Hello again
Well happy new year to you all and this is my first update of 2011 YAY! Well I have recently got my hands on a copy of Birth By Sleep and I have realized everytime I see Vanitas I start sqeauling. I will find a way to steal him and his epic laugh which makes an appearance in this chapter

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Sora was not at all surprised when he felt the cold object pressing hard again his temple. His captors had not been graceful in the slightest as they approached him. The most obvious thing that gave them away was the crushing leaves that were destroyed beneath large and menacing feet that were coming towards him. Other things like the whispering and cruel laughing also gave them away.

"You thought you could run" Sora heard a voice that sounded like that of a teenage boy float into his ears. The gun was getting pressed harder against his temple but Sora still didn't feel the fear passing through his body. Suddenly a hand grabbed his shoulder and force him to turn away from his horse and to face his captors. The gun was momentarily pulled away from his head before it was moved to underneath his chin. "How does it feel?" Sora looked at the sneering blond who was holding the gun that could quite easily kill him. "How does it feel now that you on the end of a gun barrel instead of all those innocents that you've murdered." It was completely inappropriate but Sora just could not stop the laugh that fell from his lips. These people were still absolutely certain that he was Vanitas even with the fact that he was now facing them.

"Are all the members of the resistance this damn stupid?" Sora could barely get the sentence out from all of the laughing. He could feel the gun getting pressed harder against the bottom of his head.

"You think this is funny?" Sora watched the blond boy gritted out the words in fury and suddenly he felt his brown spikes getting pulled back which in turn forced his head back. "You think that putting a bullet through someone's brain is funny. Just because they won't listen to you. You are one sick fuck" Sora's eyes widened in shock. Vanitas had done that. His brother was more twisted than he could even imagine. He had killed people but Sora couldn't recall a time that Vanitas had killed someone just because they didn't listen to him.

"Roxas" Sora's eyes shifted to look at a taller blond who looked very much like the one who was holding him captive. However the boy called Roxas snapped his head back to look at the taller blond. Sora noticed his opening in that instant.

"Shut the hell up Clou….." Sora kept his eyes trained on Roxas as the blond looked down to see the gun pressed into his stomach. He lifted his head to look at Sora once more. "You don't understand the position you in. I could pull the trigger and blow your brains out so how about you lower that" Roxas flicked his eyes down to the gun before locking eyes with the prince again. "Since your outnumbered, Vanitas" Sora listened to the blond rebel rattling on but he really wasn't taking anything in at all.

"I can pull this trigger quicker than you could think to pull the trigger on your gun so how about you lower your weapon, Roxas" A smirk crossed Sora's features. "Oh and another thing" Sora started and everyone was glaring at him with the expectation of the burgundy haired girl and the taller blond haired man. "I would like if it you took the time to learn my actual name" Sora gritted out in annoyance and that moment comment stunned everyone expect Kairi and Cloud.

"I knew it" Kairi suddenly turned to look at Riku as she pointed to the brunette who still had Roxas's gun pressed against his skin. "The rumours were true" Kairi smiled as she made her way towards the two gun wielding teens. "I remember that rumours had been rife about King Terra having a second son but these rumours were never confirmed nor were they denied. Was it only me and Cloud that noticed?" Kairi turned to look at everyone else who just shrugged their shoulders.

"Noticed what?" Seifer looked at the brunette prince before he turned to look at Kairi and Cloud.

"When we were hiding from Vanitas this morning, we noticed that Vanitas has yellow eyes." Kairi pointed at Sora.

"That kid has blue eyes. Also Vanitas has darker hair and he was about three inches taller than him" Cloud explained as he locked eyes with Sora.

"How the hell did you notice all of that in the dark?" Hayner pulled a face of confusion but Cloud just shrugged his shoulders as he looked at Kairi.

"So your not all as stupid as I initially thought" Sora laughed out loudly but he felt the gun getting pressed harder into his skin.

"So he's another one that we need to take out. How about we take you back to your precious brother and daddy in a body bag" Roxas grinned like a mad man. He wasn't going to be stopped just because it was the wrong person that he had caught.

"You think they'll care if I'm killed?" Sora raised his eyebrows at the seemingly psychotic blond who did not seem to be going along with the idea of putting his gun down. "You think it would bother them if something happened to me because I've got news for you. They don't give a damn" Sora growled violent. His temper was rapidly getting shorter and shorter. "I'm trying to help out the resistance but if you don't't move your gun within the next ten seconds, I will shoot you" Sora gritted out in anger but to his surprise, Roxas just laughed.

