Hello, this will be my first story in the regular story section. Up to now, I just wrote Kingdom Hearts crossovers, but since KH is already a big crossover and this story is going to have a lot of characters from different series, I decided to put it here.

For those who already know me, I hope you enjoy this story as much as the others.

This story takes place after Kingdom Hearts III, so I'll make some assumptions since I can't wait to the release of the game to write this story. It also takes place after two crossovers I wrote, one with Soul Eater and the other one with Fairy Tail, so the characters of those stories will appear in this one again.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything!

Kingdom Hearts: The Light Guardians

Chapter I

The Day before Departure

0713hrs, November 4th, 2022
Unknown Location

"IT'S OVER!"

A boy with spiked brown hair and blue eyes, and a bald old man with yellow eyes were in a rocky area, surrounded by fire and rubbles, and standing in front of each other. They were wearing an armor; the boy's was brown and golden, while the man's was mostly silver, and you could only see some parts of the armors since they were partly broken and the helmets were missing. The boy also had a weapon in his left hand, a big sword which had a bluish-yellow blade, and the handgrip looked like two big keys stuck together.

It was obvious that the two had a long and hard fight between each other, and it wasn't a friendly one, it was a fight to the death. The boy just used his hand to pierce the man's chest, and this was what finished the battle, with the brown-haired boy as the winner.

"Well done, boy…" said the man after coughing, and then the spiky teen pushed his hand further, causing the elder to groan in pain.

"Your dream dies with you," the boy said and he was about to pull his hand out of his enemy's chest, but the man stopped the boy by grabbing the boy's shoulder.

"Maybe not…" the elder said after bringing the boy closer to him. "Thanks to you, the light has triumphed over the darkness, for a while longer at least…but surely, there will be more people who will want to upset the balance between light and darkness…and they will want the darkness to surpass the light."

The old man started to cough more while the boy stayed still, waiting for the man to finish what he wanted to say.

"But at least," the man continued, now with a weaker voice, "there will be someone who stops them…you, Sora. Now I know that you will be able to make sure that the darkness doesn't surpass the light, while others will make sure that the light doesn't surpass the darkness...just like I wanted."

The boy known as Sora patted the man's shoulder and then, he pulled his hand out of the elder's chests. The brown-haired teen had now in his hand a bright orb, which was the heart of the bald man. Sora crushed the heart with his hand while the man, who was now lying on the ground, spoke his last words after letting out a very weak laugh.

"Deep inside we're…kindred spirits…you…and I…" he said before expiring.

The boy watched how the body of the man started vanishing. He stood there until it disappeared completely and he could confirm that he did it, he finally defeated Xehanort.

TWO YEARS LATER

0800hrs, Thursday, June 6th, 2024
Destiny Islands

Sora opened his eyes, waking up from a good sleep. He started to get up while taking a look at his room, which was surprisingly neat and clean. When Sora returned to his home, he found difficult to get used to sleeping in his own bed again, but after a year and a half doing it, he could do it, besides, it was much more comfortable than sleeping inside a Gummi Ship.

He put on his clothes after going to the bathroom and then he exited his room and walked towards the living room of his house. As he went down the stairs, he could hear how her mother was preparing breakfast in the kitchen, and it looks like she also heard him.

"Sora?" she asked while poking her head out of the door. She was a beautiful young woman with long brown hair and blue eyes that looked just like Sora's.

"Good morning, mom," grinned Sora.

"Wow, you've been getting up early lately," she remarked. "I'm almost done with breakfast, wait a minute, okay?"

"Sure!" said the boy before sitting on the couch and grabbing the remote controller of the TV. He started watching it, but the only thing that was on TV were news, and they weren't very good ones.

"The serial killer known as Red John has claimed another victim today, the-"

*click*

"The incident with the VRMMO, Sword Art Online, is still ongoing, it has been almost two years now, and-"

*click*

"It has been ten years since the private military and security company, Maverick Security Consulting, Inc., was created-"

Sora turned off the TV, sick of hearing these kinds of news, although the last one wasn't really bad. There were happening a lot of bad things in his world, but what worried him the most was the things that could be happening in the other worlds. The words Xehanort said on his deathbed echoed in the head of Sora, who knew that the dead man was right, there are more people who will try to conquer the worlds using the darkness, and he couldn't let them do it.

"The breakfast is ready!" Sora's mother said and the boy went to the kitchen.

The two started to eat, none of them talked and this worried the mother. Usually, Sora is the one who starts talking before others, unless there's something bothering him, then he remains silent since he doesn't want to bother anyone with his problems.

"I heard the television," the young woman said, breaking the silence in the room.

