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I'm sorry for making you all wait for so long. I have no excuses other than being lazy to type up a chapter. XP

Chapter 3:: A New Begining

Time skip:: 7 months

It's been awhile since first living in the elemental countries. With Vanitas's help, they find out this world is full of warriors called ninja; to be more precise, Shinobi. Learning enough of their world, they both decide to become shinobi. Well, more like Vanitas disgusted at the thought of being a powerless civilian. Aqua traveled town to town doing odd jobs for pay. Sometimes doing a little bounty hunting whenever needed but could only take the low ranked as they learned. She also had to take Vanitas's form so as to not be recognized. They both got the monkier Yosuzume(means 'Night Sparrow') due to the way they killed their targets. When she could, she'd try to finish making a cloak like that mysterious person she talked to,(A/N:: think Org. XIII cloak) but made a few adjustments such as removable sleeves, entwined the fabric with a fine-thin metal string acting like a mesh, and kept the zippers as decorations with the chains the only thing keeping it somewhat closed.

For Aqua, getting settled in was hard, especially when shinobi were suspicious or were tracking 'Yosuzume' down. Unknown to her friends, she actually had a passion for music. She now worked in a club under a henge used with chakra and enhanced with Vanitas's darkness making it fool-proof. Vanitas had to do so as well, even though he saw no use for it, but with a little 'persuasion' (if one could call it that) he yeilded.

Whenever they could, Aqua and Vanitas try to relearn their old abilities. Aqua only remembers little as her memories were thwarted with after 'jumping' two times leading to her current condition. She had a decrease in her physical form, loss of muscle memory, and around half of her memories and abilities she had were effaced. Vanitas remained unaffected however, he was weakened after both an internal fight with Ven and an external one with Aqua. Being rendered without a true physical form, he couldn't execute his abilities properly. Both learned about chakra and its uses from a few (coughstolencough) scrolls. After reading several jutsu, they learned many things they both thought impossible; they found a way to give Vanitas free reign, if only a little, through a blood bunshin.

So far everything went swell, but the next day changed everything.

"Oi, Vanitas,! Get over here and come help me!"

Inside her apartment, one would see a young Aqua fanning a young boy roughly three years old. He had short red hair with bangs hiding his right eye. He was wearing a ragged black and white kimono with a hood in a similar style of her cloak and an equally worn down obi. But the most noticeable part was the strange grey insignia on his kimono. He was unconscious, and that was the scene Vanitas had stumbled upon in the living room. "Nani ga, gaki shimasu ka?"

"Oi, I'm not a brat!" Aqua yelled. Calming down, she once again focused her attention to him. "I need you to help me here." Looking back at the boy, she explained. "The way I found him in the forest was strange..."

~x-Flashback-x~

'Help! Help me, please!'

Surprised, she turned to the cry's direction. Hearing another plea for help, Aqua ran and soon enough found a small boy running from a black mass of darkness in a small floating cloud that had yellow glowing orbs fr eyes, a zigzag line for a mouth, and had hints of purple swirling in it's not-so-solid body. The boy tripped and fell hard, but the dark cloud didn't slow down and Aqua cartwheeled in the way, but didn't anticipate it engulfing her torso, draining her health. It suddenly started to become hard to breathe.

'Iie, I won't...let it... get him!' With that thought, she jumped up high in the air way above the floating, energy-draining parasite. She summoned her keyblade Stormfall in a mid-back flip and positioned Stormfall. Landing, in a kneeling position, she saw the parasite pinned down on the top of it's 'head' with her keyblade. She watched it struggle lamely, til it dissipated into smoke. Sighing in relief, she let go of Stormfall which then disappeared in a flash of light. Turning to the boy, she saw he exhausted himself into unconsciousness. She then carried him much like a mother would to their child, and hurried back to the apartment.

~x-Flashback End-x~

"...I don't know about you, but I'm sure it wasn't an Unversed." Vanitas crossed his arms and leaned against the wall. "I would know because I haven't tried summoning any Unversed since arriving here."

"But what about the kid?"

"What about him?"

Aqua sighed exasperated. "How are we going to explain this to a child?"

"Easy. Keep him with us and manipulate little facts."

Aqua glared. "...now I remember why I hated you." Said person just grinned before it was replaced with an expression of seriousness.

"The kid will stay with us, but he's not normal." Sniffing, he placed hid hand over the bottom half of his face with a semi-hidden frown. "I can't sense his darkness at all, but I can smell the residue it leaves. Even then, it fades so fast that it seems like it was never there at all."

Aqua frowned. She gently placed a hand on his forehead and closed her eyes feeling his energy. She could sense an... emptiness... within it. It also felt chilling cold. When she pulled away her hand, she saw it was coated in a thin layer of ice which quickly melted upon its loss of contact. Unluckily, her hand was still hovering above his forehead, and the droplets dripped on his face. His face scrunched up, and slowly opened his eyes, blinking to adjust to the lighting. Turning his head, he saw Aqua staring at his silver-grey eyes. "Who are you,..." After a short pause, he asked again, "...who am I?"

I'm sooo sorry for not updating this in, like, forever! I feel bad, but now I'm back in the game. Unfortunately, I won't be able to update until after my Mid-Terms, and even then, my next chapter probably won't be moderately halfway done. Thanks for those who reviewed/followed/favorited. Hope you all like the revision. =)

-Kag-chan

REDONE 12-23-11