beyond a heart's REDEMPTION
WARNING; This fanfic contains massive amounts of slash and an original idea for my version of Kingdom Hearts that follows Kairi instead of Sora. So if you're one of those Kairi haters or just do not approve of such fictions as these DON'T READ THE STORY! And please please please no reviews that chew me out about my disgusting ways and vile writings, although I do appreciate constructive criticism so I'm open to mostly everything you'd have to say and PLEASE don't be afraid to say it. DISCLAIMER;I (unfortunately) do not own Kingdom Hearts or any related material. Kingdom Hearts copywrite Disney and Square Enix.
Chapter I : Vespertine
Kairi's eyes slowly batted open and she continued to blink to clear her vision. She rose her head from her slouching position and gazed upon the vast emptiness that was the world around her. A humid fog encased her senses as she rose to her feet. Through the shroud she noticed that she was still in the starched dress shirt that had once belonged to her forgotten warrior and long lost soul mate. She slept in it every night ever since her crossing back into this world. Every night she wore it to bed, just that and her panties, because every day that passed since she was found lying in the secret place under the carving of him and her, was another day lost. But for now she needed to find her place in this current event.
Taking a small step forward into the unknown she felt the warmth of the sand between her toes. With every small step she took another gust of wind would blow her now three feet long chocolate hair past her big blue eyes. She seemed pained with every step she took until she realized that the warm foggy atmosphere was daybreak on the shore of the clubhouse island. Now aware of her whereabouts it eased her with every struggling step forward. As she continued on she felt held back, as if some unknown force was keeping her from pushing forward but nevertheless she pressed onward, until she felt the cool touch of the ocean line swim up her leg sending shivers swarming around her body.
But then the small echo of a reverberated exhale rang out through the atmosphere it startled Kairi at first but then as it progressed into a raging shriek it forced her to wade out until her thighs were steeped in the endless fields of floating snow white lilies. Just then a light on the horizon slowly rose into the sky, but when Kairi fixated her attention on the majestic beauty of the rising sun she did not see the enclosing circle of ignited flowers. But just before the crystal clear water parted to make way for the burning flowers to reach the unblemished pearl skin of her thighs she felt a lurch in her stomach and a song in her heart and leaped into the ripe air. For the first time she felt alive but only with closed eyes.
To dash against the darkness within the unyielding embrace of her ideal dream world she leapt into the air to take the sun in her mouth. And just as she reached the height of her glory a sudden twitch inside the sleeping curves of her body wrinkled a strand in the tapestry of her universe. Suddenly through the parted fog two graceful jellyfish of enormous proportion swept up to her frozen leap in the still of the sky. The shimmering streaks of their transparency whirled grandly around her. Without a brush of their endless lacey tentacles they seemed to taunt her in her unruly position. But as one swept through her unwavering hair she realized the horror of her position and with gaping eyes the disguised creatures leapt from their shell and pulled Kairi into the flaming waters.
The slow motion tumble through the air increased as the black creatures with unblinking green eyes and twisted smiles wrestled her into her watery grave. And with a sharp inhale she awoke in her bed in a cold sweat. Scanning the area, she recognized her room and wiped the sweat from her forehead. Gazing at the clock (3:09 am) she threw the dampened covers from her shaking body and went for a glass of water.
What could it mean? She contemplated as she chugged down the crisp cool water. I mean you can only have this nightmare so many times before it gets annoying and you know something it's already there! Every time this comes about she cannot even begin to search for an answer to it but for now all she can do is;
"I had it again." Kairi reported blankly as she plopped her bag down beside the two boys on the beach.
"That same damn dream you've been having for two weeks now?" the boy who was resting his head on the other boys lap exclaimed.
"Yes that same damn dream." she sighed.
"Well have you discovered a meaning yet?" the other boy replied.
"Kyan, do you honestly think that if I had found a meaning for it that I would have had stopped having it by now?"
"Um . . . yes?"
"Then why am I still having it?"
"Because you . . . haven't found a meaning yet."
"Exactly. So, what have you two 'love-birds' been up to this fine morning?" she asked the boys. Glancing at one another they chuckled a little, and when they looked over at Kairi she too laughed but only in confusion and immediately demanded to know what was so funny.
