POSSIBLE SEQUEL TO MAYBE IN A DIFFERENT TIME

Hey! This is a sequal to a oneshot I previously did, Maybe In A Different Time. I wasn't originally going to do this, but I got the suggestion from Brokenmushroom and started to play around with a few intro's which gradually grew into what you are about to read. As with my other fic the man emotional back drop of this song was inspired by a song. Tonightless by Eighteen Visions to be correct. So please enjoy, but if you haven't read Maybe In A Different Time, you might not understand some things so you might want to go back and read it, but its not necessary. Please feed my addiction and review.

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Sora sighed as he heard the bell signal the end of classes. It was a typical Friday Rankin High School and the students were bouncing off the walls waiting for the day to be over and the weekend to begin. Sora already knew that his weekend was going to be a funless one. His English teacher had given her classes a writing assignment on a news article from the past fifty years. And unfortunately it was due that coming Monday. Sora made his way out of the building while dodging the more inconsiderate of his classmates.

"Hey, honey! How was school today?" Mrs. Oyakai asked her son as he traipsed through the door.

"Eh…It was cool. Miss. Donna gave us a paper in English, but that's about it." Sora walked into the kitchen and straight to the fridge.

"Sora, I've almost got dinner ready, get out of the fridge."

"Whatever mom." Sora grabbed a coke and made his way down the hall to his room. While his computer was booting up, he contemplated what kind of articles to look for. He decided on either murder or suicides, for some reason he had always had some morbid fascination with old suicides cases. After a few hours of googling suicide news clippings from forever ago, he finally found one from about fifty years back that peeked his interest.

Tuesday, May, 8. 2008

Teenager Found Dead On Shoreline.

Riku Oyanabu was found on a small section of the popular 'destiny islands' right off the Sterling City shoreline yesterday morning. His death is being ruled a suicide by local police. He was found by his friend Sora Wabani after having been missing for about twenty-four hours.. Riku left no reason as to why he felt he needed to end his life. The viewing for Riku will be held this Thursday at Raining Springs Funeral home. According to his friends and family Riku was a popular boy with the other teens of the island.

"He was nice, always took care of someone if they were in trouble, he had so much to live for." Says Kairi Monako. The funeral will be held this Saturday May 12. He will be sorely missed by grieving friends and family.

Sora just stared at the screen for a long while. The name Riku sounded so familiar to him. Then he googled the name Riku Oyanabu and found that his Myspace page had never been taken down, even after fifty years. Opening the page up he was greeted with one of his favorite oldie songs. Eighteen Visions' Tonightless. Sora didn't know why, but for some reason as he went through this kid's myspace page, he began to cry. It might've been when he noticed what Riku's birthday had been and realized that he was only eighteen when he had died. Looking at his comments he saw so many 'good-bye', 'I'll miss you', and 'I love you'. And seeing how so many people were hurt by this kids actions Sora cried even harder. But immediately felt stupid, he didn't even know this kid for god's sake. But for the rest of the night Sora thought about Riku, his fate, and what possibly could've driven him to take his own life.

Unfortunately, things did not look brighter in the morning. He was still depressed over something he had never even been involved in. He didn't know why but for some reason he felt like he had been directly involved. But that might just the result of the dreams he had. He dreamed that he was the Sora mentioned in the article and that he had found Riku, but what scared him the most is that the guilt he felt for something in his dream felt so real, almost too real. Sora sat down at his computer and began writing his paper. He finished it later that day around lunch. After he spellchecked and printed, he logged onto his gaia account. He found that his close friend and fellow eighteen visions fan forever tonightless was logged on as well. After PMing(1) him to meet him in the 'NARUTO FANS COME HERE!' chat room, he went there to wait for him. He got kind of anxious as he waited for him to show up. Sora had recently figured out that he might have a crush on his gaia buddy and was sort of freaking out because forever tonightless was a guy. Yet he didn't know his name, for some reason he never asked, but then again neither had his friend. Finally his silver haired friend showed up.

Ceruleanskiesfall: Yo! Whats up.

Forever tonightless: hey, not much has been goin on here. You?

Here Sora tried to think of something that was going on in his town that FT ( his shortname for him) wouldn't know about. They found shortly after they first meet that they actually lived about two towns apart.

Ceruleanskiesfall: eh…not much, ya know same old same old. Just doing a project for English...blegh it kind of sucks, but at least my teacher gave us an interesting subject…

Forever tonightless: what is it?

Ceruleanskiesfall: well, we gotta research an old news article and then right a paper on it.

Forever tonightless: oh, that sounds pretty cool. You find anything cool?

Ceruleanskiesfall: yea….

Sora had yet to tell FT about his slightly morbid fascination with suicide and murder.

Ceruleanskiesfall: I'll PM ya the link later, but its about this kid Riku who killed himself on his home towns beach and how his best friend found him the morning after he did it.

Forever tonightless: argh…that's just kinda creepy in a "the past repeats itself" foreboding manner…and I think that I'm related to that kid…..
Ceruleanskiesfall: ??

Forever tonightless:…….My name is Riku….I was named for my great uncle never saw his nineteenth birthday…

Ceruleanskiesfall:…………………ok…I'm kind of creeped out…

Forever tonightless: you think I'm not?

