Author's notes: SORRY RAHSSIE! DON'T STRANGLE ME LIKE IN SCIENCE CLASS! (That was funny… and the teacher was looking right at us!)

Alright, guys, this is the last chapter. Yes, it's a cliffy for the next story in the series, Rejected. Oh, guess what? They come to Earth in it.

ALSO! I'm going to be posting a bit of a cheat on my DA account, the complete song mentioned in this (in Al Bhed and English) so you might want to have a crack at figuring it out. (My DA username is Axrat).

AND! If you don't mind spoilers, then you can go there to find the first three chapters of Leera and Leran's side-story already posted.

Missed

"…Leera is Riku's daughter."

There was a split second of silence, before everyone spoke all at once.

"WHAT?"

"But Leera's older than Riku…" Sora commented.

"She traveled back in time, and arrived ten years in the past. Her brother, Leran, also came with her." Namine explained. Kairi tapped her shoulder, and extended a hand, which Namine took. Sora knew what they were doing – sharing memories. He and Roxas had not yet perfected it, but if their skin was touching, they could share memories between each other. After awhile, Kairi pulled her hand away, a guilty look on her face.

"N… not possible…"

"That's only the fraction that I saw, Kairi." Namine put a hand on her Somebody's shoulder. "Who knows what else has happened to them." Kairi bit her lip.

"There's something strange about that Leera girl…"

Everyone's attention was turned to the brunette girl in the doorway. She was about twelve or thirteen, with sapphire eyes, like Sora's.

"Sara!" Sora exclaimed. He had instantly recognized his younger sister, Sara. He hadn't seen her for ages… The girl rubbed her temples, as if she had a really bad headache.

"Hello. Anyway, what I was saying is, you know how the hearts of the Twilit are usually half light and half dark?" Sara asked. Everyone nodded. "With Leera, there is no Light, and there is no Dark. It's all Twilight. No white and no black, all grey…"

"There are Princesses of the Light…" Sora's father muttered, "the Dark always mirrors the Light… the Twilight has elements of both… so that would mean…"

"There are Princesses of the Dark and the Twilight as well…" Sora muttered. "And if Leera is pure Twilight…"

"That would make her a Princess of the Twilight…"

"And if Riku is her father…"

"Who would that make her mother?"

Kairi looked away, almost ashamedly, but Sora didn't seem to notice. His father did, though, and gave her a warning glare. Sara spoke up and broke the silence.

"I'm going to leave. These extremes of Light and Dark are killing my head." She turned and left the house again. Sora blinked in confusion, and looked at his father for the answer.

"She can sense Light and Darkness, but because she is of the Twilight, extremes of either of the two sides give her headaches." He explained. Sora nodded, finally understanding. So she couldn't be around anyone who was strong in either Light or Darkness without inflicting pain on herself, he'd have to remember that.

"So, Leera and Leran can't kill Riku without destroying themselves. That's good to know. We won't have to worry about them too much, then."

"Hopefully." Sam commented. Sora nodded.

"Hopefully." He agreed.

They tried not to think about it best they could. Sora spent most of his time trying to figure out what drug Leera used on Riku.


Sora glanced up. It was just past midnight, his clock read. He was laying on his bed, the bottom of the bunk beds he and Riku had been forced to share, since the house lacked rooms. Something tugged on one of his spikes of hair, and he glanced up.

"Riku?" Sora groaned, rubbing his eyes. The silverette smiled. "You're awake." Riku nodded. Sora forced himself to sit up, still rubbing his eyes. Riku slid down off the top bunk and sat beside his brother.

"What happened after Leera drugged me?" He asked quietly.

"Nothing really… she ran off, and shortly after Roxas and the others showed up and freed us." Sora replied. He couldn't, tell Riku who Leera was. "I was worried that she had poisoned you and that you were slowly dying…" Riku ran a hand through Sora's hair.

"I'm fine now, aren't I?"

"We've lost too much… I was scared that I would lose you, too."

"How much have we lost?"

"Hmmm…" Maybe Roxas is starting to have an effect on me, Sora thought. Roxas had lost a lot…

"Let's not think about it for now." Riku patted Sora's shoulder. The glass behind them shattered suddenly, and the two of then jumped up, calling their Keyblades in an instant. A large, black hawk was on the windowsill now, watching them with bright emerald eyes.

"Who are you?" Sora demanded. The hawk offered no response, except flicking a piece of paper off its leg, and then it flew off. The door behind them opened, and they glanced over their shoulder to see their father step in.

"You boys okay?" He asked, glancing at the window. Sora nodded.

"I'm fine."

"Shit… I'm not."

Sora looked over at Riku, clutching his left arm where a large, sharp shard of glass protruded out of it.

"Holy…" Sora's eyes widened.

"Don't touch it." Their father ordered. Riku rolled his eyes.

"Nah, I'm just going to rip it out of my arm."

He got a warning glare. "Sit."

Riku sat on the edge of the bed, and allowed his father to carefully try and pull the glass from his arm.

"GODDAMNIT, could you make it hurt any more?" Riku growled. Sora could only watch, waiting to cast Cura on Riku's arm. Finally, the glass was pulled from the teenager's arm, and almost instantly Sora stitched it up with magic.

"That the only damage?"

Riku nodded. "Yeah." He glanced over his shoulder and retrieved the piece of paper, carefully unrolling it. "It's in some foreign language…" He handed it to Sora, who took one look at it and shook his head, passing it off to his father.

"I don't recognize it, either."

"It's song lyrics, but it's only one verse."

Riku looked just beside his father; Rachael, again. I'm going insane. He thought. Definitely insane. Either that or I'm dead and this is all some false life I get when I die.