"Oh, right…" Sora said while looking at his plate.

"It looks like lots of people in trouble out there, huh?" the mother continued and then she sighed, which made Sora look at her.

"Is something wrong?" he asked.

"No, it's just…when you disappeared, I'd have never imagined that you were going to return like this," his mother explained.

"What do you mean?" the boy asked.

"Look at you! You've grown a lot, and I'm not just talking about a physical growth," the woman answered. "I almost didn't recognize you when you returned a year and a half ago."

"You're exaggerating," said Sora after laughing slightly at what his mother said.

"Maybe, but you can't deny that you've matured," his mother said. "And I'm glad you did without stop being the same boy I raised and…well, I don't know how many people out there know you, but surely they're a lot."

"Yeah, they are," Sora chuckled. "But mom, why are you telling me this now?"

"Because I want you to know that I know that you are able to take care of yourself," the woman answered while smiling at her son. "Tomorrow you'll leave the islands again with Riku and Kairi, and I don't want you to feel bad for that."

"Oh, is it tomorrow? I didn't remember at all!" Sora joked and his mother raised an eyebrow and smiled at him.

"I just want you to promise me that you'll be careful," she said, now with a more serious voice. "You know that I wouldn't want to hear that something bad happened to you."

"Of course, mom, I promise," Sora said. "And thank you for that, but…why have you told me this now, and not tomorrow before I leave?"

"Well, you will leave early," Sora's mother replied as she stood up. "Besides, I wouldn't want to bother you just before you leave."

"You don't bother me," Sora affirmed. "I'm happy you care about me, and I promise that we'll come back to the islands to see how everyone is doing."

"That's what I wanted to hear," she said before hugging her son. "But I still don't know how you three convinced us to let you leave the islands, you and Kairi aren't even eighteen."

"We can be very persuasive. Besides, we could have escaped if you didn't let us," Sora said with a cheeky grin. "And we can't wait one more year to be eighteen, we've already waited a year and a half, and I think that's enough."

"That reminds me that there's still something you haven't answered to any of us," said the mother, referring to the parents of Riku and Kairi, and herself. "Why do you want to leave? I know you want to see the friends you've made, and help other people, but I have the feeling that there's something else."

"It's complicated…" said Sora and this surprised his mother.

"After all you've told me, what can be so complicated?" she asked before looking at him with a teasing expression. "Do you have a girlfriend out there?"

"W-what!?" asked a dumbfounded Sora.

"Just kidding, Sora," his mother said smiling. "But you better hope I don't find out that Riku and you are flirting with outsider girls, you two have to take care of Kairi, even if she doesn't need it."

"Sure…" said the boy, who was still a bit disconcerted.

"Come on," Sora's mother began, "help me clear the table. You're going to meet with your friends for lunch, right?"

-TLG-

Sora arrived at the island where Riku, Kairi and he used to hang out when they were younger, although they continued doing it since they returned. When he left his boat, he noticed that there were some more tied up to the dock, so probably two of them were Riku's and Kairi's.

The spiky boy started to walk around the beach, looking for his friends, when he started to hear footsteps behind him. There was someone approaching him, and that person was doing it quietly, something that Sora noticed. The spiky teen could tell that it was a boy, so he thought that it was probably Riku.

It looks like that boy wanted to give him a scare, but then he saw the shadow in the sand and realized that this person was going to hit him with something. Sora moved aside, dodging a stick that was about to hit him, then he grabbed the boy's wrist with his left hand and put the other on the attacker's chin. Finally, Sora kicked at the boy's ankle, making him fall on the ground after flipping backwards.

Sora dropped the stick and took a look at the boy he just knocked down. He was a young teen, around Sora's age, and had disheveled blond hair and blue eyes.

"Tidus?" asked Sora after having seen the face of the boy.

"Hey…" Tidus groaned in pain, even when he landed on the sand.

"I told you not to do it, but you had to, right?" said someone who was approaching the two boys.

By the voice, Sora could tell that it was a girl. The spiky boy turned around to see a girl with brown hair and green eyes, and there was another boy next to her who had orange hair and brown eyes, and he also looked older than the other three.

"Selphie, Wakka," said Sora when he saw the two people who were walking towards him and Tidus.

"Hello, Sora," greeted the girl smiling.

"What's up, man?" Wakka said, and then he looked at the boy who was lying on the sand. "I don't know what you expected to happen, but I knew you would end up like this."

"Could you help me instead of mocking me?" asked Tidus and Wakka helped him to his feet.

"May I know why you tried to attack me from behind?" asked Sora after crossing his arms, although he wasn't upset since there was a small smile on his face.

