.:Authors Note:.

Another update! Um, yeah, that's all. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: still don't own it (I don't know why I still do these...oh yeah. So I don't get sued... T.T)

All was quiet in the semi-dark room. A young brunette girl sat on the bed of her friend with a large grin. Now of course, one would wonder why she was simply sitting there next to another sleeping girl. Well, that is about to be answered, as the girl took a deep breath as her grin got even bigger.

"Wake up sleepy peppy child, peppy child, peppy child! Wake up sleepy peppy child! Peppy, peppy child!" Zera sang. The sleeping girl groaned before smacking her friend as she sat up, rubbing her eyes.

"Okay, that was three things; dumb, idiotic, and just plan retarded," Yoko said. She looked at Zera who was now face down on the floor. The other girl sat up, rubbed her nose, and shot a glare at Yoko.

"Meanie…." Zera said.

"Hello friends from another world!" Olette cried as she burst into the room. She looked at the girl who was fixing her hair on the bed and the girl who was lying on the floor. Being the smart girl she is, she didn't question them.

"Hi, Olette!" Zera said with a smile. Too lazy to get up from the floor, she hugged Olette's leg.

"Uh…"

"She's always like this. You get used to it after being around her awhile," Yoko told the brunette.

"Okay…" Olette said. She then looked at the two girls with the same smile she had come into the room with. "Do you guys have any clothes to wear or shall you borrow mine?"

"…We'll borrow…" Yoko and Zera said at the same time.

"Alrighty then!" Olette said, heading for the closet. She opened the closet to show off her pink clothes.

It's happening again… Zera and Yoko thought. They twitched.

"Um, do you have anything that's not so…so…" Zera started, not being able to find the right words.

"So horribly pink that it makes me want to gouge out my eyes?" Yoko finished. Olette thought for a moment and walked over to her other closet on the other side of the room. She opened it to show clothes of all sorts of colors. "That's better."

So without word they picked out their clothes. Olette had skipped off to go fix some food for the three of them so she didn't see the…improvements they made on the clothes…again.

Zera had taken a maroon tank top that had lace on the hem and straps, and over that was a black, long-sleeved, off-the-shoulder shirt with multicolored stars across it. She had also picked out a pair of jeans that had lots of patches with different designs on them up and down the pant legs. On her right side, a small chain with moogle key chain attached went from a belt loop in the front to the one in the middle of the back of the jeans. Her shoes were tan clogs and she wore gloves without fingers, which were maroon. Around her neck was a long silver chain necklace with a silver half heart pendent.

Yoko's outfit was an orange turtleneck without sleeves and her right side was a light brown fluer de lis. Her shoes where black and white converse and her jeans were light blue flare with holes on the thighs, knees, and shins. Connected to one of her front belt loops and went to the back belt loop was a silver hoop chain with a lock on one of the hoops. Around her neck she was a loose chain necklace with a silver key on it. Her headband was dark orange with black stars on it. She wore orange arm warmers that come up about a half an inch above her elbow to complete the outfit.

"You like?" Zera asked as the pair stepped into the kitchen. Olette set down the last plate of food before turning around.

"Well, it's more than I'd ever do with them. I don't even remember having those…" she said. "Now come on, it's breakfast time!"

"Yay!" Zera shouted as she plopped herself down into a chair. Yoko rolled her eyes, but smiled anyway as she sat down. Zera noticed the expression, and gave her friend a sly look. Yoko raised a brow at her friend, her smile dropping a bit.

"Yes? Is there something the idiot wants to say?" she asked. Zera pouted.

"I'm not an idiot! Absent minded, oblivious, and sometimes ditzy, yes, but I'm still not an idiot," she said.

"Your point?" Yoko said in an amused tone. Zera stuck her tongue out.

"Well, I know why you were smiling just then," she said.

"Oh really? Care to elaborate?" Yoko said.

"You were thinking about Riku. You know we're gonna see him sooner or later now that we're here." Yoko's cheeks tinted red, and Zera smirked in triumph.

"So? You're probably thinking about Takuto!"

"Why yes, yes I was. And I'm not afraid to admit something like that, unlike some people."

"I'm not afraid to admit it!"

"Oh, sure. Just like-"

"Girls!" Olette shouted above their bickering. Both turned to her with a, "What?"

"No fighting at the table. I would like to eat my breakfast in peace thank you very much," Olette explained. Zera shrugged and went back to shoveling food in her mouth as though nothing had happened. Yoko, on the other hand, turned her attention back to her food as well, in a huff, and muttered things such as 'stupid table manners' and 'I wasn't thinking of him'.

After breakfast, Olette called the others to tell them to meet her, Yoko, and Zera at the train station. Yoko and Zera were to take the strange train to wherever it took them and they hoped it would take them to their other friends. After a few moments, Hayner and Pence showed up. Sadly, Seifer and his friends came as well.

"Hey babe," he said, walking up to Yoko. "If you ever change your mind and want to come back to here, I'll be waiting."

"Yeah, and when I come back you can meet my boyfriend," she said. Seifer was silent for a moment.

"He'll screw you over, ya know?" said Rai.

"Shut…up…" Seifer said. Zera jumped on his back again like she had the day she met him, successfully knocking him over to face plant on the platform. "Ow…"

"Bye bye horsey! I shall miss you my faithful steed!" she exclaimed.

"Since when was I ever a 'faithful steed'!!" Seifer shouted from under her. Zera shrugged and got up. She walked over to Yoko, not even minding that she had stepped on his head in the process. She and Yoko walked onto the train and waved goodbye to their new found friends.

