A/N: this is my first fanfic, so please, read and review, I'd love to know what you guys think. The first chapter might be a tad long, and nothing will be spelled right or capitalised because the notes on IPods suck ass.

Oh and I don't own kingdom hearts or final fantasy. If I did KH3 would be well on the way, or at least remakes of the first 2 :)

Prologue

Sora gazed at Kairi's body. She lay there, looking lifeless. He fought to hold back the tears that were beginning to well up in his eyes. He turned and grabbed the strange keyblade that Xehanort had left behind. Picking it up, he turned to face Kairi once again. "I love you" he breathed, finally letting a single tear roll down his cheek, before turning the keyblade around in his hand, and plunging it into his chest. As his vision began to fade into darkness, he saw several heartless appear, and pounced onto Kairi's lifeless body. His vision finally left him, unable to see her underneath the large pile of attacking heartless

Sora bolted upright in his bed, sweat dripping down his face and back. The Oathkeeper keyblade had appeared in his hand.

"Why Oathkeeper?" he thought.

"You know why." a voice replied in the back of his mind. Sora glanced down at the cross-shaped scar that lay above where his heart was, a small memory of that day - a long time ago now, it seemed, – a memory that had been distorted and turned into the nightmare. Then his mind raced.

"KAIRI!" it screamed. Was she ok? Was the dream real or not?
He threw on a pair of shorts and crept out of his room. He decided that he simply HAD to go and make sure she was safe. He sneaked his way down the hall, passed Riku's room, and stopped outside Kairi's room. He breathed deeply as he slowly opened the door to check she was still there, safe. He sighed with relief as he spotted her bright red hair, and stifled a laugh as he saw how crazy it had become in her sleep. He closed the door and wandered back to his room, a smile on his face. It was three months since he and Riku had returned to destiny islands, finding that neither Sora's nor Riku's parent were there. As Kairi had been living on her own since the boys had left, she offered the two spare rooms she had, overly happy to have them back from their long journey. As Sora climbed back into bed, a smile crept onto his face as his thoughts turned to Kairi. Feeling content, he fell to sleep, confident that the nightmare would not return that night.

Sora was reawakened in the morning, sunlight flooding in through his open window. The sweet smell of pancakes floated through the air and filled his nostrils with their delicious scent. He smiled as he remembered that it was Saturday, and Kairi's turn to cook breakfast. Anything was better than eating whatever Riku had made the night before.

"Probably what gave you nightmares" the voice in the back of his head giggled. "Morning Roxas" Sora tried to say as he yawned. Ever since Roxas had returned to Sora's body, he had always seemed to be there, in Sora's mind, sharing his experiences. He had to admit, they had become quite close, (which wasn't surprising as they were, technically, the same person.) although he did get some funny looks from passing strangers when it looked like he was talking and laughing to himself. Sora glanced at the mirror hanging from his wall. He still had the black shorts on from when he left his room to check on Kairi, and As usual, his gravity-defying hair was spiked up here there and everywhere. His eyes began to fall, looking at the silver crown necklace he had worn forever, then at the cross shaped scar on his chest. He winced as he was reminded of his nightmare, but smiled again as the smell of pancakes was wafted into his nose a second time. Nothing was better than Kairi's pancakes.
"Go on boy, fetch the pancakes" Roxas teased. Groggily, with eyes half closed, he obediently opened his door and walked down the stairs and toward the kitchen. He opened the door, and, glancing round the room, noticed Kairi and Riku looking at him oddly. He tilted his head, questioning them as to why. Kairi's face turned a light shade of red as she slowly replied.

"Um... Sora? You have no shirt on".
Eyes opening finally, he looked down at himself, and realised she was right. Riku laughed at the pair from a sofa on the other side of the room.
"Oh c'mon Kairi, you know you're loving it. When did you get muscles like those, anyway?"
Kairi had blushed, but turned the other way, hoping the boys wouldn't notice.
"Sorry, I guess I was just too distracted by how delicious breakfast smells after last nights failed attempt at cooking" Sora said slyly "besides Riku, you're forgetting that, while you were blindfolded with DiZ, and mostly likely stuffing your face with as many cookies as you could get hold of, I was out destroying countless heartless, nobodies, evil people trying to take over the worlds, and saving the universe twice. In case you forgot, along the way I sorta became a pretty awesome badass."

Sora added the last part in an attempt to get Kairi to laugh, and smiled when he heard her. He loved her laugh. Riku just bobbed his tongue out at the half dressed boy, damning himself for letting his best friends know about his obsession with cookies, before continuing to eat his pancakes.
"Go get dressed, you. I'm not having you sit in my kitchen half naked, universal badass or no!" Kairi told him, maternal instincts taking over.
"Yeah, shed much rather it was her bedroom, not her kitchen" Riku sniggered, earning him a punch on the arm from both Sora and Kairi.

"Hey, I was only joking" Riku pouted, Kairi had quite a good punch when she wanted to.

As she started to giggle, Sora turned and sprinted back upstairs to his room and, upon entering it, closed the door and lay face down on his bed. He was embarrassed at having Kairi see him like this, but grateful that she seemed not to notice the large scar on his chest. He had always kept that hidden from her, in an attempt to not make her feel terrible, as he knew she would. Sora was grateful that Riku had understood when he was asked to keep quiet about the events of that day.

"Hey, I was talking to Namine" Roxas complained.

"Yeah ok, whatever. Give me a minute" Sora replied, scrambling back out of bed to take a shower and find some clothes to wear.