Eve: For those of you who are going, "I already read chapter 14.." Well.. I'm sorry but I made a few extra changes then reposted it. I understand if you guys dun wanna read it again. That's fine.
Kizu's Point of View
I opened my eyes to see the ceiling of my room. As usual, thoughts rushed into my brain.
"Ansem in an Organization coat? What's going on…? And where were Roxas and Xion? They usually meet up at the tower.. I hope they're okay. What did Axel and the rest of the Organization need to talk about? I don't understand. Why would Axel want me to check up on Roxas and Xion instead of going to the meeting? Did the meeting have to do with them? Did Roxas and Xion find out that.. No never mind. I doubt that.. If they found out, Xemnas would instantly try to eliminate.. No.. That didn't happen.. If it did, Axel would say something to me. Ugh.."
I rubbed my eyes and sat up.
"No use in confusing myself and thinking too much.. I wonder if anyone is up yet…"
After changing into a new Organization outfit, I walked out of my room and into the Grey Room. I looked left to right. Xigbar was standing next to Saix, discussing something and Xion was sitting on the couches… Xion! I ran over to her with a small smile.
"Hey Xion," I said as I walked up to her.
Nearly jumping out of her seat, she replied, "Oh hello Kizu." I noticed a plastered smile on her face…
"Do you have a mission today?"
"Yes. Twilight Town." She was quiet for some reason too…
"Are you leaving soon?" I skeptically questioned.
"I was about to leave actually."
"I'll go with you."
She stared at me for a few seconds. "Why would you want to go with me?"
"Let's just go," I repeated, eyeing Saix and hoping that he didn't notice anything.
I quickly opened a Corridor of Darkness and Xion simply looked at it before walking in. I followed her afterward.
-What should have been done-
After I stepped out of the portal, I stated, "I heard what had happened. Are you okay? What did you do when you ran away?"
Xion just looked away slightly and was silent.
"What's wrong?" I said a few minutes of silence.
Xion just walked toward the Underground Passage with the big, neon green number 4 was above it. The portal that she had made had us walk into the Tram Common, where there were brown railroad tracks lining the tiles on the ground. There were also stairs and shops everywhere but the shops didn't seem to be open.
"Will you answer my question?" I asked, quickly walking after her.
"I have to collect hearts first," she responded as she walked in.
"Fine, but you have to explain later," I replied. "She seems so unapproachable.. She was… warmer the last time I spoke to her.."
The second we stepped into the Underground Passage, small Dire Plants, which were mainly green flowers with pink petals, and Poison Plants, which were larger and were more of a navy color except for green, lined the walls and ground of the passageways. Xion instantly summoned her Keyblade and started fighting the Heartless.
"Do you need help?" I asked.
Xion didn't respond and simply swung at the Heartless while walking farther and farther away from me.
"I was hoping to learn more about her.. But with the way things are going, it's really doubtful.. Roxas, Axel, and even Demyx have warmed up to me at least a little bit but Xion barely even talks to me…"
A large seed then flew at my head and I barely dodged it. It snapped me out of my thoughts and I instantly summoned my fans. By throwing my right hand fan in a circular motion, I easily destroyed the little Heartless and caught the fan as it flew back.
"I guess the training paid off."
Three or four more seeds flew at me and I effortlessly blocked the attack again with both of my fans, which made the seeds fly back and destroy the Dire Plants. I then ran toward where Xion had disappeared, hoping that she was holding her own. She was destroying Heartless by Heartless, but had a shorter breath than before. Three larger Poison Plants appeared around Xion and as I ran toward her, I threw my fans like before but they didn't disappear.
Xion looked at me surprised, "You can fight now..?"
I caught my fans, walked next to her, and responded, "Yeah. I picked my weapon and afterward, Axel and Demyx trained me."
"Oh?" she said as another seed flew at her and she quickly blocked it.
"Let's focus!"
One of the Poison Plants started slamming its head against the ground multiple times. I jumped up and threw my fan at it, slicing off flower's head. As that heartless disappeared, Xion casted fire on one of them and it was also destroyed. The last one started slamming its head in rage. I saw Xion nearly get crushed by it and quickly dove down, pushing and sliding her out of the way. But the pounding on my back afterward was nearly unbearable.
