Chapter 14:

Elemental Part 2: Eternal Heart

"Oh cool! Wait, what? Now? But I don't have a weapon..." Zan said in a cheerless tone.

"Don't worry...we're not starting now. There's a weapon shop not far from here. I'm gonna take you there," Riku smiled.

Zan looked up at him, excitedly, "Really really? I can get whatever I want? Even if it's super expensive?"

"Well, uh, we'll see..." Riku replied.

"Aww darn, I'll take that as a 'probably not'..." she sighed.

Riku laughed, "Come on, let's go and get this done before the others come back..."

"Okie dokie then."

Riku led Zan out the door.

She followed along, happy to just be hangin with her big brother. She looked at all the views in fascination. This place was beautiful!

"So, Riku, you've actually been here before?" she asked.

"Sadly, yes, that was the worst week of my entire life..." he replied.

"Ya don't say, was it because of that Ryo chick?" she laughed.

Riku sighed, "Good guess...there's the shop right ahead."

"I'll race ya to it!" Zan challenged.

Riku grinned slightly, "You don't stand a chance."

"Who says?"

"I do...on my count 3...2.."

"1!" Zan said, dashing off.

Riku quickly followed, "You cheater!"

Zan eventually won the race, "I win!"

"Yeah, because you cheated!"

Zan grinned, "Aww is Riku a sore loser?"

"I ain't a sore loser...You're just a cheater..." Riku muttered darkly.

"I think you're just mad cuz a girl beat you and on top a that, your lil sis!" Zan taunted

"Whatever, let's just get your weapon all right?" Riku said.

Zan smiled and nodded as they walked into the shop, there were many shelfs of weapons. From swords, to daggers, and even weapons Zan had never seen before. She was lost in deep fascination, she had never seen so many weapons in her entire life!

Riku looked down at her and smiled, "Amazing isn't it?"

She slowly nodded, "Some of this stuff I have never seen before..."

"That's what I said at first, take a look around. The clerk is probably on break right now, but he'll be back shortly probably."

"Yeah...I kinda figured that...and who exactly is he?" Zan asked in a soft tone.

"Well, his name is Saruwatari..." Riku grinned.

"Saruwawhati?" Zan asked.

"Watari...heh heh.." Riku laughed.

"Now that's the strangest name I've ever heard..." Zan laughed as well.

"Don't make fun of him though...he'll hurt you, and don't unnderestimate him...trust me I know.." Riku said, rubbing his right shoulder.

Zan smiled when suddenly, the door opened. A man appeared in the doorway. He was short, and I mean VERY short, and he was bald, and his eyes were squinting quite badly. He was probably in his early fifties, or even early sixties, "Who's here?" the man asked, in a raspy tone.

"Hey Mr. Saruwatari, it's me, Riku...heh heh..."

"Riku? Oh wait, the Riku?"

Riku nodded, "Yup."

"Oh it's been soooo long like what? A month ago?" The odd man beamed.

Zan smiled at Saruwatari (who then turned to Zan)

"Who might be this beautiful girl be?" he asked Riku.

Zan slightly blushed at his remark, "Oh, this is my little sister Zan."

"Nice to meet you Zanny," he said, walking over to her, and extending his left hand out. Zan smiled and leaned down to shake his hand, "Nice to meet you to S---sir."

"So what brings ya back here, Riku?" Saruwatari asked.

"Well, my sis here destroyed our Gummi Ship so, we're kinda waiting for Varan to get one prepared for us, and I figured since we were here, I could get Zan her own weapon..." Riku replied.

Saruwatari looked at Zan and gave her a toothy smile, "I see...that's quite sweet especially after she wrecked your Gummi Ship."

Zan tried to smile sweetly as her face turned bright red.

"Yeah well, she needs to learn how to fight anyway," Riku grinned.

"Fight better," Zan corrected.

Saruwatari laughed, "Well, do you have any weapon in mind Zan?"

Zan thought for a moment, "Not really..."

"Well, take a look around, if you see something that catches your eye, just lemme know." Sauwatari smiled kindly.

"Thank you sir," Zan smiled back, as she walked towards some of the shelfs. There was nothing she was interested in so, she went to another shelf. Still, nothing. She sighed, "I don't see anything..."

"Don't be so picky Zan," Riku said.

"I'm not being picky...it's just---" Zan stopped her sentence, when something in particular caught her eye. She walked over to a wall where a majestic sword was hanging. It was the perfect size for her, and it had a black hilt, and a silver blade. The thing that Zan was interested in most was the red heart gem right in the middle of the hilt. She touched it lightly.

Saruwatari slowly walked over to her, "That sword has been on that wall for thirty long years, it belonged to a powerful sorceress named Tanaka. When she died, she gave it to me. She said one day, someone great would come, and become the swords new owner. She said, when one owner of this sword dies...it chooses another master, like the keyblade."

Zan stared at him, "How does it choose its new master?"

A soon as she asked that, the gem began to glow.

"Like that, and it has chosen you. This sword is the Keyblade's cousin basically."

