This chapter took forever. Sorry. I don't really understand everything about Kingdom Hearts, so I just made up stuff that I needed for this ending to work. I am sure I contradict myself and the game many times, and I don't care. I hope you all enjoy the end of Darkside, and there is a good chance I will write a sequel, but only after I play the sequel games so that my story stays accurate. Please leave a review, even if you reviewed on other chapters so I know how you liked the entire story. Thanks for sticking with me.

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As Riku fell through the darkness he had grown so close to, he felt like those memories were being stripped away. The times he spent with Shadow, learning what the darkness could do...

He hit the hard floor of the shadow world with such speed that he was tossed away, rolling and banging into the ground. When his body came to a stop, he pulled himself up on his hands and knees and pressed his hands to the floor.

The thought that he had shared his body with Ansem, that they had used the darkness together, flashed into his mind. Riku tried to clear his mind, and focus the power he had left on the dark mirror. It eventually complied and showed him Hollow Bastion once again. Goofy and Donald were standing near Kairi, and the three were surrounded on all sides by Shadow heartless.

Riku's sharp eyes picked out one though, that wasn't moving like the others. It wasn't leaping forward, ready to attack. And it was standing behind Kairi, as if she was protecting it.

"Sora?" Riku whispered.

In a blinding light, the small heartless was replaced by Sora. Riku watched as his two best friends embraced, finally reunited. Without him. His eyes swept over the dark world, unsure of how he was ever going to get back to the real world, and be with his friends and have the adventure they had always dreamed of.

An icy hand touched Riku's back, and the boy started and leapt straight up, putting up his fists just in case. Ansem stood regally in front of him, arms straight at his sides and his head held high. Riku felt something tighten in his chest as his eyes locked with Ansem's.

"Why have you done all this?" The boy hissed out the question, all his muscles remaining tensed and ready for battle at any moment.

"Why, to take over the world of course." Ansem's white teeth grinned at Riku through the darkness that seemed to thicken and close around him. "You see boy, my plan was never to regain my own body, it is gone forever. Turned into some useless heartless somewhere. But now, I have your body."

With a flick of his raised wrist, the thickening dark mist that was slowly circling both of them hardened and attacked Riku. He formed the dragon blade and managed to slice through one of the long black ropes but wasn't quick enough to stop them all.

One thick tendril wrapped around his waist, anchoring him in place. Two others latched onto his wrists and pulled them down to his sides, the dragon blade useless in his immobile hand. The very ground underneath each of his feet oozed up around his legs and turned everything below his knees hard as stone.

"Let me go you bastard." Riku ground out, even as he struggled against his bonds.

Ansem strode forward, the dark mist retreating from him, like a beaten dog from its master. When he reached Riku, he reached out a white-gloved hand and pressed his finger against Riku's left breast, directly over his heart.

Riku's whole body twitched with pain as his heart began to burn, his pulse quickening as he felt Ansem controlling him. Then the pain stopped and all that was left to Riku was the soft touch of one of Ansem's fingers, tracing it's way across his chest.

Ansem circled like a lion, preparing for the kill, seizing up his prey. But unlike a lion, Ansem's prey couldn't get away. Treading silently on the dark ground, Ansem circled around to Riku's back, letting his hand rest on the boy's shoulder. Taking advantage of the moment, Riku flung his head to the side and snapped at Ansem's hand, biting deep into the nearest fingers.

Ansem pulled back in pain and his eyes flash angrily.

"Not a smart move boy. I was considering keeping you around, to play with after I've conquered the world. But now, I'll have to send you to the deepest pits of darkness."

Ansem grabbed the sides of Riku's neck and held tightly, causing the boy to gag and his mouth to hang open. Something heavy replaced Ansem's hands and Riku could feel a heavy chain wrapped around his neck, the links shifting as the man behind him pulled on them, testing out its strength. To the boy's surprise, the black coils around his wrists and waist dissolved into nothing, and his legs were released.

Swinging the dragon blade up over his head, Riku prepared to lunge at Ansem, intending to chop him in half. Before his blade even began it's downward arc, Riku was thrown forward, landing painfully on his belly and the dragon blade slid across the floor out of his reach. It quietly melded back into the darkness it was made from.

With another swift jerk, Ansem brought Riku's neck painfully back, arching his body against the floor.

