The sequel to Dawn will always rise. Enjoy!

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Twilight's descent

Just to inform you I've had this little thing sitting on my desktop since mid-March but I just got so preoccupied with continuing where I left off I kinda sorta forgot. For almost a month, I've been delaying the inevitable: taking two or three hours to just sift through 165 582 words and divide the 349 pages into 23 chapters. A pain I choose to endure after midnight, when I have the most patience. So I'm giving up precious (sorta, well not really I would have been up anyway) time to refine this. I am not complaining and I don't want sympathy but next time you read a fanfic or even a book take a moment and appreciate the time the author gave up to ensure you can read their work.

Now that my little rant is over, which you can just as well skip if you want enjoy my third fanfic.

Fun fact: if you notice that this fanfic is longer than the previous two you're not wrong. There will always be Light was just over 69 000 words and Dawn will always rise is just over 103 000 words. And I'm planning to make the fourth instalment twice as long, if just to make it easier for me.

Chapter one: Moon, thou art deceitful.

A fitting name for this chapter, don't you think? Especially after what's happened and what I've done later on.

Sora had always been a prodigy at adapting, but what he did after he awoke from a fitful sleep after returning to the Islands was almost beyond human...almost. He had woken from his dream because his mother had shaken him, announcing it was time for him to get up. "C'mon Sora. You haven't left the house for the last two days. You need to get some fresh air." Sora moaned and rolled over, feeling his sore and stiff muscles stretch. "What time is it?"

Sora's mom chuckled and stripped Sora's bed of all covers and blankets. "Noon." Sora grew still and turned, eyeing her with disbelief. "Noon? How many days have I been back?" Sora's mom chuckled again. "Like I said when I woke you up, two."

Sora did the mental math, which was difficult with his splitting headache and sleep addled brain. 'Two days. Isn't this the day - shows up?' Sora felt a blank in those thought and he tried again. 'Didn't – show up – days after we got back?' Sora's thoughts grew more and more blank before he completely forgot what he had been thinking. 'Hey, -, Tho..., Van..., Roxas, 'didn't – show up today? Sora heard his thoughts echo through empty space, only touching the thoughts of Roxas, who himself was grumpy with sleep deprivation. 'What? Who? Leave me alone.' Sora prodded Roxas again but got nothing, only a bigger gap in his memory. Before he could question himself again his thoughts went completely blank, his memory from the last few minutes fading away.

Sora got out of the shower and got dressed, and found that when he put on the clothes he'd worn on his previous adventure had changed. Pants reaching his heels and his jacket flaring down to his knees. His shoes had changed as well, being much smaller, tight against his foot instead of blossoming out like a clown's. His gloves stayed the same but his belt widened, with multiple small belts coming from the buckle, wrapping around his waist. When he was done he went into the kitchen and ate his breakfast, left and told his mother he's going out. "I'll be on the Island if you want me." Before Sora reached the door his mother called him, he walked back to the kitchen and saw a document in her hand. "What's that?" Sora reached out to take the paper but his mother folded it in half and stuffed it in her pocket. "Oh nothing." Sora nodded and walked back towards the outside world but his mother called him again. "What do you think about...?" Sora nodded and waited, when his mother didn't continue he sat down and fingered the table. "About..." Sora drew out the word and sat in silence.

Sora sat nearly for a minute before his mother threw the document on the table, still folded. He opened it and read:

As of the 11th of September Julian High will again commence with teaching after the summer holidays. We advise all parents to prepare in advance and inform their children of the new school year...

Sora read the entirety of the document before looking up from the table, a faint smile on his otherwise expressionless face. "School?" He looked at his mother in confusion and she sighed. "You've been away for almost three years and you don't have the education you need to live by, at least not in writing. So yes, I would like you to go back." Sora looked down at the document in front of him and the date again stood out. 'Two days left...That's cruel, having me go to school now. So soon after I got back.' Sora shrugged and fingered the document in front of him. "If you want me to I'll go."

Sora's mom looked at her son in shock. She had expected protest, outrage even, but Sora looked as if he was fine with it, as if it didn't bother him in the slightest. "Did you do anything when you were...away?"

Sora looked up t his mother and chuckled. "Yeah, Donald taught me everything I needed to know about anything. And he wasn't satisfied unless I aced all my tests, even the ones he couldn't do. He said that I couldn't fight if I couldn't think efficiently, so I learned what I could and picked up the rest as I went along." His mother looked at him as if she didn't believe him but didn't say anything, as if she didn't want to hurt his feelings. "Look, I'm pretty much set for any university, even Ivy League. I can do anything anyone twice my age can, even if it looks like I can't."

