Chapter 18: Odd Friends

Donald and Goofy was sitting on one of the benches in town, taking a rest from their search for the King and Brian's item. There both admitted that the King wasn't in Ohana and that they had no idea what Brian's item was. They tried calling to Sora's group with their communicator but the line was busy all the time. They thought it were Kyle constant reminders to Brian so they didn't try again.

They both sighed and got up; they started to head in the direction of the beach where they knew Sora, Brian and Max would be. It was nice and quiet with the relaxing feeling in the air but the silence was broken when they both heard a yawn coming from Goofy's orange hat. Goofy took his hat off and the two of them watched it until a little cricket appeared straightening his body.

"Jiminy, how long have you been in Goofy's hat?" Donald asked. Jiminy yawned and started to look around, then confusion struck his face.

"Uh Donald, where are we?" Jiminy asked

"Gawsh Jiminy, you've been asleep even since King Mickey send the letter to Sora." Goofy pointed out. Jiminy was about to repeat himself since Donald didn't bother to answer his question but something pop in his head.

"Did King Mickey tell Sora what we found in my journal?" Jiminy asked. Donald and Goofy lowered their heads in shame and sorrow before answering.

"The King didn't get a chance." Donald replied in a low tone

"King Mickey and Queen Minnie got captured by Endless." Goofy replied in the same tone as Donald's.

"That's a shame….Well fellas, look like we'll have to tell Sora ourselves." Jiminy proclaimed

"Great idea Jiminy." Goofy cheered and placed his hat back on his head with Jiminy sitting on it and started to walk again. Donald quacked and ran in front of Goofy to stop him walking. Goofy and Jiminy looked down at Donald to see why he had done that sort of action.

"Not so great idea Jiminy!" Donald complained, "If you remember, the King made us promise not to tell Sora about this. He wanted to tell him himself."

"But Donald, you said it yourself. The King didn't get a chance and he would want Sora to know as soon as possible." Jiminy replied.

"Yeah but only King Mickey knows the full situation of this so we can't tell Sora even if we wanted to." Donald argued

"Hey can't we just show Sora the message in your journal, Jiminy?" Goofy suggested

"Great idea Goofy." Before Jiminy started his search for his journal, he blinked that the comment he just said, "Wow. Never thought I say that my lifetime." He thought out loud and then carried on searching for his journals.

"You're not gonna find them." Donald said, "You left them in the library and we not at Disney Castle." Jiminy stopped searching and looked at Donald.

"Where are we then?" he asked again

"Ohana."

"What!?! We started another journey and you guys didn't wake me up?" Jiminy asked calmly, Goofy was about to reply but Jiminy carried on rambling, "Wait! Don't answer that. I better get started." Jiminy then jumped back, deep into Goofy's hat to begin his work. Donald started to walk with his good old friend, Goofy behind him. Again they ran into silence and again somebody broke it.

"Gee Donald, I don't like keeping this many secrets from our friends." Goofy said with an upset tone.

"What are you talking about Goofy? What other secrets?" asked Donald, not turning to face his friend and carried on walking.

"The secret about Danny's whereabouts and...er...the Keyblade Knights and B--hmm." Goofy answered. Donald's face just turned panicky at that point and he quickly covered Goofy's mouth with his feathered wing.

Both he and King Mickey were hoping he wouldn't remember.

"Be quiet Goofy." Donald said in a low, serious tone, "King Mickey and Danny made us promised never to speak of that until Danny and the others have gone home. Remember...." Donald removed his wing away from Goofy's mouth and he replied by nodding his head. Donald gave him a glare saying, 'Keep your mouth shut or I'll burn you to a crisp!!!' and started to walk again. Goofy didn't like keeping secrets; he knew they always ended up hurting someone that they're close to.

But he promised King Mickey and Daniel.

Goofy sighed and quickly caught up with Donald. The two then started to tell Jiminy about their journey so far. They both knew (mostly Donald) that they won't reach Sora's group until early the next day.

That's what they get for being on the opposite side of the Island to the others.

In Riku's Group...

Riku was first to get to the top of the mountain and turned to help Kairi and Hikari up. Kairi had calmed down a bit now and Riku knew that now WASN'T the time to tease her about Sora. Hikari now knew the situation between Sora and Kairi thanks to Riku (which he didn't really get thanked for) and Hikari thought their innocent relationship was sweet and romantic.

Who knew 'Sweet' and 'Romantic' was in Hikari's vocabulary

Then she started to realise Brian's increased flirting tactics on Kairi (which she gladly socked him for) which means he knew about the developing relationship. "Why can't Brian just leave girls alone? What happened to the old Brian? The one that I always said 'good O'Brian' to; where did he go?" Hikari ranted in her head.

"Hey Hikari?"

Hikari came out of her though and turned Kairi as Riku went to check on Brian's Gummi they work SO HARD to get to. "Yeah Kairi?" she asked kindly.

