I've been gone a while and now I start a new story? What the hell? Sukisyo, Junjou Romantica and various other yaoi related issues have come up.

This is more of an experimental thing for fun, I wanted to try something new.

Ok so I was thinking about Organization XIII (which I do a lot) and how even though they don't exist they can still be seen and heard. Also they can hurt 'real' people. Then I started thinking about existence and this was born. Pretty much me thinking out loud and playing around with characters from Squeenix games. It's…different…but fun so far. It also gets into sanity, trauma, fluff, drama.

Pairings: Soriku, AkuRoku, Cleon (flashbacks of Zacloud... that's my word for it), Vinceroth, RenoRufus, Demyx, and whatever else pops into my head.

It hurts.

So much that I can't make a sound.

Riku.

In his pain hazed mind that was all he could think of. His mouth remained shut and his vision was blurred by tears. He could barely hear the words that were spoken to him before he lost consciousness.

"Why is it you?"

--

Riku paced his apartment in frustration.

"Damnit where is he?" He though out loud to himself. "He probably got caught up playing the demos at Wal-Mart again." Just as he reached for the phone it started to ring. He gave a frustrated sigh and answered it with a curt "Hello?"

"Riku!" Came the voice on the other end.

"Kairi? What's wrong?"

"Riku! I-It…He…needs."

"Calm down just tell me what's wrong."

"Riku?" Said a man's voice.

"Reno? What the hell's going on?"

"It's Sora, he's in the hospital."

"What?!"

"We're not sure what happened yet but I'm coming to pick you up right now."

Click.

He sank to the couch, the phone still clutched tightly in his hand. Barely aware of the red head bursting into the room and half-dragging him to the car parked outside. Reno spoke quietly to him until he regained his composure.

"What happened?" He asked when he had the coherency to speak.

"I'm not sure, he was found outside the store, looks like he was beat up pretty bad. Don' worry though, he'll be fine."

"Don't worry? What if something like this happened to Rufus?"

Reno glared at him. "If something like this happened to Rufus I would do something about it rather than sitting around bitching!"

Riku winced and muttered an apology. He couldn't help but agree, when Rufus had been left for dead by a rival gang. Would I really be able to do that?

"Don't worry, I still have some sway with certain people, I'll ask around." His voice was flat and his eyes were burning. The two remained silent for the rest of the drive.

--

Sora's face was swollen and bloody; he had bruises all over his body and had apparently cracked some ribs. His brother, Leon hung over his bed almost in tears look while Cloud leaned against him looking faint

"Hello, my name is Aerith." The doctor greeted them. "Sora is sleeping right now, but you can stay until he wakes up.

The nurse frowned. "There probably shouldn't be this many people in the room. He'll freak out when he wakes up."

"That's true Yuffie; could some of you please leave?" She seemed apologetic.

They glanced at each other.

"I'll go, I guess." Reno said "Get a description."

"I should go too." Kairi said reluctantly. "Tell him I'm sorry, will you Riku?"

"I can't be here; I'm sorry Leon I just… I can't do this again." He seemed to be talking more to himself.

The only ones in the room were Riku and Leon.

"He's still not over Zack."

"It takes time to get over something like that, it's not like they just broke up."

"…"

"…"

"Where's Sephiroth?"

Riku shrugged "I didn't tell him about this before I came here."

The older man grunted in reply and continued staring at Sora.

"You don't think this is because of him do you? I mean Rufus' people have been targeted before."

"No… they would've gone after him. Or you if they didn't think they could take him."

"I doubt they could've."

"…"

"…"

"To be honest I was hoping to avoid talking about this until he woke up."

"…"

"So how've things been going with you guys?"

Riku sighed inwardly and forced the words out, barely paying attention to what they were. His mind still clouded with anger at the sight of Sora's face. His ears started ringing, it was all he could do not to grip his head and scream, but something in his mind told him to concentrate. He focused on the sound and heard a deep calm voice. He couldn't tell if he was hearing it or feeling it.

'Surrender to the darkness… give yourself to me… find the power to help Sora'

He'd heard this voice when he got mad, or upset, or just bored; he'd always dismissed it as his own imagination and wondered if Sora was rubbing off on him. This time he found himself wishing the voice was real, that this 'power' really could be obtained simply by surrendering, he knew though that the voice wasn't real and that he could never find the attackers on his own. Without realizing it he sank to his knees, overtaken by the despair of feeling powerless.

Will Sora ever come out of his coma? Will the attackers ever be caught? Will I ever get to the main point of the story? All this and more later! *Dramatic music here*

Riku hears voices. Rufus and the Turks are in the mafia. They run it like the Godfather, it's subtle and somewhat honest and only does what's necessary for business. That's the natural way.

Aerith is a doctor, good for her! I thought it would be cliche for her to be a nurse (a doctor's not cliche too?) Yuffie is one of those nurses that someone would either love because she's so happy or think 'should this girl really be here?' I like Yuffie for the most part, she's so cute ^^