This is a Kingdom Hearts story. Warnings are AU, Yaoi, OCs, OOC, Supernatural Activities, possibility of M-preg., more warnings may come.

Summary: Sora, Riku, and Kairi were separated from each other when Destiny Island was attacked when Sora and Kairi were twelve and Riku was thirteen. For two years, Sora has been on a search for his friends; doing odd jobs here and there so he could travel to different worlds to see if he can find them. After two years of searching, at the age of fourteen, Sora takes up a job as a temporary assistant to a traveling merchant mechanic named Cid; Sora's payment is a trip to Traverse Town. There, Sora stays with Cid and his husband Vincent since they find he is basically an orphan. After arriving in Traverse Town, Sora begins to have weird dreams, about the same creatures that had attacked his home and taken him away from everything and everyone he loved. When Sora does a favor for Vincent one day, he goes out to the shops and bumps into Merlin. Merlin senses great power from Sora and gives him a special key. On the same night, the creatures that had attacked Sora's home two years ago suddenly attack Traverse Town; and Sora summons the Keyblade from the key Merlin gave to him. During the attack, he runs into Yuffie and Leon; and thus, his true adventure and destiny begins. A journey of power, friendship, and love; leads Sora to great heights he never thought was possible to ever happen in one's life.

Pairings: Eventual Sora/Riku, Eventual Slight One-sided Kairi/Sora, Eventual Cloud/Leon/Sephiroth, Cid/Vincent, more pairings may come.

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Prologue

"Sora, you have to find the logs, a sheet, and mushrooms we need so we can head off." Kairi said.

"Why do I need to get them?" Sora asked.

"Because, Kairi and I did most of the work; you just barely did anything." Riku said. "It's your turn to contribute to the raft."

Sora huffed a sigh of annoyance, but he knew his friends were right. At that time, the three of them were at the beach in front of the shack discussing things they needed for the raft that they were building. The raft was Riku's idea; since he was little, he wanted to explore the world beyond the islands, beyond the ocean; to see if there was anything out there for him and his friends to see; the main reason he wanted to go, was to see if he could find his true family. Riku was an orphan, who was raised by a kind old man that he called 'Grandpa'; he was taken care of good enough, but he always wanted to know if he was ever wanted before he was found on the islands.

Sora was the first one to find Riku when he had arrived to the islands alone one night, soaked and wet. Since that night, when Sora was four and Riku was five, they had been the best of friends.

Sora, at the age of four, that night was out late on the beach with his parents to enjoying a night of camping out on the beach, a campfire and the moon being their only sources light, at least for the moment. As Sora's parents set up the tent, he looked up at the moon, when something caught his eye. At the time he didn't know what it was, it was his first time seeing it; a little white twinkling dot was quickly making its way across the night sky.

"Mama!" Sora cried as he pointed up at the sky. "Look at that! What is it?"

Sora's mother looked up at the sky and she gasped slightly.

"Honey, look at what Sora found." She said as she pointed up to the sky too.

Sora's father looked up and he smiled, he walked over to his son and ruffled his already messy hair.

"You found a shooting star son." Sora's father said.

"A shooting star?" Sora asked.

"Yeah, a shooting star can grant any wish you ask it to, make a wish; I think you're the first one to see it." Sora's father said.

Just as Sora was about to think of what to wish for, his mother suddenly let out a squeal.

"Honey, Sora, look!" She yelled as she pointed up at the sky again. "There's more coming!"

Sora looked up, and saw that there were scattered stars rushing across the sky quickly; every minute or so, a new star would rush by. It soon became every few seconds a new star would rush across the sky, then a few moments later; a whole shower occurred. The sky had so many bright stars rushing across it, it looked if it was daytime on the beach again.

Sora and his parents just looked up at the stars absolutely mesmerized, looking up at a breathtaking event that none of them would never forget.

