(AN; this was a crazy dream I had last night. It seemed pretty cool so I decided to write it out. Add a bit of spunk and hopefully make something tasteful to read. Review, flame, and enjoy :p Blade)

Disclaimer: I don't own squat…save for original characters and places.

Yuna was cleaning up the summer house she and her sister, Sakura, had rented for the long summer months in Destiny Island. She hummed a tune as she folded laundry and then began to set the table for 4. Paine exited the bathroom and sat down on a couch wiping her whitish grey hair off with a towel. Sakura popped out of her bedroom and smiled brightly at the other two women.

"Morning everyone!" she chirped. Rikku was right behind her and the two 17 year olds bubbled over the latest gossip on the island.

"Well now that everyone is here, let's enjoy some breakfast alright?" Yuna said softly everyone nodded. Taking their places at the table they all began to eat the hearty meal Yuna had prepared. Sakura looked much like her sister Yuna, she too had one green eye and one blue the only difference was she had dyed her hair strawberry blonde, Rikku's idea of course. Once they were done they all did their part to clear up the table.

"Yunie, me and Sakura are gonna go head over to the beach and chill there for a while ok?" Rikku said already dashing to the door, Sakura in hand. Yuna let out a sigh and nodded.

"Man those two together is such a bad mix don't you think Paine?" Yuna said.

"Yeah, but I guess it could be worse. There could be two Rikkus." Paine said in her practically emotionless voice. Yuna laughed and nodded. One Rikku was MORE then enough!

Rikku and Sakura could be seen dashing through the village down towards the beach. Rikku giggling with such joy that one would usually assume accompanied a very expensive drug, and Sakura who was screaming out of sheer fear that her friend would get her crushed by some innocent bystander. Eventually the latter happened having Sakura crash head on with another girl.

"I'm sooooo sorry! Kairi?" Sakura said as she helped the other girl up. Bright auburn locks and blue eyes met her. Kairi smiled weakly and brushed herself off.

"Ya. It's cool. I'm alright." She said. Her voice and her eyes told a different story. Both Rikku and Sakura could tell that Kairi was lying about how she was feeling right then.

"You can't lie to us Kairi, we know your upset…so what's bringing ya down?" Rikku asked. As Kairi began to tell her story, the other two girls felt themselves grow more and more sad too. They had reached the beach as she finished her tale and both girls were feeling just as rotten as Kairi was.

"We should go look for him, look for your Sora. I mean it's not that hard to get from world to world. And with us helping it should be a breeze! Are you in Kairi? We'll only do this if it's what you want." Sakura said. Kairi smiled so bright both girls thought she had gone insane.

"Let's do it!" Kairi said smiling brightly. She jumped on the other two girls nearly suffocating them in a massive hug.

"Ok so it's settled we'll leave tomorrow morning!" Rikku said happily. She jumped up and down with pure excitement flowing in her veins.

"Yuna, is it ok though? She really misses him a lot! Please please please! I'll be real careful, and I'll protect her and myself and I'll be really good I swear it! YUNA! PLEASE!" Sakura begged her sister to let her help out her friend. Yuna had been giving her disapproving glances all last night but she finally reluctantly agreed.

"Only because it's not for yourself. I want you to take Paine with you though. Someone has to look out for you girls. That is if you don't mind Paine?" Yuna said looking over at her skull clad friend. Paine made a mock smile, a new habit she was getting into.

"Yeah it's fine; I haven't killed anything in ages." Paine said. Jumping around full of a new joy Sakura dashed into her room and finished packing. She bounced into Rikku's room and screamed.

"What is it? What's wrong?!" Yuna cried running into the room only to bash right into her sister. Rikku was sitting in bed her face beet red and her nose dripping. "O no. O my, Rikku I think you caught the flu!" Yuna cried.

"I'm stwill gwood emouf to gwo wiff Sakuwa and Kaiwi! Pwease Wuna wet me gwo!" Rikku sniffled out. Feeling her head Yuna's frown only grew.

"With a fever this high, you'll be lucky to make to the kitchen before falling over and hallucinating. You're not allowed to leave this bed young lady." Yuna said with a hint of finality. Sakura sniffled and hugged her friend tightly.

"It won't be the same without you Rikku!" Sakura said sighing deeply. Rikku nodded forcing a smile. She passed Sakura her orange and yellow scarf.

"I wore thes wen I wos on mwy wast adwenture. It's gwood wuck!" Rikku said sniffling hard. Sakura smiled and thanked her and headed out to Paine in the kitchen.

"Looks like Rikku won't be joining our little adventure Paine, just you, me and Kairi now. We should go pick her up eh?" Sakura said smiling softly. Paine nodded and walked out the door. Sakura awaited Yuna's return from Rikku's room and hugged her sister tightly.

"I love you Sakura, come back to me in one piece please. I don't want to lose you." Yuna said softly into her sister's ear. Sakura smiled and held her sister for a moment longer.

