Yuki stood once again in the crowd of people she knew was normal in this world. She had ditched her organization coat before even coming to this world. The charm she had taken off her last time in Shibuya was in her pocket like it had been before. She was prepared for anything to come in this world. Even the strange creatures referred to as Noise.

Yuki's mission this time was to eliminate the Heartless in the world. Apparently, the Heartless and Noise had been interacting in a way that was bad for everyone. It was seen as just better to remove the Heartless before things got worse.

Yuki was in place she had begun the last time she was in the world. The road crossing filled to the brim with people. But she had no clue where to go. The last time she had been here she didn't really pay attention to where she had been going. She was either following Joshua or a Shadow. That was the only thing Yuki hadn't prepared for.

Yuki sighed and began to wander around the city, looking for any sign of the Heartless. To her dismay, she didn't see any Heartless. She did notice a few of the players from the Reapers game, however, fighting off the Noise. She was glad to see no Reapers in the area to take them out. They seemed to be fairing well against the Noise too.

Yuki eventually found herself where she had last seen the Heartless. The area in front of the mural was empty of people, just as it had been before. Yuki sighed leaning against a wall, staring at the artwork.

"Well, it's been awhile since you've come around." A familiar voice said from not far away. Yuki looked over to see Joshua smirking at her from an entrance to the area.

"Was a little busy," Yuki replied as Joshua crossed the area towards her. "How have things been here?" She asked.

"Mostly normal I'd say, except for those things that showed up the last time you were here have made several appearances," Joshua replied. He sounded annoyed by this. He leaned up against the wall beside Yuki in a nonchalant manner. She couldn't help but roll her eyes at him.

"They tend to do that once they find a new place," Yuki admitted sarcastically. Joshua glanced at her in interest.

"Care to explain what they are?" He asked. Yuki considered not telling him but remembered her promise to.

"Heartless." She stated briefly. Joshua looked at her in confusion.

"Heartless?" He asked in disbelief. Yuki nodded. She held up her left hand for him to see, exemplifying the emblem. He blinked a few times confused.

"Yeah, they're creatures that have no heart." Yuki explained calmly. Joshua nodded, looking away. Yuki lowered her hand and watched him think.

"How do they survive?" Joshua finally asked. Yuki was surprised that was his question, rather than the many other things he could have asked. But she was also grateful it was his question. She wasn't sure she could explain everything to him.

"I have no clue." Yuki answered honestly.

"Well, honesty is appreciated. How can we get rid of them, they haven't attacked anyone yet, but I have a feeling it's only a matter of time." Joshua asked turning to Yuki.

"Only a keyblade can permanently kill them. But other weapons will make them go away for a while." Yuki replied. As Yuki thought he would, Joshua raised an eyebrow in question.

"A keyblade? What is that?" He asked. Yuki opted out of replying and just summoned Heartless Keeper to her hand. Joshua blinks a few times in surprise but didn't show it in any other way. "Oh, then I suppose you're on extermination duty?" He asked.

"Yup." Yuki agreed.

"Mind if I tag along to watch?" Joshua asked. Yuki thought about it for a moment. Usually, she would just say no. But she had a feeling whether she agreed or not Joshua would follow her. And who knew, maybe he'd be of some use along the way.

"Just don't get in my way," Yuki warned turning her back on Joshua. He gave a sly smile behind her.

"Wouldn't dream of it." He said. Yuki rolled her eyes.

Having Joshua turned out to be helpful. He knew where all the Heartless were making appearances, and in general knew his way around town. He even managed to keep the Noise off Yuki's back during the fights. The only downside was his sarcastic commentary for most of the mission.

The two ended up back where they had first talked. The WildKat cafe. Yuki leaned up against the wall of the cafe while Joshua stood just beside the door. He was smirking at Yuki like he so often did.

"Well." He said, catching Yuki's attention. "That was certainly interesting." Yuki shrugged looking across the street. It looked like a pair of players were arguing.

"Pretty normal for me." Yuki said offhandedly. Joshua chuckled, letting his gaze follow hers.

"But you're not exactly normal, are you?" He said. Yuki smiled to herself. That was definitely one way to describe it.

