Rin: Hey peeps! How's life treating you all? I tried really hard to get this out to you all but school's going insane. 3 projects! That might not seem a lot to you older people but I'm younger than most of you! And we've never had this much work in one short amount of time! That's a lot for my procrastinator mind. But nevertheless, I'm still working on this here story. And my other story too, Our Vampire Teddy so please read that one while you're at it! Thank you to all that reviewed. I love you all.

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Disclaimer: It's my birthday! YAY! For my birthday I asked my friend for Riku, Sora and Roxas…

Rin: Debbie! I want Riku, Sora and Roxas for my birthday!

Debbie: Alright. I'll get that for you.

Rin: YAY!

So today she got me paper cutouts of Riku, Sora, Cloud, and Leon which I will mend to my will. :laughs evilly: But one day I will own the real thing. But they are sooooo cute! And if you're reading this Debbie, Thank you!

0o0

Sora sat his tray on the tables next to Riku's. "I'm starving!"

Tidus sat in front of Riku. "I still can't believe you got all that food, especially that." He pointed at the macaroni and cheese. "It's veil. You're going to choke, foam at the mouth and die."

Riku rolled his eyes; "It's macaroni, Tidus, not rat poison."

"Ah ha! That's what they want you to think. The rat poison is in there, I swear."

"You've been spending too much time with Selphie." Riku said taking a bite of his soft pretzel.

Sora tried spoonful of the macaroni. Tidus watched carefully for any signs of foaming at the mouth. "It's not that bad actually."

Selphie and Rin came to the table with their trays filled with snacks. "You're eating the macaroni?" Selphie asked sitting next to her boyfriend. "That's filled with rat poison!"

"You really are dude." Riku confirmed to Tidus.

"It's not that bad." Rin said taking a seat on the opposite side of Sora. "It's better than at the retirement home's." She made a disgusted face. "That is so that last time I let Grandma give me a suggestion on what to eat. Now that was filled with rat poison."

Leon came next and sat next to Riku. "Hey Leon. Where's Cloud?"

Leon nodded his head at the lunch line. "Still in line. Couldn't decide if he wanted ice cream or cookies."

A few seconds later, Cloud emerged from the lunch line, with both ice cream and cookies, and sat across his boyfriend and next to Tidus. The table sat a quick hello to Cloud.

Sora tugged on Riku's sleeve. "Can I meet Cloud?" He asked.

Riku agreed and switched places. "Cloud, this is Sora. Sora this is Cloud, Leon's boyfriend and member of our band."

Sora looked at Cloud and vise versa. Even though Cloud might not have noticed his brother but Sora knew he was staring into the mako eyes of his older brother. He smiled. "Hello Cloud. Nice to meet you."

Cloud shot a quick glance at Leon for a split second then smiled the same exact smile back to the boy. "It's nice to meet you too, Sora."

Riku looked at the both boys smiling at each other. They look exactly the same, minus the hair color, Sora's deeper shade of blue and the age difference.

"You know…"

"I do know." Sora cut his brother off from wasting his breath. "I look like someone you know."

Cloud blinked. "That may be true, but it wasn't what I was going to say."

"Falling out of the sky is unhealthy and weird?"

"Nope."

"Forgetting where you live is an insult?"

"Kinda but no."

Scaring off demons is unsanitary?"

Cloud blinked again. "Demons?"

"Never mind. I give up."

"My mom's really excited about meeting you. Leon told me about you yesterday and I told my mom. Now she's all hyped up for tonight just because you look like him."

"Him?" Sora played dumb. He's been doing that a lot these past days. "Oh. You mean that kid who everyone says I look like and have the same name."

"How did you know? Did Riku tell you?"

"Not yet, but soon he is."

A girl walked over with her tray. "Is that the boy I'm hearing about so much?"

Riku smiled in greeting and switched places with Sora again. " Yup. Sora this is Kairi, Kairi this is Sora."

Kairi squealed like Selphie and Rin did earlier. "He's just as cute as I heard he is!"

Sora pouted, once again, making him even cuter. "I am not cute!"

The red head shrugged and sat next to Selphie. Sora started to pick at his macaroni. He was afraid. Just being with his friends again made him realize that he couldn't stay here. He didn't want to stay here. As much as he missed them before and would again if he left, he didn't want to endanger them with Taki and Taku. It was his fault they attacked the mall. And referring back to what Riku said earlier, no one would believe him anyway. The only one who believes in angels is the only one who knows.

