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Thanks Princess Kaira of Mirana I'll make them meet one way or another, oh yeah the text message it'll arrive really soon!

On with the story…

Chapter Seven: Her Desire

"Hey you guys welcome back!" the ninja said happily, greeting her friends with a bone crushing bear hug.

Sora wasn't paying attention at all to what his friends were saying. He saw a couple of dark shadows from the top of the stairs. In the blink of an eye, as quickly as he saw the shadows, they seemed to disappear, almost melting at the foot of the stairs, Sora couldn't believe what his eyes were seeing.

"Hey… Did any of you guys see any dark shadows up there?" the blue eyes boy asked, pointing to where he last saw the dark outlines. Yuffie and the others exchange confused glance with one another.

"How have you guys been?" Leon asked in his same old fashion tone, he was changing the subject.

Sora went on rambling about how their vacation time was cut short and what not. The young ninja placed a smirk on her face as she teased Sora about how things were working out with Kairi. Both of the blue eyed teens looked at each other and laughed nervously, both individuals trying hard to cover up the tinge of embarrassment placed on their faces. As Sora recovered from his little embarrassing dilemma he started to go on and mention the new friend they had left behind.

Riku shifted his weight to his right leg, feeling a bit out of place, he decided to go and sit down on one of the wooden chairs next to the girl with the green eyes. Aerith welcomed him with a warm smile.

"Riku really like her a lot," Sora said rubbing the back of his head as the others were hearing his story. "Her name was-"

"Aw, well I guess that means I can't introduce you to a good friend of ours. She just came back from a trip." Yuffie said moving her head a bit to get a better look at Riku, who sat in one of the chairs that was propped up against a wall. Sora looked back and noticed the look on his friend's face; no doubt Kairi knew what Riku was thinking about. Sora did feel a bit ignored, but he knew he shouldn't feel like that. He went on to talking about other things hopefully to make Riku feel a bit comfortable.

Aerith smiled at Riku slightly and asked him how things had been with himself. By that Riku knew well enough that she meant how was his heart. Was it still being plagued by the darkness he wished to dispel?

"I guess, I've been okay," the turquoise eyed teen didn't know where to start. "I've been feeling a more at peace though. We just came back from Atlantica not that long ago, it was pretty hectic, Heartless everywhere…"

He recounted a tale about a vicious attack by a gigantic squid like Heartless. Donald had been knocked out and Goofy was shielding him from on coming attacks. Riku, he had been injured on his left shoulder. Kairi was dodging on coming spells with ease, and she was getting use to blocking with her own keyblade. Sora charged with full force underwater, and Riku was in back of him, as well of course back up.

"I got careless and the squid like Heartless flung one of its tentacles at me hitting my whole body," he said using his hands as he spoke. "Kairi came up from behind and hacked off one of the tentacles on the Heartless…"

Aerith watched him with the same attentive gaze Selma use to place on him whenever he spoke. He finished off his talk saying that the giant Heartless was defeated. He felt the tinge of pain in his heart subdue, and his heart beat returned to normal now. Sora and Kairi looked at the expression Riku placed on his facial feature, he looked more relieved now.

r i k u

I looked up a moment sighing in relief as the pain in my heart was finally going away. It wasn't heartburn but more like a pain in my chest, but it wasn't anything serious. I don't really know what it was anyway, maybe it's got something to do with that fight I had earlier with that giant Heartless or something like that.

Aerith went on and asked me who the girl was Sora heard her mention. I told her that shewas a very good friend of ours. At that point I felt my cheeks get a bit red and I looked down so that my hair could cover my face. I could sense that Aerith was smiling, but I didn't want anyone to see that I was blushing that badly.

I do miss her, but I know we aren't far apart in spirit where ever I go a piece of herwill be with me and I know it's the same for her. After all she is my friend and I don't want to lose that special place she's already made in my heart, it's unbreakable, that and the fact that we shared a paopu fruit together…

I'm never telling anyone what I did that day, or else they'd never let me live it down. It's better I keep it like that because then me and her have something we can talk about in secret. I hope I can keep the promise I made to myself…

"I'm going to protect you and Mom," I said to her smiling slightly before I left to board the gummi ship.

"But you're going to be far away…" Selma said clearing her throat a bit.

"No matter the distance I'll always be with you," I told her that from the bottom of my heart.

"All right but you have to promise yourself something."

"A promise to myself?" I asked her a bit confused.

"Yeah when we see each other again promise me and yourself you'll have found your light by then, okay?"

