A/N: Thanks tootsiepopgurl I fixed it though so don't worry.
Thanks DJ Diddy Dog! For some reason to me I find it easy to write stuff like that… Yeah it sounds weird, but hey…
Thanks Princess Kaira of Mirana I appreciate your review a lot. Well now thank goodness I got to the dark and serious parts of the whole thing!
On with the story...
Chapter Fifteen: Twilight Town
"How long will it be before they come back for us?" Kairi asked walking along the streets of Twilight Town.
Amaterasu shook her head, not sure when they'd be back for them. Sora and Riku had gone off somewhere, probably to look for any Heartless or Nobodies. Tachigami figured it would be better if they look for more memory spheres of Xehanort, and they took the one they found in Traverse Town to Radiant Gardens, leaving the four teens stranded in Twilight Town.
Each memory was precious so as not to repeat mistakes from the past.
The two teenage girls decided to walk around the shopping district of the town. They passed a Moogle synthesis and something caught Amaterasu's eyes. She looked at the item on display and motioned to Kairi to look at the item.
It was a thick banded ring with black and blue swirls decorating it. In the middle was a small emblem of a heart etched into it. Kairi admired the workmanship of the ring and asked Amaterasu if she was going to buy it.
"Yeah, I think so…" she said smiling slightly. "It's about 1,500 munny, I have more than enough."
"Hey you should buy one for Riku too, have it to match your guys' friendship necklace." The red haired girl suggested smiling slightly.
Amaterasu thought about it for a moment and smiled at the thought, she nodded in agreement and the two of them walked into the Moogle's shop. There were a lot of items of value in there, from anklets to staffs.
"Oh yeah!" Kairi remembered something. She pulled out small pieces of parchment from the little bag that hung at her side. "I have some Moogle recipes." She handed them to the Moogle that was behind the counter.
Amaterasu looked at the little bag that hung around her shoulder she searched for some the recipes she had acquired. She also handed them to the Moogle and they kept browsing around the little shop until the text recipes had been translated.
"Look!" Amaterasu pointed out to a Keyblade picture. "That's Star Seeker!" she said feeling like a little kid in a candy store. "King Mickey use to have that!" she said rambling on about the weapon for a moment. "Yen Sid gave that to him a LONG time ago…"
The Moogle called the two girls and they each looked at their translated lists. Amaterasu had more than enough items and ended up synthesizing everything on her list. Kairi had almost the same amount as Amaterasu, and ended up getting some items out of the recipes.
"The ring on display, I'd like to purchase two of them, please." Amaterasu said motioning to the Moogle the item of interest. The Moogle nodded and placed both rings on the glass counter.
"Wanna put it in a box, kuppo?" the Moogle asked as its little red pompom moved slightly.
"Just one." She said watching the Moogle wrap one ring in a bow with a black and blue bow. With that she paid the Moogle and Kairi bought a necklace that reduced dark attacks by 20 percent.
Sora and Riku…
The brunette haired boy and the silver haired boy walked down the area looking around for any Heartless or Nobodies, they found none. This place was peaceful, and Sora doubted the fact that there was a memory sphere in the area.
"You and Ammi haven't been talking since we came here… What's up with you two?" Sora asked looking back at his friend.
Riku frowned slightly trying to enjoy the walk with his best guy friend, but it was no use, at least now it was no use. He thought back to the events that had happened a while back. 'What am I suppose to say the reason we won't talk is because of some dead guy? Yeah that's a real good reason…' the silver haired teen thought to himself, he still felt Sora's stabbing gaze.
"You know if you won't talk I'll keep looking at you." He said really meaning every word of it.
"People are going to think I broke up with you or something…" Riku said hurriedly.
Sora just raised an eyebrow, slightly confused about his friend's choice of words, it didn't really sink in with him, but he kept on pressing the taller Keyblade wielder again. Riku stayed silent and Sora didn't tear his gaze away from his friend anytime soon.
"Looks, Sora, it's nothing," he said smiling slightly, "so don't worry about it."
"If it's nothing, then why aren't you guys talking?" Sora said getting to close to his friend's face. "Come on, spill it."
"Dude…" Riku pushed Sora away for a bit. "Listen don't worry about it, okay?" he tried to throw Sora off, but it was no use he kept coming back to the same question again. "It's nothing we can't work out, there?"
"I guess so…" Sora said folding his arms over his chest. "You're stubborn, you know that?"
Riku sighed; "I guess so…" he was just glad that Sora was off his back, for now that is.
