I can't tell you how much fun I had writting this! I do intent to add more chapters to it, so don't yell at me for the ending, becuase it is a cliffhanger, I know!

I don't own any Kindgom Heart 2 charactors, as I said in my other story.

A Love Rekindled

By: princessOFdarkness

The World That Never Was. The castle they sought was as far away from where they stood as were close to their hearts the people the came in search of. Sora, Donald, Goofy and the King stood silent, looking up at the strange city before them, the haunting castle, and the pale moon that was Kingdom Hearts. Sora had come in search of Kairi, the one he loved more than anything else in the world, or anyone else for that matter. His love for her ran deep, deep as the painful wounds still fresh from their last time spend together that had been cut suddenly short. Sora knew she was here, and he was going to do anything he had to to find her, just as he knew the person standing just behind him n the shadows would do anything for Riku.

"Is that the place then?" Donald asked, timidly. The castle was reflected double in his large lamplike eyes, sending a chill down Sora's spine when her looked at him. Sora nodded, gripping his keyblade that much tighter in his hand.

"Then let's get going. Let's finish this already, I can't wait much longer to have the one I love back again." The girl said, stepping out of the shadows at last, coming to stand next to Sora and the others, her long graceful black and silver keyblade in her right hand. The long hair brunette's face was set, a determined look in her deep chocolate eyes. Sora was worried, she tended to do excentric and desperate things when she had that look in her eyes, and she had it now. She had changed so much from who she had been back on the island. At one time she had been completly innocent to the fact that the outside world was cruel and barbaric. Quiet, graceful, and kind to everyone, she had lived a quiet life on the island, doing nothing but reading, drawing, writting, and swimming to her hearts content. That is, until she had let Riku, the only friend she had had at the time, take her with him to the beach to meet everyone. He had brought her out of her shell, so that they could see who she truely was. She had only spoken to Riku up until the day her took her to the beach, because she was shy and didn't think anyone but Riku would like her, prefering to stay in Riku's backyard with him, never going to the beach or ice cream shop. She had become friends with everyone upon meeting them, so wonderful she was to them. Now she had a darker side, a fighting side as did he, a side that understood pain and how to take care of it's self through the pain. She was still herself, but now she had grown up a little in a way Sora had wished uon setting out on this journey she wouldn't have to. Sora had grown it respect to it to, but he wished he could take it back, though he knew he never could.

"Come on!" Jessica said, running past Sora and the others, out into the city itself. The ran after her, unable to catch her or keep up with her pace. Jessica had always been a faster runner than even Riku, winning all the races she compeated in back on the island. She didn't compeat much, but when she did, even Riku was left biting her dust. Jessica ran as far as she coulsd go, stopping suddenly on the edge of the canyon before her. Looking up at the castle, she realized with a pang somewhere deep in her heart that there was no way up to the castle. Jessica sighed, sitting down on the edge of the cliff face, staring down into the never ending gap below her feet. A shadow pasted over her, and she jumped up, spinning around to face the man standing behind her.

Sora, Donald, and Goofy had fought their way to the castle and inside of it, having been unsucessful in their attampt to find Jessica. Sora had been dumbfounded that she would just disappear, when they were so close to finding Kairi and Riku. Jessica loved Riku with all her heart, so why would she leave willingly when she was so close to where he was?

"Sora, look up there! It's Kairi!" Goofy said suddenly, pointing up to one of the balconies aboce them. Sora smiled, for there indeed was his Kairi, fighting alongside someone Sora had thought he would never see again. Ansem, the one who had caused all the problems in the first place, leaving himself and the others with him to clean p the mess he had started. It confused Sora that Kairi would fight along with Ansem, since he had almost killed her and all, but Sora was just happy to see her and see she was okay.

Sora, Donald and Goofy fought hard, everything they had learned being an asset to their cause. Upon winning the battle, Sora ran to Kairi, nearly faintinf when she actually hugged him and held him cose to her. Sora only wished he would get to see Jessica this happy one day with Riku. Ansem had stood watching as Sora and Kairi held each other and talked, but after a moment of pained silence, he turned to slip back into darkness. Then Kairi said something Sora would never forget...