"If your family doesn't care about you, why would you have a gun?" Roxas fixated his eyes on Sora and the humour in them was evident. "It probably just a toy" Roxas knew he was pushing the brunette so when Sora removed the gun from his stomach, it came was a bit of a shock. Everyone watched as Sora pointed his gun towards a tree and fired two warning shots. It was not a fake.

"Remove the gun or I'll kill you" Sora growled as he moved the gun again and it came rest on Roxas's temple. The same spot where Roxas had first held gun to Sora. "I am not joking around" Sora growled and he slowly felt the cold metal of the gun being taken away from his skin. In return, Sora removed his gun from Roxas's temple. "Thank you" Sora smiled slightly as he let out a deep breath.

"What did you mean when you said you wanted to help the resistance?" Sora looked up at the silver haired man who was the first one that caught Sora's eye. He was extremely attractive in the petite prince's eyes.

"I meant exactly what I said" Sora stated in a monotone as he let his eyes rake over the stranger's body. "I want to help you overthrow my father. How much simpler can I make it" Sora shrugged his shoulder as his eyes scanned over the group. Eight of them, he was expecting more. From what he had heard, most groups have a minimum for fifteen people.

"Why the hell would you want to help us?" The skepticism in Roxas's voice was evident and Axel could see that Roxas was still holding onto the gun with a death grip. "You're the scum of the earth" Roxas gritted out in disgust to the brunette prince who simply brushed off the comment and proceed to answer his question.

"First off I should introduce myself. I am Prince Sora Hikaru of Radiant Gardens, second in line to the throne and second born to King Terra Yami and Queen consort Aqua Hikaru" Sora gracefully bowed and the only one to greet him back in return was Kairi who curtsied to him. "Secondly, I do not believe in what my father is doing is right and I just want to help people who need it" Sora smiled sweetly which was something that nobody expected from the prince, not even Kairi.

"Why would you not agree with your father?" Seifer stepped forward as he looked at the petite prince. "You're a born prince so why would you of all people stray from what your father is teaching you" The distrust in Seifer's voice was clear and nobody misheard it. Not even Sora.

"My father never paid much heed to me. His attention was always on my brother. He was always busy moulding Vanitas into a miniature version of himself" Sora let out a sigh as he started to explain his story to these eight very weary strangers. "I was more attached to my mother but she is no more" Sora head dipped slightly before he locked eyes with Roxas. "My appearance and my family linage are the only similarities between me and Vanitas. Other wise, I. Am. Nothing. Like. Him" Sora gritted out the last five words which were clearly dripping with fury. Even Roxas was taken back by it.

"So you sought to take revenge?" Cloud questioned the prince who simply shrugged his shoulders in response. "You would bring down your own father because you were mistreated?" Cloud pressed the issue onto the prince. "You don't want to help us obtain our goal. You want to exact your revenge on your father and make it look like your doing us a favour when really we would just be your pawns" Cloud raised his eyebrows at Sora who was looking the older of the two Strife siblings in the eye.

"I'm not looking for revenge at the moment. I will get my revenge when my father is off the throne." Sora said with no emotion in his tone of voice. "And whether or not you choose to believe it, I do actually want to help you. Do you think that I want people to suffer, do you think that I enjoying watching as people are aimlessly murdered for the crimes that they did not commit or for doing trivial things wouldn't even warrant a glance anywhere else?" The look on Sora's face almost made him pass for someone who was much older than what he actually was. "My mother raised me to be better than that" Sora sighed as he turned his back on the rebel group and back to his horse who had set herself down on the forest floor.

"Why didn't your stupid mother raise your brother to…" Roxas didn't get to finish his sentence since a gun ended up being roughly pushed into his cheek which was being held by an extremely pissed off prince.

"Don't you dare say a word against my mother. You can belittle my father and my brother all you want but if I ever hear you saying something against my mother again, I will kill you" Nobody even tried to stop Sora when he pulled the gun away from Roxas and punched him square in the face.

"Well you have to admit, someone was going to punch Roxas eventually. He was getting far too mouthy for his own good" Kairi smiled as everyone turned to look at her. "What!" The gunner shouted out before she rolled her eyes and decided not to mention it again. However, even Roxas's brother Cloud looked like he agreed with Kairi

"Roxas did have a good question though, why wasn't your brother raised the same way as you" Riku stepped forward as he just looked down at Roxas's body which was sprawled on the ground before he looked back at Sora.