"Good bye all!" Zera said. Yoko just waved to them. As the door closed they heard Zera shout; "Wait! I forgot to give you a hug!" Olette and the others laughed as the train left the station.

"I wonder where this goes…" Zera said as she looked out the window to see the stars rushing past.

"I don't know. Hopefully it's be somewhere we can get a gummi ship or at least someplace we know," Yoko replied. Yoko was about to sit down when the train came to a stop. The doors opened and the two girls walked out of the train and onto the stone streets. They looked around and saw a sign. Yoko read it aloud.

"'Welcome to Hollow Bastion," she began, "the world now being restored to what it once was, a paradise.' That is such cheesy shit."

"It's nice that they fixing this place up though," Zera said with a smile. She looked around. "Hmm…I never saw this part of Hallow Bastion before…"

The walked down the steps into a small square where there were accessory and item shops around it. They moved on, passing by an old duck experimenting with ice cream flavors and into the next part of the town.

"So where do you think they are?" Zera asked.

"I dunno. But Yuffie probably knows," Yoko replied.

"Huh? Yuffie?" Zera said, confused. She looked to where her friend was pointing. As said, the young ninja was walking towards a small house. She gasped happily.

"Yuffie!" she cried out. The ninja turned at the sound of her name. Her eyes widened at the sight of them, and she ran to them. She hugged both of them.

"Yoko! Zera! You're back!!" she shouted happily. Zera returned with the same enthusiasm, and Yoko, being Yoko, was a bit reluctant to return it. She pulled back and looked over how they had changed in their year away.

"I can't believe it's you guys! How have you been? Did you just get here? How are your families? How are your sisters? How is your brother? Wait, you don't have a brother! That's okay, I don't either! I'm a single child, but that is PERFECTLY okay!…I think…"

"SHUT UP!" Yoko shouted.

"Well…." Yuffie said. "Do you wanna see the others? Leon, Cid, Cloud, Arieth, and Takuto are in there."

"TAKY!" Zera shouted running into the little house. Yoko smiled knowing what was gonna happen and wanted to watch.

Zera had opened the door quietly so as not to alert anyone of her presence. She really wanted to surprise him. She had to surpress a squeal as she saw that he had grown his hair out like he had promised, and it was now tied back in a ponytail. Quickly, she ran up to him.

"Takuto! I missed you, love!" Zera shouted as she jumped onto the boy's back, surprising everyone in the room. He started to try to pull her off of him.

"If you're that rabid fangirl from down the street, no I will not go out with you! How many times do I have to tell you?!" he shouted. She pouted.

"But I thought we were already going out Taky…" she said sadly. He froze at the nickname, and turned his head to look at her. He was stunned as he saw her face. She smiled and gave his a quick peck on his nose. She jumped off his back, and as soon as she had, be grabbed her into a tight embrace.

"Zera, I missed you so much!" he shouted.

"I missed you too!" she said. They kissed for a slight moment and then Takuto ran over to Yoko and gave her a hug. She stood there, her eyes wide.

"I also missed you, Yoko! I missed your strength, your negativity, your ego, and your arrogance!"

"Thanks. I had ALMOST had the feeling of miss for you too," she said. She patted him on the back a few times and then pushed him away. Leon walked over and said his hellos as well as Areith and Cloud.

"Takuto, are you ready to go home?" asked a voice. Everyone turned to see none other than Amida. Amida looked different though. He had gotten rid of his blue bangs and grew his black hair out to about his shoulders. He wore black shoes, dark blue jeans, and a gray, short sleeve collar shirt with the collar up.

"OHMIGAWD!" Zera shouted.

"We..he…I..killed you!" Yoko said.

"Heh, it's a funny story.." Takuto said.

twenty minutes later..

"And that's how it all happened," Takuto said.

"…wow…" was all Zera said.

"So he was actually undercover or something like that?" Yoko asked.

"You could say that," Amida replied. There was a silence for a while, but Areith decided she would be the one to break it this time.

"I have something for you both. Well, actually lots of things. Come with me," she said with a smile. Yoko and Zera looked at each other, shrugged and followed the brunette into a back room. She opened a closet and inside were many outfits hung up neatly with small labels above them.

"I made you outfits for the worlds you'll be visiting on your journey. There're spares in there too for whenever the others get too bloodied. I feel that you'll fight many battles since there's more trouble now than there had been with Ansem and the heartless, or even Marla and Kurishi," Areith told them. Yoko and Zera looked over the outfits.

"Well, we like the outfits, that's for sure," Yoko said. Areith smiled.

"That's good. I hoped you would. Now come on. We'll go get Cid so he can give you one of his gummi ships," she said.

"Here she is, you're new gummi ship! No destroyin' her now. I worked hard on her," Cid said as he presented the ship.

"Cool," Yoko said.

"Let's go!" Zera said, pumping her fist in the air. She skipped to the doorway that had folded down into steps as Yoko walked along behind her.

"Wait! Zera! Yoko! We're coming with you guys!" Takuto said as he went after them.

"We?" Yoko asked. Amida and Takuto walked up to the girls.

"Yes, we. Do you have a problem with that girl?" Amida replied.

"As a matter of fact, yes. Yes I do," she said.

"Yoko, let him come," Zera and Takuto said. The two clung to the man' arms and gave her the puppy dog eyes. She cracked.

"Fine," she said. They smiled and all got into the ship.

A/N: it's done…finally! My friend and co-writer helped me with the chapter, so that's why it got done. Otherwise it's probably still be rotting in my computer drive…oh well. Please review. I'm a review whore, so it makes me happy.