Authors notes: Wow. I can't believe that I keep taking so long to update my story. But I've been preoccupied with downloading and watching all the video's of kh2: final mix. I especially love the extended secret ending movie. Anyway since I changed my summery for my story I've decided to have a reference for certain details.

Kageyaiba: shijima's black katana(Japanese sword) that also acts as his key blade's primary form. His sword is super powered with dark energy along with his own red energy/chakra which is why it has a red tint and emits a flaming red aura while in battle. It has a metal sheath and red cross guard.

Shijima's fighting stance: Shijima faces his sword at a downward diagonal angle to his side and raises his left arm to about chest level while spreading his legs evenly. This allows him to sprint at an incredible speed and to block and attack at the same time.

Auras: energy surrounding people or objects that can be sensed or seen

Disclaimer: Kingdom hearts belongs to square inx, OC characters belong to me

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Chapter 9

"A nobody!?" yelled kyo surprised. Both him and yumi looked unconvinced "There's no way he can be a nobody. Nobody's don't have emotions remember, and last time I checked he does."

"There's no mistake. He's a nobody." xehanort's said pulling up shijima's medical records "It's all here, confirmed by not only Dr. Teson, but also every top scientist in the universe." he said reading down the list "They even have Teson's own diagnosis here." he said reading it aloud

"Although Shijima is a Half demon. His ability to use darkness appears to be from his condition as a nobody. And not his demonic heritage. On further note of this shijima, despite being a nobody appears to have been able to keep hold of his sense of self…Though it is unknown to how he became a nobody, or even if he truly has held onto himself or not."

"Well…He said he kept onto himself. What ever that means." kyo said in shijimas defense

"First of all it means that he's the same as he was when he was whole. And not an entirely different person." yumi said explaining it to him "And second they still don't know if he really has kept his mind or if he's just pretending to."

"Whatever the case…" xehanort said closing his laptop "…Shijima is our teacher and are friend so we just need to act like nothings wrong and get this mission done."

"Besides, it's not like he's going to go crazy and kill everyone…right?" kyo asked shuddering as all three imagined shijima going on a killing spree. Suddenly some screaming guy was thrown into the ally way and hit the wall followed by shijima and vash the stampede.

"Come on" he said running past them with vash in tow as Kyo, yumi, and xehanort followed.

"What's going on?"

"No time to explain." he said turning a corner "We need some kind of vehicle to get us to where we need to go."

"You found all that out from a bar?"

"Never mind the source just help me look for a-" he was cut off by about 20 guys charging them.

"There they are."

"That's the guy who beat up the boss, and he's with the 60 billion double dollar man."

"60 BILLION DOLLARS!!!?" the chosen ones screamed in unision

"Double dollars." he said dodging the bullets like they we're nothing "And for now he's our guide on this planet." he said knocking out a few guys and fending off the rest single handedly

"Shouldn't you guy's help him?" Vash asked as shijima beat the crap out of all there pursuers but at that time kyo, yumi and xehanort we're talking amongst themselves

"I'm not sure this is such a good idea." said yumi xehanort's explained the plan

"Sure it is. All we need to do is make sure he doesn't go berserk and if he does we knock him out and take over this mission." he said as they other's remained skeptical

"But how do you even know the other keyblade wielders don't already know?" kyo asked in shijimas defense

"I'm not saying they don't, all I am saying is that we keep a close eye on him."

"But what if we need him when we knock him out?" yumi asked worried

"Look he's a nobody and if he does go berserk he might hurt a lot of innocent people."

"What's a nobody?"

"Someone without a heart.(sigh) honestly kyo I thought you-" he suddenly stopped when he realized it wasn't kyo who had asked. Turning around wide eyed they all saw vash looking at them like they we're crazy.

"What do you guy's mean he doesn't have a heart?" vash asked a little nervous "If he didn't have a heart he'd be dead and that means…" hew said as he turned pale "OMG HE'S A ZOMBIE!!!" he yelled freaking out.

"What zombie!?" shijima asked looking up from beating up all the bounty hunters at vash who was flailing all over the place. His eye's suddenly widened as he summoned his Kageyaiba and unsheathed it all in one instant.

"GET DOWN!!!" no sooner had he yelled that when a huge blast of blue fire shoot over kyo, yumi, xehanort, and vash's head and soared straight at him. Taking his usual fighting stance he swung up and cut the fire right in half extinguishing it instantly.

