A/N: Sorry it took a while to get this one out! Well, hope you guys enjoy!

Disclaimer: We do not own Kingdom Hearts, just Kurai and Lexi.


Kurai paced back and forth in Lexi's room, as the younger girl sat on her bed, her knees pulled up to her chest as she tried to stop her sobbing. The two girls were trying to figure out what to do about the whole Roxas/Xemnas/Riku situation-well, Kurai was at least.

"Alright. First of all we're gonna need to tell Roxas. If we explain everything he'll help us." The dark haired girl said, as she continued to pace.

"But…how can you be sure?" Lexi asked quietly between her slowing sobs. She felt horrible about involving the others in her 'forbidden love' troubles any more than they already were. Why did she have to say Roxas' name? Why couldn't she have just lied and said she wasn't in love with anyone? It would have made things much easier.

"He said he wants you to be happy right?" Kurai asked, and Lexi nodded. "Then he'll help. Now come on!" She grabbed the younger girl's arm and dragged her off down the hall to find the other young boy.

"But Kurai, this is getting too out of hand! I can't let you guys keep risking getting in trouble because of me!" Lexi argued, as she was drug down the hall.

"Oh stuff it." Kurai said, getting annoyed with the girl's constant complaining. "This has nothing to do with us getting in trouble. Xemnas is gonna talk to Roxas no matter what, so we might as well warn him before things get awkward."

Lexi stared at her friend, thinking about what she said. She did have a point. If Xemnas summoned Roxas to his room, and told him she liked him, things would get really weird between them. But still…telling him could be just as awkward.

"Oh there you are!" The Half-Nobody looked up, coming out of her thoughts when Kurai spoke. That's when she noticed who was standing at the end of the hall.

Axel and Roxas turned when Kurai had spoken, and the two walked towards the girls to meet them. "Hey, what's up? Were you looking for us?" Axel asked.

Lexi glanced at Roxas, who smiled and waved at her, causing her to blush and look down, which confused the boy.

"Yeah but we can't talk here." Kurai said, glancing around.

The red head glanced between the two girls, before nodding. "Follow me." He led them back down the hall, until he finally stopped in front of a door that had a "VIII" on the front, and underneath it said "The Flurry of the Dancing Flames".

Kurai grinned, finding this amusing. "'Flurry of the Dancing Flames'?" she mocked, earning a glare from Number VIII, who opened the door, beckoning them all in.

Lexi had never been inside Axel's room before, so she found it slightly amusing that everything other than the walls was black and red.

"Nice room. Could use a little more color though." The dark haired girl mused, as she appraised the room.

"At least its not all white." Axel said, closing the door after Roxas had come in, and Lexi had to agree with him. The little bits of color were a nice change.

"So what's so important that we had to talk in private?" Roxas asked, glancing between the two girls, one of which wouldn't meet his gaze.

"Oh right." Kurai said, obviously just now remembering the problem at hand. "We have a slight problem."

"And that would be?" Axel asked, wanting the girl to elaborate more on this so called problem.

"Well it's a long story, but to put it simply, Lexi here told Xemnas she's in love with Roxas."

All other sets of eyes in the room widened. Lexi couldn't believe Kurai came out and said it like that! Although she should have expected as much from her new friend.

"Whoa what?" Axel said shocked, turning to Lexi. "Since when?"

"No its not what you think!" Lexi tried to explain. "Its um…I don't know…" Her gaze found its way to Roxas, who was staring at her wide eyed, before she turned to Kurai, giving her a pleading look.

The other girl sighed, not wanting to have to explain everything. "She doesn't really love him."

"Then why'd she say she did?" Axel asked, apparently confused.

"Because she loves Riku."

"What?" the boys said shocked.

"Kurai!" Lexi exclaimed blushing. How could she just blurt that out like that?

"What? They had to find out eventually." The girl shrugged, before turning to the two boys, and divulging into the whole story. Or as much as she knew anyway.

Lexi, unwillingly, added in about the times she met with Riku before the others decided to help sneak her out. If it weren't for the seriousness of the problem at hand, she probably would have found Axel and Roxas' expressions funny. Both boys looked like they didn't know how to take in this new information.

"I-I just didn't want you to be surprised when my father spoke to you." Lexi told Roxas, as he stared at the ground, seeming kind of upset for some reason.

The boy looked up at her. "Oh um…yeah. I understand."

"Wait." Lexi stopped giving Roxas a confused look, and turned to Kurai, who was looking like she just had a great idea. "This could actually be to our advantage."

