A/N: A big thanks to my readers and reviewers!

Thanks you very much sorasheart281 it's all right about the alret things because they haven't been working since last week. I'll make them kiss one day...

Thank you very much N.Neo ha, I turned Lightning into a Heartless because well she makes a pretty good Heartless in my eyes, so I don't know... I'm glad you like the idea though.

Thank you very much Matt-san I've been practicing on the piano since then and stuff... Hey is it um And I go on as you get colder? I do miss the PM system since we talked through that. (I do miss you a lot!)

Hey you guys I need some ideas, I think I'm having a brain fart...

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Nokia and Sora

Gabriel was sulking around the area of the castle trying to find anyone he could annoy, he had kept this up for about four days now. Sadly to his dismay Gekigami and Yomigami had left somewhere, leaving the Chaser behind to try and find something to keep him occupied. He had been unsuccessful in locating Riku, Amaterasu, or even the new Heartless that was wandering around with them. At one point or another in one of the other rooms upstairs, he heard noises, like laughter and chairs being pushed about.

"In here?" Gabriel whispered to himself locating the locked door from across the training room. He knew from his previous stay in the castle that this room was off limits to anyone, even the big oaf Pete. He placed the side of his head on the door, letting the sounds travel, even if they were muffled by the door. Gabriel grinned at the instance of one voices sudden outburst. "It's Amaterasu…"

Amaterasu placed her head on the musty scented table and sighed heavily. Being in the library for about four days straight was taking a toll on her hunger, and possibly the structure of how her brain processed information. She closed the book that was in front of her, and leaned back against her chair. At that point, hunger finally sank into her system and her stomach growled, trying to get its owner to listen to the neglect it had been given.

Riku looked up from the last sentence of a paragraph, and noticed Amaterasu trying to cover her stomach with her arms. He shook his head and placed the book down, and closed it. Riku's amber eyes didn't plan on leaving Amaterasu's gaze anytime soon, and he finally spoke out. "I told you, you should've eaten when Lightning went…"

Lightning looked up at the mention of her name. She placed her notes down on the table and looked at the notes from the other two teens, it didn't seem comparable to the amount of work she managed to accomplish in those four days. She let out a small sigh and stood up stretching for a moment.

"Someone's outside…" Lightning said, her blue eyes moving to the wooden door. The two teens looked at the wooden door, and Lightning took no time in pulling out her weapon. At her will, and the pull of a trigger, it turned from a sword into a gun of some sort.

The unlucky soul managed to pick the lock and before he had time to block anything a shot rang out. The purple eyes scanned the area quickly, and he pulled out a weapon of his own, and their weapons were locked within a matter of seconds. Gabriel finally took the time to look at the attacker and to his relief it was only the Heartless. He put his blade down and frowned at the whole scene, that's when he noticed the other two people.

"This place is off limits you know." Gabriel said pausing for a moment when Amaterasu's stomach growled again. "What's the Heartless doing here?" he asked directing the question to his youngest ex-comrade. Amaterasu placed her head on the table for a moment and mumbled something.

"Her name is Lightning…" Amaterasu said hearing her stomach growl again. She was embarrassed at the fact it kept growling like that. "Besides why are you in here if this place is off limits?" she titled her head to the side to get a better look at Gabriel. He shrugged saying that he heard some voices coming from this room.

Riku and Lightning gathered up the notes they were able to fabricate from the text on Sunset Horizon. It was a desolate place with vast canyons and very few towns that boarded the area. At one point in folklore a crossroad had been created within the area, created entirely of Keyblades that held no key-chains, only those who were involved knew for sure if it was true or not.

Riku walked out of the area, leaving Lightning and Amaterasu with Gabriel. Gabriel gave Riku a small smile, but as always he didn't return the smile. Aside from that Amaterasu walked out after him, but only to go and get some food for her complaining stomach, she hadn't eaten that much since they were in the library.

Gabriel and the Lightning exchanged glances for a moment, and Lightning finally placed her weapon down still eyeing the man before her with a cautious eye. She finally remembered him as the man who had presented her to Amaterasu. She let out a small breath and walked after the other two teens. Gabriel on the other found one of the paper that they had left behind.

