Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, if I did then life would be beautiful

Key:

- Dream State - , Flashback , ' thoughts ', " Dialogue "

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A change in writing style/time/place/whatever (will notate in () which one)

Author's Note: This is the sequel to An Alternate Ending

Rating: M - for language and graphic images in later chapters

Warning: This is still a Sora/Riku fic… yeah. XD. Deal with it.

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(Chapter 3: Naminé)

His majesty stood quietly in front of the nervous young redhead studying her thoughtfully. "Sora is in a lot of pain right now... I know you've been a good friend to him all of these years... so promise me that you will continue to help him get over this. We can't have our keyblade master wishing he were dead before we know for certain we can survive without him for a while."

"That's... kind of mean... majesty." Kairi said thoughtfully.

King Mickey bowed his head appologetically, "What I meant to say was... take care of him Kairi... he's far too young to wish for death."

Kairi smiled, "Don't you worry about a thing. I'll take good care of him."

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"You promised me you'd take care of him Kairi... he tells me ... that you're driving him crazy." The king said into his phone, choosing his words carefully so not to anger her too much.

"What? That's silly! He clings to me so much sometimes I can't breathe. Sir no offence, but I think you need to check your sources." Kairi's voice replied.

"Kairi... please promise me you will try harder from now on?" The king said exhasporated.

"Sure thing, majesty." Kairi chirped.

"Thanks..." -click- King Mickey hung up and hung his head. "I can see Sora's point... she's even driving me nuts..."

"Yer majesty?"

King Mickey looked up to see a nervous looking Goofy. He blinked in surprise. "Yes Goofy?"

"Uh... you sure that sheild worked? I think I saw a shadowy thing slip through." Goofy said.

Mickey shook his head, "That's impossible, no heartless could have gotten through that shield."

"Well... if yer sure..." Goofy left Mickey looking thoughtful as he sat alone.

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(Dark Realm)

Hack, Slash.

Sora cut through the hundreds and thousands of heartless that intercepted his pathway to Naminé's secret base. 'Wow... if there are this many heartless in between me and Naminé then there must be some big trouble ahead.' Sora thought excitedly, trying to imagine what kind of huge heartless might be in his way.

Soon he came upon the secret door, which was only visable to him because he was human. Eagerly he kicked it open and held out his sword. "Alright! Come on out heartless! Let go of Naminé!" He shouted...

Then he heard a very small snicker in the background and turned in amazement to find the object of his search... barely containing her laughter as she sat in her chair... clearly not in harms way.

He stared at her in absolute shock. This was... a prank? "Naminé? You're... not in danger?"

At the confused expression on his face she couldn't help herself and burst out laughing. "Hahahahahaha, heheheheheheee...hoo." She exploded spinning around in her chair.

At her outburst Sora's cheeks burst into a flame red. She'd... she'd tricked him! And she'd tricked the king on top of that. Somehow... Sora didn't think it was very funny... for her to have given out a false alarm like that. "Naminé..." He trailed off in disbelief. "How... could you do that?"

"I... I'm... heheh... sorry Sora. Ha...ha, I was... so ... haha... bored." She giggled, clutching her middle.

Sora blinked and his anger dimmed a little. "Bored? Yeah... I suppose you would be... hanging out here all the time. Why don't you come home? Then you'll have lots of people to hang around with." Suddenly an idea came to him. "Hey! You could hang out with Kairi if you wanted... she's lots of fun." He said excitedly.

Naminé swallowed her laughter and coughed a bit. "Come... home?" She stared at him quietly as though he'd said the nicest thing anyone had ever said to her.

"Uh... well... I mean... my home." Sora realized her question.

She smiled gently at him. "Well... if you insist."

He held out his hand for her and she took it stairing at him thoughtfully. 'No wonder everyone likes you so much...' She thought idly as she smiled. "You're so nice..."

Sora glanced at her momentarily and shrugged with a smile, "Yeah... " He said jumping ahead to clear the pathway. Naminé just smiled after him then followed in his wake, inwardly glad of a little secret surprise that she had in store for him...

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rozu: Ooooo... a surprise? Lemme guess... A kiss?

Naminé: sarcasm Yeah, right.

rozu: laughs It was worth a try.

rozukitsune