"Sora?" The boy looked up at a young girl. She had short raven hair and brown eyes. "It looks like you're sill alive."

"Huh?"

The girl stuck out her hand. "I'm the great ninja Yuffie! Nice to meet ya!"

Sora shook her hand. "Ninja?"

Riku pushed Yuffie back to her seat. "She's not really a ninja, she just plays one on tv. Not literally, of course." He added quickly to Sora's confused expression. "It's a game called Eye Toy where you watch yourself on the tv."

"Alright."

"Where's Roxas and Namine?" Riku asked Tidus who was currently trying to steal some of Selphie's gummy bears.

"Huh? Oh. I think Roxas is absent and Namine is working on her art project. Are they the only ones Sora hasn't met yet-Ow!" Tidus rubbed his hand where Selphie slapped him when she realized he was trying to steal her gummy bears.

"Yeah, I think that's it." Riku finished off his drink and dropped his tray off with Sora following close behind.

0o0

Riku drew a simple stick figure on his notebook. There wasn't anything he hated more than math. Even though he was great at it (like everything else he does) he found it so boring. Riku looked out the window and slowly tapped his pencil on his desk.

"Are you bored, Mr. Masaki?"

Riku turned and smirked at his teacher. He may hate math but Mr. Niwa was his all time favorite teacher. "Of course, not Mr. Niwa." He said innocently turning on the Riku Teacher Charm TM. "I love math."

The teacher raised a red eyebrow. "You do, do you?"

"Of course I do. Math is like sex, you see. You add the bed, subtract the clothes, divide the legs and hope to god you don't multiply!"

The whole class, including Mr. Niwa, erupted. Leave it to Riku to say something like that.

"I do see now." Mr. Niwa said wiping away a tear. "But for you, you can't multiply. You're gay."

"That may be true, but I have bedded a few girls in the past."

"Really fascinating, Riku. But, does geometry have anything to do with sex?" Mr. Niwa asked crossing his arms over his chest.

"Sure it does. Now with dividing the legs, you have to know what the angle should be. But it's too bad that a certain math teacher"-Riku coughed a bit-"should leave the measuring to a certain social studies teacher"-cough-"eh, Mr. Niwa?"

The class broke put into laughter again without Mr. Niwa who was red as his spiky hair. Everyone knew the story Mr. Niwa and Mr. Hikari's love life. Well, except for Sora who sat in his seat confused on the inside joke.

"Anyway…" Mr. Niwa coughed to get the class settled again. "What's the answer to number six, Riku?"

"Angle RXS."

0o0

The final bell finally rang and students poured out of the classroom. Sora got up to follow but a hand stopped him. "There's no rush, Sora. We're meeting up with Cloud and Leon in five minutes at their car."

Riku finished gathering his books and they walked out the class. "Why are we meeting them at their car?" Sora asked following Riku down the now empty halls.

Riku shrugged. "We do that all the time. Cloud or Leon always drives to the house we're practicing in. Cloud only lives right next door to me so he drives when it's at his or my house. And Leon drives when it's at his or Yuffie's house; she lives down the street from him."

They reached their lockers and Riku got his open right away while Sora –who never had a locker before- still had problems. He pouted at the evil locker of doom. "Why doesn't Yuffie drive when it's her turn?' Sora asked giving his locker a few kicks.

"Move." Riku said taking Sora's dial and spinning it. "She hasn't passed her driver's test yet. She's like my mom; only worse."

Sora shuddered at the memory as Riku successfully opened the locker. "Hey um… Ri?"

"Yeah?" Riku shoved some books into his locker.

"Can you tell me now?" Riku sighed but agreed closing his locker then leaded against it while Sora took out his math book.

"A few years ago when I was seven, my best friend died. We were really close. We hung out everyday, had so many sleep overs and we shared everything. But I… I guess not."

Sora slammed his locker shut and followed Riku toward the back exit.

"I shared everything with him- my thoughts, my feelings, personal belongs and he didn't. Don't get me wrong, he was the less selfish person I know but he kept a dark secret. You see his father physically and mentally abused him. His mother was oblivious, his friends had the slightest idea, no one knew. His name was Sora too and he was so much fun to be round. He was the nicest and cutest kid ever. He always had a big smile on his face and was optimistic. But no one knew that such a kid would be suffering at such a young age.

