Chapter 1

A New Beginning and A New Friend.

Sora stared thoughtfully at his bed room ceiling. The first day of school was tomorrow, when he was younger he loved starting school, he took it as an adventure; but after every thing he'd been through the past two years he found it really hard to look forward to the day ahead. All that he saw school as now was a prison of boredom. No action, no fun just sitting still in a small classroom and learning about trivial things that he'd probably never use. He began to wonder what Riku was doing, sure it was late but knowing his best friend he'd probably but up until dawn to watch the sun rise and flood the islands with light, which seemed to be his favorite thing to do lately. Out of the corner of his eye Sora saw a comet; he jumped out of bed, hastily got dressed and set off for the play islands.

Just as he suspected it was another meteor storm like the one that happened the night Kairi first came to the island. He went straight to the Paopu Island and noticed Riku staring intently at the sky. "I was wondering when you'd show up." He said not turning to look at his younger friend. "What do you think it means, Riku?"

"Dunno. But I have a feeling our adventures are not entirely over yet." Riku said focusing on something. "What is it?" Sora asked noticing Riku's puzzled gaze.

"Look there." He said pointing to a bright purple comet that seemed to be coming straight for them. "That comet is a different color then the rest, it is also the only one that looks like it is going to hit near here,"

Sora frowned as he nodded; he bounced up on to the tree with his best friend and continued to watch the suspicious comet. About fifteen minuets of watching the comet fall they saw it fly right over their heads.

"What do you think it was?" Sora asked looking confused

"I'm not sure. Hey, Sora it's getting late why don't you go home and go to bed. We have school in the morning after all and I know how you are with waking up when you didn't get a good enough sleep." Riku smiled

"Well what about you??" Sora pouted poking his older friend

"Me? I don't need sleep; I'm used to staying awake for days on end." Riku said once again looking out to the sea.

"Then I'll stay up with you"

Riku looked as through he was going to protest but Sora continued

"I think you've had enough time being alone in darkness, from now on I'm staying with you." Sora said with a smile.

"Hmm. You really shouldn't say things like that." Riku said in a low voice looking a little sad all of the sudden. "Huh?" Sora replied looking concerned, but the silver haired boy shook his head "Nothing. Well if you insist on staying with me then let's go back to your house, I know you'll regret it tomorrow if you stay up all night." Riku said jumping off of the tree

"Ok. But promise you'll get some sleep too." Sora said shaking his finger as though Riku was a child. The older boy shrugged "Any thing to make you happy Sora."

Sora grinned and walked off towards the main island Riku took one final glance to the sky 'that comet had a dark aura around it. I wonder where it landed.'

"Hey Riku! You commin'!?" Sora yelled snapping Riku out of his thoughts "Yeah!" He called back as he ran toward his spiky haired friend.

The next morning Riku woke up at six and went down to Sora's kitchen and started to make coffee, knowing full well that Sora would be needing it. Around six thirty the coffee was done and he'd already given a cup to Sora's mom who was rushing out of the house to work. She completely trusted him to wake Sora up and get him to school on time. Sora had one older sister who was married with two kids and lived on the other side of the island, he never knew his father so the boy's mother always depended on Riku to be a good role model. 'Some role model I ended up being, I got lost in darkness and he had to save me.' With a sigh he opened the door to Sora's bedroom, as expected his spiky haired friend was slightly snoring, drooling, tangled in the sheets and half falling off the bed. Riku smirked and pounced on the younger boy, who yelped and jumped so high he nearly hit the ceiling. Riku got the image of one of the cats in those old cartoons clinging to the ceiling after being startled, and started laughing.
"Don't ever do that again!" Sora squealed holding a hand over his heart,

"Well it got you up didn't it? Now come on I made coffee." The silver haired boy laughed getting off of the younger boy's bed. Sora groaned and jumped back into bed, hiding under the covers. "Come on Sora get dressed."

"No, I'm mad at you!" Sora replied, even though the blanket was covering him Riku could tell he was pouting.

"I'm gonna count to ten and if you aren't out of there and getting dressed then I'm taking you to school like that!" Riku began the count down; Sora poked his head out of the covers and stuck out his tongue "that's it!" Riku suddenly picked Sora up covers and all and began carrying him out of the room "Wha?! No Riku put me down!!!"

"Are you going to get dressed like a good little boy?"

"Don't call me a little boy!"

"Alright then off to school we go." Riku had nearly made out the front door before Sora freaked out jumped down and ran back up stairs muttering something like "I'll get you back for this Riku, you're going down!"

Ten minuets later Sora came back down in his dark blue school uniform still glaring as his best friend handed him the coffee. During the whole walk to school Sora continued to glare at Riku. When they got to school they were greeted by Kairi and Selphie, even though everybody wore uniforms they still had their way of personalizing the required outfit. Sora kept his white shirt practically open with a black tank underneath, navy blue and red wrist bands and wore his signature silver crown necklace. Riku on the other hand had his white shirt gaped open exposing his neck and the beginning of his well muscled chest, and wore a black and yellow wrist band on his right wrist.

The class bell rang and every body went to their seats, the teacher came in with a smile "good morning class, I am your teacher Aki Hana, please address me as Mrs. Hana. I have some announcements to make; first I'd like you all to welcome a new class mate."

Mrs. Hana made a gesture to the door as it slid open and a young girl walked in. She was really pretty, she had long dark hair that she wore up in a pony tale, plump pink lips and brown eyes the color of coco powder. "I'd like you all to meet Sakura. She will be joining your class."

"Hajimemashite." Sakura said with a bow, when she straightened back up she made direct eye contact with Riku. She blushed a little and turned her attention to Sora and Kairi who were both smiling warmly at her. "Well then let's see where we can put you…" Mrs. Hana said thoughtfully, Sakura looked at her and the teacher seemed to have figured something out immediately "I know why don't I put you by Kairi and Selphie you are sure to make fast friends with them." Sakura walked silently to the suddenly open desk beside the two girls. "Hey Riku..." Sora whispered

Riku looked over to his friend with a curious look "is it just me or was there not an open desk there before?"

Riku looked and realized Sora was right, their class had been full a second ago there were no open desks but now there was one. "yeah, that's weird maybe we just weren't paying attention." Riku shrugged. Sakura made fast friends with every one but seemed mostly drawn to Kairi, perhaps it was because she had also come from the Radiant Garden. Almost immediately she developed a crush on Riku and the two seemed to make eye contact when ever they passed each other, she was also a little jealous of Sora because he got the most of Riku's attention. People became more and more used to seeing her, and the excitement of how she got there died down just the way it did when Kairi had first come to the islands. But something bothered Sora about the way Sakura looked at Riku, she had this dreamy hopeful look that most girls get when they like a boy, but there was also something else…something dark.