We remember you, ever since you were little. Do you remember us? You may not think of us as part of your home, but to us you're our long lost family member. Won't you come in our home?

Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts I, II, Chain of Memories, 358/2 Days, Birth by Sleep and all of its characters within it are copyrighted to Square Enix and/or Disney which is not owned by me. Same goes for Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Chapter Two: Venture In to Get Out

"Crap…I think you may have killed him." A boot nudge the still form of the boy in girl's clothes.

"And you're saying it's my fault? Who's the one who asked me to bring him here? Hearts! Because of you I'm going to be late!" An older voice, tapping his foot, scowled.

"Yeah, but you didn't have to bring him in diving head first. Surprised he didn't crack his head from the fall." As the two voices argued, Roxas stirred. Apparently the bickering was bothering the boy. The voices went silent for a moment, as he made a small uncomfortable groan.

"Heh, guess I was wrong. Well, we should let sleepy beauty wake up peacefully on his own." An almost familiar chuckle came to Roxas's ears as he started to regain consciousness. When he moved to finally sit up, his eyes went towards a moving figure down the hall. He had to blink a few times to make sure he wasn't dreaming. Did the hallway seem to get smaller and small further down?

Roxas held his head, feeling a mighty migraine coming. Where was he? What had happened? His gaze went up above him and then it clicked. He had fallen down that large hole chasing after that rabbit. The blonde grumbled something to himself as he rose to his feet, only losing his balance for a second. Having a possible concussion while trying to walk on heels isn't something he was quite use to yet. Scratch that yet, he wasn't planning to get use to it, nor did he want to.

"That fall…how am I in once piece?" Roxas questioned to no one, his eyes never leaving the tunnel above him. It must've been quite a ways up, for there wasn't any light to be spotted at the end. Sighing, a bit irritated with the whole situation, he didn't really have the choice of climbing back up. There was only one option for the young man and that was when he faced the odd hallway before him. Clocks reading peculiar times, such as when it was cold and hot o'clock or when it was twiddling your thumbs time, decorated the walls of the hallway. Not to mention, it did appear that the hallway does become smaller the farther you strolled down it.

"Ack, if it keeps getting any smaller at this rate, I'll be wedge in! Who would build a place like this?" Who indeed, but questions would be answered later. Finally, the spiky blonde made it to a door just slightly larger than himself, which took up the whole end of the hallway. A sigh of relief escaped him as he reached out and turned the handle. Almost immediately, he was knocked back. At first, he thought someone had pushed him, until he realized it was the door that seemingly swung open on its own. Following the larger door swung open smaller doors, one after the other had opened. Up until there was a small door about half his size opened to a mysterious room. Blue and confused eyes stared bewildered for some moments before he finally regained his composure. He poked his head inside of the door and saw that there was a normal size room on the other side.

"Why would someone make a door so small to a room that is larger?" So many questions the boy had, but to answer these kinds of questions would be irrelevant to the story. Another sigh escaped him as it seemed he was forced to wedge himself through the small entrance. It took a minute or so before he was able to squeeze through the door. He stood back on his feet and brushed out his skirt after he had stumbled into the room…wait. He rolled his eyes at himself and hoped this place had some decent BOY styled clothing for himself.

The room he had entered seemed like an average homely room that belongs in a house. It was well lit, had a sitting area, stove, and an average table. He wandered about a bit, looking for another way out of this room, but their appeared to be none. Roxas held his forehead, that headache creeping back upon him. He was about to lean back against a wall when he heard a small voice shout up at him.

"HEY! Watch where you're stepping, you klutz! I thought young ladies were supposed to be dainty on their feet. What has your mother been teaching you?" Roxas jumped as he spun about on his heels. He looked around, trying to find the owner of the voice that insulted him, but no one was to be found. "Down here! Come on! How hard is it to spot the Great Lock Keeper?" Finally, his gaze fell down upon a tiny person next to a tiny door. He had to squint his eyes to make out that the tiny person was a lady; a very little lady that is that could fit in his hand. The boy kneeled down to get a better look at the curious…would you call it creature?

"First off, I'm not a girl and second…h-how did you get so small?" The small girl glared at him as she jumped up with ease onto his knee. She placed her hands on her hips and glared at him with chocolate brown eyes.

"Girl, boy, whatever! You're still a klutz girly boy." Suddenly, she jabbed a small sharp object into his knee.

"Ouch! Hey! Don't do that!" Even though that very small weapon only seemed to prick him like how his sister's sewing needles did, it still stung a little. He pulled out the small weapon, which was smaller than his down nail, out of his knee and flicked it away. Not wanting to let the stubborn tiny person try something like that again, he reached for her. The small girl quickly did a back flip out of Roxas's grasp and landed gracefully next to the tiny door. While Roxas gave a frown, she gave a smug grin.

