Konoko: A lot of people are complaining about my paragraphs being far too long. Um I'm not really sure how they want me to shorten them. Usually I write a paragraph and when I switch subject I make a new one. I thought that's how you're suppose to do it. Plus, I don't really see a problem considering that I've read stories with much longer paragraphs than mine. But oh well. I'll try to make them a little shorter though it's going to be a little harder for me considering this is just how I write.

Thinking of you wherever you are…

"I can't hear his voice anymore…" Abandoned…

"That's not my name…I'm Kairi." Who am I to you, Sora?

"Oh you're that girl he likes…" that…girl?

I will step forward to realize this wish!

"Kairi, I'm always with you!" I love you…

"No matter where I go, I can always come back here" Come back to you…

"I won't go back until I remember everything about him…" I want to remember why I love you…

"I believe in you Sora…" You will always be mine

"There is no way I'm letting you take Kairi's heart!" You've already taken it, Sora.

"I'll come back to you, I promise." I'll save you Sora…

"We'll be together everyday…" I'll save you from him…

Wonk ouY nahT noitceffA eroM deeN I

Day two

Kairi

Kairi stood at the dock where their boats lay untouched for nearly two weeks. Island was all but abandoned to them. She looked down at Selphie who sat watching the sunrise with a placid smile on her usually excited face. Kairi smiled at her. She felt guilty for putting her friendship with Selphie aside for her obsession with Sora. She even planned to spend the day with her to prove that she was still her best friend. But her mind was elsewhere and for the life of her she couldn't focus on just on Selphie.

In only two weeks she had lost her hold on Sora completely. He didn't spen a lot of time with her anymore and she was forced to be alone when Selphie was with her new boyfriends. She felt jealousy every time she saw the three of them together having fun and being happy without her. To add to that, Riku and Sora were becoming close again like they were when she first met them. It was like she was fading from existence. Destiny Islands was changing without her and she couldn't keep up. People were forgetting about her, not even taking the time to ask how she had been. Selphie was the only one left who called her and even she was beginning to let Kairi slip out of sight and out of mind.

She wouldn't let herself fade into he background. She had to maintain her existence in Sora but with Riku always around now, she couldn't. She even started to consider giving up. Resigning herself to invisibility was the last thing on her list but she was running out of options. Maybe she just had to accept that Riku was winning and that she no longer had a place here.

"Kairi? You okay?"

The redhead passed her a fake smile. "Yeah, I've just got a lot on my mind right now."

"Oh, well don't let it worry you too much. It's not good for you."

Kairi gave her a genuine smile. "How are things with Tidus and Wakka, Selphie?"

Selphie blinked her wide eyes at her and gave a stunning smile that Kairi had ever seen. "Everything is great Kairi. Tidus and Wakka are still immature but now they're really good to me."

"That's good. I'm glad for you, Selph."

"What about you and Sora?"

Kairi frowned slightly. "I don't know anymore. He and Riku are spending more time together now and I feel like he's forgetting about me."

"Oh don't be silly. Sora could never forget about you. He's just distracted right now."

"Distracted…" She whispered with hate laced within her voice.

"Wakka and Tidus distracted each other from everything with all their clowning and fighting. But eventually, I just took the fight out of them by arguing them down. Now they just clown around and no one gets hurt. It's easy, call it the power of being a girl. You can take the bad part out of a guy and everything is alright from then on."

Kairi thought about these words carefully. "Take the bad part out."

She watched Selphie relax with a serene look on her face. She had never seen the girl look so pretty and she glowed. Kairi wondered if she use to look like that, like a girl in love. She missed being so radiant and happy. Take the bad part out…

"Say selph, I know I promised I'd spend the day with you but I just remembered something."

Selphie tilted her head in disappointment. "Awe! Oh well, its okay. I know it's something important. I'll just go hang out at the island with Tidus and Wakka. We can hang out some other time!"

Kairi nodded with a smile. "Of course, it's a promise."

