Hello again everyone! Chapter 12 is officially up! *applause* Thank you everyone who reviewed! The story hasn't been progressing as fast as I'd hoped but if you have any questions I'm planning on answering anything at the beginning of my next chapter. Oh and by the way this chapter starts out with a dream (just in case you didn't know)

*Lauren/Fury*

The sweat that ran down my back was from two things- the fact that I had been dancing with this guy non-stop for an hour and the fact that this nightclub was insanely hot. The guy I was dancing with had dirty blond hair, blue eyes, and a professionally whitened smile. I acted completely oblivious to the jealous stares of other girls and simply smiled to myself. The song ended and I wiped my hand across my forehead, breathing hard.

"Man screw the gym this place is way better!" I said before taking in another much needed breath.

"Haha we have been dancing for a while" the guy, Shawn, said his blue eyes glued to mine. It was pretty obvious he had a thing for me. Of course that was just part of the plan. A slow song came on and immediately all the couples began slow dancing on the dance floor. Shawn held out his hand to me.

"May I have this dance?" he said with a fake accent. I laughed.

"Actually I was hoping I could run to the bathroom…." I said looking off to the side.

"That's cool. Hey I'll grab us something to drink!" he said before turning towards the food and drinks table. "Meet you back here?"

"Of course" I said with a wink, turning around and heading towards the bathroom. I grabbed my jacket which I had strategically dropped near the bathroom and carefully balled it up, feeling the lump in my jacket pocket and smiling. Once I got in the bathroom I shut and locked the door which had a 'please don't lock' sign on it and checked the stalls to be sure no one else was in there. Then I watched as Fury emerged from my body.

"That guy has some of the most perverted thoughts I've ever heard!" she ranted angrily

"Relax! Here" I said, tossing her the jacket. She caught it and unwrapped it carefully

"Ooohhh nice. These guys really out did themselves on the tech."

"And the disguises" I said, nodding my head in agreement. I looked in the mirror and smiled at my 'self'. According to my boss I was 14 years old, named Phoebe and had naturally jade green eyes and amazing black hair.

"These colored contacts bite" I said rubbing my eye carefully. I turned to her "So are you setting it off?"

"With pleasure" I saw a malicious gleam light up her blood red eyes.

"Well once I leave turn it on and I'll meet you outside in 5!" I said before exiting the bathroom and pulling out 'Phoebe's' phone, a maroon env2 and walked over to Shawn. He handed me a bottle of water which I took in my free hand.

"Bad news" I said waving my phone and putting on a depressed expression.

"What's up?"

"My parents were supposed to be gone until tomorrow but they are heading back tonight! They would sooo kill me if they knew that I spent my night here" I said pointing my finger towards the ground when I said here.

"Oh ok. If you get grounded you know I could just have my parents sue right?" he joked. I smiled for a moment before frowning again.

"So I'll see you around?" he asked hopefully

"Most likely" I said, adding in another wink. I pulled a piece of paper out of my back pocket and handed it to him.

"Phone number?" he asked

"Cell" I said waving my phone again before putting it in my back pocket. His eyes followed my hand and I suppressed the urge to smack him.

"Wait until I'm gone before opening it!"

"Am I in for a surprise?"

"You have no idea" I said before walking out, enjoying the confused look on his face. I walked out to see Fury waiting in the shadows, just as planned.

"Should we stay in watch?"

"It wouldn't be any fun if we didn't" I turned around and watched the club's flashing lights and listened to the music that made its way out the doors and to my ears.

"So what was on the piece of paper you wrote?"

"Just a little note" I said with a smile before rehearsing the note I had given Shawn, word for word. "Dear Shawn, I hate to tell you but you won't be seeing me, or pretty much anyone, again. I was hired to kill you and meeting you here wasn't a coincidence. Unfortunately a bunch of other people had to die too. Well enjoy the last, like, minute of your life! Very sorry (not really) to hear about your passing away.

~ Notorious assassins, Lauren and Fury.

I finished with a contented sigh.

"Nice. You really outdid yourself." Just then there was a huge explosion and we watched as the entire club blew up in a flash of color. "Another job well done"


"Damn that explosion was big. We better get going" We both ran towards the nearest alley and headed towards where our boss said he would be meeting us.

"Remind me why we did this again?"

"Because we are getting paid 250,000 effing munny!"

"I meant why did he pay us to do this?"

