I do not own any of the anime/games in this fic. I also do not own Kel/Kelvis, Zero and Vale. They belong to Keyblade Master/Random/Limit Break Fira

Kuro Suzaku is owned by Kuro herself
Kariudo Shikaku is owned by Kariudo-kun herself
Ian Valentine is owned by Who's Asking.

I own Kiako (That's ME!) and Miu. When a new paragraph starts these little thingies will appear ʓʓʓ and if those thingies don't show up I'm sorry -.-; And I'm sorry if there are spelling errors.

Other voice and memories: Italic

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The sound of wind screaming past my ears...

A spray of red...

...A rush of wings...

Blazing ice, and...

Falling... Falling...

Into darkness...

"Hey, hey!" I slowly opened my eyes seeing the green haired girl shaking my shoulder, "Come on, we have to get moving." I nodding standing up and went into another coughing fit. Man, I wonder if I'm coming down with a bad cold or something...

"You feelin' ok? You've been coughing since we left the airship." Kel said walking beside me.

"Eh? No, I'm ok. Just probably this miasma, I don't really like it much apparently..." I replied and Ian put his hand on my forehead.

"You're a bit warm, better not hurt yourself ok?" he said patting my head. I turned around looking at the guardians. Some of Kariudo's guardians were up ahead with Chichiri, Ian, Cliff and Kikuchiyo. Behind were Soren, Oscar, Zero, Kyuzo and Kakashi. In the middle was Kariudo, me, Kel, Hakkai, Miu and Heihachi and the rest of the samurai. Nero and whoever was left stayed on the ship, like Kein, Kyoko and Vale. Reeve was getting Vincent to help out with some WRO business.

The additional 3 samurai were actually quite nice. The man with long brown hair, Kambei, seemed to be the leader of the 7, Shichiroji was a really funny guy and that Katsuchiro person was... well... A bit demanding and anxious.

"Sensei, I've never seen a cave like this, why are we traveling through here?" he asked, "I don't spot any Nobuseri..." When he kept asking where the damned robots were, I started to grind my teeth.

"Relax, he may be very impatient, but Katsuchiro is a decent man." Shichiroji said apparently noticing my annoyance. I stopped.

A man? THAT was a man? But... He... Pony tail... I... urg...

I must be having gender recognitioning problems...

I coughed into my hand again this time tasting something bitter. Great... I looked up trying to see which part of the cave we were in. Since the nodes were still busted, we had to walk through this winding death trap fighting fiends like crazy. I just wanted to sleep... A huge cloud of the miasma blew into my face and I fell to my knees gripping my head.

Dammit! I can't believe how dizzy I am from just this cave... I covered my mouth to cough again tasting blood rising up.

"Kiako you ok?" Heihachi asked kneeling beside me and placing his hand on my shoulder. I didn't want him to touch me, I don't even want him near me... I felt the stabbing feeling return, this time more painful then the last.

"I'm... fine..." I replied between my coughs and stood up brushing his hand off. I ran ahead to walk in front of the others and sighed when we got into the main cavern. Finally...

I coughed again and looked at my hand to see blood dripping down my palm.

"Hey," Kel walked up beside me, "You sure you ok with this? We can handle Yojimbo and we can get someone to esort you back to the ship." I shook my head and pressed a sphere in my garment grid. White, red and black robes replaced my cropped shirt and turtle neck and my hair had tied itself up with a piece of string. The ponytail almost reached the bottom of my back, it sure has gotten long... A white long scarf wrapped itself around my neck and shoulders and I pulled it over my nose like Zero, white bandages did the same thing around my arms. Reaching beside me, I grabbed hold of the giant sword that was stabbed into the ground beside me and pulled it out. It was pretty light actually, it was similar to Auron's katana only it was a broad sword. Well, more like a spear now that I looked at the handle, it was slightly longer then your average handle.

Yes, this was my samurai dress sphere.

"Let's get this over with." I said strictly to the others. Lifting my sword up, I slashed down at the stone boulders blocking the way.

Out from the darkness, walked out Yojimbo, trails of smoke swirling around him and his faithful Kogoro growling beside him.

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Katsuchiro was the first to lunge forward, drawing his sword and charging forth.

"HAAAA!" he swung his sword and in a second it went flying behind him.

