Disclaimer: I do not own…Sora, Riku, Goofy, Donald, Kairi, or Vanh. The people who created Kingdom Hearts owns Kairi, Riku, Sora, Goofy, and Donald. My friend owns Vanh, no worries though, she said I could borrow him specially for this story. And this whole pretty thing was her idea, I'm just filling in the gaps and trying to tell the story like it should be told. Oh yeah…chapter one, the characters Riku and Vanh, their dialogue has all been taken from the rp, and is from her. I might have changed around Sora's words, but I can play with them! Anyways, just remembered that. Thank you Neko! I luffle you very much for this wonderful idea and the nice helper out for the beginning chapter. Also for the plot twist. Yay for plot twists!

Full Summary: Riku has always been a boy of mystery, so what happens when his true identity is slowly shown and revealed to his best friend in the whole world, to Sora? Sora has always been the thing in everyone's eye that they wanted, so what happens when the pure darkness known as Vanh has a small fancy for him? Read as the two boys struggle to keep alive and out of Vanh's clutches. Maybe this little fancy Vanh has is more than just little…

First Chapter Summary: After being seperated for so long, Riku finally finds his long lost friend, the only probably is, he's been killed by the heartless. Yearning for his precious Sora back, he makes a deal with the evil creature known as Vanh. Read how the two boys discover a little bit more about one another and something about Vanh knowing muchmore about Riku then Sora could ever hope to know.

Chapter One: Take My Life, Give It Back

"There's too many of them! I can't keep fighting them off!" Sora shouted to his comrades; Donald and Goofy. Both were busy with their own set of Heartless that never seemed to end, however, the boy seemed to be dealing with the most. So much blood had been spilt onto his clothes and his clothes, torn, tattered, a wonder how they even stayed up on his slimed figure. "Just hold on! We're coming Sora!" Goofy shouted over the many screeching and scratching of the heartless against his skin. Sora winced in pain, but he never screamed, never, even through all that pain he was enduring. ((OoC: This will be the shortest paragraph in the whole story.))

Why were there so many and what had caused them to come so quickly? There was never a giant flood of heartlesses like this before, except when he first got the Keyblade, and even then they weren't as violent as this. "Hurry up!" He shouted over the heartless, swinging it around to at least try to create some distance between him and them. That plan failed quickly and soon, they were all over him again. A blow to his side had finally caught him off guard. He had screamed out in pain, dropping his weapon and falling into the barrage of the pounding heartlesses. Everything was gone, he had lost feeling in all parts of his body. Why was it so cold all of a sudden? He shivered until he could barely keep his eyes open. This…was death, wasn't it? Sora never knew the feeling, he never wanted to. He was truly dying. With every ounce of his strength and the very last breath he had, he let his hand dangle in the air, trying to find someone, wanting to tell someone something. "Riku…" He had whispered before his hand dropped and there was nothing more seen of him. Covered by the blanket of black creatures with golden eyes.

"Noooo!" Riku screamed, emerging from the black portal in which carried Kairi and him to this…place. It was where they had been fighting the heartless. "No!" He screamed again, rushing over as the heartless backed off, no hesitation was emitted from them. They created a thin line, however, covered Riku's tracks, leaving him in a circle with the body of the dead one. The strong boy, he was always so strong and never let his weakness show, fell to his knees, almost collapsing there and then from the grief that was flooding into his heart. Why did it have to be him? Why did it have to be Sora? He stopped in his track of thought, standing up and glaring at the one responsible for Sora's death. "You!" He yelled, eyes lock with a deadly pale man who only let his face and arms show, all the rest was only a cloak that shadowed his body in mystery. The boy acted without thinking, acting like a mindless child locked within furry as he pounded as hard as he could onto the creature whom would like to be known as Vanh. He gave a soft gasp thought, sinking into the surrounding darkness, trying to pull away but Vanh kept him perfectly locked in place…for the moment.

