After clearing the dishes, the group settles around the computer. Two chairs are moved to the desk, where Riku is currently seated, with Aerith right beside him. Yuffie is standing behind them, looking over at the screen, while Naminé is seated alone on the couch, with Leon keeping her silent company, standing in between her and Yuffie.

"Password protection already!?" Yuffie complains from behind Riku.

"Try... 'Kingdom Hearts'?" Aerith suggests.

"In all lowercase, all together, or...?" Riku questions.

"All of them, I suppose," Aerith replies.

"Hold on." Leon interrupts the two and says, "You'll just waste time like that. Try the Seven Hearts."

"Like... just 'the Seven Hearts'?" Yuffie asks.

"Yuffie- No- Their names. 'Alice, Snow White, Jasmine-'." Leon replies, shaking his head.

"Wait, those are the Original Seven Hearts, shouldn't we try the New Seven Hearts?" Aerith says.

"But in what order? Y'know, like, alphabetical... or..." Yuffie trails off, leaning to the side.

"There's no point, we only know four of the New Seven Hearts, and the Seven Lights wouldn't be possible either, since Ansem couldn't have known all of them at the time. Let's try the Original Seven Hearts." Riku speaks up, "Could anyone write them down so we can go crossing out failed attempts?"

"I'll do it." Naminé grabs a nearby pencil and paper and begins noting down the different possibilities.

"The Original Seven Hearts are 'Alice, Aurora, Belle, Cinderella, Jasmine, Kairi, and Snow White, in alphabetical order." Leon supplies, while Naminé nods along.

After a moment, Leon speaks up once again: "But would Ansem really use the same password for different things? The Original Seven Hearts also were the password for the DTD..."

"From the time I worked with him, he really didn't seem all too concerned about passwords. I mean, one of them was an ice cream flavor. It won't hurt to try that one as well." Riku informs Leon with a weary look on his face.

"Huh. I see. We should try 'Sora, Donald, Goofy' as well."

"Oh yeah! Didn't something change to that after the defenses went all haywire and Sora, like, fixed everything somehow?" Yuffie says as she begins to once again pay attention.

Leon nods.

"He's always helped us, so now we have to help him!" Aerith turns around to face everyone, and she and Yuffie pump their fists into the air.

Of course, that is something he would do. Riku thinks to himself with a small smile.


CONTINUE