Disclaimer: I don't own KH, and frankly, neither should Disney…

Molokai: Um, Leo isn't here, he's busy trying to undo what happened after the end of the fourth chapter when I was styling him…

Leo: - from a distance - YOU SPILT RED DYE OVER MY FAVOURITE WHITE SHIRT!

Molokai: Well, anywayz, I'm typing this chapter… and don't worry, I know where Leo left off, and I know what he was going to write for this chapter.

Leo: DAMMIT, I TOLD YOU MOLOKAI WASHING IT WOULDN'T WORK! NOW I HAVE A FKING PINK SHIRT!

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Warning: Well, you've read this far, so I ain't typing it again, you know what to expect, yea, I should also have put drug usage (with the smoking) in the last warning though… it was a spontaneous idea that came to me so yea… oh and this chapter has alcoholic references…

Chapter 5 - The beginning of the light…

Sora sat on the stage, and pulled out one of his cigarettes, only to have a hand hit him on the back of his head, making him drop the smoke that he was about to light. He turned around and gave the accused person a death glare, and saw Leon tower over him, fist clench for another attack.

"We had a deal, no smoking on set and only four a day." Leon said, taking Sora's pack of cigarettes away from him, making the singer very frustrated.

"Come on Leon, just one." Sora said, attempting to grab back his pack, only to have Leon push him away with ease.

"You already have had your four and that was by lunch, you wanted me to help you to stay at ease with your smoking and I accepted it, so you're listening to me whether you like it or not." Leon said, making Sora slump to the floor in defeat.

Leon smirked and sat down next to Sora, his feet easily touching the floor, while Sora's just limply hung off of the stage. Sora sighed as he looked around the set. Tidus and Cloud was chatting away with each other, actually Tidus was the one talking, Cloud was just re-tuning his guitar in an effort to get Tidus to go away, but with no luck. Yuffie was chatting away with Yuna and Aerith about their boyfriends and girl chat.

"PLACES EVERYONE!" A voice echoed throughout the set. The voice came from the director of the music video. He got onto his chair as he looked over the four camera monitors that he had in front of him, ready to evaluate the video's performance that was about to happen. Sora kicked up his feet and stood up, along with Leon, who picked up his guitar from a nearby stand, while Sora stood behind the microphone on the stage.

Cloud didn't even look up from his guitar, as he slung the strap over his shoulder, as he finished off tuning his guitar as he walked to the stage. Tidus grabbed his bass and went back to talking to Cloud, even though they were about to start. Yuffie gave her quick goodbyes to the other girls, grabbed her drum sticks and sat down behind the drum set on stage.

Sora closed his eyes as he brought up the image of the song that they were about to shoot. They got their first video done already, this one was for another song on their album that the producers thought was good, even if it was a cover of another band's work.

"Everyone ready?" The director shouted, and everyone nodded in response, "Okay then… ACTION!"

Leon, Cloud, Tidus and Yuffie began the intro to the song, Cloud again providing the rhythmic guitaring, Tidus with the bass and Yuffie with the drums. For the intro, Leon accompanied Cloud with the rhythm, as they closed onto the verse, Sora opened his eyes and slowly grabbed the mic and pulled it a little towards his mouth.

(AN: This song is Vanity Mirror by Redd Kross, I don't own, just using it for the fanfic…)

'I cannot see
The nudist or the queens
Of Satenteen

I cannot find
Love is the trash to those
That we leave behind

Cloud and Leon broke into a miniature solo as they prepared for the oncoming chorus to the song.

'Nobody knows exactly where we go
I've got a fear
I'm afraid of the vanity mirror
I can't hide
When I look I see inside
I don't want to look to the vanity mirror
Because I can't, I can't hide - hide

The director looked between the four camera monitors, for this first take all he wanted was the band to play like they would in front of an audience, for the second take, all he needed was Sora, but for now everything looked perfect.

'I'm in disgrace
The remnants of the face
You tried to erase
You're looking fine

Except for the crack that almost
Ruined your mind

Again Leon and Cloud picked up their pace, about to enter another chorus for the song.