Saying goodbye, Kairi made her way to Sora's house hoping he was home so that they could talk. Maybe she could stop this before it got out of hand! She ran there but stopped when she noticed the door to Riku's house opening in the distance. She stood still and felt her heart rise in her throat as she watched Sora come out with a placid smile on his face. He turned to Riku who leaned out the door and planted a kiss on his lips. It was returned eagerly with Sora slipping his hand into Riku's hair. She felt nausea hit her like a tsunami and her knees buckled. She couldn't look away from the two boys as they passionately kissed in the morning light. Eventually, they released each other and Sora waved at Riku as he walked away. Kairi put her hand to her mouth and ducked into the bushes. The nausea had increased and she was trembling right down to her toes.

She threw up her breakfast right there and struggled to compose herself. Breathing hard she tried to calm down after this brutalizing scene that weighed down her psyche. Breaking down she fell to her knees. No, this wasn't right. This isn't the way it was suppose to be. Sora was supposed to love her and her alone! She wrapped her arms around herself and cried in hard choking sobs. She breathed in and out hyperventilating until one thought came to her. Take the bad part out…

Kairi slowly stood up and brushed off her clothes. She wiped the tears from her eyes and took a deep breath before walking from the shrubbery. She had a mission in her mind and nothing was going to get in her way. She walked towards his house with murder in her eyes and she held out her hand calling forth her keyblade which Riku himself had given her. She'd put an end to this with the gift he dared to give her out of pity. He dared to give her his so that she could feel important as well. She knew it all along what this keblade was for and tonight, she'd use it the way it was meant to be.

"R-u"

Riku sat up from his bed hearing a distorted voice calling out to him. He sat still waiting to hear the noise again.

"Ri-u!"

It sounded as though it was coming from his bathroom. He got up and slowly crept there ready to attack whatever was there. He looked around to find nothing there. He nearly jumped out of his skin when a pale hand hit the mirror. He stared in disbelief at the distressed image of Naminé beating at the glass her voice distraught with fear.

"Riku!"

"Naminé?" He murmured in disbelief.

"Riku, you've got to stop her! She's going to hurt him, I know she is! Please!" Naminé had tears on the brim of her lavender eyes.

"Calm down. Tell me who's going to hurt who?"

"Kairi! I've tried so hard to keep her from doing this but I can't. She's going to hurt Sora with the keyblade."

"She can't that not possible. The only keyblade that could possibly do him harm is Oblivion and he possesses it. The keyblade King Mickey asked me to give to her is harmless."

"Riku please, you don't understand. Your keyblade unlocks the darkness and Sora's seals it. Kairi's is different! It removes it! If she destroys the darkness in Sora, she could kill him."

He didn't need to be told twice. Naminé barely finished the sentence before Riku was out the door and down the hall. He'd kill that bitch if she touched a hair on Sora's head! Even worse, he didn't know what he'd do if Sora were gone. He'd never forgive himself

Kairi saw Sora walking along the shore watching the sun rising in the sky with a content expression. No smile, no goofy grin, no innocent gestures, just complete and total placidity. He seemed so mature and stoic. Who was this person that Riku had shaped her Sora into? He was so different, so confident, so not Sora. This was a Sora that couldn't love her her! She would change that.

She watched him as he climbed on the pier and looked out unto the ocean. It reminded her of the way Riku did. Kairi narrowed her eyes and walked up to the pier with her keyblade hidden behing her back. Yes, this would end now.

"Sora?"

He twisted his head in surprise but relaxed when he saw Kairi. "Oh, hey Kairi, what are you doing up so early."

"I just wanted to watch the sun come up. You're out pretty early yourself."

"Oh, yeah," Sora grinned at her but it eventually turned into a frown. He must've seen the distant look on her face.

"Sora, do you remember when we watched the sunset together on the island together."

"Yeah, ofcourse I remember."

Kairi moved to stand beside him, their shoulders brushing. She rested her head on his shoulder and narrowed her eyes when he tensed.

"I said, 'Sora, don't ever change.' You said you wouldn't. You promised you wouldn't."