"Kizu!" Xion yelled and then casted another round of fire magic. The Poison Plant was destroyed.
"Ugh," I groaned, standing up with great difficulty.
"You okay?" She asked, helping me up.
"I'll be fine.. How many hearts do you still have to collect?"
"This should be enough now," she replied.
"Okay then. Now explain," I commanded, making my fans disappear. She walked back the way we walked in and I followed her. Her Keyblade dispersed into light and I intently stared at her. I was starting to get frustrated. "Where did you go when you ran away? Come on Xion! Answer me!"
Xion stopped walking and threw a serious glare at me, "Why do you want to know?"
"I'm just curious," I replied. "And worried…"
"Well, I had things I needed to figure out."
"Well.. Why run away with an imposter? I've gotten reports of you being seen with an imposter with an Organization coat on. I saw him just yesterday, running away from me in Twilight Town."
"You saw Ri-?" she almost yelled but stopped herself before she said the name.
"Ri..?" I asked, "He called himself Ansem."
At the name, her tense expressed relaxed slightly. "It's nothing if he doesn't want you to know," she replied, shaking her head as she started walking again.
"What do you mean?" I insisted, "If you don't want me to tell anyone, I won't. I promise you."
Xion sighed, stopped walking, and turned her head toward me, "Fine. His name is actually Riku. Ansem is.. just another name he uses.."
"It's not Ansem the Wise then…" My heart dropped a little. "Why does he have a coat?"
"He's.. doing business. It only concerns Roxas, Riku, and me."
"How is Roxas involved?" I questioned, "Why only you three?"
"Well.. Sora too…" She trailed off and her voice got softer and softer.
"You know about Sora?"
Her eyes widened slightly as she whispered to herself, "I shouldn't have said that." But then she sighed, "Yes. Do you know anything about him?"
"First. How much do you know about him?"
"All I know is that.. I have to disappear if Sora would never need to reawaken.. And Roxas has to absorb me.."
"So she does know what's going on.. Why doesn't Roxas know then?"
"Riku told me.. That his mission is to make sure Sora reawakens. And.. I'm preventing that.. Because I'm stealing Roxas' memories.. and his powers. That's about it.."
"I know about all that too. No more than that," I easily lied as I thought to myself, "They're not supposed to know."
"Oh okay then," Xion sighed, disappointed.
"What is Riku like?" I asked.
"I'm supposed to meet up with Riku today.. So you can come with me. I also have to tell him I told you."
I nodded in response and followed her as she walked into a clearing in the Tram Common. It was an odd clearing with buildings forming the walls. Seconds later, the same man from before walked out of a Corridor of Darkness, hood on and all. When he saw me, he summoned his weapon again, standing ready.
"Why is she here?" he questioned.
"I told her about you and everything else. Apparently, she knew it all already," Xion explained.
"Why would you tell her?"
"I had to..! I hate keeping secrets from my best friends.. And she said she wouldn't tell. She caught me mentioning Sora!"
Riku sighed and then took off his hood, revealing a teenage face looking around 16 years old. He had silver hair and his eyes were covered with a black blindfold that was tied together at the back of his head.
I gave him a slight smile and then held out my hand, "Nice to meet you, Riku. My name is Kizu."
His head turned toward my hand but he didn't shake it, "How do you know about Sora?"
"I have a lot of files that I go through," I replied, "and I came across the file with Sora's information in it. It contained minor details about his awakening and his connection to Xion and Roxas." I paused but after Riku was still silent for a few minutes, I quickly lied again, "That's all I know."
"Good, you shouldn't know any more than that," he stated.
"Good. He bought it."
Riku then continued, "The real reason why I wanted to meet up with you, Xion, is to ask about your decision."
Xion looked down slightly and responded, "Not yet. I'm thinking about what to do."
"Then, take your time. I need to speak with Kizu here. Alone."
"Okay," she responded and then opened up a portal, "I'll go back then."
Riku nodded in her direction and Xion walked into the portal. He then opened up a Corridor of Darkness himself.
"Come on. I'll show you something."
I nodded and followed him into it.
Eve: Sorry about that. Made a few new changes and such. I've been too busy with life so I'm sorry I haven't been updating.