"The sealed truth…" Gabriel said reciting that small phrase written in small handwriting. He knew right away that it came from what he called 'Amaterasusan writing'. She had a distinct style, since it was so small he knew who it belonged to. The rest were just ideas on what that could mean. "My guess goes on the sphere…" he said remembering one idea, and crushed the paper into a little ball and discarded it.

Lightning walked back to the area, and it seemed as though she was waiting for Gabriel. He had asked her why she waited and all she managed to say was that it was a favor from Amaterasu. He laughed shaking shi head for a moment, and it was a long and quiet walk back to the kitchen. He saw Amaterasu closing the door from the plain looking refrigerator and preparing what appeared to be a turkey sandwich.

"You guys want some?" she asked not peering at the presence of Lightning or Gabriel, she had heard their footsteps a while back. "I want to finish up these last slices of turkey…" she said watching Riku make himself a sandwich. "Lightning, you want mustard on yours?" she asked with delicacy as she placed the lettuce and the meat onto a white slice of bread.

Even if Lightning could remember what mustard tasted like, she shook her head, and refused the yellow tangy condiment as politely as she could. Amaterasu respected her decision even though she felt a bit hurt, since Amaterasu liked mustard a lot, but she couldn't force anyone to eat it. Lightning noticed Amaterasu's slightly dejected look and rubbed the back of her head. Her hand lightly brushed against the scarf Amaterasu had given her as a present and she felt a bit apologetic about what she said.

"I'll taste it with mustard then…" Lightning said pulling up a chair for herself.

In the gummi ship

Amaterasu slept peacefully on Lightning's lap, and the Heartless stared out the window of the flying vessel watching stars zoom past her very eyes. Riku was in another row sleeping off the trip, while Gabriel and Yomigami were piloting the ship. The other brother, by the name of Gekigami sat next to Amaterasu, he would doze off once in a while. From what Lightning remembered the trip would last at least a couple of days, even with a Warp Drive, the place was remote. She looked at the violin case that was by her feet, it held her weapon, Amaterasu had suggested that she place it in something that wouldn't attract attention.

Not much was said about the place they were all going to, but for some reason Maleficent treated that place as if it was the most important thing there was. The Heartless didn't question the dark witch, since she was after all the one who made her. Though at times she found in necessary to ask Amaterasu why, to at least satisfy her curiosity. Amaterasu nuzzled against her lap and murmured something that caught Lightning's attention from her reflection about the stars.

"Don't get hurt, Lightning…" she whispered, and the Heartless smiled at the fact she cared for something like a Heartless. Lightning stroked her head gently feeling as though it was something she should do. It brought back something, a feeling, but it was hard to describe at that point sense the lack of having a heart prevented her of expressing it, all she could do was mimic a sincere face. She had seen Amaterasu place one at something the boy by the name Riku had said during their stay in the library.

"I won't…" Lightning said unconsciously, letting impulse take affect at the response of what any human would normally say. She closed her eyes, letting her body rest for a while, relaxing her muscles and letting her mind wander around the whole event that would soon take place.

Sunset Horizon

Yomigami and Gabriel announced that they had made it to their destination. It had taken roughly four days to arrive, and they were one day ahead in schedule. The first thing they had to do was find an area of some sort so that it could be their headquarters, and so that they could have a place to sleep. Amaterasu lazily got out of the chair, and waited for Lightning as she took her time getting out of the seat, carrying her case with care. Everyone else was already outside of the ship and were waiting on the girl and her Heartless to board off the ship.

Once they did get off they all noticed the area before them. It was desolate just as the book s from the library described it to be. Canyons and high mesa formations were plainly visible, and there was a sort of humid weather outside the gummi ship. Yomigami and Gabriel led the group to walk forward across the dessert like valley.

"So if you're lonely…" Riku ended up singing something to past the time, and as luck would have it Amaterasu knew the tune all too well. 'Take Me Out' was on their mind. Gabriel rolled his eyes and looked back at the two teens as they sang to pass the time. Lightning looked back at Amaterasu's sudden change in behavior, just trying to figure out what triggered the sudden transformation of her 'client'.

Gekigami raised his arm pointing into the distance noticing that something was coming into view, and their attention was diverted to the clouds looming over a patch of land. "It's the storm clouds this place is known for…" Lightning said referring to something she had read in one of the off limit books. "We're probably close to a place called Nokia, it is a place with the most precipitation in all of Sunset Horizon."

