Pearlescent Tears

Disclaimer: -has stuffed shirt with apples and is trying to seduce KH people into givin' Kingdom Hearts to her- Tonight I'll be your Naughty Gi- Wha? –apples fall out- OH NO! –KH people leave- WAAAAHHH! I ALMOST HAD KINDGOM HEARTS!! BUT NOW THEY'RE GONE AND I STILL DUN OWN IT! –bites apple- Stupid apples…

Quick Author's Note: Um… le'see… what do I want to say?

Shinju and Raine: -sings and dances- Tonight, I'll be your Naughty Girl! I'm callin' all my girls!

Riku and Sora: -gasp, drool-

Hotaru: Oh yeah. ROCK ON, BEYONCE! That's what I wanted to say. Seriously. Her song Naughty Girl makes me wanna get up and shake my groove thang, and it has also inspired me to make a lemony one-shot on… well, I dunno yet.

Shinju and Raine: Tonight, I'll be your Naughty Girl!

Hotaru: -sings-And callin' to all my girls, "Here's chapter four… Fushicho: Feisty Inferno."

---CHAPTER FOUR START---

"Shinju? Shinju, wake up." Riku commanded gently to Shinju, who was asleep on the floor near the window. Sora, Kairi, and Riku before sighed when their only response from Shinju was a lazy wave of her hand.

"This always works for me…" Sora muttered, leaning down and whispering to Shinju, "If you don't wake up, you'll miss breakf- OW!" This time Shinju had smacked Sora for trying to wake her up.

"Watch a pro," boasted Kairi, leaning down to her ear. She sighed once, and shouted at the top of her lungs, "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE UUUUUUUUUUUP!"

"AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIEEEEEE!" Shinju shot up to the ceiling… literally. She'd spread her wings instantly, flapped them once, and hit the ceiling. Her wings disappeared when she fell back down. A fire sparked into Shinju's eyes and she balled up a fist, holding up to Kairi. "What was that for?!"

Kairi laughed nervously, pushing the fist away gently as she answered, "Well, you wouldn't wake up… so…" Shinju's eyes widened.

"I… really?" she asked, bewildered.

Riku nodded. "Yeah. Why? Is that something we should be worried about?" he asked, his eyes- as well as the others'- immediately filling with concern when he asked this.

Shinju shook her head quickly, and suppressed a wince when her head hurt. She smiled, "No, of course not!" They gave her skeptical looks, so she added, "I was just surprised because, well, y'know… anyone would be surprised after waking up to Kairi screaming in your ear." The boys and Shinju laughed, while Kairi crossed her arms and pouted. "Well, anyways, we should get go… ing." Shinju paused while she stood up, since she felt dizzy. But she didn't let the others see. It was Shinju's mission to protect them, even when she's sick, not their mission to protect her when she's sick. And yes, thought Shinju would never say it out loud or show it, she was sick, and she knew why. They needed to hurry.

"Yeah! Let's- wait, why should get going?" Sora asked, confused.

Shinju tilted her head to one side, seeming to say, 'Don't you know?', but then realized she hadn't told them what they had to do. She suppressed a sigh, figuring she was going to have a hard time protecting people if she kept forgetting things because of her sickness. She smiled and laughed. "Whoops! Sorry, I forgot. We're supposed to find six girls, who are the Princesses of Destiny, who are the 'replacement Princesses of Heart', I guess you could say." Shinju walked out of the house they were in, the confused others following.

"But why do the Princesses of Heart need replacements?" Riku asked as they walked.

"Who are the girls?" Kairi asked.

"Are you one of them?" Sora asked.

Shinju explained, "Well, the Princesses told me that they created more than one Keyhole for each world, so, if Ansem were to come back, it would be harder for him to bring darkness to the worlds. They told me that this task took much of their energy, so they gave the last of it to seven girls. That way, while the girls are saving the worlds, they can regain their energy and the girls can live normal lives again, with no memory of their adventures."

Shinju then sighed at the next question. "I have no idea. That's what I hate about this. The Princesses of Heart said the Keyblade would tell us, but… they didn't say how. I guess we'll have to wait and see. And no, I'm not one of them, otherwise your Keyblades would have done something."

Riku stopped. "Keyblades?"

