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Sora sat down on a nearby log with a groan and held his shoulder tightly, it wasn't healing right, but he didn't have anything to treat it with. The blood had long since stopped and the cut on his arm left a scar. Sora still couldn't forget the teenagers he saw on the beach earlier, siblings, he was sure they were siblings. Sora thought he could at least go back and check if they were okay, so he stood up and started heading back towards the beach once again.

It wasn't long before Sora heard something ahead of him, he panicked, thinking it was Riku to come and drive that knife deep in his flesh again. So he climbed up the nearest tree as fast as he could with his shoulder. His clothing got caught on one of the sharp branches and as he was working furiously to free it, the branch broke off and reopened the gash on his shoulder. He bit his tongue from screaming in agony and heaved himself up on the next strongest branch. He layed out with his chest facing the ground and watched. His blood was dripping on to the floor but he couldn't do anything to stop it before he saw the two siblings emerged from the foliage.

Sora held his breath. "What are we even looking for?" the blonde boy said.

"I want to find that boy I saw on the beach, I know he's the one who left those mango's out for us." The girl with the cranberry hair replied.

Sora caught his breath. She had seen him! Sora stared down at the siblings and at his blood dripping down to the forest floor, it wouldn't be long before—

"Hey what's that?" the blonde boy said and put his hand under the blood that was dripping down from his wounded shoulder. The boy brought it up to his nose and smelled it. "It's blood." He said as he turned to the girl. The girl looked up immediately and saw Sora sitting on the tree branch.

Sora didn't have time to jump away and he doubted he would make it very far without making a huge commotion. The girl gasped and pointed up at Sora. "Roxas look!"

The blonde haired boy, who must have been Roxas, also gazed up at Sora. Sora quickly jumped to the ground, despite his injury's and ran off. He could hear the siblings behind him yelling, "Hey, wait!" But Sora didn't stop, it's been too long before he's been in the presence of someone, and the encounter with Riku was still shocking. I'll take everything you hold close. Riku's words chilled Sora to the bone and he wasn't even sure if these people were here to hurt him the same way Riku had or not, that thought only drove him to run faster.

"Wait! Stop!" Both the siblings were calling behind him.

Sora was blindly running and his foot got caught on a root poking out of the ground, he flailed wildly and waited for the impact of the ground to meet him, but a warm hand closed around his wrist and prevented him from getting a face full of mud. The hand didn't let go and Sora started freaking out, shaking his wrist and shouting, "No! Don't hurt me! Please!"

"We won't hurt you," he heard the girl say. Slowly Sora turned around and faced the two of them, but he wasn't ready to let his guard down yet. "Wh-what do you want?" Sora stuttered, shaking.

The girl with the dark red hair was gripping his wrist and looked at him, "I didn't mean to scare you, but are you the one that layed out that food for my brother and me?" Her voice was gentle, it sounded like the only thing she was afraid of right now is that Sora would run away from her.

"Yes…" Sora whispered and glanced at his wrist locked in her hand and then up at the blonde haired boy, whom the girl had called Roxas earlier. Roxas was looking at Sora as if we were the rarest animal in a zoo. "What's your name?" Roxas said.

Sora's eye's darted back and forth between the two, "Sora..." he whispered.

Kairi held the boy's wrist tightly, she didn't want him to run away. His beautiful blue eyes looked like a cornered animals and there were a few scars on his lean, tan body. He was handsome, she admitted to herself. His hair was spiked in every direction but not a trace of gel was there. "I'm Kairi," she said, "It's nice to meet you Sora." She was quickly drawn to the nasty gash on his left shoulder, still dripping blood down his shirt and onto the scattered leaves on the ground.

Sora could feel her eyes on his shoulder and quickly shook his hand free from her grip and covered it up. "You… too…" he muttered, "I'm glad you two are alright." He said and turned away.

"Wait don't go!" Kairi said, but Sora already disappeared into the forest. Kairi sighed and looked at Roxas. "He's hurt Roxas, we have to help him." She insisted.

Roxas shook his head, "We need to worry about ourselves, not some broken boy who looks like he's afraid of his own shadow."

Kairi glared at him, "He was just scared that's all," she defended. "Besides what else are we going to do? That boy, Sora, obviously knows a lot about this island, enough to find food."

"How about we try looking for our parents?" Roxas retorted. "Do you remember them, huh?" Kairi faltered and looked at the ground. "You know we aren't going to find them…" she whispered. "How can you say that?" Roxas said and she could hear the slight anger in his voice, "Of course we'll find them!"

Kairi shook her head, "They would have found us by now and you know that," she sighed, "I'm going to go help that boy, with or without you." With that, she ran off in the direction that she saw Sora go. Kairi wasn't sure Roxas would follow her, but for now she didn't care.

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Sora dove behind a large boulder and glanced around wildly. They know who he is, how can he be so stupid? If they meet Riku they know where he went and they could easily give Sora's location away. Sora leaned his back against the rock and held his knees up to his chest and breathed in deeply, holding back the tears starting to form in his eyes.