"Where'd you find that kind of information?" Yomigami asked looking back at the female Heartless. She said that the information was classified, but Gabriel of course just told them the truth. "You could've gotten caught." He said sternly to Amaterasu and she nodded remorsefully, and said a simple 'sorry'.

Nokia

Riku took a moment and looked at the conurbation before his very eyes. The look of the whole city made him wonder if they were still within sunset Horizon. There were apartment complexes near various industrial establishments. The use of flying transportation was used, and everything looked so spherical. People would travel either by foot, or these little flying bi-planes of the sort. Amaterasu pulled him out of the way as a flying vehicle almost knocked him into next week. She sighed in relief and pulled him along with the others as they crossed the sidewalk.

The sidewalk seemed to be covered in this very glossy chromium finish. It just really took a while for the whole thing to sink in. The inhabitants of this place relied on the technology of Moogles and it seemed to show since buildings were marked with the ancient text of the Moogles. In Lightning's memory from the books she examined, she could navigate through the city with the little knowledge she knew. Amaterasu knew a couple of Moogle phrases, as did Yomigami and Gabriel, it was required for Chasers to know the text of ancient civilizations, but that seemed to go down the drain since their memory wasn't what it use to be, well Gabriel for the most part.

Gekigami and Lightning spoke for a while on the structure on the whole city itself. They both found it strange that a city like this would be able to flourish within a place like Sunset Horizon. Lightning thought it was because of the capital Elusion-Ilusion since it was one of the most powerful establishments due its vast amount of wealth, at least that's what one encyclopedia was able to give her.

R i k u

This place we were in is called 'Nokia', and people here don't seemed to be worried about the chaos going on in the other worlds, it's like they're isolated from the outside world, so to speak. People here dress a bit more futuristic than in other places, and everywhere you turn you see at least one authority figure. There are some that go under cover, which means they don't wear that metallic looking faceguard and the metallic silver and onyx body armor. This place looks way too peaceful to have guards and stuff like that.

Anyway we walked into an inn of some sort and we were greeted by a rather older looking woman, she appeared to be in her fifties. She directed us to the upstairs rooms, the dormitory quarters for guys was on the right, and for the women was on the left. The good thing was that we got a room before the rain started to come down.

The rooms were 550 munny a night, and so because of that we needed to complete the 'mission' as fast as possible. I stared at the unfamiliar ceiling. I didn't know how many unfamiliar ceilings I've seen but I'm guessing it's around 50, with all the worlds we've been visiting and all. There was a gentle knock on the door to my room, and I turned my head to get a better look of where the noise was coming from.

"Riku…" that was Lightning's voice. I told her she could come in. "Amaterasu would like to talk with you. Are you decent?" she asked. I couldn't help but laugh, of course I was decent. I got out of my bed and opened the door, and I noticed Lightning was wearing a black and red sweater, with some loose jeans, she still had that scarf that Amaterasu had given her. "He's decent…" Lightning said turning her gaze to Amaterasu.

"I just want to talk…" she said sounding a bit shy about it all. Then again, that's how she was, her mood was always changing, but I'm blaming that on her sugar intake, if it was low she'd be mellow, if it was high she would be hyper/happy as I like to call it. "Lightning, you don't have to come inside…" she said noticing the Heartless take a step into the room.

"Are you sure?" Lightning asked raising an eyebrow. "I don't really comprehend why you'd want to be alone with…" Lightning chuckled slightly to herself, shaking her head. "I understand completely."

The look on Amaterasu's blushing face said it all. She waved her hands frantically, "No, it's not like that!" she said hearing Lightning give a rather genuine laugh. To be honest she only laughs with Amaterasu, and if she laughs in the presence of anyone else, either she's making fun of you or she just mimics it since it is something a human does. "Lightning…" she started to whine slightly.

"I won't tell anyone." Lightning said winking and placing a grin onto her facial expression. "Your secret's safe with me." She said pretending to zip her mouth. "Nothing's getting past these lips." Lightning did like messing with Amaterasu, she was easy to punk, I'll be honest and say it. As Lightning walked out I could hear her hum this one song from Amaterasu's mp3 player, 'Do You Want To'.

Amaterasu laughed and shook her head, saying goodbye to Lightning, the Heartless. She cleared her throat and I closed the door to my room. "Anyway…" she said laughing nervously. "How have you been?" she asked giving me a big smile.

