Keyblades and Boomsticks Chapter 1: Kairi's Journey, the beginning, a Final Fantasy VII + Kingdom Hearts Crossover fanfic

Kingdom Hearts

Keyblades and Boomsticks: The Kairi Chronicles

-Kairi x Reno centric-

PG-13, T (rating may go up if you want me to)

fantasy/action/adventure/romance

disclaimer: I do not own Kairi, nor do I own Reno. They are characters from the greatest games on Earth, Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy 7. They are owned by Square Enix. Except, that Kairi belongs to both Square Enix and Disney.

Reno: (whispers to me) you're weird…
blood-coloured angel: (laughs) yes, yes, very…

Kairi: xD ….

blood-coloured angel: Let's just hope it doesn't become one of those kinds of fan fiction I like doing….

Reno: (pales) please, gods, NO!

blood-coloured angel: Eheh…. xD I love you too, Reno….

Reno: I hate you…

blood-coloured angel: Good, that's nice…. I take that as compliments from the others….!!! (Twirls around in Rufus' office chair.)

Summary: Ah, romance fills the air, that is-till Sora finds out he's gay, Riku finds out Sora wants to be both his and Kairi's boyfriend, and Kairi weirdly understands after a few cries. Kairi is next sent to other worlds, after she wishes for happiness in her two best friends. She meets new friends of her very own and new friends of her best friends. They are; a hyperactive ninja, a quiet Sq-Leon, an abnormally calm flower seller, the antisocial and loveable "Vinny", and especially the loveable redhead-yep, Reno, and etc. Meanwhile, it's another search for Kairi. New plot twists and what not. Sora x Riku, Kairi x Reno, Axel x Namine, a very and currently one-sided Roxas x Axel. (Shounen-ai, hetero couplings. )

"What is love?

Baby don't hurt me

Don't hurt me no more.

Baby don't hurt me.

Don't hurt me no more.

What is love?

Oh I don't know

Why you're not fair.

I give you my love.

But you don't care.

So what is right?

And what is wrong?

Give me a sign."

"What is Love?"

Haddaway

Door Number 1--

Kairi's Journey, the beginning.

DestinyIslands—Two Years Later after battle with Organization XIII

Day 1

It was a soft and gentle kiss that was passed by two teenage boys in their late teens. Arms wrapping around each others waist, one of them had his hand in the other's hair. The lips broke apart as their eyes slowly opened revealing two different shades of blue orbs. They were still in each other's embrace. Both young men looked into each other's eyes as they smiled softly at one another.

"Sora…" said a dazed voice that escaped the silver haired male's lips.

"Riku…" said an awed voice that escaped the brunette male's lips.

"I love you, Sora," Riku said in Sora's ear.

"I know, how long has it been since we've been together?" Sora asked, smiling.

Riku smiled. "A year," he said. "So, tell me, why you still go out with Kairi?"

This made the younger boy blink. He looked down.

"Well, you see…." Sora said as he looked at Riku. "I'm scared as much as you about Kairi knowing I'm gay and if I break up with her she won't stop for a reason!" He saw Riku touch his cheek as he smiled.

"You're cute nervous like that, Sora. Just remember, I'm always here for you, and I believe Kairi will support this. She loves you too much not to," Riku said.

"That's the problem; she loves me too much… hey! Wait a minute! I didn't say anything bad about Kairi liking you better than me!"

Riku smiled. "Exactly, and I wouldn't either if now she likes you better than me, because I love you. And I care about Kairi only as a friend," Riku said as he kissed Sora on the forehead. "She might cry over it, but she'll have to accept it. We both only care for her…"

"Riku, I'm not completely gay!" Sora said as he pouted. Riku laughed.

"Just talk to her, Sora, so I can openly kiss you," Riku said, chuckling as he watched the brunette blush a red. He looked to the side to hear footsteps outside the vegetation. He pushed Sora down. "Let's go take the long way so she doesn't spot us."

"Hey! You pushed"- Sora started before Riku grinned and pulled Sora up putting his arms around his waist. He light pushed Sora in front of him.

"Go."

Sora flailed before regaining his balance, and started running in front of Riku. Riku ran at the same pace as Sora before moving forward in front of him. They both laughed.

