A/N: Thank you KH meerkats! You're alive, I mean I knew you would be anyway, just saying hello and thanks for the review!!

Thank you Princess Kaira of Mirana, I did know about Amaterasu so that's why I wanted her to be named that, so yes it is ironic considering what she wants. Don't worry they will meet one day that is.

Thank you very much SimpleNClean92, yeah it's kind of hard fitting some of the other FF characters in there, but I love a good challenge.

On with the story then…

Chapter Eight: Kind Heart?

Aerith sighed for a small moment looking up at the broken roof from inside the chapel. It brought back a feeling of nostalgia when she gazed up there, watching the clouds move as the breeze passed by. It had been a couple of weeks since she decided to visit the place where she met the blonde haired man.

The sunbeams were piercing through some of the pieces of rotting wood. This place had been abandoned for decades, probably before even Amaterasu and her siblings were born. Still this was the only place that she knew, in her lifetime that would produce flowers. The soil underneath the wooden floors was very fertile.

Aerith had changed her attire, rather than wearing the two piece outfit she had worn last year, she decided to wear that certain pink dress, as a way of grieving. She met Cloud while she wore this dress, and somehow she thought that this time he'd come back for sure, just like he did last time.

Aerith walked up the stairs to where the meeting was being held, and she caught sight of many familiar faces. She held a big open smile, feeling her eyes form tears. The dark haired girl turned around hearing her true name being called out. The green eyed flower maiden ran forward holding on tight to young girl as if she would melt away.

"You're back!" she said smiling as tears slide down her cheeks. Amaterasu gave a sad smile and patted Aerith gently on her back. "I thought we'd lost you…"

"Last time I saw you, you were wearing a dress really similar to this one…" the ex-Chaser said trying to get her to feel happy.

"Yeah," Aerith paused for a moment before letting the young girl go. "I'm sorry for being late everyone, I overslept…"

"You… Oversleeping? Cloud use to do that…" Gekigami said, not knowing how much is pained Aerith to hear his name.

The other siblings stared at Gekigami with a rather hurt look. As Yuffie was taking them to the meeting she had explain to them that Cloud had left yet again. Yuffie though, in retaliation to the name smacked Gekigami on his head, and he apologized. Aerith like always placed a strong mask on her face and told her that he would come back, because his light would guide him.

Aerith remembered how Yomigami, Cloud, and a boy named Zack had all been close before. It was all in the past now, but she wished that those days would come back, because that was when nobody even knew the darkness existed.

She was able to get Amaterasu to stay a bit after the meeting.

"Please, Ammi…" Aerith began calling her by her nickname, "I want t know if you've seen Cloud anywhere."

"…I…" it did pain her to say the truth. "I haven't Aerith, I'm sorry…" Amaterasu said looking away from her.

"…Oh…" she was so sure that Amaterasu would have seen or heard from him. "It's okay, I'm sure he'll come back."

"You're a very brave girl, Aerith… I wish I could be like you." Amaterasu said hugging her. "He's probably in Traverse Town… You know, where those who've lost their world go to."

Aerith didn't know that at the second meeting Traverse Town was swallowed up by the darkness. It was best that she didn't know for now, and probably no one would ever tell her.

Aerith heard leaves crack under the weight of her brown boots. She walked past the decaying pews of the chapel. And now stood directly under the hole in the roof, she looked down at the white and yellow lilies that were underneath her feet. These were the same flowers that broke Cloud's fall. They were all young teens then, with Yuffie being the youngest child there.

This was the same place where she met Amaterasu and Yomigami, when the two of them were still undergoing experimental procedures. Aerith had walked in on them as they were discussing whether or not steal the darkness within the heart of the world. Discovering that a child had walked in on them during their conversation, they figured it best not to carry out the deed.

"So many memories…" Aerith said sitting on one of the broken concrete columns near the alter of the chapel. "I hope you're looking back at some of those wonderful memories Cloud, where ever you may be…"

"What's this?" Aerith asked holding a lumpy brown seed in her hand.

"A paopu fruit seed." Amaterasu said gleefully. "I got it back from Destiny Islands. You should plant on near the old chapel."

