New Worlds
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or InuYasha, not the characters or the plots. Trust me… if I did there'd be parades and stuff.
(A/N: this was also previously posted for me by a friend of mine. At first I wasn't gonna repost it because I think it gets rather repetitive, but after reading all the faithful reviews that continue now, three years later, I just couldn't do that to them. So here it is.)
Chapter 1: "Where am I?"
"InuYasha, I'm going home. You're staying here and if you even think of following me I'll sit you till your lungs burst." Kagome said jumping into the well before the hanyou could pull himself out of the ground.
"Wench!" InuYasha shouted when her removed his face from the dirt, knowing full well that she was long gone and could definitely not hear him five hundred years from now.
"InuYasha, it's nearly nightfall, and she said she'd come back tomorrow, just let her go," Miroku reasoned.
"Mom, I'm home!" Kagome shouted.
"Hello dear. Home so soon?" her mother asked sweetly.
"Yeah, I felt like sleeping in my own bed for once," Kagome replied, "And a hot bath wouldn't be so bad either. But I'm too tired right now, maybe in the morning. I'm going to bed. 'Night!"
That night Kagome had a strange dream. She was in the middle of the ocean, had she not feared for her life she would have been admiring the crystal clear blue water. The current carried her toward the land that she hoped wasn't too far off.
In her dream she fell asleep in the water and the gentle waves carried her to the beach.
Sora and Riku were sparring on an outcropping of an island. Riku was blindfolded, but he managed to keep up with Sora.
"This isn't even right, you can see can't you?" Sora asked.
"I told you that I didn't have a handicapped," Riku replied.
At that moment Kairi came running over, "Sora, Riku, come quick," she shouted.
"Kairi, what's wrong?" Sora asked.
"This girl, she doesn't look so good." Kairi said she seemed overwhelmed by something.
"Who, Selphie?' Riku asked calmly.
"No, I've never seen her before," Kairi cried in panic.
The three ran to the other side of the beach to see a girl washed up on the sand. The three ran over and knelt beside her.
"Hey," Riku said softly and tapped her cheek, "Wake up."
The girl opened her eyes slowly, "Mmm? InuYasha?" she muttered groggily.
"You okay?" Sora asked.
"Who're you? Where am I?" she asked.
"I'm Riku. This is Sora and Kairi," Riku said.
"I'm Kagome," the girl said, "Where am I?"
"This is Destiny Islands," Kairi said.
Kagome looked at the three people around her, "Can you even see?" she suddenly asked Riku, waving a hand in front of his face, "You're blindfolded."
"I can see fine," he said, catching her hand mid-wave to iterate his point.
"Ha! I knew it!" Sora cried, jumping triumphantly.
"I told you I wasn't handicapped before we even started sparring, Sora," Riku said shaking his head.
"Um, can I have my hand back now?" Kagome asked, trying to wiggle her hand out of his grasp and blushing slightly. Riku dropped her hand immediately, "Thanks."
"You're name's Kagome, right?" Sora asked, Kagome nodded, "Welcome to Destiny Islands."
"Doesn't look like I'll be getting home anytime soon," Kagome told herself, "Oh and InuYasha's gonna kill me."
"Who's InuYasha?" Kairi asked.
"A guy back where I come from, kinda, he's the biggest, most irritating jerk in existence." Kagome said angrily pummeling the dirt.
"Hey, the beach did nothing to you," Riku said, stopping her tirade.
"I get it," Kagome cried, "I'm still dreaming," she said and pinched herself, "Nope, not dreaming."
"Well, silly, we could have told u that," Kairi smiled.
"But if I think you're a figment of my imagination I wouldn't listen to you,' Kagome replied.
"She's got a point," Sora said, "Of course, whenever I had some sort of hallucination I did listen to it
"You shouldn't tell too many people that, they might wonder," Kagome said.
"It's too late, they already know," Kairi said.
"We wouldn't want it any worse though," Riku said.
Suddenly three more people came over, two guys and a girl.
"Hey you three, when'd the new girl get here?" asked the blond boy.
"Tidus, don't be rude you're supposed to ask who she is!" The brown haired girl reprimanded.
"You're wrong Selphie," the red haired boy said, "I'm Wakka, nice to meet you, ya?"
"Uh… ya?" Kagome replied in confusion, everyone laughed.
"This is Kagome, Kagome these are our friends Selphie, Tidus, and Wakka," Sora introduced.
"Nice to meet you," Kagome said inclining her head slightly from her sitting position in the sand.
