Ok I don't own Kingdom Hearts or any of its characters (only in my dreams ^_^)  Kiara is my character however so no touchie!

Sora laid out on the bent tree on Paopu Island.  It's been five years since Kingdom Hearts and nothing had really changed, except one thing.  Riku wasn't there.  Sora brushed his hand over his cinnamon brown hair and sat up.  With length his hair had begun to lay flat but a few locks continued to be rebellious.

"Hey Sora!  I challenge you!" yelled a blonde from the beach.

Sora sighed and rolled off his perch.  He walked across the bridge and jumped into the sand.

"I'm not going easy on you this time Tidus," warned Sora.

"Just what I wanted to hear," Tidus said and held up his sword, long since having abandoned the old sparring sticks.

Sora held up his hand and summoned his key blade with the Ultima Weapon key chain.

"Engarde!"

"Leon!"

The tall brunette stopped and turned," What is it?"

"There, there's something wrong," gasped the woman in pink with long brown hair.

"What's going on?"

"You mean you can't feel it?" asked a blonde man in a flight jacket.

Leon stared at the two," ..dear god."

"Aw man, beat again," said Tidus.  "I bet if Riku were still here you could beat him now too."

Sora's expression grew solemn at the mention of Riku's name.

"Why?" thought Sora.  "I set out to find the door of light, but all I found was darkness and I locked Riku inside it!"

"You alright?"

"I'm fine," smiled Sora.

"Sora!  Sora! There's a weird thing over here!" yelled Kairi.

Sora dismissed the key blade and ran under the bridge and through the wooden door to the other side of the island.

"It's Cid's gummi ship!" exclaimed Sora.

"a what?' asked Tidus.

Sora had never told the others about his adventure, they only knew about his strange new sword.  Kairi had kept quiet about it too.  Sora ran down to where five years earlier their raft had lain.

"Sora!"

A short girl in green hugged the key blade master.

"Yuffie!  What are you guys doing here?" Sora asked.

Leon, Cloud, Cid, and Aeris stepped off the ship.  None of them seemed too happy.  Then it hit Sora.

"The barriers between world are gone," he stated.

"Exactly," replied Leon.  "The darkness is growing again.  Kingdom Hearts is about to open."

"Riku!" Sora thought frantically.

"Hey, you all just disappeared ya?" said the orange haired man running over.

"Shh," quieted Tidus, "Sora's talking to aliens."

Kairi gave the pair and exasperated look and turned back to the others.

"So what do we do?" asked Sora.

"We have to reseal the key hole before its too late," answered Aeris.  "Before the stars begin to disappear again."

Sora looked back at his childhood companions, minus Selphie who was home sick.  They were all just the same, just bigger.  He remembered how hard it was on them when they were separated the first time.

"We don't have all day shrimp," said Cloud.

Sora sighed and boarded the gummi ship.  He sat in a large bedroom and began to fall asleep.

"I'm leaving again…. but maybe I'll get to see Riku.  Just one glimpse would be enough.  I just want to apologize."

"Boo!"

"Wah!"

Sora sat up and stared at the girl infront of him.

"Kairi!  What the hell are you doing here?"

"You didn't think I'd let you go off on your own did you?" she laughed.

"But it's dangerous!  You of all people should know that."

"I do, but you'll protect me.  I'm sure."

"Kairi…. you shouldn't rely on me.  People get hurt because of me."

"Nonsense!  You saved the princesses, you saved countless worlds.  Doesn't that count for something?"

Sora sighed and laid back down.

"This is about Riku isn't it?" Kairi said knowingly.  "It's not your fault.  Stop beating yourself up about it." She laid down beside him and rested her head on his chest.  After returning from Kingdom Hearts the two had hooked up, but after a few weeks of dating they found it just wasn't meant to be.  They remained close though.  "It pains the others to always see you so depressed."  She snuggled closer.

"But it was my fault," thought Sora.

"Goofy!  Wake up you big palooka!" the little duck screamed.

"What is it Donald?"

"A weird woman appeared in the castle a moment ago.  She went into the queens room!"

Well garwsh, why didn't u stop her?"

**Blink Blink**

Donald ran off screaming with Goofy quick behind.

"Donald," whispered Goofy," That's a man I think."

"I could swear it was a woman."

The silver haired person stood in the lavishly adorned room.

"..and the Invincible is waiting just outside Traverse Town.  Make your choice wisely Queen Minnie."

The intruder turned and disappeared.  The queen looked very distraught.  She started pacing the length of the room.

"If only Mickey were here."

Kairi shivered and walked closer to Sora.  The darkness was overwhelming.

"Are we almost there yet?" asked Yuffie.

"We're getting close," Sora replied.

They came to a dead end and Sora placed a hand on the tall wall.  As the wall fell away Kairi jumped back and almost fell off the skinny invisible walkway.  The group went through the new portal and teleported to two giant white doors and were immediately attacked by shadow heartless that were squeezing through the doors.

"What do we do?!" asked Yuffie.

"We've gotta close the doors!" Leon yelled back.

Cloud was already pushing on the door heavy door when it burst open, throwing the blonde into Leon.  The behemoth stomped out with shadow and soldier heartless scurrying out underneath it.

"Graviga!"

All the heartless out side the door were flattened and then easily picked off.  The heartless stopped flooding out.

"Sora!"

The brunette turned and saw a duck run towards him.

"Donald!  Goofy!  So it was you who used the magic."

"Where's the king? Goofy asked.

"I'm in here!" Mickey called.

The three companions walked to the edge of the doorway where the heartless moved restlessly.  They looked around and finally spotted Mickey high above the chaos.

"Come on your highness!  We'll catch you!' Donald yelled.

Mickey jumped into Donald and Goofy and they rolled the way.

"But where's Riku?" thought Sora.

Ok so what did you think?  Comments are always welcome, just don't be too harsh on me.  This is my first fic ^_^;;