"Please Riku, don't be so clumsy." Ansem's overly sweet voice patronized the boy who meanwhile was clambering to his feet. As soon as he was half way between crouching and standing, Ansem pulled on the chain again, sending Riku right into his arms.

"That's more like it." He sneered.

"Get off of me." Riku tried to pull away, punching at Ansem, but again he felt the constriction on his throat as Ansem pulled on the chain from behind him. A strong arm wrapped around Riku, holding him tight against Ansem's body as the noblemen held the chain chokingly tight.

Riku's eyes began to water, he couldn't breath, his mind was starting to become hazy and he felt tired. His hands stopped clawing at the chain that was cutting off his air, and he saw Ansem's grin as his knees gave out, and he fell completely into the other man's embrace.

Riku was turned around, and the chain was loosened. Now the heavy metal hung around his neck like a necklace. 'Sora. It looks just like yours.'

"Insolent boy." Ansem shouted from behind him. Riku just grinned and began to picture he and Sora kissing, and the way he had softly licked at the smaller keyblade master's chest. He could swear he could hear Ansem growling in jealousy as he saw the images clearly projected on Riku's mind.

"So Ansem, does the thought of us turn you on? Is that why you brought the two of us here in the first place, and did that to us." Though Riku's words were angry, he still grinned back at the man holding him from behind.

"I brought you because I need a keyblade master's body. Had I not sent the rat away, I could have done all of this without you."

With a quick surge of concentration, Riku managed to penetrate Ansem's mind, and saw everything explained in flashes of memory. An image of King Mickey, wielding a silver and gold keyblade. Ansem, kinder, gentler, and without the insignia of the heartless on his chest. The images flashed quickly, time passed and heartless appeared, surrounding Hollow Bastion and taking its people as Ansem watched helplessly. The last image that Riku was able to see before Ansem forced him from his mind was of some dark creature, enormous and powerful, somehow connected to Ansem as the white haired man flung King Mickey through a dark portal.

Ansem let go of Riku just long enough to grab his wrists and twist them behind him. Riku yelped in pain as his arms were forced to far, and he squinted as his captor held them there. A sickeningly smooth feeling began to cover Riku's hands, as Ansem sealed them both completely in darkness.

A shiver went through the silver haired boy as he felt a mouth next to his ear, and he tried to shy away from the hot air as the man spoke.

"Good thing Sora is a keyblade master as well. I don't think you'll be up for helping me release the ultimate darkness when I'm through with you." The voice hissed in his air, and a warm tongue reached out and caressed Riku's ear.

'No.' His teal eyes went wide as Ansem abruptly shoved him to his knees on the hard floor.

"Sorry, that is not the right answer." With a soft fluttering of his cape, Ansem fell to his knees behind Riku, settling his weight over the boy's calves, trapping him in the position he was kneeling in.

The man's long strong arms wrapped around Riku, and he brought his lips softly to his neck, where the chain had left painful red bruises. Riku shuddered and tried to pull away from the kisses on his neck, but Ansem's grip around him was too strong.

"Fickle boy." With his pride injured, Ansem had seemed to turn into a whole new person. He was no longer the strong and ever-confident king, his orange eyes had a wild look in them. In anger he yanked on the chain again, causing Riku's head to jerk backwards, just enough that he could see the white hair on the top of Ansem's head.

Still holding the chain tightly, the older man leaned forward and used his other hand to angle Riku's head just the slightest bit, before plunging into his mouth. Riku gagged on the tongue that was so forcefully introduced to his mouth, and would have bitten it off save for the fact that Ansem was prying his mouth open at the moment.

The tongue swirled and slithered against his own, pressing down on it and lavishing it with touches. The chain had slackened, and Riku tore his mouth from Ansem's hold and gasped in the air that his burning lungs craved. He hung his head forward, his silver hair shielding his face from the man behind him. As his breathing slowed down, now that he had caught his breath, Riku's eyes focused on a movement from just outside his ring of hair.

A white gloved slowly trailed up Riku's chest, zigzagging its way around, pressing hard enough to hold Riku's attention. It continued on its path until it reached the top of his shirt, gently running across his neck for a second before resting on the top of his shirt.

There was a smooth sound as a black blade formed in Ansem's hand, a small blade. He swiped it down and Riku cried out, his body flinging backwards as the tip of the knife sliced through his skin. His shirt was abruptly ripped off of him and he could see a line of red along his chest were the blade had just barely skimmed his skin.

