Hello everyone!^^ I realize I haven't posted anything up here in a while, and I had previously mentioned a sequel to another story, no this is not it; I might still do that sequel one day, but for now I've moved on due to my feeling that I have another story I need to tell. I really hope you guys like this story^^ Disclaimer: I do not own the kingdom hearts characters or worlds, however I do own my OC's.

Love Sleeps Within

Chapter 1: Departure from Two Worlds

"The stars really are beautiful tonight," thought a teen boy sitting upon the roof of a medium sized house in a sleepy neighborhood, the ocean visible in the distance, the smell of the sea air surrounding him, this was the only place he could go to feel better now, all the other things that used to work had slowly become less effective, but now had failed him entirely. The boy sat gazing out into the vast world that lay beyond his reach for some time, his medium length dark brown hair blowing in the wind.

"Casey, it's time to come down now," called out the voice of a sweet and loving woman.

"Okay mom, I'll be in, in a sec," the boy stood revealing himself to be of average height, he wore a black shirt with some sarcastic remark printed on it, and a pair of jeans that obviously weren't new but were not really damaged. He slowly inched his way towards the edge of the roof, using his black shoes to grip onto the surface he was on, before he jumped down landing unharmed in the yard below.

"You know I really wish you would just use the ladder," his mother commented standing in the door way.

"Ha ha, oh come on mom, you know thats no fun," Casey replied as he gave his mom a hug and walked inside.

As the door shut a figure stepped out from behind a house across the street, the man had long silver-gray hair with glowing amber colored eyes that stood out in the dark and in contrast to his own otherwise dark appearance.

"Have we identified him as the target?" a deep voice asked.

"Yes sir, it's him, but do we really have to do this?" another gentler voice replied as a blue haired girl stepped out of the vortex as well.

"Yes, he is the key to everything!"

"But sir he doesn't even know whats going on!"

"That matters not, without him in our possession the plan is at risk, we can not take such a chance, now prepare yourself Master Aqua," the deep voice ordered as he turned and disappeared into the vortex and a small group of Neoshadows appeared in his place.

"Lets get this over with," the blue haired master replied back, her voice sounding strained as if her will were broken. With these words the Neoshadows gathered themselves into formation behind the master, "Move in and take him quietly, we can't afford an incident," the girl stated; a single tear rolling down her cheek as things began to unfold.

The five dark shadows moved forward and quickly disappeared into a dark puddle on the ground which then took off in the direction of the now dark house. "I'm sorry Casey, this isn't something I wanted to do..." the distressed girl spoke just above a whisper as she looked down at her wrists, inspecting two dark bands placed tightly around them before turning and taking a step back and vanishing into the depths of the dark vortex behind her.

"Well, I guess thats just about everything," the teen boy sighed as he finished packing the things he was taking with him into his backpack and placed the note he'd written on his pillow; he'd been trying to deal with things on his own for a few months now and it wasn't working, so now he was determined to escape, he'd decided it would be easiest to leave in the middle of the night.

Casey stood there in the center of his small piece of the world and looked around, his room wasn't anything special, he had a few posters here and there of bands he liked, he had his bed in one corner a bookshelf in another, a desk against the wall as well as a dresser. Atop the dresser were pictures of the life he was preparing to leave behind, in one he stood in the kitchen with his mom, both wearing aprons and covered in flour; in yet another he stood with his group of high school friends by the beach, such happy memories, yet they seemed so far away now. The final picture was the hardest to look at, in the picture Casey stood next to another boy, he was slightly taller and had short black hair, the two were quite close and the taller teen had his arm around Casey; the two had been dating for a few months and it was complications of their relationship that was pushing Casey to escape, but he knew he'd miss things here.

As Casey turned to leave he was suddenly taken over by a strong cold feeling, the boy looked around and noticed strange dark puddles forming on his floor and walls, and slowly these dark beings with glowing yellow eyes arose from the puddles, soon the whole room was engulfed in darkness and the creatures over came him; when the darkness receded the room was quiet and empty and so it would remain until the next day.

Meanwhile, on another world a boy with chocolate colored hair sat alone on a tree looking out at the ocean, the small island he sat on was connected to another tropical island by a wooden bridge, the sounds of crashing waves could be heard all around, but this was lost on the boy who'd lived his entire life here as he was deep in thought. Suddenly he was returned to his senses as a red haired girl wearing a pink dress came running and hugged him: after recovering from the initial shock Sora lightly pushed the girl back so he could look at her, "Kairi, I've gotta go, there are people out there waiting for me," the boy said as he examined the face of the girl before him.

"I know Sora, just... Come back soon," the girl replied watery eyed as she handed the boy a good luck charm that had already succeeded in returning him to her twice.

"I will Kairi, I promise," the boy replied as he gave the girl a hug; afterwards he realized that his other best friend had also arrived and he walked over to the other boy, who was slightly taller then him with long white hair, "Riku I'm counting on you to keep things under control here."

"I won't let you down Sora, but don't try to take on so much by yourself, we're here if you need us," the taller teen replied as he gave his best friend a goodbye hug.

Thanks Riku, but I've gotta do this," he replied and stepped away from his two friends, Sora held the keyblade up pointed out towards the expanse of ocean before him and he did as the king instructed in his letter, he believe in his ability to travel from his world to the kings and channeled it through the keyblade; suddenly there was a dark vortex before him, much like the ones that the members of organization XIII used to travel. After a moment of hesitation the brown haired teen stepped forward and waved a final good bye to his two best friends as he stepped through the vortex and into his next adventure.

YEAH! You've reached the end, I really enjoyed writing this and I hope you guys enjoyed reading it; of course you could always tell me how you felt about it by being so nice as to leave a review, please let me know what you liked, what you didn't or if you have any advice on things I can do better as writer please let me know. Thanks for reading^^