Alright, so I never got any feedback on chapter 1 (you monsters) but I got one alert so whatever. Hopefully this time the fic will get a bit more attention

It's going to be a little difficult for me to write, what with class and light writers block, so expect updates at least once a week. That's all I can promise for now

Enjoy


Chapter 2

Memory

"Hey Mom? I'm back!" I call out into the darkness of my house, catching the white, flickering light from my mom's room. She must already be asleep.

I turn after taking off my shoes and begin to shrug off my hoodie. I figure there's no harm in getting comfortable faster.

"Hello."

I yelp in surprise at the new voice and turn around to its owner. Who could up at this time? Certainly not my mom.

Oh.

The mystery girl was sitting upright on the couch, looking at me with a blank, empty expression. She seemed to have flattened her bedhead slightly before resting her hands on her lap. Her dark eyes seem to gleam slightly in the pale light.

"Whoa- uh, hi. Don't scare me like that!" I laugh breathlessly and straighten myself out. "Glad to see you awake now though. Are you alright now?"

I sit on the chair across from her as she nods. There are dark circles under her eyes as if all those hours she'd been asleep had done nothing for her at all. I smile uneasily at her silence.

"Why am I getting the silent treatment? You already greeted me when I got home; come on, talk to me!" She bites her lip and lets out a shaky breath. Maybe she was just feeling nervous.

"I… I'm sorry. Uh…," She clears her throat and I blink when the empty look in her eyes fills ever so slightly. "Where am I supposed to start?" Her voice comes out as a whisper and I have to lean forward to catch it.

I grin. "Well, how about your name?"

My grin falters when she gets a troubled frown and leans back. "M-My name… It's uh…," Her eyes squeeze shut as her hand goes to her forehead. She shakes her head as if ridding it of a bad thought. "I can't remember."

My eyes widen in surprise. "'Can't remember'…? What do you remember? Like, how you got here on Destiny Islands?"

The girl takes a moment to think before sighing and shaking her head. "Nothing. I don't remember anything."

She looks like she's about to cry and I frown. I stand up and make my way over, kneeling down in front of her. She's shaking.

"Well for the time being, why don't I give you one?" She gives me a confused look.

"One what?"

"A name," Her eyes widen and I chuckle. "Calling you 'mystery girl' is gonna get old real fast, after all."

I expect a laugh but don't get one. I don't let my disappointment show, though I wonder how hard it might be to even pretend to be happy when you have full-on amnesia.

"I suppose that would make sense." She mutters, almost as if she's afraid to let her appreciation show. I grin and pace about the room randomly.

"Let's see…," I look to her in question. "Mimi?" She gets a sour look and shakes her head. I fight back a chuckle.

"What's yours?" She asks and I blink.

"My name?" I point to myself and she nods silently. "Sora. My name's Sora."

"I see…," She lowers her head and looks off to the side. "That's a very nice name."

I feel my cheeks heat up slightly and I shake my head frantically. I barely know this girl! Hell, she doesn't even know herself. Just one compliment isn't going to fire me up- that's stupid.

"Alright…," I trail off and begin pacing again in deep thought. I feel her eyes on me as I go. "Ai?" Another shake of the head.

"Skye?" She shoots me a look and frowns.

"Isn't that… Egotistical?" She asks and I frown instead.

"It's what-now?"

She bites her lip and shakes her head. "Never mind." I open my mouth to press on but hold my tongue. Forget it for now, I think.

"Okay? Well, how about… Oh!" I grin wide and jump in her direction, pointing a finger at her. "Hikari."

She cocks her head to the side curiously. "Hikari?"

I nod happily. "Yeah! It means 'light'. So what do you think?" She takes a moment to think and seems to mutter the word under her breath, possibly testing it out a little.

She looks at me and nods. "That's fine." I chuckle lightly and extend my hand out to her. She looks at it with confusion and I smile.

"Nice to meet you, Hikari," She doesn't return the gesture and I can't help but chuckle a second time. "Come on, you can't have forgotten so much as to not even know what a hand shake is. Put 'er there."

She just blinks and reaches up until her small hand just barely touches my own. I grin and grab her hand, shaking it up and down. "See?"

For a moment it seems as if she wants to pull away from me, but instead she moves her hand about on her own. I smile and pull away, failing to stifle a yawn.

"Alright. Well, it's getting late. You should get some more rest, okay?" She pauses and nods, shifting slightly on the couch so as to get more comfortable.

"Alright." She says as I start to go up the stairs. I pause for a moment and turn to her.

"Goodnight, Hikari." I call out. I don't expect a reply, so I keep going up the stairs.

"Goodnight… Sora." I hear when I close my door.


"Sora? Sora, wake up!"

My mom's voice tears me from my slumber and the moment I sit up in my bed with a yawn, she's bursting into my room.

"Mom? What's the matter?" I ask drowsily. It takes me a moment to notice her panicked expression.

"The girl- she's gone!" That wakes me up.

"What?" I ask with a troubled frown. My mom lets out an impatient grunt. Her hair was already falling free from where it had been tucked behind her ear.

"She wasn't on the couch when I woke up. She wasn't in the bathroom or the kitchen either- I don't know where she went! She was in no shape to up and about as it is!" I can tell my mom is freaking out even worse the more she talks. I'm alert now.

I rise from my bed and immediately begin to get dressed. I don't even care that my mom is just watching me with a mixture of confusion and fear on her face.

"I'll go look for Hikari, okay?" She blinks at me.

"Hikari? You talked to her last night?" She frowns as if in deep thought and I smile.

"Yeah. She needed a name, after all," I say and she rests her hands on her hips, waiting for an explanation. I lower my eyes. "She couldn't remember her name, so we came up with a new one."