"He means a great deal to you, does he not? Much more than the girl. If only you had listened and assisted. Now he is dead." Vanh said happily, almost chirping along into a happy song. "You bastard!" Riku shouted, almost getting violent at the mere reminder of his friend's death. He didn't need to be reminded how much it pained him to see that body with no life, with no emotion…with no Sora. He tried his pounding again, but alas, it was as worthless as the first attempt. "Language, Riku. You shouldn't speak in such a way when I was about to help you." The cloaked one said, seeing the boy look up at him, dizzied with confusion now, stopping in his useless poundings to hear what he had to say. "Wha…?" Vanh pulled away from him, the pleasant smile of his face growing wider as the plan spun and weaved perfectly in his head. Everything was going in order as he wanted. His tracks echoed in the emptiness of nothing, kneeling beside the perfect little angel, a pale finger moving smoothly across his bloodied cheek, smearing it, not that it mattered at all. In all this time, he had completed his barrier, incasing them in their own world where only Riku, Vanh, and Sora existed. Nothing at all existed, no other sound, no other voices, no other person.

"He is precious, no? Soft skin, a baby's angelic look, so happy, so forgiving. He really doesn't deserve to be tormented by a thing like you, you know. So innocent and pure. Riku, you are so dark. You and I both know the dark tendencies of your heart. I only want what's best for him…" His words stung Riku so badly that he wanted to just die along with Sora. But if he did, he would just be proving that he was weak. Sora had died out of bravery and loyalty to seeing them. He growled angrily, running forward, wanting to get Vanh's horrid fingers off of Sora, but, when he reached to grab him, he merely fell through, like the darkness did to everything. Vanh's fingers had curled around Sora's chin, cupping it and enjoying himself very much. He loved his torment on Riku, the one that was completely oblivious of his plan. What a foolish little boy he was. The silver-haired male was on all fours, letting the tears spill that had been held in for too long now. This was the first time he had cried, well, at least over Sora. "If he is so precious to you, you must do what is right for him." The creature had slipped from the boy's side, now kneeling next to Riku, forcing him to look up at him, his chin held within Vanh's hand as Sora's blood had now been smeared onto Riku.

"I believe in the rule of a fair trade, do you agree?" he asked, tilting his head to the side a bit, seeing the boy nod, wanting him to go on with his explanation. "Good, than you understand if I am to give something precious, I must receive something precious?" Vanh waited for Riku to nod before continuing. "Very good. I will tell you what I require. I require your energy, your strength, life. Not all of it, you will live, just most. And your most precious and relied on sense… Your sight." Riku bit down on his lower lip after hearing this. Once so hopeful, he was now at a loss for words and covered in a veil of despair. His steal blue eyes turning to look at the solid blackness that was the floor which they stood on. "Do I have a choice?" He asked questionable, moving his gaze to look at the creature of darkness, to see the response. "Oh, yes. You always have a choice. You can let him die." Vanh had answered, retaining that happy, little voice of his as he shook his head fiercely, detesting that idea more then keeping Sora dead. "No? Good. Also, you must never hurt Sora. Can you agree to all of this?" Riku reluctantly nodded, sealing the deal as if he had signed a contract with his own blood. The room began to spin and Vanh had disappeared, letting Riku fall forward. He felt weak, drained, exhausted now. Vanh was already taking work on him. His eye lids slowly began to get heavy and his vision blurring. Using every bit of his remaining sense of sight and his strength, he looked at Sora, the last thing he would ever see again.