"A paopu fruit, you mean those star shaped fruit?" Aerith asked wondering how such a little thing could produce a star shaped fruit. "I thought you didn't believe in things like that, Ammi?" she knew the legend behind the fabled power of the star shaped fruit.

'Should I plant one?' Aerith thought about it long and hard, her green eyes looking deeply at a small patch of dirt. It seemed to be the right size for a tree to grow in, and it probably didn't hurt to try. Here in this are the paopu trees were very rare, and maybe planting more of them would do the agriculture good.

"As for me… I'm going to plant a lot of them where ever I go!" Amaterasu said taking Aerith's hand in her hand. "A little reminder for a special friend of mine…"

"I take it it's one of Sora's friends?" Aerith said noticing the blush on the girl.

"I'll plant one here…" Aerith said pulling out the side from her side pocket. "If Cloud does come crashing down here one day, he'll have something else to break his fall."

Within Radiant Garden…

"This place it brings back a lot of memories, doesn't it?" Yomigami asked his youngest sister.

Yomigami this time styled his hair a bit different. He brought his bangs forward and spike up the rest of his hair in the back. The blood lusting, ex-Chaser, was wearing a black baggy t-shirt with tight jeans and a black studded belt, and white tennis shoes.

"Some I wish I could forget…" Amaterasu said pushing her hair back a bit.

She decided that this time she'd go by her real name, rather than her middle name. Amaterasu decided to keep her hair natural wavy, as it was once before. Though to throw some certain people off guard she curled the tips of her hair. She liked it better this way, a better improvement she thought on her part.

Amaterasu wore a white shirt with graffiti like letters in red that read 'Coracoa Selvagem' Portuguese meaning 'Wild Heart'. The text had more of a blood splatter effect, it was something her older brother despised partially due to his blood lusting, but he had learned to control his actions when she wore something that affected his nature.

"Forget… Amaterasu, surely you've got more wonderful memories than bad ones…"

"It's about half and half then, Yomigami," she said looking at her brother for a moment. The look of surprise was drawn across his face. "I've decided to go with my real name again, we'll see how long it lasts…" she said. Her eyes traveled down the empty ravine and located the once proud castle of the former King Ansem. It was now reduced to ruble. "It breaks my heart, knowing what happened to the castle."

"Yeah well, you have you're ex-boyfriend to thank for that." Yomigami said harboring some resentment to the person he was referring to.

"We never were together…" she tried again justify her actions. "We were good friends nothing more…"

"That good friend of your cost us our position as Chasers…" Yomigami said, "If he were alive today I'd kill him for what he did to our position…"

"His memory is out there somewhere, why not just kill that?" Amaterasu said looking at her brother for a moment.

"Because we need that…" Yomigami said smacking his sister gently on the side of the head. "I don't want to screw up the promise we made to King Mickey."

"How many promises have we made to people?" she asked trying to count with her fingers.

"More than you could possibly ever count…" Yomigami placed his hand down at his side, as if he was going to pet something, and he looked down confused for a moment. "Where's Chico?" he asked looking around the area.

"A Shadow Hound's loose?!" Amaterasu said looking at her brother. "You idiot why'd you bring Chico outside!?"

With Sora and Kairi…

"We should start heading out to other worlds soon." Sora said looking at Kairi slightly.

"Hush Sora, don't speak…" Kairi said watching her pencil capture the image before her eyes. "It's hard to draw your face when you keep moving your eyes like that, not to mention your mouth…"

Sora had volunteered to be Kairi's little model, since Riku wasn't around right now. Other than that Sora did want some time to be alone with her, but this wasn't the kind of alone time he was thinking about. Sora shifted his gaze back to what he had been focusing on earlier. They were inside one of the various inns that Radiant Garden's had to offer the Keyblade Wielders.

Something moved about outside the window, and Sora could faintly hear something growling near the window, and it seemed unearthly. Kairi stopped what she was doing and looked up as she saw Sora move out of the wooden chair.

"Sora what are…?" Sora cut her off with a raised hand, and he placed a finger to his lips. He walked up to the window near the ivory colored walls. He could still hear the unearthly sounds coming from outside and his heart was beating fast in curiosity as to what is could be.

Kairi stood behinds Sora as she finally came to hear the same sound her companion heard. Sora pushed the dark curtain away from his view so he could see outside. Sora sighed in relief as he saw nothing, and he turned around and laughed it off as he told Kairi it was a false alarm.