"We'll get you back to normal Riku, I promise!" Sora yelled over his shoulder to his friend, stuck in Ansme's body. Riku had tols Sora everything, about how he had taken Ansem's for to weild the darkness, how he had left them clues, and about how he had not wanted to be found like this. Riku was ashamed of what he had become to wield the power of darkness he needed to help bring Sora back. Running up the stairs to the tower before them, the saw the King and the real Ansem the Wise, or Diz as Riku called him. Standing there on the tower, Xemnas appeared, talking for some time with Ansem the Wise beofre turning cruely to face Riku.

"Oh and you, I have something you want, something you've been searching for." Xemnas laughed, and out from behind him he pulled...Jessica! Riku gagged, crumpling slightly when he saw her. Xemnas had blindfolder her, tied her wrists together so that the ropes bit into her delicate skin, gragging her arond by her hair. She looked scaried, shaking and trembling visibly.

"Let her go Xemnas, I mean it! Let her go!" Riku yelled, summoning his keyblade, the very one the mirage made but his heart and her's had made to help him escape the darkness he had been trapped in. At the sound of his voice, Jessica's head shot up, listneing.

"R - Riku?" She asked timidly, sure she had heard wrong. It couldn't be her Riku, Xemnas had said he wasn't here in the castle. Xemnas had said Riku had abandoned her, left her to die her wth him, to fade into the twilight realme with him. She hadn't believed it, but somehow she knew Riku wasn't here in this world as he had once been, something had happened to him, she could feel it in her heart. "Riku, is that really you?"

"Yes, Jessica, it is me! I've come at last, just like I promised you so long ago." Riku said, tears filling his eyes, causing his vision to blur so her couldn't she her before him anymore. She stuggled to pull away from Xemnas, to push the blindfold down so she could she him, not just hear him.

"I love you Riku, I love you so much!" She cried, Xemnas pulling her against him, ready to depart into the darkness with her.

"And I love you Jessica, with all my heart!" Riku called back, struggling as the King, Sora, and the other's attempted to hold him back from jumping on Xemnas. Riku would lose if he fought now, angry as he was, and they knew Riku didn't want anything to happen to Jessica.

"You do?" Jessica said quietly, growing still. Xemnas let her go slightly, now that she was done trying to escape at the moment. "You love me Riku? You really love me?"

"Yes, I always have and I always will!" Riku yelled, still fighting to get away from the friends holding him back, away from her. "I love you Jessica."

"The machine is going to explode!" Ansem the Wise yelled suddenly, cauing everyone to turn and look at him. He was struggling with the machine. "Riku, you know what to do!"

The explosion blasted around them. Jessica screamed, unable to see to protect herself. Kairi had grabbed onto Sora, holding him close. The King, Donald, and Goofy had run together to prtect each other, leaving Riku on his own. When the blast and light had cleared and eveyone was getting up, they found Riku had returned to normal, no longer shut inside Ansem's body. Sora was excited to see his best friend again, but even so...

"There's someone else who would want to see you more!" Sora said happily, looking around for Jessica. "Where - where did she go?"

"Did Xemnas take her?" Kairi asked. She had longed to see Jessica as well. She and Jessica had been best friends on the island, and Kairi had wanted to see her as bad as she had Sora and Riku. "Is she still his prisoner?"

"Look! Up there!" The King shouted, pointing a little ways up the stair to another balcony like the one they were standing on. There lay the body of a girl, a gril they all knew very well.

"No! Jessica!" Riku yelled, dashing up the stairs to where she lay, crumpled in a heap. He untied her wrists and the blindfold, cradling her close to his body. She hadn't woken up, which could only mean she was...

"No, she can't be dead!" Riku sobbed, tears falling down his face, onto Jessica's. Riku, the tough one, the one who never cried, sobbed uncontrolably over the body of his love. She was gone, and he felt it was his fault somehow. "What am I going to do?"

"I've got a few ideas." A quiet voice said, making them all jump. They knew that voice...

bum bum baaaaa! LOL Drama! Oh no! Ha ha ha, great way to end a chapter, huh?

Hope you liked it! I loved the idea whe I came up with it, so tell me what you think, please! To be continued soon!