Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters or the game kingdom hearts. If I did I wouldn't be here I would be making the next game so yeah.

Again fanfiction equals a splitting headache. The edit thing does not work and completely screws up your story. I swear, did the people who made this even try to use it or were they to busy sucking shit and smoking crack.

I know I was mean for leaving you guys in the cold with the Cloud Aeris thing but yeah, if I got into that quick it would be no fun.

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Almost in tears the princess of the hearts' body shook as sat on her knees. Her hand covered her face not trying to stop the tears but to cover the face as she laughed hysterically a loud. Her red hair came down and covered her shoulders and leaving strands of her crimson locks playing on her face.

"Are those boxers or briefs" doubling over in laughter again kairi couldn't control herself of the sight in front of her.

"I don't know what you're talking about"

Standing up she unruffled her skirt and straightened her shirt. Wiping the tears off her eyes she brushed the lose strands of hair behind her ears.

Glancing down Sora jumped so fast he would of jumped out of his clothes if they weren't so tightly clung onto him.

"What when did my Shirt get so small and why do I have a weadgy."

"Then it is true, you really are a idiot" Falling to her knees

"What are you talking about?

"I don't know what's so amusing? For someone who hasn't seen me in awhile you seem a little light hearted." Sitting down. Sora drew his head back staring into the endless sea of stars.

Standing up kairi dusted off her skirt and looked up trying to figure out what Sora was staring at. Slowing gazing through the skies she little by little averted her eyes towards the sea.

" You know this place isn't real" Kairi spinning on her heal starts to move towards him.

" All this is nothing but a prison, a paradise of lost dreams and broken promises…" Now starring down on the half been hero. Sora lifted his head to meet her shallow eyes but promptly shot his eyes to ground in confusion.

"What do you mean… this is home… right?"

"No Destiny islands was taken over by darkness as soon as the heartless returned. They left nothing to chance, first they took the islands then quickly made there way to Hollow Bastion." Walking over to the water. Sora watched as she entered the water and jumped to his feet when he noticed the water just pass through her body and continue on its original way.

"What the"

"What's going on, No don't tell me your…" gazing at kairi with pleading eyes searching waiting, hoping for an answer.

" No you idiot, you're dead, well sort of, you're more like trapped here, which is as good as dead." She said with an "oh so matter of fact" tone.

"This is bad, real bad, I have to get out of here. Wait, you seem to know a way and your not freaking out…. Are you going to leave me hanging or what?" He paced back and forth thinking out loud.

"That's exactly what I'm going to do"

Stopping dead in his tracks Sora quickly ran up to her

"But why!?…. I have to…. OH GOD THAT'S'COLD!!"

Jumping ten feet in the air and landing back on the sand his body uncontrollably shuttered from the sudden extreme change in temperature.

"What do I have to do to get out of here, this isn't home and should water freeze if it's that cold." Shivering his words sounded like if he was holding on to a jackhammer on top of a dryer at full spin.

"First thing's first. I need to fill you in on what's happening to you and what's been happening."

"I'd rather talk to you in person, besides this place isn't right. How about when I get out of here I take you out and we can go out to dinner, you know a sort of date." His grin shook as his teeth chattered a hundred miles an hour.

Intrigued by his sudden playful attitude, kairi calmly strolled up to him only leaving a couple inches between the two of them.

"Well there is a way to get out of here"

"What…what is it" stammering between chatters and embarrassment trying to keep his cool.

"You have to kiss me "

Leaning in closer after each word she closed her eyes and tilted her head up. A small smile filled her face as she waited.

Swallowing hard Sora leaned in to kiss the beautiful princesses… his princes. As he moved his arms and started to wrap them around Kairi waist they seemed to never stop

What did she lose a lot of weight or something…? I could have sworn she had an unbelievable waist.

Kairi laughed hysterically as she looked at Sora head extended, lips puckered, and arms hugging the air. He looked as though he was trying to kiss himself.

Sora quickly realized his situation jumped to attention looking around nervously, as he scratched his head in confusion.

"What happened?" Finally locking eyes with Kairi

"Did you forget you are trapped her, not me" walking over to Sora she brought both of her hands up to stroke his face. Her hands flowed there his face as if her hands where made of clouds.

"But wasn't my head resting on your lap earlier?"

" No you numb nut it wasn't, it was just laying in the sand, what have you been sleeping on rocks or something"

Sora raised his hand and brought it up to her face, as he went to touch her check with his fingers his hand was met by a cloud of nothingness.

"You always have to try it before you believe anything" kairi taking a few steps back smiled and turned towards the sea.

