A/N: I'm back from school! Let me tell you it was fun and it wasn't. I feel so sad because well the guy I've liked for two years goes out with a girl he's only known for three days. But I should be used to heartbreak by now? Aerith never has a happy ending. So I'm happy for him and will support him a hundred percent! I'll write this chapter while eating my depression food so Sora take it away with the rest of the message.
Sora: Anyway Aerith would've also said she is sorry she didn't have any time to work on this story or any story this week because she has been so busy with high school work. Which is stressing her out but she'll never admit that to herself. Anyways without further delay the disclaimer! Take it away Selphie since I'm like unconscious somewhere…where did you take me this time Aerith?
Selphie: Oh boy! Okay FlowerLady-Aerith does not own Kingdom Hearts! Amazing isn't it! Now Sora give me pocky!
Is This Just Another Lie?
- Where Have We Gone? -
"Kairi! I'm back!" Selphie screamed at the top of her lungs. Any moment now Kairi would shout at her for being so loud. The woman always did, Selphie's personal thought was Kairi had sensitive ears but you never know these days. The petite woman slung her bags on the table. "Kairi?" she called confused. Usually she would have answered by now.
Selphie blinked then a smug grin appeared on her face. Perhaps she did something last night with Sora? Or perhaps she didn't want to be alone and spent the week with Sora. No, Kairi wouldn't leave the door unlocked if she wasn't home.
"Kairi?" Selphie called walking into the small hallway. She noticed the bedroom door was closed. She turned the knob but it didn't budge. Selphie frowned taking a step back and getting into a martial arts position. She let out a cry before kicking down the door.
She peeked her head into the doorway and screamed. There was a large bloodstain in the middle of the floor. The blood made large drag marks all the way to the window, which was open. Selphie screamed and turned around running out of the apartment.
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"It's only been a week Riku I can walk," Yuffie pouted crossing her arms and sitting up on their bed. Riku only stubbornly shook his head and shoved a spoon full of oatmeal into Yuffie's mouth.
Yuffie glared at the albino haired man chewing her oatmeal. Oh how she hated the oatey evilness. "You have to do this for the sake of our future child," Riku said in a matter-of-fact tone. "Suppose if you did walk and got hurt you could have a miscarriage!"
"You are so being over-protective," Yuffie said, only to have another spoonful of oatmeal stuffed into her mouth. She sighed. Riku would be the great over-protective father role.
Naminé burst into the room panting and sweating. Yuffie and Riku stared at her with blank faces. "T-Turn on t-the television," Naminé stuttered. Yuffie picked up the remote that was lying beside her and pushed the red power button. On the television screen was Cartoon Network.
"You wanted us to see a squirrel go insane?" Yuffie asked more oatmeal being stuffed into her mouth. Naminé shook her head and took the remote from Yuffie turning it to the news channel.
Miss Tilmitt was in a gunshot incident last week and now she comes home to discover her roommate is missing and there's blood all over the floor. Let's talk to this distressed woman. How are you feeling right now Selphie?
"How the sensor do you think I'm feeling? Sensor sensor! How would you feel if your best friend went missing? Sensor you!"
Okay. That was Miss Tilmitt. Miss Kairi Shitoko has gone missing and the FBI are working hard on it. The detective group of Yuna, Rikku, and Paine are also on the job. Let's hope this mystery will be solved before other people go missing. On other news…
"Kairi!" Yuffie shouted avoiding the spoonful of oatmeal. She jumped out of her bed and landed neatly on her feet. Riku's jaw dropped. "I have to go see Selphie you can finish the oatmeal by yourself right Riku? Love you bye!" she shouted running out of the door with Naminé.
"W-Wait for me!" Riku shouted running after his crazy wife.
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Selphie sighed resting her head in Tidus's lap. "Tidus I don't know what to do," she mumbled being comforted by the blonde man.
"All we can do is hope she's all right, but doesn't it make you wonder where Sora is?" Tidus asked looking down at his fiancé. Selphie sat up. It had just occurred to her. Sora would've have definitely showed up if Kairi had gone missing, yet he didn't.
