Hello everyone, and welcome to what has to be the third rewrite of this story. This will be the last time I rewrite it, if no one reads it after this than no one reads it. I'm hopeful though, so it's alright.

Anyway this is a undisneyed version of kingdom hearts, so its got all the disney characters taken out (Though some I've just changed alot, as for example there is still a King and Queen called Mickey and Minnie, but they've been changed alot.) The little things Disney added in to things like the doorknob in alice in wonderland have also been taken out. There are probably still alot of elements from Disney that have snuck their way in here but what can you do.

Secondly this is a combination of most of my Kingdom hearts fanfics (I like to screw up the storys lines of stories for my own amusment) so there are alot of differences in the plot. Not so many of them are in the first part of this story, apart from right at the start that relate to Riku and Kairi and Leon's group. The biggest changes are to Kairi and Riku in the way that they are rather detached from Sora at the start. You'll see what I mean by that later.

You might not get the first chapter that much at first but it'll clear up, and you'll hopefully get it by the fourth. If not pm me and I'll explain what I can.

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, Square Enix does.

Beginning of the dark

Beneath closed lids, dark images flashed. A mystical cavern where every probing glance was met with darkness, light that appeared from nowhere and little black monsters that came forth from the floor in pools of darkness and hopped about, clawing and slashing.

And at the end of it all, the crowning piece, a monster greater than all others. One that rose from the shadows and stretched far into the dark expanse of sky, menacing and ominous. It sought to do nothing more than to attack before the shadows reclaimed it for their own, and in doing so, you as well

All the while, an unrecognisable voice spoke into your ear from place unknown, of keys and doors.

...:...

Sora woke with a start.

Off to his right, someone jumped back in fright and almost lost their balance, only to regain it at the last moment.

"What was that about?!" A girl yelled at him.

Glancing up to find a grumpy Selphie, Sora threw her an apologetic smile hoping it would smooth her over "Sorry." he added for further emphasis.

Selphie contemplated for a second then let her grumpy expression fall from her face and she shrugged "Doesn't matter."

Walking over to take a seat by Sora on the sand, she joined him in looking out to the sunset that painted the sea a mesmerising array of red and orange. Taking a moment to get into a comfortable position, she asked "So what were you dreaming about anyway, huh, had to be something to wake you up like that?"

"Hmmm" Sora hummed and scratched his head trying to think of an adequate way he could attempt try to express the dream he'd just had, bizarre as it was "It was so strange" he started "It was all dark and there were these black things everywhere and this giant monster that came up out of the ground and tried to attack me-"

Sora got no further when the sound of Selphie's laughter cut him off "Sounds like the strangest dream." She giggled.

"Hey it isn't funny." He argued in his defence. At the very least, that's not how he'd label it.

"But you always have weird dreams and they're all funny so why isn't this one?"

"Ah-um…" stumbling over his words Sora tried to think of a rebuke she wouldn't throw right back at him. Scratching his head again, he managed a feeble "Well this wasn't really a dream." lowering his hand he looked back out to the sunset "It felt so real."

Then as if snapping out of a trance, he twisted back to face Selphie again who had stopped her giggling to listen to his meagre argument and shot back "And at the very least it was a nightmare!"

His sudden turnaround of moods had Selphie bent over double laughing again all anew. She kept this up for another couple of second or so before Sora looked around and thought to ask.

"Hey, where are Tidus and Wakka?"

Looking back to Sora, Selphie straightened up, seemingly just remembering their absence "Oh yeah, they're over on the other side of the island playing that ball game of theirs. I got bored so I came to find you. Thought at the very least you'd be better company than them. You should have seen the look on my face when I found that you were asleep." She tacked on melodramatic gesture.

"Oh, sorry about that, I got really tired, couldn't keep my eyes open."

"It doesn't matter." Selphie reassured him. Lying back on her hands, she pursed her lips as if debating something in her head. Then with a quick look around the island, she got up off the ground and dusted the sand off her dress, and after a moment or so walked past him.

"Where are you going?" Sora asked with a curious glance in the direction she was heading.

"Over there to the small island across the bridge," she pointed "it's getting all shadowy over here; I'll get more sun over there. Wanna come?"