"I figured it out two months before his death. I caught his father hit him and leave. Sora finally spilled it all out but he made me make a promise. I wasn't to tell a soul. His father would go ballistic if he found out Sora told someone. At first I didn't think too much of it. My dad had his share of yells but never once did he touch me. I just thought Sora accidentally made a mistake and his dad got really angry. I didn't know that it would turn into something a whole lot serious.

"In those two months Sora had a lot more injuries than normal. Everyday it seemed to be getting worse. I constantly told him to tell someone or to let me do it. But he shook his head and said, 'I…I can't. You're not allowed to know. I can't let anyone else know. It's our secret, right Ri?' He would then smile and pretend that nothing happened. I was a fool back then. I told him that I wouldn't tell but I was just digging his own grave.

"On the day it happened, Sora was raped and was cut in numerous times on his arms. He died mostly of blood loss, a lot of it came from the rape. Sora wasn't ready for sex he was too small. It just made it worse. By the time the police arrived and pulled that bastard away from him, it was too late He died while I was holding him and to this every day that image still haunts me. It was my fault, if I had just told someone about Sora, this could all have been avoided. He could have been walking with us right now…"

"It's not your fault!" Sora argued. He stopped and looked at Riku straight in the eye. "It was never your fault! It's Sora's! He knew what his father did was wrong yet he made no effort to stop it. He was afraid of what his father would do if someone found out but what he didn't think about what would happen to him if he didn't tell. It was a good idea to tell someone but it wasn't a good to listen to him. Now because he made you promise not to tell anyone you both live in regret!"

Riku blinked taking in Sora's words, "I guess you're right… But how would you know how he feels?"

"I knew someone who went through that. Now, do you feel better?" Riku nodded. "Good. That's all Sora wanted. But um… Riku?"

"Yeah?"

"Did you uh… love Sora?"

Riku laughed. "I did. And I still do. I was always looking out for him when we were little but I didn't know until after he was gone that I loved him. I guess I just haven't gotten over him yet. Maybe it's because I keeping thinking that's it my fault." He sighed. "I just don't know when to quit."

"Don't worry. Maybe you'll find someone to replace him. It might take a while but you can do it! Now let's go to practice!" Sora cheered, punching the air.

"Practice?" Riku looked at his watch. "Shit! We're ten minutes late! It's all your fault, baka!"

"What? What about all your self blame? It's not my fault!"

"Well, if someone didn't ask me a question that involved a long answer, we would have been there already!"

"But who's the one who forced me to take pictures with preppy girls?"

"But who's the one who is extremely adorable and everyone wants to be with?"

Sora blushed a deep red. "Er… me…?"

"Exactly. You're fault."

0o0

"It took ya long enough." Cloud said impatiently as he started the car.

"Sora couldn't work his locker again." Riku pulled on his seat belt.

"It's not my fault!" Sora explained. "Those things are out to get me!" Cloud shook his head and pulled out of the school parking lot and turned left down the street.

Riku looked around. "Hey, where's Yuffie?"

Leon shrugged in the passenger seat. "She said she'll meet us there. Said that Rin called a meeting."

Cloud nodded. "This time I made sure to warn her to make it short. We need her for the drums."

They pulled up to Cloud's house. Sora noticed it looked the same it did eight years, the same house, the old tree that he and Riku used to climb in, and the same bushes Sora hid in from his father so many times. Just looking at the house brought back terrible memories.

A hand waved in front of Sora's face, stopping the pain. "Sora?"

"Oh, coming!"

Even the inside looked the same. He first saw the kitchen down the hall…

' "I told you to take out the trash!" A gruff hand struck the five-year-old child across the face.

"I'm sorwe! I forgot and I had to clean the dishes!" Another hand whipped the boy's face.

"Excuses." Kick. "Excuses." Punch. "Excuses." Shove. The boy fell to the ground staring back at the man with wide fearful eyes tears streaming from them. "That's all you are! Exuses!" The man kicked him again at his stomach.

The boy cringed and spit out blood. "I'll get wight on it!" He cried.

The man chuckled as he kicked his son's leg. He walked out of the kitchen door. "Get started, you worthless piece of shit."'

"Sora?" Riku waved his hand in front of Sora's face again. "You okay? You've been spacing out since we arrived."

Sora gave a fake smile. He mastered them along time ago and now they were so natural and believable. "I'm fine, just think is all."

Cloud led the group into the kitchen where Soya was making cookies. She looked up from the oven and gave a small smile. "Hey Cloud. How was school? So… where is he?"

Cloud stepped to the aside to reveal Sora shuffling his feet and looking quite uncomfortable.