"And how do you figure that?" Axel asked, sounding just as confused as the others looked.

The dark haired girl turned to them all grinning. "Listen to this. Xemnas is going to talk to Roxas about Lexi being in love with him and stuff right?"

"What's your point?" the red head asked, annoyed she was taking so long to tell them her brilliant idea.

"Well Roxas here can just tell Xemnas he loves Lexi too-" She didn't miss Roxas' blush and him put his head down- "then when Lexi wants to sneak out to see Riku, he can tell her dad he wants to take her out. And when they leave they can meet up with Riku and Roxas can go do something until its time to come back! That will make everything easier for all of us!"

The other three stared at her, as they tried to process her plan. Lexi quickly took this all in, and realized Kurai had a point. If Roxas pretended like he was taking her on a date, then she wouldn't have to sneak out, and the others wouldn't have to risk getting in trouble for helping her!

"That's a great plan Kurai! You're a genius!" the younger girl said happily, thinking about how much more she'd get to see Riku now.

"Yeah I know. I'm awesome." Kurai grinned.

"Yeah great plan." Axel said. "But did you even think about asking Roxas if he even wanted to help?"

The two girls turned to the other boy, who blushed at all the attention being on him. Lexi rushed over to him, and took his hands in hers, giving him a pleading look. "Will you please help me Roxas? I will never ask you for anything ever again, I promise! And I'll make it up to you! I'll…" She scoured her mind, trying to think of something Roxas liked. "I'll buy you all the sea-salt ice cream you want!"

The boy stared at her, not knowing what to do. "Uh…well, I…"

"Come on, shrimp. Don't you want her to be happy?" Kurai said, earning a slightly annoyed look from him for the nickname.

Roxas seemed to think for a few moments, before he sighed and nodded. "Yeah. I'll help you out, Lexi."

Lexi grinned, feeling happiness and joy swell up in the half-heart that she had, before throwing her arms around the boy. "Oh thank you so much Roxas! You're the best friend ever!"

Kurai watched as Roxas hesitated, but slowly wrapped his arms around the girl, hugging her back. She also didn't miss the saddened look on his face, as he told Lexi it was no problem.


The library was the last place Kurai wanted to be, but she had nothing else to do, so she decided to explore parts of the castle she hadn't gone to yet. Saix hadn't given her any missions, and Lexi was about to head out to see Riku soon, so she really didn't have anything to do but sit around and be bored, and the library seemed like the best place to do that.

Well that's what she thought at least, until she heard the door open and saw someone with pink hair walk in. Marluxia didn't even glance in her direction as he walked down an isle, picked up a book, walked back, and sat at one of the tables, before opening the book and starting to read.

Kurai watched him slightly amused-she hadn't thought he'd be the type of person-if he was even considered a person-to go to a library and read. The two hadn't gotten off to a very good start, what with him attacking her and kidnapping her and everything, but slowly she was getting used to him. He still got on her nerves a lot though, since Xemnas still had him following her around most of the time when they left the castle like a prison guard.

She wanted to go over to annoy him, thinking this could actually give her something to do, and she knew the perfect thing to get him riled up. She had heard from Axel a little about the Graceful Assassin's plot, but Lexi had explained more when the younger girl was telling her about all the other members. Apparently he had once tried to overthrow Xemnas, but epically failed thanks to Sora. She had found it funny that he was brave enough to try something like that, considering his rank was pretty low.

Kurai stood up and silently walked over to Number XI, careful not to alert him to her presence. When she was standing behind him, she leaned over his shoulder-smirking slightly when she saw he was reading a mystery novel-before speaking.

"It turns out it was the sister who killed him."

Marluxia jumped-and would have hit Kurai in the face with his shoulder had she not moved back in time. He turned and glared at her, as she continued to laugh. "What the hell was that for?"

Kurai shrugged, as her laughter died down slightly. "You looked so into the book, it was too tempting not to scare you. Speaking of which, how can you even be scared when you don't have emotions?"

Marluxia gave her an annoyed look before turning back around and continuing to read. Kurai stopped her laughing, before taking a seat next to him, and beginning to tap her fingers on the table. She smirked when she noticed the pink head turn slightly to glare at her, before turning away again.

Kurai continued to tap her fingers, finding it amusing every time she noticed Marluxia's hands clench around the book. That is until finally his hand slammed down onto hers, stopping her from tapping, as he gave her a very annoyed look. "Will you knock it off? Its hard to concentrate!"

