I beat Kingdom Hearts 2 so now I'm all happy, inspired and all that jazz. The end game was good and fun, the final boss of course was an ass kicker. (Even though the deflecting all the laser bolts part was pretty easy) So since I'm all inspired and stuff let's just get on with the story!

Disclaimer: I don't own KH, KH CoM or KH2. But next week I've got a blackjack match against Tetsuya Noruma and he's betting all the rights to them so wish me luck!

Stay For the Night?

We reached the castle we saw in the distance. The castle looked just as big as it did in the distance. All white with blue spires and flags on those spires. Namine and I seemed to be on the white outside walls that surrounded the castle, right in front of a huge brown gate. There were handles, but those handles looked at least twenty feet above us. Yep, stuck again once more.

'How the hell to people get in and out of this thing?' I thought. There were no signs of any sort of gate winch or anything like it.

"Hello?" I shouted. "Anybody home?"

There was no answer. I growled in frustration and slammed my fist into the gate. Right then there was a flash and now I could see the outline of a door along with a knob where I hit the gate. I looked at Namine, who gave me a thumbs up. I smiled and opened the door. I let a hand out and gestured to Namine to go in.

"Ladies first"

"Hmm, a stalker with the manners of a gentleman. I'll have to rethink this" she laughed while walking through the door. I shook my head and followed, shutting the door behind me.

0-0-0-0

"Damn it, why did Namine leave?" A man shouted as he slammed his fist down onto his computer. "Now what will become of Sora and his memories?"

Another man came out from the shadows. He was dressed in a black hooded robe, the hood covering his face. "Calm down. Look at Sora's status. It's still steadily rising. Somehow somebody must've put some sort of auto restoration on"

The man by the computer started typing on the keys. His head was covered by a red shawl which only allowed his mouth and one orange gold eye to see through. "This is alright but what bothers me is why would Namine leave in the first place? She knew she had a duty to do!"

"Does it truly matter? So Namine's gone, the process will still be done, with or without her"

The man in red stopped typing and gave a sigh. "I pray that everything still goes smoothly…not only for my sake but also for Sora and Roxas' sakes…"

"All that matters now is that you and I keep the process going. How's Roxas doing?"

"He just earned the munny needed for his trip to the beach with his friends. I trust you know what to do my friend?"

"Of course, be back in a bit. You just get working on that unfinished beach"

The man in red nodded and the black hooded one walked away and through the door.

0-0-0-0

"Hello? Anyone in here?" Namine yelled. Both of us were now wandering through the huge castle halls, down a red carpeted hallway that was right next to a courtyard garden of some sort. We walked slowly, Namine by my side and my hands on my katana just in case anything came up. I looked through the columns at the hallway opposite of us and saw a tall and large door.

'Maybe we can pass through that garden…' I wondered.

"You alright with going through the garden?" I asked. Namine looked at me and then the garden. She saw the hallway on the other side and nodded.

"You go first, okay Raine?"

I nodded back and jumped onto the ledge with the columns and then jumped down. After I landed I drew my katana, expecting something to come out. All I saw was a colorful garden, with animal like shaped bushes and a bush that looked like a mini version of the castle in the center. Nothing came so I drew back my katana to its sheath. I looked up and saw Namine looking over the ledge and down at me.

"Its alright, everything's clear. Jump down, I'll catch you" I said while holding my arms out. Namine got up on the ledge but didn't jump down yet. "C'mon" I whispered. "You can trust me!"

'I can trust you…' Namine thought to herself. She gave a calming sigh, closed her eyes and leaped off…

0-0-0-0

The man in red was busily typing at his computer while the other man in black was leaning against a wall, tossing a small pouch up and down.

"Is it really that hard to make a beach?" He asked while continuing to toss the sack.

"We'd be giving the enemy another entry point…" the other man replied. The man in black held out the small sack.

"And this?"

The other man stopped typing and turned on his seat to see the object.