"Kairi, honey," the other boy sat up and put one hand on her knee. "What have we done every morning this summer?"
"Get up, watch the sunrise, and make out?"
"Ding, ding, ding! Congratulations, you've just won a brand new car!" and the three of them buckled over with laughter.
"Well Ty, if I've won yet another brand new car that should give you two something more productive to do this summer besides chill on the beach and make out all day."
"And pray tell my dear what else is there to do?" asked Kyan through his hysterical cries.
"Wash it!" And another wave of laughter poured out from within them yet behind their brittle grins the three of them each hid their recollections of the hardships that formed this bond they share and the burden of Kairi's losses that pulls its weight against them. That faithful day that Kairi was torn from Sora's grasp and sent back to the Destiny Islands was the day that Ty discovered her collapsed under the carvings of her and Sora in the secret place. He carried her back across to the main island and marched with her dormant body in falling tears as the town was fixated in horror and fascination. He carried her all the way back to her home and passed her into her father's heartbroken arms. He stayed there with her overnight worried for her health. Only because he was fearful of losing her, since he had been friends with her since they had left their previous home.
Since a time before he could remember he had known Kairi since their days together in another town, far from this desolate region. When they moved here to Destiny Islands (for still unknown reasons) they stayed close but somewhat went their separate ways. They grew up together next door to one another because of their move here and have stayed distant friends since she was attached to the hips of Sora and Riku. But he was not alone because he was not the only gay teen on the islands. Then there was Kyan who came into his life just around the time Kairi went missing. Kyan was Kairi's twin brother and he never spent much time out of the house because he was deathly afraid of what people thought of him and his sexuality until around the time of Kairi's disappearance. Although he didn't have many friends and never cared much for either Sora or Riku and when he and Ty locked eyes they knew it was one shot at love and they've been falling into it for years now.
The Destiny Islands stays true to its name by not judging those who have been brought together by Manifest Destiny herself. Besides the islands have always been thought of a kind of a tranquil land full of serenity not one brought up in the midst of hatred so Kyan and Ty could feel safe to be with one another. But there was another girl who Ty was closest to, but all he can remember of her was that she too disappeared with the others so long ago. Since the time of Kairi's return it has been the three of them for two years now.
When their laughter revisited silence, Kairi sighed once more and gazed out upon the horizon. Misty eyed from the rush of emotion racing through her she then lightly thanked the couple for being there for her through her turmoil. But before they could say anything she thanked them again for making her smile and keeping her spirit up since her loss.
And since her loss Kairi developed from a cute and peppy little pink school girl always flashing a smile and bubbling over with laughter to the illustration of despair, as if her mind was slowly slipping into oblivion. Everyday she wore a white dress shirt to symbolize her undying love for her missing soldier since she wore the original 'previously owned' one to sleep every night, she could never bear to part with it. Around her neck she kept an exact replica of his necklace and always kept her bangs brushed over one of her eyes. She was the exact contradictory of what she once was from the dark circles around her eyes to the lack of will to smile.
After a long silence Ty lay back down in Kyan's lap and blankly asked a rhetorical question; "You still can't remember his name, can you?" Kairi's fragile smile shattered at the thought. She hung her head in shame and brushed back a tear.
"No, no I can't. But I will remember . . . eventually." she managed to reply with a shaky voice. Kyan realized what Ty had caused and threw his head off his lap silently cursing him in the process and went over to sit down next to Kairi.
"Don't cry, I know you can do it. These things take time . . . so will you be going back to his house this evening?" This somewhat cheered up Kairi and her tears slowed. With a faux giggle she fixated her attention on the fully risen sun and nodded. "I wouldn't miss it for this world."
In the state of great emergencies or such calamities some people mourn their losses for weeks on end. Others deny that the tragedy ever took place and keep their emotions trapped inside. But in rare cases does one incident pain a person so greatly to the point that they completely forget everything that took place and the person that it happened to or with. That is what happened to Kairi.
The day after she returned she was incessantly interrogated for her going missing and her actions whilst gone. But she couldn't remember a thing, and the last thing she remembered was being torn away from a boy she longed to stay with but was sent back to the islands empty handed. For two years Kairi has been trying to remember what happened to her and that boy. All she has so far is that memory, his shirt, and his parents. Every night she goes to his home and sits in his room for hours on end trying to remember. No such night has ever brought back the slightest inkling of information. Kyan and Ty longed to help her but they had never spent much time with her friends, but they heard countless stories of them together but she had never once mentioned his name.
