Yuki looked up at the tall chair in front of her. She stood in the center of the platform the chairs surrounded with her head held high. Tayressa looked down at her from the chair directly in front of her. To either side of Tayressa was Syrine and Aysui on their own chairs. Syrine didn't seem to be paying attention while Aysui was glaring at her.

"You failed once again," Tayressa said calmly. "Why is it so difficult for you to complete such a simple task?" She asked. Syrine rolled her eyes, flipping her silver hair over her shoulder.

"Why should I have to?" Yuki asked, not taking her gaze away from Tayressa. Tayressa looked at Yuki in mild shock, her eyebrows raising only a slight bit. "Plenty of other Heartless are capable and I am not. The mere thought of watching it happen makes me feel sick."

"But you were the one assigned to the task," Aysui said. Tayressa held her hand up to silence Aysui. Syrine snickered from Tayressa's other side.

"But it's clear I won't complete it," Yuki responded to Aysui. "Why insist I do something you know I'm not capable of?" Her voice was much stronger than she thought it would be. She wasn't showing the fear that she thought might have been present.

"I suppose you're right. We should stick to giving you simple missions. One's more tuned to your skill set." Tayressa said. Her deep red eyes watched Yuki amused. "You can go about your day now." She said, dismissing the younger Heartless.

Instead of leaving Yuki continued to gaze up at the other three. Her mind was filled with thoughts. This was her chance to ask. She might get answers to the questions no one seemed to know the answer to.

"Why are we doing this?" Yuki asked. Tayressa looked at her calmly.

"Doing what?" Tayressa asked softly. Yuki's fist clenched tightly as she held back the urge to yell at Tayressa.

"Trying to get Kingdom Hearts? Why is a heart so important? Why do we even exist?" Yuki asked, now fighting to keep calm. Tayressa waved her hand towards the two in the chairs. They nodded and disappeared in vortexes of darkness.

"I should think these answers are obvious." Tayressa said. Her voice was soft. Yuki could detect hints of what reminded her of disappointment. But she wasn't completely sure.

"They're not." Yuki said stubbornly. Tayressa smiled and softly sighed.

"You're so young. You wouldn't understand." She said. Yuki glared towards her.

"Try me." She challenged. Tayressa shook her head with a laugh.

"I think not," Tayressa said. "But, if you must know. We exist so no one can ever forget, we were once human." She smiled at Yuki one more time before disappearing just as the other two had. Yuki frowned in frustration. The conversation hadn't answered most of her questions. It barely answered one. She still didn't understand. And she couldn't help but think the elite was hiding something from her.

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Day 225- Why?,
I spoke to Tayressa today. She was trying to figure out why I wasn't completing missions I was assigned. After she decided I wasn't at fault I tried figuring out why we were doing these things. But I found out why we exist. To remind everyone we were once human.
I saw X and Y for a little. Apparently next vacation we all are going to the beach together. I don't think that vacation can come soon enough.

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Yuki sat cross-legged on her bed staring at a book. She was trying to read or hopefully fall asleep. It was too early to head to the common room to get her daily assignment, or at least Yuki thought it was. But maybe she could head down early.

After several more minutes, Yuki stood up and left her room, pulling her white coat on over top of her black tank top and black jeans. She couldn't stand sitting around doing nothing any longer. There was no harm in being early, only in being late.

Yuki reached the common room door after a short walk. At the door, she paused, her hand on the doorknob. Inside she could hear voices. One belonged to Aysui, the other belonged to Tayressa.

"A young one like her should adapt eventually. She'll realize we're doing what we must soon enough." Aysui said.

"She should learn faster. I don't think we have the time for her to question too much." Tayressa said softly. There was a short pause.

"The key-bearer is getting closer to waking, isn't he?" Aysui asked. There was another bit of silence. Since Yuki hadn't heard an answer she assumed Tayressa had nodded. "Can't we delay the heroes waking?" Aysui asked.

"No. We'd have to find the key-bearer and the memory keeper to do that. However, neither have been located." Tayressa answered. Her voice was solemn. This was troubling to her.

"Surely there are other ways to prevent the key-bearer from waking." Aysui insisted. Yuki frowned. She should know who this key-bearer was. She had heard the term used before. But she couldn't remember where, or by who. It was so familiar though.

"What's with all this key-bearer crap? Why don't we just use Sora? That is his name." The voice of Syrine said, sounding very frustrated. She must have just been listening to the previous conversation.

Yuki stepped away from the door. That name, Sora, where had she heard it before? She knew that name. But she couldn't place it. She closed her eyes trying to picture the face that went with that name. Sora. Who was he? The key-bearer. The name felt so familiar, as familiar as Destiny Islands.

Yuki brought her hand up to her head. She backed up a few steps before bumping into a wall. She tried to steady her breathing and slid down the wall. Her vision blurred and all sound faded away. It didn't take long for her to completely lose consciousness.

Images flashed through her mind one after the next. None of them made sense. They all only shared one thing in common. The brown-haired boy from her dreams. Him laughing. Him looking up at Yuki with a grin. Him facing Yuki with a wooden sword. Him sitting beside Yuki asking the silver-haired boy a question. All passed by in a flash with Yuki barely able to remember the one before.

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Y groaned sitting down on a rock. X stood behind her, watching in mild amusement. Y looked at him over her shoulder frowning.

"We've been walking forever. How do you even know how long we've been down here?" Y complained motioning to the dark landscape around her. The realm of darkness was completely empty in this location. Nothing but rocks and darkness, not even any Heartless.