Ansem trailed a finger across the cut, smearing blood onto the rest of Riku's chest before pulling back his hand. The chain was not tight at all anymore and Riku tried to get away, ending up about four feet from Ansem before the chain caught in the older man's hands.

Their eyes met and Ansem slowly, deliberately raised his finger to his lips, the rosy drop of blood sitting on the top, before slipping it into his mouth. Riku closed his aqua eyes and tried to focus on the darkness, at least enough to free himself.

"Why do you have to be so troublesome?" Ansem said patronizingly. He stood up and yanked hard on the chain, trying to pull Riku to him again. But as he did so, the heavy collar clanked on the ground at his feet, the back of it melted off. The dark covers on Riku's hands fell off and slipped into the darkness of the world as well.

Riku stood up panting. His body was still in pain from the gash on his chest, and now he had used up almost all his remaining energy to free himself. And there was still Ansem to deal with.

"So you're free. Where will you go now?" Ansem began to circle around Riku, a predatory look in his glowing eyes. "You can't get out of this world, and soon I will have the power of ultimate darkness anyway."

"And where are you getting this power from?" Riku snapped out.

"Kingdom Hearts of course."

Riku circled around Ansem as well, keeping towards him, and waiting for the attack that would inevitably come. Small scarlet drops plopped onto the dark floor as Riku's chest continued to slowly ooze.

"The origin of all hearts. A world that can only be entered through this shadow world. It is why I came here in the first place."

"What went wrong?" Riku was tense and could barely stand in one place long enough to listen to Ansem explain. 'Why isn't he attacking me?'

"My body. I entered here with that other king, but I was trapped here because only keyblade masters can travel into the shadow world."

"The other king, he was King Mickey right?"

"The rat, yes."

"What happened to him? Is he trapped in here somewhere too?"

Ansem snorted. He crossed his arms and looked away from Riku as he thought about what he was going to tell the boy and what he shouldn't.

"Mickey knew what I was planning, and being a keyblade master he was able to open the door to Kingdom Hearts...and did."

"But, I thought you said the power of darkness was kept in there." Riku relaxed a little. There was really nothing he could do, if Ansem wanted to defeat him, he had the whole world at his command.

"King Mickey knew that the heartless were escaping through another door anyway, so he opened the door to Kingdom Hearts and entered it, sealing it from me."

As he spoke and remembered how close he had come to triumph, Ansem began to look angry. His eyes were bright orange, and his fists were clenched tightly. For the first time, Riku noticed something strange about Ansem. He was getting a feeling from him, different from what he got from Shadow or Maleficent. With them, he had felt the darkness inside them, stirring within them. Ansem was nothing, like an empty shell that had no life of its own.

"Chit chat time is over." With a leap, Riku decided to take his chances. If he could make it to a doorway, maybe he could force it open since he was a keyblade master. The dragon blade flashed in his hands and he swung it heavily at Ansem. The man jumped back, but not quite fast enough.

As the tip of the dragon blade sliced across Ansem's chest, his clothes were torn and the top half of his cape fell from his shoulders, fluttering to the ground.

"You'll regret this." Ansem held both hands in front of himself, close together, and between them the darkness was sucked in and began to form something. In a flash there was a weapon in his dark tan hands. It curved out with dark purple and red dragon wings in both directions, like two dragon blades held hilt to hilt. "I have come to rather like this sword that Shadow showed to you. Hope you don't mind."

Ansem twirled the dragon staff and slammed it down over Riku's head, the boy bringing up his sword just in time to block. But Ansem's weapon was much stronger and he swung it down and to the side, hitting the back of Riku's knees and tripping him.

Riku swung the dragon blade to meet the center of Ansem's staff and tried to pin Riku to the ground. With a push, the boy managed to throw off the older man's body and climb to his feet.

"What will this get you Riku? I have your body now. Even if you find a door, you'll never get your life back."

The two held their identically colored weapons forward but Ansem spun his around a few times, showing it off. Then he stopped walking and slowly floated off of the ground. He hovered in the air for a few seconds before hurling the dragon staff at Riku. It spun like a boomerang and knocked the dragon blade out of Riku's hands.

