A/N Alright everyone! Finals are over and I'm back home in New York. Before the start of the Castle Oblivion arc, here's a flashback I'm putting in at the end of chapter five. This is in the cross of Pokemon and Kingdom Hearts category, so I hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon, Kingdom Hearts, or Mirai Nikki.

Nexus 5.8

FD + 256

Sora looked up at the tree canopy above him. There were little red dots high up there, dozens of them lining the branches. "Whoa! We hit the jackpot," the voice of the kid behind him said. The brown haired sixteen year old turned around and grinned at the boy in the blue shirt with messy black hair.

The shorter kid was only fourteen years old and a foot shorter than his friend. He grabbed the red baseball cap on his head and spun it around dramatically. "I got this!" he said and sprinted towards the tree, running straight at the trunk and putting one foot up, then getting the next, then another. The boy went for a fourth step in a row and his foot slipped, he fell down and bonked his head on the floor. "Ouch!" he exclaimed with his legs bent over his head in an awkward position.

Sora tried to hold it in, but the spiky haired teen couldn't manage and burst out laughing, "Hahaha!"

He wasn't the only one laughing though. The little yellow creature standing behind Sora started giggling too, "Pika pika, pikachu," the little mouse Pokemon was rolling around clutching at its side because it was laughing too hard.

"Hmph," Ash mumbled and got back up to his feet, wiping the dirt off of himself. "I'd like to see you do better," he chided at the older boy who stopped laughing to smirk at his younger friend. The two of them had been traveling together for a few months now and Sora had watched the younger boy's arsenal of Pokemon get much stronger, while Ash's own physical skills remained about the same.

Sora looked up at the height of the tree and grinned, "Easy. I used to climb trees like this all the time on my island back home." Sora ran at the tree and jumped up. Instead of sprinting straight up like Ash attempted, Sora put both arms around the trunk and wrapped his legs around too, then proceeded to shimmy up quickly, amazing Ash and Pikachu down below.

Speaking in a quiet enough voice that only his little electric mouse friend next to him could hear, Ash whispered, "Sora really is amazing huh?" Pikachu nodded in agreement and they both smiled as they watched the older teen keep climbing the tree. Ash cupped his hands to his mouth and called up, "Better hurry it up Sora, you know Kairi's waiting for you back at the cave!"

Sora was already thirty feet above the ground but at Ash's shout he looked back down with red on his cheeks. "I don't know what you're talking about," The spiky haired boy groaned and kept climbing the tree. How is it I'm the one getting teased by him when he's younger than me? He chuckled to himself and then kept climbing up the tree, his mind wandering to the girl Ash just mentioned.

"Hahaha," Ash laughed, glad to make up for getting laughed at for failing to climb the tree. He looked down at Pikachu and the mouse with pink cheeks was giggling too, but suddenly its pointy ears stuck straight up and started twitching. The Pokemon spun around and looked through the trees behind them. "What is it Pikachu?" Ash asked his best friend.

Suddenly, Ash heard a faint scream sounding like it was coming from far away. "Let's go," he exclaimed and started running off through the woods. Pikachu ran at his side and the two of them dodged between tree trunks and sprinted full speed towards where they heard the scream. He stopped running for a second and spun around in a three-sixty, looking all over for the sound of the girl he heard. He was panting hard, but over the sound of his own gasps, he heard what sounded like very loud sobbing coming from his right.

The boy in the red hat looked at his Pokemon and Pikachu nodded at him. They turned and started running towards the sound of the sobbing girl who sounded so sad, like her entire world was crashing down around her. Ash Ketchum ran even though his legs were hurting and he saw more light through two of the trees in front of him than usual in the forest. "Must be a clearing, let's go Pikachu," he told his friend and kept sprinting, jumping up between the two trees with his arms crossed in front of him to push away two thin branches in his path.

Ash and Pikachu flew out from the forest and out into a large open clearing. The Pokemon trainer lowered his arms from in front of his face, "Hey what's-" he started to shout, but his words caught in his throat and his eyes widened into saucers as he landed on the ground. He stopped running, his legs failing to move anymore when faced with the scene in front of him.

