Chapter 1:

A bright yellow light flashed in a blue sky full of clouds. The empty Final World illuminated in the golden glow as Sora curled his fingers in around the girl appearing out of thin air in front of him. His own fingers were translucent as the girl's body came to form in his hands, his fingers pressing into her back so he finally felt the feeling of her skin touching his hands.

Sora held the girl in his arms tighter and he rose a hand up her back to her head that he pulled over his shoulder while bowing his own head next to hers. "You found me," Sora heard whispered in his ear, and two soft hands wrapped around his back too. "I knew you would," Kairi pulled her head back and looked up into Sora's eyes with a bright smile on her face, tears in the corners of her eyes and a small laugh escaping her lips.

"Always," Sora said, and he smiled right back at her in a much bigger way. He kept his hands on her back though even when he leaned his head back to look down at hers. His hands tightened and he did not want to let her go, and Kairi got a bigger smile on her own face before spinning to the right while Sora spun left.

The two of them turned in the huge expanse of the Final World and looked towards a bright white light that appeared before them. "Let's go," Kairi said, pulling back from Sora a bit while sliding one hand down his back to his right hand. "I'm sure the others are all-"

"Kairi wai-" Sora wanted to say it quicker, but Kairi stumbled forward fast as her fingers slipped out of Sora's grasp. Kairi stumbled a couple of steps and then turned her head back, and she looked at Sora's hand outstretched for her. Her eyes widened while she and Sora both stared at his hand, a hand that was getting more transparent by the second.

Kairi realized as she looked at the hand that Sora had not let go of her hand at all, but her fingers had really just slipped through his. "Sora?" Kairi rose her head back up and looked into Sora's eyes. Her expression was shaken and she did not know what she was seeing as he looked back at her in that, way.

"Kairi I-" Sora began, and he froze when Kairi's lips pursed and her eyes grew even bigger in fear. Sora's legs started moving forward, his whole body straining as he pulled his way back towards her.

Kairi started back the other way, right as the white light grew larger in the sides of her vision and started moving around her. "You're coming with me!" Kairi shouted, and she reached her hand back for Sora's as he extended his towards her. She grabbed at his hand, then she reached both hands out and grabbed onto it, clasping hold as tightly as she could so he would not fade through her. "You have to!"

"Kairi, it's okay," Kairi's hands met together as Sora's hand was no longer between them at all, his arm fading from his wrist to his elbow and then slowly up to his shoulder. Sora stepped towards her without as much frustration, without straining as hard… though there was not much of a step since his right leg he moved first was disappearing as he moved it. "The light will get you home," Sora moved closer to Kairi while the white light was enveloping both of them, and while Sora's body was pulling back as a mist behind him out into the Final World that Kairi swore suddenly looked darker anywhere that there wasn't the bright light.

"It won't be home," Kairi said, tears filling her eyes at the resigned look on Sora's face. She reached her hands out and tried to grab at Sora's body, but her hands went straight through him even as he got right in front of her. "Not without you," Kairi whispered when Sora had his semi-translucent face right in front of hers. "I'll come find you," Kairi promised, getting a stronger look on her face now. The light was getting so bright around her, but she leaned closer to Sora and called out, "No matter where you go-"

"Not this time," Sora said. His voice was softer, and Kairi felt a soft touch on the side of her face as some light shifted there almost in the shape of a hand. "Even though I'll be gone though," he continued, and he smiled more at the girl in front of him while a different light glowed back behind Sora in what Kairi had thought had been so dark. "I'll always be with you." Kairi looked back into Sora's eyes, and she felt her heart start to glow and feel warm.

"In my heart," Kairi whispered back, even as more tears streamed down the sides of her face. The boy who had come so far to get her back, he was disappearing right before her eyes. His face started to disappear too, and she reached her arms out for him. She threw her arms around his head and pulled him closer to her as she felt him actually present in her hold. His head's shape was nearly gone, but Kairi pulled it closer to hers and whispered when they were an inch apart, "I love you, Sora."

The light pulsed around them and flashed so bright, but Kairi's eyes were already closed. They closed a moment earlier when her lips pushed forward, but then the pressure back on her own lips faded as her arms slipped through the air she was holding and pulled back to her own body. Kairi clenched her eyes shut harder in the flash and her arms tightened the hug around her own body, more tears pushing out of her clenched eyelids even as her lips lifted up into a smile. They rose up because of the voice she heard that could have been part of her own imagination as distant and faint it sounded. She was sure she heard it though, and she knew it was no trick of the mind.