"HYAA!" Kikuchiyo jumped over him kicking Kogoro off of Katsu, preventing him from being chewed to death. The Kogoro snarled and all 6 samurai jumped in to subdue it. I went straight for Yojimobo, dragging my sword behind me and slashing horizontally at him. Yojimbo meerly took a step back, and threw 3 knives at me.

CLANG!

Kakashi skidded back a bit after he deflected them away with his kunai. He quickly did a few seals and lightning sparked to life in his hand.

"Raikiri!" he shouted thrusting it out at Yojimbo. The Aeon phased out and there was a loud CLICK.

"Kakashi!" Metal echoed as Yojimbo's sword collided with Chichiri's staff. Chanting a few words, Hakkai jumped in and sent a chi blast at Yojimbo making him skid back a few feet. Kel and Ian jumped into the air banishing their weapons and both of them managed to slash at Yojimbo's shoulder pads. With a swirl of energy, Yojimbo threw them off and tossed a few knives at them. Kel was able to spin his spear in a circle to knock back the knives as Ian slashed them away from himself.

Yojimbo lurched forward when Zero's shuriken embedded itself into his back and Heihachi swopped down slashing down at his back and pulling out Zero's shuriken at the same time. He tossed it back and Zero caught it in mid air.

"Your blood... Won't you share it with me?" Charden said as his blood took the form of the Reaper. It dug it's scyth into Yojimbo's shoulder and started to absorb the blood. After a moment, Charden froze and collapsed to the ground.

"Charden!" I quickly change to Whitemage to check it out.

"This blood... I can't..." Charden coughed out, "I can't handle this blood, it's too... Poisoned..." he fell to the ground unconscious.

Damn...

I cast Esuna and Regen on him then quickly switched back to samurai. I lifted my sword over my shoulder and ran to where Kariudo and Oscar were holding up. Hearing gun shots, I turned to see Miu with a gun pointed at Yojimbo and was shooting off wildly at it. When a bullet hit Oscar in the side and another 3 joined it, I ran to Miu using my sword to block the bullets and snap kicked the gun out of her hands.

"Hey!"

"Watch where you're shooting! Can't you aim? You hit everyone BUT Yojimbo." I growled at her, "Oh whatever, I have no time to waste with a fool like you!"

WHAP!

I staggered back holding my cheek. Son ova... She just slapped me! I felt the urge to retaliate rise up and shook it off. I saw Kariudo had jumped away with Oscar to the side and I joined them transforming into White Mage again.

"Where's he hit?" I asked as Kariudo was pulling off Oscar's sallet. His normal calm smile was replaced with a face twisted in pain and I almost broke into tears right there. Summoning a Cura, I healed his wounds and instructed for him to rest and Kariudo guard him. I flipped back to samurai and charged at Yojimbo.

Damn it all... This is becoming a real hassle... The 6 samurai were still having troubles with Kogoro, which was hard to believe considering it was only a dog... Miu had picked her gun up again and was firing once again, at random...

For the love of, how in the name of YEVON did I ever let her come with us!

As I got closer, Yojimbo used his Wakizashi technique to knocked everyone back with wounds down their front. I skidded to a stop seeing Heihachi had used his wings to cover Miu and was slumped on the ground oozing blood.

Yojimbo disposed of his normal sword and preformed a few handseals as a circular seal glowed in front of him. Reaching his hand out, he pulled out a different katana.

Oh no... Not his OverDrive...!

"Hei-san! Get up! He's coming! Get up!" Miu was shaking Heihachi who stood himself up with his sword and staggered. Yojimbo was already disposing of the sheath and started running at them.

Dammit... I... I...

I'm so stupid...

I jumped in front of the wood samurai, gritting my teeth when the sword point stabbed through my chest and I used my hand to stop the blade from going any further. Weilding whatever strength I had left, I rose my sword and thrust it straight through Yojimbo, had he been human I'd have stabbed his heart.

He seemed to jerk back in a kind of surprise and I looked up at him while huffing and trying to breath.

"Now... You feel...The pain I've been feeling..." I croaked out. Yojimbo, with a kind of nod, grabbed my blade and snapped it in half leaving a portion of it inside his own chest. I coughed when he pulled his sword out and put my hand over the hole to prevent more bleeding. He walked away to gather his sheath and handed it along with the sword to me.

"This is now the blade you will weild." Yojimbo's deep voice spoke out, "I must thank you summoner, I've been waiting to be sent in a proper way." He whistled for Kogoro, who galloped to his side and sat down beside it's master. Yojimbo kneeled down nodding at me and I took his katana from him and unsheathed it. Lifting it into the air, I slashed downwards over his head. Just as the blade touched him, the pyraflies split up floating away and leaving an empty space.

