A/N: Hey there! You have just found the little corner in the vast universe called the internet I'm using to publish this story. I wonder how long I'll be able to keep this one going...
Well, I'll be optimistic this time and at least try to finish this one.
And excuse the horrible grammar since English isn't my native language.
So, came up with the idea for this story when I was bored and then I thought "Oh, what would happen if Sora had a twin?" and so that's how I came up with this. So enough talk, let's get on with the story!
Disclaimer: If I owned Kingdom Hearts, then what the heck am I doing here?
Chapter 1
Sora and Seve
It was a nice summer day in Destiny Islands. The sun was shining, the birds were singing and there were few clouds in the sky. A teen boy could be seen sleeping on the sandy beach. He had spiky brown hair and wore a red jumpsuit, a loose blue belt, a black short sleeved hoodie with white sleeves and grey lining, large yellow shoes, white fingerless gloves and a chain necklace with a crown pendant. He was known by most people as Sora.
Said boy then started to wake up, revealing that his eyes were a cerulean blue. He yawned and went back to lying down on the sand to sleep again. But he was soon startled awake when he saw a girl's face.
She was the same age as him. She had short auburn hair and crystal blue eyes. She wore a white top over a black one, purple shorts under a purple skirt, white shoes with purple caps, a blue belt, a black choker and a necklace with a silver bead, yellow wristband and purple armband on her left arm and a pair of bracelets on her right. She was known as Kairi.
"Whoa!" Sora yelped in surprise.
He then sat on his knees and faced Kairi and said "Gimme a break, Kairi."
Kairi giggled. "Sora, you lazy bum. I knew that I'd find you snoozing down here."
A laugh was heard a few feet away from them. "Geez, Sora. It's like the only thing you can do is sleep!"
They turned to see a girl their age approach them. She had shoulder length brown hair and cerulean blue eyes. She wore a bright red shirt under a black tank-top, a red pleated skirt with black lining, black short tights, a black wrist warmer on her right arm, a red and white bandana tied to her left wrist, a black choker with a silver star charm, loose white socks and black and white trainers. She was known as Seve, Sora's twin sister.
"Aw c'mon! Even you're saying that Seve!" Sora complained.
Seve giggled. "Well, it's true isn't it?"
"No! This huge, black thing swallowed me up! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't… Ow!" Sora yelped. And that was because Seve hit him on the head.
"Oi baka, you awake yet?" She said.
"I'm awake and it wasn't a dream!" Sora argued. Then he thought back and murmured "Or was it? I dunno..."
This caused Seve and Kairi to raise their eyebrows.
"What was that place?" Sora wondered as he gazed at the ocean, "So bizarre…"
"Yeah, sure." Kairi said as she walked towards the surf.
"Hey, Kairi. What's your hometown like?" Seve asked out of the blue.
"Yeah. Y'know, where you grew up." Sora added.
"I've told you guys before, I don't remember." Kairi said as she gazed at the ocean.
"Nothing at all?" The two asked in unison. Well they're twins, what'd you expect?
"Nothing." Kairi answered.
"Well that's a bummer." Seve commented.
"You ever wanna go back?" Sora asked.
There was a slight pause before Kairi answered "Hmm… Well, I'm happy here."
"Really…" Sora replied.
"But you know…" Kairi started, "I wouldn't mind going to see it."
Seve and Sora shared a look then they both said "We'd like to see it too."
"Along with any other worlds out there!" Seve added.
"I want to see 'em all!" Sora stated.
"So, what're we waiting for?" Kairi said excitedly, referencing to the raft they had been working on.
"Hey!" A voice called, "Aren't you guys forgetting about me?"
They looked and saw a boy around a year older than them. He had shoulder-length silver hair and light teal colored eyes. He wore a yellow and black zip-up vest with two black strips of cloth crossing over his chest, blue pants, blue and grey shoes, black wrist bands and black gloves. It was their friend, Riku.
"So, I guess I'm the only one working on the raft." Riku stated.
He then walked toward them and tossed the log he was carrying at Sora. Who yelped as it hit him and sent him tumbling into a sprawled position on the sand. Seve sweat-dropped at her brother's rather embarrassing feat. She sighed and shook her head.
"And you two are just as lazy as he is." He said to the two girls.
Kairi giggled. "So you noticed."
Seve just rolled her eyes, though she couldn't hide the smile that was spreading across her face. "Oh shut up Riku." She said playfully.
"OK, we'll finish it together." Kairi suggested excitedly.
"I'll race you!" She added.
"Huh?" Sora questioned.
"What? Are you kidding?" Riku asked.
"… Aw what the heck, count me in!" Seve stated.
