Welcome to my first FanFic. This story starts with a very short interlude. The main story starts almost directly after Sora and Riku arrive back on the Islands. I hope you enjoy the story.
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There will always be Light chapter 1: New Developments
It had been five days since Sora, Riku and Kairi had returned to the Island's from The World That Never Was, and at the exact same time that Riku and Sora had stepped onto the beach from their solitary fight with Xemnas, Sora was sitting on the dock looking out to sea. He didn't know why he had decided to go out to the play island to where his journey had begun.
Sora thought back on the past five days, of going home after three years.
His mom had been shocked initially but had ushered him home immediately when she saw he was soaked to the skin. When he had gotten out of the shower and saw that his mother had put out some too small clothes for him he smiled for he knew his mother had expected the same small boy that had mysteriously vanished with his friends one day.
His mother had made him eat a three course meal even though he said he wasn't hungry and went in to town to buy him some new clothes after she had hung up the clothes he had arrived in up to dry.
She couldn't help but notice that all the tears in the fabric had disappeared and also that they looked as if they had specifically been made for Sora's every want and need and also for his style, a comfortably tight shirt worn underneath a black hoodie with no sleeves, baggy pants ending just below the knee.
When she went to see if they had dried when she got home from the shops she noticed that not only were the dry but also that they didn't have a single wrinkle in the fabric. When she took them down to put them away in Sora's closet she noticed that the fabric was velvety soft and smooth but not fragile and that even though they barely weighed a thing it seemed as if it took all her strength to carry them.
Later when Sora went up to his room to fit some of his new clothes and came down wearing the clothes she had put away she saw that the colours had changed slightly, the black was far darker the white far more glorious and the rest of the colours far more intense. It also seemed that the clothes were trying their best to please Sora, for they seemed never to be of any inconvenience to him at all. Actually they seemed to have a will of their own for they shuddered when there was no breeze, but Sora's mom knew that her mind was merely playing tricks on her because her only baby was back in her house under her care.
Sora had never been one to just hang around the house all day doing nothing, but after having been fighting for his heart and his friends for over a year continuously he thought that he needed a rest.
By the third day of consecutive sleeping and eating with a little bit of conversation he was finally ready to leave his mother again, at least just to get out of the house.
When dawn's light shone over Sora's face on the fourth day he immediately awoke and made ready for a day outside. He took a shower, brushed his teeth put on some new clothes and went downstairs' to fix himself some breakfast. When he was done he wrote a sticky note for his mom and left it on the counter where she would find it. The note read "Gone out, be back at dusk. Sora"
Once Sora was out of sight of the other houses surrounding his he began to run, sometimes at the speed of a regular human and sometimes with the speed of someone with power beyond any one world.
As Sora ran he drew himself into his memory, deeper and deeper he plunged until he was no longer aware of his surroundings. In his mind he saw himself fighting, lunging and soaring, with his keyblade in hand and his friends at his side. He saw himself fighting his various enemies, some human some not, varying from the weak shadow to the über-powerful Xemnas.
He thought about his source of strength-the keyblade. He knew that he would never have survived if the keyblade hadn't chosen him. But then he thought of something Riku had said to him some time ago "Remember Sora, the power of a keyblade originates in the heart, meaning that even if you had not been chosen by the keyblade you would have acquired great power anyway." What power Sora didn't know but really didn't care because the keyblade was his, and his alone. Riku had his keyblade and Kairi had hers but neither could wield his nor can he wield theirs.
"Sora what are you doing out here?"
Sora snapped out of his reverie at the sound of Kairi's voice to the left.
"Oh, um...just thinking" Sora stammered when he thought how he must look just standing in the middle of nowhere staring at nothing but empty space.
He gave a nervous chuckle and his cheeks warmed slightly. Kairi smiled at Sora with just enough warmth that his heart skipped a beat and his face brightened profusely.
"Thinking huh, about what you lazy bum?"Kairi giggled and brought up her hand in a lame attempt to stifle it.
"Nothing really, just thinking about how long it's been since I could really relax. No worlds to save and no friends to find and help protect. " Sora spoke with such certainty that Kairi began doubting her resolve to stay on the island herself.
"Do you think you'll miss it, you think?" Kairi was no way going to let Sora see that she was uncertain.
"Well yeah, I'll miss it, but now I don't have to worry about whether a world would fall to Darkness or whether I will live to see you again"
At that Sora fell silent and Kairi knew for some reason that he was sad, very sad, with nothing to look forward to.
"Don't be sad Sora. At least we're together again." She spoke with a love so obvious that even a stranger could see it, but like always Sora was blind to the obvious.
"Thanks Kairi, but are we? Are we really together again, or is it only a short while before we're thrown back into chaos again?" Again with that certainty! She could feel her resolve to stay on the island slipping away.
"You've really thought about this haven't you?" Her words contained a hidden question that Sora desperately wanted to answer but didn't know how.
"Well yeah. It's all I could have done the last four days, that and sleeping." Sora grinned and put his hands behind his head.
"Sora, what is it you really want? Do you want a vacation or to return to the real world?" This time her words contained an acquisition that visibly confused him.
"Kairi, this is the real world, all the worlds are connected. Just like people, when two friends are apart their still connected, maybe not through a physical connection but through thought and emotion. Just like us." Sora was trying to say what he wanted to say from the time he first laid eyes on her, but unlike how he would have done it before he had left he did it indirectly, subtly.
"What do you mean Sora? What do you mean like us? Are we connected?"Kairi's mind was screaming the questions at him silently, the only way she truly could. 'Do you love me? Tell me Sora, please'
"Of course we're connected. You, me and Riku too. We're all connected through our hearts."When he said those words his heart wretched strangely and his mind said to him 'tell her Sora, you can do it'
"Oh really? Prove it." Her voice was husky, with a faint edge of...seduction?
"Well, the past few days, Roxas and my memories have slowly begun to merge together."
"Oh really you can talk to Roxas?" She rolled her eyes at him, as if acquiring him of lying.
"Yeah sure, can't you talk to Namine? I know for sure that Roxas and Namine are talking."
"Really, well I hope it happens to me soon" 'Oh really now. Hmm, I'd have to get in touch with my other soon' thought the princess of heart.
When Sora and Kairi fell silent a new voice appeared as if from their very surroundings.
"Come on already! You obviously have feelings for each other so stop beating around the bush and admit it to each other."
Well I like you enjoyed the first ever chapter of There will always be Light. I hope you continue reading my story. Next chapter: Old Power Renewed.
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