Well, I have been wanting to get this story up for a while now, and I am excited for this is the first installment of the "Light to" series. Woot! Woot!

Disclaimer: KH doesn't belong to me, it belongs to Square Enix. I only own my two OCs, Yumi and Aimee.

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I walked along the shore of the island. The weather was perfect today. Not too hot, not too cold. I felt the slight breeze going through my hair. My hands were full of supplies for the raft that my friends and I were building.

After a minute of walking, I spotted the raft from the distance. I started walking a bit faster, in dire need of getting everything finished.

I spotted Riku working on the raft. His back, turned away from me. I smirked as I thought about startling him.

"HI!" I shouted as loud as I could.

Riku jumped five feet in the air, startled.

"Aimee, give me a break." He grumbled.

I snickered, "You should know by now that I am quite the master on sneaking up on people." I laughed, "Anywho, here's the supplies you told me to get."

I dropped the supplies down next to raft that was halfway built.

"Thanks, Aimee." Riku said, sighing, "Say, have you seen Sora and Yumi at all."

"Well, Yumi's being her random, crazy, self last time I saw her and Sora…" I giggled, "Is probably being a lazy bum again."

Riku scoffed, "I should've known about those two. Typical…"

Suddenly, Riku and I heard Yumi's voice.

"You lazy bum freaking killjoy how dare you say I didn't do any work!"

I snickered, "There she goes again."

"That girl never changes." Riku muttered.

I chuckled, "Someone's medication wore off."

With that, we were standing about five feet away from Sora, Kairi, and Yumi.

"Hey, aren't you guys forgetting about us?" Riku asked.

Riku grinned and placed his other hand on his hip. "I guess I'm the only one working on the raft."

I rolled my eyes, playfully punching him in the shoulder, "Only one? Excuse me, I was helping you to. I think I've been working quite hard, Riku."

Riku ignored me and walked over to Kairi and Yumi, "And you both are just as lazy as he is."

Kairi snickered, "So you've noticed."

"I say we settle that in a race." Yumi smirked, crossing her arms across her chest, "Unless you two are lazy?"

I gave Yumi a grin that clearly stated 'challenge accepted'.

"Ready! Go!" Kairi shouted as Sora, Riku, Yumi, and I started running. Riku and Sora were tied while I was running right behind them along with Yumi. The two of us laughed as we continued the race.

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After about ten minutes of fooling around, we all sat on the other side of the beach under the bridge's cool shade.

"Okay," Kairi started as she read off a small piece of paper in her hand, a pencil in her right. "Today, we are going to be looking for five logs." She glanced up and continued, "Since Aimee and Riku both found one already, we have three more to find, and so that's good." Riku and I high fived and turned back to Kairi, who giggled. "So, the other items we should try and find today are those other three logs to finish the body of the raft, a large white cloth for the sail, and rope to tie it all together. That sounds good?" We nodded and she smiled. "Good! Now, get to it!"

We all spend most of the day running around finding supplies.

A while later, Sora, Kairi, Riku, Yumi, and I were all sitting on the paopu fruit tree.

"So…" Sora began, sighing, "Kairi's home is out there somewhere, right?"

"Who knows?" Riku murmured, "We'll never find out staying here."

"But how far could a raft take us?" Sora asked.

I thought about that question for a second. It was a really good question. I had no idea how far the raft was going to take us. Heck, we didn't even know if it would take us to another world for sure.

"Who knows? If we have to we'll think of something else." Riku answered, waving it off.

"So supposed you get to another world." Kairi started, giggling a little. "What would you do there?"

"Hmm... Well, I haven't really thought about it." Riku said and maybe it was the sunset but his cheeks looked a little redder for a second. "It's just I've always wondered why we're here on this island. If there are any other worlds out there, why did we end up on this one? And suppose there are other worlds, and then ours is just a little piece of something much greater. So we could have just as easily ended up somewhere else, right?"

"I don't know." Sora said, turning to lie down on the tilted tree.

"Seems like we'll never know unless we try." Yumi yawned, leaning back a little.