"Has he been gone for the past week too?" Selphie asked worriedly.
Tidus shrugged. "I haven't really seen him…I'm sure Riku would know."
"I hope he's all right he can't go missing like Kairi did. Please let Sora be okay," Selphie said quietly. She looked up at the sky smiling a little, suddenly her vision became blurry and soon it was completely gone.
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"Master when shall we strike next?"
"Well Cid continue to monitor for the next three months and you dear wait a couple of weeks before capturing Miss Olette Hanazaki."
"Then you should get Mister Roxas he'll be a fun catch."
"I wanted to do him!"
"Shut up Cid."
"Anyways I'm on the job sir."
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Drip, Drop
The brown liquid barely shook from the small push it had received from a pale finger. Two pale hands were placed on either side of the blue mug. It lifted into the air and was brought to a pale pink mouth. As soon as some of the liquid was consumed it was placed back on the table. A small groan escaped from the mouth.
"I have to meet them in two minutes."
The pale hand moved some blonde locks behind a pale ear with had a silver hoop in it. Money was placed on the table and the blonde stood up. The hands nervously linked together neatly in front of the soft fabric of the white dress the woman was wearing.
Blue eyes scanned the area. The pair showed a sense of depression along with her appearance. Blonde tress fell neatly in front of them as she looked down to the sidewalk taking a step out of the comfort of the small shelter she had been drinking coffee in.
Raindrops fell on the woman as she made her way through the mass crowd that had suddenly filled the sidewalk. Her blonde hair soon became tousled and wet; of course it was never in a neat fashion.
Her brown boots clacked against the concrete as she walked in a steady pace, which soon broke into a run. Tears made their way down her soft cheeks that were turning a light shade of pink. The woman tripped falling and skinning her knees. She winced slowly lifting herself off of the ground and into a kneel position. Her hair whipped the side of her face sticking to her wet skin.
She whined trying to restrain the tears but failing. "Why Roxas!" she cried making some of the people passing by her stare. She banged her fist on the concrete bruising it.
"Naminé."
The teary blonde woman turned around the silhouette of a woman on the ground. Naminé looked up and saw Yuffie staring down at her. "Yuffie," she mumbled. Yuffie leaned down and helped Naminé off of the ground. The blacked haired woman wore a worried expression.
"Namie, you can't stay out in the rain like this you'll get sick get under the umbrella and we'll walk back to the house together," Yuffie suggested. She had gotten a fatter and six months into her pregnancy. It stumbled Naminé why Riku had let her out in this weather, then again with the disappearance of his best friend he hasn't been thinking clearly.
She smiled sadly and walked with Yuffie. There was silence between the two women, but nobody could blame them. One by one each of their dear friends had disappeared. First it had been Sora and Kairi, then Selphie and Tidus, Olette, Roxas, Wakka, Zidane and Vivi, and Pence. That was a large chunk of their group. Not to mention Yuna, Rikku, Paine, and Tifa had been gone to get more information on the mysterious captures. So that left Axel, Riku, Yuffie, Naminé, Hayner, and Dagger. They were all meeting at Dagger's place today.
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"Yuffie!"
Yuffie laughed being embraced by her husband. "I told you I was only getting a few groceries," she said shoving them into his arms. "Make yourself useful." Riku nodded quickly walking towards Dagger's kitchen.
Dagger smiled motioning for the two women to have a seat. Yuffie sat down next to Riku who had quickly put away the groceries she had picked up and Naminé sat down next to Hayner. "So why did you call this meeting anyway?" Axel asked staring at the few remaining companions.
"We need to discuss our safety," Riku said holding Yuffie protectively. Yuffie smiled laying her head on his shoulder. The group nodded. They couldn't ignore the fact that their group was disappearing.
Hayner banged his fist on the table. "I bet its Cid!" he shouted. Naminé put her hand on his shoulder. She knew Hayner was having trouble accepting the fact that Olette and Pence were gone. Hayner sighed putting his head on the table.
The blonde woman sighed. "We should all be on high alert, any one of us could be next," she stated.
Axel nodded. "With our detective and FBI friends gone we are sitting ducks," he said with the wave of his hand. "Right now I'm not even sure being together is even safe anymore."
