Hey dudes and dudettes! Well, after a long period of writers block, I finally came up with this story.
WARNING: This is a feminist story! Meaning, the girls of Kingdom Hearts are taking the main roles in here, and Riku and Sora are taking more of a back-seat.
Enjoy!
"Block it!"
CLANG!
"Block it!"
CLANG!
"Block it!"
"Sora, I've already-"
"Block it!"
CLANG!
Kairi scowled at Sora over the wooden sword she was practising with.
"Sora, I already know how to block. We've been working on it for three days. If you can learn it in THREE MINUTES, then I can learn it in THREE DAYS!"
"I'm just checking." Sora nodded wisely. "You have to walk before you can run."
"Shame you never put that into practise when we were little." Kairi teased. "You were always falling over your own feet. And not much has changed." Sora looked slightly put out, which caused Kairi's brain to go into overdrive.
Oh Papou. Did I hurt his feelings? Did I offend him? What's he upset about?
"Are you okay Sora?" Sora was quiet for a moment, his head bent low down so Kairi couldn't see his face. "Sora?" The boy shot his head up, and gave Kairi a massive grin.
"Gotcha! And Riku get out of the bush."
"Oh man." The silver haired teen's head popped out from a bush behind Kairi. "All I do are nice things, and I get treated rudely."
"How is spying on us nice?" Sora asked as Kairi rolled her eyes.
They'd been back on the islands for about a month now, and Kairi had been training on the inlet, hard, ever since she got back. She wanted to be able to fight, in case anything happened again.
"I'm just making sure you don't get up to mischief." Riku smirked from the bush, before ducking to avoid the flying wooden swords aimed in his direction. "Both of you can't aim to save your lives!"
"It would help if you stopped ducking!"
"Sora," Riku shook his head, and walked over to the red head and keyblader. "As much as you are both my best friends, I will not just stand there, and willingly get hit in the face with a sword by you two. Okay?"
"But then how will our aim get better?" Kairi teased gently, as was the way with the trio.
"Practise on each other." Riku shrugged. "Anywoo, the sun's going down."
"That blows." Sora frowned, throwing his retrieved sword on the ground. "DAMM THE SUN!!"
"Oh shut up Sora." Riku shook his head. "Run home, before your mum sends her voodoo dolls after us."
And Riku wasn't joking.
Sora
Sora raced through the front door, and ran into his mother.
"Sorry mum." Lulu crossed her arms and looked at her son with a raised eyebrow.
"Cutting it a bit fine? I was about to send a cactuar after you."
"Sorry mum. I was training Kairi, and we didn't realise it was getting late." Sora shrugged. Lulu had, and some may say rightly so, been quite protective of Sora since he came back from his journey.
"It would be a lot easier to keep track of you if you used a mobile phone."
"I had one, but it kept breaking." Sora shrugged. "Can I go now?" Lulu managed to roll her eyes and laugh at the same time.
"Fine. Dinner's in half an hour."
Sora ran up the stairs two at a time, narrowly avoiding his pet cat, Rosie. Racing into his room, he shook his head furiously.
"Okay, you can shut up now Roxas."
I'm not doing anything.
"You're humming."
Yeah, sorry. It's just I've got this tune stuck in my head.
"No need to stick it in mine!"
Riku
Riku tip-toed into his house, stepping over the several children toys that lay scattered around the room.
Quietly… quietly…
SQUEEK!! A toy hissed as Riku stepped on it.
Dammit.
"RIKU! IS THAT YOU!!" His mother yelled from the kitchen.
"Yea." He yelled back half-heartedly, as Ashe stuck her head around the door.
"Good. Have you seen Kaia?"
"No, since I only just came in the door. She's probably in the airing cupboard again." Riku looked at his mum. Ashe looked back. "Fine, I'll go get her!"
Riku had a bit of a shock, coming home after his year long absence. Ashe, his mum, was pregnant when he left (but he didn't know it) and he came home to a little sister.
Called Kaia. Who liked airing cupboards.
"Kaia! Kaia!" Riku called, shoving his head into the airing cupboard.
