---Sora53: -hands out party hats- HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Naminé: ...whose birthday is it?
Sora53: Coritas!
Corita: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!
Naminé: And no darkness!
Corita: Well, that won't do. -blasts a random lawn gnome into oblivion-
Everyone: O.o
Sora53: It's the 2-year anniversary of when I wrote the first chapter of Twin Hearts!
Everyone: PARTY!
Sora/Riku Fangirls: WAR!---

Disclaimer: I don't own KH or CoM. I own the 2-year-old Corita. PARTY!

Before Riku or Corita could respond to this statement, Riku Replica grabbed his sword, identical to the real Riku's.

"Stop!" Corita cried.

"You stay out of this." Riku Replica snarled.

"Hehe, you know what's funny? I remember someone telling me that once...he looked a lot like you." Corita said sweetly as she grabbed her staff. "There was only one difference...he was real!"

Riku Replica slashed at her, but she blocked him with her staff. Riku rushed over with his sword, and Corita stood back and watched the fight...the fight between the real and the fake Riku.


"I guess this is how it ends..." Riku Replica said bitterly as he lay on the ground in exhaustion. Riku was standing over him, panting heavily. The battle had been long, but Riku had come out victorious. Corita, who'd been watching, had had a hard time telling the Rikus apart in the blur of battle, but she now stared down at Riku Replica with pity.

"I suppose it isn't all bad." Riku Replica said calmly. "I was never real...even what I'm feeling now is probably fake. I never had a real heart..."

"What are you feeling?" Corita asked curiously.

"What happens when someone who's not real dies?" Riku Replica asked with a touch of fear in his voice. "Where will my heart go? That is, if it doesn't disappear completely..."

Riku and Corita thought this over for a few moments.

"It'll probably go to the same place our hearts will go." Corita said simply.

"That's so original."

"It's the truth." Corita said. "When Vexen did that experiment on me, I didn't know what had happened to me...but I still had the same heart. You were created by Vexen...we're two peas in a pod." Corita said, smiling. "Your heart is real."

"That's so corny." Riku Replica said with a sigh. "Oh well."

Just as Lexaeus had, Riku Replica vanished before their eyes. Riku and Corita stared at the spot for a few moments in silence.

"We...we should get going." Riku said slowly.

"Huh? Oh, yeah..."


"How many floors does this place have?" Corita cried in despair.

"We're getting close. I can sense it." Riku said.

"Ooh, here we go again with your super-duper dark powers..."

"There's another scent up there..."

"Ooh, well, we'd better trust in Riku's super-duper dark powers!"

Riku and Corita clambored up the steps, huffing and puffing as they climbed the huge steps.

"Did they really...need to make the steps...this big?" Corita asked.

"I guess so."

"That's original."

Finally, the two reached the top of the stairs. They'd reached a wide area, with another small set of steps ahead of them.

"More stairs?" Corita whined.

"No, we're not going for the stairs..." Riku said softly. He walked to the right, past Corita towards a small doorway.

"Wait for me!" Corita cried as she quickly ran to catch up with him. Corita had never been a fast runner, as the sports and races on the island were usually left to Sora and Riku. Riku moved speedily ahead, down a long hallway.

"Look, more statues of flowers." Corita grumbled. "Look, more white walls with an eerie blue glow. I'M SICK OF THIS PLACE!"

"Sssh..." Riku said as he stopped at the end of the hallway. The hallway was opening up into a huge room, and Riku moved foward into it, followed by Corita.

"That must be..." Riku said slowly as his eyes turned to a figure in the center of the room, who was staring up at a huge flower-shaped contraption.

"It's Naminé!" Corita cried.

Riku turned to face her. "You know who she is?"

"Yeah! I've been trying to tell you...you kept ignoring me." Corita said bitterly.

"Sorry." Riku said gruffly, and he started to move towards the blond-haired girl.

"Naminé!" Corita called out as the two moved to her.

Naminé turned away from the contraption she'd been facing with a jolt. She looked at Riku and Corita with a soft expression after a moment.

"Hello." She said in her usual soft voice.

"You're Naminé?" Riku asked.

"Yes."

"So...it was you..." Riku muttered to himself.

"Huh?" Naminé asked. "Did you say something?"

"Don't worry about him; he likes to talk to himself." Corita said, shoving Riku out of the way. "What happened to Sora? Have you seen him?"

"Yes."

A brief moment of silence followed.

"...and?" Corita asked in a slightly irritated tone.

"He's there." Naminé said, pointing towards the contraption behind her.

Corita and Riku (who'd come back over to the two after being thrown backwards by Corita) looked up towards where she was pointing. Riku let out a gasp, and Corita nearly fell over.

"WHAT THE HECK DID YOU DO TO MY BROTHER?" Corita roared.

"Yeah...what's up with Sora?" Riku asked in a slightly quieter tone.

"Nothing, don't worry. He's just sleeping. He has to to get his memory back."

"So...he'll remember me, too?" Corita asked.

"Yes, as soon as he wakes up."

"That's a relief." Corita said with a sigh.

"Sora is hard-headed, but I guess he makes smart choices sometimes." Riku said.

"SORA ISN'T HARD-HEADED!"

"You have a choice to make as well, Riku." Naminé said serenly.

"I...do?"

"In your heart is darkness...in that darkness is Ansem. Before he awakens and takes you over again, let me lock your heart. I can make it so he'll never escape."

"Doesn't seem like a bad deal." Corita said.

"Yeah, but what'll happen to me if you do that?" Riku asked. "Will I forget everything, like Sora? I will, won't I..."

"It's your choice, Riku. The darkness will be sealed along with your memory. So...choose."

"Sora looks like he hasn't got a care in the world." Riku said. "Will I sleep that well, too?"

"Yes."

"Then I've made up my mind." Riku said boldly. "Sora always did what he pleased...when this slacker wakes up, I'm gonna have to chew him out. I can't do that If I've been sleeping like him! So...keep your lock. I'll face the darkness...and Ansem...myself."

"What if Ansem gets the better of you?"

"I'll make that darkness show me the way."

"That's true." Naminé agreed, nodding.

"Why do I get the feeling you knew I'd say that?"

"I didn't know. I hoped. I want you to face the darkness, because you're the one who can."

"So that's why you came to me in the light. As Kairi."

"You knew!" Naminé cried.

"I knew as soon as I met you. Somehow you...smell the same."

Naminé smiled, and the two looked over at Corita, who was staring up at Sora with a look of lonliness and sadness.

"Corita..." Riku whispered sadly.

Sora53: Oh, such sadness, and on your birthday!
Corita: I know! Everyone has to give me presents to make me feel better!
-presents randomly fall from the ceiling-
Riku Fangirls: Finally, that annoying replica is gone!
Sora Fangirls: Sora's so cute when he's asleep.
Riku Fangirls: -.- That Sora is so hard-headed.
Sora Fangirls/Corita: What did you say?
Joe: Corita, since it's your B-day...Naminé helped me make you this!
Corita: Aw, it's a necklace! It's so pretty! Thank you, Joe! -hugs Joe-
Joe: -dies from happiness-
Naminé: Well, what else did you want me to do while I watched your hard-headed brother sleep?
Sora53: I sense another war coming.
Everyone: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CORITA!
Corita: Squee! ---