READ THIS AUTHOR NOTE PLEASE!

AN; I'm sure a lot of you are going. Thank god for her fixing this, and other are just wondering what is going on.

You see I wanted to work on the fic, but I wanted to freshen up on what I had already written. After reading Chapter One, I found myself hating how it was going and what was written. That and it wasn't edited correctly.

Also I've had a few complaints over how I'm writing this. So here are my simple answers.

1. This is a 'Story' not a PWP, while the main pairing is Riku and Sora, there are other characters that will help with the plot of my fic. If you are so bothered by this, then don't read FTP.

2. Riku and Rikku are both totally different things in Japanese. They don't even sound similar. Riku is pronounced Ree-koo, while Rikku is pronounced Reek-koo. In Japanese you articulate the extra consonant when there are doubles. (and yes I am not making this up, look it up if you don't believe me.) So the names are only similar in that they look a lot a like in Romanji. They don't even have the same Kanji characters. So I will not be making any reference to how the two have the 'same names'. As they really don't and it has nothing to do with my story.

3. When you try to critic my work, please don't sound like an idiot. It will only make my upset and I'll stop writing. Be nice and point out things like wrong hair colors or bad grammar. This is an AU, so not everything will be like in the game.

4. If you don't like what I'm writing then don't read my fic! But if you do keep going.

That done I thought it best to let my readers know that I'll be putting in a lot of underlines of Japanese culture in this fic. I will hopefully be able to inform you of the little things when they come up either at the beginning of the chapter or at the end. All things I put in my fic, I have read from books and not the internet. So if there is something that you don't believe or you 'know' I'm lying about, please send me a reference if you wish to complain. Thank you.

So for now just enjoy the fic. This should be the longest Author Note I'll write for a while.

Also a quick thank you to those that gave me the encouragement that I needed to continue this. As well as the ones that listen to my endless chattering of ideas.

Oops can't forget my readers. Thank you for reading this even with the mistakes.

Disclaimer; Don't own any Disney, Kingdom Hearts or Square characters. If I did, I'd be rich and not poor, and watching SxS porn.

Summary: Sora did not know what would happen to him when he took hold of Riku's hand, and following him into the darkness. He only knew that something waited for him, he did not know if it was good or bad. But he had Riku with him and that is all he needs. Well and a map.

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Sora couldn't say no to Riku when he asked.

Asked him to join him with the darkness. He couldn't find Kairi anywhere and Riku was all he seemed to have left. Besides how he could say no to his secret crush. So he rushed forward grabbing a hold of the other boy's out stretched hand. The black darkness creeping up Riku's body began to cover them both, sucking them in and pulling them a part.

"Riku! I'm slipping . . . I-I can't hold on!" Sora yelled into howling winds.

Riku only smirked, pulling on Sora's grasped hand, the darkness as if following its' maters call let up its' push, allowing Sora to glide effortlessly into Riku's stronger arms. The older boy's voice drifted to Sora, "I'll never let you go, Sora. You're mine now."

Looking up to try to see what Riku meant by his words, Sora asked confused, "What do you mean, Riku?" The other boy only shook his head, there was no time to answer naive questions.

Sora couldn't help but wonder at this. But with the darkness surrounding the two boys, slowly devouring them, wouldn't allow him to dwell on such a matter.

Suddenly, a lurch from under their feet startled the younger of the boys to look down a noticed that the inky blackness had reached their waists, steadily rising higher. Scared Sora burrowed into Riku's chest shivering.

A chuckle erupted from the silver haired boy, his arms tightening around Sora just enough to reassure the younger boy.

"Don't be scared, Sora. This is only the beginning of our first journey together. Just the two of us."

Sora could only nod, he was so scared and was starting to get really cold. Riku was there though, nothing could go wrong as long as he had Riku with him.

Nothing.

Even now, the cold was leaving, and the black mist rising to their necks, no longer felt as threatening.

"Here we go." Riku muttered as the inkiness flooded over their heads, blinding them in it's eerie depths, "Hold on tight, Sora. This might get a little bumpy."
"Alright." Whispered Sora, wrapping both arms around the taller boys neck, and nestling his head on his bony collarbone.

Riku moved his arms to get a better grip on the smaller boy, an are twining around his slim waist and the other going over his upper back to rest a hand on a shoulder. He promised to never let go, and he planned to keep that promise.

When they were swept away, it felt as if they were in a cyclone and helplessly they felt themselves slipping from each other's grasps. Luckily, Riku was able to keep a hold of Sora by keeping a hold of one of his arms' elbow joint.

It felt like forever before they stopped.

They found themselves in a place full of lightning and large towers that seemed to call the charges of light to them in their over powering and eerie way. At the first sound of the thunder, Sora cried out and fell into Riku's leisurely waiting arms.

They were no longer in Destiny Islands, that was for sure. Now they found that they were in a whole new world, one unlike they had ever dreamed of. It was so different compared to their islands back home. And quite suddenly they felt unbelievably free for the first time in their lives.