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I do not own Kingdom Hearts, Disney, or any of that stuff. I cannot take full credit for the storyline or the majority of the characters in this story. Nor can I take any credit for the following poem. ENJOY!!! ;) Please review!!

Fading memories..

reconstructed memories…

And, a dream-

a dream of you,

in a world without you.

Walking this road

without you.

To remake forgotten promises

and meet you at road's end…

A scattered dream

That's like a far-off memory…

A far-off memory

That's like a scattered dream…

I want to line the pieces up—

Yours, and mine.

One.Another Day, Another Destiny

I stretched, taking a deep breath. It was morning; I pushed back the covers and stood, opening the window to let the sun's rays illuminate the room.

The bells over in the train station rang, just as always. I sighed and tied up my boot laces as the train rumbled by outside. I'd overslept a bit, but hey-isn't that what summer is about?

I went to me and my friends' usual meeting place-just as I expected, everyone was there already. I sat down beside Roxas who kissed me on the cheek.

"Morning, babe."

I grinned. "Good morning!"

"God. Does this piss anyone else off?" Kaya said, throwing a pebble against the wall.

I blinked. "Huh?"

"It's Seifer. Didn't you know?" Roxas looked at me, confused.

He sighed and began to explain. "You know how things have been getting stolen around town, right?"

I nodded.

"Well, Seifer and his gang are telling everyone that we're the thieves. Can you believe it?" He shook his head. "It just makes me so mad."

"Maybe we should find out who's really behind it and prove it isn't us." Chiharu suggested.

"But how should we deal with Seifer?" Kaya asked, cracking her knuckles.

I considered her question. "First, we should just worry about clearing our names."

Everyone nodded in agreement, and the four of us grew silent. I looked over at Chiharu, who was digging in her tote.

"SHIT!" she exclaimed, dropping her bag to the floor. "Our – are gone!!"

Startled, Chiharu covered her mouth. The rest of us exchanged glances, unsure of how to respond.

Kaya laughed. "Oh, you mean our --? … What the hell?"

I furrowed my brow.

"Why can't we say --?"

"Do you think someone stole them?" Chiharu wondered aloud, still searching relentlessly for them.

Kaya nodded, standing up. "And they stole the word, too. That rules out the chance that Seifer is behind it – he's totally not that clever."

Roxas stood too. "So, let's go get to the bottom of this."

I followed suit and walked with my friends out through the ally. I took Roxas' hand in mine. "Did you sleep well last night?"

"…" He stopped walking, but didn't answer. It was as though he hadn't even heard me.

"…Roxas?" I turned to face him and gasped. "Roxas!!"

"Oh my god… catch him!" Kaya and Chiharu helped me lower him to the ground gently.

"Is he… ok? Should we get help?" Chiharu wondered, flipping her cell phone open.

I kneeled beside him and grabbed his wrist, searching for a pulse.

"Well, he isn't dead." I said, relieved.

I placed a hand on his cheek and his eyebrow twitched.

"Roxas?"

He opened his blue eyes and gazed at me with a faint smile.

"Sorry.. Guess the heat got to me." He grunted and stood up.

"It's fine. I'm just glad you're ok." I smiled, ruffling his hair.

Chiharu tapped her foot impatiently. "Ok, so if you two are done being all lovey-dovey, let's get going."

So we headed to the tram common. Usually, it was bustling with people by this time of day, but for some reason the streets were somewhat abandoned.

"Let's start at the armor shop." Chiharu suggested.

I waved to the man behind the counter. He had spiky, blonde hair and was wearing a black vest with a bold yellow stripe across it.

"Hey guys. I never thought you all would do something so rotten.."

I couldn't believe it – why would anyone believe that jerk, Seifer?

"We didn't do it, okay?" I said, defensively.

The man simply frowned. "I wish I could believe you, but… who else could have?" There was a hint of sarcasm in his voice. I always knew I hated this guy, deep down.

Kaya took a step forward, preparing her sincerest face. "What all was stolen?"

"Like you don't know." He scoffed. "Go bother someone else."

She appeared to be taken aback by his lack of manners.

"Thanks. I'll be sure to shop here again. Honestly! I can't believe some people…" Kaya complained as we made our way to the accessory shop.

"Don't worry, I'll beat him up for you later," Roxas replied with a smile.

The girl at the Accessory Shop was much more hospitable.

""Oh! Hello, Emiko!" she said, pushing her blonde hair behind her ears.

"Please, don't let me down.." she pleaded. "You're some of my favorite customers."

Chiharu groaned. "Dude. We aren't thieves!"

"Yeah... we were stolen from too, you know." I added.

