Alright, this chapter was really hard to write so I hope you enjoy it.

I would kike to thank anyone who read the story. Any way here it is

Disclaimer: I will never own Kingdom Hearts

Chapter two: A whole new world

For the first time the boy looked directly at him letting his black hair fall out of his face to reveal a familiar pair of emerald eyes. "My name is Ikiru. I've been waiting for you Sora"

He leaned in close. His eyes were the only light in the endless darkness. Sora gasped in shock. Those eyes were the same as the ones that he had seen in his dream and again in the mirror. Something otherworldly radiated from those eyes. Intead ofinspiring fear however they were calming

"Sora, why are you here instead of Riku? It doesn't make since. Riku has been chosen since birth. Why change now?" Ikiru asked

"I don't really know what you're talking about. I don't even know if I am dreaming or not? What's going on?"

"Soon your world will be plunged into darkness. But don't worry. Even if everything goes to the dark, there'll still be the light at the end." He paused before saying" "This world has been connected Sora. Tied to the darkness and will soon be completely eclipsed."

"What are you talking about? It doesn't make sense"

"Your friend, Riku has cast his heart to darkness. He is so desperate to escape this island that in his desperation, he will destroy it. He knows nothing. And one who knows nothing can only understand nothing."

"Riku cast his heart in the darkness? What are you talking about?" Sora was growing angrier by the second." Riku would never do anything to destroy the island! Don't talk about him that way!"

"I'm sorry." he said quickly."It is not my place to judge. I suppose I am the last one who has the right to judge those of the darkness. But this does show me that it's still too soon to tell you the truth. But don't worry. Soon Sora we will meet again I would stay Sora but I have another meeting soon. Stay safe." Ikiru smiled and then Sora woke up.

Sora shot out of bed in surprise. He was really starting to think he was going crazy. At least his back felt better. His back! Rushing to the mirror he looked in awe at his back.

All off the bruises were gone and the cuts had disappeared with out a trace. In fact even scares from when he was five were gone. In fact it was almostas ifthey were never there.So it was real after all. Stretching and looking at the clock he almost jumped out of his skin. 2:00 P.M.

He was seriously late too work on the raft.He was sopposed to be there at 12:00 at the latest, not to mention he didn't get a chance to do his everyday ritual with Riku. Throwing on his clothes he ran out of the door with a start. He didn't want toupset Riku after all. He dashed to the dock in record time.

Hoping in a boat he took off for Destiny Island. When he landed he rushed passed Wakka and Selphie and sraght to the door that connected the two sides of the Island. Riuk was already there.

"Sorry I'm late Riku." An out of breath Sora panted

"I guess I can forgive you, let's just get started for now. We still need to name the raft. Let's see….Highwind?" Riku asked

"Oh common, that's terrible. How about…Ikiru?" He said thinking of the boy from the darkness.

"How about" Riku started

"The usual" Sora finished

Riku nodded cracking his neck" Let's do it."

"You guys at it again?" Kairi asked as she walked toward them." Alright I'll be the judge."

"If I win I'm captain and if you win…."

"I get to share a paopu with Kairi… The winner gets to share a paopu with Kairi" Riku smirked

"Huh well wait a minute"

Kairi eyes lit up. With renewed enthusiasm she said" All right on my count three two one GO!"

Sora and Riku took off running. Over the bridge Sora unfortunately fall though one of the faulty planks. By the time he caught up with Riku wasn't even bothering to run. He had toned down in to a small jog and was already on his way back.

With a small sigh Sora touched the tree and began to head back. He had lost.

When he got there a smirking Riku said" Looks like we're naming the raft Highwind, huh?"

"But what about the paopu?"

"Oh, that was just a joke. Besides Kairi is like a little sister to me. I wouldn't share a paopu with her."

"Who would you share a paopu with then?" Sora asked

"You"

"Excuse me!" Sora yelled blushing

"I'm just playing Sora." Riku sighed." Go get started on the raft. Look for provisions. All we need now is mushrooms. You were asleep when we got the rest of the food."

With Riku

As Sora walked off he couldn't help but wish Sora had said yes to the idea of sharing a paopu. He couldn't remember how long he had wanted to be more than friends with Sora but he had for quite awhile.

"Do you love the boy?" a voice spoke. Riku head jerked around desperately looking for a source.

There standing across from him was a man. Something evil seemed to radiate from him.