"I promised myself when I came here to get you I wouldn't keep wishing I could stare off into the ocean and believe one day you would be on the next boat that came across the island."

"But it seems I will always dream…"

"Without dreams we are nothing. If you cannot escape into your own dreams than there is nothing left for you. Someone told me that in a dream one time…. Its funny because it's the same person every time, and I don't even know his face" averting his eyes from her he looked up again a nothingness made its way into his eyes.

"I've dreamt every day, and for this moment...." Sora's eyes lazily moved form the stars to the moon, then back to Kairi.

"How have you dreamt every day for this moment you fool. You don't even know how long you have been lost dreaming." Turing to face her once benign hero of innocence.

"Every one else has grown up except you…. Your still the same person from long ago trapped in that older body… your still the Sora from Destiny Islands"

"Long ago?"

"What do you mean?"

" Aren't you the same kairi I knew… I still know?"

" It been over 2 years of nothing…. There is nothing but hate, fear, and killing in the worlds. People are frightened. The heartless are back Sora, and now with out the fourth key bearer chaos has overtaken every world, even the one I am in now."

"Fourth…?" Shaking his head clearing his mind he quickly snapped back to attention.

" It does not matter how old I am, or where I came from, or how long I have been gone. My friends need me and so does every one else. I cannot sit here and wait until the world is plunged into darkness, and I will not wait until the world is plunged into darkness." Throwing his fist up and out while taking a step forward he almost ripped his already stretched clothing.

"But what can you do?" never moving her stone gaze off him

" I will do what ever I can do…

"Even though you cannot use magic nor your key blades, do you even have the chains? Do you even have the one I gave you?" Her stone glaze turning ice cold.

"It does not matter, I will fight and do what I can, my heart and friends are my weapons. That blade was never anything more than a promise, it was my heart that created that blade and my dreams that sharpened it" standing straight and throwing his right shoulder back and lifting his chin, he smirked knowing nothing could deter him from his beliefs.

Kairi's eyes melted from their ice and she quickly strolled up to him placing an impossible kiss

"You take me out on that date and you might get a real one" spinning around she walked of to the edge of the beach

Still dumbstruck Sora could do nothing but stare at her back

"Well seeing how you said everything I was waiting for you to say I guess you can leave now. Oh and next time I see you, you better have some new clothes."

"Wait that didn't help. You still haven't told me how to get out of here"

" You idiot, you still haven't figured it out yet?"

" Um… obviously not"

Turning to face him she smiled

"all you have to do is wake up"

"Wake up?"

"First you have to realize you're asleep silly"

" I'm asleep"

As if his words rang a bell everything around him was cast into a blinding light and his body was lifted into the air. As he seemed to fly through the light his body slowly rotated. Quickly losing himself from the rotating he searched the light for anything, the constant light attacking his every senses.

Relax, the light wont hurt you unless you lose your cool.

What? Whose there?

Your telling me you just finished seeing me and you forgot about me already. Sometimes I wonder about you.

Kairi

Now was that a question or were you just saying my name

Kairi I forgot to ask…. Are you alright wherever you are?

Of course, I have a couple body guards so don't worry about me.

When things are like this I always worry about you….

Your gonna start getting gray hair

Then it's a risk I will have to take

Sora… before you go… I love you

Kairi I …

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"love you to.." a mumble escape Sora's lips

Slowly opening his eyes, his lips closed, and his head turned pushing his face into the pillow he his head was resting on.

Sitting up he threw his arms out into the air stretching his cramped muscles. Looking around the room he first notices he was sitting in a bed a fairly small bed but a comfortable one nonetheless. As his eyes continue to drift he noticed a couch facing a small stoned fireplace. The fire danced and came lived as the logs burned giving the hut a very the piece of cozy atmosphere. As he stares at a shield that lay next to the ground he couldn't help but wonder if the piece of trash belonged to Goofy.

As he starred at the shield something moved out the corner of the room caught his eye. He turned his head toward a small round coffee table with 4 chairs neatly pushed in around it. A large crimson fabric danced from side to side as it flowed across the table. It seemed to be trying to get out of the gray light that shone threw a tiny rectangle window which was no bigger than a few inches.

"so I see she found you?"

Cloud emerged from a shadow over by another bed located at the opposite end of the small hut. The door to a bathroom blocked any stray light that shinned through the window.

" I see you were protecting me, I'm a big kid you know, I can take care of myself"

" Don't flatter yourself kid I was only here to get something that belong to me." Cloud walked over to the coffee table where the jaded cloth swayed. Grabbing it he slowly wrapped it around his face.