"I will get my body back." Running forward Riku sprung himself up at Ansem, tackling him straight in the chest and sending the man sprawling on the ground. He lay with his side on the ground, and for a second Riku saw a flash of something on Ansem's back.

"What the...." Riku called his sword back to him and rushed forward, slicing his blade across Ansem's back, not doing any damage to the man's actual skin.

He howled in pain and kicked at Riku, knocking the boy over.

Riku's eyes widened when he saw something move up, and with it came the body that Ansem was controlling. It flickered from being Riku, himself, in a dark red and black outfit, to Ansem, with his white hair flowing over his bare chest. Dark black tubes were running into Ansem's back, but one was slashed off by Riku's most recent attack.

He stood in awe of the enormous creature that rose out of the darkness, or more accurately, the darkness swirled together to become. The entire world wrapped around Ansem and a form took shape, the creature that Riku had seen a flash of when he read Ansem's mind.

It's face was beastial, huge fangs and a long snout, but it's upper body was like a human's, thick chested and with enormous clawed arms. The black tentacles were coming out of the creature's chest and feeding directly into Ansem's body.

Riku felt like the wind had been knocked out of him, the darkness seemed to be sucking the very life out of him as this creature bellowed at him. This explained how Ansem went from a well loved king to a conniving man of evil. This animal was the true master of the darkness, and Riku watched as his marionette rose up again and looked at him with those unearthly orange eyes.

"I would love to continue this Riku, but your friend approaches. We have to get him to open the door for us, and you're in the way."

The floor began to swallow Riku, the cold blackness running up his body.

Ansem floated to the ground and the dark creature returned to hiding within it's world. Ansem walked straight up to Riku, who was slowly descending into the darkness, no doubt being sent wherever Ansem decided was the depths of darkness.

As he approached, the world around them shifted. The creature was obviously controlling it, as Destiny Island appeared, as bright and cheerful as always, but empty like a playground without anyone playing on it. All the living things were missing, although the beach and the trees remained.

Ansem looked around in surprise as his image flickered away, leaving only the body he was in. Riku looked into his own body's eyes, bright blue and green, but twisted with hatred.

The boy in the black and red suit with the heartless brand on his chest walked forward and roughly grabbed Riku's falling chin in his black gloved hands.

"I'll see you again Riku, don't think this is the end." The voice was his and yet it wasn't, reminding him of being in a dream.

Leaning down, Ansem brought Riku's body to kiss his soul. Their lips were the same size and both as silky soft as he held him there, refusing to let the darkness have him completely.

Ansem pulled back Riku's body and smiled at him, strands of silver hair falling in front of his face as the real Riku disappeared into the inky blackness that sucked him down.

'This is it.'

The blackness enveloped him and Riku felt it tugging on him, pulling him in every direction. He gave up, and let himself be pulled by it, sucked into it as if it were an ocean tide.

The he sensed someone was nearby. Someone who was not dark like the rest of the world.

A white flash erupted in front of Riku's eyes and he felt himself cut free from the thick darkness around him.

"What?" He coughed out as the darkness left him exhausted in a pile on the floor. He could hear footsteps rushing around him, and there were flashes of white reflecting off the black floor.

Riku lifted his head and saw a strange world around him. There were pools of darkness everywhere, moving and swirling with pairs of yellow eyes that stared out from the ooze. Behind the dark pools were large white columns that seemed to enclose the whole area.

The silver haired boy sensed someone approaching behind him and he forced his body to stand and wobbled back and forth as he turned to see....a mouse.

"Hiya!" The enormous mouse said and laughed, extending a white gloved hand to Riku.

"Who are you?" Riku asked suspiciously.

"I'm King Mickey, but you can call me Mickey." The king smiled again and Riku finally took his hand in a small handshake. Only then did Riku's sharp eyes catch what Mickey was holding in his other hand. It was long and gold, with a silver hilt and a silver blade on the end.

"A keyblade."

"Oh, you know what this is?" Mickey looked down at his blade and laughed. "Does that mean that you're Riku?"

His aqua eyes narrowed at the small king. "How do you know my name?"

"You are a fellow keyblade master, I know all about you.....and Sora too." Mickey looked as if he was about to continue when he drew his keyblade and threw it past Riku. It spun like a boomerang and went straight through the soldier heartless that had risen up from the pool of darkness.

"Where are we?" He asked in awe.