"We could always buy some sea salt ice cream" he laughed, then turned his seat back around. "Objects from that town must be kept out from the real world…you can delete that…"

0-0-0-0

…and I caught Namine, holding her bridal style. Her eyes were still closed till I let her down, then she gave another sigh and brushed a few blonde strands of hair away from her face.

"Lead the way" she whispered. I nodded and suddenly instinct made me take her by the hand, my other free hand on my katana.

'Wait, what am I doing?' I realized.

"Stay close to me…" I replied. My body seemed to act on its own. Something inside me made me say and do that. Glancing at Namine I saw that she was surprised at my last gesture, her face a slight shade of pink. I smiled and she smiled back. Through the greenery there was a door at the other side of the garden. We started to walk toward it with careful steps. I was just about to open the door…

"Raine!"

I whipped around to Namine and drew my katana. There was a black puddle on the ground and something seemed to rising out of it…

'What in the seven hells is that?'

Soon something shot out of the puddle. It was an all black, fair sized, thin…somewhat humanoid being with piercing yellow eyes and antennae coming out from the back of its head. I saw it twitch then flash its menacing looking claws at me. That only made me grip my katana tighter. The thing flew at me with claws slashing.

"Get out of the way!" I shouted. I ran to the left to dodge it and Namine ran to the right. The black thing landed, its claws seemed to be jammed in the ground. Taking that opening, I rushed over and cut right through it. The thing disappeared in a black wisp and I saw something glowing float out from it to the sky as I drew my katana back to its sheath…it was a heart?

"That's something new to me…" I said to myself.

"Heartless"

I turned to Namine, my mind still processing what she said.

"Heartless?"

She had a serious look on her face. "Heartless. They're beings without hearts that mindlessly hunt down the hearts of others in order to return to Kingdom Hearts"

I raised an eyebrow at this. "What's Kingdom Hearts?"

"You could call it the heart of all worlds. Where all hearts come from and where they eventually go back to"

"And how do you know all of this?"

She smiled at me. "Along with a love of drawing, I have a knack for reading as well" I shrugged my shoulders and accepted it.

'Heartless huh…if they're all that weird looking then I'll know one when I see it' I guessed in my thoughts. I looked down at where I killed the first heartless. There were small colorful orbs lying there. Picking one up, I examined it. They were assorted sizes of yellow colored orbs

"Keep those" I heard Namine say. "Its munny, if we're traveling or just staying then we'll need some" Once again I shrugged my shoulders and scooped up the 'munny'.

"I really have been cut off from the outside world all my life, haven't I?" I asked jokingly. Namine nodded at me with a smile, which made me feel glad that she seems happy with me out here.

'Wonder if she really is feeling that way…' I hoped to myself. I finished gathering the munny and put them in a large pocket on my left pants leg. Oh, did I mention my pants were like those parachute pants, but with chains and no stuff in them until now. Namine opened the door and we both walked in to find a set of stairs going up to our left that went around the corner. We started going up but once we hit the middle step the familiar black puddle from before appeared in front of me. I drew my katana but realized that five more puddles surrounded us. With every puddle one heartless from last time appeared. Three more then appeared but they seemed like smaller forms of the first heartless. They were tiny, almost the size of a toddler with the same flashing yellow eyes along with the twitching. Did all heartless have the same twitching problem?

'If it wasn't for the fact that they want to kill me, these heartless are pretty funny looking for-' I started to think but my thoughts were interrupted as a small and big heartless lunged at me. Cutting up the small one was easy but large one had its claws inches away from my face, my sword in the middle. I kicked it off and stabbed it in the chest.

'Two down but it's still a seven on one!' I shouted at myself.

"Raine, more heartless!" I heard Namine yell. Once again instinct made me turn around and place Namine close behind me. She was right. Five more of the large heartless appeared with four more small ones. Now this was trouble.

