This is my first Kingdom Hearts fanfiction. Hope you like it...If you like it then review please! -
A brown haired boy lay in the soft sand looking up at the clear blue sky. He brought his hand up and covered his eyes from the burning sun. He yawned and sat up and his hand brushed the familiar object that he brought with him everywhere. He didn't know why he continued to drag the key blade around with him wherever he went. Must be a force of habit he just picked up on his adventures. Sleeping every night in the cold wondering if a heartless would jump from the shadows and attack him just made it instinct.
It had been only two weeks since he had returned to the islands. The heartless were finally gone and he had managed to find Riku and bring him back with him. But life would never be the same. He couldn't just walk done the streets of his neighborhood without strange glances his way, and ever since he got back he would wake with a cold sweat from a nightmare. Deep down the darkness still scared him a bit but he would never admit it to anyone….especially Riku. Riku had his one problems trying to deal with the fact that everyone forgave him for his mistakes but he still thought that he didn't deserve their kindness anymore.
Sora stood up and brushed the loose sand from his baggy shorts. Suddenly he heard a rustle in the bushes behind him and in a flash had his key blade in hand and was in fighting stance. The sound died down for a minute but then Sora heard it start moving. He ran after it until he was at the entrance to his and his friend's secret place. When he got back to the island he had boarded the entrance up. Still nervous about that there had been the strange door at the end of the cave, and he didn't want to take any chances of anything getting back into the islands.
But the thing that he was chasing had disappeared behind the wood and rocks that blocked the entrance. Sora scratched his head with a puzzled look on his face. Then he realized….what if it's a heartless?! He quickly moved the wood and stones and ran through the bushes that hide the entrance. Once he got into the cave he couldn't see a thing, it was too dark to see and his eyes were used to the island sun. He squinted waiting for his eyes to get used to the dark. Then he saw a faint movement in the back of the cave. The door was still there and Sora shivered…he didn't want to bring up unsettling memories.
"Who's there?" Sora silently hoped that none would answer his question. Then he saw a small creature come from behind one of the boulders and Sora was speechless. It was a Shadow heartless, the ones that had first come to his island a few years back. But something was different about it. It's glowing eyes didn't show hatred and bloodlust, but sadness and it looked frightened of Sora.
Sora was totally confused, first of all why was there a heartless on the island when he had sealed Kingdom Hearts for good….and why was it all scared. He decided to take a chance. So he squatted down and placed his key blade down beside him.
"Come here little guy, I won't hurt you….well, as long as you don't hurt me first." He put one of his hands out. He couldn't believe he was treating this heartless, that had tried to kill him countless times, like a lost puppy.
The heartless inched forward until it was a bit closer to Sora and then leaped at him. Sora jumped back but was to late and the heartless held onto his chest shivering. Now this was way too weird. After a minute of laying on his back with the heartless holding on to him for dear life he got the courage to touch the heartless on its back and the little shadow just flinched and hugged him tighter. Sora sat up and lifted the heartless away from him, after much prying, and held him out in front of him. The little creature's eyes looked like it would start crying any second, heartless even cry?
Sora chuckled, "You know, you're kinda cute, when your not trying to kill me."
Sora felt bad for the little guy and set it on the ground as he took of his jacket and wrapped it around the shadow. He then lifted it up and hugged it to his chest. He was always a sucker for animals…if you considered a heartless an animal. But it sure was acting like one and Sora felt pity for it. Besides, he couldn't just kill the heartless when it was so scared of him.
So he carried out of the cave and looked up at the sky, by the way the sun looked in the sky he decided that it must be around noon.
'Well, as long as no one finds me, I'll be just fine. Especially Riku….if he found me I'd be dead for sure.'
"Hey Sora!" Sora recognized that voice immediately as his best friend…..and he was getting closer by the second.
'Speak of the devil….what the heck am I gonna do now.' Sora mentally groaned as he was trying to figure out a way to hide the little creature that was wrapped up in his jacket. Then he got an idea. He saw an orange tree to his left and ran over to it and picked up a few oranges from the ground that had just fallen and stuffed them in his jacket making sure he didn't swish the heartless.
Riku finally reached him and Sora smiled at him. "How's it going Riku?"