After a few moments, Sora felt something, something like a sense of some sort; he felt he had to go check out where it was leading him to. Looking up at his parents, he saw that they were still staring up at the beautiful star shower, so he took his chance to walk off unnoticed. With every step he took towards the direction he had the feeling from, it just got stronger and stronger.

Walking towards the dock, Sora saw a small figure, he could tell it was a child like himself; probably around the age he was, if not, possibly younger. From what Sora could see, the child was beautiful, but odd looking with the clothing he was wearing; with long white hair that went all the way down to his waist, wearing a beautiful white gown-like shirt that went down to his knees, with a pair of long legged white pant, and no shoes, just barefooted. Sora thought that the child on the dock was a girl, mainly because of the hair.

Sora came to a stop in front of the dock, just looking at the newcomer. He wondered why he was feeling that feeling to a person he had never seen before; a feeling of an odd source of indescribable warmth flooded his heart. The newcomer had her back to him, looking out over the ocean. Wanting to know why the girl was there alone, since Sora didn't see any other people besides his own parents off in the distance; Sora slowly walked over to the girl while she still had her back to her. The sounds of his footfalls were what caused the girl to turn.

Sora stopped walking when he stared into the girl's eyes, they were the prettiest eyes he had ever seen; just a breathtaking shade of blue, almost like crystals. Sora's breath hitched in his throat, he was still confused as to why he was feeling that way. Sora looked into the girl's eyes and saw, fear and confusion.

"Where am I?" The girl asked.

Sora almost wasn't able to hear what the girl had said, but he did; then he gasped when he saw the girl suddenly collapse onto the dock floor, out cold.

Sora rushed over to the girl and bent down beside her. Gently, he gathered her up in his arms, then started to scream out for his parents; unnoticed by him for a moment, just after the boy passed out, the star shower dwindled little by little, till it was no more; the beach suddenly went back to it's darkened state before the star shower happened in less than a minute.

His parents did come and take both Sora and the newcomer home. As soon as they arrived home, Sora's father called a doctor and Sora's mother proceeded to do a checkup over the passed out child, Sora's mother worked as a nurse, so she knew what to do. After awhile, Sora's father said the doctor would come over first thing in the morning; and Sora's mother made a surprising discovery when she changed the newcomer's into one of Sora's pajamas, the newcomer wasn't a girl as they thought, but a boy.

The newcomer took up Sora's bed for the night. At first, Sora's parents wanted Sora to sleep with them for the night; but Sora refused to leave the boy's side, he felt that it was his responsibility to watch over the unknown boy. Sora never explained it to his parents though; he just grabbed his sleeping bag and rolled it out onto the floor a couple feet away from his bed where the other slept.

Sora's parents did the normal things for that night like they did every night; they tucked Sora and also the still unconscious newcomer in, kissed their foreheads, wished them goodnight, and left the hallway light on and the door opened just a little to let light shine in. Sora thought sleep would come to him soon after, like it did every night; but that night, he couldn't sleep. His mind was going over what had happened at the beach when he saw the boy. Who was he? Where did he come from? Why was he there?

Sora was just confused, his young mind not understanding the whole entire situation at hand just yet. Just as Sora was about to try and forget about it, a whimper came from somewhere around the room. Sitting up, Sora looked up at his bed, and he saw that the boy on his bed was sitting up as well. Because of the light from the hallway, Sora was able to see the boy's movements and saw that he turned to look down at him on the floor. Not knowing what to say, Sora said the first thing that came to mind:

"Hi…" Sora whispered.

It was about a minute before the boy responded.

"Umm…Hi…" The boy on the bed said. "Uh…where am I?" The boy asked.

"You're in my room…" Sora said. "In my bed…"

The boy gasped and tried to get out of the bed; but Sora jumped up and grabbed his wrists, stilling him.

"Don't get out, you need your rest." Sora said.

"But, don't you want your bed?" The boy asked.

"No, you can sleep on it for tonight or as long as you want to; I have my sleeping bag." Sora said.

"Are you sure?" The boy asked.