"Ready? Go!" Kairi exclaimed.
Riku and Sora (Who were sitting at the time) jumped up to their feet and raced across the beach.
"Hey! Wait!" Seve called as she ran after the two boys. Easily catching up to the both of them. As for Kairi, she was at the far back laughing cheerfully as she tried to catch up to them.
They then decided to work on the raft next. Kairi had sent Sora and Seve to go look for some more items to finish the raft. She sent them looking for some logs, cloth for the sail and rope. After they had managed to memorize what they had to find, Sora and Seve agreed that they should split up to cover more ground.
As she walked along the beach, Seve was approached by a girl a year younger than her. She had caramel brown hair and green eyes. She wore a yellow dress with overall straps, brown sandals, a loose blue bracelet and in her hand was a jump rope. She was one of their friends, Selphie.
"Hey Seve!" She greeted.
"Oh, hey Selphie." Seve said rather absentmindedly.
"Say, Seve, can you help me out with something?" She asked.
Seve sighed. "If it's another spar Selphie, then you can ask me another time. I'm busy."
Selphie pouted. "Aw, please? I'm bored."
"Can't you ask Sora or Riku?" Seve asked.
"But Riku always beats me and Sora's busy sparring with Tidus." Selphie whined.
Seve looked behind Selphie and sure enough, Sora was sparring with Tidus. "Baka! We're supposed to be collecting supplies! Not spar!" Seve thought rather angrily but decided to shrug it off.
She sighed. "Fine, I'll spar with you. But just this once."
Selphie smiled and they both got into a battle stance. Selphie readied her jump rope and Seve readied her hockey stick. Yes, it was true that Seve was a big roller hockey player and had a habit of carrying her stick around. She even knows how to defend herself with it.
Selphie then started attacking using her jump rope like a whip or maybe nun chucks. But whatever the case, she was hoping to hit Seve using long-ranged attacks. Which was perfectly fine for her. Seve easily blocked Selphie's strikes and decided to move in with a few strikes of her own. She swung her hockey stick at Selphie in a slashing motion. A few of her attacks hit her and it took a while for her to recover. So Seve then decided to move in while she was open. It went on like this for a while and Seve managed to beat Selphie in a matter of minutes.
"Aw c'mon! I can't believe I lost!" Selphie cried as she stomped her feet on the ground in frustration.
Seve giggled in slight amusement at her friend's antics and said "Don't worry Selph. I'm sure you'll beat me someday."
"Alright! Then I'll just keep on trying until I finally beat you!" She exclaimed and with that she skipped away happily.
"She is definitely weird." Seve thought as she walked in the other direction to continue searching. She found a log, some rope and a piece of cloth as she combed the beach. She then set about to look for Sora. She found him on the small island with the crooked paopu tree with Riku. And they were both sparring.
"OK, Sora really needs a new hobby…" Seve though as Sora was, yet again, beaten by Riku and landed hard on his but.
"Geez Sora, that had to be the…" Seve had to count the many times her brother had lost with her fingers and said "Fifteenth time Riku actually beat you!"
"Hey! I managed to win five times though! Doesn't that count?" Sora complained.
"Sora, that's only a third of how many times Riku's beaten you." Seve deadpanned.
"Well I'd like to see you beat him!" Sora said.
"Alright, but you'd better be back with the supplies when I'm done or else Kairi's gonna flip." Seve said as she put the supplies she found at a place she was sure wouldn't get in the way during the fight.
"Done and done!" Sora exclaimed as he bolted away. Presumably to look for supplies. Besides, Sora knew that Kairi wouldn't get angry with them, he was just worried about ticking his sister off. After all, she was known for her short temper.
Seve sighed, picked up her hockey stick and turned to face Riku.
"So, you think you can beat me, Seve?" Riku asked as he readied his wooden sword.
Seve just shrugged. "Who knows, I might get lucky this time."
"Then you're gonna need all the luck you can get." Riku added.
Seve smirked and dropped into a battle stance. They both slowly circled each other like wolves in a fight. Waiting for the other to strike first. Then, Riku broke the continuity of events when he lunged at her with full speed. Seve, suspecting this, quickly raised her hockey stick and blocked the attack. She then pushed him away and aimed a slash at him. He blocked and jumped away from her to put some distance. Seve then lunged at him. Riku tried to block, but Seve was much faster than he thought and managed to hit him on the side.
"Heh, I didn't know you could be this good in a fight." Riku said slightly out of breath.
"He he… don't underestimate me y'know." Seve replied rather tiredly, though she didn't look too tired.
