Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, Fullmetal Alchemist, nor Final Fantasy

Roxas had returned and went straight to sleep without another word. I wonder what had happened in the mansion with him, but I guess it'll have to wait. Since we had absolutely no reason to sleep, we just wandered the streets that night to get a good feel. Riku and I split up since there was a good bit of ground to cover.

I stayed around the Sandlot and examined a few things. As I got up and turned to leave, I saw a black coat disappear behind the wall.

"Riku?" I asked, getting up to go see what he was doing over here.

When I got there, I could see that the hood was pulled up over his face and that he had collapsed on the ground. Blood was pouring everywhere as I walked closer. That smell...It was familiar, but it wasn't Riku's blood.

I bent down and slowly removed the hood to see who it was.

"Roxas!? I thought you were asleep!?"

He looked up at me and could only manage to mouth what he was trying to say. Unfortunately for me, I had only taken a Spanish course and barely understood that language. No way could I understand lips like most people could.

Seeing that I had no idea what he was saying, Roxas weakly started writing something in his blood. Talk about disgusting, but if it works, it works. He wrote one word before passing out on the ground.

Riku.

I didn't know what else to do, but take him back to his place and leave him there after healing him. After a few minutes of searching, I found the house, but there was one very big and confusing problem. A Roxas was already in the bed. You can only imagine what my expression was when I saw this. As I stood there, I heard someone walk up to me.

"Sora, put him down," a voice said that I immediately recognized as Riku's.

I gently laid Roxas on the ground and looked at Riku.

"He needs help and blood. I don't know if I can heal him up that much."

Riku turned his head as if he was looking at me. "Leave him. He got what he deserved."

Now this was not what I had expected from Riku. He's asking me to leave him here to die and do nothing about it.

"But Riku..."

Then he yelled at me and I do mean yelled.

"I SAID LEAVE HIM HERE. WHAT IS THERE TO QUESTION?"

I jumped when he yelled at me. Who wouldn't? It kind of hurt that he would yell at me like that. I looked down at Roxas then back up at Riku. I knew what was the right thing, and the thing that could cost someone their life.

Sitting down next to Roxas, I looked up at Riku then back at the wounded blond. I started removing his blood-soaked clothes as I began to start healing him.

A sharp pain went through my back and everything seemed to slow down. There was this copper-like taste in my mouth that I quickly knew was blood. I looked down to see a very familiar keyblade sticking out of my stomach.

"Riku...why?" was all I could manage to say. It was starting to get harder and more painful to breathe. I looked up to see Riku remove his blindfold. Those perfect green eyes were different now. They had the look of a killer in them. Something wasn't right, but I was concentrating more on breathing.

Riku walked away with his blood-covered keyblade. I looked over to Roxas who was alive. I guess I healed him enough to where he had a better chance of survival. Pain shot through me as I attempted to move my hand and even my finger. I felt the tears run down my face as I realized what had just happened. Riku, the one that I loved more than anyone else, just stabbed me in the back. Literally. Why? I was only healing Roxas. It's not like that would have caused harm.

It took me a few minutes to realize that I was dying and no one was there to help me. There was nothing I could do to stop the blood pouring out of me.

"Well...looks like this is the end," I said as I saw someone appear from the shadows. A quick look at his blond hair told me that it was one of the Roxas's. Perfect. He's probably going to go insane now.

Roxas looked at both of us and walked over to the being that resembled him. "So it was you. You were the one who saved us from the Heartless back at the Usual Spot."

When he saw me, I believe he showed more shock than he did with seeing himself. What a weird guy.

"Sora? What are you doing sleeping in the streets?" he asked. Then he noticed that it wasn't just water on the ground. He looked back over at the other Roxas and then back at me.

"What? Sora? What happened? Why are you bleeding?"

I, of course, had no air whatsoever to answer him. Unlike the cloaked Roxas, I could not move a single bone in my body. So I did the only thing I thought I could do. I mouthed Riku's name to him.

The look on his face clearly said, "What the freak are you saying?" Looks like I wasn't the only one who couldn't understand lips. I smiled at my unimportant discovery and just looked at Roxas.

They say your life passes before your eyes when you die. That is not true. Only a few distinct memories passed mine. One was of my dad's funeral and my mom crying all day. The other was when I met Riku for the first time and later becoming boyfriends. The training, for some reason, also went by. It was becoming harder to keep my eyes opened and I finally decided to just go on. I was getting weaker and couldn't even hold my eyes open. I felt blood run down the corner of my mouth and realized that it had been doing that for a long time now. I used the last of my strength to smile one more time before my heart stopped beating completely and the blood stopped pumping throughout my body.

Just like before, darkness overwhelmed me, but this darkness was different. I knew looking around that I had finally died. Where was that light at the end of the tunnel? Exactly. It didn't exist. I looked around and decided to give up. No staircase either, going up nor down. Then something weird happened and the next thing you know, I'm looking out the eyes of something a good four feet shorter than me. I looked at my hands and realized that I was going to end up dying anyways, because I had been reincarnated as a Shadow.