(Slow clapping) "Well done. You managed to disburse my attack." a voice said as the clapping stopped "Though I suppose you did have some warning." looking up they saw a figure standing on the roof.

"Who are you." shijima demanded pointing his sword at the figure. Smiling it jumped from the building onto the ground like nothing. Now being able to see his features better it was clear that he indeed looked like a zombie. Half his face was nothing but skull and the other half looked pale and dead. He was wearing what looked like standard cowboy clothes but were warn out and had holes in them. Smiling the zombie looked towards shijima with empty eye sockets.

"My name is Pyro." it said smiling an inhumanly evil smile "It's a pleasure to meet your acquaintance." he said bowing slightly

"What do want from us." shijima asked concentrating on him "His aura. I've felt it before." he thought glaring "It's the aura of someone who's lost there heart to darkness."

"So." pyro said smiling a little more if even possible "Have you figured out what I am yet?"

"You're a nobody." he said growling

"Ah. A little anxious aren't we." pyro said lifting up his hand "Well then…Lets get this fight started then SHALL WE!!!" he screamed as he charged them with no weapon whatsoever. Zigzagging around he soon jumped right at yumi. Choosing her as his target.

"If you think I'll be the weakest just cause I'm a girl." she said raising oath keeper to slice him in half "Then your dead wrong." But vash noticed something very disturbing

"His hand…It looks like it's on fire." looking at it closely his hand looked like it was sizzling and charred. Concentrating he suddenly noticed the one foot heat wave coming off his hand in the shape of a blade.

"YUMI!" vash screamed as she got ready to block his thrust "LOOK OUT!!!"

Looking to vash she suddenly rolled out of the way in time as pyro's hand hit the ground and started melting it into molten glass. Stunned all of them jumped away ready for another attack.

"W-What the-?" kyo asked baffled

"He's sending heat waves into his arms to turn them into super heated blades." Shijima explained scowling

"Hah. So you figured it out ay." pyro laughed pulling out his now melted arm out of the fiery pit. "It doesn't matter anyway. This puppet is quite expendable," he said charging again.

"A corpse puppet." shijima said as he dodged the puppets attacks with ease "Should have known."

As one strike came very close to hitting. Shijima punched the puppet about ten feet away only to have it jump back up and start attacking again.

"shijima." xehanort yelled as he and kyo charged pyro at once.

"You idiots. STOP!!!" but it was to late. Both of them charged and had done what appeared to be serious damage from the back. Xehanort's attack had pierced his chest, While kyo's had cut into his shoulder. After pausing for a second pyro's head spun around like the exorcist leaving both kyo and xehanort shocked.

"You two just made the biggest mistake of you life." Opening his mouth to a inhuman extant blue flame started to gather in it. "SHIT!" was all either of the could think before they got out of the way of the blast of super hot fire. Rolling on his side xehanort tried to stand up but was soon caught by his neck by pyro who throw him at kyo with ease and sending them both crashing into the wall. Soon shijima was at there side.

"Are you alright?" he asked kneeling down.

"Yeah. (Cough)…Just a little banged up." xehanort said trying to at least sit up.

"I think he knocked the wind out of me." kyo said already leaning against the wall they slammed into. Turning Shijima saw Pyro standing there waiting. "If your finished with your sappy little moment now." he said cocking his rotted burnt head "I'd like to get back to killing you now." he said as his shirt blew open revealing a empty lower torso and a fire filled ribcage.

"That's it." shijima thought studying the flames "That's his weak spot." smiling he turned to xehanort and kyo. "Listen to me very carefully. I want you both to stay out of this fight okay." for a second they both looked like they we're going to protest but gave in. standing ujp shijima looked back to xehanort. "And xehanort…don't use any of your dark powers okay." nodding both kyo and xehanort suddenly went wide eyed.

Turning around shijima came face to face with pyro. "Times up. NOW DIE!!!" he said reaching back to impale him but was caught by shijima.

"Yumi, Vash, I'll need your help." shijima said still trying to hold his ground against the puppets enhanced strength

"What is it." Yumi asked pulling vash closer to the fight.

"When I tell you to vash I want you to shoot this guys legs." he said as vash looked mortified "Then I want you yumi to cast blizzaga on him. got it." Both of them nod "Good. On three." he said as he broke grip and jumped aside.

