A/N- Oh my freaking heck, I'm doing it. The main reason that I came on fanfiction. Me and my brother are writing this together. I dunno, it seems like fun! This story is not about Sora. Sora and all them will appear in later chapters.

Disclaimer- Oddly enough, I don't own Kingdom Hearts.

The girl stood there, her red hair moving with the ocean wind. Her arms were clasped around her back. She smiled and turned-

"KARI!"

"GAH!" Kari screamed, her brown eyes wide. What was going on? Where was she? Oh... wait. Kari had fallen asleep while her friends had been talking again. Kari thought to herself. Crap. And now-

"Jeez, Kari. You're such a deep sleeper." A blond spiky haired boy with green eyes stood up, glowering at her. Kari grinned stupidly.

"Uh..." Kari said. "Sorry, Jado. I couldn't help it. You and Daizum were just talking and talking on and on..." Kari looked down, her face flushed.

Her blond hair was, as usual, messy and swept over one shoulder. Kari was fourteen and was wearing a pink plastic dress that went down to her knees. Two zippers were on her chest, one on her waist and two more at the bottom. She wore multiple bracelets on her arms and one chain necklace.

"So, um, what're we gonna do now?" Kari asked, hoping to change the subject from her sleepiness. She glanced at Daizum, who smiled at her. Daizum was the same age as her with black hair that fell to his shoulder. His violet eyes shimmered with no mercy.

"Oh not much, you sleepy head." Daizum teased. "Especially since you slept the day away. The sun's already going down." Kari stared at him, unblinking.

"Wha?"

"The sun is going down." Jado said slowly. "That means that it is time for us to go home. Do you understand?" Kari glared at him.

"I can understand you fine, thank you. I just can't believe I slept that long. It's so... weird." Kari stood up, sighing. "I guess I'll get going then. I don't want to make Mom mad, right?" She grinned at the two boys.

"See ya, Kari." Jado said, giving a quick wave. Daizum waved in silence. Kari smiled as she walked through Koa City, her home. Kari lived on the outskirts, where there was only cute little houses.

Kari stopped quite suddenly, feeling chills go up her spine. She glanced over to her right. There was the bridge that led to the Koa Woods, the bridge to insanity. Kari had even met someone that went in there.

And they were completely insane.

Kari blinked as she felt like someone was watching her. Kari turned around slowly. Behind her was a young woman in a black cloak. They stared at each other for a while. Finally, Kari blinked, and when she did, the young woman was gone.

Kari rubbed her eyes, staring at the place where the person had been. It's probably because I'm so close to the woods. She thought to herself and walked home.

"I'm home!" Kari shouted as she closed the door behind herself. She was immediately attacked by her mother, who hugged her so tight that Kari couldn't breath.

"Honey!" Her mother shouted. "I missed you so much! Come on, I made some dinner! Let's hurry and eat it before it gets too cold!" Kari's mother dragged her to the table, a goofy smile plastered on her face.

"Um, mom? If you don't mind, I'd just like to just go to bed. I'm pretty tired today for some reason." Kari rubbed her eyes and her mother sighed.

"Alright, if you must. Hurry and go to bed." Her mother sat down at the table sadly. Kari sighed at her silly mother before hurrying up to bed.

Kari kicked off her shoes and flopped down on her bed. Kari felt, quite suddenly, like she was missing something. As though there was something up. Something that she should be aware of, but she wasn't.

Kari closed her eyes sleepily and fell asleep.

Kari sat down next to the boy. "I'm gonna tell you the truth." She said simply. When the boy did not respond, she continued. "When we went into the forest, I... I... I f-"

"WAKE UP, KARI!" Kari squeaked and fell out of her bed. She blinked in the bright light of the morning. She looked up and saw Daizum and Jado leaning over her.

"H-huh?" Kari said blankly. "Wha's goin' on?" Jado sighed.

"We have to get signed up for the tournament today! And not to mention we have to sign up to get tutors and sign up to make a band for the annual band tournament, stupid! Don't tell me you forgot!" Kari blinked, remembering.

"O-of course not!" Kari cried. "Now get out of my room, you idiots!" She pushed them out, shouting other incoherent things to them. As soon as they were gone, Kari sighed and leaned against the door, her face slightly flushed.

Kari thought about that dream last night while she quickly combed her hair. It seemed so real... Kari thought. But who was that boy? And what did I mean by going into the forest? What was I gonna say?

Kari shook her hair free from her mouth and sighed. She pulled her shoes on and ran out. She slid down the banister. She jumped off at the end and grinned at the waiting boys. "And as of now, I am good to go!" Kari's mother tearfully told her goodbye, and Kari just sighed.