My mom's eyes widen, but if she plans on replying, I don't give her the chance to. "I'll go find her, Mom!" I run out of my room and down the stairs, ignoring her protests. "We'll be back soon!"

"Hikari just has to be somewhere around here…" I mutter to myself after heading outside and running down the road. I blink when something comes to mind.

Maybe she'll be there.


"Hikari!"

I spot her by the docks. She didn't even budge when I called out her name. "Hikari!" She was even still wearing the same clothes she'd had when we found her- a navy blue tunic with black and white designs on the hem, a faded brown leather belt revealing her curved, thin body through the large shirt, and white shorts that looked a little too big for her. A bracelet on her left wrist shined in the pale morning light.

"There you are!" I gasped as I came to a stop just behind her, my hands on my knees to catch my breath. "Hikari- why'd you leave? It's not safe!" I seem to go unheard and I glare at the back of her head. "Hikari!"

"I'm sorry," Her voice sounds hollow, as if she's actually somewhere else that's not in her own body. I frown when she speaks up again. "What's that?"

There's only one thing she could be looking at.

"The island?" I ask first. She nods. "That's where we found you," I pause for a moment and look at her expectantly. "Do you… Remember how you got there?"

She looks as if she's trying to remember, but still doesn't want to. She then shakes her head. "I don't…"

I raise a brow at her in confusion and shake my head, grabbing her hand. "Come on, let's go back, okay? My mom's freaking out wondering where the hell you went." I begin to pull her along.

"Hey Hikari?" She looks at me in question and I smile. "If anything's bothering you, you can always tell me, okay? It's what friends are for." Her eyes widen uncharacteristically at my statement.

"Friends…?" I nod and chuckle.

"Of course! You haven't forgotten what friends are too, have you?" Her static form answers my question for me. "Friends don't care where you come from or what you've done, they're just here for you because they care."

"But… I don't know either of those myself." She mutters, a sad tone hidden in her voice.

"It doesn't matter," I grin wide when she shoots me a surprisingly irritated look. "We'll help you get it all back, I promise. For now, we can just pretend you're from the island." I laugh and she nods silently, looking behind us as we go.

She keeps looking at the island until it's completely out of sight.


Hikari stays silent for the rest of the morning. Though that's probably nothing out of the ordinary at this point, but it's as if her mind is elsewhere instead. She just eats the breakfast my mom gives her, then stares off into space when she's given one last check to make sure she's really okay.

Well, as okay as amnesia is, anyway.

"You seem to be just fine, Hikari," My mom says as she stand from the couch. "We can even go around town later, if you'd like. Soon enough it's going to be too cold for those clothes you're wearing." She smiles and gestures to Hikari's outfit. She just looks down and nods silently after blinking.

"What about her amnesia?" I ask. My mom frowns.

"Well, I can't say what it's been caused by; a blow to the head, a traumatic experience…" She trails off when my eyes widen.

"Traumatic?" It's rhetorical, we all know, but it's still one that we all want the answer to. I glance at Hikari who seemed to be thinking the same thing, judging by the troubled look on her face. There were no injuries, so what can't she remember that's so horrific?

"It doesn't matter," Hikari cuts in, surprising me since she hasn't spoken in quite a while. I look at her expectantly when she takes a breath to speak again. "What happened, I suppose. You two… I have… Friends."

My mom blinks and looks over at me. "Have you been putting cheesy ideas into peoples' heads again?" She flashes a teasing smirk my way when I scratch my neck and look off to the side.

"Who? Me? No way!" I chuckle and my mom just pats my head and walks away.

Hikari watches us with some curiosity.


"So Hikari, you gave us a pretty good scare the other day."

Kairi laughs at her own words, for the moment looking past Hikari's blank expression. Riku stands beside me with his arms crossed.

"You would come up with a name like that." He says and I raise a brow at him.

"Huh?"

He casts a teasing glance my way. "Come on, Hikari? Seriously? Sure it's nice- but you didn't really bother to think outside the box with that one." He smirks at my pout and I shove him mockingly.

"Whatever! It's not like naming a pet or something; let's see you do it next time somebody with amnesia shows up at your doorstep." I say and he just shrugs.

"Just don't forget, Sora," He says and I lower my eyes, knowing what he's going to say. "There's always a chance that this could go badly; never forget that."

"I know, Riku, I know… But I think we're safe," I glance at Hikari with Kairi who talks about going shopping with my mom later- a girls' day, basically. "She's a nice girl, Riku. Plus, we're all she's got; it's not like she can just go to some other person's house or something." The reasoning in my voice makes Riku groan.

"Fine, whatever. But if she becomes a problem, don't come crying to me," He stands up straight and walks away from me. But he pauses once and half-turns to me. "I'll finish her myself."

I watch him leave with some dismay. It's understandable why Riku is the way he is- he still felt the darkness in his heart- but I still believe that Hikari isn't a danger to anyone at all.

I glance over at her again. She's tucked some of her dark hair behind her ear.

But I can't fight this feeling- the feeling that something is coming- whenever I look at her. That when she showed up on the island…

That something came with her.


Ooh intense shit goin on up in here! Is Riku right about Hikari? What if something really did follow her? OH SNAP YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT SORRY NOT REALLY

I feel like I should've put the first part of the chapter at the end of the last one instead. but meh, too late now

PLEASE review. This new writing style I'm trying out needs advice! Along with the story itself but yeah. And I realized last night as I was finishing this that I don't include Kairi in much of anything...hmm...I'll try to fix that next time

So REVIEW BEFORE FAVING/FOLLOWING PLEASE

Thank you and I hope you enjoyed this chapter