Chapter 3 is here, yay =3. Thanks to the people that reviewed, and sorry for being kinda late in updating, but I'm really busy for school, so I don't really have the time to write much.

I also have the plot almost completely done, but I'm always open for ideas. Just PM them and I'll consider them.

Also, prepare yourself, for this is the boring explaining chapter...

I still don't own Bleach or Kingdom Hearts. Their rights go to their respective owners.

Karakura Village

Rukia's POV

"Roxas?"

Sora is talking to his own body, that somehow started to move on it's own, calling it 'Roxas'. What is a Roxas? Some sort of spare soul? If there would be something like that I would have heard of it from the Soul Society. I thought it was odd that he seemed to have two different reiatsu, but I didn't expect this when I kicked him out of his body. Sora isn't connected to his body with a Chain of Fate, and I have never heard of the strange weapon Ichigo told me about either. Only Quincy bows and Zanpakuto are supposed to be able to hurt Hollows, let alone kill them...

Sora's physical body starts to change shape slightly, making the hair blonder and shorter, and the eyes lighter.

"Would you mind explaining this to us, Sora?" I ask

"Explain what?" he says with a confused look on his face.

"The fact the you have two souls, the strange weapon, why it can hurt Hollows" I hear him mutter something like 'They're called Heartless...'

"And how I've never heard of it."

He looks at the 'Roxas' person. "I can't" he says after a short time. "Sorry."

"Why not?" Ichigo asks.

"Rules. Orders. That kinda stuff." he says, standing up. I now notice that he and 'Roxas' are almost identical. If I hadn't known better I'd say they were brothers.

"It would disrupt the balance of this place."

"Well then could you at least explain who he is?" I ask, pointing at Roxas.

Sora thinks for a moment. "Well I think I could at least tell you that." He looks at me and Ichigo.

"But remember," he says, and I notice how this small change in attitude makes him seem years older. "This is a secret, okay?"

"Where I come from" he starts "... there are creatures that go after people with strong hearts. They consist of the darkness of people's hearts. Not their physical ones, but their figurative ones, you know, emotions, thoughts, those things. I think you could call them souls too. Anyway, when someone is consumed but their darkness, or is attacked by one of those creatures, you become one of them."

The creatures he's talking about strongly remind me of hollows. "Go on." I say.

"Sometimes, when the person consumed has a strong heart," Roxas continues. "something we call a 'Nobody' is created. That is what I am."

Somehow that doesn't make sense. That would mean Sora was one of those creatures. Is he like Ichigo? Not completely human, but no Hollow either? And more importantly, can we trust him? Is he a friend? Or a foe?

"That's all I'm allowed to tell you. I'm sorry." he says, again with regret on his face. "I actually already told you too much."

"Well I guess I'll accept that... We all have our secrets. But I guess those creatures, they are the Heartless you were talking about?"

"Yeah, they are."

"Then I think I know why you're confusing Hollows with those creatures. They're pretty much the same." Ichigo says.

"Let me explain" I say. "That thing you were fighting just now is called a Hollow, as you probably have guessed by now. When somebody dies, their soul leaves their body. That soul has something called a Chain of Fate attached to their chest. As long as that chain is attaches the soul to the body, the soul can go back into the body, and continue living. However, when the chain breaks, the body is officially dead, and can't return. From the moment the chain breaks, it slowly starts to erode. When it's gone, the soul becomes a Hollow."

"But there is another way. Hollows eat souls, and how stronger that soul is, the better it tastes to them." Ichigo continues "When such a soul, which we call a Plus by the way, is devoured by a Hollow, it becomes a Hollow as well."

Sora's POV

I think I understand this Rukia girl's explaination.

"So both Hollows and Heartless go after people with strong souls..." I say. That would explain the readings Cid had, because these creatures are so similar...

Hueco Mundo – Las Noches Castle

3rd Person POV

In the laboratory of Szayel Apollo Granz, strange experiments were being conducted. Black creatures, looking like the silhouettes of small, twisted children, locked up in glass tubes of about five feet high, and about one feet in diameter, and on the other side of the lab, a few small Hollows were locked inside similar tubes. A man with brown hair came into the room as Granz was studying one of the black creatures. As he notices, and turned to him, he makes a small bow.

"Lord Aizen"

"Granz." the man called Aizen replied. "How are the experiments coming along."

"Very good sir. I've managed to find out what they are. These are such fascinating creatures. So similar to Hollows, yet quite different. They seem to have been made by pure darkness. If I were be able to combine them with Hollows, the Hollows would become significantly stronger. I will be able to create creatures even closer to perfection, maybe closer than the Arrancar! And of course, all under your command, my lord."

"I see. Sounds good. Keep me posted, Granz"

"Yes sir, of course" Granz said, bowing again as Aizen left the room. Granz smiles, turning his attention back to the strange black creatures, and returns to his work.

And that's the wrap on this chap (hey that rhymes!). Click that big blue button over there *pointing down* and you might get a cookie.

This chapter was beta'd and slightly edited by Enma Kasei *gives cookie*