Heya, folks! Behold: the reason for my hiatus! This is going to be the first Kingdom Hearts story I've ever WRITTEN (I've written a lot of FMA and other stuff, I just never type it up). I AM including the five main OCs from Oreta Tsubasa De (My other fic, which I must rename: I meant for it to be "WITH Broken Wings." Their names are as follows: Tiras, Aiylah Lohengren, Vanlith Rosiel (Van for short), Koru Alloran, and Seraphim A'Lonquin. Again, it's a crossover with my original fic. My FMA fic was Tiras/Aiylah. HOWEVER- Kingdom of Shadows is going to be strongly Van/Tiras. There will be no references made to anything that occurs in the FMA fic. These fics do not follow any particular timeline. As far as this fic is concerned, the FMA fic never happened.

Now, It's going to be AU in that it occurs after the first game, but does NOT follow the next two games, or anything that you learn in those games. So, as far as this fic is concerned, there IS NO SUCH THING AS A NOBODY. However, when that situation arises, I have still devised a clever solution to satisfy all the rabid KH nerds. I started the ideas for this fic BEFORE Kingdom Hearts II was released, and I REALLY don't want to change my story! It came first!

BTW, all of my characters have themesongs, and I will occasionally post one at the beginning of a new chapter. Van has two(maybe three), and you'll see why eventually.

Now, I do not own Kingdom Hearts or any of its characters. Nor do I own anything of Disney's… Or Square Enix's. Just the above mentioned characters and all background surrounding them (i.e. worlds and universes and OCs not mentioned above)

Now, without further adieu… I present to you:

Kingdom Hearts: Kingdom of Shadows

Prologue

Thinking of you, wherever you are

We pray for our sorrows to end,
and hope that our hearts will blend.
Now I will step forward to realize this wish.

And who knows:
starting a new journey may not be so hard
or maybe it has already begun.

There are many worlds,
but they share the same sky-
one sky, one destiny.

Sora blinked, looking carefully up into the obsidian sky. There, just to the left of the moon… Could it be…? Sora wasn't sure…There, it happened again! Sora sat up, rubbing his eyes, just to be sure. There was no denying it. He stood slowly. The star was flickering, twinkling fitfully in the night sky. Oh, how he hoped against hope that it was just something that could be explained away- the warm night air, or whatever it was that made the stars twinkle. But, deep down, he knew better. A sickening fear clenched his heart… And the star went out.

Disbelief raced through his body- sure, he knew beyond doubt what was happening, but he still refused to accept it. Because, by accepting that the darkness was back, it meant that all he had done to fight it was for nothing. He had suffered for nothing. All of his sorrow, his pain, his loneliness…Riku. All of that, for nothing? He had been betrayed by his best friend, once, and for what- nothing? He was still searching… for Riku, and the King- King Mickey.

A thought hit Sora even as he sank to his knees, overwhelmed. Riku and Mickey had gone to the world of darkness to protect them- to seal it off. The only way that darkness could get through would be if there were an open Keyhole, somewhere. And, if the Heartless could get through, then…

"Riku."

So… whaddya think, folks? Read and Review, please! I always reply to my reviewers, and if I didn't, I'm sorry- remind me and I will! I want to get constructive feedback! I'm going to try something different- I'm not going to set a minimum length for my chapters- I just ended up getting stuck and writing filler. So, some chapters may be short, and some may be long. But, this approach should improve the quality of my stories. I will probably do a lot of revising later on, so the quality of the chapters may be a little off. I am my own beta, so forgive me. However, I'm really fussy about grammar and writing well, so there shouldn't be too many problems. I love feedback, so constructive flames are welcome! I warn you: unlike the FMA fic, this one WILL be yaoi, but nothing graphic. It will be mostly OC/OC, but I'll probably include some Leon/Cloud(those two are so smexy) and Riku/Sora(mostly fluff and angst- an odd combo, I know). I love all of you reviewers(puppy eyes)… so REVIEW! glares Do it, or else you'll feel guilty! I may set a "no review, no update" policy. If no one is reading my story, why bother updating? So, if you want to see it continue, you know what to do ;).