The next morning, Sora woke in his bed. He yawn lazily, his energy not yet coming into action. He walked to the living room where Cloud, Riku, and Leon sat watching the morning news. "Morning sleepyhead. How's it going?" Cloud asked as Sora sat down next to him. Sora stuck out his tongue at Cloud. Cloud grabbed it before Sora had the chance to put it back in his mouth. Sora tried to talk but Cloud only pulled on it while laughing. Sora finally put his hands to Clouds arms and started pulling them away only pulling his tongue even more. "Ow!" he managed to say through it all. Cloud laughed some more as he let go. "Ow, Cloud! That hurt!" he said. "That's what you get for sticking your tongue out at me." He replied still laughing. Riku and Leon couldn't help but laugh also. The sight was just so funny. Soon, after everyone calmed down, except for Sora whose bubbling energy had awakened since the 'fight', they began to get more serious. Cloud brought up the subject of the mark and how to keep it away. "First of all, we need to find out who put the mark back on. I have a feeling it wasn't Riku and since Kairi is dead she couldn't have done it." Sora said as they sat there thinking. Cloud looked at his younger brother as he said this. "Then who do you suppose would do this to you?" Leon asked. "I don't know. I think I remember seeing a figure in the void." He answered. "But I thought you couldn't see anything in the void." Asked Riku. "I said I couldn't hear anything. Not that I couldn't see anything. What I basically saw was black but now that I think about it I might have seen a figure outlined in a darker black. It was hard to tell." He said as his face became thoughtful. The others stared at him as he thought. This only made the matter more complicated.
Riku sat across from Sora in the living room as Leon and Cloud went out to get Chinese food for dinner. Sora was exhausted from all the questioning he had been giving. Even after all that they didn't get any closer to who could have put the mark there. Sora sighed as he hung over the side of the couch. "Come on, cheer up Sora. Only a couple hundred more questions to go and we'll be a tiny bit closer to solving this mystery." Riku said with a small laugh. Sora looked over at him with a tired expression. Sitting through all the questioning had mad his energy go away. "Ha ha…very funny. How about you be the one being questioned and I'll be the one to give the questions." He suggested. Riku laughed. "Not a chance kid." Riku said. "Hey! Don't call me kid! I'm only a year younger than you!" he said as he began to pout, his lower lip jetting out. Riku laughed at this. He stood up and walked over and sat beside him. Sora turned away from him, facing the opposite direction. Riku reached his hand around and took Sora's chin and forced him to look at him. Sora pouted even more at this. "Don't act so cute." He said. Sora looked at him, forgetting all about his pout. "Don't call me cute! I'm handsome." Sora said. "Heh, and I'm sexy. And I am not lying either." He said as he leaned in and kissed Sora. Sora answered passionately. Riku pulled away and went back to his seat. "You're evil." He said as he glared at Riku who had teased him. He laughed at him as Cloud and Leon came in with a bag filled with food. Sora forgot what he was about to say as he saw the food. Immediately Sora's energy came back and started bouncing around for his food.
Soon after they were done eating, Sora sat on the couch watching cartoons like ten year old. He was caught up in the cartoon and was way over excited when Riku, who had had enough of it, turned off the television. Sora glared at him for interrupting his show. "What did you do that for?" he asked. "You're getting too wrapped up in the stupid show. Calm down. It's almost time for bed." He said as he put his hands on hips. Sora laughed at the image. "You look like an old person when you do that!" he said as he covered his mouth with his hand. Riku glared at him and took his hands off his hips immediately. "Ok Sora, time to go to bed. We need to figure out the mark tomorrow. So I want you to be rested enough." Cloud said as he walked over to his brother. Sora groaned. "But it's only 11:00! Can't I stay up longer?" he asked with a whine. "No. Now go to bed." He said as he pointed at Sora's room. Sora groaned and started to trudge to his room while grumbling about something. Later that night as Sora lay awake, a dim light started to shine in his room. It became brighter with every passing second and soon made Sora cover his eyes as he sat up. Finally the light disappeared and there floated a dark figure who he had thought he had seen while he was in the void.
Cliffy...Mwahahahaaaaa!