Pikachu was shaking where it stood, the little mouse Pokemon terrified as well as it looked around at all the bodies around them. The grassy clearing was littered with limbs, bodies, no, corpses that all looked fresh. The grass was not even green anymore; the majority of it had become red. "Wh-what's going on here?" Ash whispered in horror as he looked all around him. There were more trees on the other side of the clearing and it looked like people had been camping in this little outcrop. Ripped up tents and still-lit cooking fires were around the area too, and it looked like all these people had been living here.

Ash's eyes moved from the bodies closest to him to farther away and he gagged at the sight of the children. He was horrified. The first few days didn't even compare to what he was seeing now, and those were hard times back then. "Pika, pikaaa," Pikachu whimpered and nuzzled its head into Ash's leg to hide its eyes. The boy was still darting his eyes around without moving himself, and finally the gears in his mind started turning again, remembering the sobs of the girl. He focused and heard sobbing coming from further in the camp. The clearing wasn't very big, so he just turned his head a little and his eyes concentrated on a figure crouched on the ground. She was curled up with her legs pulled to her chest facing away from him.

"H-Hey, hey!" through sheer willpower, he managed to step between the two bodies closest to him, a husband and wife by the looks of it considering their arms were reaching out towards each other, both with their eyes still open staring into each other's eyes. Pikachu watched Ash run forward, but the little mouse Pokemon couldn't handle the sight in front of it and whimpered where it stood, watching Ash go.

The boy in the blue shirt kept running and tried not to look down at the carnage as he did. He looked forward at the girl sobbing on the ground, curled up around four bodies. She had long pink hair that flowed all the way to the ground from the height she was crouched at now. It went over her face too and it looked like it had been stained red in a few places as well by the blood of the people around her.

Back in the forest, Sora was climbing down the tree with a bag on his back full of apples. "Hey Ash, where'd you run off to?" Sora shouted as he jumped down the rest of the twenty foot drop and landed with a smile on his face, hoping Ash had seen it. He looked around and didn't see Ash or Pikachu anywhere around him. "Huh?" he looked around and saw two sets of tracks that were spread out pretty far. They were taking big strides, which means they were running towards something. What happened while I was up there? Sora started running after the tracks in the forest and was glad he learned how to hunt in the last year since being stuck on this strange planet.

The brown haired teen kept running through the forest and he shouted his friends' names again, waiting to hear a response and getting none. He turned right to follow the footsteps at one point and a few moments later he saw his Pokemon friend standing out between two trees in front of him. The spiky haired Keyblade wielder stopped running as fast and slowed into a jog, "Oh hey Pikachu, why'd you guys go running off all of a sudden?" Sora stepped out in between the two trees his little friend was standing in front of, and he blinked a few times at the brighter light that hit him without the tree canopy above him anymore.

When his eyes adjusted, he was shocked by the massacre in front of him. He didn't spend as much time looking around at everyone as Ash did though, and his eyes narrowed as he began darting them around, finding his friend within the second. He'd already seen scenes like this before, he managed to overlook the bodies and go straight to his younger friend. "Ash," he said in relief, glad to see the boy there, and with another survivor no less.

Sora stared at the black haired boy who was bent over the young girl curled up next to him. He smiled at how brave Ash was being to go over and help her despite how scared he must be with all these corpses around. Suddenly, something caught Sora's eye and he looked closer at the four people closest to where Ash was standing. All four of them had swords in their hands. They were behind the girl, in front of her, and on her left and right. All of them looked like they were freshly dead. This doesn't make sense. Why would she still be here. Everyone else looks like they were in the middle of running away, except for those four guys near her who look like they were attacking. What's... Sora heard a loud squelch and his eyes turned huge in slow motion. He was a little disturbed before, but now his heart wrenched and he could hear it beating.

Ash Ketchum looked down at the girl beneath him and his worried look turned to one of confusion. She had both of her arms at her side, having brought them there very fast, and he thought he felt a sharp pain in his stomach, and then his back.

"Pi-" Pikachu started, but couldn't even finish. The little mouse Pokemon stared in similar horror as Sora at the fourteen year old boy standing in the center of the field.

