Kairi sank onto her living room couch. Another day of her life had passed. 'Another day without Sora,' Kairi thought. She sighed and started on her homework. Kairi opened her heavily graffitied maths book to a new page. Grumbling to herself she started the new topic: Geometric Proof.

Half an hour later Kairi's maths book hit the wall with a dull thud. She sat glaring at it and panting with frustration. "Kuso!" She swore. "I will never get this!" Slumping back against the cushiony couch, Kairi, still glaring at her maths book, began thinking. Which was never a good thing…

Flashback

"Sora?" A young girl with short, red hair asked the boy sitting next to her.

"Yeah Kai?" The boy with spiky hair replied. Even in his youth, Sora's hair was untameably spiky.

"Do y'ever think about death?" Kairi had a sleepy slur in her voice as she leaned her head on Sora's shoulder.

"Kairi! We're thirteen years old! We're not supposed to think about death," Sora stared at her in horror.

Kairi giggled slightly. "I know that silly! I just meant, well, I just was just wondering what it would feel like to die, y'know? And also…to murder someone." Kairi shivered with cold revulsion at the thought of killing someone.

Sora sat in thought, staring at the ocean waves rolling onto the beach. Many moments later, he answered her.

"I think…at first you would be in disbelief…and I don't think you would know if you were dead…" Sora said slowly, his thoughts forming as he talked.

"As for killing someone…Kairi, we live in a sheltered world away from the psychopaths of reality…we have never lived a life unprotected…As much as we don't want to believe it, there are people out there who want others dead. Even if it's their own self…"

Kairi shuddered. "Well I could certainly never kill someone, let alone myself!"

Sora sat in silence, not replying. Kairi looked at him, puzzled.

'Well!' A new but very familiar voice said from directly behind the pair.

"Riku!" Sora and Kairi exclaimed in unison.

The topic hung dead in the air, all but forgotten.

End Flashback

Kairi snapped out of the memory with tears streaming down her face. She should have seen it coming, should have known that suicide would be an option for Sora. Kairi found she was staring at her maths book still, and finally noticed the note that had fallen from its pages. Slowly she peeled herself from the couch and walked over to it. Kairi picked up the note. It read, quite simply: Kairi meet me at the Secret Place. Riku. Kairi slung her bag over her shoulder and headed out the door.

"Selphie!" A voice called out, making the brunette stop and turn around. A blonde haired girl ran up to her with a huge grin on her face.

"Hey Namine," Selphie greeted the girl with an equally huge grin on her own countenance.

"How's it going?" Namine asked, in a seemingly carefree way but Selphie noticed the undercurrent of concern in Namine's tone.

"Oh I'm great!" Selphie said, with only a touch of enthusiasm.

Ever since it happened, Selphie had changed. She was no longer her physco, hyper self. She was just a shell of the Selphie everyone knew. Her energy for life had been sapped. Namine in particular had noticed it.

"Oh by the way, Namine," Selphie's voice snatched Namine away from her thoughts. "We got paired for Science!" Selphie grinned.

"That's great!" Namine smiled. In her head she thought, 'you can't fool me, Selph. I know you're only fake happy.'

Riku paced around inside a dark cave, thinking intensely. The silver haired teen was thinking of his dead best friend. Many times had he come to this very cave with said friend, and they had scribed on the walls. 'Now everyone will remember us!" A young Sora's voice echoed in Riku's head. For some reason, Riku was stuck in an odd reverie. He couldn't, nor did he want, to break out of it. He was on the verge of a revelation. Riku couldn't stop thinking how Sora couldn't have committed suicide. It was the one thing that was constantly on his mind. Sure it might have just been disbelief at first, but now that he really thought about it, it was just so unSora-like. Now Riku thought back to the saying his cousin drilled into him. "If it looks like a grapefruit, smells like a grapefruit, feels like a grapefruit, then it's a grapefruit." Which is what was so odd about Sora's death… He would never have committed suicide, he never went to the pond, and he was scared of water!

"A penny for your thoughts?" Kairi's voice sounded from the entrance.

Riku grinned at her.

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Okay! I decided to make it more than a one shot. However, it probably won't turn out so good. I am thinking of changing the first chapter to make it so that it's not Sora's body, but in fact Roxas', and they don't know Roxas, and well…I don't know if it would work, or if people would kill me for doing it. Anyway! Hope you all enjoyed it, and I'm not one for writing long chapters so sorry about that. Kuso is the Japanese word for damnit, in case anyone was wondering :-D And I am actually doing Geometric Proof in maths at the moment, such a pain! So complicated as well!