"I love you, Kairi."

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"I'll come back to you, I promise!"

Sora was tired. He was so tired that his eyelids felt too heavy to lift. He frowned though. His lips curled down and he became restless at his own voice he heard echo in his mind. Sora clenched his eyelids harder when his tired self failed at opening them. Sleep…

"I know you will!"

Sora's eyes shot open and he realized two things instantly. The first was, he did not have eyes to open. The second was, he had no idea where he was or what was going on. He looked down, and he saw nothing in the white space he was in. The feeling of moving his head to look down was strange, since he already realized he did not have a head nor eyes and did not know how he was seeing. His body was see-through though, and though he had consciousness, it did not take long for him to understand that he did not have a physical form. What is this place?

Sora glanced around the white void at the lack of anything that could give him a marker as to where he was. "And don't forget-" Sora shook around and he clenched his eyes shut, only to snap them back open quickly as he felt himself falling back into the deep relaxing emptiness he had just come out of. Don't forget what? "Forget?" What did I forget? What do I remember? His head cocked to the side, and when he did so he shot his eyes open wider as he noticed something below him. He looked down and saw imprints in the white he was standing on, small footprints in the emptiness like there was something standing there where he imagined feet would be. Strange. Is any of this for real, or… I've, thought that before. Where am I?

He took a step forward, turning his head and looking around as he started moving through the white void. The realization that he was able to move did not hit him, nor did he flinch as he noticed his eyes felt more like actual eyes and not just a strange fuzzy vision he had. As things got clearer though, he saw that the white around him looked more like clouds that he was walking on top of, which made sense when he looked back down that his feet were leaving imprints in them. "And don't be afraid…"

I'm, not afraid, Sora thought, as that deep voice echoed in his mind not really having a voice at all. It was more like he felt it speaking in a low rumble in his soul, his chest that he glanced down and saw a transparent shape of. But I don't- "And remember…" I don't remember! What am I supposed to remember? Is it, that girl? Is she the one I'm supposed to remember-

"You are the one who will open the door."

A light flashed on his right side, and he looked down to his translucent hand that he saw for the first time. In that hand was the handle of a weapon. The handle was yellow with a round steel blade sticking off and ending in the shape of a key. Huh, what's this? Keyblade. Well, thanks. And I'm supposed to open doors with this?

The boy lifted the weapon and turned it in his grasp to stare at its odd shape closer. As he turned the weapon he could see his hand getting more defined, his skin focusing and becoming harder to see through. I made a promise, he thought, and his hand tightened on that hilt that he lowered back down to his side. Didn't I? His determined look faltered and he opened his mouth, letting out a long yawn. I, can't seem to remember. This place is nice… In his mind appeared a bright white light, and in that light he saw the face of a girl getting farther away, though the tears spilling down her face were still easy to see.

His hands tightened into fists and his closed eyes snapped back open. His body that had just started to fade again became fully visible in that emptiness. I have to get back to her! The thought filled his mind and he did not argue with it, as his whole body ached at the image of that girl crying. He rose his right hand and looked at the Keyblade he was holding again, then he lifted it up high and slammed down in front of him. "Open!" He called out, and to his amazement the tip of the weapon started to glow.

The Keyblade shook in his grasp, a bright light shot out of the tip of the weapon and in a thin beam ahead of him before slamming into nothing and exploding outwards in a flash. Sora started running forward towards that flash, a smile spreading over his face and a determined look behind it. Whoever you are, wherever you might be… "I'm coming."

A/N Hey everyone! Hope you enjoyed the first chapter. It's a pretty short one, first couple in this are, but they start to get longer and I have 4 of them finished up already. I finished KH3 the other day... and let's just say I wasn't satisfied with how they ended it. If you haven't played or seen the ending already, def don't be reading this if you don't want spoilers. I just wanted Sora to turn to Kairi on that tree in the final cutscene and give her a kiss and instead they Thanos-ed him away and it crushed me after waiting like twenty years for a happy ending and that to happen. Don't think that means this is going to just be a happy story though, and this is going to be a hard T rating in this story just a warning now. Started writing this out of the blue on a break from my work and my other main story right now which is a Boku no Hero story called Death (so if you're reading that one and saw this pop up don't worry I haven't stopped writing that, I just came up with this story too and figured why not post a chapter today). Let me know in a review below what you guys think of the chapter though and the premise for it, though you'll see there is some more to the basic premise than what's in this chapter (look at the story description). Well, thanks for reading and 'til next time!