A/N: Amazingly, people liked last chapter, and since I promised to make this one longer and post it up quick, I am! So, I've been working on this promotional like trailer for this story using windows video maker, and so far, it's been going ok. I'm not quite sure if I should post it up on Youtube, so I am asking you guys now if I should. What do you think? The idea for it was given to me by my friend, because she said that it would sort of promote it to fanfic readers all over, and send them over to the story. So, is it a good idea? Let me know.

Roxas was walking downstairs when he heard Xion yelling. "Just give me another chance!"

Saix stood in front of her, his face one of annoyance. "We can't afford to expend any more chances on you," He explained before turning around to leave, only to open his mouth again. "You were a mistake we never should've made."

Roxas approached Xion as soon as Saix began to walk away. "Xion?"

Xion only gave him a glance before running away, leaving Roxas confused.

This was only the beginning of the problems to come….

Later that day~

At the end of the day, Axel met up with Roxas on the clock tower in Twilight Town. As soon as he was seated, he noticed Xion wasn't around. "Where's Xion?"

Roxas sighed dejectedly. "Haven't seen her, or Hope, today either."

Axel frowned. "Oh well…And don't worry about Hope, she's back at the castle, napping."

Roxas took a bite of ice cream, looking out to the horizon. "Hey, Axel.."

Axel glanced over at him. "Huh?"

"Is there anything you couldn't bear to lose?" Roxas blurted out, the question surprising Axel so much, he almost dropped his ice cream.

"What? Where'd that come from?" Axel asked, frowning at the memories the question itself brought up.

"I ran into somebody today and…Well, he had something like that. Something so important to him he couldn't bear to lose it," Roxas explained, looking down at his lap sadly, "Why don't I have anything like that?"

Axel shook away the memories and laughed a bit. "Because you don't have a heart."

Roxas sighed dejectedly. "Uhh, I guess…But Demyx doesn't a heart, and I bet he'd be upset if you took his sitar away."

"Hmm, true, but…I don't think that's quite the same. I think the closest things we Nobodies have go is our pasts. You know, memories of the stuff we couldn't bear to lose, back when we couldn't bear to lose it." Axel explained. He remembered how his somebody, Lea, couldn't bear to lose the most important person he had: Hope.

"Oh…Too bad I don't remember MY past." Roxas said sadly.

"Well, what about your present?"

"Huh?"

"You've got memories from here in the Organization, right?"

"Yeah…I do, don't I? I couldn't bear to lose my memories of you, Hope, or Xion."

"Well, see? There ya go. Everybody's got something they want to hang onto." Axel stated, taking a bite from his ice cream.

"It's scary to think I could lose you guys."

"Scary? Scary's a feeling, man." Axel pointed out.

Roxas nodded. "Yeah, I know I can't feel, but…It's still a scary thought."

"A thought, then. But not a feeling."

"Are you sure? Wouldn't you be scared of losing Hope?" Roxas asked the red-head.

This time, Axel really did drop his ice-cream down to the ground below. Roxas had pointed at something important: The very idea of losing Hope was the most terrifying thing to Axel, yet seeing as how he had no heart, he didn't consider it a feeling, but a memory or idea instead. It was somewhat ironic, because he was always the one reminding Roxas that they couldn't feel, yet here he was, terrified of the idea of losing his important person.

And he couldn't understand why he was.

"Would you care to explain to me why you let him escape?"

Hope let her gaze fall to the ground, her face turning into a frown. "He's a lot a stronger than anyone gave him credit for. I went after him, but he took me down within minutes."

Xemnas frowned as he stared down at her. The only reason he had her here was to see if she was a key to completing Kingdom Hearts, and to stop anyone who tried to get in the organizations way…Then again, last reason went for pretty much everyone, but still. Another reason was for observations. Yes, observations. You see, Xemnas had a theory of some sort. His theory was that Hope couldn't be contaminated by darkness, no matter how hard the darkness tried to contaminate her. Like Ansem the Wise had once told his Somebody, Xehanort, he believed that Hope had a pure heart that was plentiful of light, and void of any darkness. Of course, he had yet to find out whether his theory was correct or not. And in order for him to find out whether this was true or not, he would have to experiment. If his theory was right, then it meant that he could use her pure light to complete Kingdom Hearts and open it.

