Author's note- Yup, you guessed it. I don't own Kingdom Hearts. The combined, unlikely combination of Squaresoft and Disney own the game, characters locations, items, dialogue, etc.
As I lean back against the tree, I look out into the gray sky, so bleak and empty, yet soon to be filled with a bright array of colors. Sora and Kairi, they were never willing to get up early enough to watch the sunrise, nor would they get up for another one or two hours. After the sun rose, I would always train with my sword. It's more a toy than anything else, but one day I'll have an honest to goodness sword in my hand, and I'll be great with it.
Or better than Sora, at least. It's interesting, how we are rivals and best friends nonetheless. Friends make the best enemies, I suppose. It doesn't matter anyway. We've both become much better than our former selves by pushing each other to the limit. Naturally, I come out on top no matter what. Sora has always been one step behind, that's just the way things are.
As I look to my right, I see the bench-like part of the tree. I don't have a clue as to how the tree deformed like that, but it made it an ideal spot for Sora, Kairi, and I to talk. It was our spot. Sora and Kairi sat on the tree itself, and I would always lean back against the tough bark. I then look above, to the top of the tree, and see the real purpose for my attention having shifted.
I hop up onto the tree and walk across the length of it, balancing myself so as not to fall off. When I can go no further I reach out and pluck a large fruit from the tree. The fruit looks like two intertwining stars, a very appropriate look. I had waited for weeks for the paopu fruit to ripen, the first of the year, and now my efforts had paid off. Seeing the fruit in my hands, I wonder what I'll do with it. Give it to Kairi? Sora would hate me, but then again, it wasn't like he wouldn't hesitate to give Kairi one. The only real problem was if Kairi would reject it.
I temporarily set aside those thoughts as a faint ray of light begins to appear in the distant horizon. I look out and see the familiar image of the sun slowly but surely rise into it's resting place in the sky, igniting the air into brilliant flame while doing so. Noticing it's position on the horizon, I do the same thing that I do every day. I reach out to the sun, positioned at the world's edge. If it is beyond the edge of the world, then what is beyond it? Could it be that, should I travel beyond it, I would find another world? Would I find another person looking at the sun, wondering of other worlds? Whatever the answer, I have to find out!
I almost have the means to do so. Along with Sora and Kairi, I'm building a raft. However, it seems as though I'm the only one who actually works on it, Sora and Kairi just want to come along with me when I set out. Kairi probably wants to see if she can find her hometown, and Sora follows Kairi.
After the sun has risen to its peak position, the red sky is slowly cooled off and fades into a tranquil blue, punctuated by fluffy white clouds that roll by gently. With that part of my day over, I hide the paopu fruit in a hollowed-out log and walk across the bridge connecting the miniature island to the main island. I listen to the rhythmic thud of my shoes tapping against the wooden planks forming the bridge, and at the very end of the bridge stop to wonder what I'll do while I wait for Sora or Kairi, or potentially both, to wake up. I had gotten up early, even for myself, today, and had already trained. My muscles were fatigued from the strain I had put on them, so it was probably best to call it a day for training. One extra workout wasn't worth missing five because I overdid it.
The best thing I come up with is to continue my work on the raft. I hop down from my position onto the shoreline, heading through the shack is too slow for me, and walk across the beach to the door that separates the main part of Destiny Island from the place where the raft is. After walking through it I walk across the broken bridge, jumping when necessary. I spot the raft in the same place I had left it before, and easily see that no one else had worked on it yesterday. I walk over to it and look at it. If it were to hold three people and provisions, I would probably need to add…maybe three or four more logs.
First things first, however, and making sure that the raft stayed together is of utmost importance. I look at the knots Sora had clumsily tied to bind the logs together. They had come loose and would never hold the logs together long enough to make a trip of considerable distance, like the one that the raft had been created for in the first place. I shake my head and stoop down. I quickly untied the rope and begin to lash the logs together in a more proper manner. I tediously make sure that the rope is bound tightly around the logs, and when I'm done tie the two ends of the rope together with a strong knot. When I first conceived the idea of building a raft I had gotten a number of manuals teaching me how to properly build one. I had later given them to Sora, but I personally suspect that he lost them after one or two weeks of saying "Tomorrow I'll read them." It would certainly be a plausible explanation.
After I had finished tying the ropes I went off in search of logs. I searched all of the nooks and crannies within Destiny Island, but I only came up with one log. As I head back, defeated in my task, I look at the secret place. The odds of my finding a log in there were slim to none, but whenever I passed by it I felt drawn into its dark depths. I set the log I found down and duck into the narrow passageway. The passage is almost pitch black, but I know all of the twists and turns by heart and walk through them without even having to think about it.
When I reach the end I am able to stand up at my full height in the wider spaces. I walk over to the door at the far end of the cave and slowly guide my hand across its surface. I then proceed to push and pull against the door, but as always it is in vain. The door simply will not budge. And yet, I come here so often and attempt to see if I can finally make it open. I don't know why, but the door has a certain allure to it, I can't help myself from seeing if I can open it.
I sigh in resignation before I begin to head back. Trying to open the door is a futile gesture, and I don't know why I keep trying to do it. After I emerge from the hidden cave, I look to the beach and find Kairi standing over a sleeping Sora. She has a mischievous look on her face, and she taps Sora lightly on the shoulder. Sora began to lift his eyelids open, and upon seeing Kairi standing over him jumps up. Kairi giggled lightly seeing this and teasingly reprimanded Sora for falling asleep on the beach.
"Sora, you lazy bum. I knew that I'd find you snoozing down here." Sora immediately jumped to his defense and tried to deny that he had fallen asleep on the beach.
"No! This huge black THING swallowed me up! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't-" Sora was promptly interrupted as Kairi hit the backside of his head.
"Are you still dreaming?" she asked, and Sora appeared to think for a second.
"It wasn't a dream! Or was it? I don't know. What was that place? So bizarre…"
I continued to listen to them talk, and after a while I decided to cut in to the conversation.
"Hey, aren't you guys forgetting about me?" I asked, and they both turn their heads to see me, carrying the log with me. A hint of curiosity plays across their faces as to why I'm carrying a log, so I decide to enlighten them and enlist their help in one fell swoop.
"So, I guess I'm the only one working on the raft." I toss the log I was holding to Sora. He attempts to catch it, but it proves too heavy for Sora and he collapses under its weight. I have to make a concerted effort not to laugh, and decided to focus my attention elsewhere. I turn to Kairi and, using what I heard from her and Sora's conversation and past experience, make an observation.
"And you're just as lazy as he is." I tell her. She smiles at the comment for one reason or another and quickly replies.
"So you noticed. Okay, we'll finish it together. I'll race you!" I groan inwardly upon hearing this, as my muscles have begun to become sore and stiff from my earlier workout, and have no trouble voicing my protest.
"What? Are you kidding?" I ask her, but Kairi was dead set on starting the race.
"Ready? Go!" I bolt to catch up with her and notice Sora pulling up behind me, having got off to a slow start. Normally I would beat him in a race easily, but I was far too tired and was only able to stay near him and Kairi. As I did I listened to Kairi, who was laughing during the race, and a part of me began speaking to her, telling her of my woes.
Kairi, how I envy you. You do not know the sorrow, the anguish, and the darkness like I do. The worst thing is that while you are content with what you have, desiring nothing but to have your life, the one thing I yearn for the most, the one thing I desperately try to attain, is and always will be impossible for me to gain.
I desire your heart.
Okay, and there's my first chapter. Please tell me what you think, constructive criticism is appreciated! Review! Now! Please!