All right, unexpected really, even for me, but apparently I'm going to go into Kingdom Hearts II. So…let's see how this goes. I have so many ideas… XD Most of them are tragic, so expect someone to die.

1 year, 2 months later.

Airie's Pov

"Tidus give it back!" I called, jumping into the air and trying to catch the key necklace in my fingers. It slipped past and landed into Wakka's hand.

"You want it, you gotta catch it," Wakka said, looking the key charm over. "Man, it's just a necklace. What's it matter to you?"

"It's precious to me! Someone special gave to me!" I jumped into the air but the necklace landed in the sand a few paces away. I ran to get it but someone picked it up before I could. I looked up and found a girl with long auburn hair and shining blue eyes holding the necklace.

"Here Airie," Kairi said spilling the necklace into my hand and curling my fingers around it. She turned to Tidus and Wakka and put her hands on her hips. "Come on guys, leave her alone. Stop taking her stuff."

"But Kairi…" Tidus wined. "She's fun to mess with. Look at her reaction each time we take that little necklace out of her bedroom."

"You've been raiding her house?" Kairi asked gasping slightly. "Why?"

They ignored her comment. Wakka snatched the necklace out of my fingers and held it above his head. I was still at least seven inches smaller than him, so I only tried jumping once before stopping.

"She can't even remember who gave her the necklace, but she claims this pathetic thing is 'special' to her," Wakka said, looking the key over again and tossing it down on the ground. I scrambled over and picked it up, holding it tightly to my chest.

Kairi gave them a disappointed look. "Just leave her alone, okay?" She placed a hand on my shoulder and started to pull me away. "Come on, let's get you home."

I nodded, following her as she brought me to the small house on the edge of the island. It was great when the place flooded. Yeah, we had a flood about a year ago and I had to clean the floor almost everyday. Riku wasn't ever there to help, I don't know where he had gone, but Kairi was there, part of the time, helping me with a sponge trying to get all the water up. We finally gave up after a few days and took a break, then went back to work a week later.

On the way back to my house I stopped in front of one of the bigger houses. It was brown, two stories, and had a trellis on the right side of it that led up to a window. That window was closed. It always was.

"Kairi…" I asked. "Do you remember who lives here?"

She looked back at me, then looked up at the house. "Um, I think there were a couple in their mid thirties who live here."

I tilted my head. "Do they have any children? A son, maybe?"

Kairi shook her head. "I don't think so. Why? Did you see someone you didn't recognize?"

I pressed my lips together, straining my mind trying to remember. "No…I just wish I remembered who gave this necklace to me. I think it was Riku…but it might have been someone else…"

"Hmm, maybe your mom, dad?" she suggested.

I shrugged and fastened the clasp of the necklace behind my neck. "No…I don't know. Want to stay over tonight or something?"

Kairi shook her head. "Can't. Selphie and I have to work on cheerleading. Sorry." She looked down at the digital watch on her wrist. "In fact, it starts in like ten minutes. I gotta go!" She waved and started to run off.

I lifted my hand in response and started to walk back into my house. The only reason why Tidus and Wakka were able to get inside was because the landlord wouldn't give me a key to lock the doors. He kept telling me that no one would want to steal something from a fifteen year old girl, unless she was rich. And I was far from rich. My house was the smallest one the island. And it had been ever since I got here. Nothing much had changed inside the house, not the furniture, not the amount of food, not the kitchen, and not the supply of clothing in my closet. The only thing that had changed; Me. I was a little taller, my clothing fit me a little tighter because I didn't have much money and had only bought three new outfits since last year. My hair was now as black as my eyes and reached the middle of my neck, since I had just cut it and, since I was not a stylist, it was choppy, but not as bad as you would think. It was just a little uneven in the front. I was still trying to keep myself skinny, and it was working because I only ate one meal a day (What choice did I have with the little amount of money?) If I was really hungry I would go over to Kairi's house, or sometimes even Riku's, even though he was still missing his mom always liked me so she offered me food.

Thinking of Riku made me bite down on my lip. He was missing ever since last year, and I felt a bit guilty about it. One day I was talking to him, and after the talk he walked away. I didn't even say goodbye. Now he was gone. I really didn't have much hope for him now, it had been a year, after all. I gave up after six months.

I sat down on the couch and searched the tv for something to watch. Nothing, as usual. The tv didn't offer me much comfort anymore. I reached under the pillow on the couch and dug out my old MP3. It still worked, surprisingly. One of the older Evanescence song, I think it was Going Under. I turned it to something else and started to draw in the sketchbook that had been tossed lazily on the couch before going to school. Nothing really came to mind, so I just started to draw a Paopu tree, which took up all of five minutes, so I went back over the pages of the book. In it there were pages filled with depressing darkness, others were more cheerful, representing the days that were good and the days that were bad.

One stood out to me out of all of them. There was a boy with spikey brown hair wearing red, white, and blue holding hands with a girl with long black hair wearing all black. At the bottom of the page was a caption that read 'Sora and I'.

Sora?

I pulled the headphones off my head and stood up shakily. I shut the book to get the drawing out of my view. I threw the sketchbook down on the couch and started to walk out the door, but when my hand touched the knob I slipped to the floor and passed out.

"I suppose you're here to see Sora,"

"How do you know Sora? Do you know where he is?"

"I know all about you, from Sora."

I jerked up, gasping for breath. What the hell just happened? That was when everything started rushing back to me. I remembered Sora, remembered where I was when Riku disappeared. I remembered Namine and that it wasn't a flood that made me leave my house, that it was a heartless invasion. I stood up off the floor and brushed off my clothes. I touched the key around my neck and smiled.

So Sora, you were the one who gave this to me. It was for my birthday, we were twelve, right? Thanks. I thought it was beautiful. You called me beautiful once. I only laughed…

I snapped out of my fantasy and started to run out of my house, but found Kairi standing right in the door. She was still wearing her uniform, so she hadn't even gotten to start cheering. Her hand was raised in a fist as if she was going to knock on the door and her eyes were wide.

"Did the same thing just happened to you that happened to me?" she asked.

I nodded. "I'm pretty sure it did. Sora. He's the one who gave me the necklace. Riku isn't missing. He's trying to get the darkness to go away."

Her eyes still wide, Kairi nodded. "Yeah."

I always envisioned Kairi as a cheerleader, that's why she grew her hair out. Well, now that were in KH2, would wants a chapter not from Airie? I'm twisty and turny!