"Exactly. That's why we need to go other there and find out." Riku said, looking determined as he got up and stared out into the sunset. "Just sitting here won't change a thing. It's the same old stuff. So let's go."

"Yeah, doing everything over and over again is sure a drag and so boring." Yumi snickered, "I really would love some excitement."

I snorted, "Things wouldn't be so exciting with the fact that your hyper side tires everyone out, even me sometimes."

"Hey! It's not my fault that everyone else isn't as hyper as me. Admit it; life would be dull without me." Yumi teased, messing with her blond, right sided ponytail.

I laughed and waved it off, "Ok, ok, sure."

"You've been thinking a lot lately, haven't you?" Kairi asked, looking over at Riku.

"Thanks to you." Riku replied, turning to her, "If you hadn't come here, I probably would've never thought of any of this. Kairi, thanks."

Kairi chuckled a little, "You're welcome."

We were just leaving until Yumi tapped me on the shoulder, grinning at me as her hands went behind her back.

"Guess what I got for you to share with a special someone." Yumi threw a papou fruit to me as I caught it, and she laughed, "If two people share one, their destinies become intertwined. They'll remain a part of each other's lives…no matter what. It's pretty freaking cheesy, for me, but I knew who you wanna try it on…"

My face went bright red as I chucked the papou fruit at her head, "No way! There's nothing going on with me and you know who."

Yumi dodged the fruit and turned away from me, "Sure, you keep telling yourself that."

I rolled my eyes at her as she ran off in the distance before turning back to me, "Hey Aims, is it ok if I stay over tonight?"

I sighed, knowing she was going to ask me that, "I don't know, I gotta ask my parents first."

Yumi heavily groaned at the word 'parents'. She had some problems with her family over the past couple of years now. They usually want nothing to do with Yumi, and it saddens my heart that a cheerful girl like Yumi had to deal with her family not accepting her for who she is.

But of course her parents didn't care about her hanging around me, Riku, Sora, and Kairi all the time. It's her parents that are the reason why she is always gone from her house in the first place all the time.

Yumi sighed, "Please ask." She begged, giving me the puppy dog eyes.

I sighed, "Fine."

Yumi smirked, pumping her fist into the air, "Victory! Now, are we going to get sugar hyped when we get there?"

I smacked her playfully on the shoulder, "The last thing we need is you high on sugar. You're hyper enough as it is."

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The next day, Yumi and I both woke up early and left to go to the island. Yumi and I had run into Selphie along the way.

"Hey Aimee, Yumi have you heard of the legendary power of the paopu fruit?" Selphie asked as I nodded.

"Yes, miss-I-am-not-interested-in-love here." I jabbed a finger at Yumi, "Told me all about it last night."

"They say, if you share it with someone you really care for, it binds you together forever and ever. Through eternity." Selphie continued, ignoring me. "It's so romantic, I gotta try it sometime."

Yumi rolled her eyes before punching me in the shoulder, "Sheesh, make me sound like a hopeless romantic, much?"

I laughed, "Come on; let's go find Sora, Kairi, and Riku."

"Alright." Yumi grinned as we walked around the island for a bit. We eventually ran into Riku.

"Hello Riku how are you?" I greeted with a small smile.

"Good, we're about done with almost everything." Riku responded, smiling.

"Riku!" We turned to see Sora walking through the door.

"Hey Sora. Our raft needs a name." Riku said, getting to the point. "Let's see... How about Highwind? What would you call it?"

"Me? Well... hmmm..." Sora thought for a minute before looking excited. "Excalibur!"

I smiled; it wasn't too bad of a name.

"I am assuming you guys will do the usual?" Yumi asked, putting a hand on her hip.

Sora nodded, "Great thinking there, Yumi."

"Oh please." Yumi flung her ponytail back, "I am sure you boys would have figured it out."

"You guys at it again?" I turned to see Kairi walking on the bridge. "All right, I'll be the judge."

Oh boy, giant friendship rivalry about to happen.

"If I win, I'm captain. And if you win..."

"I get to share the paopu with Kairi." Riku stated suddenly, shocking Sora. "Deal? The winner gets to share a paopu with Kairi."

