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Okay, so I have to rec this fic that's been eating my free time since Sunday afternoon. (And no, its not yaoi. :P)

All the Roads We Have to Walk by Ginger Ninja
From FF.net: When events beyond control leave Sora stranded in a place so familiar and yet so different, what will he be forced to endure to find the road back to his friends?

I was pleasantly surprised to find this fic so engrossing. I'm reading, and I keep reading, and its just taking up all my free time so I can finish this fic. Because I have to know what's next! So this fic is set after the first Kingdom Hearts game. Sora, Donald, and Goofy are searching for Mickey and Riku. They make a stopover in a small world/town, but while they're there events conspire against them and somehow Sora ends up in Traverse Town. But its a Traverse Town that's deserted, and there's good reason.

There has been some very creepy, very disturbing chapters, and the Heartless are different from the game. Very creepily done if you think about it for too long. Ginger's way of describing familiar yet changed places and her character interactions are very well done. Yuna's so cute in this story and there are a lot of Final Fantasy characters that make their appearance that wasn't in the KH games. (And the Halloween Town chapters are freaking scary!!! I was reading those at night too! *cries*) Word of warning, its very long. Sixty-two chapters in total. I'm only fifty chapters in after two and a half nights/mornings so far.

There's apparently a sequel too.

ETA: Oh, forgot to add, but its a bit gory too. So yeah, if that's not your cup of tea...