This is my first KH/FF crossover and I just wanted to say that I've modified some characters' ages to fit the story so there will be no complaints. I hope you like it :)

Ten years had gone by since the worlds were destroyed. Kingdom Hearts was taken over by the Heartless... Spira was destroyed by Sin… Everything else was taken over by the darkness, sucking the life out of all of the planets. People migrated to this new planet called Espia.

LILY POV

I'd been homeschooled most of my life. I was 16. I thought it was time for a change, so I asked my parents if I could go to a real school. And they agreed to let me and my brother go.

Today I was going to a school called Sacred Hearts Academy. I didn't know anyone that went there, being that I lived several cities away. It was a boarding school. My parents thought it was best. I honestly didn't care. It's not like I wouldn't be coming home for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I was going to be taken there by a boat. It was located on Asper Island, a small island a few miles away from the coastal city of Jaelin. "You ready to go?" asked my older brother, Noel, who'd just appeared in my doorway.

I nodded. I was excited. "Yeah," I said, grabbing my suitcase.

"Let me put that in the car for you," Noel said, lifting my duffle bag off of the floor. He disappeared out of my room. I stood in the doorway, looking at my room one last time. I'd see it again in a couple months.

My parents and Noel were already in the car when I stepped on the pavement of the driveway. I shoved my suitcase in the trunk, but it wouldn't close. I pulled out Noel's blitzball out, so that my suitcase would fit. I slammed the trunk closed and hopped in the backseat, throwing the stupid ball at my brother. "Hey! Careful with the merchandise. I paid good gil for this thing," Noel said proudly.

I rolled my eyes. "Nobody cares about Blitzball except you, Noel." My father started driving toward the port where our boat was leaving.

"I heard Sacred Hearts Academy has the best Blitzball team in the world!" he exclaimed. "I'm joining."

"It's the only world, Noel," I said. He narrowed his eyes at me, then put his earphones in to listen to his music. I shrugged and looked out of the window, wondering what lay ahead. Would I like my new school? Would I make new friends? Would the people there be nice? Or would they be mean and snooty? Would I even like my classes? I wondered what my schedule would be like.

Noel and I hugged our parents one last time before they finally let us board the boat. The attendant took our luggage, giving us a small tag so that we could pick our luggage up when we got to the island.

Noel went off to the snack bar, on the lower deck. I stayed on the top deck, waiting for the boat to sail. Nobody was up there. I assumed that everyone was downstairs. But I wasn't sure if I was quite ready to socialize. A moment or so later, the boat started moving. I went over to the edge, looking out into the ocean. The sun was high in the sky, shining brightly on my skin.

A group of noisy kids were making their way toward where I was standing. They stopped a few feet away. I heard them arguing about something, but I was out of earshot. From the corner of my eye, I saw that one of the guys was being pushed toward me. I was startled. "Hey," he said. "Are you new this year?"

"Yeah," I said, looking back at the boy's friends. They were giggling about something. I couldn't tell whether they were making fun of me or not. "I'm Lily."

"I'm Ventus," he said. "But you can call me Ven." I smiled. "Do you want to hang with us?" he asked, gesturing to his friends.

"Okay," I said, deciding not to pass up an opportunity to make some new friends. He was cute. His golden blonde hair shone in the sunlight and his blue eyes were sparkling. Were all the guys as cute as Ventus?

He led me to his friends. I saw another guy that looked just like him. Noticing my expression, he said, "That's my twin, Roxas. He's the one with the bad attitude and the attention span of a grain of sand."

"Hey!" protested the boy named Roxas. Then his attention turned back to another boy with snowy white hair and icy aqua colored eyes. I guess he does have the attention span of a grain of sand, I thought, laughing to myself.

Ventus continued. "This is Riku, Kairi, Vanitas, and Sora. Sora and Vanitas are fraternal twins, in case you were wondering."

"Hi, I'm Lily," I said, smiling. "I'm new this year."

"Are you a junior too?" Sora asked curiously.

"Yeah," I said, nodding. Noel came up behind me, tapping me on my shoulder. "This is my older brother, Noel. He's a senior."

"Hey," Noel said. I introduced him to everyone, so Ventus wouldn't have to again. "Are any of you gonna try out for the Blitzball team?"

"None of us play. To be honest, we suck," said Riku. "You should probably talk to Tidus. He's the captain. He'll tell you all about it."

"Thanks," Noel said, nodding at Riku. He turned to me. "I'll catch up with you later. I'm gonna go find this Tidus guy."

NOEL POV

I went down to the lower deck after leaving Lily with her new friends. They seemed nice enough. I was debating whether or not to ask around for this Tidus guy. A girl with pink hair walked past me. "Excuse me," I said, brushing a hand across her arm. She turned around and smiled. "You know where I can find Tidus?"

"Yeah," she said softly. Whoever this girl was, he liked her voice. That one word rolled off of her tongue perfectly. "He's talking to his dad, well, the Blitzball coach."

"Thanks," I said.

She didn't move, so I assumed that she wanted to make conversation. "I'm Serah. You must be new."

"Yeah. I'm Noel. I'm a senior."

