Story info thing

Dedication: For psycholone he wanted some sokai so I'll try to have some fluff

Disclaimer: FANfiction? Really just let that sink in for a moment and if that doesn't work then how about this: If I owned it do you really think I'd be writing this? (hint if I did own it you'd be buying it and I'd actually have mullah and since neither is true…) BUT to make it completely clear (so I won't get sued) I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING… EXCEPT the plot, I do claim that. So don't sue. (it would be a wasted effort anyway I'm a poor college student.) And if I did own it you'd know. The pairings would be very different and there would be more yuffie and she'd be a playable character.

SPOILER WARNING for all the games (I'm ignoring the little we know about the ones due for release later on.)

WARNING: SPOILERS (for all the games currently out), some language, violence (no gore-fests though), and there shouldn't be anything else, there will NOT be adult content in this fic! It will have crack-ish and cannon pairings just fyi.

Setting, etc: this will actually skip around quite a bit within the kh timeline beginning on aspects and elements in KHI BUT it will focus on ideas, thoughts, and aspects not concentrated on in the game along with some foreshadowing and whatnot of my own. It will go in largely chronological order but i won't drag you through everything. I will try to get to the post khII stuff as soon as i can but it will take a bit of building to get there so things make sense later. Also to speed things up I will have seperate tie-in pieces you can read to understand some of the more complicated relationships that tie into the story that I will simply allude to and move on.

Characters: Riku, Kairi, Sora, Naminé, Yuffie, Tifa, Leon, Aerith, Cid, Cloud, Axel, Marluxia, Roxas, Larxene, King Mickey, Terra, Aqua, Ven, Ansem, Selphie, the faries, the villains, organization XIII, Yen Sid, other worlders, and others

Genres: mystery, adventure, friendship, tragedy, suspense, hopefully romance, certainly angst and drama, some humor...maybe more…

Description blurb: NON AU. So many secrets, so many opinions, and so very little time... And such little fragile things holding them all together.

Fuller Summary:

What happens when the past comes back to haunt you when you thought it was gone forever and when there is much more beneath the surface?

The past won't let any of them go unscathed… even if it never shows till they break…

Different people, different conflicts:

Yuffie: the master thief and intelligence finder extraordinaire is set on several things mainly getting answers because things aren't making sense anymore. Some are important-how do you forget someone en mass, where did the Heartless come from, can you kill them?, is a place still home if you've forgotten all about it?, and what about her own past? Why is there so much she's forgotten? Others are... less so- Cloud are you gay?

But there are much more important things at work as well. All her life she's wanted to know all the secrets in her past and now that she's on the verge… her memories begin to look more like nightmares and... she begins to wonder if ignorance truly is bliss… she has a choice before her which could mean more than she knows.

Cloud: His personal demons are much greater than those the others have faced and now… they're seeking him out.

Aerith: Healer to some, friend to many, known by none. She's good with masks but she's worried that's all that's left and that she's not strong enough to handle what comes next. She needs to be stronger right? Because they need her and she can't possibly allow herself to fail them.

Squall/Leon: He begins to wonder what is behind all of the facades they have shown for so long… And how it might affect them all. And just what is the flower girl hiding?

Tifa: Her search for Cloud is over, right? But why won't he talk about it? And… why was she asked such a strange request? is there even anything she can do about it? She has learned to fear being alone... maybe that's what makes this stranger so oddly intriguing... odder still is his secrecy and the similarities he seems to share with those around him. Can she see past her prejudices, impressions, and vague ideas to see who he really is, who they all really are, and what's going on?

Naminé: all she needs to do is figure out WHY so many strange things are going on. WHY she didn't disappear or recombine with Kairi, why she's back, and so many other things that don't make sense. And deciphering the mysterious message might help. 'Save Axel'… but how's that's even possible? She can't bring back the dead. So she has to solve the mystery. Oh and then find out a way to separate from Kairi and tell Sora about what happened in Oblivion including parts she'd much rather keep secret about her relationships with the Organization members.

Sora: There is a new threat coming, one which, even the keybearer may not have an answer to, greater than any faced before… Can he survive it intact? What about when his whole life is thrown into turmoil?

Riku: He has always been the odd one out. His battle has always been one of the mind, and of trying to find his own place. But he knows secrets which may break their group apart, splinter it. And he has problems of his own: recently he started… aging for no reason… and there's always the darkness in his own heart. And the fear of 'Ansem's' final words coming true…

Kairi: She's feeling guilty for being captured and having forgotten him. And she still can't bring anything up: Sora's acting distant, Riku is friendly but reserved, and neither will tell her what's going on. She doesn't want to be useless anymore, she wants things back as they were, she wants them to trust her. But she doesn't know everything that's going and has gone on yet... By helping a new friend what will she learn? What role does her past play? And… why is Yuffie acting so strangely? Will she have a role to play at all? She's been feeling so insignificant beside the saviors of the worlds.

All: The clues are all there they just need to fit together the pieces, line them up. But can they do it quickly enough? Because time isn't on their side. Memory may hold the clue, but do they even want to know the secrets which lie in their pasts?

Pairings (some hinted at, some one-sided, and some actual pairings): NamixSora (namora), RikuxKairi (possible hints), soraxKairi (Sokai), AxelxNamine (possible), NaminéxRiku (namiku), NamixMarluxia, Cloti, Claerith, Clouffie, AerithxLeon/Squall and (if you really squint) hints of Squiffie it depends how much you read into it… and possibly others.

A/N: many thanks to SecretAgent99 who is an AWESOME beta who will make this fic ten times better than it would be if you were reading my originals. also a shout out to Sponge of Horrors who has helped with story ideas, suggestions, etc and will hopefully keep me, and the fic, on track. XD

also i have a poll up about pairings for my stories so go to my profile page and vote on it!

IMPORTANT what the lines and any other weird things mean:

the lines to the right (...) means a change in the pov, time elapsed, etc

the lines like this (~-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-~) or long full paragraphs of italics mean there's a flashback

thoughts are in italics

Meanings of different fonts, styles, etc:

Thought

''Mindspeak''

"Talk"

ps: vote in my polls i like to keep changing em so check pretty often if you'd like.