A/N: Well yay chap 5 I'm so excited the plot is thickening by every moment hehe and there is another pairing about to be added -.-;;; I have way to many pairings but these pairings are so adorable makes me happy inside. This chapter focus's more on Xemnas and Saix since you know Saix has looks around and whispers Influenza XD. And you have to wait no longer here is chapter 5!

Disclaimer:I dun own Kingdom Hearts or any of it's characters cause if I did Riku and Sora would so be together. Hehe as everyone else.

Squall stared at Cloud for a moment thinking of what options they had for taking care of the hearless, " What do you propose we do Cloud?"

"Well, the Heartless were seen in Twilight Town last I knew. We should go check there we might find something."

Squall nodded, "Allright, it looks like everyone is here...wait a second," He scanned the room but found no trace of Aerith, Saix, or Xemnas. "Where are Aerith, Xemnas, and Saix?"

Demyx sighed exasperated, "Oh my god did you just here anything I said? I said Saix has Influenza Aerith sent me here to tell you. Her and Xemnas are going to take him back to the the house."

Squall blinked a few times staring dumbfounded at Demyx, "Oh well Cloud, you can check in with Aerith can't you?"

Cloud nodded and wordlessly went out the door. Squall looked after him and smiled slightly. Yuffie tilted her head confused and poked him in the side, "Squallie?"

Squall snapped out of his daze and looked down at the worried ninja, "It's nothing I'm fine." He put on a little smile that only she could see.

At first she didn't believe him but she decided to let it go besides they had other things to worry about right now like the Heartless, and whether or not Saix would be okay. She just hoped things wouldn't get any worse.

-Xemnas and Saix's house-

Cloud walked through the door to see Aerith sitting on the couch with her face in her hands. He saw a single tear slip by and rushed over to see if she was okay. Cloud sat beside his seemingly distraught lover, "Aerith what's going on?"

Aerith swallowed hard and choked back a few tears, "Saix is really sick, and I'm not sure he'll make it through the night." She started to cry harder she felt that it would be her fault if he died only because she was the healer of the group. She was depended upon to help the weak and injured, but could she really do it this time?

"Aerith he'll be fine. Saix is stubborn I-" Cloud was trying to find the right words he wasn't really good at this sort of thing. He sighed and wrapped an arm around her shoulders, "I don't think he'd die that easily, I don't think Xemnas would let him either." He tried putting on a small smile to reassure her but it was hard. The disease Saix had was very life threatening it could even kill him within a matter of minutes. From the looks of it, it seemed he got a really bad case of influenza too.

Aerith pulled away some, "I should go check on him." She got up but stopped and turned to him, "Cloud, why did you come here anyway?"

Cloud's dropped his head some, "The hearless are back, they're in Twilight Town now, Squall thought we should all go check it out. He said you were here. I came to get you and Xemnas since Saix is down for now."

Aerith looked like she had seen a ghost it didn't help things when she saw blood suddenly drip from Cloud's arm. She gasped, "Cloud what happened!" She grabbed a wet cloth, clean bandages, and antiseptic.

Cloud pulled up his sleeve to give her better access, "Had a run in with a heartless."

Aerith cleaned his wound and wrapped a clean bandage around it, "There it should be fine for now."

"Thanks, we should get ready Squall wants to get a head start."

Aerith blinked, "Do we all have to go? I mean since we're just checking and everything."

Cloud though about it for a moment I guess they really didn't need to take everybody. Cloud stood up, "I'll be waiting outside but...we might need Xemnas's help."

Aerith nodded, she knew Cloud didn't want for Xemnas to come not with his lover terribly sick in bed. If she were the one she knew Cloud would skip the mission just to make sure she was okay. She quietly walked into Xemnas and Saix's room to see Saix lying there in bed like he was but Xemnas had his arms folded one hand intertwined with Saix's his head rested on his arms. He was fast asleep. Aerith's heart nearly broke at the site before her. She shut the door behind her, and walked outside to find Cloud sitting by a fountain.

"Cloud?" He didn't answer, "Um Xemnas is asleep."

He got up and walked over to her, "Leave him Squall and I will take Riku, Sora, Axel, and Roxas with us. That sounds like enough."

Aerith nodded, She reached up and placed a light kiss on his lips, "Be careful."

Cloud nodded giving her a quick kiss on the forehead, "I'll be back in about two days probably." With that he walked off back in the direction of the cafe.

About ten minutes later Cloud walked into tha cafe and sat with everyone else.

Axel looked at Roxas then back at him, "Well hows the jerk doin?" He recieved a sharp jab to the ribs from Roxas.

"It's not looking good I walked in to find Aerith bawling on the couch. She said he might not make it through the night." Cloud looked over to Squall, "I think we only need to take a few people on this mission."

"Like who?"

"Riku, Sora, Axel, Roxas, you, and myself."

Squall thought about it for a moment, "Yeah that sounds about right. We'll leave in about an hour."

Riku grabbed Sora's hand, "Hey I wanna talk to you before we leave."

Sora stared at him confused but nodded anyways.

-Back at the house-

Xemnas awoke with a start sweat on his face. He looked around he frowned seeing Saix in the same position he had been for the last hour. He heard the door open and turned to see Aerith. She walked over and kneeled down next to Xemnas's chair. Xemnas looked over at her, "How is he?"