"Good, I was looking for you. I was wondering if you could help me with some…." Riku looked at the bundle under Sora's arm and gave Sora a puzzled look as he pointed at it. "What's in your jacket?"
Sora faked a smile, "Its just some oranges I picked for my mom."
Sora was a terrible liar and Riku could tell he was hiding something from him. "Oh really?" Riku lifted an eyebrow at the boy and gave him a suspicious look.
He was catching onto him…this was bad. "Really. What you don't trust me?" Then all of a sudden the jacket under his arm moved. Sora quickly moved the moved the bundle around a bit so Riku thought that he was just adjusting the "oranges" so they wouldn't fall out of his arms. But, Riku didn't buy it.
"Seriously Sora, what's in the jacket?"
Then a slight squeak was heard and they both looked at each other with wide eyes. That squeak wasn't made by any animal that they had on their island.
Sora didn't know what to do. " Uh….Riku, you hungry? You're stomach sounds like a mouse or something heh heh…" He was so busted.
Riku just sighed, "Sora just show me what you have in your jacket. Riku started walking towards him and reached his arm out to take the bundle. Sora stepped back, he had once last plan.
"Alright I'll show you, but it's a just a couple of oranges." Sora started to reach down to open the jacket slightly and get an orange when a small black clawed hand reached out of the folds of the jacket holding an orange. Sora was so dead.
"What the heck is that?!" Riku pointed at the little claw and was glaring at Sora.
The heartless popped it's head out of the jacket. Riku gasped and looked like he gonna hurt Sora.
"You!….What is wrong with you! Don't you know what that is?!"
Sora grimaced, he knew Riku would react this way but hoped that he wouldn't. Sora pulled the heartless out of the jacket and set the heartless on the ground and patted it's head. The little creature looked up at Sora and put a finger to its….uh mouth? Did a shadow heartless have a mouth? Sora was a bit confused but it looked so cute to him now that he knew it wouldn't attack him.
Sora looked up at Riku who was fuming. " I found him in the secret place, he didn't attack me but was scared of me. So I was gonna take him home with me."
Riku couldn't believe what he was hearing from his best friend. " Sora, that's a heartless..a h-e-a-r-t-l-e-s-s…you know, the things that want to take your heart. There not just something you can have as a pet."
Sora squatted down and scooped up the little guy and hugged him." But he's all alone…and I've had a pet before. Oh come on Riku, what's he gonna do?" Sora held the heartless out in front of him facing Riku. Riku could've sworn he just saw that thing grin evilly at him.
"But Sora.." He pointed at it. "Its evil!….It wants to kill me, look at it!" The heartless stopped leering at Riku and turned his head back to Sora and made his eyes look all sad. Sora just smiled at it and set it on the ground.
"Don't be silly Riku, it wouldn't harm a fly…I'll..I'll train it, you'll see. It'll be the best behaved heartless of all time!"
"You are insane!" Riku couldn't believe Sora was going to have a heartless as a pet. He could just imagine Sora walking down the beach with a leash and collar on the heartless with a name tag saying "Fluffy" or something.
As the two kept on fighting the little shadow got bored and looked around. It saw a little red-headed girl a little ways off playing near the waves. So it decided to go have a look and it started running towards the girl.
Sora and Riku saw something out of the corner of their eyes and looked to see the heartless running away.
"Stop!" Sora started racing after the heartless with Riku a step behind him.
Kairi stood up to her ankles in the waves and was looking for sea shells for her newest necklace she was making when something black caught her attention. She looked up and saw a small black creature with glowing eyes. She gasped.
Kairi pointed at the creature and stopped dead in her tracks, "Oh my god, Sora! You're a heartless again! What happened?!"
Kairi ran over to the creature and lifted it up and hugged it awkwardly. She held it away from her and the heartless looked confused. "Why aren't you changing back?! Sora!" Kairi started shaking the heartless senseless in her panic.
"Kairi, stop! Your hurting it!"
Kairi looked up and saw Sora and Riku running towards her. What? But Sora was….
She looked at the heartless which had swirls for eyes now and she froze for a second. Then she dropped the heartless to the groundwith a thudand screamed.