'Nobody knows exactly where we go
I've got a fear
I'm afraid of the vanity mirror
I can't hide
When I look I see inside
I don't want to look to the vanity mirror
Because I can't, I can't hide - hide

What the director didn't expect was to see Cloud step forward to take the solo instead of Leon, all Leon did was keep playing the rhythm for the song, until the solo ended and they joined together again for the ending of the song, where Sora finished off the lyrics.

'Hide
hide
hide
Vanity
Vanity
Vanity'

Leon and Cloud stepped back a little once the song finished, Sora stood where he was, but shook his hair a little trying to get some of the stray strands of his hair out of his eyes. All of the band was awaiting the orders of the director, whether he wanted to go over it again or whether he wanted to move onto the next part of the shoot. They all held their breath a little as he got off his chair and approach the stage, an emotionless expression on his face.

"Let me just say that was brilliant! I've heard that song before, but never that way, one question though, why did Cloud take the solo instead of you Leon?" The director asked, his face changing from one of a blank look to one of joy.

"Cause it was Cloud's idea to play the song and he knew the solo of it better than I could play it, so it was just instinct to let him play it." Leon said shrugging his shoulders.

"Well I have to say that was astounding, Cloud played that solo better than the original, and Sora I never pictured you to have that kinda voice." (AN: If you've heard the song you know what I'm talking about, if you haven't the lead singer of Redd Kross has a weird but good voice)

"Well it is pretty hard to do the voice, but then again we are putting our own twist to the song, I just sung it the way that I would want the song to sound like." Sora said, hanging off the mic with one hand as he talked to the director.

Since the satisfaction of the director meant that the band didn't have to do a second take, they retreated off of the stage and took their equipment off as well. Leaving Sora and about a dozen mirror on the stage with cameras surrounding the entire area. Some of the cameras had been placed above the mirrors, others in places around the set and some behind some glasses. All of the cameras and mirrors had lights on them, the lights would be turned on for two seconds giving Sora notification on what he should be looking at/or doing.

"Alright Sora, the idea of the video is to show that you aren't content about yourself and looking into these mirrors is like looking into who you really are. So if a light comes on beside a mirror, I want you to smash it, in what ever way you want to, that's the same with the camera behind the glass, break the glass only though." The director said, know looking over the same four monitors, though they were rigged to record at specific camera angles only. "Know when you hear the playback, I want to start singing to the way you sung it earlier, but pay attention to the lights as well.

Sora nodded as he took in all the information, looking at the opening camera, the playback echoed throughout the room, to make sure that Sora could hear it. The music played so loudly, that even when Sora sung, his voice was barely audible over the music.

The rest of the band watched on as Sora sung, the expression of his face was perfect, a hollowed angry look suited well to the song and once he hit the chorus, lights started to flash onto the mirrors and then the cracking and the shattering occurred, echoing around the stage floor. Sora kicked at some of the mirrors and punched others, he was giving it his all.

"35… 42…" Tidus began saying out loud, getting the attention of the other band members.

"Tidus what are you doing?" Cloud said, elbowing him in the side to get his attention.

"I'm counting the years of bad luck that Sora's gonna have. 49." Tidus said, counting as the seventh mirror cracked. The rest of the band began to snicker as they continued watching Sora continuing to break even more glass and mirrors.

On the final word, Sora looked down to a glass covered mirror on the ground, and stomped on it, finishing the song and, hopefully, the video shooting. The director jumped out of his chair and ran over to Sora and gave him a hard hand shake.

"Well done, you're in the music industry, give us three days, and your first song will be out for all the public to see, another two weeks and your second song will be another chart topper, just wait and see." Sora felt his heart sink, something about that hit hard in Sora and he knew why, but he kept quiet and pulled up another one of his trademark hollow smiles.

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On the band's touring bus, everyone was stoked about the idea of them being on TV, especially for a song, it was a goal that the band wanted to achieve. Tidus pulled out some alcohol from the mini bar fridge in the back of the bus and handed Cloud and Leon a beer, while he got Yuffie, Yuna and Aerith a small bottle of Vodka Cruisers each (AN: Don't own the name of the drink…). While Sora sat there with no drink near him.

"Come on Sora, one small drink for celebration purposes." Tidus whined, the rest of the band pushing Sora to have at least one alcoholic drink with them.

"I told you guys I don't drink. I hate the taste of alcohol." Sora said, hands in the air trying to defend himself, but to no avail, Tidus pushed a bottle of vodka his way, similar to the girl's drinks but a bit more alcoholic than what the women were drinking.