That evening after a long day of inactive production Kairi was about to leave for his house when Ty sprang up and insisted upon accompanying her but he didn't want to leave Kyan only he insisted upon it because he wanted to do some exploring on his own hoping to find something that may help.
As Kairi and Ty strolled down one of the main roads under the cover of the street lamps and the twilight up above, the hollowed silence that filled the conduits sent chills racing down Ty's spine. He was thankful to reach the doorstep of the house once he had been scolded for squeezing the life and blood out of Kairi's arm. After several introductions back and forth they headed down to the boys room.
Kairi's nerves were unbearable and for no reason at all she seemed to be tremendously afraid of letting Ty see her shine to him. Fortunately, she did not let her nerves get the best of her and progressed on with her normal routine. Softly walking into the center of the untouched clutter she scanned the area hoping to not find any changes. She was also afraid of any malfunction in anything that might help her to regain her memories so that she pleaded his mother not to touch a thing, and she reluctantly obeyed her wishes. After a sigh of relief she took her place on the floor by the bed under the window between a desk and a pile of laundry. Now in her zone she stared blankly beyond Ty who stood awkwardly in front of her. When he noticed she had left him he bent over and started testing her vision. Not a single blink or twitch showed any sign of life in her vacant eyes, she was completely out of it. And so Ty snapped his fingers and almost startled Kairi into a heart attack. After they laughed, and she punched him, he observed the scattered clothing and rough drawings on the walls and let out a soft chuckle.
"What?" Kairi asked in both confusion and forged amusement.
"Úm Akkeri." he chortled and they both let out a few giggles. The phrase 'Úm Akkeri' was a term they found in an old book that washed up on the beach a long while ago. They studied it front to back, and it seemed to have articles from every language known to man. When the three of them found the book they took it to some of the elderly on the island and each and every one they went to could only translate small parts of it. But Kairi, not knowing what the book was, had forgotten that she had become quite magic-prone and when she read aloud; 'Úm Akkeri' a large anchor the size of a house fell out of the sky and crash landed on the beach. This was the funniest thing that they had ever seen so whenever Kyan and Ty had nothing to say they'd simply utter; 'Úm Akkeri' and they would all commence in laughter. Since then Kairi kept the book and studied it under the guise that she had ridden the island of it. In time she has developed highly lethal powers but is careful enough not to share them until the time comes.
When Kairi's laugh faded and she dwindled on the remark a sudden memory sprang into mind but she steadied herself so she would not accidentally utter the same phrase. She focused hard on this memory and then remembered the boat, and how they had built a raft longing to leave the islands to explore the other worlds out there. She then honed in all her thoughts upon the memory and had a flashback to her and the boy, three years ago, on the docks of the clubhouse island watching the sunset with him.
"You know, he has changed." she said to the boy swinging her legs gracefully back and forth over the water
"What do you mean?" asked the boy.
"Well…" she said trying to think but then lost her train of thought by gazing at the rippling orange ocean water.
"You okay?"
"Let's take the raft and go-- just the two of us!" she exclaimed whilst filling herself with a rush of euphoria by being around him."
"Huh?"
"Just kidding!" she teased.
"What's gotten into you? You're the one that's changed, Kairi." he told her with a serious tone but with a heavenly smirk upon his face.
"Maybe..." she said with the after shock from the sudden let down. "You know, I was a little afraid at first, but now I'm ready. No matter where I go or what I see, I know I can always come back here. Right?" she asked.
"Yeah, of course!"
"That's good . . . Sora . . . . don't ever change."
"Huh?"
"I just can't wait . . . once we set sail, it'll be great."
And with this last remark in her memory she turned to face him and the impression his face made in this memory stood out and when she awoke from her trance she found herself back in his room.
"Sora . . ." she muttered mistily.
"What did you just say?" Ty spat out before he touched a teddy bear he saw on one of the unmanageable shelves.
"Sora . . . . Sora . . . Sora, that was his name! His name was Sora!"
