Sora made his way to the island where he was scheduled to meet his friends. As he walked along the beach he could feel the sand moving underneath his shoes.
"Hey, Sora!"
Sora looked up and saw Riku and Kairi sitting by the beach.
"Morning!" He called up to his friends.
"You missed that by about 2 hours." Riku said with a smile. And sure enough he was right, by the time Sora made it out to the island it was passed two in the afternoon. Sora stretched his arms up over his head and, bending backwards, let out a yawn. He could feel his back crack.
"How can you be tired?" Kairi asked him as he jumped up to take his usual spot on the bent tree.
Sora didn't answer. He was entranced by the rolling waves that slowly engulfed the beach. The cool island breeze swept through the trees and caused Sora's hair to blow in front of his eyes.
"Brrr!" Kairi shivered as she brought her hands up to her bare arms in an attempt to counter the cold.
"It's getting colder out! I'm going inside to get a jacket." Neither Sora nor Riku spoke as she left. Riku was now looking out over the vast waters, listening to the breeze in the trees. After several minutes of silence Sora spoke.
"Hey Riku?" Without looking at Sora, Riku uttered a 'hmm?'
"I was just thinking," He moved some of the hair our of his eyes, "do you think it's really over?"
Riku looked up at Sora.
"What do you mean?"
"It's just that, last night I had this dream and well, it got me thinking, can everything really be back to normal?"
For a while Riku said nothing. Before he could think of an answer he could hear Sora rustling through his pockets. He looked up to see him pull out a small blue crystal from his left pocket.
"Hey isn't that…?"
"Yeah… it's the crystal orb that I got from twilight town, the one from Roxas's twilight town…" He held it up to the sun and watched as the light shone through.
"I kept it to remind me…"
"Of what?"
Sora brought his arm down, still staring into the orb.
"As a reminder, of everything that's happened, and that everything is connected… like me and Roxas."
A wave crashed against the rock face of the island, as the breeze swept spray over Sora and Riku.
"What brought all this on all of a sudden."
"Are you sure I'm all still…me?"
Riku's eyes met Sora's; the green colour was much more vibrant in the island sun. Somehow, Sora's blue eyes were not what they used to be.
Riku smiled and with a chuckle asked: "What kind of question is that?"
"I'm serious Riku, what if something happened when Roxas and I came back together, I can't still be the same as I was before!"
"Of course you are, Sora, who else would you be?"
"If I'm still all Sora, then what happened to Roxas?"
This was a question that Riku couldn't answer. He looked out over the waters again. The breeze picked up and his long silver hair was blown out of place.
"Riku!"
"Calm down. Why don't you just tell me about your dream?"
"Well it was really dark and I kept hearing voices… and there was this figure dressed in black."
"Organization XIII?"
"I'm not sure…he said that behind the darkness, they're waiting…"
"Behind the darkness… that doesn't sound like anybody from the Organization."
"Somehow I just don't feel the same."
"And you think that has something to do with Roxas?"
"Maybe…"
Sora began swinging his feet back and forth. As he kicked his heels together grains of sand fell to the ground to join the millions of others that made up the beach.
"Who knows, starting a new journey might not be so hard…" Sora quietly said as he jumped off the tree branch to join Riku on the beach.
"What was that?"
"Oh nothing" Sora said and smiled.
"I'm back!" Sora and Riku turned to see Kairi walking back down the dock wearing a white sweater. She walked past the boys and jumped on the bent tree, taking Sora's seat. Once Kairi returned the conversation between Sora and Riku had died off.
"This is great isn't it," Riku and Sora looked up at Kairi, "Everything's back to the way it's supposed to be. The three of us are back together again."
"We're home." Riku said as he stretched his arms behind his head.
All three stood in silence as they looked out over the ocean and took in the beautiful scenery. Everything really was back to normal…
Well Here it is chapter two...I guess it doesnt really start to get interesting until chapter three/four area...oh well...
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