AUTHORS NOTE: here it is my friends, the first chapter to Ashes in the Wind (Sequel to Fire and Wind). Now as you all noticed with the last story I posted chapters everyday, however, this is not the case with this story. Since I am in college I do not have as much as I used too. So please be patient, I want this story to be good and just as amazing if not better than the first. So please enjoy, read and review. Here it is, Ashes in the Wind. Enjoy.

"Welcome home, my beloved Kasai," said her love, standing in front of a large white chair.

"Ven, it's really you!" Kasai yelled with great joy as she ran toward him. He stood with his arms out stretched and a lovingly smile upon his face. Kasai's heart burst with joy as she ran as fast as she could to reach his warm hold. But she noticed the faster she ran, the further away he was going. Soon it was like he was moving away from her and she wasn't moving at all. "Ventus! Please don't leave me! I need you!" Tears streamed down her face as she watched him be consumed by darkness. The white room she was in turned to pitch black as fire began to form around her. She could feel the heat, it reminded her of when she died. The burning! The pain! She screamed, "Ventus! HELP!" But no one came to her aid. The fire disappeared and she was falling. Falling again, like angels were carrying her down to a new world. But then she felt like they were gone, and she began to plummet.

Kasai felt as if her soul had slammed into her body as she jolted awake with a gasp. She looked up at the ceiling above her and took notice that she back in her room. She rose up and examined her body and noticed she wasn't the old lady that she had seen in her dream. Her breaths were short and her skin was pale white. This was not the first time she had this dream, this was the 3rd time this week. She looked over at her alarm clock and it read 6:30 A.M. She didn't have to give up for another hour and 30 minutes. Kasai looked around the pale white dorm room which she now lived in. She looked beside her and saw her roommate fast asleep, and snoring away as usual. Kasai hunched over, placing one elbow on her leg and her hand on her face. She rubbed her forehead as she felt the sweat she had produced. She sighed and laid back down in her bed as she tried to force herself back to sleep, but with no avail.

Kasai had begun to regret returning home instead of staying with Ventus in Kingdom Hearts. She starred at the ceiling as she began to reminisce on her memories with him. Their dance in the Castle of Dreams, being wrapped in the clouds and feeling the warm sun as they were flying over Never Land, and playing around in the lake at the Enchanted Dominion . She could still feel the passion and tenderness of his kiss on her lips. Her heart began to pace faster thinking about that kiss. She smiled and placed her right hand on her heart. "Calm down Ven." She whispered to herself, knowing that he was inside of her heart.

The ticking of her roommate's clock made it seem that the hour dragged on and on. Kasai rose out of bed and decided to get ready for the Monday she had to endure. She changed out of her pirate pajamas and put on blue jeans, a red shirt with long sleeves, and her black converse. She went to the mirror and put her hair up in a high pony tail just the way she had it when she was with Ventus. A tear slid down her cheek as she looked at herself in the mirror. Everything she did reminded her of Ventus and Kingdom Hearts.

She heard the creaking of her roommate's bed, meaning her roommate was awake. Kasai looked over at her roommate as she rubbed her eyes and rose from her slumber. "Kasai, its 7 am why are you up so early? Isn't your first class at 9?"

"Yeah, but I woke up from a dream and I couldn't get back to sleep." Kasai walked over to her dorm bed and sat down as the springs snapped and screeched.

As soon as her roommate heard the word dream she snapped from her sleepy state and grabbed her smart phone with a gleam in her eyes. "What was your dream about?!" She threw her legs over the side of the bed to face Kasai.

Ever since the first day of college, Kasai noticed that her roommate loved to interrupt dreams and the symbols and meanings behind them. "Kirsten, just because someone has a dream doesn't mean that there is always a meaning behind it."

"Oh come on, just tell me!" Kasai knew she wasn't going to stop pestering her until she told. Kasai smiled as she began to tell her dream to her friend. "You seem to have dreams about this boy a lot. Is he someone special, did you know him back in your home town?"

"Not really."

"Then where did you meet him?"

Kasai rubbed the back of her neck nervously as a sweat drop formed on her temple. She smiled sheepishly, "Well I can't really explain."

"Why not?"

"Because, I was dead when I met him." Kirsten cocked her head to the side as she looked at Kasai like she had bugs crawling out of her ears. "I told you it's difficult to explain."

"Well we have time before class. So go ahead and tell me how you met him."

Kasai sighed as she looked out the window, drifting off into her memories. "It was almost 4 years ago, when I was 15. I was a dreamer, I dreamed of new worlds, fighting off creatures of darkness and being with new friends I had never seen. One day my parents and I got into a fight and my mom threw my drawings into the fire place. When she did, an ember flew out and started a fire in the house. The fire spread through the house, making a wall of fire between me and my parents. I couldn't get to them, I could hear them screaming my name. Just then the house fell down on me and pinned me down underneath the burning flames. The last thing I saw was a bright light. When I opened my eyes, I was surrounded in darkness expect for the strain glass I was standing on, and on the glass I saw a boy with blonde hair asleep. A voice told me that I had died and this was my chance to redeem myself and find my light. Well to make a long story short, I met three people, Ventus, Aqua and Terra. I became best friends with them and the boy in my dreams is Ventus. He and I went on an adventure to find Terra when he ran away. As we traveled through these new worlds fighting the creatures he and I began to fall in love." Kasai smiled with a blush as she looked down at the ground. "But when we finally admitted our love for each other, that same day we had to fight the bad guys and Ventus sacrificed himself to save me. A large sand storm came and swept us away, when I awake I was in a sorcerers study and he explained to me that Ventus' heart was now sleeping in my heart. And I could either wake him up or return home. So my choice was to return home to be with my parents. But now I wish I could go back to him. To be with my Ventus again." Kasai wiped away the tear that left her eye as she finished her story.

