Mika: I forgot the disclaimer! Ahhhhh! I don't own it, I swear! The Kingdom Hearts series belongs to Disney and Squaresoft, so don't hurt me! But anyway, the first chapter was just introducing characters, and now the plot begins to…uh, begin!

Creation of Light

Chapter Two: We Pray For Our Sorrows to End…

Sora drummed his fingers on the kitchen counter, humming a familiar tune that reverberated off the walls in rapid pulses of the bass from his stereo.

Where fears and lies melt away

Music will tie

My sanctuary, my sanctuary, yeah

The short, sharp knife glinted dangerously in his hand as he sliced onions, their stench causing his blue eyes to water. He had already cut himself twice, and wasn't surprised when he felt a stinging pain in his thumb seconds later.

"Damn onions." He pouted, sucking on his poor thumb. Long, slender, and pleasantly pale fingers caressed the injured hand from behind, making Sora yelp in an extremely girlish way.

A low, husky voice snickered slyly, "I didn't know you were into cutting, Sora. Perhaps I can get you into bondage someday…" The chocolate haired man pouted.

"You know I'm not into masochism, Riku." His partner laughed and released his hand. The silver haired beauty stared out of the window at the darkness that encased the night, concern ebbing out of him like his constant smell, of sea and vanilla.

Riku slung his arms over his lover's shoulders and mentioned quietly, "She was supposed to be home by dark." Sora nodded.

"She's never back when we want her to be, don't be worried." He whispered, sensing the other's fear. Riku burrowed into Sora's neck and inhaled, hugging the man tightly.

"She is my daughter. I have to worry about her."

"She's mine too, or did you forget whose DNA you used? Moron!" he chastised lightly, slipping out of his boyfriend's grasp with an agility he hadn't known of before the events of Kingdom Hearts.

Riku smirked calmly, "How could I forget? Alexandra was convincing enough to get me to create a weapon capable of using both my keyblade and yours. Ironically, it was she that managed to save me from darkness…"

Sora's eyes drooped and he sighed, "You say it so calmly, like you were talking about what you had for lunch yesterday…"

"As I recall, I had your special tuna melt for lunch yesterday and almost threw up. I don't think I was talking quite so calmly, if at all."

"You know what I mean!" And with that, the blue eyed, pouting boy glomped his lover and sent the onions and several other vegetables flying.

Riku ran a hand through his hair from his position underneath Sora. "So much for hamburgers for dinner. How about Chinese?" Sora blew a raspberry that was promptly silenced by a long, heated kiss. Of course, that was the perfect moment for Hikari and her brothers to enter the premises.

Axel and Roxas checked the sidewalk for midnight promenades and followed their adoptive parents' example. Hikari simply gagged and dropped the picnic basket, some leftovers still intact, on the kitchen table, breaking her parents' little moment. The pair stood and reassembled themselves while their child unpacked.

Riku looked at the leftover pasta hungrily. "You know, as my daughter, I'm entitled to all your food until you're eighteen…"

Hikari glared and lifted her eyebrows in a very Riku-like fashion. "Thank god that's only three years away."

Her parents glared in kind, but the silver haired one smirked as well. "Maybe we should make her pay rent to get her ready for life after high school. What do you think Sora?" The girl's jaw dropped to the floor.

Sora cocked his head to the side in mock thought. "I don't know. We could just throw her out now with her brothers…"

Axel and Roxas, in the midst of stealing more apples from the fridge, froze and whipped their heads around, simultaneously screaming, "NO!"

The parents turned away and chuckled, once more returning to their own world. Sensing that the mockery of a conversation was over, Hikari ushered her brothers out of the kitchen and upstairs to their respective rooms.

Hikari flopped onto her maroon bed and settled her head behind her hands, thinking of her journey so far. Her parents' attempt at teasing the trio was all a farce; they knew just as well as she did that something big was going to happen, or had already begun. And once again, Alexandra was behind it. It was she who turned Riku to the darkness for the second time, in which he created Hikari and eventually was saved by the light in hers and Sora's hearts.

But that hadn't stopped Alexandra from creating more weapons. Axel, Roxas, Xaldin, Marluxia, Demyx, Xigbar, Luxord, Saix, Vexen, Lexaeus, Zexion, Larxene, and Xemnas. Finally allowed a heart, but not able to use it freely. The paradox of a Created Organization member. Xemnas had apparently run off soon after being reborn; Axel said the pain of his past forced him to hide from himself. Roxas and he were the only others able to escape without suicidal orders- Alexandra's preferred form of annihilation for escapees.

Yet the story began far before the incident of Hikari's birth, but with Alexandra's. She was Xemnas' first Creation and loved him as more than a master or father. He never realized that until it was too late. Xemnas found the irony of a Nobody creating life with a heart to be quite hilarious, but it was that irony which confined him to his castle for much of his remaining life as he pondered the misery of his life. Alexandra did all she could to show him that he could love and be loved. Her attempts failed miserably. And now she created and killed in her would be lover's name, all in grief of her loss. She even had him back for a moment- but the darkness in her heart consumed her and blinded her all at once.

The teenager decided that morbid thoughts were not ideal to be thinking about right before bed, so Hikari resorted to listening to her brothers squabble in the next room as she prepared for bed. However, she did not expect to hear a rather loud bang and several crashes from the kitchen downstairs. She'd flown down the stairs and stopped short in the kitchen before her brain even registered what she was doing.