Everything had been put back to normal. They were on the island. The heartless had been called back and the comrades, including Kairi had left without a trace. The only two there was Riku and Sora, one recovering from his death experience to come back to the Earth, returning from the spirit world. Sora had first grabbed his head, throbbing with pain as if he had been clunked with a rock, a very large rock. "Ow…what's going on?" He asked himself, looking around and now moving to sit on his knees, hands touching the sand as scoping some up into his hand. "I'm alive? I thought…" The boy was very confused. Everything just disappeared and before he knew it, he was awake, head throbbing with pain and the sand giving him a wedgie like it did sometimes. "Donald…? Goofy…?" A pause as he looked around. "Guys? Where is everyone?" He stood up, looking around as he grabbed the Keyblade that lied next to him. Blue orbs had caught something, a sleeping figure. Maybe the person could tell him something. He trotted over to the figure, soon realizing it was his friend; Riku. "Riku!" he dropped the blade, rushing over to his side and shaking him. He wasn't cut, so that means he had just fallen asleep. Unless his heart was stolen.

Sora lifted up an arm, letting it drop and fall into the sand. Yeah, he was defiantly asleep. When Riku was asleep, nothing woke him. Nothing. "Hey Riku! It's time to wake up!" He shouted, shaking him so more before he sighed. If pushed him into the ocean, then he would surely die, drown himself to death because he wouldn't wake up fast enough. Now it finally struck him, Sora the Simple. Where was Kairi? If Riku was here, then she should've been here as well. "Kairi?" He asked, looking around and standing up. Maybe the heartless took her. After all, she did get taken because of her being a princess and then she was stolen again, why Riku, but the two had escaped and promised to meet him here. And then…Sora died, or fainted as he now thought of it as. "Ugh…" Riku had finally muttered through all of Sora's rambling thoughts. His moments had yet occurred. He was so tired and weak, barely able to move from this spot. "Ah…" His fingers dug into the sand before his eye lids flashed open. He began to panic, he couldn't see, he couldn't see! "Riku?" Came Sora's voice, the first thing he recognized when waking up. "Hey Riku…your heart wasn't stolen." Sora laughed, placing his hands behind his head smiling as Riku simply nodded, sighing and closing his eyes. It was a shame when your eye sight went, after all, you could no longer see the most beautiful things in the world.

"Now that you're awake, we need to find Kairi, Goofy, and Donald." Already he was rambling on about what they needed to do. The other boy was more concerned on trying how to stand. He found it hard enough to sit, which he had finally managed to do. And once he stood, his jelly legs gave under and he fell back onto the sand. Sora blinked, tilting his head to the side a bit, blissfully unaware of the gigantic sacrifice made for his life. "Uh Riku…you okay?" He asked, beginning to muse upon the subject. Riku was usually much stronger then this, actually, both they even wanted to go and leave the island, Riku could always bear him in combat practice, so why was he now acting like he had lost all strength? It wasn't the time to be pretending. "You're probably just tired, no biggie. I can look for them on my own." Sora said, grinning and pointing to himself as if he was an almighty god or something. Immediately after those words had been spoken, the silver-haired boy had screamed "No!" Lucky him, he could still talk, so apparently he wasn't as weak as he thought. He was frightened, truly frightened in his new world. Everything was dark, nothing felt the same, and every little sound that was made startled him. He hated this so much words could not describe how much he despised Vanh for such an evil trade.

"Do you need help standing? If you needed help, you could've asked…" Sora muttered, knowing all too well how stubborn and cocky Riku could be. There was no reasoning with him once he made up his mind. Arms crossed at his chest as Riku pouted stubbornly. He would never sink as low to ask for help, he just wouldn't do that, no matter how much help he needed now. He would have to get used to being weak. Until his muscles were trained to do all those things again and until he could get through this blindness, he was considered a weak-less child. "Well, I'm helping you weather you like it or not!" Sora stormed over to Riku, grabbing his shoulders and trying to pull him up into a standing position. "You're so stubborn! Just admit you need help and I'll help you!" Sora finished that off, having pulled Riku up all the way, but, nearly falling over since all the weight had been put onto him. "I don't…need help…" Riku answered, trying to stand up on his own, but that was a complete failure. Most of his weight fell onto Sora and the little weight he did support on his own was forced into his shaky legs that wanted to break under him. "Geez…" Sora muttered, trying to stand up correctly seeing how he was the one being pushed on. "How much do you weigh? Now, can you walk or do I need to help you on that too?" Yes, he might have seemed annoyed and he had all right to be annoyed, but he wasn't. He actually liked how close they were. Soon he shook his head, asking for the help of walking, even if he would be stumbling rather than walking. His arm around Sora's shoulder as he kept his eyes closed. He didn't like his blindness, this way, it didn't hurt as much.