"Some politics shit. Like the kid's parents are big faces in the political scheme of things and if the kid's death kept them from going to this big political conference the guy who's paying us will have a great opportunity to make a lot of money"

"The usual reason"

"Exactly" We finally arrived at a run down building to see a man whose face was hidden by a cloak standing outside the building. He was carrying a black briefcase.

"I was hoping for something more original as far as money transferring. Everyone seems to prefer black briefcases though." The man gave a small laugh before handing over the suitcase

"I'm assuming the job's done"

"Did you not see the explosion?" The man just chuckled before walking off. I checked the briefcase.

"We are good to go!" I said, Fury opened a portal and we both stepped through.

"Wake up!! You sleep too much!" Riku yelled in my ear. I shot straight up and hit my head on his bunk.

"Ow" I moaned before curling up into a ball in my bed. Riku grabbed the sheets on my bed and dragged them out of the bed, taking me with them. I landed on the ground with a 'thunk' before curling up again.

"Get up" Riku groaned

"Never" I lay there for a few seconds before Riku picked my up bridal style.

"What the hell?!" I yelled trying to escape but he had an iron grip on me. He carried my out of our room and dropped me on the ground.

"I need to change" he said before heading back into our room, locking the door behind him.

"Damn you Riku" I whispered before summoning the Keyblade and unlocking the door.

"Whoa!" Riku said when I stepped back into the room. "Stupid Keyblade bearer!" he had his shirt half way on and looked pretty pissed at me. I yawned before pointing to the door.

"Out" he just stared at me. I crossed my arms over my chest. "What's your problem?" I asked with an annoyed tone. I wanna go back to bed!

"Nice tank top" was all he said. Damn you Riku. You and your stupid guy hormones!! I eyed the black blindfold that Riku had conveniently placed on the small table on the far side of the room. I lunged at him and slammed him down into my bed. I grabbed the blindfold before tackling him, putting my knee on his chest so he couldn't get up.

"This'll teach you to be a freaking pervert"

"Get the hell off me!" he yelled as I forced the blindfold over his eyes.

"Oh my god!" a voice yelled from behind me. I recognized it as Tidus. I turned around to see him pointing at us with a terrified look in his eyes.

"You guys are…are..." he sprinted out of the room and down the hall.

He did NOT just think that.

I'm afraid to ask what he thought.

I turned to Riku and slapped him before tying the blindfold, very tightly, over his eyes.

"Oh my god I'm blind" Riku joked before sitting up, hitting his head on his bed, and falling back down. "I can't feel my eyes!" he had a fake panic attack before getting up with ease and crossing the room to where his stuff was. "You know I really don't like being blind!"

"I really don't like you"

"Touché. Now get this thing off of me. I prefer seeing!" Just then Kairi came into the room, almost cautiously.

"Tidus is running around yelling that you and Riku are…erm…" she gave me a meaningful look.

"Oh god no!" I yelled waving my arms in front of me.

"What's wrong?" Riku asked looking towards me, or rather, the sound of my voice.

"Tidus thinks I just lost my virginity" I said with a sigh. Riku was silent for a moment before everything clicked.

"Oh my god never in a million years I would sooner be blind!!....erm well permanently" he said

"Well I'm glad that Tidus is wrong. Don't feel too bad though he goes a little over the edge sometimes." Kairi said before leaving the room.

"Now can you take my blind fold off?"

"No I'm gonna change"

"You know that's still kind of gross. Even though I can't see you you're still changing like five feet away from me and- ….what did you just throw on my head?

"It's that beautiful tank top you love so much. I'm sure Kairi won't mind if you borrow it" I said before changing into the rest of my stuff. Riku stuck out his tongue like he just tasted something gross and picked up the tank top between his thumb and index finger before dropping it on the ground. I quickly brushed my hair and tossed the tank top that Riku found so amazing on to my bed before heading out.

"Where are you going?! I'm not gonna be blind all day! A few months was enough for me thank you!" Riku said angrily. I sighed and walked over to untie his blindfold. I had to be careful though because his hair was all tied up in the knot so it took a few minutes to untie. Oh my god his hair is amazing. I smacked myself.

"Uh what was that?"

"Shut up" Riku just laughed. "So Pretty Boy what's with the professional shampoo and conditioner? Oh and the hair dye?"

"Xehanort's Heartless recommended it" Riku said sarcastically. I pulled the blindfold out of his hair and immediately Riku had to make a big deal out of it.