An auburn haired girl smiled up at the sunlight that flooded onto her features. She had gained even more curves over the two years and her hair has grown so that it reached her waist. She casually clipped one side of her hair with two star charm, purple clips criss-crossed on one single strand of long dark auburn hair. Her dark blue eyes reflected the exact shade of the deep blue sea as she looked out to the waves of Destiny Islands. To her, it was another summer to reminisce about. She felt happy and sad at the same time.

Today was their last summer. A summer with the three of them; Riku, Sora and Kairi together before they had a Farewell Party for Riku. He was going to college. And Kairi just did not want to even think of what would happen to the three of them when Riku goes away. Although, she knew she and Sora would miss him terribly when he was gone and would think nothing, but him, when he goes off to college. She hoped that he would not forget about the three of them being together running around and playing with each other on the beaches of the unpopulated island in the archipelago of Destiny Islands. She smiled, sadly, as she heard the sound of two boys running over to her. She turned and smiled at them as they ran towards her.

"Don't tell me you went to the store," Riku joked as he looked at Kairi's getup. Kairi flushed a small shade of pink and giggled.

"Yeah I did, I went with Selphie," Kairi confessed as she posed in front of her two best friends. "So, how do I look?"

Sora looked at her, as Kairi smiled at him, flipping long waist-length locks of dark auburn back, which spilt over her shoulder as her smile broadened. Riku crossed his arms over his chest as Kairi turned around in her new outfit and smiled. "I think half of me got inspired-and such-and made up a style. I guess this is what came from it," Kairi continued as Sora and Riku looked at one another. They both smiled at one another as Riku squeezed Sora's hand. Sora gave him a "wait-for-awhile" looks as he smiled at Kairi.

"You look wonderful, Kairi," Sora said as he smiled at her.

The seventeen year old girl smiled.

(Note: I will describe Kairi's outfit later, just to let you know, I want to get on with the story….)

"Thanks," was all the girl could muster as she looked at her boyfriend. "Well, now that you mention it, it's our anniversary…today."

Sora's eyes widened. "What?"

"Our anniversary…. You know…. When we both started our relationship and oddly enough… when we three started our friendship…." Kairi said as she held on to both of the boys' hands. She smiled sweetly as she watched Sora and Riku awkwardly held one another's hands. Kairi broadened her smile at the two boys, and turned around, missing the look on Sora's face as he looked at Riku and vice-versa. Riku gestured to Sora about telling Kairi, but before he got the chance, Kairi grinned again and started to talk again.

"Let's go have a picnic, I prepared the meal and we should go eat before the kids arrive and ruin our fun," Kairi said as she pulled the boys with her onto the small board walk up to the tree house they used to hang out in.

During the years, the island started getting populated by little kids and big kids alike, including the teenagers. All of the kids would watch on as they hung out, looking after their very own friends to make sure nothing bad happened. The island was close to the mainland everyone else lived on. And pretty much, the island gets crowded with many kids from the ages of six through oldest-like Riku. And today was one of those days the island would fill up with kids from the mainland.

"C'mon! Stop being so surprised!" Kairi said, pulling both young males with her.

Hallow Bastion Day 1

"Seriously, Reno, are you surprised about getting attacked by neo-Heartless?!" said Yuffie as she put her hands on her hips looking over at Reno as he looked over at Cid trying to reconfigure their light device they set up all over the area. "You remember what Merlin said about them, right?"

Reno stuck his tongue out as he rested his boomstick on his left shoulder. "Bah, I could care less…. I nearly fell asleep during his explanations," he said as he was interrupted by a dirty-blonde male that stood near him.

"Correction, Reno, you fell asleep during the explanations," said the dirty-blonde male as he smirked.

Yuffie rolled her eyes as she watched Reno yell at the man.

"Shut up, Rufus! You're lucky I even like fighting those things…. Or I wouldn't have even taken up the job of protecting you, zo to!" Reno said. (Note: Yeah I know Reno wouldn't be able to speak up against Rufus without a double barrel gun in his face. But guys, this is the Kingdom Hearts world. Reno and the others can be a little on the out-of-character side, yeah? )

Yuffie looked over at Leon and they both sighed.

The redhead looked at Leon. "So, what are ya gonna do at the Bailey today, Squall?" he asked.

Leon glared at Reno. "It's Leon… not Squall…." Leon said.

