Notes of a fan girl: Just to let people know my activity will lessen within a week as I have finally acquired a job.

Sora: Your activity is already low Saki, you have two other stories to update and you've been reading and dA-ing more than you've worked on them.

Then maybe posting this will make up for my lack of updates.

Saïx: I think this story will have an interesting development, talk about imagination and plot twists. *Looking at my plans*

Hey! Get outta my head! It's still a WIP!*shooing him away* Anyway, I don't own Kingdom Hearts.

The development of the world is all about balance. If there is a light for the waking hours, there must be a light for when the world sleeps. If someone smiles, someone may be crying. If someone hates another, someone one loves another. If there is life, this is death. If there is good, there is evil.

So it stands to reason that if the power of darkness exists, so does the power of light. But these forces need something to control them, and so two families with such abilities were created. For them, a kingdom where they could carry out their duties without worry; one shrouded by the tainting darkness, the other bathed in the pure light.

Radiant Garden was a prosperous green land abundant with grass, flowers, trees, farmlands, and fountain upon fountain of flowing waters that fed the life of the kingdom. A happy moderate town surrounded the grand castle within the bordering walls, full of people who constantly bore smiles on their face radiating with the light the domain glowed with. Unmistakable features such as warmly tinted skin and eyes shimmering with life expressed the touch of sunshine given to these people as their lives were lived with nary a worry or care of threats from their shadowed cousins.

Never World, also known as the World That Never Was by many, was a dark place being where it was. No natural light like the sun, moon, or stars shine in its skies as they were always obscured by the impenetrable storm clouds that forever loomed making every day an endless night. The city was big with black buildings and streets illuminated by neon lights and indoor lights, but even those seemed dim.

The rain fell in heavy torrents on and off, but not so much the streets would flood, yet still hardly anyone wondered outside because of the creatures that haunted the dark paths, the Heartless. They were terrible shadows that moved about looking for victims to steal hearts from, adding to their already overwhelming numbers or to the higher beings that served the castle, the Nobodies.

The castle of Never World floated over what seemed to be a bottomless, glowing crater in the earth in the middle of the Dark City, enormous and white the castle was the stronghold where the darkness was controlled by its inhabitants. Feared by the world, the people of Never World bore some appearance that showed they were of the darkness, appearances that over time became the norm for them and unchangeable by any other force of the world; pale skin or skin touched by darkness, light hair, exotically colored eyes, blindness, or nocturnal sight.

The domains of light and darkness never once crossed paths and that kept the world in balance, because they had no reason to seek each other out. The people were happy, life went on as planned, and the world went through its natural process of constant evolution… while Fate spun her wheels on two separate lives.

Prologue.

Let it be known now this story will have my own twist to it 'cause I'ma write it how I want and I'm cool like that.

Riku: So far this makes no sense to me.

Don't make me throw you.

BTW the inspiration for this story came from a drawing on dA by Kate-Chan.