Chapter 10: Final Goodbyes

"That was fast." Kairi said as Sora sat her on the edge of her bed. Sora had found what he needed within seconds, then grabbed Kairi and they were flying down the street in no time. It was surprising that she stayed conscious the whole time, judging by how pale she was, she didn't have much time left.

"I kind of had to be." Sora smiled at her and then looked down at the instructions for the antidote. His face fell when he read the final line.

"What's wrong?" she asked picking up on his distress.

He just smiled and sat beside her, "Kairi, what would you do if you had to forget everything about me?"

She looked at him surprised and confused, "I would never forget about you."

Sora sighed and looked at her, "Kairi, in order to save you, you'll have to forget about me. This antidote that I'm about to give you wipes you of any memory you have of the person who bit you and everything that happened when you were with them."

Kairi shook her head frustrated, "Then I'm not taking it."

"Kairi, it's the only way." Sora protested.

"There's other ways!" she snapped as she jumped off the bed and looked at him.

"Like what?" he asked.

"Well, you lived. Just do whatever trick helped you live and do it to me." She smiled hopefully.

He shook his head, "I don't think there's a trick. Plus I would have to watch you all the time and it's about time for me to move on. There have been too many murders and I just killed Riku, so the police will be looking for me."

"I graduate next week, just stay till then and we can run away together." She said sitting next to him and grabbing his hands.

Sora sighed and pulled his hands away as he reached for the syringe and filled it up with the antidote. "I'm sorry Kairi; I won't sit by and watch you die."

"I would rather die then forget!" Kairi yelled as she pushed his hands away from filling the syringe with antidote.

He looked at her surprised as her face was filled with anger, tears streaming down her face. "That's not how it's going to be for me." He sighed as he picked the needle up off the floor.

"Then promise me something." She whispered. He didn't say anything but stared at her and waited for her to continue. "Promise me that you'll come back to me and we'll be together again."

Sora just looked down, "I can't promise that." He said

"Why not?" She asked slightly hurt.

"I don't think I can keep that promise, it's not that I don't want to be with you, it's that you won't remember and you'll probably find someone else." He told her.

Kairi looked down, "At least promise you'll try." Sora said nothing. "Even if I don't remember you making that promise you will. Your good at keeping promises, when we first met you said you were going to get my blood and you did. Now just promise me this if you're going to take yourself out of my life."

"I will…I will promise to try to come back into your life sometime in the future. I don't know when yet, but I will." He said to her and looked into her eyes.

Kairi smiled and hugged him, "Thank you." She said. Sora wrapped his arms around her, returning the hug. "I love you." She whispered as she closed her eyes.

"I love you too." Sora said as he gently slipped the syringe into her arm. She gasped a little but fell asleep in his arms. Sora sighed and laid her down on the bed and got up. He watched her in the dim lighted room. It was quiet and Sora could hear every heartbeat, his and Kairi's.

He stayed with her until the sun was completely up. He turned to leave the room because he knew that her alarm would go off any minute to wake her up for school. Just as he put his had on her door knob a new sound filled the room. It was an interesting sound. The sound was strangely familiar to a heartbeat, it was just muffled and more light and fluttery than his and Kairi's heart.

Sora gasped and crossed the room to where the sound was coming from. When he reached Kairi's bed he smiled at little. He gently put his hand on her stomach and whispered, "Take care of her for me." After that, Kairi's alarm clock went off. When she opened her eyes, he was gone.

"Congratulations Kairi." Namine said as she hugged her friend.

"Thanks, congratulations to you to." She laughed as she hugged her back.

"So, we finally graduated high school." Namine said as she looked into the sunset.

"It would seem that way." Kairi smiled as she looked out into the distance. At the very end of the field she saw a man with brown spiky hair looking at her. She stared at her for a bit and he nodded at her. "Huh?" she said to herself.

"What is it?" Namine asked confused.

"There's a man standing over there looking at me." Kairi said as she pointed out where she saw the man.

"I don't see anyone." Namine said as she looked at where Kairi was pointing.

"What?" Kairi said as she looked at the empty space, "Weird, he was just there a minute ago."

"You're just seeing things." Namine laughed.

Sora smiled to himself as he listened to the girls talk. It was hard for him to keep walking away from her. To him it almost felt like he was walking out of her life forever, but deep down in his heart he knew he would see her again someday.

Authors Note: Thank you everyone for reading! As you can see I set myself up for a sequel, so if you don't like the ending don't kill me. Originally when I started this was just going to be a short story, but then I played around with some ideas and now there's going to be a part two. If you're going to be looking for it, it's going to be called Bloody Hearts. Keep on reading ~kairiangel035