Y frowned looking between the computer screen in front of her and the blonde Nobody beside her. The girl was looking at her hands that were nervously clasped together. Y supposed it had taken her a great amount of courage to ask what she was. She had never heard Naminé speak all that much in general. Let alone ask for favors that were definitely breaking rules.

"You want to get in the Town." Y said simply.  Naminé nodded.

"Please." She asked. Y looked back to the computer screen with a frown. She didn't like the idea. It just made it seem like Roxas would realize something was up much faster. But at the same time, she hated how DiZ treated Naminé. Anything small she could do to spite him sounded like a good plan to her. 

"Fine. I can get you in and monitor it for you." Y decided. She heardNaminé's breath catch in surprise. She must not have expected Y to agree. Which Y really understood. She decided not to comment on it. "What do you plan on telling him?" Y asked.

"I just, wanted to meet him. Before it was too late." Naminé said nervously. Y glanced over her shoulder at her and nodded with a frown. That was a lie. She wanted to tell him something. But Y wasn't going to get in her way. Part of Y wanted him to know. Then maybe he could escape before it was too late. 

"Ok." Y agreed softly.

Y didn't see Naminé for a great majority of the day. She did pass by in the tram common, heading toward the woods and the manor. But other than that the blonde Nobody stayed out of Y's sight. Y was surprised to see Roxas run into the tram common looking around almost desperately looked around. When he saw Y he quickly ran over to her.

"Hey, Y. Have you seen a girl in white pass by?" Roxas asked. Y nodded slowly.

"Um, yeah. She just went into the woods. Do you know her?" Y asked. Roxas shook his head quickly.

"No, she just kinda showed up and no one else could see her." He explained. Y frowned in annoyance. Definitely messing with what Roxas knew. But Y didn't have it in her to object anymore.

"Weird. Like that guy yesterday." Y said softly. Roxas looked at her shocked. Y did her best not to react.

"You saw him too?" Roxas asked. Y paused for a moment. It was no use lying, not after already admitting to seeing the girl in white who had to be Naminé.

"Yeah, sorry I didn't say anything earlier. I didn't want to make the others think I was crazy." Y said. Roxas smiled at her sympathetically.

"Why don't we find that girl maybe she knows something." Roxas suggested. Y smiled and nodded in agreement.

"Yeah." Y agreed.

Roxas led the way into the forest. They soon found themselves in the forest facing a strange silvery grey circle floating in the air. Roxas slowly approached it. Y reached out to hold him back, but he didn't notice. As he drew closer to the silvery grey circle a Dusk slipped out followed by two others. They jumped forward and grabbed hold of Roxas attempting to drag him to the hole.

"Lemme go!" Roxas exclaimed as he pulled from the Dusks.

"Roxas run!" Y yelled. She pulled Roxas's arm and ran back into town. Much to her dismay, the Dusks followed them. Y didn't want to have to fight them. But she didn't want to leave it to Roxas again. Then he might remember too much.

Y tried losing the Dusks in town. They ran through every twist and turn Y knew until they ended up in the Sandlot. Much to her annoyance, the Sandlot wasn't empty. Seifer and his gang were hanging around as always.

"Hey, chicken wuss." Seifer said. Roxas skidded to a halt to look at him. Y groaned in annoyance, stopping as well.

"We do not have time for this." Y muttered looking over her shoulder as the Dusks entered the Sandlot.

"Who's that?" Fuu asked. She jumped as if readying herself to fight. Rai followed her lead while Vivi ran off to the side making no effort to fight.

"I dunno, but they've already crossed the line. Find a weapon!" Seifer ordered. As much as Y didn't want to take orders from a computer program she did, picking up a struggle bat as Roxas did.

The fight against the Dusks with struggle bats was useless. Y realized that right away. But Y didn't want to risk pulling out her keyblade. After the attempted battle went on for a short time Seifer and his gang froze. Y stopped and looked at them in confusion. Roxas too stopped, giving the Dusks time to regroup.