"Sure." Sora replied with a nod, and got up off the ground and dusted himself off like she had. Wiping the last grain of sand off him he began after her, and followed her to the bridge that led to the island and walked along it with her.

It was only a small scrap of land, a couple of meters either way that stood in the shallows of a larger island. The larger of course was still small when compared to the others where everyone lived, but it was large enough for all the kids to use as a place of play.

Once there, Sora took a seat on a peculiar looking tree that grew out sideways and fostered yellow star shaped fruit. Sitting across from him on the ground with her back against a palm tree, Selphie looked up at the yellow fruit and smiled.

"The Paopu fruit have some of the nicest little legends about them, don't you think Sora?"

Looking to the fruit themselves Sora replied "I guess so."

Not satisfied with his answer, Selphie threw him a look and spoke out passionately "What kind of answer is that? I mean, the legend that if you share one with someone, you'll be linked for all eternity is so nice," she swooned "and so romantic!"

Sora looked to the fruits and back to the brown haired girl in front of him "Selphie, with you, everything's romantic."

She scowled at him and yelled "Hey!" But he knew that the animosity behind it was fake, because soon she was laughing and him along with her.

...:...

With his hands behind his head, Sora strolled leisurely along the paths that crisscrossed between the houses. After leaving the small island where he'd been hanging out he'd originally intending to go home, but he guessed he got, well, distracted. It was either that or his mind was subconsciously making him avoid his house and the dreaded little he-demon that was his little brother Jay. He thought it was very likely the latter. Because like it or not, his brother was nuts.

In fact, it was a popular topic of discussion among his friends how all the adults found him so cute. Alright, on the outside he was. Maybe he even did cute things every now and then, Sora would admit to that. But getting your dad's mallet and going into your big brothers room and smashing everything you set your eyes on, only to be found later in that very same room with the shredded reminds of some cherished childhood toy in your hands with nothing to say for yourself but a measly little "oops" wasn't.

That was just insane. So insane he'd even managed to coax Kairi, the quiet girl she was, into talking to him about it. She'd even had a few feeble chuckles about it, at his expanse of course. But when the topic's your little brother smashing up your room, it's very hard not to.

Breathing out a sigh Sora reminded himself not to get so worked up about that again, even if it would be rightly so. There was unfortunately nothing he could do about it now, except maybe getting Jay back for it when they were older.

Scratching his chin, Sora smirked to himself. He'd have to do that someday.

Adjusting his pace as he walked down a steep hill, Sora looked around for something else to occupy his attention. If he stayed on the subject of Jay destroying his room there were no guarantees that he wouldn't return home with a hammer with Jay's rooms name on it.

There didn't seem like there was much to do at dusk on the island. He figured it would've probably been best to go straight home anyway, He-demon or not, because it didn't even seem like anyone was out right now anyway.

Still he decided to look around a little more. And after another couple of minutes or so of mindless searching, his eyes landed on Kairi were she sat in the distance with a tree at her back. Her eyes unfocused as she looked out between the maze of houses and to the ocean beyond. He contemplated going to talk to her for a second not knowing if she'd say anything or not, then decided he might as well. If she didn't talk she didn't talk, and he'd just have to go home.

Walking in her direction at an easy pace, he took his time getting to the hill. Approaching her he stopped just to her left. He was a little surprised when she didn't react to him. He guessed that's just how out she must have been.

"Hey"

Her reaction made him want to laugh. She jumped a good foot in the air and bent over; clutching her chest like she'd had a heart attack. Still, it kind of made him feel a little sorry for scaring her, so he apologised.

"Sorry didn't mean to scare you."

He sat down beside her and she gave him the most incredulous of looks. Returning her stare, just not quite so intensely, he gave his chin a scratch. "I'm going to say going by your stare, you want to know why I'm here?"

Kairi gave him a small nod and made no attempt at a verbal response.

"I was bored actually, I could go home, but um, you know what's awaiting me there."

This time she gave slight smile, knowing he meant Jay, but nothing more.