Yuffie sighed as she looked over at Cid while Cid looked over at her. They just rolled their eyes and watched as Reno got himself in another argument with Leon on whether to call Leon by his real name, Squall, or not to. It was going on for some time until Elena shot up into the sky. It brought everyone back down to earth.

"We did not join this organization for nothing, so stop fighting and act like the double-digit versions of your ages," Elena said as she put her gun back in her gun holster. She, then, crossed her arms over her chest.

"And as for Sephiroth, we have him running around town still laughing his butt off," Cloud said. "And we still haven't found Vincent…."

Reno groaned. "Seriously, the guy has been lost for years now. Can't we just say he got turned into a Heartless and be done with it?" Reno asked annoyed with Cloud for his in-character trait of dwelling on bad things that happened in the past. He sighed as he saw Yuffie standing across from him and sweat dropped. "Erm…." He looked over at his friend, Rude for help, but Rude just averted a brow. Sighing, Reno gave in to Cloud's reminder. "Yeah, I guess we'll still have to look for the freak show…."

Aerith smiled and clapped her hands together. "Alright, so what should we exactly do about that?" she asked, trying to level up the optimism that seemed to be the lack there of in the room. (Note: Using Aeris' Kingdom Hearts name if you don't mine….Dx ) She immediately got stared upon by the others in the room.

"What took you so long to get back to the Bastion?" Cid asked Rufus.

Rufus just smiled a small smile as if plotting what other stuff he could say that would piss the others off. "It was safer to stay in another world and play it low-key while you guys did the dirty work," he said as his eyes twinkled a weird glint in his eyes. Cid just sighed. "Sure my body guards did some fighting, but not much… and those Nobodies….. It seemed like we needed an endless supply of phoenix downs…" (Note: Oh the irony….)

"I wonder when that Sora kid will visit," said Leon as he crossed his arms over his chest. "The kid was interesting."

Reno blinked. "What kid?"

Yuffie blinked. "Oh yeah, you were in another world with the new leader of Hallow Bastion… yeah this kid came here with a strange key weapon and said that he was looking for his friends named Riku and Kairi. The first time he needed to find the two and the second time he needed to find just Riku. He was pretty much in a hurry and so we took him around and showed him what our organization was doing to save Bastion from the Heartless. Squ—Leon showed him to the Bailey for gods know what…. Since, I don't remember, oddly. Sora was who warned us about who were called Nobodies and quickly after that, Sora left for another world. He came back, but he was in a big hurry to find Kairi again. His purpose was to save the worlds and save the hearts of others from the Heartless with his sword in the shape of a key."

"A sword shaped like a key…?" Tseng asked.

"Yeah."

"It's able to unlock stuff 'n open gates to other worlds," Cid said as he looked up from what he was doing. "He met Cloud in the Heracles world when Cloud was a gladiator…."

Reno practically choked on his own saliva. He started laughing. "I could just see it now…. Cloud…. The greatest hero…"

Cloud just sighed as he rolled his eyes. "Merlin's cooped up in his hideout…. It's been taking long…. Should we talk to him about what's been going on?" he asked.

"About the mysterious re-appearance of Nobodies and Heartless?" Yuffie asked.

Cloud nodded.

"Yeah, we really should….perhaps we'll see Sora again. I wonder how he's doing," Aerith said, hopefully.

Reno rolled his eyes at Aerith's hopefulness and watched as Tseng's expression softened at the flower girl. He snickered, wondering if he should tease Tseng later on about how dopey he looked watching Aerith.

Tifa came in with Merlin.

Reno smirked. "Well if it isn't Lockhart and Merlin," he said.

Tifa glared at him. "It's Tifa not Lockhart," Tifa growled at him.

Tifa looked over at Cloud. "We managed to find some new information on Vincent's disappearance," she said.

Cloud nodded.

DestinyIslands Day 2

Kairi grinned as she watched the boys playing in the water as she sat on her towel looking over at the water. She was sitting next to Selphie as she watched Wakka and Tidus and then Riku and Sora playing water war with them. She giggled as Sora tripped over Tidus and landed on his face in the water. Riku helped up as Riku muttered something in Sora's ear and at that moment, Kairi saw a small flush on Sora's cheeks. Selphie looked over at her as she waved a hand in front of Kairi before Kairi shook her head and looked over at Selphie.