"Not good." Roxas muttered as the Dusks slowly approached him and Y. 

"Roxas! Use the keyblade!" Roxas and Y looked up toward the voice to see Naminé looking down on them. Her blue eyes were wide with worry. One of the Dusks attacked Roxas and he went to deflect the attack before falling to the ground.

Y drew her keyblade and made quick work of the Dusks. She sighed as she crouched beside Roxas and banished her keyblade. Y gently placed a hand on his shoulder and closed her eyes with a deep breath.

When Y opened her eyes she was in a white room, leaning against a wall that Naminé was sitting on top of. Y didn't acknowledge the blonde Nobody, just waited. Soon enough Roxas appeared in front of them looking around in confusion. First he looked at Y in question. She only smiled softly and looked to Naminé. Roxas followed her eyes and looked at Naminé. He was about to speak, but Naminé cut him off by placing her finger to her lips.

"My name is Naminé." She introduced. "Roxas, do you remember your true name?" She asked. Roxas frowned but before he could answer the hooded man appeared and roughly grabbed hold of Naminé's arm.

"Say no more Naminé." He said calmly. Y glared at the man.

"She's hardly said anything." Y objected. The man ignored her outburst.

"But if no one tells him, Roxas will-" Naminé attempted to argue. The man cut her off.

"It's best he doesn't know." The man said.

"Says you." Y snapped.

"Hey! You're that pickpocket!" Roxas yelled. The man only acknowledged him by pushing Roxas through a dark corridor. Y glared at the man before returning her self to the program with her own dark corridor.

"Seifer, strike a pose, y'know?" Rai's voice said. Y was crouched beside Roxas who was having difficulties waking up.

"How's this?" Seifer said.

"That's totally perfect, y'know!" Rai said as Fuu took pictures. Y held back her urge to snap at them for being idiots. "How 'bout one more, y'know?" Y glared as Roxas began pushing himself up. 

"What's that for!?" Roxas asked as he got to his feet, Y beside him.

"Keepsake." Fuu said simply.

"Those freaks in the white jumpsuits are gone, y'know?" Rai said.

"Cakewalk." Fuu agreed.

"What were those things?" Roxas asked slowly. Seifer snickered.

"Outsiders, that's what. And if they don't wise up to the rise around here, I might have to take 'disciplinary measure'." Seifer said. Y rolled her eyes.

"Oh yeah, Seifer's always lookin' after the town, y'know?" Rai said. Roxas was about to ask more, but stopped when he saw his group of friends. They turned and walked away leaving Roxas and Y. 

"Wait up!" Roxas yelled before following after them.

"Hey! No chickening out of the tournament tomorrow!" Seifer yelled after Roxas.

"We'll be waitin', y'know?" Rai added. Y sighed heavily before walking away. She had no need to linger. DiZ would probably be wanting a word with her shortly anyway. Naminé being in the system could only be linked to Y as she controlled a great amount of what got in.

Y wandered for a short time, not wanting to return to the man who was very controlling and cruel. Her wandering ended when she came face to face with Roxas once again.

"Hey, I wanted to talk to you." Roxas said as he approached Y. Y stopped walking and smiled calmly.

"Sure, what's up?" Y asked. She had a good idea of where this was going but she wasn't going to make that known. It was better if Roxas didn't know, as much as Y hated to admit the hooded man was right.

"What was that white room?" Roxas asked. Y frowned and raised an eyebrow, feigning ignorance.

"White room?" Y asked slowly.

"You know, where Naminé and that guy were." Roxas prompted. Y's frown deepened.

"I'm not following." She lied.

"When we were being chased by those guys in white." Roxas said, his face slowly falling. Y fought her urge to drop the act. Though she knew he wasn't, he still looked so much like Ven it hurt to see him sad.

"You passed out. And by some miracle, Seifer managed to scare those guys off." Y said calmly. Roxas frowned. 