"No, I'm not." She agreed, pulling away from the wall.

"I'll see you around." Joshua said turning to enter the cafe. Yuki nodded at him as he left.

"Yeah, see ya." She said, mostly to herself.

*<3*

Yuki sat once again on the edge of the table next to Naminé. The blonde Nobody was drawing like she normally was. Yuki wasn't looking at the drawing so much, she was looking at the complete ones on the wall. Her eyes wandered, eventually coming to rest on Naminé, still lost in her drawings.

"Hey, Naminé," Yuki said, gaining the blondes attention. "Why do you draw?" She asked. Naminé blinked a few times confused.

"What?" Naminé asked, her voice hardly above a whisper. Yuki had a feeling her drawings had to do with her memory powers, so she assumed Naminé thought that was what she meant. But it wasn't. It was a much simpler question.

"Why do you draw?" Yuki repeated. "They're beautiful and I love them, but I want to know why you draw." Naminé looked down at the ground. Her head tilted to the side and her pencil tapped against the side of the sketch pad.

"I never really thought about it." Naminé answered. Yuki nodded.

"Hm." She said in thought. She looked around the room again, standing up. She crossed to the window and looked outside. There was a beautiful view of the forest from there. Yuki looked back to Naminé in her white room. "Nami, do you ever think you're just stuck?" Yuki asked suddenly. Naminé looked up at her once again.

"I, never really thought about it that way. But, I suppose I do think that, in a way." Naminé admitted shyly. Yuki wondered if she was always this shy, or if it was due to all the people constantly ordering her around. If that was it Yuki wasn't happy.

"Then maybe you draw to get away from that. To be free even if only for a moment." Yuki suggested. Naminé smiled softly at her.

"I- maybe." Naminé said. Yuki thought there might have been more she wanted to say, but she just didn't say it. It was like Naminé, to leave her opinion unheard. Yuki was about to ask but froze as the imposter entered the room.

"Naminé," the imposter said. He noticed Yuki and froze, looking in her direction. But with his blindfold, Yuki didn't think he could see. Even so, she motioned for him to continue with whatever it was he needed to say. He turned to Naminé and finished cautiously. "DiZ needs your help."

"Of course." Naminé said standing, setting her pencil and paper down on the table. She looked at Yuki nervously. Yuki put up her hand calmly.

"I'll talk to you later, Nami. So long as he stays quiet." Yuki said, looking towards the imposter in interest. He was still looking in their direction. Naminé turned to face him.

"You won't say anything, will you?" She asked nervously. The imposter seemed to consider this for sometime before he spoke.

"She might harm him." Was all he said on the matter. From that Yuki could infer he meant no.

"Riku, please." Naminé pleaded. The boy sighed in defeat. Yuki looked at him with renewed interest.

"Fine." He agreed. This was the boy Yuki remembered. The old friend who had always stood beside her. The only link she had to the past. To the others. Naminé said he was protecting his best friend, who also knew Yuki. That meant one thing.

"Sora's the one whose memory your fixing," Yuki said. Both Naminé and Riku looked at her in surprise. Riku looked at Naminé in confusion. Naminé smiled softly and nodded. Yuki tilted her head to the side.

"Huh." She said to herself. She opened up a dark corridor and left the room. She didn't look back as the corridor closed behind her.

*<3*

Yuki was surprised yet again when she reached the clock tower. She was the last to arrive of all six. And this time the others were talking amongst themselves. It wasn't the same icy silence from the last time they had gathered.

Yuki dropped down in her place between Xion and Y, returning the greetings that had been sent her way. She looked at the group with a smile. Y was messing with X's hair, pulling it back into a small ponytail. X was going along with it without much of a fight, only an occasional eye roll. Xion was looking at the sunset, eating her ice cream. Roxas and Axel were exchanging stories. Beside Yuki, Xion shivered and gave a laugh.

"Brain freeze." She said. Yuki smiled as she took a bite of her own ice cream.

"Been awhile since we all hung out like this, huh?" Roxas said, looking around at the entire group. X nodded in agreement, earning a playful smack from Y who was still messing with his hair. Yuki laughed a little and nodded as well.