"I wanted to catch you by surprise, like when we were younger," Tidus answered. "I thought it would be fun."

"If you find funny to attack me with a stick from behind," said Sora, "I'll say that you have a warped sense of humor."

"Yeah, now I know it wasn't a very good idea," Tidus said while scratching the back of his head.

"You're lucky he just flipped you over," Selphie said. "Knowing how brute Sora is, who knows what could have happened?"

"Hey, I know how to control my strength," Sora said, defending himself, and the girl giggled.

"It was a joke, silly," she affirmed. "Come on, Riku and Kairi are waiting."

The four friends walked until they reached a wooden door that led to the bridge, which was connected to a smaller island, the one that has the paopu tree on it. On the small island there was a picnic table and a lot of food on it, and next to it there were two people, a silver-haired boy and a redhead girl.

"Well, about time," said the boy. "Why are you always the last one to arrive, Sora?"

"Says the one who arrived just a few minutes ago," the girl remarked.

"Quiet you," the boy said, which caused the girl to smile.

"Hello to you too, Riku…" Sora said to the boy, and then he looked at all the food that was on the table. "Wow, did you prepare all this food, Kairi?"

"Selphie lend me a hand," the girl replied with a radiant smile.

"Selphie cooking…may God have mercy on our souls…" said Tidus while clasping his hands, and then he received a slap on his head from the girl.

"Dude," Wakka began, "you're not very sharp today, so shut up and start eating."

"Okay, okay…" Tidus muttered as he rubbed his head.

The six friends sat and started to eat the food the girls prepared. They organized this meal as a farewell to Sora, Riku and Kairi since they are going to leave the islands tomorrow.

"Boy, it was delicious," Sora said very satisfied.

"Totally agree," Wakka said. "You've done a great job, girls."

"Thanks," the girls said.

"I'm glad we came up with this idea," Kairi said, and then a sad smile appeared on her face. "I'm going to miss you, guys."

"I'm going to miss you too," Selphie said kind of sad too. "I can't believe you three are leaving tomorrow."

"There's another thing I can't believe," Tidus mentioned.

"What is it?" asked Riku, looking at the blond.

"How could you convince your parents to let you leave?" asked a perplexed Tidus.

"I would like to know that too," said Wakka.

"We are also surprised that they allowed us to do it," Kairi admitted. "My parents were reluctant, but when I told them that I wasn't going to leave alone, they thought more about it and finally gave me permission."

"Do they trust us?" asked a surprised Sora, referring to Riku and himself.

"More than you think," Kairi answered.

"My parents are just glad that this time I told them that I'm going to leave," Riku said. "What about your mother, Sora?"

"We talked about this in the morning and she doesn't know how we convinced them either," Sora answered, and then he chuckled. "I guess having graduated helped with her final decision."

"Yeah, I still don't know how you could do it after having skipped two years," said Tidus, looking at Sora and Riku. "I mean…I know Kairi is smart, but you two…"

"Watch it, Tidus," Riku warned.

"I see you didn't have enough before," Sora said, looking annoyed at the blond.

"Well, he's right to some extent," Kairi said, trying not to smile while the two boys looked at her with narrow eyes.

"By the way," Wakka began, "how are you going to leave this world? I remembered you said that now you didn't have one of those weird ships you used before."

"What about those gliders? Your Keyblades can transform into vehicles, right?" asked Tidus.

"Yes, but we don't have our armors," Sora answered. "They got broken, and without them we can't travel between worlds with our gliders."

"Then?" asked Wakka curiously.

"We have a friend in Shibuya, and we think that he might be able to help us with that," Riku replied and Selphie looked at him with sparkles in her eyes.

"You're going to Shibuya!" she said amazed. "That's amazing! I'm so jealous! All those shops and the fashion festivals, and-"

"Okay, relax girl," Kairi interrupted her friend as soon as she realized how excited she was.

"And how are you going there?" Tidus asked quizzically.

"I wanted to use our gliders to arrive as soon as possible," Sora answered, and then he looked at Riku with a grumpy face, "but Riku said that it wasn't a good idea, so we had to buy tickets for the ship bound for Tokyo."

"Sora," began Riku, "do you remember what happened when you were in Shibuya a year and a half ago? You fought against a giant Heartless in the middle of the city. The entire city saw you and there were people recording you."

"Oh, it's true! We saw you on TV and all the school saw it too!" Selphie said. "You left everyone astonished!"

"Yeah, everyone started to talk about you after that," Wakka commented.

"Even the girls couldn't stop talking about you," said Selphie, playfully nudging Sora's side with her elbow.

