A.N:

Sorry it's been a while, I finally got Microsoft Word running again and finally some free time but updates are going to be pretty rare with my class schedule but here's the next installment.

Proofs of Existence Pt II

Keitaro was swallowed whole by the giant Nobody and everyone there just stood in stricken horror. Naru's screams were the first to be heard followed by the cries of the other residents. Motoko and Kanako violently started attacking out of anger while Su supported them from the rear with her cannons. It was all for nothing as the behemoth barely flinched at the attacks and seemed as though he didn't feel them.

"It's no use; it's too strong for those attacks! Get out of there now!" Riku yelled. But their useless onslaught continued. The Nobody Behemoth started to notice them, unfortunately and began to swing his arm. The arm was being charged with some type of energy which didn't mean anything good for anyone on the receiving end of the attack.

"YOU GODDAMN IDIOTS!!!" Sora screamed as he ran towards the fist to disperse the energy while Kairi used the time to cast a Magnet spell to pull Motoko and Kanako in out of harm's way. As Sora struck the attack with his keyblade, the pent-up energy caused a blinding explosion that made a huge shockwave.

As the smoke cleared, everyone was on the ground, including the Behemoth. Sora, Riku, Naru, and Shinobu woke up with everyone else still knocked out. The Behemoth began to get up and Sora and Riku took the chance to stab their two keyblades into its face. The Behemoth writhed in pain and covered its face and ran off. Everyone woke up and saw it disappear through a portal.

"That thing escaped," Naru scowled. "What do we do now, we need to save Keitaro!"

"We will, that thing couldn't have gone far off, it only temporarily retreated to treat his wounds," Riku said. As he said that he couldn't help but feel that something was off. "Sora, something seems wrong here. The heartless are one thing but now the Nobodies?"

"I know, I thought we defeated Organization XIII," Sora said. "Why are the Nobodies when their leaders are gone and what could they possibly want in this place."

"W-W-What's it all mean, and what are 'Nobodies'?" Shinobu frantically asked.

Sora, Riku, and Kairi looked at each other briefly, and Kairi explained "We didn't think they would be here so we thought it wouldn't matter but…"

"Essentially, when someone becomes a heartless, another creature is born," Riku started in. "A heartless is born when the darkness becomes too great and the heart containing that darkness forms into a heartless"

"But the vessel the heart leaves behind begins to act on its own, that moving vessel is a Nobody," Sora explained.

"And you waited until now to give us that info!?" Motoko yelled. Clearly she was still enraged as she had deeper feelings for Keitaro.

"We didn't it mattered," Sora said calmly. "The difference between Nobodies and Heartless is that Nobodies act on higher intelligence. Basically, the lower level Nobodies should be harmless without someone to give them commands and the only ones who did that were a group called Organization XIII."

"O-O-Organization XIII?" Shinobu stuttered.

As Riku chimed in "Organization XIII is… was… a group of thirteen higher class Nobodies that controlled all the other Nobodies and tried to create a doorway to Kingdom Hearts."

"Why would they do that?" Kanako asked.

"The thing about Nobodies is that, as they have no heart, they have no emotions and seek out a way to fill the void."

"In fact, they are beings that come from the void so the Nobodies are neither of the light nor dark," Kairi said. "They technically don't exist yet they do at the same time."

"All this is making my head hurt," Kitsune tried to stop the confusing philosophy lesson and get to the point. "So, rounded up to it, these organization guys are behind all this?"

"No," Riku responded. "I said 'was a group', we defeated all thirteen of them a while back so the Dusk Nobodies and other lower classes should all be harmless without a higher power to control them."

Sora was thinking deeply about this situation. He defeated Xehanort's heartless and, subsequently, Xemnas the Nobody. He closed all the possible doors to Kingdom Hearts and destroyed the castle in The World that Never Was. Could it be Malificent and Pete? No… they were ones for show and glory, if this was their mess they would be broadcasting it quite proudly. It was their way of saying: "So what are you going to do about it?"

Just as Sora was pondering this he saw something move out the corner of his peripherary. A man in a cloak just like the ones Organization XIII wore. He was walking towards them nonchalantly with his hood all the way up so as to cover his face.

"I-I-It can't be…" Riku stuttered. "Who are you and why do you where those clothes. You a survivor of Organization XIII?"

"I thought you said that organization was destroyed," Naru said.

"So is that the uniform?" Kanako asked. "I like it. I'll be taking it from your cold corpse after I avenge my brother."

The cloaked man didn't respond by saying anything as he walked but he picked up speed and started striking them with punches and kicks. Shinobu and the other non-fighting members of the Hinata inn were sent flying but Sora and his friends as well as the tenants that could fight were standing their ground. Sora and Riku were able to easily keep up with his speed save for a few lucky shots and Kairi was holding her own with all her concentration. Motoko, Naru, Kanako were just managing to avoid the fatal blows but couldn't keep up with the speed. They fought for about ten minutes when Riku heard him muttering something along the lines as: "This is pathetic." With that, the cloaked man leapt away and ran towards the building, ran inside, and in his place Nobody Dusks and Creepers appeared.