"Me too," she said. "I think you'll like Sacred Hearts. The campus is huge. They have everything! You can go shopping, too. But that stuff's mostly online."

"Good to know," I said. "I think I want to try out for the team… for Blitzball."

"I love Blitzball! Well, I like to watch. There aren't too many people good at it here, except Tidus," she said, then added, "and possibly you."

"That's a shame," I said, a huge smile forming across my face.

"There's Tidus," she said, pointing to a tanned blonde kid with blue eyes. "Hey, Tide!"

"Heeeey!" he said way too loudly for my liking. Tidus jogged over and immediately introduced himself to me. "I'm Tidus, captain of the Sacred Hearts Blitzers!"

"I'm Noel," I said. "I just wanted to talk to you about Blitzball."

"You've got the right guy," he said. "Tryouts are next Friday. I wanna bring our team to victory! We win the tournament every year and that shouldn't change!" I liked Tidus. He had the same enthusiasm for Blitzball as I did. I had to get on the team. I just had to.

CLOUD POV

I looked across the room at the unmistakably beautiful girl sitting at a table across from her sister and some guy I'd never seen before. My best friend Zack was dating her younger sister, Serah. Serah was beautiful too, but Claire was who I wanted. People called her Lightning. Light for short. But I didn't know why.

This was my second year at Sacred Hearts and Claire and I had hardly said more than two words to each other. I think it was the time she thanked me for picking up her pen in history, I thought, remembering.

Zack always encouraged me to talk to her, but she didn't look very approachable. "Well neither do you," Zack had said. It was true. I guess I didn't really give off the whole I-wanna-talk-to-you vibe.

But this year, things were going to change. I was going to talk to her. Maybe I'd take her on a date, if she'd let me. I wasn't too sure about that, but we could at least be friends, right? I didn't especially like rejection, especially not from the girl I'd had a crush on for a year.

"You're staring," said Zach, snapping me out of my thoughts. He took a seat on my right, laughing softly. "You don't want her to think you're a creep, do you?"

"I'm such an idiot," I groaned, putting my hands over my face in embarrassment. "Did she see?"

"No," he said. "Luckily, she was too busy talking to Serah and that new guy. His name's Noel. Looks like you have some competition, Strife."

"Shut up, Zack," I said, punching him in the arm.

"Ouch," he said, rubbing the spot where I'd hit him. "All I'm trying to say is that… if you don't make your move soon, she might choose someone else." It was possible. But I couldn't picture Claire in a relationship at all, not even with me.

"I doubt it," I said. "But you're right." My other best friend, Tifa appeared. "Tifa!"

"Hey guys," she said, sitting on the other side of me. "What's up?"

Before I could respond, Zack was telling the story about how I refused to talk to Claire. I wasn't listening. I was too busy thinking of all the possible ways to get rejected. "…He's just so stubborn," I heard Zack complain.

LILY POV

I grabbed all of my bags and followed Ventus and the others off of the boat, and onto the sandy beach. I saw the campus in the distance. There were hundreds of different buildings, or at least it appeared true. Ventus appeared next to me. "It may look close, but this is one hell of a walk," he said.

"Thanks for the heads up," I said.

"No problem," he said, before speeding up a little. I, along with everyone else, struggled as we pulled our suitcases and bags through the sand. Hot sand made its way into my sandals. I suddenly wished I'd decided to wear sneakers.

I was thankful when we finallygot onto the pavement. I heard a million suitcase wheels rolling on the ground, almost in sync. I looked behind me to see that Noel was talking to a girl with pink hair. I was glad that he'd met some new people too.

Our transition hadn't been bad at all. Neither one of us were shy, but Noel was the more talkative one. I was more… reserved, I guess. But that didn't mean that I was soft. I stood up for myself. And I had an attitude that came out, only if triggered.

I hurried to catch up with Riku, the first person I spotted out of the rest of my new friends. It was easy to spot him, with white hair and all. He always seemed to know what he was talking about anyway. "Riku!" I panted. "Where are we going exactly?"

"Well we're trying to hurry up so we can get in the main building. Getting room assignments and schedules is the worst part. You have to line up, not in any specific order, which is why we're trying to hurry so we don't have to wait an hour like those guys back there will," he explained. "It can get pretty boring."

"Oh, so that's why everyone rushed off of the boat like that," I said, just remembering.

"Yeah. It's like that every year. At least we'll be in the same dorms for sure. Freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors all have separate dorms."

"Cool," I said. Then I realized we were getting closer to the main building. It was made of light grey stone. The windows were huge and touched the floor. Students were already starting to pour into the large hallway. I looked at a man standing near the door, trying to get everyone inside in an orderly fashion.

He divided us into two separate lines. "That's Headmaster Vayne. He's not as mean as he looks," Riku said from in front of me. "Let's move up. I see Ven and Rox up there." I followed, but I felt bad about skipping. We ended up cutting in front of some freshman so that we could be behind Ventus and the others. "Hey!" cried a freshman. "We were here first! You can't just skip us!"

Roxas pushed past Riku to face the now terrified looking freshman. "If you don't want to get your head dunked in the toilet every day for the rest of the year, I suggest you keep your mouth shut!" The freshman looked down to the ground, in defeat.