"That would explain why they are always making eyes to Sora," muttered Kairi slightly bothered, and Selphie was able to hear her.

"Someone's a little jealous~," she said with a sing-song voice, and Kairi glared at her, but started blushing when Sora laughed.

"Just as well Riku didn't appear on TV," Tidus said, "or our chances of getting a girlfriend would be null."

"Not that you had many chances before," Selphie said, which annoyed the boy. "Anyway, what is the reason you don't use your own vehicles to go to Shibuya?"

"We need to be discreet, not many people in our world know about the others that are out there," Kairi explained. "If we use the gliders, we'll draw people's attention and they might recognize Sora."

"It has been more than a year since that," said Sora. "Do you think they still remember that?"

"I don't know, so we can't run that risk," Riku replied.

"Fine," said Sora, who knew that he couldn't change his friend's mind.

The six friends continued talking for a long time, but Selphie, Tidus y Wakka left when the sun began to set. They had other things to do; besides, they knew that the other three liked to watch the sunset in that part of the island, so they decided to leave them alone since it was going to be the last one they could see before leaving.

Sora had a concerned look on his face while he looked at the sunset, and his two best friends noticed it. Kairi was about to talk to him, but Riku was faster than her.

"You still thinking about that?" he asked.

"Not a day has passed without me thinking about it," Sora answered, still with the same look on his face.

"Sora, you know it wasn't your fault…" Kari said, trying to cheer up the boy.

"I know, but…" Sora said, but Riku interrupted him.

"Look, you can't do anything about it now," he said. "The χ-blade was forged during our battle against Xehanort, and he used it to open Kingdom Hearts…"

"But you were able to defeat him and closed the door before he could do anything to it," Kairi added. "You should be proud!"

"You know that's not what I'm worried about," Sora said.

"It's about what Yen Sid said, right?" asked Riku, and the spiky boy nodded.

"Even if I stopped Xehanort before he could do anything," Sora said, "some worlds could have been affected by the simple fact that the door to Kingdom Hearts was opened. I just hope that no world was destroyed…"

"Well, Yen Sid didn't know which worlds were affected," Kairi said, "and that's the reason we're leaving tomorrow, so don't stress yourself out, okay?"

"I'm fine, don't worry," Sora assured grinning, which made the other two smile too.

"By the way, do you still want to do that?" Riku asked, and Sora looked at him raising an eyebrow before realizing what he meant.

"Of course!" said Sora. "That's another reason I want to leave…you like the idea too, right?"

"I think it's a great idea," Kairi replied. "A guild of Keyblade wielders sounds great, but we're going to need the others since with just three members it wouldn't be a guild."

"How many are we?" asked Sora, as he counted all the active Keyblade wielders at the moment.

"I'm sure Mickey is very busy now, so don't count on him," Riku said. "He wanted to take care of his world and we can't take a king way from his kingdom just like that. Although if something happens, I'm sure he'll lend us a hand."

"That makes ten Keyblade wielders then," said Kairi. "We'll have to look for them and ask them if they want to join, but I'm sure they will. Where do you think they are?"

"Roxas, Xion and Naminé are in Twilight Town while Terra, Aqua and Ven must be in Land of Departure," Sora said. "I don't know where Lea is though."

"I think he and Isa went to Radiant Garden again, but I heard Lea say that they wanted to travel around the worlds…" Kairi commented, and then the three friends sighed.

"After being out there for so long, we get used to it," Sora said. "Being in the same world for a long time gets boring."

"I agree, but remember that Destiny Islands is not a world, is part of one much bigger," Riku said.

"Yeah, but look how isolated we're," Kairi mentioned. "It's like we're in a different world, we have our own Keyhole here, and we didn't even appear on the maps until some people discovered the islands."

"And since that there has been a lot of people coming here," Riku said, looking at Kairi. "Thanks to your father, a bigger port was built and now we can use ships to travel, they aren't faster than a plane, but it's something."

"Man, we're going to spend at least three days on that ship," Sora groaned. "We could arrive in Shibuya in less than a day with our gliders."

"C'mon, don't be so grumpy," he said after patting Sora's back.

"Well, I'm going to my house," Kairi said as she got off the paopu tree. "I'd like to spend some time with my parents today."

"Yeah, that's a good idea," Riku agreed. "Let's go, Sora."

Sora followed Riku and Kairi to the boats, to leave the small island and return to their houses. The spiky boy stopped walking for a moment when he was on the beach, and took a last look at the sunset. He stared at the sun and, before leaving, a phrase popped into his head.

"This world is just too small."

-TLG-

So, what do you think? I hope I haven't made any mistakes.