"You think there's a memory sphere in this place?" Sora asked his friend.
Riku shrugged looking back at Sora for a moment, he looked back at the big clock tower. It read 4:36 PM, and he thought back to a small memory of when he had decided to take hold of the darkness.
Axel, a member of Organization XIII sat on one of the benches over looking the sunset of Twilight Town. Beside him was Naminé, Kairi's nobody, she had a sketch of Roxas and Sora holding hands.
Axel's eyes looked quickly at Naminé as if to tell her to go.
"He's gone." Axel said in a low voice.
"Let's go now." Naminé said clutching her sketch book tightly on her lap.
"Just askin'," Axel said making small talk before they left. "You don't have a place to go, do you?" he say Naminé look down when he said that. "You don't have any place to fall back on, do you?" she shook her head sadly. "Such things don't exist for Nobodies like us."
Naminé spoke up now looking back at her drawing for a moment. "That's right… There is no place for me. But still… I have some places I want to go, some people I have to see." She said looking back at the red head.
He nodded slightly. "Yeah, same here." He looked up and noticed a dark hooded figure, he tensed up a bit and finally spoke to him. "So why don't you just let us go?" he didn't answer. "That old man told you to get rid of us, didn't he?"
Naminé gazed up at the hooded figure a bit confused. "He did?" she questioned him.
"Just go…" Riku's voice was still recognizable, at least to Kairi's Nobody.
"Don't you think you should just finish the job here?" Axel said referring to the instructions Riku had to follow.
"I owe you guys." Riku said simply enough.
"You do?" Naminé asked honestly.
"From Castle Oblivion." Riku said answering the witch's question.
"Okay then…" Axel said getting up from the bench and walking away from Riku he stretched out his hand and a dark portal materialized out of thin air. "Thanks." He said looking back at Riku. He looked back at Naminé and then walked through the portal.
Naminé bowed her head slightly and stood up for a moment. "Sorry…" she said softly and went after Axel.
a m a t e r a s u
A little ring tone was coming from the little sack I had over my shoulder, and I answered it, it was getting a bit annoying.
"Hello?" I answered.
"Sis…" it was Tachigami's voice. "I keep forgetting how young you sound, like a little kid." She said mimicking my voice. "Anyway Cid said he'll have the sphere ready in about a week or so."
"A week?"
"Yeah well I mean it has been in there for decades or so, the darkness has messed up the visibility of the whole thing."
"Have you heard it?" I asked looking back at Kairi slightly.
"Just a little bit… His voice sounds the same…" I could hear her laugh. "Just thought I'd let you know."
"Anything else?" I asked tapping my foot lightly in annoyance.
"Nope!" she said sounding rather happy. "You having a good time over there?"
"Well, sort of. Sora and…" I paused for a second. "Riku… They've gone out to look for disturbances. You think we'll find a sphere here?"
"Possibly… Remember that town from the archive in the computer? They said it just disappeared one day, it could be this one."
"But this one was created from his memories…"
"You never know, history repeats itself, remember?" she said.
"Yeah, yeah…" I said rolling my eyes for a moment. "Well I'll ask Sora to check again, if it makes you feel better."
"All right then. Be careful okay?" she said in her own caring tone.
"Okay, you too okay?" I said rubbing the back of my head. "Tell the others I miss them."
"Okay, love you!" she said shouting into the receiver.
"Me too…" I said holding the phone away from my ear. She hung up and I clicked the little 'off' button.
Kairi looked a bit tilting her head for a moment, and smiled at me. "What did they say?"
"The sphere'll be ready in a week!" I said almost sounding happy. "We just have to check this place again to see if there's a sphere or not. Tachigami swears that one's in here."
We walked along the area with our newly acquired items and stopped at a place where 'Struggle' tournaments were held. The object of the whole thing was to knock your opponent's colored balls from their grasp and take as many as you could. The time limit I think was two minutes, or so.
"What was he like?" Kairi asked as she bought a Popsicle from a nearby stand.
"Xehanort?" I asked buying a mango flavored Popsicle.
"Yeah." Kairi said nodding at me. "I'm kind of interested about him now…" she said not really sure how to say it.
"I wish someone else was…" I muttered to myself. Kairi asked me what I had said. "He was a lot of different stuff!" I said hurriedly making it rhyme a bit with my last phrase. "In a way Riku sort of reminds me of him…" I said softly watching the mango Popsicle drip a bit. "History does repeat itself…" I said in a small whisper.
"Anyway…" I cleared my throat sticking the Popsicle in my mouth for a moment. "He was a pretty cool guy."