'My light… If only she knew,' I thought to myself as I heard someone calling out my name. It was Yuffie, I waved a small hand to her and she smiled. I excused myself from where Aerith and I were sitting and said a goodbye to the others as I went to go walk outside.

I remember how depressing Hollow Bastion was, and I understand how it got its name, I'd really like to go see it though, the decaying castle. I walked around the town passing the shops with accessories and what not. Something by the Moogle's stand caught my eye.

A pair of light blue earrings with a black essence swirling around it, and attached to the blue little orbs were feathers from some bird called a Chocobo whatever that was anyway. The Moogle, with its bouncing pompom thing, called it 'Earrings of Destiny'. I would have called it 'Earrings of Bankruptcy' they were too expensive, about one hundred thousand munny, and I didn't have that kind of money, even if I did I wouldn't buy it. It was just eye candy, see that's why I like window shopping. I like browsing and bugging some certain people.

The Moogle was being nice and asked me if I have any items or recipes for synthesizing. I remember pulling out a couple of scripts of Moogle text from this little pocket on the bottom right side of my jeans. All my synthesizing items were in a little box somewhere back on the gummi ship.

"Got any items you want to synthesis, kuppo?" the Moogle asked me.

I shook my head in reply, and I noticed at the text was being translated I had more than enough to make some certain items that caught my eye, I really wished I had taken my little material box with me today, but I didn't.

Deeper inside the HBRC building…

"How did you like Destiny Islands?" Reeve asked looking at the Diaz family.

Reeve, Cid, Merlin, and the siblings were in a room now that was completely different from the meeting held in the other area. The walls were of a plain beige color, it was easy to tell that the whole floor was wooden and it shined bright from the wooden polishing liquid. There was a big metallic like desk in the center of the room, it looked like a round table, and metallic like chairs around it. There was an enormous screen on one of the walls near the table. This was another kind of meeting place.

"I liked the place a lot, a shame though it got swallowed up so easily…" Gekigami said making himself comfortable in the room. "We could've stayed and fought off the Heartless but we didn't know if they would be there…"

"Exactly…" Tachigami said nodding in agreement with her younger brother. Selma on the other hand was still feeling some emotional attachment to the isles as they were by far the best places she ever went too.

The gummi ship expert noticed the look on Selma's face and was the first one to ask her the question, "Whatcha got on your mind, kid?" Cid knew of course that she was by far older than him, but he still got use to calling her that.

"Nothing much, Cid Highwind," Selma said a smile forming from the corner of her mouth. "So how are you and Shera? You two still argue?"

Cid's face turned a bit scarlet at the mention of the woman's name. They of course had some history that the Diaz family, as well as Reeve and Merlin knew. Reeve cut to the chase and told them that the two of them had gotten married.

"I wonder what the kids are going to look like…" Geki said tilting his chair back a bit. Moegami smacked his brother on the side of his head.

"No doubt you have met the keybearer?" Reeve asked raising a questioning look. He noticed that Selma looked away from his gaze. "Did you get a chance to meet him, Amaterasu?" he would rather call her by the name her mother left her with.

"I've met him a couple of times, but so long that we'd get close…" Tachigami snickered as her youngest sister started to answer. "I did meet the one who was destined to be the chosen one, but as you know he picked the path to darkness, so that title was given to Sora."

"She extremely got attached to that one…" Kazegami said giving a big smile to her older sister. "Didn't you, Amaterasu?"

"Is it true, Amaterasu?" Reeve couldn't help but lean in on his chair, he did seem interested in the personal life she had given herself.

"We're very close friends, but that's about it," she said laughing nervously and she rubbed the back of her head. "Um, anyway," Selma changed the subject at a more important matter at hand. "The darkness how far has it started to spread?"

That was a topic every single person there got into. Merlin used his wand to bring the enormous screen to life with images of different worlds. Reeve invited everyone to sit down on the chairs, and from the metallic looking round table screens from the table protruded from the top of the table. The siblings looked at one another and every one of them were thinking the same exact thing 'Too many spy movies.'

Yomigami watched the screen as different places were being monitored. No doubt Cid and Shera were in charge for the satellite's orbital patterns and trajectory pattern. One of the satellite's images were starting to get a bit hazy when the two twins, Moegami and Kazegami pointed it out. Everyone watched the screen on the number titled XII. The world was slowly being covered in a black like aura, it came from the south pole of the planet.

"Watching this, you can almost imagine the planet crying…" Reeve and Amaterasu said feeling sorry for the planet and its inhabitants. They looked at the planet as the darkness started to swirl around it, and as if it were like an eclipse, a strange black star with an ominous orange and red tinge hovered over the planet. It was responsible for the darkness that covered the planet, and with that transmission from satellite XII was cut.