"I haven't changed, Kairi." He said softly. Sora was just so beautiful and once so innocent. Riku was corrupting him so much that he couldn't even pretend to be her old Sora. He wouldn't even wrap his arm around her when her head lay against his shoulder. She clutched the keyblade behind her until the chain shook alerting Sora to its presence.

"Kairi, why do you have your keyblade?" he asked sensing something wrong.

"Oh, sora…if he had just stayed away from you! If he had listened, everything would be okay."

Sora begin to back away as Kairi's tone became slightly maniacal. She grabbed his wrist in a lightening fast movement and held it in vice gripped. She turned to him with a serene smile on her face but her eyes showed a crazed darkness that drained the color from Sora's face. She moved her keyblade to point toward his chest. Its tip glowed in a rose colored spear. Sora's expression turned from fear to complete panic when he realized he couldn't move or speak. She moved forward to touch his face lovingly while holding the keyblade in place against his heart. She could hear his heart beating within his chest in a tempo of cold horror and adrenaline.

"Sora, why are you afraid of me? What has he told you to make you so scared of little old me? I'm Kairi, remember. I couldn't hurt anyone, never wanted to." She placed a lingering kiss on his lips and pulled away only an inch. She could taste his panting breaths and the small hitches when she ran her hand through his soft cinnamon spikes.

"I could never hurt you, Sora. But...I'm only human. I can't do the things that you and Riku do. Still, I never asked for anything more than love. All I ever wanted was to be loved. I wanted you to be the one to love me and take care of me. Save me when I needed to be saved, be my hero and just be there for me. I love you, Sora. We were meant to be together. The princess and the knight, the damsel and the hero, we were supposed to have a happy ending. So where is mine, Sora. Where is my happy ending?" She fisted his hair making him hiss in pain even though he could not put a voice to it.

"But I don't blame you. I could never blame you because it isn't your fault. It's all Riku's fault. He steered you away from the light, filled you with a darkness that now has a horrible control over you. But I'm going to free you because you deserve better Sora." She kissed him once more before plunging her keyblade deep with his breast. He cringed around the blade shutting his eyes in pain as swirls of darkness were painfully expelled from his body. Kairi held him close to her as it spilled in waves from within him.

"Shh, it's okay, Sora. I'm here. I'll break that bastard's hold on you no matter what it takes!"

The darkness within him blasted out from him throwing her back from him. Sora collapsed onto the wooden pier, his once beautiful azure eyes dulled to a deep cobalt that only reflected the shine from the sun and nothing more. His chest heaved up and down from lack of breath with paled lips parted slightly from the effort. Kairi stood picking up her keyblade and stumbled to Sora's side. She examined him frantically in confusion.

"Sora? What's wrong? This isn't right, you should've been okay once the darkness was gone!" She pressed her ear to his chest and pulled away in shock. No heart beat. This was wrong. He shouldn't even be breathing if his heart was destroyed in the process. She shook her head. "No, no, no! this isn't the way it was suppose to be! You were suppose to be my Sora again. Wake up!"

A strained groan caught her attention and she looked over her shoulder at the dark heap lying on the pier. The darkness swirled around him as if trying to revive him but eventually it fell away and disappeared into the cracks of the planks. It left a beautiful boy curled up in pain. His hair was dark obsidian like the feathers of the rave and his skin was sickly but unblemished proving that if he was healthy it would glow like the moon. His lips were rose pink and his eyes, halfway open, were crystal amber. He wore black tank beneath a dark hooded jacket that was lined in silver and cargo pants Kairi narrowed her eyes in contempt and stomped over to the cringing form with her keyblade grasped tightly in her hand. She kicked him in the side to roll him over. The doppelganger of Sora cried out and shied away from her and the sunlight. She gazed down at him with a smirk on her face as realization dawned on her.

"You're sora's anti-form. You can't stand the light period, much less my light!"

The boy chuckled weakly and sat up as best he could. "You're light is false, ugly. It pains even the most virtuous to look upon it."