"Oh is it? I'm sorry." The dark haired girl grinned as Number XI sighed frustrated, and let go of her hand.

"What are you doing here anyway?" he asked, shutting his book, realizing he wasn't going to get any reading down with her around. "Don't you have some friends to hang out with?"

"Not really. Lexi's getting ready to leave, and Roxas and Axel are both on missions. Demyx is too afraid of me for me to want to hang out with him, so I guess I'm stuck with you."

"Oh joy." Marluxia said sarcastically, turning away from her.

Kurai stared at him a second, before asking something she knew would get him going. "So why'd you try to take over the Organization?"

The Nobody froze, before snapping his head to the girl, eyes narrowed. Guess he was a little touchy when it came to that subject.

"Lexi told me a little more about it than Axel did." Kurai shrugged grinning. "So? Are you gonna answer my question or not?"

Marluxia stared at her for a moment, obviously not sure if he should divulge anything to her or not. He barely knew this girl, what if she went and told Xemnas everything? He sighed, glancing around before giving her a look. "I did it because Xemnas is an incompetent leader, and doesn't deserve to be the head of this Organization." Kurai raised an eyebrow at him, as he continued. "With him leading us, we'll never get anything done because he's always locked up in his room, thinking about that stupid woman."

"'Stupid woman'?" Kurai asked confused, before a picture flashed through her mind of beautiful woman with blonde hair in a photo. "Oh you mean Lexi's mom?"

Marluxia gave her an annoyed look. "Of course, who else? I didn't ever meet her of course, only a few of the original members did, but her being constantly on him mind is making us behind on finishing Kingdom Hearts. Not to mention to add to that, he's always worried about Lexi, and every time she sneaks out or something, he makes us put everything on hold to find her! Its ridiculous!"

Kurai watched the Graceful Assassin as he spoke with a slightly amused expression. She wondered briefly if all the members felt that way about the other girl, and if that's why they all hated her so much. "Alright, so if you hate Xemnas so much, why not try to overthrow him again?"

Marluxia rolled his eyes, obviously having thought of this already. "Yeah because that worked so well the last time. The only reason I'm still alive is because Lexi talked him out of doing anything to us. What makes you think I'd get away with it this time?"

"Because this time I'd be helping you." The dark haired girl smirked, causing Number XI's eyes to widen.

"Excuse me now?"

Kurai grinned. "You heard me. If you really wanna take over the organization, then I'll help you." Marluxia stared at the girl as she stood up, not sure what to think about what she just said. "Just think about."

She gave him one last smirk, before turning and walking out of the library, deciding she had her fun for the night. Remembering her conversation with Marluxia a few minutes ago, she smirked. 'Well, this should make things a lot more interesting.'


Lexi giggled quietly to herself, swinging her legs back and forth, as she sat on top of the clock tower in Twilight Town. She was waiting for Riku, who was supposed to be meeting her here any minute now. She was excited to tell him about the plan involving Roxas, which would make it easier for her to see him more. Also…..she decided she was going to ask him again about his blindfold. The had talked a lot lately, and gotten a lot closer, so she figured maybe he would trust her enough to tell her more about himself, things that are more personal than just things they like and don't like.

Lexi glanced around quickly, before sighing. "Riku where are you? You're late…."

"Sorry about that." Lexi turned quickly at the voice, to see a smiling Riku, holding two sea-salt ice creams. "I was getting these."

Lexi smiled as he sat down next to her, handing her one of the ice creams. "How did you even get these? Isn't it closed at night?"

Riku shrugged, giving her that mysterious smile that was becoming very familiar to her. "I have my ways."

Lexi giggled. "Well thank you. And its fine that you're late, I was just beginning to think you weren't going to come."

"Now why would I do that? Then I wouldn't get to see you." He said, giving her a playful smile.

Lexi blushed slightly smiling, before looking away and taking a bite of her ice cream. She had never really felt this way about a boy before, so she really wasn't sure how to act, especially since the more she hung out with him, the more she liked him.

Thinking about hanging out with him more, reminded her of the new plan they had. "Oh that's right! Riku we found an easier way so we can see each other!"

The boy looked over at her, after taking a bite of his ice cream. "Really?"

Lexi nodded smiling. "Yep! We're going to tell my father that Roxas and I like each other, that way he can say that he's going to take me on a date, and we can meet up with you without anyone being suspicious of me being out of the castle! Isn't that great?"