But he couldn't test it out now. Not when he was already conducting the No.i project. Until he was sure that the current project was a complete success, though by the way things were going at the moment, was unlikely, he wouldn't carry out his theory. Not until he was absolutely sure that Hope would prove all that useful.

"I see…you've disappointed me again, Princess."

"I'm not a princess anymore, Xemnas. And I'm not a child anymore, either, so stop acting like I am." Hope said, her voice sounding annoyed.

Like every time he listened to her rants, he ignored her words. "You may go now, Hope. But don't think that you wont be going on anymore missions."

She rolled her eyes as she slowly and carefully left. "Yeah, whatever…"

She made it back to her room, walking in and shutting the door behind her. She had woken up earlier to find a small piece of paper on the pillow next to her, with Axel's familiar handwriting scribbled onto it, telling her that he went to meet Roxas and Xion for ice cream. Normally, she would've been upset that he left without her, but she didn't blame him for not waking her up to go with him. She felt like crap, every bone and muscle in her body aching. She was amazed that she could even walk downstairs and back upstairs with such pain. She groaned as she took another step forward, clenching her teeth together as she moved forward towards the little desk where she kept most of her things. After she had first been brought to the castle, someone had gone back to her little house in Traverse Town and transported all of her things back to her room in the castle, and arranged just the way it had been before.

Hope grabbed the pen on her desk and her diary, flipping it open to the next clean page, pressing the pen to the paper.

Dear Diary,

I feel awful. That mission I went on to get rid of the impostor…yeah, it didn't go well. Saix was mad, and Xemnas…well, he was surprisingly calm about the whole thing, though he did say he was disappointed. Whatever, not like I can help it that he gave me a mission that I cant go through with. That boy…I spared his life because I don't think he deserves to die at all. I warned him about who he was messing with because I care about his safety. I just hope he'll listen to it. It's funny. He kind of reminded me of a younger version of Sephiroth with the silver hair and fighting technique. Heh, it's actually been a long time since I've thought of my old mentor. I wonder whatever happened to him?

Anyway, Axel got a bit mad about me getting beaten up a little, but he helped patch me up. Those butterflies that I used to get in my stomach are back. And like before, they only pop up when I'm with Axel. Maybe…I love him. No, I do. I love-

"Hope, I'm back!" Hope dropped the pen and turned around to find Axel standing in the middle of the room.

"Hi." Hope greeted quietly, giving him a smile instead of waving.

"Here, I brought you back some ice cream." Axel said, holding out the bar for her. She stood there, not bothering to reach for it, because it was too painful. "Well?"

"Axel, could you maybe bring it over here?" Hope asked quietly.

Axel's eyes widened in realization. "Oh, that's right! You must still be sore." He walked over to her and handed her the ice cream bar.

She smiled. "Thank you," She put the ice cream in her mouth and took a bite from it, allowing Axel to carry her over to her bed, where he sat her down and sat behind her, her back to his chest. She sighed as his body heat helped the soothe the aches.

While Hope ate her ice cream, Axel let his mind drift back to earlier. Hope was important to him, and the thought losing her…well, he didn't want to even think about it. It was something that wasn't worth thinking on. Why was he even bothered by it? He had not heart to feel terrified with, yet why did he feel like it? And poor little Hope had no idea as to how she was affecting him. He frowned as he remembered the vacation day two months earlier, where he had almost kissed her. If they had kissed….Axel liked to imagine what it would've been like. But if she had been able to affect him so badly, then surely she had the same ability to do the same to others.

And that idea was what made him think he was mad. No one, and he meant NO ONE could touch HIS Hope. If they tried, he'd burn them into ashes before their hands could even reach her.

'…And now I'm acting all possessive of my best friend? What the hell is wrong with me?'

"Axel, are you alright?" Hope asked, glancing over her shoulder to see what he was doing.

He looked up at her, catching her eyes, that warm and fuzzy feeling popping up into the empty place in his chest as he stared at her. 'You have no idea what you're doing to me…'

"Fine….I'm fine…"

A/N: I finished the trailer for this story! Yay! But since I suck at drawing Hope's hair, I had to result in using pictures of Aerith as a substitute for Hope. So, should I upload it to youtube, or not? Well, I hope everyone liked this chapter! Please leave a review! LATER TATERS!