Okay, I found a bunch of type-oooo's after I put this up the first time. I guess that's what I get for typing when I'm sleepy. Anyways, I've been updating fast...I wonder how long that'll last, lol. I actually took the time to spell-check this chap. Yay for me! Anyways, this one is longer than the other two...And I hope it's not toooo corny. I've been writing pretty corny things lately...Anyways, enjoy!

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DISCLAIMER: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or any of it's characters. Thus is why it is called a FANFIC

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CHAPTER TWO: THE FIRST DAY

It was finally the day Sora had been waiting for. Though he had only waited two days, it seemed like forever. Ansem had helped him gather all the presents needed and he was finally ready to set his plan into motion. What he didn't know was that Ansem had some plans of his own...

Sora walked into the Secret Place and somehow managed to put the rock back in its spot. "Hey Ansem! Is it ready?" Sora questioned cheerfully. Ansem could tell he was looking forward to giving his buddy the special present, and if all twelve presents failed to make Riku happy he had another great plan for little Sora.

Ansem smiled a wicked smile and answered in a sweet voice, "ah yes Sora. This box contains his gift. Make sure you give it to him in the shadows." He pulled out a box from his cloak and handed it to the young teen.

Sora took the box from him and stared at it. "Is it safe?" he asked cautiously.

"Of course!" Ansem laughed. As safe as a pregnant woman deprived of chocolate...Heheheh....

Sora was just about to leave before he looked back at the cloaked figure. "Say, mind taking off that cloak?" he asked innocently.

"Why sure...but only the hood. If I remove the whole thing it'll ruin the mysterious look," he replied as he took of the hood revealing long silver hair and frightening yellow eyes.

Sora smiled an obvious fake smile. "My Ansem, you sure are scary."

"Thanks for the compliment."

"It wasn't a compliment..."

"Oh really?"

"I'd better go give this here present to Riku!" Sora squealed and quickly left the Secret Place, not remembering to close it up with the bolder.

Ansem stared at the light coming inside from the entrance. "If only I could get his heart too," he mumbled to himself.

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Riku sat up in his bed wondering if he should bother to go to the island. If he did go, there was a good chance Sora would bring along that present. "Oh how did I get myself into this?" he asked himself and he brushed his hand threw his silver hair repeatedly.

"Riku!" a voice from outside called. Riku rolled over and looked out his window. "Are you there?"

"What is it Tidus?" Riku answered as soon as he realized who was calling him. He peered out of the window and found Tidus and Wakka looking up at him. "Hey guys! What's up?"

"Nothing really," Tidus answered. "Would you come down here for a second?"

Riku yawned and nodded at the two boys. "Be there in a second." He crawled out of his bed and began walking towards his door. Unlike Sora, his room was neat and almost empty. Since most of his items were back on Destiny Island, he didn't have many things to take up space.

(a few minutes later...)

Riku came out of his house and gently shut the front door, careful not to wake his still sleeping parents. "What do you want?" Riku asked as he turned to find his two friends watching him closely.

"He seems okay," Wakka whispered to Tidus.

"Ya, but it could just be an act,"Tidus replied.

"I can hear you," Riku barked as he put his hands on his hips and tilted his head to the side. "What's this all about? What was Sora doing in the trash yesterday?"

Wakka to a deep breath and stepped forward. "That's why we're here," he began. "We found little Sora digging through the trash yesterday looking for pear seeds. Ya, he found a couple and was just about to leave with them when we caught him."

"We weren't sure what to make of it," Tidus added. "When we asked him about it he told us someone said he needed them. If you're not careful something bad will happen again."

"Tidus!" Wakka yelled as he smacked his blond friend with his fist. "You aren't supposed to bring that up!"

"Ouch...Sorry."

Riku stared off into space. "It happened last year..."

"Hey Riku! Look at me!" Sora yelled, he was standing on top of the club house roof and looking very proud of himself.

Riku didn't bother to look at him and continued pacing around the beach. "If you don't get down you'll end up killing yourself," he grumbled.

Sora stuck out his tongue and began to climb down. Suddenly, he lost his balance and fell down into the water. "Oh crap!" he cried as he fell head first into the shallow end.