"Hello Sora. I'm Soya, Cloud's mother. It's very nice to meet you." Soya's deep blue eyes started to fill up. She ran up to Sora and hugged him, bawling her eyes out. "You look just like my baby! If I only knew what he went through!"

Sora immediately hugged her back. He always had loved his mother. She was always there for him, even if she didn't know…

' "Sora?" His mother asked as the five years old limped through the door one day after kindergarten. "What happened to your eye? And you're limping. What happened? You look terrible, come here sweetie." She opened her arms and Sora went to her. She hugged him careful of his wounds.

Sora wanted so badly to tell her that her husband kicked and punched him for forgetting the trash yesterday, but that same man stood right behind her, watching his every move. He came home for lunch that day so he could make sure nothing gets out.

Sora gave a sheepish fake grin. "Uh-huh! I feel again during playtime. I twisted my foot and fell on the seesaw and hit my eye against the metwal."

Soya scowled pulling out a wash cloth and wetting it in the sink. "You're so clumsy, Sora. What am I going to do with you and all these wounds? They've been increasing."

Sora didn't respond. He watched the floor as his mom washed his bruises and eye.'

Soya let go of her unknown son. "I'm sorry. You really do look like my son. I'm sure Riku told you about him."

"Yes. I'm sorry." 'It's all my fault. I let mom, Cloud, Riku and everyone suffer because I did nothing to take charge. I was so stupid back then…'

"Thank you sweetie. The cookies will be done soon; please help yourself. And Yuffie called before you got here saying she'll be over soon."

Sora stopped paying attention halfway and focused on the things behind her. On the left side wall, there were traces of dried blood…

'He kicked his son against the wall, the blood from the freshly opened cuts spattered on the wall and slit down with his body. Sora collapsed on the dirty kitchen floor.'

The cabinets…

'The man grabbed his son from the floor by his neck and threw him against the cabinets. The boy screamed as his back collated with the metal knob.'

And the refrigerator…

'After falling from the cabinets, the man shoved his son at the refrigerator. "Make me dinner, I want a turkey sandwich and if I see just one drop of blood on my supper… It'll be your head boy."'

Sora's eyes filled with unshed tears. He chuckled softly as if he was going insane. "After all these years you kept them…" He mumbled softly as he passed out from over worked memories. 0o0

Sora looked around the room he was standing in.

Black?

"Riku? Riku? Where are you?" He called out to the room of enternal darkness. A bright light suddenly filled the room. Sora brought his hands up to cover his eyes. The dropped them when he heard a female's voice.

"Sora?" The angel stared into the portal of light.

"Aeris? Is that you?"

Aeris' figure came into view in the center of the light, her shadow could only be seen. She looked around frantically. "Sora? Listen to me. I can't see you but you're in great danger. Do you remember, two years ago when I told you about the Chosen One?"

Sora thought. He heard someone else mention it before, but where? "You mean, the all powerful angels that appears when either the world or Heaven is in danger?"

"Yes! That one! I'm not sure if you know this but…"

Another black figure quickly came into the light and grabbed her. "Aeris!" Sora yelled. "Who the hell are you? Let her go!"

The figure laughed. From what Sora could see he was a tall male with long hair. He was astounded to see to discover a wing. "I'm afraid she told you a bit too much." He pressed Aeris' pressure point on her neck to hold her still. She fainted into his arms.

"Let her go! Where am I? And who are you?"

The man chuckled. "Always the one to get ahead of yourself, aren't you Sora? If you must know, you're in Oblivion."

"O-oblivion?" Sora asked completely shocked. Oblivion- an angel's worse fear and a demon's torture center.

"Don't worry." The man said turning his back to Sora. "This is just your dreams, you aren't really stuck here forever as if this was real. But, you may be in a dream but this is real. Our conservation is real, Aeris is real as am I. Remember what happened here boy." He stopped to walk into the center of the light but stopped before completely disappearing. "You may need it."

Sora watched the man and Aeris leave Oblivion. The light disappeared after them. "What does he mean?" Sora thought aloud. "And how am I supposed to get out of here?" He walked toward where the light was. "There has to be an exit around here somewhere…"

Bump bump

Sora looked around frantically. "What was that?" He heard it again from behind him. He turned around. It was growing softer and slower. He heard a light scream. It sounded very familiar. "Aeris?" The sounds were growing softer and slower. Sora started to run toward the sounds. It could be that man or Aeris.

"Sora…? Wake up Sora. Wake up… You have to wake up."

