Hey guys! Here's chapter 12! The title is kinda stupid for this one, but I didn't know what else to call it.

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I had been following Sora for almost two whole days through outer space and through this jungle-like slash snowy world. Apparently an old friend of Sora's needed help getting one of HIS friend's into an army. The only problem was that his friend was a girl and had to pretend to be a boy.

So here I was, following Sora, Donald, Goofy, and their friend Mulan who was going by Ping. Some big Heartless controller was on top of a really REALLY tall mountain and had just sent a large amount of flying Heartless down towards Sora and his companions.

The four of them were fighting crazily and I was standing behind a large rock off to the side watching. Another wave of Heartless came down and noticed me hiding and started flying over to me.

I jumped out and summoned my Keyblades and began to smack away at them. They began to cover me like a large shell while other flew around buzzing and blocking me from any thing outside of them. All of the Heartless that were attacking Sora and the others came over to me also.

I was beginning to have difficulty in defending myself. I space appeared between the Heartless and I could see Sora rushing over urging the others to follow.

"Come on guys! Someone's in trouble! We gotta help!" Sora yelled and he began to swing away at the outermost Heartless.

I saw him coming and realized that he can't see me. I angled my Keyblades so that a large wave of light erupted from them and destroyed all the Heartless around me. I used the light as a cover to teleport up to a cliff up above from where I just was.

"That was weird," Sora said stopping right next to where I had just been. Worried that they would see me, since I was just a few feet above them, I climbed up a little bit just as Sora looked up to watch as the several dozen hearts flew up to the sky.

I watched secretly as a large amount of events happened within a matter of minutes. A few other people came into the pass and were carrying a cannon in their arms. Mulan, or Ping, grabbed it and shot directly at the summit of the mountain, causing a large avalanche. The snow buried the remaining Heartless and the leader. Some captain of the army they were in, came up and somehow found out that Mulan was a girl. I'm not sure how he did since I wasn't really listening. The captain left with the other soldiers, leaving just the four and a small pet dragon in the cold.

I continued to watch as the leader of the Heartless popped out of the snow and headed to a large city in the distance. The four of them ran after him and I followed, bored to death, back through the mountains down to the city.

I climbed up onto a building in the city and watched as Sora and his companions defeated the leader and were praised. Finally, a large beam of light extended from Sora's Keyblade and he set out on his way.

I figured it would take a day for Sora to get to the next world so I teleported home. I appeared in the meeting chamber. Without thinking I jumped up to Zexion's seat, which I had declared as my usual seating arrangement, with my eyes closed. I turned my head in the direction of Xemnas and opened my eyes. But I immediately shot my eyes over to a large amount of red hair across the room.

"Axel," I whispered so quiet that no one could hear me. He smiled back and waved slightly keeping his hands in his lap. I turned back to Xemnas smiling.

"How has the mission been going, Xarene?" He asked.

"Superior, it's been going well. Sora was able to destroy several hundreds of Heartless. He even killed yet another leader of the Heartless. And sir, I made sure Sora didn't pass up the chance to kill even one Heartless," I answered.

"Very good, Seraph of Mortality," Xemnas said. "Now we can continue with the other missions—Xaldin?" Xemnas said turning to the large bodied man off to the side.

Xaldin had his hood pulled over his head for some reason and had his arms, as always, crossed over his chest—since he was sitting he couldn't have them behind his back. "He's doing well, sir. He's slowly turning against her. He recently locked all of his friends in the dungeon, thanks to me," Xaldin said with a large smiling showing from behind his hood.

"And Demyx?" Superior asked turning to the musician.

Demyx was slouched over on the right side of his chair. His elbow was on the large armrest and his chin was resting in his palm. His other hand was drumming a small tune with his fingers on the other armrest.

"Huh? What?" He asked, stopping the drumming and raising his head.

"Aaaaaaare yooooooooou reeeeeeeeadyyyyyyyy foooooor yooooooooour miiiiiiiission, nuuuuumberrrrrrr niiiiiiine?" Xemnas said VERY slowly.

"Oh, yeah! Definitely! Total piece of cake," he said waving his hand down seaming all too confident in himself. He, once again, placed his elbow on the armrest and rested his chin in his hand. He winked at me with a cheesy grin.

