Namine with an e where and how do we do the wriggly line on top thingy? And btw sorry if the last chappie is not up to standards, I was desperate. Writer's block.

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In which Namine goes to a party p3

The scene in the hall is a fiasco. Students are running everywhere as long as they are going away from the black figure on the stage with red dots. It is out of control and slashing everything with a black rope. Or sword. And the heartless looks quite familiar somehow…

The first thing that came to mind is "Anti-Sora?" But if he is Sora why is he attacking the students here?

"We must sedate them and wipe them clean." Roxas shouts out above the din.

"Well, how are we supposed to do that?" I barked back. The students have already moved towards the exit.

"Use the pendant!" I clasp my hands to the pendant. This is an emergency.

"Well?" I felt a pang or pain like ice driving in my veins and pulled my fingers away. It is brimming with white cold gas.

Then I knew how to use the ability. That ability. I put my hands to the temple of my head. Then everything seems to happen at once. I felt as if I got ripped from my body. The pain is excruciating but it came off almost immediately. I felt very light and open my eyes.

The scene before me felt unreal yet true. I am floating in the air, my body under me is slumped unconscious. I can see colors as bodies ran about below me. It felt like an out of body experience.

Roxas sling my body on the shoulders and take me to a safer place. "Do it now!"

"Hai." I put out my hands, feeling the energy of panic and fear through the colors as the streamed to my hands, creating a ball of colored energy. Memories of different people race through me, making me feel weak as I tried to control them. I then willed very hard. They became slower and I knew, they have been wiped clean from the incident. But I cannot just leave loose ends. I created another memory and insert it. Done. As I release the energy, I saw all slumped, asleep on the ground. I floated to my body and dove in.

I wake up, gasping and sweating cold sweat. Roxas has already gone off to control Sora. But I could have sworn, one person still is standing. The girl in black. I didn't see her in my paranormal vision. How could it be so? She looks at me suddenly.

"Namine, I'll be waiting for you next time. You're too weak now." That startled me. I thought if we are weak, it is the best chance to attack. But she is gone in a flash. But I can never forget the way she looks at me. With respect yet repulsiveness.

Roxas has cornered Anti-Sora and shot a beam of light at the heartless, making it unconscious and the red dots turned into yellow ones but he did not transform back to the old Sora. I watched as Roxas carried him. He then looks at me.

"C'mon. Follow me."

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"This is where you stay? I thought it is an abandoned building." I commented blindly as we arrive at the 'Haunted' house of Old Bailey Major. It has never been used nor bought and I wonder why. Now I know.

We stop at a rotten trap door and descended into it. I watched as Roxas put Anti-Sora in a typical cage.

"Why didn't you turn him back?" I cried out. That has been bothering me.

"You can't. Since Sora can use the power of his shadow, it won't change until he decides so." Roxas replied back.

"So what should we do?" I ask, following him about in the strange cellar full of computer stuff. It looks like Batman's basement.

"Wait." He said simply and goes off upstairs. "Stay here until I come back 'kay?" He really looks serious if not, worried. He then disappeared.

I am alone now with Anti-Sora. I went to the cage and clutch the bars.

"Why Sora, why?" I whispered sadly. He stirred and slumped back. I decided to go inside to see if he really is okay and not killed. So I open the cage and close it behind me. Really dumb of me. But I'm concerned of Sora now.

I drew nearer and reach my hands out to touch him. But I snatched it back. I'm too scared. I shake myself for being silly and acting on impulse. I then decided to just wait as Roxas has told me. But I feel strands of coldness curling up my legs. I froze.

"No, don't go Kairi." He moaned. He opens the beady yellow dots and tried to sit up but slumped back, groaning in pain. I want to help him but I am scared. Walking towards the exit is now difficult as the nearer I got to it, the more firmly the strands of shadow grip me.

"Sora…" I turned around and I felt no longer scared. Understanding dawned on me. He must be suffering like me, from the past, and cannot let go. Kairi must be somebody that is close to him. I go to him and stroke his hair softly.

"I'm sorry that you must suffer, Sora. Kairi must be really close to you." I felt sorry yet hurt. I know now, he only likes me because in some way or another, I reminded him of Kairi. We go back to being friends.

He did the unexpected. I got pulled in close, very close. "Don't go, Namine." He said my name. My name. Namine. The strands of darkness are circling around me, around us. It pushes me in his arms. It tickled my ear and snaked up my hair. It's trying to swallow me. But I knew, he just wants somebody to be there for him. Misery loves company.