"Come on Sora I know you like those, so don't give me that shit that you don't drink." Tidus said forcing Sora's hand around the bottle.

"We're not gonna let you get drunk, hell knowing you you'd stop yourself before you even got tipsy." Leon said, arm around Yuffie as he took a small swig of the beer in his hand. (AN: Yea that sounds like me at my sis' 18th b'day… I didn't let myself get drunk, I stopped when I wasn't beginning to walk straight XD)

Sora sighed, he knew he wasn't going to win against these guys, though what they said was true. Sora had really good self control with alcohol, it runs in the family. His mother could drink most alcohol and still wouldn't have a hangover in the morning, while his father never got drunk, if he did, that was because he drank about 6 ten percent alcoholic drinks in a matter of seconds, even then he could still talk properly.

Sora took a gulp at the drink and swallowed it like it was nothing, Tidus knew what type of drinks that Sora liked, and hell the band knew that he was more of a girly drinker than the rest of them, including Yuffie. Sora went for the more flavoursome drinks, the ones were the flavouring covered up most of the alcoholic aftertaste, so that mainly involved vodka drinks.

Through the course of the night, Leon had three beers, him being the designated driver considering that he was the only one that could actually drive the bus. Cloud was a little drunk from his six beers, while Tidus was passed out after the first three hours with his unbelievable record of a dozen beers for the three hours. Yuffie and the rest of the girls were okay, they just nursed their drinks. Yuffie having drunk only two, while the other two drunk about 4 each.

Sora sat there drifting to space, only having the one drink which he used to toast with the rest of the band, and only finishing it just before Tidus passed out to please the already drunk bassist. Besides from that one alcoholic drink, Sora mainly raided the soft drink compartment, that was lined with Coke and all of that (AN: Obviously I don't own that…), which the singer filled himself.

At this point of time, the band was basically doing there own thing, Tidus was passed out, Leon was driving, Yuffie was listening to her music, Cloud was trying to sober himself fully and Sora was going through the paperwork of the band, mainly the touring list, which the band received three days after recording their album. They were set to tour around the city to begin with and see what happens from there.

Sora looked over the places on which they were playing, mostly at some pubs, a couple of actually night clubs and they were given three actually theatre gigs. The pubs gigs came first, they were the beginning of the tour, as they were relatively new and were starting their tour before their video was released. At the pubs they would start to sell their albums cheaply.

The nightclubs were going to be the interesting ones, there you weren't allowed to sell albums, you were there for the entertainment, and sometimes you were watched like pieces of meat. Sora had heard all of the stories, but still any gig was one that they should accept, well at least now anyways. But the best was yet to come.

The three theatre performances meant that the band would actually be playing on a proper stage for the first time, and it was only three months away. Sora couldn't wait, his dream was becoming a reality, then something hit him when he looked over the touring guide again, mainly the theatre gigs.

Next to their name was a name of band, the band that they were supporting. The name sprung to his mind and he blinked a couple of times to make sure he wasn't dreaming. His band was going to be supporting Heartless, one of the most popular rock bands known over the world, as they were touring their city. Sora nearly fainted from shock, he was going to be the singer of the supporting band for Heartless, he couldn't believe it.

But that wasn't all, one last thing caught his attention, the very last venue for the band's performance wasn't in Heart's Valley, it was 3000 miles from there…

…The place was Destiny City.

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Leo: Well that's the end of that chapter, I'm updating every week now! But I feel a little uncared… no one besides from one person has given any notification about the contest…

Molokai: Well it looks like that one person is gonna win it then…

Leo: Yea but it can't be a contest with only one entry, it's like having an election with only one candidate, it's not right…

Molokai: Well… just say the competitions on again…

Leo: Well…

For those interested in the competition that I placed on last chapter, you only have a week to submit in your works and the email address is drop an email or a review to say when you will be able to submit your works and I might be able to extend the time for you guys… GOOD LUCK and remember if you win you have your choice on what happens in the future chapters of the fanfic!

Leo: Oh and by the way Molokai…

Molokai: Yea?

Leo: I'M GONNA KILL YOU FOR DYING MY SHIRT PINK! - chases Molokai -