Riku then lunged at her again and began dealing fast attacks against her. Hoping that the length of her hockey stick would slow her down. Now, it was a highly logical assumption, if it were for most people. But Seve didn't really fall in that category. She had gotten used to using her hockey stick as a weapon. In fact, she can very much move it with relative ease. And this, caused all of Riku's attacks to be blocked by her. Seve jumped away, but Riku kept going at her. So for the meantime, Seve decided to just dodge his attacks. After all, she did not want to know the full extent of Riku's abilities. Deciding that she was having quite enough of this and because she was getting rather tired, Seve then faked a feint to the left. Riku fell for it and swung at her, but before his sword could make contact, Seve managed to jerk away and swung her hockey stick at his side. Hard. Riku then fell to his knees.
"OK, I give." He said in between panting.
Seve chuckled. "Well, didn't think I could've pulled that one off."
"Whoa! How'd you do that?!" Sora exclaimed.
"Uh… when did you get here?" Riku asked.
"Um… around when Seve did that feint thing." Sora said after some thought.
Seve smiled. "Well, mom did say I was born with a lucky streak."
"So, you got the supplies?" Seve asked.
"Oh, yeah! Let's get give these to Kairi." Sora suggested.
Seve nodded and picked up her items. She then began to walk away, but before she got out of ear shot, she called to Riku, "See ya later Riku! Oh, and sorry if I hit you too hard!"
Riku gave a small smile and called back "Don't worry! A little bruise like this won't hurt me!"
Seve grinned and flashed him her signature peace sign. Quite similar to Sora's signature goofy grin. And then she ran to catch up with her brother.
They gave the supplies to Kairi and then the four of them spent the rest of the day building the raft. By the end of the day they had finished building it and now they were looking at the sunset. Sora, Seve and Kairi were sitting on the horizontal part of the branch. Seve had put both her legs on the tree and was sitting with her legs close to her chest. Whilst Riku just leaned against the tree.
"So… Kairi's home is out there somewhere, right?" Sora asked out of the blue.
"Could be." Riku answered, "We'll never know by staying here."
"But how far could a raft take us?" Seve pointed out. She had a mountain load of doubts that they were going to make it to another world with just a makeshift raft.
"Who knows? If we have to, we'll think of something else." Riku replied.
"So, suppose you get to another world, what would you do there?" Kairi asked.
"Hmm… well, I… haven't really thought about it." Riku answered, "It's just… I've always wondered why we're here, on this island. If there are any other worlds out there, why did we end up on this one?" Riku continued, "And suppose there are other worlds… Then ours is just a little piece of something much greater. So, we could've easily ended up somewhere else, right?"
"I dunno." Sora and Seve said in unison. And for Kairi who was sitting in between them, it was rather nerve wracking.
"Exactly." Riku stated calmly. "That's why we need to go out there and find out."
Riku got out of his position and slowly walked to the edge of the island and gazed at the ocean. "Just sitting here won't change a thing." He said and the three other teens rolled their eyes at what Riku was going to say next. Yep, it wasn't the first time he'd gone on a rant like this. "It's the same old stuff. So let's go." He complained.
"You've been thinking a lot lately, haven't you?" Kairi asked.
"Thanks to you." Riku said as he turned to face her, "If you hadn't come here, I probably would've never thought of any of this."
There was a slight pause before Riku finished "Kairi, thanks."
"Heh… you're welcome." Kairi replied rather sheepishly.
Soon it was finally time for them to go home. Lest they want to get in trouble. As they walked across the bridge that connected the little island to the Play Island, Riku called to Sora. Said boy turned just in time to catch a yellow, star-shaped fruit. It was a paopu fruit.
"You wanted one, didn't you?" Riku said.
"A paopu fruit…" Sora muttered.
"If two people share one, their destinies become intertwined. They'll remain a part of each other's lives, no matter what." Riku explained as he walked past Sora.
"C'mon, I know you wanna try it." Riku added.
"What're you talking-""Oi baka! We're gonna leave you here if you don't hurry up!" Sora started, but was cut off by Seve who was looking rather impatient at them from the beach.
"Well, we shouldn't try her patience." Riku said. And after Sora discarded the fruit, they both ran to catch up with the girls.
A/N: And that folks, is the end of the first chapter out of who-knows-how-many to come! Can't say that I'm utterly pleased with this. I think it turned out kinda crappy.
Seve's name is pronounced like "Eve" only with an "S" at the front. And no, it doesn't mean anything I just wanted a unique name.
Some Japanese terms:
- Baka: The Japanese word for "stupid" or "idiot". I thought it would sound better for Seve to use "baka" instead of "idiot". The usage for this term will be one of Seve's unique traits.
Anyhow, please review and stay tuned for the next chapter!
