The screen showed Riku once more.

Sora jumped up from his seat. "Yes! Finally!"

Riku arched an eyebrow. "What are you so excited about?"

Sora put his hands to his hips. "You never told me anything about what happened to you when we were separated!

"Plus you're tired of being the only one on the screen for everyone to be judged, right?" Tifa guessed.

Sora shook his head. "Naw, I have Donald for that now."

Giggles erupted in the room. Donald glared.

"Sora..."

Lying on a stone like ground Riku begun opening his eyes and coming to. Then it went to black.

"Don't tell me that's it." Axel exclaimed.

"That's not fair." Roxas grumbled crossing his arms.

"Is there more Riku?" Aerith asked him.

Riku shrugged. "I dunno. I mean even if I did I couldn't really tell you, remember?"

"Well," Cid begun. "This is Sora's story, right? Do you really think they'll show to much of Riku?"

Terra frowned. "Why wouldn't it? I thought you two were best friends?"

"All three of us are." Kairi corrected with a broad smile.

"Then it only makes sense if you're involved." Concluded Aqua.

Tifa looked the trio over. "I'm guessing it's a little more complicated then that, isn't it?"

Sora gave an awkward laugh.

Blue color faded into the black and then soon out, like someone was opening their eyes.

"I get it!" Goofy chuckled. "We're seeing from Riku's eyes, right?"

"It looks like." Terra agreed.

"This totally isn't a total invasion of privacy." Riku quipped sarcastically.

"It's not like we want to be here." Cloud reminded.

"But you're sorta enjoying it right?" All eyes turned to Axel. "Come on! You have to admit it's kinda fun watching this."

Hesitant glances were exchanged before all begun to reluctantly nod, sans Cloud.

Finally Riku's eyes remained opened enough to see a blue like waterfall in front of him. Riku pushed himself up form the ground looking around cautiously.

"Where... am I?"

Riku looked around alarmingly to see floating rocks behind him and no one else in sight.

"Cool." Everyone stared incredulously at Ventus. "Wha-I can't be the one to think that floating rocks are cool!"

"If you put it like that..." Roxas looked at the screen. "Yeah, I see it."

"Wait a sec," Yuffie exclaimed upon further examination of the scenery. "Is that-"

"Yeah, it is." Leon nodded. It seemed everyone from the Restoration Committee did sans, Sora, Donald and Goofy.

Terra opened his mouth to ask but Aqua but a finger to his lips to shush him. It wasn't like they could say anything so there was no point in asking.

"Hey Sora?"

"Yes Ven?"

"Do you know what that place is?"

"Oh yeah it's-wah!"

Terra and Aqua shared a glance and sighed.

"You know you almost made it a while without getting buzzed?" Riku pointed out.

Sora huffed. "I was just answering a question."

"The whole point of buzzing is so you don't do that." Roxas added. "C'mon Sora."

"So are we calling it that now?" Kairi asked. "Officially?"

"Yeah," Terra agreed. "It seems fitting."

"Sora!" Riku shouted frantically looking around. "Kairi!"

"Riku.." Sora whispered looking at his friend. Kairi shared the same expression.

Riku waved them off. "Hey, we were all separated. Don't blame yourselves."

Their looks didn't change.

Riku's eyes fell to the ground as he sighed deeply.

Unbeknownst to him a figure was watching from far away,

The screen faded to black.

"Wha-?" Donald yelled.

Goofy was just as wide eyed. "That's-"

He got buzzed.

"I can't believe she was watching you!" Sora shook his head with distaste.

"I'm not surprised." Riku shrugged. "At this point nothing surprises me."

"It's still weird!" Roxas pointed out.

"Wait-wait!" Terra exclaimed. "Just who is she?"

"Bad." Riku answered simply. "I doubt there's anymore I could say."

When color came back the screen showed the trio of Donald, Goofy and Sora all facing each other in a circle. Under them was a glowing green disk with four other small circles within it and dark purple energy around them. It was clearly a projection.

"Someone was watching you guys as well." Cloud stated.

Terra crossed his arms. "Whatever-whoever this is, I don't like it."

"I wonder who it is." Goofy said.

Leon crossed his arms. "I have a guess."

Riku sighed. "And I'm pretty sure I know that guess."

"Do you think it's the same person who was watching Riku before?" Aqua guessed.

"Yes." Riku and Leon spoke in unison.

"That little squirt took down that Heartless!" The speaker was a man shrouded in the dark.

Sora jumped up. "Who you calling squirt?!"

"You know he can't hear you right?" Roxas asked arching an eyebrow and crossing his arms.

"I know." Sora frowned. "But I'm still not a squirt!"

Axel chuckled. "I beg to differ."

"Hey!"

"If it makes you feel any better that means Ventus and Roxas are squirts too." Yuffie pointed out. "All of you are about the same height."