"It's been happening, but at a slow rate," Merlin the wizard explained finally taking a moment to speak. "Six worlds have already been swallowed up, including the inlands."

"What were the other worlds?" Amaterasu asked leaning against her seat.

"The world where Beast's Castle was located," Reeve said transmitting an image from his screen to the other screens. "The Pride Lands, Port Royal and the rest of that place, the Coliseum, Traverse Town, and Twilight Town…" with that Reeve pressed a button so multiple satellite pictures of those various worlds could be viewed on the other screens.

"Wasn't Twilight Town just a…?" Tachigami started to speak and she noticed Reeve Tuesti nodding in agreement.

"None the less it is a real world, well now it is anyway…" Cid said wiping his nose with his thumb. Moegami noticed the toothpick in Cid's mouth it was unlike his nature to have something so simple against his mouth.

"Weren't you smoking the last time we saw you?" Moegami asked raising his eyebrow a bit.

"Shera's making me quiet…" Cid mumbled under his breath.

"The Chaser's are starting to surface again," Reeve said noticing a look of disgust on the sibling's expressions.

"That they are…" Amaterasu said speaking in a cold tone for the rest of her family. "They're going to be giving us hell if they find out we're alive…"

"Then, are you willing to train them, the group of Keyblade wielders?" he directed them to Yomigami considering the fact he was the oldest.

"To fight the Chasers?" Yomigami asked, smirking with a twisted smile. "You know how I teach. I'll train them as killers, not protectors…"

"I take it then, we have to let a dark age come back?" Amaterasu said looking at Reeve straight in the eyes.

"Not exactly, we have to train them to be the darkness… Yomigami and you yourself specialize in that… But please Yomigami don't let your bloodlust take the best of you." Reeve shifted uncomfortably as he said this noticing a menacing smile Yomigami placed on his lips.

"Aw, don't worry old man," he said laughing a bit. "That's why Amaterasu will accept the job position. I bet she doesn't want me killing her boyfriend."

"What?" Selma looked at confused eyes.

a m a t e r a s u

The Chasers, to be honest we lost that position a long time ago when I met a young boy who King Ansem had found, the real King Ansem not the imposter I watched grow up. My brother and I were a result of a great experiment called 'Project Blitz'. Even though my brother is by far older than me, the two of us were picked since we each held curiosity to the darkness.

A man by the name of Hojo directed the whole thing, and that's where Yuki's, Yomigami as he is called now by his real name, blood lusting ways were instilled into him.

That's where I met others like me, a girl by the name of Shelke Rui, she was only nine years old when they kidnapped her from a country east of Radiant Garden. She was placed in operation 'Deep Ground'. Vincent Valentine willing became a an experiment and he no longer considered himself human so he slept for thirty years…

It really was a dark age back then, which was almost about thirty years ago, I think, I know it was way before Leon and the others went to Traverse Town.

But enough about that, it's not important now. It's going to be hard considering that I do have some relationship with the people who will be taught under us. I'm not saying that I'm going to go soft on them either, if they get involved with a Chaser they'll be dead before they can even blink.

The meeting was adjourned, and I soon felt that pain in my heart again, I leaned over for a moment in my chair making sure everyone had left the meeting room. At that moment from my back pocket something was vibrating. I opened it, it was a text message from him and I knew I was turning red.

'Hey Selma, I miss u 2… I'd love to see the drawings you've made so far, hey send me one on your phone. We've been missing you a lot over here, I feel bad for Kairi she's the only girl in the group. I'm glad you liked the sunset, I'm going to be leaving soon, so I have to go, ttyl.'

I ran my fingers over the buttons to reply back but something stopped me, logical thinking. 'He's closer in the area so it'll take less than five days for him to reach the message, I'll just have to wait a day or so…'

I really wished I could just run up and hug them all, but I can't it's a price being a Chaser… An ex-Chaser now, but I don't want to dwell back on my family's profession from a long time ago it'd take hours to even break down what a Chaser is, but for now I have to keep my mind closed a bit, so as not to get distracted.

Chaser… I really wish that was what our family sometimes, instead of running away, but I don't want the sins of our family to catch up with us. It's better that no one knows the real truth, see what Chaser's do want is something dangerous if they get their hands on it, and yet we still hold on to our Chaser like nature.

"What we desire most of all…" I whispered to myself looking up at the ceiling trying to imagine the light blue sky. "Is total control of darkness…"

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