"I'm sure…" Sora said; wanting to get away from the bed conversations, Sora changed the subject with: "What's your name?"

"My name is Riku…" Riku said. "What's yours?"

"I'm Sora..." Sora said, then he let go of Riku's wrists and held out his hand to him. "It's nice to meet you."

Almost not knowing what to do, Riku hesitantly took Sora's hand into his, then he shook. For the both of them, it felt a little weird. Sora shook a lot of people's hands, but he never felt like that when he did it to anyone else; an indescribable tingling sensation came to his heart, much like the warmth that touched his heart when he first saw Riku at the beach. Riku couldn't remember the last time he shook anyone's hand, but like Sora, he felt the same way and never felt a sensation like that before.

As Riku shook Sora's hand, he tried to remember something of his past; but he couldn't remember anything, no matter what he tried. He could remember his name just fine, even his age; but everything else was a complete blank; he didn't know where he came from or why he was there on Destiny Islands. Not knowing that scared him, so much that he began to cry.

Sora noticed that after a full minute, he and Riku were still shaking each other's hands; reason why, because he saw that Riku was beginning to cry. It began as quiet, but then evolved into startled loud sobs.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Sora asked; very concerned for his friend's sudden change in attitude.

"I-I…can't…remember…" Riku sobbed; he tried again to remember something, anything as he cried, but then wailed. "ANYTHING!!!"

"What's going on in there?!" A voice from the hallway yelled.

Sora's mother was yelling. Sora could hear his parents' footsteps rushing down the hallway towards his room in panic. The door opened fully and Sora squinted at the sudden flood of light.

Sora's parents took action from there. Sora's mother sat down at the side of the bed and took Riku into her arms and onto her lap, gently rocking him side to side as she hummed a lullaby to calm him. It took less than five minutes for Riku's sobs to turn down to hiccups and sniffles, and through those Riku explained why he was crying.

Sora's parents were as shocked and concerned as Sora was; together they helped Riku fall into a deep slumber. That time as Sora's parents tucked the two in, they tucked both Sora and Riku into the bed; Sora's parents left the room door opened slightly as they headed out with the hall light still on; leaving their son and his best friend to sleep for the night.

The next morning, before breakfast, the doctor came. He woke up Sora and Riku and booted Sora out of the room so he could be alone with Riku. The check up from the doctor took less than half an hour before the doctor came out with the news on Riku. Riku had a case of amnesia as was found out the night before by the family; but the doctor didn't know if Riku would ever be able to get his memories back, wasn't even sure if something familiar from his past could trigger Riku's memories. The doctor said they could just wait and hope Riku would be able to remember; other than that news, Riku was a fine healthy little boy.

Riku stayed with Sora and his family for a few months, then an old man moved to the islands. The man was kind but strict, he was kind to those who respected him and treated people the way they deserved to be treated. The man took a liking to the island's children; often children would come onto the front porch of his house and gather around to hear beautiful stories. They'd be of princes, and magical adventures, all of them ended on happy endings, but large cliffhangers at the same time.

The man's name was Takato Mizaki, the children of the island called him Mr. M along while the adults called him Mizaki; but Takato had a special place in his heart for Riku, and he insisted to only Riku, that he'd call him 'Grandpa'. Takato was strong for his age; he had a full head short silver-ish white hair, a pair of icy blue eyes that held warmth for those he cared for, but would flash in even more coldness at those he didn't like. He often wore a simple white button up shirt, collar would be drawn down and the first two buttons would be unbuttoned, he wore a pair of long black pants, and a pair of cowboy boots or sandals at times.

Takato was a role model for the boys of the island; he wielded swords and knew how to use them. When the boys of the island found out about his ability to fight with swords, they asked him constantly to teach them. Takato was a retired sensei from where he came from and he complained that when he came to the islands, he came because he wanted to get away from all of the fighting. When Sora and Riku asked him, his heart melted and he came up with a plan. He thought the teenage boys that wanted to use swords how to fight with them, and with their help in what he had taught them, though the younger boys how to use swords properly.