With Sora

The Keyblade wielder fell down to the ground in exhaustion as Yen Sid placed another spell, luring Heartless out of the shadows. Sora was about ready to quit when something in his heart kicked in. An enormous mass of dark energy swirled around him, and his whole appearance changed. He triggered something called Anti-Form, taking on the appearance of a Heartless, so to speak.

The Heartless version of Sora licked its lips and grinned at the Heartless surrounding it, they had no idea as that what would soon happen to their existence at that very moment in time. He moved with such agility that he didn't even touch the ground as he took off. He circled around two Heartless and grabbed them roughly by the head. Yen Sid turned away slightly, the Heartless knew they were going to be destroyed, and they growled and whimpered as the pain increased on their heads, within moments their frame cracked, and they disappeared.

Sora moved frantically on all fours charging at another Heartless twice his size. He knocked it into the air, and brought his claws to the exposed flesh of the Heartless, ripping its vulnerable spot into ribbons, and tossed the Heartless with another group. His yellow eyes flashed again noticing more Heartless sprout and quickly the moved across the area at neck breaking speed. His attacks grew more violent, cracking the necks, or swiftly removing the Heartless' head from its shoulder, and with that the Heartless disappeared.

At one point or another no Heartless dared to move for they feared for their dark meaningless life. It was at that point Yen Sid dismissed the spell and waited for Sora to regain control of his original appearance. He moved about in an animal like manner trying to pick up the scent of the other Heartless in the air, but when it found none, Sora said left sitting on the ground in a sort of daze. For some reason he looked at his hands with a remorseful look on his face.

Yen Sid noticed that at one point he looked like his Nobody, Roxas, and he felt that Sora was soon reaching the end of his first part of training. Once Sora let his Nobody take control of his body there would be another part to his training.

"That is enough, Sora." Yen Sid said in the same commanding voice when he hand trained King Mickey. "Rest and we shall train again tomorrow." Yen Sid had no idea how glad Sora was to hear those words.

A m a t e r a s u

The place we're staying in is one of the most beautiful places that I've ever been. When the rain hits the buildings it reminds me of how Radiant Garden use to have thin crystals fall from the sky, back when it was a peaceful place. I sighed for a moment staring out at the rain in Riku' room. I always find myself in his company, I'm just so use to it, that at points I don't even realize I'm in his room, and I think it's the same way with him.

I noticed that Riku sat next to me propping his elbows on the windowsill, his amaber eyes staring into the distance. The sound of the rain reached my ears, and I could smell the rain fall hit the damp earth, it was s smell I could never get old of. 'I wonder if Lightning likes the rain. Maybe she did a longing time ago…' I thought to myself thinking back to the Heartless presented to me. I wonder if she liked being a present for me, I don't think so, I mean I'd find that rather rude in my eyes, but then again she couldn't feel, only mimic.

"What are you thinking about?" Riku asked breaking my thought for a moment. I looked at him for a moment and shook my head sighing for a moment.

"I'm just remembering how much I missed Radiant Garden, back when it was a peaceful place, but other than that I'm thinking about Lightning, I want to give her a heart…" I let the last part become a soft whisper when I heard Riku sing something.

"And the love you never knew…" he stopped and cleared his throat for a moment. "It's from the Goo Goo Dolls… The only band you don't have in your mp3 player!" he said giving me a noogie. He kissed the side of my cheek and I laughed trying to get him back at the noogie.

I landed on his back and the two of us ended up falling to the floor. "Sorry!" I said getting off of him, making sure that he was hurt or anything. At that point it was a bad idea to have my wrist that close to his hand, because I landed on my back, as payback for his fall. "Ouch…" I said staring up at the ceiling. "So, we even?"

"Yeah…" he said smiling slightly. "Listen back at Curly Hill…" I placed my head on his stomach, it made a very good pillow.

"Hey your stomach is talking…" I said hearing the gurgling noises from his belly. "Anyway, how do you like Nokia so far?"

"We've only been here for a couple of hours!" Riku said messing up my hair.

"Still it's better than nothing…" I said sitting up and looking back at him. "You think we can finish the mission before a week?" he nodded, and for once I was glad about Riku being optimistic. Still I really do want to give Lightning a heart, she doe deserve it more than anything in the world, she's been very kind, if a Heartless can be kind anyway…

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