The threesome ran to the school and ran inside. Many teens were already there. Jado swore loudly, causing attention from some of the other students. At one point, Kari and Daizum covered Jado's mouth.

Kari blinked as she looked at the fencing tournament list. "Problem. There's only two spaces left for it." A boy pushed Kari out of the way, smirking. "Kourou!" Kari glared angrily at him.

In Koa City, many teenagers created gangs and such. Groups, if you will. Kourou's gang was their gang's worst enemy. Kari had met him in the first grade and hated him ever since. The feeling was mutual.

"Hey, loser." He said, glaring down at the short girl. "If your going to sign up, there's no way a girl could ever beat me. Try your best, loser." After signing his name, Kourou walked away. Kari clenched her fists.

"That is it! I am signing up!" Kari grabbed the pen and wrote her name in large letters crudely. Jado wacked her on the head afterwards. "Ow!" She cried. "What the heck was that for?!" Jado sighed at her.

"You aren't exactly the best fencer in the world, dumbo. If you wanted to get back at him, you should have let me or Daizum do it." Kari glared at him, rubbing her head where he had hit it.

"Stupid idiot..." Kari muttered. But she knew she would win. Most people, under pressure, did worse than usual. Kari did extremely well under pressure, oddly enough. She sighed as they all signed up for being in the band.

Kari's school always had a rock, pop, or even country band. Depending on who was the best, they got into the band while others didn't. Kari played the drums and base guitar, so she was hoping there weren't too many of those people in the band.

Kari signed up for getting a tutor, rather sadly. Usually she did fairly well in school, but this last year her grades had begun to drop. Kari's mother was annoyingly upset about it, so Kari had agreed to get a tutor that year.

"Alright, now that that's all done with, let's go to the pool!" Jado shouted happily. A girl walked past him, and Jado's face turned slightly red.

"Jado, why don't you just shut up." Daizum said, annoyance on the edge of his voice. "We all know that Mai's going to the pool today, too. And besides, I don't feel like it." Kari nodded in agreement. It was too annoying to go to the pool while Mai was there.

Mai was the "popular" girl at school. Like anyone thought she was that amazing. Well, besides Jado. But Jado fell for any hot girl that passed his path. In fact, that was how Kari and he met. Jado was a bad flirt.

"Fine." Jado said, frowning. "Let's go to the park, then. At least you two can flirt together there." Both Kari and Daizum's faces turned bright red.

"Sh-shut up!" Kari shouted. Daizum just glared fiercely at Jado. Jado laughed and walked ahead of them.

"Don't deny it!" Kari sighed.

"Jado is such an idiot!" Kari complained. Daizum nodded. Kari blinked as she felt a pang in the back of her head. "Ow..." Kari whispered.

Kari blinked as she ran into someone. She looked up and saw it was the cloaked young woman from last night. As they stared at each other for a long moment. Kari felt as though time had stopped. She couldn't move at all.

Kari blinked again and saw that she was gone. "Hey, Kari?" Daizum asked, blinking at her. "What's wrong? Don't you wanna head over to the park?" Kari nodded, still touching her head lightly.

The entire time they were at the park, Kari was silent. She neither yelled at Jado's antics nor smiled at Daizum. Finally, Jado announced that there was only one thing that could get her up and happy: ice cream.

"Hey! Uncle Yaris!" Jado shouted as they entered the ice cream parlor. "We want a taste of your new ice cream of the month!" A slightly fat man made his way over to them. Yaris wasn't really Jado's uncle; everyone called him their uncle, though.

"Ah, Jado! What can I do for you today?" Jado grabbed Kari and gave her a noogie, grinning.

"This little girl needs some sugar in her bloodstream! Can we have the monthly special, whatever it happens to be?" Uncle Yaris laughed.

"Of course! This month's special is Sea Salt Ice Cream!" He smiled at them and ran over to get some. Kari sighed at them. Although if anyone had not known that they weren't related, they probably would have thought they were.

"After this, I'm going home..." Kari said softly. Jado sighed and Daizum nodded.

"Fine. You do that." Jado stuck his tongue out at Kari, who just smiled sleepily. Uncle Yaris came by and gave them each some of the Sea Salt Ice Cream.

"Mm..." Daizum said as he ate it. Despite the name and the disgusting flavor you'd think it would have, it was actually quite good. The boys paid for the ice cream and started pulling her home. Kari allowed them to, due to the fact that she wasn't finished with her ice cream.

"Well, see ya tomorrow." Jado said, grinning. "We'll wait for you at the tournament area, 'kay?" Kari nodded at her friends and waved bye.

Hopefully nothing strange would happen tomorrow, either.

A/N- And that's that! That chapter turned out a lot longer than I thought it would be. Please, R&R.