"Well…I'm going to find you a place to stay and rest while I look for the others. I don't care if you like it or not." Sora said, dragging them both to a cabin he had found recently. He was actually happy to have found it, after all, Riku was starting to really get heavy and his back was now in pain. "Hey Sora? I…kinda don't want to be alone." Riku said, leaning on the other boy and sighing softly. He never noticed how wonderful Sora smelt before. A nice flowery smell, like the ones they could find on Destiny Island, their home. Sort of a perfume scent, but not one of those ones that made you want to gag and throw up, just a nice enough one. He sighed once more after his little thinking was over. He missed his home, he missed Sora's face already. He missed everything. Sora couldn't help but laugh as he heard Riku say this. It was just…too funny to hear that coming from one that never said anything like. "All right…but it's still…funny to hear…you say something…without pride…" He said in between his laughs, however Riku simply growled out in anger at the boy's taunting at his weakness. "But, you'll have to be alone for awhile, I have to get the Keyblade," He then opened up the door, looking around to find a single mattress on the floor, nothing more for everything else was bare. "Alright, that's fine…" Riku let go of Sora, slipping onto the mattress as he sighed a happy one. Finally he wasn't on his feet, it had hurt so much just to sit, but to stand, something he hadn't thought possible, let alone walking which seemed impossible at this point in time.

The spiky-haired boy gave his own sigh, rolling his shoulders as he let the door wide open to go and fetch the Keyblade. "He's been acting weird…" A pause as he continued to think out loud to himself. "Maybe he's gotten a cold or something. Or maybe he's just tired from all the fighting done today…" He sighed once more, this time it was long, as if he was still lingering on thought, but he grabbed the Keyblade, looking it over before nodding to himself. Yes, it was still in good contact and thus he turned to look back at the cabin. It was just like the one on Destiny Island, all rickety and looking like it held animals, not humans, but though all that, it would hold strong. He turned his back on the ocean, heading back to the cabin like shack. Through all that though, Riku merely brought his knees up to his chest, shivering in the coldness as he looked around. Each sound brought terror. The creaking of the roof, the slightest wind rustle, and someone coming in through the door. "Who's there?" Riku asked, terrified as Sora stood there in the doorway, blinking and wandering what was going on. "It's me Riku…nobody else…" Sora answered, standing there for another minute or two before shutting the door. How could he not see him? He was right in front of him and it's not like it was dark enough to not make out his figure yet.

"So now tell me…what's going on?" He asked now, sitting down next to Riku, watching him shift uncomfortable as the new weight was added onto the mattress. "Nothing Sora." He muffled, having stuck his face into his pants, not wanting to be heard by the other boy here. Sora frowned now, something he didn't like to do unless needed, this shouldn't have been one of those times. "Why won't you tell me? You suddenly can't stand or walk, you didn't want me to leave, and when I was standing in the door, you staring straight at me, you asked who I was…like you couldn't see!" He had almost thrown his hands up, almost getting frustrated by speaking to Riku like this. "Fine! Want to know? I'm blind now, ok?" Riku screamed, causing Sora to be taken back by surprise and shock. He knew what he did was wrong, giving a life to someone that was already dead, he knew he shouldn't have to pay for this, that the life should have been given for free, but Vanh wasn't that type of person, he never would be. The strong one sniffled, wanting to cry so badly now that Sora knew one of his horrible secrets. He was also waiting for the how's and why's and who had done it, but they never came. He didn't want to answer those questions, he just wanted his sigh back, his strengths, his Sora. Vanh had taken everything from him except his precious Sora, he would never take away his precious Sora.

