After reliving Kairi's death, Sora goes to Scala ad Caelum to retrieve the remnants of Kairi's heart. He informs Sora that whenever he and Kairi are together, Roxas and Naminé will be together as well. Before Sora is consumed, he receives the Keyblade, which chooses him as its wielder and frees him from the darkness. Eventually, Roxas and Xion meet on the Clock Tower of Twilight Town, where she removes her hood, revealing that she now completely resembles Sora through the effects of his memory flow. Sora's sprite in his Kingdom Hearts clothes when he is in critical condition. They see Sora running into the secret cave and they talk a little until Kairi steps out from the cave towards Sora. Sora wakes, realizing he is at Destiny Islands, where Young Xehanort is sitting just next to him. After saving the civilians from the heartless, Megara returns with Pegasus to inform Hercules that Olympus is in danger and he heads back to Olympus to save Zeus and the rest of the Gods. After Master Xehanort is finally bested in combat, and the other Keyblade wielders arrive to join Sora, Eraqus' spirit appears to convince him to stand down and surrender peacefully. However, deciding to use Master Xehanort's power over time against him, with support from his fellow Keyblade bearers, Sora, supported by Donald and Goofy, is able to drag Master Xehanort into Scala ad Caelum, his former home, for their final confrontation. Angered, Sora blames Xigbar for what happened and prepares to fight, and Xigbar notes that he is glaring at him like Ventus always did, even calling Sora as "Roxas". Riku taunts Sora, calling his heart pathetic and weak. After being separated from his friends, Sora wanders down on a long, meandering path with Donald and Goofy searching for a way to find Riku and Mickey, encountering Little do they know, their memories are being manipulated by a mysterious organization that seeks to capture and manipulate Sora. He sees that Kairi drew the other half of a paopu fruit, and smiles to himself, mimicking Kairi's actions from a year ago.
In most of his appearances, Sora is a slender teenager with spiky brown hair (later becoming a caramel color), peach skin, and blue eyes. Sora and Riku are first seen at Destiny Islands in their After this, a conversation between the kids and Yen Sid is shown. "Ansem" then approaches Sora, who shouts in fear. However, he is only able to retrieve five of them before Xehanort tells him that he is too late.
The party enters but Sora, Riku, Donald and Goofy become separated from King Mickey and Kairi because of Xemnas. Roxas then says, "I see, that's why. He often competes with Riku over numerous things, like racing across the islands, and is the first to jump when there's a contest. As he travels through the dream city, Sora encounters illusions of Naminé, Xion, Roxas, Riku, Kairi, Terra, Aqua, and Ventus along the way, occasionally hearing Riku's voice encouraging him not to fall for the illusions and stay awake. Before he can help, the door he looked at earlier flies open.
Although Square Enix originally wanted Mickey Mouse to be the main protagonist of the Kingdom Hearts series, and Disney wanted Donald Duck as the protagonist, the role was eventually set as Sora, because Tetsuya Nomura wanted a human protagonist. He wears a black and white jacket overtop, large yellow shoes, white fingerless gloves with yellow and blue straps holding on a silver circle plate, a blue belt with chains hanging off, and his signature silver crown necklace. Eventually, Data-Sora and Mickey find Data-Naminé, who reveals that she was responsible and the message is for the real Sora, who must venture out on another quest to save those connected to his heart, namely the real Naminé, Roxas, Xion, Axel, Terra, Aqua and Ventus. Sora and Riku wander until they reach the Dark Margin, where Sora reads a bottled letter from Kairi that has washed onto the shore. Together, they defeat Larxene and Sora forgives a regretful Naminé for her actions. After many battles, the duo finally destroys him for good. By the time they reach adolescence, they decide to build a raft, in the hopes of sailing to other worlds. Sora is a playable character who could be exclusively recruited during the This section is empty or needs to be expanded. In an epic air battle they manage to defeat this form of Xemnas as well. When he was fourteen, Sora's attire was based around Mickey Mouse's: he had a red jumpsuit with puffy shorts with a long zipper, white gloves with blue, black and yellow straps, and large black-and-yellow shoes. As they attempt to close the Door to Darkness, Riku and King Mickey appear on the other side of the door and together, King Mickey and Sora seal it from both sides with Sora's Keyblade from the Realm of light and Mickey's Keyblade from the Realm of Darkness.