"I had Aryum cast magic on the charm I carry. It ensures time flows normally around me." X explained, showing Y the unversed charm. Y frowned looking at it.

"You never told me what he was like." She said. X dropped the charm and looked at the ground. He thought for a minute before replying.

"Vanitas was, well, I guess the best way to describe him is he was stubborn. He did what he wanted when he wanted to. He didn't pay heed to very much of what Xehanort said, and he always pushed himself." X finally said. Y nodded slowly, still thinking.

"What was a good trait?" Y asked. Her orange eyes were filled with thought as she tried to find the reason her brother was friends with Vanitas. X sighed and rubbed the back of his head.

"He didn't want a war. He just wanted to be saved. And he had a pretty decent sense of humor." X replied. He watched Y try to process what he had said. It wasn't easy for her, he could tell. And he couldn't blame her. Vanitas had torn apart her friends, with a little help from X. "Come on Y. We don't have much more time."

Y looked up at her brother's words. She smiled standing up and stretching.

"Right, we won't find Aqua just sitting here." Y said. X nodded in agreement. "Not to mention we have to be sure Yuki's ok. She passed out again this morning."

"That's becoming pretty common for her. I'm sure she'll be fine." X said. Y gave him a dirty look. He shrugged calmly.

"We should split up and look around. We could find her a lot faster." Y suggested already walking a little ways away. X gave a heavy sigh.

"Yeah, but we have to stay somewhere near each other. If I find her I'll yell something about she's trying to kill me." X said walking in a different direction than his sister.

X walked for a short time in the completely dark world. It was quiet and calm. Nothing was moving beside X. It was unlikely that Aqua would be this deep in the darkness if she was X had little hope of saving her.

A blast of ice suddenly shot past X's head, barely missing him. X stopped walking and glanced over his shoulder, quickly forgetting his thoughts. Behind him was a familiar keyblade master with blue hair. As X had expected she hadn't changed a bit since he had last seen her.

"Why are you here?" The blue haired woman asked. X thought a minute trying to decide the best answer. He knew no matter what he said Aqua would attack him. She didn't trust him at all, with good reason of course.

"Looking for you." X finally said. He kept his back turned to her, giving her the advantage if a fight started.

"Was killing my friends not enough for you?" Aqua asked hostilely. He could hear the tremble in her voice as she fought to hold back tears. "Was leading Terra into the darkness and tearing out your own sister's heart not enough?" X tensed up at her words, lowering his head.

"I remember why I didn't like you now," X said, mostly to himself. Aqua took a step away from him. "You judge others without knowing a thing. You weren't in my shoes then and still aren't now. What do you know about what I have gone through? Who said I was looking for you to kill you?" He asked. Aqua didn't answer, narrowing her blue eyes at him. "You know what one of the main reasons Terra was taken by the darkness? It was because no one trusted him and judged his actions without trying to understand his goals. You talk of a friendship, but what you claim existed was never really there. You judged him far to quickly to have had any real trust in him." X continued coldly. He turned to face Aqua calmly. The moment he did so he felt the cool tip of a keyblade touch his throat. It was shaking ever so slightly. He could see the fear in Aqua's eyes that what he said was true.

X hated keyblades. He despised them with every bit of his being. They were nothing but tools of war. Cheap fakes of the real thing. Something even more dangerous he despised even more. All they ever did was bring violence. They killed people. And X couldn't stand that.

"You speak nothing but lies meant to drag my heart further into the darkness." Aqua said. Her voice was a bit more firm but there was still a slight quavering quality. X laughed and motioned around him.

"Can't get much deeper than this." He said. Aqua glared at him. In a flash she had pulled back her keyblade and swung at X. X didn't dodge it. It found it's mark on his side, leaving a deep cut below his ribs.

X jumped back then and put his hand on the injury. He laughed looking at the dark blood staining his hand. Aqua looked at him confused. She shook her head before attacking him once again. She swung her keyblade at the opposite side she had already hit then jumped back and cast blizzard at X. X took the hit from the key but finally drew his daggers to block the ice.

"She's trying to kill me!" X yelled. Aqua looked at him nervously, stepping back once again.

"Who are you yelling to?" She demanded. X shrugged calmly but winced due to the two cuts on his sides.

"Stick around and maybe you'll see." X said. Aqua glared at him before banishing her keyblade.

"This isn't over." She hissed before running away. X watched her go with a frown. Of course, it wasn't over. They'd have to meet again someday if she was ever to be saved. X wasn't looking forward to their next meeting.

"X!" Y called as she approached him. She froze seeing the injuries her brother had sustained. "Oh god, you weren't joking when you said she was trying to kill you." Y said.

"Sorry, she ran off when I yelled to get your attention. She thought I was calling for back up." X said softly. Y shrugged calmly, looking at the cuts on her brother's sides.

"Well, at least she's alive." Y said. She reached into her pack and grabbed a potion handing it to X. X took it and drained it. "At least she only hit you twice. You must be pretty good at dodging." Y said. X frowned.

"Yeah. Or just lucky." X said. He looked at the injuries that were healing thanks to the potion. "You know for a blunt weapon, keyblades cut surprisingly well." He commented. Y shoved him playfully. She laughed softly earning a smile from X.

"Come on, let's head back." Y said. X  nodded in agreement.

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Day 255- Sora,

I overheard Tayressa, Aysui, and Syrine talking. They talked about me for a minute, something about how I'd learn eventually. But that's not what got my attention. They said something about a key-bearer named Sora. After hearing that name I passed out. A lot of images flashed through my head but I can barely remember them now. I think Sora was on Destiny Islands. The name has the same familiar feeling as the islands.