Takato wasn't stupid to let the boys use real swords, so he would go out to the working shack he had in his backyard and make wooden swords for all the boys he was teaching. Of course Takato asked the parents of his students if he could teach them to use swords, most of which agreed and some took convincing; before he knew it, he had taught nearly every boy on the island how to use a sword.

But, Takato spent most of his time with Sora and Riku, teaching them to be better than all of the other boys, even the teenagers. Sora and Riku were the best sword wielders next to him, those two, along with the teenagers, would attend his special lessons where he actually allowed his students to use real swords.

Eventually, Takato made an offer to Riku; he would adopt him and make him his son. Takato had an past that was unknown to many, all most people knew was that he was a retired sensei; but Sora, Riku, and Sora's parents knew more about Takato's past. When Takato was young, in his twenties, he had a beautiful wife that he had loved dearly; together they had a son that Takato swore Riku was the descendent of because they looked so much alike. When Takato's son was five, he was killed by an assassin that was sent to kill Takato originally; he and his wife went into a great depression because of their son's murder. Because of all the grief she was feeling, Takato's wife became severely weak and sick, and eventually she died because of it; leaving Takato out in the world.

Before her death, Takato's wife made him keep a promise, that no matter what, he himself would never give into the darkness; her own heart was clouded by it and she was too late to save herself, she didn't want her husband to die in the same dishonorable way. Takato swore that he'd keep his wife's promise, for his own sake. Takato traveled for many years before he settled on Destiny Islands, where he had a destined run in with Riku.

Takato felt that he had to adopt Riku, to take care of him and make sure was protected; he wasn't sure why, but he swore he'd keep to his heart's mission. Riku was ecstatic and agreed with it; Sora on the other hand, was pissed. Even though Takato lived near by which would mean Riku would be near by, it just wouldn't be the same. Sora had grown used to having Riku by his side at every waking moment; heck, they even took showers and baths together! (They are five and four years old, nothing perverted! Yet anyway…)

Sora's parents were worried at first, but realized that Takato would probably take better care of Riku than they could, those two had so much in common they might have been as well as father and son. It took only a few weeks for everything to be settled legally and Riku moved in with Takato. Sora had to get used to having his own room again on a weekly basis, but was ecstatic that Riku could spend weekend nights in his room, sometimes Sora ventured to Riku's house for the night also.

It was alright then, everything was carefree and the bond of friendship grew even stronger when Sora was six and Riku was almost seven; Kairi moved to the island with her family. Kairi, at the age of six, met Sora and Riku at school as the new girl; no one would play with her and Sora and Riku took notice, they went to invite her to play with them. Before moving to that island, Kairi lived on another, smaller island of the Destinies; with the beginning of first grade approaching, Kairi's parents thought it would be best for to move to an island with a bigger population for better education for Kairi. Kairi didn't mind much because on her old home island she didn't have any friends; she was extremely happy that her parents decided to move, because she ended up getting two best friends.

The three of them stayed best friends for years to come, all three of them at each other's sides from morning till sunset and night. They thought they'd be friends forever, but they had no idea what their destinies held for each of them.

There on the beach, to finish off the raft, Sora thought he'd look around for logs first; from the storm about three nights ago (not the Heartless storm), logs should've been scattered around the island beach. Just as Sora was thinking about that, a glimpse of a huge brown thing on the ground caught his eye; grinning, he rushed up to it and picked it up, his first log. Now all he had to look for now was another log, a sheet, and mushrooms; he was glad that he had taken care of the coconuts the day before, or Kairi would've been mean enough to actually push that on him also.