"No," I lifted the pendant and press it to him. The darkness withdrew slowly, down to the floor. Sora dropped to his knees. The light must help him in some way. Go away, shadow. Please. I silently pray. And it is answered. Sora is back to normal.

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Roxas and I are inside the living room. A huge one that is. We are discussing about what happened. He still is amazed at what I have done.

"You shouldn't have done that! You know, you could have gotten yourself killed!"

I am still at the time where Sora's eyes look at me. Full of hurt and despair. Kairi…

"Who is Kairi?" I take a sip of black tea from a mug. That question shot him dumb. He looks sad.

"Sora's childhood friend."

"So you must know her."

"No." That makes me sit up. I can smell something major coming.

"Actually," he scrunches up his face as if on concentration and kept messing up his hair. "We are not related."

"So," I said quietly. "You have been lying to me?" There is a tense silence afterwards.

"No. Only this part." He breaths out a complicated sigh. "See here. Actually him and I… we are clones."

"Which is which?"

"Me. I'm his clone." I can see the truth in his eyes.

"How did this happen?" I reach out and touch his hand. I can see pain in him too. His hands tense up at my touch but then relax.

"It happened a decade ago." A decade?

"How old are you?!" He answered. I gaped. He is as old as the youngest teacher! He's supposed to be twenty three!

"Why are you… stuck?"

"Yes. In this age."

"Wow." I lean back. "You could have been my father. Joking!"

"No offence taken. You see…it happened a decade ago. I wasn't created. Sora is supposed to be a chosen soul blader from the light of Kingdom hearts. But in the process of saving the world, Kairi got killed. He is more than sad. He's like a shadow of himself. That is when he turned Anti-Sora. Finally, we must get Merlin to help him control it. But in the process I was born. Only soul bladders can create clones like me 'cause of the soul blade. It has strange qualities."

I leaned forward, eager for more truth. "I was naïve then and unsure of the world. I got taken in by the wrong person. The organization that created this whole thing." I gasped.

"But I got exploited. They are searching for something, the Krystal heart. It is rare only found in humans, pure ones and it only surfaced again until the possessor got killed. Then another person born will get it. They thought I have it. So my heart was taken. But it is not the one. So when I have it back, I'm changed. I can see people in colors. Their aura. I finally found the right path and decided to use my gift for good. The person with the Krystal Heart have no color."

"What do they want with it?"

"They are failed experiments with no mortality. They just existed; no purpose and they want to restore themselves. It was them who created the heartless. The balance can righten itself alright but they created more damage by exploiting the balancer. It is beyond control. And they are still in hot pursuit for it. And that is bad. 'cause if they use it, it will never come back. No balance and no cure. Some say that the Krystal heart split themselves into seven and embed themselves into the princess hearts. But to no such avail. So the search continues."

I'm sorry. I'm really am, I want to say. But no words can cure him. He's scarred and too deep to heal. Even time cannot change him 'cause time stopped. For him, for Sora.

"So when the balance is restored, will you continued being this age or revert back to twenty three?"

"That I cannot answer."

I went over and hug him, making him surprise. His blue orbs widen with surprise. He's still like a small kid and he needs to know that sometimes, things are still okay. Growing too fast is not good. And he's like that.

"It's okay," I murmured softly in his ear. "It's okay to cry." And he did that.

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Sora stirred and wakes up. He heard sobbing and is afraid Asami is the one who is sobbing on the stage or is it Kairi? It felt so blurry. He felt Kairi, he is sure. But then he felt Namine too. What is happening?

The faces mixed and blend in together. Then it cleared. He's in the same cage, a decade ago. He sit up, panicked. "Kairi?" He walks to the door and opens it. He heard the sobbing again. Roxas?

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"Roxas?" a cautious voice piped out. It's Sora.

"I got to get to him. Here," I held out a tissue and he took it, the tissue and my hand.

"Please don't go." He pleaded. I smiled gently and tried to act motherly.

"Now, you sure don't want Sora to see you like that." He smiled through his tears.

"Namine? Why are you in the…NAIMINE?!" He jumped about a foot in the air.

"Long story cut short." I replied and started the story.

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I'm gonna end the story soon. There might be a sequel. I dunno but it might be essential to explain what happened to the organization. SO keep ur fingers crossed!

~SeraphineKH