"Hi Biku!" Kaia yelled at the top of her larger-than-average lungs. "C'me in here! Is niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice and warmy."
"I won't fit in there Kaia." Riku informed him little sister, who stared at him with turquoise eyes. A small pause, followed her long black hair vanishing inside the depths of the airing cupboard. A small toy pig, a rock C.D. that belonged to Riku, the T.V. remote controller, a fork, a teddy bear, and a bar of soap flew out of the cupboard.
"Room now!"
Oh, Kingdom Hearts save me!
"Okay, I'll come in." Riku took a deep breath, and climbed into the airing cupboard. He crawled into the boiler, and swore under his breath.
"What you say Biku?" Asked a curious Kaia, staring at Riku.
"Uh… Nothing." Riku nodded. "Why have you got a lump of hair in here?"
"For luck." Riku blinked at his sister. "Banana?"
"Ur… No. Thanks." Next thing Riku knew, his sister gave him a hug, which slowly crushed the air out of his lungs. She was strong for a little kid.
"Lobe you Biku."
Aww… At least you 'Lobe' me, even if you can't speak properly yet.
"Biku?"
"Yes?"
"I poo my pants, oh dear."
Kairi
"Though a thousand words
Have never been spoken
They'll fly to you
Crossing over the time and distance holding you
Suspended on silver wings
And a thousand words
One thousand confessions
Will cradle you
Making all of the pain you feel seem far away
They'll hold you forever"
Kairi shoved her head in the door where her mum was working on a new song.
"Hi Lenne. I'm back."
"Hi sweetie." Lenne looked up and gave a faint smile. "How did the training go?"
"Um…" Kairi paused, swaying back and forward in the doorway. "Not so bad."
"Let me guess. Sora didn't teach you properly?" Lenne asked, hitting a few more keys on the piano.
"No, no, he taught me well…" Kairi shrugged. "It's nothing. I'll let you carry on."
"If you're sure. But Kairi…" Kairi swivelled around to face her mum. "He just wants to protect you. Remember that, Okay?"
"Okay. I will." Kairi nodded, before running up the stairs two at a time. Clicking the light on in her room, she walked over to her desk, and pulled out her diary.
21 July
Today was a good enough day. Riku was in a bit of an odd mood… He arrived with Coco Pops in his hair. Apparently, Kaia doesn't like them much.
I'm still very confused about Sora. He's very good at teaching me… But I'm only learning defensive moves and spells. I suppose Lenne was right. He's just trying to protect me…
But I don't want to be protected.
The World That Never Was:
A figure leant against Memory's Skyscraper, staring up at the sky.
"Sparkling angel I believe
You were my savoir in my time of need.
Blinded by faith I couldn't hear
All the whispers, the warnings so clear.
I see the angels,
I'll lead them to your door.
There's no escape now,
No mercy no more.
No remorse cause I still remember
The smile when you tore me apart.
You took my heart,
Deceived me right from the start.
You showed me dreams,
I wished they'd turn into real.
You broke a promise and made me realize.
It was all just a lie."
The figure snorted, amused by their own lyrics. Glancing up at the heart shaped moon, the small smile turned into a frown. For Kingdom Hearts was not golden coloured… It was pale blue.
"… I guess the time is near."
That's the longest first chapter I've ever written, I think. Anyway, Lulu is of course Lulu from Final Fantasy X (Hats off to StarToursTraveller for the idea of her being Sora's mum). Ashe is from Final Fantasy XII, and Lenne is from Final Fantasy X-2. I'm not so sure about Ashe for Riku's mum, so if you have a better idea, please let me know.
By the way, Lenne is Kairi's adoptive mother, which is why Kairi refers to her by her first name.
Kaia is just a random OC I made for the purpose, that I wanted Riku to have a little sister.
The two songs in this are '1000 words' from Final Fantasy X-2, and 'Angels' by Within Temptation.
Now, I'm going on my hols tomorrow (for just over two weeks) So I won't be updating then. However, I will still be working on this story.
Please review! I promise, it all kicks off in the next chapter.