Y frowned as she watched DiZ where he sat at the computer. He was turned to face both her and the hooded man. The man wrapped in a red scarf was tense. Y guessed that meant he was angry. Not that she could blame him for that. She tugged on her silver gloves that went up the length of her arm. She couldn't show off her Heartless emblem, so it had come to this.

"Organization miscreants. They've found us." DiZ said. As Y had suspected he was angry. She leaned back with a frown as she kicked her feet back and forth. She was sitting on some metal box, probably filled with electronics.

"But why would they steal photographs?" The hooded man asked. Y glanced to him out of the corner of her eye. He almost felt like another Heartless. Perhaps the one they had called Ansem. But he had been defeated. So perhaps it wasn't.

"It was just Dusks, for now, they aren't the smartest." Y explained. The hooded man turned his attention to her for a brief moment. Looking at her he would never guess how she was involved with DiZ. Or why. She wore simple white clothing for the most part. White shorts and a white tank top with a black feather on the front. She had a gold belt and black socks that reached her knees. The strangest thing about her were her eyes and hair, neither seemed really natural. Her orange eyes seemed to see past the exterior and into the heart.

"Both are nothing but data to them. The fools could never tell the difference. We are running out of time. Naminé must make haste." DiZ said turning the hooded man's attention away from Y. She frowned at the mention of the blonde Nobody. She hadn't seen much of her. DiZ was working her too hard.

"Until then we need more of a presence in town. I can't babysit Roxas and take out Dusks at the same time. Not to mention I still have to patch the holes in the system too." Y said. DiZ nodded slowly and turned to look at the hooded man. Y guessed that meant he would be dropping by more often. She wasn't sure how she felt about that, but it was something.

When Y returned to the town it was a new day. Which meant Roxas had a new goal. Some task that was meant to keep him busy for the day. Y had run into Roxas earlier that day, quite literally. But she hadn't asked him what he was up to. She was too busy regretting her decision. Working in the town gave her no chance of separating Roxas from his other. She didn't have the time, and she didn't have her friends.

Y frowned looking at the posters in her hand. They were for the Struggle tournament in a few days. Roxas was the only reason she knew that. She wasn't really sure what Struggle was. Some game she guessed.

"Hey Y!" Y stopped and turned to face whoever it was that had yelled for her attention. Of course it was Roxas. Y smiled softy as Roxas approached her.

"I didn't do it." Y stated. Roxas laughed at her reaction. Y smiled despite her feeling of guilt.

"Do you think you have any jobs I could do to earn extra munny? Hayner is insisting we go to the beach." Roxas asked. Y frowned and tapped her chin. Most of her jobs involved programming. And she really couldn't ask Roxas to do that.

"The beach? Sounds fun." Y said. She hoped DiZ had a plan. There was no beach programmed in. Y sighed. "You know, I still have to finish up my summer project for school. Think you can finish putting up these posters?" Y asked.

"Sure." Roxas agreed without missing a beat. He took the stack of posters from Y still smiling brightly.

"Let me know when you're done, I'll pay you then." Y said, smiling in return.

"Thanks." Roxas said before he darted off. Y watched him for a moment with a sad smile. She sighed before returning to her home in the town.

Y sat at her computer desk and put on a headset. DiZ didn't usually speak to her directly, but sometimes he decided there was something he couldn't figure out and Y had to do it from inside the town. It also helped her focus when she had music playing. She didn't want to be sidetracked in the middle of patching part of the system. That had happened before and it had resulted in a strange glitch.

When Y glanced over her shoulder she was almost surprised to see the hooded man leaning against the wall. His attention seemed to be on the map behind her. Y narrowed her eyes and slowly changed them from orange to yellow. As she thought the hooded man did indeed have a heart. A heart that wasn't light, but wasn't dark either. Y frowned as her eyes returned to normal and she looked back to the computer screen.

"What's the plan?" Y asked as she continued typing. "DiZ isn't really going to let him go to the beach. I don't have time to program that in." She continued calmly. She wasn't focused much on the computer. She was too busy trying to place the man's familiar heart. She smiled softly as she came to a realization.

"He'll be stopped." The man said simply. Y rolled her eyes.

"Thanks, that's descriptive." She said. The two fell into silence, only the sound of clicking keys filling the room. The typing stopped and Y groaned, putting her forehead to the desk. "Oh you've got to be joking."

"What is it?" The hooded man asked, stepping off the wall. Y sat up again and leaned back.

"There are way more holes in this system than I thought. I'm not sure I can patch them all." Y explained. She made a few quick key strokes and frowned. "Think we can keep them away from sunset terrace? That entire system is buggy, it'll take me awhile to patch enough for it to be passable." She said. The hooded man nodded.

