Chapter 2: Did You Really Choose?

Kuro let out a groan, not wanting to get up. 'Too warm and confortable to wake--'

"Wait a..." She blushed as she awoke Leon, who's been drooling on her arm. His eyes went wide as she grabbed Kuro's shoulders and brought her face inches from his. 'L-leon's real...'

"Your back." Kuro blinked as he hugged her. She pushed him away, even though she was meeting a game character in real life, it didn't seem to waver her anger. She wipped the drool off her arm and tried to walk off the bed, her ungracefully tumbling to the ground. Leon caught Kuro, her nose brushing the wooden floor.

"You're still too weak to get up."

He layed her back down on the bed, her glaring, seemingly unphasing him. He brushed her cheek.

"Just rest."

Kuro watched as he walked out of the room, closing the door behind him. It looked like a suite out of a hotel. Kuro, being as stubborn as she was, immediately got out of bed again, her feet giving out on her.

"Bloody legs work," She whispered to them as she grasped onto the chair and pulled herself up. After 5 times of standing up, falling and repeating, she finally was able to make them work right.

Holding her head up high she walked to the door only to see the door knob turn. She moved to the side the door opened and blocked her from sight. She could hear foot steps moing towards the bed. She needed to get out of here. They were good in the game, but that doesn't mean that they'd be good in real life.

"She couldn't even get out of bed!" She heard Leon yell, his voice worried. She heard pacing, then Arieth's voice trying to calm him.

Thinking it a good time, or one to get caught... She pushed the door, just enough to slip out. Everyone's eyes were on Leon, and Leon's were on Arieth.

She tip-toed as fast as she she could out of the room, running when she thought she was far enough for them to hear. The place was huge and confusing, but she recognized it from the first game of Kingdom Hearts. It was exactly the same, only it now had more than a few rooms.

She ran to the exit, immediately heartless zoned in on her. Them walking out of the shadows, instead of appearing out of nowhere.

She frowned. "I'm screwed... I hope my legs can handle this."

She ran right at the ones in her way, others coming at her from behind. She jumped over the shadows, the big ones swinging shields barely missing her. Just as she landed, a shadow buried it's claw into her back. She yelped. Her back felt like it was cold, yet ablaze at the same time. Like being cut by a knife that someone left in the freezer for a month. She jabbed her elbow at it. It letting go to slash at the elbow only caused it to fall, but made her yelp again anyways. With a now shreded t-shirt andcutsshe jumped onto the elevator watching them crash into the invisible fore field. Sighing she watched the ground come into view. It was just like number 2. The construction site, even the... The save point!

She grinned as the elevator touched on the circlular area where the three fairies had given Sora the 'Gull Wing'. Jumping out, Kuro ran over to the save point, heartless, beginning to get wind of her. Gritting her teeth she ran into the save point, hoping that she really didn't need a gummi ship.

The green light swirled from the ground going higher and higher until it was past her head. She closed her eyes as the green light became too bright to look at.


Sora jumped up from the sand as he felt his heart skip a beat. She's back.


Kuro looked around, blinking away the white specks in her sight.

"Bloody bright lights..." She mummbled to herself as she rubbed her eyes.

"Well, isn't this a sight for sore eyes."

Kuro stopped rubbing her eyes, immediately knowing that it was Axel.

"What... You've been crying over your boyfriend." Kuro raised a brow as she looked up at him, her mind screaming at her to stop being sarrcastic to the hot guy, but her sarcasum won yet again.

He let out a laugh. "Good ol' sarcastic Kuro... Good to have you back."

She twitched, no one called her old. "You want to get punched, or should I leave that to Roxas?"

'God, I love Yaoi,' Kuro thought trying to keep a frown.

Axel laughed again, patting her on the back. "Now I know why I missed you... Come on... Let's go see Hayner and Roxas."

Kuro sighed and stood up Axel raising a brow. "What happened to you?"

"Heartless... Got it memorized?"

"Geez... I was just wondering... And don't steal my lines pip-squeak." Axel walked off, Kuro fuming.

Her eyebrow twitched and she ran after him, waiting for the chance to punch him square on the jaw.

But she never got a chance.

She was grabbed by her wrist and yanked into the shadows of an alley.

She glared kicking and punching at the cullprit. They only sighed pinned her to the wall behind her.

They removed the hood of there cloak only to reveal Riku.

"Ri--" He cut her off, pressing his hand over her mouth.

"Where in the hell could she have gotten to now?" Kuro watched Axel pass by. 'Damn... There goes my rescuer.'

"Will you come back with me?" He asked in a whisper as he removed his hand and took a step back.

"Come back where, I'm lost and totally confused, not to mention I haven't a clue why the video game that I love to play has suddenly--" Riku cut her off with a kiss.

Kuro was too confused by now to react, her head was spinning. Then suddenly, pain.

She pushed Riku away with inhuman strength, cracking the brickwall as he slammed into it.

Kuro screamed as she clutched her head. "Stop it! I didn't do it... WHY!"

Everything stopped spinning and a memory came up.

"You have to leave now..."

"Why! You said you loved me! Why are you making me leave?"

"You're apart of the darkness Kuro... You have no place in the light."

Her head gave her nerves another jolt of pain, pulling her out of her short vision.

"Kuro... Are you alright?"

Her head shot up tears in her eyes as she slid down the wall, clutching her legs to her chest as she buried her head in he knees.

"Riku... Who do I love?"

Riku looked shocked to hear that. He got to his knees in front of her, lifting her chin.

"He left you... So don't go back to the person that betrayed you." Riku sounded detremined, Kuro didn't know if it was because she was a friend or the fact that he didn't want her to slip from his clutches.

Kuro shook her head. "Who?"

Riku sighed. "Leon..."

Kuro let out a sob and pushed herself forward, burying her face in his cotton cloak.

"I don't want to remember anymore... It hurts."

Riku shook his head and wrapped her arms around her. "Then come home with me... I promise it won't hurt anymore."

Kuro sobbed again, her mind on melt down and depression her only gear. "Just get me out of here."

Riku's chinrested on her head, Kuro still buried into his chest. Darkness came up, swallowing them whole, before it disburst into the shadows once again.