Riku was leaning on the wall outside of the study in the Disney Castle, pensively thinking about the situation. He, Aqua, Terra, Ven, Roxas, Lea, Namine and Xion all left the study because the King was receiving a phone call, and the group didn't want to be rude about it.

Even though Riku left the study without a problem, he wished he had stayed inside because the whole time Xion was giving him a death glare, with her dark blue eyes staring deep into Riku's cyan ones. The silver haired keyblade master tried to keep his eyes off of her as much as he could, not wanting to see her angry, especially when it was at him.

Thankfully, Donald and Goofy began to walk up to them, breaking the ice between the two for the time being. "He's awake," Donald announced, which relieved every single one of the keybladers.

"How does the kid feel?" Terra asked.

"Gawrsh, well when he first woke up he began panicking about Kairi, and tried to stand by he almost fell," Goofy explained, "Lucky for him me and Donald caught him."

"He's not the only one worried about Kairi…" Namine muttered, but everyone heard her and nodded agreeing.

"Did he say anything else?" Roxas asked.

"Yup, but it wasn't good news," Donald hesitated and began to talk rapidly, "He-kind-of-said that-all-the-people-that-attacked-him-were-lingeri ng-wills-of-the-old-Organization."

Even though Donald clearly didn't want the keybladers to hear all the news, everyone understood him, and they all sighed. "Well, it is what most of us were expecting." Ven said.

"It's alright though, we beat them once we can do it again, we just need to figure out where they are first as soon as possible, right guys?" Riku said. But the keyblade master silenced himself when he looked at the faces of all his friends, who looked like they were afraid to tell him something. "What's wrong?"

Silence. "Don't tell me you guys aren't going to help find her!" Riku wanted to yell.

"No, of course we are going to help, Kairi is our friend to, it's just…" Ven started.

"Not as soon as possible." Lea finished.

"Why?" Riku asked.

"You do have to understand Riku, these lingering wills brought Destiny Islands into darkness," Aqua tried to explain, "And now that we know who they are, that could put our worlds in even more danger."

"We just need to check up on them for a day or two and then we'll come back." Roxas finished.

"So all of you guys are leaving?" Riku asked.

Everyone shook their heads at this, and before Riku could ask who was staying, they all pointed their fingers at the one person Riku hoped would be leaving: Xion. "Wait, you're staying?" Riku was confused, especially since he knew Xion was still pissed off at him for not telling them about the attack on Stitch's world.

Xion continued to give a death glare to Riku as she got off of the wall. "Twilight Town will be fine as long as these three keep an eye on it, and the King asked me to stay since I did spend time with Vanitas when we were in the Organization together; he's hoping we might be able to find out why they are back and attacking the worlds." Xion explained.

Before Riku could protest, the King walked out of his study, hands behind his back as he looked up at all the keybladers. "Who was that your Majesty?" Goofy asked.

"It was actually Even," Mickey explained, "It looks like word about Kairi's kidnapping got around faster than we thought."

Everyone was shocked by the king's words. Kairi had only been missing for a day, but they all figured it was just one of the things about being keybladers that saved the worlds: word about them got around quickly, even if no one knew how the words got out.

"So he's worried about Kairi?" Lea asked.

"Actually, he never said that, he actually brought some news that could help us."

"What could he say that could help the situation?" Donald asked.

For a brief moment, a flash of hope appeared over Mickey's face. "Even actually invited his former science master to the Radiant Garden, and he happened to hear about the news and wants to help."

"Science master? You mean like a teacher?" Ven asked as Mickey nodded, "I thought Ansem the Wise thought him everything he knew."

"Well Ansem was and still is very busy," Mickey explained, "Even's former master actually did learn under Ansem a long time ago, but gosh, I hate to admit it, but he is smarter than Ansem now."

"But how can this guy help?" Roxas asked.

"He just might have the technology to track Kairi down."

Riku became very hopeful at this moment. "Well we need to go and get this guy and bring him here!"

"Hold on Riku," Mickey said, "I need you to stay here, you are probably be the only one that can get Sora to calm down and not jump out of bed to go find Kairi."

Riku sighed at this and was about to protest, but Xion raised her hand. "Your Majesty, if you would let me, I would be glad to go and get this scientist for you."

"But Xion, I told you I need you here to talk about Vanitas's will," Mickey said.

"I know, but with my suit I'll be the fastest one to get there and back," Xion added, "And besides, if this guys is as smart as you say he is, we won't need my information, he'll be all we need."