However, Riku's expression didn't really make Lexi think he thought it was as great an idea as she did. Actually, he seemed pretty mad. "That's a stupid idea. We can find another way if you're worried about getting caught."

"What? But what's wrong with it?" Lexi asked confused at his sudden anger. She didn't want him to be mad at her, but she didn't think this was that big of a deal. Unless…. "Are you mad because I told my father that I like Roxas?"

"You told him you liked Roxas?" he asked shocked.

"Well it wasn't on purpose! He could tell I was…." She trailed off, deciding not to say she was in love with him yet. "…happier than before, and he knew it was because of a boy. Obviously I couldn't tell him it was you! He would have been furious!"

"So Roxas is a better choice?"

"I didn't know what else to do!" she said, not liking that Riku seemed upset now. She felt like she was going to cry again, and she didn't want to do so in front of him.

Apparently Riku seemed to sense her feelings and sighed. "I'm sorry. I just don't like that you have to pretend you like him is all." He paused. "But if you think this will work, then I guess we can give it a shot."

Lexi turned to him, a smile returning to her face. "I do think it would work. And….I don't like him like that Riku, so don't worry. We're just friends."

This seemed to cheer the boy up a little, as he smiled at her. "Good. Because you could do a lot better than him."

Lexi stared at him a second before smiling again and turning away, as the two became silent, finishing they're ice creams, and thinking about what to talk about when they were done. Lexi didn't know how to ask him about his eyes, but she knew she had to. She really liked his mysterious thing, but the blindfold was really getting to her. She just had to know what his eyes looked liked.

"Um….Riku?" Lexi asked quietly, after the two had finished.

"Yeah?" the boy answered, staring up at the night sky.

"Can I….ask you something?"

Riku turned to her smiling slightly. "You just did." He chuckled at the look she gave him, before smiling again. "Sure. Go ahead."

Lexi smiled slightly, before asking what she's been wanting to for a while now. "Why…won't you show me your eyes?"

Obviously Riku wasn't expecting her to ask that, because he seemed slightly caught off guard at the question. "What?"

"Well I mean…I asked you a few times before, about your blindfold, but you…you always change the subject." The Half-Nobody said quietly, looking down at her lap. "I just want to know why you wear it, and why you don't trust me enough to tell me."

"Its not that I don't trust you." Riku said after a few seconds. "Its just…..complicated." Lexi could feel him watching her, but she didn't look up at him. She knew it was hopeless to ask, but she wanted to give it one more try. Unfortunately it looked like he still wasn't going to tell her. "Its so my eyes can't lie."

Lexi's eyes widened, as she turned to Riku, who was staring ahead of him. "What?" Did he really just answer her?

"The reason I wear the blindfold, is so my eyes can't like." He said, looking over at her. "I'm not proud of using the darkness, and didn't want anyone else knowing what I was doing." Riku paused looking away. "If I take this off, you won't like what I'll become."

Lexi stared at Riku shocked, surprised and happy that he actually told her something more personal about himself. So he was afraid to take off the blindfold, because the darkness would make him something he's not? She could take care of that easily. "I could control your darkness for you."

Riku turned to her again, obviously shocked. "What do you mean?"

"If you take that off, I can control the darkness in you so you don't change." She smiled, getting excited about possibly seeing his eyes finally. "I've been using darkness my whole life, so its second nature to me. With me around, you don't have to worry."

Riku watched her for a second. "You really want to see my eyes that much?" Lexi nodded quickly, still smiling, as she waited for him to make his decision. After a few more seconds, he finally sighed. "Alright. I'll take it off, but you can't tell anyone I showed you okay?"

Lexi's smiled widened as she nodded again. "I promise I won't!" Riku hesitated, before slowly reaching up to the back of his blindfold. "Wait!"

The boy paused and looked at her, obviously confused. "What's wrong?"

Lexi's smile turned shy. "May I….?"

She wasn't expecting him to actually let her take it off, so when he put his hands down, she stared at him shocked. "Well? Go on then." He said, smiling slightly amused at her surprise.

The girl smiled and nodded, before scooching closer to him, so she had a better reach. Slowly and hesitantly she reached behind him, and untied the blindfold. As she moved back, she could feel the darkness in him rise up, but quickly took control of the strong power. The darkness in him was more powerful than she thought it'd be. However, that's not what shocked her. What shocked her was her first look at Riku's eyes.

They were….just as beautiful as the rest of him, but nothing like she thought they'd be. His eyes were a bright blue, and the way they looked at her showed her how nervous and vulnerable he felt to have his blindfold off.