The fourteen year old Pokemon Trainer lifted his arms from his sides and slowly moved them up to his stomach. He brushed them against something hard, and then he gripped onto it. Ash's eyes went wide and he looked down at the cold sharp steel sticking out of his stomach and through the other side of his back. He had it grabbed with both hands and he could now feel it digging into his palms, though the pain felt like it was a lot less that it should be.

All of a sudden, the girl in front of Ash started whispering, her sobs still there, but now with muffled words between them. "Eh ahh, Y-Yuki, Yuki! Ahh ahah, Yuki why did you leave me?" she snapped her head up and looked over her shoulder. Her eyes were wide and she had blood splattered on her face. The girl looked absolutely insane and she had a disturbed smile on her face. One eyelid was twitching and she tilted her head to the side, "Yuki, he's, dead," she said in a scared voice, turning her katana as she did, making the blade now sideways in Ash's stomach.

The crazy pink haired girl slid the katana out of Ash as easily as if she was cutting through butter. The boy in front of her kept his hands over the spot where the sword went in. Ash felt his hands start to get wet and his eyes widened in fear, "Ahhhh!" He screamed in a mixture of panic and pain.

The scary looking girl in front of him turned her blade to the side of her and then swiped it to cut him in half at the waist. The blade moved but then a loud clank was heard of metal on metal and she snapped her head to the right where her sword was pressed against a metal shaft with a key shape at the end of it. As she followed the Keyblade back with her eyes, she focused on a boy with brown spiky hair standing between her blade and Ash, holding his weapon up to stop her.

"They let Yuki die," she said in a sadistic voice. "They couldn't save him, even though they said they were our friends." She stood up to her feet and moved her blade back to her side, bowing her head a little so her pink hair was partially covering her eyes and casting darkness over her face.

"Ash, are you alright?" Sora didn't take his eyes off the crazy girl in front of him, but he was more concerned with his friend's well-being right now. He darted his eyes to the right for a second and watched as Ash stumbled backwards and then fell down to one knee.

The young Pokemon Trainer kept one foot planted and tried to keep himself up, "Yeah, I think so," he said, right before entering a coughing fit that resulted in a large amount of blood splashing out of his mouth. "Ugh," Ash mumbled after the fit was done. He spat to his left and his spit was all red, he was just trying to get the taste of blood out of his mouth.

"Pika pi!" Pikachu shouted, finally running over through the field of bodies. The mouse Pokemon was small so it was at eye level of most of the corpses and couldn't avoid looking at them, but it was more protective of Ash than it was afraid and it sprinted to its master's side. "Pika," the yellow Pokemon whispered as it got to Ash's side, fear laced in its voice.

"I'm alright Pikachu," Ash said, and to prove it he pushed his hands down on the floor and got back up to his feet, wobbly, but upright. His blue t-shirt had a hole in it and dark splotches were getting larger on the front and back of it.

Sora looked at his friend and started raising his Keyblade to cast Cure, but he saw the girl coming at him in the corner of his eye and swiped the blade towards her instead, clashing their weapons together. His blade hit hers but she instantly bounced off to the left and went for Ash. She's fast, Sora thought in a panic as she sprinted right by him.

"Pik-aa-chu!" the electric Pokemon at Ash's side jumped up and became engulfed in yellow light. A blast of lightning shot out from it at the girl sprinting towards them, but her reflexes were amazing. She threw her katana up in the air and the metal blade acted as a lightning rod, drawing Pikachu's Thunderbolt to it while she charged right at the mouse whose eyes went wide seeing her so close to it. The girl jumped up and spun in the air, tears streaming down her face as she kicked Pikachu and sent the mouse flying across the clearing.

"Pikachu!" Ash shouted and turned his head to follow where his friend was thrown. It was the wrong move and the fourteen year old realized it as he saw pink in the corner of his vision and started turning back. He caught a glimpse of a glint in the girl's left hand, and his eyes widened in fear at the sight of a knife the girl must've had hidden somewhere.

