whee heeeeee!! Hello! This be my first story that I've written in a while 6 months, to be exact Oo So yeah, originally, this is suppose to be a fan-based comic I'm working on BUT...turns out I ended up writing it, too ; aw, well. Hope you enjoy!

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If only I was strong enough, I could've saved you. You could've been safe in my arms. Instead, I ended up losing the two most special people to me.

"Kairi...? Kairi...!!"

The sounds of his voice echoing throughout the darkness made the red-headed girl known as Kairi shiver with fear. Her eyes meeting the boy's, and her voice quivering. She wanted to save him, not lose him. "Sora!! Don't go!"

Smiling faintly, Sora reached his hands and extended his fingers towards Kairi's direction. "Kairi...I'll come back. I promise. Just wait for me..."

Fear striking back at Kairi, she only cringed down on the rock's surface, her hands hiding herself away from the boy drifting away. Her only sign of good-bye to Sora was a trail of crystal tears floating down to him. And as the platform begins to drift apart, the lonely girl said to herself:

What have I done...?

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The sun still shines down on the pale beach shores of Destiny Island even after three years of the incident. Everyone acts as though nothing happened. Especially three mischievous children.

"OW!! Dammit Wakka, what'd you do that for?!"

"Gee, s-o-o-r-r-r-y!! It's not my fault you get in the ball's way!"

"...okay...then you don't mind if my sword gets in the way?!"

"Hey, what are you...?! OUCH!! Dammit, you'll pay for that!!"

The two hooligan boys began to run around the beach, each constantly hitting one another with their weapon of choice. Five minutes later, the boys collapsed from exhaustion, each panting constantly. Wakka, with his ball clutched closely to him, looked over to his companion. "Phew...well there was something to pass the time, eh Tidus?"

Tidus sat straight up, fiddling with his wooden sword. "Yeah...'cept we don't have anything to do now..." That's when Tidus was suddenly knocked over by several fish, one ending up in his mouth. "Arrr!!! Wha dah hull??" Over the pile of fish Tidus spotted a very angry looking little girl, tightly clutching her jump rope.

Wakka suddenly stood up straight, saluting off the girl. "Er...uh...good afternoon, Miss Selphie! Um...this...what we were doing...it's not what it looks like...heh..." he began to sweat nervously as the girl slowly walked in front of him. Before he could say anything else, she slapped a fish across Wakka's face, and then tightened her jump rope harder.

"THIS is what I spent most of MY morning doing!! And what were YOU two doing?! Goofing off, I assume..." both boys looked at her with a guilty smile. She continued on. "WELL...since I've been fishing, I guess I'll take my break now. But as for YOU two..." Selphie's blaming finger pointed over to a pile of wood and two axes. "...we need kindling. I assume there are no objections...?"

Both boys quickly stumbled over to the pile and began working immediately. Selphie only sighed and began to take her break by walking on the shores of the beach. Before she could even start, however, she saw a girl all by herself walking towards their secret place. Quickly, Selphie ran over to her. "Kairi! Hey, Kairi!"

She stopped to turn around and face Selphie with a smile. "Oh, Selphie...did you catch any fish this morning?"

Selphie only grinned to herself. "Heh...sure did! Just check out the pile by those two hooligans..." she triumphantly thrusted her thumb over to Wakka and Tidus, who are already whacking away wood like crazy folk. She turned back to Kairi, still grinning, until she noticed Kairi holding something in her hands..." ...Papaya fruit...? Kairi, are you gonna...?"

Kairi began to interrupt her, blushing slightly as she did. "No...! No! It's not what you think! I...just need some quiet time is all!!" Slowly she began to walk towards the secret entrance. She turned back to Selphie. "I'll be back. Just let me know when it gets dark, kay?" And with another soft smile, she entered through the secret passage.

Selphie heaved a depressing sigh. "...she's still not over it. Poor Kairi..." with too much on her mind, she turned and walked towards her hard working boys, with sympathy for the girl with the broken smile still lingering in her mind...

Light beamed down from several small cracks, which made the cave-like walls less menacing. Kairi only continued on walking down the path until she reached a medium sized room with various roots of trees sticking out from the sides. To her left was plenty of soft boulders and to the right was a rock wall, covered in numerous white sketches. Kairi slowly walked to the right of her, scanning through many of the drawings. It was then she stopped in front of one of her favorite sketches there.

There were two people: a boy's head and a girl's head. The boy was smiling with his spiky hair misplaced on his head. He was handing over to the girl a star shaped fruit, as the girl with straight short hair did the same. Kairi only stared at the picture for a few short minutes, then placed the Papaya fruit down below the drawing. She continued to gaze at the boy, her fingers running smoothly against his poorly drawn face.

"Heh...three years...it's been a while..." her fingers continued to stroke the face. "I wonder if you're okay...or if you're even alive..." a tiny stream of tears trickled down her face silently. "...Sora...I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everything I've done..." her fingers slowly removed themselves as she gently placed her forehead to his. "...I just wish...I could do something to bring you...and Riku...back..."

"baaaaacccccckkkkkkk...Rrrriiiiiikkkkkuuuuuu...Sssooooooorrrraaaaaaaa..." a silent hiss said, echoing through the room as well as Kairi's ears.

Kairi's head suddenly jerked up. "wha-? Who's there?" there was no answer but she slowly began to arise to her feet, still searching for the voice. "What do you want? Why are you here?"

The hissing began to calm itself down. "Rrrikkuu...Ssorrra...I brrriinnggg baaaccckk..."

Suddenly, her voice began to quiver. "Wh-...what? How can...? ...you can do that?"

Hisses stopped abruptly and began to talk in a smooth, calm voice. "But of course, my scrumptious light. For you, happiness...or love, in this case...is only an ocean's walk away..." a shadowy hand waved over to behind Kairi. As she glanced around, she could no longer see the cave's pathway. Instead, a silky white beach along with a sparkling blue ocean was replaced. Kairi's eyes could only look at the sudden changes in the environment.

"What...do I do...?" she said, now hypnotized by the ocean's light. The shadow hand emerged now as a tall, dark hooded figure, its hand resting upon Kairi's cold shoulder.

"They call for you...you can't hear it yet, but you will...just walk across the ocean...the worlds in which you so dear longed to see are open again. They're screaming for you, Princess of Light. Go to them..." the shadow gently pushed Kairi into the water. To her surprise, she didn't go down. Not even a ripple was created.

She slowly stood up and looked back at the shadow, hopefully to ask more questions. But before she could, it quickly disintegrated into the beach's shore, turning the sand a tainted violet as it did. Kairi paid no attention to the sand, much less the water. She began to stride down the ocean's surface, only keeping one thing in her mind. "Please...let it be true...let me see you again, Riku...Sora..."