"Wow…." She whispered, more to herself than to him. "You shouldn't cover your eyes."

Riku smiled, and she could now see the emotions he felt, playing in his eyes. She could tell he was happy. "I think I agree. Seeing you without the blindfold is a lot better."

Lexi blushed and looked away, not being able to hide her smile. This had definitely been her favorite time hanging out with him, and she couldn't think of anything that could top this. Well, she could, but she didn't think she had to think about that for a long time.

"You know, it feels good." Lexi glanced up at the boy, and saw him staring at his hands. "To not feel the darkness changing me, I mean." He turned to her and smiled. "I'm glad you're here, Lexi."

Lexi smiled, feeling happier than she's ever felt before. "Me too."

Suddenly, the two turned to look behind them, as they heard footsteps coming towards them. Riku quickly grabbed the blindfold and put it back on, before looking at Lexi. "Same time tomorrow?"

She smiled and nodded, as he stood up, gave her one last smile, and disappeared into a portal. Not a second later, came around the corner. When he saw her, he crossed his arms, looking impatient.

"Axel!" Lexi exclaimed shocked. "What are you doing here?"

He gave her an annoyed look. "You're late. We were supposed to head back 20 minutes ago."

The girl's eyes widened, realizing he was right. She had been having so much fun with Riku that she completely lost track of the time. "Oh I'm so sorry Axel! I wasn't even paying attention!"

"Yeah, yeah. Lets just get going okay?" he said creating a portal as Lexi stood up.

She nodded, walking into the portal as she thought about her time with Riku. She was so happy that he finally trusted her enough to show her his eyes. They were more amazing than she ever thought they could be. She could tell why he hid his eyes, if he didn't want them to lie. When she had stared into them, she could see all of his feelings laid out for her. She remembered his anger about Roxas, and wondered if he had maybe been jealous. She smiled, knowing Riku had nothing to worry about, and decided to think about how much she liked him, and how she couldn't wait to see him again.


Kurai stood with an annoyed looking Marluxia, as Saix told them about their new mission. Apparently the Graceful Assassin was tired of having to be stuck with her most of the time. She really couldn't care less who she left the castle with, as long as she got to leave. This all white décor was really getting irritating, especially having to see it every second of every day.

"You're orders are to go to Radiant Gardens, and collect hearts. Marluxia you are merely going to keep an eye on Kurai while she collects the hearts from the heartless." Saix said, seeming irritated still about when Xemnas had yelled at him. "Do you understand?"

"Yeah, yeah. I gotta get hearts so they can go to Kingdom Hearts and make you guys stronger or something right?" Kurai said, sounding really impatient. She just wanted to leave, why did he insist on taking so long to explain stuff?

Saix glared at her. "We're completing Kingdom Hearts, so we may gain hearts ourselves, not that it matters to you."

Kurai returned his glare. "Actually since I'm the one collecting the hearts, I'd say it does matter to me. Maybe I don't feel like helping finish Kingdom Hearts, maybe I don't care if you guys have hearts or not."

Before Saix could retort back, Marluxia quickly opened a portal, grabbed Kurai's wrist, and turned to the blue haired Nobody. "We'll be back after we're done with the mission." He said, before pulling an irritated Kurai through the portal.

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"What was that for?" she asked annoyed, after they had arrived in Radiant Gardens. She had wanted to argue more, it was fun getting him riled up.

"I didn't feel like standing there listening to Saix rant any more" Marluxia said, giving Kurai a look. "You shouldn't get him worked up like that, then he takes it out on the rest of us. Mostly Lexi if she unfortunately comes around him when he's like that."

The dark haired girl stared at him a second, before shrugging. "He won't do anything too harsh to her, he wouldn't want to make Xemnas mad remember? He's already done that before." She grinned, remembering the joy she got out of watching Xemnas scold Saix.

"Whatever. Lets just get this mission over with quickly, so we can go home." Marluxia said sighing, as he summoned his scythe.

"I was wondering when you'd show your face again."

The two turned, as Marluxia stared at the newcomer confused, and Kurai smirked, placing a hand on her hip. "Well, well. If it isn't Cloud."

The blonde swordsman glared at her, placing his hand on the hilt of his sword, causing Kurai's smirk to widen. She would definitely have to thank Saix for sending her here.


A/N: 'Kay well that's it for now! Please please please please please review! We'd really like to know what you guy think!