"Move!" Sora yelled as he came out of nowhere, slamming his shoulder into Ash and decking him out of the way while Yuna swiped with her knife. The girl would have hit Ash right in the chest if it weren't for his friend who pushed him away and got slashed across the right arm he shouldered his friend away with. "Ahh," Sora shouted and spun around, swiping at the girl who hit him with her knife. She jumped backwards, still to fast for him, but Sora chased right after her and targeted her with his full attention.

The girl jumped back very precisely though and without even looking up, she reached her hand up in the air and caught her falling katana by the hilt. She slashed it towards Sora, but the boy wasn't close enough and the blade missed. However, the blade was coated in Pikachu's electricity and she redirected the attack towards Sora.

The boy saw the bolt of electricity coming at him and he rose his Keyblade just in time. The electricity hit it and jolted through him considering his hilt was made of metal too, but the boy didn't falter and lowered his Keyblade back towards the girl. "Thunder!" he shouted.

Yuna felt strange and started lifting her head up, but before she could even see the clouds that suddenly formed above her head, they all released lightning down and she was caught up in it. "AHHH!" The girl screamed in pain and Sora lowered his Keyblade fast, but then the girl stopped screaming right away and her mouth twisted back into a smile. Apparently she wasn't as hurt as he thought, and she turned the knife in her left hand, pulled it back, and threw it at Sora.

Sora's eyes widened as he saw the knife flying towards him. It was moving too fast for him to raise his Keyblade to block, and Kairi's face flashed in his mind. He heard the squelch but didn't feel anything, so he looked down. "No," he whispered.

The fourteen year old boy standing in front of Sora staggered forward a step, and then fell down to his knees. The knife sticking out of his chest was suddenly making it very hard for him to breath. "Ash!" Sora yelled. The older boy ran in front of Ash and looked down at the blade. He reached forward and shouted, "I'm sorry about this!" he then ripped the knife right out of Ash's chest and pointed his Keyblade at him. "CURE!" he yelled.

The wound on the younger boy's stomach stopped bleeding and sealed itself shut. Ash gasped for breath and fell down to his knees, panting harder than ever before. His skin was pale and he coughed a few times, splattering some blood on the grass below him. "Pika!" Pikachu yelled as the Pokemon came running back over, covered in electricity as it jumped up and tried tackling the pink haired girl. She dove backwards but the mouse Pokemon was fast and kept her on her toes.

While Pikachu was keeping her distracted, Sora bent down over Ash, "Are you alright?" he asked his friend.

Though Ash's skin was pale, he pulled himself back up to his feet and wiped the trails of blood from the corners of his mouth. "Y-Yeah, I think so." Ash looked forward at the girl dodging around masterfully and spinning the sword around at Pikachu, barely missing a few times. He didn't care at all about his own injuries, his best friend was fighting this monster now. "This is too dangerous," the boy muttered, reaching his hand down to his waist where his belt of pokeballs was.

Sora saw his friend reach down, but Ash's hand missed his belt a few times as he patted around down there. He looked unsteady on his feet and Sora lifted up his Keyblade again, "Cure." The brown haired teen called out. A green light surrounded Ash, but his outer wounds were already sealed, it was the blood loss that was really getting to him and his skin only looked paler by the second.

"Charizard," Ash said in a quiet voice, "help Pikachu," the boy pressed a button on his belt and a red light emitted from it. It took the shape of something tall, but with two long legs and long arms. The red creature emerged and Ash looked at it with sweat coming down his face, "Oh, Blaziken, whoops."

The fire type Pokemon looked back at its Master and a look of worry came over its face. Normally, it was the most arrogant and hard to deal with of his Pokemon, so by the look on its face, Ash could tell he wasn't looking so hot. "I'm okay," he assured his friend, "help Pikachu," he pleaded.

Blaziken turned around and was just on time to see Pikachu get a shallow cut on the side as it tried to dodge the crazy girl and her long katana. Blood splashed out of the Pokemon and the others' eyes went wide. Normally Pikachu's hard skin could handle slashes and a lot of other attacks done to it, but this sword must have been incredibly sharp to slice through the yellow mouse.

