The beginning of my long-awaited (um… maybe not…) KH fanfic! I worked weeks on this thing, then a month or so editing it! I kept freakin' editing it! I annoyed myself in doing so. It's a prewritten story, yes, just 'cause I'm a perfectionist on details and until I smoothed it out and was completely satisfied with it, I couldn't do a whole chapter-by-chapter thing. After writing it, I sent it to a bunch of my friends to let them read it. It was quite a hit, despite there being so little readers. I'm putting it on my deviantart, too. The logo is there. Check it out (it's the prologue, on DA).

(Take out the spaces) www. deviantart. com/ deviation/ 47943533/

I'll keep updating with pictures of the characters and stuff along the way, too.

Whoa, looking at the date I started this, the beginning of May 2006, that's a LONG way back! I was writing it for a few days or weeks, then I just stopped all together, and in the middle of chapter… three, I believe. No, four. I had just ONE sentence for chapter four then I just stopped. Then in late Nov/early Dec I started working on it again… and I was addicted. Freakin' addicted. I couldn't stop writing it! It took over my liiiiifffe!!

Cough Anyway, the original title for this was just plain "Kingdom Hearts: Twilight", named after an RP I was doing. Then it became the beta title because I kept changing the name and couldn't decide. There were SO many choices! In the end, I used "Inverted Hearts" as the series name, just because it was so freakin' cool. Y'know where it came from? Grin I'll tell ya! It came from my very own signature. That's kinda strange, ne? About a half-year back or so, I changed my original signature, and after doing so, I realized it looked like a heart… an upside down one. See? Clever, ne? As for "Twilight Promise"… I wanted something that would sort of describe the whole fanfiction, or the theme behind it. It's not exactly the theme; it's just kinda cool and mysterious. While making the logo, my brothers said "hey, that's the name of a game!" and I was like "really??" and they showed me. It was a KH game, too! I swear, the name "Inverted Hearts" had nothing to do with that game nor did I steal it! And I'm keeping it the title of this fanfic, so there. My logo was much cooler anyway (in my opinion).

And yes, there are two prologues. "In The Past" was the one I wrote way back when, when I first started writing this, probably just to make a little sense of things in the future. "Opening" I wrote around Jan 19 2007, AFTER I finished writing the whole damn series! I decided I wanted an opening sequence, like that FMV at the beginning of KH. So that came along. It was so freakin' hard to think of all the symbolism that I wanted in there! It's basically an intro to all the main characters. Their names, yet to be revealed (unless you've visited my DA earlier on. Then you already know who they are). If you're confused about it, I think that's my fault. Since this was written after everything was done, I already knew what the characters look like and all. I tried to make myself feel like I was writing it for the first time, but that's kinda hard, so that was the result. Sorry! You can ask me questions if you're confused.

Disclaimer: I don't own KH. I wish I did. I'm just writing a fanfic for the fun of it. And I'm only writing this once, in this chapter. (Is that allowed? Only posting it once?)

I'll stop rambling now.

Prologue: Opening

There are some things I can't explain.

But everything that's happening…

Is it all real? Or not?


Falling through a sea-like darkness, a green-haired boy felt the world melt around him. There was no light his purple eyes could see, except for a single faint line some unknown source was sending from above.

There was a red-haired boy falling, into the abyss of nothingness. He began to fall faster and faster, his eyes still closed, then there was a flash. The boy opened his eyes.

The green haired boy felt the world spinning around him, and he looked around. He was home, standing on the shoreline with the tides at his feet.

He looked ahead. Standing in the shallow water was a girl—a brown-haired girl, and her back was turned to him. The boy saw the tide move, and he looked forward in fear. The girl turned around as a tidal wave formed from the blue sea. The boy ran forward, only to have the world shatter around him with the first step, and he could only see black around him as the girl disappeared, fading away with a curve on her lips.

The red-haired boy looked around his own home with eyes as aqua-colored as the ocean—his home was a gray cement city with a light blue sky. Black creatures surrounded the boy. He looked at them without fear, but anger and courage. The small creatures' glowing yellow eyes stared at him, then they jumped.

A blonde girl opened her chocolate eyes, looking around, her ears twitching. The sky above her held the brightest stars on the blackest background, an occasional shooting star passing by. Around her was the lush green nature of her home, and in front of her was a pool of pure water. She looked down at the water, seeing her reflection, the dotted night, and a pink sky of clouds. She saw something in the reflection: it looked like a person falling through the clouds.

The green-haired boy fell through a cloud-filled space, the sun just over the horizon. Was it setting or rising? The boy continued to fall through the sky as bright white comets rained from nowhere around him, then it abruptly felt like he was rising. He found himself tumbling through water now, a burst of water in the currents hitting him. He broke the clear, distorting surface of the ocean, looking around to see the brown-haired girl on shore, waving at him. He tried to run to her, reaching out his hand and trying to keep himself from tripping. He tripped once more, falling in the shallow water, but this time he didn't hit a solid ground. He fell through everything like a ghost, and he saw himself falling through the blue again, and the girl was watching him with her pale blue eyes.

The brown-haired girl looked on, her expression unreadable. She turned around to face the island she lived on, but it melted into grains and formed into something else. It was a beautiful garden. The sky was a bright blue and the sun shore brightly, making the girl squint. Then suddenly everything went dark. The girl was standing on her shadow. She looked down at it as it glowed a bright color.

