I know I have not updated in a long time but it is finally out and I made it long. I made this story 2,572 words' long. It is 8 pages long not including the A/N. It is my way of saying sorry for the long hiatus. Sorry. I also want to thank HikariGaijin and Twilight Shad0w for their help with telling me about the mistakes to the last chapters and who I had gotten the ages wrong. I had changed them a little so that they fit better and am in the prosses of fixing the errors. So, the changes wont be up yet. Ages are bellow. I changed some of them but kept some the same.

I have made Sora and Vanitas look 15. Roxas and Ventus look 16 along with Riku and Kairi. Terra and Aqua are still 18. I put this in the last chapter that I have just fix but I wanted to make sure that it was all covered. Roxas is wearing his black coat. When he takes it off he is wearing his normal clothing.

CHAPTER 5

Aqua had watched as Terra ran after the heartless. Once he was gone she turned back to her opponents. There were about ten of them. They wore all relatively weak heartless that she could take down easily.

"So, which one of you heartless bastard wants to be first?" She said, running to the closest heartless slicing at them causing the heartless to vanish. She rolled under an attack from a taller heartless kicking him from the side into another heartless. She then lunged at both of them with a horizontal cut. They dissipated in to a cloud of smoke.

A heartless then attacked from behind and sent her flying into a building with a powerful hit. She recovered and blocked the blow that was aimed at her back. She then kicked it back and used an ice spell that froze four of them and shattered them before they could break out. There were only three left. She did a back flip away from an attack to her legs incidentally kicking it in the face. Then she hit it in the head with her keyblade and stabbed it in the stomach.

She looked back to see the last two heartless flee. 'Where are they going?' She asked herself. Her question was soon answered. She raised her keyblade to defend has a shadow fell on her. As she turned around, she saw the giant shadow heartless coming towards her from the other side of the building, smashing it to pieces as it walked forward.

As the heartless stopped in front of her, she watched as it charged a large black energy ball with purple electricity coming off of it. As the heartless finished charging it the energy ball flew from its hand, faster than Aqua had anticipated. She jumped to the side, landing on her stomach as the ball collided with the ground she had just been standing on. Shards of stone flew in multiple directions. A particularly large piece caught Aqua on her leg creating a large gash running the length of it.

Ignoring the pain, she quickly got up, determined to put space between her and the heartless. The heartless was too big for her to have any really chance at fighting it by herself. But if she was able to bring it down to her level then she might have a chance. She watched as the thing charged up another ball then she raced to the heartless as the ball flew out of the heartless' hand.

She could feel rocked hitting and scratching her back but paid no mind to it as she aimed for the heartless' leg, slicing it with her keyblade. The heartless went down onto its knees but just as she jumped to hit a higher point on it, the heartless brought its hand up, swatting her away in a heard hit. Her back connected with a wall on the opposite side of the street.

Roxas, Sora, and Terra had quickly taken off as they headed for where Roxas had sensed the powerful heartless. As they ran, Terra couldn't help himself as he glanced over at Roxas, at how much he looked so much like Ventus. Everything about Roxas was like Ventus minus his cold attitude. But everything else was a perfect match to his long lost friend, his brother.

Then there was Sora, who had at first glance looked to be that evil conniving Vanitas. But now that he looked at the kid, he had differences. He did not have the black hair of the golden eyes but brown hair and the same bright blue eyes as Vanitas. Sora's eyes could have been an exact match to Ventus' eyes.

"We are almost there," Terra could hear Roxas say. Just as they turned a corner, a blue object flew past them. The three stopped and looked back as the object connected with the wall they had just passed.

When Terra saw what had crashed into the wall he was surprised to see a beaten up Aqua with gashes her legs and arms. He ran up to her, kneeling down he could see that he also had many bruises and tiny scratches among the larger ones.

"Aqua, are you okay?" he asked as he grabbed onto her when she tried to stand. Helping her to her feet and continuing to hold on to her as she could barely stand by herself.

"Yeah, I'm fine. A little wobbly but I'm fine." She answered.

