Yeah! In this chapter I get to say two of my favorite words! Crappit and Meep! lmao, I really like those words a lot. XP Okay, here is chapter 21 of "Kokoro". Thanks to everyone that is giving reviews, that makes me very happy. (smiles)

Mark ran into the house, finding Sora for the first time. The boy was pale and very weak, he already looked dead. The alchemist went up to the bed, finding a girl sitting on the edge with Sora's hand in hers. "Momo told me to tell him that Kokoro is coming." The blonde girl shook her head and looked down at Sora again. She placed her hand on his cheek and he flinched a bit. Sora opened his eyes and looked up at her. "Hey Sora."

"Mark..." Sora said softly, then started to cough again. The girl stood up and turned to him but he soon stopped and wiped the blood from his mouth, no later closing his eyes. "Where... where is she?"

Mark moved next to the girl. "Hey, Kokoro's coming. She remembers everything. Momo wanted to make sure you were still in there okay? Don't give up." Sora looked at Mark with glazed eyes, then closed them again. "Hey Sora!"

"Sora..." The blonde girl started again by taking his hand. He didn't hold onto her hand, he just left his hanging.

He took a deep breath and started to speak again. "Hey Naminé, why did Kokoro... want to forget us?"

Naminé was going to start speaking but Kokoro ran into the room, she had been there a couple of hours before. She looked at Naminé, who moved back to Merlin by the table, then walked up to Mark. "How is he?"

"Not good." Mark said, looking down at Sora. She went to the edge of the bed and looked down at him. Kokoro then sat on the side of the bed.

Mark moved by the door and stood next to Momo, who also had just entered. Kokoro placed her hand on his cheek, feeling how cold he was. "Hey... Sora..." The boy didn't respond. Time was running out. The Obisan had fully invaded his bloodstream and he was loosing to it. Kokoro's eyes watered up, she didn't want to loose another friend. "Hang in there..." Kokoro formed Yin, her right handed dagger, and slipped off her glove. She also took off Sora's right glove so both had a bare hand. "Life..." She cut the palm of her left hand, cringing at the slight pain, but no later cut his right palm as well. After the dagger vanished she held his right hand to her left, the blood from both mixing together. "loyalty..." She held onto his hand, but he didn't respond. No color was returning to his cheeks and his breathing was becoming more faint. "Sora... Sora!" Kokoro started to say louder and louder, whatever was left was leaving. "Life, loyalty..." Kokoro looked at him, then quickly went close and kissed him on the lips. Momo went burning up with blush as Mark blushed a bit too, it was unexpected. Kokoro slowly pulled away, looking into Sora's face. "lo...love..." Momo turned away from blushing and the fact that Sora didn't respond. Kokoro looked at their hands, his hadn't moved. She then started to cry, the Obisan had gotten to him. "Sora... Sora!" She put her face into his chest, crying for his return. "Sora, come on Sora wake up! Get up you lazy bum get up! Dammit get up!" Kokoro yelled at him. She stopped when she felt a hand be placed on the back of her head. Kokoro looked up to find it was Sora's hand, he was alive. "Sora!" She yelled out. He closed his eyes again but pulled their joined hands together and grabbed them with his left. Kokoro took her right hand on top of that and smiled. "You lazy bum..."

"Yeah... that's just me... I guess..." Sora said, laughing. "But... what did you-"

Kokoro shook her head and laid on his chest again. "Not now okay? You freaked all of us out." She smiled and lay on the bed, tired from the long day. "Let's just relax for now okay? I mean, we have time to talk about everything later."

Sora looked at her and smiled, then lay his head back and closed his eyes. Kokoro also closed her eyes, listening to his heart beat returning to it's full strength. She held onto his hand tight and smiled, everything was going back on track again.

Momo looked at them again, thinking only of the moment less then a couple of minutes ago. The thought made her burn up again and run outside. She went down to the water to wet her face and cool down. Mark came running out to her, making sure she was okay. "Hey Momo."

"I'm fine." She said quickly and then sat back and looked at her reflection in the water. "That was just... a little unexpected that's all..."

Mark sat next to her while examining his reflection down into the water as well. "You're telling me."

"But you know..." Momo started. "Kokoro and Sora, they make a pretty good couple."

Mark looked at her in question, then thought it over. "That was out of the blue. I thought that you-"

"Hey, a girl can look!" Momo yelled at him. Mark put his hands up, so she wouldn't hit him, but she just looked down at the water again and Mark put his hands down. "It makes me think of Daniel, I miss him a lot."

Mark remembered Daniel, her boyfriend before their world was destroyed almost four months ago. "Think we'll find him?"