"I'll inform DiZ." He said. Y waved off his concern.

"He should be able to see it himself." She said. With heavy sigh Y turned her chair to face the hooded man. She stretched, putting her hands behind her head. "Man, Sora is such a pain. How'd you handle him for so long?" Y asked. The man turned to look at her in surprise.

"Huh?" He asked. Y smiled at him calmly.

"You're his friend, right?" Y asked. She received no answer. She sighed before continuing. "That's why you're helping him." Y waited for the hooded man to reply. It struck her as odd. He should really only be a teenager. Something close to 16. But he looked so much older.

"How did you know?" He asked slowly. Y smiled looking him over. Though it had been years she could still see it. His heart that was so similar.

"Cause I know you're not Ansem." Y said simply. The man nodded in admittance. "I figured, you're still a lot like him." She continued. The man looked toward her. Y couldn't see his face, but she guessed he was frowning. She couldn't blame him.

"Like him?" He asked.

"Eh, you'll figure it out." Y said with a shrug. A knock on her front door cut the conversation short. "And that'll be Roxas. I gotta go pay him." Y said as she stood up. She grabbed a munny pouch off her desk and went to answer the door. As predicted when she opened the door Roxas was there.

"Done." Roxas stated simply. Y laughed a little and fished through her pouch of munny.

"Thought as much. Here's 50 munny." She said handing it over. Roxas took it with a smile.

"Thanks." He said. He turned to walk away but stopped. "Hey, you want to come too?" He offered. Y laughed.

"Anything to get away from homework. I have enough munny for myself anyway." Y decided.

"C'mon, I was just going to meet up with Hayner and the others." Roxas said, motioning as he took off toward the station plaza. Or at least that was where Y assumed he was heading.

At the station, the rest of Roxas's gang had gathered together. Hayner seemed to be making some kind of a joke that was getting the other two to laugh. Roxas began to smile the moment he saw them. Y smiled herself as he ran over to the group.

"Hey guys, Y's gonna come too." Roxas said. The group glanced over to Y before exchanging a look. Pence shrugged turning back to Y and Roxas.

"Great, the more the merrier." Pence said.

"Yeah." Olette agreed. Hayner remained silent, but Y supposed that was because he was outvoted.

"What've we got?" Pence asked.

"Let' see," Roxas said as he reached into his pocket. He pulled out a sizeable pile of munny. Y didn't know what else Roxas had done, but she imagined it had been a lot. "Just this." He said calmly.

"Good job." Hayner said, clearly impressed with his best friends work. Olette took the munny and did some quick math putting the munny into a bright orange pouch.

"Nice work, everyone. Added to what we started with we now have," Olette held out her munny pouch with a bright smile. "Tada! 5000 munny!"

"Sweet!" Hayner said in surprise. Y laughed and leaned over to Roxas.

"How much of that was you?" Y asked.

"Most of it." Roxas whispered back as he took the pouch from Olette. Y laughed a little looking back at the group. Not surprising that Roxas would do most of the work. He had always done more than what he had to.

"Let's get tickets!" Olette said.

Y followed Pence and Olette up the steps to the station. She glanced over her shoulder at Roxas and Hayner. The two boys were talking about something. It was serious from the looks on their faces. Hayner jokingly punched Roxas's shoulder before running up to meet the group on the steps. Roxas went to follow after him but tripped over a stick that was strategically thrown at his feet. As Roxas pushed himself up the hooded man appeared beside him. Y sighed heavily as the hood man pulled Roxas to his feet.

"Roxas! Three minutes!" Hayner called out catching Roxas's attention.

"Okay!" Roxas called. He turned back toward the hooded man, but he had vanished when Roxas had turned away. Roxas stood for a moment in confusion before running to catch up with the group.

Hayner was the one to go up to the teller.

"Five students." Hayner said.

"Roxas the munny!" Pence said. Roxas nodded and reached into his pocket. He frowned and looked down.

"Wait." He said as he rummaged through his pockets. "No!" He exclaimed rather suddenly making Y jump in surprise.

"Huh?" Hayner asked as Roxas turned to look back at the plaza where he had fallen.

"He took it!" Roxas exclaimed before he took off back to the plaza. Y looked at the group in confusion. Luckily they all seemed just as confused as her.

"Where are you going?" Olette called after Roxas.

"Remember when I fell?" Roxas asked, stopping to turn and face them.

"It was hardly five minutes ago, I think we remember." Y said calmly.