'I must be seeing things…' she thought.

"So, you didn't tell me what you did a while back!" Selphie said. "Like a year ago when you suddenly decided to play hooky on us…."

Kairi nervously giggled. "Oh that, I had a sudden family emergency…. It took extremely long," she lied. 'What should I possibly tell Selphie? Oh, I went to different worlds and got captured by some really weird, but kinda hot guy who hardly exists who calls himself Axel. I swear the guy wants down everyone's pants. And that I was imprisoned by some other hot guy who has mental issues…. Well in need of anger management. Oh yeah, did I mention I narrowly escaped the first time I went to other worlds with my heart intact? Oh well, thanks to Sora… for saving me….oh yeah, did I mention that Sora has a new weapon now?' she thought. 'I don't think so….'

Sora and Riku were walking out as they past by the cooler and stopped there laughing and muttering things to one another which was very inaudible to Selphie and Kairi's ears. Were they speaking Pig Latin? Maybe. Though an extremely weird kind. They seemed to actually know what the other was saying as they walked through the beach.

Though that little scene as Kairi saw Sora blushing. She only guessed it was because Sora was embarrassed for making her laugh by falling into the sand face first. But she could see that Riku kept doing it. She couldn't believe the others didn't see it. What she could not believe was Tidus and Wakka seemingly not watching the two boys.

"Hey, let's get some ice pops, guys!" Tidus shouted over the chaos and confusion as the small group of friends headed towards a stand in, which a person from the mainland. He started for his flip-flops getting them as he ran after Wakka. Selphie grinned over at Kairi as she looked at her.

"C'mon!" she said as she pulled Kairi up as Kairi watched Riku and Sora run over to the ice-cream stand.

'Was I just imagining that?' she thought as she watched Riku and Sora run over to the ice cream stand. Sora looked over at Riku and smiled at Kairi. He grinned as she smiled a small smile. 'I guess I was…'

"Kairi, we'll both pay for yours," Sora said as he smiled at Kairi, whom nodded. She looked over to the menu and ordered. She also put in Sora and Riku's orders before they fought over who gets what.

"Nice idea Kairi," Riku complimented her.

'They're so nice today…. They're usually just teasing me,' Kairi thought. 'But lately they've been rather… I dunno…. Weird… Maybe we are drifting apart….' She smiled sadly at both Sora and Riku before she received her order and waited for Selphie, Wakka and Tidus to order their ice-cream before they headed back to their place at the beach. She shrugged as she followed after the others and watched as Sora, Wakka, Tidus and Riku were having a grand ol' time talking and eating their ice-creams to even look over at what the girls were doing. Kairi and Selphie looked at one another and walked over to where the guys were talking about.

"So, you're confused about what team you're on?" was all Kairi could hear of the conversation as she and Selphie blinked and watched as the guys talked about someone whom was confused if he was gay or straight. Kairi wondered who was Tidus talking about as he asked no one in particular if he was gay or straight. She felt like blushing.

Sure, Kairi knew about these kinds of things and they made her blush. Well, Kairi liked it secretly. Selphie giggled at her response, unable to continue concealing the fact that they were listening to the boys. Sora whirled around, extremely scared that Kairi might have listened on the conversation until he saw her confused face and then he calmed down. He smiled at her.

"What are you guys talking about?" Selphie asked as she giggled a bit.

"Nothing that is any of your business," Tidus said as she crossed his arms over his chest and looked at Selphie who started laughing as she watched him turn red with annoyance with her. Kairi could not help but smile a bit as she watched the whole scene. She looked over at Sora. "Mind telling me what you're talking about?" she asked.

Sora looked at her. "Well, you see…."

"We were joking about each other's sexuality, we're straight, right guys?" Tidus asked, as Sora's eyes widened in relief, as well as Riku. Wakka and Tidus gave Riku and Sora a nuggie. Sora and Riku nodded as Wakka furiously nodded his head. Kairi and Selphie averted brows and looked at one another before they walked back to their towels, the boys hanging out with one another as the day went by quickly.