"I know we will." Momo hugged her knees, looking down. "I mean, he's got a really strong heart. I know that we'll find Daniel again. Along with the others. I just know it..." She looked back at the house and thought of everyone and how they had changed, then got up and started off to the stone to hop across. "We better rest up, once Kokoro and Sora are ready we'll probably be leaving to find the Archangels and stopping Aki."

Mark got up, cracking his knuckles. "Right."

Kokoro started to fall into darkness again, her hand slipping right through her best friend's. "Aki!" The darkness scars shattered from her body, but two orange light scars on her back formed, from those lights Kokoro sprouted long wings, the wings of the Archangel. "Aki!"

She fell into the darkness, letting her hands be the closet thing to what she thought to be the sky. Her wings were sprouted and the feather fell from them, creating a path where she was falling from. Kokoro closed her eyes as she fell, becoming limp and not knowing where she was going. As she kept falling she felt someone wrap their arms around her. Kokoro never opened her eyes to see who it was, but she wrapped her arms around the person, both falling together. "Fate... is inevitable..." She held close to this person, wanting to know the answers. "Can we change fate if our destiny is still the same? Is it possible?"

"I don't know..." The person said. Kokoro opened her eyes to find out who said it, the voice warming and familiar, but no one was there. Kokoro fell alone again. Her wings had now shattered and the screech came back. She covered her ears and tried to keep it out.

"Find me, you have to fine me and the others!" Female voices came, one of which was Rayne. "Find us, you have to find us! Then you can save the Royalties and Archangels!"

Kokoro tried to keep the voices out but they kept coming, and the screaming. The scream of the planet and elements were invading her. Kokoro closed her eyes and tried to get rid of it all, finding herself finally landing in water. Kokoro fell in the water, dark and eerie blue with only one light above it to cast any type of shadow. Kokoro kept her eyes closed as she fell deeper in the water, then felt someone put their hands over hers and move them away. Kokoro opened her eyes to find Sora was in the water with her, both falling slowly in the everlasting blue and looking at each other. Sora went close to her when...

"Meep!" Kokoro shot out of the bed, almost falling off. She kept her balance and focused in on everything. The room was dimmer but it was still the same one, no one had moved her from Merlin's house. She looked to her right to find Sora still sleeping there, he must have been exhausted in battling the Obisan for two years. Kokoro then looked down at their cut hands. Obviously Merlin had used a cure spell, the cut was healed but the scar still remained. She smiled looking at this and slipped on her glove again, then looked down at Sora one more time. This time only one thing came to mind, the three l's to help him. Kokoro started to blush, realizing too late what had happened, and almost fell off the bed again. She kept steady but put her hand on Sora's chest trying to stay up, making him wake up too. Kokoro covered her mouth and looked as he sat up without any problems for the first time in a while. Sora glanced down at his hand and then at her, covering her mouth. "Sorry..." She said through the muffle of her hands.

Sora laughed and put his glove back on, falling back down on the bed. "Morning." Kokoro started to uncover her mouth but he kept talking. "Kokoro, thanks."

"It was nothing." Kokoro said, still blushing and giggling. "No-nothing at all."

He looked at the nervous girl, he didn't exactly know what went on either. "What... did I miss something?"

"Umm, miss something! No! What would you miss?" Kokoro tried to get of the bed but her boot got caught on the sheet and she fell onto the ground, easing her fall with all of the books. Sora quickly got up to his knees and looked down at her to make sure that she was okay. Kokoro was just rubbing the back of her head. "Ouchies..."

"That means that I missed something." Sora said, laying down on the bed with his arms hanging off the side. "Just tell me, I can take it. Was it something that Momo said?"

"Momo! Heavens no!" Kokoro crawled back a bit, running into more books. Sora frowned playfully as she covered her head from the falling books. After the little attack of knowledge she looked at Sora's face and asked. "What is the last thing that you remember?"

He tried to think it out while shifting to laying down on the bed on his back, but still hung his head so everything to him was upside down. "A little bit here and there... the last vivid thing is when you said to relax. Nothing much before that..."

Kokoro took a deep breath, he didn't remember the kiss thing. She then covered her mouth, that was her first kiss! "Crappit!" Kokoro slammed her hands into the ground. "That was my first! What a way to use it!"

"Your... first?" Sora kept looking at her upside down then turned around because of the blood rushing to his head. "What was your first?"

Kokoro finally stood up and started to wave her hands in front of her, as if to wade him off. "It's nothing!" She finally said. "Nothing happened, so don't worry about it!"