"I'm…sorry…" Sora as well began to suffer because of this fact. Was it his fault? Was it because he wasn't there to protect Riku from that horrible faint…? Maybe he could find a few blankets, take his mind off some things for the moment. He would be the one having to provide for them both, because, until the other could get around without his sight, Sora was stuck with the job. He left his spot, leaving Riku to sob in his misery, exploring the house for a blanket or two. Riku had soon ceased in his light sobbing and merely sniffled a bit, before growing as silent as the still night. Everything was silent, that is, until Sora had shouted, "Hey Riku! I found a blanket!" He grinned from ear to ear holding up the large blanket he had found, holding it out in front of Riku, waiting for him to grab it. Sora could get in under it afterwards, or help Riku if he couldn't grab it. But, that wasn't needed since Riku made an attempt to grab it, lifting up his head as he made a grab for the blanket, not a strong one, because if he missed, then he wouldn't look as bad. "That's good." He said, grabbing the fabric and tugging it down around him, lying down now as he looked up towards Sora, or where he thought Sora was. "Hey… Will you sleep with me?" He asked, knowing all too well how wrong and disturbing that sounded.

"Uh, yeah, sure… We can do that…" Sora blushed now, his cheeks burning with the red hotness before he calmed himself down. Riku meant nothing wrong of that statement, it was just to make sure that he, Sora, didn't leave him all alone. Yes, that was it. "Alright." He answered, pulling the blanket around him and squinting his eyes closed tightly before letting them relax. He would never open these vile eyes again, never. No matter how long he lived. It just brought him too much pain, to be reminded of his eternal suffering. The boy finally jumped on the bed, giggling in his childish delight, slipping under the blanket and giving a soft yawn. Riku surprised both himself and Sora when he snuggled up to him to remind him that he was near Sora, that he was as safe as he would get. Sora however cuddled up into the blanket, eyes dazed for a moment before his lips formed a few words and then he forced them out. "Hey Riku…" His voice as a soft as a whispered as he waited to hear back from Riku, but it took awhile, guessing that he was still trying to process what had just been said in his weak state. "Mmm hum?" He answered, gripping Sora with one arm and letting his head rest on Sora's shoulder, ear pressed against his back as he heard Sora's breathing. Up and down, up and down. It was so peaceful. "I…I don't know what happened, or who did it, or how it happened, and I don't want to ask because that's being annoying. But, what I do know is that I'm going to help you through your blindness…" He stopped, moving closer to Riku if possible. "Because I'd do anything to help you." After that he yawned and fell asleep before Riku had time to answer, it didn't mean he wasn't going to answer though. Riku was stunned. This wasn't something he had expected, but it was nice and worked all the same. And what was lucky for him was that he knew that Sora was asleep, his breathing had slowed down and the yawn as well, It told him all. "Thank you, Sora… Night." He had whispered softly into his ear, moving back to rest his head against the shoulder of what he knew to be the dozing boy, joining him in the land of dreams.

Riku had turned from his position, twisted in a nightmare later that night. Of course in doing so, he took almost all the blankets, which began Sora's stirring. He kept tossing and turning, never seeming fit in one place and whimpering out from his dreams. "No… Leave Kairi… Sora… No… Sora…" He whispered, finally causing Sora to awake and yawn in frustration. The boy enjoyed sleeping, so it wasn't a wander that he was annoyed when woken up. "Hey Riku…would you keep it down?" He asked sleepily, but alas, the other hadn't heard him because he still tossed and turned, mumbled and whimpered to himself. It was when he, Sora, got very annoyed, turning around, he blinked, seeing him still asleep, and having most of the blanket. "Uhhh…Riku? You all right?" He asked now, but Riku hadn't heard him then either, too trapped in his own dream. "Sora… No… Leave him… No…" His face twisted in pain as he finally woke up with a start screaming the name "Sora!". The blind boy was completely unaware of the real Sora, once sleeping, right next to him. He closed his eyes now, seeing how it would be no good to have them open, blindness was blindness, weather the eyes were open or not. Sora was confused, like he could easily be, but soon realized that Riku was having a problem so he grabbed hold of Riku's shoulder, squeezing it gently to let him know he was here. But, seeing how that did nothing, he pulled him in tightly to his body, letting his buckles and other clothes touch Riku and let him know he was Sora and that he was right here.