Riku's heart sank at this moment; since he knew what Xion meant to say was I want to go so I don't need to be around Riku. Riku knew that she only said yes to the king about staying here because she was too kind hearted to say no. Riku knew know for sure that Xion wanted nothing to do with him since he kept that fight a secret.

Riku silently prayed that the king would say no, but since the odds were against him, the king nodded. "Alright, you can go, but please try to get back here soon."

"It shouldn't be a problem." Xion said as she tapped the armor guard on her shoulder and was covered in her Iron Woman Mark VII Armor, minus the helmet. She then began to walk away towards the garden, since that was really the only place for a safe take off.

As soon as Xion rounded the corner, Terra punched Riku on the shoulder. "What the hell?!" He yelled as he rubbed his shoulder, this being the second time he was punched since they went on this mission.

"Are you seriously going to let her walk away like that?" Terra scolded.

"Well yah, what else I am supposed to do?"

"Really? Riku, this girl this the one you are meant to be with," Terra started, "I can see it when you two look at each other, you two are supposed to be together. But now that she is mad at you, I can tell that your love is going thin."

Riku only looked at Terra for a moment. "She's mad at me, so can't I just wait until she cools off?"

Terra sighed as everyone stared at the two, not sure how to react. "Riku, sometimes I seriously think you don't know what you are doing when it comes to girls; you can't let a girl 'cool off', trust me I know more than anyone."

Terra briefly glanced over at Aqua, who gave him a glare. "Then what am I supposed to do?" Riku asked.

"Go and apologize to her!" Terra yelled, "You can't let this go on any longer or your relationship is over! You can't let that happen, especially since you two just had your first kiss a few days ago!"

Riku laughed slightly at the comment, remembering when he and Xion were making out and Terra walked in awkwardly on Stitch's home world. "You should really listen to him," Aqua added, "He knows how to make a girl happy."

Aqua walked up to Terra and nudged him, with Terra responding by kissing her on the forehead. "Now go get her." Terra said.

Without any hesitation, knowing that Terra was right, Riku turned around and ran towards the garden, not even bothering to use the door to get there and only jumped over the railing in the hall, making it to the garden just in time.

"Xion!" Riku yelled as she turned around to see Riku, running out of breath and approaching her.

"What do you want?" She asked.

Riku breathed for a while before answering, "I… needed to say… I'm sorry… for lying to you." Riku looked into Xion's eyes, which were squinting at him for the moment. "Keeping secrets from you was wrong…"

Xion laughed at this, but not her normal happy laugh, but more like a snicker at Riku. "You really think that this is going to make up for this?" She asked.

Riku was taken aback by this, "Well I was hoping you would accept my apology."

"Yeah Riku, but you should know me by now, accepting apologies doesn't work for me," Xion was about to walk away before Riku stopped her saying,

"Why?"

"Why? Are you really asking that? You know why: because the first relationship I had was full of secrets and lies, Vanitas lied about loving me only to trick me into becoming one of Xehanort's stupid replicas." Xion said, "And that lie you made to me, that secret, made me think about what else you could be lying about, it made me think about al the lies that could follow."

"Xion everyone makes mistakes—"

"Yeah but not telling us about something that big? We could have known about the lingering wills a lot earlier if you told us, Kairi could still be here!"

"Xion, please…" Riku pleaded.

Xion sighed. "I am sorry Riku, I am not going to worry about this now since we really should be focused on finding Kairi, but as soon as we find her I am seriously going to reconsider being with you."

Those words stabbed Riku like a dagger right into his heart. "Now I'm sorry, but I need to go," Xion said as she put her helmet on and flew away fast, leaving Riku alone, who could only say,

"So much for Terra's relationship peep talk."


Aw, poor Riku:(

So it looks like only one person correctly guessed who that doctor was in the other chapter (not going to say which hehe) but now lets see if you guys can guess who Even's teacher/apprentice is. I don't know if you guys are going to be cool with it, but honestly, I don't care :)

I know TerraKH is going to be happy because today they released the first screenshots of Final Fantasy X-2 HD and I must say they look beautiful!

By the way, anyone read any good Avengers/Ironman/Thor fanfictions? I read this really good one about Loki but I can't find another one I've fallen in love with. Anyone know some good ones?

I was in a really bad mood today because I found out that DC is making a Justice League movie possibly and that is a problem because I hate DC -_- I know they are just going to make one because the Avengers was so good but there is no way, in my opinion, that they can make a movie that can top that beautiful piece of artwork we call the Avengers. Heck, realistically, none of their movies have topped any of the Marvel movie's I have seen. MARVEL FTW!

So please R&R and look out for the next chapter!