By the time Sora's mom was convinced he wouldn't fail his first semester in school by epic proportions he did what he had wanted to do before his mother dropped the school bomb on him. He paddled out to the Play Island and saw both Riku and Kairi's boat already fixed to the dock. 'What are they doing here?' Sora fixed his boat to the dock and walked across the sand, to the tiny island next to the main island. He saw Riku and Kairi already sitting there, looking out across the water, talking. He walked up to them and sat down next to Kairi, looking out to sea as well.

After about a minute of sitting and silence Riku turned to Sora. "My mother wants me to go to school. Said I needed a proper education, on paper anyway." Riku looked at Sora and watched him grin, looking across the water as he did. "My mom did too. I think they talked when I was still asleep. What school's papers did she give you? Julian High?" When Sora heard the sharp intake of breath as a response he grinned even wider. "Thought so. That's what my mom did with me. And you Kairi? What did the mayor want his precious step-daughter to do? Home schooling?"

Kairi looked at the clear blue water of her adopted home world and was reminded of another ocean, one sailed by pirates. "My 'father' said I'm going to Julian High. Said it was appropriate for me to go to the school he did. And how'd you know I'm not his daughter?"

Sora shrugged and lay back against the warm stone, feeling the sun kiss his skin. "Leon told me. And Aerith said Ansem the Wise was the Princess of Heart's father's closest friend. I put two and two together; I mean how many of the Princesses could come from Radiant Garden? Just you and maybe Alice, but I doubt it was Alice, she's way too young. And I asked Tron where you came from, he said the probability of you coming from Radiant Garden was high. Not certain but high." Sora opened his eyes and saw Kairi looking down at him, trust in her azure eyes. Sora looked into Kairi's eyes and suddenly saw himself kissing her, but not as he was. His eyes were silver and his hair black, a certain power and Darkness shining in his eyes. Before he could blink the thought was gone, leaving him confused and worried about his own sanity. He looked into Kairi's eyes and saw a struggle take place within them, what kind of struggle he didn't know but he saw it nonetheless.

Kairi looked into Sora's eyes and a memory forced its way into her mind, showing a black-haired Sora kissing her with passion. She looked at herself and saw pride and possessiveness shine in her eyes, mingled with pleasure and pain. Before she knew it the memory faded away beyond her grasp, leaving her wondering if what she saw was a memory or something her imagination made up to tempt her.

Before Sora knew what he was doing he drew himself upright and pulled Kairi towards him, her lips less than an inch from him. "What am I doing?" He looked into Kairi's eyes and saw joy and excitement writhe within them, her lips slightly parted. "Don't stop. Do it...Do what I waited for years to happen." When she whispered those words Sora closed the distance between them, both of their many dreams finally coming true.

When Sora and Kairi finally kissed for the first time Riku smiled slightly, stood up and walked around the Island, giving them their space. 'About time. And now Wakka owes me 100 Munny. It's good to have that bet pay off. So good.' Riku looked back towards the tiny island and smiled when he saw Sora and Kairi still kissing. When he returned an hour later he saw then in each other's arms...still kissing. 'This is gonna take a while.' Riku sighed and walked towards the dock, with a jolly shout of "See you guys at school!" towards the couple before getting in his boat and paddling back to the mainland.

When Sora and Kairi were done 'enjoying' their reunion as Kairi called it they went back to the mainland as the sun started to set. As per se they went to their respectful houses and told their parents the good news. Sora's mother was crying with joy while Kairi's stepfather was seeing red.

Kairi looked at John, her stepfather, and sighed in exasperation. "Dad, I don't see why you're so upset. It's not like it's something you haven't thought about. I mean, how many times have you asked me whether Sora was being 'gentlemanly' as you call it? And besides, I trust him."

John looked at his daughter, for he considered Kairi his daughter, and chewed on words he'd rather not say. When he stared at her in muted rage for over a minute without her backing down he sat down behind his desk and picked up his phone, the official phone only the mayor was supposed to use. "Helena, cancel the rest of my appointments. I'll be out for the rest of the day. And while you're at it call my driver, I'm going to see someone. That is all." Before Helena could answer John slammed the phone down, again staring at his daughter with his beady black eyes. "Let's go pay young Sora a visit shall we?"

