My World

Chap 4 – It's going to be all right…

Yuffie, Leon, and Sora all stayed together till someone came to take away the young ducklings. As Sora watched them take the bodies from the center of the district he began to cry. Yuffie tried to comfort Sora, but soon ended up in tears herself. Leon tried to stay strong for the both of them, but his comforting words did little to console them. Leon thought it was best to head back to Cid's store and tell them what had happened.

As they began making their way through the now empty streets of Traverse Town, Leon looked back at Sora – misery was etched in the boy's every feature.

"Sora," Leon stopped in his tracks and gently placed a hand on the boy's shoulder, "I think maybe you should go back to Destiny Islands. I know it's hard to – digest – what you just saw, but I want you to try and relax."

"How can you tell me to relax?" Sora shrugged Leon's hand from his shoulder and looked up at him angrily. "I just saw Donald's nephews – butchered! Now they are GONE – just like that! I couldn't even stop it!" Sora's brows were still furrowed in anger and mouth turned down in rage, but his eyes were beginning to water and his lower lip started to tremble.

"Sora," Yuffie whispered breathlessly, her own eyes were red and puffy from her own crying, but now she started to feel fresh ones spring from her eyes.

"I, the keyblade wielder, couldn't even save my own friends." Sora sniffles and a few tears stream down his cheeks.

"Sora, go home," Leon tells him, his voice is hinted with pathos, "Go home, stay with Riku and Kairi for a little while, the rest of us we'll return back to Hollow Bastion and try to find out whose up to this. If anything comes up, you'll be the first to know."

Sora looks down at the ground, he doesn't say anything, but Leon doesn't force him to talk and he gently pats his arm.

"It's going to be all right now," He musters with as much sincerity in his voice as he could. "Rest, a weary heart in battle is of no use to us."

Though Sora doesn't agree to leave Leon and Yuffie's side, he doesn't complain either as they help him back onto his Gummi ship that Cid had built for him.

The ride back to Destiny Islands wasn't particularly far, but to him it seemed like an eternity. He desperately wanted to see his friends again. He wanted to make sure they were alright; he wanted to hold them in his arms, play with them, and laugh with them – to make sure that nothing had happened to them – and that everything was all right.

As soon as the Gummi ship landed, Sora jumped out to greet his friends. The sun was high in the sky with not a cloud in sight, the sand was warm to the touch and the sea as blue as blue can be. And though these sights were beautiful and magnificent in their own right, they were unable to pull Sora out from his agony. He looked around the island to find his two best friends laughing with each other. Sora's heart soared as he saw them; he ran over to them and randomly pulled them into a tight embrace.

"You're all right!" Sora shouted, "You're all right!"

Riku and Kairi looked at each other; they were confused and had no idea what Sora was talking about.

"Of course we're all right," Riku said slightly pushing Sora away to speak with him, "why would you think otherwise?"

"I-I," Sora didn't know how to explain himself, he didn't particularly want to tell them what he had seen and he was in no mood to recount the details. "I don't know, look, I'm going to head inside for a little bit, if someone comes looking for me, come get me, and if something fishy is going on," he paused, an urgent look in his eyes, "please call me immediately." Sora forced a smile on his face, "I just get worried sometimes that's all." He got up and started heading over to the hut him and Riku shared.

"Sora, wait!" Kairi's voice rang in Sora's ears; he stopped but didn't turn around, "Please tell us the real reason for this, this sudden worry, was there something that happened while you were at Traverse Town?"

"I don't want to talk about it right now." Sora continued to stand not turning around to face his friends.

"Sora, I think you should tell us what happened," Riku said, "Then we can help you…"

"I said, I don't want to talk about it right NOW!" He shouted as he then sprinted off to the hut and slammed the door shut.

Sora jumped onto his bed and angrily tossed the pillows aside. He didn't mean to go off the handle like that with Riku. He didn't mean to run and hide away in his room. It was just – the day's events were so…disturbing. He didn't want to bring that on them after things were just starting to look up. But he knew keeping this secret wasn't going to last long, eventually he'll have to tell them what was going on, but for now he can at least try and protect them from the harsh truth.

That maybe – perhaps – the crisis they thought had ended, was really just the beginning.

A/N:

The Organization and the Joker parts are the fun parts - Sora is just a plot mover. LMAO! Nah nah I'm kiddin' I love Sora - he's a cute kid. ANYYYWWAYYSS!

Really this Cahpter is suppose ot be - you know - the classic Hero struggles of having to be a hero and endangering his friends because of it - and also a little theme of Coming of Age - cause you know - he has grown since hte first game to a be a more knowledgeable and stronger person and I just want to show that. Not to mention also how he's neevr come across something so grusome - and how he has to deal with it as a hero and as a person still growing up...

Ya - those are the things that go thru my mind...lmao!