Shinju and the others stopped, too, as Shinju turned and laughed again. "Oh, silly me!" She stuck her fingers into a pouch around her waist, and then took them out. Both were covered in gray, glittery dust. Shinju made a peace sign and held it up in front of her lips, palms facing up. She blew the dust off her index finger, then her middle finger. The dust from her middle finger hovered to Kairi, and took the shape of a Keyblade. It then solidified into the Keyblade.

The rod of Kairi's Keyblade was a soft pink with the words 'Eternally Yours' engraved in and painted purple on the side. The grip of the Keyblade was inside a deep red outline of a heart, on the end a keychain of one large heart, one smaller heart, and then an even smaller heart. All three of them were gold. The actual blade was a solid red heart overlapping two halves of a broken maroon heart.

The dust from Shinju's index finger floated to Riku, also forming and solidifying into a Keyblade. His Keyblade's rod was navy blue with metal spikes scattered along it. The hilt looked like a normal sword's hilt, except in the middle there was an actual eyeball held there beneath glass. On the sides of the hilt were two orbs, filled with darkness. The grip was black, and its keychain had a charm of a black head with beady yellow eyes grinning and showing its fangs. The blade was a dragon like wing. The digits of the wing were black and the wing membrane was purple. ((A/N: Look up a chart of a bat's body online… it should be able to tell you what I'm talking about if you don't understand.)) Along the arm of the wing was 'Darkchild' scratched into it.

"Wha- what? I have a Keyblade, too?" Kairi asked in astonishment. Shinju nodded.

"The Princesses of Destiny each have their own element. Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Lightning, Ice, and Love. They receive their own Keyblades to lock their own keyholes. The two true Keywielders, Sora and Riku, are the elements Light and Darkness. Sora, obviously, is Light. Riku is darkness. Your element is Love, thus you receive Eternally Yours, the Keyblade of Everlasting Love," Shinju explained.

Kairi sighed dreamily and looked to Sora, fluttering her eyelashes a bit. "Hear that? Everlasting Love." Sora rolled his eyes and Shinju and Riku sweatdropped.

"Good for you. Well, let's get- huh?" Sora was interrupted when his Keyblade appeared in his hands. All three Keyblades present began glowing.

"What's going on?" Riku asked Shinju.

She shook her head, "I don't know!" A white beam shot out at Shinju, who 'meep'ed and flinched. She did not, however, move. It struck where her heart was located. Her eyes squinched up in pain. "Sora, stop!"

"I can't make it stop!" Sora said, trying to move the Keyblade. It seemed to be magnetized to its spot, unable to move. Another beam, this time black, rocketed from Riku's Keyblade to Shinju's heart. Shinju gasped. Eternally Yours emitted out a pink beam, which, like the others, went straight to her heart. Shinju's eyes opened suddenly, glowing white.

Shinju lifted into the air, without her wings, and the Keyblades tilted up to keep their beams in their place. By some trick of the wind, her hair flowed and floated about her as she hovered. And then, she closed her eyes, and opened them again. They were normal. The beams dissipated, and Shinju fell from the sky. In her dazed state, she could not summon the power to grow her wings.

"Shinju!" Sora, Riku, and Kairi shouted simultaneously. Riku was the first to react. He ran up underneath her and caught Shinju. He didn't stumble or anything, since, surprisingly, Shinju weighed next to nothing. 'Must be an angel thing,' he mused.

((A/N: Which it is. Don't think there's something wrong with her. Although…

Sora and Riku: -clamps hand over Hotaru's mouth- SSHH! They'll read it! Don't spoil it!

Hotaru: Mmph mmph. (Translation: Right, right.)

Sora: Continuing…))

Sora and Kairi ran up behind him, looking down at Shinju with concern. "What just happened?!" Sora asked, eyes wide.

"Guys, look! She's not breathing right!" Kairi whispered in a scared tone. Sure enough, Shinju's breaths were fast and uneven.

"We have to get her medic-" Riku began, only to be interrupted when Shinju jumped, startled. She took a few deep breaths, and then her breathing was normal again.

"Are you alright?" Riku asked. Shinju then realized she was in his arms, and, because of the way his arm was positioned, her head was tilted very close to his face. She blushed abundantly and jumped out of his arms.

Shinju coughed, regaining her composure, and replied, "Yes. I'm alright." She clasped her hands behind her back to keep the others from seeing that they were trembling.

"What happened?!" Sora repeated.