"Who are you?" Riku demanded

"Light and dark do not mix. Any future you have with the boy is cursed. You are tainted with the stench of darkness. No longer are you chosen by the keyblade."

"What in the hell are you talking about?" He hissed. This guy was pissing him off.

"The only way to truly win the boy's heart is to dive into darkness. Hold no fear in your heart when the time comes. That is the only way to other worlds. You see darkness is the heart's true essence. Any way I have a meeting with your friend Sora. Remember what I said." With that the man was gone leaving Riku to angrily leap at the spot where he once stood.

Sora walked off still in a daze over Riku and his conversation. He didn't want Riku to share the paopu with him did he? Shaking the feeling off, he headed to the secret cave which always had mushrooms.

Sighing he silently picked it. He sat down looking at the drawings that covered the cave walls. Most were of random things, but his favorite was one of him and Riku playing. The sound of some one else there knocked him out of his revere.

"Huh who's there?"

"I have come to see the door to this world" a cloaked fellow said. Something about his voice sent shivers down Sora spine. It was the same feeling he got when he was in the darkness.

"This world has been connected." The cloaked man spoke again

"WH-what are you talking about"

"Tied to the darkness soon to be completely eclipsed" He spoke again. This time Sora recognized the words as the same as the ones that Ikiru spoke.

"Whoever you are stop freaking me out like this" Sora yelled "Where did you come from?"

"You do not yet know what lies beyond the door."

"So you're from another world. Tell me do you know Ikiru?"

"So much to learn, yet you understand so little"

Sora was getting colder every time the man, if it was even a man spoke. It was as if the mans voice drained his very life. Then Sora felt the familiar energy of Ikiru wrap around him warming him. 'Sora be careful' Ikiru mentally warned.

"So I'll find out what's out there. I'll go to other worlds. And see what's out there."

"A meaning less effort. One who knows nothing can understand nothing."

At that point a strange growling came from the door that he and Riku had found when they were younger. Was that the way to other worlds? Through that door? He looked up to find the strange man gone. HE grabbed the mushrooms and ran away from the secret place as fast as he could. He went directly to Riku a million thoughts rushing through his head.

He quietly gave the provisions to Riku; not noticing Riku too looked troubled, or hearingRiku when he asked was he okayand walked off with out another word. The man's words had disturbed him. Plus Ikiru saying the world was soon to be swallowed by darkness; it was the exact same thing that the strange man said.Something wasn't right.

When he finally got home he was began thinking if a way to contact Ikiru. He raided his cabinet took some sleeping pills and hoped it would work.

Once again Sora found himself falling through the dark. But this time when the fall was over Ikiru was not waiting for him. No, the only other person there was the man in the brown cloak. The man from before, the one he had met in the Secret Place.

"Where's Ikiru?" Sora asked nervously.

"Off to fulfill his destiny. Shouldn't you be doing the same thing? Keyblade master." The man stepped forward. "You are brave to cast off in the darkness. And why would you do that.To see someone who shouldn't even exist. Yes your heart is strong indeed. I wonder what heartless it would make?" Sora took astep bck

"You won't touch his heart" Ikiru's voice boomed out from the dark." Even here in the core of darkness, you still need to play by the rules of the game. Sora wake up. Riku and Kairi need you."

In an instant he was gliding through the dark headed for the light. He shot in surprise waking from his slumber. He shot up to the sound of thunder at Destiny Island. He had to save the raft and his friends.

When he got to the island he was horrified to see it crawling with the shadows from his nightmare. He swung the wooden sword at one. The shadow didn't even look affected.

'Run for it' Ikiru's voice rang through his head

Deciding to take the advice he began running. He saw Riku standing calmly at the center of Paopu Island. His eyes standing ahead starring at nothing as if he did not see what was going on around him. Jumping on the roof of the shack and then running across the bridge to them he barely dodged the shadows.

"Where's Kairi? I thought she was with you?" Sora asked

"The door has opened."

"What?" Sora asked

"The door has opened, Sora. Now we can go to the outside world." Riku said excitedly

"What? No! We have to find Kairi." Sora said adamantly

"Kairi's coming with us" Riku barked.

Looking toward the sky at the massive ball pf darkness enveloping the island, He said" Once we step through we may not come back. We may never see our parents again. There is no turning back. But this may be our only chance. We can't let fear stop us. I'm not afraid of the darkness!"