Yumi covered her mouth with her hands, "Ladies and gentlemen, the stakes have sky rocketed."

I chuckled a little, "Let's see how this plays."

"Okay! On my count!" Kairi said, raising her hand in the air. "Three, two one: go!" With that, Riku and Sora started racing.

"Did you hear their deal at all?" I asked, turning to Kairi.

"Ooooo." Yumi snickered, "Aimee's getting jealous."

I shot a glare at her and she and Kairi laughed. Riku and I were best friends, nothing more, nothing less. Besides, Riku thinks of me as a sister as much as I think of him as a brother.

It actually looks like Sora was going to actually win until he tripped and fell on the bridge. Riku was able to claim victory with no problem after that.

"Alright, we're naming the raft Highwind." Riku stated as Sora pouted. Aw, I felt really bad for him. "I was just kidding with the paopu with Kairi."

I sighed and shrugged, "I knew you were."

Yumi pouted, crossing her arm across her chest, "Aww, but I had blackmail on Aimee for that one."

"Shut up, Yumi!" I shouted as Yumi nearly fell over, doubling over in laughter.

I rolled my eyes. Typical Yumi, always wanting to tease me or anyone else she gets the opportunity of teasing. I was just her daily target.

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It was night now, and I was sitting in my bed, waiting for dinner to be ready. Tomorrow was a big day for me and the others. We were finally going to set sail on the raft to another world. I was excited yet really, really nervous.

A sudden strike of thunder startled me as I looked out my window to hear a bad storm.

"Oh no!" I gasped, suddenly opening my window, jumping out, "The raft!"

I sprinted down the town and to the island where I spotted Riku.

"Riku!" I wrapped my arms around his neck in a gentle embrace and I felt his muscles loosen as he brought my body closer to his own.

"What are you doing here, Aimee?" He asked, a dark tone in his voice while he gripped the back of my hair. "You could get hurt!"

Ugh! Here we go with treating me like a little kid. But he is worried about me.

"I could ask you the same thing, Riku!" I shouted, pulling back and narrowing my eyes at him. "You could get hurt too! You're not immortal!"

We glared at each other for a moment before Riku set me back on my feet, his eyes still locked with mine. "I'm here to check on the raft." He said, looking up at the darkened sky. "None of us knew that a storm like this would start, I want to make sure it is safely secure."

I blinked in surprise, "That's what I was doing as well. Thank God, it's not damage."

"GET AWAY FROM ME, YOU MUTANT BUNNIES!"

Riku's and mine heads turned to where we heard Yumi's voice.

"Yumi!" Riku and I shouted in unison.

"I'll go find her." I told Riku before walking until he grabbed my wrist.

"Don't get hurt, ok?" Riku said.

I nodded, "Just going to find Yumi, that's it."

With that, I bolted down the island, seeing a bright light nearly blinding me.

Yumi was holding some weird weapon in her hands. It looked like an oversized keyblade.

"That…I wasn't expecting." Yumi frowned before facing the weird shadow creatures that I just noticed; "NOW you're in big trouble, mutant bunnies!"

I rolled my eyes at her, "Just kick some ass with…whatever that is." I pulled out the wooden sword, "I'll help ya."

I charged in at the so called 'mutant bunnies' slashing them, or at least trying to as the swings did no effect to the mutant bunnies.

I was getting really frustrated and at the same time, scared.

"Damn it, I don't wanna…" I began.

All of a sudden, I heard the voice from my dream that I had a couple of days prior in my head.

Elemental of Light, don't be afraid. For you wield the mightiest weapon of all…

What the…? What was an Elemental of Light?

"Aimee!" Yumi exclaimed as a blast of light appeared around me.

The next thing I knew, I was holding a weapon sort of similar to Yumi's.

"What's…?" I began.

Keyblade. The voice replied.

"Sweet!" Yumi grinned as we stood back to back from each other, "You got one to. And it seems these weapons are the only things that can damage these mutated bunnies."

I sniffled a laugh as we started slicing the weird creatures, but they kept coming.

I collapsed to the ground in exhaustion as a shadow creature lunged at me.

I saw a flash of light and then…nothing.