"Riku? Wait, that's not Riku. It's… him from eight years ago. Why am I hearing this?" Sora wondered.

A chuckle ran out. "Were you taught nothing?"

The voice was different from the other man's. The other's was Twilight, a mix of demon's and angel's. This man's was entirely demon. "Don't you know anything about Oblivion?"

Sora slowly shook his head. Unsure if the man say this gesture, he answered. "Not really…"

The demon laughed. "I wouldn't except anything less from an angel. Very well, Oblivion is everyone's nightmare, even the devil himself. You're all alone with no one to comfort you except for you and your loved one's memories, repeating over and over again, forever. Because everyone knows once in Oblivion, always in Oblivion."

"But the other guy said this is a dream!" Sora argued.

"That may be so but it is in Oblivion, all nightmares happen here, did you know that?"

"All nightmares?"

"Nightmares need memories from the past to be created. They just add visual effects. Just think of Oblivion as one big nightmare that has come to life."

"Then why can't I get out?"

The demon made an tsk sound. "Now Sora, do you really want me to ruin the surprise? You'll have to figure that out on your own. Till next time, Sora."

"Wait!" Sora called out. The demon didn't respond. "Shit. Now what am I supposed to do?" He sank to the floor. Sora hugged his knees to his chest. "I really am helpless. I can't even escape from my own dream. I wish Riku was here… he's brave." Sora felt tears sting his eyes. He had no intention to wipe them away.

"Sora?" Riku's voice rang out again. Only this time it was deeper and older, like his fifteen.

Sora wiped his tears. "Ri?"

A blue light began to shine behind the angel. Sora got up and walked toward it.

"Wake up Sora. Yuffie's here now." Riku's voice came out from the center of the light. Sora felt a hand stroke his head. He reached up to his head but nothing was there.

Something told him to go through the portal. Sora stepped into the light and felt the ground spin.

0o0

Sora's eyes fluttered open. He saw a pair of aqua eyes relax. "Thank god you're awake…"

'Riku's okay.' Sora thought. 'I'm back home and finally out of Oblivion.'

"Sora? Are you okay? You're still spacing out." Riku asked.

Sora couldn't take it any longer; he threw his arms around Riku's chest, hugging and sobbing on his shirt. "I was so scared! I didn't think I'd ever get out of there! I thought you left me…" Sora buried his face deeper into Riku's chest. "I didn't think you'd come…"

Riku brought his arms around Sora's thin body. "What are you talking about Sora? Did you have a bad dream?"

"All nightmares happen in here…" Remembering the demon's words, Sora nodded his head.

Riku hugged his tighter. "Don't worry Sora. Nightmares aren't real; they're just there to scare you…"

"You may be in a dream but this is real…"

"…And I will never leave you when you're in trouble, understand? If you need anything, I'll be there. I'll always come."

Riku lightly kissed the top of Sora's head. Sora didn't pull away; instead he relaxed and tightened his arms around Riku.

Yuffie came bouncing down the stairs to tell the boys to hurry up but then she saw them embrace. She smirked. Maybe her assistance was needn't after all…

"Hey lovers!" She called from the steps. Sora and Riku quickly jumped away from each other with a red blush across their faces. Yuffie laughed. "Hurry it up. We want to start practice already!" She raced back up the steps into the practice room.

Riku stood up and stretched. "Let's go Sora, we're already a half hour off course." He held out his hand for Sora to take, which he did.

"Half hour? You've been waiting that long? For me?" Sora asked amazed. Such kind things don't happen to him very often.

Riku grinned and lead up the stairs and to the right into the Cloud's vacant room used for practice. "Of course. You said you wanted to listen, right?"

The band was already done setting up which was done while Sora slept. Riku didn't a lot of time to warm up. He softly strummed Revenge while the group decided what to play.

"I wanna play Haunted!" Yuffie yelled tapping in the drums.

Cloud stuck out his tongue. "Nah… We played that last week for almost ever. Let's play, Hear Me."

Leon shook his head. "We already perfected that. We should work on something like, What's left of me."

Riku thought for a moment. "That needs more work on the end. I'm not in the mood to fix- just perfect. How about, Perfect World?"

The rest of the band agreed. Sora sat himself on a couch across the room. Cloud strummed his guitar while Yuffie tapped on the drums. Ten seconds later Yuffie picked up pace for a second before everyone jumped it. At twenty-five seconds Riku took the microphone.

