Chapter one:

Of dark nights, and sunny mornings…

Sora dozed fitfully, tossing and turning. His arm twitched and he mumbled something incoherent again. He hadn't slept well ever since defeating Ansem. Terrible nightmares, filled with nothing but darkness, plague him every night. He turned over, kicking and flailing, lashing out at thin air that to him would be horrors unimaginable.

"Kairi!" he screamed out, sitting bold upright, cold sweat pouring down his brow, his breathing short and fast.

"Shhhh…" a cool, comforting voice urged him, "she's fine, it's alright. She's fine, I'm here, it's okay," the voice whispered. Sora's breathing deepened and slowed, returning to normal.

"Oh Riku!" he blurted before bursting into tears. He clung to the owner of the voice, sobbing into his chest.

"Shhhh, it's okay Sora. It's okay. I'm here."

"Riku it was horrible…they're getting worse…I can't take this anymore…I…I…" but he couldn't continue, as another fit of tears caught him.

Riku, as he did every night, sat holding Sora. And, like every night, he cringed as Sora cried out for Kairi and not him.

"It's okay…" he mumbled. A single tear fell from his aquamarine eyes. It was not okay…for him. Sora finally stopped crying, letting go, his head sinking back down into soft pillows.

"Riku…k…a...i...r...i…" he mumbled falling back asleep. Riku stayed a few minutes longer, just watching as his childhood friend fell back into fitful, and nightmare filled sleep.

Sunlight streamed through the small window. Sora raised his head, blinking bleary eyes. He felt worse than when he had tried to get to sleep in the first place. He sighed; it had been this way for months now. Yet still the nightmares haunt him. He stretched and noticed as usual, Riku asleep beside his bed. Poor Riku, ever since the nightmares began he hasn't slept either. The light hit him then, seemingly on que, highlighting his silvery blue hair, making it shimmer and sparkle. His eyes flickered open. He raised his head slowly, rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

"Hey sleepy head," Sora said quietly with his infamous cheesy grin plastered on his face,

"Hey…" Riku yawned, frowning slightly. Sora threw off his doona, slipping out of bed, his baggy pyjamas falling past his feet making his foot falls silent. Riku followed suit, slipping on some fuzzy ugg boots.

"Want some brekkie?" Riku asked. Knowing he must've slept better than Sora. He also knew Sora would refuse the offer. He was never hungry in the mornings. Once he did eat breakfast (with a lot of worried prompting from Riku)…he spent the rest of the morning throwing up; so, as expected, Sora tiredly replied with a shake of his head, making his uncontrollable brunette hair to shake. Riku smiled, ruffling the shorter boys' hair.

"How about some juice?" he asked, he needed to have something.

"Sure" he said gratefully. He was really lucky to have a friend who cared for him so much. Riku seems to have taken on Kairi's role…Sora was distracted from his musings by a pillow hitting him in the face.

"Hey!" Sora yelled, disgruntled, before smiling and launching the pillow-come-projectile back towards Riku's smiling face. Riku deftly caught it, the smile never leaving his face. He wondered what Sora was thinking about…probably Kairi a bitter voice said in his head. Riku sighed and then flinched slightly as he too was knocked from his musings with a pillow projectile.

"Breakfast for one, juice for two coming right up!" he said cheerily, throwing off his dark mood. He was going to make today great.

For those of you who don't know (poor, unexposed people!) ugg boots are slippers, which are in fact boots, with a warm fuzzy inside:)…mmmm ugg boots:)