Okay, wow. It has taken me so long just to update this. I'm so, so, so, so, so sorry! I know I actually have followers on this story; which is big for me.

Though no reviews from any one I don't personally know. =(

It was around this time last year when I decided I would start this story. We're now up to chapter eight on FanFic and I have more than half the story written; believe me we haven't passed introductions.

Thank you to daniellovessora for her alert to my story ^^

And I suppose I should thank Smilemandalore and AustralianGypsy for their reviews. Aussie-bitch is still picking on my spelling!

Well this Chapter was read over five times with three edits in the past week O_O If there Is one spelling mistake I will not be happy. -.- (I'm actually trying to improve my spelling and Grammar). Word document says 3,178 words =D

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** DISCLAIMER: I MangaCrazy101 (Jb), do not own any of the Kingdom Hearts characters. I am merely writing a Fanfiction! I only own Tsuki-Yuffie, all other non square-enix or Disney characters belong to my Friends; Zack- haha_tommy, Gypsy- AustrlianGypsy. Kate- DoubleOh. Rose- XxPetXVampirexX, Henry- Henza, Ingrid-Sp3ddlez, Jake- MiniMan911 and Jasmine- DeltoraFan71. I appologise for any OOC! Part owner ship of story belongs to XxPetXVampirexX who helps me write these! Dedicated to DoubleOh the winner of my competition 3 **

Chapter 8: Get your game on.

"RUN!" Rose yelled to Ingrid, who obliged straight away. Ingrid took a breath as she stumbled across the court they were on. Cloud missed her by a whisker, so close that she could feel his clenched fist brush against her face, her heart pounded harder than ever. She quickly moved and tried her luck at kicking him, her throat hurt rasping for breath.

Ingrid ran at Cloud forcing her leg into the air as she entered his personal space bubble, thinking she at last had a shot. He easily thwarted the attack, yawning as he held her foot in the air and she struggled to pull her leg from his grasp.

Rose ran full throttle at Cloud, fists clenched so tight they whitened like the face of a Geisha girl. Two metres from her target she attacked, sweat pouring from every inch of her exhausted body. Rose kicked off from the ground gaining speed and momentum and set her fists to auto-pilot for immediate contact to Cloud's head; concealed under his gravity defiant, spiky blonde hair.

Cloud saw this from the corner of his eye, waiting for the right moment; he soon stepped to the left at exactly the right timing; letting go of Ingrid so Rose accidentally punched her comrade fair in the jaw. Both female teenagers fell ina crumpled heap on the concrete paved ground in front of Merlin's somewhat strange-looking house

"Well… that was hard…" Cloud said sarcastically as he looked down at the two sore and battered girls. Rose rubbed her but; feeling a sharp and distinguished pain in her tail bone, or a Gypsy would call it; her ass-bone. A cut was deeply engraved into her right cheek, lightly bleeding and she has several bruises all over her white body.

"Cloud," Rose whined, "Can we stop now? We've been going for over an hour!" He shook his head; his expression didn't change at the slightest; those two knew nothing of combat.

It was a fairly warm day and Cloud knew that the new beginners would feel as though the sun was pelting everything it had at them; even though he was wearing all black and most was made of wool and leather.

"So? I did over 8 hours training a day." Ingrid rubbed her jaw, looking up at Cloud as if he was crazy. Her black hair was in knots and was invaded by grass and bugs and all sorts of other unidentified materials. Rose stumbled groggily to her feet, helping Ingrid up when she was stable enough to support her own self.

"Please?" rose batted her eyelashes at him, obviously oblivious to his immunity to those sorts of things.

"For me?" Rose He raised a brow and took at step back. What was this, some sort of seduction? It was more a source of a turn-off than a turn-on than anything else.

"Erh… fine…" Cloud didn't really know how to reply to that. Ingrid let out a wince from the sharp pain running through her jaw; she quickly tried to ease it so the pain wouldn't get worse, her mouth was parched and she felt like she could eat ten snadwhiches with 'the lot!'

"You know if you actually hit someone…" She emphasised the word 'actually'.

"You might inflict some damage…!" Rose held back a glare and just smiled.

FWIP! BANG! FWIP! A man with greasy, extra-long ebony hair breathed slowly as he took in the scenery. It was a shower of bullet shells and arrows over the range; as if it was a war zone. Who knows, in the future it could be.

