A/n: Welp! Here's the first chapter of my.. hopefully longer fanfict XDD I hope everyone enjoys it! Please review it! Constructive criticism is always welcomed!
Countless amounts of heartless, swiping their black claws at the sun-kissed boy. His azure hues looked every which way, longing for an escape, but to no avail he found none. Of course this is how things would be; nothing had ever been easy for him on his journeys, especially when dealing with the heartless. His hands shook as he raised his keyblade and – "Sora!"—his hands shook as he raised his keyblade and—"SORA!"
"..Huh?" The brunette boy groaned, awoken from his slumber.
"Hello, earth to Sora!" The high pitched yelp didn't seem to cease no matter what he did, so he rolled over on his bed and placed a pillow over his face, trying to drown out the annoying chirp.
"Sora, are you ignoring me? Seriously! We both promised Riku that we'd go to the island today!"
Sora reluctantly opened his sleep ridden eyes and stared at the girl hovering over him.
Kairi... what the hell is she doing here so early...
Her red hair fell over her face as she bent down and glared at him. A mocking finger pointed at the tired boy. "Sora, if Riku gets angry at me for you not coming, then I'm seriously going to unleash the worst fury on you! You know how he gets when we're late, so come on!"
It had been a year since his journey ended and Sora was just getting used to being able to sleep in his own bed, for once. He just wanted to sleep. "Kairi... give me a break," he pleaded, pulling the covers back over his chilling body.
Her pale hands gripped the white sheet that blanketed his form and yanked it off, tossing it aside. Her hands now moved to her hips, and her pale cheeks reddened with irritation. "Get up now, before I toss you out the window!" She joked of course.
"Okay, okay! I'm going!" Sora pushed off of his bed, wobbling a bit from the sudden head rush and moved towards his dresser; pulling out a pair of swim shorts. "I'll just get dressed there, since I know you won't let me dawdle anymore than I already have..." With a sigh he followed the girl out of his room, quickly grabbing a towel that laid strain across his bedroom floor and shut the door behind him.
"Hey, Mom, I'm leaving with Kairi for the day, to meet Riku at the beach so I'll be home later! Make sure Dad doesn't eat my dinner like he did last time… please?"
His mother nodded, a flurry of brown locks shaking as she did so. "Just don't be home too late, alright? I don't want to go worrying about you like last time."
Sora nodded thoughtfully, he knew she was talking about the long period of time he was gone while on his journeys.
The red-headed female chimed in before Sora could answer. A large smile plastered on her face.
"Don't worry Mrs. Ishida! I'll make sure he doesn't go off!" This earned Kairi a small laugh from his mother. "Thank you Kairi, tell your mother I said hello, please?"
"Okay!" Sora interjected with a groan, "Enough with the painstaking reunion… Let's go Kairi." Sora pushed at Kairi's back with the palms of his hands.
They both waved to Sora's mother and left the house, shutting the door behind them.
"Sora… that was seriously ridiculous! Don't you have an alarm clock or something?" Kairi asked, small bubbles of irritation seething through her pearly whites. "I swear if Riku says one thing to me about us being late, you're in for it."
He didn't take her seriously. He never did because her threats were so empty and she never acted upon them. Instead of pretending to be scared Sora shrugged and continued to make his way toward the row boats. "Are we taking both of ours? It seems kind of like a waste of energy to take both…"
Seeming to forget the argument she had started, Kairi asked curiously, "Are you suggesting something to me, Sora? Because we can totally take one boat, and you can row us both towards the island." The redhead grinned smugly at the thought. This time she pushed her palms against his back, moving his unwilling body forward. "That's what you'll do! As payment of course, for making me wait a good portion of the morning!"
The sun-kissed boy frowned. This was not what he meant, but he guessed he deserved it.
"Alright Kairi, I'll take us both to the island…on one condition, don't tell Riku that I slept in. He'll give me hell for that." Kairi nodded, and he smiled; grateful that she didn't protest.
Already half way across the ocean, and closer to their island Sora began fidgeting in his seat. His hands clamped around the wooden oars that fit into two small holes on both sides of the boat, made to steady the oars as the rower, rowed. Kairi sat back and looked up at the bright blue sky, little clouds dampened the pureness with their cotton fluff and some covered the sun momentarily before flitting away across the sky.
"Wouldn't it be cool to be a cloud, Sora?" Kairi asked, her hands behind her head now to comfort her skull from rubbing against the hard wood of the boat.
"What kind of silly thoughts are you having, Kairi? I just want to be on the island like the old times. Not in the sky, lost and constantly wandering around unsure of where to go."
"Well.. I never really thought of it that way." "Hey, Sora, was it lonely when you were away from the island?"
The brunette shrugged and continued rowing. Beads of sweat forming at his forehead and sliding down his tan skin. "Not really. I mean, I missed you and Riku of course, but Goofy and Donald really helped me cope with something like that.. I guess I never really thought of being lonely. My only thoughts were of saving you and Riku."
"Goofy and Donald, huh. Speaking of them.. I wonder how they are right now. It must have been comforting to know that the fighting was finally over."
Yeah.. comforting.. I'm finally back on my island with my best friends. I never really knew how much I could miss this place.
Sora looked over his shoulder and watched as the island grew closer, and closer until it was almost within docking range. Kairi sat up and crossed her legs now, waiting for the boat to move along the tide, and brush up onto the shore.
"Sora. I missed you and Riku too. It was really hard for me, once I gained my memories of you back. But I knew you'd come with Riku, just like you promised. So, thank you."
The sun-kissed male laughed this time, and the sound must have left Kairi a bit embarrassed because her cheeks reddened; but to him the laugh was grateful, and happy. "Yeah! I can't believe you forgot me in the first place!"As the boat pushed over the sand Sora hopped out in one graceful leap and held a hand up to Kairi, helping her out of the boat and onto the beach.
"You go ahead and find Riku, I'm going to tie up the boat next to his. Okay?" Kairi nodded and scurried off somewhere on the island, while Sora brought the boat around onto the dock and tied it to one of the posts. After finishing that he stood up straight and wiped the sweat from his brow.
"Whew! It sure is hot out here..." Sora looked up at the same sky. "It really is like that…One sky, one destiny." And he had seen many skies, but all of them were of course the same as the one he was peering at now. The mere thought of his past brought a sense of shock to his mind, all of the worlds he had been to.. all of the friends he made. They were all in his heart. It's funny how things like that happen. You go looking for adventure.. and boy do you get an adventure.
tap.. tap..
Sora blinked, flicking his hand against his shoulder to brush that pesky…Whatever it was away and then moved his fist to his face and rubbed at his eyes. Staring up into the sky had made dark spots blur his vision.
tap.. tap..
This time he definitely wasn't imagining it. The brunette boy whirled around, expecting the tapping at his shoulder to be his best friend, Riku. But was greeted with a familiar.. unpleasant sight that he did not want to ever see again.