Author's Note-Here's the next chapter. About the whole FF7 thing, I did see once on the official Kingdom Hearts page that in Kingdom Hearts, Cloud was 22 and Leon was 25. But the whole brother thing in Final Fantasy doesn't really matter cause this is Kingdom Hearts, and they kinda screwed up a lot of FF things in there... But anyways, I don't own Kingdom Hearts. And this chapter explains what's going on.

Sora climbed to his feet and looked around. "Huh...? That was weird..." He looked down at himself. "What the?!" He was fourteen! He was wearing his old clothes. They weren't wet or stained or anything! What was going on?!

"So, you're awake..." a voice said behind him. Sora whirled around to face this offender.

"Who are you? What do you want?" Sora demanded.

"Nothing. I see that you don't have it." The figure said a bit disappointedly.

"Have what? What are you talking about?"

"...It matters not...to the living dead..." the figure said. With those words, lightning began to crackle in between his palms. Sora got into defensive stance with his keyblade. This had to be some kind of upgraded thunder spell, because Sora had never seen lightning be so controlled before...

Suddenly the lightning shot out at Sora in a tight ball. Sora's eyes widened and he put the keyblade up in front of him to block. It nearly pushed him to his feet, but he managed to push the ball away. It flew up into the ceiling. Several chunks of the ceiling rained down. Sora shielded his head, then blinked and looked up to see that the figure was standing right in front of him now. He took a step back nervously.

Suddenly, the man's hand shot forward and into the boy's chest. The boy's eyes widened; he gasped as he felt a severe coldness pierce his heart. And then he felt a part of him being drawn away. The man withdrew his hand and walked past Sora. Sora turned to watch him for a few moments, then dropped to his knees, his keyblade just about the only thing supporting him. "Wha...what did you...do to me...?" the brunette gasped.

The figure didn't turn to him, yet held up a crystal between his fingers. "I took this from your heart. It should hardly matter whether you find Taro or not anymore..."

"Taro...who's that...?"

Pause. Then, "...He looks just like you..."

With that, the figure walked to and through the chapel doors. Sora, however, collapsed.

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"...I see... So...what has this got to do with me...?" Taro asked as Mickey finished recapping to the boy what had happened a year ago. Donald and Goofy would throw in their own inserts every now and then, but now that their king was getting to the part that they themselves didn't know about, they had fallen silent. "And what has this got to do with Hyotoko?" Taro added. He turned to glance at his friend, only to see that the younger boy had disappeared. "What...?"

"Taro." King Mickey said, having to grab the boy's attention yet again. Taro turned to him. "This is what's happening now. There was once a kingdom of light. A kingdom that was called 'Kingdom Gaia' or 'Kingdom of the Flames.'

"However, much like Ansem, the ruler of that kingdom fell into darkness, and soon after, the kingdom did as well. The queen fled, however..."

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"Let's rest up here." Yukiro said, walking into a random door. "I don't think the Heartless will follow us in here."

Riku followed the being of light inside and felt the rain stop streaming down. "What? Too weak?" he mocked. His nose twitched and it picked up the scent of mistletoe and water incense, the types that Mrs. Insei would burn. Were they in Sakura's and Kiyoshi's house? To confirm his beliefs, he went into the living room and sat down where the couch was. Yep. It was their house all right.

"No. But I bet you are." Yukiro shot back.

Riku twitched. "Tch. That's what you think. But I spent a year in hell. I'm fine."

"Yeah? Well I spent five hundred years in hell. So naturally, I'm fine too." Yukiro snapped. Riku frowned in confusion, making the blindfold wrinkle slightly. Five hundred years? Yeah right. Impossible...

He heard Yukiro sit in the recliner close by. Then a sigh. "...So...what kingdom did you get trapped in...?" Yukiro asked. This he asked as casually as 'So, you think it's gonna rain tomorrow?' Riku's eyebrows raised in surprise.

"How did you..."

"Know? Come now, it's not very hard to guess. Your skin is almost unbelievably pale from the lack of light of any kind touching it for an entire year. Your eyes are too sensitive to light of any kind to be exposed to it. And third, it was predicted that the first keyblade wielder would be lost in darkness, and that wielder is you."