"You 'n' Riku seem to have already gotten close," Tidus pointed out. Riku glared at him from his sprawled place in the sand next to Kagome, though Tidus couldn't see it through the blindfold.
"So we gonna stay here all day or are we gonna have some fun?" Sora shouted.
"Define fun," Kagome muttered.
"We love sparring, we spend most of our time becoming better, but if you don't like that we could find something you wanna do," Selphie said.
"I'm not much of a fighter; I was always getting my butt saved from demons back home. I'll watch you guys," Kagome said.
"I'll watch with you; I'm the only one on the island that doesn't fight," Kairi said.
"Who ya gonna watch?" Selphie asked.
"I dunno, who's the most interesting?" Kagome asked.
"It depends on whether you like swords, blitzballs, or nunchaku," Kairi replied.
"Uhhh, all I got out of that was swords," Kagome said.
"Dis is a blitzball," Wakka said, holding up his blue and white bumpy ball.
"That must not bounce very well," Kagome said.
"It bounces off people and it hurts," Sora said rubbing his head remembering past injuries.
"This is my nunchaku, kinda like a whip," Selphie said holding out her long rope thing.
"Looks like a jump rope to me," Kagome muttered.
"And in case you're wondering, these are swords… well, wooden ones, we don't wanna hack each other up," Tidus said.
"I know swords quite well, I usually meet them up close and personal… whether their resting comfortably and dangerously at my throat or saving it from demons. I've met my fair share of swords," Kagome said.
"Someone's tried to kill you?" Riku asked astonished.
"Someone tries to kill me on a daily basis; I'm not too great at defending myself so I'm always kidnapped or attacked. I kinda use the bow and arrow, but my aim's awful." Kagome explained.
"I wouldn't picture someone like you to know the first thing about fighting," Wakka said.
"Or any type of combat, well I wouldn't if I had a choice," Kagome said.
"Sounds like fun. Riku we've gotta finish what we started," Sora said.
"You guys use swords right? I'll watch you," Kagome said (A/N: nice excuse).
"Let's go then," Kairi said.
"Kairi, you promised you'd watch me 'n' Tidus," Wakka whined.
"Oh yeah alright, Kagome, you go with them,'' Kairi said sitting on the sea wall.
"Come on Kagome," Sora said and he and Riku walked toward the outcropping.
"You can sit on the tree there, we'll try to stay away from it," Riku said.
The two fought trading blows while Kagome sat on the tree. After twenty minutes the two were dripping in sweat and still going strong. Sora knocked Riku down and, Riku countered by kicking on his way up, he missed Sora and hit the tree Kagome was sitting on. She lost her balance and fell backwards off the tree and towards the water. Riku caught her hand but lost his grip on the tree and they both fell into the water.
The two broke the surface at the same time.
"Oh now I'm soaked again, and just when I was starting to dry off," Kagome whined.
"Hey, are you two alright?" cried Selphie from the shore. Kairi and Tidus and Wakka were next to her.
A splash nearby announced that Sora had jumped in too.
"We're gonna have to rematch later," Sora said.
"Sorry Kagome, my hand slipped," Riku said.
"No harm done, I'll dry eventually," Kagome said brightly, "But thanks for at least trying."
"You three gonna come back to land now, ya?" Wakka shouted.
"We're coming," Sora shouted waving at them.
They swam back to shore where Kagome proceeded to ring her hair, her skirt, her shirt, and even her socks. She was glad she hadn't been wearing her pajamas in her dream, not so much so that her shirt was white but there was only so much she could do about that.
"That helps," she said to herself. She looked up suddenly, her eyes distant, "What's that feeling? It's almost like a Jewel Shard, but… different, like a person coming this way…. Something's coming!"
"What do you mean 'something's coming?' What's coming?" Sora shouted.
"I dunno, but something's coming" Kagome replied.
As if summoned by her words, someone appeared before them.
"C-Cloud?" Sora stuttered, "Cloud is that you?"
"Flattering you remember me Sora," Cloud said.
"Good to see ya… but why are you here, how?" Sora wondered.
"I don't know how I got here, but when I woke up I knew I'd find you here. You made me search this whole island for you," Cloud laughed.
"You're not as serious as you used to be," Sora said.
"Yeah I am," Cloud said, "Who're your friends?"
"This is Riku and Kairi, they're who I was looking for then, this is Selphie, Wakka, Tidus, and our new friend Kagome," Sora introduced.
