Author's Note: I'm soooooooooo sorry it took so long for me to update! I had to go through writer's block, computer crashes, and being away from the computer for long periods of time. But I'm back! And I have the second chapter up! Oh, and I know I changed it to "angst" rather than "romance." That's because it's changing to go that way. Don't worry, I shall write a fluff story for you all.

Disclaimer: No, I don't own Kingdom Hearts. Or any of its characters, for that matter. Be assured that if I did, it would be full of crazed fangirl-goodness. Now on to the story!

Chapter 2

Mirai wa zutto saki da yo boku ni mo wakaranai

Riku jumped and turned around, looking for the source of the voice. "Who's there?"

"You have been chosen, Keyblade Master," a different voice, a woman's, called from behind the shadows.

"What? Keyblade? What are you talking about?" Riku yelled. He was starting to get nervous.

The glib man's voice came back to answer, "The door has opened. You wanted to see other worlds, did you not?"

"How do you know what I want?" Riku backed up from the direction of the voices, only to jump as the woman's spoke behind him.

"Ah, yes. The other...."

An image of a younger Riku catching an also younger Sora in a headlock flickered through Riku's mind. He looked around, sharply. Where were they hiding? "Just what do you want?"

"Do not fear the darkness," the two voices chided.

"What's that supposed to mean?!" But the voices were gone.

Riku looked at the door again. "'Do not fear the darkness....'" He reached out to touch it, and as he did so a large keyhole appeared. Riku recoiled away from the door, looking at it in disbelief before running out of the cave. Behind him, a small black creature with bright yellow eyes popped up from the ground.

Outside, shooting stars like he had never seen came down from the stormy sky. Riku stared up as he walked to the sandy shore. These weren't like meteorites at all. They were more like, "Falling comets?"

Large gusts of wind were blowing up sand as the storm drew in to the small island. Riku raised his hand to shield his eyes and remembered. The raft! He raced off, only to come upon its dismantled remains.

"Oh no...." He had to tell someone. Sora! His house was closest to their island anyway. Riku turned back around to see a tiny black thing in front of him. He took a step back, but his little ebony 'friend' didn't seem like it was going to attack. It seemed as though it were trying to show him something, although what, Riku couldn't figure out. It scuttled a little bit away and looked back him as though trying to get him to follow.

After a small pause of deliberation, Riku followed the creature back through their seaside shack and up to Riku's tiny sandbar of an island. He gaped as he saw a large mass of black and orange energy above it, pulling up plants, wood, anything that wasn't tied down it seemed. He heard foots steps on the wood planks behind him, but did not turn.

"Riku... What's going on? The raft's gone, and there was this... thing. It tried to attack me. I don't understand what's happening!" The panicked voice was Kairi's.

Riku sighed. It wasn't who he had hoped it was. "The door...."

"What door?"

"There's a door inside the cave. Go there. They'll tell you what's happening to our island."

"They who?"

Riku didn't answer. He couldn't give them names or faces, so he remained silent.

"Riku?"

"Just go."

There was a pause when neither said a word. Then, figuring she wouldn't get a straight answer out of Riku, Kairi left him under the massive power that was eating at the insignificant island.

Sora. Will you come? You're too headstrong not to find out what's happening, aren't you? If you come, we can leave this place. We can go to a new world. We can go together....

The little black creature popped up from the ground again and blinked at him. Riku smiled softly. New things weren't always bad, and if you never give it a chance, you'll never know how it will work out in the end. He reached out a hand to it. The creature swatted at it as though his hand had frightened it and sunk back into the ground.

More foot steps sounded behind him.

"Where's Kairi? I thought she was with you!" Sora's adolescent voice rung hollowly in the night air.

"The door has opened...." Riku answered, more to himself than to Sora.

"What?" The chestnut-haired boy's question snapped Riku's attention back to him.

"The door has opened, Sora. Now we can go to the outside world!"

"What are you talking about? We've gotta find Kairi!"

"Kairi's coming with us!" Riku automatically snapped, making Sora recoil slightly in surprise. "Once we step through, we might not be able to come back. We may never see our parents again. There's no turning back. But this may be our only chance. We can't let fear stop us. I'm not afraid of the darkness!" Riku called out to the looming presence above them.

"Riku...."

He offered his hand out to Sora, turquoise orbs flashing an "are you coming or not?" message. As Sora reached out to take his hand, a dark power from below them slithered up, entwining the two boys and dragging them into shadow.

"Sora..." was Riku's last thought as the darkness swallowed him.

A/N: There it is! Hope you liked! It doesn't flow as nicely as I would like it to, and it left out a small Riku scene from the manga, but I'm happy with it anyway. I'll get to work on the third chapter as soon as I can. Be sure to read and review if you want a happy author!