Hello everyone, welcome to SoKai Week 2019! This is my first time doing this, but I always wanted to participate in SoKai Week for the longest time. Over the years I never really found out the details at the time so I always missed it the years prior. But finally, I'm participating this year due to taking the time to dig through Tumblr and finding the official SoKai Week account.

Sora and Kairi are one of my very first ships, ever since I was a kid, even when I didn't know what shipping really was. So I'm really excited about this week and seeing everyone's works and contributions. But enough of my yapping, I welcome you my written pieces for SoKai Week 2019.

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts in any shape or form.

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Her keyblade made a quick swung at the different targets. Using her imagination, she pretended there were invisible targets to serve as her practice enemies. Kairi mustered up a good amount of her inner strength to make sure she struck each of them, one by one. When she was done trying to perfect her move set, she huffed out all the exhaustion she was feeling at the moment. She used the back of her hand to wipe the developing sweat coming from her forehead.

"This time I'll protect you." 14-year-old Kairi told Sora in his heartless form. She felt afraid but she was ready to protect him from the gang of shadow heartless. When the shadows decided to jump them, Kairi quickly turned to hug the heartless she was protecting. "Sora!"

A gleam of light fought the shadows off of them. Soon Kairi felt arms holding her close, feeling a familiar warmth as her head was on someone's chest.

"Kairi. Thank you." she heard Sora tell her.

Looking up, she saw that Sora turned back to normal. "Sora!"

Kairi lifted herself up after she recalled the memory. Holding her keyblade up vertically, she took a deep breath and tried to summon magic. "Firaga." Kairi huffed out.

Even though she felt like she was past her limit, her spirit persisted on commanding her keyblade to do the job. After a few seconds, nothing came out the tip of her keyblade. Kairi knit her brows due to confusion.

"Firaga." she repeated.

Nothing.

Frustration overcame her, causing her to reposition her keyblade. "I said Firaga you stupid thing!"

Suddenly an overload of fire magic burst out of the tip of her keyblade. The impact knocked the wielder off of her feet, blowing her backward. "Aaugh!" she cried out.

She felt her back land forcefully on the dirt ground. The large amounts of fire magic hit a nearby bush. Luckily fire magic quickly expels itself after being summoned, so it went away before burning the bush completely.

Kairi let out a groan as she struggled to get up. The girl stared at her keyblade with disappointment and failure.

Kairi shook her head at Sora. "Let me keep you safe..."

The two teens gave each other small smiles as they stared deeply in each other's eyes. It wasn't too long before they shared their paopu fruits together, promising that they will be a part of each other's lives for a lifetime.

"I told you Sora. You're safe with me." Kairi told Sora. She held tight on his hand as she led him out of the darkness. Kairi smiled to herself as they were getting closer to the light. She was the one who pulled him out of the dark void. She was the one who kept her promise to him.

Or so she thought.

Anger and frustration overtook the girl, causing her to throw her keyblade in the distance. Kairi let out a maddened scream, hitting her fist on the ground.

From a distance, Axel was witnessing this and wanted to go to over to comfort her. He was about to do that until he felt a hand pressed upon his shoulder, preventing him from going any further. Axel turned around to see Riku slowly shaking his head at him.

"Let her be, she's going through a lot. And I think it's best if we all left her alone for right now." Riku advised.

Axel sighed, "I know that but..."

Axel looked over at Kairi as she kept hitting the ground with her balled up fist. He can feel her anger with each slam and noticed that her knuckles were starting to get scratched up and bloody.

"She's going through the various stages of grieve, and this is the anger stage. Shutting herself away from everyone, constantly training alone, being frustrated and angry all the time. This is her way of coping and masking her pain with Sora being gone. As her friends, we should respect that. She'll come back around when the time is right. We just have to let her get through this."

Axel nodded as he crossed his arms. "It's been two weeks now since Sora..." Axel closed his eyes for a moment. He opened them again, giving his training partner eyes of sympathy. "Poor kid."

Riku agreed, "Let's just go for now before she notices us."

Axel nodded and turned around to walk with Riku. He turned his head to give Kairi one last look.

"Stay strong, Kairi." he thought to himself.

Kairi slowly stopped hitting her fist on the ground. Looking at her hand, she noticed the bloody bruises that made their mark on her knuckles. The girl let out a deep sigh as she sat up from the ground.

"Lies. All that stuff I told him. They're all...lies." she said in a defeated tone.

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It was close to her curfew so Kairi decided to walk home. The row of light post shined its artificial light, creating dark spaces in between each post. Kairi paid her attention to the dirt trail, ignoring the beautiful scatter of stars in the night sky. Her blue pupils searched every inch of the trail, her mind led to a flood of memories.

"Kairi, remember what I said before? I'm always with you too. I'll come back to you. I promise!" 14-year-old Sora told her, holding on to her hand for as long as possible.

Kairi paused for a moment.

"I know you will!" She responded.

Sudden warmth began to spread across Kairi's face.

"W-We're back." 15-year-old Sora told Kairi, smiling with happy disbelief.

Kairi bent down a little and brought her hand out to him. "You're home."

She felt a huge lump quiver within her throat.

An image of the brunette giving her a bright smile took over her entire mind. He had his hands behind his head due to his lazy habit. He looked at her with nothing but love and happiness in his eyes. Kairi turned to him with a soft, loving look. Her eyes dilating at the boy she had known most of her life.

This was her best friend.

Her lover.

Sora.

Kairi let out a sniffle, finally allowing her tears to trickle down on her cheeks. She stopped walking and held herself up on the wooden fence right beside her. Her knees began to feel weak, causing her to slowly sit down on the ground. Her chest felt tight due to the flow of emotional pain that wrapped itself around her heart. All of the pent-up sorrow she locked inside was finally escaping from its clutches.

"Sora, I miss you so much." she cried out.

A rush of tears fell on the dirt, blurring up her vision. When she looked up at the night sky, the stars looked like white smudges of light. She stared at the full moon with a heavy heart.

"I'm so sorry."

Okay, I know that was really sad but I decided to use all of the iconic quotes in here since it was hard for me to write something using just one. But yeah, I'm still not over about the KH3 ending so I decided to write this to cope.

But anyways, I hope you enjoyed this prompt. Please favorite, review, and follow for more updates during the week.

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix

-NinjaQueen33