"I had the munny before that. I bet that guy took it!" Roxas insisted. Y bit her lip nervously trying to think of how to explain that away. It was annoying that they acted without reason sometimes.

"Guy?" Hayner asked slowly, pulling Y from her thoughts.

"He couldn't have gotten too far." Roxas insisted.

"What are you talking about?" Hayner asked. Roxas looked at him in confusion. "There was no guy." Hayner continued. Roxas looked at him in confusion yet again.

"Huh? But he..." Roxas trailed off looking at the plaza. He turned back to the four watching him. His blue eyes were narrowed in confusion as if trying to remember. "There wasn't? Really?" He asked. A train whistle stopped any reply Roxas might have gotten.

"Oh boy." Pence said a little sadly.

"There wasn't anyone there?" Roxas asked once again. A silence greeted his question. Y frowned looking around at the four friends.

"C'mon. I have an idea." Y said suddenly. Roxas looked up at her slowly. She smiled brightly before walking out to the plaza, not looking to see if the others followed her.

It didn't take long for the five of them to be sitting on top of the station tower. Pence was farthest from Y, where Axel used to sit. Hayner was beside him in what would normally have been Roxas's spot. Olette was beside him where Yuki sat. Roxas was in X's spot, and Y sat where she usually did. Each one had an ice cream that Y had bought. It seemed like the best way to cheer up Roxas after the strange stunt the hooded man had pulled.

"It's melting." Olette said. Roxas jumped, looking at the ice cream he had hardly touched.

"Sorry." Roxas said sheepishly. He was still lost in his thoughts. Y's plan wasn't working well enough.

"Cheer up already!" Hayner ordered.

"That was definitely weird though," Roxas said.

"No one's saying it's not." Y agreed calmly.

"Strange." Olette agreed.

"You said it." Hayner said.

"Can you feel Sora?" Roxas asked. It took Y a moment to realize he was quoting something. And it took her another second to realize it was what the hooded man had said to him. Y sighed in frustration. It was almost as if they wanted Roxas to remember before it was time.

*<3*

Y sat on the same box she had the last time she was in the computer room with DiZ and the hooded man. They almost seemed to not have moved at all. Except the hooded man was tossing the bright orange munny pouch he had stolen.

"Is it really that hard to make a beach?" The hooded man asked.

"In that short of a time span it is." Y said simply. She leaned against her own knee, her foot up on the box with the rest of her.

"We'd be giving the enemy another entry point." DiZ explained further. The hooded man nodded in understanding.

"And this?" The hooded man asked as he stopped tossing the pouch. He held it out for DiZ to see. DiZ looked at the pouch with a grin that didn't fit his face. Y decided he should avoid making facial expression besides his usual grim frown.

"We can always buy some sea-salt ice cream." DiZ suggested. He laughed shortly before turning back to the computer. "Objects from that town must be kept out of the real world. You can delete that." He decided. The hooded man nodded and began tossing the pouch again

"That Heartless was here again." He said suddenly. Y looked up in confusion. What Heartless? Why had she not been informed of a Heartless in the area? She was the only one with a keyblade after all.

"When? I have not seen her." DiZ responded. Just from the mention of this Heartless, he was already clearly more agitated. Y thought it strange they used gendered pronouns. Must have been an elite Heartless.

"She was in town. She's been hanging around town quite often." The hooded man explained.

"You may have to take care of that. She may become a nuisance." DiZ said. Y frowned and dropped her leg, kicking her feet back and forth.

"Which Heartless are we talking about?" Y asked. She was surprised when she got an answer almost right away.

"The monarch. She has abandoned her own kind." DiZ said calmly. Y blinked in surprise. She didn't think Yuki was still around town. She figured Yuki would have gone to find someplace else. Maybe be with friends in other worlds.

"Why?" The hooded man asked.

"Tired of being a pawn." Y answered. DiZ and the hooded man looked to her in shock. Y had forgotten they didn't know a thing about her past. Y sighed and leaned back calmly. "She won't get in the way." Y said.

"And you're certain?" DiZ asked. Y nodded.

"Yeah." She said. Yuki was too confused to act out. Even if she wanted to, she wouldn't know where to start.

"How?" The hooded man asked. Y rolled her eyes.

"I know her." Y explained simply. DiZ snickered and narrowed his eyes at Y. Y met his gaze calmly.

"You seem to become more unusual by the day. Knowing the Heartless monarch along with knowing what you do about the organization." DiZ said calmly. Y smiled at him sweetly.

"Aren't we both just full of surprises." Y said. DiZ didn't reply, only turned back to the computer. Y dropped her smile as soon as he turned. She really did not like him. It was a shame he was the only one who really knew what was going on.