A/N: Y'know what? I was gonna type up what I had written down originally, but I think my fics sound better if I make things up as I go, so that's exactly what I'm gonna do. By the way, I don't own any part of Kingdom Hearts. Never have, never shall, and sorry if I forgot to mention that before. I do, however, own Mizu, as far as you can "own" a figment of schizophrenia.

Mizu: I am not a figment of your schizophrenia, Bobbi. You explained what I am and what you are to the best of your abilities a few chapters ago.

Me: Shut up and narrate, wench!

----Mizu----

Some time later, after getting a little comfortable around Bobbi and the others, I found myself chatting amiably with a girl, who seemed to be a bit of a loner. What she was doing here I didn't know. I asked her several questions that Bobbi hadn't answered, because she'd had to go somewhere. I don't know "where" exactly, I just know she had to leave, and Teek and Trunks went off to another side of the forest, leaving just Phoe and myself. Phoe, however, told me she had to check up on a friend of hers, Link, who was bound and gagged to a tree, for reasons she wouldn't tell me.

"Jhule," I wound up asking the girl I was talking with, "how long have I been here?"

"Ouch! Don't ask the easy ones, do ya?"

"What's so hard about it?"

Jhule put down the notepad and pen she was writing with, and stared up into the branches of the tree we were sitting under. "I'm not exactly sure if I should be the one to tell you, kiddo."

"Jhule, I'm as old as you are, please don't treat me like a child."

"Naw, kid, chronologically you're younger than me, but spiritually you're much, much older than even Jiyne, and she's somewhere 'round-abouts a hundred and seventy-five, being half dragon and all. Besides, I call every one 'kiddo.' Except Lynx, but there you go…"

"Jhule, will you please answer my question?"

"Alright, kid, alright. You've been here for about three or four days."

"Three or four--"

"Don't you go over-reacting on me, kid. You've been here three or four days according to the time-flow here, but for where you come from, it's probably only been a few seconds, a minute at most."

"How is that possible?"

"You're in a different dimension, hon. Time's not the same here as it is where you come from. This isn't just another world, you know."

"I do now… But how's all this possible?"

"Not even Teek can answer that question, hon. No one knows how any of us got here. What you were told was all just speculation, not cold, hard facts. We're still trying to make everything where Bobbi is concerned make sense. I'm sure one of these days, one of those girls sleeping in the shadows will wake up and be able to explain everything, but until then, all we can do it guess. I'm not an expert on how worlds and dimensions and all that stuff interact with each other, so all I'd manage to do would be to confuse you and myself. We all suspect that magic is involved somehow, though."

"I see. Or, at least, I think I do…"

Just about then, Teek came up and sat down next to us, apparently intent on joining the conversation.

"Kage," she said, "Trunks and I just went and had a discussion with a few friends of ours, namely Jiyne, Hiei, Phoe, Sayara, and Elazul, and we've reached a decision. All seven of us have a little bit of experience in successfully hunting down someone, and certain skills that help us with finding them. We're gonna try and find Riku and bring him here, to be with you."

"Okay…" I said. "Is there a catch?"

"Unfortunately, there is," Teek sighed. "You see, you haven't been with us long enough for the link to properly solidify, and if you were to go with us, we could lose you."

"Go on…?"

"Well, if that happens… Kage, we just can't loose you. It's… not a very pleasant experience."

"What do you mean by that? Unpleasant for you or unpleasant for me?"

"A little of both, actually…"

"Stop dancing around the subject, Teek, and tell her," Jhule snapped. "Or I'm gonna beat you to it!"

"Kage, if we lose you, you cease to exist. It's not that you can't come back to us, which is partly the case, but you cease to exist in any and all forms of reality. There is no more 'you.' Not even your soul is left."

"This is the one thing that isn't speculation, kid," Jhule added. "We've seen this. We know it actually happens. It happened with a girl who, had any of us known what was going on, would probably take Teek's place in telling you about all of this. We don't even remember the first thing about her anymore, except that she did at one point exist, and she was one of the first."

"I was second," Teek said. "It's been several years in this dimension, and when I first came, Bobbi could barely even see me, much less hear or touch me. But her ability to see us and know us has strengthened, since I kind of forced the practice on her. It took her years, and when she first started out as our guardian, or whatever she is, the best she could do was guess as to what we looked, sounded, and acted like."

"From what I'm told," Jhule said slowly, as if she was remembering something that she had forgotten up until now, "back when the Twerp first started out, she called you 'Kim,' right?"

Teek laughed. "Yes, that she did! Luckily, now she's gotten better at learning our names and other information about us through the link, and she doesn't have to guess so much anymore."

"So she knows everything about me?" I asked, then got a little excited at what that implied. "Then, she could fill in my memories for me! She could--"

"No, Kage, you have it all wrong," Jhule said as Teek shook her head. "Bobbi only knows things about us that we ourselves know. You'll have to get your memories back on your own."

I sensed that they weren't telling me everything, but then I figured that it was probably for my own good, and decided not to say anything.

"But anyway, Mizu—you don't mind if I call you that, do you?" Teek asked.

"No, I don't, really. Even though I asked Riku to be the only person to call me that. I think he'll understand, though."

"Cool. So, yeah, I hope you don't mind being left behind while we look for him," Teek said.

I shook my head. "No, I don't mind. After what you've told me, I don't think I could even if I wanted to. But keep me up to date, would you?"

Teek laughed. "Don't worry, kid, we'll be going in shifts. Saya and 'Lazul are good at picking up old trails, so they'll go first. If they manage to find anything, they'll report it to the rest of us, then point Jiyne and Hiei in the right direction. They'll try to catch up to him, then Phoe, Trunks, and I will take turns hunting him down by air, since all three of us can fly. If we find him, we'll bring him back. Hell, if I have to, I'll knock him unconscious and drag him here!"

"Thanks, Teek," I said, and meant it. "And tell the others for me, would you? You don't know how much this means to me."

"Trust me, shin'yuu, I know. I hate to imagine what it would be like here without Trunks. I'd miss him too much. But don't tell him, 'kay?" Teek said with a wink.

A/N: Well, that was totally different from what I had written down. Oh, well, I think it turned out better than what I had anyway.

Teek: Yeah, I guess you do work better when you don't plan.

Me: You bet I do! But I'm really proud of My Last Breath so far, so I'm not gonna alter that unless I have to. Actually, I think this fic was just plain crummy right from the off, so I just had to change it. I'll make a decent song-fic outta this thing yet!