As Sora walked over to the shack to drop off the log to continue his search, he thought about the difference between his two best friends. He admitted to himself a short while ago, that he had in fact had feelings for both of them; he just wasn't sure who he had stronger feelings for. Kairi and Riku both had their individual peeves that annoyed Sora; Kairi for one was a bit bossy and she never realized when she was being bossy or even pushy at points; Riku pushed himself too hard in sword wielding while in practice and in battle, and would do anything to win, Sora often worried like Riku's Grandpa that one day Riku would push himself too hard and really hurt himself.

At the age of thirteen, Riku was the most competitive sword fighter on the island; no one could beat him, except for his Grandpa. Despite his even older age, Takato was still strong and he still taught children how to fight on the island, nowadays he had more teenagers to help him teach the young boys and a few girls how to fight. Even though Takato was still as strict as he was back then when Sora and Riku were little, and he still pushed kids to do more when he knew they could do better; he often asked, or even begged, Riku to calm down and take it easy. Takato at times even regrets he even thought the boy he adopted as he son how to use swords.

Riku was one of the strongest boys on the island also, rivaling older teenagers that were four or even six years his senior. He had a muscular body, it wasn't too muscular though; he was just thirteen then, so people often wondered what would happen when Riku filled out more when he grew up a little more. The biggest thing besides training and battle regimens that had changed on Riku was his hair; he started to cut it to his shoulders since he was nine.

Sora himself had just watched from the sidelines as Riku evolved into the being he was that day. Even though Sora loved to fight, he never pushed himself as hard as Riku did; when he had enough practice for a day, Riku would often go on for another hour or two before he called it quits himself. Unlike Riku, Sora was still his chipper self; happy go lucky in almost everyway. Riku held a sort of strict seriousness about himself; Sora blamed that on Takato.

Kairi was kind, at times shy, but almost always bossy. She wasn't too bossy to annoy the crap out of everyone, much; mostly, she caught herself before she went too over board with orders for anyone. Other than that, she was a good friend to have; she was always there when her friends needed her, either to speak to or to help.

Sora soon found himself at the shack; Kairi was standing in front of it.

"Did you find everything yet?" Kairi asked.

Sora looked at her like she was crazy.

"Kairi, it's been only five minutes since you told me what to get." Sora said. "I only came here to leave this log and to get back to searching for the other things."

Kairi huffed a sigh as she took the log from Sora.

"Hurry up!" She said, not realizing she was being bossy. "I want to get the raft done quickly." (Don't get her wrong, she'll change eventually; remember, at this point she's twelve…)

Sora rolled his eyes and smiled; he knew that Kairi was going to think over what she had said earlier and feel guilty, so he wasn't mad at her little outburst.

"Alright my queen!" Sora said mockingly as he bowed. "I'll do thy bidding!"

Kairi gasped and put her hand over her mouth, a blush rushing to her cheeks; before Kairi could say anything else, Sora beat her to it.

"It's okay…" Sora said, then he smirked. "At least you're not as bad as your mom."

Kairi smiled at that, she was glad for that. Her mother was a loving mother, but she gave way too many 'for you own good' orders at once, as often as she breathed in oxygen, she gave an order. Kairi had some leniency from her father, he was kind and never gave orders, he gave requests, always giving the person he was asking a choice. Kairi was more like her father in more ways than her own mother.

Kairi composed herself and tried again.

"Sora, please hurry with everything else." Kairi said kindly. "I know you want to get the raft done as much as I do."

Sora nodded in agreement, and without a word, turned and headed off to look for more things.

As Sora walked around, he remembered he saw a sheet somewhere in the tree house; his slow walk turned brisk as he rushed over to the tree house. When he reached the ladder, he jumped onto quickly climbing up, then into the tree house he went. The first thing he saw was the sheet folded up in a corner; he rushed over to it and picked it up. He opened it to see if it was large enough for the raft. When he opened it, he saw that it was large enough to make two sails; it took a few moments for him to fold it back up, but he did it and finally got out of the tree house.

As he was walking past the mini waterfall, he was a little surprised to see Wakka sitting there at the steps just before them; he didn't see him there when he had arrived a few moments ago. Slowly, Sora walked up to Wakka, but stopped when Wakka turned his head slightly.