"So you didn't see any of that?" Roxas asked. Y shook her head. "But you were there." He said. Y shrugged.

"I really don't know what you're talking about. That girl just vanished." She said. Roxas sighed and nodded.

"Oh, thanks anyway." Roxas said softly.

"No problem." Y said. "You patch things up with Hayner?" She asked. Judging from how the other blonde had walked away from the Sandlot he was angry.

"No, he's still mad." Roxas said.

"Don't worry. I'm sure it'll pass." Y said. With one last smile, she walked off. Hopefully, DiZ had had enough time to cool down.

As it quickly became apparent DiZ did not have enough time to cool off. The glares Y received several glares that made it clear her actions were not going unnoticed.

"Was that Naminé made of data?" The hooded man asked after Y had taken her normal position.

"No. Naminé convinced Y to allow her into the data herself." DiZ said, glaring at Y. Y only shrugged in response. "Look what she's done now. She's totally beyond my control!" DiZ snapped, slamming his fist down on the desk. Y leaned back and blinked in surprise.

"Ok." Y said in a placating way.

"Calm down." The hooded man near ordered. DiZ took a breath before continuing.

"It doesn't matter. As long as Naminé accomplishes her goal we needn't worry about what befalls Roxas." DiZ said after he had calmed himself.

"Unless he gets kidnapped." Y said turning attention to her. "The holes are getting bigger. One of the other Nobodies could break in anytime." She explained.

"Can't you patch them?" DiZ asked. Y shot him a glare.

"I patch one, two more open up. I'm not sure how much longer we can keep them out." She explained. DiZ nodded and turned back to his computer. 

"Naminé must hurry then. You must allow her no more distractions." DiZ said, looking at Y with a glare. Y nodded slowly.

"Right, I'll keep that in mind." Y said calmly.

*<3*

Yuki sighed as she kicked her feet back and forth. As always she found herself on top of the clock tower at sunset. There wasn't anywhere else she could go really. She had taken to spending her days in Hollow Bastion helping out the restoration committee.

"Man Snowy, you really need to find a better place to hang out." Yuki turned to greet the familiar voice. Axel was once again leaning against the wall watching Yuki. She smiled at him before looking back to the sunset.

"I really don't have anywhere else I could go." Yuki said.

"Guess that's true enough." Axel said. He crossed behind Yuki and sat down beside her. "You know much about what's going on with Y?" Axela asked. Yuki shook her head.

"No. I haven't really heard from anyone but you." Yuki said. Axel nodded in understanding. He seemed to think a moment before he continued.

"She's in a place just like this. But not quite the same. Roxas is there." Axel explained. Yuki snapped her head around to look at him. 

"What?" She asked quietly. Axel chuckled slightly.

"Yup." He said. He glanced at Yuki slightly grinning. "We have a way in. Multiple actually." He added calmly. Yuki narrowed her eyes at Axel frowning.

"Why are you telling me this?" Yuki asked. Axel sighed and looked down at the ground.

"I know you don't want to get into this. But, I could use your help. The boss has me doing this all on my own." Axel said. Yuki frowned and looked down at the ground. It was a chance to save Roxas. But he would just go right back to the place he ran away from.

"I'm not going to rescue him from DiZ just for him to go back to the organization he ran from." Yuki said. Axel sighed and nodded.

"Yeah, I figured you'd say that." He said with a sigh. "So how about this. We work together to rescue him, and then we can sort out where he goes after he's out." He suggested. Yuki frowned yet again. Sort it out didn't sound like a very good plan.

"You mean we fight." Yuki whispered. Axel chuckled and ruffled Yuki's hair. She smiled slightly and pushed his hand away.

"Hopefully we can just talk it out. I wouldn't want to have to hurt the both of you." He said calmly. Yuki nodded. It only took her a moment of thinking to make her decision.

"Alright. We'll save Roxas." She decided. Beside her Axel smiled, but he didn't say a word. Yuki wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not.