That is when she caught sight of the other two or more accurately, the boy with the long black coat on in front of her that looked so much like Ventus. She gaped at him as he observed the heartless that had just attacked her. Then she saw the other who looked almost exactly like Vanitas. He was looking at her with startling blue eyes that looked just like Ventus' and a giant smile on his face. Not the smile like Vanitas had given her when they had last fought but a kind smile that reminded her of when Ventus would smile at her. She was extremely confused by what was going on. Had Terra found Ventus and Vanitas but that couldn't be.

She then observed that they both had keyblades but they were both different from the ones that Ventus and Vanitas used.

Terra leaned down by Aqua's ear and whispered, "I know what you think they nether one is who you think they are or at least not fully."

The boy who looked like Vanitas took a few steps forward, "Hi, I'm Sora and this is Roxas." He said then looked a bit more worried walking up to her, "Are you alright? Sorry to say but you look a bit beaten up."

She looked at the smiling boy, Sora then to Roxas who only looked at her and gave a nod when Sora introduced him.

She smiled back at him feeling that he had genuine concern for her, "I'm fine."

He dug into his pocket and pulled out a green vial, "Here, it doesn't have much left in it but it should help some."

"Thank you and my name is Aqua," she said taking the vial.

"Now that everyone has introduced themselves, can we get back to the main problem at hand?" Roxas said, as he walked up to group.

As she heard Roxas' voice, the very same as Ventus' voice, she could help but wonder how this could not be Ventus. Everything about them was the same but different at the same time. His voice was the same but it had taken on an untrusting tone. His face was the same but the expressions that he wore were all different. How could this be Ventus and at the same time not be him.

Lucky for her Terra answered where she could, "He's right; I don't think I have ever fought anything like this. It's a lot bigger than most things I have seen."

"Sora and I have faced this type of heartless before so we can handle it." Roxas said, turning around and heading towards the heartless, "Come on, Sora."

They both ran off in the direction of the heartless before Aqua spoke up, "What the hell is going on. Those two kids they looked like-like-,"

Aqua was unable to finish her sentence but Terra understood what she meant, "I know but I can tell you that they are nothing like either Vanitas or Ventus. They don't even know anything about Ventus and Vanitas."

"I don't get it, could he they be them? Maybe they lost their memories after they split." She asked almost wanting it to be true but then also not. If it were true then she would have her friend back, her brother but then he would also have formed a close bond with Vanitas.

"I don't know but I intent to find out." Terra said.

"Have you also noticed there keyblades?" Aqua asked.

'Sora, you distract it. Try to gets its attention; make it use its energy ball.' Roxas said running up then stopping a few yards away from the heartless.

'Yeah, I know this isn't the first time I have fought one. If you don't remember, this is one of the first types of heartless I faced.' Sora said but ran up in front of the heartless, aiming random attacks at it. Finally the heartless charged up an energy ball. Just before firing the ball Roxas raced at the heartless. Moments after the ball left its hand, Roxas jumped to the height of the hand, slashing at it causing the heartless to reel back in pain.

As the heartless was charging his attack, Sora had been doing his own fireball attack. When the heartless launched his attack so did Sora. His attack had been stronger so when the two collided the explosion was knocked towards the heartless. Having been distracted by Roxas, who had pulled away moments after the two energy balls hit, was knocked to the ground.

'Move it Sora, that thing is not going to stay down for long,' Roxas ordered as he too raced towards the downed heartless and began to slice at the hand and arm of it.

'I told you not to order me around, I know what to do, I have been fighting heartless longer than you.' Sora said as he was soon on the other side of the heartless from Roxas, cutting and slashing the heartless.

'Apparently you do since you're always so slow at doing things,' Roxas commented as the giant heartless finally dissipated into shadowy dust cloud. They both put away there keyblades. Roxas made his way back to the other two occupants of the street.

"Now hold on a minute, Roxas. Maybe you should try and create a giant fire ball and let's see how slow you are." Sora said as he finally caught up with Roxas who had stopped in front of Terra and Aqua.

"If you like we could spare sometime and then I will show you just how slow I am." Roxas shot back.

"That is not what I said and I could definitely beat you in a spare. A fire ball that big takes a lot out of you but of course you don't have that much magical aptitude like I do so why bother trying. I am sure that is what you meant, right?" Sora said, looking smug which earned him a punch to his bruised shoulder, "Owe that hurt. You did it on purpose."

"No, that's impossible, how could I punch you on purpose?" he said in mock sarcasm. Before Sora could say anymore he turned to Terra and Aqua who seemed to be amused at their argument, "I have some questions for you two."

"As do I but I first I would like to find somewhere to rest first. I feel like I was hit by a building or in this case, I hit a building." Aqua said. From the empty bottle in her hand, it was clearly that she had used the potion but looking at her showed that it didn't do much to help the pain that her more serious injuries caused.

"Alright, we should probably head to the castle then. I am sure Cid would have some in stock." Sora said as he put his hands behind his head.

"Sora, I am going to return to your mind, I don't want us running into any more trouble. With me using up all of my energy out here I will have a hard time sensing it if I stay." Roxas said to Sora which confused Aqua unlike Terra who already knew from there earlier encounter. Then he turned to them, "If I feel that Sora is in danger from a heartless or from either of you I will not hesitate to attack either one of you."

"I already said I can protect myself." Sora said but in the next minute Roxas disappeared with a flash of light.

The words that Roxas said both shocked and hurt Aqua. It shocked her from the way he had said it that intimidated her and it also hurt her that he had said it to her and Terra. It may not have been Ventus but it looked enough like him for her to think it was.

"Don't listen to him; he really is just a big baby." Sora said, interrupting her thoughts, "Well, if we head this way, not wait it was that was. Uh?"

"Do you even know where you're going?" Terra asked.

"Well, no." he said, "But Roxas does, he said it's that way."

He pointed in a direction and started walking. Terra held onto Aqua as they began to follow after. Aqua began to wonder what had happened but she could guess that Roxas somehow went into Sora's mind and was able to talk with him.

Terra confirmed her thought as he said, "I don't know the details or anything but Roxas is able to go into Sora's head or something like that. They can also read each other's minds."

As they walked they began to see the castle. As they got closer they noticed that Yuffie, Leon, and a boy and a girl were outside of the castle.

"Hey! Riku, Kairi." Sora yelled, as he began to walk a little faster. He almost seemed to be jumping.

The girl, Kairi ran up to him and gave him a huge, "You big idiot, I told you to stop running off and doing stupid things."

"You can't tell an idiot to not do stupid things, it's their nature." The boy, Riku said.

"Ha-ha, very funny." Sora said then turned and said, "Oh and this is Terra and Aqua. I know that he may look like Xehanort but he isn't."

Riku narrowed his eyes at Terra, "Yeah, Yuffie told us about them. I don't trust them."

As Terra stared at the boy in front of him, he couldn't help but think of the boy he had met 10 years ago on the island. He looked just like him but unlike Sora and Roxas, he felt his thought was correct. Not as much as he would like to hope but it was close. The difference between him now and 10 years ago definitely showed. The way he walked, talked, even the way he just stood there looking at him in as if he was an enemy. Like the other two he was different from what he imagined him to be.

Terra had performed the Inheritance Ceremony with the keyblade so Riku could become a protector but when he felt his aura it felt dark and twisted. In a way that his had felt when he had succumbed to the darkness. He was interrupted from his thoughts as Sora began to speak louder than what he could think.

"I know that you don't trust him, Roxas doesn't either but I can tell you that he is not Xehanort, even Roxas thinks so." Sora said to the older teens, "and Yuffie doesn't trust a lot of people. If you don't remember she didn't trust you at first"

Said girl along with Leon walked up behind them and said, "I don't trust them either but I think we better go inside. Your friend isn't looking too good along with the rest of you lot."

The group began to make their way into the castle.

END

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