Authors Note: I am very proud to have finished the chapter in like, three days. I mean everything is piecing together, and i looooove it. But yeah there should only be a few more chapters so keep updated!

"Naminé took my heart from me, and i didn't get it back until i had lost you," Tears began to roll down her cheeks. "I don't want to lose you. I can't be without you."

"Kairi," Roxas smiled and she smiled a little bit as well. "I'm fading. I can't survive much longer... so this is going to have to be our good bye."

"No! You can't make me say good bye! You can't! Roxas please don't!" Kairi started to shake and sob more and more until Roxas leaned up and pressed his lips soflty against hers. When they parted, Roxas smiled again, then his eyes began to shut and he fell backwards...

Time slowed as he fell back... and his lips slowly formed into two words... the last Kairi ever heard--

"Never Forget,"

- -faded - -

Kairi sobbed as she watched Roxas stop breathing, watching as his face became drained of all color. He was gone, truly and completely gone this time... and nothing could ever bring him back. Naminé had gotten what she had wanted, she had gotten back her Roxas... and Kairi was left with an empty shell of nothingness. Sora wasn't even himself any longer... and she couldn't bring herself to find Riku and Selphie... life was over.

"Nothing is ever worth living for." Kairi whispered, staring at Roxas's perfectedly sculptured face. "And even if you find something... you'll lose it anyway-"

"I was going to propose to you, here on the island,"

Kairi gasped, remembering his words from the last time he had almost left her... so she pulled the ring from her finger and smiled lightly.

"I never got to say yes-" She rubbed the inscription then let Roxas's head lightly fall into her lap. "I wanted to be with him forever... but i was too late..."

Roxas's body suddenley started to glow, and Kairi watched through teared eyes as his body dissapeared before her into a burst of light...

Roxas was gone, and this time he wasn't coming back.

--A few months later--

"Kairi are you okay? You've seemed kind down since Roxas moved..." Selphie whispered lightly.

"..." Kairi stared ahead of her as they sat on the sands of Destiny Islands, as their feet were slightly dampened by the cool waters of the shoreline.

"Kairi... can't you tell me what happened before he left? I'm supposed to be your best friend! I'm supposed to know."

'Even if I could tell you, I wouldn't Selph... it's too hard for me to remember any of this... Roxas is gone... and Sora disappeared after I came back. I have nothing but you and Riku now... and even Riku isn't around anymore.'

"Kairi please talk to me,"

She turned her head to look over at Selphie and she realized... Selphie was it. The only person she had left was her, and she couldn't even tell her about Roxas--

Kairi shook her head and stood, turning away from Selphie she whispered,

"I'll see you later."

Kairi then resorted to going to the "secret place" she had been in so many times through her childhood, the place Riku had kissed her... where Naminé struck back at her... where she officially lost Roxas. As she stepped into the cavern, she looked at the familiar drawings on the walls and couldn't help but crack a slight grin, because as she reached the end of it, there was her and Sora's drawings, and the paupu fruits given to each other. Then Kairi kneeled and in an empty space, she drew another picture, a boy with spiked hair, and a skateboard beside him... and then she drew herself... beside him and a heart between the two...

inscripted inside: R&K Forever

Sitting back, Kairi let her head hang as she fiddled with the laces in her dress, wishing that time could be rewritten... and then maybe he would still be alive with her today.

"Sora you never told me why you came back."

"I never thought I had too-" She looked to the opening and saw the familiar spiked hair and shook her head.

"You're not the same Sora I fell in love with those few years ago." Kairi tightened her hands into fists. "You took Roxas away from me so that you could exist once more."

"You kept my spirit here Kai, you wanted me back, you begged me to not leave you, so I stayed for you." Sora sat on a rock beside her. "I have had so much anger built up inside of myself since I died... fighting that heartless was the last thing I did... except when I kissed you good bye-"

"Sora, I never forgot you, never for a second, I never meant to keep you attached to this world... I never meant for you to build up so much rage." Kairi looked over at him, tears clinging to her eyes. "I wanted you to rest in peace, knowing your best friend and the person who loved you... would never forget you."

"I tried my hardest to stay with you, fighting every law that permits a spirit to communicate with the living, so I used Roxas. Since he was a Nobody, I could speak through him, and because of Naminé in you, you could see and hear me as well... but then she split off from you out of jealousy. That caused the whole Riku scene." Sora twiddled his thumbs. "When you picked me over Roxas, his spirit was weak, and I pushed myself into his body, then I took over Riku's when Roxas became too weak. Roxas's last spirit became my full strength."

"What happened to Riku?"

"I needed a body to stay whole, so why not use my best friends?" Sora smiled and grabbed Kairi's hand lightly. "I did everything I could so I could be here with you."

"Sora this wasn't the right way to do this. Where's the caring Sora? The one who would do anything to save anyone other than himself?!" Kairi screamed pulling her hand away.

"That Sora died that night on the beach, Kai."

"You know this wasn't right Sora... please release Riku... please do this the right way!" She stood and closed her eyes, turning away from him.

"Y-you don't want me here anymore?" Sora's voice was shocked as he stood beside Kairi.

"Not like this." She turned and faced him, staring into his oceanic orbs, looking at him soft perked lips, and spiked hair...

Sora wrapped his arms around her and pulled her tightly to his chest. Kairi felt his heartbeat through her hair, and she then felt it slow down, to a dead beat... a heart of nothiness. She looked up at Sora and saw him grin that traditional grin he always wore, then he pulled away from her and spoke softly.

"You're right. I manipulated people so I could come back to you, making it completely unfair to you, Roxas, Riku, even myself. I want to be the Sora you fell in love with again. The Sora who cares about you, even if he can't be with you anymore. The Sora who's happy to see you be happy, even if it's with someone else."

"So you're going back?" Kairi asked, wrapping her arms across her chest.

"Yes. I'm going to make this all the way it should be again." With that, Sora's body began to glow a bright white, and soon, he was gone in a blinding flash of light, and in his place was Riku, pale and wobbley, but there. Kairi caught him before he fell, but continued to watch the glowing form of Sora before her.

"Remember Kairi, if you ever need me... you know where to find me."

Then he was gone.

Kairi looked down at Riku and saw his eyes begin to flutter open. He sat up and scratched his head, then looked over at Kairi, a very dazed look on his face.

"What happened?"

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you." She smiled, but couldn't help but still feel empty inside.

Sora had left... but that didn't mean Roxas was alive. Kairi stood up and stretched her arms out, then hung her head in sadness, and she felt her eyes begin to water again. Wiping the tears away, she sniffled and looked over at Riku who smiled up at her.

'You're too beautiful to cry Kai,'

She whipped around to see where the voice had come from, but no one was there, nothing was there except the darkness. Kairi sighed once more until a thought hit her... something Sora had said.

"The Sora who's happy to see you be happy, even if it's with someone else"

Someone else.

Roxas.

A/N: Be prepared for next chapter D it's gonna rock! Also please review!