"Being in this state isn't safe," Riku added.
"But what can we-Kairi?"
Everyone looked at the doorway and there indeed Kairi was standing. She smiled and ran over to the table in which they were all standing. Yuffie smiled and hugged her friend. "Kairi you're all right!" she said excitedly.
"Of course I'm all right but you have the wrong girl." Yuffie's eyes widened she suddenly fell to her knees holding her stomach in pain.
"Yuffie!" Riku exclaimed running to his wife's side. "What did you do to her?" he demanded staring at 'Kairi'.
She chuckled. "I only poked her a little. Anyways I'm sure about now you all are wondering who I am correct?" Everyone nodded still staring at the woman who had entered the apartment. "Just say I'm Kairi's other side."
Hayner jumped up. "What have you done with all of our friends?" he demanded narrowing his eyes.
"Calm down wonder boy."
Everyone turned around and saw Cid standing in the corner of the room. Naminé grabbed Hayner's arm hiding behind him. "Don't hide girlie we won't hurt you…much," Cid laughed appearing behind Naminé. He picked her up and started choking her.
"Leave her alone!" Dagger shouted thrusting her fist towards Cid but he only disappeared and reappeared near Yuffie who had just recovered from Anti-Kairi's 'poke'. Cid grabbed her arm tightly and started pulling them towards the wall. Yuffie screamed reaching for Riku whom had just become Anti-Kairi's torture puppet. The threesome disappeared through the wall.
Axel lunged at Anti-Kairi only fazing through her and falling on the wooden floor. She chuckled waving her hand making a dark purple and black miasma appear under Axel pulling him into the floor and making him disappear as well. Hayner's jaw dropped he hadn't been expecting that to happen. Dagger screamed the knifes from the kitchen floating in the air towards Hayner and Dagger.
Hayner pushed Dagger away getting stabbed in his abdomen and disappearing into flashy golden lights. Dagger's eyes widened. She ran over to Riku who was being punched by the air. "We have to run!" she shouted grabbing his wrist and running towards the door. Anti-Kairi growled waving her hand and making the door disappear from the wall.
Riku stepped in front of Dagger. Being the only male left he felt it was his duty to protect the only thing he had left to protect. "I hate the heroes," Anti-Kairi chuckled lifting her hand into the air. "But its fun to take them down slowly." She brought her hand down quickly making the gravity increase around Riku's body. His muscles tensed and he slowly sunk to the ground.
"Leave him alone!" Dagger shouted throwing her shoe at Anti-Kairi though it only fazed through her.
"Welcome to the world of a ghost," Anti-Kairi laughed. "Now have a good sleep!" Dagger blinked wondering what she meant by that, but her questions were quickly answered. She started to see purple dots around the room and soon she toppled to the ground unconscious.
"All clear."
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"Are you serious!" Rikku exclaimed reading all the files on Cid Highwind. Yuna nodded watching Paine snatch the files away from Rikku. The blonde turned around to face her sister. "That can't be! How can Cid be dead? Kairi said she spoke with him, this just doesn't make sense."
Yuna nodded. "But all the files say he died Halloween Night in jail last year…they even have his grave in the Mississippi Graveyard of Lutheran Church," Yuna explained twiddling her thumbs.
"A good ghost story never hurt anyone till now," Paine muttered stuffing the files back into the filing cabinet.
Tifa pulled out her cell phone and began dialing numbers. "I'm going to call for backup I know just to people from the FBI we can use," she said with a smile. "Hello Reno? Can you send Aerith, Cloud, Leon, and Seifer to Colorado we need them for backup. Thanks and as soon as possible, oh and say hello to Laguna for me. Bye!"
Rikku squealed. She still remembered them all from the Hawaii incident. "It'll be so great to see them again!" she exclaimed jumping up from her seat. Yuna nodded watching Rikku grab Paine and dance around in circles with her. Poor Paine was already formulating ways she could murder Rikku after this.
"They'll be sending the chopper so we'll meet them outside tonight," Tifa stated sinking in the computer chair. "For now we'll just have to get more leads if we can…what do you say we call the others and see how they're doing?"