Both Roxas and Ventus shared the same expression (literally) of surprise at her statement. However their overall reaction greatly differed.

"I am not a squirt Axel!"

"I'm just not done growing yet!"

"Kairi's shorter than me." Sora said defensively. "And so are you Yuffie!"

"But we're girls." Yuffie smirked.

"That's sexiest." Roxas said warily.

"Well-"

"Would you guys quit it?" Cloud interrupted.

Instantly they quieted down.

The shadowed man made a fist with his hand. "Who'd have thought it?"

"Such is the power of the Keyblade. The child's strength is not his own." Another voice spoke, he was shrouded in the dark as well.

"Is that true?" Ventus asked in a small voice. If the man's sentence was true it applied to all keybladers.

"Of course not." Riku spoke with no hesitation despite the chance of getting buzzed because of it. "Yes the Keyblade gives us power but do you know how we use the Keyblade? Through the strength of our hearts."

At that Ventus grinned, as did the rest of the keybladers-in fact almost everyone did.

"Why don't we turn him into a Heartless?" A women's voice spoke, clad in shadow as well though you could see her arm spreading as she laughed. "That'll settle things quick enough."

Riku laughed.

"What's so funny?" Tifa asked.

"You'll see eventually." Riku responded. (1)

"And the brats friends are the kings lackeys." A new male voice said with disgust.

"Hey!" Donald exclaimed. "We aren't lackeys!"

"Yeah!" Goofy agreed. "We're the Kings friends!"

"We know that." Aerith said calmly. "You don't have anything to prove."

The two quieted down even though it was still obvious the comment was still infuriating Donald.

A small sound of metal clinging was heard. "Swoggle me eyes, they're all bilge rats by the look of them."

"Um Aqua," Ventus begun. "What does bilge rats mean?"

"Don't worry about it Ven." Aqua responded.

"It can't be good though." Axel quipped.

Donald and Sora both huffed. Goofy on the other hand didn't seem to care all that much.

"Wait," Roxas realized something. "Is that-ah!"

That was his first buzz.

"So you guys know who that guy is?" Terra asked.

Sora, Riku, Axel and Roxas nodded.

"You're no prize yourself." A deep new voice cut in though it was hard to guess if it was male or females as it broke into a cackle.

"That sounds familiar." Goofy noted rubbing his chin,

"Yeah it does." Sora nodded in agreement.

"Don't you two remember?" Donald asked flapping his arms.

"Why don't you tell us Donald?" Sora asked with a slight smirk. Donald stared at him.

"It's the Q-Wahhhhhh!"l

Riku looked to Sora. "You're still mad about the lying thing."

"A little."

"Shut up!" The sound of metal once more.

"Enough." A loud, calm woman's voice quieted the rest down.

A unanimous groan left the lips of anyone who knew the woman's identity.

She unlike the rest was not covered in shadows. "The Keyblade has chosen him. Will it be he who conquers the darkness? Or will the darkness follow him?" Finally it showed the woman's face with a monovalent smile. "Either way, he could be quite useful..."

The screen faded to black.

"So it looks like Riku isn't the only one she stalked." Axel commented.

Sora had a nostalgic look on his face.

"What is it?" Kairi asked.

"Nothing. I was just thinking," Sora began. "This is my first stalker."

"And that list would only grow." Added on Riku. He glanced at Axel.

"Hey! What was that?"

"Nothing."

Roxas laughed.

Axel glared.

A/N

1) Just to clarify he's laughing because of what happens at the end of the game. Kairi doesn't find the humor in it and Sora doesn't make the inference is why they aren't laughing.

Yes it's super short but before anybody freaks out I will tell you that I have plans to finish the next chap by the end of the month. If you guys seriously didn't like th short chapter next time I'll add whatever small clip to the main chap but what I was thinking of doing was using these small little Interludes as individual chapters were I could have the characters sorta really talk about everything that just happended.

I figured I'd address these questions before I forgot about it which I usually do haha. A ton of you have been asking if I plan to do all the games and the answer is that I absolutely plan to. But it won't be in any short time and I will be going in order of the games so next is Chain of Memories. Also regarding the final mix extra things I use the Kingdom Hearts Movie things on youtube to type up the script so if it's on there then I'll see it but if it's not I'm sorry.

Also regarding if Riku recognizes Terra I'm going to say no for now. I didn't plan for that because I haven't gotten to watching or playing 3D yet and also this takes place right before that in everyone's timelines except for the BBS characters.

Also I wanted to shout out a thanks to the-writer1988 if you didn't notice it the beginning scene of the chapter with Riku didn't exactly happen at that point in the game. It actually happened after Leon knocked out Sora in Traverse Town and was only in the 1.5 Final Mix version. The reason I didn't know of it was because the video I use to make the scenes was from the original game. I'm really glad that it was pointed out to me though because those scenes could really have an impact and will be fun writing reactions too.