"As I mentioned earlier, Vanitas was raised solely by my father. Even before I was born, my mother had little to no involvement in Vanitas's upbringing. When I was born my father paid little attention to me. Vanitas was only two at the time but he was as ruthless as the came" Sora let out a short laugh that possessed no humour. "He even knew how to use a gun when he was just two, what does that tell you about what kind of man my father is?" Sora growled out before he let himself flopped to the ground beside his horse. "My mother was lonely due to her lack of involvement with Vanitas so she dotted on me and taught me about the better things in life. The more beautiful side of it. She taught me about morals and about how to treat people" Sora smiled as he remembered his beloved mother.

"If your mother was so sweet and kind, what possessed her to marry someone so evil?" Hayner questioned. There was no other word that could really describe Terra other than 'evil'. Sora let out a small chuckle.

"He wasn't always like that?" Sora could remember the stories that his mother taught him of how her and his father met. "He just changed over time?" Sora shrugged his shoulders. "Changed to the point where he practically ignores one of his own children" The bitterness and resentment could easily be heard in Sora's voice.

"You seemed pretty efficient with the gun, I'm presuming that your father taught you that. Don't tell that you just found it and are using because I am the best gunner out there and I know when someone has been taught" Kairi stepped up so she was standing beside Riku.

"Your true on two of your four points. I have been taught and I am pretty effective with my gun. I'll correct your two mistakes. I was not taught by my father, it was my mother that taught me how to use the gun. Vanitas was skilled with a sword along with most martial arts so my mother took it upon herself to teach me how to use a gun. Also, your not the best gunner out there, miss" Sora sweetly smiled up at the shocked girl. "I am" Sora replied as he stood up. "My mother was the trainer for most of the gunners in the army. She was the best of the best. However, she taught me some of the things she was never going to teach her students. So I'll think you'll find that I am the best" Sora flashed a grin at Riku and Kairi as he pulled out his gun again.

"You think highly of yourself" Kairi muttered in annoyance as she watched the prince who was cleaning his gun with the fabric of his coat.

"No. I speak the truth. I challenge you to find someone who is better than me when it comes to wielding a gun" Sora smiled and fluttered his heavy brown eyelashes rather seductively but Kairi just raised her eyebrows. Riku on the other hand smirked to himself as he watched the prince.

"Okay, I challenge you to show me your skills" Kairi smirked as she walked up to Sora until she was so close to the young prince that she could feel his breath on her face. Sora just laughed in response as he stepped away from the burgundy haired girl.

"Okay" Sora smiled and pointed to a tree about ten meters in the distance. "You see the hole in the middle of the tree. Shoot towards and I guarantee you that I can knock your bullet out of the air when I fire my gun" Sora turned to look back at Kairi who looked like she had just seen a ghost. Everyone else had the same expression on their faces.

"That's impossible" Axel shouted from where he stood. It was a wonder that he hadn't moved to go and help Roxas.

"Your insane. You'll never be able to do it" Kairi shook her head but Sora had a definite grin on his face. "Fine but you have no chance" Kairi took a stance and pointed her gun head on. Riku along with everyone else cover their ears as Kairi shot her gun and after an interval of about 1.5 seconds Sora shot his gun and a clink was heard in the middle of the air. Sora had indeed managed to hit Kairi's bullet in mid-air.

"Believe me now?" Sora questioned as he pocketed his gun.

"Okay, the kid is good" Squall whispered into Riku's ear who simply nodded in response

"Now will you allow me to help you after that pointless demonstration ?" Sora looked around at everyone before he walked over to Roxas who was still sprawled out on the ground. Sora looked over him for a moment before he held his hand out to the blond. Roxas waited for a moment before he reluctantly took Sora's hand.

"I still don't trust you" Roxas groaned as Sora helped him to his feet. The prince just rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"So how do you plan to help us?" Riku eyed the brunette once more and that did not go past Sora. The prince sauntered up to Riku and came to a halt right in front of the leader.

"You need someone on the inside, am I right?" Sora smiled up at Riku who slowly nodded. "I can get you inside" Riku looked taken back by the comment.

"Can't you just be our inside man?" Hayner questioned from afar but his comment provoked a collection of mummers within the group.

"I could be but you would get so much more information if one of you was on the inside and I would be able to prove to you that I'm truthfully helping for your gain and not my own" Sora replied in all honesty but he could tell that he was not trusted. It didn't bother him in the slightest

"If you get us inside, Terra would notice and we'd be slaughtered within seconds of entering" Squall glared at Sora who just rolled his eyes and let out a small laugh.

