Disclaimer---Gah, these things are SO boring. -sigh- I don't own any of this, if u wanna sue, I have a nice collection of TY beanie babies....that's about all u'll have. But if u take them, I'll cry, I swear it! ;.;

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Just so you all appreciate this chapter, I've noticed that when you write something, you find ANYTHING to distract you. Don't believe a person when they say they're trying to find inspiration, they're just trying to find something to do other than write. I did my laundry in the middle of writing this!!!!! -.-

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"Aren't I still a little young for this?" Sora spoke through the side of his grin as he waved at a woman retreating through the overly-grandiose doors trailing a reluctant child who kept trying to look back just one more time at the sable-haired youth who had just given him a blessing. The door were closed softly behind the pair, as softly as doors as large as those could get; the 'click' echoing decently off the walls of the spacious and sparcely decorated throne room, his mother told him the room was simply waiting for his own touch, and Sora was once again left to his own devices, but not completely alone. Once he was sure they were gone, Sora winced and just about dropped to the floor, wrapping his arms around his chest.

Riku was instantly at his side, holding him gently and easing him to the floor so he could regain the breath he lost, "Countless advisors and viziers have offered to take over until you're older, or feeling better. You remember that the plan was to wait until-"

"Yeah yeah, I know. But somehow, a blessing from someone who works for the Keybearer doesn't sound as good as one from the actual Bearer would be." Sora cracked an eye open and grinned at Riku.

" 'Sides, you've always wanted people to see you as more mature than you really are-"

"Hey!" Both of Sora's eyes were open, he leaned his weight on one arm, palm down on the floor, while he shook his free fist and tried to scowl, pouted actually, at Riku, "what's that supposed to mean?!"

"It's really amazing how fast our lives have changed ya know?" Uh-oh, Riku's gone introspective again, Sora shook his head and stood shakily, pushing away any help Riku may have tried to offer.

"It kinda had to, I still can't help but feel guilty," Sora looked cautiously at Riku, gauging his reaction, when none came, he decided to take a different direction, Sora knew what had happened was a very delicate subject for Riku, "but look at it this way, it's like all the adventures were used to dream about

"Slightly less gracefull, but-"

"SORA I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!!"

In a rather spontaneous burst of fear driven adrenaline, Sora leapt behind the large throne sitting in the middle of the room on a pedastal, guaranteeing all that came to speak with its occupant had to look up to see. Kairi may have completely missed him if it weren't for the fact that the back of the throne was not solid, but silver metal bent in the shape of hearts, thus giving it its name, nothing to fill the middle of them. Sora's spiky brown hair was quite visible.

"You've been told that you should not be seeing people, you should be in your bed resting! Your injuries are FAR from healed, you won't let me touch you, and because of that you WON'T be healed for a long time!" Sora sat up and grinned stupidly at her. Kairi was a Princess of Heart, amoung things he had learned, Sora discovered that there were, in fact, many other worlds out there, each bearing a Princess of Heart to moniotor the keyhole of that world. It was important to maintain the balance of light and darkness flowing to and from a world, and a Princess was directly connected with the light, rumor had it that each had actually been birthed from the light for that soul purpose. Either way, it was only natural that each had an ingrained knowledge of how to use magic, it was not that Sora was exactly reluctant to be touched by magic, his wounds hurt whenever he moved and he would love them to be gone, but Kairi was not exactly experienced with her magic. There used to be more tapestries in the throne room, but fire had seen to them and not the single candle it had been intended for.

"I tried to talk him out of it." Riku leaned against the throne Sora was cowering behind casually, the black of his skin-tight tank and baggy cargo pants contrasted sharply to the almost white silver of the hearts. Most in the palace turned up a nose at his attire, for almost everyone in the place wore white, apparently if you wore a different color, you gave in to the darkness, but Sora rather liked how black looked on Riku, white was a bit much on him, especially with Riku's hair the way it was, "but he's just incredibly stubb-"

"And you! You shouldn't TRY to convince him, leave him no other option! Sora's gonna get sick and DIE!!" Kairi huffed and Riku just rolled his eyes, this getting interrupted was starting to get on his nerves.

"Kairi, just because he won't let you touch him doesn't mean Sora has no one to help him. His mother IS a healer, she wouldn't have allowed Sora off the Islands if she thought he was going to die."

"Where is Aerith anyway?" Kairi looked around as if the woman was simply hiding out of sight.

Sora popped up from his pathetic hiding spot laughing nervously, "Mom went with dad on one of his mission things."

"Great, so they left us with no supervision what-so-ever? Your parents have unending faith in you Sora." Sora's only response was to laugh a little too loudly and scratch the back of his neck.

"Not exactly Riku, that Leon and Yuffie, I believe their names were, are here." As if on cue, the doors clicked open and a rather tall man with hair much like Riku's, only brown and steal-blue eyes that seemed colder sometimes than the arctic poked his head in and announced rather gruffly, "The procession with Princess Aurora is here." With that, the door closed and this time, a slam bellowed through the room.

"That's my cue!" Kairi smiled brightly and rushed out through a smaller door on a wall adjacent to the doors that would take her out in front of the foyer.

Sora sighed dejectedly and slumped down on the throne, the plush sky-blue velvet cushions huffing out air from the sudden weight, and summoned his keyblade to sit across his lap. "I could use those advisors now."

Riku sat himself on an arm and wrapped his arms around Sora's smaller frame, "I could tell them to beat it if you want." Sora leaned into the embrace and tilted his head up to look into Riku's aquamarine orbs. He smiled and shook his head ever-so-slightly.

"Na, this is the last one today right? 'Sides, this is important news right."

Riku scoffed, "It's always of the utmost importance." He leaned down and brushed his lips across Sora's who blinked dreamily, "I say let it wait."

The sound of the door clicking open shook both of them from their haze, Riku leapt up to stand with his arms crossed and face a stoic calm next to the throne. Sora tried his hardest not to look bored, tired, and irritated by the small pain on his chest.

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A/N: Weeeeeeeeee epilogue. Now I know there has to be questions yes? I can answer everything u ask now. I will say this, I PLAN TO MAKE A SEQUEL TYPE CONTINUATION THING!!!!! Squim! my special word. Anyway, sorry this took a while to get out but I'm actually glad I waited cuz I like how it turned out.

Oh yes, I forgot to mention, Aerith and Cloud are Sora's parents. Questions about them will be answered and I will say that I plan to have them play some kind of part in the next installment.

May I rant for a moment, I'm totally in love with Gravitation, I owe it to Kingdom Hearts actually in it's own twisted way. I am going insane, I need volume five of the manga, but I've no way to get it!!! -sobs- No money sucks, and my father's goin Christmas shopping this Friday at the mall, normally I'd say "Hey dad, can u spare ten bucks?" But somehow I don't think he will, it'd just give him ideas for presents. I CAN'T WAIT THAT LONG!!!!!! Bad enough that I have to wait for Advent Children AND KH Two!!! Chain of Memories is out, but I don't have a GBA. ;.;

Anyway, as you can see, I don't bode well with anticipation, thus I sincerely apologize those who have anticipated the end (kinda) of this thing. Good news though! For those who liked Wings and wanted more of it, I have decided to write more for it! I even have an idea! Warning tho, Aerith and Cloud are Sora's parents again....I just think it fits ya know? Even though in FF Seven, I support the Tifa/Cloud pairing. Cloud's just a player . ANYWAY I'm gonna stop now if you haven't already stopped reading.

REMEMBER: Just submit questions to me and I will answer them!!!!

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