Chapter Two: Sora's POV

"Where is he?" I asked looking around hopelessly.

"I don't know," said Kairi in a strained voice; she was really stressed.

"Did Mrs. Ishida say anything else when she called you?" I asked referring to Riku's mom.

"No," she whispered, throwing her arms up in exasperation. It was a hopeless gesture.

I closed my eyes and sighed.

Why am I out looking for Riku?

Well…

"Sora!"

"What is it Kairi?" I asked after just opening the door to my house.

"It's Riku!"

"What?" I stared at her, "Did you go to see him?" The two of us had grown worried when he'd failed to show up to school today. He and I were behind enough as it was after being gone for almost two years… Had it really been two years?

"No," she said, "but his mom called me and asked if Riku was staying after school for something… When I said Riku didn't show up she started panicking! Sora…"

She burst out crying and wrapped her arms around me tightly. I didn't know what to do. Riku was missing? Why?

"Well… C'mon lets go look for him," I suggested.

"Yeah, okay," she said drying her hands on her dress a little.

And so here we are. Tired from walking and desperately clueless as to where our best friends might be.

"Well…Let's think about this for a second," I said slowly, "where haven't we checked?" We both stood in thought for a moment.

"The Island…"

"What?" I asked turning to look at Kairi; who was staring out to sea.

"Sora, the little play island!" she whipped around to face me.

I mentally slapped myself.

"Of course! Why didn't we look there sooner?!"

She nodded and the two of use started running in the direction of the boats.

When we got there the first thing I noticed was that Riku's boat was gone.

"Well, I guess we were right," Kairi whispered.

"Yeah," I agreed. We both got into the boats and started paddling to the island as fast as we could, "Gods why didn't we check sooner?"

Don't ask me why we were panicking like this. I'm not even sure. After all, Riku was sixteen. It was perfectly normal for a sixteen year old to skip school and go hang out by himself for a day. But I still couldn't shake the feeling that this was different.

Like, why hadn't Riku asked us to tag along? Or why he hadn't come back yet. And he'd been acting so strange lately…

"Sora look!"

I turned to see Kairi pointing to something farther out to sea.

"What is it?" I asked squinting a little under the glint of the sun.

"It's Riku's boat!"

I went numb. She was right, I realized as the bloat floated a little closer to me. The paddle sat abandoned in the seat which was ominously vacant.

We watched it pass us by silently. It was definetly not a good sign.

"Sora…"

"I know, I know…" I muttered distractedly.

We picked up the pace a little and finally reached the island after what seemed like hours.

I looked around a little and it too me a while to catch sight of the older silver haired teen. He was standing next to the dented Paopu tree. For a second I felt relieved. Riku had spent so much time there, he had probably just come here to think.

Just as Kairi opened her mouth to shout out a greeting Riku pulled something out of his pocket. One of the objects glinted in the sun.

"Sora," Kairi whispered urgently grabbing at my sleeve. I wanted to say something. To run to him. Shout at him and get him to stop it right now. But I didn't.

It felt like my throat was blocked. I grappled desperately with the muscles in my throat, but for whatever reason I couldn't get them to work.

Suddenly he brought the knife down on his wrist, and we watched it fall in slow motion. Crimson blood spurting from the wound.

He collapsed and quite suddenly I felt my throat unclog.

"RIKU!"

Me: Yeah… Sorry it wasn't as good as the first chapter… I was kind of happy when I wrote this so it didn't turn out as depressing as I'd meant it to be… How unfortunate…

Please read some of my other stories though! They're a lot better than this one! Also…

I'M SOOOO SORRY!!! I know I said this was a two-shot only but I really thought it would be better ending this chapter right here! Anyways… I PROMISE the next one is the last!

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