"Everything Happens for a reason. Even if we don't know why. Where's my reason. Why am I this. How did I become this way. A life in darkness and hiding is hardly a life at all. I risked a lot, I gave evrything. All for the world. No one knew. No one thanked me. Well now its my time. My story, my destiny. Now you'll know what I did for you."

"Riku?... Riku, wake up."

"Huh?" I rised up from the dirty wood flor of an abadoned general store. I looked at the only soul in the room besides his. King Mickey Mouse was standing over me with another one of his large grins. "What do you want?"

"Another dream?"

"Yeah," I rolled over to block the sun out of my eyes.

"When did these start?"

"I dunno. About the time we escaped the darkness."

"I think I know what's getting you.

"Really?" I usually made sarcastic remarks like that when I wanted himto leave me alone.

"Yeah, since you always say that none of this was for Sor because he's a stubborn sel-centered jerk, then it has to be all for..."

I shot up like lightning. I knew what he was going to say. "No no no no no. It wasn't."

"You don't even know what I was about to say. Besides, face it. You love her.

"No... I just..."

Mickey sighed at my ignorance. "Love isn't an easy concept, Riku. I play with the heart in more ways darkness ever could. The only way to truly escape that terrible feeling of hate is to find that one woman to be the one to love you forever."

"That made no sense." I lied. It made tons of sense. Kairi meant everything to me. I crossed the world and beyond for her and how does she thank me? She goes to Sora. Sora who did little to nothing compared to me. If they knew what I did, they'd never stop thanking me. I hate my life.

"You continue to lie to yourself, Riku. That's obviously gotten you nowhere. Just try being honest for once."

"You don't understand, Mickey. You're a king. you have it made. Anywhere you go, people praise you for doing the simplest tasks. But me. I give it all up and not so much as a thanks."

Mickey just stared at me. I never knew what he was thinking like I could other people. "Thank you," he said.

What? "What?"

"Thanks, Riku. You deserve better than a life like this."

I felt overjoyed. I didn't know it was so good to be thanked for once. I had to fight back tears. "Thanks,"

"Well, time to get back to buiness. We need to go fast befor the heartless catch on."

"Right."

Mickey and I walked about the bazaar. We were in southern Agrabah. the town was under seige. There were Morning Star heartless at every entrance. There were Bandit heartless attacking anybody who looked as if they were about to revolt. Mickey and I had to go in disguise, or else get attacked. It wasn't like we couldn't take them, but we didn't want to get discovered. we walked up to the gates and greeted the heartless.

"Evening, men." said Mickey.

"No one passes," They said.

"Ahh. We were sent under order of Maleficent to check on worker productivity. Either let us go or get a bad report."

"Yes sir."

They let us out. Heartless were never to bright. We approached our gummi ship, called the Darkness Emmisary, and took of in search of Organization XIII. We traveled the worlds looking for clues as to where thier caste was. Apperantly, they never even stepped foot in Agrabah.

"Riku?"

"Yeah Mickey."

"The Organization has a holographic transporter map in thier castle. Once we arrive, we can use it to locate Destiny Islands."

I didn't say anything, I couldn't. The thought of seeing Kairi again left me speachless. We took our leave and flew toward the next world.