A young man wiped his brow after he took his last shot; he had brown hair that lay just beneath his ears. His hair caught the sunlight, making it glow dusk orange and deep red. His body was very well kept, his structure was elegant and his muscles were well seen through his tight blue shirt and his denim jeans.

"Zack!" His ears twitched at the sound of his name and his head automatically turned to the right on cue. His crossbow was still strapped to his arm and he still had his Quiver (arrow holder) strapped to his back. Zack faced Tsuki's younger cousin, Jake; who was holding up some bullet shells.

"Maybe we could make something out of these later?" Zack smiled knowingly; the kid knew him too well. Zack liked to make things, it was a part of him; just as sure as Gypsy was an Otaku. He also liked to draw; Tsuki, Gypsy and himself had always been competing against each other; he guessed he was just creative.

He took the 50 or so bullet shells and dropped them into his Quiver. That's when the cynical, dark man approached them. Jake felt a shiver down his back; for some unknown reason this guy creeped him out. Maybe it was the cold, hard stare of his dark brown eyes? Maybe it was the golden coloured metal arm and leg he had? Or maybe it was even the fact he never missed a target.

"So, erm, Vincent. How did we do?" Zack asked scratching the back of his tussled brown hair with his free hand. Jake's blue eyes looked up through his light brown fringe, his arms hurt from holding his pistols all day; he wasn't muscular at all. Vincent just stood there looking at them.

"You did well…" He finally said as Zack snatched his praise from the air and hugged onto it mentally, he had always wanted someone to praise him for being able to shoot something; though he never done it until today. Even though many of his friends portrayed him as 'stupid', he was in all of the top classes, besides geography.

Zack was in year eleven (junior in America) at Rarriniane High school. Rarriniane… would he ever be there again…? Rarriniane was a city surrounded by farmland. It was a beautiful city, not monstrous like L.A. or Sydney; it was a peaceful city in New South Wales, Australia. Though he had not been born in New South Wales, he was originally from Queensland; everyone else was from New South Wales. Kate; however, was from America.

"Although you're not there yet; you still couldn't defeat an Organisation member or even a shadow heartless." Zack's mental image of praise just popped into thin air; like a needle popping a balloon. He sighed and looked at Jake; they would be training a long time if they didn't find this portal soon.

Soon the three started to head back to Merlin's house from the target range outside Ansem's Castle. Vincent went into an explanation on how a gun just wasn't a weapon; it was your soul. It held your life, your well-being, in its tiny- but deadly, bullets.

"Argh; I can't take it anymore!" Gypsy yelled throwing her shuriken at the ground after collecting her seemed 40th attempt at hitting a stationary scarecrow, but all her attempts to slice it into bits had been un-achieved.

"I'll show you again." Yuffie sighed as she took out a couple of silver throwing stars from one of her pocket in her short shorts.

"First. You figure the range." She carefully estimated how far she would have to throw it.

"Then speed," Yuffie calculated how fast she would have to throw it.

"Direction," She lined up the target.

"Hold it between the 'bad finger' and your pointer; pull back your arm" Yuffie demonstrated her instructions.

"And let it fly!" She easily flung the throwing star into the air; her results were remarkable for the hundredth time; straight in the head.

Gypsy groaned.

"Maybe we should try Kunai?" Gypsy offered, grumbling the words. Yuffie nodded and went into a full detail briefing on the parts and uses for kunai.

Henry huffed; this was not good for his metabolism. Fighting against Leon was hard; especially since he hadn't even hit him yet! Three hours had passed and it was getting exceptionally dark, sweat poured of his face and his lungs worked in over-drive.

"You wanna call it a night?" Leon dodged Henry's attack and smiled triumphantly as he asked him; he was barely out of breath. Henry; being the pre-adult he was, didn't want to chicken out and be a dunce.

'Nah; keep it coming!' He parried Leon's gun-blade with a flick of his two-handed sword.

Henry was going terribly; even though he was the best fencer in his whole school. Though he knew wasn't fencing anymore; this was a real-deal sword fight. And damn was it hard!

Henry had the occasional bruise or cut but nothing too serious. He realised Ingrid, Rose and Cloud were watching them spar. Henry had liked Ingrid for some time now. She was pretty, strong, out-going; all the good traits you could want in a girl. She was all out country but with a sass style; not a pussy girl, like Jasmine. He felt a new found confidence and a will to impress.