I laughed quietly and shook my head to myself as Xemnas continued to speak. "Ok then—well, I suppose we're through, then. Xarene—" Xemnas said turning to me again.

"Yes, sir?" I asked quietly.

"Sora is on his way to the world where Xaldin is working. Come here around eleven tomorrow morning. By then I will have decided whether I need you to accompany him on this mission or if you could stay. Understand?" He said. I nodded. "Alright, then. I'll see you all tomorrow at that time."

Everyone jumped down from their chairs except Axel and I. Once everyone had left the room, I jumped across the room completely and landing on Axel's chair next to him (the chairs were large enough for three people to sit side-by-side). I wrapped my arms around his thin body, crushing him.

"I missed you soooo much!" I said crazily and releasing him.

"I missed you too. Hey—why don't you go back to your room and I'll be there in a few minutes, ok? I have to go and get something real quick. Then we can talk, alright?" he said smiling.

I nodded and teleported to my room. I threw off my cloak and stretched. I walked over to my bed and pulled out a large white box from underneath. I pulled off the top of the box and looked inside.

It was a private box that no one knew about. In here, I kept private journals and such that I didn't want even Naminé to read. I shuffled around inside, just looking at the contents since I hadn't been inside of this box in a long time. My gaze fell upon a drawing that I had made when I was thirteen.

I was bored that day and I usually just made random sketches that I colored and cherished. I never really knew what I was drawing until I was done drawing it. I think the reason I had drawn this was because it had been seven years since I had seen Kairi for real. I was only six when I was taken away and having been away one more year than that made me sad.

I was a simple picture of Kairi and me holding hands. I was on the right side of the picture and she on the left. We were holding our heart pendants with our other hands. For some reason I had drawn us having full color hearts; mine was all black and hers was all white.

We were wearing the outfits that we had worn that year. I had on black shoes that were folded over to reveal the white inside. They had white laces too. I had on a white skirt that was pretty short but I had on white leggings underneath. I had a light blue shirt that only had one long sleeve. The other side of my shirt was just a thin strap. My hair was kinda shorter than usual back then, but it still wasn't as short as Kairi's though.

Kairi was wearing a white tank top with a thin, short sleeve, jacket that came down to her bellybutton. She had a longer skirt on than mine. It was a dark shade of purple and went down to her knees. There was a black and a white stripe heading down the side. She had on a pair of purple sandals that were the same color as her skirt. Her hair was short and had black and white berets on one side.

We both had a vacant expression on our faces. Our dark blue eyes were wide and staring off towards whoever would be looking at the drawing. The background was blank except for a few blotches of grey mist adorning behind us.

All of a sudden I heard the door behind me open. I placed the drawing back inside and hid the box back under the bed in about half a second. I spun around expecting Axel, but surprisingly found Demyx standing there, leaning against the doorframe.

"Well, don't you look good?" Demyx said in a slightly cocky voice.

I looked down at myself to see what he was talking about. My pants were no longer a pitch-black color. They were now a dark grey color from over use. I had been wearing this same outfit for more than a year. Since I hadn't grown that much in the past year, there was no need to go downstairs and get better fitting clothes. My shirt had stayed the same dark color, though. The sleeves didn't go over my shoulders, but rather hung off of them. All together, the tight shirt and over-baggy pants didn't go well together.

"What the hell are you talking about, Demi?" I asked annoyed.

"You just look so good. And—did you just give me a nickname, Beautiful?" He said walking forward still using his cocky voice.

"Demyx—I've been calling you Demi since we were little. And why do you call me that still? I know I just asked you that a while ago, but I would like it much better if you kept calling me Hothead." I said crossing my arms over my chest.

"Fine—the reason I call you that is because I really DO think you are beautiful. Every time I see you, I want you more and more," Demyx said shyly. He leaned into my face. My eyes widened. "I love you, Raene. I always have, I've never wanted anything more than how much I want you."

I leaned in closer and parted my lips slightly. Demyx smiled slightly and followed with preparing to kiss me. Right as I was going to kiss him, I spoke, "Wow. The second smooth-talker not only is a good musician, but is also a good actor," I said closing my lips and pulling away slightly.