Again, 'Kindly' in HER vocabulary!! Don't think so.

"I was just wondering how you became friends with Brian. You two always seem to be fighting." Kairi answered. Hikari sat down on the stone cold ground, Kairi soon join her and left Riku to deal with the ship.

"Me and Brian have a brother-sister friendship; similar to you and Riku only that we fight more." Hikari began, "And as for meeting him...Well. Let's just say it was a-not-so-happy day."

Flashback....

Hikari, at the age of 14, had only lived in Little Devon for a month and already she had lost her only family left. Her brother, Sakuzy. Sakuzy along with Reks (Vaan's brother), Angel (Brian's sister) and a few other Little Devon soldiers were killed during the defence attack against Sgt Mako. The day was dark, gloomily and the rain fell hard. The bodies were cremated in the sight of the sorrow family members. Hikari had already meet Vaan and Penelo as all three of them had one thing in common,

They're all orphans

As Hikari looked around, she could see other soldier's families whimpering and crying over their loss. Hikari wanted to cry so badly but she had no one to comfort her, to cheer her up, to show her hope so what was the point. When Hikari's parents had died from the Heartless invasion, Sakuzy was there for her, he taught her how to fight with both weapon and hand, he told her that light will never go out in our hearts as long as we remember our love ones and he had protected her when they struggled in their home world. After thinking about those memories, she couldn't hold back her tears any longer.

"It must be hard. Losing your b-"

"Kairi, I knew you was an lazy bum like Sora but you Hikari, I thought you be helping me and not letting me do ALL THE WORK on the Gummi."

"SILVER YOU DICK!!! YOU'VE JUST RUINED THE EMONTIONAL ATMOSPHERE IN THIS FLASHBACK!!!!"

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!?"

"Hikari was just telling me how she met Brian."

"Bet he mistook you for a boy."

SMACK!!!

"OW!!!!!!!!"

"Riku are you going to listen to the story or not?!"

"Okay okay Fine."

"Now. Where was I?"

"It must be hard. Losing your brother like that." A gentle voice came. Hikari turned to see a 14 year old boy next to her.

He had short dark red hair that was a bit spiky but was a bit flatten from the rain. He wasn't looking at her but she could tell that his focusing eyes were ocean blue. He was wearing a red silk scarf around his neck as the ends when down his back. He wore a red and black T-shirt and deep blue cargo pants. He had a red and black armguard on his right arm with a black glove underneath. He had his arms crossed and continued to look at the flaming bodies in front of them. Hikari wiped her fallen tears off her face and continued to look at him weirdly.

"How would you know?!" she said coldly. He continued to look at the flames as he replied,

"I would know because...because my dad was the only family I had left." He said with a upset tone.

"Oh...I'm s-sorry." Hikari said sadly, she shouldn't act mean to someone who trying to relate.

"It okay." He then turned his glaze to her and saw him grin, "Besides, Daniel and the others have help me out a lot. Even though they're not my real family, they will always been my brothers to me." Hikari's mind clicked, remembering something a couple of weeks ago.

"Your that boy that they found and took in a couple of weeks ago right?" He nodded in reply and took out his right hand.

"I'm Brian Haru Devon." He greeted.

"Hikari Hoshino." She replied, took his hand and shook it. After they shook they turned their glaze back at the flames. They stayed in silence, watching the hearts of the dead return to Kingdom Hearts.

"Tell me Brian." Hikari whispered but loud enough for Brian to her, "How did you feel after your dad past away."

"That depends on the situation, was you with your brother when he died?" He turned to face her as he waited for a reply. She shook her head and watched his glaze return to where it was. "I can't really answer your question then. You kinda have to be in the same position to understand how I feel." He said as he wiped a tear that had unconsciously fallen from his eyes. "It's better to hear about it than...than finding them dying with your own eyes." He finished.

Hikari decided not to push the matter further and wait until they knew each other better, she looked at him and saw that the memory that must have flashed in his mind must have caused the tears to fall from his eyes.

Hikari went up to Brian and swung her arms around him.

Brian looked to the side of him when Hikari hugged him. He was confused at first but then saw that she was trying to cheer him up and that she needed a bit of cheering up as well. Brian swung his left arm over her shoulder and appointed his glaze at the stars.

"You know..." Hikari looked at him as he started to talked, "My dad once told me that our hearts are always with the people you care about, no matter where they go as our hearts are connected and will always be connected even in the deepest of darkness. Like friends." He looked back at Hikari, "We are friends, aren't we?" he asked

"Yeah we're friends." She replied cheerfully. She then raised her arm upwards, "Friends that stick like glue?"

"Yeah. Stick like glue" he grinned and grasped her hand in his, making it clap when the two hands when together.

End of Flashback

"Wait, wait, wait I don't get it." Riku said at the end of the story, he was sitting in front of Kairi and Hikari with an icepack on his head. Kairi looked at him confusingly.