She looked relieved. "Well then, you need to clear your names."

Kaya exploded. "DUH! What do you think we've been doing?"

The girl shrugged and went back to work.

Well, so far, we hadn't gotten anywhere so we decided to go find Seifer.

"He's probably at the sandlot." Chiharu offered. "Follow me."

Roxas, Kaya and I followed Chiharu through the town, to the sandlot. Sure enough, Seifer and his friends were there.

As always, he was sporting his dorky black beanie – even though it was practically 100 degrees outside. He spotted us immediately and came over; his friends trailing behind.

"So, here are the town's thieves. You've got some nerve to show up here after taking our ---."

"We didn't take them." Roxas replied simply.

Seifer smirked. "And who else would? That was proof that we totally owned you lamers."

"…"

"Don't ever use that word again. Ugh.. you're such a loser." Kaya said, disgusted.

The short, witchlike person named Vivi suddenly broke into a sprint and ran away from us, heading in the direction of the forest screaming.

"MY HANDS ARE HAUNTED!!!!!"

We exchanged a glance, and broke out into laughter. Seifer seemed not to notice, however.

"Hah." Seifer said smugly. "I guess if you get on your knees and beg, maybe I'll let it slide."

He grabbed a struggle club and got into a fighting stance. He looked ridiculous, and I just had to say something.

I walked up to him, showing no sign of fear whatsoever. "Oh, really? Well, that's great and all, but I don't know how much damage you're going to be able to do with that goofy blue dildo. Unless you're planning on raping me with it, that is."

"You bitch!" he growled.

Chiharu approached him calmly.

"You called?" She smirked and kneed him in the groin.

"Ungh!" he groaned and collapsed onto the ground.

We burst out laughing and I high-fived her.

"That was fucking amazing."

Seifer's friends helped him up quickly as Chiharu pulled out her camera.

"Say cheeeese!!!" She laughed and snapped a picture.

Not a moment later, it seemed, something sprang out of nowhere, snatching Chiharu's camera and dashing away before we were able to get a good look at it.

"…"

"Was that the thief, you think?" Kaya wondered aloud.

Roxas smirked. "Only one way to find out. Let's go!" He ran after the figure which was moving so quickly it was just a blur in the distance. Good thing Roxas was a fast runner.

Now as for me, I've always been an awful runner, but I did my best not to fall too terribly far behind. I was far past the point of exhaustion when we finally stopped.

We found ourselves in front of the old mansion staring wide-eyed at the creature who'd supposedly stolen from the town. It was silver, and wiggled about in fluid-like motions. It was like nothing any of us had ever seen before.

We approached it with caution. It leapt at me and I stumbled backwards with a yelp, just narrowly missing its attempt to hit me. My friends backed me up, and we all tried to fight back – but to no avail.

For some unknown reason, the creature was untouchable.

I took a breath, trying to form some kind of a plan. However, before I could really get my head around the situation at all, a weapon of some sort materialized in Roxas' hands. It looked pretty much like a giant key.

"Dude, how did you do that?" Chiharu wanted to know.

He didn't respond; just started to swing it around like a sword. It was as though he'd been fighting with it his whole life. Seriously.

Within a minute, he had defeated the odd creature. It vanished, leaving nothing but a few photographs behind, which floated to the ground. I looked at my friends who looked pretty much as speechless as I felt.

"Guess it was the thief." I picked up the pictures and flipped through them.

Chiharu shook her head, as if waking up from a daze.

"Roxas, what's that thing you're holding?" I wondered, glancing at the strange weapon.

"The Keyblade." He blurted.

The three of them stood in silence I showed them the pictures. It was a bit odd, really. Roxas was in every single picture.

"Creepy." Kaya observed.

I gave the photos to Chiharu to keep in her bag.

Chiharu shook her head in disbelief. "That was really weird,"

I nodded in agreement. It was getting late, so we decided to go our separate ways once we reached the town square. I kissed Roxas goodnight, and made my way home, but somehow I was unable to shake the feeling that something was wrong… that I needed to stay with Roxas.

Restoration 12

"…Organization miscreants… they've found us."

"-But.. why would the nobodies steal photographs?"

"Both are nothing but data to them."

"The fools.. could never tell the difference."

"We are running out of time.."

"Namine must make haste."

I awoke in tears…

on the second day.

((Thanks for reading the first chapter!!! Constructive criticism is always welcome – I'm absolutely positive there must be some errors in here, so feel free to point them out to me and I'll fix them as soon as I can! Also, if you have any suggestions, questions, or comments regarding the plot, characters, or whatever then I would love to hear them as well! Thanks so much for reading, I hope you like my story!))

Emiko