"Well… I saw a mailbox and a girl with black hair. She was lighting letters on fire…" Shinju sweatdropped as she said the last sentence. "Pyromaniac," she said a little bitterly, her eyes softening sadly for a fraction of a second before she closed her eyes in happiness, clapping once. "That probably means she's the girl we're looking for! The Feisty Inferno!"

Kairi clapped, too. "Alright! Another girl! GIRL POWER!" Riku and Sora sweatdropped, and Shinju chuckled.

"Right, right. So we're off to the first district, then?" Riku asked. Shinju shrugged.

"I don't know. You tell me. I've never been to this place before," she responded. "Lead the way!" Riku nodded and ran through the door to the first district. Sora and Kairi followed, but Shinju hung back. She put a hand to her head. Her forehead was hot, but that wasn't why she'd put it there. 'What was that… I saw?' she thought. Sighing, she quickly followed after the others.

Just as Shinju said, there was a girl with thigh length black hair sitting atop the mailbox, plucking letters out and setting them on fire, then watching the ashes drift to the ground with maroon eyes. She wore a halter top of crimson denim that showed two inches of stomach and had jagged, frayed tendrils hanging down. She also wore maroon hip huggers and black knee high boots underneath them. On her left leg an orange ribbon spiraled from her ankle to her knee and was tied in a knot at her knee to keep it there. On her right leg was another orange ribbon, but this time it went from her knee to her thigh. The knot was in the same place on the right leg as it was on the left. On her slender, smooth hands were fingerless orange gloves that went to the middle of her forearm.

She grinned a white-toothed, mischievous smile as her scarlet fingernails flamed on the ends. The flames licked the letter she held, and soon it burned to ashes in her hand. "Sorry, Mister Merlin, but it looks like you got burned," she purred, then blew the ashes into the air… and right into Shinju's face. "What the?!" The girl shouted, startled at the sudden appearance of a girl with… wings?

Shinju blinked the ashes out of her eyelashes, then ran a hand through her hair to get the ashes that had settled in the lavender strands out. "Sorry to um… disturb you, but…" Shinju put her index finger into the pouch, and then blew the dust to the girl when she took the finger out. It turned into a Keyblade with a red rod, and a hilt inside the outline of an orange flame. The grip was maroon, and the blade was in the shape of a flame. The outer part of the flame-shaped blade was orange, and the inner part was yellow. On the end of the keychain was an unbreakable orb with a flame dancing inside. On the side of the rod were the words 'Feisty Inferno'.

The dark haired girl caught the Keyblade as it fell, raising a dark brow. "And this is…?"

Shinju put her hands on her hips, a bit irritated at this girl's lack of knowledge of legends. "A Keyblade. You are its Mistress. The Feisty Inferno, Keyblade of Fire."

"And…?"

Shinju suppressed the urge to slap some sense into this ignorant girl. "And the Keybladers are going to save the worlds from darkness. Now, come on down and meet the others!" She shouted the last part excitedly, happy to have found another Keyblader. Shinju grabbed the girl's hand, and lowered her down to the ground. "This is Riku, Master of Darkness, Kairi, Mistress of Love, and Sora, Master of Light. I'm Shinju, their guardian as well as yours and the other Princesses…"

"Wait! Hold up, hold up! Princess? As in foofy, frilly, 'I-need-to-be-saved-and-protected-and-crap' Princess?" The girl's eyes narrowed to slits, as if saying, 'How dare you?!'

Shinju shook her head, waving her hand as if waving the thought away. "No, no, no! You're a Princess of Destiny! You get to fight and there are no frilly or foofy outfits involved. Now, who are you?" Shinju gave a friendly smile.

The girl replied with a smirk, "Fushicho." Fushicho looked her Keyblade over. "So, what do I get out of this?"

"The satisfaction of knowing you helped save the light." Kairi said proudly. Fushicho burst out laughing.

"Yeah, right!" She hooted, clutching her stomach as he bent over and laughed.

"Oh, come on! You're so selfish!" Sora shouted, aggravated.

"Brat," Riku said simply. Fushicho slowly turned her maroon orbs onto Riku, and instantly fell in love.

"Wait- is he on your side?" Fushicho asked, sidling up to Riku. Riku rolled his eyes, and Shinju's jaw dropped, shocked. Sora snickered and Kairi glared at Fushicho.

"Wha-" Shinju started.

"I'll gladly join if that means I can be close to this super hot God of a guy." Shinju glared at the giggling Fushicho, her face tinting pink slightly with anger. Fushicho glanced at Kairi, who was glaring daggers at her, and stuck out her tongue before looking back to Riku. Sora looked between the girls and sweatdropped, wishing he got this kind of attention so Raine would get jealous.