Paine pulled away from Rikku making the poor woman fall on the floor face first. "I'll call," Paine snickered her cell phone already in hand. She dialed their home waiting for an answer but got none. "Maybe Riku and Yuffie are at Hayner's?" She dialed the number and still got no reply. Paine rolled her eyes. She didn't feel like calling every single person so she decided to call Axel's cell phone he always had it on. She called the cell phone but instead of getting an answer she received a mocking laugh and then a dial tone.
"That was strange," Paine said stuffing her cell phone into her back pocket. "I think something might've happened to them…I didn't get a good vibe from the mocking laugh."
Yuna shuddered. "I think we all heard it." Tifa and Rikku agreed. "Do you think they all became victims just now?"
"I hope Yuffie's all right…she is six months in and everything," Tifa said staring at the ceiling.
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"How are the prisoners doing?"
"We can't get anything out of them its like they have no memory of the event."
"You have to reawaken chained memories idiot."
"Don't call me an idiot I know what to do that memory witch won't cooperate though."
"Right Miss Naminé was it?"
"Yes."
"A little visit from Roxas might convince her."
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Yuffie sat curled up in the corner shivering and wet. She rubbed her hands together trying to create some type of heat. She looked down at her inflated stomach rubbing it and cooing. "Don't worry little Ichigo and little Teji we'll make it out of this," she cooed. Her indigo eyes searched the confinement she had been gently pushed into. She was happy she hadn't been thrown.
Creak
Her eyes shot to her left where she caught a glimpse of a blonde man being pushed into her cell. She stood up and quickly walked over to the man once the door was closed. "Hey are you all right?" she asked bending down slightly to help him up.
He looked up a grin appearing on his face. "Yuffie you're fat."
Yuffie growled sticking out her tongue. "Shut up Tidus I'm going to give birth to twins I can't be stick skinny," she said walking back to her corner Tidus following her and sitting down next to her. "Have you seen the others?"
Tidus shook his head a chunk of dirt falling on the floor. "I haven't seen anyone…ever since Selphie and I were brought here I was thrown into solitary confinement," Tidus explained. "So who all is here then?"
"All I know of is myself and Naminé…we were dragged through the wall. I don't know what happened to Axel, Dagger, and Riku," Yuffie explained. Tidus nodded sighing and gently pressing his head against the concrete wall. "How long do you think we'll be in here?" He only shrugged. Yuffie looked down at the dirt ground. She didn't like this predicament.
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"After throwing this rock for the first thousand times I got bored yet…I'm still doing it and talking to myself," Pence muttered throwing the rock at the wall in front of him and watching it bounce back and land right next to him so he could throw it again. That's what he had been doing for the past month. Interesting how he spent his days.
He had wondered why he was here and who the heck that silver haired man was. Everyday he would come and visit Pence asking 'Did you awaken your true power yet?' Of course Pence would reply a simple 'no' because he had no idea what the man was talking about. He personally thought he was crazy, or that he himself was just stuck in a bad nightmare. Yes, that was it…now all he had to do was wake up. Boy this sure was a long dream.
Maybe it was those tacos he had eaten before he went to bed the night he arrived here. Or perhaps it was Hayner's television program that the blonde had been watching lately. He had definitely heard too much alien bashing before he went to sleep.
"I blame Hayner," he grumbled crossing his arms and pouting. Pence's head jerked up hearing a female scream. He should be used to hearing the woman scream since she seemed to about everyday he had been here. Though he had always wondered who was screaming. Regardless, he just wondered what they were doing to her.
"Hey back off-whoa!"
Pence looked up only to see a glimpse of dark green before something very, very heavy fell on him. Pence groaned lifting himself onto his hands and knees. "What?" he grumbled shaking his body making the heavy object fall onto the concrete ground. He looked over to his left and saw none other than Hayner.
"Hey Pence you're all right," Hayner said lying in his sprawled position. Pence blinked still in disbelief. "So…Olette with you or is she somewhere else?"
Pence shook his head sitting up and leaning on the wall. "I didn't even know Olette was here," Pence replied hugging his knees. "Did anybody with silver hair ask you if you had some secret power?"