Hallow Bastion Day 2

Aerith looked outside at the buildings that made up Hallow Bastion. Her hands clasped together as she looked at the sky with her emerald eyes. She sighed as she looked at the passing clouds as she realized something was up. She heard footsteps as she looked behind her at a dark haired male in black clad with a low ponytail. Once she saw the marking in middle of the man's forehead, she smiled softly, recognizing the man in the shadows.

"Tseng," she said as she looked over at the dark haired male, smiling a small smile. She finally turned back to gaze towards the sky and looked up at the clouds. Tseng joined her as he stood a few feet away from her looking at the clouds as they went by.

"Do you feel something is wrong, Aerith?" asked the tall male as he stood next to Aerith.

Aerith looked down at her hands as she looked back up at the sky. (Note: I will tell you about the new outfits of each person in the end author notes before I end each chapter :D.)

"It just doesn't seem right… it's too quiet…" Aerith whispered as she looked up.

Tseng looked over at Aerith and nodded.

"Feels like there's something that is missing out there…. I dunno…. Like we missed something when Sora was here…" Aerith said. "Like there is something we must understand," she continued to whisper.

Tseng nodded as he looked in as the clouds moved slowly through the sky.

---

"C'mon, Reno, you're holding us up with your constant food breaks," complained Elena as she looked over at the redhead, disapprovingly, especially at the panyaki in his hand and a paper bag inside an "o" shaped arm grip.

Reno sighed as he ate another treat as he looked at Elena. "Calm down, not like there's gonna be heartless and nobody attacking us…" he said, "And besides…. Can't a guy like me get some food? Look how skinny I've become while we were looking after Shinra!"

Elena sighed as she looked at Reno's walking form walking towards her. He walked past her catching up with Rude. "See? No problem…." Reno said as he smirked at Elena.

Elena sighed.

DestinyIslands Day 3

Kairi turned in her sleep as she was having a recurring dream. Hair was spread out in a crown of auburn hair and tears spread to her features as she twisted and turned. Hair near her hairline was slicked with cold sweat as sweat beads formed at her hairline. Her dark blue eyes were closed over so tightly to try and block out the nightmare that was coming towards her. She was biting her bottom lip to keep from crying and screaming out loud and waking up her adoptive parents.

Kairi came to the island at age eight only to find that she had no parents to help her fit into the new environment and only a boy that guided her into the mainland. There, she was placed in an orphanage and was cared nicely by the orphanage manager. She hung out with Riku and Sora. Later, on she was adopted by a kind couple, which made her happy to call them her mother and father. Kairi was raised to be who she was now.

She didn't want to wake them up for fear she was going to upset them. She could not bear to tell them what she went through with Sora and Riku. She only had her two best friends there to help her through this one.

But it seems that in this dream, all she saw were the bodies of thousands of people and worlds that have not opened their doors to the keyblade just yet. She had a dream where there was something Kairi needed to find and she summoned a flowery keyblade. Though quizzical sayings and quotes saying "Don't be afraid" and such were another matter as Kairi, in her dream, turned around to find a rising shadowy figure behind her with another figure.

"Im-Impossible… Sora killed the Nobodies," she whispered as the two figures attacked her. She watched as Sora and Riku appeared in front of her after she was swatted away by the Nobody.

"Sora! Riku! Get out of here!" she called to them as they both turned to her and smiled. She blinked and watched as Sora and Riku were turned into sparkling pieces of dust as their hearts went into the air. "SORA! RIKU!"

Kairi turned around to see Roxas and Namine.

"It's your turn… you must fight," Roxas said, his eyes opening to a steely blue gaze.

Namine nodded her head as she looked at Kairi.

"You guys seemed familiar…"

"Little girl, little girl, come out and play!"

Kairi watched in horror as she watched a group of hooded trench coat clad figures appeared.

"N-No…. it can't be…." Kairi said as she watched in horror. She turned around only to find a girl holding her hair up, pulling on it and grinning, sadistically at her.

"Now, now… which enemy will rip you up?"

Kairi screamed as she sat up suddenly.

"Kairi?! Is something wrong?" asked Kairi's mother who came in the door, hurriedly. Kairi turned her dark blue gaze at her mother and smiled a small smile.

"It's nothing, mother. Just a really scary nightmare…" Kairi said, trying to control her shudders. Her mother smiled as she hugged Kairi to her.