Kairi looked out of the tinted windows of the car at the scenery, the white sand and green grass meeting the ever-blue sky. She knew she was less than a block from Sora's house, she didn't even need the GPS attached to the seat in front of her. "And if he's not there?" Kairi had asked the same question again and again but John refused to answer her, instead looking out the window as the buildings and nature passed by. He'd never had a love of nature, but Kairi did so he had the greenhouse made outside her window. As the years passed he'd payed to have the greenhouse enlarged, having more and more exotic plants delivered. And gradually as the years passed she had convinced him to walk amongst the many great trees with her, breathing in the humid sweet air. And that became their hobby, exploring the forest and learning the way of the trees: learning their names, how much they grew and what each individual tree needed to survive.

John looked at the young woman his daughter had become and remembered anew what she looked like when she first arrived, not even reaching his waist. Her hair had been short then, four inches at most. Her eyes had been huge back then, with enough emotion in their deep depths to fill the ocean. He remembered when she had first gone to school, how terrified she had been and how excited she was when she got back. 'So long...So much and I can't even call her my real daughter. And even if I could no one would believe me, she looks too different, so much so that we can't even be related.'

When John and Kairi reached Sora's house their family driver opened the door for them and knocked on the front door, only leaving when the door opened. Kairi watched in fear as Sora opened the door, eyes wide when he beheld the mayor. "Hello mayor. Good to see you. Funny question, why did you come? Cause you don't usually make house trips."

Kairi flinched when John raised his hand in a fist and slugged Sora, or at least he tried too. "Whoops, you missed there. Wanna try again?" Sora had turned his head to the side and watched as John's fist went through the spot his cheek had been a second before. John punched again and Sora turned his head aside again. "C'mon Mr. Mayor, you can do better than that."

Sora regarded the mayor with bored eyes, ever so slightly smiling at Kairi as he did. She looked worried, almost like she thought Sora will get hurt. "C'mon Kairi. Did you think someone like him would be able of hitting me? That's insulting. I'm hurt, I'm honestly hurt." Sora clutched at his heart and swooned in mock pain, smiling all the while. John however wasn't amused, he threw a vicious left hook and finally connected, fist sinking into the soft flesh of Sora's cheek. Sora looked at the mayor and saw him smile as if in accomplishment, but Sora wasn't gonna live it down.

Sora sighed and drew back his arm slightly, just enough to break a few bones. He brought his hand forward and slugged the mayor in his gut, looking at Kairi as he did. John coughed violently and fell to his knees, clutching his gut in pain as he gasped for breath. Sora looked down at John and grabbed him, his shirt's buttons popping. "Now John, why did you try to hurt me? Was it because of that apple I 'borrowed' and never brought back? Or the fact that Kairi and I are together? Never mind. I think I know. You're mad that I didn't tell you myself."

Kairi looked in some amusement as John hung from Sora's arm like a two year old, squirming to get free. 'Pathetic. I thought John would at least put up more of a fight.' Kairi walked forward and placed her hand on Sora's arm, the arm John was grabbing at for dear life. "Sora...Let him go. I think I'm ready to accept the fact that things will never be the same between John and me. I'm not his daughter, just a substitute he can get rid of." Kairi walked into Sora's house and closed the door behind her, not even telling John goodbye. 'He's had it coming. Selfish bastard. Wanting to keep me to himself.' When Kairi reached the sitting room she slid her razor thin phone from her pocket and dialled a number John had given her if she needed help he couldn't give.

The phone rang twice before the other end picked up, waiting for her to speak in silence. "This is Kairi. Send the package to my location." And she hung up; knowing all she would need would arrive within ten minutes.

Sora and Kairi sat in the sitting room, waiting, waiting for what Sora didn't know but when the doorbell rang Kairi sprang up and opened the front door, picked up the unmarked envelope inside and walked back inside. "It's here." Kairi opened the package and threw the contents over the table. "If there's one thing John was good for besides being a politician its preparing for the worst." Kairi picked up the black phone that had fallen from the bag and flipped it open, read the message and closed it again. "Give me your phone." Sora handed her his shiny silver phone and she put in the number she'd read. "My new number. Delete the old one would you." Sora fingered an official looking paper and she took it from him, looked at it and tore it up. She looked at most of the other papers and tore most of them, throwing them away when she was done.