"I'll be fine, besides I got Paine looking out for me too. She'll keep me safe if all else fails." Sakura whispered before releasing her sister and heading out towards Kairi's house.

"Shall we be off now?" Paine said softly. The two younger girls both nodded. Heading into their ship the younger girls nearly fainted. On one side of the ship was a small armoury of weapons. Sakura recognized many of them as Yuna's and Rikku's assuming the rest were Paine's. The opposite side there were three beds. The eastern side of the ship contained the control panel and the cockpit and the final side contained a kitchen and washroom.

"This is amazing Paine!" Kairi shouted wandering throughout the ship. Sakura simply nodded and claimed the middle bed for herself.

"Anyone care to choose our first world to search for Sora?" Paine asked. She unfurled a world map and they all huddled around it.

"I say we pick names out of a hat. Or maybe do eeny meeny miny moe?" Kairi said laughing. Sakura nodded and began to Eeny Meeny Miny Moe on the paper.

"If it hollers let it go…eeny…meeny…miny…MOE!" Sakura shouted as her finger landed on…. Wonderland. "Paine, set in a course for Wonderland!" she shouted smiling. Kairi smiled, but it faltered some. She began to have second thoughts about this. What if they never found Sora? "We'll find him Kairi, I promise you, we will find Sora, if it's the last thing we do." Sakura said smiling and hugging her friend. Kairi smiled.

"Thanks, for doing al of this Sakura. It's more then anyone else has ever done for me before. I feel like we really will find him and…well I'll just be glad to have him back." Kairi said smiling. A single tear fell from her right eye. Sakura held her for a moment longer trying to better comfort her friend.

"Sakura, Kairi we'll be reaching Wonderland in about 4 hours time. My advice would be to pick out some weapons and then get some rest." Paine said. She pulled out her broad sword from the armoury wall and then headed over to the bed on Sakura's right and plunked down.

Sakura headed over to the wall next. Her first assumptions had been right; Yuna's guns and Rikku's blades were upon this wall. Other weapons were adorned there as well. Katanas, long swords, Kunais, just about every weapon known to mankind was upon this wall, along with a huge row of Changing Spheres. Sakura pocketed one of them; her thoughts were that just in case she might need it. She chose Yuna's guns, one of Rikku's blades and a wad of Kunai. She placed Yuna's gun into the thigh holsters and the Kunai in the waist packs she had been given from Rikku long ago. She finally placed Rikku's blade on her back and sighed. "Rikku, I miss you already." Sakura thought as she cuddled her friends scarf closer to her face.

"Kairi you take something next." Sakura said. Kairi nodded and headed up. She grabbed a bow and some arrows and a small Katana. Nothing too difficult to wield. Once they were all done they rested in their beds, knowing perfectly well that danger could be lurking anywhere they went.

As the group entered the Wonderland dock, Sakura laughed as a white rabbit bounced around frantically trying to get somewhere in a hurry. "Wow this place is ridiculous!" Sakura laughed out. The other two women nodded their agreement and all headed towards the mainland.

They crossed through a massive forest on their way in. Sakura and Paine had to cut through the thickets using their blades. Kairi wandered close by checking in every bush she saw, praying Sora might be laying in one sleeping. Soon a large cat appeared.

"Heloooooo children!" it spoke to them as they chopped their way through the forest. Sakura paused a moment and really looked at the cat. It was big and purple and had giant purple eyes. Never in her life had she ever seen an odder looking cat.

"Uhh hello Mr. Kitty?" she offered. The cat gave an offended look.

"Mr. Kitty? No no, child my name is cat, Cheshire Cat. Pleasure to meet you…." He left her an opening.

"Sakura. This is Kairi and Paine. Have you by chance seen a boy, about Kairi's age, brown hair, and bright blue eyes, named Sora? We're searching for him…" Sakura began. The cat stared at her intently. He seemed as if contemplating what to tell her.

"Yes, but that was quite a while ago. However, if you want to find a boy about your own age, he's down in that valley. He's got a few friends with him too. I must be off now though. Buh Bye Children." And with that his entire face and body faded leaving only his mouth… which too faded with a loud pop.

"Well that was different." Paine said. Sakura could have sworn she heard a hint of a laugh in Paine's voice…just a hint though.

"Weird yes…very very weird…definitely. Don't you think Kairi?" Sakura began. As she looked beside her, she realized Kairi was not there. "KAIRI! Shit where did she go? Paine can you scout the left and I'll get the right." Sakura said. With a nod Paine vanished, skirting the left side of the valley. Sakura proceeded to scout the right side. Seeing a hooded figure in the center of what looked like over a hundred heartless, Sakura jumped into the closest bush and strained her ears to hear what the man was saying.

"…I know he must be here or at least he was here. I swore to find him. You will either find him, or tear Wonderland apart looking. I want no stone unturned and no person….not interrogated." The man finished. He looked about Sakura's age maybe 18 or 19. She shuddered how could anyone be so cruel so….Heartless. Was this the man the Cat had been talking about? She decided to see if she couldn't make first contact…or kick some Heartless ass in the process.