"If it scares you too much, come talk to me okay? Maybe we can get a dream catcher for you," Kairi's mother said as she smiled. Kairi watched as her mother turned to the door. She turned around.

"Breakfast is ready. I'm walking your father to the train station and going grocery shopping. If there is anything you need, just let me know, alright?"

Kairi smiled and turned to the window.

"What was that dream?"

---

Sora clutched at Riku as Riku kissed him. They were out on the fallen tree trunk, thinking Kairi wasn't coming to the island today. They were questioning her absence, but it seemed as though Riku was hungering for him. Sora was as well.

Pale hands touched tan skin of the brunette as both boys lowered themselves on the sand. Embraces, kisses, and nips filled their late morning as they laid there each asking each other where was Kairi, but right now what they wanted to ask is "Should we kiss?"

They did not care what was going on as a familiar row boat happened to be coming up to the port a little ways down the island as Riku kept kissing Sora. They broke another kiss as they stared at each other's eyes. Blue eyes matched blue eyes as they stared at one another and smiled. Riku was still silently questioning when Sora was going to go on his actions and break up with Kairi. It was obvious that the brown haired boy, whom the silver haired male was running fingers through his hair, was unsure about all the emotions that each friend was giving him. Of course he stilled loved Kairi more than a friend, but it was Riku that gave him these emotions and feelings of want and being wanted so stronger than Kairi's want for Sora and Kairi's giving to Sora.

They did not hear the footsteps and humming that Kairi was taking and doing as she walked through the island carrying a basket full of food and treats she brought from the household.

---

That's when she saw it.

The two males lying on the sand staring at one another lovingly and playing with each other's hair. Riku was on top of Sora and Sora was underneath him. Sora's outfit was a bit open revealing enough skin that Riku nipped and suckled, because the evidence was quite clear as a small rash.

'So I wasn't imagining it…' Kairi thought as she remembered what Sora kept saying to her when he was saving her. She remembered what he told her when she and he were breaking away. Sora wanted to find Riku and he wanted Kairi to stay safe at home. If only Kairi fought the urge to fight their breaking apart and tell Sora, she could fight too. Maybe then, she would have a chance to win Sora over. But at the time, Kairi did not realize Riku was in love with Sora and Sora was too blinded by his love for Kairi. And, she was too blinded for her love for Riku until Sora saved her….

Kairi dropped her basket.

She had always been weak. Too weak to stand up for what she wanted in Sora. Too weak to stand up for she wanted to protect Sora with all her heart, but he was away and she was stuck staying home waiting for him.

She bit her bottom lip to keep from crying. She was trying to tell herself she was happy for Sora, but right now, all she wanted was a good cry.

It was that moment that she realized Sora was good with Riku and not with her.

She wanted out.

The noise of the basket made woke Sora and Riku up to reality as they realize that Kairi was standing there and caught them in their blissful act. Sora's face contorted into sadness and pain as he watched Kairi turn around started to flee away from the scene that was tell-tale that Sora wanted Riku.

Not her.

Riku looked to the side as his face contorted into hurt and pity for the girl.

He knew she loved both of them more than friends. She first felt in love with Riku and Riku didn't know. She was let down by Riku when she was his prisoner when he was a puppet of Heartless' reconstruction of Ansem. She then realized her growing feelings for Sora ever since she met him on the beach where she did not know of her memories. She went after Sora waiting for him at home. He knew her thoughts right now. He looked down. He should have been happy that he won Sora and not Kairi. He knew that if Kairi were to fight Sora's thoughts and stayed with him, Kairi would win Sora's heart and not him.

But all he felt was sympathy and sadness, like he did not deserve Sora at all.

"Kairi!" Sora called out to Kairi's fleeting form.

"Sora…" Riku said. "Go to her and tell her…comfort her…"

Sora looked over at Riku. "We'll go together though…"

"It's best if you should… I'll follow up later…"

Sora nodded as he got up, fixing up his shirt as he left running after where Kairi left. Riku looked over at the basket as he felt a ping of pain.

He never realized Kairi loved him until she was there during the second fight. He only had a clue when she was with Sora in his fight against the reconstruction of Ansem.

"Kairi…Sora…" Riku merely said as he watched Sora run over to Kairi.

---

Kairi was crying as she untied the knot of her boat and placed the rope into her rowboat.