'One, two…shit, sixteen now. And most of them are the large ones. I have to find a way out!' I thought desperately while looking around. There was an opening up the stairs with two large heartless blocking the way. I glanced at the corner at the end of the hall from us. Looked easy enough.

"Namine, on three follow my lead…" I whispered over my shoulder, but then something of a revelation came to me. If heartless have no ears, which looks like they don't, then why did I have to whisper?

'Argh! Stop thinking about that, you've got your life along with Namine's at stake here!' My conscience seemed to roar at me.

"Okay Raine but this had better work…" Namine replied. All I could do was grin to myself. What I decided on doing always worked, if there weren't any obstacles in the way that is.

"Three!" I shouted. Time to see if I still had my stealth skills from Castle Oblivion. I spun around and took down the two heartless with a spinning slash. Before I took off I wrapped my free arm around Namine's waist. Another large heartless flew for Namine but I stabbed it before it got too close. I closed my eyes and jumped up; leaping over the stairs and it looked like I was going to crash into the wall…

"Raine!" Namine yelled at me. I opened my eyes and kicked my legs into the corner of the wall, landing one leg on each wall before jutting my katana into the left wall. I was hanging off the wall from my katana with Namine in my other arm hanging with her arms around my neck. Now to see if I could pull off part two. I pulled out my katana and kicked off the wall so that I flew diagonally at the other wall. I kicked off that wall and flew at the other wall again. My eyes caught the large doorway along with a smaller set of doors at the end of the hall. I landed right on the wall next to the large door's left side and I started my wall run. My heart started to race rapidly as I ran on the wall. While I was running I saw black puddles form ahead of me with heartless coming out! I took my free hand that held my katana and started to slash forward, hacking through the gauntlet of heartless. Once I neared the end of the wall I kicked off, landing on the floor with a heavy 'thud'. Namine let go of me and I almost dropped on the floor. I ended up using my katana for support, my breathing now a bit heavy. I saw Namine kneel down next to me. Wow, she cares about me. In normal circumstances I would be smiling but I was too worn out from that set of wall maneuvers.

'Haven't done that in a while…gotta make sure I don't ever end up this tired…' I thought while bringing myself up to my feet. The heartless were gone and I drew my katana back to its sheath like always.

"So, how'd you like that Namine?" I asked jokingly. All she gave me was a sigh with a pleasant but beautiful smile.

"It was alright, just don't ever try to kill yourself over me okay? You're the only stalker I have" she laughed. The only thing I could do was smile back.

"Now c'mon, maybe somebody's inside these doors" I suggested. Namine agreed so I let out a hand to open the door…but something opened it for me. Namine and I jumped back; expecting a heartless to jump out but the two of us looked down to see…a small mouse with big ears in a nightdress?

"Oh dear" the mouse said in a feminine voice. "Who might you two be? Wanderers looking for a place to stay?" she asked, looking up at us with large, welcoming eyes. Namine and I looked at each other, then back at the mouse. I shrugged my shoulders and scratched the back of my head.

"Um…I guess you can say that. Can we stay for the night?" I asked. The little lady mouse nodded.

"Yes of course! Just let the brooms guide you to your rooms!" she chirped.

"Brooms?" the both of us said together. The mouse nodded and gave a small whistle. From behind her came out four…walking brooms with arms. Namine and I gave puzzled and surprised expressions at the sight as they brooms took our arms and led us away.

"Don't worry!" the mouse smiled. "They'll lead you to your rooms and I'll see you two for breakfast tomorrow morning okay?" Namine and I just looked back and nodded, the brooms pulling us a bit forcefully.

Guess we found a place to stay.

End Chapter

Okay, if you guys were confused with Raine doing the wall runs and stuff then I fully understand and I'm sorry! I tried my best to describe it in good detail so I hope you at least had an idea of what was happening. Also if you guys and gals noticed, I changed the summary of the story. Hopefully I can fit in my idea for this story so its all going to start coming together next chap!

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