Cerulean skiesfall: yea…I guess you would be…but to me whats creepier is that we both have the names of the two main players in that tradgedy…because my name is sora…but my parents got that from a book…(thank god)…

Forever tonightless: the family story goes that my uncle killed himself because the guy he loved rejected him pretty harshly…I think my mom said that her mom ( his sister) had said that it was his best friend….the one who found him dead….

Sora just stared at his screen, his hand poised to type something back, but nothing came to his mind. Millions of wild thoughts were running through his head, 'Was he the reincarnation of this other Sora and his soul was being punished by falling for the reincarnation of the boy he indirectly killed?' A small ding interrupted his wild musings. Riku had written him.

Forever tonightless: dude, don't worry bout this. Its ancient history, and that this whole thing is nothing but a coincident…y'know…I've got an idea…are you going to that show this Friday at The Joint?

Ceruleanskiesfall: uhhh, yea I was planning on goin with some people from school…are you goin?

Forver tonightless: yea, I was wonderin if you wanted to meet up there, and before you begin thinking that I am just some forty year old fat balding child rapist, I'll meet you in front of your friends so you'll know I'm who I say I am……

Ceruleanskiesfall: aight…that's cool, oh! And you can meet all of my friends!! I'm sure that they'll love you!! Yay! does little happy dance

Forever tonightless: lol…aight so this Friday, it's a date?

Sora's beath caught stupidly in his throat at the phrase that normally wouldn't have any affect on him at all. Hell, he'd used that phrase before himself.

Ceruleanskiesfall: yep, it's a date! , see ya then, I gotta go. Later!

Forever tonightless: aight see ya then!

Sora logged off of his computer and looked at the clock, it still only about six at night. So he fooled around on the computer until about ten and then passed out on his bed.

The next week flew by in his anticipation of that coming Friday.

"We're meeting WHO?!" Namine yelled at Sora on the way out the door to the show.

"We're gonna meet one of my friends from gaia…" Sora turned his back to Namine as he locked his door but he could still feel her glare burning a hole in his back. He didn't want to turn around and face the blond haired persons wrath, but he had to get to his car somehow. Turning around he meet the glare and just sighed. "look, Namine, I trust him ok? I mean he lives just a few towns over and just so I know that he didn't look it up to say that, he told me where he lived first…"

"Oh yeah, like that makes any of this better." Namine crossed her arms and frowned in the front seat of Sora's '99 Jetta. She continued to berate him about how dangerous this was until they were at Axels house, and then until they were at Roxas' house. By then her tirade had petered out and she was fuming quietly.

"So uhhh….what the hell was all that about? I only caught, like, half of it." Axel gave Sora pitying quizzical look through the rear view mirror.

"We're meeting a friend of my mine from Gaia tonight at the show." Sora hazarded a glance sideways at Namine to see if the flood gates still stood. She said nothing thankfully.

"Oh cool, you guess know that's how I met Roxie here right?" At this comment Namine just turned and gape glared at Axel. He wisely shrunk back in his seat.

"Yes well, Roxas just happened to live in our town and go to our school didn't he? This Riku person, if that's even his real name, doesn't!" Her look dared Axel to say anything to the contrary. He wasn't good at reading looks.

"Yes, but I didn't know if Roxas was telling the truth about who he was or where he lived, but I took a chance and wound with the most amazing boyfriend in the world. So there." As Sora watched most of this through his rear view mirror he was suddenly very grateful that Namine wasn't prone to violence. But hearing the resounding smack of flesh hitting flesh, he revised his thought. That Namine was not normally prone to violence. Axel just seemed to drag that side out of her. The rest of the drive was not very eventful seeing as how Namine just fumed quietly in the front seat and Axel and Roxas made out the whole time. Sora began to get antsy as they pulled up to venue for the show hoping like hell that Riku was true to his word about showing up.

"So who's playing tonight?" Roxas finally decided to surface for air.

"Uhhl…Foxchase Drive, At Cliffs End, and I think that Beneath Judecca is head lining." Sora turned the car off and got out, tugging nervously at his shirt. Roxas watched him with a suspicious eye.

"Oh my, does someone have a crush?" Axels sing-song voice drifted from behind Roxas, apparently Roxas was the not the only observant one among them. Sora just donned his famous pout and stuck out his tongue at Axel. "Alrighty then, I'll take that as a yes." The inside of the place was darkly lit with a few colored strobe lights here and there.

"So when is this 'guy' gonna show up." Namine's voice carried a defeated tone to it as she realized that there was nothing she could do to change the nights events.

"Uhhh, he didn't exactly say, he just said 'see ya then'." Sora looked around, anxious as the first band took the stage and began to play. He tried to get into the music and just loose himself like he usually did at shows, but that wasn't going to happen tonight. Not with his gaia bishie tugging at the back of his mind. He looked around at his friends and saw that they were completely gone mentally. It was well into the second set of the night that Sora felt a tap on his shoulder and a husky voice accompanying it.

"Sora?" Sora started at the sound of his name and turned. What he saw took his breath away.

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Until next time.