"Hey Sora…" Wakka said.

Sora walked the rest of the way to Wakka and sat down on the steps himself.

"Hey…" Sora said. "What's up?"

"Nothing much." Wakka said. "Just bored."

"Want to battle?" Sora asked. "It's something to do at least."

"You bet!" Wakka said. "You just watch out!"

"No, you watch out!" Sora said with a laugh.

Together the two stood up, Sora placed the sheet onto the steps; they went their separate ways, and when they were far enough from each other, they turned to face each other.

"You take the first move." Sora said to Wakka.

Wakka smirked and without warning, he threw his ball into the sand; the ball caused an explosion of sand and it clouded Sora's vision completely, but he wasn't too worried. The cloud of sand started to weaken only seconds after it came, and off in the distance Sora could see a glowing blue ball coming in fast; using his sword as a bat, Sora hit it back in the direction it came; he smirked when he heard a pained yell. When the shield of sand settled completely, Sora saw Wakka rubbing the side of his head. Rushing in, Sora jumped up into the air and struck down at Wakka; Wakka moved his head, so Sora got his shoulder and Wakka went tumbling down.

Grabbing his ball, Wakka quickly threw it at Sora; that time hitting Sora in his gut with the ball, Sora flew down onto the ground onto his back with a pained breathless grunt. Trying to act on that advantage, Wakka got up and tried to throw the ball at Sora again, he threw the ball, but Sora rolled away from the impact and it hit the sand. Rolling onto his back, Sora quickly jumped up to his feet and charged at Wakka. Wakka tried to duck Sora's swing, but it was too late, it caught him at his side and sent him tumbling to the sand. Wakka almost amazed himself at how quick he was to stand up, but he felt a little dizzy; he didn't have time to ready himself when Sora came at him again. Sora had hit almost every part of his body and it wasn't long before Wakka crouched to his knees and held the ball over his head.

"I give, I give!!!" Wakka hollered, then he looked up at Sora. "Geez, you've been training a lot, have you?"

Sora smiled sheepishly as he walked over to Wakka and held his hand out to him; grabbing his head, Wakka jumped up to his feet. Together, the two walked back to the steps and sat back down on them.

"Have you battled Riku lately?" Wakka asked, having a feeling that Sora's sudden increase in strength had something to do with that.

"I battled him two days ago." Sora said.

"Who won?" Wakka asked playfully.

Sora playfully glared at him.

Wakka laughed and patted Sora on his back.

"Sorry my friend, I couldn't help but quip about that; Riku always wins, it's in his blood." Wakka said.

Sora sighed as he looked down at his feet.

"Though I want to beat him, I just want him to calm down." Sora said. "He's pushing himself too hard at times you know."

"Yeah, I should know." Wakka said. "I'm two years older than he is and he's still whips my ass every time we battle."

Wakka was one of the only boys on the island who didn't use a sword in battle, he used his blitz ball. Wakka was a bit of an odd case when he came to the islands three years ago; but became popular when he started beating sword fighters with his ball. Riku was one of Wakka's greatest competitors in battle; Riku always beat him.

The two boys stayed quiet for a few more moments before Wakka broke the silence again.

"When are you going to eat the Paopu Fruit with Riku?" Wakka asked suddenly.

Sora's eyes widened and a huge blush crept to his cheeks, he looked at Wakka shocked.

"I don't like Riku in that way!" Sora lied.

Wakka smirked.

"You can't hide anything from me my friend." Wakka said. "Even though you're young, you know what you want and so do I. Just keep saying that to yourself when Riku's older and see how much you keep to what you say." He stood up and looked down at Sora. "Kairi is okay, but Riku is the one who knows you better." With that he walked away.

Sora sat there on the steps alone for a few moments, pondering on what Wakka had said.

To be continued…

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Wise words from Wakka, will Sora take it to heart?

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