Kairi raised her eyebrow a bit as she saw a shadow pass by the window, but thought it was just her imagination. At that moment the sound of breaking glass flooded their ears, and Sora turned around quickly, but the last things he could remember seeing was a black mass of fur with legs and teeth charge straight at him, and Kairi pulling out her Keyblade, he could remember watching the heart shaped tip of the blade, with the flowers around it.

A couple of blocks away from the Inn…

Riku hummed to himself a song he had put on as he walked back from the Moogle's synthesis shop. As he was reaching the inn he noticed that on the side of a building a window had been broken into. He started to pick up the pace and noticed that the door had been forced out.

Riku broke into a faster stride, and at that point he started to run. He pushed himself past a couple of people and ran through a red light in traffic. He finally made it to the inn and noticed something roughly push him to the side. He spun around and looked at the creature making a mad dash with Sora's Keyblade.

Kairi busted out from the door chasing after the creature to get the Keyblade back. Riku didn't waste anytime on pulling out his own Keyblade. He peered in for a moment and noticed that Sora was resting against a wall in the room. With that Riku ran after Kairi and the creature that had the Kingdom Key weapon in its grasp.

The creature led them down the street, in and around traffic, all the way to a somewhat excluded area. It growled as it knew it was cornered by the two people that blocked its path. The two humans were gasping for some air as their human lungs supplied oxygen to their muscles.

"Stop right there!" Kairi said pointing the Keyblade in the direction of the creature. It just growled a bit, like if it were laughing. It started to move to the side, and Riku followed it.

At that moment with neck breaking speed the creature rushed past Riku, using Sora's Keyblade as a weapon, and Kairi blocked the dashing attack, and she strained under the force the creature had used for such ant attack.

Riku decided that two on one was far, and went from behind to attack it, but with the creature's sense of hearing, it dodged Riku's attack with ease. Kairi jumped back as Riku's weapon almost collided with her.

The creature taunted the two of them by tossing Sora's weapon in the air for a moment. This living thing obviously had a higher level of intelligence than most other species of animal alive. Riku jumped into the air trying to perform an Aerial Sweep, but the creature performed a similar version of Strike Raid, tossing Sora's Keyblade directly at him.

"Stopra!" Kairi yelled out raising her Keyblade, any second too soon at the Sora's Keyblade might have collided with Riku's face. The creature turned its attention to Kairi now and let out an unearthly barking sound in protest to the spell.

a m a t e r a s u

'Where in the world did Chico go?' I asked myself walking around the city now. I shook my head and noticed a couple of cars. They looked like they got into a car accident. A couple of people were saying that two kinds started to run in and out of traffic chasing something, but that they didn't get a good look at it.

I started to look around some buildings and alleyways. My brother was walking around the area whistling to coax the Shadow Hound out of hiding. I rubbed the back of my head and ended up whistling, knowing that Chico, the Shadow Hound, was capable of hearing that well. I noticed that an inn had its window broken, and the front door was broken into as well.

The owners of the inn were taking care of someone who had been knocked out. I looked inside and noticed to my surprise that the mess of brown hair, and that familiar black outfit, it had to be Sora. ' Chico's not even that strong, and he got knocked out by him… He needs a lot of work, Sora, not the dog…' I thought to myself asking the owners of the inn how the boy was doing. They told me he was fine, he just got knocked out from the impact of the floor.

I whistled to my brother and he came running in my direction. He started to pant a bit shaking his head for a moment. He asked me if I had gotten a led on Chico.

"Yeah… I'm assuming it's down there…" I said pointing with one hand down the street. I watched my brother draw an invisible mark with complicated lines on the concrete, and within moments the darkness sprouted up from the cracks on the sidewalk, and we melted into the ground.

In a matter of seconds there was a pool of black goo under our feet, and it started to give us our height back. We found ourselves at the entrance of a somewhat excluded area. I looked back at my brother as his right arm started to turn back into its flesh tone color. I didn't really like the whole idea of traveling like that, but it was the easiest and the fastest, I can say that much for sure.

" Chico can hear our whistles from all the way over there…" my brother pointed out from where we came from.

