One day I shall have something called free time...and sleep. Ah yes, I remember those...maybe one day I'll try sleep again? Anyway...who knows when this will be posted? When I have time I shall continue writing. And, alas, the school schedule is getting even more cramped! And I have once again got addicted to yet another ps2 game. Shame on meh! At the moment it's the first of the .Hack games. I recommend it to everyone and anyone with a ps2. It rocks! Anyway, that cuts my already sparse free time in half. But sooner or later I shall be done and I can focus once again on updates (and homework)! But until that I apologise to those waiting patiently. Gomen nasai once again...And yes, the meaning of the names shall be revealed at the end of the fic.

Disclaimer: If I owned Kingdom Hearts, would I be writing this fanfic? I don't think so. I'D BE MAKING SURE THEY FINISH THE SEQUEL GAME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE FOR THE SAKE OF PATIENT FANS (such as mehself)!

All I can say now is that I have been waiting for the right time to release this chappie! You'll understand by the time I've finished this chapter (hopefully)...Anywayz...on with meh fic!

Key

"...And lives to clutch the golden keys, to mould a mighty state's decrees, and shape the whisper of the throne--" Statesmanship by Lord Alfred Tennyson.

Outside. I hadn't realised it at the time, but the heavy ammount of dust floating around the room in Twilight Tower (as I had later found out it was called) made the entire atmosphere of the place rather stifling. That and the fact that Eirin seemed to hate everything about me/ The cool air felt wonderful after all that. I could see why Rinkei always wanted to get out so much. I'd go insane being in there for too long. Although, looking at the way things were already, I could well be insane.

"Can you feel that breeze, Aori?" Rinkei shouted to me. It seemed that she rather liked snapping me out of my various stupours that I almost constantly sunk knee deep in. "That's why I called you Aori. The gusts of wind are the greatest thing in this world. Apart from friends of course."

I finally voiced the question that had been bothering me for a while. "Why is no one outside? I don't see any danger here."

Rinkei smiled sadly. "It's always dangerous out here. The ones that think it's not don't last to see the light of tomorrow." Was she speaking from experience? But then she brightened again, and ran at Eirin, latching onto his arm and steering him to the left. "There's a lovely square where everyone used to play. Let's go there, Eirin!"

Eirin sighed in a resigned fashion. "Alright, alright!" Rinkei began to run, dragging Eirin in tow. Beni ran close behind.

Together we ran towards the square.

It was like walking back in time and into a dream long-forgotten, or buried by other events more important at the time. The others had already run on into the square and were playing a game of tag, but I just stood rather dumbstruck at what I saw.

The square was exactly the same as the one in my dream.

I could understand something that I had seen before (albeit barely), but something that I hadn't seen? Not possible. What was going on? What was going on?

Rinkei slammed into me with enough force to knock over an elephant. "Aori, you're it!" And with that she ran off again, giggling.

She must be trying to distract me, I realised. And I really needed to be distracted.

"Here I come!" I shouted, running after her.

The sun had gone low in the sky, and I had to stop, every inch of me in agony. My god, they were fast. Must have something to do with running up and down those accursed stairs to go outside.

"Had enough yet?" Rinkei shouted at me teasingly. She and Beni were the only ones that had attempted to make pleasant conversation with me. Eirin was determined not to be caught. Nor had he been, when I thought about it.

"I...give...up!" I shouted at them. Slowly they came over, making sure it wasn't some kind of trick.

Eirin frowned slightly (more than usual when it came to me)."We stayed out too long. We have to get back now." Rinkei and Beni nodded in agreement. And I was still the only one who didn't understand. All in good time I suppose. But when?

"Oh yeah! First," Rinkei said, seizing my wrist. "I have to talk to you." She dragged me off behind a tree a good twenty metres away. "Are you alright?" she asked me, the concern in her eyes echoing in her voice. "Eirin shouldn't be so...so mean!"

"I'm fine, don't worry," I told her, smiling to emphasise. It was actually debatable if I would ever be fine again. And even they couldn't answer all of my million billion questions.

"Good. We should get back before they start to worry." This time she let me walk of my own accord. Eirin and Beni had already gone ahead. They were anxious about something...but they had stopped now. It was hard to see why though, since they were blocking the view and we were pretty far away anyway. But then they ran in the other direction, sprinting to escape something. However, I could hear their voices shouting in unison.

"Run!".

The black shape advanced quickly, too fast to see the features properly. But it still struck a chord of recognition whithin me. The monster from my dream. And now it's escaped into reality.

Though they were running fast, the monster was faster. Rinkei had also run away. True realisation suddenly dawned. They would be killed. And it will be all my fault.

I couldn't let that happen, no matter what.

I was blinded by a sudden flash of light emitted from both of my hands. When the light had faded, I clutched two weapons, one in each hand. One white, one black, each intricately decorated, but not like any normal weapons. The keyblades.

Something to fight the advancing heartless.

The flash had distracted it, it seemed, since it turned to face me, as if suddenly aware of my presence. That one look...it brought all of the rage that had been building all day from being so clueless, so stupid and blind to things that were going on before my eyes.

With all my rage I struck it, and it vanished, replaced by some munny and other green balls that I had never seen before.

A little voice told me that everything had just got a whole lot more complicated.

Key: End

Okay, okay...it wasn't as long as I could have hoped. But I swear the next chapter will be longer! And at least this is a pretty quick update (for me, at least recently. Jee, something tells me that my school is full of slave-drivers.

Anyway, due to the rapid update, people haven't had a chace to review yet (or haven't been bothered, it's kind of hard to tell). But I did still get a request for me to say what the names mean, so...

Rinkei--Lily. Called her that because...becauseof her dress. And because I can. And because I happen to think that kind of suits her.

Eirin--Forest (or something like that). And why did I use that...? Well, once again because I can (although I also based the name on his clothes -nodnod-)

Beni--Deep red. Once again, named after the clothes

Man, I'm lazy! I could have done something like...like the Sora/Kairi/Riku thing. As we all (should) know Sora means sky, Riku means land or shore and Kairi means seperation. Random crap for you all!

Review answer time!

icewolf9: Aw...that's sweet :3 And request granted! And here is the update (albeit a touch earlier than normal...kind of scary...)

Well, that's all for now everyone :) Remember that you have a sudden strange urge to review! REMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMBER! Until next time!