"One…"

Shijima jumped to the side and try's to stab him but he easily bended his knees to duck out of the

way. Spinning up he tried to slice his legs off, but shijima jumped over them.

"…Two…"

Landing Shijima continued to parry the puppets attacks with kageyaiba. Soon however Shijima managed to gety a blow in by slicing it's left arms off. Instantly, the appendage burst into flames and was turned to ash. Unfazed Pyro soon caught him off guard and managed to burn shijima's Cheek with only kyo noticing. "That's gotta hurt." he thought as shijima jumped back and raised his left hand in defense over the burn as pyro charged again.

"…THREE!!!" he yelled alerting vash and yumi to begin. Vash aiming carefully shoot pyro three times in both legs. But the wounds didn't seem to affect it at all as it quickly distanced itself from them. " What the? Those bullets didn't even faze him." he thought as yumi cast her spell.

"BLIZZAGA!!!" she yelled pointing her keyblade at pyro. Instantly a bright flash shot out going straight for it only to hit the street frezzing half of it. Vash stood in awe at the sight of the frozen street already beginning to thaw. "How the hell did she do that?" he thought completely oblivious to the very high up corpse puppet.

"HAH! You thought I couldn't hear you planning that little stunt." It said landing on a nearby building with yumi looking on in horror. "Oh no." she thought now really scared "I used up all my magic on that one attack." trying to run she suddenly found herself stuck. Looking down she saw that both her and vash's feet were frozen to the ground.

"Aw. What's wrong, attack backfire on you." pyro laughed as he started to gather heat. "Guess that makes you my first victim after all." it said rearing back.

"YUMI!" xehanort's cried running to them in an attempt to defend them. "Xehanort stop!" kyo yelled going after him and grabbing him by the arm. Struggling xehanort tried desperately to break his grasp.

"Let me go! I have to-" he said but was stopped by kyo pointing to the roof pyro was on. "Look up there." he said. As xehanort looked he saw something that made him stop struggling and smile.

"This is going to be good."

Meanwhile on the roof pyro was about to unleash his attack. "DIE-AGUH!!!" he screamed a shis other arm was cut off. In an instant he was put in a headlock and forced upward causing his attack to launch into the sky. Turning his head he saw shijima with his black sword dangerously close to his neck.

"I want to know exactly who sent you." he said cutting pyro's throat a little.

"Like you don't know. Err." he said as the blade dug in deeper. "Do you expect me to believe that samael himself sent you. What I'm asking is who along his chain of high rank officers sent you." he said growling as pyro smiled.

"You really haven't figured it out have you." he said laughing a little. "Fine then. But first I have something to ask you."

"Something to ask me huh." he said his face becoming emotionless "Fine then. Ask away."

"What is the reason you fight?"

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"HAAAAAAAH!!!" yumi yelled plunging her keyblade into the ice and shattering it. Allowing her and vash to finally get out.

"About time." vash said stretching out his legs "I thought my legs we're gonna freeze off. I can't even feel them anymore." he said regretting it as her fury was let out on him.

"Look you little punk I was frozen there just as long as you we're, SO WHAT THE HELL GIVE'S YOU THE RIGHT OT COMPLAIN!!!!!" she yelled shaking him by the collar like a rag doll.

"Quiet. I'm trying to see what they're saying." xehanort said narrowing in on shijima and pyro. Trying to tell what they we're saying he continued to attempt to read there lips at least.

"What are they talking about up there." yumi asked curiously. "No idea. All I know is that it's something important."

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"My reason for fighting?" shijima asked surprised.

"Everyone has there reasons for fighting. My reason is simply to fight strong opponents. So what is it that drives you to fight."

"I don't have a reason." he said flat out as pyro looked utterly shocked "I just don't like the way you guy's fight." he said grinning.

"You're a horrible liar, but a deal's a deal." he said suddenly bursting into flames. Surprised shijima let him go as he fell off the building. Slowly a small blue wisp flew out of the carcass turning the fire a regular orange.

"The brigadier general will meet you at the security center hidden within the cliffs outside the city." the small flame said "He looks forward to this…reunion." and with that it disappeared in a puff of smoke. Shijima wide eyed could only strand on the roof stunned at what he had heard.

"There no way that it's him…is there?"

End chapter 9

ALRIGHT!!! A cliffhanger, awesome way to thicken a plot. Who is this mysterious strange who has shijima all worked up. And what are his real reasons for fighting. And will the others ever discover the truth behind his past.

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