Kairi growled and pointed the blade at him smiling in amusement when he shied away from it. "That maybe your opinion, but it's your weakness, you bastard. You're weak and can't even shield yourself from the sun. You may look and sound like Sora but you could never be him! You're nothing but a stupid copy!"

She kicked him across his face knocking a few drops of blood from his perfect lips. She leaned down and pushed his chin up to look at her. "So, a heartless can bleed. That's good to know."

"You're pathetic!" he spat venomously. "You don't even know the truth about him. The real reason he hasn't moved since you ran him through. You're nothing but a needy little bitch who is afraid of being alone. You destroy everything around you to make yourself happy and to get other's to notice you. You're no princess. Just a whore who can't find her own life so she has to ruin other's!"

"Shut up!" she gave him a searing slap. His head hit the wood and he moved no more. She watched his unconscious form, brushing the hair from his face. For a cheap imitation he was very handsome. An idea dawned on her on how to make him suffer without lifting a finger to destroyed him. "I know just what to do with you, just who to give you to."

Riku approached the body lying on the pier slowly with fear in his heart. He recognized the light cinnamon hair blending against the wooden boards. He remembered the smooth unmarred skin that was rose tinted at the cheeks. But when he looked into those eyes…he just knew they had to belong to a stranger. That this not his lover lying on the ground panting softly in the sun. The smile had faded away, the memories shattered right before him when he looked into those lifeless eyes. Still, the reality was there even when he leaned down to brush the cool cheek that once blushed at his contact. He pulled the heavy body into his arms and cradled it. He had been too slow…

A hitch in Sora's breathing caught his attention and he pulled away to look at Sora who blinked slowly. "Ri….ku…"

"Sora?" He sat the boy up against him. His limbs still felt heavy proving the boy was still numb. Sora's head was tilted back against his shoulder and those dull eyes looked up at him pleadingly.

"You…have to…help…find Kairi…"

"I don't know how to help you, Sora. I don't know where she is."

"N-not me…Aros…she took….took him."

"Who?"

"My…darkness….she took him…"

"Kairi took Aros, Sora's anti-form." Riku swiftly turned his head ready to attack whoever this new voice was. He came face to face with Roxas who looked tired and worn out. Riku shook his head and blinked a few times.

"Roxas?"

"Don't worry about what's going on. You have to find where she took him. He can't stay in this world without Sora."

"But I thought his anti-form was the darkness trying to control Sora."

Roxas shook his head. "He's not evil or dangerous to Sora or you. He's simply another part as I am. Kairi separated us when she took the darkness out of Sora. Riku, there's no time to tell you everything! You have to find Aros otherwise Kairi will kill him!"

Riku looked down at Sora who had closed his eyes from fatigue. Roxas knelt down beside him and took Sora from his arms. Riku gave him questioning eyes.

"Go save Aros. I'll look after Sora until you come back. Just get him before Kairi does something stupid. If she's doing what I think she is the Aros doesn't have much time."

Riku nodded and stood. "I'll get him back and then we'll straighten this out."

"Riku," Roxas stared up at him with imploring baby blues. "Aros is Sora too. He's not a heartless and he's not an enemy. Don't treat him that way."

Riku looked at him remembering his first encounter with Aros on the islands. When he thought about it, Aros had never done anything to harm him. If anything, he was willing to give Riku everything in exchange for Riku's affection yet, riku had given him none. He showed blind fear to the very darkness he had created.

"I'll save him, Roxas. Just take care of Sora, please."

Konoko: I tried to not make my paragraphs long so I cut out some detail. Anyway, sorry about the long wait. THis chapter had been done for a week but i couldn't load it because was acting stupid. We got about two more chapters left before this story comes to close. Then I go off to make the sequel which is going to be called niotomE eruT deeN I. Since I'm on a roll, I've gotten the first chapter of the sequel out of the way so when I'm ready to post it ya'll won't have to wait long. And for all you honest to god fans of Aros. The sequel is going to be about him. So review review review and let me know that I'm not gonna be wasting my time with a sequel to this.