"Sora, don't ever change…" if you do…I know that you'll leave me…

"I'll come back to you I promise!"

You promise to come back. You're leaving to find him. You're willing to leave me alone to find him? No, I know you'll come back to me! "I know you will!"

"This time, I'll fight." I'll do anything to stay with you…

"Sora!" Kairi wrapped her arms around him and squeezed him tight. Sora's arms hesitantly wrapped around her. Why…are you so hesitant with me? You're changing…why?

Riku…it's really you," Sora fell to his knees as the tears flowed freely. "Riku! Riku's here! I searched everywhere for you!" You're crying... You didn't cry for me. Not for me…never for me! Why Sora? Why does he mean more than I do! WHY!

"Sora!" Oh god, what have you become? This is his fault, isn't it? I know it is!

"Next time, where one of us goes, we all go." I won't leave you alone to become this again.

"We'll be together everyday." I'll never let you leave me alone ever again. Not for anything…and never for him.

"We're back?" You've come back to me. You're still the same, right? The change was just because you weren't with me. You're still my Sora…

"You're home!" I'll never let you go... If the darkness gets too much, I'll chase it away. I'll never let the darkness overtake you again…because I never want you to change…

wonK uoY nahT noitceffA eroM deeN I

Kairi

"Sora!" Kairi struggled to breathe beneath Sora's hardened gasped. The day had been so good; why was this happening now. Her feet lifted from the ground and she began to feel dizzy from the lack of oxygen. She tried her voice again hoping to get through. It seemed to and she was dropped to the grass. Coughing, she lifted her head to look at Sora's retreating form. Kairi regained herself as quickly as possible and ran after him.

She felt anger inside her when she a flow of platinum hair already rowing after Sora. It was him again. She didn't know why or how but she knew this was his fault. It always was! She never truly hated Riku but the way everything happened. Sora had been pulled into darkness because of him. He had to traverse the universe because Riku couldn't be content with Destiny Isles. Sora had left her alone because of him. He was always in the way, always causing Sora pain. She wouldn't let him do it again!

She rowed out to the island even though she knew she wouldn't catch up in time. Once reaching it, she hastily tied up the boat and jumped from the peer. The sight before her all but stopped her heart. Anti-Sora sat straddling Riku and from the look on the older boy's face he was in pain. She shook her head; this wasn't Sora. Sora wasn't violent. He would never cause anyone pain. She had to stop him.

"Sora! Riku!"

Kairi heard the guttural growl coming from Sora as those dead yellow eyes turned to her. She felt a shiver in her spine as they traveled up her body. The scowl on his face pushed her to step back. He suddenly raised up and looked down at Riku with that twisted grin that made her blood chill. She saw his mouth moving and looked terrified when Riku's cerulean eyes turned to her. She saw a strange silver glint around his eyes as he looked at her. There was rage, hate and hesitation that was all directed at her. However, something changed when she saw his eyes fill with guilt and sadness. What had Sora said to him? He turned back to the grinning shadow.

"I want her dead…" She heard him say. She screamed when the grinning shadow was in front of her. His smile was so twisted, she couldn't help but question how something so horrible could within her Sora.

"I'm not your Sora!" He shouted striking her across the face. She fell backwards holding her face. Tears burned her eyes but she knew he was right. This wasn't her Sora but she sure as hell would get him back! When he tried to hit her again she rolled to the side. She got to her feet trying to remember everything she had learned watching Sora and Riku fight. Dodging again she looked to where Riku was to find him gone. Where?

"Pay attention, Kai-chan!" He kicked her in the stomach. She cried out as the air was pushed from her and she landed in the cold ocean waves. He was on her in an instant with his clawed hands pinning her in the sand and digging into her skin. She fought for air as the waves covered her face. Each time they receded she sucked in air but she couldn't keep it up with Sora's weight weighing her down into the sand. The waves covered her face completely as Sora held her head there in attempt to drown her. Her memories began to pass in flashes before her eyes. Washing up on the shore of this very island, Sora's beautiful blue eyes being the first thing she saw when she awoke. The first thing she had ever known. Even at such a tender age she knew that she loved Sora. The claws tightened as they pushed her further under. "SHUT UP!" she heard muffled by the waves. He had never done a thing to hurt her and he had protected her all these years. Yet, here she was. Slowly slipping into the darkness of death at the hands of the one person she had ever loved. Slipped into oblivion knowing she would never rise again.

Kairi felt breath being pushed forcefully into her lungs and her diaphragm being pressed in frantic pumps. She heard voices calling her name from the darkness and slowly, very slowly, she felt herself regain awareness. She couldn't open her eyes and her body wouldn't breath.

"Kairi! Please! I'm so sorry, don't do this!" Sora…?

"Come on, Kai! Wake up!" Riku…?

Another hard push to her diaphragm made felt liquid rise from deep inside her and spill from her lips in labored coughs. Hands and arms swiftly turned her on her side as the water drained from her lungs. Her eyes opened wide trying to focus on her surroundings. They were on the island where they played together. The sky was dark. She remembered now. She had been drowned. Her eyes fell on a familiar head of cinnamon hair and azure eyes that held so much anguish. She was immediately hugged and warm drops of moister fell onto her shoulder. He was crying for her? She weakly wrapped her small arms around him and embraced him. She tried to shush his apologies and sobs. This was the Sora she knew, innocent and emotional. She ran her fingers through the soft spikes of hair to sooth him and he clung tighter to her still apologizing. Her eyes then went to Riku with quiet rage.

