A/N: Wow, I'm actually posting on Pretty?! That like, never happens! Ha ha. Also, is there a plural of Heartless? "Heartlesses" doesn't look right…What do you think? Tell me in a review! (Yes, you! I have a gazillion views and only NBB is reviewing! Hullo???)

Sorry if I scare you, but that's just me being…well, me. (:

"I think you're insane," Yuki informed me. She crossed her legs, causing an avalanche of my pillows to fall onto her head. "HEY!"

I sighed as Akako and Chiho helped Yuki dig out of the mound of fluff.

"What do you need so much stuff on your bed for, anyway?" Yuki scowled once her head was freed.

"To bury you in," I said sarcastically. "At least you shut up when you're buried."

"Whatever," Yuki said, tossing the last pillow onto the floor. My room immediately absorbed the pillow and spat out a new one, cleaner but otherwise the same, onto my bed. "And I still think you're insane."

I scoffed at her. "Gee, thanks."

"What? Like it isn't true?" Akako frowned at me. "I mean, Kaede isn't, like, fat or anything, God no, but do you honestly think that if we throw her out of the top of the building, even with a hoverboard, that the landing won't make a little noise?"

I pouted crossly. "Like you have another idea?"

"Actually," Chiho offered. "I do."

We turned to stare at her, all at once.

"Okay, stop doing that," she said, frowning at us. "It's really creepy, the whole unison thing? Yeah. Please stop."

"Sorry," Yuki said immediately.

"Yeah. Now, what's your plan? Since Ari's will get Kaede killed," Akako said, glancing at me.

I smiled back sweetly, twisting my interface ring to order some champagne and other random goodies.

"My plan," Chiho said, shooting me her patented you-will-shut-up-now glare, "is to bring her back to Soul Kingdom. And either Cloud or the Heartless will knock some sense into her."

"Oh," I said. "And my plan was going to get Kaede killed? She wants to have our bubbleheaded-BFF fight a Heartless!"

Chiho frowned. "Okay, maybe not real Heartlesses."

"What's the other option? Fake Heartlesses?" Yuki frowned.

"Or Cloud in a Heartless suit?" I giggled as I took a glass of champagne off the tray that had appeared in the room only seconds ago.

Akako hit me across the back of my head, making me almost spill the bubbly golden liquid all over my bed. "Ari, the goal is to get Kaede's brain back, not to make her depressed!"

"True," I admitted. "But then what's the other option?"

"Well," Chiho started, sipping from her glass flute. She set it on the tray again, even though it was still mostly full. "Yuki was actually pretty close. There are fake Heartlesses out there. Ones we can control. Use them as spies, or, in this case, training tools."

We all tilted our heads at the exact same time.

"You're doing it again!" Chiho cried, exasperated. "You guys really are creeping me out."

"Sorry," we said, still in unison.

"Guuuuuuuuys," Chiho whined, crossing her arms and chibi-pouting.

"Fine," I said, and tilted my head the other way. "Better?"

Chiho nodded sarcastically. "Now, what was I saying? Oh yeah. We can have the fake Heartlesses attack her and she's gotta remember how to fight them off."

"And if she doesn't?" I frowned, picturing Pretty Kaede accidentally jabbing herself in the gut with her own staff as the Heartless surrounded her. Ugh.

"We have Cloud jump in and kick their butts," Chiho said, breaking my daydream.

"What makes you think he'll help?" Yuki piped up. She ripped a chunk off of her chocolate muffin and stuffed it in her mouth.

"What makes you think he won't?"

Yuki pondered this while she chewed. "Isn't he like, lone emo boy?"

Chiho hit Yuki's arm.

"Hey!" Yuki squealed, dropping the muffin as she rubbed her arm. "What was that for?"

"No crumbs all over my bed! I just bought this blanket and it cost me a huge stack of merits." I scowled at her, flicking the chocolate off of my silky bed.

"Since Kaede isn't here to slap you for stereotyping Cloud, I'm taking her job," Chiho explained, ignoring me. She lifted one hand and we saw her black-painted nails, which had grown out. They were longer than normal and resembled talons. "See? Built-in weapons."

"Nice," I said, laughing. "And you may have to slap Yuki a lot."

"Sigh," Yuki said, putting her head on her hand. I got the feeling she was quoting someone, although I had no idea who.

Chiho slapped Yuki's arm again. "Bad Yuki!" she scolded. "Kaede would have beheaded you by now!"

"Gee, thanks," Yuki muttered.