"Well, we've had our share of drama." Axel said, leaning back.

"That's an understatement," X said. Axel shot him a look but didn't reply. The group went back to their own thoughts, in a silence that Yuki didn't mind. Looking at Xion Yuki noticed the wind had blown her hair around, effectively messing it up. Yuki gently reached out and began to straighten Xion's hair. Xion glanced at her and smiled, allowing Yuki to fix the short raven colored strands.

"Hey, I just remembered. Did you guys know you should be checking your ice cream sticks?" Axel said into the silence. All the others looked at him with interest.

"Really?" Yuki asked, looking at the ice cream in the hand that wasn't fixing Xion's hair.

"What for?" Xion asked curiously.

"Once you finish your ice cream bar check the stick. It might say, winner." Axel explained. Yuki frowned. She had never seen that before. She shrugged it off and returned her attention to Xion's hair. It was slowly looking better.

"Hey, wait a second. Oh yeah!" Roxas said.

"Oh yeah, what?" Axel asked suspiciously. Roxas laughed nervously.

"Uh, nothing." He said. Yuki glanced at Xion who met her gaze. They both smiled, reading the look in the other's eyes. Roxas was a terrible liar. "So what do you win?" Roxas asked.

"Beats me." Axel said with a shrug.

"You don't know?" Roxas asked, sounding surprised. Axel shrugged it off, to him, it was no big deal.

"It's gotta be something good if you're a winner." He said. Yuki grinned in agreement.

"Right." Roxas agreed. Xion laughed at the two, turning her attention to the setting sun. Her hair had been fixed but Yuki was continuing to run her fingers through it. Just for fun.

"Wow, the sun sure is beautiful. I know we've seen a lot of sunsets but this one puts them all to shame. If only things stayed like this." Xion said wistfully. Yuki looked towards the sunset for the first time since sitting down. She had to agree with Xion. The reds in the sky were far more vibrant than Yuki could ever remember them being.

"What if we all ran off?" Roxas suggested in reply to Xion. Yuki looked at him startled, finally pulling her hand away from Xion's hair.

"What?" Xion asked in surprise.

"The six of us. Then we could always be together." Roxas elaborated. Yuki couldn't help but remember having a similar conversation with X and Y. She glanced towards the twins who were looking at Roxas in question. They were interested.

"Where would we go?" Yuki asked turning back to Roxas. It was a question that needed to be asked if they really meant to do it.

"I don't know. I was just thinking out loud." Roxas said with a shrug. He was avoiding the others gaze by looking at the ground.

"Does anyone have any friends in other worlds that might help?" Y asked. Yuki frowned glancing around at the others. Xion and Roxas both looked to be thinking. Axel was watching but hadn't said anything.

"I don't, that's for sure," X answered first.

"No, not really." Xion said softly.

"I know a few people, but I doubt they would help," Roxas replied with a frown. Yuki bit her lip. There was the Hallow Bastion bunch, but who knew if they would help the others too. Then there was Joshua, but he wasn't usually very helpful. There was the hero at Olympus Coliseum but he probably wouldn't take all of them either. And of course Naminé, but with the imposter around it probably wasn't a good idea.

"I have a few, but I'm not sure they'd help all of us." Yuki said. Y sighed in defeat.

"Well, I got nothing. Was worth a shot." She said with a shrug.

"Well even if things change we'll never be apart." Axel began calmly. He was cut off by Xion before he could finish.

"As long as we remember each other...right?" She finished with a grin, looking to Axel. "Don't worry Axel we've got your hokey speech memorized."

"Just checking." Axel said with a laugh.

"Well, I forgot it already." X said sarcastically, only to be hit by Y once again.

"I'll have these moments memorized for a long time. Forever I hope." Xion said, looking to the ground with a smile. Yuki smiled as well.

"Yeah. Forever." Roxas agreed.

"But, how long is forever?" Y asked softly.

"Sometimes just one second." X replied in an equally soft voice.

*<3*

Day 352- One More Day,
Everyone was at the clock tower today. The sunset was even more beautiful than I've ever seen. It was a quiet day. I'd be happy to have just one more day like this one.