Riku extended his hand toward Soar a crazed look in his eye. He was infinitely calm as if he was expecting it.

"Riku…" was all sora could manage to say.

A portal of swirling darkness opened beneath Riku's feet. Tentacles of darkness reached up attempting to swallow Riku. Sora rushed forward to help him only to have a similar one appear under him. It held him in place like glue. Desperately he reached for Riku's hand.

The darkness spread and grew until it had swallowed them both. Just before he gave up hope, something Ikiru had said came back to him. There's always light at the end. A blinding flash illuminated the darkness.

The darkness binding him broke away. In his hand was a key shaped weapon. Key blade. The word echoed through his head again and again. Before he could move another portal of darkness opened where Riku had been standing. Up out of the darkness rose Ikiru.

His green eyes flashing, he smirked at Sora." I hope you're ready. Cause if your not, we're all doomed." His nails extended into long black claws. Get ready they come." He spoke

Sora spun to see dozens of heartless swarming around them. He leaped into them with the Keyblade slashing. He would attack one and be followed up by Ikiru with the finishing blow. It was endless. For every shadow they cut down, another rose in its place.

"Keep moving" Ikiru said dragging him along the Island toward the secret place.

Where the hole toward the secret place should have been was a majestic door. Pulling it open they rushed inside. Crouching through the long narrow path way they reached the center where Kairi waited.

"Sora." She said reaching out to him

A massive blast of darkness pushed her toward Sora. He tried to catch her only to have her disappear in his arms. The energy continued to push blasting then both out of the Sora and Ikiru out of the cave.

Sora stood horrified at what was left of his Island. It was nothing more than a floating piece of rock in the sky. Everything was being sucked into the large ball of darkness.

A darkside rose a stood menacingly glaring at Sora and Ikiru.

"Let's go Sora" Ikiru said charging.

The darkside heart-shaped hole glowed with energy. It sent out blast wave after wave of power. Sora knocked the blasts back, using the keyblade like a bat while Ikiru ripped at the darkside's hands.

It let out a roar of fury before smashing its fist into the ground at Sora. Sora jumped back and ran along side the darksides' arm. Ikiru just behind him. At the same time they attacked the darksides head and jumped away. The darksides movement stilled and for a second Sora would have sworn its eyes looked sad.

The darkside floated up into the black sphere of energy. Ikiru was sucked in after it and finally Sora. Sora eyes widened before everything faded into black.

Sora woke up with the felling of something cold and wet rubbing against his face.

"What a dream"he groaned closing his eyes heading back to sleep, when something hit his chest hard.

"Ow, this isn't a dream." Sora exclaimed. Looking around he noticed he was in an alley slumped against a building.

A large yellow dog was in front of him." Do you know were we are boy?"

The dog took off running. Looking around he saw Ikiru unconscious in a corner of the alley. He gently tapped him" Ikiru wake up" Sora chanted

Ikiru stirred slowly opening his eyes. With a sigh he stood up. "What's going on? Where are we?"

Not knowing the answer himself Sora merely shrugged." Let's go find out what world we are in hmm?" Ikiru suggested.

Walking out of the alley Sora looked around in awe. "I really am in another world!" He exclaimed "But what happened to my island If I am here?" he asked Ikiru.

Ikiru looked away hastily"I am sorry but some things are best left unsaid" Ikiru said looking away. He did not look back up until he heard the soft crying of Sora.

Ikiru wrapped him in an embrace. "Shh it'll be okay." he soothed running a hand through Sora's hair. Ikiru really hated lying to people.

"So Ikiru has escaped from the darkness. The keyblade, a weapon of salvation or destruction. Sora, do you know exactly who it is with you? Do you know what you have awoken from the darkness? I suppose things just got a lot more interesting." The hooded man thought.

"I wonder Sora, who is it you should fear me, or the one who comforts you even now?" He said shaking his head" either way it hampers very little with my plan. I wonder will you still play by the rules Ikiru." He laughed a chilling laugh that reverberated through the darkness.

So can anyone guess what Ikiru is or at least part of it? I hope I did a good job on the last two paragraphs; they were the hardest to write, but also were very fun. It took forever to finally get to this point. Things really heat up in the next few chapters as the story really starts.

So how ws this chapter? I did'nt really like it. It seemed I don't know forced. I would really apprciate Constructive Critism.

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