After a long while he removed his head from the safety of his arms and carefully unwrapped the small amount of torn clothing covering the wound. It would have been better had that branch not scraped it open again. He winced and rolled up the bandage and stuffed it in his pocket. He couldn't light a fire, for fear that Riku would see the smoke and come after him. It was dusk out and Sora could see the nice calming sunset through the trees. Sora closed his eyes and for a long moment, sat there enjoying the warmth the sun brought on his unmarked face. Almost suddenly he heard foosteps and Sora smacked his head back against the tree when he saw that girl, Kairi, come out of the forest at him. Sora's vision swam for a minute, "Ow…" he muttered, rubbing the back of his head and re-focused his vision on the red headed girl. She was really pretty, slender and thin, her hair at shoulder length and nice twilight colored eyes.

"Please don't run away." She said and took a couple steps closer to Sora. She could see that wild look in his eyes starting to form again after his eyes got into focus. Kairi wanted to help this handsome boy, she figured he was about fifteen, her age. She took a small step forward and sat down so that she wasn't too close to Sora, to try to show him that she wasn't trying to hurt him.

"I-I'm sorry I don't have any more food left." Sora said shakily, still holding his knees tightly to his chest.

Kairi gave him a sad look, why couldn't he trust her? "I won't hurt you Sora, and I don't want anything else from you." Sora seemed to relax just a little bit but his shoulders were still tense. Although that could be because of his wounded shoulder.

"Where's your brother?" Sora whispered, his chestnut bangs hiding his deep blue eyes.

"I'm not sure," Kairi confessed, "I ran off after you as soon as you disappeared, I don't know if he came after me or not but," she turned around and ran her eyes over the trees and bushes behind her before she sighed and turned back to the boy, "I doubt he will." There was a moment of silence before her eyes rested on Sora's injured shoulder and her curiosity got the best of her, "How did that happen?" she asked.

Sora held his hand over his shoulder, "It was just an accident." Sora couldn't tell this girl the truth, he still wasn't sure if she would use it against him or not.

Kairi stood up and walked closer to Sora and sat down about an arm's length away from him. She saw Sora begin to panic so she quickly said, "Please it's okay, I just want to look at it." Kairi reached out and laid her hand on his injured shoulder. His skin was soft and warm but he was shaking as if he had the chills. She looked closer at the wound and ran her fingers over it lightly. Sora winced beneath her touch but didn't say anything. Kairi's eyes filled with worry as she looked up at Sora's face. "This looks like it was done by a knife." Sora looked away from her face, "It's nothing," he muttered.

"It's not nothing," Kairi told him. She reached into a small pocket in her skirt and pulled out a bottle of vanilla scented hand sanitizer. She wasn't a clean freak but she loved the smell a lot and it's the only thing she had. "Hold still," Kairi said.

Sora glanced at her as she put some of the sanitizer on her finger and dabbed it on the deep gash. Immediately it stung, bad. He clenched his teeth and let out a small sound of pain and she applied more. "Sorry but it's the only thing that I have to clean it," Kairi said.

She sat back and put the hand sanitizer away, she had cleaned all the dirt and bacteria from his wound but had nothing to wrap it with. "Can you please tell me how it really happened?"

Sora shivered, he now knew that she hadn't believed him when he said it was an accident. Now what was he supposed to do? He took a deep breath, "My brother," he whispered. Sora could see Kairi's eyes widen, "Your brother did this to you?" she asked. Sora could only nod as Kairi stared at him in disbelief.

"Why would he do that?" she asked, still staring at his face. Sora gazed down at the ground, avoiding her eyes and just let the truth spill out. "He wants to get rid of me… Something my parents tried to do a long time ago. It's a big reason why I'm on this island." He could feel Kairi's eyes studying his face. "My parents didn't want me, I don't remember completely but I do know they threw me on this island on purpose. They left me to die." He choked the last sentence out as if it were the hardest thing he'd ever say. A tear rolled down his gorgeous face.

Kairi only sat there and took in what he said. She couldn't say anything so she just wrapped both her arms around Sora's waist and hugged him. Sora tensed and tried to get away for a moment before he gave up and let his head fall down on her shoulder. It's been so long since he had someone touch him. Kairi held him for a long time, enjoying his gentle touch, and briefly wondering where her brother was.

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Roxas watched as Kairi took off after the boy. He wanted to go after her but found himself walking the other direction, towards the beach. "She never listens to me," he muttered to himself, "If she comes back hurt it'll be all Sora's fault." Roxas shook his head, he still would not allow himself to chase after her. Instead he took a few footsteps on the white sand and looked up to see it was almost completely dark out. Sora looked like he was afraid of everything and didn't trust him to protect his sister. Yet it was too dark out to go looking so he decided he would look for Kairi in the morning.

Roxas's blonde hair flowed in the breeze as he sat down, listening to the waves crashing against the shore. He was so caught up in the beautiful view that he didn't even notice the dark figure with silver hair walking up behind him.

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Whew, long chapter, but I love it anyways. I'm glad you guys like it so far! I'm trying not to let the story get away from me. I'll try to post a chapter everyday and maybe two chapters a day on weekends. My homework isn't that bad but I can't predict what my teachers will throw at me in the future. Anyways thanks guys! Let me know what you think!