Vegetables were strewn everywhere, even worse than they'd been when her parents knocked them over earlier. Both windows were open, and one of the blue drapes was ripped in half. The table was overturned, and one edge of the counter was chipped. But that wasn't the worst of it.

Sora rubbed his head where he'd been slammed against the counter and examined his hand, seeing blood. Great. He shook his head in an attempt to get rid of the dizziness his oncoming concussion felt like ensuing, and looked over to the door, only to see an extremely scared fifteen year old girl with Riku's eyes and his hair. She took in her surroundings in mere seconds with the flitting of her gorgeous eyes, and was by his side instantly.

"What happened?" she asked, helping her father sit up. She was as caring as her other father, and just as sarcastic, Sora mused. The man smiled his trademark grin and stood slowly.

"Alexandra." That was all it took to get his daughter's eyes shining with anger. For a girl able to see the light in any heart, she sure did hold a grudge easily. But maybe that was Kairi's influence…

Axel and Roxas appeared in the doorway and, seeing their father was in no immediate harm, they began to repair the desecrated kitchen. "It's a mess." Roxas pointed out the obvious and received a quick rebuke from his boyfriend.

Sora managed a jibe, "Riku and I were planning to remodel anyway." Wait…Riku! That little bitch had taken Riku! "Hikari! Can you sense your father's heart anywhere?"

She looked confused, but searched anyway. It was…gone, completely erased from this world. "He's not on Destiny Islands anymore. In fact, I can't sense him on any world." She broadened her search to the weaker pulse from other worlds and, as she had said, found nothing. It was as if he'd left the universe…

Sora made a call and afterwards settled himself on the couch in the living room.

"She took him- Alexandra took Riku." He sounded so lost, dejected, as if there was nothing left to live for. And without Riku, was there?

Yes. There was Hikari. The light in all of them…

And Roxas, and Axel too. He had an obligation, a need, to live for them. He protected them, taught them about life, just like any other parent. The 'gayness' was just a label; it didn't determine who Sora was as a person.

The afore mentioned girl stood over him and silently checked the wound on her father's head, biting her lip. He knew she was steadily losing control of the mask she'd so easily put up to hide her pain these past few weeks, and his thoughts were confirmed as the father noticed his daughter chewing on her bottom lip harshly enough to draw blood. Sora's eyes softened and he gently reached out a hand and wiped the trickle of blood from her trembling chin. A tear slid down her cheek and met his outstretched hand; in moments father had pulled daughter into a comforting embrace.

Hikari hadn't broken down for weeks. The despair of the worlds was her burden to handle; forcing her responsibility on others with her tears didn't solve anything. But now her father had been kidnapped, and her other Dad was bleeding, and she just couldn't handle this on her own anymore…

She hadn't realized that her lip was bleeding until her father wiped away the droplets of crimson on her chin, and in that instant, she needed a shoulder to cry on. It was her responsibility to feel the hearts of all, but she was her father's burden too. It was as if all the pent up depression and fear over the song in her head cascaded out of her body in the tears that flew freely from her tightly closed eyes onto her father's neatly pressed shirt. Hikari would have to remember to apologize later.

Roxas and Axel joined their family members' embrace, intent on cheering up their forlorn sister. The desired effect was instantaneous; the sight of two equally immature high school and secretly gay lovers attempting to wrap their scrawny arms around the keyblade master and an emotionally drained sarcastic teenage girl was too much for Hikari. She burst out in a fit of giggles that would've lasted longer if the phone hadn't rung.

Sora chuckled alongside his daughter and rubbed his sore head. The phone rang impatiently, demanding the father's attention before his child's. He stood, using the armrest of the second-hand couch Riku had bought him for their third anniversary for support. The thing was practically ancient and tended to fall apart on occasion, but Sora just couldn't bear to be rid of his lover's gift. The phone squealed again.

"That will be Cid. I asked him to run a scan of any ships leaving Destiny Islands. And I also asked him to check something else…" he glanced warily at the front door, wondering if his next words would be heard by the innocent pedestrian on a midnight walk or one of Alexandra's spies. "The TWG flight records."

Roxas' mind was not functioning according to the average standards due to the quick shift in conversation, and therefore blurted out idiotically, "The what?"

Axel whacked him on the back of the head. "You moron. Did you forget what Cid's been working on for the past five years? TWG stands for Time Warp Gummi; Dad thinks that Alexandra might've stolen a TWG and brought other Dad to another time, where even Hikari can't find him."

Said girl feigned hurt and pouted in a very Sora-like way, adding, "At least I know what's going on in YOUR heart, Axel. Luckily, the flight records should tell us where she took Dad." TWG flight records were easily kept by departing time and destination time based on homing sensors placed in many times and worlds. But the system wasn't foolproof. Cid had only managed to place sensors within a twenty year span of the current era, so if Alexandra had taken Riku anywhere outside that range, no one would be able to tell where, or when, she'd went.

Mika: A bit of education for the last bit… rabid Riku fan girls attack Ahhh! Flying wok…that's right I made Riku get kidnapped. But anyway, the point of this little note is to ask you faithful readers a life changing question:

Should I write a prequel to this?

It would explain what's happened from the end of KHII until now, including Riku and Sora's relationship and the whole deal with the Alexandra the Creation creating things. So, I ask again, Should I?

Review and I will give you Paopu fruit! waves fruit enthusiastically