"Do you think that my father has files documenting everything about every member of the resistance?" Sora question and Roxas who stood beside him actually nodded his head. "No, he doesn't. All he knows is the places you choose to hid and he sent my brother out to get rid of you all so chances are its going to be just anyone at random that is going to be slaughtered. So who wants to go?" Sora smiled as he took in the appearance of all the other members of the resistance. None of them looked very threatening but as he learned from Roxas, looks could be deceiving.

"I'll do it" Sora was too caught up in his thoughts to see that Riku had stepped forward and only looked at the silver haired rebel once he spoke. "So how do we get in?" Sora smiled up at Riku as he slotted his hand into one of his pockets and pulled out his gun.

"I shoot you" Sora smiled sweetly as if he had just asked Riku his name, not as if he had just stated that he was going to shot him. Axel dived in front of Riku and pushed Sora backwards which caused the prince to fall back onto the ground.

"I knew we shouldn't have trusted you. Your not very conspicuous when it comes to wanting to kill someone. Your just like the rest of your family" Axel spat out in disgust.

"You're an idiot. Did you think I was going to shoot him to kill him because I wasn't. I was going to shoot him in a place where he was be knocked out instantaneously so he wouldn't feel it and it would be easy to mend then I was going to take the castle and I would meet with my father and claim he took the bullet for me which would entitle him to stay in the castle until he was fully recovered, giving him plenty of time to get information. I would serve as a direct link between him and rest of you" Sora retorted and everyone seemed realize that Sora actually spoke sense. The prince got to his feet and dusted the mud off of his trousers.

"What about what you said earlier?" Squall spoke up. "You said your father wouldn't care if you were killed so why would he help someone that took a bullet for you?" Squall questioned the prince who smiled.

"No matter how ruthless and evil my father, he still has some rules to abide by." Sora replied.

"He has a point" Riku pushed Axel out of the way so he could walk over to Sora and help the brunette prince to his feet. "If its going to help us take down Terra, its all we can really do" Riku looked back at the other members before he looked back at Sora. "Do it" Riku tried not to look scared but he was. Sora nodded and looked at Riku before he looked at Axel.

"I suggest that you stand back and get ready to catch him" Sora sighed and took three steps away from Riku before he pointed his gun at the leader. "I'll fire on the count of three" Sora watched as Riku nodded his head. "One" Kairi looked extremely uneasy in the background. "Two" Riku shut his eyes over and took in a deep breath. "Three" Sora fired the gun and a sickening sound was heard when the bullet pierced Riku's skin. The silver haired teen instantly started to fall over but Axel and Seifer managed to catch him. Kairi hurried to Riku's side and pulled off her jacket so she could use it to cover Riku's wound in an attempt to stop the bleeding. Sora had shot Riku at the side of his stomach at a point where the bullet would have just missed Riku's kidney's if it had went in deep enough.

"Get him on the horse" Sora shouted as Axel let go of Riku so that could Seifer carefully lifted him up. Kairi got the horse up from its laying down position so that it was now on its feet so that Seifer could place Riku on the back of the white mare.

"So what happens now?" Roxas gritted his teeth as he glared at the slightly worried looking prince.

"Where are you all heading?" Sora questioned Roxas but Cloud stepped forward and placed his hand on his younger brother shoulder.

"Outskirts of Traverse Town. You'll find us on the west side, we're going to visit a few of Hayner's friends" Cloud sounded very weary of Sora and the prince noticed it.

"Okay, I'll meet you there in four days" Sora smiled and looked back to see Hayner, Seifer, Axel, Kairi and Squall who were around his horse and making sure that Riku wasn't going to fall off the horse. "I'll take good care of him, I know how to treat gunshot wound." Sora pocketed his gun and started to walk over to his horse who had Riku's lifeless body limp on her back. Sora pushed himself up on the horse with some difficulty due to his small stature. He sat behind Riku so he could make sure that the gunshot victim wouldn't fall.

"Four days, Sora" Cloud reminded him with a stern look on his face. "If we don't see you there, we'll be coming after you first" Cloud said with complete honesty and Sora didn't doubt the blond's words.

"I'll be there. I promise" Sora nodded before he commanded his horse to trot off towards his castle.

"I don't trust him" Hayner stated and he looked at Roxas who nodded in response. Almost everyone agreed with Hayner, expect from Kairi.