He sat there with his head lowered so that his silvery bangs hid his entire face. There so many things she wanted to say to him. She wanted yell, scream, and threaten him! Anything to make him stay away from Sora and she! She felt Sora slowly pull away from her with red puffy eyes.

"I'm so sorry, Kairi," He whispered hoarsely. "I never wanted to hurt you. I don't want to think about what would've happened if Riku wasn't here!"

"If Riku, wasn't…" she murmured slowly.

Sora nodded. "He pulled you from the water. I don't even know what happened, but when I woke Riku was doing CPR. You weren't breathing and you were so cold. I honestly thought I had lost you!" A new wave of sobs began to pour from Sora. She leaned over and hugged him again. Kairi's eyes then turned to the silent boy in complete disbelief. He had saved her. What for? He was the one who had wanted her dead in the first place. The guilt. That had to be it. He didn't save her for her, he had saved her for Sora. She wasn't important to him but she was important to Sora so she had been spared. That was so unfair!

It took a while for things to settle down between the three of them but eventually they all left the island. Sora made Kairi leave her boat and ride with him because of her weakened condition. Eventually, after a little talking on the ride back, he was smiling at her again seeming to forget all his troubles. She liked having that affect on him. Being able to make him only think of the good was what she prided herself on. She never wanted him to worry about anything for too long because she never wanted to see him unhappy.

When they reached the dock, Sora chose not to walk her home. When she questioned him, he said that Riku was safer to walk home with than he was. He could watch her and besides, his mother was probably worried. Lying now? He was doing it again. Kairi accepted this and walked with a silent Riku not daring to meet his gaze. Halfway there, she had to break the tense silence otherwise it would suffocate her.

"He doesn't know what happened at all does?"

Riku shook his head and kept his gaze forward.

"I see. Riku, thank you for saving me."

He shook his head nonchalantly; his mid was obviously occupied with something else. Kairi moved in front of him and stopped him. Her eyes narrowed and her face turned into a hardened glare of hatred. Her voice was now cruel and resentful.

"I don't care if you saved me! This was your fault in the first place! I told you to stay away from him, Riku! What? You think I didn't know about how you felt?"

His head lifted in surprise this time. "You honestly thought I didn't see it. I knew before you even knew. I could see it in the way you watched him, held him and touched him! But he's not yours Riku! He could never be! He doesn't want you! You bring out horrible things in him and you cause him nothing but pain! How can you live day to day having his friendship and trust when in truth you don't even deserve to even know his damn name!"

Tears of frustration and fury flowed down her cheeks. "I liked you once upon a time. I actually thought you were a wonderful friend. But the way you treated Sora after the island was destroyed. You're the one who makes him cry you're the one who makes him hurt, make him angry, and make him depressed! It's your fault he turned into what he did and tried to kill both of us! Next time you want dwell on the darkness or leave this world, you leave us alone! We're happy, Riku! When you realize that he is happy with me and doesn't need you anymore, then maybe you'll stop being so stupid and leave him be! God, I wish you would just disappear!"

His silence only pissed her off more. He had nothing to say? Nothing to add in his defense? He just stood there like it didn't matter to him! "You want him to change so badly, don't you? Just like you did. You want him to suffer the same. Well, guess what. You can't because I refuse to let you. As long as I have breath in my body, Sora won't be unhappy! Not for you and not anybody! You come near him again and I swear, I will kill you!"

With that, Kairi ran to her house leaving Riku standing there. She hoped she hurt him. She hoped everything she said stung his heart as much as seeing Sora's tears stung hers. She was so angry and frustrated she just wanted to wreck something. She pulled herself up and grasped any and everything that Riku had ever given her. She threw them and broke them, stomping and destroying. Her fit of rage had never been so bad but this…this was just all too much. He thought he could take Sora away from her! She was his light. She was all he needed. When Riku realized that, then they could all go on with their lives.

"RIKU, YOU BASTARD!" she screamed. She collapsed onto her bed and cried her eyes out. She cursed Riku's name in every breath. Sora was hers and no one would take him away. She needed him too much to let him go and he needed her. Even if he didn't see, he needed her. Her hands found it's way to the small stone that hung around her neck and she looked at it in the rays of moonlight. Sora had given it to her in the Secret Place after they had drawn their images on the wall. He had found it and had Riku make it into a necklace for him since he didn't know how. The sole purpose was to give to her. Though they had been so little, she still thought of this present as a gift of love from him just like her Oathkeeper key chain. He never took it off and she never too her necklace off.

Kairi held it close to her and closed her eyes slipping into sleep.

"I'll protect you, Sora…no matter what…"

Konoko: I particularly do not care tOo much for this chapter. BUT. it has relevance. I want everyone to see just how obsessed she is and how she has anger manage problems that no one knows about. And if you say she's out of character i'll flick you off. Why? because jeez, no one really knows what the hell they would do in this type of situation save for the Asians that invented them. Plus, this my opinion of what she would be like behind closed doors as well as my opinion of what Riku and Sora would be like. Sorry, some anonymous person emailed me about how my fic was out of character. so i thought i would get my ranting done. After, there is a reason it's called fanfiction. It's what the FANS think would happened. As long i pay good money for KH merchandise i'll say what ever the hell i want. Thank you and good night! DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW!