Alright, it's been a while since I wrote a KH story, huh?

This one is mainly to experiment with a new writing style I'm trying out...but if people like it, I'll write more to put out here. I'll probably write more regardless, but it might not end up here if it's unlikeable. I'm just surprised I haven't thrown in a curse word yet...maybe later. lol

As for those of you that already follow me(whatever you wanna call it) and are currently waiting on my other stories such as A Cup of Stars, My Vanitas and The Life of Star, I'm sorry. Some things happened and I...I just lost my will to write. Plus I think A Cup of Stars has officially been worn down entirely, along with My Vanitas it seems, sadly.

I've been trying to work on my own, original story. And now that's a stand still too because of classes.

Anyway, I'll stop rambling now. Don't forget this is based after KH2 but they haven't received Mickey's letter!

Enjoy.

KH: Nobody's Home

Chapter 1

Trust

Metal clashes against metal, sending sparks flying in any and all directions. He aims a dark smile my way and pushes his own blade against my own.

The next thing I know, I hear a voice cry out- my own- and my Keyblade is thrown out of my grasp. The darkening sky is all I can see as I fall into the sand.

"Sora!"

"Sora!"

My eyes spring open and I feel myself nearly falling again. An arm is in front of me and pushes me back by my chest. "Whoa there, Sora. Calm down." A voice chuckles, though a hint of concern is still discernible in his voice.

"R-Riku?" I stutter. "What happened?"

Riku frowns at me and rolls his eyes as he straightens himself again. "You were sleeping, until I got here anyway. Whatever you saw- it was just a dream. Alright?" He says, seemingly eager to get out of here as soon as possible.

"A dream…?" I look down at my hands and close one repeatedly- the one that had grasped the Keyblade desperately.

Suddenly random articles of clothing are tossed into my vision, followed by Riku's impatient grunt. "Get up already. Kairi's waiting for us at the docks, remember?"

"Oh! You're right!" I spring from my bed, my previous confusion long forgotten. I feel my naturally spikey hair bounce with every sudden movement I make.

"I'll be waiting outside, then." Riku announces as he leaves my room, I throw on a blue hoodie Riku tossed me earlier and a pair of dark jeans before clipping on my crown chain to my belt, my usual crown necklace already gleaming in the pale sunlight peeking through my thin curtains.

It hasn't been very long since we saved the worlds from Organization XIII- in fact, it's only been a few months, as it was nearly approaching Destiny Islands' surprisingly harsh winters. Since then, I haven't been able to leave again, so the worlds must no longer be connected. That meant we couldn't see everyone again… Unless we suddenly decided to start taking up using corridors of darkness or something, but I'm good.

Satisfied with my appearance, I rushed out of my room and bounded down the stairs, putting on my socks as I went and not too shy to make a racket that startled my mom either. She cried out when I jumped down the last five steps and she sighed heavily.

"Be careful Sora! I'm surprised you didn't roll down those stairs." I think she worries too much, but I haven't exactly been able to defend myself against her words. I was clumsy sometimes, I won't deny it.

I just chuckled and hurriedly tied my shoelaces. "Sorry Mom!" Being missing for a year didn't exactly help my case either.

I jumped to my feet as she handed me two slices of bread, they were crispy and slightly burned at the edges- so toast, actually.

"Have fun with your friends today. And don't be out too late." She reminded me and I nodded, taking the toast from her and swinging open the door.

"Got it- see ya later!"

I stuffed the corner of one of the toasted bread slices in my mouth happily. I'll never know what it is- the bread she uses, how she toasts it, or if she can suddenly use magic too- but my mom's toast just always seemed, well, better than everyone else's. Oh well.

"You ready?" Riku appears uncrossing his arms and smirking at my toast-filled face. I yank the bread away and grin.

"Yeah- let's go."

I nibble on my toast happily as we walk in silence. But then Riku decides to break it.

"That dream of yours must've been pretty bad to make you such a mess, in your sleep, no less." He says and I raise a brow at him in confusion.

"Hm?" I respond as I finally finish my breakfast. He frowns at me.

"You didn't notice? Dude, you were in a cold sweat and everything." He says and I blink. I seriously had no idea.

When I don't speak, he does again instead. "So, what was it about?" He asks and I cross my arms.

"Well… I can't really say. Not very much of it actually stuck," I run a hand through my hair and sigh in thought. "But I was fighting… Something. And there was a girl's voice, too." Riku's eyes widen at this before a smirk plays on his features.

"A girl, huh? Wait till I tell Kairi you've got a dream girl." He chuckles at the impossible to explain expression on my reddened face. He starts to walk ahead of me and I immediately fear the worst.

"Riku! Don't you dare!" I cry out and charge after him and he laughs, taking off into a run as well.

It was great to be home.

"There you are!" Kairi smiles at us from afar as we slows to a stop at the dock. Her auburn hair was tied back into a loose ponytail. "I was starting to think you guys got lost on the way." She laughed.

"Well Sora here probably would've." Riku smirks as he gestures to me and I scoff, elbowing his side hard.

"I would not!" I grin and turn to Kairi. "So what's the plan for today?" I ask.

"I figured we could go to the island one more time before it gets too cold to row over." Kairi was right, going to the island one more time wasn't be too bad an idea. When winter rolled in it was more difficult to use the oars from our boats.

"Sounds good to me," I run over to my own boat and untie it from the dock. "Come on, let's go!"

Riku and Kairi mutter something to each other and laugh- probably commenting on my rushed behavior- and untie their own boats as well.

The trip there was fast- I'd had my suspicions that it was already too cold for us- and by the time we had finished tying our boats again, it wasn't even noon yet.

The waves sway up and down the shore almost silently. My eye catches the paopu tree that we always sit on to watch the sunset.

Riku takes a step forward and jumps off the dock. "I'm gonna go check out the other side of the island." He says and he's gone before we can even nod. I see him flash a quick smile my way and I blink and shake my head.

"It feels strange being here again, sometimes," Kairi's voice tears me from my thoughts and I follow her off the dock. "Don't you think so?" She turns to me in question as she clasps her hands together absently.

"Yeah," I breathe. "But it'll always be home, right Kairi?" I grin at her when she laughs, but I pause after a moment. "Do you ever want to go back? To Radiant Garden, I mean."

She gets a thoughtful look in her eyes for a moment. "Sometimes. But- well that may be where I came from, but home is wherever you want it to be. And right now, I want to be here." She shrugs and wanders off to another part of the island.

"Wherever you want it to be…" I mutter and chuckle lightly before running a hand through my hair. She seemed to have gone toward the paopu tree, so I guess it couldn't hurt to check out the only place that's left.

The cave.

It's actually colder in the cave than it is outside, for a change. It's never felt this cold before… Like someone turned it into a freezer. I zipped up my hoodie as soon as I realized I could see my breaths coming out in white puffs.

A sound like something falling echoed throughout the cave and I frown. "What the…" Something closed, followed by a sharp intake of breath.

"Is someone there?" I call out. Did Riku or Kairi come in here before me when I wasn't looking somehow? We're the only ones here on the island- our boats were the only ones on the docks, too.

I get no response from the owner of the shallow voice. In a rush, I emerge from the tunnel into the more open room of the cave that was covered in our old drawings. The ever so mysterious door still stood firmly, except… There was something else here.

Well, someone.

"It's… A girl," I breathe. A girl lay sprawled out on the ground in front of the door, unconscious. My eyes widen in realization. "Hey!"

I kneel down beside the girl and flip her on her back. She's got dark hair like Kairi's, except a little less red, her eyes are shut tight as if in pain. I touch her cheek with the back of my hand and lightly slap it a few times. No response.

"Are you alright? Come on, speak to me!" I exclaim, hearing footsteps echoing throughout the cave at a faster pace than my own. I carefully lift the girl's head up and lower my own until my ear is near her face. She's breathing, at least.

"Sora?" I lift my head to find Riku and Kairi staring at me in shock, or maybe the girl in my arms, or even both. Riku rushes over and glances at the mystery girl.

"What happened? Who is she?" He asks hurriedly. I shake my head.

"I don't know! I just walked in and found this girl here- like this! What should we do?!" I switch my gaze from Riku, to Kairi, and back again. My childhood friends share a look, they always knew what to do under pressure.