"Holy Jesus I can see again! I've been cured"

"Whatever Pretty Boy I'm out of here."

"Off to see your boyfriend Cloud?" he asked tauntingly. I summoned the Keyblade and turned around. Riku raised an eyebrow.

"Ooohhh scary" he said, rolling his eyes. I pointed the Keyblade at him

"Stopaga" Riku immediately froze. I gently pushed him back to where the bunk bed was and tied the blindfold over his eyes, tightly. Then I headed over to my bag where I kept a piece of rope. I had gotten it as a reward on one of my assassin missions. It was about a foot long but could magically stretch to be miles long. I then tied Riku to the bedpost before heading back out the door.

"Bye! be back in maybe ten hours!" Yes Stopaga was a spell worth mastering.

I arrived at the secret hideout with Yuffie after a few awesome hours of Heartless butt kicking. Riku was the last thing on my mind.

"So when are we heading out again?!" Yuffie asked. "I was just getting warmed up!" I shook my head and laughed.

"I gotta go talk to Cid for a while"

"Whatever I'll go out with Leon or something!" Yuffie called before jogging back out to the Heartless filled streets. I smiled It's impossible to depress Yuffie. I waved over to Cid, catching his attention.

"You ready to go?" he asked. I waved the pouch of munny that I had in my hands.

"Let's get going.

*Sora*

"Ok so it sounds like we are going to Olympus Coliseum first?" I asked. Kairi, Selphie, Wakka, Tidus and I were all gathered around the large table in the gummi ship looking at a map of the worlds. We had spent the last half an hour trying to figure out where we should go first. We had decided on Olympus Coliseum because the heartless there were fairly easy to fight and odds are Hades knew something about how the Heartless were spread out among the worlds.

"I think we should stop at Traverse Town first. Then head to Olympus Coliseum" Kairi said.

"How come" I asked. Kairi and I hadn't been speaking much since she got water spilled all over me.

"Well so we can stock up on accessories and armor and healing items. Didn't you say Traverse Town has a really good variety of things like that?"

"That's a good idea. Ok so we will go to Traverse Town first and then head over to Olympus Coliseum. Now we need to find Lauren and Riku"

"Yuffie said Lauren had gone off with Cid to get something" Selphie said. I nodded.

"Does anyone know where Riku is?" Everyone shook their head. I sighed. Riku had been pretty secluded from the group since Lauren came around. I just hoped he wasn't off doing stupid things that could result in him getting killed. Suddenly there was a huge crash from down the hall. A minute later Riku stomped angrily into the room.

"Where's Lauren?!" he asked angrily. Everyone shook their heads. "I'm gonna kill her. Slowly"

"What did she do?" Kairi asked

"She freaking tied me up in our room" If Riku hadn't looked so murderous right then I probably would've laughed.

"And how did she manage to do that?" I asked, trying to hide the amusement in my voice.

"Stopaga. Whatever the hell that is." Oh I love that spell. Wow that was pretty smart of her. I wonder what he did to piss her off this time….

"Well we should probably go look for her!" Tidus said. We all headed out of the gummi ship and over to the secret hideout. Leon and Yuffie were standing outside.

"You guys are looking for Lauren right?" Leon asked. A few of us nodded

"Well she should be here with Cid any second" Yuffie explained. I heard the sound of a huge engine overhead and looked up to see an amazingly large gummi ship flying over head. Cid's voice came on over some sort of speaking device that was hooked to the outside of the ship.

"She's a beauty! The latest model too!" Cid landed the ship and Lauren came running out.

"Introducing the non-lame gummi ship! It makes yours look like s-

"Hey keep it PG!" Leon yelled what does he have against cussing?

Everyone clapped and cheered as Cid and Lauren explained the perks of the new gummi ship.

"I had enough extra munny to buy it for our little quest, adventure, thing." Lauren explained to me

"Awesome" I said giving her a high five. I looked around to see everyone high fiving and cheering. I had to admit, the gummi ship was pretty amazing. It would some luxurious space travel from here on out. I guess some things really do change.

"I'm gonna fucking murder you Lauren!" And then some things don't.

Haha alright! Chapter 12 is done and I will start on chapter 13! The whole Lauren/Riku thing was (as always) fun to write. (Warning I have never actually been to a nightclub so I have no idea what they are really like). I know a lot didn't happen in this chapter but I wanted to put a little more into the KH crew's time in Radiant Garden before moving on. Next stop Traverse Town! Review please