"Did anything every happen between you two?" Kairi asked arching her eyebrow.
At this point I almost gagged on a piece that I bit off. My eyes got all watery and I shook my head. "Why do people always ask me that?"
"Well I mean it's true…" Kairi said patting my back a bit. "So did you, or not? Hmm?"
"My memories can get a bit fuzzy…" I said rubbing my nose slightly.
"Fine…" Kairi said sighing in defeat. "I won't force it out of you then."
"I win!" I said happily biting another piece of the Popsicle. "Hey can we get another Popsicle after this?"
"You're a walking stomach you know that?" Kairi said looking at me in disbelief. "Shouldn't we go find Sora and Riku now?"
"Yeah…" I sighed throwing the Popsicle stick in the trash can.
r i k u
We didn't find anything, but then again we haven't checked out the mansion yet, so maybe it's in there. Sora was talking about something, I just really wasn't paying attention to what it was.
"Riku?"
I heard something in the distance, but it was really faint. Other than that I just kept thinking back to what I told her on the gummi ship. Man do I feel like a jerk…
This is getting me no where, just thinking. I have to do something, or at least try and make it better. I was right, we're going to have to start from scratch now, and I'm not making this any easier. But neither is she, she won't speak to me about him…
Not that I would want her too, but it'd be nice she would confide that with me.
'And that's why she won't!' the Heartless in the back of my heart said, it echoed through out my mind. 'Are you really that dense? Judging by what you've been thinking about you probably are…'
"Last time I checked no one asked you!"
'Well I am entitled to put my own opinion, considering the fact I'm in your little heart.'
"You have any idea how weird that sounds?"
'You're the guy talking to a Heartless. Tell me, Riku, does that sound weird?'
"Just be quiet, I'm trying to think."
'Still confused?' it asked smiling in triumph.
"No…" I lied to myself.
'That's a big lie, boy.'
"Can you just go back in there?" I asked it hoping it'd leave me alone again for another couple of hours. "I don't want you popping up when I'm talking to her."
'If you ever do…'
"Just leave…" I growled at it watching the Heartless disappear in a puff of smoke, going back into the depths of my heart.
"Riku?" Sora was shaking me. I blinked slightly and looked up for a moment. "Hey, welcome back from la-la land." He said giving me a goofy smile. "You had me worried there buddy."
"Sorry…" I said shaking my head. "It's really quiet here…" I said looking around the area of the town.
"We still gotta check out that mansion." Sora said checking it off with his finger. "We should probably go and find the girls though."
"They're probably eating Popsicles…" I said. "Amaterasu has an unhealthy obsession with them."
"I wonder why?" he asked walking back from where we came from. I followed after him, wondering the same thing myself.
Twilight Town Manor…
"There's a computer room down in this place…" Sora said guiding everyone through the area. "I don't know if it's useable or not. I hope it is…"
"Oh yeah," Kairi mentioned something. "Cid said the sphere will be ready in at least a week or so, right, Ammi?"
"Yeah…" she said softly walking in back of everyone. Riku was a couple of millimeters in front of her, and she just felt uncomfortable around him now.
Their hearts made no attempt to contact one another, and with each passing step their hearts seemed to break off their chains of friendship with one another. In the end the two of them probably thought that it would be very hard to put the pieces back together.
Still, each one of them would steal glances from the other. With silence they were both probably thinking the same thing, but it was no use they decided to keep their silence around the other.
They all walked into the manor, and it seemed to be pretty old. A lot of things were falling apart and there were some paintings that had rips and tears on their canvas and the wallpaper on some of the rooms were starting to peel off.
Sora led the group up a flight of stairs into the manor's library and looked at the area. It was a regular library now, something in the back of his head told him to walk up to the symbol on the table, and he grabbed a carefully placed crayon and drew the other emblem on there.
Within moments the floor disappeared and the underground are was visible. Amaterasu asked Sora how he did that, and he replied saying that it was just a feeling. She tilted her head slightly and thought nothing of it.
As they went down the flight of stairs she thought back to Sora's file, the one registered in the HBRC database, it said he's Nobody's name was Roxas, and that he had once lived here, this place acted as a haven while Sora was asleep. 'I get it now, Roxas acted that out, not Sora, or well his heart did… This is kind of confusing, sort of anyway…' she thought.
Riku was in back of her now, and it just made her fidget with her hands even more. She played the ring she had bought, to try and calm her nerves, oh how she hated feeling like this, but still they weren't talking. The box she bought earlier was in her little sack, and she'd give him the item later, if later ever came.