"I never could've seen this far
I never could've seen this coming
Seems like my world's falling apart
Yeah
Why is everything so hard
I don't think I can deal with the things you said
It just won't go away"

The band kicked back up the tempo for the chorus and Cloud took the other Mic."
"In a perfect world
This could never happen
In a perfect world
You'd still be here
And it makes no sense
I could just pick up the pieces
But to you
This means nothing
Nothing at all."

Riku and Cloud stopped singing for a while to focus on the instrumental part. After a while, Riku started to sing the second part.
"I used to think that I was strong
Until the day it all went wrong
I think I need a miracle to make it through
Yeah
I pictured I could bring you back
I pictured I could turn back time
Cuz I can't let go
I just can't find my way
Yeah
Without you I just can't find my way."
"In a perfect world
This could never happen
In a perfect world
You'd still be here
And it makes no sense
I could just pick up the pieces
But to you
This means nothing
Nothing at all"

Riku held out 'all' as the tempo dropped in an almost depressing sound.
"I don't know what I should do now
I don't know where I should go
I'm still here waiting for you
I'm lost when you're not around
I need to hold on to you
I just can't let you go"
Riku yelled it into the microphone.
"Yeah
Yeah"

The tempo was back up and everyone sang.
"In a perfect world
This could never happen
In a perfect world
You'd still be here
And it makes no sense
I could just pick up the pieces
But to you
This means nothing
Nothing at all
Nothing, nothing at all
Nothing at all."

The band played out the rest of their song. Instead of the quiet echo in the room, it was filled with applause.

Sora stood form his seat clapping. "That was great! It was like a real concert, only private! It was awesome!"

Riku smirked taking a hit from his water bottle. "Thanks, but have you ever been to a concert? Concerning everything else you missed out on."

Sora nodded. "Of course. I've seen Satsuna, Ruri, Lord Resiel, Lady Alexiel, and my personal favorite, Kurai!" Sora made a little squeal. ' Not to mention this is my first human concert. All the rest were angels and demons.'

"I've never heard of them." Yuffie said opening her bottle of coke. "And I've just about heard of every band and singer there is out there."

"When have we heard of anything when it comes to Sora's hometown?" Riku asked.

"Good point."

"Does anyone want pocky?" Cloud asked suddenly. "I've got some downstairs. We have chocolate, banana, strawberry…"

"STRAWBERRY!" Sora screamed jumping on to Cloud's arm. "I… need… pocky…" He started to shake.

Everyone was a bit freaked out my Sora's sudden spaz, except Cloud who only smirked. "Come on, Sora." He said pulling the boy out of the room. "You can come too."

Cloud showed Sora to the kitchen and went to the refrigerator and pulled out a few bags of pocky. He didn't feel Sora's presents behind him so he turned to see the boy shaking and looking frantically around the room as if it was going to jump out and attack him.

In response, Cloud smirked more. "Something wrong Sora?"

Sora jumped a little at his name. "Um… N-nothing's wrong! I just uh… felt a cold draft? Hehe?"

Cloud put a hand on his hip. "It's 92 degrees outside and all the windows are closed."

Sora tore his eyes away from Cloud's. The older boy stepped forward "Give it up Sor. I know why you're afraid of this kitchen."

Sora looked back up. Cloud smiled faintly. "I would be too if our dad did the same thing to me as he did to you."

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Rin: You all hate me now don't you? And if my any miracle you don't, well this might change your mind: There was our second song in this chapter so do you know what that means? It means another side story! So instead of waiting for one chapter, it's now two. Muhahahaha! Don't hate me!

I own nothing in this chapter except the plot, me and any of my characters like Taki and Taku. I don't own any of the songs mentioned. Perfect World is by Simple Plan, Haunted is by Evanescence, Hear Me is by Kelly Clarkson, and What's Left of Me is by Nick Lashie. I don't like him but I love that song. Sad huh? I also don't own any of the names of the angels/demons that Sora saw in concert. They're from Angel Sanctuary. Mr. Niwa and Mr. Hikari are from D.N.Angel. Daisuke and Satoshi are their first names in case you didn't know. I think they're so cute together! And I think that's all that I don't own besides Kingdom Hearts, which I mentioned before.

Next Chapter: Perfect World Side Story.

Thank you all for reading and Review me! Come on, you know you want to… Can't you be a little bit kind for all my hard work? Please? Ask me questions, tell me your theories, or tell me some of your suspicions. I want to know what runs through your mind. I would love to hear from them, not that I would give anything away if you got it but whatever. Adios!