By the time Kairi was done going through the small pile of things the envelope contained only three objects remained, a phone, a credit card and a key. "The phones for a new number, the credit cards to use John's money and the key's to one of his unofficial houses. I don't need the rest so I'll just get rid of it."

By the time Sora's mother came back from wherever she was Sora and Kairi had gone to John's house to get her clothes, get a few of the things she wanted to keep and still had enough time to take a nap. When Sora's mom did finally show up she found Sora and Kairi sitting on the same couch with Kairi's bag full of clothes beside her. Sora's mom pursed her lips and sat down, looking at her son and his lover in concentration. "I don't know what I'm going to do with you. Honestly I don't. The mayor called me and said you tried to kill him. That's a problem, I can't help if you try to kill someone Sora. You know that."

Sora looked at his mother and then towards his new lover. "Did I try to kill John Kairi? Or did he throw the first punch?" Kairi pursed her lips and shook her head. "He tried to hurt you, but he missed. You only touched him after that left hook. So from what I know of law you acted in self-defence, even if he is the mayor. There's no case, you have a witness and he doesn't." Sora smiled in achievement and settled deeper into the couch.

Later that day, late at night in fact, Sora and Kairi sat on the roof, looking at the stars. On the roof they sat, wondering how fate could have been so strange and fickle, pushing Kairi away from John towards Sora, a life for a life, parent for a lover. "Sora..."

Sora looked at Kairi and shook his head, already certain about what Kairi wanted to say. "No, you can't have done anything to stop John from acting as he did. Just as Amaterasu was destined to hide in that cave, just as Susanoo was destined to be punished for his act. Fate finds those who try to change it, fate inevitably happens." Sora looked at his love and saw her look up at the moon, staring at it as if it could answer all her questions.

"Moon moon

why art thou bright

Why art thou clear and luminous,

art thou deceitful

why art thou dark and twisted

do thou lie to us all"

Kairi's voice was clear and filled with sorrow, echoing the sad tale of the poem. Of two lovers who sought each other out by the light of the moon, only to find that an eclipse once barred their way. But on they went, their love so great that it led them to each other, on the opposite side of a deep and jagged ravine. The one lover had attempted to jump the distance but had merely brushed his lovers fingertips when he fell, eyes filled with love. His lover watched as he fell, eyes fixed to his with a love so strong death itself couldn't separate them. And through his heart pounding with love was driven a blade of disappointment, a jagged stone ending his life.

The man's lover wandered the world, always finding her way to the ravine that had ended her lovers life, sadness and demented determination driving her to find him once more. Weeks and months passed, until the glow of a full moon beckoned her back to the ravine, to once again seek her lover. Moonstruck she had slipped and fallen, the same blade of disappointment found her heart, blood bathing the ground anew.

As her eyes faded in death she saw a ghastly sight, the moon shining red, as if her lifeblood stained its pure white surface. "And so life remembers us, when the moon shines red and shows its true side, a side tainted with shadow and death."

Kairi closed her eyes and turned her face from the moon, white light touching her face. Sora looked at her and touched her cheek, his other hand raised as if to cup something falling from the moon. "And yet, the poem ends on a positive note."

"Moon moon

Thou fill us with purity and hope

Hope for love

Love untainted, love pure and simple

Moon moon

Thou art bright and pure

Showing honesty

Moon moon

Thou lover awaits"

Sora's voice was still and had no emotion, no passion for what he spoke. He spoke the poem as if it was a simple phrase, as if you said it for the purpose of saying it. But his eyes roiled with passion and regret, almost as if he was the first lover, regretting causing his love such sadness. "Kairi, death is peaceful, that's true but life isn't. Life is challenging, as if it's a game made to fill you with hope only to rip it away when you're an inch from true happiness, again thrust into emptiness and depression, knowing you'll try anything to keep the emptiness away. Have hope, hope is what keeps you alive."

Kairi looked at Sora and saw experience flash in his eyes, as if the words he had spoken had come from some part of him still in the emptiness, still waiting for the depression to fade away, happiness taking its place. She looked into Sora's eyes and opened her mouth, mixed emotions roiling in her heart. "Sora...I...I'm sorry." Instead of the endless, boundless words she had intended to say only those few words came from her mouth. Sora's eyes became half-lidded and Kairi saw his forehead crunch up, making him look sad.