"Wha----what can it do?" Zan asked in amazement.

"When the red gem glows, it also can mean Heartless are near, or a threatening force," Saruwatari replied.

"Oh, so it can't seal worlds or anything?"

"I'm afraid not, but it helps in times of great need," he replied.

Zan turned to Riku, "This is the weapon I want."

Riku smiled, "Ok then. How much?"

"Take it, its free. After all Riku, she is the new wielder of it," Sarutawari said.

"Yeah...thanks Saruwatari," Riku said.

"No problem," he smiled.

"So, what is this weapon called?" Zan asked.

"Eternal Heart," Riku said.

"And how do you know that?"

"Just do," Riku smirked.

"That really explains it." Zan said sarcastically.

Riku shook his head, "We need to be heading out. Thanks again!"

Saruwatari grinned, "No problem. Be careful now!"

Zan took the sword off of the wall, and they both waved, and left the shop, "I got a sword woot woot!" Zan sang happily.

"Yeah...I can just kinda see that." Riku said.

"And it's cooler than Riku's!" she sang, ignoring him

"Don't push it." Riku muttered.

"It's really really really really really really cooler than Riku's!" she sang once again ignoring him.

"Shut up Zan," he warned.

"And Riku doesn't like the fact that it's cooler than his!" she sang quite loudly than the first few times.

"You have no braggin rights til ya learn how to fight better'n me." Riku snapped.

"What if I all ready can? Remember the one time you 'beat' me and I fell to the ground so, you walked over to me and then I hit you in the head with my sword?" she smirked.

"Oh yeah I forgot about that, you cheated then too!" he replied.

"Did not!" she snapped.

"Did too!" he argued.

"Did not!" she whined.

"Did too!" he grinned at the way she was acting.

"Ok, let's fight right here, right now!" Zan challenged, raising her sword up.

"Sure whatever." Riku smirked, he figured he already knew the outcome of this battle. He took out his sword.

Zan charged at him quickly. Riku sidestepped as he tripped her. She fell flat on her face. Riku laughed at this.

"Shut up!" she snapped, pushing herself up off the ground.

"Just try and stop me." Riku laughed some more.

She charged at him again, this time, tackling him to the ground. She held her sword up against his neck.

Riku lay there stunned, not sure what had just happened.

"Had enough?" she smiled.

"Maybe, maybe not," Riku suddenly smirked as he shoved her off of him, the next thing Zan knew was that he was now on top of her with his sword up against her neck.

"Butthead..." she muttered.

"Whatever," he said.

"Hey, what's going on over there?" a voice shouted.

Riku turned around, and quickly got off of Zan. A girl walked over to them. She was about ten, with black hair, and violet eyes. She had a confused look on her face, "What are you doing Riku?"

"Sorry, I was fighting with my little sister...'" Riku replied.

"Who's she?" Zan asked, getting back up.

I'm Varan, Ryo's friend...where are Ryo, Jiro, and Akina anyway?" Varan asked.

"Oh, they're looking around and stuff. In fact, they might be back at Ryo's place now," Riku said.

"Ok, I'm guess I headin' that way. Aren't you guys, or are you gonna continue your little sibling war?" she laughed.

Zan and Riku glared at each other, then Zan spoke up, "I'm ready to head back. To show the others my awesome sword."

Riku shook his head.

"Ok then, let's go!" Varan said.

They all walked back to Ryo's place. Riku and Zan didn't say anything to each other the whole way back.

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"Where could they be I wonder?" Ryo asked.

"Who knows," Akina and Jiro replied in unison.

Suddenly the door came opened, and walked in Riku, Zan, and Varan.

"We're baaaack! And I got an awesome sword!" Zan said proudly, holding up her new weapon.

Jiro and Akina looked up at the sword in a little bit of a shock, "Th--that's some sword!" Jiro managed to say.

"Hey Varan! Is the ship ready?" Akina asked.

Varan smiled, "Yes, you can leave in the morning."

"All right!" Zan said happily.

Riku slightly smiled, and then walked into one of the rooms, and shut the door.

"May I ask what his problem is?" Ryo questioned.

"Oh nothing, we just got into it a little while ago..." Zan said.

"Heh heh heh...typical," Jiro whispered to Akina.

Zan sighed, "So, Ryo, um you think you could show me around now?"

Ryo grinned widely, "Sure! Let's go!"

She dragged Zan by the hand , and out the door. Varan following the two.

Jiro and Akina were now left in the living room, "Hey, Riku, they're gone, including Zan!" Jiro yelled.

Riku's door slowly opened, and he walked out of the room with adark look on his face.

"Why'd the stupid sword choose her?"

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Hiya everyone! There's chapter 14 for ya. Hope you enjoyed it. Many thanks to Blondie91 for the help.

Disclaimer: i do not own KH, but I do own Akina, Jiro, Zan, the plot, Saruwatari, Eternal Heart, and Yuri

Sailorstar165 owns Ryo, Varan, and Elemental

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