Riku looked up to find Sora lying on the ground with his butt in the air. "Sora! Are you okay!?" he screamed as he ran over to Sora and frantically checked to see if he was breathing. From what he could tell, Sora wasn't breathing at all. Okay, there's only one thing I can do...Nobody else is around so it won't be so bad. Before Riku knew what he was doing, he was giving Sora CPR, and frantically trying to breath life into his half dead friend. It was the third time he put his mouth to Sora's that the brown haired boy grabbed his head and pulled him down into his face.

"HAHAHAH!" Tidus laughed, amused at what he had just seen. Riku looked up at Tidus with a confused expression and was blinded by the bright flash of a camera. "What great pictures!" he laughed as he ran off.

Riku looked down at Sora who was giggling like a clown and then realized what had just happened. He had just kissed Sora, and Tidus had gotten it all on film.

Riku glared at Tidus and Wakka. "Wasn't it you who took the pictures?" he asked harshly. "Wasn't it you who put Sora up to the challenge?"

Tidus opened his mouth to speak but not before Wakka grabbed him by the ear and began pulling him away. "That's enough you guys, we don't need any fighting. I dunno who is working behind Sora this time, but I'd watch out. It could be one of the girls. You hear me man?"

Riku shrugged and rolled his eyes. "Yeah, I hear you..."

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Sora was running happily around Destiny Island looking for Riku, who wasn't anywhere to be found. "Riku?" he called as he searched.

"Sora!" a voice called. Someone responded to his calls, but it wasn't Riku. Suddenly Kairi bolted out from behind a tree and smiled shyly at him.

"Oh, hey Kairi. Have you seen Riku?" he asked her.

"No. Just forget about him for a second," she ordered as she approached Sora.

Sora began to laugh. "Forget about Riku? I can't do that," he replied to her silly order.

"Why not? Why aren't you doing something special for me? I thought we were together."

"What made you think that?" Sora said sarcastically. "That's real funny Kairi." After that last comment, Sora couldn't tell if Kairi was blushing or angry. Either way, her face was blood red.

"You stupid jerk! You've been hanging out withRiku for to long!" she shouted in anger as she slapped the cheerful boy in the face and stormed away.

Sora rubbed at his red cheek and glared at her as she left. "Geez...I was only kidding," he mumbled to himself.

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Riku sat on his front porch and started into the street. I wonder where Sora is he thought to himself. His thoughts were disrupted when he heard his name being called once more. I 'm pretty popular lately, maybe it's that new shampoo...

"Hi Riku!" Selphie giggled as she ran over to the tired boy. "Kairi's mad at Sora and told me to tell you that Sora is wandering around the island looking for you."

Riku sighed and sunk into the lawn chair. "Yippie," he groaned lazily. "Do I have to go see him now?"

"Now would be good," the chipper girl replied. Without another word she grabbed Riku by the arm and dragged him off towards the boats.

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Once Selphie and Riku reached Destiny Island, they found Sora sitting on the club house roof holding a strange box. As soon as Sora caught sight of them he grinned and jumped off the roof, landing on his butt and in the water. "Hey Riku!" he called, ignoring the pain from the fall.

"Is Sora getting an invincible bottom?" Riku asked Selphie, he was half joking.

"I dunno. Maybe you should spank him and find out," she teased.

"How about not," he answered and flipped the boat over, causing them both to fall into the ocean.

"Riku! I'm all wet!"

"So, I am too."

"But you don't care!"

"And that's not my problem," he laughed as he swam up to the beach and found Sora waiting for him. "What's that?" he asked suspiciously as he eyed the gift in his friends hands.

"It's for you!" Sora answered happily and handed Riku the box. "Go on, open it up!"

Riku stared at it for a few minutes before he began the unwrapping process. Once he pulled the paper off, he slowly lifted the lid on the cardboard box. To his surprise, he found a mini peach tree inside. What he didn't notice was the small bubbling shadow in the corner of the tree.

"Here this will make it work," Sora mumbled as he blocked out the sun with his body and created a shadow to fall over the box. When he moved out of the way, a small creature jumped out of the box and scratched Riku on the face. Riku immediately dropped the box and grabbed his bleeding cheek. "What the crap is that!?" he screamed in pain.

"It's your present. It's called a heartless. Do you like it?" Sora asked happily.

"If I like pain! What kind of reject pet store did you pick this thing up from?"

"Not a pet store at all. A friend."