Kirsten sat there with her mouth gapping and her eyes as wide as plates. "How is that even possible?"

Kasai shrugged her shoulders with a smile, "I can't tell ya that." She looked out the window again with a soft smile. "But I am glad that I died that day. Otherwise I wouldn't have these amazing memories."

"What if these were just dreams and you were just unconscious?"

"No, it was too real to be fake. But when I came back to this world, I wasn't burnt or anything. I was pinned underneath the rubble. I was perfectly healthy."

"That's a miracle that you weren't dead."

"I was, but the light of the worlds gave me a second chance and I passed, so they brought me back."

"Kasai, that isn't possible."

"Yes it was. I remember fighting and being hurt by those creatures. Those strange looking creatures of darkness."

"Well, if you insist that it was real then your dream means that you want to be back with him, but you know you can never get back."

Kasai looked down with a frown and sighed, "Yeah, I know."

At that moment, Kasai's alarm clock went off. The two looked over at the time and it was 8:30. Kasai stood from her bed as she grabbed her bags, books and keys to the dorm. Without a word, she walked out of the dorm. She walked out of the dorm hall and into the bright sun light. She walked down the street and to her first class.

She looked around and everybody had smiles on their faces. Laughing and just enjoying life and the new day of this world. Kasai looked at the large grassy field in the middle of campus. On this field she saw her, Ventus, Aqua and Terra all lying down and looking at the clouds. She smiled but then the figures turned into dust and blew in the wind. She continued to walk and at the memorial fountain she saw her and Ventus standing back to back with keyblades in hand. Again the figures disappeared in the wind as she walked on. As she walked she passed by more and more memories of her time there in that world. But as the others, they would all fade to ashes and fly in the wind. She could see the unversed she could hear her and Ventus laughing, but these were all just memories. She walked into her first class, and from then on the day dragged on.

About a week later, Kasai started getting bags underneath her eyes from lack of sleep from her dreams. Her roommate told her that she should go to counseling and try to get help, but Kasai refused. She knew that if she told anyone else her story that they would think she was crazy and put her in an insane asylum.

Kasai was sitting in the dining hall, trying not to fall asleep face down in her food. She drank a cup of pop even though she was not a fan of it, she would try to do anything to keep herself awake. But she jolted awake when the breaking news story came on the TV. What she heard and what she saw, she couldn't believe her eyes.

"Tonight of eye witness new, our top story panic on campus. Reports and calls to 911 about strange creatures from unknown origin attacking the students. One student said that she watched as this creature attacked her friend and took her heart and her friend turned into one of the creatures." Then a picture of a black creature with yellow eyes appeared on the screen. "This is an artist rendering of what students saying they have been seeing." Kasai looked at the creature and only one thing came to mind. The unversed. "We advise all students to remain in doors at night and stay away from dark places."

Kasai couldn't believe what she was hearing, but then what happened next almost made her pass out. The co-anchor chimed in, "But Jack, there have also been rumors about a boy with a key shaped weapon fighting off these creatures." That was the first time Kasai did an actual spit take. She coughed as she choked on the remaining water in her mouth. "People said that he has been fighting off these creatures using some form of magic to defeat them." Then another picture came on the screen but it was the face of the boy. He had spikey hair, and bright blue eyes. Kasai's heart skipped a beat as she looked at this image. This boy looked just like Ventus, but how could that be?! Ventus was supposed to be asleep, and inside her heart. But who else would be able to wield a keyblade?! So many questions ran through her head, but the first thing she did was jump from her seat and ran back to her room.

She ran in and saw her roommate watching a movie. Kasai grabbed the remote, turned off the movie and changed it to the news. Her roommate asked what the heck was wrong with her, but all Kasai did was point to the TV. Kirsten looked at the TV and her mouth dropped. What Kasai had told was actually happening.

"See! I told you it wasn't my dreams! It's real and it's here!"

"So, do you think that boy is really Ventus?"

Kasai shook her head in disbelief, "I don't know. But I don't know anyone else who is able to wield a keyblade, besides Terra, Aqua, Ventus and me."

"Well, if you really want to return back to that world, this is your chance right here."

Kasai looked out the window and then stood up and walked to the bathroom. When she walked back out she was in her grey leggings and steel toed boots, around her waist a see throw red fabric flew behind her, she wore a red shirt with two grey straps over her chest with a heart crown in the middle, and the sleeves of the shirt were long and bell shaped at the end. Her hair was longer and she had it up in a high ponytail. She looked at her roommate with a determined gleam in her eyes. "I will find my way back to Ventus."