"If we didn't trust him, we wouldn't have handed Riku over to him. Even if it was Riku's decision, we let it happen. I think the kid is serious. I could see it in his eyes" Kairi sighed sadly as she watched Sora disappear in the distance. "To be honest I feel so sorry for that kid" Kairi mumbled to herself but she felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to see Hayner standing beside her.

"Come on, we should started heading for Traverse Town" Kairi smiled and followed the rest of the group but she still had Sora in her thoughts.

Sora trotted through the forest towards his home with the unconscious resistance leader in front of him. Despite his hatred of his father, he knew that the King would have to respect his request of keeping him until he was healed.

"Going somewhere ?" Sora stopped his horse as his head whipped to the side to see his older brother along with around about thirty guards behind him.

"Home" That was all Sora said before he gently whipped the reigns to make his horse continue on but he was stopped when Vanitas pull his horse to stand horizontally in front of Sora's. "Do you mind?" Sora snarled violently at his brother who let a smirk linger on his face.

"No" Vanitas said in a menacing tone of voice before he let his eyes linger on Riku for a few seconds before his hand shot out to grab a handful of Riku's silver stands so that he could pull the rebel's face up so that Vanitas could get a good look at him. "Your planning on bringing this vermin into the castle. Are you stupid, Sora?" Vanitas chuckled as he looked at his furious younger brother.

"He's not vermin" Sora spat out at his brother but Vanitas could only let out a very loud and very psychotic sounding laugh. Sora could see some of the guards cowering away in terror and he couldn't blame them. That noise chilled him to the bone.

"Enlighten me, little brother" Vanitas spoke in a very amused tone of voice. "Tell me why your helping this trash and why you could think for a second that father will allow you to bring it in the castle?" Vanitas was grinning like a maniac as he thought his younger brother could not come up with a suitable answer to the question but Sora just smiled.

"Father will grant my request to help this man until he is fully recover as he took a bullet for me" Sora smiled and let a hand linger on Riku's head as he stroked his hair. The most satisfying part was the disgusted look on Vanitas's face.

The elder of the two moved his horse so that he was now side by side with Sora. Vanitas twisted his body and his hand shot out once more but this time it grabbed Sora's chin so that he could pull his younger brother's face close to his.

"Someone tried to shot you, who?" Sora was confused. Did Vanitas's care ? If he did that was something that worried Sora but not as much Vanitas's left hand which was now caressing his cheek. Sora growled and pulled away from his brother's touch and gave him a disgusted look.

"Since when did you care?" Sora growled and Vanitas just raised his eyebrow. "You can continue doing whatever it is that your doing, slaughtering the innocent but I have to help this man so if you'll excuse me" Sora growled before he gently whipped the reigns once more so his horse would start to move.

Vanitas watched his brother leave with a scowl on his face. "Move out!" Vanitas screamed at the top of his voice as he turned his horse around and trotted off in the opposite direction.

Sora let of a sigh of relief as he reached the stable in the gardens of his home. He jumped down and dusted himself down.

"Your majesty, did you….Oh my" Sora turned to see Namine who had obviously spotted Riku's body on the horse. "What happened ?" Namine hurried over to Sora in order to check to see if he was injured.

"Namine, please get some of the others and take this man to my room. He has a bullet wound on his side. Please tend to his injuries until I come back. I have to speak to my father" Sora instructed his servant before he hurried out of the stables and into the large castle.

The youngest prince strode down the hallways of the castle and towards his father's throne room where he knew he would be. The guards that stood at the entrance to the room stood lazily until they spotted Sora and they immediately straightened up. The youngest prince just gave them a small smile as he enter the room to see his father speaking with someone.

"Father, I have a request" Sora spoke as he interrupted the conversation that his father was having with the man on his left. Sora watched as his father raised an eyebrow in a silent gesture for Sora to continue. "I have brought a man into the castle. He is injured from a gunshot wound. A wound that would have been mine had he not pushed me out the way and took the bullet for himself" Sora was a very good liar and his father seemed to buy his story. "I request that he is allowed to stay in the castle until he is fully recovered as thanks for saving my life" Sora waited for his father's reply anxiously.

"Fine" Terra spoke but he sounded far from amused. "He is your responsibility and your responsibility alone. Now go" Terra voice boomed throughout the room and Sora turned on his heel with smirk on his face. His father had just unknowingly helped in a step that was going to secure his downfall.

"Sorry Vanitas but it looks like I've just been moved to first in line" Sora chuckled to himself as he followed the corridor back to his room.

Does Sora really have ulterior movites...Nah he's too innocent..Or is he xD
Yes Vanitas has a brother complex which makes him a sick freak but we love him XD

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