"Kingdom Hearts. The heart of all worlds, and where all darkness and light are kept."

Riku was completely overwhelmed and sat down heavily on the hard floor. "This is too much."

An oversized hand softly patted him on the shoulder but Riku didn't jump or flinch at all. For some reason, he trusted this Mickey person.

"Don't worry Riku, Sora is still out there. We still have hope."

"Hope? Hope for what?"

Mickey looked around, checking that the heartless weren't going to rise up and try any attacks at the moment and sat down next to Riku. "As long as there is a keyblade master who is out in the world, Kingdom Hearts can be locked forever."

"What?" Riku snapped. "I don't want to be locked in here forever."

"We won't be locked in here forever." The mouse laughed and smiled to the boy. "The door to the darkness was opened by Ansem and I, before I realized what his plan was, it was too late." Mickey's high cheerful voice fell a little and he looked sadly to Riku. "But the door to the light hasn't been opened yet, we can always be free through there."

"And what about the heartless?"

"They can't pass through the door to the light, only the door to darkness. We have to make sure that Sora remains on the other side of the door, he is the only one who can help us now."

"What if Ansem defeats Sora?" Riku said softly, his eyes unfocused.

"Then everyone loses. With your body, if Ansem defeats Sora there will be no one to close the door to the darkness, and Ansem will have all the power of Kingdom Hearts."

"But you said that Kingdom Hearts held both darkness and light. How can it?"

"The heartless are the darkness, but the light keeps them in check. As keyblade masters, we are embodiments of Kingdom Hearts." Mickey shifted where he was sitting. "Sora and I were the light, and you..."

"The darkness."

Mickey nodded. "That's why Ansem can't use your body to open up Kingdom Hearts. With him in control, it is a dark body, and cannot gain enough power over this world t open the door."

Riku leaned over and placed his head in his hands. This was too much, way too much. The comforting hand rubbed his back again, and Riku took a deep breath before sitting up and nodding to King Mickey.

"I don't know if I get it all, but if there's any way I can help, I will."

Mickey smiled and stood up, his attention seemed to be elsewhere. "Well, if you can help me keep the heartless away from the door, that would be a lot of help. Since Ansem is nearby, they've been acting up and trying to get out more often than usual."

Riku brushed his pants off as he stood and tried to form the dragon blade. He focused and tried to draw the darkness to him, but it was useless. All his energy was gone, and the dragon blade refused to come to him.

"Sorry Mickey. Without a body, and without his power, I'm useless." Frustration overwhelmed him and Riku screamed out into the small world, hearing his cracked voice echo off the walls. He let his head hang forward, without Ansem he was nothing. The man he hated the most was the only one who could give him what he wanted.

"Riku, you're a keyblade master." To emphasize his point, Mickey tossed his gold keyblade and Riku caught it. The boy could feel the power of it, it sang to him. Slowly the blade changed, it grew black and sleek, and the end blade became scarlet and curved out.

"You Riku, were given the dark keyblade. That is the only keyblade that can open people's hearts. It is very powerful."

Riku tested the weight and swung the blade cautiously around. It felt good, but it wasn't his blade. With a quick toss, the blade landed in it's true owner's hands, gold and silver again.

Mickey understood and took the front position, easily beating back the heartless that ventured out of the safety of the dark. Riku noticed the large white door for the first time, and remembered the mysterious door on Destiny Island that was in the wall of the cave.

A sound rocked their world, an enormous rumbling sound.

"Mickey, what was that?"

"The darkness that controls Ansem. Sora must be fighting it."

Running up, Riku flung himself against the white door. It didn't budge the slightest. There was a crack in it, and he pulled himself against it, looking through the crack into the familiar dark world. The creature he had seen connected to Ansem was hovering there, it's body was even bigger now that it wasn't concealed within the shadows. It seemed that it's body was a ship, all of it alive and pulsing.

Something red went by and Riku's eyes immediately followed it. Sora was falling, as his friends were sucked into a dark portal. Riku watched helplessly as his friend fell through the darkness.

"He needs your help Riku." Mickey tossed back over his shoulder.

"How can I? I can't leave here, right?"

"Speak to him. Your voice isn't held back by your body's limitations. He'll hear you."

Deciding that it wasn't his place to second guess the king, Riku took a deep breath and half spoke, half yelled to Sora. "What? Giving up so easy Sora?"