"Anyway the others should be any minute now." Turning around cloud made his way back to the shadowy corner from which he appeared.

"That's the first time I've seen your face"

" Think of it as a birthday present" stopping right before the shadow he turned his head to look at Sora.

" Happy bleated birthday"

"Sorry I missed it by a couple days." The shadow seemed to reach out and engulfed him as he slowly faded leaving nothing but an empty corner.

"It's was my birthday a couple days ago…? Lets see that would make me 16 or 17… lets see… kairi did say over two years."

"How long is a couple days?

(A/N: So we know Sora was fourteen at the end kingdom hearts. Lets say his birthday is in January and he sealed kingdom Hearts in May (its May cause I say May). O.k. keep with me now, cloud said earlier the exact time he was gone. 2 years and 8 months. Add that eight months to may including may. Now it's January and his birthday is in January. So now he's 15, add 2 more years and it makes him 17… get it?)

Still pondering his age Sora shook his head clearing his mind of the thought.

"Well I guess I'll clean myself up" jumping out of the bed he pealed the 9 sizes too small shirt off and threw it onto a dark corner. Taking off his shoes he thanked himself for always buying shoes that were a bajilion sizes to big, he ditched his socks long ago. As he pulled off his shorts, no boxers do the fact his shorts fit like boxers, he kicked all of the rest of his stuff into the same corner as his shirt.

Standing there in the nude he noticed a towel folded up on the bed next to the bathroom. He grabbed it and walked into the bathroom turning the light on and closing the door. Like the hut it was small, it had no windows and the only light was a small one hanging from the ceiling. There was a counter with a sink in it and a large mirror that spanned the wall behind the counter. Turning around he noticed the bath/shower that had a simple eggshell color curtain that was drawn over the tub.

Turning around he noticed a toothbrush still in its original wrapping, a bar of soap, a red wash clothe, a bottle of shampoo, a comb, a tube of toothpaste, and a note on the counter. Putting down the towel he picked up the note and begun to read it.

Sora

Cloud told me you would wake up before the end of he day so I went out and got you some stuff. We all know you need a bath, feel free. Just don't take to long in the shower or you'll get all wrinkly like a prune. All of its for you, and don't worry about Donald or Goofy they're with us.

Aeris

p.s. Happy Belated Birthday

Sora smiled as he put the note down and walked over to the tub and started the shower. Grabbing the shampoo, bar of soap, and washcloth he leapt into the shower…. And right back out again.

"OWWW DAMN IT…. That thing got hot fast…."

Turning the knob on the shower he turned the heat down and jumped back in, closing the curtain behind him.

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"Do you think he will like this?"

" Nah, he doesn't seem like a guy who's into dark clothing. Besides Yuffie I'm sure he can pick out something for himself."

"Oh your no fun"

"You told me that yesterday to…. By the way what did you mean by that?"

"……. You really don't know"

"No… why?"

"Never mind…?

They were in a small clothing store in the middle of the shopping district. It wasn't much but for a small town it was a very popular area. The road was paved with stone and each store had an old German look to it, all having a dark brown color to them. Snow rolled off the roof that seemed to point in every which way.

The snow outside slowly fell in large fluffs giving it a characteristic of warmth and a surreal sight. The snow started a couple of hours ago and started to build up on the ground and grass almost immediate. Looking out through the window someone could forget that this world too was in danger from the being swallowed by the darkness, as the snow covered everything making it truly a haven for all souls.

"Have you seen Donald and the Goof? The last time they were with us was when we past by that random pizza place" Aeris turned from the rack of clothing.

"No, there probably still with the guys, and knowing them they're probably all stuffing their faces right know."

"Except for Auron, I don't think I have ever seen him eat." Yuffie said while rubbing her chin.

As the two of them talked away in the middle of the store a girl no more than 10 or 11 walked up to them. She wore blue jeans and a big green parka. Her hair flowed to her ankles in a weave of red lace.

"Excuse me…" shyly the girl got Aeris's attention.

"But did you say Auron?" the girl fidgeted either her gloves as she waited for an answer.

"Why yes, and may I ask who you are? its not often you see a cute little girl like yourself wandering around " Yuffie asked

"YUFFIE, don't mind her, she just has her mind somewhere else, my name is Aeris nice to meet you"

"Its o.k…"

"Its nice to meet you Aeris, my name is Yuna"

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It is now 3:00 in the morning and I need sleep so I'm calling it a night.

I think I'm getting the hang of this thing so, hold on because this ride isn't even close to over yet.

Review please.