Hey there, guys! It's another piece of fan fiction from yours truly. This will be chaptered, but I won't be updating frequently. I'm going to finish Cause and Effect, and get started on the sequel (Effect and Affection), before this even takes a spot on the 'priority' list of my fics. This is just a prologue, so don't worry about the length; the regular chapters will be longer.
Just a warning: this will have slash in it. Specifically, Roxas/Axel (main), Sora/Riku (main), Hayner/Seifer (side), and Kairi/Selphie (side). There will be het pairings as well...so don't worry, the human race will not die out. I know it says the main characters are Sora and Roxas...and they are. But the pairing is NOT Sora/Roxas. That would be weird.
This is NOT a songfic. The story is vaguely inspired by a song, but I'll never put lyrics in or anything. "Unchained Melody" (the song that inspired this fic) isn't mine. Kingdom Hearts isn't mine. Any Disney characters I use are not mine. Basically...anything that wasn't previously mine is now disclaimed.
Unchained Memory - Prologue
In the beginning, Sora worried. He thought something like this might've happened before; then again, it might have been a dream, or his imagination. As time went on, he worried less; the longer he thought about it, the less he understood. Finally, the only thing he was left with was a slight tugging at the back of his mind, and a strained relationship with his best friend.
He had forgotten that he had forgotten.
To be fair, so had Kairi, Riku, and everyone else on Destiny Islands. No one remembered. And so, life went on; Sora and Kairi becoming closer, Kairi and Riku becoming closer, and Riku and Sora wondering what had pulled them apart in the first place.
Everyone was content.
But then, the voices started.
Well, technically, it was only one, very faint,voice; the voice of a boy, calling out to him, begging (well, more like ordering) him to remember…something. For the life of him, Sora couldn't figure out what it was he was supposed to remember.
He decided he should tell someone; surely foreign voices in a person's head couldn't be normal! But before he could ask his mother's advice, she smiled radiantly at him and said, "Sora…you're going to be a big brother!"
And that's when the dreams started.
I'm just a line break…don't mind me!
Flames…fire…a form, burning to ashes…
A flash of light…
Keys…
"You make a good other."
"Sora!"
"Sora!"
"Sora, wake up!"
"Ha! I'm awake," Sora shrieked, batting the offending hand away as it tickled his ribs. He turned toward the owner of the hand. "Oh, hey, Kairi."
"Uh…hi, Sora," Kairi returned, picking at the cuticle of her index finger and looking over him worriedly. "You weren't in school today; I came over to see if you were okay."
"Huh? But…" Sora glanced out of the window by his bed, noticing the sun high in the sky. "I've never slept this long before," he muttered. "Or at least…not that I remember. I think I might've dreamed I did once."
She arched a delicate eyebrow. "Do you have dreams about sleeping often?"
"Nah, but I've been having two dreams for the last two weeks. The first one just picked up where it left off every night, and now…well, now it's just weird. When I wake up, it's like my brain gets erased completely, but I feel like it's all happened before, even though I can't remember most of it. I do remember these things I had, and I used them to beat my enemies…they were called 'Keyblades,' I think. But that sounds like something out of a video g-"
She jerked her head toward him sharply. "Keyblades?"
"Yeah, and weird little shadow monsters, and…Kairi? You okay?" Kairi's face had suddenly gone pale and she looked blank. "Kairi?"
"Do you have a voice in your head," she blurted.
"Uh…" Sora eyed her warily. "Do you?"
He wasn't sure he wanted her to answer. But she nodded. "Yes."
"…Oh."
He didn't really know what to say to that.
"Uh…so…you were sleeping, when you were supposed to be at school," she finally asked.
"Apparently. Did I miss anything important?"
"Other than Riku telling Ami that he did not, in fact, want to go out with her?" Kairi snorted. "Not really. None of the teachers in our school gave weekend homework, because…I don't really know. But I think that's a good thing; we have the rest of today, and the weekend to figure this out."
"Figure what out?"
"Sora," she said patiently, "I want to know why we're going crazy together. Don't you?"
"Well, sure, but-"
"Then we'll use the next three days to figure out what's wrong."
For the first time ever, Sora cursed the lazy bum who'd decided that school on Destiny Islands should only be four days a week. Kairi was one of his best friends, but when she got excited about a project…well, Sora just knew it was bad news.
"So, I was thinking,we should go to the island we used to play on. I don't remember why we stopped going."
Now that he thought about it, Sora didn't, either. "Uh…okay. Let's bring Riku, too."
"Not this time," she said sternly, holding up a finger. "He's our friend, and I love him dearly, but this doesn't involve him. Maybe you'll take this seriously, so you can flirt with him sooner."
Sora turned red. "I don't flirt with him," he squawked. "Why would I do that?"
Kairi clicked her tongue against the roof of her mouth. "Perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps you aren't in love with him. In that case, you won't mind spending the weekend with me on the island!"
That little…sneak! She'd totally tricked him!
…And he'd totally fallen for it, too.
"…Fine."
"I knew you'd see it my way."
And that, unfortunately, was that.