Leon made his move; running forward yielding his gun blade, ready to attack. Usually Henry would have been the first to dodge this move but he stood his ground, with his breath heavy and his muscles clenching as Leon drew closer. Rose gasped, sort of throwing Henry off-balance; he fell to the right, tripping Leon over and accidentally knocking them both to the ground! Gasps all round.

"Leon!" Ingrid ran to his side; luckily she had done sport studies (unlike Gypsy and Tsuki who had taken Food Tech) and her teacher had made her take a first aid course.

"Leon? Can you hear me?" He nodded and clutched his shoulder. She examined his shoulder, Henry's tow-handed sword had gone through his shoulder, luckily it was only the tip.

"Henza! Can you get my bandage in my back pack?" Henry did as he was asked, while she put some icy cold water onto the shoulder area.

Henry handed the bandage to her, who wrapped it around Leon's shoulder.

"There, that should hold till someone can help it!"

F.F. (FAST FORWARD)

Aerith properly bandaged Leon's shoulder as he sat on the lounge. Merlin had done his best at magically healing the wound with Cura, but no remedy was as good as time.

"Good thing Ingrid was there." She looked from Leon to Ingrid, smiling innocently through her light emerald eyes.

"Thanks." Leon drably said to both of them as he leaned back in a bit of pain.

"Don't move too much." Ingrid warned him; strange, warning a game character…

"Don't worry Ing, I've had worse." He smiled at her again. Yesterday's attack still hung in the air. Kate was out practicing her skills with Cloud, Yuffie, Roxas, Sora and Kairi. Henry, Jake and Zack had disappeared and Gypsy and Ingrid were trying to convince Leon he only needed one belt, not seven. Though his excuse was; decoration.

Rose sat afar at the bailey looking out at 'Radiant gardens', thinking of her old life in Rarriniane. Would she ever be there again? If she did end up getting back, when would it be? The only good thing about this was Cloud. She loved him as a character and now that she was 'digital animation or he was real', it seemed okay to have a crush; sort of.

Jasmine talked to Tifa about boys and how many she had dated while Tsuki lazily sat on the lounge thinking of home, a place of solitude that she didn't even know if she would ever see again. They needed to find that portal, if there was even one. So how could all the Organization members be alive? Namine? Roxas?

How was this even logically possible?

She tilted her head to the side as she saw something outside the window that Kate decided wasn't good enough for her to jump out of.

"Aw crap!" Everyone turned to her as she pointed to the window that wasn't broken. A flexible tall blue and grey creature, a 'nobody' floated across the quad. Tifa muttered something and then they saw Sora smash his keyblade into the dusk, making it disappear in a swirl of purple dust.

"What was that?" Ingrid yelled. Tsuki sighed, why didn't Ingrid know anything about Kingdom Hearts? Oh yeah; she had a life.

"That was a nobody – a 'dusk'." She Tifa mumbled as she flicked her luxuriously long, jet black hair.

"Which means the Organization is planning something again." Leon scowled; his voice full of obnoxious hate. Everything was going downhill in the last few days, ever since Sora and his two friends came on a mission.

"But it's okay to destroy nobody's, right? Just not heartless; otherwise we'll remake Kingdom Hearts which is what they want, Right?" Tsuki looked around at baffled faces. Leon nodded silently looking down at the ground as he leaned against the wall, arms crossed.

"You know too much." Tsuki's body suddenly froze with cold shivers running up her spine at the cold voice of Riku. She turned around to face him as he walked up to her so close. His breath tingled the side of her neck.

"I will find out how you know so much. And when I do," He took a breath lingering over her ear. "look out." Tsuki couldn't turn to look at him, even though she knew he had walked away; his whisper still rang, echoing through her ears and her mind, shocking her to the bone.

She was only trying to help everyone and yet it would seem that they didn't want help. Or at least Riku didn't. She knew she had to be careful of what she could and couldn't say now, she scolded herself.

"And when you're in mortal peril, I won't save you, EVER!" Riku whispered from behind her, she turned around quickly on the spot; all her hairs were standing on end. Was he behind her this whole time? He gave an evil stare; those aquamarine eyes staring, at her! He walked away silently, that dead type of silent where all you can hear is the dead silence between two people.

