Author's Note: So, I'm sure some of you may have noticed that I took down "All the Pieces Drafts." I figured it had served it's purpose and now was the time to just take it down and let the finished copy of AtP stand alone with no edits. However, I thought I would still be nice and post the few scenes that never took place in All the Pieces for whatever reason. This particular scene never happened because Kairi had her Dive after she and Namine separated.

This is what would have occurred if the Dive had taken place BEFORE Namine and Kairi made it to Castle Oblivion to separate. Because, I figured, the battle with Xigbar might have been big enough to trigger it. Then Namine just sort of took the scene and ran with it. She does that sometimes.

So, for those of you just stumbling in, this is an alter-canon to my KH canon, "All the Pieces". However, this scene is probably surely still interesting for those of you who haven't read AtP at all.

The idea was born when I was blogging about Kairi's Dive and I started thinking about how it would have happened if it had happened prior to her and Namine separating. (Which, doesn't really make much sense... because the sole reason as to why Kairi didn't have her Dive sooner is because Namine isn't a Keyblade Wielder in my unverse... but, you know... what if?)

So, yeah, enjoy. I've got three scenes of stuff from AtP to put up here, and I'll probably post stuff from Betwixt and Between if I end up with scenes that don't make the final cut.

Kingdom Hearts belongs to Square Enix and Disney and I mean no copyright infringement by this story. All OC's mentioned are either the property of me (magik~) or my sister, (rar).

He had reloaded when she was Curing and started to send more bullets her way. She threw up Oathkeeper for protection. Most of the bullets hit Oathkeeper and bounced back right at Xigbar.

Nice! Namine exclaimed.

Thanks!

The moment of rejoicing was short-lived. Xigbar shot off a super-bullet. It targeted right for Kairi. She closed her eyes and threw up Oathkeeper again as a shield.

Everything went black.

Kairi opened her eyes, but all she could see was darkness.

She was falling, very slowly. It was as if she were sinking in water rather than falling through the air. She maneuvered herself so that she could see whatever it was that she was falling (or sinking) to. But there was no clear image.

Nothing but darkness.

She tried to open her mouth and call for Sora or Riku, but no sound came.

She started to panic and thrashed about.

Kairi! Namine called out.

Namine! What's going on?

You're having a Destati… hold on…

Hold on? What am I supposed to be holding onto?

Quit panicking for a second and let me think.

Kairi frowned. She did, however, make an effort to calm down since it wasn't doing either of them any good.

I had wondered about this… Namine said after a bit.

What? Kairi asked. Care to elaborate?

I can't be here when you have your Dive into the Heart.

Kairi gasped as she felt Namine wrench herself away.

For a moment or two, the two girls fell together side-by-side in the seemingly never-ending darkness.

I'll be waiting for you when you come back, Namine said.

Would you like to tell me what is going on here?

I can't, not really, I don't think… I don't think anyone is supposed to interfere with these things.

With that, Namine stopped floating alongside Kairi. Kairi continued to float down. Namine stayed where she was, then she disappeared in a flash of light.

Kairi looked down to see where she was floating to. It looked like a stained-glass platform…

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Meanwhile, Namine found herself back in the Keyblade Graveyard. She flinched, unsure whether or not Xigbar's bullet was still going to hit her. It never came.

She took a second to properly look about. Everything had frozen. Kairi stood flinched behind Oathkeeper. Xigbar was shouting as he shot the bullet.

"Huh," Namine mused. "Well this is interesting."

She started wandering about, having nothing better to do. She had no way of killing any enemies. She could place her hand on Kairi, but her hand passed right through Xigbar when she tried to see if she could move him. She also had no use of magic.

"Well, nothing to do here but wait, I suppose."

She figured since she couldn't do anything else, she might as well get a scope on the battle as a whole. That way, when Kairi woke back up and time started moving again, she'd have some advantage.

Axel and Saix were frozen in action. Saix's claymore had been driven into the ground mere inches away from Axel. Axel looked like he was in the process of dodging away. His mouth was open as if he was throwing an insult or some nasty word at Saix. Or both. Saix's eyes glinted with malice and Namine wished she could do something to help Axel out.

"This is his fight though," she sighed.

She made her way over to where Riku and Sora had been fighting Xaldin and panicked for a second. There was no sight of either boy. She could see Xaldin, glaring at something with three of his lances poised to attack. She followed his gaze to a ball of light.