Roxas gave me a weak smile before walking back over to his bags. Ventus leaned closer to me and whispered, "I told you he's an asshole."

"You never told me that," I said, laughing. He shrugged and said, "Now you know." He winked. I liked Ventus. We got along easily. He'd make a good friend. Well, I still had a lot to learn about him. But so far, he was sweet.

Soon enough, I was next. The woman behind the desk asked me for my name. "Lily Kreiss." The woman handed me a few sheets of paper, a map, a handbook, and a room key in the form of a card. She told me to stand still and smile for my identification picture, so I did. A moment later, she handed me my i.d. card. I slid it in my pocket.

I stepped off to the side, allowing the next person to get a turn. I scanned my schedule. I had History, Combat, Gym, Technology, Black and White Magic, English, Government, Bestiary, and Potions. Not all in one day, of course.

Then I looked at my room assignment. I was in room 2C in a building called the Hall of Rapid Waters. I pulled out my map and saw that it was to the right of the building I was in. I spotted Noel walking my way. "What dorm are you in?"

He smiled. "The Hall of Dancing Flames. That's where all the seniors are."

"I heard. I'll catch up with you later. I'm gonna put these stupid bags in my new room."

"Okay," Noel said before going to talk to a tall boy with blue hair. I wondered what grade he was in. He was cute.

I shook my head and went outside, following the map to the Hall of Rapid Waters. A minute or two later, I was walking into the lobby of my dorm. The floors were blue, I guessed, because water was supposed to be blue. As a matter of fact, everything was blue. The floors, the walls, the curtains, and the furniture were all different shades of blue: baby blue, sky blue, indigo, navy, and so on. I felt like I was thrown into an ocean with a bunch of fish.

There were a bunch of people I didn't know standing around in the lobby. They were probably waiting for their friends to arrive. I took the blue elevator up to the second floor because I refused to waste all of my energy on carrying my heavy bags up the blue staircase. I put my duffle bag down on the blue carpet, dragging it because it was starting to get heavy on my shoulder.

I got to my room, 2C, and opened the door with my key card. The room was pretty big, a suite to be more specific. I stood in the living room, complete with a powder blue sofa and matching armchairs, and a tv. In the corner, there was a small navy blue wooden table with chairs to match. To my left was the bathroom which, of course, was painted sky blue. I chose the room on the right since my roommate hadn't arrived.

Surprisingly, the walls were white. I threw my bag across the bed and put all of my papers on my desk. I took a breather. This was home now. I opened my suitcase, opening the pack of purple sheets my mother had bought me the other day. I quickly spread them across the bed and neatly put my comforter on top.

I walked over to the window, opening the blinds. From my window, I saw Ventus… or was it Roxas? I couldn't be sure. I suddenly didn't remember what either of them had been wearing in the first place.

I looked at the clock. It was five. I'd probably have to get something to eat first. I wanted to look around, but not by myself. I wondered where Kairi and Namine were, but remembered that they were younger… sophomores, to be exact.

As soon as I walked out of my room, the front door opened and a girl crashed onto the navy carpet. "Owie," she whimpered. I rushed over to help her up.

"Are you okay?" I asked. I picked up her cellphone, which had flown out of her hand and slid across the room.

"Try disasterific," she mumbled, brushing herself off. I looked at her outfit in alarm. She had on an orange tank top and a miniskirt. Her boobs were practically popping out of her shirt, which took me by surprise. "I'm Rikku. What's your name?"

"I'm Lily."

"Nice to meet you."

"I was going to explore a bit. Do you wanna come?"

"Sure. Let me just shove my bags in the closet. I'll unpack later." Rikku, not Riku, seemed nice enough. She hurried in her room, dragging her rolling suitcase behind her. A few seconds later, she reappeared in the living room. "Let's go. I'll introduce you to some of my friends. I told them to wait for me in the lobby. We can go grab some pizza or something."

"Okay," I said, shutting the door behind me. She skipped down the staircase and into the overly blue lobby, where a group of people were already waiting. She kissed one of the blonde guys, who was actually kind of cute. But it's not like I was a man stealer or anything.

"Lily, this is Gippal," she said, referring to the one she'd just kissed. "Vaan, and my cousin Yuna."

"Nice to meet you guys," I said.

"Can we get out of here? I'm starving," Vaan complained. "Let's get Patsy's Pizza."

Rikku leaned closer to me. "They have the best pineapple pizza on campus."

Gippal chuckled. "More like the only pizza on campus."

I spotted Ventus or Roxas and the others coming into the lobby. "I'll be right back," I said, hurrying toward them.

"Hey," said Roxas or Ventus. I raised my eyebrow, trying to figure out who it was. "I'm Ven. The asshole's over there, flirting with Namine." I laughed. "Where are you headed?"

"I'm going with my roommate, Rikku, and her friends to Patsy's Pizza."

"We were thinking about heading over there too. Maybe I'll see you there."

"Maybe." He gave me a wink before walking away. I was starting to like Ventus. Maybe as more than just friends. I wasn't sure yet.