"What was that?" Tsuki jumped a mile at Sora, who popped out of nowhere. She caught her breath; somehow and looked up at the spiky brunette.

"I dunno Sora, but something tells me that Riku has a case of bi-Polar." Tsuki sighed and sat down on the comfy grey and white stripped couch.

Merlin; who was smoking on a pipe, slowly rocked back and forth in his rocking chair.

"My dear Jasmine, how did you like our training today?" He suddenly said out of nowhere, everyone turned to look at her, she was training?

"I liked it." She merely said, shrugging her shoulders that were unseen through her dyed blue hair. Jasmine was very petite and wasn't someone to get excited easily. She was from a pretty rich family (but no one else was a snob), and liked social status. Her eyes were pretty, with long, curly eyelashes, her clothes were always clean and she never had broken a nail in her life!

"What are you training for?" Jake finally asked; he was sweating still from today's target practice. Jasmine pushed back her blue hair from her face and smiled her devilish smile.

"I'm training to be a magician." She said; somewhat seductive. Jake shivered; that was gross how could she do that to anyone and everyone and usually get away with it?

Tsuki had a realisation run through her mind; she was the only one not training, it seemed as she was useless. Maybe that's why Riku had suddenly gone all bi-polar on her.

Leon and Cloud wanted everyone's attention. Everyone shut up and gave them their undivided attention.

"Well, so far you're doing well for beginners." Rose snickered at that; she was still recovering from the whole lance ordeal and wasn't so good at her training she must admit, but at least she didn't get stabbed by an amateur with a sword.

"We'll be dividing you into groups based on skills, strengths and weaknesses."

'Groups?' Ingrid thought; for what?

"We'll be going to other worlds in to look for the portal." Rose clenched her fist, that's if there was one; her hand became somewhat sweaty but she couldn't breathe little own move.

"Okay groups one taken by me;" Cloud started looking down at a sheet of paper in his gloved hands.

"I've got; Tifa, Vincent, Rose, Ingrid and Henry." Zack look solemn, he couldn't be in the same group as his friend; Henry but, the three of the amateurs in the one group? He sighed; wondering how well that would go down. Whereas Rose had this aura of triumphant surrounding her; yes she could be with Cloud.

"Next; group 2 with Riku." Riku was at the back of the room leaning against a book case.

"Which are Tsuki, Yuffie Zack and Gypsy." Riku's eyes widened and he stood up straight.

"Why is she on my team?" He pointed directly at Tsuki who huffed, she didn't disagree with this group at all she liked Riku; a lot, he was her favourite character...or 'real' person?

"It's just how it worked." Leon said dryly, giving Riku an untimely death glare. Riku shifted his feet in position, returning the death stare; he sat down; Leon knew that little conversation will continue later.

"Next is Sora's group." Sora didn't say nor do anything but Henry could see light beaming off him; as he were ever so proud.

"That's Namine`, Jake, Jasmine and myself.' Leon stated, except everyone knew since Leon couldn't fight; so he wouldn't go anywhere.

Ingrid sighed she wasn't with Kate, Gypsy or Tsuki. No she was stuck with Tsuki's siblings. This sucked, if they couldn't get home; she at least wanted a group with her friends.

"What makes you guys so special you get to choose the groups?" Ingrid growled; her black hair sat over her face on tangles.

"Yeah! I want to be with Sora!" Kairi stood up and stamped her foot in a huff and pulled a pouty face.

"Drama queen." Gypsy muttered under her breath, giving Kairi daggers.

"We are the most experienced in battle. Well besides Vincent and Merlin." Kairi plopped herself down in anger, Ingrid glared at Leon; you would think he'd be nicer to her after she helped him.

"Last is run by have Roxas, with; Cid, Kate and Kairi."

"WHAT?" Kate stood up in immediate anger.

"Why am I with her?" Kate's brown blonde hair shimmered in the little light there was left of the day, while her eyes directly glared upon a certain red-head.

"It's just how it worked, ok? Come and sit down." Roxas smiled at her and Kate pouted. She sat down in a huff. Kairi folded her arms, these girls were so mean, and she'd never done anything to them.

Namine` sighed, she had never fought before, so why was she in a group? Better to just leave it than to make world war III. Henry sat on the couch and sighed; watching arguments being thrown across the room like a spectator at a tennis match.

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