"Kairi! Wait! I could explain!" Sora shouted.

"That you're in love Riku? I accept your sexuality, Sora, but what I can't accept is your lying. When did this occur?"

Sora was dumb for a moment. "A year ago…."

"And we?"

"We were nearly two years…."

"Exactly, so you should think about what you did. You should have told me after those eighteen months that you are in love with Riku!"

"Kairi… I …"

"Not another word…" Kairi said. "I should have looked into this possible love between you two… before I even considered of deepening our friendship into something more, Sora… I'm sorry, but you'll just have to give me time to understand this…" She started to get into the boat when she felt two hands on her arm. "Sora, Riku…"

"Each of us felt this way… once or twice…. But are we going to just let this end our friendship?" Riku asked. "Sure, me and Sora are a pair, but we're still a trio… me and Sora are still here for you….if you feel it's best to cry alone… then tell us… we'll let you, but we are not ending your friendship with us."

Kairi nodded as she went into the boat. She smiled, sadly at both of them. "Too much has happened for me today…. I'm going to go home and cool down…. Why don't you eat the food I left your guys? It might spoil…" she said. "Please be happy…. Sora, Riku… I understand… we all do…"

With that, Kairi's hand slipped away as she pushed off with her foot and watched as she stood there letting the wind push her away from the island. Tears fell from her eyes as she smiled at them.

Sora and Riku watched her with widened eyes with surprised looks on their faces. Since when was Kairi this inwardly strong?

Please be happy…Sora, Riku…I understand…we all do…

They stood there, helpless, watching Kairi sit down and started rowing back towards the mainland.

"What should we do?" Riku asked.

"We're not eating the food… we'll eat the food with the three of us together…. It's just not right with just the two of us…" Sora said as he looked down. Riku hugged him as he patted him and they both walked towards where they were, the basket waiting for them.

---

Kairi was still crying as she rowed through the waters.

Now the truth has been said. Now the journey will begin.

Kairi looked up at the sky wondering what the familiar voice was speaking to her softly.

"Who are you!?" Kairi looked up, her tear-stained face obvious in the daylight.

You'll know soon. Don't be afraid, keep the light… fight the darkness…you are another key…

Kairi looked about trying to find where the voice was coming from.

Now you will learn true strength, Princess…

Kairi watched in horror as she was taken in by light.

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Sora looked over at the light. What was that?

Hallow Bastion

Yuffie was hanging out at the Bailey, sitting on the ledge as she ate a rice ball and looked to the sky.

She was aimlessly kicking her legs back and forth as she smiled at the daylight. She heard the sounds of the machine as it went into a mode in which there was nothing until a few neo-Nobodies and neo-Heartless appeared. But she looked in back of her.

There was nothing.

Until…

Yuffie saw a big light that crashed down only to find an auburn haired female lying on the ground, injured, tear-stained, and unconscious. The girl held a floral keyblade in her hand.

She seemed to be the exact description of a girl Sora was talking about.

Was this the girl that Sora was talking about?

Yuffie grinned as she noticed the keyblade disappearing into Kairi's chest as a sprinkle of powdery light. She also felt a bit uncomfortable because of what this meant.

Whenever someone is defeated there is always another enemy after the fight. She sighed as she looked around and noticed Reno walking trying to keep his mind on his food.

"Reno!" Yuffie called over to Reno as he blinked and looked over at Yuffie and just seeing her face contorted into concentration made him want to jump back at least twenty yards away from her. I guess you can say he felt that way whenever he was around any of his colleagues and the girls in that Chocobo hair's circle of friends. Well, whenever they think. Weirdly he never felt that way with Chocobo hair, instead, he felt like laughing at his thoughts and calling him "ridiculous" when he's wrong about something.

Well, Reno was a weird genius. He is a genius in the flesh of a mischievous punk who was unmotivated when it came to paperwork and taking notes. Well, he packed all information in his head.

"I'm eating, crazy-nin," Reno said towards Yuffie as she put her hands on her hips and looked at Reno. "Geez…. What do you possibly want zo to?"

"Your help…." Yuffie responded as she pointed to the dark auburn haired girl on the ground. "I can't lift her up… she's heavy…"

"Well you're skinny, kid."

"Hey! I'm only a few years younger than you…."