Demyx smiled and spoke as he too, pulled back, "I guess I am a good actor, heh?" He turned to leave. He got to the door and was about to step out when he turned and said one more thing before leaving and turning down the hall to the left. "You really are beautiful though, Raene."

I laughed slightly just as Axel walked into the room from the right hallway. He raised an eyebrow in Demyx's direction. I just told him not to worry about it.

He smiled and walked over to me. His arm was hidden behind his back.

"Watcha got there?" I asked nodding my head towards his arm.

"Presents," he said simply.

My eyes widened with excitement. I must've looked like the little girl I once was jumping up and down in place. Axel laughed to himself and walked over to the bed, still hiding whatever it was behind his back.

I jumped onto the bed and kneeled on the white quilt smiling. He pulled a bag out from behind his back and placed it in between us. I shot out a hand for the bag but Axel was quicker than me and snatched it away. I crossed my arms in front of my chest and scrunched up my face in a face that reminded one of a little kid who had just been told that they couldn't have a cookie before dinner.

Axel reached inside the bag and pulled out a little bundle of cloth. I tilted my head to the side, eyeing it carefully until I realized what it was. "Clothes!" I shouted.

I grabbed it from him and held it out. "Go try it on," Axel said shooing me way. I switched to my current alternate clothes and jumped off the bed. I pulled down one of the curtains on my bed and dressed behind it.

It was a shirt. It had no sleeves and was the same color as my previous shirt so that it matched my shoes. I slipped it over my head. It came down a little bit above my bellybutton. There were two little black zipper pockets going diagonal-ways on the stomach area of the shirt. They seamed to be more for decoration then really hold anything.

There was a second part of the shirt that didn't actually attach to the shirt. It was a hood that attached to two sleeves. The hood was black and had white on the rim. The sleeves attached on the backside of the shoulders. The sleeves were short sleeved and were loose like my old shirt's sleeves. They were white but had some bits of black here and there.

I smiled and pulled back the curtain and jumped back on the bed. Axel handed me four bracelets; two black and two white, they were all large, thick bangle-like bracelets. I placed one of each color on each of my wrists. I tightened the black ribbon chocker on my neck and made sure the silver chain to my pendant was tight.

I hugged him nearly choking him to death. He smiled and I thanked him at least fifty times. "I just thought I would get you a little something," he said once I stopped. I smiled like a little kid again and he laughed. "And there is something else," he said reaching his hand back into the same bag.

I opened my eyes really wide in surprise that he had bought me something else. He pulled out a little box that was a dark blue color with silver vine-like patterns adorning the surface. It looked so expensive. I took it carefully in my hands and looked at it with curious eyes.

I stood up and carried it over to the dresser and opened it. A beautiful song began to play. It seamed so familiar but I couldn't recall what it was from. I stood there listening to the enchanting music. Without knowing what I was doing, I began to hum the tune along to the beautiful music. I smiled at it and then closed it.

"You know it?" Axel asked as I turned back to the bed and sat down next to him.

"No," I answered. "I don't know where I have heard it or why I know the tune; it's strange."

"I just thought you would like it so I got it," Axel said scooting to the foot of the bed and facing me once more.

"I love it! Thank you, Axel. But why did you go and buy all these gifts?" I asked.

"I felt sorry for leaving so I thought I should get you something to make it up to you," Axel said looking down. He stretched out his legs and crossed his ankles and folded his arms across his chest.

"You didn't have to do that." He looked up and smiled. "Let's not talk about that, though. Let's just talk."

"Ok. What about" Axel asked.

I kicked off my shoes and reviled my newly painted toes that matched my also newly painted fingers. My left hand and foot were painted a bright white to be opposite from my left Keyblade. My right hand and foot were painted dark black to also be opposite from that side's Keyblade. "I dunno, anything," I answered.

I slid under the thick, white quilt as Axel began to talk and I listened. We talked for hours and laughed at old memories from when we were little. After a few hours, I had fallen asleep peacefully.

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Yeah and kinda bad ending but who cares. I 'm the author I can do it the way I want. Thanks for reading! R&R please!