So this is a little present for my real life friend, Jonathan. Happy le late birthday, my friend. :D I hope I did well.

On another slightly funny note, I used a single definition of abstinence for this chapter but used it in two different ways: " the fact or practice of restraining oneself from indulging in something."

Also... be ready for the bonus chapters! Forbidden out!

Again to the Sora fans (specifically Namine031898 since you got a little upset for Sora's sin chapter, by the way hi), I'm giving you a warning. Please enjoy and review.

Seven Heavenly

Abstinence: Just for You

Soft cries echo in the distance, a harsh contrast against the screams that had filled the night air only a few hours before.

The boy, one of three hiding safely in a neighbor's basement, wonders just how long it would take before a rescue team could come in and help them. Sora rubs his tiring eyes, wondering just how long it would take before the resurrected came in and ate them all.

He turns away from the small window, taking a peek at the pair sleeping beneath a tarp behind him. Riku and Kairi are sleeping peacefully, barely even stirring at the noises from outside. As he expected, Riku's arm is draped protectively over his friend's body, as if the older teenager was trying – even in his sleep – to protect the girl.

Sora has to turn away quickly and rub his eyes hard. The tears trickle down slowly, the warmth feeling like hot blood on his cold cheeks. It reminds him that it was very likely that the three of them were probably the last living people on the island. His tears also remind him that he had lost his mother.

"Mom..." He whispers softly to the darkness, still feeling the hard push that she had given him in order to get him out the door and into the neighbor's house. Sora closes his eyes and hears her last words again, having heard them on loop throughout the day. His own name, asked questioningly as she was hauled away from him and into the horde.

As for his dad, his dad had been out at sea when everything had happened on the main island. Maybe he was still alive.

"Can't sleep?" A voice asks him quietly, making the fourteen year old flinch and turn around. Kairi smiles at him sleepily, rubbing her eyes as she carefully removes Riku's arm from her shoulder and gets up. "Hey, you don't have-" Sora starts to say, but the girl was already moving, heading toward him.

"I want to, silly." Kairi informs him with that same smile, a ghost of her usual mischievous one. With that, she sits down next to him on the bench beneath the window. Sora keeps looking out the window, watching for any sign of the resurrected shambling toward them. They had already eliminated all of the ones in the house, so unless any new ones walked in, they should be safe...

Kairi's fingers are cold, but a soothing kind of cold, as they slip into his. A deep blush emerges on his face but he keeps guarding. Sora had always had a crush on Kairi, one that had driven him crazy for years. He had dreamed of, wanted a moment like this between them for so long...

Still, the zombies were a surprise.

He leans his head against hers as she snuggles into him, placing her head just on his chest. He blushes that much harder, making her laugh softly as his heart rate speeds up. "Sora?" Kairi asks again, her voice muffled slightly from leaning on him.

"Yeah, Kairi?" He asks before he feels her lean up and her lips on his cheek. If he had thought he was blushing hard before, he was on fire now. Kairi smiles shyly before cuddling back into him. "Maybe we should run away. Just the two of us." She joked solemnly, shaking her head the moment that Sora opens his mouth to protest Riku's absence in her scenario.

Of course she wouldn't leave him behind. The words are left unsaid, but the sentiment was still there.

She smiles at him and nuzzles into him, though it wasn't for warmth. "I don't think I'm so scared anymore." Kairi says in a soft, wistful voice. She flashes a big grin, one that almost rivaled his usual one but made his heart melt into a little puddle of Sora-y goo. "Maybe... You know, I was a little afraid at first, but now I'm ready. No matter where I go or what I see, I know I can always come back here. Right?"

It's clear from the way Kairi is smiling that she doesn't mean back to Destiny Islands.

When he hears those words, Sora wraps his hand around Kairi's and holds it tightly. For the first time, he wishes that he didn't wear gloves everywhere. Though they had saved his life throughout the night, it would have been nice to feel a little more-

A sharp and very loud moan suddenly sounds out near the house, startling the two kids into standing up and peeking through the window. A shuffling noise confirms their suspicions; one of the resurrected ones was standing right by them.

"Go wake Riku," Sora mouths to Kairi as the stench of rotting flesh wafts into the house. After all they had been through, it no longer makes them gag. She nods and quietly walks to the tarp, grabbing the first body part that was sticking out and yanks. Riku jolts up, rubbing his head in mild pain from her grabbing his hair.

After only briefly glancing at the serious expression on his best friend's face, Riku immediately snatches up a sword-like weapon from the folds of his tarp.

Sora and Riku nod to each other before the older boy pulls Kairi behind him and troops silently to the window. He quietly opens the latch of the window, pulling it down just far enough to stick his arm and his Way To Dawn Keyblade out of it.

For a sickening moment, Riku stays completely still as he waits for the zombie to shamble towards him.