"Hi, I'm Cloud. I fought against Sora in a tournament a while back. Something about him interested me though. Let's just say that he saved us all back there," Cloud said.
"Why are you here though?" Sora asked.
"Dunno really, I woke up in the water. But if I'm here it probably means that there's something going on somewhere. Who knows if it's good or bad," Cloud said.
"My guess would be bad…" Sora said.
"What's this, why's your energy different? What is it you have that affects everything?" Kagome muttered circling around him suspiciously. She clasped her head in pain and collapsed in the sand. Everyone was by her side immediately, "What is it? It's artificial… it doesn't feel like you've had it very long," she gasped.
"What're you rambling about?" Cloud asked. Kagome reached her hand out to him; it wandered over his clothing and lingered over his pant pocket. She reached inside the pocket and took out a small sickly green orb, "What are you doing in my pants?" Cloud cried.
"What is this? Where'd you get it?" Kagome asked.
"I found it on the beach on the other side of the island. It looked like someone dropped it so I picked it up hoping I could find the owner." Cloud said.
"It's consumed by evil, something very evil had this before you did," Kagome gasped, "It's so powerful."
"Then there must be something really evil on the Destiny Islands," Sora said.
"Or hopefully just left," Selphie said.
"I'd hate to bring this up but what if someone here put it there," Tidus said.
"But we've all been here, ya?" Wakka asked.
"Well yeah, but Cloud just got here and we found Kagome washed up on the beach, we've known where everyone else was all day," Sora said.
"Sorry but it couldn't be me; this orb is concentrated evil, I'd have purified it before I could place it anywhere," Kagome said and they saw the orb change from the sickly green to a pure white in her hands.
"I just found it, I've no idea what it is," Cloud shrugged.
"I believe both of you, it sounds like another journey," Sora said.
"Me 'n' Tidus and Selphie will stay here, dunno 'bout Kairi but I'm sure Sora and Riku will head in whichever direction adventure points," Wakka said.
"Yeah," Sora said jumping up and punching the air.
"I'll have to go with you and keep you out of trouble," Riku joked.
"As long as you don't listen to the bad guy again," Sora said.
"That's a promise," Riku said.
"Can I come? I'm used to adventure and travelling long distances in short periods of time," Kagome said.
"I say it's up to you, we probably won't do too much travelling on foot though," Riku said.
"Yeah, we're not stopping anyone who wants to come," Sora said.
"I'm coming, wherever we're going," Kagome said.
"Anyone else?" Sora asked.
No one stepped up or said anything.
"Riku still got yours?" Sora asked.
"Why wouldn't I?" Riku asked.
"Because I saw you throw something into the ocean about a month ago," Sora replied.
"I got a better chain so I got rid of the old one," Riku said.
"Still, I thought there was only supposed to be one master of the Keyblade," Kairi pondered.
"What are we talking about?" Kagome asked.
"The Keyblade, it's a key and depending on which keychain you use attach to it, it becomes a sort of key-shaped blade, hence the name Keyblade," Kairi explained.
"So Kagome, we'll be fighting so you'll be learning how. Don't worry, I'd just started to when I began my last journey. You learn pretty quick when you're life is at stake," Sora joked.
"We should start at Traverse Town, I go there with you," Cloud said.
"We'll talk to Cid, see if he knows anything and go from there," Sora said.
"How do we get there?" Kagome asked.
"Through the door in the secret place," Riku told her.
"Let's go," Sora cried. Cloud and Kagome followed Sora and Riku to a patch of trees and into the secret place.
"If there's really something going on the door will let us through," Sora said confidently.
"How d'you even know something's wrong out there?" Kagome asked.
"We don't, but once you've been into the abnormal, it's hard to get your life back, almost impossible. We've been looking for a way out for ages," Riku said.
"So now you've got an excuse and you're taking it," Cloud said, "Leon would be proud."
"You've talked to Leon?" Sora asked unlocking the door.
"He's still in Hallow Bastion," Cloud explained, "That's where I was before I ended up here."
"Last time I went through this door it brought me to Traverse Town. Hope it does again," Sora said opening the door.
"Wait!" Kairi yelled running into the cave, "Here Kagome, an extra pair of clothes just in case, they should fit," she said handing Kagome a pair of clothes, "There's also a hair tie there."
"Thank you, thanks so much," Kagome said happily, "I'll repay you someday."
"Last chance Kairi, we're going now," Riku said.
Sora, Cloud, and Riku walked through the door closely followed by Kagome leaving Kairi alone waving goodbye.