Aerith got back up and felt Saix's forehead. She shook her head, "It doesn't look good. It seems his fever has gotten worse."

Xemnas looked down and squeezed Saix's hand tighter, "Aerith tell me the truth...do you think he'll make it?"

Aerith let a single tear slide down her cheek, but she quickly whiped it away, "I'm really not sure there is however a high chance that he won't."

Xemnas gritted his teeth, "That's what I'm afraid of." He wanted to cry but he refused it, he wasn't one to do such a stupid thing as crying or at least that's what he thought anyway.

-Twilight Town-

Squall, Cloud, Riku, Sora, Roxas, and Axel were walking through the streets of Twilight Town. They hadn't seen any heartless running around only a couple who weren't that hard to take down. They heard bickering in the distance and Roxas instantly knew who it was, Seifer and Hayner. They walked around the corner to see the two arguing over a heartless.

"No Seifer were not keeping it!" Hayner shouted at his boyfriend.

Seifer scowled as he held the small, cute, black heartless, "Why not! It's not gonna hurt anything! It looks totally harmless!"

Hayner rolled his eyes, "Roxas told us about those that's a heartless dorkus!"

Seifer was about to say something back but he heard a coughing noise and turned to see Roxas and the others standing there.

"Uh hope I'm not interupting anything."

Hayner grinned at his best friend, "No, Seifer is just being stubborn."

"Am not your the one being an ass." He growled.

Axel laughed, "A regular lovers quarrel."

Roxas poked his side, "You know that all to well don't you Ax?"

"Yep...wait...HEY that's not funny!" Everyone laughed at the expression on Axel's face.

Squall walked over and stood beside Roxas, "We have a question for you guys, have you seen any heartless around besides that one."

Hayner leaned on the wall beside him, "Yeah we've seen alot around, alot of people have been disappearing too."

Roxas thought about it for awhile before something dawned on him, "Hey wheres Pence and Olette?"

"Like I said people have been disappearing."

Roxas's eyes widened, "You mean they..."

Seifer nodded taking a place next to his boyfriend, "Yeah they just vanished out of thin air. So did Rai and Fuu."

"What about Vivi?"

Hayner shrugged, "Dunno, I haven't seen him around so more n'likely he disappeared like everyone else."

Cloud finally stepped in, "Will you guys help us out?"

Hayner and Seifer looked at each other and nodded. Hayner gave Roxas a high five, "Just tell us what to do."

Roxas smirked, "Well first we have to get back to Hollow Bastian."

"Well let's get a wiggle on time then!"

They all piled back into the abnormaly large Gummi Ship and headed back towards Hollow Bastian to figure out the next part of they're plan.

-Xemnas and Saix's house-

Saix seemed to be resting peacefully, he suddenly jerked and started breathing hard. Xemnas freaked and screamed Aerith's name.

Aerith hearing her name came as fast as she could, "What's going on!"

"Somethings wrong with him he's breathing hard."

"Oh no this was what I was afraid of." Aerith thought to herself. She ran over and felt his forehead, "My god he's burning up." Aerith ran out of the room and grabbed a blanket, "Xemnas we have to get Saix to a hospital now!" She shouted tears were starting to fall down her face.

Xemnas looked worried as he watched the panicing Aerith run around, "What! Tell me what's wrong!"

"No time for questions we have to go! Help me pick him up." Xemnas did as she said and helped her carry Saix out of the house towards the hospital which was fortunatly very close to their house.

-About an hour later-

Everyone had returned from Twilight town safely, and went to the cafe. They walked in to find no one there. They found a note on the table that had Marluxia's hand writing on it.

"Dear everyone,

Aerith called from the hospital, Saix is in critical condition, she wants you to all come down when you get back. Axel if you say one joke about this I'll rip your fucking body to shreads or else Xemnas will.

Sincerly,

Marluxia."

Axel sweatdropped, "Well way to tell someone to not make jokes."

Cloud thought about Aerith and how traumatized she must be, he hurried out the door. Squall called after him but he didn't seem to notice.

Cloud ran into the hospital seeing Aerith sitting in a chair crying till she couldn't cry anymore. Cloud stopped in front of her and took her hands from her face, "Aerith whats going on?"

"S-Saix...I don't think he's gonna..." She couldn't even finish her sentence before she burst into tears. She pulled away from Cloud, "I just really want to be alone right now."

Cloud's eyes softened, "I understand. I'll be outside if you need anything." Aerith silently nodded.

Cloud walked outside to see that it was raining. He smiled sadly, "Perfect weather for a day like today." He thought to himself, he heard footsteps and looked up to see Squall standing there breathing hard his clothes soaking wet from the rain. He blinked a few times his chocobo color hair dripping wet, "Squall? Did you run all the way here?"

Squall stood up and nodded. He walked over to Cloud, "What's going on?"

"Aerith is a mess." Cloud said sadly looking away.

"Cloud..." Squall grabbed his arm and pulled him into a strong hug.

Cloud looked up at him some what confused, but he soon felt his arms wrapping around the other mans waist. He wasn't sure if this was suppossed to be right or wrong, but right now he really couldn't give a damn.

A/N: Oooooo looks like theres something going on between Squallie and Cloud hehe. The plot thickens and Saix is in even worse condition, I'll get to some more Zexion/Demyx and Marluxia/Larxene stuff and of course we gotta get some Riku/Sora stuff don't worry they'll be plenty of that. Hehe well please review!