Hi guys! I forgot to introduce myself in the first chapter so I'm opting to do it on the second chapter :P I'm Ghostout and I lurk around this site a lot, reading mostly romance fanfics of Kingdom Hearts, Tales of the Abyss, and Pokemon. I am actually thinking about making a Sora/Aqua fanfic sometime but for right now I'm making an angsty romance about Sora and Kairi. If they seem overly depressed, I'm basing this in the sense that they are just kids and they've gone through things most adults have never dreamt of suffering through so that carries a lot of weight in their hearts. Please read and review!

Riku: This guy doesn't own KH or any of the characters.

Me: HEY... I have a name...

Riku: When you get a review I'll think about it.

Me: I could make you die a horrible fiery death if I wanted to.

Riku: O_o

Me: On that note... Here's chapter 2 of Leaves in the Wind!

Chapter 2

The pestering sunlight beats through the worn windows onto his sleeping face, after a brief fight against the urge to wake up, Sora finally gave up and got out of bed. With an aloof yawn and lazy stretching, he made his way out of his minimalist room, furnished only with a mattress he and Riku found while they were walking around town, a small desk made out of cheap wood that had a candle standing on top of it. As he checked to make sure Riku was still asleep, (RIku surprisingly is a very lethargic person when he isn't saving the world) he made his way outside and stood with his hands on the rails looking out onto the sunrise that had woken him up not a few minutes ago.

It's so bright... he thought as his gaze lazily looked around for something interesting to spot. Every day on the island was the same, Sora would wake up and go out fishing for breakfast while Riku slept in. Sometimes, the spiky haired boy thought, he should pull his own weight. With a quick pivot of his foot, he made his way back into the house where he stealthily opened the door to Riku's room. Riku's room was about the same as Sora's with a difference being that Riku didn't have a candle on his night stand. Must be an aftereffect from being in darkness too long.

As he approached Riku, he grabbed a pillow that had made its way to the floor (god knows why) and gently smacked him upside the head with it. As the pillow connected with its target, Riku instantly forced his eyes open as he lost his balance and fell onto the floor with a very girly "WAAH" cry. Sora chuckled a little bit before he said, "It's about time you woke up"

Riku mumbled something as he got up from the floor and stared Sora down with a menacing death glare that could've killed any normal person on the spot. Sora isn't normal so he just shrugged it off as he made his way out of the door, "It's your turn to go out and get breakfast, I'm tired of being your food supply".

Riku grudgingly made his way out of his room as he saw Sora sitting on the chair, staring out the window they had made by simply blowing a hole through it using their keyblades. Of course they framed it so the splinters would not hurt anybody. At that moment, all the childish anger he had for making him not be lazy washed away as he stared at Sora's eyes. They were still a blue that could capture anybody's eyes, but they didn't shine. In fact, they seemed hollow.

"What you standing around for, the fish aren't gonna catch themselves!" Sora exclaimed with a smile that didn't reach his eyes. Riku sighed and mumbled "yeah yeah" as he walked out the door.

Riku knew that something was going on with his friend ever since he came back. He wasn't the same cheery kid who saved the worlds and whose heart rivaled that of a princess of light. Kairi kept asking him to tell her as much as he could about what happened to Sora to see if she could help. Even after explaining everything he himself knew, both he and Kairi couldn't figure out why he was this way, and they spent hours and hours thinking up of ideas to cheer him up.

It's almost like he's avoiding us... he thought as he stabbed at a fish with an amateur spear. With deadly precision he got his target and put it in the bowl and walked around the edge of the beach, doing the same for about a half hour before he walks back into the house with a good half bucket full of fish that he set on top of the counter. They didn't have a stove, so they made a small fire pit outside where the ground was made of soil so that the house wouldn't catch on fire everytime they tried to make food.

Riku was surprised to see Sora in the same place he left him, still staring out the window, with those hollow blue eyes. The thud of the bucket hitting the counter broke him out of his reverie and he snapped to attention. "Alright then food!" he jumped at the bucket and clutched it before sprinting outside, leaving Riku just shaking his head.

Sora emptied the fish onto a clean cloth and cleaned the bucket before setting it aside to the usual spot they left it in and put the cleaned fish into the pan he heated up while he was waiting for Riku to come back and he squatted down and stared at the fish, flipping them around every once in awhile. When the fish were finally nice and cooked, he put them on plates they made and made his way back into the house. His vision tinted into black at the edges as he set the plates down but he just blinked it away.

"RIKU FISH IS READ-" Sora stood paralyzed as he saw threads of black swarming around him and he couldn't move. Fear running rampant in him, he was hyperventilating as Riku made his way where the sound ended.

The last thing he saw was Riku looking questioningly at the paralyzed Sora. And then,

Darkness.