Sora looked at Kairi and felt her words ring inside him, filling him to the brim with her sincerity. Instead of answering Sora pulled her towards him and wrapped his arms around her in a tight hug. And so they hugged, Sora's arms wrapped around her narrow waist and her nails digging into his back, both ways of embrace comforting them.

When Sora and Kairi grew chilled with the silence around them they went into Sora's room and got into bed, the figure below the window stepping from the shadows. Riku looked up at Sora's window and exhaled, his heart stilling as he did. 'Life is becoming difficult. Right Ansem?' Riku felt Ansem stir within him and he took that as a yes. When dawn wasn't far off Riku stepped from Sora's yard and allowed himself to become one with the shadows, his footsteps muffled and his body hidden from everyone. As he felt his body ripple with the power he used Riku closed his eyes and allowed Darkness to move him, feeling him body move at incredible speed. When Riku felt his Darkness recede back into his heart he opened his eyes and fell onto his bed, falling asleep as he did.

The two days Sora and Kairi spent together before school re-opened they spent together, Riku shadowing their movements, enjoying their time together. Each night they sat on the roof and watched the stars, Sora telling Kairi the worlds the stars represented. The day before school started Sora and Kairi went shopping for their school supplies and clothing, Riku absent as he had done it the day his mother had shoved the papers into his face. Within an hour they had gotten everything except clothes and their books, which the school would provide for them, at a hefty fee of course. As they browsed Sora asked Kairi what had changed the last few years. She responded to almost every question as follows: "Nothing has changed except we got older. The teachers still give us homework and breaks are still too short."

When Sora and Kairi reached the clothing store Sora as usual was clueless about his sizes, because as he explained "I've grown okay." When Sora finally got his sizes he bought enough clothes to keep him for as he himself said "Until I've outgrown them or they fall apart." As they walked home four wannabe crooks cornered them in an alley and demanded all their cash and valuables.

When Sora had refused one had drawn a knife and pointed it at him. "Kid, you don't really have a choice. Cause my buddies here need cash, and looks like yer stupid enough to walk through this here alley with all yer new goodies." When the other three drew knives as well Sora looked at Kairi and fear flash across his face. But she'd just smiled and nodded subtly, telling him to do what he wanted. Sora grinned and flexed his right hand, power flowing into him for the first time in days. He summoned his keyblade and Fenrir appeared, sparks flashing high into the air as he did. Sora scowled and turned Fenrir slightly, a red glow wrapping around the blade. "Now, Fenrir here is a bloodthirsty sucker. Meaning you have two choices. One, run away and live or fight and die a horrible death. The offer stands for five seconds." The four wannabe crooks stood where they were, looks of shock/confusion on their faces Sora sighed. "Did you hear me? I said to run away you stupid idiots." When they still didn't do anything Sora lost his patience and drove his knee into one of the thieves gut, making him fall to his knees clutching his stomach. The other three blinked and snarled, dove forward and pointed their daggers at Sora. Sora just swatted them away and knocked them out, throwing them into a neat little pile.

Sora and Kairi walked into Sora's house and dumped their new things on the kitchen counter, knowing they had to go through everything and pack their new school bags. By the time they were done the sun had set, their new clothes hung up to dry with dinner on the table. They ate in silence and went up to bed with weak excuses, really just wanting to sulk in silence staring up at the moon.

Sora looked up at the moon and thought back on when he had last been in school, way way back when he and Kairi had almost been the same height. 'Times have changed. But from what Kairi says a few things have stayed the same. School still sucks and homework takes way too much time to do. Reminds me of when I paid Riku to give me his homework, even though the teachers knew I cheated off him in tests. Good times.'

Kairi looked at Sora and heard him sigh, but unlike her own sigh of regret his sigh contained annoyance. "What's wrong? Not wanting to go to school? You and almost every other kid younger than twenty." Sora sighed again and chuckled without humour. "If only it were that simple. I've killed Kairi, and now my mother expects me to go to school. It's insane, expecting a trained killer to learn about the chemical compound needed to make most any explosive stable. How life begins and ends, how my body converts food into glucose for energy, how my liver takes excess glucose from my blood and stores it. What will I use it for? Where in my life of death and destruction will I ever need to know what's the difference between a phagocyte and a lymphocyte? It's insulting, never mind pointless. But I'll go to school, I'll block out how I could kill the idiot that tries messing with you, I'll try to act like I'm the same as every other kid my age. I'll act like every other kid my age worrying about what everyone thinks of me, who's popular and who's not. I'll ignore the insults and jokes aimed at me, I'll ignore the gym coach mocking me for not being able to do more than thirty push-ups and pull-ups. It's not like I can forget what I've done the last couple of years." Sora shrugged his shoulder and looked at Kairi with such sarcasm it shocked her, making her look at Sora in a new light, seeing his old personality tainted by fighting and causing death, death after death marring his soul.