"Yes, yes, yes, he's on our side, but would you please refrain from hanging all over him?" Shinju asked quickly, gently pushing Fushicho away from Riku and standing in front of him with her hands on her hips. Riku smirked at Shinju and thought in his head, 'Saved by the angel'. Kairi, too, stood beside Shinju, as if protecting Riku with her.

Fushicho raised a brow, then laughed merrily. "Ah, I see. Okay, then. I'll join you guys. After all, I haven't had a battle of romance in quite a while." She walked up to Shinju and Kairi and put a hand on their right shoulders. "May the best woman win."

Shinju blushed and shook her head. "No, no, no, no, no!" Riku chuckled slightly as she repeated 'no' over and over while shaking her head and waving her arms. She was cute when she was flustered. Sora pouted, feeling quite forgotten, and Kairi walked back over to Sora, also pouting. "It's not like that! I'm his guardian, for Princesses' sakes!"

"Oh… so then I have him to myself?" Fushicho asked, once again standing next to Riku. She hugged his arm and leaned her head on his shoulder. Riku sighed and stood there. After all, it wasn't so bad to have this Fushicho girl hang on him. It made Shinju jealous, didn't it? "C'mon, Riku, let's go to the hotel. It's getting late."

"What?!" Shinju squeaked, growling and glaring at the door the led to the Second District. How dare she?! How dare she?! A shrill scream caused Shinju to snap out of her jealous state and came back to her senses. "Oh, shoot! That was Kairi!" Shinju grew her wings and flew over the door into the Second District. "Oh, man! How can I be a guardian if I'm getting jealous over nothing?!" she muttered, glancing around.

"Shinju! Help!" Kairi screeched from the ledge a little ways down from the roof of the Gizmo Shop. The faingel flew over to her comrade and scooped her up.

"Where're the others?" Kairi pointed to the Gizmo Shop's roof, where Fushicho, Riku, and Sora were battling a Heartless.

The Heartless resembled a spider, because of its two gangly arms with clawed hands, one pair of legs with spiked boots on the feet, and one pair of spiked tentacles that had fireballs flared on the ends. The head had two beady, glowing yellow eyes and a sinister smile, as well as a drill sticking out of the bottom and a flamethrower sticking out of the top. It was stomping around at the moment, trying to squish the Keybladers.

"C'mon, we've got to help!" Shinju said, flying up as Kairi shouted, 'We?! What we?!'. Shinju set Kairi on the roof and Kairi summoned her Keyblade, then ran out of the way of an attack. At first Kairi held back and healed people while Riku, Sora, and Fushicho did all the attacking, but she soon ran out of magic. Shinju pushed her forward towards the fray. "No need for that. I'm the guardian, so I'm the one who will heal and protect you guys." Kairi gulped, and nodded meekly, running up to one of the Heartless Spider's feet and slashing at it.

"Look out!" Riku called as the Heartless's eyes flashed red and it began to thrash it tentacles, as well as shooting fireballs from the flames around the tentacles. Shinju swooped down and grabbed Fushicho out of the way, who glared at her.

"I don't need your help!" she snapped at the lavender-haired girl.

"But we're all a team! Here, I'll drop you on one of his legs, and you cut it off. Ready?"

"Wait! Hold the pho-"

"GO!" Shinju shouted, releasing Fushicho. Fushicho landed on the head near the flamethrower, which was spurting out flames like a volcano. Ignoring what Shinju said, she attacked the flamethrower. That way her allies wouldn't have to constantly dodge the fire spurting out.

Meanwhile, down below, Kairi was gaining a little more courage. After one particular slash, her Keyblade glowed. "Wh-what's going on?!"

Shinju turned to her after slashing the Heartless with her sword, and smiled. "You're learning a new power. The words will come to you, and when they do," Shinju paused to jump away from the Heartless's drill and heal Sora. "Summon all your power into your hand, and feel it flow into the Keyblade. Then say the word- EEK!" Shinju yelped as one of the clawed hands raked through her side. Her wings vanished and she fell to the ground, coughing.