"Here it is!" Sora said pointing to the computer with about ten different screens. "Hey, it's fixed!" he said in disbelief.
"We'll worry about who fixed it later!" Amaterasu said happily. "Maybe we'll get something out of this baby!" she said jumping onto the chair of the computer. She pressed the power button from the electronic device and smiled happily as the screens start to turn on.
"So you think it has the sphere's location?" Kairi asked.
"Maybe the sphere's been uploaded into this…" Amaterasu said typing in 'Chasers' in the computers search engine. It came up with no result, she typed in another name, this one being 'Another'. It came up with nothing. She growled slightly and looked back at the others. "Any ideas?"
"Try the other name." Sora said pulling up another chair to sit next to her.
She typed in 'Xehanort' and it asked for a password. Amaterasu sighed in defeat and shook her head. Riku looked at her slightly and then quickly looked away, he couldn't think up of anything to help her, his mind was scattered.
It asked for two passwords, one was a three character password and the other was a five character letter. She searched the back of her brain and could find a couple of things that would fit it.
"Ice-cream!" Sora said wildly, and he typed it in, but it was denied. The others just looked at him, blinking a bit.
"Hmm…" Amaterasu finally spoke up. "Aqu…" she typed it into the three character area, but it was denied. She remembered something else from her memories. "Hey does anyone know a three letter name with 'V'?" she asked.
"Van?" Kairi suggested.
"Ven?" Riku said quietly.
"Vic?" Sora asked rubbing the back of his head.
Amaterasu typed in the second one and it was granted. One down one more to go. The last one was probably Xehanort's other friend, the one with the other armor. He had muttered 'Aqu' but that's as close as he ever got.
"Five letter word with 'a, q, u'?" she asked again.
"Try Aquan…" Riku said speaking up clearly this time.
This was the first time Amaterasu and Riku looked at each directly in the eye. She didn't doubt what he said and she typed it in. The screen turned green, and they heard a whirring noise come from the side of the computer. There was a type of materializing transmitter of some sort, and soon a black sphere came about.
"See I was right, once a Chaser always a Chaser!" someone said stepping out from the second door to the right.
This speaker had honey colored eyes, and looked female, she wore a dark trench coat. "It's been a LONG time, Amaterasu." She said sounding as though if they were old friends. "Tell me how has life been?"
"Who are you?" Sora asked pulling out his Keyblade. Amaterasu didn't look at the figure. She kept looking down at her hands fidgeting with her ring. She was lost in thought for a moment.
"If we fight in here, we might lose the sphere… And it took me FOREVER to get this piece of junk working again…" she pointed to the screen. "It'll break, and we'll lose all the data…" the woman said waving her finger at Sora. "We don't want that happening, do we, Ammi?" she said looking at the girl.
At that point Amaterasu stood up and walked over to pick up the black little object. And at that point she ran out with sphere. "Wha the…?! Hey!" she said chasing after the girl. "Damn it, girl!" she said chasing her up the stairs. "What do you think you're doing?!" she yelled after her as the two of them ran out the door.
"I'm not letting you get his memory!" Amaterasu said running as fast as she could.
"He's dead!" the woman said watching Amaterasu stop in her tracks. Amaterasu turned around slightly and looked down holding the sphere close to her chest.
They were outside the manor, standing with the crumbling pillars that once held beauty.
"I don't care if he is." The girl said softly, almost sounding hurt. "I'm not letting you get this memory, or hurt any of my friends!" she said growling slightly at the woman before her.
"Is that why you ran out here?" the woman asked chuckling. "I'll make sure they pick up your body then…" she said pulling out something that looked like a Keyblade.
"It's not good without a Keychain…" Amaterasu said looking at the stripped weapon. "You want to die like Lucifer did, Leana?" she said revealing the woman's name. Amaterasu unhinged the keychain from her sack and threw it into the air. "I may not have the original Anima or Rapture anymore…"
At that point the Keychain burst into flames and from within the flame a Keyblade by the Name 'One Winged angel' appeared. It had crafted flames as the tip of its blade, and a wing for a keychain. Within moments Leana placed a barrier around the two of them, and Sora and the others managed to rush forward, but were stopped by the see through barrier.
"But I do have this one…" Amaterasu said gripping the handle of the weapon tightly. "Are you ready?"
A/N: You know what to do 1 review. Also do you guys have any ideas on what I should do, like with the whole Xehanort/Amaterasu/Riku thing?