"Great, it's an illegal pet," Riku mumbled as hestared at the tiny heartless dancing around in the box. He noticed it was giving him a really disturbing look, and it reallyscared him. "I don't think it likes me," he said as he tried tokick the box back to Sora.

Sora shook his head and pushed the box back. "It's you're present!" he yelled and ran off to the Secret Place. As soon as he disappeared, Riku looked down at the heartless and noticed it wasn't in the box. He felt something crawling on his back and he quickly grabbed it and threw it into the ocean. Of course, that didn't stop the tiny creature. Instead, it seemed to enjoy it...

Riku smirked at the tiny creature and grabbed a piece of wood lying nearby. "Fine, lets have it your way..." Within seconds Riku and the tiny heartless were dueling. Every time Riku swung the board the heartless would somehow dodge and he'd hit himself instead. It only took a few minutes for Riku to realize this pattern and change his strategy.

(an hour later...)

Riku was still trying to hit the dark creature and every attempt he made seemed to fail. He was just about to give up when the creature jumped onto his chest and tried to pull out his heart. Riku took this opportunity to hit the creature repeatedly before knocking it off into the sand. Riku getting ready to trigger the final blow, but stopped after seeing the creature whimpering at his feet. He slowly lowered his sword and the heartless jumped into his arms and disappeared into thin air. "That was odd," he said to himself and then threw the board into the ocean.

He began walking towards his boat when the heartless popped up holding a shining heart. Riku glared at the dancing heartless. "Where did you get that from?" he asked coldly. The heartless appeared to be laughing and suddenly ate the heart. If watching his new pet eat some glowing heart shaped object wasn't strange enough, then the fact that it seemed to grow after it ate the heart was. The heartless was now the size of Riku's hand and wouldn't fit in the box anymore.

Once again, Riku began walking towards his boat when he spotted Tidus from the corner of his eye. He turned and watched Tidus disappear into the club house and his mind began to wander. It's getting late, what's he doing here? Riku stared at his boat and found it was the only one there. "Did he swim the whole way?" he asked himself. Those words must have triggered something because the heartless suddenly dashed towards the club house. "Hey, heart-thing! Stop!" he screamed as he chased after the heartless.

Before Riku could get to the club house he heard a loud scream. "Oh my goddess! Wakka!" a voice screamed. Obviously the voice belonged to Tidus, and Wakka was in trouble.

When Riku entered the house, he found Wakka lying on the ground with the heartless sitting on his chest. "What happened?" Riku asked Tidus. Tidus stood in the corner with his wooden sword pointed at the tiny animal.

"It killed Wakka!" he screamed. Riku looked at Wakka and laughed.

"No way! It's harmless. It may have scratched me, but it can't kill anyone. Especially not Wakka," he reassured Tidus. That's when he spotted something in the creatures bony hands. It was holding a glowing heart and before Riku could take the heart from it, it ate it and disappeared.

"It ate his life!" Tidus cried as he fell on the floor beside Wakka and shook the dead boys body. The heartless reappeared on Riku's shoulder, it was now the size of a parrot and was twice as scary.

Riku looked at the heartless and then at his friends body. "Tidus, lets hide his body behind the tree," Riku suggested. The two boys dragged the red haired boys body behind the tree and covered him with a blanket.

"Now what?" Tidus sobbed loudly.

"We're going to fix him, don't worry," he told Tidus. This time he was sure that he was right. He stared at the heartless on his shoulder that was still laughing and dancing as if nothing had happened. If that shining object was Wakka's heart, then who owned the other heart? Riku sighed and stepped outside. The sun had set and the stars were out. If the day hadn't been so weird he would have thought the night was wonderful. "On the first day of Christmas," he sung. "My best friend gave to me, a heartless in a pear tree."

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Sora sat on the ground beside Ansem and was drawing some kind of star on the stone wall. "Will this be done by tomorrow?" Sora asked the yellow eyed villain as he continued to draw the strange shape. Ansem looked up from the black book he was reading and blinked.

"Yep, it says that we need at least two hearts though," Ansem told him.

Sora frowned. "Where are we going to get them?"

Ansem grinned evilly. "Don't worry. They've already been taken care of," he answered in a sinister voice.

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Wasn't that nice? You'll getta find out who the other heart belonged to, and the next present will be real nice!wink wink Okay...Uhmmm...R&R please!