You bit-" Vaan's body fell to the ground leisurely as well as Sora and the others. Her sleeping draught worked effectively. Her flute's song is quite dangerous. It puts one to sleep!

The blue haired girl smiled as soon as she stopped playing. "That's what you get for hurting moogles! Especially my moogles!"

"Eiko, hand me that wash cloth," a soft voice asked. The blue haired little girl nodded grabbing the cloth from the bucket, then handing it back to the young woman. The young woman dabbed Sora's forehead with the cloth. Sora breathed in the fresh scent of the young woman. His eyes fluttered open to see blue ones in which matched the crazy girl's he met on Disney Rapid.

"Kairi?" he whispered immediately yawning. Sora sat up on the futon glancing around the hut. "Where am I?" He saw the little girl who put him to sleep. "You!" he pointed.

Eiko shrugged. "Hey, what thanks do I get for saving your bum? Vaan could easily kick your tush all the way to Egypt if he wanted to." She put her small hands on her hips trying to give off the look of being intimidating.

"Thanks?"

"She was being sarcastic Sora," Kairi explained.

"Oh."

"Yeah, Sora, even I wouldn't say thanks to a person who put me to sleep," Eiko rolled her eyes. "But I have to say thanks for trying to protect me, but I can defend myself even though I look small." Eiko moved toward the door. "I'm going back to the village, Kairi. See ya, Sora!" she waved, and then departed.

"I guess you made it to Y.A.F.A. in one piece," Kairi started the moment when there was silence. She punched him lightly on the arm.

"I'm here aren't I?" he smiled. "So this is Y.A.F.A.?"

"Actually no. This is my grandmother's hut. Eiko brought you here and…ohmigosh! You are so late for the welcoming dinner in the Mess Hall!" Kairi squealed lifting Sora's limp body from the futon. "Come on. You weren't this heavy before!"

"I resent that! Besides I am weak from sleeping because of Eiko's, as you put it, sleeping song!" he shouted back at her.

"Well, at least help me move you! You are really late!"

The Mess Hall was filled with Y.A.F.A. students, Y.A.F.A. instructors, and SI who were now finished dining on the delicious food. Aerith Gainsborough, head mistress of Y.A.F.A., said her speech like every other summer welcoming the newcomers and old students. Night without delay fell signaling curfew was near to Y.A.F.A.

"Now is the time to wrap up any conversation with your friends because this will probably be the last time you will be able to do so. Tomorrow is a new day, a first for some of you new to Y.A.F.A. Remember to be prepared and on time, no excuses. Anyway, SI will send up table by table to receive his/her provisions. You will be able to speak with your instructors tomorrow. If you have any questions please speak with your student instructors. Thank you and I wish you all a good night." Aerith Gainsborough stepped down from her podium.

Kairi and Sora snuck into the grand room as soon as the head mistress of Y.A.F.A. stopped talking hiding behind heads of students. Vaan caught view of Sora giving him his trademark sneer. Sora faced Kairi. "What do I do now?"

"You go up to the table and find your name. There they have your necessities. I have a curfew, Sora, so I have to go. See you some time around," Kairi waved. Sora sat a nearby table. A woman pointed to Sora's table, he stood following the other Y.A.F.A. students at his table.

"Name?" a student instructor asked.

"Sora Rubens."

The student instructor checked his list nodding. "Here," he handed Sora a duffel bag from under the table. On the side of the duffel bag marked a capital Y. "Your D-key." He place a Mickey Mouse symbol shaped key in Sora's hand.

"What's a D-key?" Sora wondered aloud.

"It's the key to your cabin," the SI answered. "You are in cabin L with three other boys. You are on team CAT. Your team members are Zidane Neil, Yuna Carpenter, Irvine Kinneas, and Rikku Gorges."

Riku? He's here? I forgot about Riku! Sora knew the student instructor pronounced Riku's name incorrectly but decided against contradicting him. Sora nodded.

"No dogs allowed in the cabins!" the student instructor shouted after Sora once Sora set out for his cabin.

He had one thing on his mind for tomorrow. Tomorrow he was going to be reunited with Riku. Riku

"Wanna play some one on one?" Riku continued to stride trying to ignore all the annoying pestering questions. "Okay? I guess not. How about we set your cat's litter box on fire again? What about-"

Riku a little too forcefully shoved his best friend into the grass, Sora's head nearly smashing into a statue of an Indian memorial. "Get this straight, leave me alone. Stop bugging me!" He sustained walking through the memorial grave park toward the downtown area.

Sora lifted himself to his feet dusting off the dirt from his cargo pants. He blew on the scab that was starting to bleed. "Hey, what was that for?" he ran to catch up to Riku. "Where are you going?"

"None of your business," was his reply. Riku checked both sides of the street before he crossed ending up on the other side of the sidewalk corner next to the sub sandwich parlor, Subway. "Stop following me!" he yelled once Sora bumped behind him. A flock of crows spread away from the mossy trees as soon as Riku shouted. "What is wrong with you? Can't I get some time to myself?"

"What's with you?" he spat back at Riku. "How come you're like this? This summer we were going to finish our 1000 Craziest Things a Kid Can Do! We're only up to number 99 on the list!" Sora glowered at him.

"I'm tired of this kid stuff! I actually want to do something with my life! Go play with your wooden sword while I actually can reach my potential!" Riku marched passed the Moroccan restaurant.

"What are you talking about?" he jogged next to Riku panting. "Did I do something?"

"No," he was back to his normal composure. "No, you didn't. I'm sorry I yelled, but you have to know when it's done. You can't expect me to 'play' with you the rest of our lives. We're bound to grow up and move on to better things. Can't you see?"

Sora kicked at a rock that only skidded across the messed up old brick sidewalk stopping after a foot. "Listen, I was just wondering. You don't have to tell me. I'm just curious that's all." He admitted stuffing his hands into he side pockets.

"Just trust me," he demanded stopping in front of Sora. "Trust me and I'll come back, okay?" he put out his hand. "Okay?"

Sora rolled his eyes and nodded. "Yeah. Yeah. I trust you." He shook his best friend's hand. "I promise." Riku started to walk once more. "Hey, aren't you going to tell me where you're going?"

Riku shook his head waving off to Sora. "Don't follow me. I mean it."

But the question was: Do I really want to see him?