"That's what you get for almost killing the Great Lock Keeper Yuffie! Now we're even girly boy." She let out a hearty laugh while Roxas saw this whole situation was getting him nowhere. He had to find a way out of this place, and this little distraction wasn't helping to move things along.

"Fine. We're even…I guess." The boy started to rise to his feet which made the girl known as Yuffie give an upset sound.

"Eh! Where do you think you're going?" She shouted up towards the now standing Roxas, who had lost interested in the self claimed Lock Keeper.

"Home. I have a feeling if I don't get out of here soon, there will be no end to these weird things happening." He shook his head, knowing he should trust his instincts on this one. Just like he should've listened to that small voice in that back of his mind. It screamed out to not venture into the strange woods after some weird critter, but as they say, curiosity killed the cat. Hopefully, his cat hadn't fallen into a similar situation as he did.

"Home! Well you're going the wrong way!" The short haired girl stated in a 'matter-o-factly' tone. To this, gave her a questioning look.

"I haven't even gone anywhere yet. How could I be going the wrong way?"

"Y-you…you just are! Stop asking questions that aren't relevant to the story!" Again, Roxas was puzzled.

"What?"

"Oh geeze…you gotta be kidding me. I guess I'll answer your question. You're going the wrong way 'cause…I think it's 'cause you're trying to get out when the only way for you to get home is to go in. Do you understand?" She gave him a grumpy look. Obviously she didn't like to explain complex things.

"Going in? How does that make sense? Isn't going in or towards some place you don't know make drift farther away from your destination?" Roxas wasn't one for riddles, and this sounded like a very complicated one. The so called Lock Keeper stomped her small foot.

"Look! I don't make up the rules; they were set that way, ok? No one here can change that…even though some try to…" Yuffie seemed to mumble something to herself, but the blonde didn't catch what the small voice said. Finally, he eventually gave in, if it meant getting out of here…or was it in? The whole situation was growing worse by the second.

"Fine…how do I get in?" He questioned, to which Yuffie pulled out something small from her belt pouch and threw it to the floor. Surprisingly, the object made smoke fill the whole room, to which made Roxas choke and blind until it dispersed.

"Drink that stuff on the table! Come on! Hurry up girly boy!" Blue eyes rolled again, not liking the nickname this mysterious woman was calling him. He wondered over towards the table and picked up the bottle with a tag attached to it saying "DRINK ME PLEASE!" Roxas raised a brow, wondering if it was really wise to drink a strange substance, in a strange land, offered by a strange woman. Still, was there any really choice he had? The only other way out…or in was to climb up that hole he fell through. He closed his eyes before taking a gulp of the substance, hoping it wasn't something that was harmful to his body.

"…Was that suppose to do some-thing!" Near the end of his sentence he suddenly shrunk very fast. His hand lost grip of the bottle and was dropped when it became too big for him to hold. In just a short amount of time, he was the size of the bottle that clattered onto the floor. For some reason, he found himself looking at his own arms and hands, checking to make sure he was still portioned correctly. He was interrupted by an "Ahem!" behind him. When he turned about, the tiny girl called Yuffie was smirking a goofy grin at him. Except, she wasn't very small now. In fact, she was almost half a foot taller than him.

"Well! Good thing you didn't drink the whole thing! Then you'd be the size of my foot." She laughed a little again, but Roxas didn't find the thought very amusing. Good thing he was cautious when he drank that peculiar liquid. "Anyways grumpy, I think you should start heading in." She straightened out his golden headband, which matched so well with the rest of her foreign golden colored outfit. As she turned towards the door, she gave a sharp whistle between two fingers. "HEY! Open up!" With that the door, that was both their sizes now, creaked open with a long and old groan.

"Wow, the Lock Keeper has that much power?" Roxas questioned in a sarcastic tone.

"Hey! It only listens to me! So think twice before insulting my epic Lock Keeper powers, Roxas!" The boy clad in girl's clothes almost let that last part slide. It took him a second or so to notice what Yuffie had just said that second.

"How do you know my name?" He gave the Lock Keeper a serious look, wanting an answer.

"GRAWR! I messed up! And you! You need to stop asking questions that can't be answered yet!" Before Roxas could catch her or ask anything else, she pulled out another ball from her belt pouch and threw it towards the floor. Once more, Roxas found himself having a coughing fit, until the smoke was gone and so was Yuffie.

"Hmph, I was right. This place is going to get stranger and stranger." The lone boy's eyes wandered towards the now open door. What awaited him on the other side? Did he really want to know? Well there was no turning back now…after all one must go in to get out.

*ANOTHER headesk* Ah! I'm up to 3am again working on another chapter for this. I'm very surprised how long this part took. I thought the meeting with Yuffie wouldn't take that long. It took…five pages with her? Geebus crispy! Anyways, I promise it'll get a bit more interesting from here. Just have to get a few complex things out of the way first. Read and review please!