As Riku said this, Sora disappeared beneath the mists. Riku's eyes didn't blink, he wouldn't let himself look away. Then the boy in the red jumpsuit flew up through the mists and took out his keyblade, squaring off against Ansem and the creature.

"Look out Riku!"

A black claw wrapped around Riku's ankle and began to drag him back to the darkness, away from the door and from Sora. He spun around as he was pulled back and saw a small shadow heartless, it's antennae twitching as it pulled it's prize back.

Reaching his hands out, Riku tried to find anything he could use as a weapon, and his hand strayed across a rock. Picking it up, he hurled it at the small heartless and it released him, squeaking angrily at him before running off.

"Why are they still attacking me?" He went to stand next to Mickey, watching the mouse's back and doing what little he could to help.

"Ansem has your body, but you are the heart and soul. They can sense that, and want your heart to feed on, even if it doesn't get them a body."

"They want to eat me. Wonderful." For the first time in a while, Riku smirked.

Another roar cut through the sounds of their own battle and the ground of their world shook back and forth.

"What's going on?" Riku yelled to the king over the noise around them.

"I think Sora must have won. Look." Mickey pointed to the heartless and the darkness they were fighting, as it crawled back to the corners of the world. "Why are they doing that?" He wondered aloud, but Riku just shrugged to him.

There was a creaking as the door that connected Kingdom Hearts and the shadow world began to open, being pulled on from the shadow world.

"It's Ansem!" Mickey cried out. Riku felt a flash of anger and ran for the door, knowing he couldn't escape but wanting to see Ansem fall.

There was a rush of wind as the door flew open, and Riku's eyes were blinded by the light that shone around him. He could see Ansem gasping and curling up in pain. Then, his body went stiff, his arms and legs outstretched. Then Ansem disappeared into the light.

Riku was thrown back into Kingdom Hearts and gasped heavily, sputtering as he felt something. With Ansem gone, his body had been returned to him, and he wasn't used to breathing quite yet. He ran his hands along his body, not able to believe that he had it back. And all to himself.

"Come on Sora!" He heard a high strange voice call out from beyond the door. Riku looked to Mickey, who was holding off the massive amounts of heartless that were surging up to try and escape through the open door.

"Go to him Riku." The mouse's smile never faded as he slashed through his enemies. Riku nodded and ran to the door he had been thrown from, trying to regain his balance now that he had a body again.

He could see Sora. His best friend. His love. His last hope.

"Bout time." Riku said playfully as he grabbed onto the door and looked into the deep sapphire eyes he had been missing.

"Riku!" The brunette moved forward, past his two friends, and tried to go to Riku. The older boy knew that it couldn't be, and held his arm out, keeping Sora from going through the door.

"You can't Sora. If you come in here, you'll be trapped too."

The heroic boy looked down at the hand that was pressed against his chest. He grabbed it and held it tightly as he looked deep into Riku's eyes.

"I don't care Riku. I won't let you do this."

"I have to Sora. And don't worry, with your help, we won't be here forever." Riku threaded his fingers through Sora's and stood with him, feeling the warmth of his hand in his own. Donald and Goofy looked into Kingdom Hearts and called out to their King, but Mickey merely thanked them for guarding the keyblade master.

"We have to close the door." Sora said, his voice choked as he let go of Riku's hand. Slowly, he pressed his hands against the door and began to push it closed.

"Take care of Kairi until I get back, okay Sora?" Riku said, putting his whole body into trying to close the door. He could hear the snarls and screeches of the heartless behind him, growing more and more desperate at the door began to close.

"I will find you Riku." Sora stopped pushing as he looked at Riku. Ignoring the warnings, Sora took a step forward, halfway into the door and grabbed Riku's shirt, pulling him forward.

Riku stood between the two doors, still within Kingdom Hearts, and leaned his face forward, crushing his lips to Sora's. The boy felt real, it was the first time that Riku had truly kissed Sora. Sora's arms wrapped themselves around Riku's waist and held him close, as their lips meshed together. Riku's hand lay on the back of the smaller boy's neck and held them together.

As their kiss broke, their eyes met, and Riku knew that Sora truly loved him. He took a step back, and his eyes told the keyblade master that this wasn't the end for them, they would see each other again.

The door slammed close.