"In fact that freaky girl or the other side of Kairi kept demanding I show her my power and you know naturally I was like what the heck and then she threw me in here," Hayner explained untangling his body and laying flat on the ground. "What the heck are they talking about Pence?"
He shrugged. "Do you think everyone in our little group has some secret power?" Hayner shrugged. The blonde man had never really thought anyone in the group was special…sure they all had their 'special' moments but still. Like any of them would have these secret powers.
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"Whoa man this isn't cool ya," Wakka said staring at the shiny laser that was pointing to his forehead. "I don't know any of this power mess so brother don't point that at me."
"I cannot do that until you release your power."
Wakka blinked. "I still have no clue what you are talking about. All I can do is balance soda cans on my head ya."
"Shut up."
Wakka screamed feeling a surge of pain go through his head. "I don't have power!" he shouted shaking his head to avoid the laser but it didn't work, instead the pain intensified sending poor Wakka into unconscious.
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"How is the princess progressing?"
"She still won't awaken her untapped power, and Naminé still won't cooperate."
"Hmm well if Miss Shitoko isn't wising up we'll just have to push Naminé a little harder."
"I see…I'll go check on the princess right now."
"If she doesn't respond throw her in cell four. Solitary confinement."
"Right."
An auburn haired woman was bolted to a chair with some sort of metal thing on her head. Her head was drooped titled downwards with her auburn tress falling neatly in front of her face. She was breathing deeply her chest rising up and down quickly. She dressed in a currently bloody white nightgown that only fell to the middle of her thighs. Her hand twitched as if a shock of electricity was going through it.
"Hello princess."
Her head titled up slowly only showing her left eye through the auburn tress. The amethyst eye watched the movements of her visitor closely. "W-What are you going to do to me now?" she gasped quickly taking in deep breaths after saying that sentence.
The man chuckled and stood in front of the woman. He bent down cupping her chin. "Dear, sweet Kairi what would make you think I would want to harm you darling?" he asked mockingly.
"Shut up Kadaj," Kairi hissed.
Kadaj chuckled. "I always liked your feisty personality, but you're in no position to be disrespectful," he said in a matter-of-fact tone. Kairi spit on his face. Kadaj wiped off her spit and grinned menacingly. He slapped her across the face leaving a red mark on her left cheek. "Don't ever do that to me again or it'll be worse."
"I would've thought I'd already had worse," Kairi mumbled fighting the tears that were welling up in her eyes. "Why are you here anyway? Come to electrocute me again…well bring it on."
"As fun as that sounds no. I'm here to take you to solitary confinement for being a bad girl," Kadaj joked unbolting Kairi from the chair. She swiftly toppled to the ground from lack of strength. Kadaj easily picked her up with one hand and dragged her limp body out of the room and into the hallway.
Kairi watched as she passed several prison cells that glowed with purple. In one she could've sworn she saw a familiar pair of emerald eyes, but she shook it off. She suddenly felt her body be lifted off of the ground and thrown into her new holding area. She hit the ground and groaned feeling numb in her front area.
"Some way to treat a princess," she chuckled taking in more deep breaths. She flipped herself on her back and stared at the ceiling. Everything was dark so she couldn't tell the difference from a wall or the floor. In fact she had no idea where she was.
"Kairi is that you?"
Kairi looked around in the darkness wondering where that voice had come from. "Who are you?" she asked still staring at what she recognized as up.
"Sora."
"Sora!" Kairi exclaimed quickly coughing afterwards. "Where are you?"
"Over here."
Kairi followed the sound of Sora's voice and found a small opening in the wall in which she could see and hear Sora through. "Sora you're all right," she said relieved. Sora grinned giving her a thumbs up. "Have you been here this whole time?"
"Yes, but…what happened to you? You sound so…different," Sora said reaching through the hole to grab her hand.
"You could just say I got several shocks," Kairi laughed.
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A/N: Yes I know that chapter took me the whole entire weekend but I can't really do anything with a broken heart now can I? Well anyway I hope I'll be able to update my other story next weekend so till then!