Another long awaited update? The story views seem to show me so, but reviews are telling me otherwise... Sorry it's short.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but this... "plot"

Chapter 3: Down With The Sickness

Sora stopped dead, panting and looking around frantically. Was he just imagining it? He couldn't have been, it was too real. What once was a call for his name now was replaced by sobs. He looked around until his eyes fixed themselves on a tiny girl a few yards ahead of him sitting in the sand crying. Sora ran over to her to see if she was okay.

He placed a hand on her back, "Why are you crying? Are you alright?"

The petite girl looked up at him through watery eyes, "N-No. I-I'm not o-ok-kay."

Even though Sora didn't really care about this random girl and was more interested in finding Kairi, he decided to preform a nice gesture and make the girl feel better. He sat down next to her, wiping a few tears away from her cheeks with his thumb. "Why are you so sad? A pretty girl like you shouldn't be sad on such a beautiful day such as today!"

The brunette looked away from him and then back to him, her blue eyes now becoming more visible. "My friend was supposed to come and find me, but he still hasn't. I don't understand it, he promised me! He promised me he'd come and find me, but he hasn't! It hurts a lot... and I know you don't care but... I miss him and he probably doesn't even care!" The girl folded her arms and began to pout cutely.

Sora gave a little smile when her pout resembled Kairi's. "Too many people don't live up to their promises, you shouldn't count on it so much... But I bet you, he just got hung up and couldn't have come as quickly as he'd like to. I know that something simliar happened to me, I had to go away and I promised a beautiful girl like you I would come back here and find her... It took me so long to get back here and now I feel as though she's given up hope... He probably just got stuck. He'll come back to you, I promise... Someone like you isn't shown kindness too often, your suffering will end soon because all the evil is gone in the world... You just have to be patient. I bet you no man would ever keep such an attractive girl waiting purposely." Sora added a smile at the end to reassure her and also compliment himself at his random inspirational babble.

The choppy haired girl gave him a cute smile, her eyes twinkling. "Thank you. Thank you so much..."

The small girl wrapped her arms around him, embracing him in a hug. Sora hugged her back awkwardly, not sure if he could touch her or not. She let go of him and stood up, completely happy again. Sora looked her over; he noticed that her fair skin, light pink dress and white spaghetti strap underneath made her eyes shine line diamonds - the blue in her eyes sticking out more than anything. Sora felt as though he knew the girl, but when he went to say something she was running off in the direction he had just come. He stood up and continued in the direction he was going, his eyes scanning over every detail of the land.

Then it hit him... that was Kairi.

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Ten yards away, Kairi came to the realization that the sweet boy who was just comforting her a moment ago was Sora. She immediately spun around and darted in the opposite direction towards the spot where she was just crying over Sora to Sora. A Ceshire Cat grin spread across her face again, Sora was here! Sora was actually looking for her! She hadn't even noticed it was him, he'd matured a lot which made him seemed more of a teen than a little boy any longer. She thought it was foolish though, she should have noticed the spikey brown hair, no one else had that but him. She was so excited now she began screaming his name agian, "SORA!! SORA!! SORA!!"

She ran as fast as her legs would go until they finally gave out and she was in the same place she was moments ago crying. She sat there panting, looking around for Sora. She couldn't bring herself to get up, her legs wouldn't budge. She looked directly in front of her and saw Sora approaching her. She called out again, "SORA!" only this time it was just a loud yell instead of an echoing scream.

"KAIRI!" the approaching boy bellowed back to her.

Kairi tried her hardest to stand back up, but gravity was playing heavily against her. "Sora!" she said again, this time she was speaking loudly, her voice becoming stuck in the back of her throat.

Kairi waited until Sora got closer to her, her vision beginning to darken and her breath becoming shorter. Her head felt heavy and she began seeing double. "S-Sora." she said with a small voice.

Sora was just feet away from her now before he just dropped to the ground. Her body fell over as well, everything in her body was shutting down. She looked over at Sora whose head had popped up and his shaky arm was reaching over to her. "Ka-K-Kairi." Sora whispered.

Kairi reached out to him, their fingers only inches apart. "Sora."

Just as their hands were about to touch, their bodies shut down and all they saw was darkness.