The green-haired boy appeared at the foot of her shadow, and his lips moved. The girl couldn't tell what he was saying, and took a step towards him as if she could hear him if she were closer. Her shadow rose, exploding into a shapeless monster that grabbed at her, the glow fading into a dark aura.

She looked at it for a moment without fear, but as it wrapped around her and began to drag her away, she noticed the green-haired boy was also being engulfed in the darkness. His eyes were closed as if he were sleeping, and the girl screamed in silence, her hands jerking forward, trying to reach him, but the black substance that held her pulled her hands back every time she tried to go forward again. She screamed again, and like before there was no sound, but this time the darkness that was eating up the boy changed direction and joined its other half in enveloping the girl in darkness. The brown-haired girl closed her eyes and let the blackness take her, even though she was afraid.

The blonde-haired girl stood up quickly, looking into the distance with big eyes. The brown-haired girl gasped for air as if something was suffocating her. The green-haired boy held a look of determination as he looked down with disappointment or some sort of shame, his hand clenching his heart. The red-haired boy looked around suspiciously, alert.

The red-haired boy suddenly fell through the ground, the scene above him rippling out of existence. His eyes shut on some sort of instinct. Once again he was in the dark place, but this time it was a black-blue sea. Glowing bubbles escaped as he sunk at a racing speed. When he felt himself slow, he opened his eyes, flipping slowly as if there was no gravity and landing softly on his feet. He immediately looked around, taking a step forward. There was a flash and the ground flew from under him, taking the form of many glowing black and white birds that flapped their wings. He watched as they flew into the distance, disappearing, and then noticed there was a glowing image on the ground of a red-haired girl in a white top and purple-hued skirt.

The green-haired boy looked up. Glowing pure white feathers were falling gently before him, like an angel just flew by.

Prologue: In The Past

Stars rained from the sky. A young boy looked up at it in awe, smiling, he knew the stars well, and to see them dance was a treat.

He was standing on a beach in green shorts and a yellow shirt, and oversized yellow shoes. He looked about the age of seven or eight, bearing green hair that he liked to keep long and purple eyes that were as deep as midnight. He looked out to sea on his position on a sand dune, where he'd often play with his friend. But his friend had left, and she was coming back. He knew she was coming back. He grinned, having not seen his friend for almost a week.

He saw in the distance, a wooden boat making its way towards the island, his homeland. He ran down the sand dune, out to the wooden docks of the island. He watched the boat sail home, waving.

There was a light on the boat, a guiding light to help them through the night. The boat came closer and closer, and the boy waited for it's true arrival. He waited like he had waited all the other nights of the previous week.

Then his eyes widened in horror. The falling stars that he had thought of as a welcoming show suddenly turned into a disaster party. A meteor hit the boat, causing great waves to radiate. The light of the boat was gone.

The boy screamed, calling out for his friend. He heard nothing, but spotted something bright among the wreckage. Without thinking, he dived into the ocean, fighting the waves pushing him back, keeping him away from his friend.

He made it to the wreckage, his small hand reaching out for another tiny hand. Almost out of energy, he endured the pressure of the water, pulling a little girl close to him. He held on tight to her, relaxing as he felt her in his grip.

The night was still young, and the young boy held onto the unconscious little girl, drifting back to shore. He didn't move; he didn't kick his legs to swim. He just lay there, at sea, looking up at the shattered sky.

He used to trust the stars. He tried to read them carefully as the meteor storm went on. He couldn't see well, his vision was blurred. He was tired, he was suffering from fatigue, but he held onto his consciousness. He had to; he needed to get his friend to safety.

He soon felt sand under his head, and dragged himself and his friend further up shore, laying her down by the foot of a sand dune. He checked to make sure she was breathing. He gasped when he found out water had filled her lungs.

He called for help weakly, not wanting to leave his friend's side. Luckily, there was someone nearby. A woman that was long native to the island.

She helped the boy's friend, pressing down on her chest. The boy watched, worried for her life, tired but unable to sleep. Soon she coughed up the water, but she was still not waking up.

But she was safe. The boy thanked the woman; who told him all she needed now was rest. She left, knowing the girl was in good hands, and searching for her parents who the woman knew as acquaintances.

The boy didn't leave her side all night, trying his best to stay awake. He spotted a brown haired boy along the beach; a child he knew was native to the island, but he seemed to be helping someone else.

He brushed it off, clutching the gold locket around his neck tightly.

He eventually fell asleep.


"Who are you?"
The prologues of IH:TP! Hey, if you all think I should change the title to just "Inverted Hearts", somebody please review! Oh, and special thanks to these people!

My sister, Amanda, for reading (though you're slow!! XD) and correcting any mistakes in this lengthy fanfiction (we shall be eachother's editors for life!!); my good fanficion addicted friend, Cassie, for reading it and spazzing with me about it even though you have no idea what KH is; my old teacher (), K.W., for reading it in one night (I still cant get over how fast other people read!) and talking to me about it and critiquing it a bit; and my friend for life who I haven't seen in years (but I do email her), nicknamed Val. And let's not forget the creator of Kingdom Hearts, the fabulous Tetsuya Nomura!

I usually don't think I'm a very good writer ; so R&R, please! I'll be updating steadily (hopefully). Maybe I'll reveal how many chapters long this is in the future.