If he makes a single noise, the monster would let out a series of low moans that would bring another dozen corpses toward them. And they would all make the moans, calling even more of their undead relatives and friends to devour them.

Riku rapidly slashes the Achilles tendon of the corpse, sending it toppling down to the ground. As it landed with a heavy thud by the window, Sora sees its gray eyes widen and its mouth beginning to open up to scream. Kairi's hand tightens on his wrist as Riku stands back and thrusts the blade into the creature's mouth. With a matter of seconds, the screech that had been building in the dead throat cuts off to a soft gurgling death rattle.

"We can't stay here forever," Riku said softly, turning back to the room to look at his friends. His blue green eyes are full of pain, and Sora knows that he had recognized the body before killing it. Riku runs his hands through his long silver hair and sighs. "We're going... we're going to run out of water soon enough." He stammers weakly.

All three kids know that he had just lied.

But Sora nods instead, reaches out to touch Riku on the shoulder, and smile. "Alright, then let's get out of here. How about we go to the play island?" He asks curiously. His two friends give him a bizarre look, no doubt wondering what the heck Sora was thinking.

He laughs quietly, amused by their reactions. "Well, think about it. There's water there in the springs, we can catch fish, and it's separated from this island by at least three or four miles, right? So it should be a good place to hide for a bit!" Sora explains cheerfully. In reality, he wants to check if the three kids that normally hung out at the islands Tidus, Selphie, and Wakka were still alright. If it had spread that far... then they wouldn't be able to get off the islands at all.

They would be trapped there on the main island.

Riku claps his hand onto Sora's shoulder and nods. "For once, I agree with your plans," He tells his friend with a slight hint of a smile. "Let's get to the docks and head off. … We're going to have to hurry though." He looks back out the window, a strange anger appearing on his face.

"Huh?" Sora asks in confusion. "Why?"

Kairi shakes her head and slips her hand back around Sora's. The movement is not unnoticed by Riku, who immediately blinks and stares hard at their intertwined hands. "Riku means," Kairi scolds patiently, ignoring the looks from the boys. "-is that these things see better in the daylight, just like we do. And there's tons of them by the docks. We... might not make it." She added with a worried quiver to her voice, making both boys want to comfort her.

Both Riku and Sora want to be comforted as well, though both of their parents are long gone.

Sora grins, though he feels like he should break down and start bawling on the floor for seeing his family being torn away from him. "Then we head out at dawn. Get everything ready and set for the boat," He says calmly, though he's shaking slightly.

Riku nods. "We're leaving this place." He repeats calmly before obediently dropping down to the floor and wrapping their few belongings into the tarp.

A few hours later, two of the three are sitting the boat as it is being carried off in the current.

Kairi screams to the boy standing on the dock even as Riku holds her back, preventing her from getting out. Sora watches as the boat drifts away, the rope that had been tying it to the dock still clenched tightly in his hand. He had made his choice, he had made it as soon as he realized that the monsters were about to move for them.

It had been easy to throw them both into the boat and shove it from the dock, even though Sora knows that it meant he was about to die. Sora drops the rope and looks at his best friends, knowing that this is the very last time he was ever going to see them.

"Kairi!" Sora shouts as the first rotting grips onto his shoulder. "Kairi! Remember what you said before? I'm always with you, too. I'll come back to you. I promise!" He yells out as the first set of teeth pierces through his skin, leaving him free to scream and be yanked into the crowd.

"Sora...!" Riku shouts as the first of the monsters tears into his friend's throat and infects him with the virus. The boy immediately rips himself free from the creatures and runs toward the end of the dock, beginning to wave at the boat.

Even from this distance, the two kids could see the tears pouring down his face.

Kairi stands up in the boat, forcing herself to wave just as hard back at Sora as he ran from the monsters. "I know you will!" She screams back, though she doesn't hear herself say it. A few seconds later, Sora jumps into the sea and vanishes from sight.

Riku hauls her back into a sitting position, throwing himself over her when she immediately tries to jump out of the boat to join him. He rocks her gently, soothing her as she sobs into his shoulder and whispers the same words over and over like a broken record.

"I know you will, I know you will..."

The older boy doesn't let his own tears fall, he only pins the grieving girl down with a hand and removes their food from the tarp. When he opens up the package, he notices one of them was completely unopened, though they had all eaten most of it last night. Riku opens it up to see a rapidly written note from the boy who had refused to eat in order to give them that much more of a chance.

'Take care of her for me, will you?'

I'm sorry. But come on, it makes sense! Sora was a cannibal in the other chapter so... zombies. They both... eat people... Yeah, that doesn't make as much sense as I thought. I just like zombies. Anyway, thank you for reading the last of the Heavenly chapters! Please stay tuned for the four bonus chapters!

-ForbiddenKHFan216