Me: Yes! I made it out alive!

Xybaile: -_-+ You just had to tie me to a chair over a shark tank...

Me: O.O *Puts a screen up so you can't see her* Anyway... n.n' I don't own Kingdom Hearts.

Chapter 9: Surprise Alliances

I woke up, exhausted as if I never slept. I rubbed my eyes and yawned. I slowly went back to sleep peacefully... Until water sprayed on my face. "Ah!" I jumped off my bed and slapped whoever was spraying me.

"Ow! Man, I thought we were friends!" Demyx rubbed his cheek with a new red hand print.

I nervously laughed, "Sorry Demyx. First reaction?"

"Whatever." He mumbled.

"Let's go get-" I was cut off at more spray coming at me. I put my hands up and managed to say, "Demyx! I told you to stop!"

"I'm not doing that." Demyx said over the spray.

"Then who is?" I demanded.

The spray came to a stop followed by a voice saying, "Huh, looks like I control water." I cleared my eyes and saw Tikal standing in my door way looking at her hand.

"Never do that again..." I glared at her. Tikal got the hint and ran off. "So, ready for breakfast?" I asked Demyx cheerfully.

"Might want to dry yourself off first." Demyx laughed.

"Oh right, meet you there." I said and playfully pushed him out of my room. I grabbed a towel out of my closet and quickly dried myself off. I ran out of my room once I was ready and ran to the table. I stopped short when I saw Roxas holding Xion's hand under the table. I closed my eyes for a split second, then sat down.

"Hey Xy. You okay?" Roxas asked me. He looked at me with those brilliant blue eyes with that look of care for his friends, it cracked a place in my chest.

"Fine Roxas. Just fine." I mumbled. I looked down at the table and felt Roxas's eyes linger on me for one more second before returning to secretly glance at Xion.

Tikal looked at me, knowing I was lying. "What's really wrong?" She whispered.

"I can't tell you. I promised a friend." I whispered. She gave me a 'come on, Xy.' look that I ignored and soon it turned into a puppy dog look. "I said no." She glared at me and pouted, making me laugh.

After breakfast, Roxas and I went on a simple mission to collect hearts. No biggy right? Well, until the clock tower at least. We made the long climb that I'm used to by now and ate our ice cream in silence. "Okay Xy, I've head enough of this silence. What is wrong?" Roxas suddenly said, nearly dropping his ice cream in frustration.

I mumbled softly, "I like you."

"What was that?"

"I like you!" I yelled right as everyone else, including Tikal this time came. They froze and Axel dropped a stick of sea salt ice cream; their eyes wide. I blushed fiercely and said, "I have to go." I got up, my ice cream finished, and pushed my way through my friends. I dropped my stick while running. I didn't see the "Winner" printed on the stick, I just ran with a few tears rolling down my cheek making my vision and my purple eyes fuzzy. I heard the echoing of my steps and turned around and saw Irmax and Tikal following me. "Leave me alone!"

"Not on our lives." Tikal and Irmax chorused.

"I don't need you here!" I faltered in my step as I tripped over a rock. 'Where'd that come from?' I struggled to regain my balance and Irmax and Tikal sped up and steadied me.

"I think you do." Irmax whispered. "You just tell Roxas about your feelings(and the fact that you can feel them) and then you run off. Talk to us."

"First, where'd this forest come from?" I looked forward and saw a forest.

"It's been there." Tikal said.

"Of course, and I haven't noticed." I mumbled.

Tikal smirked, "Of course you haven't! You're you!"

I glared at her. "Not helping."

"But this will!" Irmax suddenly started talking like a young kid. "Huh, wha' was dat? I felt somethin' land on ma head. Wha' was dat?" She looked up and said, "Uh oh. SQUIRREL ATTACK!" She ran off and left me and Tikal falling to the ground because we laughed so hard.

"Yup... That worked." I managed to say through laughs.