"Pikachu!" Ash called out. He took a step forward but started coughing violently and stumbled to his right.

The fighting fire type Pokemon charged forward at the girl with pink hair and spun around, aiming a kick at her face. The girl ducked down but Blaziken kicked again and slammed her in the chest, throwing her backwards. Yuna hit the ground and bounced across the floor before coming to a stop. She slowly lifted her face up to look at her enemies and she had tears and now blood pouring down her face, "AHHHH!" she screamed in a bloodthirsty yell that sounded yet so sad.

"Stop now," Sora shouted at her. He lifted up his Keyblade in a fighting stance and he shouted, "I don't want to have to hurt you." This world was unlike any Sora had ever been to. For the first time, he really experienced the loss of his friends, knowing truly they weren't coming back. Aragorn, Han, Chewy, everyone, he thought back on all his friends over the past year who didn't make it this long, and he clenched his hands tighter on his Keyblade as the girl started walking forward again.

"Blaziken," Ash started to his friend. Blaziken and Sora looked back to see Ash stumbling over to Pikachu and pulling a potion out of his bag, pressing it against his friend and seeing the pain on Pikachu's face lessen a little. The electric mouse tried standing up, but it was still very weak and had a long cut along its left side that was sealed now, but left a scar. The boy in the bloody blue shirt looked over at his tall fighting type Pokemon and said, "Try to restrain her, Blaziken."

The Pokemon looked at Ash and growled at him before looking back at the girl in front of it. It muttered something and Sora's eyes went wide as he looked at it. The brown haired boy lowered his gaze and his hair shadowed over his eyes. He looked over his shoulder at Ash and said, "He said, 'May asked me to do the same thing. I'm not going to lose another Master.'" Sora quieted down and Ash stared over at his friend with sad eyes.

The young Pokemon Trainer teleported to this strange world with May and her younger brother, missing their older friend Brock, but since the three of them arrived, a lot had happened. It didn't take long before it was down to just Ash and his Pokemon. When he met with Sora that was one of the best days he'd had so far in this world. Ash bowed his head a little and started coughing into his hand. He slowly moved his hand away from his face and stared at it, and it was completely red. Don't worry Blaziken, I'll be alright, Ash put his hand down on his waistband where more of his pokeballs rested. Everyone...

"Ash!" Sora shouted a third time at the black haired boy behind him who was unresponsive. Pikachu was next to him nudging his Master's wobbly legs with his face, but Ash was just staring at his bloody hand and feeling around at his pokeballs with his other hand.

Blaziken charged at the crazy girl in front of him, but she ducked swiftly under him and slashed at his leg. Blaziken's strong body withstood most of the attack, but then she jabbed its left leg with a knife that seemed to come out of nowhere. She pulled it from Blaziken's leg and blood splashed out, the Pokemon roaring in pain as she jumped backwards to avoid a breath of fire that shot out of the creature's mouth.

"YUKKI!" she yelled, charging at Blaziken again.

Sora had his head bowed with his hair covering his eyes, but he couldn't watch his friends get hurt anymore. "I warned you!" he shouted, and rose his Keyblade above his head.

Pikachu, Yuna, and Blaziken all looked over as a bright white light surrounded Sora's entire body. Even Ash was distracted by the bright light that confused him as to where it was coming from. He turned his head to the left and stared in awe at Sora as the light faded, leaving the spiky haired sixteen year old in all white clothing with two floating Keyblades crossed above his head. Twin balls of blue light constantly flew around him in circles and he lifted off the ground with a serious look on his face.

"So what?!" the girl cried out, throwing a knife from where she was standing twenty feet away, directly towards the center of Sora's face. It flew the distance in a second, and the knife got within six inches of Sora's nose, but he didn't back up or flinch. When the blade was as far as Sora would allow, his white hovering Keyblade followed his commands without him moving a muscle and it slashed across his face, knocking the blade out of the air and into pieces from the strength of the swipe. The boy swung his black Keyblade next and a slash of air crossed the distance between them even faster than her knife was thrown.