"We don't have time for them, we need to capture that man and bring him in for questioning," Riku yelled out.

"He may know where the thing is that ate sempai," Shinobu said.

Sora and Riku made a path by cutting all the Nobodies in their way while Kairi cast an Aero shield spell around everyone to keep them protected. They got inside the house to find it full of heartless and nobodies and Riku, Sora, and Kairi had to fight them all off as they looked for the cloaked man. They finally noticed him in the backyard observing them fight from the patio. They finished off what was left of the heartless and nobodies and made their way up to the patio while he stood there waiting for them.

The cloaked man finally spoke, "To think that these are the heroes that fought against Xemnas and his heartless counterpart. I must say I am not impressed."

"We have some questions for you—" Sora yelled.

"—And they will go un-answered." The cloaked man completed as his body flickered revealing him to be a hologram with a Dusk in it poised to attack. It leapt for Naru but suddenly someone grabbed it and pulled it back. It was Keitaro, covered in goo.

"Back off!" Keitaro yelled as he threw it back.

Everyone stared wide eyed at Keitaro as if it were a dream. "Keitaro! You survived!?" All the tenants yelled.

"The big bastard spit me out in the side wing," Keitaro explained. "I was passed out for a little bit but woke in time to discover this situation."

Spirit was restored in everyone's eyes as they said thing like "Don't make us worry like that again" or "Stupid idiot" as they cried.

"Sorry for making you all worry so much" Keitaro tried to calm them. "Well now that I'm back, how about a little payback for when tiny ate me"

"Before we do that, there are some questions I want to ask you Keitaro," Riku said callously.

"What… What is that supposed to mean?" Keitaro asked innocently.

"Mind explaining how tiny spit you out so easily and conveniently?" Riku asked.

"Riku, now's not the time for your paranoia," Sora said.

"ANSWER ME, ARE YOU IN LEAGUE WITH THE NOBODIES RIGHT NOW!!!" Riku yelled. "Answer me or I'll--"

"What are you talking about?! It's just Keitaro, he would never do anything like this!!" Naru retorted.

"Yeah, Keitaro is a nice guy," Su said.

"I have my suspicions—" Riku said and tried to cut Keitaro down with his keyblade. Keitaro began dodging every swipe with ease as if they were nothing and even showing. This wasn't like Keitaro at all.

"K-K-Keitaro onii-san… what's going on here?" Kanako quivered as she asked.

Keitaro just had a huge smirk on his face and chuckled. "Oh well… there was no need for this world anyway, it doesn't matter anymore."

Everyone looked awestruck Keitaro proceeded to tear off the clothes he was currently wearing and as the clothes were torn off, they seem to be burning away as a black, Organization XIII cloak appeared as though it was being burned on.

"K-Keitaro…" was all Naru could stutter out her mouth.

"You were right Keyblade wielder," Keitaro said with a darker tone. "I probably just gave myself away by coming back suddenly, but tell me, what really made you suspicious."

"I suspected you at first when you specifically named the keyblades without an explanation," Riku said.

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Flashback

"So far, we've been able to stave them off, but they keep increasing their number and—" Kitsune was cut short by Sora.

"THERE'S ONE OVER THERE!!!"

Seeing one around the corner, the three keyblade wielders took out their keyblades andchased after it with the residents right behind them. Keitaro took the time to ask "So those keyblades, are they meant to destroy these things?"

Riku hesitated before answering, "Yes, they were created, specifically, to combat the heartless and keep the balance."

End Flashback

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"Suspicions just kept coming while I observed you fighting," Riku said. "No matter how good you are, you knew the weak points of the heartless and exploited them. You also seemed too knowledgeable for someone like yourself."

"Very good Sherlock Holmes," Keitaro cackled back at Riku.

"Now that your cover is blown, answer me, who are you?" Riku questioned

"Keitaro, what's going on here?! You can't possibly be in league with these things!" Naru cried out.

"Sempai, please tell us this is some kind of joke," Shinobu pleaded.

"Riku, you think he might be a remnant of Organization XIII?" Sora asked.

"I don't think so, if that were the case why would he still be active?" Riku surmised. Now addressing Keitaro, "Now tell us who you are and why you're behind all this."

"Before I introduce myself, let me ask you three something," Keitaro proceeded to materialize something. "Do you recognize this?"

Indeed they did, especially Sora as he knew it well. Keitaro was holding Saix's claymore weapon and it looked exactly the same as it did during that fight.

"W-Why do you have that weapon!?" Sora asked.

"Let me introduce myself; I am Taroxiek, the new Lunar Diviner."