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Chapter two: Welcome to the mortal world, try the salad!

Kairi swayed back and forth. "But wait…I remember in the last one, Marnie opened the portal between worlds…"

Sora looked confused. "Who's Marnie?"

"Okay guys." Riku sighed. "How about we take in this night air and sober up."

"Sober up?" Sora repeated.

"IIIIIII'M NOOOOOT DRUUUUUNK!" Kairi screeched.

" 'course you aren't." Riku rolled his eyes. "Now walk in a straight line."

Kairi stood, wobbled, and flashed them again. Riku pulled her down to sit on the back porch once again. "And you, the Halloween prince…"

"I'm not a prince." Sora said. "I'm a apprentice."

"Of course you are. What's your deal? Are you Roxas' cousin?"

"Rocks…what?" Sora shook his head. "I don't have time for this. I need to find a way back into the forest." With that he stood and left, walking into the trees behind Kairi's house.

'At least he didn't flip backwards this time.' "Get home safe!" Riku said.

Sora looked back and nodded before disappearing into the woods.

"Ooh he's mysterious." Kairi laughed.

Riku leaned over and closed her legs again. "Yep. Mysterious."

Riku stayed out with Kairi until three a.m. when her house cleared out and her parents came back.

He walked back up to his house at the other edge of town…where he found a familiar face. Sora was asleep on the lawn.

"Hey." He nudged him with his foot "Hey."

Sora mumbled something and curled into a ball.

Riku kicked him ad Sora rolled over. "Come on."

Riku pushed him towards the house. " Come on man, get up." With another sigh he pulled Sora up and dragged him into the living room and onto the couch.

"Great, there's a stranger on my sofa." He felt his phone vibrate and pulled it out. There was a text message. 'Mom and Dad hopped on a plane to Bermuda. How nice of them to text me.'

He looked at Sora, shivering on the couch. "Meh. I'll kick him out tomorrow….er, later."

When Sora got up again it was eight o'clock in the morning. He yawned and looked around the living room. "Ah! It wasn't a dream."

He someone swear loudly.

Riku came running down the stairs, half dressed. "I'm late for school!"

"School…" Sora repeated. "Oh yeah, that thing."

"You're still here?" Riku said, hopping on one leg to put on his pants. "You gotta go home man."

Sora crossed his arms. "Don't rub it in. I already told you that I can't!"

"And I'm telling you, you can NOT stay here."

Sora puffed out his cheeks in annoyance. "I didn't ask to be here! I woke up here!" He stood and walked towards the window. "Fine! I'm leaving!"

"Stop going through the window!"

"It's faster!" Sora replied, opening the window and jumping out.

"Oh boy…" Riku finished getting dressed and stepped outside.

A car drove up in front of his house. It was a black convertible. At the wheel was his friend's uncle, Ventus. Sitting in the passenger seat was Kairi, waving at him. "Heyyyy!" She slurred. In the back Axel and Roxas were laughing at something on Roxas's phone.

"Hi." Riku jumped into the back.

"So…" Kairi rubbed her temples. "I'm supposed to come by your house later…I have to apologize to all the kids I may have corrupted with my partying."

Riku rolled his eyes. "Oh don't worry, you haven't corrupted me."

They drove out of the neighborhood and over to Burbank academy, the local elevator school. "So Ventus, Roxas…Who's Sora?" Riku asked.

Ventus brought the car to screeching halt, causing them all to put on their seatbelts.

"What the hell Ven!" Kairi said, gripping the upholstery.

"Where did you hear that name Riku?" Ven said, breathing hard.

Roxas, Kairi, and Axel got out of the car. Riku looked at Ventus. "Well, there was this kid running around last night…"

"See me during gym." Ventus said.

Riku nodded and got out.

Ventus was their gym teacher, so Riku waited until after gym to speak with him. Gym at Burbank academy meant weight machines and a indoor track. No physical activity was actually required, so everyone walked around the large space in matching tracksuits.

Ventus and Riku took a jog around the track while they spoke.

"So I met this kid named Sora Skellington last night . He looks just like you-"

"Sora." Ventus frowned. "This better not be a joke Riku, or I'll be super pissed."

"Why would I lie about this? He broke into my house…I'm not to happy about it."

"How did he look?"

"Shaggy brown hair, big blue eyes...but like sunken in. He's skin and bones basically. Like, he hasn't eaten in years."

"Sora…" A sad look crossed Ventus's face. "Is Roxas's older brother."

Riku stopped jogging. "What?"

Ven put a hand on his shoulder and led him to his small office on the other side of the gym.

Riku sat down in the plush leather chair across from Ventus. "Explain. I mean, as far as I've always known Roxas is an only child."

"No." Ven rubbed his neck and sighed. "No, that's what my brother wanted everyone to think. You see, right after we moved back here, he had a fight with his wife. She wanted to send Sora and Roxas to Laika academy. Bro wanted to send them to Burbank. He thought he could straighten Sora out."

"Straighten him out?"

"Sora had a very big imagination when he was little. He loved to draw, and sing, and play…a very active five year old. But he had a habit of talking to stuff…making imaginary friends and telling tall tales. His mother thought he was gifted. His dad wanted him fixed. They both enrolled Sora in the school of their choice, but when the day came Bro let Sora go to Laika."

"After spending almost two months at Laika, Sora had a accident. He almost fell out of a window, running from the boogeyman. So his dad sent him to Burbank the next day. What they didn't realize was Burbank sends the kids to a amusement park on Halloween. "

"So all the kids went, but Sora was never accounted for. So when everyone left, no one looked for him. They even ignored Roxas when he said he had a brother. The teachers didn't know he had one. So after a while, Roxas got depressed and they couldn't get him to move on. So they had a hypnotist make him forget."

"Wow." Riku said. "That's…"

"Crazy I know." Ven crossed his arms. "But that's what Terra did. I haven't forgiven him." He stood. "But if the kid you saw is Sora…"

There was a knock on the office door. It was Roxas. "The period is almost over Uncle Ven."

"Alright." Ventus and Riku left the office.

After school as they drove back, Riku sat in front with Ven.

"Let me know if you see him, okay?" Ven said, as they came up to Riku house.

"Alright, I-" Riku stopped talking.

Sora was sitting on his frotn lawn, making a fire from twigs. Ventus's car rolled to a stop in front of him. Ven and Riku immediately hopped out of the car.

"What!" Sora said, looking defensive. "I didn't go in your house!"

"Sora!" Ven said, grabbing him by the shoulders. "Is it really you Sora?"

"Yes…I'm me…"