"Shinju!" Kairi shouted, worried for her friend. Her violet ((A/N: Not really sure what color Kairi's eyes are… and I'm too lazy to check.)) eyes widened as the words came to her. 'I can feel it! My magic… concentrate, Kairi…' she thought, closing her eyes. She opened them after a few seconds to see her Keyblade glowing pink. She grinned and looked to Shinju, gasping when she saw Shinju about to get stomped on. Riku was preoccupied with a tentacle, Fushicho was nearly finished destroying the flamethrower, and Sora was hacking away at the clawed hand that grasped him. 'It's up to me to help…' she thought, narrowing her eyes. "FRIENDLY EMBRACE!" Kairi shouted.

A pink light flew to Shinju and swirled around her, leaving a red trail behind. The light eventually made its way to the top of Shinju, just a foot above the center of her head, and the trails it left behind connected, making a shield as the Heartless foot came down. The Heartless's foot exploded when it came in contact with the shield, and the Heartless would have toppled over if its free claw hadn't caught it and acted as a replacement foot.

Shinju stood and staggered away to Kairi. She closed her eyes and put a hand over her wound, muttering, "Cura". The wound healed instantly. She smiled at Kairi. "Thanks, and well done!" Kairi giggled, bowing.

"You're welcome." She turned back to the spider. "Now, let's exterminate this bug!" Shinju laughed nervously, managing not to sweatdrop at Kairi's bad joke.

"Right, right," Shinju replied as they ran towards the drill. "Stop!" Shinju shouted, and the drill stopped. Kairi and Shinju proceeded to chop the drill off.

"Almost… there…" Fushicho muttered, giving the flamethrower another powerful slash. It started to shake, and Fushicho jumped away, hanging from the tentacle Riku was battling. The flamethrower exploded. "BOOYAH!" Fushicho shouted, smirking. The tentacle started to writhe, and Fushicho lost her grip. "Yikes!" she yelped as she fell.

"Gotcha!" Riku said as he caught her. He put her down before she could start to flirt, and gave the tentacle a few good slashes before it tore off, falling limp and extinguished to the ground.

Fushicho looked to Sora, who had torn off the claw and was now dodging fireballs the other tentacle was throwing. She and Riku exchanged glances and nodded, running over to help.

"Freeze!" Sora shouted.

"Thunder!" Riku added.

"Firaga!" Fushicho finished. All three spells hit the tentacle, and it burst into orbs of health and magic, which the three collected before attacking the other booted leg.

The drill finally exploded after Shinju and Kairi received many cuts from it, and also after Shinju repeated 'stop' incantations dozens of times to stop the drill. Kairi and Shinju stopped to catch their breath. They didn't have much time before the remaining claw swiped at them. They dodged, and the spider tipped over, falling off the Gizmo Shop roof and to the ground. Shinju flew up, magic swirling in the hand she raised.

"ANGEL FEATHERS!" she shouted. Feathers of light shot out of the magic in her hand and flew to the Heartless, piercing it. The Heartless's dark heart hovered out of it agape jaws and into the night sky, eventually disappearing.

The Keyhole at the fountain appeared with the fiery background rather than the butterfly one it had when Sora sealed the Keyhole. Fushicho's Keyblade shook, and a red light rocketed out of its tip into the Keyhole. A click was heard, and the light disappeared, as well as the Keyhole. Everyone sighed with relief, and Shinju turned to them, smiling.

"We did it!" She shouted happily, punching a fist into the air. Shinju's face softened and her eyes fluttered closed. Her limbs went limp and her wings folded. Before blacking out, she heard everyone shout, "Shinju!"

---CHAPTER FOUR FIN---

Hotaru: YAY! I actually put a semi-good battle scene in this!

Everyone: -claps- Hoorah!

Fushicho: WH00T! I'm finally here! –cuddles up to Riku-

Shinju and Kairi: -glare-

Riku: -sigh-

Sora: -daydreaming about Raine-

Hotaru: What is Shinju hiding? –points to the 'What was that… I saw?' line- And no, it wasn't the Feisty Inferno.

Fushicho: Although I do appear in a lot of people's heads! –sigh- I'm just too darn attractive.

Shinju: Whatever. –rolls eyes-

Harry (from American Girls): And why's Shinju so weak all of a sudden?

KH Cast: -gasp- HOW DARE YOU WALK INTO OUR FANFICTION!

Riku: -moons Harry-

Harry and others: EEK! MY EYES! –runs off-

Hotaru: RIKU?! WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT FREE SHOWS?!

Riku: -runs off-

Hotaru: -chases-

……….