Irmax came running back and put up a double victory sign and smiled. "Ha!"

I opened my eyes that had closed in my laughter and saw something in the tree's branches above us. I stopped laughing and looked up curiously. "Huh?"

"What are you looking at Xy?" Tikal asked when her laughter died down. I pointed up and she looked too.

'Wait, did something just move up there?' I thought a split second before two girls jumped out of the tree. One wore a white robe with loose flowing sleeves and a golden belt to hold it in place that contrasted with her tanned skin. The other had on a black t-shirt and black jeans that contrasted with her mid way tan and white skin. The first had long, dark brown hair and blue eyes that looked sad in one and pure hope in another. The other one had black hair with blue and white streaks and brown eyes. They were about the same height but the second one was ever so slightly taller.

"What are you doing here near our woods?" The second asked in a fighting stance.

I scrambled up and stood next to Irmax while Tikal did the same. "Who are you?"

"Answer my question first." The second growled.

"We were just walking around when we ended up here." I said. True we weren't walking but like anyone would be able to tell.

"Then how come you were running when you came over here?"

... HOW? "How can you tell?"

"We were on boarder patrol." The second rolled her eyes. I just looked at the second one and out of the corner of my eyes, I saw the first one look at me like she was trying to remember something.

I looked over at her and she gasped, "Wait, you're that girl from the train!"

I blinked at her. "What are you talking about?"

She then turned to Irmax. "And you're the girl who killed my family!" Hysteria blazed in her blue eyes, almost covering the sadness and hope. "How come you left me alive and everyone else dead?"

The second held the first back from attacking Irmax. "Whoa Zara! She's probably not! That was like a thousand years ago right?"

"What was a thousand years ago?" I was getting really confused by this pair. "Who are you?"

"Now is as good a time as any I guess. My name is Scarlet and my friend here is Zara." Scarlet struggled to calm Zara.

"Why?" Zara was yelling hysterically while glaring at Irmax.

"I have no clue what you're talking about!" Irmax yelled.

Zara calmed down a bit and said, "You look just like the girl who killed my family."

Tikal spoke up before Irmax could talk. "Maybe it was her in some sort of past life." We all looked at Tikal in confusion. "What? It could happen."

"She has a point." Scarlet said. "It is possible. Maybe the killer's heart moved from a Heartless to a person over and over again until it ended into a Nobody."

"Wait, you guys are with Organization XIII right?" Zara asked suddenly. Tikal, Irmax, and I glanced at each other before nodding. "Then, I have a proposition for you."

"I refuse to join where ever you come from." I said.

"I wasn't going to say that." Zara glared at me. "One of my first friends is in your Organization. Where we're from, our leader is plotting against your Organization but we don't know what. Scarlet and I will be like the spies and we'll tell you when and what they're planning to do."

"So, you guys risk your butts to save Organization XIII when we're supposed to be your enemy?" I asked. They nodded and I said, "As long as no one dies."

"Alright. Meet back here tomorrow around this time." Zara said.

"Okay." Tikal, Irmax, and I replied.

"See you later." With that, the pair ran off into the forest.

"Wait, I just thought of something..." Tikal said.

"A little late you know." I said.

"I know, but what if a message is written and one of their team members find it?"

"We need code names." The three of us said simultaneously and walked back to where the dark corridor was as the sun set another good bye to the town for today. By the time it rose again in the morning, we would have a secret name and will be different in a way.

God! It's been forever(or at least it seems like it) since I've updated this!

Xybaile: CAN SOMEONE UNTIE ME HERE?

Me: ^-^' Right. Sorry. Uh, on second thought, with that look in your eyes no I won't.

Xybaile: I won't kill or injure you.

Me: Fine. *Unties her*

Xybaile: Thanks *Punches me* I never said anything about hurting you.

Me: Having a Nobody sucks... Bye for now! R&R People.

Xybaile: And I won't have to kill VE 1314. ^-^

Me: 0.0