"What don't you get Riku?" she asked

"Well it's the way Hikari described Brian and what he said. It sounds nothing like the Brian we've gotten to known for the last week or so and sounds more like Sora." Riku explained. Kairi eyes widen as she noticed this too, especially the bit about their hearts being connected. Both Riku and Kairi looked at Hikari for an explanation.

"Brian didn't always used to be a cocky dickhead who you would want to kill every now and again. He used to be like that and as you guys would say, act like Sora." Hikari told them, "He even had his own Keyblade."

"A Keyblade?!?" Riku and Kairi said in unison, shocked

"Yeah. I forgot what it was called through."

"What about Daniel? How and why does he have the Kingdom Key?" Riku asked, remembering what he saw in Little Devon.

"Your guess is as good as mine Silver." Hikari replied.

"How did Brian's personality change?" Kairi asked, "I mean something must have happened to change it, right?"

"Well something did happen." Hikari replied, she took a deep breath before continuing, "About a year and a half ago, Brian and Kyle went on a Recon mission to where help was needed. During the trip back through, an Endless ship had followed them and shot homing missiles at them, causing the ship to explode." Riku and Kairi looked at her, curious about what happened next as she continued.

"Brian and Kyle were the only ones that survived but Kyle lost his arm and Brian was kept inside for unknown reasons. I didn't see him again until after a week of the Stitch incident. When I did see him again through, he never talked about his past anymore, he stop using his Keyblade and fought with the Staff of Myths his got now, he got in fights all the time, he didn't talk about his dad anymore and took his armguard off and he started to be disrespectful to others; especially to girls."

"The only reason Brian doesn't flirt with me is because he knows that I won't hesistate to kick him in the bulls if he does. We may have fights like two little siblings that want to rid each other's hair out but Brian can still be his old self every now and again which I'm glad for." Hikari finished.

She rose from ground, getting on to her feet. Kairi and Riku did the same and dusted themselves off. Riku threw the icebag over the cliff which resulted to them hearing a cat screeched. After that, Riku quickly looked at Hikari with a confused look.

"Wait if Brian was adopted then why has he got the same surname as Daniel and the other?" Riku asked.

"I think it's because he wanted to be part of their family more, to make sure he wasn't the old one out." Hikari answered, she then sighted the gummi ship then back to her two friends. "C'mon let's get this gummi working." Riku and Kairi nodded and the three of them started to work on the gummi.

Meanwhile near the beach....

Stitch was pretending to be a dog when he, Lilo and her sister Nani was heading to the beach. Lilo was dragging along a cart full of music and Elvis stuff and was talking to Nani about something. Stitch had to admit, he never had so much fun in his life and he started to feel that he was destined to meet Lilo. Lilo would talk to Stitch about other worlds and creatures she hope she would never meet, Lilo was even able to draw some of the creatures from dreams she had and he knew them straight away.

She drew Heartless.

Stitch even made up a game that was actually based on Sora saving Kairi when Radiant Garden was Hollow Bastion. But he didn't tell Lilo that or that he was from another world. When they would play the game, Stitch would be Sora, Lilo would be Kairi and Lilo's handmade doll Scrump would be Riku.

Lilo was the only one that he would talk to as she didn't care about abnormal things but he really didn't talk that much, just growled a lot.

He came out of his thoughts when Lilo started to talk to him,

"Hey Stitch, Nani has gone to the lifeguard to try and get a job so that means we can go to the tree line to set up." Lilo announced cheerly, "Then we can show Mr Cobra Bubbles that you can be a model citizen." Stitch nodded in agreement and started to head to the tree line. Stitch then paused and picked up a scent. He turned his head slightly left in the tree line and used his eyes to telescopically zoom in.

He saw Sora and Max talking about something while Brian was on lookout for him. Stitch went up to Lilo and starting nudging her to the far right of the tree line. Lilo agreed and they started to head further and further away from Sora's group. When they got to the tree line, Stitch started to help Lilo set up the music stuff that Stitch had no idea why she had brought it for. Stitch made sure that they set it up quietly, too loud and one of Sora's group would hear. If worse come to the worse, he hopes Max gets sent to investigate.

When they had finished, Lilo when into her red cart and threw him some white clothes and a black Elvis wig. He looked at the clothing and then at Lilo with confusion.

"You dress up like Elvis and play the guitar, and then you'll become a legend like the King of rock himself. Then Nani would be able to get a job and we'll live happily ever after." Lilo looked at the beach and then back at Stitch. "You ready Stitch?" she asked

"Ei" Stitch replied and started to put the costume on.

A/N: OMG!!! Brian had a Keyblade, Jiminy comes out of nowhere and Riku hit a cat!!! I never saw it coming. Oh Wait....I DID.

Man I'm tired, I think I should go to sleep but before I do.

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