"Ahh!" Yuna shrieked as she was taken off her feet and thrown backwards. She dropped her weapons to cross her arms in front of her face, and she hit the ground rolling. The girl tumbled over the corpses she created just a little earlier and she finally stopped right about where she was when Ash first found her.

Sora looked over at the crouched girl who didn't seem to be moving. He turned and flew towards Ash who was face down on his stomach now. Pikachu was nudging him in the face with his own and Blaziken jogged over too. Sora dropped down to the ground and put his hands under Ash's side, lifting him and turning him onto his back. "No," Sora whispered, seeing Ash's face deathly pale, blood trickling from his mouth on either side.

Ash's eyes fluttered open and the first thing he saw was Sora's face hovering over his, "It's not that bad," Ash told the older boy, trying to crack a smile as he did, but falling into a coughing fit that got some blood splotches on Sora's face. That's my blood, Ash thought sadly, that sword and the knife too must have cut me up good on the inside. He looked to his left and saw Pikachu looking at him with a worried look on its face, ignoring its own injuries and showing a lot of fear for its best friend and Master.

Sora could understand all languages with the power he obtained with his Keyblade, and that worked with creatures such as Pokemon too who had their own languages. He looked down at Pikachu and heard the low whimpering the mouse was making, then looked back up at Blaziken who was cursing in anger. He looked back down and Ash leaned up, putting his head on the right side of Sora's and whispering into his ear, "I don't want to die yet."

The Keybearer backed up and looked at Ash's face, seeing a confident smile to keep up appearances for his two Pokemon next to him, but now Sora could see how much fear was hidden in his eyes. "Cure," Sora said, pointing his Keyblade down, and hoping that in Final Form, his magic would be enough. "Cure," he said again, feeling his magical power draining much slower than normal. "Cure," time after time again, a white dome of light was cast over the two of them. The fourteen year old getting healed was losing the smile on his face as he wasn't feeling any better, and Sora was looking desperate.

"It's alright," Ash promised in a loud voice, pushing the end of the Keyblade away from above his chest. He leaned up his head with a smile to make a point of it and he saw something right behind Sora, "Move!" he shouted and pushed Sora to the side.

Pikachu and Blaziken both saw where Ash was looking and they moved their heads at the same time, but they were both too late as the pink haired girl swung down with a long broadsword. Had Sora still been crouched in the same spot trying to heal Ash, the blade would have gone right through his head. Instead, it lodged right in the center of Ash's chest, causing the boy's head and legs to arc up. Ash went wide-eyed as he snapped up in horrible pain, his hat falling off his head.

"NO!" Sora screamed as he spun and saw the girl standing there with two hands on the hilt of her blade. Ash coughed and a huge bucket of blood splashed out of his mouth, covering his face.

Sora, Pikachu, and Blaziken all turned towards the girl who attacked Ash and she had the same creepy smile on her face. She looked so sad, so insane, but they didn't care about her at all anymore. "FIRE!" Sora yelled, at the same time that Pikachu and Blaziken attacked with the most powerful attack they could come up with.

A funnel of flames surrounded Sora's body. Fireballs spinning around so fast that it looked like a dome of fire around him. Blaziken roared and a huge pillar of fire emerged in front of it, forming two arms and two legs as well as a point at the top to finish a star like shape in its Fire Blast. It fired it forward at the same time the dome of fire around Sora shot forward as ten different huge fireballs.

The girl's eyes went wide at the sight of all the fire racing towards her, and she was about to jump back when her hair started rising at the sides. It felt really weird and her whole body started to feel tingly, like static electricity was surrounding her. For some strange reason, she had the impulse to look up, instead of dodging the fire coming at her. By the time her head was pointing straight up at the sky, the huge bolt of Thunder was only a few feet from her face, and it connected within the next millisecond. Her body was engulfed in bright yellow light, and then the flame attacks from either side of the boy she just attacked, collided with her and threw her backwards with them as they continued to fly.

Yuna's whole body screamed out in pain and her eyes widened as she stared into the fire. The pain coursing through her body was nothing compared to the pain of losing the boy she loved after finally being reunited with him. We had fun, didn't we Yukki? she thought in her last moments. Her skin was being torn away and her mind was going blank, but she still smiled. Now we can be together again, she thought, the crazy girl's last thought before she was incinerated by the powerful flames.