"Well…. Those few years matter…" Reno scoffed as he smirked, watching the ninja fume. He always felt it was funny when he pissed someone off. He always was rolling on the floor whenever he saw Elena fume from frustration-over Tseng's ignorance to her Tseng-worship rituals. It consisted of following Tseng around the office while Tseng always walked away from her. It was pretty much walking tag and Elena was "it".

But, back to the hyperactive ninja who needed his help.

"So, you want me to lift this girl up?" Reno asked as he gestured with his head towards the girl on the ground.

"She's Sora's friend what do you expect!" Yuffie called to Reno. "If you do this, I may save the mayor if you're too busy to do so…"

Reno put his hand to his chin. "I guess…. Or maybe you could buy me ramen for a week…"

Yuffie blinked.

"No…. it's not that…." Reno said rolling his eyes. "I'm too laz—"

"You steal!"

Reno slapped his forehead with his hand in frustration. "No, I don't, idiot. You just owe me food or saving my boss' ass… got it?" he asked as he picked the dark auburn haired girl up.

"We bring her back to Cloud's."

"Why?"

"Squall, Aerith and I live with Cloud and Tifa, and Cid lives else where near Merlin I imagine."

With that Reno and Yuffie went off for Cloud's place.

Author's Note:

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Thank you.

Now for some explanation—Kairi and Sora are eighteen. I might be doing some math wrong. Since KH version of characters look nothing like their original age in their respectable games I would like to warn you that if you see an age of a character that you do not agree on, please keep silent. Please repeat that statement in your very heads. Cloud does not look like he's in his twenties in Kingdom Hearts and Sephiroth did not look his age either. Nor did Yuffie, Squall, the Gullwings, Tidus or Wakka in the long run.

In this fanfiction, you'll see characters that are not in Kingdom Hearts that are Final Fantasy characters. I'm thinking about other X, VIII, VII, X, and XII characters. Though I do not know much about Versus XIII or FFXIII, I may put the characters as cameos. I've kept a little bit of their respectable roles, but I'm putting in bits of twists I guess. Just keep silent though if you don't like it.

Remember, this is KairiReno centric, please note this. I tried to put Kairi in a new light since I wasn't too happy with her in Kingdom Hearts or in Kingdom Hearts 2. She really needs a personality adjustment. She's too idealistic and too optimistic. Thank you stars Namine is her Nobody…I'll try my hardest in chapter two since I like Kairi anyway.

Now for the new outfits and first is up—Roxas, Namine and Kairi.

Kairi—Black strap dress like Namine's white dress with a zipper down the middle. She wears black arm warmers with zippers down the sides. She wears purple clips with stars criss-crossing over a large strand of hair. Kairi's hair goes to her waist. She wears black shorts and black and pink sneakers that zips in the middle. The pink part of her sneakers is criss-crosses around the shoe. She wears a purple choker with a key as a charm that has a heart and flower on the handle. She wears an pink over wrap that has zippers down the sides of it and is held by two black belts. Look at her second appearance clothing. It's similar to that. She wears a dark purple hood attached to the black dress' straps.

Namine—Her blond hair goes down to her waist like Kairi's. She wears light blue and white knee-high boots with zippers up the sides and silver Papou fruit as charms on the zippers. She wears a dark blue choker with a silver papou fruit as a charm. Namine wears a silver necklace with a key as a charm that is very much like Kairi's key, but the heart part is cracked in the center to represent she's a Nobody. She wears her white dress with a small over jacket that is a scoop neck in white and light blue. A nobody symbol in white is embroidered into the center on her chest of her over jacket and in the center of her back of her over jacket. On her sleeves is the same logo for the nobodies. The sleeves are outlined with white. She wears dark blue shorts under her dress. She wears a dark blue clip in her hair with a star hair clip on one her strands of hair. Attached to the over jacket is a white hood which she wears a lot.

Roxas—His hair is in its usual 'do. He wears a black long hooded trench coat like his Organization XIII one. He wears his rings and his bracelet. He wears black boots with checkered criss-crosses around the ankles of his boots. He wears a red shirt underneath his trench with checkered criss-crosses and a black nobody symbol on his chest of his shirt. He wears dark gray pants. Around his necklace is a chain with his shuriken as a charm.

Well, that's about it folks. I hope you liked the story. See you next chapter.