"It's in Al Bhed." Rachael added. Riku took the note back and looked it over.

Vuin lremtnah vuikrd

Vuin lremtnah femm vymm

Ymuha eh dra hekrd

Dra tasuh lymmc uid

Y vekrd mekrdc ib

Dra cgeac duhekrd

Y bnehlacc crymm vymm

Y gehktus lummybca

Riku bit his lip. "Anyone speak Al Bhed?"

"I do." Rachael answered. Riku ignored her.

"How do you know it's Al Bhed?" Sora asked.

"I saw it in Radiant Garden once, I think…"

"We'll call in the morning." His father interrupted. "You two will sleep in the living room until we get that window replaced." The teens nodded and left the room quickly. They headed down into the living room, neither able to sleep. They sat on the couch and stared at the blank television well… blankly. Sora ended up drifting to sleep before Riku, leaning against the older brother. Riku eventually slumped down to the couch and fell asleep.


"You look sleepy."

"Fuck off." Riku groaned.

"Did you realize that the blanket you are trying to use is your brother?" ( -gives Soku fans (LIKE RAHSSIE) a chance to picture that- )

"WHA?"

"OI-WCH!"

Riku looked at the brunette on the floor, rubbing his head as if he had hit it, hard.

"Sorry." Riku apologized sheepishly. Sora grumbled something, but Riku didn't understand it.

"Found someone who speaks Al Bhed." Their father changed subjects.

"Really? Who?" Sora looked up at him, having suddenly forgotten about his aching skull.

"Riku, don't freak out."

"Why?" Riku raised an eyebrow.

"The girl's name is spelt R-I-K-K-U."

"Let me guess… it's pronounced REE-koo."

"Yup."

Riku's face met his palm.

"Is she about… this tall?" Sora put one hand about a foot above the other.

"Think so."

"Ah. Radiant Garden's pixies, they gave me the Gullwing Keychain after making me think they were going to take all my items."

Riku chuckled. "Was it April first?"

"They didn't say 'April Fools' so I doubt it." Sora replied, giving him the 'bad pun' expression. Riku shook his head, smirking.

"Anyway, give Cid a call via radio." Their father said and walked off. Sora pulled his radio out.

"Cid, ya there?"

"Well, decided to talk to me, didja?"

"Yeah, yeah." Sora looked at Riku, who pulled the slip of paper with the song lyrics on it.

"I'll get that squirt for you. Just a moment."

After a couple of seconds, the voice of the blond pixie known as Rikku rang out over the radio.

"Hello, it's your Friendly-Neighborhood-something-or-others translator Rikku here!"

"Al Bhed to English?"

"Comin' right up. Spell it out, because I doubt you can pronounce it correctly." She sounded overly cheerful, and Riku snorted.

"V-U-I-N." Riku spoke, reading off the paper.

"Fuooeen." Rikku pronounced the word slowly. "It means four."

Riku continued to spell out the words in the song until they had all the lyrics.

"Four children fought

Four children will fall

Alone in the night

The demon calls out

A fight lights up

The skies tonight

A princess shall fall

A kingdom collapse." Rikku recited. "Any clue on what it might mean?"

"None." Riku replied.

"You can investigate it – might find some treasure that the collapsed kingdom mentioned had, maybe the princess's jewels." Sora suggested. "In exchange for the treasure, you have to tell us what it means."

"Good plan! See ya!"

"The pixies are treasure fanatics." Sora explained to Riku, putting the radio away. Riku nodded.

"Ah. Right… Four children… Leera and Leran might be two…"

"And that Kazuya kid Namine mentioned…" Sora added. Riku looked at him quizzically. "Don't ask me. Ask her." The elder brother nodded slowly, before looking at the bottom of the paper. Drnaa.

"What's 'drnaa'?" He asked.

"What?" Sora looked over. Riku pointed to the word. "It has the same amount of letters as the word three, and there are two 'a's at the end… so maybe it means three?" Riku hummed.

"Maybe it's the third verse…"

Both looked up when Namine stepped into the room.

"Four children, three of the keys and one of the princesses; Hannah, the master, Leran, the oldest, Kazuya, the sneak and Leera, the royalty." She recited. Sora and Riku blinked, not understanding what she meant. They didn't get a chance to ask her, because she walked out the front door.

"'Three of the keys,' Keybladers, maybe?" Riku suggested. Sora hummed. "'The master' might mean Keyblade Master… Leran is self-explanatory, as is Leera, Kazuya… who is he?"

"Who knows… probably a Keyblader who is fairly stealthy?"

"I figured that much." Riku rolled his eyes and sighed, before standing up. "I… I'm going for a walk. Clear my head out." Sora watched his brother leave the room, and heard the front door open and close again.

It was nine PM by the time Riku returned. The door slammed behind him.

"Riku, are you okay?" Sora looked up. Roxas raised his head from the movie they were watching.

"Do I look okay to you?" Riku snapped back.

"Riku, what's wrong?" His father stepped into the room.

"What do you think is wrong? Rachael is dead, DEAD. She is dead because I am the fucking Keyblader of Darkness! She is dead because of ME!" Riku snapped.

"Don't think that way…" Sora stood.

"Riku, don't!" Rachael was standing in the corner. Riku glared at her.

"You shut the fuck up." He said, pointing at her. "You are a figment of my fucking imagination, so shut the hell up."

Someone's on a swear fest. Sora thought as he slowly sat back down.

"You know what?" Soul Eater appeared in his hand and he threw it. Roxas looked up at where his head had been not a millisecond before, the Keyblade stuck into the wall above him. A portal opened behind Riku and he began to leave through it.

"I quit."