The boy took his arms and wrapped them as tightly as he could around the other's waist, sobbing into his chest now at the mere thought of his nightmare. "D…Don't…" He sobbed, trying to stop himself, but he couldn't. The nightmare was all too real and all too frightening. And no matter how much Sora tried to soothe and ease the pain he was feeling, nothing was working. He simply tried to hush him, stroking his long, silver locks. They were so soft and gentle. Sora's mother used to do this to him when he was upset, only fair he try to use this method on Riku. "I'm right here Riku… I always will be," He said softly, hearing the sobs of pain and misery begin to cease and stop, soon, Riku was just nuzzling his face into Sora's chest, looking for the warmth he had once found by his eyes. He hated, absolutely hated to rely on the seeing one like this. He hated to cry, to be weak, to cling to someone like a small infant startled from a dream that wasn't even real, but his dreams were real, or at least they were now. "I'm sorry, Sora… It's all my fault… Sorry…" Was he apologizing for waking him up? Yes, Sora was angry for being woken from his sleep, but, he didn't mind too much now. He's rather glad Riku woke him up or else Riku would've gone into some hysteric state of fits and whines.

Riku hugged him around the waist, nuzzling his face into his chest once more before narrowing his eyes out of being tired. He was tired to begin with, but this just nearly killed him. "What are you sorry for? You didn't do anything…" Sora responded, hearing nothing from the other, but he looked away in shame. Everything was his fault…like Ansem had said, there was so much to know, Sora understood so little of Riku. Who he truly was. "And who was I leaving? Ah! I shouldn't have said that!" The boy sighed, thinking about the question before answering. "It's ok… I was telling someone to leave you alone… Telling Vanh…" His sentences seemed to drip into each other, run and collide but that was it, or they just didn't tell the whole story that he wanted to tell. Riku thought his body grew heavier, his arms too heavy for him to lift and take off of Sora, but of course, the spiky-haired boy didn't mind. "Would you mind if I went outside to get some air?" Sora asked, because he wouldn't leave Riku alone if he didn't want him to. But, Riku nodded, against all his wishes. He didn't want him to leave him, alone, without protection. "Just… Be careful." He warned, tugging his heavy arms from him and turning to face the other direction. He lay on the mattress, hearing Sora leave through the door and he closed his eyes, going back to sleep, even if his stomach flipped around inside him. Sora smiled, walking underneath the starry sky. It was so calm, just like home. The waves sloshing and forcing themselves upon the sandy shore. Sora inhaled the salty air smell, heading over to the ocean to wash off his face. In doing so, the salt got in his cuts, causing him to flinch in pain. "Ow! I forgot about the cuts…" He had muttered to himself, sitting down and rubbing his cheek, looking towards the sky. "I wander where everyone is…"

((A/N: That's the end of chapter one, chapter two is currently being worked on and is mostly going to focus on Riku and dreams of his past. Erm...just to tell you, here's the second chapter summary.

Second Chapter Summary: Riku is haunted by dreams from his past. Wanting to cry to Sora, he can't because heis gone. Unable to find Sora, he begins to cry and dream to himself about his lonely and awful past, about his relationship with Vanh, and about Sora. Will these pictures of his past be the things that kill him? Or will it be his mission that kills him?

So...yeah. I would really like some reviews, but, I don't need them. Reviews aren't everything. But please! Pelase review! I'll cry if ya don't!))