Riku 'stared' at him for a moment, then turned his head away. "...Keh...right..." He frowned. "Now, do you mind telling me what's going on? Silence would only give me orders, but nobody bothered explaining things to me..."

Riku noticed the boy before him twitch slightly, then sigh. "...You mean you don't know...?"

Riku shook his head. "...No..."

"...Alright then. There are three kingdoms. Kingdom Hearts, where you've been to, and Kingdom Gaia, or Kingdom Oblivion, where I come from."

"And the third kingdom?" Riku interrupted.

"...I don't even know about that kingdom anymore...anyways..." Yukiro said. "There was a kingdom named Kingdom Gaia, or Kingdom of the Flames. However, the king turned to darkness, and the entire kingdom fell to it. The people tried to flee, they tried to escape...but they were fed to the darkness, they all became Heartless. One woman managed to escape. She was the queen of the kingdom, fleeing her husband's insanity.

"But the king disappeared, and the king's son, who idolized his father, took over. The darkness began to spread over other lands, making it dark and cold. He even stole the heart of Princess Seika Shukusei, the princess of the third kingdom. I managed to save Princess Seika, but we both decided that the prince's reign had to end. My mother, Ceridwen, was...and still is...a sorceress. The prince escaped the castle gates before we had the chance to close them though. I could have killed him...I could've, but Ceridwen...she stopped me. She shattered his heart into six fragments and encased his body within a crystal. She cast it into space where it now floats in the abyss of space as the forever-lost Wishing Star.

"But sealing him wasn't enough; darkness was leaking out of the gates and spreading to other worlds. The gates had to be shut as well. So while Princess Seika and I sealed the gates from the inside, Ceridwen did on the outside. Princess Seika was killed by a Heartless soon after."

Riku was silent for a moment in thought. "So...the Nobody want all of the heart fragments to..."

"To piece together the prince's heart and reawaken him. That child of darkness is the only one who can find and open the door again." Yukiro finished.

"But why? I don't understand... Why wouldn't Ceridwen let you end this mess and just kill the prince?" Riku asked, frowning.

It was Yukiro's turn to be silent. After letting it stretch on for a few moments, he quietly replied, "...I guess it would be hard for a mother...to watch one of her sons be killed and then have to seal his twin brother in eternal darkness only minutes after..."
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"Six people, six hearts. Those are the holders of the fragments. Sora is one of the six. "King Mickey said.

"What?" Taro asked. "He holds a fragment?"

"Yes. Which is why he needs protection."

Taro sighed. "Great..."

"And there's one more thing..." Mickey started. Taro turned to him.

"...What?"

"Several more worlds are in danger. You and Sora must seal the keyholes of those worlds before the Heartless get inside."

Taro sighed again. "...Well, where is the kid?"

Mickey looked around. "...Garwsh, didn't Sora go into the chapel?" Goofy wondered.
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A brunette boy weakly picked himself up off the stone floor without a name and without a purpose. No, wait. A purpose? A purpose was to leave, to get out of here. He staggered a few steps. He felt so weak, so drained, what was wrong with him?

Who was he?

Where was he?

He staggered to the doorway and onto some walkway. One hand balanced him against the wall as he leaned against it, using it for support. The other one clutched at his heart. He finally came to a large pair of doors and pushed them open, nearly falling into them. There was a loud creak as the doors opened slightly-enough for the boy to stumble in through. He walked dizzily though the ornate hall. His breathing was shallow.

He tried to make his way up the steps, but it was like climbing a mountain. He looked up and saw some kind of keyhole swirling with colors. Somehow he was drawn to it. A few steps forward and onto the platform...

And he fell through it and onto a dark, wet street.

Author's Note-I'm still up to suggestions for Disney worlds! And there will be a bit of character torture coming up...maybe. Now, this is gonna be the last chapter that I post over the weekend cause I won't be here. But I'll try to write as much as I can to the rough draft. Please review! Ja ne!