Sora walked through the door into what looked like a desert. The entire landscape was rolling hills of sand stretching until they disappeared from this world. It was bare and empty. Sora turned around to go back through the door but it was gone. In place, she saw two familar figures, "Yamato! Taichi!"

Yamato looked up from sitting on the sand and looked over at Taichi, who looked up, revealing the wounds on his arms and face. Sora gasped. "Taichi! What happened? Was it Yuk-?"

Taichi shook his head with effort and took a deep breath, "I was in this world of mirrors. The Mirrored World. And the mirrors exploded and cut me. Where were you?"

"First, I was in that Mirrored World and I had to pick the path I didn't take." Sora sat down on her knees and lowered her voice, "I stayed. It showed me what would have happened if I stayed in Odaiba."

"What do you mean?" Taichi asked. "If you stayed in Odaiba with Yurika?"

"Yes.." Sora nodded and tears rose up in her eyes.

"Sorry to interrupt but what are you talking about?" Yamato asked, looking guilty for listening when he wasn't even two feet away. Yamato remembered that Sora had broken up with him and started going out with some other guy. He didn't talk to her and didn't find out that she was even gone until the Other World. "Sora, what's going on?"

"I have something to tell you, Yamato." Sora whispered and looked down at the sand that moved beneath her palms. "I left Odaiba because I moved to Kyoto. To take care of my daughter- Yurika."

"What?" Yamato gasped and looked at the girl. "You have a daughter?"

"Yes, I'm sorry that I left and never told you but I thought you hated me after what I did to you." Sora saw the tears hit the sand. The sand soaked up the water and the damp spot disappeared in the sun.

"Who is the father?" Yamato asked and glanced at Taichi who stared at the wounds on his hands. Yamato looked back at Sora who finally looked up.

"The man in black. Yukito." Sora looked away, as if she was ashamed by the fact that she let an unknown murderer touch her, let him tell her that he loved her, and let him take her life.

Yamato opened his mouth to say something but a female voice interrupted him from behind, "Yamato! I'm sorry but I had to tell him."

Yamato, Taichi, and Sora turned their heads in surprise to see the girl in the Chinese dress. "Sakura, what are you doing here? And what are you talking about?"

Sakura bowed her head, "I had to come and warn you. He knows I talked to you. He'll be here."

"Who are you?" Sora asked and glanced between Yamato and Sakura.

"Cliffnotes version. My name is Sakura. I am a genie. I am being controlled by the man in black." Sakura said, quickly, almost stumbling over words. She looked at the three, "Are you all that is left?"

"What do you mean?" Taichi asked and looked up, "Where is Hikari?"

Sakura lowered her eyes, "He killed them. I'm so sorry but he had taken your brother and they're both dead."

"Hikari and," Taichi paused. "Takeru?"

"Yes." Sakura replied and looked up with a wide-eyed expression. "He's here."

Yukito stepped out from Sakura with ease. The girl fell back and looked up at the man. He smiled at the three friends and grinned his demented grin, "Five down. Three to go."

"You killed Mimi?" Sora asked in harsh and surprised voice and glared at the man.

"Not before some fun." Yukito continued to grin. He waved his hand at the desert. "I never guessed that there were other worlds besides Earth before I was twelve. I went to the Other World and it occured to me that I could kill people and never be a murderer as long as I didn't do it directly. All those innocent people we were meant to save just fell into the way of that falling rock or fell into the ice and I just couldn't reach her."

"You stupid bastard." Sora hissed and looked away from Yukito and his story.

He acted as if he didn't hear her and continued, "But the others started to realize something was wrong and that's when they attacked me. I left the Other World but somehow I had to kill them. Killing Li was easier than I thought it would be. Tsuki, on the other hand, wasn't. Do you know how hard it is to just miss pulling your twin brother away from that speeding car?"

"Shut up, you fucking murderer." Yamato hissed.

Again, the words didn't phase Yukito. "Killing all of the destined children will be fun."

Sakura stood up as if she was puppet on strings. Yukito placed his hands together and Sakura, with a stricken look on her face, mimicked the man. He grinned as Sora was pulled down into the sand with a voiceless gasp.

"Sora!" Taichi and Yamato both cried and looked at the spot where she had been. There were no clues to where she went.

"Don't look down there," Yukito giggled. "She's right here."

With the genie mimicking Yukito's motions, a hour glass appeared with Sora on the bottom, pounding against the glass, and frozen sand at the top. With a simple flick, the sand began to pour down on the girl, slowly but steadily. Sora looked up at the sand, then at the glass blocking her from everyone else, and continued to slam her fists on the unflinching glass.

Yukito made a mock frown at Sora and turned to the two boys, "You have two choices. Save your friend and her daughter by giving up your lives. Or kill them by trying to fight me. That hour glass will be filled in about ten minutes. Choose quickly."