"Something's got him preoccupied…" I said extending my hand out, before my very eyes a Keyblade of a wicked shape and form materialized from the air. The Keyblade formed a hilt on my palm, and it started to reconstruct itself, like a broken, almost liquefied, puzzle. "I guess we can spare a bit with them, before we test them next time…"

"It's not fair, Sora's knocked out…" Yomigami said flashing a wicked smile on his face. I knew he was ready to taste blood, but he'd have to control himself. "I'd really like to see that kid fight…" he extended out both of his hands and two Keyblades mixed with a design similar to that of Oblivion wrapped around an invisible spin to form itself like a weapon. "You're not using your other one?"

"No… Besides we have to get Chico away from there, not make it worse…"

"I hate it when you're right…" he said withdrawing one of his weapons. "Just for that I go after Riku…"

"You wouldn't dare…" I said giving him a warning.

"Watch me…" he said flashing a cruel smile before running down the alley.

r i k u

"Move back, Kairi!" I yelled slashing through the air as the creature moved to the side.

It was fast I'll admit, but everything has a weakness right. I jumped back as it swung a clawed paw at me. It was growling, swing the Keyblade around.

'Why hasn't it gone back to Sora yet… Unless this thing has a strong heart…' I thought kicking the creature away from me. Its breath smelled really foul, like rotten eggs or something. I don't know but it made me want to gag. Kairi was casting spells, but I told her to be careful and not use up all her energy.

"Riku, left!" she yelled out.

All I knew was that my Keyblade blocked an attack from the creature. There was a loud whistle around the area and the creature barked at me and then to Kairi. That's when it started to growl again at us.

"Drop it!" I heard a male call out.

The creature did as it was told to do, apparently this guy was the owner, of that thing. The Keyblade clinked as it hit the ground and the creature moved away from Kairi and me. I looked back at the entrance and noticed two people there. They were holding Keyblades.

One of them greeted me with a wicked smile that sent shivers down my spine. Again, that pain in my heart came back, it was starting to annoy me so badly, that and because I didn't know what in the world was causing it.

The girl, who held the more malicious crafted Keyblade, her left arm twitched a bit. Something about her looked so oddly familiar but it was probably just the skin color that was all.

"So then…" the male spoke. "You're the ones that keep him from coming back…"

"What?" I asked lowering my weapon down for just a second.

"He was trying to get back to us when you were fighting him…" the girl spoke out, her voice seemed so distant, like if I heard it in a dream or something like that. "It's not nice making a Shadow Hound late for something, they like being punctual most of the time."

"Well, sorry…" I said raising my weapon in a defensive stance. "Mind telling me why you have Keyblades?"

"Nope…" the male with the studded belt said. He rushed forward and before I knew it I was knocked down to the ground. "You'll have to knock me down, and then you'll find out…"

Kairi was having her hands full with the female fighter, she had a good defense but she lacked offense to back it all up, she was unbalanced. The girl with the wicked looking Keyblade, it looked like she was an expert or something.

"Hey…" the guy said, I could feel the blade from his Keyblade pierce my right shoulder. "Don't get distracted… You'll die…"

Current Scene…

Kairi moved back casting Reflect, but that had no affect on the female attacker. She yelped as the wicked Keyblade missed her by an inch, but the force of the attack itself was enough to cut a small indent on her side.

"Don't get cocky…" the wicked Keyblade wielder told her. "Just because you have that Keyblade, doesn't mean you'll be guaranteed safety…"

"Amaterasu, stop playing with her already!" Yomigami called out as he dodged Riku's attack with ease.

Yomigami dodged Riku's second oncoming attack and rolled forward, grasping Sora's Keyblade in the process. The blood lusting individual grinned at Riku as he displayed his own attacks with two Keyblades.

"You're just lucky Kingdom Key is slowing me down…!" Yomigami said feeling Riku block his attack. He knew though that Riku was straining to push the attack back.

Kairi hit the wall with enough force to almost dislocate her right shoulder. Amaterasu mentally apologized, and silently casted a Curaga spell on her shoulder. Kairi dashed forward, and almost stabbed Amaterasu in the leg if she had moved slightly.

"You got lucky I have such a kind heart…" Amaterasu said locking her Keyblade with Kairi's and flung it into the air.