"Well done darling, you finally remembered! But you do know his parents could have told you that ages ago, although I'm not trying to rain on your parade-."
"I know, I know but I kindly mentioned to them that I needed to remember on my own. And I have and I even remember what he looked like and everything he had-." From here on she began to describe every distinct detail about him to Ty, who could care less but was extremely proud of her for remembering. And then she saw it. The makeshift boat that hung over his bed with poorly stitched rag dolls of him and her inside of it and as the tears streamed down her face she ended the babbling, took the dolls and strolled out of the room with Ty not far behind.
When they thanked Sora's parents and left the house it seemed as if the night had grown darker and there was an unsettling feeling in the air. Then just as the pair started walking home a harsh wind picked up and it felt like a storm was heading in their direction. Viewing the landscape they looked onwards in the direction of the clubhouse island and noticed an unfamiliar and disturbing dark shrouding around the island. Suddenly they realized what was happening and with shocks of horror they took off sprinting through the drizzle, Kyan was still there.
Reaching the docks they didn't bother with tying up the boat instead leapt from it and then took shelter in the secret place. Wrestling through the bramble they called for him and luckily he responded just in time. Ty went ahead of Kairi, and continued to call for him whilst he jogged down the tunnel in drenched attire. Kairi was not far behind him and saw him pass into the natural lighting.
"Oh thank god Kyan you're . . . . wait . . . who? . . . what the fuc-mph?"
"Ty? Tyler, what happened? Tyler! Ty- oh!" Kairi said clasping one hand over her mouth and gazing in horror at the sight of the cavern walls. In the secret place where she had spent many of her days and nights, she and her friends would carve bizarre illustrations into the bulwark and eventually they covered it from every angle. But the one she cherished most was the one of her and Sora together offering each other the paopu fruit. And only on this night of fate would she stumble upon her hopes and dreams wiped from the slate and leaving her memoirs once more. However, before she could bawl again she felt someone behind her and trouncing around she gaped in alarm at the sight of a vile creature she had hoped never to see again.
"Hello again, Kairi." said the cool and wicked voice of the one and only Maleficent although she did not carry her typical appearance about her. Her once long and dark robes were now faded and shredded from every angle, her face was pale and literally cracking but her overall facade was as if she had just been carved from a porcelain state. "You look startled my dear, didn't expect to see me around once more did you? Well let me tell you something my pet, I've been through hell . . . and back."
Kairi clenched her fists down at her sides and began to shake in an anonymous rage that she had never felt before. In a shaky voice she uttered; "You know nothing of hell . . ." through gritted teeth and streaming tears that once more cascaded down her cheeks in a black ooze. But when she received no response she belted out in untamed wrath; "Where are Tyler and Kyan, witch?"
"Calm down my dear, they're right here beside me." Out from behind Maleficent the two lifeless forms of Kairi's companions slumped over on either side of the resurrected evil. Kairi, beside herself with guilt gasped once more in terror.
"Do not be afraid my dear," grinned the decaying witch as she approached her leisurely. "They're only sleeping but you'll soon join them. You see, I have been sent back to dispose of you before you receive the other keyblade. My powers have diluted since the time of my demise, but I can still cast you off into spiraling oblivion to sleep for eternity!" And the crone threw up her arms and cackled shrilly.
Suddenly Kairi's eyes twitched and she bellowed; "Silence, hag!" and slapped her across the face so hard that tiny cracks spider-webbed across the face of the enchantress. When she felt the dust fall into her outstretched hand she stared her down in rage then swung her staff into Kairi's chest sending her hurdling across the grotto and slamming into one of the walls. Wheezing in tears, she gasped for breath as she watched the scowl on the witch's face slowly crumble away. Suddenly Kyan and Ty came to and saw what was happening. Ty was in shock but Kyan was in rage and he leapt at Maleficent without a second thought. She merely wove her staff gracefully to the side as Kyan dove headfirst into the wide-open door. Yes, the door in the secret place that had stayed locked since the disappearance of Sora was now open. Just as Kyan swam out of their sight Kairi and Ty called for him with all their might as Maleficent merely chortled and strolled with poise into the entryway. Left there in shock and terror they jumped in right after them as it slammed behind to their following, sealing itself once more.