The Pokemon and Sora didn't even watch to see what their attacks did, they all turned to Ash immediately after the danger was gone. Blaziken pulled the sword out of Ash's chest and Sora created a dome of light that cured everyone inside it. His cure magic sealed the outside wounds like before, but Ash was looking horrible after all these wounds that on their own should have been able to put a normal human like him down. Compounded one after another like these were, he knew he didn't have a chance and his eyes watered a little as he wished this wasn't happening.

"Sora," Ash stated quietly, stopping the boy above him whose clothes suddenly turned back to normal and didn't have any magical strength left in him. Sora tried hard to push out another Cure, but even when it happened, Ash didn't look any better and the young black haired boy knew it already. "It's alright," he said, for some reason the fear of dying going away now that he knew there was no way to stop it.

"Pika!" Pikachu shouted, hearing the resigned tone in Ash's voice.

Blaziken turned around and stomped on the ground with a foot covered in flames. It was so angry and created a hole in the bloody grass, blasting it apart as it yelled angrily up in the sky.

The older human was looking down at Ash desperately, but he saw Ash had already accepted it and there was nothing he could do. Sora's eyes filled with water and he put an arm in front of them, shaking his head as he fell down to his knees at Ash's side with Pikachu.

"Hey guys," Ash whispered, "you can come out." Ash had both of his hands at his sides and he pressed the buttons on his other pokeballs. Two more red lights appeared in front of him and the creatures that appeared looked down with concerned looks right away.

Both of the winged beasts, one orange, the other white, lay down on the field near Ash and turned their heads in towards their master. "Char," the large orange one moaned and nudged its head down, rubbing against Ash's face and then licking him.

"Hey Charizard," Ash said with a genuine smile on his face. "Come on, stop it," he gently pushed the tongue away from him with a little bit of the strength he had left and Charizard backed up, tears brimming on its eyes.

"Ash," Lugia said, the enormous Legendary Pokemon turning its long neck to wrap around the group gathered near Ash. "Your heartbeat is slowing down," the gigantic Pokemon said in a calm, but sad voice. "It won't be long," Lugia added.

"I know," the boy said, "thanks." He smiled over at his newest companion who he met up with a few weeks after he got to Nexus. The Guardian of the Sea had been wandering around injured when Ash stumbled upon it. Lugia remembered the time when Ash was still a new Pokemon trainer and the two of them saved their world together. After the boy tended to his wounds, he stayed with him, and now that boy was meeting his end.

Sora was crying silently into his arm and he pulled his arm away, looking down at Ash with sad eyes. "Hey Sora, can I ask you a favor?" Ash asked, his voice getting quieter. "Sorry to put such a burden on you, but can you take care of them for me?" Ash asked, already smiling because he knew there was no way Sora would deny this request. That was just the kind of guy he was.

"Mm," Sora nodded and made a noise to give a positive response. He'd open his mouth and say something, but he felt like if he opened his mouth he was going to start crying, and he didn't want to burden Ash with knowing he'd made him that sad.

"Pika-chu," the yellow mouse whispered in a sad tone as it nuzzled its head up against Ash's. "Pika pi, pika pikachu, pika!"

The older boy felt like he should translate the sad words Pikachu was saying to Ash, but somehow Ash was able to understand his best friend perfectly fine after years of traveling together.

"I know Pikachu, but I'm sorry. Not this time." Ash lifted up a hand and pet Pikachu atop his head, rubbing behind his ears to comfort him. "I've known you the longest. I love you guys, all of you." The black haired boy looked up at Blaziken and said, "Sorry." He knew he was making it go through the loss of another Master, but there really wasn't anything he could do, despite his regret for being in this situation. "Hey, could you get me my hat?" he asked.