Sora was either going into or out of a Drive Form. That would explain the lack of Riku as well. As much as this made sense, she found herself oddly disappointed.

She merely had to look at Xehanort surrounded by so many Heartless and Unversed to decide that she didn't want to go over there.

Instead, she decided to figure out what should be done next in the battle. Sora would come out of the Drive Form fighting. Riku would probably yell at Sora before continuing to fight himself, but both boys seemed to be doing all right. And as bloody as Axel was, he looked like he was taking care of himself. He had already dodged the claymore.

Namine walked back over to Kairi, trying to figure out if this predicament would work itself out like the others would. Kairi had thrown up Oathkeeper as a shield against Xigbar's bullet. Namine frowned.

Oathkeeper wasn't there anymore. Rather, there was just a pulsing light that didn't particularly have a shape at all. On a hunch, Namine placed her hand on Kairi's shoulder, trying to see if she could see what Kairi was up to.

It worked. Well, she assumed it did. She was presented with the image of Destiny Islands. She could see Sora, Riku and…herself.

She pulled her hand away, shocked at the image of seeing herself staring back at her. Unfortunately, that gave her absolutely no information about the sudden lack of Oathkeeper. She couldn't even begin to wonder what would be in Kairi's hands when she woke back up—if there was anything in her hands at all.

The best thing she could do is throw up a dark corridor as soon as Kairi came back around. She should be able to do that. She tried forming a corridor right then, but it was no more use than trying to shoot the Fire at Xigbar that she'd tried earlier. She sighed in frustration.

She walked around the giant laser bullet, careful to stay out of its intended path, just in case. She would have maybe two seconds after Kairi came back to throw up that dark corridor and send the bullet…

Where?

She pondered this thought for a second before it hit her. Of course! She'd just do what Xigbar himself did. He would sent bullets through dark corridors to come at his opponents from all directions. Why not just send the bullet right back at him?

That would be amusing to see the look on his face when he saw that coming.

She then realized that she'd have to stand in between the bullet and Kairi in order for this to work. And, in that case, she might as well just be ready to form a corridor as soon as time started moving again. She'd already determined that she had about two seconds (maybe less) as soon as Kairi woke up to do so.

But, there was no telling how long she'd have to stand there and wait.

She wasn't too fond of waiting.

She'd done enough waiting already over the past year or so. Waiting and not being able to do anything about it. She was rather sick of it, to be honest.

She made her way back over to Kairi, still avoiding the bullet's path out of paranoia more than anything else and placed her hand back on Kairi's shoulder.

She saw a blue stained-glass platform.

"The closer you get to the light, the greater your shadow becomes."

She got the sensation that Kairi spun around quickly because everything blurred then focused in on a giant Darkside.

"Almost there, then," she murmured, taking her hand away.

She stood there for a moment, trying to place the voice that had spoken within Kairi's heart. It was familiar, yet oddly distant at the same time. She thought back, frowning as she did so. It was not a voice that she, herself, had heard, was it?

Exhausting her own memories, she picked through what she could of Kairi's. Well, rather, what she'd picked up from Kairi's memories and committed to her own memory. She could pick farther down when she was inside Kairi's heart (not that she did so often, she just knew she had the ability). However, currently, Kairi's heart was far away from here and Namine had no access to the memories within.

"Give me a break, Kairi!"

Namine's eyes widened.

"Sora!" she exclaimed.

Of course! That would make perfect sense! Kairi and Sora's hearts were very connected after everything that had happened over the past couple of years. It seemed only natural that it would be Sora's voice guiding Kairi through her Destati.

With a satisfied nod, Namine put her hand back on Kairi's shoulder. Not surprisingly, Kairi was still fighting the Darkside. However, Namine got the impression that the battle was almost over. She couldn't quite figure out how she knew this; but, there were a lot of things that she did know that she didn't quite know how she knew, so she didn't bother wondering.

She maneuvered so that she was in between Kairi and the bullet. It looked very menacing, even frozen mid-air. She made a face at it to make herself feel better.

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a very bright glow of light. She spun around, trying to see what was going on. Kairi was glowing much like Oathkeeper had been doing earlier.

Speaking of Oathkeeper, the blur of light that had been in Kairi's hands moments before was beginning to take shape.

It was starting to look a lot like Destiny's Embrace.