I know--WHERE THE HELL HAVE I BEEN?--but there's not much I can do when my computer crashed and got infected....and then the repair didn't work...neither did the reinstallation. So, we had to take my Mini in and get it fixed by the professionals--about time, DAD, after 2 and a half weeks of NO computer.

Okay, this here is something that I started toying with when I heard about KH: Birth By Sleep (go to .com for all the 411) and it's going to be a multi-crossover, since there will be some new worlds Sora and company's going to be traveling to. And there will be some old, familiar faces and some new, modified ones.

Oh, and HEAVY SPOILERAGE.

Just so you know.

With each world I add, there will be another anime in the included animes above the title. Right now, it's only Kingdom Hearts, but that will change.

I promise.

Kingdom Hearts II

"View of the Forsaken"

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Chapter 1

"Click"

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"Aw, man! I've got a lot of homework!"

Riku laughed at Sora's whining as the three friends walked home from school. "Come on, Sora. Homework shouldn't be a problem for the Keyblade Master."

"I'd take Organization XIII over school any day." Sora muttered. "Can't defeat homework with the Keyblade."

"It's what you get for falling asleep in class." Kairi said, getting Sora to groan in reminder at the week of detention he had to look forward to starting tomorrow after school. "You said you went to bed early last night. What's got you so tired?"

"I dunno. I was restless all night." Sora half muttered with a slight whine. "I kept hearing clicks all night, like something was right next to my ear jus' going off. I couldn't tune it out no matter what I did. It was like it was inside my head."

"Clicks going off in your head?" Riku repeated, getting Sora to look at him. "Like soft ones and then a loud one?"

Sora nodded. "Yeah, just like that. How'd ya know, Riku?"

"I heard them, too. The only difference is that I wasn't sleeping." Riku told the other boy, purposefully ignoring the "Riku!" from Kairi.

"Why not, Riku?" Sora asked.

"It's the dark." Riku dragged his hand through a shadow they were passing, his fingers unwinding into swirls of shadows. "It's the side effect of my Keyblade. I feel energized in darkness. It's why I crash during the day when it's too bright out. Being out in the light too long makes me tired."

"But you've fought with us on other worlds." Sora pointed out. "How come you were tired then?"

"Because I was absorbing the dispersing shadows from the Heartless. It's an advantage that counters my light exhaustion." Riku said, dropping his hand before it hit the corner of a building. "It's like the fast recovery boost you get with some of your Keychains."

"Only with darkness." Sora added.

"Exactly." Riku nodded, shouldering his backpack better. "Y'know, we could always go down to the beach and spar before Wakka gets there and tells us to knock it off. And we could use Keyblades before he erupts and tries to kill us."

"Yeah, let's do it!" Sora cheered excitedly. "I've been wanting some action!"

"Uh, Sora, what about all that homework you said you had to do?" Kairi questioned, getting the blue-eyed brunette's attention.

"What about it?" Sora asked cluelessly.

"Relax, Kairi. He's got detention for a week. He can just do it all then." Riku cut in, getting a scowl from the blue eyed girl. "You know, you can always join us with your Keyblade."

Kairi gave him a look. "I don't think the Keyblade of the Realm of Light should be mixing with the Keyblades of Darkness and Twilight—and neither should yours. There's no Heartless and no Nobodies. There's no need for your two to pound it out on one another with your Keyblades just because the two of you are bored with nothing to destroy."

Riku leaned close to Sora, putting his arm around the shorter boy's neck. "Translation—she hasn't been able to summon it since we locked the World That Never Was."

"Riku!" Kairi half shrieked indignantly. "That's not true! I'm just not into tempting fate like you two idiots are!"

"Yep, she's been without it since we locked it." Sora agreed with a nod, seeing what Riku was doing. Kairi stopped walking with them, her hands on her hips and her blue eyes glaring at them venomously. Both boys stopped and looked at her. "Is there something the matter, Kairi?"

"I'll show you both who can still use their Keyblade!" Kairi snapped at the two boys. "I'll meet you both at the beach once you're done changing out of your uniforms—if either of you have the guts to come up against me!"

The two boys just stayed put as Kairi stormed past them, heading home on her own. They exchanged a wary look until Kairi was out of sight. Then they snorted softly and started laughing. Kairi was so predictable whenever it was insinuated she couldn't use her Keyblade. While Kairi was their friend, both boys got tired of her just sitting on the side lines and scolding them for using their Keyblades to spar. And after the last time she got Wakka, Sora and Riku had nearly gotten concussions from each getting a blitz ball to the head.

"She's gonna be pissed once she gets to the beach." Sora remarked as the boys started towards home again.

"It's what she gets for trying to act better than us." Riku dismissed. "Plus, if she joined us, then she might be able to actually stand up for herself and then she wouldn't need one of us to come rescue her every single time she managed to get herself captured."

"Well, yeah, that's true." Sora muttered in agreement. "It'd definitely make my job easier if she put up more of a fight. That way I didn't have to hunt the sons of bitches down after they've gotten time to get stronger and study my moves from a distance. I'd rather just go in, kick their asses and move on."

Riku laughed and nudged him with his elbow. "Thinking about Xemnas again, huh, Sora?"

Sora partially grimaced at that reminder as he regained his momentarily off center balance. That last bad guy hadn't been all that "pleasant" to battle. Even months later, Sora was still sore and he still had the bruises from the son of a bitch's lucky shots and those damned flying buildings of all things.

"Man, I wish there was a Heartless or something that required the Keyblade, other than just sparring. I miss all the battles. I want to see the worlds again." Sora sighed heavily. "I miss jus' being able to see all the stars and colors around me in the Gummi Ship. An' I miss practicing magic at Merlin's and seeing my summons come to life. Hell, I miss the hyenas in the Pride Lands."

"Quiet lives aren't for guys like you and me. We're made for the front lines and giving the quiet life to the other guys." Riku told his friend, patting the brunette's back. "Personally, I'd like to go up against Sephiroth myself. Show him that just because I happen to look like him, it doesn't mean that I gotta like it."

"Yeah, I'm with you there." Sora laughed at the memory of Sephiroth calling Riku "Little Brother" and telling the 16-year-old that he'd be waiting for him to join him one day. Riku had let out various colorful phrases that basically summed up to "no way in Hell".

They paused at a crossroads and Sora earned a pat on the back as Riku went left. Sora gave Riku a wave before hustling to the right, both headed home to get changed. Sora shouldered his backpack better and put his arms behind his head, strolling along with a hum of some song he couldn't get out of his head since he and Roxas became one again. As Sora passed by a shop owner returning his shop, Sora heard the jingle of keys being taken from a pocket and the scrape of the key sliding into the lock.

…CLICK…CLICK…CL-LICK

Sora stopped dead and stared at the shop owner as he turned the door knob to reopen after his errand, the tumblers clicking. A chill of dread settled into Sora's gut as he connected the dots.

"…no…" He shook his head, walking backwards towards his house in shock. "…no…that can't…"

The door opened with a click, making Sora turn bolt towards home to get out of his uniform. This wasn't good. He had to get out of his uniform and dig the shoe box of Keychains out from under his bed. He had to make sure that he'd be prepared for any enemy that he came against and then he had to get to the beach to tell Riku and Kairi what those clicks that had kept him up all night were. They weren't going to like it because it wasn't going to be good news.

Kinda creepy, huh?

Yeah, just a bit...well, at least it's SUPPOSED to be.

Let me know what you think.

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