His Pikachu looked at him sadly and then walked over to where Ash's hat had fallen. He grabbed it with his mouth and jogged back over, handing it to Ash who rested it on top of his head and then got right back to petting Pikachu, though slower. "Thanks Sora," he started as his eyes were closing, now feeling relaxed with his red hat on his head. "You found me when I was in a dark place, and you and Kairi made me feel so much better, you treated me like family." His eyes closed and he smiled, "I know you'll do a great job raising them." His voice became nothing more than a whisper, "I know you'll find Riku."

"Pika pi," Pikachu whispered into Ash's ear. "Pika, pika pika pi," the mouse had tears coming out of its eyes and suddenly Ash's hand stopped rubbing the top of its head.

Lugia looked away at the moment it felt the vibrations from Ash's heart stop, but it took the others a few more seconds of just staring at him waiting for him to say something, anything. Nothing came.

Two hours later...

Sora walked out from behind a tree and towards the rocky cave sticking out of the ground that looked out of place in this forest. He was expecting to have to go in to find Kairi, but she was waiting outside, pacing back and forth and when she saw Sora she smiled. "Sora!" she shouted, running over to him. "You said you were just going out for some food so I was worried about you two. Where's Ash?" she realized the other boy wasn't walking out behind Sora and she got worried.

A closer look at Sora's clothes made Kairi's eyes widen and the girl with dark red hair ran up to him. "What happened? Where's-" she stopped as Sora lifted up his right hand, holding a belt with five pokeballs on it. "Oh no," she whispered.

"I lost sight of him for a few seconds," Sora whispered. "I was," he stopped and clenched his eyes shut, trying hard to hold back what he'd been hiding the whole time he buried Ash and let the boy's Pokemon say their goodbyes. "He died, right in front of me."

Kairi's heart ached hearing that Ash was dead, but also because of the way Sora must be feeling because of it. "And Pikachu?" she asked, realizing the yellow mouse was nowhere to be seen.

"He," Sora started, opening his eyes and looking down at the belt. "I guess, he didn't feel right walking outside of his pokeball anymore. Ash said he never went inside it, but, but that was with Ash..." Sora lowered his gaze down to his black and red shirt which now had a lot more red on it than usual. He was staring at Ash's blood, his own friend's blood, who he couldn't save.

"Sora," Kairi exclaimed. He had no idea how close she was as he was looking down, but her voice sounded much closer than a second ago and before he could look up, her arms were around him. He was a few inches taller than her, and his spiky hair made him even more so, so her arms were wrapped around his stomach while she nuzzled her head up against his chin. "Don't blame yourself. Please," she looked up in his eyes as he was looking down at her.

"Kairi," he whispered, his heart pounding. "I don't know... it was... I could have," his mind was racing and he felt so much guilt, but suddenly his mind blanked as Kairi shut him up the only way she could think of at the moment.

The sixteen year old girl with dark red hair slammed her lips against Sora's and both of their eyes went wide. Sora was stunned at what just happened, and Kairi was amazed at what she just did. Oddly enough though, neither one of them was willing to be the first one to break off the kiss, and they stood there lips touching for several seconds.

When they both finally pulled away from each other, Sora was too shocked to speak, and Kairi was looking up into his eyes. "I know you Sora, and you must have tried as hard as you could to save him. It's not your fault. Please, I don't want to see you like this," she looked at him caringly and moved one arm from his back to up behind his head, pulling him down so his head was resting on her shoulder. "I love you Sora." She could feel her shoulder start getting wet with Sora's face pressed against it and she held him there. Having someone who cared so much about him, who he could return to and would bear some of his pain, it made it easier. Though he couldn't say it with his face buried in the girl's pink shirt, he still thought it, I love you too Kairi.

A/N Whoa! So that was, brutal. If anyone hasn't seen Mirai Nikki, there's a crazy pink haired girl in it who I used for this chapter. Hope you liked her, or hated her. Haha sorry Ash fans ;P though this end scene of Chapter 5 will really help out understanding a battle later on, so get ready because next time we're back to the present and the assault on Castle Oblivion! Leave a review telling me what you think. List below:

Kingdom Hearts: Sora, Kairi, Riku, Keyblade.

Pokemon: Charizard, Blaziken, Pikachu, Lugia, Ash, May, Brock, Max.

Mirai Nikki: Yuna, Yukki.