Glancing at her, Sora let the silence between them go on for a small while more, before he said "You're so quiet you know, sometimes I can't help but wonder if I could talk to you for hours and not hear a word out of you

She looked up at him momentarily, then back down again. He thought she would do no more than that, but she surprised him by saying her first verbal piece of the conversation.

"T-that'd be saying a bit much I t-think." Her voice was small and wavering, but he heard her clearly enough. And it may have just been him, but he thought he heard a touch of humour in her voice.

"That so?" he murmured, seeing if it would coax her in to saying anything more.

After a few moments hesitation she stuttered out "I-I'm a quiet person, that's just the way I am. B-but I'd think I'd g-get bored if I didn't talk for that long."

Sora shrugged, agreeing with her completely. He decided against trying to make her talk further after that. If she wasn't going to say anything more than she just wasn't, there was no need to make her. Besides, this conversation was already turning out to be a record holder among their talks, if you could have even called them that. Because most of the time he was the only one doing the talking. Strangely that never seemed to bother him; he liked talking to people, even if they didn't talk back. So he liked when he got to talk to Kairi even if he only did once on a blue moon.

Looking up into the sky, he didn't say anything more to her.

She was a strange girl, he thought. She had appeared on the island ten years ago, but from where, nobody knew. She never spoke about the place of her birth. Though it was obvious that it had been another world, that was for sure, but what that world had been was anyone's guess. And the memory of it, according it her, had long faded from her memory so there was no use in asking anymore.

That wasn't to say that some people were still curious. She had been taken in by the mayor and had lived here for years, but in so many ways she was still an outsider. He guessed she caused some of that herself by being so withdrawn.

He remembered the way in which all the kids had been so curious of her when she had first appeared. Back then she hadn't been so quiet and elusive; in fact she had been quite talkative and willing to make friends. One of which had been him. And all of them wanted to know about her and the world she came from, not that she ever told them much. He remembered the way Riku-

He stopped that thought there. Surprised how quickly that name could sour his thoughts.

Any further thought was interrupted by the sound of an alarm. Sora jumped in surprise and turned to Kairi, who had brought her watch to her face to press a small button on the side to silence the annoying sound. Getting up from her spot by the tree, he did the same.

"S-sorry, my parents don't like me s-staying out any longer, I have t-to go."

"That's alright." He replied.

He waved her goodbye as she all but fled in the other direction. Blowing out a sigh, he replaced his hands behind his head. Now all he could do was return back home, and well, it would be polite to say he didn't feel like doing that. But it would be mean to stay out any longer knowing the worrywart his mother was.

He jogged down the hill then steadied his pace and walked in the direction of his house, doing the best he could to keep his past thoughts out of his head.

...:...

Midnight's light flitted in through the windows as Kairi swept her legs over the window ledge and let herself out into the night. Her white dress luminescent in the darkness.

She walked past the boundaries of her house and retraced steps she hadn't taken in nearly two months into an alley that hid her from view. For this, to not be seen was of utmost importance. As it was though, she could feel his knowing eyes on her every step of the way. That didn't bother her as much as it should have. For he watched her most every time she did this and he wasn't as ignorant as she led the others to believe, as she let her quiet, withdrawn, fake self belie them into thinking she was someone she was not.

Drawing power from within herself, she released it and let it take the form of a portal of shining light. Once the portal was fully formed, she stepped through it, and it took her fall away from the dark little alley.

Once she reappeared, her surroundings were nothing like those of a few seconds past. Before her now stood a town square, its brick paths laid out in all directions and a set of steps in front of her that would take her from here, and to her destination. This was Traverse Town.

A force like a gush of wind blew at the ends of her dress as the portal closed, and a memory came back to her in an instant before it was gone. But its mark was left and she remembered the knowing stare she had felt on her but seconds before, and the name of its owner slipped thought her lips of its own accord.

"Riku."

Hope you enjoyed that and keep reading. Also please, please, please review because I seem to be cursed with unreviewing readers in my other stories and it drives me crazy. So I'll be ever thankful if you give me reviews, they don't have to be much, just something to tell me if your enjoying the story or not.

Also concrit is fine, just nothing to extreme because I got one on the first chapter I ever put on here, and it was so extreme it was pure idiocy. So I can't say I have any love for them.

Anyway sayonara for now.