"Sora," Kairi starts. "Your mom's a doctor, isn't she?" I nod without hesitation and she gestures to the tunnel behind her.

"Let's get her to your house then. It's closer than the hospital anyway," She says and I blink. I feel that Riku is as surprised by her calm appearance as I am. "Hurry it up!"

I'm shaken from my thoughts immediately. "R-Right!" Riku helps me get the girl to her feet as I throw her arm across my shoulders, one hand holding her in place with the other around her waist firmly so she wouldn't fall over.

Riku and Kairi jump into their boats when I approach my own. Riku has a hand outstretched toward me. "I'll take her. Get on your boat, Sora."

"No, wait! I got it." I breathe. Riku raises a brow at me but backs down nonetheless as I set the girl in my boat, jumping on it afterward. Kairi's eyes watch me expectantly as we untie our boats again.

Nothing feels cold anymore, I realize as we row across the sea. Excitement like this can warm up anybody fast. I had moved the girl's head to my lap once we were on our way. I frown down at her unconscious form.

"Who are you?"

"Mom?" I call out into my house as Kairi opens the door for me and Riku, the mystery girl held up by the both of us. I goan when I get no response from even my own mother. "Mom! Are you here?"

"Alright, alright! Just hang on a second!" I sigh with relief when I hear my mom's hurried footsteps approaching us.

She enters through the back hallway with a notebook and pencil in her hand, her hair tied in a now loose bun and her glasses were slipping off the bridge of her nose.

"What's the big emergen-" She freezes upon seeing us and the sound of her things hitting the floor is all we hear. Until she reacts, that is. "What on earth happened?!"

She rushes over in a panic and has us lay the girl down on the couch. Riku lets go first, leaving me to do it myself. "We found her on the island like this. And you're a lot closer than the hospital, so…" Riku trails off, leaving the rest to click in my mom's head.

"Who is she? I've never seen her around before." My mom kneels down next to the couch and begins checking over the girl as we watch.

"We haven't either," Kairi says and sits on the arm of the couch. "She never woke up either, so we don't really know anything about her." She sighs and pulls the band out of her hair, letting it flow freely down her shoulders.

"Is she gonna be okay?" I ask, though my mom doesn't seem to hear me.

"No sign of injury…," She mutters, running her hands over the girl in a busy manner. Her hand stops on her forehead. "Or fever," She sighs and pulls away. "From what I can see, there's nothing wrong with her. Just to be safe, we'll keep her here for the time being; best not to move her for a while."

We all nod and my mom sighs heavily. Kairi glances around all of us and bites her lip. "So… Is there anything we can do?"

"What you can do is leave so I can take care of my new patient properly," My mom says with a smirk and I blink. "The day just barely started! Get out there and… Do whatever it is you kids do nowadays." She waves us off dismissively and I smile.

"Thanks Mom."

"What's your deal?"

I turn to Riku in question with a raised brow. Kairi was walking a ways ahead now, out of earshot.

"What're you talking about?" I ask and he frowns at me.

"The way you're acting with this 'mystery girl'. You get all protective like she's suddenly your best friend or something and yet none of us even know her name. What if she's dangerous?" He whispers to me sharply, just in case someone hears us after all.

"She's not a danger to anyone, Riku. I just… I feel it." I almost flinch at the hard look Riku gives me.

"You 'feel it', huh?" I nod and he sighs heavily. "And what about everything else? Care to explain that too?" He presses on. I bite my lip.

"She reminds me of myself, Riku," I pause when he gives me a confused expression and sigh. "When this whole thing got started, I just wound up in some world I knew nothing about and was found and woken up in an alley by a dog. Waking up alone in an unknown place is something you definitely don't want, Riku."

His mouth opens and closes as he's trying to come up with a retort, but can't. I lower my eyes for a moment before aiming a determined glance his way.

"Just let me do this. Please." I mutter and walk ahead of him without another word. Riku's own don't fail to reach my ears.

"I just hope you know what you're doing, Sora."

So, yes? No?

Let me know please! It's been quite a while since I posted anything on here! Especially something like this- so help me out if you want more.

And again, sorry to those who are currently waiting on updates on my other stories...you'll probably have to wait a long while. If you really want to know why I can't write lately, then message me, maybe you can help me get my will back...

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