Chiho smiled. "Oh, but you do know that my is my job after all, and torture is my favorite hobby. I mean, there's gas chambers, and medieval spike coffins, and-"

"Back to the Heartless plan," Akako said abruptly.

"Right," Chiho said, her ADD-esque habits coming in handy. "So, I think that maybe we should kidnap her and take her to SK? And then like let her get settled in a little, and then have the Heartless attack?"

"Chi, I don't think having the Heartless attack her is such a brilliant idea. And after all, you can't even control a wallscreen. How do you think you can control a Heartless drone?" Akako frowned.

Chiho shrugged. "I'm magical," she said, twirling her shrunken keyblade/staff around her fingers like a wallscreen pen. It shot safety sparks (pink, blue, and gold) into my room.

"And since when are you an uptalker?" I demanded. "Every single thing you just said sounded like a question!"

Chiho shrugged. "Do I care?" She paused. "Yes, that was supposed to be another question."

"Okay, well, here's another one: how do we get her to SK? Can we knock her out or something?"

Our eyes flew to Chiho, who blinked innocently. "I'm sorry," she said. "I ran out of chloroform with my last kidnapping."

"Oh," I said. "Wait-what?"

She smiled. "Sadistic chibi from a parallel universe. Remember?" She tugged out a cute little bunny and beamed. "Speaking of chibi. Isn't this just the plushest thing ever?"

We studied the bunny. At first glance it was totally adorable and harmless. Then you noticed the tiny felt fangs. And you realized that the black straps thrown into an X across the bunny's pale pink t-shirt were not backpack straps, seeing how as they had bullets strapped to them…and a plastic machine gun was tucked into the cute little lace skirt pocket. In place of a carrot, there was a jade-handled knife, although the handle was carved to resemble a carrot's leaves. It had a cute little top hat that was black with white lace and a tiny red mini rose.

It was the most scary-cute thing any of us had ever seen, counting Chiho herself.

Yuki raised an eyebrow. "It's…um…very original."

Akako nodded wordlessly.

"Okay, two things," I said. "One: my God, that bunny is scary as all heck! And two, you're hanging around Prettyville too much if you just said something is the 'plushest thing ever' with a straight face."

Chiho giggled. "Yeah," she said, strapping another gun to the bunny and straightening the bullet-belt. "I'm toe-dall-ly bubbleheaded."

"Word mutation!" I squealed, pointing a finger at Chiho and pulling one hand up to my mouth, the way Chiho did when she wanted to appear extra-innocent. I'm sure the affect wasn't quite the same, but whatever, right?

Yuki laughed at me before turning to Chiho. "Seriously. Pretty talk, psycho bunny, word mutation…What is wrong with you?"

Chiho shrugged. "Better question-what's wrong with Kaede?"

We shrugged.

Yuki shrugged. "Whatever it is, we'll be fixing it soon enough…"

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Kaede's enormous eyes scanned her room. She swore the shadows were moving, dancing around the room in a way her moving posters never did.

"Hello?" she whispered. There was muffled laughter, but nothing moved. Nobody came forward.

"Guys? This is so un-funny!" Kaede slammed one fist against her soft blankets. The muffled giggles reached her ears once more, but still, nothing moved. "Huh-llo?"

A piece of shadow suddenly detached itself. "Hello, Kaede…"

A/N: dramatic music The speaker is NOT any of the girls, FYI. You'll see next chap! Btw-I haven't been feeling good recently so don't expect a lot of updates for a while…Sorry. :(

Yet another "BTW"-for those of you who read the "Private" series by Kate Brian, did anyone else figure out that PRIVILEGE is a totally separate series? Same characters, but its gonna follow Ariana. I cant wait, it's gonna be SO cool! My Spanish name is Ariana, but some people didnt understand why I chose that, until NBB finished the books and realized why. Its cuz I pretty much AM Ariana. Adorable, airy, insane murder who should be locked in a padded cell some where? Yeah. (: (Wow, that was very mood-swing-y…depressivo, then all happy? Jeez. Stupid cough meds.)

The FINAL "BTW" note (for this chappy, anyway)- I found a hilarious DracoxGinny FanArt gallery, and (after being very confused as to why Ginny wears so much couture) I burst out laughing. Ya know why? Comments.

"Well done art, but Draco and Ginny have the percentage of getting together as Harry and Snape do."

OMG! LOTI! (My replacement for the Forbidden Phrase. Means "Laughing on the inside." I read LEGACY too many times…)