I wiped the blade on my robe sleeve and sheathed it holding it by my side.

"Let's get going." I said and turned to the others, "As soon as we're good enough to leave, we leave right away." I heaved a sigh and changed back into my normal clothing. As soon as I did, I started to cough again and almost hurled when my blood splurted from my new wound. I coughed again and felt my blood leak through my fingers to the ground.

"Kiako!" Cliff jogged up beside me, "Good god kid..."

"I"ll be fine, go help out Oscar with some items will ya? I'll be right there as soon as I patch myself up." I smiled and limped to the wall on the other side of the room. I sat down leaning against the wall and dug through my backpack pulling out a Hi-Potion. Looking at it with an expression of dismay, I flipped off the cap and chugged it down. To be honest, it tasted like lemonaide with no sugar in it... I drank some water to get rid of the sting and started to wrap myself with some cloth bandages I had in my bag. Good thing I have a first aide kit in here... I winced when I reached my shoulder and noticed a hole.

Well... Joy... Not only was I stabbed, I was also SHOT...

I stood up feeling my head spin and changed into White mage. After swallowing some advil, I made my way to the others who seemed to be bickering.

"I'm just trying to help!"

"NO way! I ain't lettin' YOU heal me!" Kel was shouting at Miu and noticed I had come, "Oh thank god, a real doctor! Yo wanna help patch me up? Genius over there shot me in the foot..." he gestured to Miu.

"She SHOT you in the foot?" I asked and kneeled down beside him, "Man, hard to find good help these days..."

"I know..." Kel groaned and I smiled at him. Thankfully, Shichiroji and Gorobei were experienced in dressing wounds so at least the bullet in Kel's foot was already disposed of. My magic helped out quite a bit too, Charden was up and running around already. Guess that Esuna helped.

I pulled off my hood and wiped my forhead. Well, almost everyone was healed, now for the hardest one...

I made my way to Heihachi trying to bandage his own wings and sighed snatching the cloth from him.

"Let me do it..." I said and created a healing aura on my hands placing them on his wounds.

"... Thank you." he said and looked up at me removing his pilot hat and shaking his hair loose, "Why have you been avoiding me? How did you become so distant?"

"I haven't been avoiding you, then again... I haven't been doing anything with you at all." I replied and moved on to his next wing.

"Well sorry, I've been a bit busy lately." Heihachi said scratching his head.

"Busy... Yeah..." I fumed and tried to turn my focus back to healing, which I couldn't since my head was pounding from the blood lose and my MP was getting critically low.

"Are you... feeling ok?" Heihachi asked putting his hand on my forehead. I slapped it off.

"No, I'm NOT feeling ok." I glowered, "My head is pounding, my shoulder hurts from your new girlfriend shooting me down like a hunter and I feel like I've been stabbed billions of times, I'm BLOODY ok!"

"Wait a second, girlfriend? Why're you angry at me?" Heihachi frowned, "If It's something I did wrong I'll try to fix it." I pulled my hood over my head and started to walk away.

"You can't fix it..." I hissed back.

"Hey don't walk away, tell me what I did wrong!" Heihachi yelled after me and grabbed my shoulder, "What did I do wrong?"

I spun around slapping his hand off, "YOU BROKE MY HEART!" I practically screamed at him.

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All fell silent except for the echos of my voice bouncing around the cavern.

I furiously wiped my watering eyes, "As soon as you kissed her, my heart shattered into millions of pieces." I said through my teeth, "I can't believe I actually liked you... I can't even believe I trusted you! I can't believe how STUPID I was to even fall in love with you!"

"I... I'm sorry... I..." he glanced up at me, his eyes sad, "But I... I have no answer..."

"Then from now on, we're strangers..." I sighed wiping my eyes again. I turned on my heel and headed out the cavern, "I need some time alone, I'll meet you guys back at the ship..." I covered my mouth again and coughed again. My head began to spin and my coughing didn't feel like it was going to stop anytime soon. The whole cavern swirled around me and my head hit something hard. I heard the others calling my name but tried to block it out.

Arg.. Everything hurts... My chest, my head...

My heart...

Authors notes: Well, there's chapter 18 for ya n.n; I"ll try to update a little bit more, I've gotten quite a few ideas lately. Thanks for reading!