"Scuse me sir. You haven't seen a boy a bit younger then yourself with brown hair and bright blue eyes. Name of Sora?" Sakura began. The Heartless and their supposed leader all stopped and stared at her.

"And what makes you think that by walking into my pit of Heartless and asking about the one man I want nothing more then to kill, won't get you killed in the process?" he asked, his voice cold as icicles. Sakura smiled.

"So you don't know where he is either do you? Shame, Kairi will be sooo disappointed." Sakura said. She put both her hands on her sister's guns. The man froze. A sudden wind blew his hood off. His head turned towards her and motioned one of his heartless to bring her to him.

"Is Kairi here?" he asked. A bit of the cold from his voice was gone. Sakura wasn't sure she liked where this was going. "Girl I asked you if Kairi was here!" he said the coldness newly returned.

"I have a name." she spat back at him. His face stopped contorting in rage and began to show the slightest hint of a smile. His whitish grey hair blew in the strange wind. He placed on of his hands behind his head.

"Might I receive your name then or I'll be forced to refer to you by girl." He chuckled out.

"My name is Sakura. And you, do you have a name?" Sakura asked carefully. The man nodded his hair shifting in his hands.

"My name is Riku. Now Kairi is here?" he asked again. Sakura nodded cautiously. She would be in a heap of trouble if anything went wrong here. He smirked once more. "Kairi where are you? You remember me don't you?" he said softly.

"I was looking for her I don't think she's here." Sakura murmured. Riku looked back at her. He motioned for the Heartless to put Sakura down. She stood just above his chest. Looking up at his face she saw the remnants of his smirk. She was about to turn and leave when he grabbed hold of her arm. She froze and turned back around keeping her free hand on Yuna's gun.

"When you see her, it would be best not to tell her of our little meeting Sakura. She might not understand it's been so long since we last spoke." He said softly. Almost all the cold had gone and was now filled with a warmthshe could listen to all day.she nodded and his smirk returned. With those last words he turned around and disappeared through a dark portal that had appeared right in front of him. Sakura now stood alone in the clearing, save for the still swarming mass of Heartless.

"He forgot his pets. How…convenient." She said pulling both guns out of their holsters. As she began to shoot, Paine appeared out of the left side of the forest, slashing away about a dozen heartless at once. After several minutes, the two had cleared the clearing. As Sakura killed the last Heartless she felt a heavy fist land straight on her head. "what the fuck was that for!" she screamed as pain walked slowly away from her.

"That was for putting yourself in that kind of situation. I promised Yuna I would keep you safe. But next time I might way a little too long and there will be nothing left for me to save." Paine said irritably.

"Nice to see the ice queen cares about SOMETHING other then herself." Sakura thought coldly as she rubbed her now hurting head. The two walked in silence and son found Kairi sitting with a giant caterpillar.

"Hello Who R U 2?" it said blowing smoke letters and numbers as it spoke. Kairi was laughing hysterically at its antics. His smoke was by far not the nicotine kind. The smell was intoxicating and the longer they stood there and doddled, the more awkward they felt.

"What are you smoking my friend?" Paine asked smiling. Sakura kept looking at Paine, never in the years of ever seeing Paine had she ever cracked more then a mock smile.

"The finest Pot this side of Wonderland of course. Would you like some?" the caterpillar said. Paine shook her head and tried to get the other girls moving. Once they did the younger girls began to sing merrily and skip along. That certainly was some GOOD pot.

"I'VE GOT A LOVELY BUNCH OF COCONUTS,

THERE THEY ARE ALL STANDING IN A ROW.

BIG ONES, SMALL ONES, SOME AS BIG AS YOUR HEAD,

GIVE THEM A TWIST, A FLICK OF THE WRIST,

THAT'S WHAT THE SHOWMAN SAID."

The girls sang so loudly and using up so much of their energy that once they arrived at a giant garden of Rose bushes they just fell right down into one. Both screaming loudly as one by one dozens of thorns dug into their exposed skin. Paine soon caught up to them, a very displeased look on her face.

"You two could have been seriously hurt, or killed. Never run off again, and never talk to strange animals smoking skunky smelling herbs!" Paine shouted wildly as the two complained about their bloody backs. All of a sudden rows upon rows of playing cards appeared surrounding the three. A fat woman and a short stubby man appeared.

"You've done it now you two." Paine said angrily. The two younger girls smiled weakly as the woman and man made their way over to them.

"You are all under arrest for destroying the queen of heart, that's me, for destroying my Rose bush! You shall be tried and then it shall be off with your heads!" Kairi looked frightened and Sakura, who was still getting over her 'High' only giggled softly. Paine grimaced and all three followed the Queen as she led them towards the court house.

"We've really done it now Kairi." Sakura said as they both walked slowly being prodded on their already sore backs by the sharp spears of the playing cards.