Me: Hey guys! It's Ghostout finally here for a new update on Leaves in the Wind :)

Riku: I don't think anyone cares about your introductions.

Me: I don't think anyone cares about your face .

Riku: ... How old are you again?

Me: FEAR ME.

Riku: *sigh* Here's chapter 3. As usual he doesn't any of Kingdom Hearts and its characters blah blah blah.

Me: Why do you hate me so much?

Riku: I need a reason now?

Sora weakly opened his eyes and looked around him. He wasn't in the shack anymore with Riku. He was in darkness. Utter and complete darkness. He sighed as he forced himself to stand up on the seemingly invisible floor. What happened... Where am I? he thought as he absently walked forward, searching for something in this endless abyss. His feet seemed to be on solid ground but abruptly fell through the ground and he felt himself falling.

No not falling... Floating? he thought as he seemed to be suspended in mid air. he swung his arm out and a flash of light beamed out of his hand before the keyblade replaced it. Sora pointed directly in front of him and shot a beam of light weakly. A ways away he heard a small chink and saw what seemed to be a crack of light enveloped in the darkness. He shot another beam of light at it, only stronger and caused a shattering sound to pierce his ears, as he was enveloped by tendrils of light and darkness as he gasped and heard a voice faintly.

Please... Don't leave me again...

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Kairi expertly tied her boat to the dock as she had so many times before. She sighed as arched her back and stared at the sky. Riku had called her 20 minutes earlier telling her to get to the shack as soon as possible. Did something happen to Sora...? she shook the morbid thoughts from her mind as she made her way up the stairs to Sora's home. She was secretly jealous of Riku. She felt as though she never had much time to spend with Sora and wished that she was living here with him. Then again they always shut that idea down whenever she brought it up. It's not like I can't take of myself... she fumed.

She lightly knocked on the worn door and almost instantly was opened hurriedly by a concerned Riku. "You're here! Good." he remarked as he led her inside, his eyes darting from place to place. Now Kairi was getting increasingly worried. She had never seen Riku this worried. Not even when they were fighting Xehanort.

"Wait. What's wrong Riku? Where's Sora?" she exclaimed as she looked around, noticing her secret crush was nowhere to be found. Riku let out a sigh and pointed at Sora's door. "He's in there" he stated blankly, although his eyes were betraying concern.

Kairi warily squeaked open the door and snaked her way inside the room. Although she had been in his room before, she felt almost relieved as she walked through the simple bedroom of his. Almost like she was home.

Her eyes quickly went from a glazed dreamlike stare to a shock as she looked at the spiky haired boy. He was laid down on the bed with no sheets over him. If one was to look solely on his body, then they would say he is sleeping soundly. But the problem wasn't with his body. It was his face. Where once were luminous eyes blue that she could stare at and get lost for hours on end, stood strings of dark thorns that whispered quietly around him. His cheeks were already turning black as it seems to bleed through the thorns to the skin. She staggered a step forward and then stood in complete shock. D...Darkness? But how? Sora never let the darkness get to him... she thought as her stare lingered on the boy's face.

She moved her hand from dangling on her side to reach for her friend's face, but a shield of light burst into her sight as she heard Sora scream in otherworldly pain and arch his back. She was horrified at the sight of her closest friend being in such a painful state and instinctively moved to hold him down, but once again was met with resistance as the light caused him to feel shocks of light shoot through him. His whole body squirming trying to escape it while letting out what was now less of a scream and more of a painful howl.

Kairi quickly backed off and fell down as she caught her breath she was unconsciously holding while this entire thing was occurring. What... What's happening to him?! Her train of thought was interrupted as Riku stormed in the room and looked at Kairi.

"Kairi! Are you alright?" Riku asked as he helped her up.

"Yeah... Riku... what HAPPENED to him?" Kairi asked with a strained voice, trying to fight back the panic that was swelling inside her. Riku dropping his head was not helping.

"I can't say... It must be the darkness finally getting to him" he answered with a solemn look on his face. Kairi's head was whirling with thoughts. No... No Sora would never give in to the darkness!... Would he? She walked closer to the sleeping figure of her friend, being safe to keep a distance away from him. She stared at his scrunched up face and struggled to keep herself from touching him. SHe always loved him. More than he would ever know. Yeah she had a crush on him but he wouldn't love her back. She doesn't deserve him after all she's put him through.

And yet here she is, standing over the one she's always been watching.

"Sora...? I know you're in there." her voice was calm as she started, "I don't know what's happening to you and I don't know what I can do to help... But please... Come back to me. I lost you twice already... I... I can't stand to lose you again." her voice was strained at the end and her fists were balled up.

She knelt on the floor and looked longingly at her soulmate, the man who gave up her heart for him. The man who went through hell to make sure he came back to her. And now, it looked like it was all for naught.

"Please... Don't leave me again."

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