Kairi looked at Sora and smiled gently, a memory surging up inside her. "Remember when you got back. That joy of being home, finally able to relax and enjoy yourself. Remember your smile, remember Riku's hug with Mickey? It was hilarious. Seeing the big baddie he made himself out to be laughing and swinging that mouse around like a little boy. A little boy still believing in the Tooth Fairy, still afraid of the monsters under his bed. And that's how I'll remember him, not scarred and tainted by Darkness but as the little boy he was for those few minutes, minutes so precious we'll never get them back."

Sora caressed Kairi's cheek and leaned into her, lips brushing her cheek for a second before moving away again. "And I'll remember you as you were when I found you, convincing me that Ansem was Riku, the Riku I remembered. The only thought running through my mind then was: 'Save her. Save her and get back.' And I did, we're back. And your here with me, safe and sound."

Sora kissed her cheek again before moving his lips down, down...down. His lips brushed over her soft jaw and down her smooth neck, finally stopping at the base of her neck. He bit her neck lightly and felt her shiver, feeling her pulse jump as she did. He passed his lips over her neck and up, again moving over her chin and stopped when he reached the corner of her mouth, lips touching hers only slightly. He opened his mouth and licked her full lower lip, tasting her sweet skin. He finally gave into temptation and locked his lips with hers, feeling her lips move softly against his, her touch gentle...as gentle as if he was a newborn deer, skittish to the touch, as if she feared he would bolt if she did something wrong.

Sora and Kairi kissed in silence until they were both breathless, lips brushing together in peaceful harmony, their hearts pounding and their breathing ragged. They looked into each other's eyes and Sora saw the beginnings of desire in her eyes, just barely touching her passion and trust for him. He leaned forward again and kissed her forehead before moving away, looking at her with a lopsided smile. "Can't have everything you want. Just like I can't have everything I want. C'mon let's get some sleep. I have a feeling tomorrows gonna be a long day."

Sora and Kairi walked together down the road, bags slung over their shoulders as they talked. As they walked Riku joined them, not even smiling as Kairi hugged him. When Julian High came into view Riku's mood darkened even more, almost freezing the air with his coldness. Sora and Kairi looked at him cautiously and bid him farewell, running ahead as they did. When they reached the wrought iron gates Sora ran into an old 'friend', Lucas. Lucas nearly gagged when he saw Sora with Kairi, eyeing him in silence as they passed him, their eyes locked and Sora looked into the cold eyes of someone who hated him. Hated him for no reason other than just hating him. As they passed Lucas Sora felt him slip away, most likely to call his other buddies. "Things haven't changed. Lucas still hates me and I still don't care. But I will break his arm again if he touches you." Sora thought back, fond memories flooding his mind.

Sora grabbed the arm Lucas swung at him and pulled, pulling the black-eyed youth towards him. "What did you say you filthy brat?" Sora tugged viciously on Lucas's arm and heard him cry out in pain, clenching his teeth as he did. "I said she liked what I did. She screamed and screamed but I didn't stop, she liked it too much." Lucas laughed with dark humour and Sora did something he'd never done before. He twisted and pulled the arm he held in a death grip and felt something tear, knowing it was the muscle that held Lucas's arm attached to his shoulder. Lucas screamed and Sora drove his knee into his gut, effectively cutting off the scream. The other kids around Sora watched in fear as he let Lucas go, his useless arm hanging limp. Sora raised his fist for a final blow but someone grabbed his hand, he snarled and turned around, seeing it was Riku with Kairi behind him. "Enough. Let him go Sora. You've done enough."

Sora and Kairi turned a corner and walked into one of Sora's old friends, Tidus. "Sora! Good to see you again man. It's been a while, hasn't it? Two? Three years?" Sora shrugged and passed Tidus, slapping his shoulder as they passed. Sora looked at the school and felt dislike creep into his heart, as if his heart knew he didn't belong there. When Sora walked around the last corner they walked smack dab in to an open square, blinding him with the sudden sunlight that flooded his eyes.

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